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Women's World Football Show - Episode 114
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Deporte, #andi, #butler, #city, #davidson, #ellis, #emily, #fc, #football, #jill, #jordan, #manchester, #millwall, #nadia, #show, #soccer, #sullivan, #sydney, #uswnt, #womens, #world
Episode 114: Women's World Football Show features interviews with USWNT players Andi Sullivan, Emily Sonnett, Tierna Davidson and Head Coach Jill Ellis; One-on-one with Millwall Lionesses LFC defender Jordan Butler; and an exclusive with Denmark and Manchester City striker Nadia Nadim. Boston Breakers It’s a sad day for the NWSL and women’s football as the longest running professional women’s soccer team in the USA has folded after a deal for potential new ownership fell apart. The ... Más informaciones Breakers were founded in 2000 and were part of NWSL predecessor leagues the WUSA and WPS, and is the first NWSL team to fold since the league was established in 2013. So how did the demise of one of the more storied franchises in women’s soccer history come about? Patty and Adam dissect the situation and share details of the dispersion draft, season ticket refunds and other information. 2018 NWSL College Draft A few draft day mega-trades overshadowed the 2018 NWSL College Draft. Adam and Patty take a close look at the trades, the high selections and some of the surprises. Plus, Patty chats with the No. 1 draft pick and newest member of the Washington Spirit Andi Sullivan! We find out how the Stanford standout dealt with the crazy course of events that lead up to her 11th hour declaration into the draft, her thoughts on playing for her hometown team, her incredible 2017 college season and more! (Andi Sullivan 24:35’) Jordan Butler Adam sits down with Millwall Lionesses LFC defender Jordan Butler. Joining the Millwall system at only 8 years old, Jordan shares what it’s like to grow up in a Millwall kit. Backed by the love and support of her family, and especially her dad, Jordan takes us through her journey to play professional football, how she overcame serious injury and more. This is a spirited interview with an inspirational player and proud to have Jordan on the show! (Jordan Butler 33:00’) USA vs Denmark The U.S. Women's National Team kicked off its 2018 campaign with a somewhat come-from-behind 5-1 win against EURO Women's runner-up Denmark in front of 17,526 fans at SDCCU Stadium January 21, 2018. We hear from USWNT Head Coach Jill Ellis as she assesses a few of the youngsters on the team and reflects on some of her lessons learned while being at the helm of the national team. Defender Tierna Davidson earned her first cap for the USA, becoming the 21st player to make a WNT debut under Jill Ellis. We hear from the 19-year old college sophomore after her first cap. Patty couldn’t let Denmark leave town without talking to fan-favorite Nadia Nadim. The former NWSL star and now striker with Manchester City discusses her transition to the English league, her time in the NWSL, the Denmark WNT and more! (Tierna Davidson 55:55’; Jill Ellis 58:00’; Nadia Nadim 1:08:00’) Emily SonnetAs the 2017/18 W-League season comes to an end, we catch up with Sydney FC (and USWNT and Portland Thorns FC) centerback Emily Sonnett! The energetic USA star talks about her journey to Australia – what brought her there, what is she learning and what does she hope to gain? We hear it all. Plus, how does playing for Sydney kept her fit and ready to take on her role with the USWNT? Emily is rapid fire with her responses and ready to hoist another league trophy… this time with Sydney FC! (Emily Sonnet 1:26:00’) Sarah “The Cowgirl” Hallett Our hearts were broken earlier this month at the passing of our friend and colleague Sarah Hallett. In this show, we share stories on how Sarah touched all of our lives on the show and off. Plus, we have a special clip of some of Sarah’s greatest hits (and a few misses). A true inspiration to all who knew her, Sarah’s kind spirit will live on in all of us. Read Sarah’s past blogs. Listen to Episode 57 “2015 NWSL Review” when Sarah stepped in a co-hosted with Patty Other shows Sarah was featured on: Episode 26A “2014 NWSL Post-Season Special” Episode 47 “World Cup Groups” Episode 68 “The Good Fight” In lieu of flowers and gifts, Sarah’s wife and family have asked for donations to the San Diego Junior Golf Association. Click here for details. Listen to Sarah’s clip at the end of the show, around the 1-hour, 31-minute mark. Original Broadcast Date: January 28, 2018 Photos courtesy of: ussoccer.com; SydneyFC.com; ManCity.com; Henning Bagger/Scanpix2016; Jordan Butler; Millwall Lionesses
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A concert organised by Estonian grassroots movement Kõigi Eesti reaches over 80,000 people
By Estonian World / April 16, 2019 April 17, 2019 / Leave a Comment / Life
The Kõigi Eesti grassroots movement that was started in March out of concern about the recent developments in the Estonian politics, stepped out of the social media by organising a free concert in the Estonian capital on 14 April – which over 10,000 people attended and over 70,000 watched it on television and online.
The Kõigi Eesti (#kõigieesti #общаяэстония #myestoniatoo) movement that was started with a massive action in the social media in March by residents of Estonia from all walks of life and from various communities, stepped out of the virtual world to the real world on 14 April, with a massive free concert at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds. The organisers told Estonian World that over 10,000 people attended and over 70,000 people watched the concert via the Estonian television channel, TV3, as well as via online media outlets Delfi and Postimees.
Stepping out of the virtual world
During the social media campaign, communicated in Estonian, Russian and English, hundreds of well-known figures from the Estonian, Estonian-Russian and the expat community participated in both Facebook and Instagram, emphasising why it was important that Estonia remained a tolerant and an inclusive society – reflecting fears that with the populist Estonian Conservative People’s Party in the government, Estonia could in the long term potentially suffer the same fate as Hungary.
In addition to the social media campaign, the movement launched a Facebook page on 17 March that by the end of its first day gathered over 15,000 likes. By 16 April, the page had grown to over 28,000 likes – more than any other movement or political party in Estonia.
Kõigi Eesti’s next big undertaking took place on Sunday outside the virtual world – an open-air free concert at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds, almost a holy place for Estonians. Among those performing were Estonian and Estonian-Russian artists Ewert and The Two Dragons, Ivo and Robert Linna, Revals, Lenna, Svjata Vatra, NOËP, Mari Kalkun, PX Band, Tanel Padar, Synne Valtri Band, Stefan, Idealnõje Ljudi.
Protecting freedoms
While the performers did not make political statements, the organisers had previously said the concert was organised to underline and protect the values and freedoms already well-stated in the constitution of Estonia.
“Kõigi Eesti stands for all freedoms. The freedom of thought, the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press, the freedom of self-actualisation, artistic freedom, the freedom of doctors and teachers to do their work. The freedom to feel at home in Estonia. The freedom to stand up for your rights. The freedom to make decisions about your own body and mind. The freedom to be independent and different,” the movement said in a statement prior to the concert.
The peaceful concert, presented in both Estonian and Russian, also featured four speeches – by teacher Mari-Liis Nummert, Estonian Russian journalist Dmitri Fefilov, space scientist Mart Noorma and entrepreneur turned school owner Hannes Tamjärv.
Stop lies and hatred
Tamjärv, a cofounder of Hansabank – that as the country’s biggest bank, was a symbol of Estonian economic progress and reforms in the 1990s (Hansabank was later sold to Swedish banking group, Swedbank) – delivered the most political speech of them all.
“Lately, we have heard unprecedented statements about journalists, doctors, theatres, judges – and many others,” Tamjärv said, in a clear reference to the offensive and aggressive rhetoric used by EKRE’s leaders, Mart Helme and Martin Helme.
“First, I considered it as the usual political circus that was performed with serious faces, but not with serious intentions. Until I heard from my daughter who studies abroad that all her friends were very annoyed by these statements – and had started preparations to leave Estonia. That was a shock which prompted me to take a second look at what was happening,” Tamjärv said. “I really wish that our children would want to return to Estonia – always.”
Tamjärv’s conclusion was that it was important to put a stop on lies and hatred in the society, in order to protect freedom and dignity – and have unity.
The values were also underlined by the concert organisers after the event which passed in a friendly and warm atmosphere and attracted many families and people from Estonian, Estonian Russian and expat communities.
“Kõigi Eesti Laul brought over 10,000 people to the Song Festival Grounds. We are thrilled and thankful. It was a beautiful day that proved the people in Estonia are prepared to seek common ground and focus on the good that unites us. Freedom cannot blossom if we do not all care for it. We must protect our freedom. Every one of us, every day,” Kõigi Eesti said in a statement.
Cover: The concert was presented in both Estonian and Russian, by Estonian actor, Reimo Sagor, and Estonian Russian actress, Yekaterina Novosyolova. The presenters making a heart symbol on stage, as thousands of concert goers watch by (photo by Maido Parv). See all the picture galleries of the concert on Kõigi Eesti’s Facebook page. Read also: Kõigi Eesti citizen movement to host a free concert at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds.
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"The Blastmaster" Feat. KRS-One, Hakim Green, & Mario Levis - Live From the Streets (Episode 3)
You Should Subscribe Here Now: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-to-Noisey Mr. Green is back again with a new batch of tight collaborators, this time hooking up with KRS-One, Hakim Green, & Aubrey Green. Read on for a statement from Green himself. "This is big for me. I’ve been listening to KRS One since I was a kid and I use him as the example of how great a hip-hop show can be. Over the years I’ve heard a lot of people complain and say that hip-hop artists are never as good live as they are on the album and I immediately bring up KRS. He sounds as good, if not better, live than he does when you listen to his tracks at home and he has charisma and stage presence better than anything I’ve ever seen (if you know someone who’s better than KRS live, let me know, I want to see it). From all of his contributions dating back to the mid-80s to spreading positive messages through hip-hop to fans all over the world to his stop the violence movement, he’s beyond legendary and one of the most important people in the history of hip-hop. He’s also one of those artists that will make you want to be a better person. How did I get KRS? I’m from New Jersey and when I first started making music I connected with Hakim Green (KRS’s right hand man) and Aubrey Green (Hakim’s cousin). I got to open up for KRS a couple times back in the day but never actually got to do a song with him until now. Basically, Hakim was organizing a few events to help mayor Ras Baraka get elected in Newark and he had KRS come to town to help spread the word and inspire people. Aubrey knew I was looking for guests for the new season so he asked if Sam and I could cover the events and put Hakim and KRS on the show. I was down. To me this is a perfect episode because I got to work with one of my favorite artists of all time and because I got to help out a good dude like Hakim. Shout out to my boys Hakim and Aubrey Green for making this happen. Also, shout out to Do It All, Lords of the Underground, 211 Community Impact, Reading Salon, Ras Baraka, VICE, FH Crew, the legendary KRS- One, and, of course, Mario Levis for letting us sample him. #Livefromthestreets" Check out more 'Live From the Streets' - http://bit.ly/Live-From-the-Streets ** Subscribe to Noisey on YouTube to stay updated on our daily releases: http://www.youtube.com/noisey Videos, daily editorial and more: http://www.noisey.com Like Noisey on Facebook: http://fb.com/noisey Follow Noisey on Twitter: http://twitter.com/noiseymusic Read our tumblr: http://noiseymusic.tumblr.com Check out our Instagram:http://instagram.com/noisey
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Tyson on alt-meat: We're going in big
Heidi Chung
It’s one of the hottest topics in the food space right now: alternative meat.
Whatever people call it — plant-based meat, alternative meat or even fake meat —the trend is here to stay, according to Tyson Foods (TSN).
“We’re going to go big [on alternative meat], using our size and market access. We’re going to be able to bring the best of health and taste together just by virtue of our scale,” Justin Whitmore, Tyson executive vice president of alternative proteins and chief sustainability officer, told Yahoo Finance in an interview.
Tyson Foods released its Tyson Foods 2019 Summer Trends Report on Wednesday, and in it, the company outlined 8 new food trends expected to shake up the industry. On the top of the list: alternative meat. “The numbers reflect the interest: the alternative protein segment is growing double digits. This is clearly a trend that is not going away,” the report stated.
Ever since Beyond Meat (BYND) hit the scene, Wall Street and mainstream investors alike can’t keep up with the way in which its shares have skyrocketed since its IPO in early May. After pricing at $25 per share, the stock has rallied 502% as of Tuesday’s closing price.
Tyson was an early investor in Beyond Meat before selling its 6.5% stake in the company shortly before Beyond’s public debut. Tyson strategically shed its stake in order to launch its own line of alternative meat products. Earlier this month, the largest meat processor in the U.S. announced its two new Raised & Rooted brand products: a blended burger and plant-based nuggets. They are slated to hit store shelves in the fall.
Alternative protein hype
Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods and Nestle are only a few of the companies that are also looking to capitalize on the alternative protein hype. “Well there are over 100 different brands out there, and all of them with unique characteristics. We had to think about how we’re different - the supply chain. The full supply chain from farm to fork, we’ll have products that are available,” Whitmore said.
While smaller alt-meat companies have been struggling to meet demand, Tyson is a legacy food company. “Tyson is the largest food company in the U.S. and with that comes unrivaled network,” Whitmore explained.
Whitmore pointed out that Tyson also has a cost advantage due to its supply chain. “Relative to other players, we have a significant proportion of operational cost already built. We don’t need to create new plants, new distribution networks, new refrigeration capabilities. We will be able to come into the market with prices that will look and feel different than what other people have.”
Targeting meat eaters
However, much like Beyond Meat, Tyson is also looking to target not just vegetarians and vegans, but meat eaters as well. “We’re going to be targeting people who like eating meat and people who plan to continue eating meat,” Whitmore said. “The people that are driving the growth in alternative proteins are meat eaters. Roughly three fourths of the population are either adding or open to adding protein based items to diets.”
Beyond Meat reported in its first ever earnings report earlier this month, and in the report the company said that more than half of its total revenue came from sales to restaurants and food services. The partnerships with Carl’s Jr, Del Taco (TACO) and other restaurants is critical for future growth. Recently, ever big restaurant and grocery company is being asked about whether or not they will be carrying alternative meats on their shelves and in their stores. Tyson is no exception. According to Whitmore, Tyson is also in active conversations within the restaurant and food services industry.
“I think that the fact that Tyson Foods is jumping in with investment like this and with excitement to plant-based protein is a signal about how Tyson foods is thinking about food overall,” Whitmore said.
Alternative meat isn’t the only hot trend of the summer, though. According to Tyson’s report, robots, side dishes taking center stage, and environmentally sustainable foods are also up and coming.
“Trends are so important to us, given that our focus is on growth and our starting place is our consumer,” Jen Bentz, Tyson’s senior vice president of R&D, said to Yahoo Finance. “We take a step back constantly, and we focus on the consumer. Food, it’s not just what we do, it’s our passion. Understanding these trends is step one for us.”
Heidi Chung is a reporter at Yahoo Finance. Follow her on Twitter: @heidi_chung.
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J.W. Anderson's Androgynous, Club Kid-Ready Versus Versace Collection Revealed
So what does J.W. Anderson's collection for Versus look like? For one, there doesn't seem to be much of a disparity between the men's and women's pieces.
Dhani Mau
JW Anderson's one-off capsule collection for Versace will be unveiled at a "happening" tonight in New York (Grimes is performing) and WWD got a sneak peek at it and the new new Versus Versace collection.
A little confused? We were too. Here's the deal: there's Versus Versace, "a seasonless collection of house classics," and then, separately, the one-season capsule line by Anderson. (Many more one-off collabs will follow.) The former, comprised of timeless Versace signatures--think leather, studs, safety pins and belt prints--is available on VersusVersace.com now. Prices range from $250 to $1,250. The J.W. Anderson collection won't be available until June 15 and will also be sold at Net-a-porter, Opening Ceremony, Browns of London and Saks Fifth Avenue.
So what does Anderson's collection look like? For one, there doesn't seem to be much of a disparity between the men's and women's pieces. In fact, WWD's Jessica Iredale admits to mistaking the former for the latter. Both feature plenty of body-con crop tops, lace, and bright colors. “Unisex is the most modern thing that a lot of people do not touch on," Anderson told WWD. “The whole collection has to feel jarred....I think there’s a sharpness of the bridging of the [male and female]."
Though Anderson doesn't mention it explicitly, we're also getting a club kid vibe--one of the male models, wearing a pink and lace top, was styled with a what looks like a thick black elastic tied around his upper arm. Is heroin chic back?
Click through for some of our favorite looks from the seasonless Versus Versace collection and stay tuned for the rest of Anderson's capsule.
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Tag Archives: steampunk erotica
May 24, 2017 by elizabethcoldwell
Borghild – Automaton or Nazi Sex Doll?: Guest Post By S. Nano
Mistress Of The Air is a comic, Steampunk, erotic adventure. Edwardian dominatrix, Lady Sally Rudston-Chichester, travels across the Empires of Europe in her airship, The Corseted Domme. Lady Sally takes an array of electric and steam-powered sex toys on her adventures with her.
One of the dastardly devices is Borghild – a gleaming, brass automaton with rubber lips and vagina. She’s a sex-doll used by Lady Sally to torment the submissive gentlemen on her airship adventure.
She’s not the only sex toy to have this name, though. Whilst researching for Mistress Of The Air, I stumbled across a story about a toy designed to satisfy the sexual needs of Nazi army officers. This sex-doll was called Borghild. I’m afraid I couldn’t resist the temptation of giving Lady Sally’s automaton the same name!
The background to this is a scheme inspired by Heinrich Himmler in 1940 called the Borghild project. Apparently, there was huge concern about an epidemic of syphilis amongst the German troops. It seems the greatest danger to them was the widespread presence of whores in the brothels of Paris.
The project involved distributing inflatable sex dolls to the troops. These could be transported in back-packs and produced whenever relief was needed so the troops wouldn’t visit Paris prostitutes. Adolf Hitler allegedly approved the project. Naturally, the doll had appropriately Aryan features and blonde hair.
The sex-doll was supposedly distributed to some officers but the project was cancelled because the soldiers refused to carry the doll in fear of embarrassment if they were captured and found with one.
It’s a fantastic story, isn’t it? Unfortunately, it’s urban myth, fake news or lies (whatever the current usage is in these post-Trump days). There’s stuff on the internet that reports this story as fact but there is no evidence for it other than a couple of photographs of said sex-doll believed to have been produced long after the 1940s. A shame, I know, but it’s almost certainly a hoax.
Still, it’s a great story. Now the name Borghild lives on in the guise of Lady Sally’s brass sex toy! She collects the automaton from the von Siemen manufactory in Germany on the first stop of her travels.
Be warned. There will be wild escapades, kinky BDSM, dastardly devices, explosions and nice cups of tea.
Mistress of the Air is a Comic, Steampunk, Erotic Adventure.
Lady Sally Rudston-Chichester owns a brass mine in Zanzibar, a Lapsang Souchong tea plantation in China, a rubber tree farm in Malaysia, trunk loads of corsetry, and the country’s largest collection of antique whips and floggers.
Larger than life, and itching to find new and inventive ways to punish her submissive gentlemen, the Edwardian dominatrix has a vision. Embracing the spirit of the new age of aviation, she embarks on a series of adventures on her own airship, The Corseted Domme, with her transvestite maid, Victoria, her airship pilot, Captain Wyndham, and her automaton sex toy, Borghild.
A select group of submissive gentlemen, consisting of a duke, bishop, lawyer and banker, is invited to join Lady Sally so she can try out her new dastardly devices and sex toys on them. She whips, spanks and punishes her way across the Empires of Europe, dropping off to visit her aristocratic relatives and friends for afternoon tea.
But Lady Sally’s journey is not uneventful. War is threatening to break out and the Ministry of Aviation want to commandeer her airship for the war effort. And when The Corseted Domme has a crash landing, Lady Sally realises there is a stowaway on board intent on sabotaging her airship.
There will be wild escapades, kinky BDSM, dastardly devices, explosions and nice cups of tea.
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Borghild’s movements were a tad mechanical, which was only to be expected. Indeed, she marched in a military style goose-step, which contributed strangely to her kinkiness.
Lady Sally asked Victoria to summon the captain to the playroom, on the grounds he would be fascinated by the technological advances manifested in her new automaton.
Her slaves gazed upon the pair in awe at the gleaming, scarlet rubber in matching outfits. Lady Sally’s elegant and shapely legs were on full show in the short dress alongside the shiny, brass ones of the automaton.
Lady Sally proceeded to introduce her, “This is Borghild. She has been especially designed for me by Ernst von Siemen, the renowned automation manufacturer. I made the diversion into the industrial wastelands of the Ruhr to pick her up from the manufactory. She will be my accomplice in punishment for the rest of my travels and has been designed specifically with my needs for sadistic domination in mind. I expect she will play a full part in assisting me. Remember, though, there will be no point pleading for mercy from her, as she’ll take no notice. This will mean more fun for me and double the pain for you!”
The springs and sockets behind Borghild’s eyes clicked and whirred, swivelling her sockets from side to side with a gaze of disconcerting perspicacity as her photographic cells took recognition of the images of the four men.
Captain Wyndham made an appearance before this announcement.
“Ah, there you are captain. I trust things are quiet in the control room.”
“For a change, madam, yes.”
“I hope my adventures are not too exacting for you, captain?”
“No, not at all Lady Sally; it was intended as a compliment not a complaint.”
“Excellent. There’s no point asking the opinion of this bunch of miscreants: bankers don’t know about anything useful, bishops have no appreciation for technological achievements, judges are hopeless, except for contesting an argument…”
“I say, that’s unfair,” interrupted the judge, “I believe I can make a strong case for arguing for the intellectual capacity of a judge. The evidence is very strong…”
Lady Sally gave him a withering stare.
“And as for dukes, well they are useless.”
“Fair comment mistress,” acknowledged the duke with a nod of his foppish lock of hair.
“But I know you, captain, will appreciate the technological marvel of Borghild.”
Captain Wyndham inspected the automaton with considered curiosity. He looked into her eyes to examine the photographic cells, he examined the construction of her joints, and studied the control panel that operated the automaton.
“Truly remarkable,” Lady Sally. “She’s a work of art. I’ve worked with Clarissa and she’s marvellous, but the quality of the brass moulding and engineering of the limbs are more sophisticated in this model. And her eyes… it’s as if she’s alive. Can she talk? Has Herr Siemen mastered that technology?”
“No, regrettably not captain, though that’s just as well. I couldn’t put up with anyone who contradicts me, not even an automaton.”
“No, indeed not, I can see that,” the captain concurred.
“You must stay and watch her in action. Right, let’s get to work. I doubt if Borghild is ready to master knots and buckles yet but, if she observes me closely, she will learn.”
Lady Sally set to work putting her submissive gentlemen into bondage. She mentally divided the protagonists into those who would receive pain, and those who would receive pleasure. The bishop and judge were chosen for the former, strapped face forward onto the wall boards with their arses exposed, the latter selected for interrupting her earlier. The banker and duke were tied on their backs, the former on the bench, the latter on the rack. It was important Borghild learn the essentials of delivering corporal punishment first.
Lady Sally selected two identical floggers, each with a piece of leather in the shape of the ace of spades at its end. She placed one in the hand of the automation. Her photographic eye cells registered how Lady Sally gripped it, and mimicked her by wrapping her brass knuckles around the black, leather handle.
Lady Sally set about flogging the bishop with the implement, leaving the judge to Borghild. The automaton’s mechanical eyes swivelled around to watch Lady Sally deliver a dozen or so strokes to the bishop’s backside, starting gently but blossoming into a crescendo of ferocity. Borghild recorded the behaviour in the photographic cells, goose-stepped over to the judge and began to flog him. Her actions were staccato as she could not mimic the graceful, fluid movements of Lady Sally; after all she was an automaton. Nonetheless, Lady Sally was most satisfied with the results. Being an automaton, her actions were hard and unforgiving. Borghild soon had the judge whooping in pain.
Lady Sally went through several implements, a whip, a leather strap, a wooden paddle and a cane so the automaton gained experience of handling different objects. Whether she could ever develop the instinctive affinity with them a skilful and experienced dominatrix like Lady Sally had was doubtful; sadistic punishment was an art form in which she excelled. Nevertheless, the results were evident in the glowing, red backside of the judge.
S. Nano is an author of erotic stories with dark and exotic content in fantasy, paranormal or historical settings, often drawing on the themes of female supremacy, BDSM and fetish but with a seam of quirky humour running through them as well.
His first full-length erotic novel, Adventures in Fetishland, a BDSM/fetish re-invention of Alice in Wonderland, was published by Xcite Books. His short stories and novellas have been published by Xcite Books, House of Erotica, Forbidden Fiction, Coming Together and Greenwoman Publishing.
His second novel, Mistress Of The Air was published by eXcessica on 21st April 2017.
Web site: www.slavenano.co.uk/writing
Blog: www.slavenano.co.uk/blog
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Nutcracker. Performance of the "Kremlin Ballet"
Nutcracker. Performance of the "Kremlin Ballet": (on October 28, Monday) in THE STATE KREMLIN PALACE. Purchase of tickets. & #9742; +7(495) 620-78-46.
Muz-TV Birthday Swan Lake. P. Tchaikovsky. Performance of the "Kremlin Ballet"
Great Hall
Аbout a performance
Ballet, two acts
P.I.Chaikovsky
Libretto by M.Petipa as adapted by Andrei Petrov based on Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann’s fairy tale.
Choreographer-director is Andrei Petrov, people’s artist of the Russian Federation, Moscow Award laureate
Scene designer is Anatoly Nezhny, merited art worker of the Russian Federation
Costume designer is Olga Polyanskaya
The “Nutcracker” continues the line of the Kremlin Ballet Theatre in preserving and carefully creatively reframing the classical ballet heritage. In this case choreographer Andrei Petrov managed to the most to come close to the literary primary source and recreate a fantastic world and philosophy of the great German storyteller Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann.
Andrei Petrov’s “Nutcracker” is not a child’s fairy tale interesting for kids only, but a story of the first love rise and the opening of a huge world of non-childish emotions and feelings. The ballet’s choreography delivers the whole range of new senses of a just grown-up girl who, together with her beloved young Drosselmeyer, confronted the evil and conquered it having defended her love.
The performance is accompanied by the Symphony Orchestra Radio Orpheus (Artistic managing director and Principal conductor - Sergey Kondrashov)
Quests are gathering for a Christmas eve party at the Stahlbaum home. Among them – the young Drosselmeiere, a close friend of the family. The children are eagerly awaiting the moment when they will be allowed to open the Christmas presents. The Christmas tree is ablaze with candles, the guests start to dance. Drosselmeiere has only to leave the guests for a moment, for the children beg him to show them conjuring tricks and their presents. The clockwork dolls delight them. Drosselmeiere is much taken by Marie’s beauty. He gives her a new toy – a funny, rather clumsy Nutcracker doll. Fritz, Marie’s brother, frightens his sister with a clockwork mouse, and then he breaks the Nutcracker doll. The party draws to a close. After one final dance, the guests depart and the children are sent off to bed.
Night-time. The room is lit up by the mysterious light of the moon. Marie rocks her broken doll and falls asleep with the Nutcracker beside her. She dreams the dolls have come alive and the whole world has been transformed: everything round her looks different and the Christmas tree grows bigger and bigger. All of a sudden, a horde of mice appear, led by the Mouse King. The dolls and toy soldiers are taken aback. The brave Nutcracker and his army of dolls, enter into battle with the Mouse King and his suite. The odds are uneven however, and the mice are getting the better of them.
At a key moment of the fighting, Marie fires a cannon. The mice scuttle away: silence descends on the battlefield. But the brave Nutcracker has been killed. Marie is inconsolable. Then a miracle comes to pass: the funny doll turns into a handsome Prince, who resembles the young Drosselmeiere, and who whisks Marie off into a magical fairytale world.
The room becomes a forest in winter-time. A snow-storm gets up, eddies of snow come spinning down, forming into drifts of sparkling snowflakes.
Marie and the Nutcracker-Prince journey through the fairytale kingdom. They are pursued by the Mouse King and his horde of mice. The Prince does battle with them and vic¬torious. A celebration in honor of the victor gets underway in the fairytale kingdom whose inhabitants welcome the two friends. Marie and the Nutcracker-Prince are overjoyed, they know the love each other. And, from all corners of the earth, dolls who have come alive tell them the tale of their love. The Christmas Eve night, the last night of Marie’s childhood, is coming to an end. On waking up in her room, Marie cannot find her doll. Instead of the funny Nutcracker, she sees be¬fore her the young Drosselmeiere, the object of her fairytale Christmas Eve dreams, the person she loves. She has fallen in love for the first time!
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1997–98 QMJHL season
The 1997–98 QMJHL season was the 29th season in the history of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The Quebec Remparts name is revived after twelve years when the Beauport Harfangs change identities. The QMJHL continues to grow in eastern markets with an expansion team in Baie-Comeau and the relocating of the Granby Prédateurs relocated to Cape Breton.
The league inaugurates the Philips Plaque, awarded to the player with the best faceoff percentage. The Ford Cups are renamed the Telus Cups, one each for the offensive and defensive players of the year.
Fifteen teams played 70 games each in the schedule. The Quebec Remparts finished first overall in the regular season winning their first Jean Rougeau Trophy, since the original name was revived. The Val-d'Or Foreurs won their first President's Cup, defeating the Rimouski Océanic in the finals.
Team changesEdit
The Baie-Comeau Drakkar joined the league as an expansion franchise.
The Beauport Harfangs relocated from the nearby suburbs, to Quebec City, becoming the second incarnation of the Quebec Remparts.
The Granby Prédateurs relocated to Sydney, Nova Scotia, becoming the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, and switched to the Dilio Division.
The Shawinigan Cataractes switched to the Lebel Division.
The Victoriaville Tigres switched to the Lebel Division.
Final standingsEdit
Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; Pts = Points; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against
Dilio Division
Quebec Remparts 70 46 18 6 98 285 204
Rimouski Océanic 70 40 27 3 83 296 257
Chicoutimi Saguenéens 70 36 33 1 73 272 285
Moncton Wildcats 70 29 32 9 67 240 229
Halifax Mooseheads 70 24 41 5 53 263 316
Cape Breton Screaming Eagles 70 19 46 5 43 211 295
Baie-Comeau Drakkar 70 18 47 5 41 215 332
Lebel Division
Rouyn-Noranda Huskies 70 43 23 4 90 338 245
Victoriaville Tigres 70 40 23 7 87 274 209
Shawinigan Cataractes 70 40 24 6 86 262 217
Val-d'Or Foreurs 70 37 26 7 81 263 228
Laval Titan Collège Français 70 37 28 5 79 276 220
Hull Olympiques 70 32 37 1 65 270 268
Sherbrooke Faucons 70 26 41 3 55 220 273
Drummondville Voltigeurs 70 23 44 3 49 221 328
complete list of standings.
Scoring leadersEdit
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes
Ramzi Abid Chicoutimi Saguenéens 68 50 85 135 266
Pierre Dagenais Rouyn-Noranda Huskies 60 66 67 133 50
Mike Ribeiro Rouyn-Noranda Huskies 67 40 85 125 55
Mathieu Benoit Chicoutimi Saguenéens 59 56 61 117 32
Vincent Lecavalier Rimouski Océanic 58 44 71 115 117
Brad Richards Rimouski Océanic 68 33 82 115 44
Sebastien Roger Moncton Wildcats 70 53 61 114 64
David Gosselin Chicoutimi Saguenéens 69 46 64 110 139
Derrick Walser Rimouski Océanic 70 41 69 110 135
David Thibeault Victoriaville Tigres 70 46 56 102 95
complete scoring statistics
PlayoffsEdit
Jean-Pierre Dumont was the leading scorer of the playoffs with 46 points (31 goals, 15 assists).
Division quarterfinals
Quebec Remparts defeated Cape Breton Screaming Eagles 4 games to 0.
Rimouski Océanic defeated Halifax Mooseheads 4 games to 1.
Moncton Wildcats defeated Chicoutimi Saguenéens 4 games to 2.
Hull Olympiques defeated Rouyn-Noranda Huskies 4 games to 2.
Laval Titan Collège Français defeated Victoriaville Tigres 4 games to 2.
Val-d'Or Foreurs defeated Shawinigan Cataractes 4 games to 2.
Division semifinals - Round-robin
Rimouski Océanic 4 3 1 0 6 24 14
Quebec Remparts 4 2 2 0 4 16 20
Moncton Wildcats 4 1 3 0 2 11 17
Val-d'Or Foreurs 4 2 2 0 4 19 17
Laval Titan Collège Français ‡ 5 3 2 0 6 16 15
Hull Olympiques ‡ 5 2 3 0 4 18 21
‡ Laval Titan Collège Français defeated Hull Olympiques in a one-game playoff to determine 2nd place in the round-robin standings.
Division finals
Rimouski Océanic defeated Quebec Remparts 4 games to 2.
Val-d'Or Foreurs defeated Laval Titan Collège Français 4 games to 1.
League finals
Val-d'Or Foreurs defeated Rimouski Océanic 4 games to 0.
All-star teamsEdit
Goaltender - Mathieu Garon, Victoriaville Tigres
Left defence - Derrick Walser, Rimouski Océanic
Right defence - Remi Royer, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies
Left winger - Ramzi Abid, Chicoutimi Saguenéens
Centreman - Vincent Lecavalier, Rimouski Océanic
Right winger - Mathieu Benoit, Chicoutimi Saguenéens
Coach - Guy Chouinard, Quebec Remparts
Goaltender - Patrick Couture, Quebec Remparts
Left defence - Alexei Tezikov, Moncton Wildcats
Right defence - Jonathan Girard, Laval Titan Collège Français
Left winger - Pierre Dagenais, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies
Centreman - Mike Ribeiro, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies
Right winger - Sebastien Roger, Moncton Wildcats
Coach - Claude Julien, Hull Olympiques
Rookie team
Goaltender - Jean-Marc Pelletier, Rimouski Océanic
Right defence - Mathieu Biron, Shawinigan Cataractes
Left winger - Brad Richards, Rimouski Océanic
Right winger - Michael Ryder, Hull Olympiques
Coach - Christian Larue, Chicoutimi Saguenéens
List of First/Second/Rookie team all-stars.
Trophies and awardsEdit
President's Cup - Playoff Champions, Val-d'Or Foreurs
Jean Rougeau Trophy - Regular Season Champions, Quebec Remparts
Robert Lebel Trophy - Team with best GAA, Quebec Remparts
Michel Brière Memorial Trophy - Most Valuable Player, Ramzi Abid, Chicoutimi Saguenéens
Jean Béliveau Trophy - Top Scorer, Ramzi Abid, Chicoutimi Saguenéens
Guy Lafleur Trophy - Playoff MVP, Jean-Pierre Dumont, Val-d'Or Foreurs
Telus Cup – Offensive - Offensive Player of the Year, Pierre Dagenais, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies
Telus Cup – Defensive - Defensive Player of the Year, Mathieu Garon, Victoriaville Tigres
AutoPro Plaque - Best plus/minus total, David Thibeault, Victoriaville Tigres
Philips Plaque - Best faceoff percentage, Eric Demers, Victoriaville Tigres
Jacques Plante Memorial Trophy - Best GAA, Mathieu Garon, Victoriaville Tigres
Emile Bouchard Trophy - Defenceman of the Year, Derrick Walser, Rimouski Océanic
Mike Bossy Trophy - Best Pro Prospect, Vincent Lecavalier, Rimouski Océanic
RDS Cup - Rookie of the Year, Mike Ribeiro, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies
Michel Bergeron Trophy - Offensive Rookie of the Year, Mike Ribeiro, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies
Raymond Lagacé Trophy - Defensive Rookie of the Year, Alexei Tezikov, Moncton Wildcats
Frank J. Selke Memorial Trophy - Most sportsmanlike player, Simon Laliberte, Moncton Wildcats
QMJHL Humanitarian of the Year - Humanitarian of the Year, David Thibeault, Victoriaville Tigres
Marcel Robert Trophy - Best Scholastic Player, Michel Tremblay, Shawinigan Cataractes
Paul Dumont Trophy - Personality of the Year, Mike Ribeiro, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies
Ron Lapointe Trophy - Coach of the Year, Guy Chouinard, Quebec Remparts
John Horman Trophy - Executive of the Year, Lionel Brochu, Val-d'Or Foreurs
St-Clair Group Plaque - Marketing Director of the Year, Jeff Rose, Moncton Wildcats
1998 Memorial Cup
1998 NHL Entry Draft
1997–98 OHL season
1997–98 WHL season
Official QMJHL Website
www.hockeydb.com/
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Gamereactor is an international online network covering video games on consoles, PC and mobile. It was started in Denmark in 1998 by Morten Reichel and Claus Reichel (Magazine and Online) - during the early years under the name Gamez.dk. The Magazine and Online site Gamez.dk took over the online sites Gamereactor.dk/.se/.no from Egmont Digital in 2002. Egmont started the sites in 1998. In 2001 they released Gamereactor Magazine in Norway and soon after in Sweden. Since late 2007 Gamereactor has also been available in Finland, and it also launched in Germany (Online only) in 2009. In 2010 they launched in Italy (Online only), and a Portuguese version came online in 2013. Gamereactor later opened outlets in France in November 2016, The Netherlands in January 2017, and China in January 2018.
Gamereactor Magazine, May 2010 Issue
Video games, PC games
Published 8 times a year in Denmark, Germany, Finland, Norway, Sweden and the UK.
Gamez Publishing A/S
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Germany, Italy, Spain, UK/International, Portugal, France, The Netherlands, China
Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, German, Italian, Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Putonghua
Gamereactor.dk, Gamereactor.se, Gamereactor.no, Gamereactor.fi, Gamereactor.de, Gamereactor.it, Gamereactor.es, Gamereactor.eu, Gamereactor.pt, Gamereactor.nl, Gamereactor.fr, Gamereactor.cn
On 1 September 2008, Gamereactor launched an English edition of the website and the magazine (PDF). Gamereactor International features news, previews and reviews, with a special interest in the Nordic gaming industry, as well as video content from GRTV. The print magazine launched in the UK in 2013, and in 2017 Gamereactor launched a cross-network English language esports sub-site covering competitive gaming.
The magazine has now been discontinued, but was free and distributed via game stores and electronics retailers in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Germany and the UK. The magazine had eight issues every year (not in January or July), and was published in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, English and Finnish.
Smartphone Apps are available on both iPhone and Android platforms, and there is a Gamereactor app on both PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. GRTV also is available as a Smart TV app for Samsung's Smart TV Hub platform.
In 2004 Gamereactor Art Director Petter Hegevall was nominated in one of the biggest Swedish Design Awards. In 2013 Gamereactor Magazine (UK) was nominated in the best Print Magazine category at the Games Media Awards, and in 2015 the team were nominated in the Best Editorial Team (Print) category.
EditorsEdit
Magnus Groth-Andersen - Danish Editor
Petter Hegevall - Swedish Editor
Suzanne Berget - Norwegian Editor
Markus Hirsilä - Finnish Editor
Mike Holmes - British/International Editor
Christian Gaca - German Editor
Fabrizia Malgieri - Italian Editor
David Caballero - Spanish Editor
Ricardo C. Esteves - Portuguese Editor
Islem Sharouda - French Editor
David Kers - Dutch Editor
Alicia Chang - Chinese Editor
Aleksandra Olszar - Polish Editor
Gamereactor International — English website
Gamereactor Denmark — Danish website
Gamereactor Sweden — Swedish website
Gamereactor Norway — Norwegian website
Gamereactor Finland — Finnish website
Gamereactor Germany — German website
Gamereactor Italy — Italian website
Gamereactor Spain — Spanish website
Gamereactor Portugal — Portuguese website
Gamereactor France — French website
Gamereactor Netherlands — Dutch website
Gamereactor China — Chinese website
Gamereactor Poland — Polish website
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Nutraceutical Corp. v. Lambert - Post-Argument SCOTUScast
From: SCOTUScast
by The Federalist Society
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Politics, #federal courts, #supreme court
On November 27, 2018, the Supreme Court heard argument in Nutraceutical Corp. v. Lambert, a case considering whether Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f), which imposes a 14-day deadline for appealing from a grant or denial of class-action certification, can be equitably tolled.
Troy Lambert bought a dietary supplement that claimed to be an aphrodisiac containing sexual performance-enhancing herbs. He thereafter brought a class action in federal district court against the drug’s ... See More manufacturer, Nutraceutical Corp., alleging violations of U.S. Food and Drug Administration requirements and various California consumer protection statutes. The district court initially certified the class action, but following reassignment of the case to a new judge and discovery raising concerns about Lambert’s classwide damages model, Nutraceutical moved to decertify the class and the district court granted the motion on February 20, 2015.
On March 2, 10 days after the class had been decertified, Lambert informed the court that he intended to file a motion for reconsideration. The district court instructed him to file the motion within 10 days, which was 20 days in total from the original class desertification. Lambert moved for reconsideration on March 12 with further evidence to support his full refund damages model. The district court denied his motion in June. Fourteen days later, Lambert filed a petition under Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f) for permission to appeal the district court’s orders granting decertification and denying reconsideration to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Ninth Circuit conditionally granted the petition but instructed the parties to address whether it was timely.
Under Rule 23(f), a petition for permission to appeal must be filed with the circuit clerk “within 14 days” after the order “granting or denying class-action certification” was entered. Although Lambert’s petition came within 14 days of denial of his motion for reconsideration, it was filed months after the actual order granting decertification. The Ninth Circuit held that Lambert’s petition was nevertheless timely. Rule 23(f) is not jurisdictional, the court determined, and its deadline should equitably tolled by a timely motion for reconsideration such as Lambert’s. Reaching the merits, the Ninth Circuit then reversed and remanded, holding that the district court had abused its discretion in decertifying the class.
The U.S. Supreme Court, however, granted certiorari to address whether the Ninth Circuit erred when it held that equitable exceptions apply to mandatory claim-processing rules—such as Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 23(f)—and can excuse a party’s failure to file timely within the 14-day deadline, in conflict with the decisions of 7 other Circuit Courts of Appeals.
To the discuss the case, we have Michael Morley, Assistant Professor of Law at Florida State University College of Law.
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Home News Department wipes hands of bridge chaos
Department wipes hands of bridge chaos
Cr Sean O''Reilly and Dyna Holl at the corner at Lindsay Williams bridge and Lightwood Road, Springvale. 195476_03 Picture: STEWART CHAMBERS
By Cam Lucadou-Wells
Drivers are being mired in dangerous congestion just north-east of Springvale train station, Greater Dandenong councillor Sean O’Reilly says.
Five years after the Springvale Road boom gates were removed, cars are banked up while trying to perform right-hand turns on Lightwood Avenue and Springvale Road at peak times.
In May, a driver was killed exiting Rosalie Street onto Springvale Road in a three-car crash in May.
Cr O’Reilly said there was an urgent need for traffic lights, especially with the area being identified for high population growth.
“To drive north in peak hour, residents have no choice but to face ‘iron walls’ of traffic on Lightwood or Springvale Roads. There’s no easy way to make a right turn.”
“It is way overdue that something was done to fix the traffic design problems in this area.”
Cr O’Reilly highlighted the unsignalised Lindsay Williams bridge that is clogged with peak-time traffic trying to turn into Lightwood Road.
It was a design that was ticked off and modelled by VicRoads, but the Department of Transport has now handballed responsibility to Greater Dandenong Council.
In 2013, Springvale Asian Business Association had forecast this very situation – prior to the bridge’s opening.
“Once they open that intersection, there will be only chaos,” spokesperson Stan Chang said at the time.
“Once it has been created, it will be costly to fix. It will create a problem for the next 50-100 years.”
At the time VicRoads project director Andrew Williams said the bridge was developed through a “lengthy and rigorous design process” with the project design team and Greater Dandenong Council.
According to its review, “traffic flow will be low; and even at the peak movements, traffic flow will be maintained as the peaks occur at different times of the day”.
Mr Williams also said independent road safety audits of the design found no safety issue, and traffic modelling up to 2046 showed traffic signals weren’t required at the intersections at either end of the bridge.
The Department of Transport – formerly VicRoads – told Star News on 11 July it is now not responsible for the Sandown Road and Lightwood Road intersections. It is managed by City of Greater Dandenong, it asserts.
On 10 July, the department also investigated the recent fatal crash site at Rosalie Street.
It found there was sufficient sight distance at the intersection, with a centre median allowing cars to make a staged right turn onto Springvale Road.
“We’ll continue to monitor the area to determine if any changes need to be made.”
On 8 July, Cr O’Reilly successfully moved for the council to lobby for State and Federal government funding to fix the problem.
The council will also conduct traffic surveys, growth forecasts and formulate possible options.
Unblock Springvale Action Group spokesperson Dyna Holl said there were “significant dangers” in entering and exiting off Sandown road.
“The constant bottleneck and increasing congestion will inevitably lead to a fatal accident on our roads if nothing is done.
“This is an ongoing frustration for our residents, nearby schools and businesses.
“We can’t wait until a serious accident happens – we need to act now to save lives on our roads.”
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Daryl Gurney makes sensational retirement claim
It seems strange to think that Daryl Gurney could quit PDC darts before Raymond van Barneveld.
But while Barney has committed to another year on the PDC circuit, Gurney doesn’t seem so sure. The Northern Irishman has dropped a surprising bombshell. Speaking to Live Darts, the recent Players Championship Finals winner suggested World Championship glory could spell the end for him.
“In all honesty, it could nearly mean retirement,” said Superchin.
“Not with the money, just retiring altogether. Because if you win the worlds you’re immortal, you’ll be remembered forever.
“But obviously it’s the one everybody wants to win. That’s what makes it so hard, and that’s why everybody keeps talking about whenever it gets probably to September.
“Around that time of the year, everybody just concentrates on the worlds, putting in their couple of months practice prior to Ally Pally.”
Gurney isn’t planning for life after darts at the moment. But he has put the Sid Waddell Trophy on his list of trophies to win before he goes. And the 2017 World Grand Prix winner believes he has the game to take the sport’s biggest prize.
“Definitely, I’d love to win it sometime before I retire – should it be this year, next year, or the next five or 10 years,” Gurney said.
“If I’m still playing at the top level and I’m still capable of winning it, I’ll keep on believing that one day I could win that trophy.”
Tags: Daryl Gurney, PDC, PDC World Championship 2019
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Naomi Wolf and “insane conspiracy theories”
October 6, 2014 adamkadmon4 Comments
“it is important for readers who may encounter Wolf’s ideas to understand the distinction between her earlier work, which rose on its merits, and her newer conspiracy theories, which are unhinged, damaging, and dangerous”
Below is a link to an article just published by Vox, written by Max Fisher. Lots to unpack here… Are “conspiracy theories” necessarily “insane”? (Note that the author writes, “I was carrying the assumption that Wolf is a respected and authoritative figure to be taken seriously”.) How does this affect the way that the author (and presumably, Vox’s readership) read Klein’s earlier work? Is the fact that Klein’s earlier work is perceived as left-wing and liberal to be taken into account? Or is it because Vox is left leaning that the “conspiracy theories” are damned so out of hand? (Recent quantitative work has shown a not-inconsiderable link between conspiracy beliefs and the political right).
The insane conspiracy theories of Naomi Wolf – Vox.
Politics, Researchconspiracy theories, naomi klein, vox
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David Ortolano
Live Performance, Media and Education
Written, Directed & Performance by David Ortolano
Original Music Composition & Performance by Kendall Perry
Sound Engineering by Imedia AVM (Paul Ortolano)
The Man Who Sold the World is a pre-apocalyptic tale with storytelling, a live operetta and immersive sound – diving into themes of truth, alternative facts and a new look at an old political conundrum. The play was written in 2001 and workshopped in France in 2008. While the content is eerily similar to the current political climate in North America, the piece was crafted and shaped as a work of fiction with an epic journey through the stars and imaginal characters that bear a striking resemblance to our own complex world.
!! VANCOUVER !!
Friday, Sept 8 – 10:20 pm * 1/2 Price show
Saturday, Sept 9 – 4:35 pm
Sunday, Sept 10 – 12:00 noon
Wednesday, Sept 13 – 6:45 pm
Thursday, Sept 14 – 8:30 pm
Saturday, Sept 16 – 7:30 pm
The Revue Stage –
1601 Johnston Street –
Vancouver, B.C. V6H 3R7
TICKETS & INFO: Vancouver Fringe Festival – 604.257.0350
***** PORTFRINGE MERYL STREEP AWARD (Excellence in Acting)
***** PORTFRINGE PULITZER (Excellence in Writing)
***** SPECTACULAR in TECH-TACULAR (Light and Sound design)
While the content of The Man Who Sold the World is eerily similar to the current political climate, the piece was crafted and shaped in 2001, as a work of fiction and a journey through the stars to a completely foreign land with fictional characters.
Storytelling, interrupted by modern opera and immersive theatrical fantasy.
After creating the Boulder International Fringe Festival and being Colorado bound for 20 years, David Ortolano is back on the road with performances through the US and Canada. Also a co-founder of Band of Toughs Theater collaboratory in Colorado, David Ortolano has won awards in performance, design, producing and original works of theater and media in the Denver Post, Boulder Weekly, Daily Camera and was featured in a New York Times article on Fringe Festivals.
Kendall Perry
Kendall Perry is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and collaborator expanding the boundaries of art making beyond disciplines. Her music is emotive & meditative while simultaneously fiercely passionate. Her compositions are an effortless musical alchemy pulling from jazz, rock, classical, & a world music palette, combined with her own visual, cinematic & minimalistic flavor.
THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD – North American Tour 2017
April 27-28- Boulder, Colorado, USA
Wesley Chapel Theater
May 16-29 – Orlando, Florida, USA
Orlando Fringe Festival
June 17-25 – Portland, Maine, USA
PortFringe
July 19-30 – Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Winnipeg Fringe
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Calgary Fringe Festival
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DAWGS SWEEP VAUXHALL FOR 2018 SEASON
Jeff Duda
Wednesday, 09 May 2018 / Published in News
The Dawgs 18U Black had an outstanding weekend of baseball, sweeping the Vauxhall Academy Jets in a four game, home and home series.
This weekend was not the first time this season that the Dawgs and Jets have squared off against each other. Earlier this year at the prestigious Best of the West Tournament, after knocking off the highly regarded Langley Blaze 11-2 in the semi-final, the Dawgs beat Vauxhall 14-2 in the Championship game to capture their second title in the last three years.
Both teams had been on the road for the majority of the early 2018 season, but the weather in Alberta was outstanding all weekend and set the stage for a perfect home and home series featuring two of the top high school programs in the country.
On Saturday in Vauxhall, the Dawgs rode outstanding pitching and clutch hitting to come from behind and win game one by a score of 5-2. In game two, it was a repeat of Best of the West as the Dawgs offense was relentless pounding out 7 home runs and 15 hits to power the Dawgs to a lop sided 15-5 victory.
On Sunday in Okotoks, in a tight pitchers duel, the Dawgs got it done winning their fourth straight game against Vauxhall by a score of 3-2. In game two on Sunday, the Dawgs offense was scrappy and found a way to manufacture 5 runs to sweep the season series with a 5-2 victory.
The Dawgs finish the 2018 season with a perfect 5-0 record against Vauxhall, outscoring the Jets by a score of 42-13 in those five games and improving to 8-2 in the last 10 games, including a victory by the Dawgs 18U Red last year.
Top Pitching Performances:
Graham Brunner – 7 IP, 9 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 9 Ks
Brendan Logan – CG, 4 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 2 BB, 8 Ks
Ryan Olchoway – 5 IP, 6 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 Ks
Jordan Lussier – 3.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 7 Ks
Jackson Fraser – 3 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 3 Ks
Top Offensive Performances:
Cesar Valero – 4 for 11 including 3 home runs and 6 RBIs
LaRon Smith – 5 for 12 with 5 RBIs
Tristan Peters – 6 for 13 with 3 RBIs and 4 runs scored
Ayden Makarus – 4 for 12 with 2 home runs and 3 RBIs
Dawgs 18U Black took the lead late and defeated Vauxhall 5-2 on Saturday. The game was tied at two with the Dawgs batting in the top of the ninth when Tristan Peters singled on a 1-2 count, scoring the winning run. The Dawgs would add two more runs in the frame to make it a 5-2 final.
Jordan Lussier earned the win out of the bullpen for the Dawgs. He allowed one hit and zero runs over three and a third innings, striking out seven and walking one.
Ryan Olchoway started the game and pitched five innings while allowing 1 earned run on 6 hits, with three strike outs while walking only one.
Noah Geekie threw 2/3 of an inning in relief out of the bullpen to bridge the gap between Olchoway and Lussier, striking out one and walking one.
The Dawgs managed to tally seven hits in the game with LaRon Smith leading the way after going 2 for 4 with 2 RBIs. Micah McDowell, who recently verbally committed to top ranked NCAA Program, Oregon State University, went 1 for 3 with 1 RBI and 1 run scored, Tristan Peters went 1 for 4 with 1 RBI and 1 run scored and Alejandro Cazorla went 1 for 4 with 1 run scored.
Dawgs 18U Black went on an offensive rampage in game two pounding out a 15-5 victory over Vauxhall on Saturday.
Offensively, Team Canada standout, Cesar Valero, led the Dawgs at the plate going 4-for-4 in an amazing performance at the plate.Valero homered in the second, singled in the fourth, homered in the sixth, and homered again to put an exclamation point on the victory, in the seventh.
Jackson Fraser took the win for Dawgs 18U Black. He surrendered two runs, one earned, on two hits over three innings, striking out three and walking one.
Outstanding rookie lefty and University of Washington commit, Matt Wilkinson, started the game for the Dawgs pitching four innings, allowing three runs on four hits and striking out four.
The relentless Dawgs offense was on point, tallying 15 hits on the day. Highlights included the Dawgs smashing seven home runs and two doubles. Cesar Valero hit three home runs and drove in six runs, Ayden Makarus hit two home runs while driving in three, Jack Marlin hit a HR with three RBIs, and Alejandro Cazorla hit one HR with one RBI and one run scored.
