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Interview with Russell Simmons | By Ocean Pleasant
Humanitarian visionary. Media mogul. Author. Yogi. Russell Simmons talks meditation, mainstream and the power of giving back.
Ocean Pleasant: You have an extremely powerful presence in mainstream media. How do you use that platform to try and instigate positive change in the world?
Russell Simmons: Well, I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen. I jokingly refer to Kim Kardashian as more powerful than the President because she actually has 500 million more Twitter followers than the President. I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It’s effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice. And really, I don’t know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It’s the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
OP: We’ve had Global Grind in the magazine and we’re really invested in your work. I wake up every morning to your tweets! Are there any organizations that you’re involved with or support?
RS: Oh, you could go on forever. I run Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation. I’m the chairman of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding. The Foundation for Ethnic Understanding has [facilitated] dialogue between imams and rabbis all over the world, including Israel and Palestinian territory. We are really working on creating dialogue, and we’ve got hundreds of programs [in] thirty countries where that work is being done.
I’m invested in Diamond Empowerment Fund, which provides higher education for Africans in places where diamonds are a natural resource. We extract from the industry and give to the people. I’m involved in so many other things—the Happy Hearts Foundation. I work as an advisory board member. I work pretty hard for the David Lynch Foundation [for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace], giving meditation to kids. I use my voice. It is really a gift to have resources like this to give away, and celebrity happens to be a good one.
OP: I’m invested in learning how people who have such powerful voices are working to engage youth [to become] more proactive in shifting this society.
RS: The reason that I have Global Grind is to communicate ideas to people who might otherwise not be listening. I think I will always have a connection to young people, to try to bring their voices to the polls, bring their voices wherever they can make a difference. Even to protect their own interests or the interests of the planet or the animals or other individuals, which is critical. I try to keep it. As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it’s the cycle of giving and getting. Gotta keep it moving.
OP: And you’re big into yoga, right?
RS: Every day.
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Ocean Pleasant, 15, works to empower youth through film, humanitarian lifestyle, and the arts. Learn more about Ocean’s projects: www.pleasantprojects.blogpsot.com
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Gov't to sue Intercontinental, Alfonso over Superfast Galicia
Darlisa Ghouralal Created : 23 July 2018 T&T News
Government has initiated legal proceedings against Intercontinental Shipping Limited, agents for the MV Superfast Galicia, while legal action is expected to be filed against maritime attorney Nyree Alfonso for breach of fiduciary duty.
The latest development follows a conference hosted by former transport minister under the People’s Partnership government, Devant Maharaj, where further claims were made regarding the suitability of Galleons Passage to service the inter-island route.
Alfonso was present at the conference and claimed that the vessel would make the journey from Trinidad to Tobago in six hours.
At a media conference at the Ministry of Works and Transport on Monday to address further misinformation in the public domain regarding the new vessel, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi confirmed that action was initiated on February 22, 2018 against Intercontinental Shipping for breach of contract over the withdrawal of Galicia on April 21, 2017.
Action is to be taken against Alfonso for her role in the procurement of the Galicia.
“Action has been taken in the courts against Intercontinental Shipping Limited, the agents for the Superfast Galicia - that action has been commenced and is in the courts of Trinidad and Tobago, and, action has been flagged and will be commenced against Nyree Alfonso and Company for breach of fiduciary duty, specifically in relation to the procurement of the Galicia.”
The Attorney General dismissed the claims being made by Maharaj and others, stating that it had no basis or credit, especially coming from individuals who had disciplinary action taken against them, leading to their dismissal.
Al-Rawi noted that the action to be filed against Alfonso has already been communicated in a pre-action protocol letter sent by attorneys for the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (PATT) and the Office of the Attorney General.
The action will be filed against Alfonso for breach of fiduciary duty as a result of her using the knowledge and opportunity of the tender process made known to her in her capacity as attorney-at law for the Port Authority of Trinidad and Tobago (PATT).
Alfonso was a consultant at PATT when she also bid to the Authority during the tender process to replace the Warrior Spirit.
Related article :Sinanan: Video surveillance on ferry for mischief-makers
Meanwhile, Works and Transport Minister Rohan Sinanan said a public announcement will be made soon regarding the procurement of two new fast ferries to service the sea bridge.
These new vessels, provided that all goes according to plan, will arrive by mid-2020.
In the interim, however, the sea bridge will be serviced by the T&T Spirit, T&T Express and the Galleons Passage – when it receives all requisite approvals and certification and is cleared for sailing.
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Cambridge Theatre Address
Cambridge Theatre Seating Plan
Cambridge Theatre
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At the Cambridge Theatre you can see Matilda on London’s West End. Read on to find more information about Cambridge theatre events, seating plans, and nearest tube and bus routes - plus how to book tickets with Attitude Entertainment - powered by LOVEtheatre.
Map & Directions: Cambridge Theatre
CAPACITY: The Cambridge Theatre, London has a capacity of 1,283.
AIR-CONDITIONING: Yes
WHEELCHAIR SPACES: There are two spaces for wheelchairs in the Stalls of the theatre. Transfer seating is available to any aisle seat.
DISABLED TOILETS: Yes
HEARING IMPAIRED ASSISTANCE: Yes, hearing impaired assistance is provided in the form of infra-red systems.
GUIDE DOGS: Guide dogs are not allowed inside auditorium but staff will look after up to two dogs per performance.
NEAREST TUBE/RAIL STATION: When travelling to the Cambridge Theatre, the nearest tube is Covent Garden, and Leicester Square.
BUSES: The Cambridge Theatre can be reached easily by the following bus routes: 1, 14, 19, 22, 24, 38, 55, 176.
NEAREST CAR PARKS: If you are travelling by car, at Cambridge Circus and St Martin's Lane.
NEARBY RESTAURANTS: There are a number of restaurants near the Cambridge Theatre, including Hawksmoor and the Ivy Market Grill.
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Issue 41: FDA wants smoke with Juul, suspending the youth in school, insurance companies say hell no to oxycontin, and more
FDA tells Juul to stop targeting teens otherwise there's gonna be smoke
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Usually I can somewhat keep up with all the new hip lingo that the kids are using these days. I can recognize when something is "lit," and I know that Facebook is out and Instagram and Snapchat are in. But, I felt like a total newb when I had to ask a high schooler what a Juul was a few months ago. Juul, an e-cigarette company, makes tiny e-cigarettes that look like USBs--making them easier to conceal, and also more trendy. They also come in fun flavors like creme brûlée or mango. Since then this electronic e-cigarette trend has skyrocketed--especially among teenagers. In a statement released by the FDA earlier this week, if companies don't stop marketing their products to appeal to a younger audience, and stores aren't more vigilant in stopping the sale of e-cigarettes to underage users, an FDA ban against e-cigarettes could be coming our way. Research has consistently shown the negative effects and addictive nature of nicotine. Nicotine is especially concerning for young people and their developing brains. While e-cigarettes have been touted to be helpful for those trying to wean off cigarette smoking, the use of e-cigarettes is worrisome when we have a whole generation of new users experimenting with it. So while I'm down for a good trend (i.e. another Peter Kavinsky meme), we need to be more cautious of how the media is advertising products that are harmful to our health.
Contributed by Aish Thakur from UCSF
Suspending young students doesn't help
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It seems like recidivism rates are high among all types of offenders, in both adults and…kids? Not surprisingly, suspending young children (especially males) ensures an increased risk of them being suspended again in elementary school. To be honest though, I’m still reeling at the first sentence of this article: “Some kindergarteners and first-graders suspended from school can find it challenging to reverse the negative trajectory in their academic life.” I’m sorry, what? Kindergarteners and first-graders? How do you even get suspended that early in life?! It clearly doesn’t have any good effects on the kids, since after their suspension they’re less likely to be referred for supportive services in the future, and they’re also more likely to drop out of school later in life. Teachers were more likely to suspend both African American students, as well as female students whose parents weren’t really involved with the school. It looks like this disciplinary approach really isn’t helping young students and only serves to alienate them from academic settings.
Contributed by Sameera Chaudry from Rutgers
Insurance companies say get that oxycontin outta here
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Slowly but surely insurance companies are refusing to pay for the addictive opioid oxycontin made by Purdue Pharmaceuticals. Last fall Cigna and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida said they would no longer cover oxycontin prescriptions. Earlier this week the largest insurer in Tennessee, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee, also said get that sh!t outta here. The official reason was that there were less addicting alternatives for pain relief on the market. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee will start covering Xtampza and Morphabond in place of oxycontin. Of course Purdue Pharma shot back and said that Blue Cross Blue Shield was doing it for financial reasons rather than genuinely being concerned about their precious oxycontin being addictive. In order to fight against the opioid epidemic that has reached an all time high in Tennessee, the state has created a set of strict guidelines on how opioids can be prescribed. Unfortunately despite these new regulations overdose deaths are still at an all time high.
Baby aspirin controversy
A major study released Sunday in the prestigious NEJM is causing some drama in the medical community. According to the study there were no health or longevity benefits for healthy elderly adults taking a daily baby aspirin. The study enlisted more than 19,000 participants older than 65 in both Australia and the US. Participants were either given 100mg of aspirin while the control group was given a placebo. Both groups were followed for a little less than 5 years and it turns out baby aspirin didn't do sh!t. The ASPREE trial, which is short for Aspirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly, is bound to get providers all up in their feelings. That being said there still remains strong evidence that a daily baby aspirin CAN help decrease the risk of patients who have ALREADY had a stroke or heart attack from suffering another future CV event.
Do No Harm doc exposes physician suicide crisis
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Earlier this week a special screening took place in NYC for the new documentary Do No Harm which examines why so many young doctors are depressed and turning to suicide. More than 200 med students, residents, and attendings attended the premiere. The film's director, Robyn Symon, and Dr. Pamela Wible also organized a march near Mount Sinai Hospital to remember the lives of a medical student and resident losing their lives to suicide earlier in the year. The documentary does not appear to be on the internet yet (I looked) but you can damn bet we need to start talking about this crisis more instead of just burying it underneath the rug.
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The Drummer Boy of Waterloo
Theatre Writing
Voice Artist & Animation
Based in London, Megg is committed to giving back to the Songwriting community that has supported her career by leading workshops such as THE BIG DEMO LISTENING EVENT, SONGSHOP & TALK TO MY MANAGER to give developing songwriters commercial opportunities for their work to be heard.
She also lectures on the postgraduate MA Music Management Degree at London College of Music and has sat on the Songwriter’s Executive of the BRITSH ACADEMY OF SONGWRITERS COMPOSERS AND AUTHORS for many years. Currently she serves on the committee of management for the MEMBER’S BENEVOLENT FUND of PRS FOR MUSIC.
Her first publishing deal was with SPARTA FLORIDA with a song she co-wrote with HAL SHAPER.
"I’ve been writing songs since I got my first guitar at fifteen, but I didn’t get paid for doing it until my third year at Drama College in Edinburgh, when the score hadn’t been sent with the parcel of scripts for an end of term semi-musical production of John Arden’s ‘THE ROYAL PARDON’ . Apparently the publishers had none left and to re-order would be too late. Seeing the director was in a tight spot I volunteered to compose new music to go with the original lyrics and played them to her at the next rehearsal. The director was highly delighted and bought me a bottle of wine...result!
I had no idea at that point that you could actually make money doing what I had just done. I was simply being helpful.
Then in my first radio play for Radio 4 as an actor in CORRESPONDENCES with Marius Goring, I over heard the producer saying they couldn’t get clearance for a song they wanted to use in the play. I cheekily asked what the song was and went home and wrote a new song with the same sentiment. The producer liked it, recorded the song with me singing and this time I got actual money and a contract.
Suddenly, the penny dropped, people needed specially written songs for all sorts of things and producers didn’t always know who to ask to do the job."
Fast forward till now and Megg’s got hundreds of songs under her belt written for BBC and ITV including lots of children’s programs such as LISTENING CORNER.
This daily program ate up lots of material and she often presented it as well as writing the music and scripts.
‘ The show was such a delight to do, especially if it was with someone who had a jolly sense of humour like MICHAEL ROSEN for instance . In that case we presented the program together and I wrote music to some of his fabulous poems and we sang them’
....And there were many others too such as HOPSCOTCH, JIGSAW, KNICKITY KNACKITY, all long running series plus LETS SEE and GATHER ROUND.
Perhaps the most ground breaking was being included on the songwrtiting team of YOUR MOTHER WOULDN’T LIKE IT . This was a naughty teenage light entertainment program that prided itself in doing funny and outrageous sketches that often inlcuded spoof Pop songs. The show was very popular and won a BAFTA in the 'Best Light Entertainment and Drama' Category.
In fact Megg made children’s music a specialty and she has written and produced numerable “Edutainment” products. Such as KID STUFF RADIO, THE SING N” DO SERIES and INSTRUMENTS OF THE ORCHESTRA. Scripts for the animation series THE SECRET LIFE OF BENJAMIN BEAR.
Writing for the theatre has always been important to Megg and in 2015 she collaborated on her first opera with David Stoll co‐writing the words and music for THE DRUMMER BOY OF WATERLOO a children’s opera that Premiered in Aldeburgh with Jubilee Opera.
THE DRUMMER BOY OF WATERLOO is a new children’s opera, commissioned for the two hundredth anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The photos here are by David Herman from the production by Jubilee Opera.... the world premiere.
The opera tells the story of Edward Drew a young lad, who was apprenticed to work in a northern textile mill when his mother died. He’d never known his father, but his father was a soldier, who’d gone to fight Napoleon in France.
Life was not easy at the mill and the children often had to work more than ten hours a day but eventually Edward made friends and settled down.
There was music in him, and the machines had rhythm of their own. Inside his head that rhythm didn’t stop even when the machines did. Edward could often be found drumming on anything he could find from crates to tabletops.