Both teams featured outstanding pitching performances on Sunday, but Dawgs 18U Black persevered and continued their dominance by defeating Vauxhall 3-2 in eight innings.
Bryce Libke was the winning pitcher out of the bullpen pitching one inning, allowing zero hits and zero runs while striking out one and walking zero.
Graham Brunner started the game and, as we have come to expect, was outstanding on the mound for the Dawgs. Brunner went seven innings, allowing two runs, one earned, on nine hits while striking out nine and walking one.
Offensively, Tristan Peters led the way going 2-for-3 with one RBI at the plate to lead the Dawgs offense. Dawgs Junior National Team Standout. LaRon Smith, chipped in going 1 for 3 with 1 RBI and Ayden Makarus also stepped up with a hit in three plate appearances.
Dawgs 18U Black completed the season sweep by defeating Vauxhall 5-2 on Sunday. The game was tied at two in the bottom of the fifth when LaRon Smithsingled on a 2-2 count, scoring two runs to lock down the win.
Brendan Logan was outstanding on the mound for the Dawgs, earning the win. Logan surrendered two runs on four hits, striking out eight and walking two in the complete game effort.
The Dawgs offense managed to tally 8 hits on the day. Alejandro Cazorla led the offense with a 2 for 3 day at the plate, collecting one RBI with one run scored. LaRon Smith went 1 for 3 with 2 RBIs, Gavin Logan went 2 for 3, and Tristan Peters went 1 for 2 with one run scored.
Dawgs 15U Canada Day Invitational
Dawgs Split on Day 1 of Best of the West
Dawgs Prepare for AZ Four Corners Classic
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General Hospital: Perkie's Observations
Sam comes home from the hospital and chooses to rest on Jason’s couch. She says the pain of the surgery reminds her of when she lost her baby, but then apologizes for babbling about babies. Jason assures her that it’s fine, but he has trouble sleeping because he has memories of Jake. Sam assures him that she’s there for him. He says they need to discuss the surgery and talk about the baby decision. He tells her he’s trying to accept Jake’s death and that she might be ready for a baby sooner than he is. Sam informs him that the decision to have the baby will be made when they’re both ready. She sends him off to go clear his head while she naps.
Carly’s thrilled that Joss is doing so well that she’s ready to be released. Jax reminds her that the baby is going home with him, because he doesn’t want Joss to be a casualty. Carly tells him she’ll fight him with everything she has. Shawn interrupts to protect Carly, but Jax tells him to stay out of it. Carly reminds Jax that he knew Sonny was her ex when they married, so he can’t use that against her now. She tells him she’ll play dirty and is a much better liar.
Suzanne is with a woman named Betty, who’s been taking care of Brenda’s real son while she was away. Suzanne is happy that Brenda went public with the reward, because she had planned on going back to continue the grieving grandmother role and realizes she would have been caught.
Brenda finds Dante, Sonny and Spinelli working on Lucian’s disappearance and wants to know details. She soon gets very angry when she feels that they’re holding out on her. She thinks they’re mad at her for going public and Dante points out that Lucian is no longer a high priority, now that law enforcement knows that he’s with his grandmother. Brenda screams some more about being shut out and she’s going to go to Jax, because he’s willing to help. She says she doesn’t care what anyone else wants, including Sonny.
Tracy stops by to see Lulu and asks about Luke. Lulu tells her that she found Ethan hanging out and drinking with Luke. When Tracy asks what Lulu thinks now, and Lulu admits her father has a problem.
Spinelli looks into Theo’s past and some information leads to San Antonio. Dante and Sonny prepare to leave. Spin asks about Brenda, but Sonny tells him not to say anything to her. Dante wants a social worker along to deal with the child, but Sonny has a better idea.
Brenda calls Jax to come to her, so he leaves the hospital, but not before he reminds Carly of how it would feel if someone stole Joss from her. Brenda complains to Jax that Dante and Sonny are keeping stuff from her, but Jax assures her that Lucian will be found, and he’ll use all of his resources to find her son. He promises not to let her down.
Dante meets with Lulu to tell her he’s going to get Suzanne and Lucian with Sonny. She’s surprised he’s working with his father. He admits that he wants to help, and Sonny trusts him. He finds it nice that they’re coming together and joining forces.
Sonny stops by the hospital and asks Carly to go with them to find Suzanne and Lucian, so she can take care of the boy. She says Joss is coming home and she can’t. He says he can’t ask Robin to go and she’s the only other woman whom he can trust. Sonny talks her into it, so she tells Shawn she’s going to be away for a while and to look after Joss. Carly also makes Sonny promise to make it fast.
Spinelli calls Dante and Sonny and gives them an address for Suzanne. When Brenda gets home, she apologizes for yelling at him earlier, and Spinelli lets her know that things will be okay. When Brenda insists that he spill his guts, he mentions that Dante, Sonny and Carly are going to get Lucian.
Dante boards the jet and is surprised to see Carly, but Sonny explains the need for a woman to help Lucian. Dante admits that Carly is a fierce mother, but points out that Brenda will be pissed when she finds out. Dante wonders if Carly and Sonny are still fighting, but Sonny says despite their arguments, they always have each other’s backs.
Jason meets with Shawn, who explains to him about Jax’s attack on Carly, Sonny showing up, and then whisking Carly away.
Suzanne is talking to Alec, Brenda’s real son, explaining how things have worked out for them.
Brenda tells Jax that Sonny’s jet has just left and that he didn’t take her, but took Carly. Jax doesn’t believe it because Joss is supposed to be released.
Dante hopes that Suzanne won’t put up a fight, but Sonny reminds him that they need to be prepared in case she does.
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Neutral Characters, Male Characters, New Earth Characters,
John Ney Rieber/Creator
Peter Gross/Creator
Cyril Ransome (New Earth)
Cyril Ransome
King of the Dead, Son of God
Holly Ransome (mother,deceased) · William Hunter (step father, deceased) · Timothy Hunter (step brother)
John Ney Rieber · Peter Gross
Books of Magic Vol 2 #14
Cyril Ransome is the step brother of Timothy Hunter, and see him as a menace for the love of his mother, Holly Ransome, for what he is always searching for ways to make him look bad to other people, even lying about Tim having an homosexual relationship with his teacher, and learning some magic to counter the young mage, among other things.
When the young mage relinquished his life and his magic, Cyril was the only one who noticed that the Wobbly used a Changeling from Avalon to replace Tim. In the wedding ceremony of his mother and William Hunter, he discovered the Changeling in front of everyone, who was later killed by the real Tim Hunter.[1]
At this moment, Jemmy from the Laughing Brigade of Chaos incited a war between angels and fallen angels for Tim Hunter, and gave Cyril the power to command his action figures, who became his Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, War, Plague, Chocolate and Inconvenience. With his newfound powers, Cyril thought that his mother would love him more than Tim, but when she didn't respond as he expected, he transformed Holly into chocolate and destroyed his home, killing himself in the process. Jemmy, disguised as Our Lady of The Cheap Chosmetics, revived him later, though.
Jemmy instructed Cyril to kill everyone around Tim Hunter, and transformed Araquel, Bill Hunter and Mister Vasuki into chocolate, but the mage convinced him to stop before killing them all long enough to stop the Lady of Chaos.[2] In the end, with the help of Awn the Blink, Tim stopped Jemmy, who only incited the war because she wanted to eat ice-cream. When she left the walking world, Cyril lost all of his powers also.
After the war, Cyril and Tim went to the same school, Bardsey, where Cyril found and left stashed in some caverns below the school the body of Mr. Gavin, a teacher who accidentaly killed himself. He went everyday to talk to him, and showed him to anothers students to be popular among them, calling himself 'The King of the Dead'. When Thomas Currie took the place of Mr. Gavin as teacher, Cyril saw the attention that Mr. Currie took into Tim, and invented that they had an homosexual relationship, so Tim wouldn't be more popular than him in the school. Everything stopped when Tim and Currie found the dead bodie of Mr. Gavin, and throwed it in the Thames for the police to find.[3]
Cyril was in the car with his family when The Other caused the accident that killed Holly. With William in depression, he had no one to turn to, so he tried to come back to Bardsey, where he was expelled for alter the accounting books months ago. Angry, he whent into Mr. Currie's home and stole his glamour stone, taking the shape of a troll. Some time later, Mr. Currie, in an attempt to detach Tim from this world killed William, and so Cyril had no more family to rely.
When the Other killed Mr. Currie, Cyril followed Tim who was trying to dessapear from the sight of the Other, only for the boys to fight all day, even to the limit to Tim leaves Cyril to die runned over by a train. Cyril untied his shoe and survived, and his hatred for the mage only grew. They both followed differents paths from that moment.[4]
After their fall out, Cyril made a deal with Barbatos. The demon would help him revive his mother, and he would gave the lost magic of Tim Hunter. With the deal sealed, He went back to live in the catacombs of Bardsey, with a zombified Holly. Tim, with the Wild Hunt searched for Cyril, trying to find his lost magic, and stopped his sick games, leaving him for dead. He survived again, though.[5]
With his glamour stone, he took the shape of Tim Hunter and received a letter adressed to Tim that welcomed him into 'an school of wizardry'. With Tim's shape, he went through the platform 9½ at a train station, and he was never seen again.[6]
Glamour Stone: Its a magical stone that let him change shapes. He learned from Barbatos how to store new images, and change from Cyril to other people at his convenience.
Cyril's last appearance in Books of Magic its both, a mockery and a homage to J.K. Rowling's character Harry Potter, as he, in the shape of Tim Hunter, recieved a letter that welcomed him into a school where he would learn wizardry, and had to pass through a wall to reach the platform 9½ in an unnamed train station, as Harry Potter did, but of course, Cyril was no mage fated for greatness.
22 Appearances of Cyril Ransome (New Earth)
2 Images featuring Cyril Ransome (New Earth)
Quotations by or about Cyril Ransome (New Earth)
Character Gallery: Cyril Ransome (New Earth)
↑ Books of Magic (Volume 2) #45
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Axon Security Advisory: Meltdown & Spectre
Security Advisory Release Date: January 5th, 2018 | Advisory Identifier: AXON-1801
Security researchers recently announced two wide-spread processor vulnerabilities, named Meltdown and Spectre. These flaws allow programs running on affected systems to access portions of memory that should normally be inaccessible, potentially allowing for unauthorized access to sensitive data.
Axon Cloud Services
Axon customers are not required to take any actions on their accounts running in Axon cloud services. Axon cloud services have been patched against these flaws at the infrastructure level, and patches provided by operating system vendors will be applied as they are released.
Axon Devices
The chipsets used by our Axon body cameras, in-car systems, and CEW’s are not vulnerable to either Meltdown or Spectre. Axon Dock is not vulnerable to Meltdown, but could be impacted by Spectre. Real-world exploitation is extremely unlikely and impractical on ARM chipsets, as the researchers detailed. In consultation with the chipset manufacturer, Axon will continue to evaluate if at some point in time an update to the Dock to mitigate Spectre would be beneficial.
Scope, Impact & Mitigation
According to the researchers, “Desktop, Laptop, and Cloud computers may be affected by Meltdown. More technically, every Intel processor which implements out-of-order execution is potentially affected, which is effectively every processor since 1995 (except Intel Itanium and Intel Atom before 2013). We successfully tested Meltdown on Intel processor generations released as early as 2011. Currently, we have only verified Meltdown on Intel processors. At the moment, it is unclear whether ARM and AMD processors are also affected by Meltdown.”
According to the researchers, “Almost every system is affected by Spectre: Desktops, Laptops, Cloud Servers, as well as Smartphones. More specifically, all modern processors capable of keeping many instructions in flight are potentially vulnerable. In particular, we have verified Spectre on Intel, AMD, and ARM processors.”
Axon cloud services running on Microsoft Azure have already been patched at the hypervisor level against these issues. Operating system level patches will also be applied rapidly once they are available from operating system vendors. Axon cloud regions using Microsoft Azure include United States, Canada, and United Kingdom. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/securing-azure-customers-from-cpu-vulnerability/
Axon cloud services running on Amazon Web Services (AWS) are already protected at the infrastructure level. Operating system level patches will also be applied rapidly, once they are available from operating system vendors. Axon cloud regions using Amazon Web Services include EU, and Australia. https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2018-013/
According to ARM, the chipsets used by our body cameras and in-car systems are not vulnerable to either Meltdown or Spectre.
Axon Dock could be impacted by the Spectre vulnerabilities, but not Meltdown. However, as the researchers explained, exploitation on ARM has been shown to be difficult and limited. On a hardened operating system that does not run outside, unvetted code, such as that used on the Dock, exploitation is extremely difficult and very impractical. In consultation with the chipset manufacturer, Axon will continue to evaluate if an update to the Dock to mitigate Spectre would be beneficial.
Applicable CVEs (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) & Other Resources
https://meltdownattack.com
Spectre: CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715
Meltdown: CVE-2017-5754
Suggested Actions
Axon customers are not required to take any actions on their accounts running in Axon cloud services. However, customers are always encouraged to review their general security practices and settings. https://www.axon.com/trust/security/evidence/best-practices
Axon customers are not required to take any actions on their Axon devices. However, customers are always encouraged to review their general security practices and settings.
Tips for Protecting your Agency Desktops, Laptops, and Mobile Devices
Axon customers are encouraged to apply operating system updates to their client systems, such as desktops, laptops, and mobile devices, as soon as is reasonable. As with any update, please consult your system administrators for additional information specific to your agency's environment or practices.
As these vulnerabilities are rooted in elements of hardware processor design and involve only the ability to read memory data (not write), many of the traditional security measures will not be effective at preventing attacks against these vulnerabilities or detecting that attacks have happened. While general security best-practices should continue to be used, such as anti-virus, network segmentation, and general operating system hardening, these are not likely to provide adequate mitigations for these vulnerabilities.
The most effective mitigations for Spectre and Meltdown are to apply the vendor supplied patches.
Windows systems
Microsoft released security updates for these issues originally on January 3rd, 2018. Note that Microsoft will only apply these security updates if you are also running a compatible anti-virus program. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4072699/important-information-regarding-the-windows-security-updates-released for more information. Customers should ensure these updates have been applied to their systems as soon as possible.
mac OS systems
Apple released a fix with its December 6th update of macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 and security updates for macOS Sierra and El Capitan. This was initially reported to be a partial fix, but Apple recently stated that it was a complete fix. Customers should ensure these updates have been applied to their systems as soon as possible.
iOS systems
ARM (the designer behind the scenes of Apple's core processors in its iPhones) has stated that it is vulnerable to Spectre, but not Meltdown attacks. Apple has not yet released an update for its iPhones to remediate these vulnerabilities, but as with other devices on ARM, exploitation has so far proven to be very difficult to exploit. Customers should watch for updates from Apple and apply then when available.
Android-based devices
Google has stated “exploitation has been shown to be difficult and limited on the majority of Android devices.” Even so, Google released a fix with its December security patches. Unless you have a Google Pixel device, whether these updates are available to you is a complicated matter as phone manufacturers and carriers each add complications to the process. Customers should apply updates if possible and consult their wireless carrier and/or phone manufacturer to receive information specific to their hardware.
One of the more concerning attack vectors involve browsers. This allows code from a website to access memory that it should not have access to.
Google Chrome has made some recommendations here: https://support.google.com/faqs/answer/7622138#chrome that should last until additional mitigations are released on January 23rd.
Mozilla Firefox released fixes on January 4th in version 57.0.4: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-01/ .
Microsoft released updates for Internet Explorer and Edge along with its Windows updates.
Apple has not yet published an update for Safari, but has promised an update “in the coming days”.
Where reasonable, customers should apply these updates and settings as soon as possible.
If you have any further questions, please contact us
Axon Customer Support
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4-H clover Understanding 4-H policies
Understanding 4-H policies
Why policies, rules and deadlines?
Policies guide decisions and help us to reach good outcomes. Minnesota 4-H policies direct staff, volunteers, members and their families on how to act in the program. All 4-H members and volunteers (individual, club, county, regional, state, national and international levels) are subject to the policies, rules, deadlines and behavior standards that govern participation and involvement.
Written rules define acceptable behavior, actions and operations. Rules have consequences when they're not followed. Minnesota 4-H has rules for membership, volunteering, youth and adult behavior (code of conduct), participation in projects and competitive events, and use of resources.
Deadlines are the dates by which something needs to be completed. Minnesota 4-H sets some deadlines statewide and some are set locally. Deadlines may or may not have consequences. Every Minnesota 4-H member is eligible for a "one-time exemption" from the consequences associated with missing a single competitive event deadline.
How are 4-H policies, rules and deadlines determined?
When considering whether to implement or change a policy, rule or guideline, Minnesota 4-H considers the following:
Is this a legal expectation required by their group exemption status as a public non-profit organization and/or by federal and/or state statute?
Is this a requirement of the University of Minnesota Extension, University of Minnesota, and/or National 4-H Headquarters at NIFA?
Will this attract and retain youth, volunteers and partners who reflect a broad interpretation of diversity?
Will this reflect positive youth development principles and practices?
Will this enhance the quality of the learning environment?
Will this ensure an equitable and uniform opportunity for participation in cooperative and competitive learning experiences?
Will this promote and expect efficient and effective use of fiscal and human resources?
Plus sign (+) if content is closed, 'X' if content is open. Code of conduct
A standard of behavior for all individuals involved in our program is one of the key components for creating a welcoming learning environment that is physically and emotionally safe. So everyone who takes part in or volunteers with the Minnesota 4-H program at any level (individual, club, county, regional, state, national and international) is subject to the behavior standards and rules governing participation and involvement as outlined in the Minnesota 4-H Code of Conduct.
When you enroll or re-enroll as a member, you agree that you have read, accept and will abide by the full University of Minnesota Extension 4-H Youth Development (Minnesota 4-H) Code of Conduct.
Also, when you enroll or re-enroll as a Minnesota 4-H volunteer, you agree to accept and abide by the Minnesota 4-H Code of Conduct.
Minnesota 4-H Youth Development is a part of the University of Minnesota. We offer a range of short and long-term educational programs to meet the needs of young people. All youth participating in Minnesota 4-H Youth Development programs are considered 4-H members. This definition of membership emphasizes our public and organizational commitment to ensuring the diverse youth of this state have equal opportunity for participation (intensity, duration, breadth) in high-quality (safe, supportive, interactive, engaging) learning experiences. Learn more about how youth can participate in 4-H.
Anyone in kindergarten through one year past high school (grade 13) may enroll. To enroll in grade 13, the young person must have been enrolled in Minnesota 4-H as a high school senior. Refer to special circumstances to determine eligibility of youth who are home-schooled, enrolled in a post secondary option, receiving special education services or withdrawn from school.
When youth join 4-H they enroll as a Minnesota 4-H member in a specific county. You may be a members of 4-H in any county or state, as boundaries should not be barriers to 4-H membership. As a rule, you can be a member in only one county and only in one state. Refer to special circumstances (below) for exceptions.
Plus sign (+) if content is closed, 'X' if content is open. Enrollment
Nearly all youth involved in a 4-H program must be enrolled in 4-H. Your complete enrollment data (club and project selection is optional) must be entered into 4HOnline. This helps Minnesota 4-H to manage the program better.
New members may enroll at any time. Members must re-enroll each year. The re-enrollment period opens on Sept. 16 and should be completed by the end of October but re-enrollment will be accepted anytime.
If you do not enroll by the end of October, you will not:
Receive direct communications from us about new opportunities.
Be allowed serve as an officer in a 4-H club, federation/council or other organized group.
Be allowed to compete in project bowl or prepare for project bowl.
Youth who re-enroll after May 15 will not have full privileges when participating in the county fair and other competitive events.
Review the exceptions to this rule and the specific consequences on the competitive events, deadlines, consequences and exemption options table. Every Minnesota 4-H member is eligible once in their 4-H career to file a "one-time member exemption" acknowledging they missed a 4-H deadline related to enrollment or competitive event participation and waive the consequences for the named deadline. The one-time member exemption form is available from the county Extension office in the county of membership.
The two exceptions to the enrollment requirement:
You do not need to enroll to participate in short-term low-risk marketing programs where the parent or responsible adult is present and responsible for their child(ren).
You do not need to enroll as a Minnesota 4-H member if the University of Minnesota has a program with a collaborating partner who manages the enrollment and in that agreement the partner agrees to provide the participant data needed for monitoring 4-H program participation, and assumes the liability and risk.
Plus sign (+) if content is closed, 'X' if content is open. Special circumstances for membership
Youth who are home-schooled will be to be in the Minnesota K-12 public school grade:
A child who is 5 by Sept. 1 of the school year is eligible to enter kindergarten and thus, is eligible to enroll as a cloverbud in Minnesota 4-H.
A child who is 8 by Sept.1 of the school year is eligible to enter third grade and thus, is eligible to enroll in projects.
A 4-H member who is 11 by Sept. 1 of the school year is eligible to enter sixth grade and thus, is eligible to attend the state fair experience at the end of the 4-H program year.
A 4-H member who is 18 by Sept. 1 of the school year is eligible to enter their first year of post-high school education and thus begins their final year as a member of 4-H.
Youth who choose a post-secondary education enrollment option while still in high school will be considered enrolled in 4-H by the grade they would be in if they were being educated in a Minnesota K-12 public school. The final year of 4-H eligibility is defined as follows:
Youth who are receiving special education services will be considered enrolled in 4-H by their current grade in a Minnesota K-12 public school. Minnesota 4-H aligns enrollment practices for special education students with Minnesota state law, which allows access to public schools through age 21. This means:
A person who is receiving special education services in a K-12 education program is eligible for 4-H membership.
The final year of 4-H eligibility for those individuals who once received but are no longer receiving special education services in a K-12 education program is defined in this way: A 4-H member who is 18 by Sept. 1 of the school year is eligible to enter their first year of post-high school education and thus begins their final year as a member of 4-H.
People who withdraw from school for medical reasons or other reasons will be considered enrolled in 4-H by the grade they would be if they were being educated in a Minnesota K-12 public school. The final year of 4-H eligibility is defined as:
Youth who physically live with different family members in two different counties during a Minnesota 4-H program year (October 1 - September 30) may request dual membership in 4-H in both counties. This special circumstance has the following requirements:
Families must work with the 4-H program coordinators in both counties to request approval for dual county membership and to understand what this choice means.
If the request includes competitive event participation in two different counties, families must consult the event coordinators for those state 4-H programs. Under no circumstances does Minnesota 4-H support participation by the same 4-H'er in similar competitive events in two different counties.
Youth who physically live with different family members in two different states during a Minnesota 4-H program year (October 1 - September 30) may request dual membership in 4-H in both states. This special circumstance has the following requirements:
Families must work with the 4-H program coordinators or Extension agents or Extension educators in both states to request approval for dual state membership and to understand what this choice means.
If the request includes competitive event participation in two different states, families must consult the event coordinators for those state 4-H programs. Under no circumstances does Minnesota 4-H support participation by the same 4-H'er in similar competitive events in two different states. Minnesota 4-H does not support transfer of a 4-H membership to Minnesota once a 4-H member has exhausted eligibility in another state.
A person is considered enrolled in Minnesota 4-H by the grade they would be in if they were being educated in a Minnesota K-12 public school.
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Minnesota 4-H has a set of deadlines that balances welcoming youth and managing the workload for Extension employees. The competitive events, deadlines, consequences and exemption options table helps 4-H members, families and 4-H staff to understand 4-H state and county individual competitive event deadlines, consequences applied to each situation/deadline, and a one-time exemption to remove all consequences for a single situation/deadline. This chart is for statewide use; staff can use a table to localize it for the county. Details regarding filing a "one-time" exemption are included with grievances processes.
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Rules and procedures for county fairs are outlined in the county fair premium book. 4-H adopted the following procedures for 2014:
4-H competitive events: Absentee judging of projects
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Youth may take part in non-quota competitive events in different counties. In quota-based competitive events, youth may only participate in the county where they are enrolled, unless that competitive event is not offered in the home county. In this case, quota adjustments will be made with the other county, in cooperation with the staff member responsible for the regional or state event. The home county determines participation and/or registration scholarships and/or fee waivers.
Exemptions and grievance
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Because life sometimes gets in the way of a member or an entire family submitting paperwork by the deadline, Minnesota 4-H has a "member exemption rule." Every 4-H member has one-time forgiveness during their 4-H career for a missing a deadline for enrollment or competitive event participation. In this case, Minnesota 4-H will waive the consequences for that missed deadline.
The exemption is one-time per 4-H member.
The exemption may be used only one time in a 4-H member's career.
If a family misses a deadline for all eligible children, the family may choose to use the exemption for each child, or they may select which children would use their exemption at this time. This allows families to have choice in whether to use the exemption for a child now or to save the exemption for a potential future situation.
The competitive events, deadlines, consequences and exemption options table outlines the state and county 4-H individual competitive event deadlines, consequences applied to each situation/deadline, and the use of the one-time exemption to remove all consequences for a single situation/deadline.
Youth who wish to claim the "one-time" exemption should get the appropriate form from the Extension office in the county-tribal nation of membership. The timeline for filing of the exemption form is in the competitive events, deadlines, consequences and exemption options table.
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Decisions made by judges, which are final.
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The grievance committee position description explains the purpose of the committee and the responsibilities of the committee members. Individuals who are invited by Extension youth development staff to serve on a grievance committee and agree to this role, complete the grievance committee member contract.
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An unemployed drifter named John Nada finds construction work in Los Angeles, and befriends fellow construction worker Frank Armitage, who leads him to a local shantytown soup kitchen..
The Doors Are Open..
November 1 – In the Israeli election, Likud wins 47 seats, Labour wins 49, but Likud Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir remains in office- Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones/2 – Morris worm, the first computer worm distributed via the Internet is launched from MIT in the U.S.– Victor Miller is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Stuart Gough - Mexican radio station erronously reports Mike Tyson dies in car crash\3 Thousands of South Korean students demonstrate – Sri Lankan Tamil mercs try to overthrow the Maldivian government.. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours- Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane - Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew-Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill/4 – Margaret Thatcher presses for freedom for the people of Poland on her visit to Gdańsk\5- Against former president Chun Doo-hwan - France performs nuclear test- Gulch wins Breeder's Cup- Japan beats MLB all stars 2-1 in Tokyo- Cornell confirms grad student source of worst computer sabotage/7- Sugar Ray Leo nard KO's Donnie La\8- Rafael Fernandez Colón elected as president of Puerto Rico –George H. W. Bush is elected over Michael Dukakis, becoming the first sitting VicePres of the US in 152 years to be elected as President of the UsTates- 900 die as EQ hits China/9– The UK gov unveils plans for a new ID card scheme in an attempt to clamp down on football hooliganism- "Prince of Central Park" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 4\10 – USAF acknowledges the existence of the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk in a Pentagon press conference widely publicized for its role in the Gulf War of 1991..Although it was commonly referred to as the "Stealth Fighter"..in which he showed that the strength of a radar return is related to the edge configuration of an object, not its size/11 – In Sacramento, California, police find a body buried in the lawn of 60-year-old boardinghouse landlady Dorothea Puente (7 bodies are eventually found and she is convicted of 3 murders)..her reputation in the boarding house was mixed.. Some tenants resented her stinginess and complained that she refused to give them their mail or money;others praised her for small acts of kindness or for her generous home-made meals- Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported ...
In an alley, he opens the box and finds dozens of sunglasses.. Taking one, he hides the box of remaining sunglasses in a garbage can..Nada discovers the sunglasses have unique properties.. After putting on a pair, he sees the world in black and white and discovers it is not what it seems..Nada confronts an alien woman, who then speaks into her wristwatch notifying others about him..Suspicion was first aroused when neighbors noticed the odd activities of a homeless alcoholic known only as "Chief", whom Puente stated she had "adopted" and made her personal handyman..The Kirk of St Nicholas in Union Street, Aberdeen has dedicated a chapel in memory of those who perished and there is a memorial sculpture in the Rose Garden of Hazlehead Park in Aberdeen..30 bodies were never recovered...
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NIH: ‘We May Have to Vaccinate Whole Countries to Stop Ebola Outbreak’
Posted on October 8, 2014 by Kimberly Paxton
The Daily Sheeple – by Melissa Melton
Has the endgame been revealed on the Ebola outbreak?
Two days ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told The Canadian Press that it’s “quite conceivable, if not likely” that fast-tracked Ebola vaccines may have to given to entire countries to get the viral outbreak under control (via Modern Healthcare):
“It is conceivable that this epidemic will not turn around even if we pour resources into it. It may just keep going and going and it might require a vaccine.”
“As the epidemic gets more and more formidable and in some cases out of control it is quite conceivable, if not likely, that we may need to deploy the vaccine to the entire country to be able to shut the epidemic down. That is clearly a possibility.” [emphasis added]
The article did not specify which country in particular Dr. Fauci — whose institute just so happens to be currently working on an experimental Ebola vaccine (the first to begin human clinical trials) with Big Pharma giant GlaxoSmithKline — was referring to. Was he talking specifically about Sierra Leone? Liberia? Guinea? Any place where Ebola has taken hold? The entire continent of Africa? Other countries, should it break out there including Spain or America?
The prospects of “countrywide” vaccination for Ebola with a rushed-to-market vaccination are absolutely horrifying.
Recall that some 800 children in Europe are now suffering narcolepsy thanks to the rushed swine flu vaccine. Daisy Luther of The Organic Prepper wrote:
Some people may say, “Oh, that was an experimental drug, rushed to market to fight an epidemic.”
The thing is, if you look at it that way, every flu vaccine is “experimental”. Each year’s batch contains something different, because it has to be ever-evolving as viruses mutate. Despite this, people are terrified and guilted into receiving the vaccine. If the fear factor doesn’t work, they are forced to take it in order to work, go to school, or stay at daycare.
That’s not to mention a 4,250% increase in fetal deaths linked to the shot when given to pregnant women as well, amounting to thousands of miscarriages among a lovely menagerie of other awful adverse events.
And for what? What was revealed later to be a global hoax tied to grand financial motives, as Aaron Dykes reported back in 2010:
Drug firms collaborated with WHO officials to deliberately create a “campaign of panic” and a ‘false disaster’ over swine flu pandemic fears when one was not evident, top European health official Wolfgang Wodarg has indicated.
Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claims that the threshold for alert was deliberately lowered at the WHO, allowing a “pandemic” to be declared despite the mildness of the ‘swine flu.’ That designation would force a demand for the vaccine, which was subsequently purchased by governments or health facilities and pushed on the public through a full-scale fear campaign in the media.
Rest assured that whatever Ebola vaccine they come up with now will be even that much more rushed than the N1H1 vax. Why rushed?
As Truthstream Media reported, check out what Dr. Ben Neuman told Bloomberg this past summer in an interview on why no vaccine for Ebola currently exists:
“It’s not just one drug we need for Ebola. We need a cocktail of drugs and perhaps a nice vaccine that could be used… These all take a lot of money and right now in the history of what we know at least, there have been fewer than 5,000 people who have been infected with Ebola. It sounds scary, but I don’t know that there’s enough…uh…panic or enough people who are potential customers for these drugs to warrant a company — a private company anyway — putting the money it would take to develop this.” [emphasis added]
Well there is definitely enough panic now, wouldn’t you say?
Dave Hodges, over at The Common Sense Show, has already penned an article demonstrating how the CDC has positioned themselves to profit financially should Ebola spread throughout the U.S.:
The CDC has ulterior motives in the diagnosing and subsequent treatment of Ebola. First of all, the CDC is traded on Dunn and Bradstreet. This fact makes the CDC a for profit corporation. Secondly, and as I have pointed out before, the CDC owns the patent on Ebola and all variances up to 70% of the variance. This means that because the CDC owns Ebola, they will receive a royalty every time a treatment is provided because of the alteration of their intellectual property rights.
These two facts mean that if the CDC moved to block the spread of Ebola, they would cut into their profit motive. On this point, there can be no argument. Are we supposed the humanitarian nature that the CDC would forgo their profit motive in order to serve the public good? Should we trust the CDC? What are the implications?
That might explain why the CDC is so against banning air travel from West Africa and even continues to change its basic stance on how the virus is even spread.
The World Health Organization’s latest figures on the current outbreak show that over 8,000 people have been diagnosed with Ebola as of October 5th, and nearly 4,000 people have now died.
Either way, I think I can speak safely for the staff here at The Daily Sheeple: we will not be rolling up our sleeves for any nationwide Ebola vaccination program any time not just soon, but ever.
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11 Responses to NIH: ‘We May Have to Vaccinate Whole Countries to Stop Ebola Outbreak’
aw yeah. been waiting for this bullsh!t to start.
GrinNBarrett says:
Problem…..reaction…….Solution over and over again when will we learn?
yup!!
Come get your mark or the beast oops I meant vaccination otherwise your going into a FEMA camp.
NC says:
Take your vaccinations and shove them up your ass, CDC!
Joe in JT says:
I doubt HLS will go door to door forcing vaccinations. More likely will be HLS stationed at grocery stores, Walmart, and gas stations. You won’t be able to use the stores or pump gas unless you have a pink wrist band with your scanable info on it showing you’ve taken the shots. They will have a medical truck set up for giving out the shots. You either take a shot and get a wrist band or you get no gas. What will you do?
Jones says:
They can start by vaccinating a triple dose to the bankers and congress, in fact give all the doses to them and leave the rest of us alone.
If the authorities really wanted to stop ebola they would kill themselves and their banker overlords, then ebola and terrorism would disappear from the face of the earth.
CaptainObvious says:
Let’s all buy cheap “Hans and Franz” muscle suits like the “Saturday Night Live” skits.
I’ll be happy to get my IM (intramuscular) injection then.
Seriously. It’s a viable alternative.
EJ Gunt says:
They want to vaccinate , I want to PERFORATE !!!
Do you think millions will line up to be jabbed with UN TESTED junk??
Americans may be stupid enough, but I doubt other countries will
stand for the foolishness…. or deadly jabs.
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Buhari Condemns Fresh Kaduna Killings
Date: March 16, 2019Author: Desmond - Kay 0 Comments
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged the actors in the communal and persistent violence in Kaduna State to come to terms with the fact that mutual violence has no winners, but losers on both sides of the conflict.
At least 10 people were killed in Sanga local government area of the state on Saturday, according to a local official.
The News Agency said residents suspected the attack was a reprisal by herdsmen who suffered some attack before the recent elections.
The incident comes as Kaduna State struggles to contain rampaging attacks in several local government areas in the southern region that have claimed dozens of lives.
Reacting to the endless carnage in Kaduna State on Saturday, President Buhari said, “I am deeply troubled by the fact that sanctify of life is now treated with such reckless disregard that people derive joy in shedding the blood of others or perceived enemies.”
According to Mr Buhari, “inhumanity has replaced compassion in the hearts and minds of the perpetrators of these atrocities.”
“No responsible leader would go to bed happy to see his citizens savagely killing one another on account of ethnic and religious bigotry,” he further noted sadly.
According to President Buhari, “Violence cannot be the solution to these persistent conflicts as long as people resort to deliberate provocations, revenge and counter revenge.”
He said that, “While the government remains committed to protecting its citizens, the communities involved must also put their shoulder to the wheel in order to find a lasting solution.”
President Buhari noted that “lack of cooperation by those involved might frustrate government’s efforts towards finding a lasting solution, especially if those efforts are politicised.”
According to him, “If the people resist government’s efforts to hold the perpetrators and their sponsors accountable, it would be very difficult to bring the violence to a permanent end.”
President Buhari regretted that “everything is politicised in Nigeria, including the efforts to bring offenders to justice, because their people will rise up in arms to resist their arrests and prosecution.”
He described hate, bigotry and prejudice as “deadly poisons that have infected the human psyche on such scale that people now don’t have any moral inhibitions about taking life.”
Hr also appealed to the warring communities to stop inhibiting the National Emergency Management Agency, NEMA’s efforts to deliver food, medicines and temporary shelter to the victims of the violence who are in urgent need of assistance.
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ProSportsDaily.com > Basketball > NBA > Cavs/Magic Breaking Ratings Records
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The surprising Eastern Conference finals have delivered strong ratings for TNT.
Through four games of the Cleveland-Orlando series, the network was averaging a 5.2 national rating, up 27 percent from last year, when it carried the Western Conference finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and San Antonio Spurs.
Orlando's 116-114 overtime victory Tuesday that gave the Magic a 3-1 lead over the top-seeded Cavaliers drew 10.1 million viewers, making it the most watched NBA playoff game in cable TV history. The Lakers and Denver Nuggets drew 9.9 million for ESPN for Game 4 of their series.
tr4shb0t
witness the refs
MAC10TIZZY
this is an exciting series, i seriously hope it ends in orlando!!!
superkegger
not a surprise, such a great series
theuuord
imo, whoever wins on saturday is going to win the series.
(this is obvious for orlando, but if cleveland wins game 6 they have homecourt game 7, and i don't see them relinquishing that.)
game 6 is going to be fun to watch.
This is the first series that has interested me a lot in the playoffs in the last 3 or 4 years.
now someone come in here about but no cares/watches small market teams like cle and orl and big markets blah blah
Hoopsadvocate
Ya i think as its not Lakers v ________ or Spurs v ___________ or Pistons v _______ it will get good ratings. Nuggets and the magic are fresh new faces in a league that was drenched in laker spur pistons type matches for the last 6 years before last.
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ProSportsDaily.com > Basketball > NBA > Is Kevin Garnett really a #1 option or a #2 option on a championship team?
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Is Kevin Garnett really a #1 option or a #2 option on a championship team?
We saw in 2008 that he was the most productive player for the team in season and playoffs leading them in overall PER and win Shares, however it was Pierce who was the guy who came up big in the most important games (namely game 7 against the Cavs and against the Lakers in Game 1)
With that in mind, is KG like Duncan in that he can win as the best player on the team and be the man at the most crucial moments of the game?
Since they are compared soo frecuently with one another along with Malone and Barkley I figure it is worth asking.
blackjack_119
He has the talent to be a number one guy, but he looks most comfortable when he is playing like a number two (even if his production is better than the "number one" option)
^Agree better suited if he was a 2. But he has the skills to be a one, IMO not on a Championship team.
the_watcher
At this stage of his career he's best suited as a number 2 option on a title contender. He was the clear cut #1 his last 10 years in Minnesota though.
Offensively he's a number 2 option now, but his intangibles, his leadership, and what he brings defensively are irreplaceable.
MnTwins
Well put, for a verteran like Garnett, his Intangibles are the key to his game.
That being said, who wouldnt want 17pt 10rb defensive wiz on their team during a championship run.
MackSnackWrap
I would say he is 1 earlier in his career, but now at this stage in his career i would say 2
2nd option, he could never win anything as the #1 option, nor will he. 2nd option suits him best, it wasn't until he had Pierce and Allen (two future HOFers) that he had any real success.
Right now I think he'd be better suited as a number two guy. It doesn't matter with this current Celtics line-up though. They work really well as a team, and it doesn't really come down to who is the number one, two and three guy. Like JB said, in the '08 play-offs Garnett was the man, then when he struggled in the Finals Pierce took over. They just want to win, and will go with whoever's hot or has the match-up advantage. This is what helps that big three to be so succesful.
GCOOKIE7
he makes great choices, why not?
what54!?
since he's 33 years old now, he's a better two. A couple of years ago (i.e. 2004) he could have been the #1 option
TheMicrowave
IMO he is the number 1 player on a championship team right now. Celtics have a great chance of winning it all again.
pierce is the #1 right now, but on any given night kg can be. it just depends on the situation. if the celtics went to him more as the #1 they would still be successful.
blah-blah
depends what team
ChiSox219
In his prime, yes
Chronz
Yes, he did it the year before. Pierce came away with the Finals MVP but every series prior to that was all about Kg.
ArtVandelay
#2 offense option on any championship team but still #1 best player overall on any team.The big guys efficiency is off the charts.
JetsBlitz
KG is a defensive beast, so i voted number one option, he does everything
Likewise for Pierce and Allen... neither of those guys had any real success either until all three came together.
jetsfan28
Now he's a #2, but no doubt in his prime he was a #1. He was the unquestionable #1 and the league MVP the one time he had a decent team, and that team didn't lose because of him, they lost because their top 2 PG's got hurt.
Taimla
in my eyes he is even #3
prash
3rd option in BOS
He led his team in PER and win shares when he played most of the season.
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Community › Wedding Boards › Music
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Unique Dad/Daughter Songs
Knottie1430965129 member
January 2016 in Music
My dad and I were closer when I was younger, I changed the oil in the cars with him, helped him switch the tractor over for plowing snow etc (no brothers, plus I loved learning all that stuff)...when I got a little older and went off to college the closeness faded.
As of late, with my younger sister just getting married a few months ago and my wedding coming up in 5 short months I am having trouble nailing down a good song for us to dance to. My sister chose "I Loved Her First" which was appropriate for the youngest daughter who never left home until the night she was married.
I was thinking about "Daddy Dance With Me" by Krystal Keith, but I would like a few objective opinions before I choose.
Any other suggestions are definitely welcome as well!
Re: Unique Dad/Daughter Songs
labro Hotlanta member
My dad and I danced to Wildflowers by Tom Petty because I didn't really want a super traditional "Daddy's little girl" type of song. We have a close relationship but it's definitely more of an equal partnership and not "you'll be my little baby forever" kind of thing.
charlotte989875 member
I wanted that @labro for our song, but my dad wasn't a fan. We had a really hard time with this because we're not close but he wanted these super sentimental songs that I hated and made me feel "fake". I wish that I hadn't let him pick and just used what I wanted. The other suggestions I had wanted were "landslide" by Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young's "here for you", John Fogerty "I will walk with you", "God Only Knows" from the Beach Boys, the Eagles, "I wish you peace", and Sam Cookes "nothing can change this love".
I've never heard that song OP, but just because your sister had a particular song or relationship with your dad doesn't mean you have to. Use what feels right to you.
donethat member
Trivia: Toby Keith daughter, Kristal, wrote that song for her wedding!
Here's an under-used country song that you might like: Just Fishin' by Trace Adkins
downtondiva member
My dad and I also danced to "Wildflowers." It's pretty and a nice alternative to the more traditional or sentimental father/daughter dance songs.
Jax43615 member
My wedding is too far away to have this set in stone, but I am thinking of using "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong. My dad and I drunkenly danced to it on a vacation that just him and I took a couple years ago. It's one of my favorite memories.
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Jax43615 said:
The version by IZ is one of my favorite songs.
James Taylor, you got a friend?
Beatles , in my life?
~xoxo~
thisismynickname2 City By The Lake member
charlotte989875 said:
I wanted that @labro for our song, but my dad wasn't a fan. We had a really hard time with this because we're not close but he wanted these super sentimental songs that I hated and made me feel "fake". I wish that I hadn't let him pick and just used what I wanted. The other suggestions I had wanted were "landslide" by Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young's "here for you", John Fogerty "I will walk with you", "God Only Knows" from the Beach Boys, the Eagles, "I wish you peace", and Sam Cookes "nothing can change this love". I've never heard that song OP, but just because your sister had a particular song or relationship with your dad doesn't mean you have to. Use what feels right to you.
We had Landslide!
I hate sentimental songs personally so this was a good choice for us.
Also, What A Wonderful World is very popular, but not unique. MIL choose it for her M-S dance at our wedding. I've heard it at several other weddings too. Not a bad song, just, not unique.
Edit: corrected FMIL to MIL
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I am using Tough Little Boys by Gary Allen!
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I'm going to dance to "Little Miss Magic" by Jimmy Buffet with my dad at the wedding. He's a huge Jimmy Buffet fan so I grew up listening to it with him a lot. It's one of the things I'm most looking forward to!
I thought about using this as well...also "Drive" by Alan Jackson because of being the daughter who was always willing to be out there working on the cars/tractor etc ... I will take a listen to everything suggested, thank you all so much!
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Anything will work as long as you both like it. GL
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bethsmiles said:
Hello, fellow Parrothead...I LOVE that someone else is using Buffett! My dad introduced him to me as a baby, and used to sing me "Little Miss Magic" every night before bed. I think that's going to be one of my favorite parts of the wedding
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"Always on Your Side" by Cheryl Crow & Sting was used for a father/daughter dance at a wedding that I attended a few years back. I don't really know the lyrics to that song but remembered thinking that it was sweet.
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Meghan Markle's Hopes For A Natural Home Birth May Be About To Change
Published Mon May 06 2019 By Andrew
Will Meghan Markle give a natural home birth? Highly unlikely, find out why!
Speculation is in full swing as of late suggests that Duchess of Sussex may already have welcomed the royal baby into the world, but the official word of a new royal’s arrival is yet to hit the public.
Palace sources have come through to claim that the royal baby is yet to be born. Moreover, the sources also said on Saturday that Prince Harry canceled the first day of his trip to The Netherlands giving a substantial hint on the suggestion that Meghan Markle is yet to go into labor.
The Dutchess is a week past her due date.
SOURCE: Hello Magazine
Doctors tend to believe that the 36-year-old royal is a week overdue, bashing her hopes of natural birth at Frogmore Cottage, her abode with Prince Harry on the Queen’s Windsor estate.
As the precious time passes us by, experts maintain that the chances of the Dutchess having to face induced labor in hospital rises. As per the professionals, until Meghan gives birth in the next 48 hours there are high chances that she would give birth at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey, 15 miles from Frogmore Cottage.
Although induction is typically offered as the mother is seven to ten days past the due date, the procedure can wait as late as two weeks if mother and baby are ‘well and fit’. According to reports, The Sussexes have their best of hopes on giving birth privately at home and let the world in on the newborn a few days after for whom the Duke and Dutchess of Sussex already have plans,
As palace sources maintain,
"Meghan is comfortable and happy at Frogmore Cottage. She is getting plenty of fresh air in the garden as she waits for her baby’s arrival."
Doria Ragland, the mother of the Dutchess, is accompanying her through the period of late pregnancy and labor while also on hand to help with childcare after the baby is born. Buckingham Palace will make an official announcement when the Duchess will go into labor, yet they will not reveal if she is admitted to the hospital or not.
Also read: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry Split From William and Kate After Fight; The Queen and Prince Charles Support The Split
A second announcement will be due after the baby is born. Moreover, that is when the aides are expected to reveal the intricate details of the royal child including the baby’s gender, birth weight and place of birth.
The news will pave its way to the public only after the parents of the newborn let their family and friends in on the good news. Kensington Palace made a public announcement on Wednesday that the Duke of Sussex is Amsterdam bound on May 8 and May 9 to mark the official launch of the one-year countdown to the Invictus Games 2020.
However, he canceled the first day of the trip citing the reason as ‘logistical planning’. The turn of events gave a reason for many to speculate that Meghan is yet to give birth.
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Sochi: Beyond the podium
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Canada vs Norway: Weber, Benn and Doughty score as Canada wins 3-1
By Heather Loney
Watch the video above: Canada and Russia won their respective first games at the Bolshoi Ice Dome. Some fans are hoping that could lead to a face-off between the longtime rivals. Eric Sorensen reports.
For coverage of Game 2 of the tournament, where the Canadian men’s hockey team meets Austria, click here.
Despite only a handful of practices and a slow start, Team Canada found its stride, beating Norway 3-1 in its first game of the men’s hockey tournament at the Sochi Winter Olympics.
The game was scoreless after the first period and fairly evenly matched with Canada just barely out-shooting Norway 9-8.
Shea Weber scored six minutes into the second period, a bullet from the blue line, assisted by Duncan Keith and Patrice Bergeron. Jamie Benn scored the game-winner at 15:19, giving Canada a 2-0 lead.
VIDEO: Team Canada comment on the slow start and how they found their game in the second to pull out the win vs. Norway
After a quiet first period, Canada picked it up in the second, out-shooting Norway 14-2 in the period.
Just 22 seconds into the third period, Norway’s Patrick Thoresen scored, getting Norway within one. Drew Doughty answered back with a goal of his own just over a minute later, with Getzlaf and Patrick Marleau assisting.
By the final horn, Canada out shot Norway 38-20.
Canada is in action again on Friday, playing Austria at 12pm ET in Sochi’s Bolshoy Ice Dome.
Canada’s goalkeeper Carey Price stands in front of his net during the Men’s Ice Hockey Group B match between Canada and Norway at the Sochi Winter Olympics on February 13, 2014 at the Bolshoy Ice Dome.
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Shea Weber #6 of Canada celebrates with his teammates after scoring a goal in the second period against Lars Haugen #30 of Norway during the Men’s Ice Hockey Preliminary Round Group B game on day six of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Bolshoy Ice Dome on February 13, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
Patrick Thoresen #41 and Per-Aage Skroeder #19 celebrate after Norway scored a goal on Carey Price #31 of Canada in the third period during the Men’s Ice Hockey Preliminary Round Group B game on day six of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Bolshoy Ice Dome on February 13, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
John Tavares #20 of Canada and goalkeeper Lars Haugen #30 of Norway watch for the puck during the Men’s Ice Hockey Preliminary Round Group B game on day six of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Bolshoy Ice Dome on February 13, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
Shea Weber #6 of Canada celebrates with teammate Sidney Crosby #87 after scoring a goal in the second period against Lars Haugen #30 of Norway during the Men’s Ice Hockey Preliminary Round Group B game on day six of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Bolshoy Ice Dome on February 13, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
Goalkeeper Carey Price #31 of Canada protects the net from Morten Ask #21 and Jonas Holoes #6 of Norway during the Men’s Ice Hockey Preliminary Round Group B game on day six of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Bolshoy Ice Dome on February 13, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
Sidney Crosby #87 of Canada takes a shot during warm-ups prior to the Men’s Ice Hockey Preliminary Round Group B game against Norway on day six of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Bolshoy Ice Dome on February 13, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
Jamie Benn #22 of Canada celebrates with his teammates after scoring a goal in the second period against Lars Haugen #30 of Norway during the Men’s Ice Hockey Preliminary Round Group B game on day six of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics at Bolshoy Ice Dome on February 13, 2014 in Sochi, Russia.
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Team Canada’s lineup vs Norway
Canada’s starting lineup had Chris Kunitz and Jeff Carter joining Team Canada captain Sidney Crosby on the top line.
Chicago Blackhawks teammates Patrick Sharp and Jonathan Toews started on the second line with Rick Nash. Marleau, Getzlaf and Corey Perry were the third line. Benn, John Tavares, Bergeron and Tampa Bay forward Martin St. Louis also dressed.
On defence, Keith teamed up with Weber, Marc-Edouard Vlasic with Doughty, Jay Bouwmeester with Alex Pietrangelo and Dan Hamuis dressed as the 7th defenceman.
Montreal Canadiens defenceman P.K. Subban and Colorado Avalanche forward Matt Duchene were healthy scratches and didn’t play on Thursday. Babcock said both players will be in the lineup on Friday against Austria.
Vancouver Canucks goaltender Roberto Luongo will start in net against Austria.
Leading up to the Games
Defending gold medallists, Team Canada has a roster filled with Stanley Cup winners, two of the NHL’s top three scorers (Crosby and Ryan Getzlaf), and more star centres than you can shake a stick at.
New York Rangers winger Mats Zuccarello is the lone NHLer on Norway’s Olympic roster.
After a last-minute roster change, with St. Louis replacing injured Lightning centre Steven Stamkos, and a tough decision on who would start the first game in net (Montreal Canadiens netminder Carey Price got the tap), Team Canada found its stride in the second period.
Watch the video below: Team Canada confident in Carey Price
The team, made entirely of NHLers, had to adjust to the larger Olympic ice surface.
Since NHL players have been allowed to play in the Winter Olympics, Canada’s record is mixed: two gold medals on North American soil (Salt Lake City in 2002* and Vancouver in 2010). Overseas, however, in Nagano and Turin, Team Canada didn’t medal, finishing 4th in 1998 and 7th in 2006.
*Note: Although the 2002 Olympics were held in North America, the gold medal game was held on a larger ice surface to meet International Ice Hockey Federation standards.
In Sochi, hockey takes place on a rink about three metres longer and four metres wider than a standard NHL ice surface. The neutral zone is longer and there is more space behind the net.
The Canadians landed in Sochi on Monday, and despite having just a handful of practices and condensed time frame, they say they are coming together.
Watch the video below: Crosby, Dan Hamhuis and Patrick Sharp on how the team is preparing for it’s tournament opener
Crosby said they also need to focus on the team they’re playing, not looking too far forward toward a potential gold medal match-up.
READ MORE: Should Team Canada fear the Big Red Machine?
“It’s too short of an event to think about other teams or not respect the team you’re playing,” said Crosby. “Every team wants to beat Canada especially, and I think we understand that.”
In other hockey news
Russia beat Slovenia 5-2 on Thursday, with Alex Ovechkin nabbing a goal, an assist and the first star of the game. Pittsburgh Penguins forward Evgeni Malkin led Russia with a goal and two assists. The Sochi Games marked Slovenia’s debut in men’s hockey, currently ranked 18th in the world by the International Ice Hockey Federation.
Also on Thursday, Finland beat Austria 8-4 and the USA hammered Slovakia 7-1.
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By Dr. Samir Gupta Global News
WATCH ABOVE: Global’s Medical Contributor, Dr. Samir Gupta reveals the findings of a recent study which focuses on smoking in film and its impact on young people in this week’s On Call.
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TORONTO — So it’s TIFF week, and what better time than now to talk about the influence that movies can have on our health.
More specifically, I want to focus on the effect that on-screen smoking has on young audiences.
The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit just released a report that analyzes the effect of smoking in movies on youth. And the results are compelling.
The first point is that most movies do have at least one scene which portrays a character smoking.