When Edward heard that the army needed boys to send drum signals on the battlefield, and that he would be suitable, he was very excited. However, the mill owner had other ideas; to him, the children were simply machinery to be worked until they were of no more use.
How Edward escaped, and what happened to him at Waterloo, is the story of this opera.
"The music of Nicol and Stoll was easy on the ear and very evocative of the action." Martyn Harrison - Seen and Heard International
"Megg Nicol and David Stoll have composed an attractive and highly effective work that deserves to find a secure place in the repertory of children’s opera. Everyone involved in this auspicious world premier is to be warmly congratulated." Gareth Jones - East Anglian Daily Times
"...Megg and David have created a work which, I'm sure, will enter the repertoire and will be enjoyed by performers and audiences alike for years to come” Chris Butler - Head of Publishing & Rights for the Music Sales Group
"The music is skilfully composed, with a variety of styles and an acute sense of what will work on stage" Gareth Jones - East Anglian Daily Times
"We (Jubilee Opera) were very proud and honoured to be able to give The Drummer Boy his first outing" Jenni Wake-Walker (Director)
Click here to read more about the world Premier.
Drummer Boy of Waterloo photographs courtesy of David Hermon.
Megg wrote ANOTHER ONE FOR THE ROAD with playright David Ian Neville for THE SCOTTISH YOUTH THEATRE which was a political play about the Jarrow March and the Peoples March for Jobs. The songs and music were performed by the cast within the show, with their own rock band.
WASTELAND WARRIOR again was written with David Ian Neville as a contender for HIGHLAND QUEST, the project backed by Cameron Mackintosh for the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness.
The story is set in the normally tranquil Highland town of Lochmuir as the fruit picking season begins. The same traveller family has helped in Donald McIntyre’s farm for over forty years; and they have become friends. But this year there is trouble brewing; as Kieran, the charismatic wayward son of traveller Tipp O’Donnell has brought a radical element to the group that severely disrupts the McIntyre family, the harvest and causes havoc the local community.
Megg Nicol - Highland FlingHIGHLAND FLING was an ‘alternative Scottish’ two woman show for Triple E-Productions in Sweden, that Megg wrote and performed with Christine Mckenna to full houses in Stockholm.
Megg Nicol - Spike Milligan and FriendsShe also wrote songs for SPIKE MILLIGAN AND FRIENDS, the West End show and tour that was performed, by special request, as a Royal Command Performance for Prince Charles at The Lyric Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue.
TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH was a children’s show written and peformed with Bernard Shaw and commissioned by the SCOTTISH ARTS COUNCIL.
LASTEST: Megg and David have recently had in 2018 two staged concerts of LITTLE FIR TREE a family musical they wrote inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson story of the same name.
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Home / Technology / Scientists Turn Hydrogen Into Metal Which Could Revolutionize Technology And Spaceflight
Scientists Turn Hydrogen Into Metal Which Could Revolutionize Technology And Spaceflight
Brace yourselves science loving people for we are in for an alchemic-like treat! Turning hydrogen into metal has been a dream of many a scientist for nearly a century, but now it seems this dream is on the verge of becoming reality.
As journal Science reports, scientists over at Harvard University have finally succeeded in this amazing endeavor of creating possibly the most valuable material on the planet.
Metallic hydrogen could theoretically very much revolutionize technology, enabling the creation of:
ultra-fast computers,
high-speed levitating trains,
ultra-efficient vehicles,
dramatically improved technology involving electricity.
This means it could also allow humanity to explore outer space and go where no human or human creation has ever been before.
The next step for scientists is to establish whether the metal is stable at normal pressures and temperatures. Professor Isaac Silvera, who made the breakthrough with Dr Ranga Dias, said the following:
“This is the holy grail of high-pressure physics. It’s the first-ever sample of metallic hydrogen on Earth, so when you’re looking at it, you’re looking at something that’s never existed before.”
Exploring The Outer Planets
If it turns out that metallic hydrogen is stable at room temperature, Professor Silvera says its properties a super-conductor could immensely improve any technology that uses electricity.
“As much as 15 per cent of energy is lost to dissipation during transmission, so if you could make wires from this material and use them in the electrical grid, it could change that story,” said Silvera. “It takes a tremendous amount of energy to make metallic hydrogen.”
“And if you convert it back to molecular hydrogen, all that energy is released, so it would make it the most powerful rocket propellant known to man, and could revolutionize rocketry. That would easily allow you to explore the outer planets.”
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Will Facebook Delete Lou Sarah’s Account?
Facebook has a real name policy that allows it to delete the accounts of users who use pseudonyms. Advocates like Jillian York have pointed out that this endangers activists:
Activists who use pseudonyms often find their accounts deleted. Even folks with well-known and established pen names have been told by Facebook that they must revert to the name on their government-issued identification.
This leaves activists in the difficult position of using their real name on Facebook and leaving themselves vulnerable or using a pseudonym and keeping their fingers crossed that Facebook will not notice and that they will not one day log-in to find their account and contacts deleted. It’s a precarious game.
A new case has arisen that will test Facebook’s commitment to its real name policy, or at least bring greater attention to the issue. It has recently been revealed that right-wing American pundit Sarah Palin has a pseudonymous Facebook account under the name Lou Sarah. Though the page has not been confirmed, the evidence is pretty strong. The account is associated with Palin’s private email address, most of the account’s friends are from Wasilla, AK (including Palin’s father Chuck Heath), and the account holder knows the content of an episode of Palin’s reality show, which has yet to air.
Will Facebook protect the fake account of a ridiculous yet prominent American political figure while continuing to delete the accounts of real political activists around the world? Lou Sarah is anxiously awaiting the answer.
9 thoughts on “Will Facebook Delete Lou Sarah’s Account?”
Mark Malone on Feb 22, 2011 at 17:22 said:
Thanks for that interesting piece. Have shared on my FB and maybe see if ordinary folks can put a bit of pressure on to ensure equal rules. Amazing site and resource too. Im a social justice and political activist in Dublin Ireland. Digital activism is not used significantly beyond the resource heavy NGOs and left/socialist/anarchist groups who have a history of documenting etc. Look forward to learning more
Mark Malone
Mary C Joyce on Feb 22, 2011 at 19:00 said:
Thanks, Mark!
Subir Ghosh on Feb 22, 2011 at 17:25 said:
One can’t have it both ways. Who decides whether a fake ID has a genuine cause to espouse?
The purpose of the FB policy, I imagine, is to prevent fraud and reduce trolling. They could change their policy so it does not also entrap people with a legitimate need to stay anonymous.
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Alix on Feb 22, 2011 at 18:03 said:
Great piece and interesting quagmire. Any data sets on how/where/how many activists using pseudonyms have had accounts deleted? Or rumblings about communications between governments and Facebook staff?
No data sets, but here are some anecdotes from Jillian:
http://jilliancyork.com/2010/11/19/facebook-and-identification-caught-in-a-lie/
I imagine that there is dialogue between activism advocates, the government, and Facebook, but I’m not privy to them.
Jillian C. York on Feb 23, 2011 at 03:50 said:
Just to add a number to that, I’ve tracked about 20 cases of activists whose accounts have been deleted for using pseudonyms, plus three people whose accounts were deleted for that reason when they were actually using their real names (d’oh!).
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Michael Maharrey
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Gun People Need to Learn a Lesson from the Weed People
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Gun people talk tough.
“They can have my gun when they pry it from my cold, dead hand.”
But all the bluster disappears when talk turns to the Supreme Court and the possibility of an opinion that undermines the Second Amendment. The prospect of a Hillary Clinton Supreme Court nominee has turned millions of gun rights advocates into quivering bowls of Jello.
Granted, Hillary made some comments in the most recent presidential debate that reveals she’s no friend of the individual right to keep an bear arms. (But we knew that, right?) Her comments regarding the Heller decision sent the gun people into abject panic. Social media lit up with pro-Second Amendment types imploring everyone they have to vote for Trump to keep Hillary from “shredding” the Second Amendment (Never mind that Trump has a squishy history on the Second himself.) One Facebook poster glumly predicted that Hillary will “take all of our guns” if elected president and allowed to appoint a justice or two to the Supreme Court.
A Wall Street Journal op-ed channeled the hysteria in more measured tones.
If the Justices she appoints agree with her, then they can gradually turn Heller into a shell of a right, restriction by restriction, even without overturning the precedent.”
Basically, the message I’ve gotten from pro-gun people over the last few weeks goes something like this: “OMG! It’s all over for our right to own firearms if Hillary wins the election. Vote Trump to save our guns!”
How in the world did we get from “they’ll have to pry it from my cold dead hands,” to complete panic because some politically connected lawyers wearing black dresses in Washington D.C. might issue an opinion? Why do the gun people place so much stock and faith in politicians and legal pronouncements to “protect” their natural right to defend themselves? They act like the government gave them the right, so therefore the government can take it away by mere pronouncement.
It’s time for the gun people to grow a spine like the weed people and simply nullify these attempts by the political class in Washington D.C. to limit their right to keep and bear arms.
Yes. The potheads have more guts, courage and political acumen than the gun people.
I’ve never heard a marijuana advocate whine and throw up his hands because of federal prohibition. I’ve never heard a cannabis activist say, “Well, the Supreme Court ruled the feds can prohibit marijuana. Guess I’ll give up my weed.”
No. First, the weed people just ignored the government and used marijuana anyway. They simply refused to comply. Then they brushed off their hands and got busy at the state and local level.
Marijuana activists started in California where there was a great deal of popular support and passed Prop 215 in 1996. When the feds cracked down, they didn’t give up. When the Supreme Court ruled against them, they didn’t panic. When the DEA closed down one medical marijuana dispensary, they opened two more. They just kept pushing on.
Today, more than half the states in the country have legalized marijuana for medical use. Four states have legalized it completely. In November, marijuana legalization will appear on the ballot in some form in nine states, some of those traditional conservative strongholds like Arkansas and Arizona.
State, local and individual action has effectively nullified federal marijuana prohibition in half the country. Heck, they’ve even nullified it in the federal city of Washington D.C. Congress can pass all the laws it wants. Presidents can sign executive orders to their heart’s content. The Supreme Court can issue its opinions. But without state and local cooperation, the federal government can’t enforce a damn thing.
The ATF employs about 2,400 special agents. Do you really think that small group of people can impose federal gun laws on more than 300 million reluctant people encompassing 3,794,083 square miles without state and local cooperation? They couldn’t enforce the marijuana laws when individuals and states simply started ignoring them. They won’t be able to enforce the gun laws either.
The gun people need learn a thing or two from the weed people. Stop obsessing over federal action and Supreme Court rulings. Stop the Hillary Clinton Supreme Court panic. Stop acting like this one election will forever end your gun rights.
Just stop.
Pull your pants up, square your shoulders, get busy and nullify the unlawful federal actions that infringe on your right to keep and bear arms.
The weed people did it. Surely you can too. Heck, it’s a lot lest drastic than the whole “out of my cold, dead hands” thing.
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Tags: Hillary Clinton, marijuana, nullificaiton, Second Amendment, Supreme Court, weed
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2 Responses to “Gun People Need to Learn a Lesson from the Weed People”
Chris Vandergriff • November 7, 2016 at 9:40 pm #
I agree that gun owners need to stick together. It is my opinion that there is a fundamental difference between the “weed people” and gun owners. Legal gun owners have inherent desire to be legal. The “weed people” have been skirting the law for years. I’d say that they have a disdain for law, and it is for that reason there is no second concern to attempt to thwart the government.
But as always, thank you for your efforts in support of the Tenth Amendment.
Michael Maharrey • November 7, 2016 at 10:48 pm #
That’s probably a pretty fair analysis.
Gives me an idea for an article. 🙂
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Wajid Yaseen.
Wajid has directed a number of projects including immersive multi-disciplinary installation/performances, is a co-director of the destructivist event Scrapclub, has written the soundscore for a number of dance choreographers and companies, has written film scores for a number of films and documentaries, and been involved in the soundscores for a number of installations and collaborative projects performed in a wide range of galleries throughout the UK and Europe.
Helen Frosi.
Helen is the founder and director of SoundFjord and her portfolio includes the co-curation (with France Jobin and Yann Novak) of a group show at Oboro (CA); one-off multimedia installations at the ICA and Victoria and Albert Museum. Recent multimedia events have been curated for Goldsmiths, Galerie8, CRiSAP, GV gallery, and such. Her most complex work to date being Sound//Space at V22, featuring a project and performance space, programmed with 50+ talks, masterclasses, workshops and live events. Helen curated the acclaimed, Sbarbi’s Arrow, multiple radio projects for Concertzender (Dutch national radio), as well as educational projects/presentations for FoN festival, Goldsmiths, British Library, Oxford Brookes, Field Studies Masterclass, amongst others. She is currently working with Goldsmiths as a Research Fellow and the first Curator in Residency at Octopus Collective.
J Milo Taylor.
Milo’s research involves a study of historical and contemporary sound art discourse from a digitised postmodern perspective : “Our contemporary society offers new opportunities for interaction, involvement and immersion. Sound, as a natural phenomenon, and medium of artistic practice, remains immersive, sensual, and elusive to capture by language. Conceptual modalities established by post-convergent and post-structuralist paradigms suggest innovative methods of organising and presenting an archive of sound art in the early 21st century.”
Michael Zeltner.
Michael has been circling through the realms of new media art since 2002, collaborating with such groups as monochrom. After being invited to the Ars Electronica Festival in 2007 to meet and work with the Graffiti Research Lab, he co-founded the local cell in Vienna. Shortly after, he was appointed to be part of the coordination team for the Viennese funding pool for New Media, distributing €500.000 to new innovative projects, executed all over the world from San Francisco to Osaka or Paris.
Irini Papadimitriou.