In fact, looking at the top-grossing movies between 2004 and 2014, they found that 56 per cent of them portrayed smoking, and 86 per cent of those were youth rated, with only 14 per cent being R-rated.
READ MORE: E-Cigarettes a gateway to smoking for teens and young adults: study
But does watching someone smoking on screen actually influence adolescents to start smoking? Well as it turns out, the answer is yes, and there are lots of studies that back this up.
For example, in a 2004 study published in the American Journal of Public Health, scientists Janet M. Distefan and colleagues asked adolescents who their favorite actors were, and those kids whose favorite actor had been portrayed smoking in at least two movies were 36 per cent more likely to try smoking.
In a 2009 study published in Addiction, JD Sargent and R Hanewinkel showed that kids aged 11-15 who had been exposed to smoking in the movies that they had watched had 2.8 times the odds of smoking one year later, compared to kids who had not been exposed.
In 2012, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control put together results from 17 different studies and found that adolescents and young adults who had watched movies with smoking scenes were about twice as likely to end up smoking , compared to those who hadn’t.
Some of these studies were cross-sectional (meaning that they collected data at one point in time) and others longitudinal (meaning that they followed peoples’ movie watching habits and smoking status over time).
READ MORE: More US college students smoke marijuana than cigarettes: study
However, we also have experimental studies where youths were exposed to movies with and without smoking and their behaviour monitored after watching the movie.
Again, youths who had watched movies with smoking scenes were more likely to consider smoking to be “socially acceptable” and more likely to smoke a cigarette.
Ultimately, this effect leads a lot of young people to start smoking.
A 2012 analysis by Stanton Glantz put together results from five different studies and found that 37 per cent of all adolescent smokers are recruited to smoking by seeing it in movies.
In Ontario, this amounts to 185,000 kids who will start smoking because of what they see in movies.
In turn, 32 per cent of these teens, or 59,000 will eventually die from tobacco-related diseases like heart attack, stroke, lung disease and cancer, costing the healthcare system an extra $1.1 billion along the way.
So what can we do about it?
The simple solution supported by the U.S. Surgeon General and the World Health Organization is to make any movie with smoking scenes an R-rated movie.
Although this isn’t perfect because some kids still end up watching R-rated movies, it would cut the new smokers influenced by movies in half.
The U.S. Surgeon General suggests that this would avert one million tobacco deaths among U.S. children and teens alive today.
If we made this change to our rating system in Ontario, it would prevent 95,000 kids from smoking, save 30,000 smoking-related deaths, and save our healthcare system over $568 million in the process.
Although quit rates have gone up and smoking rates have come down to 17 per cent in this country, smoking among youths aged 20-24 is still at 27 per cent in Canada, and this is the key demographic that cigarette marketers are targeting for a lifetime of addiction.
And because of laws that now prohibit tobacco companies from advertising smoking directly to youth, portrayal of smoking in movies has become a key marketing tool for these companies.
What I hear most often from my smoking patients is that they wish they had never started.
And we now know that protecting kids from the influence of smoking in movies today is a key to preventing them from becoming smokers tomorrow.
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FUTURE Tracklist
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FUTURE is the fifth album by Atlanta rapper Future. It was released on February 17, 2017. The self-titled album was announced by Future through social media on February 14, 2017, along with the option to pre-order and tour dates for the Nobody Safe Tour.
The original release of FUTURE contained 17 featureless tracks that spanned just over an hour.
In June of 2017, Future added “Used To This”, the official “Mask Off” Remix, and “Extra Luv” to the album’s tracklist.
On July 14th, 2017, the album was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, with over 1 million certified sales
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This Latina teen found herself through photography
Jan 17, 2018 @ 9:00 pm By Caroline Cai
You may have stumbled upon Valeria’s vibrant and ethereal images on the gram, and were enchanted by her work’s bright colors, vivid glows, and quirky makeup looks.
The story of how, at only 17, she came to become the photographer she is today also holds a powerful message — one that speaks to embracing diversity, challenging beauty standards, and discovering your passion.
READ ALSO: Adriana Sahar went from working in her parents garage to working the runway
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Alexandria Leigh Rugel @kittygal (Puerto Rican and Ecuadorean) and Veronica Rojas ( Colombian)
When Valeria was growing up in Colombia, she found herself surrounded by colorful scenery and bright culture that would eventually serve as inspiration for her own artistic vision. Upon moving to the States and struggling to fit in as a Latina women, she helped lift other Latina girls up by depicting them in beautifully crafted images that embrace their natural features but flaunt a sense of heightened beauty, integrating pops of color and unique makeup looks.
“I was never really surrounded by Latina girls growing up at school, so it became frustrating when I felt out of place because I didn’t look the same as my Caucasian friends,” says Valeria.
With the normal pressures of white-washed beauty standards and growing up, being involved in dance also forced her to grapple with self-esteem issues. As she came of age, Valeria felt more comfortable with cultural self expression and also found a way to channel her artistic energy while providing a platform for Latina voices through film.
“I started seeing the lack of diversity in the film industry, well in a lot of industries,” she said. “So sophomore year I started to photograph individuals and create my own visuals expressing my ideas. I started to gain a lot of support by people I knew in real life and online. I found my purpose.”
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Another essential part to her artistic discovery was her passion for experimenting with makeup.
“I started exploring makeup looks and looking up to Latina artist,” Valeria said. “I started to wear bright eyeshadows all the time, bold eyeliners, and sometimes red lipstick, it wasn’t really the normal basic look but liked it. In high school.”
Valeria’s journey as an artist and photographer should inspire you to make that leap. In terms of finally testing your artistic ability and venturing into a new, fulfilling hobby, or overcoming your insecurities and accepting the fact that you are beautiful in your own skin.
“Being comfortable as a Latina in America is still in the works, but I hope that my photography helps people with their confidence and helping people to be open to diversity,” says Valeria.
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How a Call Center Moved from Oracle to Salesforce in Less Than 10 Weeks
Galvin Technologies is a Salesforce consulting partner that worked with LeanLogistics to customize and integrate their customer service platform.
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Before LeanLogistics partnered with Galvin Technologies, they were using a legacy support system to manage their customer services. LeanLogistics, however, wanted to migrate to Salesforce.
Normally, this process would have been simple enough. However, when the company committed to working with Salesforce, they had 60 days remaining on their legacy contract and needed to complete the transition as quickly as possible. What’s more, the existing platform was a thin client, so everything within their customer service system was installed individually on all of LeanLogistics’ computers, and it had to be managed as such. Because of this, accessing and customizing the LeanLogistics data system was a challenge, and migrating to the cloud was necessary.
When LeanLogistics hired Galvin, they wanted to migrate quickly. At the start of the job, we had an imperative 10 week time frame to facilitate a successful migration of several years’ worth of legacy data onto a new Service Cloud deployment. This included a customer community, knowledge base and integration with three separate proprietary data environments.
Throughout the duration of the project, we extended LeanLogistics’ existing Sales Cloud into Service Cloud. We also built in features like support and ticket tracking, a customer-facing knowledge base, and internal access to the tickets and solutions. These things allowed customers to access a convenient dashboard where they could log in, track and manage their cases from a single centralized location.
Additionally, Galvin Technologies built in an escalation process for tickets. By using an Single Sign On (SSO), we managed to join all of their various databases together so that all of the data coming from multiple sources flows together into Salesforce. We also worked jointly with the LeanLogistics’ internal IT team to build an integration with the Salesforce SOAP API to bridge integration.
After working with us, LeanLogistics was able to enjoy access to the Salesforce Solutions tool, which allows the company to store answers and solutions to common problems. They also had new access to Salesforce Communities, which enables customers to access and track their cases.
Under normal circumstances, a project of this scope would take four months. But we had no choice but to deliver in less than 10 weeks – and we did! Galvin Technologies completed the project in just ten weeks concluding with a roll out that didn’t have a single interruption to the flow of business.
The greatest victory in this project is that there was no impact on the customer, despite the amount of technology involved. When LeanLogistics flipped the switch and starting working out of Salesforce, there was no gap in the flow of business. Despite the fact that process-flow interruptions were a very real threat, considering the scope of this major technological overhaul, the Galvin Technologies team managed to complete the goals of the project.
As the project drew to a close, Galvin Technologies helped LeanLogistics customize their Service Cloud according to their needs. Galvin Technologies also contributed to the development of customizations to the Service console and configured escalation assistance directly into the process flows.
These changes allowed LeanLogistics to develop a more functional and integrated customer service platform, without upsetting the functionality of their customer service approaches in the process. At Galvin Technologies, we chalk this up to speed, working together, and focusing hard on pushing toward a common goal on the Salesforce platform.
While it required many late and sleepless nights, we got the job done, and LeanLogistics stands out as a leader because of it. Today, LeanLogistics offers superior service, quick responses and an ongoing dedication to handling their customer support in a new and improved fashion.
Would you like to learn more about how Galvin can help you with your Salesforce project? Contact us today and we will get back with you quickly.
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Millie Bobby Brown has two big projects on deck this year: the film “Godzilla: King Of The Monsters” and the new season of “Stranger Things.”
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Press Play: Jean-Mikhael ‘Senorita’
Source: OTOD RECORDS / OTOD RECORDS
Jean-Mikhael is being praised as the UK Prince. The rising singer and songwriter released his debut EP The Deal, which peaked at the #8 on iTunes R&B/Soul charts.
Mikael is back with a video for his new single Senorita, visuals inspired by a feel good time with his friends.
“Because the audio acoustic version of has a feel of being amongst friends and being in a place where it’s intimate and people having fun,” Mikael said in an exclusive statement to HelloBeautiful. “I wanted to portray that feeling in the video as well. So I asked my friends to be in it to show us all together enjoying the music, the company and having a good time and I think the audio and visuals go hand in hand to fulfill that vision to then create a simple but effective message to my viewers. I wanted my friends to feel the same journey I felt with the sliding doors experience.”
Jean-Mikhael is a student of the historic BRIT school where beloved musicians Adele, Amy Winehouse, Jessie J and Ella Eyre honed their crafts. He’s also being vocal coached by Justin Timberlake’s vocal coach.
Watch Senorita, below:
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Based in Ottawa, Ontario, Cat Rescue Network (CRN) is a non-profit, volunteer driven organization established in 1999, committed to rescuing abandoned and feral cats overlooked by the city’s animal welfare services.
Collie Rescue Network
A national, all-volunteer rescue group dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and rehoming of surrendered, abandoned, neglected or abused Rough and Smooth Collies in Canada.
Forgotten Ones Cat Rescue & Adoption
A not-for-profit registered charity dedicated to the rescue and rehoming of homeless cats and kittens, and to providing support to keep cats in loving homes.
Gentle Jake's Coonhound Rescue
A small, not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping homeless and abandoned Coonhounds find loving and permanent homes as indoor pets.
Grand River All Breed Rescue
A foster-based animal rescue group based in Cambridge, Ontario.
Great Dane Rescue, Inc
Placing neglected and/or unwanted Great Danes into loving, permanent homes. Coverage area includes Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Arizona, Alabama (and parts of neighbouring states of Alabama), Northwestern Kentucky, parts of Ohio and Tennessee, and Ontario, Canada.
Home Again Bancroft
A volunteer foster-home based organization in Bancroft, Ontario. Rescuing and rehoming surrendered, abandoned or homeless dogs and cats, and subsidizing the spay/neutering of pets for local people who might not otherwise be able to afford this surgery for their pets.
Hungry & Homeless Cat Rescue
Foster-home based cat rescue in Ottawa, Ontario, whose goal is to save injured or abandoned cats and find them suitable permanent homes.
Jack Russell Terrier Rescue Ontario
Dedicated to providing temporary shelter, veterinary medical care and other care for stray, abandoned, abused, injured, neglected and surrendered Jack Russell Terriers, with the aim of finding appropriate new homes for the dogs.
Loyal Rescue Inc
Foster-based, all-volunteer rescue that strives to rehabilitate dogs both physically and emotionally, and prepare them for adoption. Stray, abandoned, abused and surrendered dogs are accepted from a variety of backgrounds, and placed in loving foster homes for evaluation and care, while working toward their permanent placement with loving families.
Nickquenum Dog Rescue
Small foster home-based group, working with small, rural shelters, pounds, animal controls and humane societies to rescue dogs that would otherwise be euthanized due to lack of space, and finding them loving permanent homes.
North Halton Kitten Rescue
A non-profit organization made up of a small group of dedicated cat loving volunteers, who foster stray and homeless kittens until they are old enough and ready to be adopted to a forever home.
Northern Ontario Animal Welfare Society
A non-profit group dedicated to help solve the consequences of pet overpopulation in the communities of Iroquois Falls, Cochrane, Matheson and surrounding areas.
Ontario Bloodhound Rescue
A small, not-for-profit organization of volunteers dedicated to helping homeless and abandoned Bloodhounds, placing them in loving, approved homes across Ontario and multiple US States.
Pawzie-Tively Precious American Eskimo Rescue
Non-profit American Eskimo Dog rescue working in Southern Ontario, Canada. Also rescue and rehome cats, and support TNR (Trap, Neuter, Return) initiatives for feral cats.
Piggles CARES
Established in 2009, working to ensure that every guinea pig has a responsible, loving home where its needs are understood and met.
Precious Paws Rescue
An incorporated non-profit, all breed, dog rescue based in Simcoe County, dedicated to saving the lives of homeless dogs through a volunteer foster program.
Rat Terrier Rescue
A charitable non-profit, volunteer organization dedicated to the welfare of Rat Terriers, and rescuing and finding new, permanent and loving homes for Rat Terriers that have been abused, neglected or abandoned.
Southern Ontario Sheltie Rescue
Southern Ontario Sheltie Rescue Society is dedicated to taking into foster care abandoned or surrendered Shelties and placing them with caring families.
Speaking of Dogs
A volunteer foster home-based dog rescue in Toronto, dedicated to assisting dogs from shelters, as well as taking in dogs surrendered by their owner when space allows, with a special focus on helping senior dogs.
Standard Poodles in Need
Canadian non-profit foster-based organization primarily concerned with the welfare of Standard Poodles, but also with the welfare of toy poodles, miniature poodles and poodle mixes.
TEAM Cat Rescue
Foster-based rescue dedicated to rescuing cats and kittens from high kill shelters in Ontario and Quebec.
The Dog Rescuers Inc
A non-profit organization based in Oakville, Ontario, run by a group of dedicated volunteers with a passion for rescuing and re-homing all breeds of dogs.
Westies in Need
The largest West Highland Terrier rescue organization in Canada, operated by dedicated individuals working to provide a safe and loving environment for Westies either abandoned or surrendered in Ontario and Quebec.
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APN+ joins MTAAG+ in congratulating Malaysia on sofosbuvir compulsory license CL ends Gilead’s dangerous games with lives of HepC patients in Malaysia Result of hard fought efforts of community-based groups, NGOs and treatment providers
20 September 2017, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur: The Asia-Pacific Network of People living with HIV (APN+) joins the Positive Malaysian Treatment Access and Advocacy Group (MTAAG+) in welcoming the approval of a government use license (also known as compulsory license or CL) in Malaysia for sofosbuvir, a key directly acting anti-viral (DAA) that is very effective in the treatment of hepatitis C.
This morning the Hon’ble Minister of Health of Malaysia, Dr. S. Subramaniam confirmed the issuance of the government use license, stating that, "Currently, there are approximately 500,000 patients in Malaysia who are infected with Hepatitis C and it is estimated that 2,000 new cases are reported every year. To make matters worse, the cost of treatment for Hepatitis C is exorbitantly expensive and making it less accessible to the patients. As Hepatitis C has become a major public health concern in Malaysia, it is crucial to increase access to its treatment for the benefit of the nation. Therefore, the Cabinet has approved the use of Rights of Government under Patent Act 1983 (Act 291) by exploiting the patented invention of Sofosbuvir tablet 400mg. The last time Malaysia instigated the Rights of Government was in 2003 for anti-retroviral drugs (treatment for HIV infection). This sets Malaysia to be the first country to initiate such move in the world."
The Malaysian CL ends Gilead’s dangerous games with the lives of people living with Hepatitis C in Malaysia. Gilead excluded Malaysia from its voluntary licenses on sofosbuvir in 2014 and entered protracted price negotiations with the government and reportedly refused to agree to any amount below USD 12000 for a 12 week course of treatment (generic prices are close to USD 300). The negotiated price remained out of reach for the majority of Malaysians and beyond the capacity of the health budget of the country. In a final desperate attempt to checkmate the Malaysian government’s compulsory license decision, Gilead recently announced that it was expanding its voluntary license to cover Malaysia after the government decision on the CL was taken.
This did not deter the Malaysian government – with this action, they have now freed sofosbuvir from the exclusive control of Gilead. The Gilead voluntary license includes a high royalty rate and a limited number of companies that can supply generic sofosbuvir to Malaysia.
Edward Low of MTAAG+ noted that, "This compulsory license is a milestone in making Hepatitis C treatment accessible for Malaysians. A government use license is far superior to a voluntary license as it provides greater options and flexibilities in terms of suppliers and prices and does not keep the government or patients dependent on the business and profit interests of patent holders like Gilead."
Apart from opening up access to generic sofosbuvir from several more suppliers, the CL also provides a boost to research and development (R&D) in hepatitis C treatment. Gilead’s tight control over the supply of generic sofosbuvir has hampered trials into promising DAA combinations containing sofosbuvir. The Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) has been conducting clinical trials in collaboration with the Malaysian Ministry of Health on a promising combination of sofosbuvir and ravidasvir to be supplied by an Egyptian company, Pharco. The CL provides a significant boost to DNDI’s efforts to secure an affordable, pan-genotypic DAA combination to treat Hepatitis C in less than USD 300.
"This is a big step forward for universal access to safe, effective and affordable generic Hepatitis C treatment in Malaysia. Gilead’s unethical pricing and licensing practices have denied Malaysian patients access to this life saving treatment for years," said Shiba Phurailatpam of the Asia Pacific Network of People living with HIV (APN+). "The Malaysian CL on sofosbuvir shows the importance of the use of TRIPS flexibilities to ensure both access and promote R&D in new medicines. We congratulate the Malaysian government and the Ministry of Health in taking this necessary step."
As noted by the WTO secretariat, a compulsory license is a flexibility in the TRIPS Agreement and is not the same as tearing up a patent as the patent holder still has rights including to remuneration.
Phurailatpam also congratulated MTAAG+, Malaysian AIDS Council, Third World Network and DNDi in their untiring efforts to secure affordable treatment for Hepatitis C. "Community based groups have always played a critical role in the use of TRIPS flexibilities by developing country governments and this is the case in Malaysia as well. The leadership, hard work and technical expertise of local civil society groups in Malaysia is particularly commendable in this case, coming at a time when civil society everywhere is facing a severe funding crisis. Their work should be recognised and supported by the government and international agencies," he said.
According to Edward Low, "Malaysia has always played a path breaking role in the use of TRIPS flexibilities like compulsory licenses. In 2003, Malaysia was the first Asia-Pacific government to issue a compulsory license on HIV treatment. In 2017, it has become the first government globally to issue a compulsory license on Hepatitis C treatment."
"We hope that other developing countries will follow the example set by Malaysia and take all necessary steps to secure unrestricted, universal access to affordable generic HepC treatment. Countries should ensure that unjustified patents are not granted on these DAAs and where patents are granted, compulsory licenses will be essential in addressing the global HepC epidemic in order to overcome high prices or voluntary license restrictions," added Phurailatpam.
For more information please contact Mr. Shiba Phurailatpam at shiba@apnplus.org or +66866000738& Mr. Edward Low at erd_2000_1999@yahoo.co.uk or +6012-3278812
Important Documents on the Malaysian CL on Sofosbuvir:
Statement of Minister of Health, Malaysia: Press Statement Minister of Health, 20th September 2017 – Implementation of the Rights of Government for Sofosbuvir Tablet to Increase Access for Hepatitis C Treatment in Malaysia.
https://kpkesihatan.com/2017/09/20/press-statement-minister-of-health-20th-september-2017-implementation-of-the-rights-of-government-for-sofosbuvir-tablet-to-increase-access-for-hepatitis-c-treatment-in-malaysia/
WTO on Compulsory Licenses: https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/public_health_faq_e.htm
Situational Report on Hepatitis C and Access to Treatment in Malaysia:
At the edge of a miracle: the hepatitis C virus (HCV) epidemic in Malaysia, 2017
http://www.mac.org.my/v3/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/HCV_Report_A4_FA_23052017-web.pdf
Press Release of Malaysian AIDS Council welcoming the CL:
Malaysian AIDS Council welcomes Government move to issue compulsory license on lifesaving hepatitis C medicines, 11 September 2017
http://www.mac.org.my/v3/malaysian-aids-council-welcomes-government-move-to-issue-compulsory-license-on-lifesaving-hepatitis-c-medicines/
Press Release of DNDi welcoming the CL:
DNDi welcomes Malaysia’s move to secure access to more affordable treatments for hepatitis C, 20 September 2017
https://www.dndi.org/2017/media-centre/press-releases/dndi-welcomes-malaysia-move-access-affordable-treatments-hepc/
Press Release of the Consumers Association of Penang welcoming the CL:
CAP Applauds Government Decision to Issue Government Use License for Hepatitis C Drug, which can save hundreds of thousands of lives, 8 September 2017
http://www.consumer.org.my/index.php/health/healthcare/1182-cap-applauds-government-decision-to-issue-government-use-license-for-hepatitis-c-drug-which-can-save-hundreds-of-thousands-of-lives
https://mtaagplusmalaysia.wordpress.com/
http://www.apnplus.org/
http://hepcasia.com/
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APN+ joins MTAAG+ in congratulating
hepCoalition.org هو أداة لدعم تطور حركة التأييد العالمية للوصول إلى تشخيص وعلاج التهاب الكبد (C) ودعم الأشخاص الذين يعيشون مع مخاطر عالية لهذا الفيروس في البلدان المنخفضة والمتوسطة الدخل، ولا سيما بالنسبة للأشخاص الذين يتعاطون المخدرات وكذلك بالنسبة للأشخاص الذين يعيشون مع فيروس نقص المناعة البشرية وفيروس التهاب الكبد (C).
تم تطوير hepCoalition.org من Médecins du monde و Treatment Action Group.
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Azerbaijan’s Law concerning the Protection of Civilian Persons and the Rights of Prisoners of War (1995) provides:
The appropriate authorities and governmental bodies of the Azerbaijan Republic shall ensure that the necessary measures be taken that: … the dead bodies of persons who are not citizens of the State concerned and died of wounds or in prison, and whose death is connected with the military operations or occupation, should be buried with the necessary respect.
Azerbaijan, Law concerning the Protection of Civilian Persons and the Rights of Prisoners of War, 1995, Article 29(3).
Section F. Respect for and maintenance of graves
Azerbaijan’s Law concerning the Protection of Civilian Persons and the Rights of Prisoners of War (1995) provides that “the places of burial of [the dead] are respected”.
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Social security schemes launched in Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Nagalandhttps://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/social-security-schemes-launched-in-arunachal-pradesh-rajasthan-and-nagaland/
Social security schemes launched in Arunachal Pradesh, Rajasthan and Nagaland
Rijiju said that the schemes would bring a sea change in the life of the aam aadmi and would cover the deprived sections.
By Express Web Desk |New Delhi | Published: May 9, 2015 8:42:50 pm
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PM Narendra Modi (Source: PTI photo)
After a nationwide launch of the three major social schemes by Prime Minister Narendra Modi; Nagaland, Arunachal Pradesh and Rajathan have also introduced the schemes at the state level.
The schemes were launched in Arunachal Pradesh by Union Minister of State for Home Affairs Kiren Rijiju and Chief Minister Nabam Tuki. The NDA government in its 2015-16 Budget announced the schemes.
Terming the occasion as historic, Rijiju said that the schemes would bring a sea change in the life of the aam aadmi and would cover the deprived sections of the society.
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“Despite 69 years of Independence, a major chunk of the people in the country are still deprived of the basic minimum needs and these social security scheme will help them to come into the mainstream and will get security,” Rijiju pointed out.
Chief Minister Nabam Tuki while expressing his gratitude to the Prime Minister said that the schemes would immensely benefit the poor and working class.
In Nagaland, Chief Minister T R Zeliang and Union Minister of State for Human Resource Development, Prof (Dr) Ram Shankar Katheria formally launched the schemes in the state capital. “These three schemes are intended to substantially benefit the poorer sections of the people,” Chief Minister TR Zeliang said.
Zeliang expressed gratitude to Prime Minister Modi for his tireless efforts in trying to uplift the poor and needy people of the country, who have always been left at the mercy of circumstances because of their poverty.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and Union Minister Kalraj Mishra launching Centre’s three major social security schemes in the state said, “The schemes will address social security issues and provide dignity to the poor.” She said that her government was trying to make Rajasthan one of the most developed states in the country.
Kalraj Mishra said, “The country saw major financial inclusion with Jan Dhan Yojana, under which bank accounts were opened in large numbers in the country. Now the government is launching three major schemes which will benefit people.”
(With inputs from PTI)
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Michael Grecco - Artist
Stream the Michael Grecco Artist Channel. View his works also on the Urban Landscapes channel.
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“I go out every day with the intention of breaking visual rules and creating evocative, cinematic images that inspire.” - Michael Grecco
Michael Grecco is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed photographer of celebrity portraits, advertising and editorial commissions, private collections, and fine art.
One of the most respected and sought after visual storytellers in the world, his artistic conceptual vision and signature dramatic lighting create distinctive images that are famously dramatic, evocative, sophisticated, ironic, and comedic.
A Hasselblad Master and Panasonic Lumix Luminary, Grecco is a regular expert and celebrated speaker on creativity, photography, and his signature lighting and directorial techniques worldwide. His provocative documentary movie and accompanying book Naked Ambition has earned critical acclaim. His award winning still images are published the world over in magazines such as Esquire, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone and Time. He is the author of the best-selling photographer’s guidebook: Lighting and the Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Celebrity and Editorial Photography. Grecco has also been profiled extensively in key photographic trade journals.
Having been dubbed "A Master of Light” by his peers, Grecco wholeheartedly admits his fascination with light and its effect in each and every photograph he takes. “Light is something I have studied, played with, and have been captivated by for decades. I find magic in its qualities. I have an immense passion for ‘molding’ light in order to create the shot that immortalizes a moment and induces an emotion. A reaction.”
“It's not the awards or accolades I'm ever after. It's the impact - on a society, on a community, on a career, on a person. I love our photo industry. I love the way we see things, what we capture and the potential impact a photograph has on culture, a generation, to a point of time in history.”
Grecco is based in Los Angeles. In his rare spare time, he can be found hanging with his three fantastic children, friends and fellow photographers, collaborating with others, or exploring his hometown subcultures on his vintage Triumph motorcycle.
“Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult – the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.” - Edgar Degas
Michael Grecco’s night is full of light. He is a moonwalker, a somnambulist whose conscious and unconscious are not blinded by the brights of oncoming traffic or swallowed into shadows. He is enthralled by the radiance within the blackness, the rapture of color.
Grecco’s “Urban Landscapes” are vivid panoramic photographs shot in mostly unidentifiable locations around the world. These places seem alien and exotic, showered in vibrant, lucent, sometimes iridescent almost radioactive colors, revealed in raking rays, squiggles, planes, and circles. Through long exposure, selective focus, shallow depth of field, blurring and wide framing, he finds his way in the dark and leads us as he dances ecstatically through the color spectrum.
In the studio and on location, he is a virtuoso of lighting technique. That skill has obviously sharpened his eye and instincts in locating these chromatic landscapes as he travels the city after dark. Further all of what happens is “in camera”, in his panoramic Hasselblad.
He is the magic.
Sixty years ago, the legendary photographer Ernst Haas made this journey. Haas was interested in “transforming an object from what it is to what you want it to be.”
Grecco wants to “to contextualize man and his/her place in their environments they create, in the artifices they live in, to go out every day with the intention of breaking visual rules, to create an evocative, cinematic image that inspires - in its format, composition and color”
This is the visual music of the night.
Blackbook Loupe Artist Feature: https://bbook.com/arts-culture/blackbook-loupe-exclusive-photographer-michael-grecco
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Exhibit 4.1
SIXTH AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT
This Sixth Amendment to Credit Agreement (this “Amendment”) is entered into as of June 20, 2019, by and among SILVERCREST ASSET MANAGEMENT GROUP LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Silvercrest”), SILVERCREST INVESTORS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Silvercrest Investors”), SILVERCREST INVESTORS II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Silvercrest Investors II”), SILVERCREST FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC., a New York corporation (“Silvercrest Financial”, and together with Silvercrest, Silvercrest Investors, and Silvercrest Investors II, each, a “Borrower”, and collectively, “Borrowers”), and CITY NATIONAL BANK, a national banking association (“Lender”).
Borrowers and Lender are parties to that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of June 24, 2013 (as heretofore amended, supplemented or otherwise modified, the “Credit Agreement”).
As of the date hereof, the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans outstanding under the Credit Agreement is $0, the amount of Letter of Credit Usage is $585,667 and the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans outstanding under the Credit Agreement is $0.
Borrowers have requested that the Credit Agreement be amended, and Lender is willing to agree to such amendment on the terms and conditions set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the other mutual covenants contained herein, the receipt and sufficiency of which hereby are acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
Definitions. Capitalized terms used in this Amendment without definition shall have the meanings set forth in the Credit Agreement.
Amendment to Credit Agreement. The term “Revolving Credit Maturity Date” set forth in Section 1.1 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:
““Revolving Credit Maturity Date” means the earlier of (a) June 19, 2020 and (b) such earlier date on which the Obligations shall become due and payable in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.”
Costs and Expenses. Borrowers shall pay to Lender the costs and expenses incurred by Lender in connection with this Amendment, including but not limited to, attorney’s fees and costs.
Amendment Fee. In consideration of the agreements set forth herein, Borrowers shall pay to Lender an amendment fee in the amount of $7,500 (the “Amendment Fee”), which fee is non-refundable when paid and is fully-earned as of the date of this Amendment. The Amendment Fee shall be paid in full on the date of this Amendment.
Conditions Precedent. This Amendment shall become effective upon the fulfillment of all of the following conditions to Lender’s satisfaction:
Lender shall have received this Amendment duly executed by Borrowers.
Lender shall have received an Acknowledgment and Agreement of Guarantor and Obligor set forth at the end of this Amendment duly executed by the Person set forth in the signature page thereof.
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Qapla’
Breaking: I am informed that a restraining order was granted in Palmer v. Schmalfeldt.
UPDATE—I’m informed that the Cabin Boy™ was present at the hearing.
UPDATE 2—Here is the Restraining Order:
UPDATE 3—Sarah Palmer talks about today’s events over at the Artisan Craft Blog.
This entry was posted in Team Kimberlin, Trolls and tagged Cabin Boy Bill Schmalfeldt, Palmer v. Schmalfeldt (2017) by wjjhoge. Bookmark the permalink.
169 thoughts on “Qapla’”
agiledog on 14 July, 2017 at 11:28 said:
Double digit restraining orders! Who does such a thing? Oh, yeah: William M. Schmalfeldt.
A Reader #1 on 14 July, 2017 at 11:30 said:
Your renewal made it 10. This is 11. Thank the good Lord for a sensible judge.
Dave Alexander (formerly ukuleledave) on 14 July, 2017 at 11:33 said:
It’s always hard to keep track of the total. At least ten judges in 5 different states came to the same conclusion.
Rats, 12:
Hoge – 3
Causeys – 2
Grady – 1
AgileDog – 2
LT – 1 that covered more than one person, IIRC
Ashterah – 2
+ 1 today
librarygryffon on 14 July, 2017 at 11:57 said:
Grady’s covered more than one person too. I guess IL is willing to have ROs covering multiple targets whereas other states want each person to get their own RO.
If we just go by number of people covered it’s still 12.
Neal N. Bob on 14 July, 2017 at 11:32 said:
I wonder if the Diminished Capacity Kid was asked to spell his name for the record … and if he got it right on the first try.
Paul Krendler on 14 July, 2017 at 11:34 said:
I look forward to seeing the victory spin at Cabin Boy Unread.
“LIES! PERJURY! GOOGLY EYES! FAT! ADULTERY! (Pause to roll poop and film it) FEDERAL MARSHALS! POSTAL INSPECTOR! CHRISTMAS EVE CLERK!”
How was that?
Seems legit.
“KRENDLERRRRR! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGE!”
malclave on 14 July, 2017 at 12:41 said:
ADA!
Yeah, I don’t think anybody will be letting that one go anytime soon.
Archer on 14 July, 2017 at 14:10 said:
Toastrider on 14 July, 2017 at 12:40 said:
TETSUOOOOOOOOOOO!!
KANEDAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
James on 14 July, 2017 at 12:51 said:
ASHITAKAAAAA!
SPQR on 14 July, 2017 at 11:37 said:
I’m pretty sure that his appearance actually hurt him more than if he’d failed to appear.
And I’m sure that Judge Hecker will be pleased with his renewed interest in – and ability to – travel.
And you notice that since he appeared, he has notice of the RO. No need for service of the order. ROFL
Ashterah on 14 July, 2017 at 12:56 said:
You would be right.
Tao on 14 July, 2017 at 13:25 said:
Ashterah:
theman9876 on 14 July, 2017 at 14:35 said:
You rock Ash!! Stay safe out there!!!
Dungeonmaster Jim on 14 July, 2017 at 11:41 said:
Wait, he was there? That’s the headline.
And he screwed up the office pool.
This Other Latin F*cker on 14 July, 2017 at 11:55 said:
Not for me! I WON! I think there were 2 of us who said he would show up. I’m the only one that predicted [REDACTED] so I won. I’ll treat to a bottle of the good stuff at the next meeting.
I’m filing a protest with the Stewards.
Roy Schmalfeldt on 14 July, 2017 at 12:18 said:
Don’t bother, the fix is in…Maryland, ya know.
Persecuted in WI on 14 July, 2017 at 16:28 said:
Better get to them before TOLF and his good stuff do. Otherwise, it’s a lost cause.
Gus Bailey on 14 July, 2017 at 21:24 said:
We have reviewed the pool and your entry; while we sympathize with your position, the rules are clear.
Kyle Kiernan on 14 July, 2017 at 11:43 said:
Think about it for a sec. Who, in a world that hasn’t lost its mind, really needs to show up to defend against getting an RO? It’s tantamount to saying “I really need to maintain my unwanted contact with this person” isn’t it? Wouldn’t a normal person who isn’t harassing just say “go ahead and take one out because I have no desire or need to contact this person”?
A case that comes to mind would be like BK trying to take one out on WJJH or AW and then you would want to show up not necessarily to argue against getting one released but to get it on record your objection that you have done nothing to merit such a ruling regardless of whether one is issued or not. And I don’t see DF arguing that way at all.
Techno Jinxx on 14 July, 2017 at 11:47 said:
yeah but that is the difference between decent men, like Hoge and Walker and dumbf5cks like Schmalfeldt and BK
Neither Hoge nor Walker did anything they were accused of when BK tried to take one out.
Fat Bastard did EVERYTHING he was accused of with plenty of evidence to prove it which is what caused the latest one to be asked for.
The judge agreed (obviously) and granted it.
Yep, essentially what I was trying to say, the behavior is confirmation of the quality of the person.
Kyle, no, because it shows up on your record and may impact other rights.
Pablo on 14 July, 2017 at 21:02 said:
Right. If it’s domestic, you can kiss your 2nd Amendment rights goodbye.
I can think of many scenarios where a person would want to show up for such a hearing. They do impact your rights and there may be reasons to dispute claims of if the relief requested would negatively impact you.
. His presence was not completely stupid.
Fair enough. Sounds reasonable.
The problem is — he argued that he had a perfect right to contact her. That is not the reasonable person’s position.
Fr. Paul Lemmen D. D. on 14 July, 2017 at 12:56 said:
Evan though the defendant is provably so …
paralleldino on 14 July, 2017 at 20:38 said:
Malignant Narcissists’ only pleasure is causing pain to others, particularly through nasty words. A restraining order denies them that pleasure.
Dammit WP.
onlooker on 14 July, 2017 at 11:44 said:
Heh. I knew he was going to show. He shut up during prime Feldtdown hours.
I wonder if there’s a real Johnny Atsign.
Johnny didn’t fall for this. Just speculation on my part, of course.
Someone let me know what happens tomorrow. And I guess I don't have to go to Maryland in August, either? @BreitbartUnmask @truth_partner
— Breitbit News (@breitbitnews) July 14, 2017
Also, I’m sure tweets @mentioning Ash and talking about furry and bald whatsits made him look really normal.
John “Minemyown” Doe on 14 July, 2017 at 12:40 said:
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Bwahahaha
REBRANDING!!!!
You probably don’t believe in Santa Claus either, you heathen.
Adriane on 14 July, 2017 at 14:29 said:
Everybody a’knows there no such thing as a Sanity Clause!
Jonesy on 14 July, 2017 at 14:51 said:
+1000 for a Marx Brothers reference
BusPassOffice on 14 July, 2017 at 11:50 said:
The baliff made him remove his stupid hat, it went downhill from there
Now he has this right to question anayone…
Did work out so well….
The court and the entire galeery laughed at him according to hoge cultists in attendance
Which hat? The cowboy with the pleather jacket one , or the porkpie hat?
The porkpie is the stupidest I hope it was that one.
Yhe pork pir one
Did he arrive in a wheelchair and on a respirator?
He needs a suspensor harness, like the Baron Harkonnen in Dune.
gmhowell on 14 July, 2017 at 12:45 said:
The cat would pull his heart plug in an instant.
crawford421 on 14 July, 2017 at 13:36 said:
Commander Pike’s chair.
DAmmit; pictures of this war canoe.
For reals? He didn’t have respect enough for the court to take his hat off?
I wonder when Schmalfeldt will be releasing the video.
MJ on 14 July, 2017 at 13:11 said:
As soon as he gets the audio, then he can tell us all about her lies.
You know, @redheadturkey, people warned you to distract him away from his perseverations. My sympathies if you tried, now you know what you are up against.
He will always need us more than he needs you…
Streisand Effect. nice tie-in. (But I really, reeally hate that song.)
gb420 on 14 July, 2017 at 11:58 said:
Lol that never gets old.
I’m curious if he actually tried to make a perjury argument or if that was just for Internet’s sake.
was waiting for this
apparently that is EXACTLY what he did….Again.
That’s one of his stand-by arguments.
“Your honor, I logged on around noon….”
“LIES! PERJURY! It was 11:59!!!!!!!!!”
I actually think its brain damage that makes him do this. He just cannot recognize when a course of conduct or line of argument has diminishing returns or counterproductive effects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetal_alcohol_spectrum_disorder
AJ Fornicarius Hoc on 14 July, 2017 at 12:18 said:
Well, of course he did.
I wonder if he really had the notion that Guilford county would not grant a RO for the same nutty behavior as Rockingham. I know he’s that dumb, but that’s not dispositive. He’s so utterly dishonest AND stupid that pretending to believe the ridiculous is completely plausible.
He’s not dumb; he’s deranged, see his own admissions.
Por que no los dos?
I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s not like South Carolina landlords are going to read about this.
You mean South Carolina landlord might Google William Schmalfeldt and find out he has 12 Restraining Orders? Or they might find out that William Schmalfeldt has told multiple courts he is a pauper?
Well, actually a ” No Contact Order For Stalking Or Nonconsensual Sexual Conduct”
I am sure that all the landlords associations in both N. Carolina and S. Carolina have publicly available e-mail addresses …
In a situation like this, it’s far better to let them make the discovery on their own. They’ll enjoy it. Eventually.
Not until the email arrives, anyway…
I do wonder about the mode of transportation. Excellent friends might have helped out.
or lying liars that lie, lied about not having any transportation.
I think Johnny Atsign may have been on this.
Sara deserves full credit for defending herself today. There will be nothing more than legal failures from now on for Team Kimberlin.
Yes she does….
Johnny Alamo on 14 July, 2017 at 13:56 said:
Golf clap!
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Bill F5cking Murray:
Just A Thought on 14 July, 2017 at 12:38 said:
Let’s give the Fail Wail some credit too.
Let’s not diminish his capacity: It’s tough to earn 12 Restraining Orders. He’s probably worked harder for that than anything else in his career.
There may be a typo in that last sentence.
Sometimes, thoughts are frivolous and passing.
The address for Mr. Fakinsons on the restraining order is WRONG!!!
And he was there and did not offer to correct it!!
ZOMG TEH PURJERY!!1!1!!1!1!1!1!1!
The “kicked out of the hotel” claim was a head-fake, just like “ho-hum, let me know how the hearing goes” was – he only know a few tricks, and uses them repeatedly.
The best way to discredit something Bill Schmalfeldt says, is to know he said it.
Gee, it sure looks like the court found he stalked and harassed, jusging by that update.
Bill Schmalfeldt: adjudicated stalker
Hoge had one, too.
Did that one say ‘cease stalking?’
No, it had different language. Have to dig it up, unless WJJH has it handy.
That’s why I like this one. The box to ‘cease stalking’ is clearly checked. He couldn’t ‘cease’ doing something if he weren’t already doing it.
Also, I think it’s kinda odd to sue folks for saying ine is a deranged cyberstalker, when one has recorded and sold stuff like this:
I see the actual order requires DUMBFUCK, and I quote, to “cease stalking the plaintiff” and also to “cease harassment the plaintiff.”
How does one “cease” doing something unless they were doing it in the first place?
Stalker. Harasser. Schmalfeldt.
Now on paper in plain black and white language. Congratulations.
It even specified that he had done so using several means.
One of which happened to be through the internet making him, you guessed it, a cyberstalker.
And signed by a judge of competent jurisdiction that a DUMBFUCK submitted himself to.
No longer can Schmaleldt argue that the restraining orders were uncontested. No longer can he argue that anyone “cheated.”
Drunkenstein lost on the merits, Christ, that’s gotta chap his ass.
5 gallons of chap
Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina in the moooo-oooo-ooorning!
Katie Scarlet on 14 July, 2017 at 21:26 said:
Sipping a little champagne 🥂 from my res judicata mug. Here’s to you Ash, nicely done.
Oh, and he’s fat. Maybe not morbidly obese, but sure as hell obese.
gmking222 on 14 July, 2017 at 12:28 said:
I’m sure DF will blame the female judge. Wait for it…
A story in two parts.
The Lie:
And I don't believe I've ever "skulked" anywhere. I certainly never lied to an adversary while shaking his hand like 🐷did.
The Truth:
“Bill Schmalfeldt and I had a discussion immediately after the settlement conference for the copyright infringement suit I filed against him. During that discussion, he made representations to me about his plan for his Internet presence going forward. I told him that, if he followed that plan, there would be no reason to follow through with my peace order petition. I encouraged him to pursue the course he outlined. I asked him to give me a reason to drop the matter, and we shook hands.
While he seemed to be following his plan for a week or so, Schmalfeldt quickly began giving me reasons to question his sincerity. His behavior over the past week convinced me that I should not withdraw my petition.”
https://hogewash.com/2014/08/27/in-re-a-peace-order/
Verdi smiles.
I’d been having a rather crappy week (non-TK-related), but this news makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. I’m sure it’s making others feel that way too (like Sarah!).
So, we have an office pool on how long before we start reading/hearing this from a certain hotel in SC?
Howard D. Earl on 14 July, 2017 at 12:45 said:
Another for the Google bomb. Well done, Shakes.
Don’t ever change.
WWFD on 14 July, 2017 at 12:51 said:
I wonder if DF realizes the magnitude of this order. Right now I’m in a bind I want to mock the DF and point out how we had him pegged and how he stumbled into a courtroom and totally f***ed him self. On the other hand I don’t want to point out why because I don’t want to educate the blob so when he realizes how F***ed he the lulz will be non stop.
Nah, let him think its no big deal. He’ll stumble onto the real problem soon enough.
Here’s a song about contempt hearings in Maryland.
He thinks he doesn’t have to show in August because the Diddler requested it. Something about Ninotchka meeting with DJT Jr. or something….
w on 14 July, 2017 at 20:43 said:
So very many things make more sense now!!!
You nailed it Howard.
My initial thought on hearing he’d actually made an appearance was “Wow! Testicular fortitude for once!” But then I realized that of course he’d showed because it was the stupidest choice he could have made. And never let it be said that Unca Biwwy doesn’t know how to reach the bottom of the stupid hole and then Keep. On. Digging. (Can we safely assume he’s well into the mantle by now?)
Honestly there was no good option. The good option got lost when he couldn’t check himself when told no.
I’m not sayin’; I’m just sayin’:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kola_Superdeep_Borehole
lorddewclaw on 14 July, 2017 at 13:17 said:
Ash, I am very sorry it had to reach this level for you… but very happy you are made of sterner stuff and are willing to defend yourself against evil (and 12 judges agree you ARE EVIL, Moobs McStalkerazz).
So suck it, Fatty… you racist stalker.
Oh…. I see the raging “Lyin’ of Lebanon” skulked behind a protective skirt on the twitterz like the raging coward he is.
Bwahahahahahahaha!!!!11!1!1eleventy!!1!
Time for some scrubbing, followed by a quick rebranding…
John Hitchcock on 14 July, 2017 at 15:15 said:
Of course he doesn’t realize all his tweets have been archived in multiple locations. That cloth he’s using just isn’t big enough.
SecurityFlunky on 14 July, 2017 at 13:45 said:
How can that be? Bill said only cowards block their accounts.
Honestly I think he’s in a fury anting and plottiing half baked complaints forwarded to DAs.
It’s still a four hour drive back to Florence.
Honestly I think he’s in a fury ranting and plottiing half baked complaints forwarded to DAs.
Sure, why not? I guess that can’t hurt.
Oh, wait. Yes, it actually can hurt quite a bit. If I’m not mistaken, a DUMBFUCK’s tiny master and his erstwhile bride are being sued for just that.
Ooooooo post the butthurt here for the lulz plz.
monitor2112 on 14 July, 2017 at 13:57 said:
Congrats Ash!!!!!
Rebranding underway. Perhaps a foray into clickbait promotion. SC LANDLORDS HATE HIM.
I think we can just use this for all of the Diminished Capacity Kid’s legal antics.
That is one very pneumatic and expressive blonde…
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someone got his hat handed to him in court today
I got served and my lawyer is going to make the rubble bounce
Rhut Rhowww……….Thats the 2nd confirmation of an attorney in Bill’s latest LulzSuit. What happens when Bill is dealing with 4 attorneys, from 4 different states and he is NOT allowed to contact the defendants in any way?? No more Twitter and Blog taunting because this is a real case. Imagine having to answer all those motions. The amount of legal related work the Cabin Boy has decided to take on is enormous.
I’m still hoping someone delivers a butter sculpture of his rear end to him so that he can be handed his fat ass in court.
Twitty_Bang on 14 July, 2017 at 17:16 said:
What’s getting truly remarkable is the amount of lawyer fees that Slick Willy will have to pay.
DeplorableRican on 14 July, 2017 at 17:19 said:
ROFL at making his crap private.
As if everything hasn’t been archived by multiple sources.
Too late stolen valor Parkinson’s faking abjudicated cyberstalker. You’re screwed and the ram has touched the wall so kiss a settlement goodbye.
AS soon as he gets back to the flophouse from his eight hour bus ride and gets himself good and drunk, he’ll go public again.
He can’t help himself.
I thought the quality buslines had onboard WiFi these days.
Oh, he was traveling UNDER the bus? Guess he may as well get comfortable with that.
You misspelled ass.
WarEagle82 on 14 July, 2017 at 14:37 said:
Did he just sue someone who just got a restraining order against him?
Is he going for all US States and territories?
What about Europe?
He’s got one in Beijing! I doubt he’ll show to contest it. It’s a lockup at Border Control.
JeffM on 14 July, 2017 at 14:45 said:
Let’s see. Was there something in his complaint against John about not being a cyberstalker? I wonder how all these RO’s play into that claim.
Well done Ash.
William Milkshakesphere on 14 July, 2017 at 15:10 said:
I’m going to imitate the Dumbfuck here for his next rant in violation of the restraining order.
“So when did Ms. Palmer move to Greensboro? This is important for the people to know! I just purchased all these information about her history that does not corroborate Ms. Palmer’s moving to Greensboro. Tell me now or I will sue you! Oh, no response? Then I will issue a summon forcing you to testify to this information for Brett’s website that no one reads. No, this isn’t stalking, I’m a GS-13 reporter! That’s like equivalent to a 5-star admiral in the United States Navy because I landed on the beach of Lebanon for all of 1 minute. I don’t even recognize that restraining order because I do not reside in North Carolina ergo it does not apply to me!”
Anyways good job Sarah.
He submitted himself to the jurisdiction of NC.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE HATE COMMENTS FOR EVIDENCE!!!
That’s what I’m talkin’ about!
So are you saying we should be commenting even more to mock the DF
Dr_Mike on 14 July, 2017 at 15:45 said:
Oh, heck, let’s make it 126.
Have a beer.
I wonder why ol’ Ferguson the Cat Lady hasn’t chimed in. Last time I checked, wasn’t he going all “Jaysus!” & such on the stupidity of Ash pursuing this RO?? I’m pretty sure Willy’s record of loserdom is approaching that of the girthy Bill.
He has it pretty easy, though. He eggs Billy on with no skin in the game, then he sits back and giggles as Billy has to put more salve on his butthurt.
BadgerBob on 14 July, 2017 at 18:23 said:
I don’t know Ferguson and can only guess as to his motivation. But I agree, I’ve always got the sense he enjoys watching Bill flail around. Bill is just an entertaining dope to both liberals and conservatives and all those in between. Good for lots of lulz.
Bill could always test his friendship with Ferguson since he might be short of cash this month and ask him for a loan.
Sarah could change her twitter and blog header to:
North Carolina orders Bill Schmalfeldt to cease stalking me.
Maybe one of our skilled photoshop people could make some nice graphics for Sarah if she desires.
Doxyermother on 14 July, 2017 at 19:34 said:
Doesn’t this mean the big dummy has to drop Sara from the case OR hire an attorney?
D. Edgren on 14 July, 2017 at 20:51 said:
Pro per service of copies of legal pleadings and of discovery requests by mail or by hand by unrelated third party would be a privileged act and thus not considered to be contact proscribed by the restraining order.
Doxy, David said “no,”
But … if the owner of an RO retains a lawyer in a case brought by a pro se, the pro se has to deal with the lawyer, not the victim or his/her stalking and/or harassment.
I hope all of the defendants get lawyers (I know John and Eric have), and then Poor, Poor Unca Biwwy won’t be able to use his LulzSuit as an excuse to harass them.
Cabin Boy is too stupid, too impulsive and too psychopathic to stay in bounds.
Maybe Pinky Tusks- adaros will try and rein him in like Gail did. She needs to if she wants him to have any money for their luxury lifestyle.
kagsundaram on 16 July, 2017 at 12:57 said:
Maybe she will.
Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!
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fred.bloggs on 15 July, 2017 at 06:17 said:
As a sufferer of a severe brain disorder (epilepsy), but one that thankfully educated guesswork has managed to control, I’d like to point out that even with some advances in modern medicine, a suffere of my condition is is dire straits: Double the medication, and they are so powerful that they’s kill you; halve the medication, and the underlying problem would re-emerge, and each time I have a seizure, there’s a real risk of permanent brain damage, and a documented increased vulnerability to seizures in the future.
The main route for these drugs into the brain is via the liver, so I am totally banned from having alcohol, and my professionals are continually monitoring my liver to see how much stress it is under. One side-effect I’ve been warned about is that, because so much of the liver’s capacity is being taken up by the meds, that one standard drink to an average person might effectively be 3-4 standard drinks for me (untested in practice, but possible).
The side-effects of the drugs are, and continue to be, agonising in indirect ways; sometimes I wished to do myself in, because, while the drugs stopped the seizures, they left the rest of my social and physical life so far in tatters, that I believed that the cure was worse than the disease, and was willing to do myself in rather than stay in no-man’s-land.
It’s infuriating when so many areas where you try to access, are closed off, because people do not know how much liability they might be opening themselves up to, because of your past history of epilepsy.
The leap from one side of the fence, from believing that you’re sane and rational, young and bullet-proof, to the other side, realising that your brain is a contradiction-riddled, unreliable piece of tissue, was a real eye-opener for me. Think how hard it is to trust getting into bed one night, having been rushed to hospital after going to bed, apparently normal, the previous night. When you must stop trusting your brain (and your body) from keeping you safe, the whole world can become a nightmarishly-paranoid place for you to inhabit.
With that personal starting point, I note in particular WJJ Hoge’s opinion that he genuinely thought that Schmalfeldt had Parkinson’s, when he saw him at some previous point.
Someone mentioned that drugs to control Parkinsons’ sometimes have a side-effect of generating grandiosity. There is a plethora of grandiosity in Bill’s various labels:
Lord of Satire
King Leonidas [? spelling?]
Music Unshackled
The Clinton Iconoclast
There are real delusions of grandeur up there.
Respect is a commodity that can only be earned, not demanded.
I see that the trouble with Bill is that he has no choice but to stay on his meds, and I would be willing to cut him miles of slack on his lack of self-awareness of the grandiosity. Except, unfortunately, that he launches from that position into much dangerous territory, the damage done to others is real, and they have legitimate cause to fight back.
At a personal level, I would go back to the “Respect” comment above, remind Bill early often when he starts going off the rails, and note that the first step in earning is respect comes from measuring, tempering, modulating and moulding HIS BEHAVIOUR AND LANGUAGE in social settings, including electronic media, to find and know his personal boundaries, and be VERY careful about how he acts outside of those boundaries.
On place I worked at had a succinct way of putting this: “Any sentence starting with the word ‘You’ is fraught with potential danger.”
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Suge Knight…You Got Knocked the Fuck Out!