Irini currently holds the position of the Digital Programmes Team Administrator at the V&A as well as being head of the New Media Arts Development at Watermans Gallery. She has also collaborated with the ICA and the Arnolfini previously as well as with the Colchester Arts Centre and the Bluecoat. Irini’s involvement in our projects has been crucial in liasing with galleries, funders, press officers, dealing with admin and installation preparations. She also manages Franko B, Wajid Yaseen and Reza Aramesh and the performance group Psychological Art Circus.
Rob Mullender.
Rob has worked on various installation, noise, sound sculpture, radio and music projects since 1994, and is in the middle of his practice based PhD. His research centres on the uses of light to synthesize audio, using various analogue electrical, mechanical, and field recording processes. Current works in progress include uses of interferometry to generate audio, composition of small choir pieces for roller-coaster, ‘Minor Conspiracy’ – a harmonium adapted for breath, where pitches, dynamics and duration are negotiated between player and breathers, ‘The Enigma Convolutions’ – for Elgar’s original score and an Enigma machine emulator, and various optophonic synthesis devices, sculpture, drawing, moving image, and sound works.
Charles Matthews.
Charles has been working with electronic music since he started recording as Ardisson in 1998. During his time living in London he has released music on several record labels and performed live using computer and hardware throughout Europe. In the process Charles has specialised in object-based sound and MIDI processing environments Max/MSP and Supercollider to create software to provide bridges between software and hardware. He developed an algorithmic music system based on Central Javanese gamelan as part of his MA in Sonic Art which has led to a scholarship towards his current PhD work.
Alice Kemp.
Alice is an inter-diciplinarary artist who works with text, illustration, sound, performance and photography. She has toured Japan twice, first in 2003 as solo electro-performance Germseed and again 2006 with collaborative noise project DEFEATIST. She has been working with members of Modus for a decade on various projects including 2nd Gen, Uniform, Ear Cinema and Scrap Club. In 2004 she took an MA in performance practices (Contemporary Music) at Dartington College of Arts and graduated in 2006 with distinction. Her recent/current work resides somewhere within the term Kaburlomime (cabaret/burlesque/pantomime) producing performing characters such as Betty Corbeau and Harpie Marx.
Bill Thompson.
Bill is a sound artist and composer who has performed extensively throughout the UK and abroad. His work involves the combination of found objects, field recordings, repurposed live electronics, and digital media to create evolving sonic structures for sound installations and live performance. Relocating from the USA in 2004, he was awarded a full scholarship to pursue a PhD in Composition. Since then he has earned numerous awards and commissions including the PRS for New Music ATOM award,the GAVAA visual arts award, a Scottish Arts Council grant to support a residency at STEIM, a PRS for New Music Three Festival commission (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Le Weekend, and Aberdeen SOUND festival), the 2009 Aberdeenshire Homecoming commission, and the 2010 Aberdeen Visual Arts Award.
Jesse Darling.
JD is an artist of many media working in street art, installation, performance, photography, sound and video. Originally trained in dance and physical theatre, JD also studied at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam and holds a BA in sculpture from Central St Martins School of Art. JD is interested in “experimental living”, or /dasein/ by design; the performance of everyday life as manifested in the meta, and the space in which manifestation/performance becomes an unmediated experience.
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Bank of Canada Commentary
As domestic economy rebounds from soft patch, global challenges intensify
Thinks the market is priced for the Bank's next move to be a rate cut
HSBC Global Research expects the Bank of Canada to remain on hold, keeping its policy rate at 1.75% on 10 July. HSBC Global Research anticipate the Governing Council will maintain a neutral stance and again conclude that the current degree of accommodation remains appropriate.
While there is a risk that the Bank could adopt a more dovish stance amidst heightened global economic uncertainty, HSBC Global Research would consider such a move premature. Instead, HSBC Global Research see reasons for the Bank to leave open the option that the next move might be a hike.
Recent domestic news has supported the Bank's view that an economic soft patch around the turn of the year would prove temporary. Governor Poloz has said that if the Bank's forecast comes to pass, that "the natural tendency is for interest rates to still go up a bit". Such an outcome cannot be dismissed. The Norges Bank and Sweden's Riksbank have also recently indicated that their next moves are likely to be rate hikes.
That said, there are some blemishes on the domestic recovery narrative. As well, the global economic outlook is becoming murkier and uncertainty is likely to persist despite the US and China resuming trade talks. Many central banks have shifted toward dovish policy stances, or lowered policy rates. HSBC now expects the Federal Reserve and the ECB to lower their policy rates in September and December. Meanwhile, in Australia, the RBA has already cut by a total of 50 basis points, lowering its cash rate to 1.0%.
These developments suggest the BoC should take a cautious stance, despite the improved domestic economic data. Overall, HSBC Global Research sees the Bank remaining in "wait and see" mode, while acknowledging the heightened downside risk from increased global economic uncertainty. HSBC thinks it would be premature for the Bank to adopt a more dovish stance, or hint at possible rate cuts. That said, HSBC Global Research thinks the market is priced for the Bank's next move to be a rate cut, though the timing of such a move has recently been pushed further into the future. HSBC Global Research believe the Bank will remain on hold before cutting its policy rate in the second half of 2020.
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Botanical Research and Collection Management System - BRAHMS
CABI Global Forestry Compendium
Criteria and Indicators Modification and Adaptation Tool - CIMAT
Database on Tropical Tree Seed Research - DABATTS
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CIFOR was established under the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) system in response to global concerns about the social, environmental and economic consequences of loss and degradation of forests. It operates through a series of highly decentralised partnerships with key institutions and/or individuals throughout the developing and industrialised worlds. The nature and duration of these partnerships is determined by the specific research problems being addressed. This research agenda is under constant review and is subject to change as CIFOR's partners recognize new opportunities and problems.
CIFOR's mission is to contribute to the sustained well being of people in developing countries, particularly in the tropics, through collaborative strategic and applied research and related activities in forest systems and forestry, and by promoting the transfer of appropriate new technologies and the adoption of new methods of social organization, for national development.
The objectives are: to improve the scientific basis for ensuring the balanced management of forests and forest lands; to develop policies and technologies for sustainable use and management of forest goods and services; to strengthen national capacities for research; and to support the development of policies and technologies for the optimal use of forests and forest lands.
CIFOR's medium-term plan 2000-2003 groups activities under nine main programmes: (i) Underlying Causes of Deforestation; (ii) Sustainable Forest Management; (iii) Adaptive Co-Management; (iv) Plantations; (v) Biodiversity and Managed Forests; (vi) Forest Products and People; (vii) Research Impacts and Priorities; (viii) Policies, Technologies and Global Changes; and (ix) Alternatives to Slash and Burn. The biogeographic focus of the plan is on humid and sub-humid tropical lowlands in Asia and Latin America, and the seasonally dry forest of India and tropical America.
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This programme aims to facilitate improvements in the sustainable use of forest biological diversity at the landscape scale through an improved capability to assess biodiversity and new insights into relationships between human interventions, biodiversity and ecosystem processes. The main aims are to determine three different sets of causes and mechanisms of forest biological diversity: proximate, direct and indirect, and produce tools and recommendations improving the likelihood of sustainable use of biological diversity. Research themes related to these aims include: (i) identification of the impacts of the major threats to in situ conservation of forest biodiversity, especially by human disturbance, logging and fragmentation and forest fire; (ii) development of tools for assessing and monitoring biodiversity; (iii) development of testable models to help generate options for sustainable forest management under variable environments; (iv) development for options for policy interventions that promote sustainable resources use; (v) development of survey techniques for efficient diagnosis and inventory of forested ecosystems; and (vi) development of integrated survey design and sampling procedures estimating biodiversity and related productivity for human needs.
Criteria and Indicators Modification and Adaptation Tool (CIMAT)
CIMAT is a computer software designed to help users modify, customize and adapt the CIFOR C&I (Criteria and Indicators) generic template and C&I sets of CIFOR industrial plantation, CIFOR community managed forest, International Tropical Timber Organization, Forest Stewardship Council, African Timber Organization and the Indonesian Ecolabelling Institute to meet local conditions and expectations.
CIMAT also allows its users to develop an entirely new set of C&I from an 'empty' set. CIMAT will assist users by giving suggestions at any stage. Furthermore, CIMAT also provides guidance for assessment of C&I using multicriteria analysis i.e. analytic hierarchy process, ranking and rating. CIMAT can also be treated as a 'learning tool' for those who are merely interested in exploring the C&I knowledge store on it.
Guidelines for developing, testing and selecting criteria and indicators (C&I) for sustainable forest management
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Experts and USFS warn bikes and bears a risky combination
Bear experts warn that mountain biking in grizzly and black bear habitat can be dangerous, in large part because the biker might surprise a bear.
In June 2016, after a grizzly bear killed mountain biker Brad Treat in the Flathead National Forest near West Glacier, a board of review concluded: “The incident appears to be a surprise encounter with a bear due to the high speed and the lack of noise of bike travel, combined with a blind curve on a trail.” Evidence suggested the collision occurred so quickly that neither Treat nor the bear could avoid it.
Investigation suggested Treat collided with the bear and that Treat and his bike flipped over the grizzly and landed on the trail.
The board of review described mountain biking “as a recreational activity that involves increased risk and danger of surprise encounters with bears.”
Chris Servheen served as chairman of the board of review that investigated the Treat fatality. He retired in April 2016 as Grizzly Bear Recovery Coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
“Mountain bikers have the potential to compromise and diminish the value of grizzly bear habitat by displacing bears from bike trail areas,” Servheen said this week.
“Mountain bikers also put themselves at serious risk of surprise encounters with both black and grizzly bears because they travel quietly at high speed,” he said. “This is exactly what we tell people not to do when traveling in grizzly habitat.”
The board of review attributed the increased hazards associated with mountain biking in bear habitat to the tendency for the activity to be comparatively quiet and for bikers to travel at a higher speed than hikers. In addition, the board observed that mountain bikers tend to focus on the trail close to the bike “instead of looking ahead for bears, especially on single-track trails.”
A February 2016 article at singletracks.com observes, “Mountain biking is perhaps the most dangerous of the forms of recreating in bear country.”
Outdoors retailer REI was even more blunt in one installment of the company’s online “Expert Advice” feature: “It is not advisable to ride mountain bikes in grizzly country. Bikes cover ground quickly and quietly, meaning you could encounter a grizzly in a swift and startling manner. Such a meeting is a grave error in grizzly territory.”
Keith Hammer, chairman of the Swan View Coalition, has opposed ultra-marathons whose routes traveled through grizzly bear habitat. He is concerned also about new trails proposed by the Forest Service’s Taylor Hellroaring Project that could send mountain bikers into grizzly habitat and through miles of huckleberry patches.
“I’ve hiked my whole life and I’ve never had a black bear or a grizzly bear charge me,” Hammer said. “The two times I’ve been charged I was on a mountain bike.”
He said both occasions occurred when he was biking in the Krause Basin area east of Kalispell. One incident involved a black bear protecting cubs. The other involved a bear Hammer concluded was likely a grizzly. In that case, Hammer was traveling down a Forest Service road and heard a bear chasing him, with clacking of teeth and huffing.
Hammer sped up and escaped injury. He has not mountain biked since in the Krause Basin.
“I still hike through there. I don’t hesitate to. I have bear spray handy,” Hammer said. “On a bike, with both hands on the handlebars, you can’t grab your bear spray without crashing the bike.”
Anders Broste is an avid mountain biker and a board member for Flathead Area Mountain Bikers. He has a unique and hard-won perspective on recreation in grizzly country.
Broste was hunting in November off Trumbull Canyon Road when he startled a grizzly in thick brush and was attacked. Broste suffered numerous injuries, including a broken bone in his right arm, a broken fibula in his left leg, ligament and muscle tears, and more.
He did not blame the bear, noting the animal had reacted naturally to Broste’s surprise intrusion.
After extensive rehabilitation, Broste is mountain biking again.
He said he previously carried pepper spray when biking trails he considered “backcountry.” But he said his consideration of backcountry vs. frontcountry trails has changed as grizzlies continue to disperse and human development continues to expand into areas of wildlife habitat.
“We don’t think of these trails as backcountry trails and they should be treated that way,” Broste said. “The bears are everywhere.”
He said pepper spray ought to be included in a mountain biker’s gear when traveling in bear habitat.
“But you can only do so much to encourage people to do the right thing,” Broste said.
One point of discussion among regional mountain bikers focuses on how or where a rider should carry a canister of pepper spray. He said he has often stashed it in the frame-mounted rack intended to hold a water bottle. But people have observed that this location would not serve him if he got separated from his bike during an attack.
One bear spray manufacturer offers an adaptor that can secure a canister in a water-bottle rack.
Meanwhile, the Forest Service’s preferred alternative for the proposed Taylor Hellroaring Project northwest of Whitefish would construct about 40 miles of new trails, primarily in the Flathead National Forest. About 15 miles of trail would pass through huckleberry patches.
The board of review that studied the grizzly attack on Brad Treat provided recommendations intended to both communicate to mountain bikers the risks of biking in black bear and grizzly habitat and to suggest ways to reduce those risks.
The board observed: “Before new trails are opened to mountain biking in bear habitat, particularly grizzly habitat, there should be careful evaluation of the safety and reasonableness of enhancing mountain bike access in these areas where bear density is high.”
The board suggested that three characteristics of the proposed trails be evaluated. Among them was, “Evaluation of the productivity of bear foods along trail routes (i.e. does the trail traverse productive huckleberry fields or avalanche chutes?).”
Trail builders should also evaluate the potential use of seasonal trail closures “should the trail be opened for mountain bike use,” the board observed.
Servheen said recently that trail closures can be one way to reduce human-bear conflict but isn’t always effective.
“Our ability to close trails and manage such closures in grizzly habitat is poor at best,” he said. “So, avoiding such areas is best.”
Brian Peck is a Columbia Falls-based independent wildlife consultant with an expertise in wolves and grizzly bears. His clients have included National Audubon Society, Sierra Club, the Great Bear Foundation, Natural Resources Defense Council and WildEarth Guardians.