Hollywood & Vine almost stayed at the W Hotel in Arizona during All-Star Weekend. It’s a good thing we didn’t cuz we woulda been all up in the middle of this shit!
Police were called to the W Hotel in Scottsdale, Arizona around 3:30am because niggas can’t do shit without fightin! Akon’s business manager, Robert Carnes, Jr. and another clown named Thomas Leon Anderson, Jr. were arrested and booked on suspicion of assault and disorderly conduct. In other words, they beat up Suge Knight!
Suge is being treated for face injuries after being punched in the face at least twice by Carnes. People on the scene said that the shit started and was over in a matter of seconds! Damn Suge! You couldn’t get off one punch with your big ass?
Ya’ll know this is just the start of some new bullshit between Suge and these two fuckin idiots! Developing…
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Ms. Wanda, you know we think Pac is still alive, but we feel you! Suge is such a punk ass nigga! Ain’t nobody afraid of his ass anymore!
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IS COLIVING THE ANSWER TO HONG KONG’S SKYROCKETING RENT?
Owning your own home in Hong Kong seems pretty far-fetched dream as a 20-something in the city. Even if you do cut out the avocado toast habit you have. Thing’s aren’t looking pretty on the rental market front either, only recently was their news on a tiny Tseung Kwan O bedroom that is only 56 square feet but on the market for $7000 HKD — making it more expensive, per square foot, than a luxury flat on The Peak. It’s looking bleak for renters, but there are plenty of start-ups in the Hong Kong market who are selling a new brand of living.
Co-living isn’t a new concept by any means, communes and ‘adult boarding’ having been around since the 40’s; however the idea has had a mjor overhaul and rebranding, making it much more luxury and adds an angle of socialising, business network opportunities or some even going as far to target singles looking for love. It’s the roommate experience now elevated – non of the hassle of asking your flatmate to take out the trash and far more elegant facilities.
The idea of living in such a space is undoubtedly targeted towards a ‘certain‘ type of person – the image that comes to mind is a digital nomad, single and under 35, who seeks convenience and flexibility in their living situation. While it does sound liberating to have a fully furnished pad, stocked kitchen, amenities and a cleaning service to top it off, it’s likely not the first choice for an introvert.
There must be some kind of potential in the air as Hong Kong has seen a drastic rise in both co-living and coworking spaces in the past 2 years. It’s becoming a lucrative business, even hotels are keen to convert their spaces to bring in more revenue. Could this be a solution for a generation that is struggling to move out of their parent’s homes? Let’s take a look, city dwellers who are looking to save or up for trying something a little out of the norm, here’s what the city has to offer:
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What they promise: Our goal is to take the good stuff about apartment living and condense it into our new residential spaces in Tsim Sha Tsui. Opening in Summer 2018, they are the upscale answer to co-living – including maid service, a big communal kitchen and a rooftop! With cleverly designed studios from 125 sq. ft. to 260 sq. ft.
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What they promise: Our mission is to provide comfortable, convenient and well-priced homes for millennials and young professionals. We strive to build closely-knit communities where residents enrich their lives by sharing experiences and inspiring each other to achieve their goals.
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What they promise: Campfire Home is your place of rest and relaxation. We offer residents an easy and convenient way to take their collaborative lifestyle beyond the workplace. Located on Garden Hill in Sham Shui Po, Campfire Home is nestled in the arts community alongside the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), Lingnan University, and the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre. Campfire Home membership also comes with full access to our collaborative workspaces, ensuring that your work and life are seamlessly connected.
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What they promise: To create a place for the nomad community who seek new ways of living and collaborating. To establish a global hospitality brand that goes beyond the traditional ‘best hotels’ concepts. To offer stylish, cool and designer accommodation without the price tag.
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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember. – Anne Sullivan who was born on this day in 1866.
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April 14 in history
43 BC Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar’s assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeated the forces of the consul Pansa, who was killed.
69 – Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeated Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
1028 Henry III, son of Conrad, was elected king of the Germans.
1205 Battle of Adrianople between Bulgarians and Crusaders.
1294 Temür, grandson of Kublai, is elected Khagan of the Mongols and Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty with the reigning titles Oljeitu and Chengzong.
1341 Sacking of Saluzzo by Italian-Angevine troops under Manfred V of Saluzzo.
1434 The foundation stone of Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes was laid.
1471 The Yorkists under Edward IV defeated the Lancastrians under Warwick at the battle of Barnet; the Earl of Warwick was killed and Edward IV resumed the throne.
1699 Birth of Khalsa the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar.
1775 The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage – the first abolitionist society in North America – was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.
1828 Noah Webster copyrighted the first edition of his dictionary.
1846 The Donner Party of pioneers left Springfield, Illinois, for California, on what became a year-long journey of hardship, cannibalism, and survival.
1849 Hungary declared itself independent of Austria with Lajos Kossuth as its leader.
1860 The first Pony Express rider reached Sacramento, California.
1864 Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeated Denmark and gained control of Schleswig. Denmark surrendered the province in the following peace settlement.
1865 Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
1865 U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and his family were attacked in their home by Lewis Powell.
1866 Anne Sullivan, Helen Keller’s teacher, was born (d. 1936).
1881 The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight erupted in El Paso, Texas.
1890 The Pan-American Union was founded by the First International Conference of American States.
1894 Thomas Edison demonstrated the kinetoscope, a device for peep-show viewing using photographs that flip in sequence.
1904 Sir John Gielgud, English actor, was born (d. 2000).
1912 The British passenger liner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg at 11.40pm in the North Atlantic, and sankthe following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
1915 The Turks invaded Armenia.
1927 The first Volvo car premiered in Gothenburg.
1927 Alan MacDiarmid, New Zealand chemist, Nobel laureate, was born (d. 2007).
1931 Spanish Cortes Generales deposed King Alfonso XIII and proclaimed the 2nd Spanish Republic.
1932 A crowd of about 1500 rioted in Queen Street.
1935 Black Sunday Storm, the worst dust storm of the U.S. Dust Bowl.
1935 Loretta Lynn, American singer/songwriter, was born.
1941 Julie Christie, British actress, was born.
1941 World War II: The Ustashe, a Croatian far-right organisation was put in charge of the Independent State of Croatia by the Axis Power after the Operation 25 invasion.
1941 – Rommel attacked Tobruk.
1944 Bombay Explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbour killsed300 caused economic damage valued then at 20 million pounds.
1945 – Osijek, Croatia, was liberated from fascist occupation.
1945 – Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi, 8th Prime Minister of Samoa, was born.
1945 Ritchie Blackmore, English guitarist (Deep Purple), was born.
1951 Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist, was born.
1956 In Chicago videotape was first demonstrated.
1958 The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 fell from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days.
1961 Robert Carlyle, British actor, was born.
1969 Academy Award for Best Actress was a tie between Katharine Hepburn and Barbra Streisand.
1973 David Miller, American tenor (Il Divo), was born.
1978 – Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tbilisi against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
1981 The first operational space shuttle, Columbia (OV-102) completed its first test flight.
1986 In retaliation for the April 5 bombing in West Berlin that killed two U.S. servicemen, U.S. president Ronald Reagan ordered major bombing raids against Libya, killing 60 people.
1986 1 kilogram (2.2 lb) hailstones fell on the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh, killing 92 – these were the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.
1988 The USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
1988 The Soviet Union signed an agreement pledging to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan.
1994 In a U.S. friendly fire incident during Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq, two United States Air Force aircraft mistakenly shoot-down two United States Army helicopters, killing 26 people.
1999 NATO mistakenly bombed a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees.
1999 A severe hailstorm struck Sydney causing A$2.3 billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
2002 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country’s military.
2003 The Human Genome Project was completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%.
2003 U.S. troops in Baghdad captured Abu Abbas, leader of the Palestinian group that killed an American on the hijacked cruise liner the MS Achille Lauro in 1985.
2005 The Oregon Supreme Court nullified marriage licenses issued to gay couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
2007 At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara protested against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
2010 – Nearly 2,700 people were killed in a magnitude 6.9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.
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69 Vitellius, commander of the Rhine armies, defeated Emperor Otho in the Battle of Bedriacum and seizes the throne.
1941 Rommel attacked Tobruk.
1945 Osijek, Croatia, was liberated from fascist occupation.
1978: Thousands of Georgians demonstrated in Tbilisi against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
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2. Joseph Ratzinger – Pope Benedict XVI – Ex-Pope : Guardian of the Secrets of Fatima – Clairvoyant/Psychic reading about : his health, death, The Fourth Secret of Fatima, a shooting on the Pope, fear by russians and jews, three stages by the event and on the fourth – the miracle is repeated. Where Pope Francis must make a bow down – Clairvoyant/Psychic reading April 21, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
3. The meeting of Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill in Cuba –Febr.2016 – “What is the deal between Pope Francis and Patriarch Kirill that they were discussing? Will they transfer and what part of the Catholic money from Russia to Rome ? “- Clairvoyant/Psychic Reading by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna – 13.02.2016, 9am.
4. George Soros (Business Magnate) – Construction of railways in Albania, Serbia. A plot against Pope Francis. Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump?- Who supports George Soros on US Election 2016 ? A stress caused by fire…. – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna – September 22, 2016 ,4pm.
5. Jacob Rothschild, 4th Baron Rothschild – World Conspiracies year 2016 and year 2017. US Election 2016 and what will happen after that ? – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna – September 23, 2016 ,9am.
6. Jean-Baptiste de Franssu (President of the Vatican Bank ( Institute for the Works of Religion) – Year 2017 : Construction of a new Holy Place in South America with golden treasure. He sees the death of the Pope. Health . How the Pope will die ? – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions January 3, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
7. Valery Gerasimov (Russian General, Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia and Deputy Defence Minister) – The War in Syria – optical illusion, Weapons in Turkey, USA – paying a damage, Observation of activity and movement of a star when is near the Moon, Clairvoyant Calendar year 2017, Health – Clairvoyant predictions February 23, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna
8. General Joseph Dunford ( US General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ) – Meeting of US,Russian chiefs of general staff – Negotiation with the Russians : about the stopping of russian flights above anerican ships, about flights in Syria, about american troops in Syria. Negotiations for american base in Azerbaijan…. When there will be a military coup in USA and when Donald Trump will be overthrown ? – Clairvoyant predictions February 25, 2017 – – by Clairvoyant House ” Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
9. World Predictions 2017 – The magnetic pole of the Earth – where it will stop ? Murders of russians…., Casus Belli on Northeast (date, month), Protests in USA…, Explosions of Nuclear plants….and volcanic eruptions. Energy corridors and problems. Wars and refugees… Operation “J”. Clairvoyant predictions (February 28, 2017, 4pm.) about March, April and May 2017 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
10. The Wailing Wall – Jerusalem ( The Western Wall ,The Buraq wall) – The power of the Ark is moved from the Wailing Wall in the Mount of Olives Cemetery and is waiting for a Space Coming – Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” -from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna -31.12.2014,12am.
11. The Mount of Olives Cemetery (Jerusalem) -Clairvoyant/Psychic predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” -from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna -27.12.2014
12. The Mount Hermon -Lebanon and the Golan Heights -“Secrets keeped by milleniums – Natural Spaceport, diamonds with its own energy and movement like planet in the planet Earth “– Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-18.01.2015,10am.
14. World Predictions to -Our Lady of Fatima ,the three shepherd children at Fatima – 21.01.2015,9am. -“What did they saw and how many prophecies for World Wars exactly” -Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-21.01.2015,9am.
15. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone – Vatican ex – Secretary of the State -19.01.2015 – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-19.01.2015,4pm.
16. Cardinal Pietro Parolin – Secretary of the State of Vatican – 20.01.2015,8am. – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-20.01.2015,8am.
17. Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Muller (Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith) – 21.01.2015,9am- Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-20.01.2015,9am.
18. Cardinal Leonardo Sandri ( Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches) – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-20.01.2015,10am
19. Cardinal Robert Sarah -(Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacramento) – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,11am.
20. Cardinal Angelo Amato (Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints) – 22.01.2015,12am -Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,12am.
21. Cardinal Marc Ouellet (Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops) -22.01.2015,1pm – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,1pm.
22. Cardinal Fernando Filoni – (Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of People) -22.01.2015,3pm – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,3pm.
25. Cardinal Beniamino Stella (Prefect of the Congregation for Clergy) – 22.01.2015,4pm – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,4pm.
26. Cardinal Joao Braz de Aviz -( Prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and for Societies of Apostolic Life) -22.01.2015,5pm -Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,5pm.
27. Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski – (Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education) – 22.01.2015,6pm – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015,6pm.
28. Cardinal Mauro Piacenza (Tribunals – Apostolic Penitentiary) -22.01.2015 – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015.
29. Cardinal Angelo Sodano – Former Secretary of the State,Roman Curia -22.01.2015 – – Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015.
30. Archbishop Dominique Mamberti – (Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura) -22.01.2015 — Clairvoyant/ Psychic Predictions by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “- from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-22.01.2015.
31. 31.07.2014-World Predictions about Troubles,Diseases and Space Disasters by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova”-from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-31.07.2014,6pm.
32. The Judgement Day-Clairvoyant/Psychic Reading to “Revelation 14.13 of John the Apostle”-by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova “-from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna.-01.08.2014,10 am
33. Saint Peter-Clairvoyant/Psychic Reading to st.Peter by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova ” -from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-04.08.2014,1pm
34. Pope Francis (Pontifex)-Clairvoyant /Psychic Reading by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova” -from Europe,Bulgaria,Varna-05.08.2014 ,3pm.
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Pope Francis – May 13, 2017 – Plan and Organisation about the100th Anniversary of Apparitions Our Lady of Fatima through the eyes of Pope Francis – Clairvoyant reading and Psychic predictions April 23, 2017 – by Clairvoyant House “Dimitrinka Staikova and daughters Stoyanka and Ivelina Staikova ” – from Europe, Bulgaria, Varna.
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Pope Francis- health April 2017 – I see heavy pain in the head – above the eyes and the fontanelle. There is a strong pain in the left ear, left sinus drainage ducts and heart. In the heart – there is already a disease. So far in the time there were treatment and surgical intervention. The energy is spinning around the heart, it is not increasing it, but is keeping the level – like a machine. Although I see strong gases in the stomach – there is colitis. Now, there are already problems caused by the pancreas and with increased acidity in the blood. Now is sick the left kidney, spine, the left pelvis, the left shoulder area and the both knees.
In the moment, around Easter 2017 – his thoughts are about an airplane and airplane travel. He sees the airplane cabin after the cockpit and despite he imagines a nice chat, he hears a speech, which is like moralizing – it is telling him what to do. It is a conversation between russians, germans and jews. The jews have bigger presence and inside them is included a catholic presence and influence. There are tough negotiations with russians. Two of them are imposed as representatives of energy business. Over them, there are representatives of jews – the letter “J”, also there are representatives of two banks and they are in the Vatican for negotiations – April 2017.
I see May 13, 2017 in Portugal – Cova da Iria (the place of the Apparitions Our Lady of Fatima) – the locality is covered with electricity and security guards. There is entrance from North – a corridor (pathway) – from North to South and then staying (stopping) on something like podium (platform, stage) which is in the northeastern corner. From that corner there is something connected with the sky – machine, balloon, flag. The Operative Center is behind them, strictly in the northeastern corner. There is a pathway from the Operative Center to the podium (tribune, platform). The eastern corner is surrounded by russian guards – a lot of nerves. The southern end is surrounded by papal guards.
There is a Space object coming from West to East. It is entering slightly on the locality, slightly at South direction and it is stopping a little before the podium (tribune). It is reaching the end of the meadow and it is going back to West – where it came from. And here, the nerve-racking question of the russians is – what if someone is shooting on the object and brings it down. There was the same fear 100 years ago, that’s why there were three military persons in the spaceship.
The waves which are irradiating the locality will be on the western end. In the northwestern end there is a business of which are earned money in the moment. In the northwestern end is also the place for photos and cameras – running and targeted to the sky. There are people arranged on that pathway (corridor),which in a certain moment in three beams will gather infront of the Pope and the people on the tribune . From East on the pathway are arranged germans (at East, before the Eastern end with the russians). After them in South direction are the jews (before the eastern end with the russians) and in the end – the southeastern border – I see people, which are from the energy business – they are at a slight height. The western side of the area is full with people of which will be earned money and there is a call for patience.
From the western side is entering also the black cloud, that will try to cover the whole area. It will rise higher in the air, because from the southeastern side at a slight height, there are machines for the blowing of the black cloud. The black cloud is rising high and is going on East, it covers the area – Cova da Iria for a short time, because of the machines. The same machine for the blowing of the black cloud is located also in the northeastern end of the area (it is covered).
When the Sun stays over the area – Cova da Iria – in the same time a space object will be seen, covered with a special shining (brilliant) paint, in order to be invisible – russian object, that stays near the Sun. It is using the reflection of the Sun and it is showing a second Sun, then a third one – it is going slightly on West, then returns in the first point of the Sun and then it disappears with fiery gleams. If there will be someone inside to speak or predict – Peace and Love between the people.
The Pope is quite nervous and supported with special medications. I see a fire from above – it will be seen as a beam, that will indicate one of the both Popes – Pope Francis and the Ex-Pope Benedict. There will be a bustle – a little before the end – shootings – for one of the Popes this will be the last day.
The Prediction for death is not about Pope Francis.
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Category Archives: Bears
Well, the inevitable has happened. It was a dry summer, so not many berries around for our ursine co-inhabitants here in this remote rainforest valley. In addition, the fish runs were down. Then last weekend we had our fifty-year flash flood, which swept away both fish and berries, and blurred the notional “boundary lines” which the officials fondly imagine keep humans from bears/cougars and keep the peace. For the last month there have been intimations that those boundaries were about as effective as Chamberlain’s piece of paper in 1939: neighbours reported seeing a grizzly bear routinely ambling around my property; my husband (who is tending the farm while we decide what to do with it and our lives) eventually saw him/her sitting thirty meters from my house, across the grass and orchard, behind the two boundary fences, calmly surveying the pickings. The next night he made his move and broke the main branches on my two pear trees and apple trees. David reported the attack to the RAPP centre in Kamloops and also crosses the road to the Ministry of Earth and Water, where a generous parks official lent me an electric fence, which friends and he set up encircling the orchard; meanwhile we picked almost all the remaining fruit. He thought about ringing our year old $22 000 chicken barn instead, but felt it was as solid as a building could be.
Two weeks later he heard that at least two neighbours down the highway had their chicken houses ransacked and lost their entire flocks. Then the floods hit, and everyone was preoccupied with surviving, then with trying to save their possessions, cars, houses, fences, bridges, stock, food. That same night one of my egg customers phoned to warn about these attacks and offered the use of her gun; frankly, she said, she wanted to protect her food supply.
David decided to move the electric fence, but was suffering a back injury and decided to postpone it until the weekend and some more healing had first taken place. Meanwhile he increased the lights and radios around the chicken house, and stowed away and secured the bags of feed even more securely behind at least two four inch thick doors.
The following night around 11 pm he heard the scream of a hen. There was a new moon so it was black outside, but from my house he could see an illuminated side of the chicken shed about two metres away and he could see no commotion. He could only guess that the bear had entered from the side, the weakest side of course. Without a dog or gun, surrounded by neighbours, with the flooded slough still saturating the ground all around, he could do little besides yell “shoo bear!” and bang some pots and pans. Later that night he heard more shrieks, but at dawn my restless fears were allayed when he heard the familiar cock crow. Unlike Peter, he felt relieved of his guilt–until he dressed and went down to let them out to free range, and discovered the side door ripped open, and a line of carcasses stretching through the broken page wire fence and under the trees towards the neighbour’s lawn. Inside, the remainder of my flock were traumatised, the biggest rooster hobbling about with one wing extended, a claw puncture mark on his back. There was even one dead chicken, otherwise untouched, inside the hen house.
He reported the attack to Kamloops (a mere 743 kms drive away) and was contacted at work later that day by our Conservation Officer who by good fortune had just made it back into the valley that day. They rendezvoused at 6 pm and David showed him the wooden barricade had erected overt the broken door. The CO laughed and said a grizzly would toss that side with his little ginger, literally.
“That’s what I feared,” Davie confessed, “but I have no other defence save the electric fence. And that seems so puny.”
“Actually that’s the best defence,” he said. They tracked the bear scat and chicken bodies across my neighbour’s property and back into the bush which stretches a hundred meters to the highway. He didn’t want to go any further.
“So,” David quite rightly asked, “since you’re staying nearby, when I see the bear tonight I’ll phone you and you can come and shoot it?”
“I wish I could, but no,” he sighed again. “If the fence is broken, then I can.”
“So twenty carcasses, a ravaged chicken house and a loss of livelihood aren’t enough.”
“You got it. Ministry policy. I must obey. If he attacks your goats, on the other hand, then I can shoot.”
“Who makes these rules?”
Apparently, he shrugged with–what I hope was–embarrassment and turned away.
David spent the next three hours and into the darkness moving the electric fence to surround my chicken house. My remaining flock reluctantly returned to the scene of the crime except for one canny rooster which, for a time, tried to roost in a nearby tree. David left them to the tender mercies of the night, the barricaded door and turned on the electric current, and hoped for the best.
That was last night. At dawn they were all still safe, but the biggest rooster was barely dragging himself around. David did, however, find bear scat outside my living room window on the grass and in front of the goat gate ten meters across from my house. He noticed the wooden superstructure above the five foot log railing fence (which I had erected to dissuade the goats from jumping out) had been broken down. I have seven pygmy goats now, and five get moved every night out of their pen and into their locked quarters in the nearby barn; the two grown boys like to take their chances in their run. They were safe, but I wonder for how long. Part of me dreads going out tomorrow morning and finding two goat carcasses by the fence; the other part looks forward to it so that then I will have reason to get the CO to shoot the grizzly.
Or maybe I should work with the current capitalist regime, move back to the farm, and put a sign at my gate saying: “BEAR VIEWING STATION: see the grizzly at close quarters as it kills chickens, smashes fruit trees and rips apart pygmy goats–LIVE! P.S.: Since my livelihood is being destroyed in front of your eyes, donations gratefully accepted.”
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Bears and fruit trees – part 5
“Lasting success requires both HUMANS and BEARS to change their behaviors otherwise bears will continually get into trouble”
Southwest Alberta Bear Management Program
I began this series because of a discussion the British Columbia Food Security Network was having about how to make bears and fruit trees get along. Members in Powell River, BC were being told by their local Ministry of Environment Conservation Officers to cut down their fruit trees and then being threatened with fines if they did not comply. As a farmer, a food provisioner, and someone who is passionate about food security and community development, I was concerned by this attitude of the regional Conservation Officers. Because it is not policy (yet) on the Ministry of Environment’s site, it makes me wonder why these COs are suggesting this as a reasonable solution to the human-bear conflict. I believe it is because they are convinced by some of the myths I have outlined in previous articles (see part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4 of the series), in particular, the theory that humans can control bear behaviour if we remove all the attractants, which is simply not true. Furthermore, it is a ridiculous fantasy that we can live ‘in harmony’ with wildlife. As one Bear Smart BC program coordinator told me during an interview, “Living with large predators has its limitations and we can’t expect people to ignore the risks associated with bear/human conflict.”
Sadly, the only outcome of these ‘animal-centric’ ideas is for humans to be held hostage to the bears which, thanks to changes in legislation in Canada, now have the backing of the Conservation Officers and, thanks to the preservationist media agenda, now have the backing of the public at large. The New Jersey example proves that the act of withdrawing is futile (see New Jersey Bear Problem); despite the mammoth efforts to control city garbage, their bear problem is worse than ever!
As the New Jersey example shows, once you have habituated bears and then remove the attractants (food, garbage, barbeques, fruit trees) outside your home, bears will enter houses, because they are accustomed to acquiring food at those locations and are no longer afraid of humans. Instead, they see human settlements as a source of food. “We don’t know exactly how long it takes for a habituated bear to become ‘human food conditioned’ but in some observations of specific bears we have estimated it took approximately 10 days,” the Bear Smart BC program coordinator told me. What is worse, they may even consider your property part of their home range territory and defend it aggressively. While not strictly territorial by nature, bears do conduct a modified form of territorial defence (what some bear behaviour experts call ‘home range’ defence), where a bear will defend access to resources such as the best salmon spawning rivers, the best berry patches, or other areas with rich sources of food (resources) and they will defend those areas aggressively. This home range defence is an important distinction in bear behaviour that has implications for our Food Security. When you develop a food secure piece of ground in bear territory, you could find yourself (or your yard/farm) being considered part of a bear’s ‘home-range’ territory. If your yard is in prime bear habitat then it is not likely that you will end up with a young, inexperienced (or marginalized) bear, but you could end up with an older, more experienced (and thus more aggressive) bear laying claim to your fruit trees. It is even likely to be a dominant female with cubs. She may not be able to hold prime river access, but because your farm/yard/trees are close to the river, she can lay claim to that habitat. In other words, you could end up with a bear that is willing to fight aggressively to keep (or take) the access to the fruit trees. Females with cubs are an even more dangerous situation because of the ‘cub-defence’ behaviour — the most common type of bear aggression towards people that results in injury. Younger or more inexperienced bears can sometimes be deterred more easily (with bear bangers, or dogs, loud noises, electric fences, and so on) but more experienced and/or determined bears (especially females with cubs) will not be so easily deterred — especially if they have had access to this food source over time. For the most part, it is the younger bears which are being forced to access people’s yards (around cities and less wild spaces) but it is certainly not always the case.
The typical bear to get into trouble with people is a sub-adult between 2 to 5 years old for Black Bears, and 3 to 5 years old for Grizzlies. Black bear cubs stay with the sow for two years and Grizzly cubs stay three years. After that they are forced to fend for themselves and at that point they become very vulnerable. Sub-adults are vulnerable to predation by other bears, cougars and wolves, so they are forced further away from their original home range territory. Sub-adult males are bolder than females and they are usually the first source of the conflict. The next ones to get up close to homes are sows with cubs. These sows approach human development for the same reasons that sub-adults do, to stay away from predators, especially dominant male bears. Because of this, they choose “safe zones” where the dominant males (as well as other predators) are less likely to be present. Drawn in by their strong sense of smell to the odours around homes, these bears explore for opportunities. Because we are no longer trapping, snaring, and shooting these intruders, these bears quickly learn that human settlements are a safe haven so they push the envelop. It is here that the trouble begins and finding a solution becomes paramount. We can categorise bears, regardless of species, in three ways.:
1. Wild – No previous experience with humans.
2. Human Wise – They know what humans are; they have seen them, smelled and heard them.
3. Habituated – These bears are accustomed to being around people and have learned not to fear them. These are by far the most dangerous kind of bear to deal with.
Wild bears and human wise bears are not problem bears, only potentially problem bears. Problem bears are habituated bears. In order to address those bears effectively, humans have to accept that we are part of the problem and change our behaviours accordingly. If we want to keep these animals alive then a mammoth effort in lifestyle change is required. Step one is to acknowledge that we are in competition with them for resources (food, land, access to food sources, waterways, etc — even if we are vegan) and step two is to act accordingly. Here are the four main ways we may minimise the human-bear conflict: 1. We can stop habituating bears to our food sources by not putting any food into garbage cans in our neighbourhoods or into community garbage dumps. Professor Stephen Herrero found villagers in Italy surrounded by mountains and bears, who, despite growing much of their own food, keeping fruit trees, and composting in they own yards, do not have bear problems. He documents his experience in the village in his book, Bear Attacks Revised: their cause and avoidance. The people in these Italian mountain communities put NO food garbage into their dumps! Not a drop. In addition, the households compost all their own food and thus the bears do not become accustomed to human waste food in the towns or at the dumps. They also defend their settlements so the bears know not to come to town and that humans are a threat.
2. We can keep bears wild by delineating preservation areas for bears where humans are not allowed to go. As a May 2010 Sierra Club Canada Media Release so rightly states, we must “… protect adequate amounts of grizzly bear habitat and restrict the number of open routes and motorized access in other places.”
3. We can make bears more human wise by defending our territory aggressively. Enter The Wind River Bear Institute and their ‘Parters-in-Life’ program. An innovative leader in this work, the Wind River Bear Institute uses non-lethal methods of reducing the human-bear conflict problems. Their goal is to teach the bears and humans how to avoid conflict. Their mission is ‘to reduce human-caused bear mortality and conflicts worldwide to ensure the continued survival of all species of bears for future generations’. When a ‘nuisance’ bear shows up, a dog trainer and team are dispatched to aggressively defend the property and/or human settlement a bear is encroaching upon. This technique is called ‘bear shepherding’: the idea behind it is to teach bears to recognize that humans have territorial boundaries and they are not welcome inside them. Of her program, Hunt says, “We have developed a system for teaching safe, meaningful lessons to bears and use a variety of loud noises, rubber projectiles and Karelian Bear Dog (KBD) Wildlife Service Dogs (WSDs) to safely ‘herd’ bears out of off-limit areas such as roadways, campgrounds, developed sites, and back country camps.” It is the aim of The Wind River Bear Institute (WRBI) to successfully ‘retrain’ the bears to recognize humans and see them as a threat to be avoided. “Because our lessons are based on wild bear behavior, the bears are taught to view us as much like a dominant bear and learn to avoid human developed sites as ‘our’ territory.” Because the technique is based in wild animal behaviour, it can be used as a template for other animals that pose human-wildlife conflict. The WRBI has also used this shepherding technique with cougars, moose, big horn sheep, and wolves. Enter the government. Our government officials could put more money into supporting programs like the Partners-in-Life, and have Conservation Officers trained to do Bear Shepherding. We could also give back land owners some power through policy changes, and allow them to defend their territory as a preventative measure. This could entail trapping, snaring, and shooting if necessary. Property owners should not have to wait until a bear is habituated to their land before something can be done. They should not have to wait until the bear has broken into their chicken shed and killed every chicken before a Conservation Officer is dispatched to ‘deal’ with the problem bear. After all, once the chickens are all dead the bear is no longer a problem!
Destroying the bears is not the only way to deal with them, but sadly, sometimes it is the only solution. Habituated bears are very difficult to discourage. A Bear Smart BC program coordinator admitted, “some bears get too possessive and aggressive around people’s homes and there is no other solution but to destroy them… As a program our first responsibility is to human safety.” He is speaking from experience not from emotion. Why not simply relocate problem bears? An article in the Journal of Wildlife Management by Blanchard and Knight (1995) states, “Because of low survival and high return rates [of relocated bears], transporting grizzly bears should be considered a final action to eliminate a conflict situation.” Many relocated bears die either by fighting with other bears in their newly relocated to territory, or by fighting with bears whose territory they have to cross in order to get back to their own home range territory. Because of the low survival rate (and the high resource use and transportation costs), bear biologist Carrie Hunt implores, “relocation and destruction must fade into history as something we do as an exception rather than the norm.”
4. We can control our population growth. We must control our population and limit our growth, period. Otherwise, there will be no space left for bears or any other wild creatures to thrive. What you ‘can’ do: Removing food sources from bears has its merits and does make a positive difference in reducing conflict. The Bear Smart BC program has been working with bear-resistant garbage can makers who have developed some successful and innovative solutions. In order for any container to received bear-resistant status it must undergo stringent testing through the Living with Wildlife with Wildlife Foundation in Wyoming.
One particular maker, Tye Dee Bins, makes metal bins that, during their test trials, no bear could get into no matter how hard they tried. Electric fencing has come a long way over recent years and installation is the key to dissuading bears from trying to reach a garden, fruit trees or even barns. Bear Smart has obtained effective electric fencing from Gallagher Fencing, a New Zealand Company which came to BC and trained the Bear Smart Program Delivery Specialists on the proper installation of their electric fencing. It is paramount that the bears do not defeat the fence when they attempt to access food. In the Kootenays, BC, Grizzlies had been attacking chicken coops and pig pens, so Bear Smart BC staff responded to complaints and erected a Gallagher electric fence. After one successful electric shot, they find that the bears get the message and never return. The down side to the electric fencing is its high cost.
Filed under Animal issues, Bears, Educational, Politicking with predators
Tagged as Bears, bears and fruit trees, false beliefs about bears, Grizzly Bears, Partners In Life Program, Politicking with predators, Sierra Club, Wind River Bear Institute
Compared to previous years, it has so far been a summer free of bears here in the valley. Friends visiting have been disappointed to see none on the hour long drive from the foot of the hill down the valley to our community, and I’ve heard of no home or chicken shed invasions since late spring. One theory is that this summer’s forest fires have spooked them all back up the side valleys; if that’s the case, maybe we should organize for a controlled burn every spring!
Not that there haven’t been close encounters. My own was in July, when my dog was more than usually vocal one night. Usually she’ll bark off an intruder once or twice a night, while I lie in bed judging the size of the attacker by the distance Tui moves away from the house towards the perimeter fences. If I hear her echoing against the forest in the distance, it’s a fox, while if she stays close to the front porch and whines, it’s a cougar.
This night it was an in-between barking distance so I knew it was a bear, whose size I didn’t know until dawn when I went out to free the turkeys, laying chickens and meat birds from their respective barns. The stucco wire fence and gate adjoining two of them had been broken down, probably with one swipe of a massive paw, dragging a rail along with a six inch nail away from a wall (see photo).
He or she (I suspect it was a she as each year I meet a mama grizzly in our yard with her cubs at some point) was probably excited by the smell or sound of our turkey flock, several of whom perch on the open window sill behind stucco wire, to take advantage of some cooler night breezes. If the bear had been insistent (as we had seen on other properties) our plywood walls would not still have been standing, but they were. I walked thirty meters along the fence line to the forest edge, the bear’s normal trail and entry point into our property, and sure enough, there was the flattened trail in the same place as previous years.
I began taking my windfall apples and dumping them there as peace offering, but they haven’t been touched in three weeks. This hot summer has meant a good year for wild berries, and now the creeks are full of writhing salmon, so we may be spared any bear predations this fall.
Nevertheless, it would be foolish to give myself or you the impression that the bears aren’t around. My friend Clarence told me just the other day that his daughter, who lives across the highway from his place ‘on our side’ (as he put it ominously) stepped out from her back door last week midmorning to confront a grizzly only meters away. And when I went to pick blackberries in Clarence’s patch last week in the last of our heat, I was un-nerved to come across a maze of flattened vines and grasses. I suddenly felt I was in the middle of a vast alfresco restaurant, with various intimate nooks where bears had lain in the shadows and feasted on the berries hanging off the ‘walls’ in all directions. It was strange to think that a giant paw may have recently brushed over the very berries I was now tenderly plucking. Clarence confirmed the fact by complaining that there is a mama black bear and cub that have been frolicking in the blackberry patch “flattening it and making a mess”.
While picking I was always on the lookout for the mama ‘just in case’. My theoretical ‘bum-per’ sticker says ‘I brake for bears.’
Filed under Animal issues, Bears, Politicking with predators, Politics of Food
Tagged as Animal issues, Bears, Bella Coola, Conservation, Grizzly Bears, predators
The road back in
This past couple of weeks I’ve been away taking an Animal Assisted Therapy in Counseling course at Healing Hooves in Alberta. Healing Hooves specializes in Equine Facilitated Mental Health can be very effective for people who are not able, or do not want to, sit in an office and talk. Horses and other animals often provide the initial motivation, helping to overcome the initial fears, and to build the bridge to a relationship with the counselor. They also help to foster long term motivation and commitment to the therapeutic process. I plan to get qualified in the counseling psychology field and utilize the Animal Assisted Therapy in my practice.
On my way back home, I was lucky enough to see a host of wildlife, some of which I had not seen in quite a few years. All together I saw 5 black bears, two big horn sheep, three elk, two grizzly mama’s with cubs, several deer, a moose, coyotes, foxes and a marmot. The black bears were too quick to catch photos of and several of the other critters were too far away for my camera to be of use (I do not own a zoom lens, yet!). However, I did manage to get close enough to a mama grizzly and her curious cub, a marmot, and also took some shots from the hill on the way into the valley and the valley floor:
Young grizzly mama and her cub eating clover.
Filed under Bears, Just for fun, Politicking with predators
To stay or not to stay?
About one month after I quit my job in Regina and two weeks after I arrived back home, my husband got notified his services were no longer needed where he worked. Needless to say, our stress level went up. We were lucky enough that he got offered a part-time job in the fall that quickly turned into full time work. However, the job is only a one year replacement position, so we are now faced with the potential of neither of us being gainfully employed after June 26th. Not a big deal for some, but when you live in a small, remote town where there are few, or no, job prospects, it is: we are once again faced with the dilemma of whether or not to start looking for work outside the valley.
Unfortunately, it is not just the lack of jobs that begs this question.
Yesterday, I went to talk with the neighbour who lost the three beautiful dogs to the cougar a couple of weeks ago (see Cougar capers begin again). Since this fatal attack, they too are contemplating whether to stay: “Leaving was never a topic for discussion before this.” To say the least, the loss of the dogs has put a bad taste in their mouths for the moment; he showed me where the dogs were killed, stashed and eaten–and also where the grizzly bears show up each year! He worries constantly about his animals (not to mention his children!); he told me of the myriad battles he had, last summer alone, with different wild predators trying to kill one form of livestock or other. “One night I had 5 grizzly bears in the yard…right over there.” He pointed to a fence-rail that bordered the chicken coop just 30 yards from his house. Frighteningly, this was not an uncommon theme last summer; there were several reports of 5-7 grizzlies in people’s yards at once, unwilling to move off even when shot at!
We talked about the lifestyle we were both committed to, and the pros and cons of achieving it here. Then we commiserated about the fact there is work here for only one of them, as a couple. He laughed as he told me he thought farming would save them money–it doesn’t. “It would be cheaper to go buy the stuff from the store–even the organic.” He tells me about making mozzarella cheese from the local milk that he bought, and realizing that after all that work, he could have bought a bigger block of organic mozza from the local store for the same price he paid for the milk! He has tried to make a living on the farm in a variety of ways but doesn’t see any way of making it. He even bought a saw-mill, but the price of lumber is now too cheap to make even that pay–and that’s when he has his own trees to fall!
Despite the fact he’s not ‘making a living’, he is doing amazing things on his farm. He’s raising lamb, chicken, and beef for his family, growing a vegetable garden and raising fruit trees. They buy in wheat and make their own bread. At one time they kept a dairy cow and made all sorts of milk products but when she died they didn’t bother to replace her–too much work for one man. Besides, they found another source they could access. They keep two llamas for the fibre and–he tells me, not inconsequentially–the poop! Apparently llama poop is like gold for the garden: you can put it straight on the veggies and it won’t burn them. As if that was not reason enough to recommend llamas, their poop comes weed-seed free!
On top of all that he’s doing on the farm, he managed to grow a decent crop of wheat in what is supposedly a very marginal area for wheat–something I’m quite envious of and interested in doing. I took over my two samples of wheat to compare. Beyond the ‘hard red wheat’ identification of the label on the original bag, he has no idea what kind he’s grown. It appears to be neither of the two kinds I had: the Marquis and Red Fife. I’m curious to know what kind of wheat it is, because it certainly did a lot better than my experimental plot of Marquis last year–and last summer was nothing to write home about. His wheat resembled the Red Fife most closely, but had a much deeper, richer color–it is very beautiful.
While I look out at his field of ‘wheat to be’ (this year he’s going to grow two green manure crops to enrich the soil and not plant wheat again until next year), I am envious of his space. It has always been my dream to grow a field of wheat. The way my place is laid out presently, there is no room for a field of dreams! Since we bought the place we have not taken down any of the trees in the front half of the property. We’ve worked within the space that was already cleared but have now utilized nearly every square inch. So something has to give. For one thing I want my own field of wheat, and another–the predators. I want to feel safer on my property. So we plan to clear some of the front half (about 1.5 acres) and fence it. I’m hoping it will push the predators further from the house, and encourage them to go around the property instead of through it as they do now.
I tell my neighbour about my plans to clear some trees, fence in more of my property, and generally limb up trees to provide better visibility. He nods and says he’s going to do more of that himself. He has two small children at home and no longer feels safe on his own land: “They can’t be outside without one of us.” I ask if he’s going to get more dogs and he shakes his head. “I can’t justify the cost of getting more dogs to work like those ones did. I lost $4000 in dogs in three nights–actually much more than that, when you taken all their training into consideration.” We talk about the heartache of losing them and our love of living with dogs in general. They will get one family dog but it will come in at night, so it is safe. Sadly, this will leave his farm animals unprotected. Without saying this explicitly, he sighs as his eyes survey the paddocks with the various grazing animals, “If we have a year like last summer…”
He says he likes spending time in the wilderness, but in places where you don’t have to worry about bears and cougars; he laments the fact that he can’t take his children hiking here. As he says this he pauses to consider the towering mountains surrounding us and laughs, “Actually, we are probably safer out hiking in the mountains than we are standing right here on my land among my animals! There are probably various sets of eyes watching us right now.” I know he’s right. I’ve got those same eyes looking at my place. I’ve seen them reflect back at me when I shine my flashlight at night after the dog has alerted me to the direction of their presence.
I find contemplating these sorts of realities depressing. This is my home, my dream-life and I don’t want to leave. But I do have do consider that there may be easier–and much safer–places to live. I have to consider whether or not this place will ever satisfy the farmer in me, or if I’ll have to keep relying on my husband to earn money that supplements the food I’m producing (with the losses from predation, this place has, thus far, been impossible to make pay for its running costs). Then there is the further investment of clearing land, fencing it off, and more housing to keep the animals safe. Another friend of mine was lamenting the fact she had to spend $1000 to build a chicken coop. I wish I had those kinds of cost worries! (A grizzly bear would smack that structure apart in one swipe.)
I wax and wane in enthusiasm for this place. Mostly, I love it. After all, it was my dream for over 15 years to live here. I do wonder about whether or not to forget growing food for others and simply homestead, as my neighbour friend is. I am not sure I can let the desire to farm go, but as we both get older and the predator question becomes more and more ridiculous, I find myself rethinking the wisdom of staying. As my neighbour agreed, the most outspoken people on the predator question often have no clue about the realities of living with these creatures. They don’t grow their own food so they don’t address all the issues; instead, the wild animal issue has become largely sentimentalized.
As I bid my farewell, my neighbour leaves me to consider the question he and his family are pondering: “With all these wild animals right at our doorstep and the general population against our right to defend ourselves, is this any way to live?”
Post Script:
I am aware that there may be economic opportunities that I’m too blind to see. Thus, I am open to suggestions as to how I could make this work; ideas, suggestions welcomed.
Filed under Animal issues, Bears, Cougars, Learning to Farm, Locavore, Politicking with predators, Sustainable Farming
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Portland's Daily Drip
News and comment from a local guy
Daily Drip for Friday, October 6, 2017
Posted on February 8, 2018 February 8, 2018 by pdxjohnerickson
A cheery Good Morning to you! It’s Thursday, February 8, 2018. After a peachy spring Northwest day, we’re detouring to light rain, areas of impenetrable fog, and a high in the mid 50’s. The heavens are spooling out almost three minutes more daylight each day, with sunrise at 7:22 AM, and sunset at 5:27 PM. I always wave hello to my homeward-bound neighbors as I truck up and down our hills, and yesterday, when one waved back, her hand popped up from the top of the car. Sunroof open. Spring’s coming!
Gotta ask: have you noticed an unappealing chemically fragrance in the air, especially from Portland southward? Beaverton, Tigard, SW Portland, Tualatin…folks all over have been wincing at what they sniff in the wind. KGW traced it to the Grimms Fuel composting facility off Highway 99W outside Tualatin, on the way to Sherwood. Supposedly no hazard, unless you’re allergic to stuff.
#Timesup for State Sen. Jeff Kruse, is what some Republicans as well as Democrats are saying, after an independent report detailed how he’s taken a hands-on approach to the women in our state Capitol for years. In a move that leaves his southern Oregon constituents without a Senate voice during this legislative session, he’s going to stay away from the Capitol for the next two weeks, until they hold a hearing on his proclivities–which apparently have been no secret for quite some time. He hasn’t explicitly denied his touchy-feely nature, though he maintains it was never sexual (some grab recipients might disagree), and told the investigator, “When you have been doing something for 67 years, it’s not easy to change.”
The White House is down one senior staff member, who resigned (though he’s still there today) after the Washington Post reported that both of his ex-wives say they were treated abusively. This was known internally but not acted on until the public found out because, as Chief of Staff John Kelly explained, “he is a man a true integrity.”
Portland police watchdogs are seizing on a sergeant’s admission that he and other officers sometimes deliberately misrepresent the law in order to get protesters to stop videotaping police activity. The sergeant had told someone at a protest against the Dakota Access pipeline that they could be arrested for filming the cops–when, in fact, they can’t–and that it’s “a common practice” among officers to make that false threat. #Timesup for that one, too.
President Moon Jae-in of South Korea will meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s sister in the highest level North-South meeting since 1953. North Korea, by the way, staged its annual huge military parade today, rolling missiles down the streets while thousands of soldiers strutted past the mandatorily assembled citizenry.
Former President George W. Bush says there’s “pretty clear evidence that the Russians meddled” in the 2016 U.S. election. Speaking to a think tank summit in the United Arab Emirates, Bush added, “It’s problematic that a foreign nation is involved in our election system. Our democracy is only as good as people trust the results.”
This day in 1996, all of the Northwest was besieged by flood waters. It’s the day Portland Mayor Vera Katz put out a call for citizens to hammer up a plywood extension to the seawall at Waterfront Park. Citizens showed up with tools in hand, and the wall was built on this date in 1996. The river crested the next day, and as Dripster Mary Volm, who was the lead city spokeswoman at the time, remembers: “The Willamette River actually crested at the top of the existing sea wall. As we discovered later, Vera’s plywood wall wouldn’t have been able to withstand the force caused by the river.” Still, it symbolized a unity of civic involvement that one wonders if we could muster today.
A farmer called the police in Scotland because he thought a big cat had invaded his cow barn. Officers ended up in a 45-minute standoff with a stuffed tiger.
A lot of buzz about an interview that Quincy Jones gave to the ezine Vulture, in which one of the greatest record producers of all time said the Beatles were “the worst musicians in the world,” and that somebody who sings and plays just like Jimi Hendrix is none other than Paul Allen, the Blazers/Seahawks/Microsoft guy.
Number one song on this day 40 years ago was “Stayin’ Alive” by the BeeGees. Which is the recommended beat–100 per minute–for chest compressions during CPR. (Other songs that qualify: “Dancing Queen”…”Cecelia”…”I Will Survive”…and “Another One Bites the Dust.” Oops).
Confession time: I am having major connectivity issues with my home internet. The result is an abbreviated Daily Drip. Maybe not a bad thing. But we can’t leave without a few headlines that might lower the BP!
–“US Postal Service to unveil Mister Rogers stamp next month”
–“China is re-assigning 60,000 troops – to plant trees”
–“Meet Lucas Warren, the first Gerber baby with Down syndrome”
–“Parkinson’s disease symptoms improve with singing, study finds”
–“Doctors on a plane save woman’s life by constructing a makeshift medical ventilator in mid-air”
–“Woman Adopts New Kitten’s Sister After He Cries Nonstop”
Reminder: Dripstock II…April 13. That’s a Friday. 5 PM, I believe. Basically a happy hour social event. Details to come!
pdxjohnerickson
A friendly family guy on K103fm radio, writer of The Daily Drip. Find me on Facebook to comment and interact, unless you're into hate memes from troll farms, in which case, please go fascinate somebody else.
Hi there! Here's a quick cup of fresh-ground wakeup info on a Friday, February 9, 2018. PDX weather calls for a morning spritz, then cloudy and 50. Here's now the NWS puts it: "Other than…
Posted on February 9, 2018 February 9, 2018 pdxjohnerickson
Good morning to you! It's Wednesday, February 7, 2018, and here's your informational eyeopener ambiguously called the Daily Drip. Portland will see a dripless day, in theory, with sunpops and highs of 55. It's looking…
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Northern Women Will Laugh in the Face of Future Hard Times- as Usual #IWD
March 7, 2019 katefoxwriter Leave a comment
Saying that my current touring show “Where There’s Muck There’s Bras” is about forgotten Northern women, makes it sound as if the amnesia is just historical- but, as one of my characters, Mother Shipton (who was really Ursula Sontheil, resilient daughter of a fifteen year old single mother) says “In order to be able to see the present we need to be able to see the past”. The forgotten women are also women of now. The women of the Northern of England are most badly hit by austerity, by London’s economic dominance over the country and, soon, by Brexit.
Cultural discrimination against Northern accents (now recognised as part of a “class ceiling” impacting on those from working class backgrounds) comes in a context of the social and economic struggles faced by Northern women. Austerity has hit the North of England harder than any other part of the country, with cities and towns facing on average twice the level of cuts as councils in the South of England (Seven out of ten of the hardest hit cities and towns are in the North). Research also shows that austerity has hit women hardest- with 86% of the burden falling on them. So it is Northern women who are experiencing the greatest cumulative impact.
The North will be deeply affected by Brexit too- with the North East the most badly hit, facing what would be a devastating 16% reduction in GDP in the event of a no-deal Brexit, and up to 9% in the event of leaving the single market. In all the post-Brexit scenarios modelled, London would suffer the least. All these statistics are likely to impact even more deeply on women in the North who are further marginalised by ethnicity, disability or sexuality.
Surely, however, it’s never been a better time to speak up as a Northern woman – what with influential figures like Lauren Laverne, Angela Rayner, Maxine Peake and Sarah Millican (and a Northern female Doctor Who!)? However, in general, for a mixture of the social and economic reasons outlined above, it is significantly harder for women based in the North of England to become journalists, academics, lawyers and politicians.
It’s hard enough to become actors, when drama schools discriminate on grounds of Northern accent and background as Jodie Whittaker has said recently to a Commons committee. (MP Tracy Brabin and Gloria de Piero’s Acting Up report shows the strong class bias in acting https://tracybrabinmp.com/2017/08/11/labours-acting-up-inquiry-says-its-time-to-bring-the-curtain-down-on-middle-class-dominance-in-the-performing-arts/, my own PhD research into stand up performers argued that there is also a cultural bias I called the “Northernness Effect”- https://www.chortle.co.uk/correspondents/2018/02/15/39149/is_it_because_im_northern%3f).
MPs like South Shields’ Emma Lewell Buck, mocked for her accent in the Commons itself, have highlighted this prejudice; along with journalists like BBC Breakfast Business Correspondent Steph McGovern who was once told by a BBC boss that her accent made her sound stupid.
What can you do in the face of miserable and terrifying statistics like these? So often, if you’re a Northern woman, you laugh. You laugh in the face of the crap and the absurdity and the uncertainty and the trauma.You laugh, as marginalised women have the world over, because what on earth else are you supposed to do?
Geneticists now say trauma is passed on in our DNA- I think the ability to laugh at it is passed on too, if not in your DNA then in the way generations of your family have dealt with the crap they’ve had to- whether as working class immigrants from countries like Pakistan or Poland looking for a better life in the North, or a line of families moving from the countryside to the cities to find work that aged or killed them prematurely, but gave them a living in a country whose establishment often used the “Barbaric, backwards” North trope to define itself as the “Progressive, rationalising” driver of the country. “Eeh, if you didn’t laugh, you’d cry”. I say in my show that those in the centres of power in the South East need to keep caricaturing Northerners as funny and tough so they don’t feel bad about our higher death rate and council cuts, and the lower spend on our housing, transport and arts.
A recurring figure in my show is the music hall and sitcom star Hylda Baker (most known for playing Nellie Pledge in seventies sitcom Nearest and Dearest, as well as her roles in Saturday Night, Sunday Morning and Up the Junction). She wrote, produced and directed her own shows (including an all-female revue during the second world war), designed the sets and once stepped in to conduct the orchestra when a bandleader didn’t turn up. She was a pioneer. Her “Cynthia” routine in which she harangued a tall, silent man dressed as a woman with her signature mix of malapropisms (“I can say this without fear of contraception”) and surrealism inspired Victoria Wood’s Kimberley sketches. But she ended up in a nursing home with only seven people at her funeral and one-liner obituaries in newspapers despite her stature as one of the country’s biggest music hall, then sitcom stars.
She stands for me as a symbol of how Northern women’s achievements are often overlooked and minimised (the usual double whammy of class and gender), and as a trickster figure who can still make us laugh at our own ridiculous aspirations (“I need electrocution lessons!”) and those who use the weight of tradition to justify our continuing marginalisation (“I see you sat there in your fine hysterical buildings”). In times to come we’re going to need to remember Hylda’s spirit more than ever.
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A Small DVLA-inspired Poem: Stuck in the Mud
March 4, 2019 katefoxwriter 2 Comments
We have clearly muddied the waters
that is, they are no longer clear
because of the mud
it’s not that we’ve muddied them
which then somehow caused them
to run clear
that is, drivers, look, our use of language
is so excellent
that although we used to say you should notify us
of an Autism Spectrum Disorder
at the same time as that you should only notify us
if it affected your driving,
then changed it without telling anyone
to say that you should inform us
if you had an Autism Spectrum Disorder,
then got so much flack
that we changed it back,
we want you to have confidence
in how we steer language
as if it is a car being driven
safely and confidently inside the speed limit
and not like a rusty old ship
stuck in the mud,
where people still say “Disorder” instead of “Condition”,
or the clearly muddied waters
which are really quite hard
to see anything in,
anyway, hope that’s all perfectly clear now;
Pros and Cons of An Adult Autism Diagnosis
I don’t find “Why did you get a diagnosis?” a simple question to answer. In a way perhaps “The cost-benefit analysis finally worked out in favour of trying to get one at the same time as I thought I actually would get diagnosed” is the truest. Just as I had conversations about whether I should get one with diagnosed autistic people before I did, now I have conversations with undiagnosed people trying to work out if they could, should, would. It is part of the reason I am “out” about being autistic- so those people can find me*
I might have to add another part to this blog because it’s turned out long again. Just going to put my “Pros and Cons” list first:
A List (partly personal, partly trying to apply it generally)
Pros of Diagnosis
I’ve been so much nicer to myself since. These sensory differences? Real, not imagined. I have permission to avoid loud, busy places, take care of myself when I’m “peopled out”, recognise that no, not everyone finds having their nails filed excruciating. I’d already stopped trying to fit in with people as much because I recognised we’re surrounded by arbitrary “shoulds” but I take on board even fewer of them now. I probably have a lower threshold for socialising than most people and that’s okay- even though I enjoy it when I do it.
I’d already read quite a bit about autism, but have now read more and this has led to more self-understanding in other ways. Those odd three months where my brain was foggy after I was Glastonbury Poet in Residence and did an Edinburgh run? Probably a “burn out”; almost no doctor will tell you about them. I’m more likely to avoid them in future by doing the (still hard) thing of saying no to things that will be overloading, particularly hard for freelancers.
On the other hand, as a freelancer I applied for and got “Access to Work”; if you’re self-employed and fit the criteria (earning above £12k a year I think and able to prove it which I did with tax records) you can get DWP money to help with access needs. I was awarded 8 hours a week of support with admin, which has made a huge difference to my working life. Companies who employ autistic people can also apply for helpful things. The process was about a thousand times simpler than a PIP process would be.
I’ve also been awarded £10 thousand Arts Council money for a project called “Writing Autism” in which I start incorporating it into my practice as a poet and performer and have developmental conversations with other neurodiverse writers and artists. I have previously had Arts Council grants for other projects, but it may well be that the element of “diversity” was recognised in this one. Connected to this is the fact that, as a writer who often writes about self and identity, I now have a whole other layer of knowledge to add. I’m starting to write work from an autistic point of view- and (some) of the world is beginning to recognise it needs this.
Connections with other autistic people. I’ve mentioned this before- but it is so heartening and affirming to connect online or in person with other autistic people and find that things I previously thought were “just me” are in common.
Benefits to my relationship: my husband says he now doesn’t blame himself as much for things I find hard. He thought they were to do with him, but now realises they’re just me so takes them less personally. He thinks “What’s it like to have an autistic wife?” is an odd question though, because he sees me as just me and hasn’t read up massively on autism.
I can speak out on an issue I feel passionately and whose stereotypes I want to challenge, with the authority of experiencing it. These blogs, and my opinions on matters to do with (adult female autism at least) probably carry more weight, coming from an “officially diagnosed” autistic person. This has an exact counter-balancing downside though, which I’ll mention in the cons list.
Cons of diagnosis
People don’t know that much about autism. If I was a more archetypal autistic person maybe people would say “Of course” but they mostly just go “What! But you can do eye contact, are warm and chatty and funny”. As people are not always great at questioning their own assumptions, I presume that they often think I’m wrong about myself rather than that they’re wrong about autism. So, it could be that they now think I lack empathy, a sense of humour and the ability to socialise. Or it could be that they see I have these things and so am lying about my diagnosis. Or that I express these things differently but they don’t recognise a different communication/expressive style. Or it could be that if I did struggle with any of these things, they would assume it was an absolute and forever difficulty, rather than a consequence of a particular situation, sensory overload or because I was still (as everyone does) developing.
Actually- a simpler way to put this; the inaccurate things that people say about autism are now assumed to apply to ME. I feel a bit spoiled for admitting this.
Because of the stereotypes, and because society is geared towards the “normal”, then there is a lot of stigma. I’ve mentioned elsewhere how I’m still reeling because the head of a school with many autistic pupils told me autistic teachers and governors wouldn’t be able to hack it. She was generalising from her young teen pupils and hadn’t met enough autistic adults to recognise that many of us are imminently employable (Of course the figures about the low percentage of autistic people in employment don’t help. In some ways I don’t want these figures to change because they mean that help is funnelled towards autistic kids gaining valuable skills and opportunities. On the other hand the figures are bollocks, sorry, as they don’t take account of all the late-diagnosed adults and undiagnosed ones in work).
People take less notice of what I have to say. For someone who has spent their whole life trying to overcome a family that tried to squash my voice by learning to speak out and be heard, this is particularly devastating. Usually for example, academics answer my emails (as I’m a post grad, and even before my PhD). Now if I mention my autism, as when I was offering my services as an ethnographic researcher on autism projects they just don’t. Journalists don’t get back to me about autism stories- they do about other things (In general my autism narrative is neither enough about suffering or transcendence over remarkable odds to interest anyone). As autistic academic Melanie Yergeau points out, autists are seen as “Non-rhetors”. We are not reliable witnesses, we cannot be believed, we cannot speak properly. Can I mention again how devastating this is? I took the stage after a psychiatrist once who said autistic people are a “genetic mess” and was expected to command the audience (I did obv). My sudden flood of autism blogs has been in reaction to this silencing and othering. I’m going to have to write myself into being. Again.
We are vulnerable in a society which is increasingly hostile to people who are, or are perceived as disabled. For example, the DVLA has suddenly changed its rules to say that all autistic people now have to declare their condition and our GP has to let them know whether we’re fit to drive This decision, made on literally no evidence, is the thin end of a wedge. As a two year old twin to a single mum, the fact my mother had support from her own mother, then married her boss enabled me to evade too much scrutiny from the authorities, despite our poverty. As a 16 year old who lived in a bedsit, the fact that I was doing A-levels and “good at school” enabled me to evade too much scrutiny from social services who didn’t help, but didn’t hinder. I’ve always been just privileged enough- being white helping too- to avoid being funnelled into potentially damaging services. Now, I may have to fight for the driving licence I got via test, just because a government committee who have wrongly classed autism as a mental health/medical condition (Which can occur suddenly, or change) may have to ask my (literally clueless about autism GP) to put me on a list. It gives a whole new complexion to my decision to be “out” about autism in these blogs (though of course getting a diagnosis and being out are usually two different things- the driving issue is the only thing I know of where declaration is compulsory). ( UPDATE: Thank goodness- after a weekend of activism, mainly via Twitter and intensively contacting the press and organisations from autistic people such as Ann Memmott and Laura James, with the support of the National Autistic Society and Police Autism Federation as well as MPs Jess Phillips and Jo Platt, the DVLA has reverted to saying that we only have to notify if it affects our driving and apologised for the chaos).
It is important to know that in my list, the cons are mostly external factors about how autistic people are perceived or treated, and are very much dependent on where and when you are.
The pros are more internal factors, about how you perceive yourself and the relationship you have with others around expressing your identity.
The context for my diagnosis is that it took place in a country, the U.K, which has had several years of austerity under a Conservative government. Mental health services, social services and education are under great strain and threat of privatisation. The market rules. Neither schools, nor doctors surgeries, nor social services are rushing to have people who are difficult to categorise (autism is not in itself a learning disability, not a mental health issue, nor even a medical condition but sometimes autistic people have multiple complex support needs) on their books. When conditions are treated by the application of simply signposted “pathways” and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy which relies on people responding in a “normal” way to psychological stimuli designed to make them more productive citizens, then autism requires time, knowledge and skill beyond the cursory (if any) training offered to most medical/social services/education professionals.
At the same time, as there is increasing awareness nationally and internationally that autism is not just a thing affecting non-verbal boys, there is more recognition of “atypical” (but not really atypical) presentations of autism. In other words, more people are now able to be diagnosed via tools like the splendidly named “DISCO” which was developed at the Lorna Wing centre in order to pick up autism in women. The neurodiversity movement celebrates brain-differences and encourages people to embrace neurodevelopment conditions as diversities rather than disabilities. In mainstream culture, including corporate culture there is increasing recognition of the value of diversity. In my own field, the arts, the Arts Council actually factors in how far organisations embrace difference and otherness into the funding they give with the “Creative Case” for diversity. It can certainly be argued, however, that much of this embrace of diversity is performative, surface-level, going too slowly and still geared to producing “productive citizens” in a capitalist system.
I do wonder if I was perhaps a bit swept away by the general “Difference is now good!” narrative, and failed to recognise how very stigmatised and misunderstood autism still actually is – not least because of the complex (and artificial) divide between autistic people with very high support needs and those with (generally but not always) lower support needs. This unhelpfully sees parents of high support-need autistic children who still feel unheard because of all the issues around health and social services, pitted against autistic people who would once have got a diagnosis of “Aspergers” and who have generally battled and muddled through life without needing support enough to seem as if they’re not at any disadvantage in a society mostly not designed for them.
Perhaps the key question around diagnosis then is- how much leeway do you have (in your current personal and working life and your social position) to deploy your knowledge about yourself? How much do you want, how much do you need? A society focused on the individual as ours is, is in favour of facilitating this, but conversely, it also deplores the idea that there are people who may need support or who may not contribute in the approved ways. Also, what is true in your situation now may not be true in future. These are the paradoxes we must negotiate when taking on something as complex, as potentially liberating, as potentially oppressive as an official autism diagnosis…
*A brief description of my actual path to diagnosis; I went to my GP with a list of reasons why I thought I was. He sent me home with the AQ-10 screening questionnaire of ten questions. I pointed out this questionnaire was designed for boys originally and certainly not for adult women. It asks questions like “Do you have trouble telling stories” to someone who makes a living as a professional writer and performer. I wrote a lot of things on the form about how inaccurate it was. Funnily enough this didn’t cause me to get a diagnosis then and there. He asked me to fill in another. I was aware I needed to get 6 out of 10 to get a referral and wasn’t sure I could lie to get it (yep- again, probably should have been given a diagnosis then and there…). He then found that the Tuke Centre in York, the nearest NHS diagnostic hub had a ten month waiting list. Even he was astonished at this.
Meantime I’d rung them up and found no reason to think they had any particular clue about adult women and diagnosis. Most of my life I would not have a spare £1000 but at this point, doing a funded PhD and some other work, I did. I spoke to a psychologist at the Tizard Centre at the University of Kent as I knew from someone else that they were good and used the tools developed at the Lorna Wing Centre (I knew about these because I visited them in 2011 when I was originally thinking of doing a comedy show about me seeking a diagnosis). They needed an “informant”, and lacking accessible family, the psychologist spoke to my husband for a couple of hours on the phone the week before. Then I went down to Kent and had an interview about my childhood and life now of about four hours, including a couple of (odd) tasks like narrating a story to accompany a children’s picture book. I also took some school reports and a couple of exercise books. At the end of it, the psychologist told me I met the criteria for an Autism Spectrum Condition.
I was relieved really to not be deluded and it suddenly made this thing that had not been quite real, real. I’m aware that this is a complicated privilege. I was able to afford this. Many people are not, or end up going to professionals less trained in the ways adults/women present. Self-diagnosis is valid. There’s a very strong argument that we shouldn’t need medical diagnosis for something that isn’t a medical condition. Possibly there needs to be an alternative identification process though, as often people feel the need for confirmation from someone else (More rigorous than me chatting to them for five minutes and going “Yep, you are”- though I bet you a million pounds that would hold up against any clinical methods available).
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(Commission from The Verb on Radio 3 about writers who “divide their time” usually between cultural capitals). https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002sbs
Craig McUrgent is a Booker prize winning novelist who divides his time between London and a peasant village in the Auvergne where he dines simply on good bread, wine and stories about his time guest lecturing at Harvard.
David Conspiracy, thriller writer, divides his time between his iPhone and his increasingly irate husband.
His next project “My Digital Rehab” will be written from a small monastery in Tibet and sent to his publisher via homing eagle.
Anthropologist and Times columnist Justinian Malfoy divides his time between being a late anthroposcene era human and a mountain goat called Trevor. He believes that Being Animal tells us everything we need to know about Being Human and that people would be surprised at how delicious turnips actually are.
Performance poet Kai Artistry divides his time between a canal boat and his flat in Dalston. Like his words, he is unmoored and flowing, whilst also being conveniently located within Zone Two.
Stacey Drystone is a romantic novelist who divides her time between Bolton and Wolverhampton since the divorce and is soon to publish a side project titled “The Possibility of Love in the Service Stations of the M6”.
Photographer and commentator Terry Creepy divides his time between Florida and Thailand because he really likes Asian street food, honestly.
Tapani Peloton is a Scandinavian designer and author who divides his time between Stockholm and his family’s summer island in the North Sea. Their book “Sissu for Sissies” details the latest Scandi-lifestyle phenomenon in which people are encouraged to just get on with their awful lives, whilst occasionally killing a bear.
Actor and debut novelist Reece Upstart divides his time between Sunderland and Los Angeles, because one day Martin Scorsese will definitely answer the door.
Chronologist and contrarian Tamara Certain, divides her time into days, hours, minutes and seconds and suggests that authors should do the same.
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businessNOW – June 25, 2019
Home News & Community New wildlife preserve with public trails opens near Coboconk
New wildlife preserve with public trails opens near Coboconk
David and Sharon Cation have donated their 669-acre property to Kawartha Land Trust to ensure its future protection
By kawarthaNOW -
Published December 22, 2018 | Updated June 18, 2019 at 6:57 pm
A white-tailed deer at the Cation Wildlife Preserve, one of many species of wildlife that use the 669-acre property as a natural corridor. Now that David and Sharon Cation have donated the property to Kawartha Land Trust, it will be protected in perpetuity from the kind of development over the last century that saw its old-growth forest destroyed and a reduction of the area's biodiversity. (Photo: KLT volunteer Andy Holden)
Kawartha Land Trust (KLT) is officially opening the new Cation Wildlife Preserve near Coboconk in the City of Kawartha Lakes on Saturday, June 22nd.
Kawartha Land Trust presents
Cation Wildlife Preserve Celebration & Trails Grand Opening
When: Saturday, June 22, 2019 at 10 a.m.
Where: French Settlement Rd at Powell Line, Coboconk
How much: Free
Join the celebration, discover the trails and help Kawartha Land Trust thank land donors David and Sharon Cation. Remarks at 10 a.m. followed by guided walks. RSVP at Eventbrite.
The 669-acre property includes marked trails for passive recreational use by the public, including hiking, snowshoeing, and cross-country skiing.
The newly protected property was donated to KLT by David and Sharon Cation.
After David’s mother died in 1998, he and his brother decided to use the proceeds of her small estate to purchase the property, which is located on French Settlement Road north of Indian Point Provincial Park on Balsam Lake, around 45 kilometres north of Lindsay.
“We decided to buy land for future generations which is what our parents had done all their lives,” Cation says.
“Buying the French Settlement Road property to protect for future generations is merely keeping her legacy alive. We wish she could be here to participate.”
A trail system passes through the grasslands and meadows of the of the Cation property. After the trails are marked, they will open for passive recreational use by the public such as hiking in 2019. (Photo: KLT volunteer Steve Paul)
The Cations decided the best way to ensure the property remains protected is to donate it to KLT, which David had learned about through the organization’s campaign to save Boyd Island, southern Ontario’s largest undeveloped island located in Pigeon Lake just east of Bobcaygeon. He subsequently volunteered to work on a number of KLT properties, helping with trail cleanup and participating in other stewardship activities.
As with all properties, before KLT could accept the Cations’ gift, it needed to raise a stewardship endowment fund. Around $200,000 was required for securement-related expenses and to ensure the property could be cared for in perpetuity.
Donors David and Sharon Cation with staff and volunteers of Kawartha Land Trust. From left to right: Mike McMurtry, Mike Hendren, Tara King, Patricia Wilson, Brian Preiswersk, David Cation, Sharon Cation, Thom Unrau, Guy Wagner, Ralph McKim, Bill Crins, and Anna Lee. (Photo courtesy of Kawartha Land Trust)
Financial support was provided by the Government of Canada through the federal Department of Environment and Climate Change. Curve Lake First Nation, Ontario Parks (Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry), and Haliburton-Kawartha Lakes-Brock MP Jamie Schmale all wrote letters supporting the acquisition.
The new Cation Wildlife Preserve sits in the middle of several protected areas, including the Altberg Wildlife Sanctuary Nature Reserve, Indian Point and Balsam Lake Provincial Parks, Queen Elizabeth Wildlands Provincial Park, and the Carl Sedore Wildlife Management Area.
Although today the property is a thriving area filled with plant and wildlife species, that was not always the case: for over a century it suffered from hard use.
Over the past century, the forested areas were cleared by logging resulting in pasture grasslands where cattle once grazed. (Photo: KLT volunteer Andy Holden)
The property includes a swamp that is part of a 183-acre Provincially Significant Wetland. (Photo courtesy of Kawartha Land Trust)
In the 1800s, heavy logging wiped out old hardwoods and conifers, reducing the forests and opening up the landscape. The open fields were then used as a range, with cattle grazing there for many years. Around 30 years ago, the property was logged again, wiping out the larger trees and significantly reducing the area’s biodiversity.
The property was eventually sold to a recreational hunter, who used it to train dogs for hunting coyotes. He surrounded the property with electric fencing, which prevented some species from using the natural corridor and accessing the protected natural spaces in the area.
After several years of this use, the land was left vacant and the landscape began to regenerate. Grasses and shrubby plants began to grow, and muddy open areas where the dogs once ran became covered again with native vegetation. As the fencing deteriorated, large wildlife began to use the property as a natural corridor again.
Belted kingfishers (pictured), hooded mergansers, and painted turtles inhabit the swampy area of the Cation property. (Photo: KLT volunteer Steve Paul)
The loss of scrubland habitat due to human activities such as brush clearing and agricultural production reduced the population of the Eastern Towhee by 49 per cent in the last 50 years. (Photo: KLT volunteer Steve Paul)
The property is now made up of rolling areas that were once pasture grasslands, with shrubby meadow thickets, early successional and mixed hardwood forests, and a swamp that is part of a 183-acre Provincially Significant Wetland. A trail system passes through the grasslands and meadows, which are home to a wide range of wildlife.
Bird species spotted on the property include golden-winged warblers, bald eagles, upland sandpipers, and thrashers, with belted kingfishers and hooded mergansers inhabiting the swampy area along with painted turtles and leopard and green frogs.
Staghorn sumac, wild red raspberry, and blackberry bushes found throughout the property are a food source to many species, and there are signs that white-tailed deer, coyotes, black bears, and even moose have visited the property.
A volunteer removes some of the old wire fencing used by a previous owner to enclose the property. Wildlife organizations will repurpose the fencing for new enclosures and other projects. (Photo courtesy of Kawartha Land Trust)
Newly protected property near Omemee contains the oldest trees in Kawartha Lakes.
The old dog kennels, wire fencing, and old rain barrels left behind by the previous owner were repurposed by the Kawartha Wildlife Centre, with volunteers taking everything apart this summer so it can be made into wildlife enclosures and raccoon beds. Other wildlife organizations, including Speaking of Wildlife, are using the old fencing for new enclosures and other projects.
This is the third property protected by KLT in Decemeber 2018. Bob and Mary Hartley recently entered into a conservation easement agreement for their 44-acre Pine Ridge property west of the Pigeon River, and Scott Wootton and Catherine Kirk donated a 34-acre property near Burleigh.
KLT is the only non-governmental charitable organization committed to protecting land in the Kawarthas. With these three properties, the organization is now protecting a total of 17 properties covering more than 4,101 acres of diverse and significant land.
For more information about KLT, and to make a donation, visit kawarthalandtrust.org,.
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How Tweeting an Iconic 9/11 Photo Could Get John McCain in Legal Trouble
by Ronn Blitzer | 9:43 am, September 12th, 2016
You’ve seen the image. Three firefighters raising an American flag in the ruins of the World Trade Center on September 11. For the last 15 years, the photo has been used to commemorate that dark day in U.S. history. Just yesterday, Senator John McCain tweeted it with the message, “Never Forget.”
In wake of #September11attacks we witnessed the heroism of the American ppl & power of a nation united #NeverForget pic.twitter.com/gAcUp4kGql
— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) September 11, 2016
But North Jersey Media Group (NJMG), who claims to own the copyright for the image, has a history of suing people who use it without permission. The company, which publishes many newspapers and magazines, claims that one of their employees took the photograph. Cornell Law Prof. William Jacobson‘s ‘Legal Insurrection’ blog says that NJMG has taken legal action against a number of organizations for selling items bearing the image without permission, but they also sued Sarah Palin for putting it on her website.
In 2013, NJMG sued Palin and SarahPAC, claiming that the former Alaska Governor posted the image on her website. While Palin wasn’t selling anything with the photo, the complaint alleges that it somehow aided her in fundraising. Court filings show that Palin’s attorneys claim that a settlement agreement had been reached, but NJMG denied it, according to Jacobson.
But what about Palin’s former running mate, McCain? Could he be NJMG’s latest target for the tweet? Maybe, maybe not. McCain isn’t using it on his website, he only posted it on Twitter with a simple message on the anniversary of the event on which it was taken. Then again, Palin wasn’t accused of doing much more than that. But NJMG claimed that Palin put her own logo on the image, which McCain did not do. Not only that, but NJMG said that they asked Palin to take the image down, and only sued once she ignored their request. So even if they did go after McCain, they’d probably back off if he deleted the tweet.
Of course, this is besides the fact that it would be in horribly poor taste to sue a Senator who was recognizing American heroism without seeking financial gain. Good luck getting a jury to side with you on that one
[Image via mistydawnphoto/Shutterstock]
This is an opinion piece. The views expressed in this article are those of just the author.
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Redirection Criminal Justice Behavioral Health
Concerning establishing alternative programs in the criminal justice system to divert individuals with a mental health condition to community treatment, and, in connection therewith, making an appropriation.
Courts & Judicial
Crimes, Corrections, & Enforcement
The bill creates up to 4 pilot programs in judicial districts in the state that divert individuals with low-level criminal behavior and a mental health condition to community resources and treatment rather than continued criminal justice involvement (program). The programs must be developed in accordance with the principles and proposed model recommended by the Colorado commission on criminal and juvenile justice, adopted on January 12, 2018.The state court administrator (SCAO) and the Colorado district attorneys' council shall collaborate to identify potential program sites, with the agreement of the elected district attorneys and chief judges in a judicial district.
Once a judicial district has been selected as a program site, the chief judge and district attorney for the judicial district shall work collaboratively with interested and necessary participants to decide which courts and counties within the judicial districts are best suited to implement the pilot program. Interested and necessary participants include law enforcement, jail officials, public defenders, judges, pretrial service providers, and local community mental health and behavioral health service providers. The chief judge of a designated program district is responsible for the local implementation of the program, including establishing policies and procedures and facilitating formal agreements that might be required for implementation.
The SCAO is responsible for overall program administration, including ensuring that, on or before January 1, 2019, each judicial district implements its own unique program.
The mental health criminal justice diversion grant program (grant program) is created within the SCAO. The SCAO shall administer and monitor the grant program, including establishing funding guidelines and acceptable expenses, making specific grant awards, and disbursing grant award money to district attorneys' offices for the implementation of local programs.
The program is repealed, effective December 1, 2021.
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Refer Senate Bill 18-249 to the Committee of the Whole.
J.001
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Aye: 44 No: 21 Other: 0
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REPASS
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Jakarta Malang Train Tickets
Shortest Duration 15h 26m
Trips Per Day 8
Jakarta Malang Train
Malang is one the biggest metropolitan areas in East Java that totally has different landscape than Jakarta. Surrounded by green highlands, it’s where you can breathe the fresh air and feel the cool breeze – these are the main reasons why the citizens of Jakarta love visiting the city of apple. Jakarta’s vacationers indeed have numerous ways to stop at the gem during the weekend and holiday – train is the most favorite of all. Taking a 15.5-hour trip, you will find the journey so worthy as it comes with fascinating views from left and right windows. The ticket is relatively affordable ranging from 435,000 IDR to 535,000 IDR per person for the executive class.
Train Schedule Jakarta (GMR) - Malang (ML)
Bima 16:30 08:15
Gajayana 17:40 09:06
One of the easiest ways to reach Malang is traveling by train, departing from Gambir Station, located on Medan Merdeka Timur Street No. 1, Gambir, Central Jakarta, DKI Jakarta 10110.It’s accessible from anywhere in the city – you can go by car, taxi, ojek (motorcycle taxi), DAMRI bus or Transjakarta from Corridor 2. Gambir, established by the Dutch government 130 years ago, is one of the largest railway stations in DKI Jakarta. Having been newly renovated, it boasts a latest architectural design on each detail of the building. It’s no wonder; it’s often called the most modern station in Indonesia. In addition to that, Gambir wonderfully pioneers the system of airport’s check-in and boarding pass and equips a comfy lounge with free WiFi.
Malang Station
The train will leave from Gambir to Malang then stops at Malang Station, usually called Malang Kota Baru Station. True to its name meaning “new”, the busiest spot in Malang is younger than the neighboring Malang Kota Lama Station (the old one). Operated since 1941, it provides 12 active routes and offers varied trips from and to Jakarta, Bandung, and Surabaya. Malang Kota Baru Station, located on Trunojoyo Street No. 10, Klojen, Kiduldalem, Malang, East Java 65111, is opposite Trunojoyo Park and within a 300-meter walking distance from Tugu Malang Square. Strategically situated right in the heart of the city, it’s accessible from anywhere by local public transportation like pedicabs or angkot (public minivan).
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Malang City has a number of fun attractions you can’t miss. At a walking distance from the station, you can make a stop at one of these following recommended spots.
Trunojoyo Park
Trunojoyo Park, just before Malang Kota Baru Station has already existed for a long time. Yet, the charm has recently been popular due to some facility improvements. In the beginning, it used to be an ordinary city park filled with grown trees. Lately, it's equipped with a playground, green space, fountain, library, and street vendors, recommended for families.
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Tugu Malang Square
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The report has been co-authored by seven climate change experts including Professor Hilary Bambrook, the head of QUT's School of Public Health who said Queensland could expect more intense rainfall events and cyclones as climate continues to change.
"Those sort of events affect agriculture and are likely to damage important food crops, including bananas," Professor Bambrick said.
"Climate change also affects people's health in many ways - both drought and flood can contaminate our water supplies and be a source of psychological stress in rural communities, while higher rainfall can increase mosquito-borne diseases such as Dengue and Ross River virus."
Climate Councillor and fellow co-author Professor Will Steffen said the leadership required to mitigate the looming impacts of climate change was instead sleepwalking the country into disaster.
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Prof Steffen said while a lot of Australians, particularly those in the bush, were now understanding the challenges that lay ahead, the country's leaders were simply greasing the wheels of the present system.
He said those countries that had embraced a bipartisan approach to the problems were getting on with solving them.
"Unfortunately here it has become a highly partisan, highly divisive issue," Prof Steffen said.
"A lot of states and territories are starting to move on it. If the new (federal) government became more active we could get policy in place really quickly to get on track. By moving really fast in two decades we could get carbon out of transport and out of energy."
In doing so temperature rise could be contained between 1.5 and two degrees centigrade.
He said that while holding it at 1.5C was no longer possible there was still a chance to catch it at 2C which would limit sea level rise to one metre by the turn of the century.
Wild weather on the Sunshine Coast last month caused flash flooding at Palmwoods, with the railway underpass inundated and blocked to traffic. Kirrilee Murray
South Australia now had more than 50 per cent renewables through solar and wind, the CAT which has some of Australia's lowest electricity prices was 100 per cent reliant on renewables and Victoria was looking to follow suit.
Prof Steffen has described the call by computer software billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes of Atlassian for Australia to target a goal of 200 per cent renewable power generation as visionary.
"We need visionaries to see real opportunities," he said. "What he's proposed has a lot of credibility."
Prof Steffen said there were already plans to establish massive renewable plants in North Africa to service Europe, a role Australia could play for Asia and particularly the emerging Indonesian economy through transportable, high voltage direct current.
Fundamentally he said it would be much cheaper to get greenhouse gases out of the equation than to deal with the hugely expensive and escalating impact of climate change.
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Jinjiang Inn Xi'an Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located at the northeast corner of northern square of the famous tourist attraction Greater Wild Goose Pagoda, opposite to Party School of Municipal Committee on Xiying Road, and adjoining Guangcai Lamp City in the west and Western Film Group in the east. It takes only 20 minutes to reach the Hotel by taking Bus Line 41 from Xi'an Railway Station and getting off at Party School of Municipal Committee Stop. From Xi'an North Bus Station, you can take Metro Line 2, get off at Xiaozhai Station, transfer to Bus Line K19, K400 or 34 to directly reach and get off at Party School of Municipal Committee Stop, then you will reach Jinjiang Inn Xi'an Big Wild Goose Pagoda. By taking Airport Shuttle Bus from Xi'an Xianyang International Airport, you can reach the following stops: Xiaozhai, Railway Station and Bell Tower, and it takes only 50 minutes or so. From Bell Tower, take Bus Line K609 to reach the Hotel; from Railway Station and Xiaozhai, take Bus Line K19 and 41 to reach the Hotel; and it takes only 10-15 minutes to take a bus. N reasons for you to choose the Hotel for study, business, travel and trip purposes: Convenient transportation: in the Hotel's surrounding area, there are over 70 bus lines with direct access to various major tourist attractions. The Hotel is 5mins walk from Greater Wild Goose Pagoda, Cien Temple, music fountain, Tang Dynasty Dacien Temple Relics Park, and Tang Dynasty Tongyi Lane; The Hotel is only 5mins drive from Shaanxi History Museum. By walking for 15 minutes from the Hotel, you can reach Shaanxi History Museum; Take one of the many bus lines such as Bus Line 21, 22, 27, 715, 601, etc. from the Hotel, you can directly reach the national 5A tourist attraction Tang Paradise, Qujiang Pool Relics Park, Hanyao Relics Park, Relics Park of Mausoleum of Qin Second Emperor, Xingqing Park, Qujiang Ocean World, Botanical Garden and other famous tourist attractions; The Hotel is only 15mins walk from Saige Computer City, Buynow and Dongxin Tech & Trade, and it takes only 5 minutes to take Bus Line 41 or K606 there. Take Bus Line 21, 224, 521 or Tourist Line 8 from the Hotel, then you can reach Small Wild Goose Pagoda; at the Hotel's gate, take Tourist Line 9, you can directly reach Qinling Wild Life Park. Walk from the Hotel to West Beiguagnchang Road of Greater Wild Goose Pagoda and take Famen Temple Special Line, then you can directly reach Famen Temple in Baoji, China, or take Ring Tourist Bus, then you can enjoy the beauty of Qinling Mountains landscape. By take Bus Line K606 or K609 from the Hotel's gate, you can directly reach Drum Tower, Hui People Street Snack Street, Ancient City Wall and Stone Tablets Museum. By taking Bus Line 306 (i.e. Tourist Line 5) from the railway station, you can reach Buried Sculpture Legion, Huaqing Hot Spring and Qin Imperator Mausoleum; by taking train or bus from the railway station, you can reach Mount Hua. Rich recourses: location in Greater Wild Goose Pagoda scenic spot. Shopping: Century Jinwa, Minsheng, Parkson, Yintai International Shopping Center, Qinhantang Business District; Business: Qujiang Convention Center (it takes only 10 minutes to take Bus Line K19, 408 or 44 there), Provincial International Exhibition Center (it takes only 15 minutes to take Bus Line 521, 701, 610 or Tourist Line 6 there); Food: Tang Dynasty Tongyi Lane Bars and Catering Street, Qinhantang Catering Plaza, Xiaoliu Steamed Dumpling, Pizza Hut; Entertainment: Qujiang International Cinema, Jackie Chan Cinema, Xi'an Concert Hall, Pacific Cinema, Super Music Star; Supermarket: Century Jinwa, Yintai International Shopping Center, Vanguard, Wal-Mart, Watsons; Bank: Bank of China, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Agricultural Bank of China, China Merchants Bank, China Construction Bank, Postal Savings Bank of China, Bank of Communications, etc.; numerous schools: the Hotel is located in the sea of knowledge University: Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Huaqing Campus of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, Chang'an University, Xi`an University of Science and Technology, Xi'an Conservatory of Music, Xi'an Jiaotong University Financial Services Institute, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Qujiang Campus of Xi'an University of Technology; Senior high schools, junior high schools and primary schools: the High School Affiliated to Shaanxi Normal University, No. 85 Middle School, Chang'an University Affiliated School, Qujiang No. 1 Middle School, No. 4 Middle School, Yucai Qujiang Primary School; Meeting affairs: the meeting room has an area of 40 square meters, and can accommodate 30 people at most; Catering: the cozy and comfortable Xinglianxin Cafe allows you to enjoy delicious and safe dishes without going out. Free access of local call: we provide free local call and the domestic long-distance call at RMB 0.77/min. Cultural characteristics: free WIFI access at the lobby and full coverage in restaurant. The rooms are provided with 20M high-speed optical network for enjoying the unique culture of Jinjiang. The Hotel is accessible to foreigners. Choose Jinjiang Inn, live assured in your travel everywhere, you deserve it...! Welcome to Jinjiang Inn Xi'an Big Wild Goose Pagoda.
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Marketing Students Create Concept Video for 'Google Gesture' App
Image: Mashable, Christina Ascani
By Katie Nelson 2014-06-21 02:30:54 UTC
Correction: This video was actually created by marketing students at Berghs School of Communication, and is not made by Google, nor is Google Gesture a real service. We updated the story below and apologize for the error.
A group of marketing students in Stockholm, Sweden have put together a concept video of an app that aims to help people understand sign language in real time.
The concept isn't real, but the thinking behind it is smart: an app that can translate sign language into speech, with the help of a wearable wristband. The video was filmed by students at Berghs School of Communication and is presented as though it was developed by Google.
The app — which the students call Google Gesture — would be paired with a forearm band that analyzes muscle movements made when signing — a process known as electromyography. These movements would then, in theory, be sent to the app and translated into audible words as they are signed.
See also: 9 Top Tech Breakthroughs of 2013
"The vast majority of people don't understand sign language, which means a lot of interesting conversations never take place," the Gesture video says.
The concept app's goal is to fix that problem by translating sign language right away, so there's no lull in conversation while the signer waits for audio voice to kick in.
Even though Google Gesture is fictional and isn't connected to Google at all, the search engine giant has developed software for the deaf in the past. For example, Android offers an option on its Google Translate app that turns speech into text.
Topics: Apps, Apps and Software, deafness, Gadgets, Google Translate, Mobile, Tech
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Ka’u Desert’s Unearthly Hike to the Eerie Warrior Footprint Casts
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by Donald B. MacGowan
Mauna Loa looms over the Ka'u Desert, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Photo by Donald B. MacGowan
Warrior Footprints of the Ka'u Desert as photographed in 2006, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Photo by Donald B. MacGowan
Even choosing which beach you want to spend time on, or where you want to hike can be an exercise in confusion and conflicting advice. Clearly, visitors to Hawaii could use help making quality decisions about how best to spend their time.
Frank Burgess hikes the Ka'u Desert Trail: Photo by Donnie MacGowan
Tour Guide Hawaii is excited and proud to announce the release of their new GPS/WiFi enabled App for iPhone and iPod that helps you navigate your trip to Hawaii with hours of informative, location-aware video and information. Although our video guide will lead you to dozens of unusual, untamed and unspoiled spots, let’s look at a hike you might have heard about, but might not be able to find from maps and guidebooks and would otherwise miss if you did not have Tour Guide Hawaii’s new App.
Ka’u Desert Trail/ Warrior Footprints, Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
The Ka'u Desert Trail as it winds away from the Parking Strip, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Photo by Donald B. MacGowan
Just inside the National Park boundary, where the Hawai’i Belt Road enters Hawaii Volcanoes National Park from the West, is a small parking strip that many visitors, in a hurry to visit more well known attractions, might overlook. You should slow down and pay closer attention, because this small parking lot is the gateway to a host of wonders within the Mars-like landscape of the Ka’u Desert section of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
The Ka'u Desert Trail is part of a vast system of intersecting trails within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Photo by Donald B. MacGowan
From about 4200 feet elevation down to sea level, the Ka’u Desert Trail wanders across this high, barren expanse of basalt and sand dunes formed of volcanic ash. Other trails intersect the Ka’u Desert Trail and travel from the Hawaii Belt Road east to Kilauea Crater as well as west to the intersection with the Ka’aha Trail then down the Hilina Pali to the coast. Seldom in a National Park is such unrelentingly inhospitable, but intensely spectacular, land made so accessible by trail.
Unconsolodated ash sifts across the Ka'u Desert, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Photo by Donnie MacGowan
There is no water, there is no shade, there is no protection from the elements; the land and climate are as unforgiving as they are alluring. For details about hiking or backpacking in this spectacular, empty portion of the Park, contact the Backcountry Office at the Kilauea Visitors Center (808.985.6000). Do not venture from your car here without carrying water.
Ka'u Desert Footprints are preserved under a small ramada: Photo by Donald B. MacGowan
But there is something more about this seeming unearthly spot that inspires people’s imagination and draws them to visit this lonely place. Less than a mile, scarcely a twenty minute walk, from the parking lot are the remains of footprints made by a party of doomed warriors more than 200 years ago.
The lunar-like surface of basalt and ash of the Ka'u Desert, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Photo by Donald B. MacGowan
Kilauea’s eruptions are generally characterized by the leisurely, almost peaceful outpouring of lava and occasional more than mild earthquakes. However, it is not unknown for Madam Pele to erupt in a blast of fury, spreading ash and tephra for hundreds of miles. As recently as 1790 and again in 1924, such violent, steam-driven eruptions have occurred. These eruptions result from groundwater percolating downward through the earth to near the volcano’s magma chamber. The water becomes super-heated and, surging along existing structural weaknesses, makes new conduits to the surface, finally erupting in a roiling mass of superheated steam, ash, tephra and rocks. This type of eruption, and the ash they produce, are key to the mystery and eeriness of this site.
The same footprint as shown above, but photographed in 2010; note that erosion and vandalism have greatly degraded the integrity of the cast: Photo by Donnie MacGowan
The warrior footprints preserved here under a modern ramada are believed to have been formed in 1790. At this time, Kamehameha the Great was solidifying his military and political hold on the Island of Hawai’i, though not all his foes were vanquished. His cousin Keoua organized an army and, while Kamehameha was occupied elsewhere, he seized parts of Ka’u and Puna districts. Keoua sent an army overland to directly challenge Kamehameha…however, camping overnight at the volcano they were caught by the massive, explosive eruption. Fearing he had angered Pele, he organized his army into three columns for a hasty retreat from the falling ash. The first column seems to have emerged unscathed, but the second column went missing. When these warriors and their families were encountered by the third column, come searching for them, they were found dead on the ground, in close groups still clutching each other, overcome by the toxic volcanic fumes. The footprints seen here along Ka’u Desert Trail are from these doomed warriors and their families, made and preserved preserved in the the shifting ash dunes of the Ka’u Desert landscape. It is said that as many as 400 warriors, women and children died here.
Ka'u Desert Ohia Lehua Blossom: Photo by Donald B. MacGowan
The people of Hawai’i Island accepted Pele’s judgment against the interloping Keoua and, although he continued to fight, he never came close to turning the tide of battle against his cousin, Kamehameha. As an ostensible peace offering to his cousin, Kamehameha invited Keoua to the ceremony sanctifying the newly erected Pu’u Kohola Heiau. However, when Keoua’s canoe approached the temple grounds, he was seized and immediately sacrificed to the War God, Kuka’ilimoku, thus becoming the first human sacrifice at the new luakini heiau and ending a vexing political problem for Kamehameha, all at one time.
The Ka'u Desert Trail as it reaches the Warrior Footprints: Photo by Donald B. MacGowan
An emergency phone is available here; there are no other services.
The Warrior Footprints are preserved under this Ramada in the Ka'u Desert, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Photo by Frank Burgess
To see the new iPhone/iPod Touch App, please visit http://www.tourguidehawaii.com/iphone.html. The best of Tour Guide Hawaii’s free content about traveling to, and exploring, the Big island, can be found here. For more information on traveling to Hawaii in general and on touring the Big Island in particular, please also visit www.tourguidehawaii.com and www.tourguidehawaii.blogspot.com.
Copyright 2009 by Donald B. MacGowan. All rights reserved.
Ka'u Desert Ohia and Bee, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park: Photo by Donald B. MacGowan
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People, People of Lorderon, House Menathil,
Numenorian
White Numenorian
Sur-Talia Menathil
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Arch Lord of Lucerne
Race White Numenorian
House Menathil
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Mother Placeholder
Hur-Arthas Menathil IV.
Spouse Imren Menathil
Children True Born
With Imren Menathil Base Born
With Blanche Menathil
Sur-Talia Menathil is the daughter of Lianne, and Tenamil Menathil making her an important member of the powerful House Menathil of Lorderon. Talia Menathil is the sister of Arthas, and Calia Menathil, both of whome are important politically to Lorderon with her brother Arthas being the Lord of Lorderon until he lost his mind and went rogue betraying the Kingdom of Lucerne and fleeing to the Chaos Wastes, while her sister Calia is assisting her sister in ruling over Lorderon. She is married to Imren Menathil, who was originally of House Vernader, and she has been a loyal wife to her husband despite the fact that he was nine when they were married and by Westros he has only come of age recently making him eighteen. Talia Menathil would become pregnant by Blanche a few months after he came of age, and she would give birth to a healthy girl they would name Fidola Menathil.
Talia Menathil had a happy childhood, and grew up with lots of friends, which has molded her into a very mature, and happy young women now that she is married to Blanche Menathil who treats her quite well. At the coming of the conflict with Westros she has become pregnant with her first child and because of this she has been sheltered away westward at the Port of Stormwind which the royal family believes is more safe then Lorderon which is on the brink of war. Following the betrayal of her brother Arthas she was placed as the Lord of House Menathil and by extension of this position she became the Arch Lord of Lorderon, of which placed her in a position of extreme importance within the Kingdom of Lucerne. Her role in Lucerne was more minimal as her sister Calia would take on much of the requirments of her position in terms of the external tasks she was required to deal with, and this left her ample time to learn in her own time how to rule the land alongside her still growing husband Imren Menathil.
Talia Menathil was born the youngest child of Tenamil, and Lianna Menathil, and since her father was the King of Lorderon she was raised in a large amount of wealth. This wealth never made her greedy or spoiled, and instead she was extremely outgoing, and she came to be loved by the people of Lorderon.
At the age of 14 she was married to the 18 year old Blanche Menathil of House Vernader. In Blanche she found a young man who was just as nervous about the marriage as she was, and together they grew close, as they acted as shoulders for eachother's problems.
Relationship with Blanche Vernader
Annexation of Lorderon
Main Article : Lucernian Annexation of Lorderon
I see the way the wind is turning William. Already the feelers of the Boltens, and the Ironborn have come to our shores. Already we are threatened, and
“Sister, I am going to leave for a time. When I return things here will change quite dramatically, and people will question whether I have lost my mind. Understand that this is the last true sane thing I do in this world. I love you Talia. Tell Jaina...Tell Jaina whatever you think will make this easier.”
— Arthas Menathil
As King Tenamil Menathil neared the end of his life Arthas Menathil the next in line would contemplate what the death of his father would mean. Arthas Menathil during this time was increasingly overcome with the madness of his mind, and in the brief periods between the voices in his head being louder then his own he came to believe that his Kingdom was going to fall on its own. Arthas was increasingly worried about losing his mind, and in his goal to protect his people he was working closely with three Magi from the Kirin Tor in the form of Jowan Uerellian, Anders Virtion, and his wife Azhellion Virtion of which Anders was his friend from there childhood and so knew everything that was happening in his head. Whether it was annexed by Arnor, Bolten, or bought by The Empire it wasn't going to be independent anymore so he had to make some changes if he wanted the Atlantian people to move forward. When his father finally passed away Arthas refused the customary crowning of the new King and instead stood as the prince apparent for nearly two months as he decided on what to do. Since the beginning of his fathers reign the importance of Lorderon had declined to such an extent that very few of the powerful continental powers sent representatives to Lorderon for the funeral, but one of the these few was the Kingdom of Lucerne of whom sent a heavy contingent led by Jacob Vorn IV. and Catherine Lovie and her husband.
“Milday when you return to Lucerne tell your nephew and the king that I will be coming to Lucerne soon. I agree with what you say Jacob. The time to be separate is coming to an end. I believe that if my people can be promised there safety as a group then I can believe in your words.”
During the funeral Arthas Menathil was having a relatively quiet time of the voices in his head and was able to mingle as he once had done so easily, and even Jaina Menathil was surprised with the way he appeared to be his old self. During this period of sanity he was unaware that his friend Anders had been trying a spell on him in order to see if it worked, but Anders of whom by this point was increasingly losing his mind to the levels of Magi influence he was gaining withheld that he might have found a way from Arthas`s curse. While in this period of sanity Arthas would speak with Catherine Lovie, and Jacob Vorn of which Jacob quickly saw that Arthas wanted a way into the Kingdom of Lucerne in some manner and spoke openly of the protection of Numenorians, and Atlantians, as well as discussing the disire of the king to protect Arnor the way he had protected Gondor. All of this was exactly what Arthas had been dreaming of, and he would tell Catherine and Jacob that he would visit Lucerne in order to meet with the king and discuss possibilities. Following this the funeral would take place and the Lucernians left in major numbers the following day, but several hidden members of the Order of the Green Dragon would remain behind in the form of Myriam Lonmouth, Dickon Hill and Whelia Moore of whom would be tasked to very silently keep an eye on what was happening in the city of Lorderon.
Arthas Come to Lucerne
“I am very pleased to meet you Arthas. I have heard stories of how you went out of your way to honor your pacts with Arnor against Valeria. It is in that kind of honor that the future of this continent should stand.”
The Deal is Struck
“I think it is clear that I did not come here just to talk with you. I came here to protect my people from the monsters all around them. I believe in my heart that the only way to do that is to join with your people. I believe this in my heart, but before I can make it anything more then just a thought I need you to promise me something. I need you to put it in writing that Lorderon shall always be a Numenorian land. The Germans may not colonize us as they have so many other places.”
Talia became preganant with Blanche's child, and her first child during the lead up to the conflict with Westros, and because of when she learned of her pregnancy and the uncertainty of the world that Lorderon would be a part of during this conflict their grew a legitamte group led by Arthas Menathil (who despite his insanity was still very much pretective of his youngest sister) who wanted Talia to be stashed away in a safer city then Lorderon.
Port of Stormwind
With the forces of the Kingdom of Bolten moving more and more towards the borders of Lorder the royal family leadership with Arthas heading the decision decided that Talia for the term of her pregnancy and a time afterward would be sent away to a safer location. The Order of the Green Dragon representitive in Lorderon advised that the Port of Stormwind, and then from there the actual city of Stormwind would be a wise choice, and this advise was heeded by the leadership.
Demons on the Loose
Main Article : Lorderon Civil War
Arthas was the source of so much evil, and we had just allowed him to walk around in front of us.
“It was beyond anything I could have imagined. This man was the Arch Lord of a grand state within the Kingdom of Lucerne. There was only one man in the kingdom who held more power then an Arch Lord, and that was the one man I knew would believe me when I told him about this letter.”
— Edward Cullen
Gemma Cullen would be in a meeting for Order of the Blue Dragon alongside her cousin Edward Cullen when she was told that a letter had arrived at the Tower labeled for her. She would remain for the meeting and not immediately get the letter but following the meeting with the Order of the Blue Dragon she had received a letter from a Magi from the Kirin Tor that she had met long before named Medivh and had wished to known if she had an audience with the King. He asked her that if she did have an audience with the king that she needed to use that right away to give him word of something terrible happening in Lorderon. When Gemma responded questioning why Medivh wanted to speak with the King, and what terrible thing this was that was happening in Lorderon he would respond with the truth. He told Gemma in the letter that Arthas had lost his mind, and was forming a chaos cult of which was growing more powerful each day within the walls of Lorderon, and that unless he was stopped he was going to destroy the entire state.
Lady Gemma Cullen,
I am sorry about the rushed nature of my last letter, but the news was not good, and you and your cousin were the only people I knew well enough in Lucerne that were close enough to the king to effect any kind of real change. I am sorry for the history lesson, but you must understood all of this if you are to believe me.
Arthas Menathil was born, and from that moment forward he was destined to be the king of Lorderon. The people cheered his every move for he was noble, and just in all things that he did. Then like the wind flowing through everything disapeared in him. Where once there was nobility there was now only darkness. His parents would send for a paladin in the north to train him, and we all thought the paladin had been succesful. He wasn`t the same true knight as he was before, but he wasn`t the same violent monster he was before either. I returned to my studies believing all was well, but I have learned it was all a lie.
You must understand that men have lost their lives to bring me this information, and now he is chasing me as well. I am not some traitor to the cause of the Menathil`s. I do not wish for gold, or power. I have learned that since he handed over Lorderon to Lucerne he has formed a chaos cult, and is planning to destroy the state in a bloodbath. I do not yet know his end game, but whatever it may be you need to understand only one main thing. It will not be positive.
My former prince wants the world to burn in the same manner as he burns. He hates all things now and he wants it all to disapear. I cannot stop him alone, and as I said you and your cousin are the only ones I know close to the king. Use what influence you have and speak to the king. If failing this go to your cousin. I warned him years ago of this, and I only hope he is the same person he was when we last spoke.
Take a leap with me Gemma Cullen and we can save the world together.
Medivh, Counciller of the Six for the honorable Kirin Tor
Gemma was moved by the letter but she knew that she had no business speaking to the King of Lucerne even if she had been rather friendly with him during their youth. She knew that this couldn't be left unsaid so she responded to Medivh that she couldn't help him but if he talked to Edward Cullen her cousin then he would be able to tell the King himself. She would go to find Edward, and when she did she showed him the letters, and when he saw who they were from he too believed their content. Knowing they were in a very tricky situation Edward would leave immediately with Gemma for the capital where he would attempt with all that remained of his clout with William to do something about this situation.
“Taylor Swift was the perfect cover for me and what I had to do. Noone believed that she would be someone that would become central in the discovery of what Arthas was. Had I been quicker. Had I listed the first time I was told and not worried about the consequences, it is impossible to imagine how many that are dead might live.”
Edward Cullen following the meeting with Medivh would go to Lucerne to meet with William but when he arrived he discovered that William had traveled up the mountain to meet with the dragons. Most believed they had seen him for the last time based on the tears flowing from both Alice and Emma, and so he made the decision that he couldn't sit idle while his friend risked everything to save the people of Lucerne. He would travel alongside his wife Tanya to Hilary's home and while there they came up with the plan of going to Lorderon under the pretend mission of growth of Dragonoph while in fact investigate the supposed chaos worship of Arthas Menathil. During this time his relationship with Tanya is collapsing, and she shows him little to no affection of which he responds to Gemma he isn't surprised about. Meeting as well with Alice Lovie, and Emma Bell they would make the suggestion that Taylor Swift be the one they use as the center of plan, as she was known far and wide for her Dragonoph beliefs and would be more accepted then the very influential Edward Cullen. Alice would later in a discussion with William admit that she was trying to distance Taylor from the romantic drama she was beginning to have with Emile Hirsh in Brill, but she didn't want them to know that was a major reason for her being sent. Also realizing they needed more Dragonoph involvement they went to Erica Steinmare of whom Edward knew of from school, and they got her to lead a contingent from House Steinmare to Brill where they would then move to the Port of Stormwind on their final stop before they went to Lorderon. Erica Steinmare agreed to go, but her brother forced himself into going as her brother hated Edward as he was a close friend of Jaspers and he also took his wife with him of whom had always wanted to see Lorderon and the massive Rhine. Alongside this would also be Emma Bell who would travel with Edward to give their Dragonoph mission further credence as she was a member of the royal family as the cousin of William Lovie III. and joining Emma would be a force of some thirty House Bell guards, and her husband Fredrik Highmore.
“We had to make it look convinsing. If we went there and it looked like we were there for the real reason we were there then who knew what these cultists would do. I wanted to save lives, I didn't want to be the direct cause of the deaths of thousands.”
Taylor Swift would make her first appearance in Westros when Edward Cullen, and the group would arrive in Brill and when they did they would immediately travel to the Brill Keep where they met with Timone Swift, and John Swift and they would explain to the two that they needed Taylor for an important mission and this would be agreed to and then they were told that Taylor was at the Temple of Brill praying. It would be while praying in the High Temple of Brill when she would be approached from behind and was shocked to find those who had joined her in prayer were none other then Emma Bell a member of the royal family, as well as Dylan Steinmare and Edward Cullen two man who she had never met before but she knew to be extremely promient members of the kingdom. Continuing to pray now joined by this group her mind would be overcome by questions of what could have brought such a group to her temple, and after fifteen minutes of prayer she finishes and at her ending she and the group finally speak. Emma tells Taylor that she is being tasked with leading a Dragonoph contingent to Lorderon where they will be attempting to make further inroads into converting the new state to the Dragonoph, and when she questions why her they are reluctant to give her a straight answer instead Emma hands her a letter directed to her signed by Alice Lovie who is the acting regent of the Kingdom of Lucerne while William is away.
It would be as this was happening that Anna Kendrick would be watching through the window of the temple as Taylor speaks to the group, and she is disgusted that Taylor is being given such an opportunity while she is once again passed over for Taylor. As she continues to watch she is discovered by Freddie Highmore of whom she talks with for some time, and eventually is able to convince Freddie to put in a word for her to travel with them to Lordeorn. Following this discussion Anna would return to the Freddie Highmore does put in a word for Anna but this overruled by Emma who was aware of the situation between Taylor and Anna and did not want the trouble of those two being together. Following this conversation with Freddie she returns to the Kendrick estates where she convinces her brother Tyson Kendrick to travel with her to Lorderon where she uses his desire to regain his honor following his failure at the Nortburg tournament during the events of the Journey, and with this hope he jumps at the opportunity. Following this she returns to the keep and finds Freddie Highmore of whom apologizes to her telling her that she cannot come as Emma had indicated the group was full but clearly there was more to it and Anna takes this as Taylor interfering and thus decides to go around Emma Bell to Dylan Steinmare of whom she had known during her time at the academy. Finding Dylan spending time with his wife she feels sadness at how happy they look and longs to see Orival again which shocks her that she doesn't think of Josh Hirsh for even a second when she sees there happiness. Speaking to Dylan she is able to trick him into taking her with them offering her families forces in assistance against Edward if the chance arises, and he agrees to not tell Emma about this as the two conspire that they will keep it a secret until it is too late for her to go back, and Anna promises to Dylan that she will support Dylan if the opportunity to kill Edward Cullen arises.