Peck’s comments to the Forest Service about the agency’s environmental assessment for the Taylor Hellroaring Project noted that the proposed alternative would pass through some 15 miles of huckleberry fields. He noted that this is “something bear managers have repeatedly warned against.”
He referenced, too, the trails’ proximity in places to streams and how the waterways’ noise can mask sounds and lead to surprise encounters between humans and bears.
“Clearly, this project’s trail systems are unnecessarily creating an accident waiting to happen, and need to be scrapped and completely re-thought,” Peck told the Forest Service.
In July, a mountain biker near Canmore, Alberta, collided hard with a black bear but escaped injury. There were buffalo berries in the vicinity, according to news reports.
Bill Mulholland, district ranger for Flathead National Forest’s Tally Lake District, acknowledged the trails “would be located in existing huckleberry [habitat] and some avalanche terrain.” He said “there are no plans for seasonal closures” of the trails and that “there will be educational signage installed.”
She noted that the environmental assessment for the Taylor Hellroaring Project describes plans for trail design and signage that could lessen the potential for human-bear conflict.
The environmental assessment also notes: “It is likely that the trail system would receive a high level of use soon after construction, as it is close to the town of Whitefish and would be tied into a larger system of trails that currently receive high levels of use.”
In addition to construction of new trails, the Taylor Hellroaring Project proposes interventions that would thin trees and conduct other landscape interventions intended to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire.
Broste said he believes the logging and thinning activities could reduce habitat impacts of trails.
Meanwhile, Servheen and others have noted that conflicts between humans and bears in bear habitat often end badly for the bears.
“Bears must live in these areas while humans are just visitors,” he said.
Celebration of Trails in Nevada County coming!
CELEBRATION OF TRAILS WEEKEND 2019 events:
When: Friday, May 31
Join Bear Yuba Land Trust (BYLT), outdoor recreationists and trail supporters May 31 – June 1 for Celebration of Trails, the biggest showcase of local community trails all year! Trails are one of our greatest community assets. They build strong neighborhoods and boost the local economy. Trails get us outside and close to nature for healthy exercise and spiritual renewal.
We’ll kick things off on Friday, May 31, 5-8pm at the Ol’ Republic Taproom on Argall Way for Ales for Trails. Stop by for a tasty beverage, music and food. Meet fellow trail lovers and BYLT staff. You can also sign up you or your team for the Hike-A-Thon the next day!
On Saturday, June 1, join us on the trail for our 2nd annual Hike-A-Thon on the Pioneer Trail, part of the future Pines to Mines Trail. Raise money for trails with every step and win prizes along the way! After, we’ll meet you at the Ol’ Republic Roadhouse (old 5 Mile House on Hwy 20) for a vendor village and festival setting with many of your favorite outdoor groups and businesses, music, food, speakers and more! Yuba Bus will provide shuttle rides all day long.
What: Celebration of Trails Hike-A-Thon
When: Yuba Bus shuttle pickups at 9 am and 9:30 am Nevada County Rood Center.
Pre-Registration is Required to participate in the Hike-A-Thon by clicking here
Hike-A-Thon starts on the Pioneer Trail at 10 a.m.
Concludes around noon
Where: Pioneer Trail segment along Highway 20, finishes at Ol’ Republic Roadhouse (old 5 Mile House)
Participants will hike five miles, starting just south of White Cloud Campground off Hwy 20 along the Pioneer Trail and future Pines to Mines Trail and finish at Ol’ Republic Brewery’s new Roadhouse (old 5 Mile House), raising money for trails with each step.
The campaign’s overall goal is to raise $10,000 for maintaining and building Nevada County trails.
The vision of the future multi-use Pines to Mines Trail is a 72-mile trail linking the towns of Nevada City and Truckee by using existing trail systems. Bear Yuba Land Trust is in the early stages of working with a number of trail organizations on the development of this project that will take years of community support.
BYLT’s Hike-A-Thon is not a race. It’s a family-friendly event for people of all ages and a fun way to get outdoors and support a cause that is healthy for everyone. Yuba Bus is partnering with BYLT and will provide morning shuttles from Nevada County Government Center to the Hike-A-Thon starting point. A number of prizes are available to Hike-A-Thon participants.
At the finish line, friends, family, outdoor enthusiasts and trail lovers will cheer Hike-A-Thon participants and celebrate the rest of the day with music, food, fun activities and more.
What: Celebration of Trails Vendor Village
Where: Ol’ Republic Brewery Roadhouse (old 5 Mile House)
When: noon to 5 pm.
Join us at the Roadhouse to Celebrate Trails with music, food, speakers, vendor booths, maps, gear, and more. Gold Country Trails Council will bring a horse! Bicyclists of Nevada County will share info on Multi-Use Trail Etiquette; YBONC will have t-shirt painting for kids; Tahoe National Forest will provide trail maps of the Yuba River Ranger District; Sierra Club will once again bring kids games. Pacific Crest Trail Association, Forest Trails Alliance & Yuba Trails Stewardship will have trail information. Sierra Fund will have kids activities and provide educational materials on the legacy of mining, mercury in fish and how to eat fish safely. Bear Yuba Land Trust will feature Pines to Mines trail maps, cool merchandise like stainless steel cups, trucker hats, and trail cards, and info about summer events and outings.
Yuba Bus Schedule
Shuttle to Hike-A-Thon (Pre-Registration Required here)
Pick up at popup tent Rood Center, 950 Maidu Avenue, Nevada City
(Pre-Registration Required here)
Shuttle Pick Up Times
11:30 am – Rood Center
noon – Roadhouse, Hwy 20
12:30 pm – Rood Center
1:00 pm – Roadhouse
1:30 pm – Rood Center
3:00 pm – Roadhouse – last shuttleYuba Bus Shuttles will transport people back to town from Roadhouse on the hour.
Interested in becoming a vendor, volunteer, or lead a hike or work day?
Contact Felicia at felicia@bylt.org or 272-5994 ext 207.
Western States 100 training runs Memorial Day weekend
Western States offers training runs to acquaint runners with the last 70 miles of the Western States trail. The most attended will be this Memorial Day weekend with over 750 runners on the trail.
MEMORIAL WEEKEND TRAINING RUNS: MAY 25-27, 2019
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2019
Run from Robinson Flat (depending on snow conditions) back to the FH Elementary School, a distance of approximately 32 miles.
Date: Sunday, May 26, 2019
Time: Run starts at 8:30 a.m. Check-in from 7:15 am to 8:15 am.
Route: Foresthill to Rucky Chucky (and up to Driver’s Flat), 19 Miles
Wait List will be on site day of beginning at 7:15 a.m. at the Elementary School
Aid Stations: Peachstone (Cal-2), Rucky Chucky and Driver’s Flat.
Date: Monday, May 27, 2019
Time: Buses leave at 8:30 a.m. Check-in from 7:15 am to 8:15 am.
Route: Green Gate to Auburn, 20 Miles
Wait List will be on site day of beginning at 7:15 a.m. at Placer HS
Aid Stations: Intersection of Brown’s Bar and Quarry Road, No Hands Bridge, Placer H.S.
If you are not a participant in this event, you might want to consider using other trails this weekend.
Hike Truckee-Donner Land Trust Waddle Ranch
As snow gives way to bare earth, the aspens, alders and willows begin to turn green again, and the red heads of snowplant begin to push through the soil, Truckee Donner Land Trust's Waddle Ranch is one of the first hikes each spring ready to be explored.
Early season conditions will still exist, so please tread lightly on soft or muddy stretches of trail, and give us a call and let us know if you come across any down trees on the trail, or other repairs in need of our attention.
Start out on Matt's trail(the first mile is the road crossing Martis Creek Dam) from Martis Dam Road. Keep an eye to your right for osprey and bald eagle fishing Martis Creek Reservoir - and depending on the time of year - migratory waterfowl. Once across the dam the trail becomes dirt, crosses a drainage, and turns abruptly east (left). At the first intersection you can choose between Royal Flush Trail on the left for a more direct route to Lake Ella - another great birding spot, or right to stay with Matt's Trail and a detour on Erika's trail to the Linker Family Meadow - a perfect place for a picnic.
Proceeding along the south side of Lake Ella, Katy's Walk is an excellent option for spotting birds and other wildlife. Visitors have seen coyote, mule deer, mountain lion, black bear and other animals on the Waddle Ranch Preserve, and work is underway to restore sugar pine to the forest here.
- From State Route 267, turn north onto Martis Dam Road. Proceed to the trailhead at the junction of Glider Port Road and Martis Dam Road.
- Trails are open to hiking, running and bicycling.
- Dogs must be on a leash so as not to disturb wildlife.
- For even longer outings, you can connect to Elizabethtown Meadows Trail.
For a map and more information, click here.
To read the original article in the Truckee-Donner Land Trust newsletter, CLICK HERE.
UPDATE: Pioneer Express Trail clear
UPDATE 5/10/2019
The Rangers said that because the area is so rugged and remote, they will be leaving the body of the horse that fell off this trail in place to naturally decompose. Trail users will smell the odor in this area for a few more weeks.
UPDATE 5/3/2019
The picture shows where the horse slipped off the Pioneer Express Trail, and that the trail is clear for passage. The trail is stable and clear.
UPDATE 4/27/19
According to the Sterling Pointe Facebook page, some riders have gone up to the area today, and said it was passible. The edge of the trail where the horse turned around and slipped was visible, but the trail bed looks stable. This is a report from public riders, not State Parks. Rider is OK.
TRAIL SAFETY AWARENESS
There are many areas on the Pioneer Express trail and the connecting Western States Trail where it is unsafe for a horse to turn around. The Pioneer Express trail is single file, narrow, cliffy, and steep. There are areas where you may go 1/4 mile where there is no place for a horse to safely turn around. Each person has to evaluate their own experience if that type of trail is safe for them and their horse.
There is a map and pictures here below show what is typical of the Pioneer Express Trail in those areas.
PREVIOUS POST 4/26/19
Pease avoid or the area from Sterling Pointe to Rattlesnake Bar. Trail is going to be checked for stability. Horse attempting to turn around fell about 1/2 mile from Horseshoe Bar, going north, just after the rocky narrow part of the trail.
EXTENDED: Openings available in the Folsom Lake SRA Mounted Patrol
UPDATE MAY 9, 2019
The opportunity to volunteer for the Folsom Lake SRA Mounted Patrol has been extended to June 12. 2019. If you are interested, CLICK HERE to email Kendra for more information and application forms.
ORIGINAL POST MAY 1, 2019
If you are an equestrian who wishes to be a volunteer for the Folsom Lake SRA Mounted Patrol, this is your chance. There are a few openings available now and until May 10, 2019. (Photo credit, Patty Neifer)
A partial list of responsibilities include being certified in First Aid/CPR/AED, riding/participating for a year and then testing, qualifying and certifying you and your horse as a working unit. You will be required to attend monthly meetings, perform and documenting patrols, assist with public events, and participate in trail work. You will be responsible for purchasing uniforms and all supplies.
Please email Kendra to receive more information and application forms.
Hoka One 100K Challenge 'ultramarathon' to close Jedediah Smith Trail today
A portion of the American River Parkway trail is to be shut down for a run. This is to make way for runners to attempt to break world records.
SACRAMENTO, California — Runners are going to take over the Jedediah Smith Memorial Trail on Saturday, May 4.
The Hoka One 100K Challenge is a run where 10 athletes are going to attempt to break two world records. This run is also going to cause a closure of the Jedediah Smith Memorial trail, from Hazel Avenue to Guy West Bridge, between the hours of 6 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Ken Casparis, a spokesperson for Sacramento County Parks, said that the trail should open up as the runners pass through.
Casparis said that the records that the athletes are attempting include the 100K and 10 x 10K world records. The race is considered an ultramarathon, which is around a 62-mile-long run.
The run starts at the Folsom Lake State Recreation Area and then goes down the American River to the Guy West Bridge. Casparis said that if people want to come out, this race could be a fun thing to watch.
"It's going to be a fun event," Casparis said. "I mean, how often do people break records in your own backyard?"
Neither the City of Folsom nor Sacramento County are expecting to shut down any roads, so traffic should not be affected by the run.
Ticks! It's Lyme Time!
Several Park Watch Reporters have told of dozens of Black Legged Ticks crawling on hikers, riders, and particularly dogs.
On the Independence Trail today, after a hike, 30 ticks were removed from ONE dog.
These certainly aren't the only areas and trails with loads of ticks waiting to jump on you and your pets. Be aware in ALL grassy and treed areas. Where ever there are deer, there will be ticks.
WHY SO MANY TICKS??
The past three years have had higher than normal rainfall resulting in a higher mouse and deer population, the main carriers of the Black Legged Tick. Add the lush grass where they can hide and drop on any person or animal that brushes past, and we have a perfect storm.
BLACK LEGGED TICKS ARE A MAIN CARRIER OF LYME DISEASE
Approximately 10% to 30% of the ticks tested in our area are affected by Lyme Disease and can pass it to you and your pets. If not identified and treated quickly, Lyme can become a chronic and debilitating disease.
Wear light colored clothing, stay on the trails, and use DEET for you and Farnam BiteFree or other repellent for your animals. Perform a thorough tick check when you get home.
To see all the information posted about Lyme Disease, and ticks in our area, and how to deal with them, just type in Lyme in the search function at the top of this page.
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Ranelle Sykes
Chief of Party, Kenya DOC
Strategic Communications Media Relations and Media Analysis Social and Website Production Digital Content and Video Production Sub-Saharan Africa
A Texas-born, Nairobi-based communications professional, Ranelle left her job as an award-winning radio host with CBS Radio after more than ten years in Washington, D.C. to move to Kenya. Now, as the Chief of Party supporting USAID in Nairobi, Kenya, she leads a team of 5 communications professionals who provide a range of products and services and strategic communications support that has elevated the mission's work to global audiences. Their niche is content and publication development, multimedia projects, websites and social media. She has also supported communications for Land O’Lakes International Development, the United Nations Joint Programme for HIV and AIDS and several NGOs and community-based organizations. She holds a Juris Doctor from George Washington University Law School and a Bachelor of Science in broadcast journalism from West Virginia University.
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Carly Fiorina at the Iowa Freedom Summit in Des Moines, Iowa on Jan. 24, 2015.
Photo by Mark Peterson/Redux for MSNBC
In Iowa, GOP women take aim at Hillary
01/26/15 12:10 PM Updated 01/29/15 08:54 AM
By Anna Brand
At Saturday’s Iowa Freedom Summit, the men in the ever-widening pool of potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates used their speeches to call for the best ways to crush Obamacare and immigration reform. But the women focused on one target: the likely 2016 Democratic standard bearer, Hillary Clinton.
Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, though relatively unknown in a field of thunderous voices, is actively exploring a 2016 run – and in Iowa she made it clear she’d be running as the anti-Hillary.
“Like Hillary Clinton, I too, have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe,” Fiorina said of the former secretary of state, drawing cheers. “But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something. Mrs. Clinton, flying is an activity not an accomplishment.”
“I’m ready for Hillary, are you? Are you coming?”
Only six of 24 speakers at the event were women – and none of them have made waves as big as their male counterparts like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. (Missing from the event were notable 2016ers former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former presidential candidate Mitt Romney.)
Fiorina lost the only political campaign she’s run so far when she challenged Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer of California in 2010. But she made headlines last summer when she launched a Super PAC, Unlocking Potential Project, aimed at engaging women and closing the gender gap for the Republican party.
But in her speech at Iowa’s crowded Hoyt Sherman Place, it wasn’t about raising women, it was about tearing one woman down.
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Photos of the colorful characters at the Iowa Freedom Summit
Speakers included Chris Christie, Scott Walker, Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum, Rick Perry, and Sarah Palin, among others.
Sneaking Benghazi into her address (another topic glazed over by the male candidates who took the stage) Fiorina said: ”Unlike Hillary Clinton, I know what difference it makes that our ambassador to Libya and three other brave Americans were killed in a deliberate terrorist attack on the anniversary of 9/11.”
Sarah Palin joined Fiorina in the Hillary-hating. The 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate, who recently said that she’s “seriously interested” in running for president in 2016, delivered a bizarre and often incoherent speech, but one aspect was clear: she’s got her sights on Hillary.
Related: GOP hopefuls make their case in Iowa
“I’m ready for Hillary, are you? Are you coming?” Palin said, raising a Time magazine from last year with a headline “Can Anyone Stop Hillary.”
Palin said she doesn’t feel there’s a rush to make a decision about 2016. Fiorina might have an opinion about whether Palin runs too, whether they compete for the party’s 2016 nomination or not. Back in 2008 as one of John McCain’s economic advisers, Fiorina said that Palin, McCain’s VP pick, would not be qualified to be CEO of a corporation like Hewlett-Packard. She tried to salvage her comments on msnbc.
Longtime Republican pollster Kellyanne Conway also dug into Hillary Clinton at the Freedom Summit. “Don’t worry about being called mean. Let’s talk about Hillary Clinton,” she said. “Hillary Clinton is the second most influential person in her own household. I would say Hillary Clinton has the wrong vision for America, but I don’t know what it is.”
Tennessee GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn also jumped on the bandwagon, mocking several TV networks for their coverage of Clinton. “ABC: All About Clinton network; NBC: Nothing But Clinton; CNN: Clinton News Network; CBS - - just think about it!” Translation: Clinton b.s.,” she said.
For their part, Clinton allies say the attacks are a sign Republicans may feel threatened. “Republicans are rattled by the energy and excitement shown by Americans across the country for Hillary Clinton’s potential candidacy and her vision for our future,” communications director Adrienne Elrod of Correct The Record said in statement. ”It is clear Republicans have nothing of substance to say and that they’d like nothing more than to distract from the GOP’s disunity.”
Correction: A previous version of this story inaccurately stated that the Unlocking Potential Project aims to teach male Republican counterparts how best to speak to women.
Women in Politics, Carly Fiorina, Equality, Republicans, Sarah Palin and Women
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Journey To the Centre of the Earth
Another concept album from Rick Wakeman, this one focuses on the famous novel by Jules Verne. It relies heavily on readings from the book to tell the story and this is probably as much classical music and musical theater as it is rock. It’s good – but almost feels like one long piece of music. I’ve heard that there are versions of the CD that separate this out into four tracks, but my copy is just two tracks – each with two epics within. This whole thing was recorded live with a symphony orchestra and choir in addition to rock band.
The Journey / Recollection
The audience can be heard at the start of this. The orchestra and keyboards deliver a powerful opening salvo. Then the cut moves forward with a killer symphonic rock vibe. There are female chorale vocals over the top. It all swirls downward, just leaving Rick Wakeman's keyboards. Then one of the central musical theme emerges in a very symphonic rock styled arrangement. This drops down even further from there to extremely ambient music. Wakeman's synthesizer weaves some intriguing webs of sound, and then the vocals enter to deliver the first lyrics of the album. It moves forward in an organic way, feeling rather like classically tinged folk prog. The cut works through some variants and eventually it all drops away again for a narration section. Then a new motif emerges. Chorale vocals glide over the top of the musical arrangement. It has both a prog rock and a classical vibe to it as it works forward. That drops back for the next narration. After that one we get a rocking section that's dramatic and powerful. That gives way to a mellower movement that has a familiar musical theme. Then we get another narration. They work out from there to a rocking jam that's sort of trademark Wakeman, really. It's energetic and driving. Different instruments take the lead at different points. I love some of Wakeman's keyboard sounds on this. It drops to just the keys, and then chorale voices join to dance over the top of that. After a time it shifts toward a more folk prog styled mode and the sung vocals return to move it forward. Another chorale topped movement takes it from there. Then we get another narration. After that narration we get a definite symphonic movement. Some mellower symphonic prog takes it to its closing after that.
The Battle / The Forest
A spoken section starts us out here and then we get a tasty keyboard solo that builds gradually. After the minute and a half mark they take us out into full band arrangement and Wakeman gives us some ever more delicious morsels from his keys. We get a rocking segment – perhaps the most purely rocking vocal section so far – from there. They take us through a number of variations with more classical themes interspersed amongst the rocking territory. A little past the five minute mark the next spoken section emerges. From there we get another instrumental section and this one has a mysterious, powerful element to it. Then it’s time for another reading. After a time keyboards take over by themselves and then vocals come over this. After a verse or so we get female chorale singing as support. Eventually this works out into a more rocking arrangement before we get another spoken reading. Eventually they move out to another rock oriented movement with Wakeman soloing like crazy overhead. Around the fourteen minute mark they take us into a performance of “Hall of the Mountain King.” I’ve always loved this piece of music and it’s quite powerful and when Wakeman joins the symphony it shoots way up. Then they resolve out into a more typical Rick Wakeman style keyboard solo. It drops down from there and works through some more symphonic, but still quite synthesized music before getting very atmospheric. Then it works out into some returning themes with a symphonic delivery. This takes it through to the closing of the epic.
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The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps in Bayelsa, on Sunday warned oil thieves and pipeline vandals in the area to steer clear of t...
NSCDC Warns Pipeline Vandals To Desist Or Face The Law
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps in Bayelsa, on Sunday warned oil thieves and pipeline vandals in the area to steer clear of the infrastructure or risk crackdown by the law.
The Commandant of NSCDC in the state, Mrs Christiana Abiakam, who gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Yenagoa, said that the corps was committed to stopping the crime.
She said that the command was determined to overcome the obstacles before it.
She said that to that end, the corps would work collaboratively with sister security agencies in joint operations to sustain the stability so far achieved in the crude oil operational environment for increased oil production.
“We will not be deterred by the challenges before us.
“We have resolved to sustain the fight against economic crime by oil thieves and vandals of oil facilities and we have sent warnings to them.
“With our intensified and intelligence-driven operations, the criminals will have no option other than to turn a new leaf or leave the state.
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NWChem 6.0 Release
Please cite the following reference when publishing results obtained with NWChem:
M. Valiev, E.J. Bylaska, N. Govind, K. Kowalski, T.P. Straatsma, H.J.J. van Dam, D. Wang, J. Nieplocha, E. Apra, T.L. Windus, W.A. de Jong, "NWChem: a comprehensive and scalable open-source solution for large scale molecular simulations" Comput. Phys. Commun. 181, 1477 (2010)
Development Tree
This version has the latest additions but has not received full QA testing. It has passed a nightly build and QA test cases. This version will be made available monthly as a tar-file as source code only.
Date of SVN extraction: First development version will be made available January 2011!
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DPP sensitize Malawi prosecutors on newly amended Penal Code and Anatomy Act
September 13, 2016 Chikumbutso Mafupah –Mana 1 Comment
Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) Mary Kachale has asked prosecutors in the country to familiarize themselves with the amendments to the Penal Code and the Anatomy Act for them to come up with right charges when handling cases involving persons with albinism.
Kachale: Prosecutors should know right charges
She was speaking in Mzuzu Friday during a training workshop office of the DPP organized to sensitize state prosecutors on the just amended Anatomy Act and the Penal Code.
Kachale said being conversant with amended pieces of legislation would also help the prosecutors acquire good advocacy skills and tactics which could be used to successfully prosecute offenders in a court of law.
She observed that sometimes prosecutors had problems determining right charges in cases involving people found with human body parts and that is why the office of DPP took an initiative to make sure that prosecutors know the right charges in line with the amended laws.
“We have had cases where people found with bones of people with albinism were charged wrongly. The initiative we have now is to make sure that prosecutors should know the right charges as there some changes to the penal code and anatomy Act,” she said.
Kachale said following the amendments to the Penal Code and Anatomy Act, the perpetrators of offences against persons with albinism will now get stiffer sentences and longer jail term in order to end the brutal activities.
“Offences against people with albinism are some of the offences that we do not want to see again on our desks; so we hope that with the amendment, the sentences that will be passed will stop people from committing these offences” she said.
Commenting on the development Vice- President for the Association of People with Albinism in Malawi (APAM), Alex Machila said the workshop will help in delivery of justice as the prosecutors will now be equipped with new skills and tactics to be used when handling charges in cases involving people with albinism.
He called on all people and the government to continue fighting against the abuse people with albinism are facing.
Machila said there was need as a country to do more digging than it is currently the case to end abusive acts.
“We have seen commission of inquiries being instituted; that is a good initiative but as APAM we want the commission of inquiry to lead to the arrest of the buyers of bones of people with albinism so that they face what the amended Penal Code and Anatomy Acts states,” he said.
Among other things, the amended Anatomy Act states that any person being found with the human body parts shall commit an offence and shall be liable to life imprisonment. Previously offenders could either pay a fine of K15, 000 or be imprisoned for a period of 10 years.
Mary Kachale
Malopa says investors ready to fund K1.8 trillion Cape Maclear Initiative
NICE popularizing SADC regional integration campaign
be humane
Ukumva Trapence, You write using old and repealed Laws and present as if you are talking sense. Penal Code was amended get a copy from police paja zikumakupita zochitika mmalawi muno
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Isles acquire Rolston; deal Hunter to Devils
The Isles have acquired winger Brian Rolston from New Jersey in a 1:1 trade for Trent Hunter. (Earlier reports had also said that a draft pick was included but that was inaccurate.)
The team release is here: http://islanders.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=585408&navid=DL|NYI|home
Rolston, 38, becomes the oldest player on the team -- his cap hit is $5,062,500 for the season. He is eligible to become an unrestricted free agent next July 1. He is just 3 1/2 years younger than the General Manager who acquired him -- today is Garth Snow's 42nd birthday. Rolston is four years older than Marty Reasoner (the oldest other skater on the roster; goalie Evgeny Nabokov turned 36 earlier this week).
Rolston had three consecutive 30+ goal seasons for the Wild, but scored only 49 goals for New Jersey over the past three seasons. After being scratched and waived early in the season by New Jersey, Rolston who had only two goals and three assists in 21 games by New Year's rebounded to finish with 14 goals and 20 assists.
Hunter, on the other hand, missed the season's final 65 games after scoring a goal and an assist vs Columbus on November 24th. It was his 99th goal as an Islander, leaving him one shy of being the 25th player in team history to score 100 goals.
Hunter departs the Islanders as the active career leader in most offensive categories. With Hunter's departure, Blake Comeau now has played the most games for the Islanders (245); Matt Moulson has the most goals (61); Frans Nielsen has the most assists (83) while John Tavares has the most points (121) and power play goals (20).
Hunter, 31, has two seasons remaining on his 5 year/ $10 million contract.
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The Gordon Report – Saturday
Was one of the nicest December flying days I can remember. We arrived to a low ceiling which was fine because a little extra time was spent setting up on the new field. What a wonderful flying site this new field is for the Buzzards. Not only is access fantastic with drive on and off the field from Highway 50 very easy but we were excited by the large number of visitors that dropped in on us during the day. Some showed a clear interest in our hobby and recounted the days long ago when they tried RC flying etc. There is no doubt that being in this extremely visible location is going to enhance the Buzzards membership and grow the participation of the other clubs in FSS events as well.
CD Tom Galloway started us off with an 8 minute task and 100 point landing tapes. We would be flying Open winch with honors callup. The honors callup had a twist though as the top 3 placing pilots would lead us off rather than the winners of the previous round.
The air was consistently good all day though at times the lift was soft and our models needed careful coaxing to actually gain height. In some rounds a lot of patience following the lift for 3 or 4 minutes was required before it finally grew in strength sufficiently to see significant gains. It wasn’t all up air every round as I can attest because my round #3 flight ended prematurely as I was unable to make soft lift work for the full 10 minute task.