Having manipulated her way into going she goes back to her families estate with no plans to tell Josh Hirsh of her departure but when she returns home she is told by her sister Melinda Kendrick that Emile Hirsh has been banned from going due to what everyone knows to be the affair happening between him and Emile, and thus attempting to get back at Taylor and cause problems she travels to the Hirsh estates. Arriving at her home she meets with her husband who she realizes she hasn't seen in almost three months and tells him that he will need to accompany her and lies to him that this was a command from Emma Bell, and wanting to be loyal he adheres to what he thinks is a royal command. Wanting to sow further chaos she also tricks them into believing that Josh is also to come despite him also not being one of those who was too come. Thus having created what she believes is a great embarrassment for Taylor she returns to the House Kendrick estates and prepares her things for the journey to come. Following this they would travel to Lole where they would take a boat all the way east to the Port of Stormwind in order to make the final part of their trip to Lordeorn. When they did arrive in Lole they discovered Tanya Cullen awaiting them in the city, and she refused to be left behind, and while this should have been a happy moment for the married couple instead they just argued along the way from Lole to the Port of Stormwind as there marriage had clearly fallen apart. While in the Port of Stormwind Edward would be joined by Candice Anthor of whom would say that she had been planning a trip to Lorderon in order to arrange a series of trade deals, and this would be the perfect opportunity. Convinced by Hilary, and Gemma that the more people they brought with them with civilian purposes the more real this whole thing looked he would agree to have her come, and Candice brought with her a large contingent of troops on six ships from the Port of Stormwind.
On the Path of a Demon
“Reaching the top of the tower wasn't was I expected. I thought I would meet some chaos worshipper and we would find the truth I wanted about Arthas. Instead I only found my own weakeness. Instead I was forced to deal with the failings in my self.”
Edward, Taylor, Hilary, Tanya and a small entourage of troops from House Swift, House Steinmare, House Kendrick, House Hirshe, and House Cullen would join the six strong fleet of Candice Anthor and her large force as they traveled to Lorderon and after making the trip from the Port of Stormwind, and Edward would set Tanya to the task of making Taylor believe that she was actually there for the purpose they told her she was. Tanya was by this point nearly constantly fighting with Edward, and Edward knew that barking orders at her was only going to make it worse, but a part of him knew the marriage was over and really just wanted to save lives. While Taylor and Tanya visited several Dragon Temples that were under construction in Lorderon, it was Edward and Hilary that visited the Kirin Tor. When they arrived they were met by Medivh and several of his loyalists and they went about the conversation of how to prove Arthas's madness. Medivh told Edward that in his investigation he had discovered the existence of a group calling themselves the Sons of Lorderon of whom were being portrayed to the public as a revolutionary group wanting independence for Lorderon, but under the surface he discovered that in fact they were a chaos cult founded by Arthas. Edward needed more proof and so Medivh took him and Hilary to a small Kirin Tor Magi tower south of Lorderon where he kept one of the cultists captive.
“It wasn't until I saw the devotion that the Steinmare's had for the Dragon that I knew I had to tell them the truth. Dylan was irate. Erica was just as angry. Laera though was confused as to why they been lied too. I didn't blame them for any of those feelings though.”
— Taylor Swift
Taylor, Tanya, Anna, Josh, Emile and the Steinmare's would travel throughout the capital visiting the different Dragon Temples on their first day, and during this time Taylor and Emile would sleep together nearly the first moment they had alone, and Anna was nearby and she confronted them on it, and neither would even apologize and she would leave shortly after with Josh in tow. With those two gone they were met by the Steinmare's of whom Taylor watched look with amazement at the newly constructed Temple, and in that moment being held by Emile she knew she had to tell them the truth, and she would reveal to them the true purpose of the trip to Lorderon. Dylan would leave to go find Candice Anthor in order to warn her, and the rest of them would decide they would make the best of it, and expand the Dragonoph as much as possible. Taylor Swift would reveal to Erica Steinmare that she wasn't going to continue with the marriage to Josh Hirsh and planned to marry Emile while the two were here in Lorderon, and Erica gave the two space and left to go and find her brother in the port. Anna would get into an argument with Josh and went off her own finding herself in the Lorderon market where followed by Emma Bell she and Emma who had for so long fought to keep Anna out of this whole trip found Anna crying and finally saw the real person beneath the rumors. The two would discuss openly the situation and for the first time Emma heard about the lies that Anna believed in regards to Taylor and revealed the truth to Anna of whom would be horrified to know what the truth was and how horrible she had been to Taylor over what now amounted to nothing more then her mothers manipulations. Emma would tell Anna that she was heading north to Westbridge and knew that Orival Crane was there if Anna wanted to go with her, but Anna would politely refuse saying now that she knew the truth she had to make things right with Taylor and once she had done that she would end things with Josh and go north to find Orival.
“If you had told me the truth back then, I would have done so many things differently once I was here. I felt like I was being watched this entire time, but I ignored that because you told me everything was on the up. You lied to me Edward Cullen, and I won't forget that. Don't count on my support again.”
— Candice Anthor to Edward Cullen
While the main group was looking into the cultists or working to expand the Dragonoph influence in the Lorderon capital Candice Anthor was working at her trade agreement in the port itself. When she begin making her deals and talks with the leading houses in the port she begin to feel that she was being followed, and watched wherever she went, and this led to her going to find Edward of whom she found while he was on the way to the Kirin Tor tower south of the Magi fortress, and he was dismissive wanting to go quickly, and thus he lied to Candice and told her nothing was going on. This made her feel like she was being ridiculous in thinking she was being watched, and thus she let her guard down as the cultists - who were actually watching her heavily as she had brought a large military force into the port - spied on her, and prepared for an assassination attempt on her. During this time though her cousin Hedrin Tolhmave II. would become concerned after he saw several men watching Candice and he followed them, and watched them enter a tavern of which he followed them into, and when he did they entered a back room which after following them led him into a large tunnel system where he would have to kill both of the men after they discovered him following them. Leaving the tavern as quickly as possible he met Dylan Steinmare on the street and together they raced to find Candice Anthor and arrived just as cultists attempted to assassinate her.
“There has been an attack in the port milady We have heard word that cultists have attacked Lady Anthor,a nd even now fighting is still going on. What is your command Milady?”
— Main Hunder to Calia Menathil
The cultists had surrounded the port with nearly thirty men, and once Candice arrived they killed several sentries watching for violence, and then with the way clear they would move forward. As the cultists went to attack Dylan Steinmare, and Hedrin Tolhmave would arrive and scream to the guards that cultists were about and an attack was going to happen, and realizing they had been discovered the cultists would let off a horn and charge forward into the maelstrom. The fighting was intense but the guards now aware were able to repulse the horribly outnumbered cultists of whom had been relying on the shock of their arrival to succeed and Dylan captured one of the cultists but as they were taking him away the man was shot with an arrow from another cultist on a rooftop of whom then was able to escape.
Gemma, and Edward Cullen alongside Hilary Swift would have no idea what kindof nightmare they were walking into when they entered the tower of the Magi Medivh.
“That was the first time I saw evil in its purest form. Medivh was right. It was only after speaking to that one that I understood how limited I had been.”
Arriving at the tower it was Medivh, Edward, Hilary, Gemma, Markus Flowers, and several of Medivh's men and Medivh would lead them as they moved to the top and discovered a single man chained to the floor and roof. Medivh explained to him that this man was evil, and that no matter what he believed after talking to the man he needed to understand that fact alone. He told Edward that everything in life was a choice though and he had the decision to make if he was going to be the man that was tricked by evil, or if he would be able to see evil in all of its forms and be able to defeat it.
I walked into the room and was shocked to find a man clearly brutalized chained to what was seemingly every piece of the room. "Why has he been chained so many times?"
"Do not be taken in by what you see on the surface. This man is beyond contempt. He has done things, and planned things that no rational human would ever do." Medivh walked to the man and raised his head so that we could see his face. His eyes remained closed but I saw nothing in his face that screamed that he was a monster. "His mind is completely the domain of a demon now. Nothing remains of what was once someone's child."
I moved closer to the man and as I did he must have realized my presence and opened his eyes. His eyes were sad, and despite the reservations I had due to what Medivh had said I found myself wanting to help this man. "How could you know that?"
Medivh walked away from the man and stood against the wall for a moment before speaking again. "Edward this is the moment you are going to learn about the demon within all of us. Your demon is slight but still there. You don't know the demon yet and that is something that you need to understand if your going to help your people through this. Talk to the man. Prove me wrong if you can."
``How are you so sure that you are right. Surely this could all be some kind of misunderstanding.`` I looked to Gemma and Hilary and when I did they had the same look of shock and confusion on their faces that I did.
``Edward there is going to come a moment when you are going to have to truly understand evil. You believe you have seen evil because you knew your friends brother. Sean Lovie was just one form of evil. Evil takes many shapes, and forms and it is very important that you understand that not everything evil will appear it at first.`` He didn`t say another word just walked away and left me to stand there with this injured man who didn`t look like he could harm a fly.
I stopped for a moment unsure of how to move forward, but when I looked around for Hilary I saw her waiting. Her eyes showed that she believed in me, and I knew I couldn't fail that kind of trust. Moving closer to the man I kneeled on the floor and spoke. "What is your name?"
He coughed a bit before speaking "Tilder Meanist of House Meanist."
He spoke with an aura of nobility despite the surroundings he was in or the condition, and that made me know very quickly that he was either a well of noble or one used to pretending he was. "What have you done to make my friend believe you a demon?"
He coughed again this time for a longer period of time before being able to speak. "I woke up and found myself in this tower with that monster doing...doing unimaginable things to my friends. He won't let me explain but I know you'll hear me...you'll believe me won't you?"
The man sounded utterly frantic, and the way he spoke of his friends made me wonder how much of all of this that Medivh had left out. "You need to tell me before I can say anything."
"This man believes me some sort of demon, but I just want the freedom of my people. Your a Lucernian I can tell. Your people were not meant to come here. This land..."He stopped and coughed again before speaking. "This land isn't yours. Listen to me none of that is important right now. That monster has killed all of my men, and left me alone while my family waits for me at home."
I looked at Medivh for a moment wanting to understand what was happening here. "What proof do you have Tilder that you are not a cultist?"
He looked hopefully at me, and I felt a slight tinge of arrogance come from him "The same proof I told the monster about. Talk to my wife. She will show you that I am who I say that I am."
"And if I speak to her and find a different outcome?" I could see Medivh in the corner shaking his head, and for a moment I looked at this young man before me and wondered if he truly was a demon. If he wasn't a demon then Medivh was a liar and that meant all of this could be some sort of trap.
"Then I am lost and you should kill me."
From the look on Medivh's face he told me silently that he knew where his wife was, and would take me to her. "Your putting a lot of faith in how one conversation will go arnt you."
"I have faith in what I see your eyes. You are a good soul, and I know you will try and do what is right."
"I will speak to your wife, and when that is done we will all know the truth."
"The truth will be known by all."
Edward would be told by Medivh where Tilder's wife lived and the group would leave the tower and go to find the women that Edward silently had no idea what would happen with. On one hand if she was truthful then he would know Medivh a liar. If she was a liar then he was a fool who had been tricked by a demon. On the way to the wife he spoke with Hilary who told him that she felt a horrible taint coming from Tilder Meanist. She wondered how he did not feel it, and he wondered why he was unable to sense what clearly so many around him were feeling. Medivh told him that his demon wasn't revealed yet, and when Edward finally understood he would know exactly why he couldn't see what was just beneath the surface.
“His wife was nothing more then a ruse meant to kill me. He knew his life was over and yet he wanted me to see death, and I suppose somewhere in his chaos mind he wanted me to see the death that filled that home.”
Arriving at the house Medivh forced Edward to wait until thirty men from the Menathil's arirved, and then he allowed Edward to enter the home. Entering the home he found the skinned bodies of untold number of people all over the walls, and the decaying bodies of a young women, and two children sitting a table in the middle of the home with a giant hole in the ground. Medivh said he would explain everything after the ambush, and moments after this happened cultists came through the roof and a fight broke out which ended with the death of the cultists as the reinforcements were too much for the weakly armed, and trained cultists. Medivh would then explain as they carried away the bodies to be buried that Tilder was once a Magi of the Kirin Tor but had been removed due to the reading of banned Magi's and this had eventually led him to becoming possessed by a demon which had then proceeded to murder his wife and children and become a dangerous serial killer of whom killed dozens in Lorderon before the Kirin Tor finally caught up with him and took him under their custody.
Arthas Leaves
See Also : Capture of Jaina Menathil
“I had hoped that you would want to come willingly my love.”
— Hur-Arthas Menathil IV.
Arthas by this point was being told by his leadership core that the Kirin Tor had captured Tilder Meanist and with his capture any hope of keeping the Lucernian contingent from discovering the truth about The Scourge gone he begin plans to leave Lorderon for the north, and his true goal of getting Frostmourne. Gathering his commanders to him he would decide on leaving behind Elu-Kael Thuzad and it would be the objective of Kael to delay the forces of Lorderon and cause as much chaos as he possibly could, but then to make his way north to link up with Arthas who would wait for Kael at Fornost. Over the days that followed this decision they gathered to him his entire command structure outside of those who were staying and travelled north out of the city during the night keeping it as secret as possible, but unfortunatly despite this attempt there departure was discovered by the Dragonoph loyalist Per-Ruenya Menathil who would without delay bring this information to Sur-Talia Menathil. Arthas had left being information that he had travelled north in order to assist Marcel Lovie and thus when Talia went to the throne room she found this note detailing where he was saying he was going, but Talia had seen the change in her brother and didn't believe it instead sending Karl Donovan to bring information to the Lucernian contingent of what had happened. Karl Donovan would travel to their ships where he found the Hirshe brothers there and told them that Arthas had left the city and they both realized what this meant and thus they moved without haste to tell Edward about this. As this was happening Arthas as he moved out of Lorderon had a large fleet of dozens of ships transporting his men and in this movement they would travel to Kul Tiras where Arthas had unfinished business with his wife Jaina. Arriving with his fleet just south of Boralus they had slipped by the naval defenses as they were inside what was seen as safe waters when they left Lorderon and thus landed on the coast south of Boralus without alerting anyone to their presence. Landing his troops there he channeled a spell with his Magi leadership which gave him the location of Jaina who he discovered was located at the Tower of Toralus located west of Boralus, and with this knowledge he would march on the Tower of Toralus.
The Tower of Toralus was lightly defended as it was a sort of estate for House Proudmoore and thus when Arthas's several thousand strong army arrived it was Jaina who sensed that it was Arthas and ordered her men to flee the tower before they were killed, and then she waited for Arthas to come to her. Arthas came to her alone inside the tower and seeing him clad in the evil armor he had been crafting for some time she prepared herself to die and refused to speak to the man in front of her as she knew in her heart that this was not her Arthas, but he did not strike her down instead he took her staff from her and placed Magi restraints on her restricting her magi abilities and then summoned troops who took her hostage. With Jaina in his hands he would return to the ships where by this point the troops of Jaina had not yet warned the main Boralus forces of what had happened and thus when Arthas's fleet passed Boralus they were not resisted by the large Kul Tiras navy thus allowing Arthas to escape with Jaina.
Taylor's Discovery
“Your grace my time there was filled with so many things, and I want you to know that the Dragon shall be heard throughout all the land soon. The cultists though were dangerous beyond anything I had ever heard of. They had infested the largest Temple in the entire capital and turned it into a den of demons and evil men.”
Following the discovery by Edward that the cultists controlled the massive Great Temple of Lorderon he and his group would travel with Medivh back to the capital where they planned to attack the temple. As this was happening Taylor Swift and the Steinmare's would be told by a Dragon Priest that several Dragonoph worshipers had come to him to admit that they had been members of a cult in Lorderon and that the Great Temple of Lorderon was their headquarters of sorts. Disgusted that a Temple would be used for this purpose and despite the attempts by Dylan and Erica to stop her she would travel to the Great Temple and alongside Laera Steinmare would enter the Temple and using key words learned from the traitor cultists were able to enter the Temple. Entering the Temple they went through a recruitment process of sorts, but things begin to go bad after the cultist leading them around attempted to rape Laera and she stabbed him through the eye killing him and forcing them to hide his body while they escaped the Temple. Finding there way out wasn't easy though, and outside Dylan would meet with Edward telling him what had happened, and learning from Edward how serious the situation was they believed they had the proof they needed but Emile, and Josh Hirshe arrived to tell them that Arthas had left the city with a force in order to supposedly help Arnor, and Marcel Lovie. Edward told Emile, and Josh to go to the keep and force them to recall Arthas, and at the same time attempted to send word to Marcel Lovie of what was happening, but unknown to him the cultists were watching them, and the letters, and ravens were all intercepted meaning Marcel was not warned.
“We were but moments from showing him as the monster he was, and yet he slipped between our fingers. I would have killed him myself if I had thought it was possible to get through that kind of layer of guards.”
— Dylan Steinmare
Taylor Swift, and Laera Steinmare at this point would finally make their way out of the temple, but as Laera exited the door Taylor would be knocked on the head and the gate shut causing a siege of sorts as they attempted to break there way into the Temple. Forcing their way into the temple using the troops they had brought, they would fight against dozens of cultists of which forced the involvement of more troops and a battle broke out, but despite victory after the dust had settled they also found that there was no sign of Taylor, because she had been taken to the real home of the cultists of which was a large tunnel system beneath the temple itself. By this point the cultists were aware they had been discovered, and they would begin plans to launch the overall assault on Lorderon, and those traitor cultists would in these last moments release this information to the Menathil loyalists, or the Lucernians, or also in many cases the Magi of Kirin Tor.
“Edward I am being told that you kept all of this a secret from the people you brought with you, and I guess I wonder now in the privacy of this group...why did you not warn them of the dangers? Do you honestly think Taylor would have gone into that Temple had she of known what awaited her.”
Captured by the cultists Taylor is forced to endure captivity for hours, as the cultists by this point are simply stalling within the tunnel system, and Taylor witnesses the leadership of the cultists flee the grounds to safety, while the few that remain behind in order to show resistance are weak old men, and ones they question the devotion of. During this torture she is somewhat protected by a young cultist of whom stops an older man from raping her, and she is saddened as he tells her of his life, but despite her attempts to get him to surrender he sees no life past this, and leaves her as Edward's force finally breaks into the tunnels. The cultists that are left are weak and are easily defeated leaving Edward in control of the temple, but as soon as he releases Taylor's mouth coverings she reveals to him that nearly all the cultists already fled, and those left were expendable to them. With the cultists destroyed Taylor reveals that the cultists are a part of a chaos cult led by Arthas Menathil of whom has not taken any true forces north to assist Marcel but is in fact taking monsters and demons of whom are planning great destruction. As they attempt to make their way out of the temple they find the route blocked by design, and they are unable to escape by means of the entrance, and instead must make their way through ancient tunnels out of the city. After days of travelling through the tunnels they find themselves in the fields far to the south of Lorderon and a note is left on the edge of the entrance on the body of a soldier with the sigil of House Scarlet on him.
“Congratulations on discovering the great secret of Lorderon. You are to be commended for seeing what many before you failed to see, but I must be the one to tell you that is the only thing you did right. You have failed to stop me, and now that failure shall play out in the destruction of Arnor. Perhaps if you had moved quicker. Perhaps if you had been smarter your people in Arnor wouldn't be dead.”
— King Arthas Menathil
Edward became infuriated by this and the realization that it was already well to late to save Marcel, or to do any of the good things that he knew in his mind he had to do in order to regain what he had lost. The army of Arthas had left nearly a week ago, and he knows that a raven will never reach Arnor in time to do any good, and he breaks down crying for his continued failure. Eventually calming down the group gathers themselves and make their way to a nearby village where they receive horses and make their way back to Lorderon to warn Arnor of the coming chaotic army. Back in the city Laera, Erica, and Dylan Steinmare retreat to the Menathil Palace, and rally the Lucernians to their cause as well as sending out word of the what everyone now knows will be a very large attack on Lorderon by a unknown amount of cultists.
Josh Hirshe, and Anna Kendrick had become stranded at the port and were forced to hide themselves with the garrison there. Taylor Swift and Emile Hirshe would retreat with the main force and retreated into the Menathil Palace, and it was here where they would remain as the palace came under siege by the forces of the cultists now bent on destroying the city. Candice Anthor in the port itself sends word to Kul Tiras in order to have them send aid, and it is this quick thinking that would eventually save the city, as noone in Lorderon had been willing to ask Kul Tiras for help due to the bad blood between Lorderon, and Kul Tiras as of late. It was at this point of the city coming under siege and the port preparing for the arrival of reinforcements that Anna Kendrick and Josh Hirshe of whom had come to hide within the keep in the docks would come to have an honest conversation with Anna admitting that she loved Orival Crane and Josh was just a distraction, and Josh admitted that he actually hated Anna and only was with her to cause embaressment to his brother. Josh would as their conversationd devolved into an argument demand that she sleep with him but she resisted not wanting this but despite her resistence he forced himself on her but just as he is about to rpae her she grabs his knife and slashes his face before also stabbing him in the shoulder and fleeing from the keep to the docks themselves.
“The Cult was something that had started to enter the frame of reality some time before we learned of Arthas's true face. The cult had abducted people, and burned buildings but for all intensive purposes it was little worse then a roaving band of criminals, and thus we didn't say much.”
— Imlad Menathil
Following the return of Edward Cullen to the city after his destruction of one cell of the cult that Arthas had formed it became clear to the leadership that Arthas had formed it in order to destroy Lorderon, and thus they went about dealing with the cult for the first time. After the conversation between William and Edward the decision is made to make Talia Menathil the new Lord of Lorderon, and she is given this immediatly after thus removing the taint of Arthas somewhat from Lorderon. This transfer of power doesn't go completely according to plan as during the ceremony for her gaining the title of Matriarch of the family, and the Arch Lord of Lucerne position the site is attacked by a force of cultists and many demons that a Magi with the cultists summons into the area. Edward, Gemma, and Hilary lead Talia out of the building and fight there way through waves of cultists, and are nearly trapped until a counter assault by Imlad Menathil breaks the attacking cultists and allows them to return her to the keep of Lorderon with her new power.
Fairmarket. The Riverlands. Lorderon, and Kul Tiras. Westbridge. All had fallen to our might. All had sworn the sword to the Valley of Lucerne. All that power, and yet I looked north and saw a great demon the likes of which I could not hope to resist. The Empire was the reason for growth. The Empire was the reason for everything we did. The Empire was the land that should have done great things for the world, but instead of this they did nothing. They allowed chaos to breed amongst them, and in that weakeness and failing they threatened to ruin the entire continent.
"William there can be no doubt that Arthas has turned against us." He looked down, and I felt terrible, as both of us knew what this meant for Marcel. What little chance he had of defending Arnor was based on the army that Arthas said he was capable of bringing north, and if that army wasn't going to arrive then it all might be for nothing.
"This is terrifying news Edward as we know he has already disapeared from out eyes, and for all we know could already be inside Arnor. If he is there we know that Marcel is there, and I fear for what will happen." It was always unerving to hear William speak with anything other then confidence. His face moved from the vision and I knew he must be speaking to someone else. It was unfortunate that the only Magi stone that I was able to find was a one on one stone. This sort of conversation would have been much easier with a room stone.
"William we need to immediatly send word to your cousin that Arthas is under no cercumstances to be trusted."
"I will send word right now Edward." William left the vision, and I looked to my right to see that Imlad had entered the room, and he looked with wide eyes as he saw the means by which we were communicating.
"Its good to see you prince Imlad." He was wearing his eagle armor, and he looked everything that he should of, but his eyes told me a story about the fear he was feeling.
"You still have the presence of mind for titles in a time like this Edward?"
"When I was young my father told me that manners were important. I can't forget that lesson even while we are potentially surrounded by enemies and have a looming disaster in the north."
"The things our father's tell us when we are young." I would have laughed normally but the silence that followed made me shiver. It was minute after minute of this as we awaited the return of William, and I wanted him to come back to give me repreieve from the fear that filled the room.
"Do you recall anything about this cult before we learned of Arthas?" I had only learned of them a few months ago, and from the way Medivh spoke of them they must have been something that was talked of.
"The Cult was something that had started to enter the frame of reality some time before we learned of Arthas's true face. The cult had abducted people, and burned buildings but for all intensive purposes it was little worse then a roaving band of criminals, and thus we didn't say much." As he finished William reentered the vision.
"I have made the neccesary message sent, but I fear that the Order of the Blue Dragon representative that was with Marcel has apparently been killed, and we don't know what is happening at this time."
"We don't know anything bad has happened yet. We just need to keep our ears out Will."
“Alone Talia was still too young and naive to be the Lady of a land that large, but lucky for us she wasn't alone. Lucky for us Calia, and Imlad were loyal advisors and didn't have their own agendas other then helping their family.”
Talia would recall her sister Talia to her side, and alongside Imlad Menathil they formed a sort of Menathil council for the leadership of the land alongside Edward of whom advised them as best he could. Realizing the situation they were in they knew they needed more forces loyal to them in the city, and thus they decided to call the vassals, and ask for assistence from the nearbye Lucerne forces. As they begin to recall Menathil forces from the smaller villages, and towns they begin see that the cult had become aware of the situation and the cult summoned nearly its entire force into the capital and begin besieging sections of the city and ambushing and murdering loyalists to the Menathils. Sending word to the Riverlands, and Kul Tiras, and then the main Lucerne army south of Lorderon in the Scarlets, and the Cleganes they would beg for assistance saying that the streets were becoming a battleground.
“The arrival of Kael'Thuzad was a terrifying experience as he raised thousands of dead into his ranks turning a controllable situation suddenly into something far worse.”
As fighting broke out in the streets Kael'Thuzad would abandon secrecy and led his command structure into the city where he and his other Magi would summon the dead to their side adding thousands into his ranks and causing great destruction. As this happened the citizens of Lorderon begin fleeing by boats in the dock out of the city, and those men that couldn't and the old would retreat into the Menathil Keep in the center of the city. Arming these citizens the defence of the keep would be expanded knowing they were defending to the last man. Edward Cullen, and Imlad Menathil led the defences with Edward using his Magi stone to alert the forces south of the wall of what was happening and making sure they knew they had to do something soon. Kael'Thuzad would raise buildings, and go about damaging the city, while he sent his commander Lord Gnarls eastward towards Kirin Tor where he was to capture the fortress and bring its knowledge back to him so that they could then leave for Arthas northward. Fighting would break out heavily in the port as the Cult would attempt to commandeer boats in their eventual search to escape, and they would be resisted by the navy of Kul Tiras of whom had sent many ships to blockade the city, and provide support.
“The Liche Ras Frostwhisper would come to the docks and I remember his look as he raised his hand and summoned creatures of darkness to him. He controlled them from the docks and I knew he alone had to be stopped lest he destroyed our entire fleet.”
— Derek Proudmoore
Battle at the Docks
Ras Frostwhisper would come to the dock and summoning hundreds of giant sea creatures that had long laid dead at the bottom of the sea outside Lorderon, and used these creatures to assault the fleet of Kul Tiras and push them back. The fleet was forced to pull back or risk destruction as these ancient creatures pulled entire ships under the water when they got close enough, and they were only able to destroy a dozen and lost nearly twice that number of ships in return.
Battle of Kirin Tor
Main Article : Battle of Dalaran
“This place is a place of learning and peace, and you desecrate it with your very presence. Your beliefs are failed, and today you shall learn how much failure your moral decadence has caused for you and all those that stand behind you Lord Gnarl.”
— Medivh
Led by a mysterious Magi named Lord Gnarls the cultists would send a force to Kirin Tor as well in order to sack the Magi castle, and attempt to steal its stored knowledge for Arthas, despite the near impossibility of this task and then getting north. During the initial movement towards Kirin Tor turncoats within the fortress of Kirin Tor would murder several high ranking members of the Magi organization including the high leader in Antonidas leaving the council shattered and left with three of its members with Jaina also believed to be in the capital and not inside Kirin Tor. With their leader dead, and the council reduced Medivh would stage a sort of coup using his own forces and took control of the Council of Kirin Tor and would imprison the remaining members of Kael'Thuzad's family including his son who attempted to murder him when he took him prisoner. Medivh would lead the forces loyal to Lucerne in defense of the Kirin Tor and was able to use the superior defenses of Kirin Tor to massacre the initial wave of Cultists supported by demons that assaulted the fortress. As the battle reached the second wave though numerous Magi would turn to the side of Chaos, and the fighting got dire as the chaos cultists used these turncoats to enter Kirin Tor and were able to sack parts of the library.
“The Kirin Tor could not fall or else all of Lorderon could be destroyed through the knowledge they gained in that vault. I had to move quickly and take the situation into our control again or I watched as Lorderon fell.”
As Kirin Tor became a battleground Saiden Scarlet would send Illen Purne one of his vassals alongside Kren Scarlet to relieve the Kirin Tor with a force of Kul Tiras, and native Lorderon troops. Arriving at the scene they found the cultist army flowing into Kirin Tor, and they would attack them from behind where the cultists were killed in huge numbers but managed to keep the Lucernians away for a time. Inside Lord Gnarls made his way through Vault after Vault inside Kirin Tor attempting to make his way to the deepest and most powerful infortmation, and as he did this Medivh would lead a skilled force of Magi and elementals behind him defeating Lord Gnarls luitenents one after another until both were nearing eachother. By this point Trimier would complete the summoning spell, and this allowed several dozen Blue Dragon Magi and their support troops to enter Kirin Tor, and they asisted in stemming the flow of cultists while the main army was defeated outside by Kren Scarlet, and Illen Purne.
Battle of Lorderon
Main Article : Battle of Lorderon
“Reinforcements had come in their tens of thousands to the area, and the cultists were horribly outnumbered in terms of military power. Their defeat at Kirin Tor had left their leadership scrambling to find a new weapon now that Kirin Tor was held against them, and before they could me and Emmett would tilt the scales.”
Following the defeat of the Cultists at Kirin Tor two shadow council members would arrive in the form of Emmett McCarty, and Leven Martell of whom brought with them thirty men each from their houses and the most elite men they both had. The cultists had barred the main gates into the city and were defending them with great strength, but many smaller gates were less defended and it was through these gates that Leven, and Emmett would infiltrate through avoiding the gaurds through the assistence of several Violet Dragons that were still in the area. Now inside the city Leven, Emmett and their sixty men would fight their way to the keep where they found the Lucernian loyalists holding out within, and thousands of citizens hiding inside the walls for protection. Kael'Thuzad would marshal nearly his entire remaining force and pulled many if not all forces from the walls and brought them to the keep where he launched an all out assault. Thousands of demons and cultists charged the high walls of the keep, and the defenders led by Emmett, Leven, and Imlad would hold out against the inital assaults and cause horrendous casualties to the unprepared cultists attacking the walls.
“They broke through the eastern gatehouse, and I charged into the breach with all the reserve I had at my disposal. They were too many in number, and if we let them loose within the castle they would quickly massacre the people of Lorderon and the defenders in short order.”
As the attack of the Cultists failed all over it was Kael'Thuzad that went to the eastern gatehouse himself and using Magi alongside his commanders would shattter the entire gatehouse destroying it and leaving a massive gaping hole in the defences. Losing a significant amount of defenders Leven pulled all the reserves from the keep, and alongside her men and Emmett's men she and Emmett would charge into the breach and attempt to hold off the attacking cultists. The defenders were hardpressed to hold the massive numbers off but the untrained barely equipped cultists were cut down in droves, and this led to Kael'Thuzad ordering in several of his commanders including his second in command in Lord Voren of whom would kill many in front of him but was confronted by Leven Martell. Leven and Voren would fight one on one as the defenders slaughtered the cultists forcing many to attempt to retreat but these retreaters were killed by Kael'Thuzad of whom sent in Lord Savryn to deal with the situation. On the western gatehouse Imlad would murder the commander of the attacks there and charged his forces through the gatehouse and massacred hundreds of cultists forcing them to retreat southward, and allowing him to send several scouts to make the Lucernians come quicker.
Leven Martell would further her reputation during the battle of Lordeorn
“When Kael'Thuzad moved into the fray I could feel it. It was like this massive ball of electricty was moving towards us, and I couldn't let Leven, and Emmett fight that monster alone.”
The scouts reached the Lucernian forces of whom were assaulting through the weakely defended outer walls, and moving slowly fearing it was a trap. Meeting the scouts Saiden Scarlet would understand it wasn't a trap and commanded all forces towards the keep with all haste, while he sent Mathew Clegane and his forces against the dock to deal with Ras Frostwhisper. Kael'Thuzad getting word that the army was only minutes away knew he had to move quickly to take the keep and then murder the population, so he waded into the battle himself. Fighting his way through his own forces he reached the front just as Leven, and Emmett killed Lord Savryn and pushed back Lord Voren. Smashing Emmett McCarty with a blast of Magi he flew back uncontious leaving Leven to fight against Lord Voren while Kael'Thuzad sent Magi blasts into the defenders of the breach killing dozens. Sencing Kael'Thuzad enter the breach Edward had left the southern gate and mvoed to the east where he reached the fighting and was able to block a spell that would have badly injured Leven. Fighting against Kael'Thuzad he and the Liche would battle for minutes until Lord Voren fell destroyed and Leven charged him as well turning the tide of the fight. Kael'Thuzad attempted to flee but was struck through the back by Leven's sword and destroyed. At the port Mathew Clegane would overwhelm Ras Frostwhisper with the support of Gemma Cullen of whom overpowered the tired Ras Frostwhisper but he retreated using a stone and disapeared alongside several of his commanders.
“Arthas's remnents had been crushed, but he was still loose, and where he was now was anyone's guess.”
With the death of Kael'Thuzad and the defeat of Ras Frostwhisper the skeletal elements and demons fizzled out of excistence, while the human elements of the cult were swiftly either killed or surrendered and made to live out the rest of their short lives in prison before they were executed. With Talia Menathil now Lady of Lorderon the population shifted back to the capital but was diminished from the numbers before as some one quarter of the city had turned to the cultists and were basically all dead while another quarter had died during the fighting leaving half the city dead. It was following the clean up that a letter came into the keep adressed to Edward Cullen, but it would be read by Leven Martell and the rest of the commanders inside the keep.
I opened the letter and was still haunted by the name Arthas that adorned the front of it. I looked around and saw the looks of fear on everyone else over what could possibly be in the letter, and how he had known with such accuracy when we had cleared the city.
Lord Edward Cullen,
I am both shocked and excited by the prospects of your defeat of my cult. Created with hate, and violence it makes me proud that they have destroyed so much of Lorderon, and left you weakened. My commander Ras Frostwhisper tells me you managed to defeat Kael, and while I say that is a disapointment know that the dragon I have killed yesterday will make your kingdom quickly forget this victory you have achieved.
Know that you will find his body in Fornost, and know that I made him hurt before he died. Tell your king that he sent him to die, and this is exactly what I did for him.
One last gift for the King of the Valley.
In closing I wish for you the best. I hope you die swift, and quick deaths for you have defeated an oponent that should have lived forever. Know this though Lord Cullen, your time will come sooner then you could ever imagine. I have seen the future and you and your darkness council shall know death in your ranks very soon. You have longed to be a part of them, and you shall never be further away then you are right now.
Arthas Menathil
King of the Dead
Jaina Proudmoore - Sister in Law
Hur-Arthas Menathil - Family/Rival
Blanche Menathil
See Also : Blanche Menathil
Blanche Menathil, and Talia Menathil were married to eachother when Blanche was 18 and Talia was 14. This situation was something they both knew wasn't going to change so luckily they both made the best out of the situation.
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Marty called up after Fritz injury
metrowebukmetroThursday 31 Jan 2008 10:00 am
David Marty
David Marty has been called up by France as a replacement for injured centre Florian Fritz ahead of Sunday’s RBS 6 Nations Championship match against Scotland.
Marty, a member of Les Bleus’ World Cup squad last year, was left out of coach Marc Lievremont’s original 22 after failing to produce his best form for Perpignan.
But the 25-year-old, who has 19 caps to his name, will link up with France at their training complex at Marcoussis and is set to start against the Scots at Murrayfield.
Fritz was ruled out for the rest of the tournament after fracturing his fibula in training on Wednesday.
David MartyMarc Lievremont
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On the spot – Rebecca Adlington
metrowebukmetroFriday 12 Dec 2008 9:22 am
The Mansfield teenager became a national treasure after winning two gold medals in Beijing this year and is favourite for Sunday’s BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
Let’s get the important question out of the way first, what’s your outfit for Sunday night?A red dress and the gold Jimmy Choo shoes the Mayor of Mansfield gave me when I came back from Beijing.
Rebecca Adlington
Looking forward to it?
I can’t wait, I’ve never been before and it’s going to be great to see everybody [the British Olympians] again.
Are you surprised you’re the bookmakers’ favourite to win Sports Personality ahead of Lewis Hamilton?
I don’t know if I am really, the favourite never wins anyway so that will probably jinx it for me. It will be really weird for me just being there so I’m just going to enjoy the night and see what happens.
Any plans to become a tax exile, like him?
Did you have a sporting hero growing up?
Not really. I got into swimming because my two older sisters took me to the pool â that’s really why I started. But my dad took me to the Commonwealth Games in Manchester when I was 13 and we saw Ian Thorpe break the world record in the 400metres freestyle and I thought âI can do that,â and from that moment I knew swimming was what I wanted to do.
That’s the beauty of London 2012 I suppose, you can inspire the next Rebecca Adlington.
That would be great. The whole nation seems to be getting excited about it already.
But London’s a long way off and you never know what might happen between now and then. Hopefully, I’ll be there.
What are your plans for 2009?
I’ve got the trials for the World Championships in March so hopefully I’ll qualify for that. The actual championships are in Rome later in the year so it would be great to go there and gain some more experience as a swimmer.
Will it be strange going to a major championships as a favourite now?
That might not actually be the case because I might not be the fastest going in Rome in my events. Everybody would have had their trials and maybe I won’t be the favourite but we’ll see.
What’s the most ridiculous offer you’ve had since Beijing?
None really. I really wish I had a bizarre request so that I could tell people about it! It’s just been manic since we came home from Beijing with lots of interviews and things.
Your local swimming pool has been named after you, so am I right in thinking you get mobbed every time you step out in Mansfield now?
Well, the swimming pool actually hasn’t been renamed yet. It’s closing in March and will re-open in September, when it will be renamed… hopefully! A few people recognise me in the street and say âWell doneâ â I am not getting mobbed or anything like that.
BeijingMansfieldRebecca Adlington
'Life goes on' - Wilfried Zaha posts cryptic message amid Arsenal transfer rumours
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Singha Estate brings Best Dives Maldives on board to provide Water-activity Services at CROSSROADS integrated destination
EMBOODHOO LAGOON, The Republic of Maldives, Aug. 17, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — Singha Estate Public Company Limited joined hands with Best Dives Maldives at a signing ceremony that spelled a start to Best Dives’ involvement with CROSSROADS, Singha Estate’s mega project spanning nine islands in the Maldives that will soon become the largest integrated resort in the Indian Ocean. Via this partnership, the water-activity company will be providing services including SCUBA diving, motorized and non-motorized watersports activities and various excursions.
Phase one of CROSSROADS will unveil three islands including a township, featuring a luxurious yacht marina, various retail outlets, and fine dining restaurants among other attractions. Water activities will also be a prominent part of visitors’ experience at CROSSROADS, and Singha Estate seeks to ensure that guests can enjoy these activities in the safest, most engaging, and most sustainable way. Best Dives has been chosen for its expertise as a leading service provider, having over a decade of experience in providing watersports, excursions, and chartering services in the Maldives.
“Singha Estate and Best Dives have shared values and believe in redefining the Maldives’ tourism experience. CROSSROADS will attract a new generation of travelers and new market segment that will bring in an exciting business opportunity for all of us here in the Maldives,” said Mr. Thiti Thongbenjamas, Chief Operating Officer — CROSSROADS, Maldives.
A Marine biologist from Best Dives will also join CROSSROADS to spearhead a coral regeneration project that underpins the resort’s underwater sustainability development approach. The representative will also be involved with CROSSROADS’ Maldives Discovery Centre, educating guests and staff members on marine life conservation and natural environment preservation.
“When we first heard of CROSSROADS, we thought that this is going to be a remarkable project and the first of its kind in the Maldives and naturally, the first thing that comes to mind is we need to be a part of this,” said Mr. Eric van Melis, General Manager, Best Dives Pvt. Ltd.
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Qatar wants monetary compensation for Arab embargo
by Rishi Iyengar and Zahraa Alkhalisi @CNNMoney July 10, 2017: 5:04 AM ET
Qatar's diplomatic row could hit foreign investments
Qatar plans to help citizens and companies claim compensation for their losses from what the country calls a "blockade" by its neighbors.
The small Gulf nation on Sunday announced the formation of a special committee with which individuals and firms can file claims for damages. The committee will help legally pursue the claims, according to Qatar's justice ministry.
"We are confident that Qatari lawyers can defend Qatar and its symbols through proper legal procedures," the ministry said on Twitter, adding that it will take "appropriate legal measures to go after the abusers of Qatar."
Related: 'We can defend our currency and economy,' Qatar says
Thousands of individuals and several businesses have taken major hits since Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut diplomatic ties and shut off all transport links with Qatar. The four countries accuse Qatar of destabilizing the Middle East by funding terrorism in the region, a claim the Qatari government has denied.
The countries have sought to extract concessions from Qatar in return for restoration of diplomatic and economic ties. The demands include closing the state-funded Al Jazeera media network, reducing diplomatic ties with Iran, and halting the construction of a Turkish military base in Qatar.
Last week, the four nations said they would continue the boycott after a deadline for Qatar to comply with their demands came and went without a resolution being agreed. Qatar's foreign minister said his nation wouldn't comply with any demands that it considers a violation of international law.
Diplomatic efforts are underway to resolve the crisis.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrives in Kuwait, which is helping mediate the dispute, on Monday. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson also traveled to the region last week and met senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar.
Related: British banks have stopped selling Qatari cash
Qatar has already taken several steps to keep its economy going, with the Qatari finance minister telling CNNMoney that it is strong enough to bounce back. The country is planning to increase production of natural gas -- one of the cornerstones of its economy -- by 20%.
-- Merieme Arif contributed to this report
CNNMoney (Hong Kong) First published July 10, 2017: 1:08 AM ET
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A Boy Named Sue Flatt & Scruggs
Lonesome Road Blues
Earl Scruggs & Lester Flatt
Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town
Lester Flatt
Bugle Call Rag
Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs
Earl Scruggs
Forsaken Love
Will You Be Lonesome Too? (with the Foggy Mountain Boys)
Take Me Back to Tulsa (with the Foggy Mountain Boys)
℗ 1973 Sony Music Entertainment
ClanHunter , 11/20/2010
Yeah, the title and the track are rip offs of the Cash tune, and there is also a cover of the Mel Tillis tune Kenny Rogers made famous but the album is GREAT! I bought the vinyl years ago off the dollar rack of a used record store, and the only real bummer is absolutel no information on who plays with them. It appears to be a compilation album--tunes snatched from various sources, and I would almost bet it is Chubby Wise on the fiddle. I have enjoyed listening to this album for 25 years or more--it never gets old.
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16 Biggest Hits: Willie Nelson
Bound to Ride
Jim Mills
Folk Songs of Our Land
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A Matter of Trust - The Bridge to Russia: The MusicLive
Исполнитель: Billy Joel
Prelude / Angry Young ManLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
HonestyLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
The Ballad of Billy the KidLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
She's Always A WomanLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
Scenes from an Italian RestaurantLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
Goodnight SaigonLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
StilettoLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
Big Man on Mulberry StreetLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
Baby GrandLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
What's Your NameLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
The Longest TimeLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
An Innocent ManLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
PressureLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
AllentownLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
A Matter of TrustLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
Only the Good Die YoungLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
It's Still Rock and Roll To MeLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
Sometimes a FantasyLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
You May Be RightLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
Uptown GirlLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
Big ShotLive in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
Back in the U.S.S.R.Live in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
The Times They Are A-Changin'Live in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
She Loves YouRehearsal Performance in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
New York State of MindRehearsal Performance in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
Piano ManRehearsal Performance in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
ЛейблSony
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant Live in Moscow & Leningrad, Russia - July/August 1987
A Matter of Trust - The Bridge to Russia: The Music
Scenes from an Italian RestaurantLive at Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY - December 1982
Scenes from an Italian RestaurantLive at Carnegie Hall, New York, NY - June 1977
Scenes From An Italian RestaurantLive at Shea Stadium, Queens, NY - July 2008
Scenes from an Italian RestaurantLive at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - 2006
Scenes from an Italian RestaurantLive
Scenes from an Italian RestaurantLive at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY - December 31, 1999
Scenes From An Italian RestaurantHd Remastered Version
Your Love Is
Ron Greene
Don't Wait Up
A. Tom Collins
Nash Kato
Warrior Souls
The Weyers
Dazed & Confused (American Idol Performance)
Caleb Johnson
Adesso TuLive Cinecittà 2012
Orange In The Sun
Waiting for YouLive in Paris
WiggerLive At Symphonica In Rosso
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The Mourning Reign in the Garage
So many of our obscure classic rock posts have come from the garage thus far I think I should make a separate category profiling garage-rock bands of the mid 60s. Before the psychedelic revolution there was a large focus on the garage-rock sound (around 1963-1967). The British Invasion – specifically “beat” groups like the Rolling Stones, The Animals, and the Kinks had a large influence on these bands, as did folk-rock groups that were beginning to experiment in America. This mishmash of influences helped form famous garage-rock bands like the Kingsmen, The Count Five, The Syndicate of Sound, and the Leaves (and even the Troggs in Britain). This genre of music provided much inspiration to the future punk music movement and it also laid a foundation for the soon-to-be psychedelic movement which sparked in popularity during the years of around 1966-1970.
But – like with any popular genre – there were bands that fell through the cracks. Today we are going to take a look at the Mourning Reign, a San Jose band that formed in 1965 and broke up in 1969. This band combined the fuzz of garage rock with folk rock. They even played around with hints of psychedelic music.
The band was made up of:
Lead/Rhythm Guitarists: Johnnie Bell, Tom O’Bonsawin, Steve Canali
Rhythm Guitar/Vocals/keyboardist: Jay Garrett
Bass Guitarist Charlie Gardin
Drummer Craig Maggi — Mike Hossack (Doobie Brothers)
Lead Vocalist Beau Maggi
Let’s listen to some tracks.
The first few notes of “Satisfaction Guaranteed” scream garage rock. A fuzzy guitar and well-defined bass provide the rhythmic backing to the introduction. Everything about this song is typical garage sound – from the Jagger-like vocals (which I must say are very well done by Beau Maggi) to the choral harmony. When I first listened to this I thought that it sounded like some song – and then I quickly realized it sounds like 100-or-so songs I know and listen to. So where does it differ? The multiple-guitar solo is wonderful and atypical. This band had a surplus of guitarists and they used them to their advantage. That may be the best part of the song which otherwise is simply a solid, enjoyable garage track.
“Light Switch,” which appears on the same EP, immediately takes a 180 degree turn. It makes you perk up. The band takes from its folk-rock influences, but, more from early 60’s pop melody. The vocal harmonies are fantastic. They are tight and, wait, what was that. Is that a church bell and a plucked acoustic and an accordion. The song transforms into this odd progressive (even psychedelic) segment halfway through and this leads up to rising percussion and a Phil Spector-like wall-of-sound vocal moment briefly. This is an oddly prescient segment. The song ends on a guitars ominous twang. Absolutely the best song by The Mourning Reign and one that should be listened to by all.
Tags: Garage rock
Categories Obscure Classic Rock
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27 Responses to “The Mourning Reign in the Garage”
John Phillips January 4, 2012 at 9:19 pm #
Couldn’t pull up Satisfaction guaranteed, cause the imbed isn’t there. Second one is definitely garage rock.
Matthew Coleman January 4, 2012 at 9:47 pm #
Oops! My bad. It’s up now. Thanks!
Been there, done that haha.
No kidding, 100 songs at least, Doors, Stones, Animals, you name it, its in there somewhere. Lots of the Animals, can see Eric singing this or even Mark Lindsay
Matthew Coleman January 4, 2012 at 10:20 pm #
Absolutely. Such a recognizable sound.
brian dehn January 12, 2012 at 10:38 pm #
i love this band. i remember watching them at the continental ball room in Santa Clara. they had more singles they recorded, to be you can’t find all their music.
Monique March 26, 2013 at 10:30 am #
Gosh that’s where I first met them at the Continental
frank-beau-maggi April 1, 2016 at 4:29 am #
hi Monique…did I ever meet you…beau
what ever happened to all the music of the mourning reign. they were a great band.
still around brian….canali, Charlie and beau….still around and still playing and writing…radical amerilandic truthists…
Lana Garrett July 8, 2017 at 7:43 pm #
Beau … hey stranger it’s me Lana Jay’s wife (now ex 🤣) still think of you often and when you called & told me you were getting married. A beautiful wedding I’ll never forget.
Matthew Coleman January 13, 2012 at 10:05 am #
That is awesome. I’m sure you have some great memories of seeing them and others! A compilation album of their stuff was released in 1998 –
http://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/the_mourning_reign/the_mourning_reign/
It has a good amount of their material and is definitely worth checking out.
JBB March 19, 2012 at 12:08 pm #
Thanks! I have great memories of them playing in Northern NJ with Mike Hossack on drums.
Matthew Coleman March 19, 2012 at 2:58 pm #
Good point. Was very sade to hear about Hossack’s passing. He was an excellent drummer. Thanks for sharing JBB.
Monique September 10, 2012 at 1:25 am #
You forgot to mention rhythm guitarist/keyboardist Jay Garrett who is on the vinyl sleeve lower left who also sang backup
Beau September 15, 2012 at 12:55 am #
I am so surprised this music still is being recycledour band came John Duckworth of The Syndicate of Sound…Dave Tolby of The Chocolate Watchband
frank October 2, 2012 at 2:49 am #
Hi all…This is Beau Maggi of the Mourning Reign…Monique is right about Jay Garrett. He went to LA with me and came running back to his wife Lana to San Jose. Left me with $29…an I’m sorry but I want my Lana. So, Beau Maggi of the Mourining Reign began the best part of his musical carreer without any of the original members. They were too scared to leave San Jose but later moved to New Jersey of all places to become a Doors meets Jimi copy band,
In LA I became Frankie J and the Shadow…then BOA,,,then Maggis Lords…the music really got good around that time…if you wish to know what happened to the original Reign or other bands of the time…well. I knew ’em all…just ask…oh our best song ? we never recorded our best
J Kevin Richter November 29, 2013 at 6:37 am #
Beau! If you have a moment, I’d love to speak with you. Could you please contact me via email at muzik_guy2@yahoo.com? It’s about Boa & everything else you’ve done since 🙂
peeshee March 13, 2015 at 9:56 pm #
Beau Maggi, holy cow! So cool to see you around. Leaving my email. Would love to catch up!
Beau Maggi, I left a message but registration got the best of me! This is Donnette. I left an email address. We need to catch up.
Oh Yeah….Hossack was a jerk…but a good drummer…we put a decent band together in San Fran we had fun but when I went to LA…well the rest is history…these times were the craziest…Matthew…you couldn’t imagine in your wildest dreams what we were up to…the Angels…the drugs…the war..the SDS…Panthers…the concerts…was worse than you can ever imagine but the duakity of it all prevailed,,,as bad as it got…it was just as good…as much love there was…well just as much hate…in the South Bay it was all about my band The Mourning Reign…The Chocolate Watchband was serious Rolling Stone wannabees…we called the lead singer Dave Jagular…the Count Five were nonexistant…the lucked into a hit…The E-Types…good but…we were the best=my brother started in The Syndicate of Sound…taught John Duckworth how to drum…they we a bit wimpy…it was The Reigh..The Doors..Country Joe…Big Brother..The Golliwogs…Buffalo Springfield…The Dead…all the British bands….on and on
Matthew Coleman October 2, 2012 at 6:40 am #
Wow. So great to hear from you. Fascinating. I’d love to talk more about your recollections of West Coast music in the 60s. Thanks for the comment!
Is this comment from the singer of the “Reign”
You did not include guitarist Jay Garrett who played on the actual recordings
Monique March 26, 2013 at 7:33 pm #
Sorry I see you did include Jay Garrett
Monique January 6, 2014 at 11:19 am #
I was able to locate the wife of Jay Garrett on Facebook but cannot locate anyone else associated with the band. Any help would be appreciated
peeshee March 14, 2015 at 12:34 pm #
Hi Monique, I was one that ‘hung around’ with the band in a big old house they rented in San Jose. Have you been able to locate or communicate with any of the Mourning Reign members?