The group of 13 pilots were made up of visitors from elsewhere in the state as well as the Buzzards and a great contingent from Pompano Beach, our new star pilot Jeff Duval from Gainesville, Jim MacLean and the Graves from the IRKS club made a good friendly group. It was also terrific to welcome Davd Veatch back to Central Florida after being away from the area for a decade or so but now living in Winter Park and flying once again with the Buzzards.
After 3 rounds of the contest completed we had Mike Naylor leading the Sportsman class with Dillon Graves in front in the expert class. He was closely pursued by Jody Miller and Jeff Duval in 3rd.
During lunch the pilots gathered around the Toys for Tots donations for some photos. The concept of a donating toys to this charity was suggested by Buzzards president and was a great success as a couple of dozen really nice toys were brought along by the pilots.
With the sun beating down more like an October day we continued the contest after lunch with 10 minute maxes set by CD Raed. For most pilots it was fairly easy air until the final round when the honors group of Jody, Dillon and Jeff all launched into air with few signs of lift. Jody went right and Jeff went left while Dillon went forward to the right. With all three aircraft descending Jody used the indication from his transmitter streamer to fly further to the right and further downwind to intercept the lift indicated by the streamer. He hooked up at about twice tree top height and began to slowly claw his way out of trouble. Dillon saw his model making progress and broke immediately downwind to join Jody but arrived at tree top height and in line with the trees. He found the air but for him it was a real struggle as he courageously made turns eeking out less than 5 feet at a time as his model was constantly drifting further and further downwind. He was flying one of the best saves of his short career and with out help from his usual mentors. It was nail biting stuff as he finally decided to make a break for the field when it was apparent that he wasn’t buying his ride. He made it back for a scoring landing but had to pick his way around the trees to do so. I have watched hundreds of Dillons flights and although this one didn’t yield a max it was in my mind the best example so far of Dillon displaying true soaring skills without his coaches advising him. Meanwhile Jeff had also bombed out to the left and landed early so it was just Jody who made a max from this honors callup in round seven to be only one of two pilots t complete the day with a clean slate. Jamie Mercado was the other pilot and he finished the contest in second place. By virtue of Jeff and Dillons low final score I jumped from 5th to 3rd.
1st place Sportsman for the day was Mike Naylor, with Lewis Gray 2nd and David Veatch 3rd. Davids old school “Dodgson” Lovesong was truly a pretty sight and his model was one of the best examples of the early 80’s era of RC sailplanes I have seen.
The first day at this new field was a tremendous success and it is so exciting to have such a fantastic facility. With a steady stream of visitors to develop new members from the club is truly blessed by Raed’s persistence and dedication to get this site established for us. We also must thank the Larry who visited the field today. Larry is the guy who did all the hard work with the county officials to procure the field.
Looking forward to another wonderful soaring day tomorrow.
If you are in Central Florida come out and join us.
Scores Full Round by Round – 2012 – FSS8 Sat Full
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HomeBlogUS’ Pompeo: ‘We Want the Whole Middle East to Look like Israel’ (VIDEO)
US’ Pompeo: ‘We Want the Whole Middle East to Look like Israel’ (VIDEO)
October 11, 2018 Blog, News, Videos
Pompeo reiterated US support to Israel during his visit to the Middle East. (Photo: via Twitter)
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said yesterday “Israel is everything we want the entire Middle East to look like going forward” and that US-Israel relations are “stronger than ever”.
Speaking at an award ceremony held by the Jewish Institute for National Security of America in Washington DC, Pompeo hailed Israel as “democratic and prosperous”, adding “it desires peace, it is a home to a free press and a thriving economy,” Arutz Sheva reported.
.@SecPompeo: In the entire Middle East, there is only one consistently pro-American, free enterprise, democratic nation. And that is the State of #Israel. Under @POTUS’ leadership, the U.S. is standing firmly on the side of Israel, and our relationship is stronger than ever. pic.twitter.com/oAIsbjrgXC
— US Embassy, Armenia (@usembarmenia) October 11, 2018
Pompeo then compared Israel to Iran, citing the latter’s “corrupt leaders [who] assault the human rights of their own people and finance terrorism in every corner of the Middle East”.
Pompeo lamented that the US administration under former President Barack Obama “had more respect for the leaders of Iran than it did for the State of Israel.”
“Under President Trump’s leadership, the United States is standing where it should firmly be: On the side of Israel.”
Secretary of State Pompeo: US-Israel relations stronger than ever–says Israel "is everything we want the entire Middle East to look like." https://t.co/78Qg6Ma010
— GA-GA for Israel! (@GaGaforIsrael) October 11, 2018
Pompeo also discussed the long-awaited US peace initiative – dubbed the “deal of the century” – hailing it as a “truly historic” effort to reach an agreement.
Pompeo said that “we [the USA] are very hopeful that one day the Palestinian people will have the same kinds of things, the same material, the same opportunities that the people of Israel have,” according to the Jerusalem Post.
Pompeo added:
“We very much want you [the Palestinians] to have a space.”
10 Things You Need to Know about 'Deal of the Century' https://t.co/RBm56Rtmcu via @YouTube
— The Rights Forum (@TheRightsForum) July 7, 2018
Yet the Secretary of State also admitted that despite this “hope” for a Palestinian “space”, he had that same day denied a $165 million transfer of aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) citing the PA’s “funding of terror”.
Pompeo was referring to the PA’s refusal to adhere to US demands to cease so-called “martyr payments” to the families of those killed by Israeli occupation forces or those incarcerated in Israeli prisons.
Though US-Israel ties have historically been strong, under President Donald Trump’s administration these ties have reached new heights.
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Israel Detains Ahed Tamimi’s Injured Cousin
May 22, 2018 Blog, News
Israeli occupation forces released Ahed Tamimi’s cousin Muhammad last night after detaining him for a few hours from the village of Nabi Saleh. The 15-year-old, who has previously lost a third of his skull after […]
Paraguay President Inaugurates Israel Embassy in Jerusalem
Paraguay has opened its Israel embassy in Jerusalem, the second country to follow the United States in making the politically sensitive move from Tel Aviv. Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu […]
Israeli Forces Shoot Norwegian Peace Activist Twice in One Week (VIDEO)
August 28, 2018 Blog, News, Videos
Norwegian Palestine-solidarity activist Kristin Foss was shot twice in a week by Israeli soldiers. The first time she was shot whilst standing with her hands raised, and the second occurred when she was standing against […]
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Upcoming Discipline Hearings
Discipline Case Decisions
Reinstatement After Revocation
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Reinstatement of a former member’s certificate of registration (“certificate”) can only be ordered by a panel of the Discipline Committee as it is the only committee that can revoke a member’s certificate.
A penalty of revocation of a member’s certificate may be ordered by the Discipline Committee following a finding of professional misconduct of a significant nature. Indeed, this penalty is reserved only for the most serious cases of misconduct where, given all other considerations, no other penalty can adequately protect the public from unsafe or unethical practice.
Application for Reinstatement
A revoked “member” may apply, in writing, to the Registrar for the reinstatement of his or her certificate, one year after the revocation. (In cases where revocation resulted from a finding of sexual abuse of a patient, the revoked member can only apply for reinstatement after five years.)
Applications for reinstatement are made formally in a hearing before a panel of the Discipline Committee. Unlike other proceedings before this Committee where the burden of proof lies with the College, the onus is on the former member to present evidence that will convince the Committee that the original reasons for the revocation have been appropriately addressed. Specifically, the Committee seeks information that indicates that the individual is governable, understands the significance of his or her past conduct, and evidence that suggests the past conduct is unlikely to recur if the former member is reinstated. The College may either support or oppose the application before the Committee.
After hearing the evidence and submissions, the Discipline Committee issues its decision and reasons in writing to the Registrar and the applicant. The Committee may either refuse the request for reinstatement or direct the Registrar to issue a new certificate. Where the Committee decides to reinstate the certificate, it may also order the Registrar to impose terms, conditions or limitations on the member’s certificate.
No Right to Appeal
Unlike other disciplinary proceedings, an applicant seeking reinstatement has no right to appeal the Discipline Committee’s decision to the Divisional Court. Every applicant has the right to reapply for reinstatement within six months of the Committee’s decision to deny his or her application.
Reinstatement proceedings are infrequent, due primarily to the relatively rare incidence of revocation orders being made by the Discipline Committee. And, as with discipline hearings, reinstatement hearings are open to the public and are recorded formally by a court reporter.
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She has served for more than 35 years in various public service roles. Prior to her current position she was the staff director for the late Senator Paul Wellstone on the Senate’s Employment, Safety and Training Subcommittee. Ms. Baker is a graduate of Yale Law School, clerked for the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware, served as Chief Counsel to Senator Howard Metzenbaum on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and directed the Consumer Services Division of the New York Department of Public Service.
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Andrea Tantaros Joins James O'Keefe To Co-Headline NJ Right To Life Dinner
Posted by Priscilla -24.80pc on March 13, 2015 · Flag
Funny, Fox News and the right wing actually believe that liberalism is an evil radical worldview. Meanwhile, as seen in the selection of the key-note speakers for the annual New Jersey Right to Life dinner, it is obvious that the anti-abortion movement, reverentially embraced by Fox and the right wing, has some pretty radical connections of its own!
Yes, who better to promote the so-called "sanctity of life" than Fox's very own Andrea Tantaros whose toxic, bigoted commentary contributes to the ambiance that Fox is famous for and, drum roll please, James O'Keefe whose lies are actively pimped on Fox. But what makes this even more special is that both of these jokers are being promoted by a group which claims that it cares about women and, judging from the comments and actions of the aforementioned right wing super-stars, that's debatable.
Tantaros delights in slut shaming women who have sex and babies outside of marriage. But she's anti-abortion - so anti-abortion that she described a woman who was contemplating having an abortion as "pure evil." Tantaros also hates Planned Parenthood so, I guess, her anti-choice bona fides are stellar despite her basic intolerance towards anybody or anything (especially Islam) that doesn't meet her right wing standards.
James O'Keefe is, uh, a piece of work with, as Newshounds Ellen pointed out, a "sleazy criminal history." His unsavory and illegal activities include doctored tapes which purported to show ACORN workers engaging in criminal wrongdoing - tapes that were given pride of place on Fox News where O'Keefe was interviewed in a pimp suit that he, come to find out, didn't wear during his ACORN sting videos. In 2013, he settled a lawsuit filed by a former ACORN worker for $100,000. In 2010, he pled guilty to breaking into the NOLA office of then Sen. Mary Landrieu as part of yet another bogus "investigation." And that's just a sample of his multi-faceted resume.
And, just like Tantaros, O'Keefe is no fan of women who, he said in a journal that he wrote while in college and which has been scrubbed from the internet, are attracted to "jerks, brutes, and assholes." (Pot, meet kettle?) O'Keefe has so much respect for women (not!) that he tried to punk a female CNN journalist by luring her onto a boat "filled with sexually explicit props and then record the session, those documents show." But O'Keefe did anti-Planned Parenthood sting videos with the sweet, virginal, anti-choice crusader and Fox fave, Lila Rose so his anti-choice bona fides are also stellar.
So save the date, April 17th, for a fun filled evening at the New Brunswick NJ Hyatt Regency. Prices for tickets range from $90 to $2750 for VIP's cause it's all about the "babies" and no hateful right wing rhetoric. Ya think?!
truman commented 2015-03-14 09:24:40 -0400 · Flag
Try to imagine the resulting spawn if these two decided to procreate (after marriage of course).
Bob Roberts commented 2015-03-14 01:21:13 -0400 · Flag
Does the NJRTL really expect to sell a boatload of tickets with these two miscreants as the headliners??? They would do better with a Bon Jovi cover band than with Punch and Judy O’Keefe.
radpat_USA commented 2015-03-13 19:24:01 -0400 · Flag
The RTL movement could not have picked a better pair to represent the true “values” of that movement!
NewsHounds posted about Andrea Tantaros Joins James O'Keefe To Co-Headline NJ Right To Life Dinner on NewsHounds' Facebook page 2015-03-13 18:20:07 -0400
What a dynamic duo!
My GOD FAUX is paying this nut $300,000 a year to cross her legs, lol,well it’s better than $50.00 free lance she was making LMAO
I just read Andrea bio, is she gay, I also see her family was even born here, they came from over sea, atleast President Obama family was born here.
Antoinette commented 2015-03-13 16:01:49 -0400 · Flag
Well Andrea and Jimmy we weren’t aware of your stand-up comedy gig at this anti-death penalty event.
It would be worth seeing this comedy duo in person. We need a good laugh. But on the other hand, we can upload Long Island street thug Hannocchio’s CPAC speech and roll on the floor laughing our guts out.
Homeboy Halligan commented 2015-03-13 13:58:52 -0400 · Flag
The right wing anxiously awaiting O’Keefe’s next dud. What a moron.
scooter commented 2015-03-13 12:14:35 -0400 · Flag
Wow, two of the people in the world most deserving of a verbal beatdown in the same place at the same time. The mind reels with possibilities….
Warp Resident commented 2015-03-13 11:18:37 -0400 · Flag
I hear wedding bells!
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Jon Stewart Tells Fox News: You Spend 24 Hours A Day Jerking Yourself Off
Posted by Ellen -7796.60pc on March 27, 2015 · Flag
Jon Stewart gave Fox News quite a comedic shellacking last night. And while his takedown was much broader than Megyn Kelly, she may well have needed another hankie after watching it.
Stewart began by honing in on Kelly’s hypocritical self-righteousness for not “rushing to judgment” over Michael Brown and Ferguson.
“Fox is nothing but a rush to judgment in every situation,” Stewart noted.