Chang October 7, 2014 at 10:57 pm #
Can you tell us more about this? I’d love to find out
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Author: Greg Sieren
2017 Fall Championship Open 9/30/2017
On February 26, 2017 January 14, 2018 By Greg SierenIn 2017, Championship Open, Fundraising, UncategorizedLeave a comment
Milwaukee Chapter of Muskies Inc is pleased to announce their 2016 Fall Championship Open Tournament will be held on September 30, 2017 on Pewaukee Lake. This is a payout-fundraising tournament. The purpose of this tournament is to attract new members and raise funds for club programs. This includes but not limited to muskie rearing and stocking efforts for area lakes, monthly membership meetings with guest speakers, youth outings, and veterans’ memorial outings.
There are some changes in this years tournament entrance fee’s. In addition there is a rule change of no live bait.
You can Download and print the electronic tournament document for complete details.
2017 MCMI Guide Raffle
On February 20, 2017 February 20, 2017 By Greg SierenIn 2017, Fundraising, Guide Raffle, StockingLeave a comment
2017 MCMI GUIDE RAFFLE:
This is a new fundraiser for stocking our area lakes that we’ll be having this year. Four generous guides each donated a 1/2 day guide trip, with all proceeds of the tickets going towards stocking our local lakes. Tickets are $5 each, or 3 for $10. A big thanks to the guides that donated:
Mike Koepp – Pewaukee – http://mikekoepp.com/
Joel Walczak – Pewaukee – http://www.daveslegacy.com/
Rick Godager – Pewaukee – https://www.facebook.com/RGS-Guide-Service-284441695277383/
Ryan Grant – Green Bay – http://www.trgoutdoors.com/
The drawing will be at 6pm on Sunday, April 30th at Curly’s Waterfront, need not be present to win.
To get your tickets, contact Brian Mirek at brimirek@gmail.com or 414-807-4122, or buy them at our February, March, or April meetings.
2016 Fall Championship Open on Pewaukee Lake September 24th
On August 29, 2016 November 8, 2016 By Greg SierenIn 2016, Championship Open, Tourneys1 Comment
Milwaukee Chapter of Muskies Inc is pleased to announce their 2016 Fall Championship Tournament will be held on September 24, 2016 on Pewaukee Lake. This is a payout-fundraising tournament. The purpose of this tournament is to attract new members and raise funds for club programs. This includes but not limited to muskie rearing and stocking efforts for area lakes, monthly membership meetings with guest speakers, youth outings, and veterans’ memorial outings.
Entrance fees, the payout schedule (based on a full field), hours, rules and registration form can be found here:
2016 Fall Championship Open
2016 Quad County Challunge Recap
On May 7, 2016 May 16, 2016 By Greg SierenIn 2016, Outings, Quad CountyLeave a comment
The 29th annual Quad County outing is now in the books. This year, with Mother’s Day landing on Southern Wisconsin’s opening weekend of game fishing, the Quad County Challenge between Milwaukee Chapter and Quad County (IL) Chapter of Muskies INC was a one day affair. Only 1 fish between both chapter was eligible to be counted, a 43″ fish caught by Steve Berg. There were some fish ineligible fish caught on Opening Day by Milwaukee Chapter members. Noteworthy fish boated were Brian Malack with a 33.5″, Marty Foreman with a 34″, and Steve Berg with a 40.5″.
A special thanks to Daelyn Petzke and Lynne Dembiec for all the help with the food after the outing.
Steve Berg with his 40.5″ Fish
Brian Malack with his 33.5″ Fish
Okauchee 2016 Spring Musky Stocking
On April 10, 2016 November 8, 2016 By Greg SierenIn Okauchee, StockingLeave a comment
In an effort to produce a sustaining and thriving musky fishery in the Greater Milwaukee area, two clubs—The Muskellunge Club of Wisconsin (MCW) and the Milwaukee Chapter of Muskies Inc. (MCMI)—are stocking Okauchee Lake with extended growth muskies on April 12th 2016. Both groups are very excited about the potential of this stocking project, and the larger-than-normal size of the muskies that will be released into this trophy-fish producing lake.
Gollon Bait and Fish Farm, a family-owned business in Dodgeville, Wisconsin, will be the source of the muskies provided. Among the fish raised at this facility are panfish (bluegill, crappie, and perch) and baitfish (suckers, fatheads and golden shiners). Since the early 1990s, Gollon has also been deeply rooted in the business of raising gamefish such as small-mouth bass, large-mouth bass, channel catfish, walleye, northern pike, and musky. Their business focuses on supplying bait shops throughout the Midwest, as well as stocking both public waters and private ponds.
Okauchee Lake would not be receiving this wonderful opportunity without not only the successful fundraising efforts of both clubs, but also the generous donations given to each organization to ensure the longevity of musky angling. This stocking project also received a very nice contribution from Waukesha County, who used grant money made available to them.
MCW would like to thank Bill Schwartz and Slammer Tackle for their donation towards the effort of stocking Okauchee Lake this spring. Slammer Tackle, founded in 1989, is based out of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, and specializes in the production of high-impact (and high quality) plastic crankbaits. MCW would also like to thank Mike Ebert, Mike Phelps, Nancy Nedilsky, and Emily Guduyron.
MCMI would like to thank Team Rhino Outdoors for their donation toward this stocking effort. Team Rhino is a business that has found a niche in specializing in the sales of custom musky lures, selling a diverse selection of unique paint schemes.
Both clubs want to share their appreciation for all the anonymous donations as well. This project would not have been made possible without the financial support of everybody involved. This stocking event is truly an opportune occurrence, and is aimed at creating a flourishing fishery for the future of our sport.
2016 Larry Kleeba Challunge – Hosted by Milwaukee Chapter on Waukesha County – Lakes May 21-22
On April 3, 2016 April 3, 2016 By Greg SierenIn 2016, Larry Kleeba Challunge, OutingsLeave a comment
This year the Milwaukee Chapter will be hosting the Larry Kleeba Challunge on Saturday, May 21st and Sunday, May 22nd. Pewaukee Lake, Okauchee Lake, Oconomowoc Lake, Lac la Belle–all of these will be locations available to fish. Milwaukee Chapter will be hosting a cookout at Nettesheim Park on May 21st at 3pm. Trophy presentation will be at Nettesheim Park on May 22nd at 1pm, and all fish must be registered no later than 12:30pm. To register for the challenge itself, please contact Bob Petzke by the contact form below by May 6th.
Milwaukee Chapter decided to host the Challenge on our area lakes in May. This gives us a chance to introduce you to our fine southeast Wisconsin lakes and give the chapters up north an earlier start to their Wisconsin muskie season. In addition, recreational traffic is much lower in May than compared to June. We will have a 3PM meal at Nettesheim Park so to allow anglers an opportunity to fish the evening full moon. This was to create less hassle for those fishing to have to pull off the lake and relaunch. Nettesheim Park is located at the corner of Prospect Ave and Oak Street south of Pewaukee Lake. Nettesheim has good parking for trucks with boats, and also has a shelter in the event of adverse weather.
Pewaukee Lake has several launches around the lake. The West End Waukesha County launch in Naga-Wauke Park off of Maple Ave has ample parking. The last time I checked was $8 to launch. There is also a public launch at Smokey’s Muskie Shop off of Lakeview Blvd north of CTH SS. There are fees to launch at Smokey’s too. Okauchee Lake has a free DNR launch site, just north of State Hwy 16. Take CTH P – Wisconsin Ave to Lakeview Court and go north. Overflow flow traffic to Okauchee is directed to the Golden Mast with a fee charged by the Golden Mast. Both Okauchee and Pewaukee have establishments on the water to stop and get something to eat and drink. Oconomowoc Lake launch site is a very short distance from the Okauchee Launch. It also sits just north of HWY 16 and is off of CTH P – Wisconsin Ave. A recent check in March revealed that fees are $11.75 with attendant present, and $10 with no attendant present. Lac La Belle is in Oconomowoc and the launch for Lac La Belle is right north of Wisconsin Ave on STH Business 16 just west of downtown Oconomowoc. There is a launch fee for this launch and street parking is the norm.
The Lakes Country of Waukesha County is an affluent area that offers some nice hotel accommodations in the area, including but not limited to:
Staybridge Suites Milwaukee West-Oconomowoc-1141 Blue Ribbon Dr. Phone:(262) 200-2900
La Quinta Inn & Suites-Delafield – 2801 Hillside Dr. Phone:(262) 395-1162
Holiday Inn Express & Suites-Delafield -3030 Golf Rd. Phone:(262) 646-7077
Country Pride Inn – Delafield – 2412 Milwaukee St. Phone:(262) 646-3300
Country Springs Hotel -Pewaukee -2810 Golf Rd Phone:(262) 547-0201
Best Western Waukesha Grand – 2840 N Grandview Blvd Phone:(262) 524-9300
Holiday Inn – Pewaukee – N14 W24140 Tower Pl Phone:(262) 506-6300
There are several others in the area that offer different price points and locations.
The Kleeba Challunge is a traveling tournament held annualy among the Wisconsin Chapters of Muskies, Inc. There are currently nine chapters. The tournament was named after a member of Headwaters chapter, Larry Kleeba, who held the position of “Director at Large”. Larry moved to the Conover, Wisconsin area from Illinois. He was well known in the area and had many friends in Muskies, Inc. He has been described as a party kind of guy who loved to fish for muskies and was very good at it. Larry died in a tragic car accident near his home, after which during a Musky Club Alliance meeting, it was decided to name this tournament in his honor.
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Palace to sunken boat owner: ‘We can never be slaves to anyone’
June 17, 2019 - Monday 5:06 PM by PNA
MANILA -- Malacañang rejected on Monday the statement made by the owner of a Filipino fishing boat, which was allegedly rammed and abandoned by a Chinese fishing vessel, that Filipinos have turned into “slaves” of China.
In an interview with reporters in Occidental Mindoro, Felix dela Torre, the owner of F/B Gem-Ver1 which was allegedly abandoned near the Recto Bank (Reed Bank) in the West Philippine Sea said he felt like Filipinos had no right over their own territory.
Presidential Spokesperson Salvador Panelo, however, refuted dela Torre’s claim, noting that the Philippines can never be slaves to any foreign power, including China.
“The response is we can never be slaves to anyone. Not to anyone -- that includes every country in the world,” Panelo said in a Palace briefing.
Panelo said that although Chinese fishing vessels are not allowed to fish anywhere near the Recto Bank, he would rather wait for results of an investigation to confirm whether Chinese fishermen were indeed fishing in the area.
“Basta teritorya natin at nandun sila, mali ‘yun siyempre (As long as it’s our territory and they’re fishing there, then that’s wrong),” Panelo said.
“Hindi pa natin alam kung nagpi-fish sila doon (But we don’t really know whether they were fishing there),” he added.
Last week, Panelo released a strong statement condemning the alleged abandonment of Filipino fishermen and asking the Chinese government to sanction the Chinese crew who failed to help them.
Foreign Affairs Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr. said his agency has already filed a diplomatic protest against China.
The Chinese Embassy, however, denied the abandonment and instead claimed that their vessel was “besieged” by several Filipino fishing boats.
"The Chinese captain tried to rescue the Filipino fishermen, but was afraid of being besieged by other Filipino fishing boats. Therefore, having confirmed the fishermen from the Filipino boat were rescued on board of other Filipino fishing boats, 42212 sailed away from the scene," the embassy said in a statement.
Following the statement released by the Chinese Embassy, Panelo said that the Duterte administration will consider both the results of investigation being conducted by the Philippines and China.
Panelo also clarified that the Palace is not doubting the statements made by the Filipino fishermen who claimed they were abandoned at sea.
“Not doubting but we want to know the facts since there is a contrary claim (from China),” Panelo said.
“That was an initial outrage based on the initial findings and the outrage continues until such time that we’re proven wrong,” he added.
In the meantime, Panelo said that Palace will take the Filipino fishermen’s statement at “face value” until proven otherwise by other testimonials and proof.
The Reed Bank incident, which took place on June 9, is the latest issue in relation to the dispute between the Philippines and China over the West Philippine Sea.
On July 12, 2016, the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) released its decision in favor of the Philippines which nullifies China's nine-dash line map which covers nearly the whole of WPS.
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There are a number of procedures and documentation required when exporting from Malawi and will mostly depend on the type of export that has to be declared. The three types of exports and their procedures that an exporter can declare are as follows: i.e. Direct Export, Temporary Exports and Re-exports.
A. Direct Export
This refers to exports where goods are destined for final export from Malawi e.g. goods from open stock, direct export of goods after bonded warehousing and exportation after free zone or bonded factory procedures.
B. Temporary Export
This refers to exports where goods being exported will be returned to Malawi and will include:
Temporary exportation for outward processing/manufacturing/processing - Goods exported under this procedure must be produced to Customs prior to exportation.
Temporary exportation for repair - Goods may be exported for repair in another country and then returned to Malawi. Goods upon being returned, may be subject to import charges on the value of the repair.
Temporary exportation for return in an unaltered state - Refers to goods being exported and then returned to Malawi without any change or processing having taken place on the goods. e.g. Goods exported for trade fairs and vehicles exported for return.
C. Re-export
This refers to procedure where goods are being exported after temporary admission, and is of different types:
Re-exportation after temporary admission for inward processing (suspension system)
Re-exportation after temporary admission for inward processing (drawback system)
Re-exportation after temporary admission for return in unaltered state
Re-exportation after free zone or bonded factory procedure
Documentation in export trade is very vital and that all documents have to be completed before the consignment leaves the country of origin and at the destination to enable the consignee in the importing country to clear the goods through local authorities.
Types of Documents Generally Required by an Exporter
Their are anumber of documents required for an export shipment, but the exporter should remember that they vary depending on
the type of goods and market requirements:
Currency Declaration CD1 Form
GSP Form A
Export License/Permit
Export quality certificate
Carrier’s Cargo Manifest
Customs Declaration Form 12
The Suppliers Commercial Invoice
GSP form ADA 59
Certificate Form D
Zimbabwe Certificate of Origin Form No. 60
The Consignment Note or Airway Bill Shipping Instructions
The Certificate of Health and Phyto-Sanitary Certificate
Certificate of Fumigation
Exchange Control – CD1 Form
This is an exchange control document form which must be completed for all shipment whose value exceeds US$5000. Copies are sent to the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Reserve Bank of Malawi. The Reserve Bank will query the exporter at the end of the stated period at which payment was expected to be received to ascertain if such payment has actually been received. If not, then the Reserve Bank demands to know why the payment has not been received. This document is available from all the commercial banks.
All exports must be cleared through Customs by submission of Form 12. This form is also used for clearing imports. It has replaced Bill of Entry – Form 34 (for exports) and Form 21 (for imports). This form is obtainable from Malawi Revenue Authority.
The Commercial Invoice
The Commercial Invoice is completed to enable the importer to clear his goods in his country. It contains the name of the exporter, weight, value and description of goods.
The Certificate of origin is completed in the exporting country to authenticate the originality of the goods. It must be duly stamped by the Malawi Revenue Authority before leaving port of dispatch.
Malawi being a member of the ACP countries, has to complete the GSP Form A for all its exports to the EU in order to enjoy preferential duties under Everything But Arms arrangement (EBA). The form is issued at a fee by the Malawi Investment and Trade Center.
DA 59 Certificate
Exports to the Republic of South Africa must be accompanied by DA 59 Certificate in addition to a certificate of origin. The certificate is issued at a fee by the Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
Form D.
The form must be completed for exports to Botswana. This form is issued by Malawi Revenue Authority Customs Department, it exempts the importers from paying import duties.
Under the Malawi/Zimbabwe trade agreement exports to Zimbabwe enjoy preferential treatment if accompanied by Zimbabwe certificate of Origin Form 60. The form must be completed and submitted to the Controller of Customs and Excise in Malawi for verification before the goods are exported to Zimbabwe.
When goods have been shipped by sea, the Bill of Lading is the most important document. The Air Waybill, in the case of Air Freight, is both the consignment note and the Bill of Lading. The definition of the Bill of Lading is:
A receipt for goods given to the exporter by the shipping company.
A document of title to the goods described on it.
Evidence of a contract by the company to carry the goods from the port of sailing to the destination. In countries where they have their own sea ports, the Bill of Lading is completed by the exporter himself. But in the case of Malawi, Bills of Lading have to be completed by the port agents at Nacala and Durban.
The Through Bill of Lading
This is a Bill of lading normally issued by a clearing agent. The Through Bill of Lading is usually not negotiable at Customs, but counterpart port of destination.
The Consignment Note or Airway Bill
An Airway Bill is issued for traffic by air, just as the road or railway consignment could as well be called the Road Way Bill or Rail Way Bill respectively. Like other pre-shipping documents, a consignment note or way bill must bear a Customs stamp in order to be accepted. The carrier (e.g. Central East African Railways and Air Malawi) will not accept a consignment note or Airway Bill which is not stamped by Customs authorities.
This document contains shipping instructions from the exporter to his clearing agent (in land or at the port).
The certificates may be required by the importing country for animal products and plants and plant products respectively. The Health Certificate in Malawi is issued by the Veterinary Department and the Phytosanitary Certificate by the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation.
Some products require fumigation before they can be exported. Customs authorities will require this document before passing the entries in commodities such as dried fish.
This document is issued for export of goods to developed countries which are offering preferential treatment to developing countries under Generalised System of Preferences. It is issued for exports to industrialised countries outside the EU and is obtainable at a fee from the Malawi Confederation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
Other Documents From Buyer Required By An Exporter
Apart from the payment documents, an exporter will also require the following:
Trading in some products is controlled worldwide or from country to country. Items such as ivory, hides, ammunition, etc, require import permits in most countries. Import permits are required to control influx of prohibited items and drain of foreign exchange. An exporter will therefore require an import licence from his buyer to be attached to his documents for certification by Customs authorities before shipping the goods.
Export Licence/Permit
Most of the goods do not require an export licence except a few whose details can be obtained from Ministry of Industry and Trade. The document is completed so that the exporter is allowed to move the goods out of the country. It is used for monitoring purposes.
It is issued by the Malawi Bureau of Standards to ensure that some selected products meet minimum quality requirements at the time of exportation.
Source: Malawi Revenue Authority
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Week in Review: California-Canada union, New Jersey’s MMJ expansion & a GOP thumbs-up for hemp
Published March 30, 2018 | By John Schroyer, Bart Schaneman and Kristen Nichols
A Canadian cannabis business buys three California MJ companies, New Jersey expands its medical marijuana program, and a key Republican goes to bat for industrial hemp.
Here’s a closer look at some notable developments in the marijuana industry over the past week.
The announcement that yet another Canadian company – Ontario-based CannaRoyalty Corp. – has acquired three California cannabis businesses may have some in the industry wondering just how much of the Golden State’s marijuana market will be run by locals and companies that have spent years struggling to survive.
At least one longtime California businessman believes the entrance of larger Canadian businesses is exactly what the state’s industry needs.
“Some people, who I think are narrow-minded, may look at this and say, ‘We’re getting taken over!’” said Chris Boudreau, the CEO of San Diego-based Sunstone Distribution. Boudreau also runs a dispensary and cannabis delivery business in Southern California, along with an ancillary company.
“I think it’s good for the industry, because … it brings a whole new sense of legitimacy and respect and interest to cannabis.
“It brings in liquidity to the market, and it accelerates the development of the market.”
And Canadian entries into California aren’t going to stop any time soon.
Boudreau noted that aside from CannaRoyalty’s acquisitions of RVR and two other MJ businesses this week, another Canadian company earlier this month acquired Calyx Brands, a distribution company he founded several years ago before leaving to start up Sunstone.
“I had an investment banker reach out to me from San Francisco,” Boudreau said, “and he said he represents multiple publicly traded Canadian cannabis companies, and they’re looking to make a number of acquisitions, and they’re actively doing it.”
He also said he’s had at least one offer from a Canadian company that’s interested in buying Sunstone.
“We need the liquidity in the marketplace to grow, and it’s not going to come from the broke-ass companies that are already in this industry,” Boudreau said.
“Admittedly, I’ve got a couple of those broke-ass companies. So I’m eager and interested, and this is what’s going to help us grow and flourish.”
New Jersey expansion
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed off on the expansion of the state’s medical marijuana program, adding five new categories of conditions that doctors can recommend be treated with medical cannabis.
Dozens of specific ailments fall under those categories, which should pump up the state’s patient pool dramatically.
The expansion also allows the existing five dispensaries to open satellite locations – but they should exercise restraint before rushing to open new locations, according to one industry analyst.
Evan Nison, executive director of NORML New Jersey, said the companies should wait until the patient pool deepens before adding on or they’ll lose money.
Only 18,574 patients, 536 physicians and 869 caregivers participate in New Jersey’s program, which is small compared to other similarly sized populations.
“We want to have working businesses,” Nison said. “Businesses that are making money, not losing money.
“Because that’s also needed for patients. We need as many retail locations as possible for more patient access.”
Bolstering the medical marijuana program is a fine short-term move for New Jersey’s industry, Nison said, but the more lucrative business opportunity will come in the form of a recreational market.
Murphy has promised to sign an adult-use legalization bill by April.
In the meantime, it’s still up in the air how the MMJ market will function with the coming recreational program.
“We’re still not exactly sure from an industry perspective how the medical system and adult-use system will interact or overlay, or how licenses will work,” Nison said.
But it’s something to look forward to.
“Legalization in New Jersey is very exciting,” Nison added.
“It’s marijuana law reform. People understanding that our marijuana laws are broken.”
GOP hemp love
Hemp entrepreneurs are cheering the announcement that Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell wants industrial hemp out of the Controlled Substances Act.
But they’re not naïve enough to think this will be an easy change.
“A lot of this is political grandstanding and to put up a show,” said Jon Vaught, CEO of Front Range Biosciences, a Colorado biotech company that propagates hemp clones.
“But the reality is this is much more challenging than anybody realizes.”
Even if McConnell and Rep. James Comer, the Republican House sponsor of a bill to deschedule hemp, succeed in their efforts, there will be challenges aplenty for the booming hemp industry.
That’s because all legal complications around growing and selling hemp would vanish, opening the door for multinational agricultural and pharmaceutical companies to enter the market.
Though that’s an exciting proposition for hemp entrepreneurs, it would change the market so dramatically it’s unlikely all businesses would survive.
“It’ll open the door for massive competition from big companies,” Vaught said.
“All those companies would have a very easy path to jump right in this industry, which is going to happen anyway, it’s just a matter of time.”
Still, Vaught and industry groups applaud McConnell’s announcement as a signal that hemp is increasingly accepted as a legitimate agricultural product.
“What is really exciting, especially from the Republican party, is this idea of states’ rights” and letting states experiment with the cannabis plant, Vaught said.
John Schroyer can be reached at [email protected]
Bart Schaneman can be reached at [email protected]
Kristen Nichols can be reached at [email protected]
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One comment on “Week in Review: California-Canada union, New Jersey’s MMJ expansion & a GOP thumbs-up for hemp”
Jim Boynton on April 1st, 2018 - 12:54pm
I for one, would like to know; on what information does Mr Vought base his charge of “political grandstanding to put up a show”? What is the evidence of this?
Classically, any relaxation of regulation of any substance remotely connected with a street drug is not a thing embraced by republican voter base, so using that for “grandstanding” simply does not make sense.
A far more likely scenario is that the sensible and long overdue legislation is good for both business and jobs. Thus far, both of those have both prospered under this administration, an economic reality.
I expect that USA could ramp up massive production of the very useful hemp plant much quicker than anywhere else in the world due to both climate and infrastructure. It will be very beneficial for US to be first in the coming wave of expansion.
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SMITE has been in closed and open beta testing for what feels like an age but as we near release Hi-Rez Studios took some time to showcase the games journey over the last 4 years in a new developer focused video.
SMITE has seen some massive changes since it was first revealed to the public, with huge changes impacting everything from character art and design to gameplay mechanics and environmental improvements. God’s have been completely overhauled, maps totally redesigned and mechanics improved or removed. As a game SMITE has enjoyed one of the the most progressive journey’s through beta that I’ve ever witnessed.
During the video the developers discuss the past, present and future of the increasingly popular MOBA game from the original roots as an additional mode in the science-fiction TPS Global Agenda, to the official release on March 25th.
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BMS, AbbVie Announce EC Approval of Empliciti For Multiple Myeloma
by Carolina Henriques
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) Company and AbbVie have announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved Empliciti™ (elotuzumab) for the treatment of multiple myeloma in combination with Revlimid™ (lenalidomide) and dexamethasone for patients hho received prior therapy at least once. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had already approved the combination treatment.
Empliciti is the first immunostimulatory antibody approved for multiple myeloma in the European Union. The combination treatment was already approved for use in the United States.
The approval was grounded on long-term data from the Phase III ELOQUENT-2 clinical trial, which demonstrated that the combination treatment had a 53% relative improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) compared to enalidomide and dexamethasone (Rd) alone at three years (23% versus 15%).
“At Bristol-Myers Squibb, we are committed to delivering pioneering medicines with the goal of revolutionizing the way cancer is treated for patients who inspire our work each and every day,” said Emmanuel Blin, BMS’ Senior Vice-President and Head of Commercialization, Policy and Operations, in a May 11 press release.
Sarper Diler, President of Myeloma Patients Europe, said approval of the drug is excellent news for elapsed and refractory multiple myeloma patients.
“Multiple myeloma has had a difficult-to-treat history, and at Myeloma Patients Europe, we are committed to ensuring these patients living in any European country are able to access new, innovative medicines, like empliciti,” Diler said.
Phase III ELOQUENT-2 was a randomized, open-label study to evaluate empliciti in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone (ERd) versus Rd alone in patients who had received one to three prior therapies. The clinical study showed that ERd combined regimen led to a 32% reduction in the risk of disease progression or death when compared to Rd alone – as well as a 21% relative improvement in PFS rate at one year (68% versus 56%) and a 50% relative improvement in PFS rate at two years (39% versus 26%).
The co-primary endpoints of the study were PFS as assessed by hazard ratio (HR) and overall response rate (ORR) were both achieved. In addition, pre-specified interim analysis for overall survival (OS) found a positive trend that favored the combination treatment versus Rd alone – even though at the time the threshold for statistical significance had not yet been reached by OS endpoint. The ERd combination regimen showed a significant improvement in ORR of 78.5% versus 65.5% with Rd alone. Data was initially reported at the 57th American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in December 2015.
According to the press release, the most frequent adverse reactions to ERd and Rd include diarrhea, pyrexia, fatigue, cough, nasopharyngitis, upper respiratory tract infection, lymphopenia, and headache.
Because multiple myeloma is largely incurable and often characterized by a cycle of remission and relapse, there is a critical need for new therapies that work in unique and innovative ways said the study investigator Dr. Antonio Palumbo, chief of the Myeloma Unit, Department of Oncology at the University of Torino, in Italy.
“In clinical trials, empliciti in combination with lenalidomide and dexamethasone delivered a significant benefit in progression-free survival,” Palumbo said. “(That) could make a meaningful difference in the lives of patients struggling with this serious disease.”
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Carolina holds a BSc in Anthropology and a MSc in Urban Studies., and brings her interdisciplinary skills to her writing on a range of different topics in science, research and advocacy news.
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College Launches Alumni Travel Program
We are pleased to announce that we are officially kicking off our Pioneer Travel Program with a trip to Cuba in May 2017! We hope you will take time to explore this new program and learn about the opportunities that await you as we seek to encourage lifelong learning and greater connections among the Lewis & Clark community.
Alumni and Staff to be Honored at Ceremony
Haben Girma BA ’10, Niels Marquardt BA ’75, and Michael Ford are all extraordinary individuals. On Friday, February 3, Lewis & Clark will be honoring them for their remarkable achievements and commitment to the college at the annual Alumni Honors Banquet. Read more about our honorees.
Young Alum Finds Her Place on the Portland Stage
Theatre major Alex Leigh Ramirez BA ’10 recently performed in Portland Center Stage’s original production, The Oregon Trail. She played “Then Jane,” a character whose historical struggles in the 1840s counter the modern struggles of “Now Jane,” an apathetic teenager playing “The Oregon Trail” video game on her overachieving sister’s couch in the 1980s. Read more about Alex’s theatrical journey.
Who Lives in the Gatehouse?
What was once the original residence of the college’s first president, Morgan Odell, now houses the Office of Alumni and Parent Programs. Refurbished and dedicated in 2009 as the “Morgan S. Odell Alumni Gatehouse”, the building and its occupants strive to reinforce his vision that L&C be “a citadel of light and learning.” Meet the Alumni and Parent Programs team.
The Election Outcome—Conversation in the Classroom
Addressing questions from his students about the recent presidential election, Aukeem Ballard BA ’11, MAT ’12 shares his thoughts in this recent Edutopia interview.
Campus Happenings - Alumni Welcome!
September 8–December 11: Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne
December 17–18: Portland Chamber Orchestra– Handel's Messiah
January 25: Poetry Reading by James Galvin
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Record Crowds Enjoy Homecoming and Family Weekend
Alumni and families traveled from near and far to celebrate Homecoming and Family Weekend 2016. We cheered on Pioneer football and volleyball, dined on clam chowder at the tailgate, watched Bryan Sebok’s award-winning documentary, Food Truck: The Movie, and recognized the legacies of professors Peter Christenson and Herschel Snodgrass for their combined 61 years on Palatine Hill. Current faculty spoke at Pioneer Colleges, we celebrated the new Athletics Hall of Fame inductees, and welcomed three new members to the Board of Alumni. It was a busy, wonderful weekend. Enjoy these photos!
A Rediscovered Bible
Last month, curious student Sam Bussan BA ’18 investigated a box in the Watzek Library archives and unearthed a Geneva Bible, which may be more than 400 years old. The Washington Post tells the story.
Mark your calendars for a holiday reception on Saturday, December 3, 2016. Festivities begin at 6:30 p.m. with hot cider, wine, and desserts in Frank Manor House, with President Barry Glassner. Albany Society members can get a head start on the evening at 5:30 p.m. The annual Service of Sacred Song and Verse will begin in the chapel at 8 p.m. Details are available online.
Rhodes Scholar Takes on Climate Change in Top Science Journal
Rhodes Scholar Tamma Carleton BA ’09 has progressed from earning her bachelor’s degree in economics to publishing original research in the premiere global science weekly, Science. Her newest work connects climate change to societal impacts. Read more about how Tamma is shaping global policy development.
A Closer Look at Lewis & Clark’s Nature Science Shop
Science Shop Supervisor and Physics Lab Coordinator Stephan Attinasi takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the campus workshop where students can be found designing, building, and repairing research equipment and scientific apparatus.
November 14–15: Dallaire Scholarship Benefit Art Sale
November 16: Chamber Music Recital*
November 19: Percussion Ensemble Children's Concert
November 30: Student Composition Recital*
*This performance will be live streamed.
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Paddlefoot (A story for the little ones)
December 31, 2016 August 4, 2017 Niamh Garvey
Paddlefoot was feeling glum. He was tired of being the biggest dragon in the world. His enormous feet broke boulders every time he walked. When he sneezed, he blew trees right out of the soil. Worst of all, his wings were so big and heavy, he couldn’t lift them off the ground. Which meant he couldn’t fly. Whoever heard of a dragon that couldn’t fly? It was a terrible shame.
A tiny magician heard of Paddlefoot. He came to Paddlefoot’s cave, with his wand held high.
“I am Fionn the magician,” he said, “I’ve heard tales of your troubles, and I wish to help you.”
“How can a tiny magician like you, help a huge dragon like me?” Paddlefoot asked, puffing steam out of his nostrils like factory chimneys.
“I will cast a spell, and swap you my size. If I was the biggest magician in the world, everyone would respect me. In return you will become as small as I am. You will enjoy the world without the fear of knocking it apart.”
“I really am tired of being so big,” Paddlefoot said, “Let’s do it.”
The magician waved his magic wand and whispered a spell beneath his breath. He didn’t want anyone to hear his words, in case they stole them. After all, words are very precious; especially magic ones.
A great flash of light made Paddlefoot close his eyes tight. He felt himself shaking and bubbling and shrinking. When the shaking stopped, he heard a loud swishing noise. He opened his eyes again, and realised the swishing was just the wind, now so much louder in his tiny ears. He coughed and coughed, until he got the hang of taking tiny breaths, now that he needed much less air.
He looked down at his body. His wings were as small as daisy petals. His tail was like a blade of grass, and his legs as thin as strands of hair. He laughed and yelped, for he was now the smallest dragon in the world. No matter how hard he walked, he would no longer cause any hurt to the world.
As he was dancing on his little legs, the ground began to shake, and he was thrown from his feet. He couldn’t see what was causing it to shake, so he spread his leaf sized wings and flew into sky. At last, he was a dragon that could fly. He twirled and whirled in the wind. He had never felt so free.
But then he heard thunder. Loud and roaring, it smashed through the air. He looked around, and saw Fionn the magician in front of him; a huge giant tumbling about. His footsteps were the cause of the ground shaking, and the thunder was his laughter. Fionn blew out a great puff of air, and a gust of wind threw Paddlefoot into a cluster of trees, that were almost ripped from their roots. Fionn knelt down to a river and slurped it all up, leaving the fish jumping on the dry land.
“Stop!” cried Paddlefoot, “You’re ruining the world!”
Fionn laughed louder, and the mountains crumbled to the ground. He inhaled deeply, and swallowed all the clouds.
“I said STOP!” Paddlefoot shouted.
“I’m the most powerful being in the world,” roared Fionn, and Paddlefoot had to hold onto a branch to stop himself being blown away, “You can’t tell me what to do.”
Paddlefoot knew he had made a mistake. He loved being small more than anything. But he knew that if he stayed small and Fionn stayed big, then the world would be in terrible danger. When Paddlefoot was big, he had moved gently. He had learnt to be careful as he grew, to protect the world around him.
“Where is my wand?” Fionn asked, “I must have dropped it when I was growing.”
Paddlefoot scanned the ground until he saw the wand, gleaming from the grass. Fionn bent down and tried to pick it up, but his fingers were too big and he couldn’t grasp it.
“Who needs magic when you’re as big as me anyway?” Fionn said, walking away and knocking over a hundred trees.
Paddlefoot flew down and picked up the wand. He hid it behind his back and flew up to Fionn’s ear.
“Your magic is so clever,” Paddlefoot said, “Please tell me the words of the spell so I can admire your greatness.”
Fionn smiled and puffed up his chest with pride, causing such a wind, that a passing seagull was knocked into space.
“I can’t tell you the spell,” Fionn said, “You might cast it on us and reverse everything!”
“Oh no, I want to stay this small and free forever. Besides, there can be no magic without a wand. And a little dragon shall never have a wand.”
“You’re right,” said Fionn, “In that case, the words were:
Tricks Trocks Hicks Hocks,
Put me into that man’s socks.”
With the words fresh in the air, Paddlefoot waved the magic wand with all his little might.
Back came the flash of light, the shaking and bubbling. This time Paddlefoot felt himself stretching and growing. Very quickly, he was back to his old enormous self. Fionn the magician had shrunk, and was shrieking and shaking his fist at Paddlefoot.
“You tricked me!” he cried, his face as red as lava.
Paddlefoot laughed, very carefully, the way he knew how to, so that he wouldn’t knock any birds out of the sky.
“Power is safest with those who don’t crave it,” Paddlefoot said, throwing the wand on the ground.
He lifted his huge foot and stomped down on the wand, cracking it in two. A little earthquake cracked the ground just beneath Fionn and he ran away, moaning and sobbing. Fionn the magician was never again seen in that part of the world. And Paddlefoot never again wished to be smaller.
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4 thoughts on “Paddlefoot (A story for the little ones)”
Trish Edelstein January 1, 2017 / 9:30 am
Lovely story.
Niamh Garvey January 1, 2017 / 9:54 am
Sherly August 4, 2017 / 9:13 pm
Loved your story.Read your blog.Surprised to see your great effort to balance your family life,work and writing.I am a nurse as well.It was interesting to read your blog.I felt a lot of similarities in your advice.I read most of it after a ’13 hours shift’.
I spend a bit of time writing everyday.Poems,stories or an article,all for young generation.Some of them published.
Seeking your advice by e mail
Niamh Garvey August 4, 2017 / 9:24 pm
It’s hard to find the time on shift work.. I’m only working very part-time nowadays, while the kids are small. Well done on getting a few bits published, I focus mostly on novels and am still unpublished. Still dreaming.
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Brazilian bull rider Marcos Gloria wins top prize at the Calgary Stampede rodeo
July 15, 2018 The Canadian Press Calgary RSS 0
CALGARY — Brazilian bull rider Marcos Gloria made the most of his second chance to win $100,000 at the Calgary Stampede rodeo on Sunday.
Gloria was originally bucked off Happy Camper, but was given another chance because the other three finalists — Fabiano Vieira of Brazil, Joe Frost of Randlett, Utah and Ty Wallace of Collbran, Colo. — were all thrown off their bulls as well.
“I’m glad that I had a second chance,” said Gloria through translator Andre Portis, a retired bull rider with whom he lives with in Edmonton. “I’m very happy the way everything turned out.”
During his re-ride, Gloria scored 76 points atop Rattler, while Vieira, Frost and Wallace were all bucked off their bulls once again. Vieira, Frost and Wallace each won $16,666.67 for finishing in a tie for second place.
Although Gloria was injured after Happy Camper stepped on his leg when he was bucked off, his decision to shake off the ailment turned out to be a profitable one.
“They let me know I had to run and get on the next bull, it was all or nothing,” he said, while adding that he had an “unreal” experience at the Stampede. “I’ve never seen anything this big. I’m very happy and I love Canadians.”
Ten competitors in each of the six events qualified to compete on Sunday and only the top four from the first go-round advanced to the finals. The winner of each event was awarded $100,000, while the second-place finisher took home $25,000. Third and fourth spots paid out $15,000 and $10,000 respectively.
Tuf Cooper of Weatherford, Texas, won the tie-down roping title in a time of 6.8 seconds to edge out Caleb Smidt of Bellville, Texas. It’s the second Calgary Stampede title for Cooper, who also won in 2011.
“It’s a blessing to be here,” Cooper said. “My name’s Tuf, but I get my strength from the lord. I’m so grateful to be here at Calgary to compete at one of the best rodeos of the year. It’s just an honour and a blessing to be here to go up against these guys.”
Thanks to his 92.5-point ride atop Virgil, Richie Champion of Dublin, Texas, won his second straight Stampede title in the bareback event. Champion also drew Virgil in the championship round last year and had a ride of 90.5 points.
“He’s become a staple of my career in a short amount of time,” said Champion of Virgil. “To be able win the Stampede twice now, my head’s spinning.”
Champion edged out Jake Vold of Airdrie, Alta., by just half a point to finish first. Vold still took home the second-place prize of $25,000 following his 92-point ride aboard Trail Dust.
Matt Reeves of Cross Plains, Texas, won his first steer wrestling title in Calgary by recording the top time of 4.7 seconds. Last year’s champion, Tyler Waguespack of Gonzales, La., stopped the clock in 6.7 seconds to finish second.
“That wasn’t the best run I made all week,” said Reeves, who was surprised his time held up. “I figured I was coming in second, for sure.”
Ryder Wright of Milford, Utah finished first in the saddle bronc event by virtue of his impressive 93-point ride atop Stampede Warrior.
“He turned out of there and went to bucking,” said Wright of Stampede Warrior. “He stayed a little closer to the chutes than he did earlier in the week. That horse is really strong. He can really jump and kick and crack. You’ve just got to stay back and keep your feet on (him) or you’re going to get your head popped off.”
Zeke Thurston of Big Valley, Alta., wasn’t able to win his third straight saddle bronc championship at the Stampede, but he still managed to finish second following his 90-point performance aboard Get Smart.
“It’s awesome to be on the top of the list with any of the guys that have been here,” Wright said.
Hailey Kinsel of Cotulla, Texas won the barrel racing championship in a time of 17.078 seconds to edge out Kelly Bruner of Millsap, Texas, by just .028 seconds for top spot.
“I really enjoyed the experience overall,” said Kinsel of her first time competing at the Stampede.
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“You can’t ever tell when they’re going to like an arena or not,” Kinsel said. “I’m just glad she did. She liked it here. She handles the pressure and she’s very tough and very strong, so handles all the runs very well, so that’s a blessing.”
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Long Jump Run Up in Achnahannet
Long jump runways are popular athletics facilities at schools and clubs as they can be installed in a range of surface types and used for multi-sport purposes.
Long Jump Surfaces in Achnahannet
You can choose from Multisport synthetic turf or polymeric rubber for a long jump runway, each of these can be installed in different colours and to various dimensions.
Athletics Facility Installers in Achnahannet
We can design and build long jump and triple jump surfaces at various locations for both recreational and professional use.
The long jump run up in Achnahannet PH26 3 and triple jump events are competed in by masses of people at all different standards and ages. Participation varies from recreational, all through schools and colleges, to sports clubs and athletics clubs.
There are a number of different specification and design ideas to help you construct a jumping track to your requirements and budget. To find out more about construction please click here https://longjumprunway.co.uk/long-jump-construction/highland/achnahannet/ We can offer designs for full long-jump runways, triple jump surfacing and specialist landing pits to suit each project. Please feel free to contact us through our short form and speak to one of our experts. They will be able to guide you through the costs and offer a suitable quote for the work.
Long Jump Runway Specification
A long jump run up facility is vastly becoming a popular choice throughout a number of local organisations including:
Leisure Centres/Sports Clubs
Athletic Clubs (IAAF)
Each of these athletic establishments will need a different design and long jump runway specification to meet their needs, requirements and budget. The design and specification of the long-jump run up can vary in terms of the type of surfacing, size and dimensions, groundworks along with measurements. No matter your level of participation or age we can design a long-jump runway facility to suit you in terms of length, surface type and your budget. Compact athletics facilities are commonly being installed in nearby schools for recreational use because these don't need to be installed to IAAF standards. Long jump tracks can be installed as part of these smaller facilities.
Please contact our team if you have any questions about costs for long jump surfacing or other athletics facilities closest to you in Achnahannet PH26 3 please complete our contact form so we can get back to you.
Triple Jump Run Up Design
As with the long jump, the triple jump event is growing ever popular amongst a wide range of people, all of different age and ability. The type of participation varies from recreational right through to international standard and is participated by thousands of young people throughout the UK in primary schools, secondary schools, colleges, universities, leisure centres and sport clubs. At schools it's important to have sustainable sport facilities and these compact smaller sized features offer that.
Triple jump runways in Achnahannet PH26 3 can differ in terms of distance from the pit and the positioning of take off boards https://longjumprunway.co.uk/take-off-board/highland/achnahannet/ depending on those participating in the event, for example the length of jumping track for a primary school will be significantly shorter than that of an athletics clubs. The surfacing can also differ the top design specification suggests that polymeric surfacing should be used as the triple jump run up design flooring however a leisure centre may deem this unnecessary and instead opt for a different standard of specification such as needlepunch synthetic turf.
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To find out more information about the construction and groundworks associated with building a long-jump and triple jump as well as the surface options and accessories available please look through the appropriate pages or contact us using the enquiry form on this page.
Amateur Athletics Organisation Near Me
The sports and athletics sector refers to Amateur Athletic Association as AAA. Well before UKA, it was AAA who was the official body responsible for athletics. Rather than governing athletics, Amateur Athletic Organisation now represents the volunteer section. The AAA is working with a range of educational institutions and sport clubs in Britain. A variety of challenges and events are offered to younger athletes by the AAA to help them improve their sporting skills. These events for young sport athletes put together by Amateur Athletic Association are respected as development equipment for grass root and children for the future.
The AAA in addition has taken on the role of protecting the historical past regarding the particular sport. Outstanding trophies are passed out by the AAA to professional athletes. Many people are getting involved with sports and athletics because of AAA.
AAA National Events
In schools and colleges near me, National Championships are run by AAA to inspire young people to participate in athletics. Sport and athletics equipment and sponsorships are often funded by the Amateur Athletic Association, as they give money to events including the National Championships whenever they can. Since AAA now represents the volunteering part of this sport, UKA and British Athletics are the governing authorities.
AAA Standards Scheme is an acknowledgement of athletes grading them with regards to distances or times with track and field events. There are different standards for various age brackets and also genders for each event, that makes the standards fair; these kinds of requirements fall under four different grades in which sport athletes may be classified in. The overall performance standards for the sports events are created by databases of information collected over the years which is revised every two years. Certificates and badges are awarded to kids which conform to these kinds of standards. England Athletics and also the AAA make an effort to enhance the number of people who take part in athletics by offering out plaques and rewards to young people achieving Grade One. The AAA Charity for the Young give small grants to younger athletes attempting to start their careers.
Contact us today if you would like to receive more information and are interested in speaking to one of our experts. Simply fill out the contact form above and we will get back to you shortly.
Sugar Tax Funding Grants
There are a number of funding grants which may be given to local schools as a result of sugar tax. The sugar tax has been introduced by the government as a way to tackle obesity in young people. The tax on fizzy drinks means that there is more money available which may be used to better school's sports facilities. Athletics facilities like long-jump run ups and running tracks may be funded by the sugar tax, as these introduce young people to new activities which can help to better their physical fitness and health. The installation of new facilities can also help to reduce childhood obesity, as young people will be more likely to get involved in athletics if the facilities are new and in good condition. For more information on sugar tax funding grants, please do not hesitate to contact us.
A brand new generation of reasonably priced as well as maintainable external sports features which give a stepping-stone into sporting club venues is currently getting developed. If you would like further details on maintenance please visit this page https://longjumprunway.co.uk/long-triple-jump-maintenance/highland/achnahannet/ Many schools and colleges struggle to renew their sports areas for many sporting events, which means kids aren't able to take part in these types of sporting activities. This may be because of a limited budget or even not a sufficient amount of external space for the institution to install on. In numerous establishments, compact sporting facilities are now being designed and fitted in a smaller size to meet restricted spending budgets and to become more affordable. By using these, children are in a position to develop running, jumping and also throwing skills which are part of FUNdamental phases of enhancement.
Reducing Costs for Sports Facilities Near Me
If you're interested in reducing costs for sports facilities, you may want to think about a compact athletics facility. By building different sports facilities in Achnahannet PH26 3 youngsters are capable of getting involved in several different activities for a far more diverse encounter. A few of the popular chosen features can include shuttle running tracks, throwing areas and jogging circuits. To create a multi-use sports area, a simple 60m long-jump track could also be used for sprinting, baton racing in addition to hurdles to help make the most of the space. This is great for schools if there is not adequate room within their surrounding areas for the standard 400m track. A good reason why having a multiple sports area constructed is beneficial for the children is simply because it enables them to discover various events and find one which they like, which might steer them to additional opportunities in their lives.
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A single problem that's having an effect on young people’s engagement in sports and athletics is a shortage of facilities which are directed at beginners and beginners level athletes. Many experts have advised that these athletics need to be made accessible for kids from as little as primary school and up to high school. A whole new set of criteria has been produced by UKA to ensure sports facilities become more available to younger people. The newest design can be installed in vibrant colours to appeal to younger people and is more cost-effective, meaning it is a fantastic basic level athletics facility for educational institutions. We are able to provide you with more information on costs and construction of long jump run ups, along with compact athletics facilites. All you should do is fill out our enquiry form and we will get back to you with more information.
Fitness and FUNdamental Skills
Considering that the specification and design of compact athletic facilities could be altered, near enough any club or school may have one fitted. Many companies decide to get long jump runways and high jump fans fitted as part of their compact sports facility. For each and every unique project the design and also dimensions could be adjusted to match all the requirements, creating a totally personalised end result. The flexibility of the style of compact athletics facilities means that they are highly relevant to an array of situations. Current sports activity and play provisions in primary and secondary schools, universites and colleges in Achnahannet can be made better by setting up the compact athletics facility. By participating in distinct sports and athletics activities, young people from KS1-4 can all better learning and fitness skills. They create an exciting addition to any kind of current athletics features which help boost engagement from pupils. For almost any school looking to reduce costs and stick inside a budget, the small sized recreational facilities offer an effective option. Smaller sized features assist to bring in the FUNdamentals of sports and athletics so young children can build on simple skills of motion and physical activity.
The introduction of a wide network of compact sports facilities is a key part of UKAs purpose to get the interest and need in the sports activity. This is generated more by hosting IAAF and IPC World Championships in London in 2017. By permitting young people to make use of the compact facilities, there is a improved opportunity for sports athletes to better their abilities and transfer to qualified sports clubs because of this.
If you would like to find out more about a long jump run up in Achnahannet PH26 3 please contact us using the enquiry form provided. We will get back to you as soon as possible with answers to any questions or queries you may have. As experts we are happy to help!
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Apparatus - Station #3
Engine 23 (E-23) responded to 2,090 runs last year. E-23 is staffed with a fire officer (captain or lieutenant) and two firefighters. Engine 23 is currently assigned a 2013 Spartan/Smeal 1500gpm pumper.
Ladder 13 (L-13) operates a 105-foot rear mount aerial ladder. Last year L-13 responded to 1,190 emergencies. L-12 is staffed with three members made up of either a fire officer (captain or lieutenant) and two firefighters or three firefighters. Ladder 13 is currently assigned a 2007 American LaFrance 105-foot rear mount ladder. This vehicle was formerly assigned as Ladder 12. Ladder 13 also carries a complete set of vehicle extrication tools including hydraulic spreaders, cutters, and mechanical rams and high pressure air bags.
Mask Service Unit 3
Mask Service Unit 3 (MSU 3) is a 2006 Ford F550 with a compartment body. It houses a high pressure air compressor for filling our self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA). This unit was purchased with funding from a homeland security grant.
New Rochelle Ambulance
The New Rochelle ambulance service is contracted with a private vendor who operates in conjunction with the Police and Fire departments. The current contract requires 2 ALS or paramedic ambulances 24 hours, 7 days per week and an additional ALS ambulance 12 hours per day, 7 days per week. All New Rochelle ambulances are staffed with a minimum of 1 New York State certified paramedic and 1 New York State certified Emergency Medical Technician (EMT). The contract requires new ambulances every 3 years.The ambulance service contract is in the process of being renewed and the Picture shows the previous contractor. Once the new contractor is selected and a new paint scheme developed we will update the picture.
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MIA launches Cargo Flight Tracker website
Digital platform with real-time flight information aims to decrease wait times, congestion
Miami International Airport launches Cargo Tracker
Miami-Dade Aviation Director Emilio T. González unveils the MIA Cargo Flight Tracker before a demonstration
Miami-Dade Aviation Director Emilio T. González unveils the MIA Cargo Flight Tracker before a demonstration with Florida Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association Executive Vice President Barbara Pimentel
On November 2, during the Air Cargo Americas & SeaCargo Americas 2017 conference and exhibition, event host Miami International Airport publicly unveiled its MIA Cargo Flight Tracker – the first web-based cargo flight information display system in the U.S. that allows cargo shippers, freight forwarders, customs brokers and logistics providers to easily view real-time cargo flight information on their mobile devices while on the go. Previously, cargo flight data was only available by contacting or researching individual airlines. Now, cargo handlers have MlA’s minute-by-minute schedule of daily cargo flights in the palm of their hands - saving valuable time and fuel costs when planning freight pickups and deliveries.
The announcement comes just as the busy winter shipping season is about to begin. Following a press conference by Miami-Dade Aviation Department (MDAD) Director Emilio T. González and Florida Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association Executive Vice President Barbara Pimentel, MDAD officials hosted a live demonstration for exhibition attendees on a large-screen monitor. As the busiest U.S. airport for international freight, MIA’s cargo activity generates a local workforce of nearly 8,000 freight forwarders and couriers, and is the primary supporter of 425,344 cargo-related jobs in the Florida economy.
The biennial Air Cargo Americas & SeaCargo Americas event - the largest air cargo exhibition in the Western Hemisphere - draws thousands of aviation and maritime executives from around the world to Miami-Dade County.
The MIA Cargo Flight Tracker is the latest example of how we are leveraging technology to streamline and optimize our cargo operations. Thanks to this new tool, our local cargo industry can spend less time and money waiting in traffic for cargo shipments, because now they have real-time flight information at their fingertips.
MDAD has launched a variety of cargo logistics improvements at MIA recently, including: the e-AWB 360 campaign – a global effort launched in 2016 to eliminate printing costs and replace manual data entry with a more efficient and reliable digital system; Florida’s first-ever ocean-to-air perishables trans-shipment program, which allows MIA to receive perishable freight imports by sea via expedited federal processing and waived customs, and then have them shipped by air - saving both time and money for cargo shippers; and a multi-million dollar facility improvement program launched in 2016 that includes new surveillance cameras and lighting throughout the airport’s cargo area.
For its innovative efforts, MIA was named “Best Freighter Hub” in the world at the Freighters World Conference Awards ceremony in September.
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Mongabay Series: Global Agroforestry
Business and biodiversity benefit from Kyrgyz agroforestry systems
by Cholpon Uzakbaeva on 5 October 2018
In the arid Kyrgyz border region of Batken, farmers grow agroforestry gardens of pomegranate, peach, apple, apricot, and cherry trees which provide shade and moisture to intercropped vegetables and low fruit crops like strawberry and raspberry.
Because irrigation water is limited, agroforestry allows farmers to grow many crops in close proximity, rather than monocrops of grain or hay as one sees in neighboring areas.
Farmers enjoy diverse harvests for a longer period of time each year, from Spring to Autumn, and their forest-mimicking gardens are home to biodiversity too, like hedgehogs, hares, and lynx.
Agroforestry also captures carbon dioxide from the air and stores it in branches, trunks, and soil, making it a useful solution to climate change, one which also boosts soil horizons, groundwater levels, and biodiversity.
KOK-TALAA, Batken province, Kyrgyzstan — The Batken region is located in the southern part of the Fergana Valley, on Kyrgyzstan’s border with Uzbekistan. Like the rest of Kyrgyzstan, much of its territory is mountainous, so the amount of land suitable for human settlement is small.
The village of Kok-Talaa is located in the heart of Batken. It experiences soil-baking summers, so 80 percent of the land around it is planted with gardens; the lack of irrigation and drinking water means large croplands would wither. Since 1994, local farmers have reoriented from animal husbandry and cultivation of major agricultural crops to gardens based on the principles of agroforestry — a method of growing useful trees and bushes in combination with vegetables and fruits, where the taller plants shelter the shorter ones from the sun and provide soil moisture from their deep underground root systems.
Batken is an arid region, yet agroforestry can make the land bloom. Image by Cholpon Uzakbaeva for Mongabay.
Elsewhere in Kyrgyzstan, there is a moratorium on the transformation of lands like these to other uses, like the growing of trees. But this doesn’t apply to the Batken region.
“The case of Batken is a unique example of agroforestry in Kyrgyzstan. Since the Soviet period the local farmers specialized in growing fruit trees, especially the famous Batken apricot trees,” says Klara Dzhakypbekova, coordinator of the SUSWALFOOD Research Project, a program of the Rhine-Waal University of Applied Sciences in Germany. “The National Land Use legislation actually hinders the growth of trees on [these] irrigated land areas, as those are very limited and provide [the country’s] major share of crop products. But the border areas of the country are excluded from such regulations, and farmers are free to decide which land use options to use.
“The Batken lands are very arid [so] intercropping of fruit trees with crops and grains was selected by many farmers,” Dzhakypbekova adds. “One can observe such plots right after entering the first miles of the Batken region, which contrasts with vast pastures or monocrop fields of the neighboring region.”
Vegetables like these cabbages thrive in cool, moist shade when they are intercropped with rows of fruit trees. Image by Cholpon Uzakbaeva for Mongabay.
Under the Kyrgyz system, each person is allocated a plot of land. Farmers seeking the maximum benefit from growing crops in the Batken area settled on agroforestry after some experimentation.
Imarali Balquev is one such farmer and also head of an agricultural cooperative with 15 members. He has several plots spanning a combined 4 hectares (10 acres), so he’s considered a large landowner. He grows several types of peach, cherry, apple, persimmon, plum, pomegranate and apricot trees that are resistant to drought. Thanks to mild winters and varying maturation periods for different trees and crops, Balquev can harvest from May through October.
A pomegranate in farmer Imarali Balquev’s agroforestry garden. Image by Cholpon Uzakbaeva for Mongabay.
“The climate is warm, everything ripens early and we begin to feed the whole of Kyrgyzstan with fresh potatoes, greens, fruits. Between the rows of fruit [trees] I plant potatoes, corn, onions, beans, clover, so I minimize costs and get a profit. The income from the harvest is enough for fieldwork, the education of children, to marry [off the] children, to build houses, for everyday expenses,” Balquev says. The cooperative has also invested in an industrial refrigerator, where its members can store their harvests and then sell in bulk.
Fieldwork doesn’t stop after the harvesting. In winter, any snow almost immediately melts, so farmers use that period for pruning and watering the trees. Any remaining ripe fruit is fed to domestic animals, taken to the cooperative’s canning shop to make juices and compotes, or dried.
Beside benefiting farmers, the older agroforestry gardens in remote areas provide homes and hunting grounds for many wild animals, like the long-eared hedgehog (Hemiechinus auritus) two kinds of foxes, Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx), Tolai hare (Lepus tolai), peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus), and several types of vultures.
Farmers Imarali Balquev and Burgutov Kamaradin with this year’s harvest of apples stored at the cooperative. Image by Cholpon Uzakbaeva for Mongabay.
Another farmer, Burgutov Kamaradin, has rented 15 hectares (37 acres) of rain-fed land in the hills. Three years ago he set up an agroforestry-based garden on 3 hectares (7.5 acres), and already his first harvest just this year has delivered 2 tons of peaches. He also grows quince, raspberry, plum and almond on this arid land now converted into blooming gardens.
A village that runs on raspberries
The nearby village of Orozbekov sits in an ancient lake bed, which gives it a microclimate that’s ideal for growing raspberries. There are some 300 households in the village, each with a plot of 800 square meters (8,600 square feet). From such tiny plots, locals can grow up to 600 kilograms (1,300 pounds) of raspberries for sale, in combination with apples, cherries, poplars, cabbages, tomatoes, potatoes and herbs. Pruned raspberry branches are used as fuel, and proceeds from the harvest pay for food, the children’s schooling, and clothing.
Farmer Inoyatkhon Nurdinova picks some of her raspberries, with intercropped fruit trees in the background. Image by Cholpon Uzakbaeva for Mongabay.
Farmer Inoyatkhon Nurdinova, while showing her plot, says, “After the collapse of the Soviet Union, [I was] one of the first who understood how profitable [it is] to grow raspberries. I destroyed my vegetable plot and planted it completely [with] raspberry [and] fruit. Now raspberries are grown [by] every family.”
Business has been good. “I have permanent dealers with whom I have worked for many years. They come and take it right out of the house. So I do not even need to leave the house to earn money,” Nurdinova says. But as with all farming, she adds, there are difficulties. “For example, two years in a row I could not get a harvest because of locust starlings [Acridotheres tristis].”
All that the inhabitants of these villages typically need to buy from the grocery store are vegetable oil, flour, salt and sugar; everything else they grow on their plots. Any surplus is sold fresh or dried, since fruits from this region are famous and often exported to Kazakhstan and Russia.
Persimmon, strawberry and raspberry cropped together. Image by Cholpon Uzakbaeva for Mongabay.
Despite the limited water resources, the farmers of Batken have succeeded by deciding to intercrop and use the land efficiently, agroforestry expert Dzhakypbekova says. “Batken is a unique example [of] how farmers are able to find the most efficient solutions themselves in case the right conditions are given. Intercropped fruit trees and berry bushes with crops like potato, pepper and tomatoes [are] the primary resources [for] family needs during winter.”
It’s proof that even in arid regions like this portion of western Kyrgyzstan, agroforestry can increase the food security and resilience of agricultural communities.
This article is part of an ongoing series on agroforestry worldwide, see all the features here.
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Small livestock like chickens find plenty to eat among the interplanted crops. Image by Cholpon Uzakbaeva for Mongabay.
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Take Two Refuses EA’s Acquiring Proposal
Take Two refused to take the road to hell, despite the good price paving it. Electronic Arts now share Microsoft’s fate in the Yahoo deal.
The giant publisher felt it stood a good chance to acquire the Grand Theft Auto IV maker by luring the latter with a very good offer: $26 per share or a total bill of around $2 billion. Accompanying the offer was a letter from EA CEO John Riccitiello:
“Our all-cash proposal is a unique opportunity for Take-Two shareholders to realize immediate value at a substantial premium, while creating long-term value for EA shareholders. Take-Two’s game designers would also benefit from EA’s financial resources, stable, game-focused management team, and strong global publishing capabilities…”
However, Take Two chose to place the offer into the Recycle bin. Furthermore, the company lashed out at Electronic Arts in a statement of its own:
“We believe EA’s unsolicited offer is highly opportunistic and is attempting to take advantage of our upcoming release of Grand Theft Auto IV, one of the most valuable and durable franchises in the industry. […]the offer values the Company at a significant discount to its public peers and does not compensate Take-Two for its intrinsic value and the substantial synergies that the proposed combination would create.”
Basically, this refusal says one thing: either Take Two have a huge amount of confidence in their upcoming GTA game and expect a much better financial outcome than the one based on EA’s parenting skills; or they just wanna tease EA some more, in hope that the latter would come up with even a better offer.
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SOPA not Dead. Hearings to Resume in Feb. (house.gov)
483 points by cjoh on Jan 17, 2012 | hide | past | web | favorite | 56 comments
narrator on Jan 17, 2012
Why is the tech sector always on the defensive? Tech companies should pitch in to start a lobbying campaign to limit all copyright to 25 years or something like that and pursue it relentlessly, if only to keep the RIAA and MPAA lobbyists busy instead of letting them have all the time in the world to make trouble.
Homunculiheaded on Jan 17, 2012
This is especially strange when you stop to think that Apple's profits alone are around double the total revenue of all RIAA members. It's hard to imagine that the RIAA is the one that gets to bully apple around.
untog on Jan 17, 2012
Has Apple actually clarified their position on SOPA?
chc on Jan 18, 2012
With iTunes, Apple is one of the media companies' best friends in Silicon Valley. I don't think either of those parties is really interested in attacking the other.
technoslut on Jan 18, 2012
If that is the case those companies don't know it. The labels hate Apple even though they gave them a business model to survive in the digital age. The studios think the same will happen to them (it will eventually) and they're afraid of Apple and every other tech giant.
cowkingdeluxe on Jan 17, 2012
A lot of the MPAA members also own a majority of the news stations and newspapers. They sway voters a lot more than Apple ever could.
tlb on Jan 18, 2012
Apple makes some of that money from works more than 25 years old, so it's not necessarily in their interest.
philwelch on Jan 18, 2012
Hm, really? 25 years ago was 1987. I'm sure if Apple lost the copyright to 1987-era NeXTStep, virtually all of Mac OS X would still be locked down. There's scarcely anything else they still make money from, in copyright terms. Unless you mean iTunes revenue, but that's a break-even for devices anyway, and I'm not sure their profits would be hurt that much by music from before 1987 going into the public domain. In fact, it might help because there's a lot of movie and even TV content pre-1987 they'd suddenly be able to offer without one bit of negotiation.
waterlesscloud on Jan 18, 2012
What can the tech industry do to really disrupt the film and music industries?
What innovations can really change their business model?
What can really take the power out of the hands of these huge companies with their armies of lawyers and lobbyists?
If Silicon Valley is all about innovation, how can that strength be used to win this fight once and for all?
narcissus on Jan 18, 2012
I know it's probably not right, but I was thinking this morning of one way to get rid of the control. I would love to see one of the big tech companies go to each one of these politicians and offer them a ridiculous amount of money to publicly declare their new found opposition and vote it down.
And then I want to see that company public remand that politician for being all about the money. Taken to an extreme, if there were a handful of these guys that would take some cash to turn around (and I know that may be lots of cash) and then for the company to then take out a full page ad in the major newspapers: "This person is so easily swayed by money... do you really want them in charge?". Destroy them. Publicly humiliate them and see how quickly they all stop playing these games.
Who knows, you might even be able to skip step one and just take out the ad "This person gets paid $X a year by the recording industry and they are destroying your freedoms".
That's what I'd love to see, at least...
coreyrecvlohe on Jan 18, 2012
This is the logical next step.
pasbesoin on Jan 17, 2012
This Ars Technica story contains a quote from Chris Dodd (former Democratic Senator, now MPAA head), illustrates their attitude, and the misleading nature of their rhetoric.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/01/sopa-livesan...
Contrary to what he says, the blackouts were driven from sites' user-bases, rather than the reverse. And negotiation and planning for them began well before the Administration's statement (limited in scope as it was, to boot).
Of course, most of us here know this. Just remember, you're dealing with (consummate) liars.
In this statement. And when they say things are "dead". And basically, as the saying goes, whenever you see their lips moving.
libraryatnight on Jan 18, 2012
I would love this gentleman's actual address, email or physical, so I could be certain he was reading what I would like to say to him.
We're all doing a pretty good job of making our representation know we don't like this legislation, I wish it were as easy to let the people responsible for engineering this crap just how horrible a thing they're doing.
I have been worrying that I let my emotions get the best of me in my grandparent comment.
I have some thoughts about how to effectively address the politicians who are the tools in this (note that Dodd would now be in good part a tool wielder rather than a tool, having moved to the other side of Washington's revolving door). However, talk's cheap, and I've restrained myself from posting them when I don't have any further, concrete steps to take or taken, personally, with respect to what I think might be effective. (I've communicated to numerous parties, including written letters to my legislators.)
As for his address, the MPAA office address is readily available. But I doubt anything would actually get through to Dodd. He's not interested in listening.
jcromartie on Jan 17, 2012
> legislation that protects consumers, businesses and jobs from foreign thieves who steal America's intellectual property
What is SOPA going to do to stop foreign thieves? I thought it was limited to American ISPs? Unless they mean domestic thieves who use foreign sites...
TomOfTTB on Jan 17, 2012
I think you're missing the strategic issues here. SOPA is really about the 2012 election.
On the content providers' side they see a close election for both the Presidency and the Senate (the House is likely to stay GOP no matter what). This means two very important things...
1. Control of the entire federal government is up for grabs
2. All Senate races will be under the microscope. Even those that don't usually get attention. Meaning Senators who aren't used to raising large sums of money are going to need large sums of money.
Both these factors mean the content providers' money is worth even more and they know it. So now is the time to push.
But the politician's are scared by protests. A close election means even a (relatively) small group of Internet activists could turn it. That makes politicians scared of laws that get people riled up.
So the content providers need to both pay off policitians AND find a strategy that gives them political cover. The best way to do that in a bad economy is to frame it as a "jobs bill". Especially since it's the exact strategy that worked in Spain just a few months ago.
That's why you're hearing about jobs and foreign thieves.
Vivtek on Jan 17, 2012
You can't get traction in the US fighting Americans. If you present something as fighting foreign evildoers, though, you basically get carte blanche.
derefr on Jan 17, 2012
They already have the power to fight domestic IP "abuse", though—that's what the DMCA does. These acts are basically just to try to fill in the cracks the DMCA can't touch (foreign companies which allow domestic consumers breach IP law.)
sp332 on Jan 17, 2012
It refers to foreign-hosted sites that sell to US-based customers, or who use US-based advertising agencies, or US banks. The idea is that the largest audience for US-made IP is in America, so blocking US users would cripple foreign pirates who traffic in US IP.
nextparadigms on Jan 17, 2012
First step: create "online borders" around US (they tried to do this in Europe) to "protect our jobs" and all that.
Second step: filter the information you get in US. Make the Internet more like TV. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2XPiqhN_Ns)
corin_ on Jan 17, 2012
I think crippling foreign pirates isn't even the biggest goal, the biggest goal is that US customers can't benefit from foreign pirates. They'll care much less about that Russian/wherever site hosting their content if everyone in America has already paid for it.
Jach on Jan 17, 2012
Want to buy your medicine from an evil Canadian e-commerce site for much cheaper? Only if you know how to get to their site without a domain name or using a non-US DNS server, bwahaha.
Unlike traditional, physical, theft, the damage of IP theft comes not when the file is put online illegally, but when it is downloaded/viewed illegally.
Essentially their aim is to stop foreign theves from having any domestic (US) customers/downloaders/viewers.
comicjk on Jan 17, 2012
The "damage" is even more removed than you give it credit for. Assuming the goal of the IP owner is to sell the content, the "damage" occurs when the subset of downloaders who would have bought, don't buy. Clearly not all downloaders are in the category, and some both download illegally and buy legally.
There's also a counteracting benefit to the IP owner, if illegal downloads serve to advertise his IP and induce more people to buy. Overall the connection to "traditional, physical theft" is weak.
cjoh on Jan 17, 2012
Learn to stop it tomorrow during the blackouts: http://www.informationdiet.com/blog/read/better-activism-day...
sudonim on Jan 17, 2012
That's the first time I've heard of SOPA being described as protecting consumers. It seems to me that consumers are knowingly buying the counterfeit goods or consuming the IP that is targeted by SOPA.
firefoxman1 on Jan 17, 2012
Oh yeah, it's just another set of nice-sounding words to make the bill sound more friendly. Just like how NBC's VP called it a "jobs bill," playing on the hot 2009-2012 buzzword "jobs." If anything, older consumers are way less willing to pirate a product; they tend to look for legit brands. It took a lot to convince my mom that streaming TV shows online was (mostly) legal before she would do it. As for younger generations, they know very well what they're doing when they pirate.
Avenger42 on Jan 17, 2012
SOPA is a crime bill, and we need to make sure any attempts to paint it as a "jobs bill" are corrected. We can then move on to how it's a crime bill where the costs are far out of whack with the benefits, but I feel we're playing from behind when their first card is the "jobs bill" card and we don't immediately call them on it.
wmf on Jan 17, 2012
Blaming the site operators for tricking poor innocent Americans into pirating stuff is a better spin than blaming the downloaders. For example, if you pirate Windows MS says "you may be a victim of counterfeiting". I suppose there might have been some people who thought AllOfMP3 was legitimate, though.
dchest on Jan 18, 2012
AllOfMP3 was legitimate in Russia according to Russian laws.
vaksel on Jan 17, 2012
I wish we had a truth in politics law that would punish these guys for lying or cheating the public
steve-howard on Jan 17, 2012
Who's gonna pass it?
well it might be done.
Seems like congress people bend over backwards for companies that donate as little as $100K to their reelection campaigns.
There are 535 people in congress, so we'd need to raise 53,500,000 to make it happen. A small price to pay if you think about it
To be safe, might want to support both candidates, so double that number to 107 million. So if 1 out of 3 Americans donates a dollar to the goal, it could happen.
So Congress would accept some money up front to stop the gravy train forever? (Noting that some Senators serve for a half century or longer at a time)
pjscott on Jan 17, 2012
The next question: who will enforce it?
freehunter on Jan 18, 2012
Federal Election Commission?
nl on Jan 17, 2012
Is there a specific lie you can point to?
To enact legislation that protects consumers, businesses and jobs from foreign thieves who steal America's intellectual property, we will continue to bring together industry representatives and Members to find ways to combat online piracy
Even this isn't technically a lie. SOPA would protect some businesses and jobs from some thieves.
I don't think it's a good way to go about it, and I think the other consequences outweigh the benefits, but as it stands your comment doesn't really make sense in this context.
yock on Jan 18, 2012
I don't think that's exactly it (though I don't understand the down votes you're getting). The bigger issue is proving the lies. The problem we have is that people allow their leaders to be vague and imprecise. Whether or not something is truthful becomes largely based on interpretation and perspective. The art of bullshit elevated to a career.
(The downvotes kind of prove both our points, and point to the kind of behaviours we should expect from politicians: you get more votes for saying what people want you to say than what you believe the truth is.)
Regarding "proving the lies" sites like http://www.politifact.com/ are quite good.
People have started using downvotes to indicate disagreement. Ironically, on this site at least, sufficient downvotes result in that post being hidden from view. Imagine that, censoring opinions with which you (in the proverbial sense) disagree.
Anderkent on Jan 18, 2012
How would an internet-related act protect anything from any thief?
Under current US law - downloading sharing unauthorized digital goods is theft under at least some circumstances, and therefore any rules about truth in politics are unlikely to be activated by that statement.
(insert disclaimer about how I understand that digital goods are an infinite resource and therefor making a copy cannot be theft. Please be assured I understand your objections - I am confining my point to the impossibility of "truth in politics" being used against the statement made, given the law at the current time)
Tim-Boss on Jan 17, 2012
SOPA was never dead. At most is was just revised or slightly watered down, and I don't think anyone really believed that "Big Media Co" was going to back off that easily!
RexRollman on Jan 17, 2012
What I expect is that it will eventually get passed and attached to something that will create a bad situation if vetoed. If nothing else, they will probably scale back a provision or two, and reintroduce those at a later date.
Of course it's not over. Our corporate overlords haven't gotten their money's worth yet.
djtriptych on Jan 17, 2012
Wow look at that gorgeous parseable plain text. I miss the web of old sometimes...
What do you mean? I'd say the markup for that page is a bit lousy (e.g. pointless layout tables, abusing the strong tag just to make text bold), but it's hardly the worst thing I've ever seen. I can't even tell if you're being sarcastic or not.
degenerate on Jan 17, 2012
I think he meant to reply to "What the first web blackout looked like" here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3475813
ack sorry. Indeed I did.
viking on Jan 18, 2012
I suggest creating a list of special interest groups (strong pro- or anti-) paired with websites supporting their view that is a potential SOPA target. This list could be used by activists to inform each of these organizations of the risk that SOPA could effectively make it possible for their opposers to censor these websites with a false takedown request.
This would essentially reframe the issue from a piracy/copyright violation issue to a censorship issue. It would then be a censorship bill, not a jobs bill.
ChuckMcM on Jan 17, 2012
In my opinion, the only way to kill the RIAA/MPAA. They seem to be the 'tap root' which produces weeds long after the ground appears barren.
potatolicious on Jan 17, 2012
Killing the RIAA/MPAA will do nothing - another organization under a different name will simply spring up to take its place. Plus, it would only address a single issue out of what is really a systemic problem.
The main problem is how much influence industry and lobby groups have on our politicans, and the vast majority of this isn't some conspiracy-laden secret-hand-shaking secret, it's just campaign financing.
Despite some attempts in that direction, we haven't done enough here. I'm convinced that, if we slam the door shut on lobbying groups' ability to fund politicians, their influence will vaporize overnight. If corporations are people, then they need to be on a level playing field - they shouldn't be able to simply outspend regular citizens in contributing to politicians.
Can you say more about "The main problem is how much influence industry and lobby groups have on our politicans, and the vast majority of this isn't some conspiracy-laden secret-hand-shaking secret, it's just campaign financing." ?
I ask because stuff like this is used to abuse Google (see the Viacom vs Youtube lawsuit) and they have oodles of money and a super PAC and everything. If one can simply buy a politician why haven't they bought them all off? Seems expedient.
That they haven't has made me wonder how causative this problem is with respect to bad public policy. I'd be interested in ways to validate where the problem is.
gwillen on Jan 17, 2012
I suspect Google's PAC is underfunded because it mostly employs the kind of people who hate the whole concept of a PAC and find it morally loathsome.
logn on Jan 17, 2012
When you're paid hundreds of thousands (millions?) by a lobbyist, you don't give up that easily.
georgieporgie on Jan 18, 2012
I'm surprised that big media companies are spending so much time and money lobbying, instead of doing more creative things. The current generation of youth is growing up in an era where media can be copied instantaneously and easily. IP is a hard sell, since we're individually far removed from the mechanics of the economy (we don't work in car factories, for example), so there's no strong material goods basis from which to build an IP metaphor.
They could be creating PSAs. They could be backing television shows and movies which portray piracy in a negative light. They could do this skillfully, and in a manner that isn't laughably heavy handed (like the pre-movie PSAs that were mocked on The IT Crowd). Look at that article about diamonds from awhile back, and how stunningly successful De Beers was in inserting diamonds into the public mind. Compare that with the heavy-handed, simplistic legislation approach that the MPAA and friends are following.
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Hull City appoints Marco Silva as new coach
London: Hull City has confirmed the appointment of Portuguese Marco Silva as new coach until the end of the season.
Silva, 39, close to Jose Mourinho, has become Hull's third coach since joining the Premier League last May, after Steve Bruce and Mike Phelan.
"Marco is a young coach who has impressed us with his philosophy and football style," said Tigers vice-chairman Ehab Allam on Thursday, Efe news reported.
The young Portuguese tactician arrives to the Tigers, bottom of the English league, after leading Portugal's Estoril, Sporting Lisboa and Greece's Olympiacos.
"We feel this is a bold and exciting appointment in our aim to retain the Club's Premier League status," Allam added.
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Home / World / Golan Heights: Israel Unveils Settlement "Trump Heights"
Golan Heights: Israel Unveils Settlement "Trump Heights"
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after US President Donald Trump.
At a naming ceremony on Sunday, Netanyahu honored Trump Heights for his decision to recognize Israel's sovereignty over the territory. The name and flag of the US and Israel were revealed.
Critics called the move a publicity stunt without legal authority.
Israel seized the Golan in the 1
967 Middle East war from Syria. In March, the US became the first country to recognize Israeli sovereignty over the area since it was annexed by Israel in 1981.
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"This is a historic day," Netanyahu said welcoming President Trump as "friend of Israel."
US Ambassador David Friedman, who attended the ceremony, called the settlement "well-deserved, but much appreciated."
Israel's prime minister promised in April to designate a new settlement after Trump shortly after the president overthrew decades of US policy and recognized Israel's sovereignty over the Golan.
The region is located about 60 km southwest of the Syrian capital, Damascus, and covers about 1,000 km².
The new settlement is expected to be built near Kela in the northern Golan Heights.
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Media Title Netanyahu Commends Trump for Recognizing Israeli Control of Golan
On Sunday, the Israeli Cabinet approved Mr. Netanyahu's resolution on an "Initiative to Establish" a New Golan Heights Community.
However, the resolution does not announce the establishment of a settlement, and no money has yet been earmarked for construction.
Political opponents of the settlement have also noted that no new places can be built in September before the elections in Israel.
"Anyone who reads the fine print in this 'historic' decision will understand that this is nothing more than a non-binding, fake policy," said former Cabinet Secretary Zvi Hauser of the Times of Israel.
"Let's hope President Trump does not know his name is used for this PR exercise," he added.
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Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking
6 Pages Posted: 15 Feb 2018 Last revised: 24 Sep 2018
See all articles by Samuel Johnson
University of Bath - School of Management
Jiewen Zhang
University of California, Davis - Department of Psychology
Frank Keil
Yale University - Department of Psychology
A core proposition in economics is that voluntary exchanges benefit both parties. We show that people often deny the mutually beneficial nature of exchange, instead using zero-sum thinking. Participants read about simple exchanges of goods and services, judging whether each party to the transaction was better off or worse off afterwards. These studies revealed that zero-sum beliefs are pervasive. These beliefs seem to arise in part due to intuitive mercantilist beliefs that money has value over- and-above what it can purchase, since buyers are seen as less likely to benefit than sellers, and barters are often seen as failing to benefit either party (Experiment 1). Zero-sum beliefs are greatly reduced by giving reasons for the exchange (Experiment 2), suggesting that a second mechanism underlying zero-sum thinking is a failure to spontaneously take the perspective of the buyer. Implications for politics and business are discussed.
Keywords: Intuitive theories, Folk psychology, Judgment & decision-making, Behavioral economics
JEL Classification: D6, D8, H00, M3, Z13
Johnson, Samuel and Zhang, Jiewen and Keil, Frank, Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking (May 30, 2018). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3117627 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3117627
Samuel Johnson (Contact Author)
University of Bath - School of Management ( email )
Claverton Down
Bath, BA2 7AY
HOME PAGE: http://www.sgbjohnson.com/
University of California, Davis - Department of Psychology ( email )
Yale University - Department of Psychology ( email )
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Bradley started as a drummer, graduated to front-guy, and in 2005 formed the Bay Area band, The Bye-Bye Blackbirds, which inhabits the niche of Byrds-influenced "power pop" even though Bradley really doesn't like that term or its sometimes very shallow connotations.
We discuss the band's 2016 boogie single "Let Your Hair Fall Down ," the country ballad "Hats" from Fixed Hearts (2011), and a pre-Blackbirds song eventually recorded for Fixed Hearts, "Elizabeth Park."
We conclude by listening to "All in Light" from We Need the Rain (2013), and the opening/closing music is from "The Ghosts Are Alright" from House & Homes (2008).
Learn more at byebyeblackbirds.com.
Here they are playing "Elizabeth Park" live acoustically and "All in Light" live electrically. Here they are back in 2009 playing "The Ghosts Are Alright" electrically, and here's a version with new drums where you can really hear the harmonies. The second vocalist in that line-up is William Duke, who recorded this Christmas song.
As far as the influences we discuss go, check out Big Star at their most joyful yet unhinged here. (Note that the band lives on post-mortem: here's a sweet recent rendition of one of their slower/country things. And if you aren't familiar with Gene Clark's work post-Byrds, this is the album Bradley refers to. Bradley's mentor was Scott Miller, who fronted Game Theory (see here) and and later The Loud Family (see here). Here are Scott and Bradley singing together.
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[…] (1993). We conclude by listening to "Even Hitler Had a Girlfriend," a 2014 single by Dr. Frank & the Bye-Bye Blackbirds. Opening/closing music: “Danny Partridge” from Everyone's Entitled to Their Own Opinion (1986). […]
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Detail from the Chinese bird-and-flower wallpaper in the State Bedroom at Penrhyn Castle, Gwynedd. NT 1422110. ©National Trust Images/Paul Highnam
The autumn issue of National Trust Magazine, which is about to come out, has this image on the cover. It is the Chinese wallpaper in the State bedroom at Penrhyn Castle, depicting a garden scene. We were able to commission these new photographs for my forthcoming book on Chinese wallpapers, which will come out in October.
Section of the bird-and-flower wallpaper in the State Bedroom at Penrhyn Castle. NT 1422110. ©National Trust Images/Paul Highnam
We can see luxuriantly flowering trees and shrubs, some growing from decorative jardinières, with various birds and insects flitting between the branches. The picturesque rocks, prized for their sculptural qualities, are a long-standing feature of Chinese gardens.
The scenery has been painted in great detail and looks quite realistic. But in fact most of these birds and flowers have traditionally had strong symbolic associations in Chinese art. A pheasant, for instance, stands for ‘beauty’ and a peony indicates ‘rank’.
The State Bedroom at Penrhyn Castle. The architecture and much of the furniture, created in about 1830, is in the Neo-Norman style, but evidently this was not considered incompatible with Chinese wallpaper. ©National Trust Images/Paul Highnam
Bird-and-flower imagery has long been used in Chinese fine and decorative art to create an uplifting, auspicious atmosphere, much like classical decoration has in the west.
And if we look at this wallpaper at Penrhyn in that light, we can recognise the sophisticated decorative harmony of the scheme. The painters used lively and yet balanced palette of colours including purples and pinks, reds, oranges and yellows, various green tints and some blues and greys.
Different types of leaves have been given various smooth textures, while the ruggedness of the rocks and tree trunks is rendered in a more expressionistic manner. One can tell that the artists were confident of their skill and judgement in creating these wallpapers. As yet we don’t know who they were, just that they most likely worked in the port city of Guangzhou (or Canton).
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Fragments of a global puzzle
One of a set of three Japanese porcelain covered jars made in Arita, Japan, 1715-35, on painted wooden Spanish colonial stands, at Shugborough, Staffordshire, NT 1270509.1-3. ©National Trust Images/Robert Morris
At Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, three Japanese porcelain covered jars stand proud on gold, red and black painted wooden stands. They are not just visually striking, but also provide intriguing evidence of the global trade networks of the mid eighteenth century.
As Patricia Ferguson writes in her recent book Ceramics: 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces, these vases were made in Arita, Japan. This type of porcelain was known by Europeans as Imari, from the Japanese port through which it was shipped abroad.
Portrait in pastels of Admiral Sir George Anson (1697-1762) by Francis Cotes (1726-70), at Shugborough Hall, NT 1270614. ©National Trust/Sophia Farley
The decoration of the vases consists of classic East Asian motifs such as phoenixes, shishi Buddhist guardian lions and convulvulus. But the bold way in which those elements have been combined was the result of the Japanese producers searching for novelty in order to keep satisfying the western market. The black and red background colours of some of the panels seem to evoke Asian lacquer, which was also popular in Europe.
The Chinese House, a garden pavilion in the park at Shugborough Hall, built in about 1747. ©National Trust Images/Andrew Butler
The vases may have been part of the cargo of the Spanish galleon Nuestra Señora de Covadonga, which was captured by Admiral George Anson as it was sailing from Acapulco to Manila in 1743. Admiral Anson left his property to his brother Thomas, the owner of Shugborough, and for some time the Arita vases were kept in the ‘Chinese House’ that the latter had built in the park.
The impressive painted wooden stands, imitating lacquer, also seem to point to a Spanish colonial provenance. The late-baroque style in which they have been decorated is reminiscent of the pseudo-oriental or hybrid decorative art produced in Mexico and Manila. This is a developing area of research (see for instance Teresa Canepa’s recent book Silk, Porcelain and Lacquer: China and Japan and their Trade with Western Europe and the New World, 1500-1644) and we still need to learn more about what was made where.
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The Belton Bamboo Dressing Room mystery
The Chinese wallpaper in the Bamboo Bedroom at Belton House, inv. no. NT 434774. © National Trust Images/Paul Highnam
Belton House in Lincolnshire has two rooms with Chinese wallpaper. The one called the Bamboo Bedroom is not usually open to the public, but we recently managed to photograph the wallpaper in more detail for my forthcoming book.
The wallpaper seems to have been hung in 1861 under the supervision of Marian, Viscountess Alford. This is one of the examples that show how the taste for Chinese wallpapers was still very much alive in the later nineteenth century. Lady Alford also influenced the decoration of the Chinese Bedroom at Castle Ashby, a seat of her brother, the third Marquess of Northampton, in about 1871.
The Bamboo Bedroom at Belton, showing the furniture with oversize bamboo detailing introduced in about 1930. ©National Trust Images/Graham Challifour
The bed, wardrobe and dressing table in the Bamboo Bedroom at Belton were introduced in about 1930 by Peregrine Brownlow, sixth Lord Brownlow, and his wife Katherine, Lady Brownlow. This was the era when the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII, would visit Belton as a friend of the Brownlows. The fillet edging of the wallpaper was probably silvered at this time, reflecting a twenties-thirties sense of glamour.
A pair of pheasants in the wallpaper in the Bamboo Bedroom. The fillet was probably silvered in about 1930. © National Trust Images/Paul Highnam
A dressing room next door is known to have been hung with the same wallpaper, which was recorded as being in store at Belton just before the National Trust acquired the house and estate, partly as a gift from the seventh Lord Brownlow and partly with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, in 1984. The subsequent whereabouts of the wallpaper from the dressing room were thought to be unknown.
A cock and hen on a picturesque rock in the wallpaper in the Bamboo Bedroom at Belton. © National Trust Images/Paul Highnam
But the other day I spotted some images of a very similar wallpaper on the walls of the château de Wideville in Île-de-France, one of the residences of retired fashion designer Valentino Garavani. The house was decorated by Valentino in collaboration with the interior designer Henri Samuel in 1995-6. Perhaps the Chinese wallpaper from the dressing room at Belton, possibly having been sold in about 1984, was at some point acquired by Samuel and then reused at Wideville?
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Fascinating fragments at Uppark
Section of Chinese wallpaper at Uppark, West Sussex, NT 138490. © National Trust/Paul Highnam
In the collection at Uppark, West Sussex, are some fascinating fragments of Chinese wallpaper, which emerged from beneath a later wallpaper after a fire in 1989. Apart from being stunning examples of Chinese woodblock printing (with colours added by hand), they also contain clues about how Chinese wallpapers spread through Europe in the mid eighteenth century.
Fragment of Chinese wallpaper at Uppark, West Sussex, showing how parts of various Chinese prints were added at the bottom. NT 138490. © National Trust/Paul Highnam
This section of wallpaper shows a pair of pheasants on a picturesque rock surrounded by peonies and other flowering plants and trees. These ‘scholar’s rocks’ (gongshi) have long been used in Chinese gardens as sculptural ornaments. In the Chinese visual tradition, pheasants are associated with ‘beauty’ and peonies with ‘rank’.
Ribbon-tailed bird (shoudainiao) in a print attached to the bottom of a Chinese wallpaper sheet, at Uppark, NT 138490 © National Trust/Paul Highnam
Most of these specifically Chinese references were lost on Europeans, but this did not prevent these wallpapers from being in high demand. To make this rare and expensive material fit specific walls, the paper-hangers deployed various ‘cutting and pasting’ techniques’, shrinking or expanding it as required.
Head and shoulders of a female figure collaged onto a section of the Chinese wallpaper at Uppark, NT 138490. © National Trust/Paul Highnam
Looking closely at this fragment, we can see that parts of various different prints have been added at the bottom edge. On the left is a ‘ribbon-tailed bird’ (shoudainiao) on a scholar’s rock, depicted at a smaller scale than the main scenery, and in the centre we can see the head and shoulders of a female figure. Such prints could be bought in London in the same shops and paper-hanging establishments that offered Chinese wallpapers.
Section of the Chinese wallpaper at Ightham Mote, Kent, NT 825922. © National Trust/Paul Highnam
Looking further afield, we find the same pair of pheasants at Ightham Mote, Kent. The wallpaper was clearly printed using the same woodblocks. The difference in colour is due to the diverging ‘biographies’ of the wallpapers: the one at Uppark remained covered up for much of its life, preserving its colours to a greater degree, while the one at Ightham was partly overpainted in about 1900 in an attempt to counteract the effects of ageing and damp.
Part of the Chinese wallpaper at Ightham Mote, showing how it was arranged slightly differently to the paper at Uppark. NT 825922. © National Trust/Paul Highnam
Yet another identical pair of pheasants survives at Schloss Wörlitz in Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany, and copies of the print with the ribbon-tailed bird (actually showing a pair of birds) are at the Château de Filières, in Seine-Maritime, France. The whole of Europe was agog at these sophisticated Chinese products. More about these wallpapers and prints and other related examples will be revealed in my forthcoming book Chinese Wallpaper in Britain and Ireland.
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Paintings of Chinese palace life at Shugborough
Chinese painting on paper depicting a dance performance on a terrace outside a pavilion with ladies and their attendants watching. One of a set of One of a set of six Chinese paintings on paper, probably mid eighteenth century, at Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, NT 1271100.4. ©National Trust Images/Paul Highhnam
I have recently been able to commission some new photography for my forthcoming book on Chinese wallpapers in the British Isles. The shoots included the intriguing set of six Chinese paintings on paper at Shugborough Hall, three of which are shown here.
There appears to be little documentation about these paintings, but judging by the appearance of their rococo frames they would seem to date from the mid eighteenth century. The owner of Shugborough at that time, Thomas Anson (1695–1773), was interested in China, as is evident from the ‘Chinese House’ he built in the park and the copies of books about China in his library.
Chinese painting on paper depicting ladies and their attendants in a pavilion with a stepped gable, with two female figures and a child playing a ball game in the foreground, probably mid eighteenth century, at Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, NT 1271100.3. ©National Trust Images/Paul Highhnam
Thomas Anson’s brother, Admiral George Anson (1697–1762), actually visited China on two occasions in the 1740s, but he doesn’t seem to have appreciated Chinese culture. And paintings like this, known as ‘India pictures’ (‘India’ then being a catch-all term for ‘Asia’) were also available in London in this period, so Thomas may have acquired them there.
The pictures show Chinese ladies and their servants engaged in various activities in the grounds of a large mansion or palace. The images are almost like those in present-day celebrity and interiors magazines, being idealised, aspirational glimpses of the lifestyle of ‘the five percent’.
Chinese painting on paper depicting a lady playing a qin or seven-stringed zither in front of a pavilion, with other ladies listening and a pair of peacocks and trellis at left, probably mid eighteenth century, at Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire, NT 1271100.5. ©National Trust Images/Paul Highhnam
In one painting, a female figure is performing a dance with swords on a terrace, watched by other women. Another painting seems to be about sports or games, with some ladies playing a dainty and elegant version of football and others engaged in a game of touhu, in which sticks have to be thrown into a tall vessel (I am grateful to Dr Yu-ping Luk of the the Victoria and Albert Museum for identifying these games).
In the third painting shown here, a lady is playing a qin or seven-stringed zither, with other ladies listening and a pair of peacocks nearby perhaps also captivated by the music. The trellis at the back, with flowers growing through it, is reminiscent of the border papers sometimes supplied with Chinese wallpapers, which similarly show bamboo trellis and flowers.
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Discovering immortality at Saltram
Chinese print showing a female figure with a hoe slung over one shoulder and an empty basket over the other, probably the immortal Lan Caihe, used as wall decoration in the Study at Saltram. ©National Trust/Andrew Bush
Sometimes you are trying to work something out for ages, then you give up, then you come back to it and then suddenly the penny drops. As I am in the last stages of finishing the text for my forthcoming book on Chinese wallpapers in the British Isles, I decided to revisit the prints of female figures at Saltram, which had puzzled me for some time.
The Study at Saltram, decorated with Chinese prints and paintings in the mid eighteenth century. ©National Trust Images/John Hammond
These prints depict female figures in elegant poses and with beautifully detailed clothes and accoutrements. I had long been wondering whether they might be ladies – because of their elegance – or peasants – because of the humble, outdoor nature of their dress – or perhaps even the Chinese equivalent of Queen Marie-Antoinette at her hameau, i.e. upper class ladies engaging in country pursuits or playing at being peasants.
But then I noticed the dainty hoe again that one of the figures carries over her shoulder. And I remembered that Christer von der Burg, the collector of and expert on Chinese prints, had once told me that one of the immortals carries a hoe. And then after some searching online the name Lan Caihe came up.
Two female figures, probably immortals, pasted onto a partition in the Chinese Dressing Room at Saltram. ©National Trust Images/Andreas von Einsiedel
Lan Caihe is one of the eight immortals, a group of deities connected to Daoism. Their characters and exploits exemplify Daoist thought and teachings. Various folk tales developed around the different immortals, emphasising their whimsicality and untrammelled spirit.
Lan Caihe is an androgynous immortal, sometimes depicted as a young man, sometimes as a young woman. She often carries a basket of flowers, a reference to the fleeting nature of life. She travelled around making a living from singing and dancing and is often shown with castanets or a flute hanging from a hoe slung over her shoulder.
Chinese print depicting a female figure with a fishing rod and a fish, possibly an immortal or other deity, used as wall decoration in the Study at Saltram. ©National Trust/Andrew Bush
So the figure at Saltram with the hoe and the basket could well be Lan Caihe. Perhaps the fact that nothing hangs from the hoe and that the basket is empty may relate to a particular story, perhaps with some kind of stern message to the effect that ‘the music is over, the flowers are gone.’
If that figure is indeed Lan Caihe, then perhaps the other similar figures at Saltram are immortals as well, or deities of some other type. Certainly the cape made of leaves that one of them wears – a nicely ‘untrammelled’ fashion statement – seems to point in that direction. But I haven’t worked out who they are yet. I will need to wait patiently for another flash of insight – or for one of you readers to tell me.
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Cataloguing Chinese hairstyles
Chinese porcelain saucer dish decorated with a female figure sitting on a bench with a child offering her a lotus flower, Kangxi period (1662-1722), at Polesden Lacey, NT 1245638.1. ©National Trust/Jane Mucklow
As part of my research into Chinese wallpaper I have been noticing the elegant hairstyles of many of the female figures. I have been trying to work out whether certain hairstyles can be associated with certain periods, which in turn might help with dating wallpapers that we don’t have much documentation for.
Female and male figure in a Chinese woodblock print used as wallpaper in the Chinese Dressing Room at Saltram, NT 872998. ©National Trust/Andrew Bush
I have facetiously dubbed one of the hairstyles ‘the triple gourd’, as the hair is piled up and tied in such a way that it forms three globular shapes, ending in a loop.
Chinese porcelain serving dish, part of a 25-piece dinner service, depicting two female figures in a garden, c. 1695-1710, at Shugborough, NT 1270511.2.2. ©National Trust/Sophia Farley
Another hairstyle could be called ‘the kidney bean’, as the hair rises up from the back of the head in one slightly curved vertical shape.
Both of these styles can be seen in mid-eighteenth-century wallpapers, but on porcelain they seem to appear earlier, perhaps from the late seventeenth century onwards.
Chinese painting on paper depicting female figures in a garden, used as wallpaper in the Study at Saltram, mid eighteenth century, NT 873000. ©National Trust Images/John Hammond
Some Kangxi-period (1662-1722) porcelain depicts female figures with more voluminous, globular hairstyles, which one might call ‘the persimmon’.
Chinese porcelain plate decorated with a lady seated at a table, her head resting in her hand, c. 1690-1720, collection of Captain George Francis Warre, given to the National Trust by Mrs. George Warre, 1961, at Dudmaston, NT 813530. ©National Trust/Claire Reeves
And in addition to those there appear to be other hairstyles, fabric haircoverings and a variety of hair ornaments as well as flowers or flower-shaped jewellery.
Chinese woodblock prints of female figures pasted onto a partition in the Chinese dressing room at Saltram, NT 872998. ©National Trust Images/Andreas von Einsiedel
Some of these styles may have been regional, while others may have been associated with particular classes or roles, but much of this remains unclear. Regardless of whether the descriptive names suggested above catch on, I think the time has come for a proper taxonomy of Chinese historical hairstyles.
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Wonderful wucai
One of a pair of covered wucai jars showing a scene from the opera Chang Sheng Dian, 1660-90, at Belton House, NT 433361.1-2. ©National Trust Images.
The National Trust’s ceramics adviser, Patricia Ferguson, has just published a book entitled Ceramics: 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces featuring highlights from the ceramics collections of the National Trust. It is a rich compendium of the many different types of ceramics you might encounter in a country house, describing how they were made, collected and used.
One of a pair of covered wucai jars showing a scene from the opera Chang Sheng Dian, 1660-90, at Belton House, NT 433361.1-2. ©National Trust Images
One of the entries in the book is a pair of Chinese porcelain wucai covered jars, made between 1660 and 1690 and now at Belton House. As Patricia describes it, wucai refers to the polychrome decoration of these wares, literally meaning ‘five colours’.
Two Chinese porcelain wucai vases, decorated with a scene of a seated lady watching a dance performance and of ladies on a garden terrace, 1650-65, at Kedleston Hall, NT 108557.1-2. ©National Trust/Andrew Patterson
The design was first sketched out in cobalt blue and the vessel was then glazed and fired, whereupon the other colours were added in overglaze enamel, including iron red, iron yellow, copper green and manganese purple.
One of a pair of Chinese porcelain wucai covered jars, depicting women and children in a garden, at Wightwick Manor, NT 1287195.2. ©National Trust/Sophia Farley and Claire Reeves
These porcelains, with their vibrant colours, were in great demand in seventeenth-century Europe. They were grouped together on cabinets, chimneypieces and overdoors – something highlighted in the current display about garnitures at the Victoria and Albert Museum, which Patricia helped to curate.
The pair of jars at Belton shows scenes from the opera Chang Sheng Dian (‘Palace of Eternal Youth’), about the tragic love story of princess Yang Guifei and emperor Xuanzong of the Tang dynasty (618-907). On one vase she is depicted seated on a terrace awaiting the emperor’s return. On the other Xuanzong is seen fleeing after having sacrificed Yang Guifei to appease his rebellious soldiers.
Other wucai jars show similar scenes, many still to be reidentified. Prints and illustrated books probably served as the sources for these designs, showing the cross-fertilisation between the different arts in seventeenth and eighteenth-century China.
Phoenix frenzy
Chinese porcelain dish decorated with phoenixes and peonies, about 1750, one of a pair, at Melford Hall, NT 926292. ©National Trust Images/John Hammond
I just spotted this image of a rather nice Chinese porcelain dish at Melford Hall, Suffolk, showing a pair of phoenixes. They are perched on rocks and surrounded by peonies. In Chinese art the phoenix – called ‘the king of birds’ – is often associated with the peony – similarly called ‘the king of flowers’.
Large Chinese porcelain lidded jar decorated with a phoenix among peonies, about 1745, one of a pair, at Melford Hall, NT 926279. The vases were among the cargo of the Spanish galleon Santissima Trinidad captured by Captain Sir Hyde Parker, 5th Baronet, off Manila in 1762. ©National Trust Images/John Hammond
A pair of large Chinese lidded vases also at Melford is decorated with similar scenery. Apart from the odd scale of some of the elements of the design (the huge peonies on the dishes and the tiny fences on the vases), the mythical phoenixes are painted with the same level of detail as the other fauna and flora, making it seem as if you could readily encounter them in Chinese gardens.
Phoenix among peonies, with a magpie and a duck, on the Chinese wallpaper in the State Bedroom at Nostell Priory, NT 959651. ©National Trust Images/Dennis Gilbert
A similar mythical phoenix in a similarly realistic setting turns up in the Chinese wallpaper at Nostell Priory.
There is a long tradition in Chinese art of combining myth and reality. This is connected to the symbolic meanings attached to all sorts of plants and animals: if everything is imbued with symbolism, then there is no fundamental difference between reality and myth.
I have just been made aware of a new book about this subject, The Zoomorphic Imagination in Chinese Art and Culture, edited by Jerome Silbergeld and Eugene Y. Wang (University of Hawai’i Press), which I am looking forward to reading.
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The craze for garnitures
Garniture of three blue and white baluster vases made in delft and decorated with Chinese-style figures, late 1690s, at Kingston Lacy, Dorset (NT 1250639). ©National Trust/Robert Morris
A ground-breaking exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum is bringing together fifteen ‘garnitures’, meaning sets of vases meant to be displayed together – all from historic houses in the care of the National Trust.
Garniture of Chinese porcelain jars and vases, 1770s, at The Argory, Co. Armagh (NT 563412, NT 563413 and NT 563420.1). ©National Trust Images/Robert Morris
The exhibition has been curated by Patricia F. Ferguson, the National Trust’s ceramics adviser. As Patricia relates, the taste for garnitures goes back to the early seventeenth century, when Asian ceramics began to be imported into Europe.
Arranged on tables, cabinets and chimneypieces, they would glint and shimmer in the light of candles and fires. In an age when China was inaccessible and porcelain rare, they were redolent of exoticism and sophistication.
Garniture of Japanese Kakiemon porcelain vases, ‘Hampton Court’ type, c.1680, at Dunham Massey, Cheshire (NT 929282 and NT 929283). ©National Trust Images/Robert Morris
But when war broke out in China in the 1640s and the production of porcelain faltered, both Japanese and European manufacturers came in on the act. Examples of all of these types and styles, and more, are represented in the houses of the National Trust, and in this exhibition.
The free exhibition is in room 146 of the Victoria and Albert Museum until 30 April 2017.
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Chita Rivera gets her diva Broadway return in ‘The Visit’
By Elisabeth Vincentelli
April 23, 2015 | 10:01pm
Chita Rivera as Claire Zachanassian in "The Visit." Press art
Theater review
Lyceum Theatre, 149 W. 45th St.; 212-239-6200. 100 minutes, no intermission.
It’s Chita Rivera’s world: We just live in it.
This works out very well for the Kander and Ebb musical “The Visit,” in which the charismatic star plays a billionairess who buys her hometown.
Rivera’s Claire Zachanassian hadn’t returned to Brachen, somewhere in Europe, since leaving at 17. She’s now older, wiser and considerably wealthier — “the richest woman in the world,” in fact.
“I married very often,” Claire sings to the muckety-mucks who’ve gathered to welcome her back, “and I widowed very well.”
The locals are duly impressed, and eager to please. Brachen has fallen on hard times — Scott Pask’s set is the imposing vine-covered ruin of a grand building, with a ceiling of shattered glass — and they need Claire’s money. She’s happy to oblige, on one condition: She wants the life of Anton Schell (Roger Rees), the teenage love of long ago whose betrayal led to Claire’s exile.
Unflappable in her furs, Claire is calm but steely: She’s returned to take revenge.
It being by John Kander and the late Fred Ebb, the duo behind such classics of gleeful cynicism as “Cabaret” and “Chicago,” the show — which had been kicking around for years before opening Thursday on Broadway — delights in uncovering greed, hypocrisy and the perversion of justice.
Admittedly, this isn’t their strongest score, though even average Kander and Ebb is still better than most of the dreck out there. Some pallid ballads nearly overshadow a strong number like “A Masque.” Openly influenced by Brecht and Weill, the song reflects John Doyle’s highly stylized production.
Chita Rivera and the cast of “The Visit.”Thom Kaine
Doyle starts things off so brazenly, you can hardly believe what you’re seeing — let’s just say young Anton (John Riddle) was a giving lover to young Claire (Michelle Veintimilla).
And it gets weirder from there. Claire is trailed by two blind eunuchs who wear whiteface and sing in falsetto. Yellow — representing money — pops up brightly in the middle of the otherwise monochromatic palette.
The show sports many such oddball touches, and at times it feels like the closest Broadway will ever come to avant-garde director Robert Wilson.
The ensemble is impeccable, save for Rees, who looked visibly uncomfortable at a recent performance and whose singing is serviceable at best.
But “The Visit” is Claire, and Rivera. Claire’s dance duet with her younger self, tenderly choreographed by Graciela Daniele, is one of this season’s emotional peaks. It’s hard to think of a better sync between role and star.
“I’m unkillable,” Claire says. And you may find yourself wishing Rivera could also go on forever.
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Home Manga New Pokemon Sun and Moon Manga Announced, Coming This May 2018
New Pokemon Sun and Moon Manga Announced, Coming This May 2018
Amrit Chatterjee
New series coming this May.
The new Pokemon Sun and Moon manga is on its way to the United States. Viz Media recently announced that they would be publishing the English edition of Pokemon Sun & Moon soon.
The new manga will center around Alola region, and it is based on Pokemon Sun & Moon video game. The series follows the story of a girl named Moon who is given an important task to deliver a rare Pokémon to Professor Kukui. Professor Kukui lives in the region of Alola.
Pokemon Sun and Moon Manga Synopsis:
On her way to Alola, Moon meets a good friend of hers, Sun. Sun is a courier man who has to take care of a special Pokédex. Sun accompanies Moon on her journey to Professor Kukui when suddenly Team Skulls’ grunts and a mysterious Pokémon attack them. The Pokemon left behind a strange sparkling stone the details of which is unknown.
Sun & Moon will be releasing its first volume on May 8th, 2018. They also assured fans that they would be getting new volumes once in every four months.
The Pokemon Adventures is a long-running manga series which started way back in 1997. Hidenori Kusaka is the original writer of the series. The arcs in the series are inspired by each of the Pokemon Games. There are not many differences in the game plots. So, that’s why it’s likely where Pokemon Adventures takes its inspirations from. Especially the characters which are directly taken from the games.
Since 1997 The Pokemon Adventures has produced countless arcs and Sun & Moon is currently the latest installment in the series.
Sun & Moon centers mainly around two characters. One is a girl named Moon who is a pharmacist and a skilled archer and her good friend, Sun, who is on a quest to earn 100 million Yen.
Satoshi Tajiri once said that the Pocket Monsters Special series is closest to the world he imagined while creating the franchise. He said, “This is the comic that most resembles the world I was trying to convey.”
You will be able to read Pokemon Sun & Moon manga on Viz Media‘s official site for free, however download is not available for this show.
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