But after playing a clip of Kelly and Fox's media critic, Howard Kurtz, complaining that no other media outlet would acknowledge Fox's awesomeness, Stewart shot back, "That is newsworthy when Fox is right." So, “To honor that time you were right," Stewart added, "We got you a Fudgie the Whale. (He brought out a Fudgie the Whale cake, with 'You were right!' written on it) Because, you know why? We think you’re a whale of a network - in that we’ve been chasing you our whole lives and just can’t kill you.”
Then, Stewart called on "liberal Hollywood," in the form of George Lucas, to further honor “this singular achievement of you being right.” Lucas promised he will only make movies “that are blindly uncritical of America.”
Of course, to really honor Fox, Lucas should have promised movies that are “blindly uncritical” of conservative America.
Nonetheless, Lucas pledged “The Empire Strikes Back Justifiably,” “American Exceptionalism Graffiti,” “Star Wars: the Reagan Missile Defense Version” and “The Clinton Menace.”
Stewart concluded with a zinger: Noting Fox’s relentless self-congratulations, Stewart said, “I get it now. Your network launched in 1996; you’re 18 years old. Just like every other 18-year old, you have a massive ego and spend 24 hours a day jerking yourself off.”
Watch it below, from last night’s The Daily Show.
Hulk commented 2015-03-28 02:51:32 -0400 · Flag
WOW!!!!!!LMAO
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Pulmonary Cell News 2.10 March 14, 2013
In this issue: Publications | Reviews | Industry News | Policy News | Events | Jobs
How the New Coronavirus Infects Cells
A novel respiratory illness caused by the human coronavirus hCoV-EMC has infected over 10 people to date, of which around half have died as a result of infection. Researchers from Utrecht University and Erasmus MC have identified a protein that allows the virus to infect human cells. [Press release from Utrecht University discussing online prepublication in Nature] Press Release | Abstract
A Dynamic Bronchial Airway Gene Expression Signature of COPD and Lung Function Impairment
The authors report that in silico analysis identified ATF4 as a potential transcriptional regulator of genes with COPD-associated airway expression, and ATF4 overexpression in airway epithelial cells in vitro recapitulates COPD-associated gene expression changes. [Am J Resp Crit Care] Abstract
Anti-Inflammatory Role of PGD2 in Acute Lung Inflammation and Therapeutic Application of Its Signal Enhancement
Scientists report that data obtained from bone marrow transplantation between WT and prostaglandin D2 (PGD2) receptor, DP-deficient mice suggest that the DP signal in alveolar endothelial cells is crucial for the anti-inflammatory reactions of PGD2. In vitro, DP agonism directly enhanced endothelial barrier formation, and 15-deoxy-Δ12,14-PGJ2 attenuated both neutrophil migration and cytokine expression. [Proc Natl Acad Sci USA] Abstract
IL-22 Is Essential for Lung Epithelial Repair Following Influenza Infection
Wild-type and IL-22−/− mice were infected with influenza A PR8/34 H1N1 and were followed up for up to 21 days post infection. IL-22 receptor was localized to the airway epithelium in naive mice but was expressed at the sites of parenchymal lung remodeling induced by influenza infection. IL-22−/− mice displayed exacerbated lung injury compared with wild-type mice, which correlated with decreased lung function 21 days post infection. [Am J Pathol] Abstract
Discrimination between Lung Homeostatic and Injury-Induced Epithelial Progenitor Subsets by Cell-Density Properties
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The Brewhouse Gallery turns FOUR
Published on April 29th, 2018
Some things have changed in the nearly four years since AJ Brockman opened The Brewhouse Gallery in a struggling Lake Park strip mall. This taproom and culture hub expanded into the adjoining storefront. It got a companion venue in The Kelsey Theater, a concert hall that Brockman and his team opened in year two of their mall makeover.
They also acquired the mall, becoming landlords. Tenants today include a tattoo parlor, a belly dancing school and a restaurant, Brick & Barrel, that Brockman especially likes for its craft cocktails — “one of the best Old Fashioneds I’ve ever had,” he tells PureHoney.
This artist and entrepreneur has plenty to toast as he prepares to celebrate another Brewhouse anniversary with a block party that is fast becoming a mainstay of the region’s regular music calendar. Rogue Theory, String Assassins and a dozen other acts are already scheduled for the May 12 birthday bash.
The String Assassins
“We took over the whole plaza and we’re trying to cultivate a whole arts district,” says Brockman. And if the site of this unexpected renaissance was all but invisible before, it’s impossible to miss now, with a painted mural stretching 900 feet along the complex’s back wall. “It really just livens up the whole area and really does scream ‘arts district,’ ” Brockman says.
There’s more to be done, not all of it necessarily on site. “The Brewhouse business model would be duplicatable” at other locations, he says, describing his aim to “revolutionize the way art galleries function.”
In this respect, not a thing has changed. Brewhouse is still a gallery, first. Artists show affordable works to potential buyers who also get to enjoy live music and craft beer. “The music and the beer is what brings people in,” Brockman says. Beer sales help him recoup what he gives up by charging artists for display space instead of the traditional, hefty gallery owner- commission. Artists in turn keep more of what they earn, he says.
Music was not his first priority at Brewhouse. “But the more music we had,” Brockman says, “the better we did.”
The Brewhouse Gallery turns four with a block party and bands on three stages, May 12 at the plaza along the 700 block of Park Avenue in Lake Park. brewhousegallery.com ~ Sean Piccoli
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The Quilietti family are connected to the Venturini family via Alma Dante.
Alma was the daughter of Ermenia Quilietti and Peter Dante.
Alma Dante, daughter of Ermenia Quilietti and Peter Dante. This photo was taken in November 2000
Many families with the Venturini surname are from Massa Carrara in Tuscany, near the mouth of the Aulia River where many of them still live today. Alma’s husband Frank’s family come from this region of Italy.
Alma was born on 29th July 1913 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She was the youngest of four children, two of who died in infancy. Elsie, her older surviving sister was born in 1910. These sisters are my first cousins twice removed.
Alma met and married another Italian immigrant, Frank Venturini whose family had emigrated from Italy at the turn of the century
I can only tell you a little bit about the Venturini family but with the help of our new cousin, Brenda Ramsey Machado, whose granny was Frank Venturini’s sister, I hope that perhaps a few gaps in our American family’s lives can now be found.
Brenda Ramsay Machado is Alma’s great niece.
Quoting from Brenda’s letter
My maiden name is Ramsey. Alma is my great-aunt by marriage. Her husband Frank and my grandmother Corinne were siblings. Their parents arrived in the U.S. in 1909 + 1910, arriving through Ellis Island NY. They (Celia and Guilio Venturini, and son Mario) lived in Peter Dante’s house in Pawtucket for a few years, before moving a few blocks away. The families stayed close. My Mom’s name is Joanne Ramsey. Her parents were Corinne Venturini and Matthew Swiech.
Alma and her husband Frank were very religious people. There was a room in their house called “the Saint room” which had statues of saints, Jesus and Mary, and lots of candles. They always had a candle lit, and would go in there to pray every day. Alma always had rosary beads in her pocket.
Frank’s parents were Giulio Venturini and Celia Brunelli or Benze. They had several children
MARIO J. VENTURINI was born in Italy in 1907
RAYMOND VENTURINI was born in Rhode Island in 1910
RENA VENTURINI was born in Rhode Island in 1914
FRANK VENTURINI was born in 1916
CORENA VENTURINI was born in 1918
JULIO VENTURINI was born in 1919
In the 1920 census we find the Venturini staying on Columbus Avenue in the Italian district of Pawtucket . Frank’s family resided on Cato and Sharon Avenue near Lakeview. These relations were Frank’s Aunt, uncle and cousins.
Maria Domenica Quilietti, Alma’s aunt, along with her husband Alfredo Benabio and their children were also residing nearby on Lakeview . They had six children Joe, Rose, Charles, August, Amelia and Mary. please look up the Benabio page Many of their neighbours were other Italian families with surnames Luccini, Castelli, Nanni, Patroni and Boggia to name but a few.
Celia in the year 1920 was already a widow. Her husband died shortly before their young son was born. In turn that young son called Julio, died shortly before his youngest son was born. Both of these men died at a young age leaving their wives. who uncannily were both pregnant when their husbands died, with their families to bring up on their own.
By the year 1930 we find the family again living in Pawtucket, Providence County,but this time missing from the cencus was Raymond and Rena. These siblings died within two months of each other from Typhoid Fever. They were in their early teens. Mario had now found work in the silk mills dotted along the Blackstone River. He was a weaver. He would have also been the breadwinner of the family working and assuming the role of the head of the family. Mario died in 1977.
Alma and Frank lived for many years at 82 Columbus Avenue. Alma worked for a while in the Rug Department as a Clerk in the Shartenberg Department Store in Pawtucket.
The Quilietti brothers Giuseppe and Adolfo also lived in Columbus Avenue, No. 87 right across the road I believe.
Ermenia Quilietti at the top, Alma is photographed in her wedding gown. The other photo is of Francine, who is Alma's niece. This was taken when she was in her teens. She is now in her 60s and is alive and well
87 Columbus Avenue, Pawtucket
4 Responses to “VENTURINI Connections”
Bob Rochford says:
Hi, I lived on the third floor of the house pictured, until august of 1966. I knew Guseppi, and I knew The Guidice family also. Bob Rochford ,
I have replied via e.mail Bob. I cannot express how excited I am that you have left this information for us. This is such brilliant news as all the Quilietti family have now gone in Rhode Island. I so much look forward to your reply.
Marlena Venturini says:
I am the granddaughter of Mario Venturini, daughter to Raymond and Patricia. Thank you for the information.
Thank you Marlene for your comment. If you would like to contribute anything to the site please be in touch. Would be great to hear from you
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Q&A: Matt & Kim back with new LP, hit the road one year after on-stage injury
Almost Everyday, Kim Schifino, Matt & Kim, Matt Johnson
Performing musicians are athletes, too. Just ask Kim Schifino of indie-rock duo Matt & Kim. On March 25, 2017 Schifino and singer-keyboard player Matt Johnson were performing at a festival in Mexico during stormy weather.…
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> The Arts
There are annual street festivals in places all over the world. There's probably one happening right now. Which ones have you been to? Recount your experiences with other party goers here. Also up for review are concert tours, film festivals, and various other large social events.
Concert Tours (Current)
Miscellaneous Concerts & Festivals
San Francisco Street Fairs
World Parties / Festivals
Trebon's Best Concerts
Memorable Concert Festivals
Best Woodstock Performance
oscargamblesfro reviewed *The guy who warned everyone not to take the Blue Acid.(FranksWildYears) in Best Woodstock Performance:
minkey reviewed Fleet Week in San Francisco Street Fairs:
The blue angels turns are so quick it seems like they'll crash into each other, with 4 flying in unison. Bars, restaurants and rooftops in the marina, fisherman's wharf, chrissy field. etc are packed, and with the October weather in SF it makes for a great weekend. The downside is that when they fly over my apartment, they set off all the car alarms on the street.
Carla Jenkins reviewed *Sly and the family stone in Best Woodstock Performance:
For a 3:30 am performance, this band bought the party to Woodstock... to this very day, when I watch the footage of "I Wanna take You Higher" especially starting at 7:05 on the You Tube version of this hit, my hairs stand up. In all the years of my life, I have never seen a live performance that has moved me more than this one.
RalphTheWonderLlama reviewed Comic Relief in Memorable Concert Festivals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW12S4-KB1I
RalphTheWonderLlama reviewed *Ten years after in Best Woodstock Performance:
They were hot at Woodstock. Yeah, TYA was uneven at times, as other reviewers noted, but Alvin Lee's best stuff was his solo work. I am particularly fond of his "On the Road to Freedom" album he did with gospel singer Mylon Le Fevre. The album has a lot of great musicians on it, including George Harrison.
Here's the title track, with half of Traffic backing it up (Steve Winwood on piano, Jim Capaldi on drums and Rebob on congas.)
RalphTheWonderLlama reviewed *The guy who warned everyone not to take the Blue Acid.(FranksWildYears) in Best Woodstock Performance:
The dude was Chip Monk. I got to meet him in the mid-70s when I was setting up a stage for a concert...he was far out, man.
RalphTheWonderLlama reviewed Gloucester Cheese Race in World Parties / Festivals:
Insane festival was canceled in 2010 due to the Nanny State's fear that people were having too much fun breaking their legs.
FranksWildYears reviewed The Secret Policeman's Ball in Memorable Concert Festivals:
Star-studded benfits are generally hit or miss affairs with the moments of genuine sincere connection balancing out the truly ill-concieved collaborations.
The Secret Policeman's Ball and the Secret Policeman's Other Ball were a pair of 80's fundraisers for Amnesty International which featured a who's who of British television comedians and a smattering of musical performances. Captured on a pair of albums and a combined concert film they were a pretty cool presentation of some of the bette pop culture of the era. The highlights for me were a great performance of The Who's Won't Get Fooled Again by Pete Townsend with classical guitarist John Williams and a fine guitar duel between a laid back Eric Clapton and a menacing Jeff Beck, who clearly looked like he was out to cut Clapton and a couple of funny numbers from Bonzo Dog Band/Monty Pythin musical colaborator Niel Innes.
A subsequent album The Secret Policeman`s Third Ball fell into the trap of Superstar Bloat that often plagues these types of affairs.
FranksWildYears reviewed Grand Ole Opry in Music Festivals:
I'm not a fan of contemporary popular country music, so there's not much I'd be interested in seing at the Grand Ole Opry at its home in OpryLand USA. However catching a show at the historic Ryman Auditorium where everyone from The Carter Family, Bill Munroe and Bob Wills to Hank Williams, Johnny Cash and John Hartford have played is on my musical bucket list. The Ryman was the home of the Opry until 1974.
FranksWildYears reviewed Genesis in Trebon's Best Concerts:
There's not an artist on this sorry list that isn't either a 5 star sell-out or was cynical calculated commercial dreck to begin with but Genesis would have to top both categories.
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Action and Thriller
Rate action films! You're in the right place if you like James Bond and spaghetti westerns. So here it is: Action Movie Reviews, Best James Bond Movie, Best Dirty Harry Movie, Best Superhero Movie, and our list of Spaghetti Westerns.
Action & Thriller Movies
Movies Based on Comic Book/Graphic Novel/Superhero Movies
Dirty Harry Movies
Walking Tall Movies
Serial Killer/Psychological Thrillers
Supernatural Thrillers and Films
Wuxia Movies
Spaghetti Western movies and films
Jamie's Hard Core Action Films
Billionaires and Honorable Mentions
James Bond Contributions
Fav Action & Thriller Movies
Alfred Hitchcock directed movies:
Who Should Direct The Next James Bond Movie?
James Bond 007 Movies
Action Packed Film Hall Of Fame
BEST 2010 Movies
movie trends
xavierian reviewed Iron Man in Movies Based on Comic Book/Graphic Novel/Superhero Movies:
That's the particular magic of this movie, that whatever is going on, we want to see Tony. I've said before that at a very basic level, the film's plot is pretty simplistic -- Tony gets kidnapped and we watch him build an Iron Man suit to escape, then he goes home and we watch him build a new Iron Man suit, and then a middle-aged businessman puts on another Iron Man suit and they fight to the death. The film frankly has no strong third act, and no rationale for the villain's choices at the very end (he could've accomplished his goals with more patience and strategizing, which he used for all those years before).
However, a very valid retort to that analysis is, "Who cares?? Downey is AWESOME!" It was so fun and funny seeing him build and test the suit, we'd have sat through the rest of the film and loved it even if there was no climax and they just had him keep building suits until the credits rolled.
The film knew what it needed to be and how to achieve it -- put Downey on screen and let him be his charming, hilarious, charismatic self. Throw in a few excellent action sequences in the Iron Man armor, and you've got movie gold. It takes a special film and very insightful filmmakers to know that they should keep it simple and let their star carry the film when they can. This is that kind of film, it wasn't complicated because it didn't need to be, and that's part of what makes it so wonderful.
Xathien reviewed Iron Man in Movies Based on Comic Book/Graphic Novel/Superhero Movies:
I love this movie and although the director Jon Favreau is undoubtedly excellent at his job. (proven by also being the Executive Producer on Iron Man 2, 3 and both Avengers movies to date) the real star of this movie is the main man..... the Iron Man - Robert Downey Jr. He is the perfect man for this role and when he stops playing Iron Man and the franchise is revamped (it will inevitably happen) he will be very, very hard to replace. The actor that steps up for the job will have some enormous comedy size Dutch clogs to fill. So although mostly everyone reading this will know the story of Iron Man I will give you the short version from the badass beginning of the movie to wet your appetite. Ok so Tony Stark (Downey) is a Billionaire, Genius Philanthropist with a bit of an attitude!!. He is in Afghanistan testing his new Jericho missile and after a successful test he is on the road preparing to get back to the good old U.S.A. While having a bit of banter with the troops assigned to protect him, the Humvee gets attacked by a group of terrorists called the Ten Rings. The crew of the Humvee are killed and Stark is taken and imprisoned in a cave with a Scientist/Surgeon named Ho Yisen. Yisen has been tasked (forced) to take care of Stark who had been injured in the kidnapping. The terrorists ask Stark and Yisen to build a Jericho missile for them but Stark first builds a miniature Ark Reactor to keep the shrapnel in his chest from piercing his heart and killing him. Stark really doesn't want to build a group of bat s**t crazy terrorists a super weapon so instead decides to build something for himself (the Iron Man suit Mark 1). A montage follows of the three months work they complete while being held captive. Finally the suit is ready! Stark suits up and Yisen distracts the guards. The action in this scene is awesome and is the first real Hollywood look at Iron Man and it does not fail to impress!! The escape doesn't go exactly to plan and Yisen who is now a good friend of Stark is killed. His last words to Stark visibly changes him forever "Don't waste it ..don't waste your life" Stark leaves his friend behind and continues on his escape. With a few more badass fight scenes with guns, flame throwers and the brute force of the suit Stark manages to jet out of the compound just far enough for the suit to fail and crash land pretty hard. Stark battered and bruised stands and begins to walk away from the dozens of pieces of his suit strewn across the sand. Eventually Stark is found by the U.S Army including his good friend James Rhodes. After arriving back on U.S.A soil Stark vows that he will not allow Stark industries to make any more weapons.
This my friends is merely a very shortened version of the very beginning of this movie.
Now Go Watch and Enjoy!!
Monstermaster reviewed From Dusk Till Dawn in Supernatural Thrillers and Films:
For starters, this is how I think a vampire movie should be, it is scary and intense but also exotic and intriguing! It's become one of my personal favorites, so much so I am becoming obsessed with it - i'm even starting to dream about it, you could say that in my dreams I am a regular at the Titty Twister, no i'm not a vampire yet, but I feel I might become one very soon. I even have a fan-made Grimm Wesen based on the vampires in this movie!
I love how this movie is different than your typical run-of-the-mill horror flick, it starts off as a typical Tarantino-esque crime caper only for it to become a kickass horror movie in the second half! It took me by surprise! Kudos to Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino for their teamwork here.
This movie is one no horror fan should be without, as it is an absolute must for horror movie fans, vampire movies, and badass movies in general. It's movies like this and Bram Stoker's Dracula that make me wish i was a vampire myself, I just have a thing for bloodthirsty monster types and monster-girls. It's also movies like this and Sleepy Hollow that make me wish I was the one being bitten or kissed like that. The same goes for Bram Stoker's Dracula, and you can't fault me for the latter because the Hessian in Sleepy Hollow is Christopher Walken and when Walken is on screen you don't question anything and just let Walken do the rest!
Also you cannot fault me for wanting to get bitten by Santanico Pandemonium because Salma Hayek is a motherfucking goddess, and i'd gladly surrender to her and be her willing slave anytime. Hey! It was that sexy dance that did it for me.
That sexy dance scene.... by the way is...still impressive even to this day, even more impressive considering Salma Hayek is afraid of snakes and had to be hypnotized in order to overcome her fear. I'd let her bite me anyday! I'd let her bite me anyday! And you can quote me on that!
One of the best scenes and also one of the funniest moments comes in the scene where we see Sex Machine transforming bit by bit into a vampire, it just cracks me up - especially when he covers his mouth after his fangs start forming, and his right hand changes to become all monster-like with long claw-like fingernails and then his left hand changes and then he hides his hands behind his back. And he's completely unaware of it at first as is everyone else. It's got my two favorite kind of TFs (transformations) in them - the 'Bit By Bit' variety where a person changes one part at a time, and the 'Completely Unaware He/She is Transforming' kind where the transformee doesn't realize he/she is transforming. It's no wonder Aardman paid tribute to this scene in Curse Of The Wererabbit.
If you listen closely you can hear the acid rock version of Star Spangled Banner playing during the part with the demonic voice telling him to 'kill them all'. It definitely works, and makes the scene more eerie in tone. Gotta love seeing Sex Machine transform like that!
What moment moved me to tears? I'll tell ya.
It has to be when Richie dies, I know he's a psychopath - but that moment made me cry a little. *sobs* Richie's gone? NOOOOOOOOOOOO! Oh well, he'll come back.. but here's the slight hiccup, he won't be human anymore and he'll probably be after your blood, Seth - just a head's up.
As for the funniest moment?
Like I mentioned earlier, it was the scene with Sex Machine transforming into a vampire, oh and Frost's reaction to being bitten by him as well, funny as hell and one of my personal favorite scenes. (Frost: He fuckin' bit me! FUCKIN' BIT ME) That scene cracked me up to no end!
Do you know what scene got my heart-racing? Well it's an easy one!
It's when Santanico saw the blood dripping from Richie's hand and she turned into her vampire form, and when everyone started turning into vampires.
It is a pretty awesome movie and it is also incredibly badass, especially with the action and crime elements, the vamps are very intimidating and also intriguing. Not to mention the ever alluring Salma Hayek as the vampiress Santanico Pandemonium, who...is in fact quite hypnotic. I'll admit that the vampire with the snapping mouth on her stomach is a bit much, but why quibble?
Fun fact: The color of the vampires blood is green because the MPAA has issues with it being red, they have absolutely no problem with blood - but they don't like it because it's red. It was indeed Tarantino's idea to give the vampires green blood to avoid the film from getting a rating higher than R and to get it past the censors.
If you love vampires, watching this will bring you nothing but pure joy as this movie is amazing and it doesn't take itself too seriously. It's just plain fun and a must watch for fans of vampire movies. I rate it out ten out of ten and give it two monstrous clawed thumbs up, if you haven't seen it - watch it right away. I wish the Titty Twister was real, then I would visit that place all the time! I don't care if I would most likely end up as a blood-soaked meal for those vamps, I would totally visit that bar on a regular basis!
littlefuzz4 reviewed Martin Campbell in Who Should Direct The Next James Bond Movie?:
He says he will never direct another one. It may be his age. GoldenEye (1995) was great. He did good with Casino Royale (2006) too. Wish he had another James Bond movie in him he would like to do.
donaldwolford reviewed Irishgit in Who Should Direct The Next James Bond Movie?:
No one! They should retire the character.
Chalky reviewed Irishgit in Who Should Direct The Next James Bond Movie?:
Is it in the RIA budget?
numbah16tdhaha reviewed Irishgit in Who Should Direct The Next James Bond Movie?:
R rated, tits everywhere, hard drinking Bond? Sure, but hire me for stunts and guns and shit.
Ridgewalker reviewed Irishgit in Who Should Direct The Next James Bond Movie?:
The 'Git would demand the highest of standards. To ensure this he would:
A. Require final say on script changes and...
B. Make sure that all Dans, Danielles, Dan'ls, Danas, Danahs, Danbys, Dandys, Danes, Danees, Dangerees, Danikas, Danjumas and Dannys were banned from the sets.
johnnydevil reviewed Guy Ritchie- Suggested By Irishgit in Who Should Direct The Next James Bond Movie?:
I'd LOVE to see a Bond flick directed by Ritchie. I'd even pay to see it, unlike the last spate of Bond flicks. Great suggestion !
donaldwolford reviewed Spike Lee- Suggested by GenghisTheHun in Who Should Direct The Next James Bond Movie?:
Loved Do the Right Thing. Brilliantly written and conceived. Also liked Jungle Fever though it featured many of the same actors. Directors tend to use the same actors. I think Spike Lee overdoes it: John Turturro, Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, et al. Spike is not afraid to take on the controversial topics. For this he should be commended. White people don't understand what it's like to be black (or a minority). We've come a long way but still have a long way to go.
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‘Relentless’ Pearl River clinches home regional with win over Northeast
Northeast Mississippi Community College
Pearl River Community College
Northeast Mississippi Community College (36-14) 0 2 3 0 1 1 0 7 7 1
Pearl River Community College (27-19) 0 3 2 0 2 1 0 8 7 0
Win: Dallas Blaker (1)
Loss: Harley Mullins (1)
2B: Alexis McGreger; Kelsie Gerhart
HR: Lizzy Van Manen
HR: Hannah Rasberry
MAGEE, Miss. — The Pearl River Lady Wildcats have been on a tear as of late and Monday was no different as PRCC bested Northeast 8-7 in their second game in the MACJC Tournament.
With the win, coupled with a meeting in the finals against Itawamba, PRCC secured the right to host the upcoming Region XXIII Tournament — a first in the program's history. The team will also play for its first state championship since winning the 2010 title.
"This team is relentless," PRCC coach Leigh White said. "They're getting on the field and just fighting it out and they play together. That game was so back and forth that we could have gotten down but we didn't."
The tournament was first delayed and then relocated to the Magee Sportsplex due to inclement weather in Ellisville.
Northeast (37-14 overall), which has been nationally ranked this season and is currently receiving votes in the NJCAA poll, got the scoring started in the top of the second hitting a two-run double with two outs to grab a 2-0 lead.
The Lady Wildcats (27-19) immediately responded in the bottom of the second inning when Alyssa Pinero (Picayune) hit an RBI single to plate the first run for PRCC.
Hannah Rasberry (Lucedale; George County) then gave the Lady Wildcats the lead with a two-run single to give the Lady Wildcats a 3-2 lead.
Northeast retook the lead in the top of the third inning, plating three runs to take a 5-3 lead, but PRCC wasn't down for long.
BreAnna Corkern (Watson, La.; Live Oak) hit a fielder's choice that scored Elizabeth Taggard (Picayune). Mary Grace Turner (Leakesville; Greene County) then scored on an error to tie the game 5-5.
Northeast retook the lead with a solo shot in the top of the fifth inning to take a 6-5 lead.
The Lady Wildcats responded in the bottom of the fifth when Corkern hit an RBI single and Pinero hit a sac fly to give the Lady Wildcats a 7-6 lead.
Northeast again tied the game up in the top of the sixth scoring on a wild pitch to make it a 7-7 contest.
Rasberry scored the last run of the game in the bottom of the sixth inning, hitting a solo home run over the center field wall to give PRCC a decisive 8-7 advantage.
"Hannah got up there and had two strikes and just hit it out," White said. "She did great."
LEADING THE WAY
Corkern and Rasberry tied for the team lead in hits with two each while Rasberry led the team in RBIs with three.
Corkern and Pinero also drove in two runs.
Rylee Swilley (Kiln; Hancock) got the start for the Lady Wildcats in the circle.
Swilley threw 2 2/3 innings, allowing four hits, three walks and five runs.
"Everybody has doubted us," Swilley said. "It was easy to play with all the girls behind me. They did a great job at the plate and it's my job to be there and help produce outs."
Dallas Blaker (Bay St. Louis; Our Lady Academy) finished the game for the Lady Wildcats.
The Belhaven signee threw 4 1/3 innings, allowing one earned run on two hits.
"Dallas got out there and picked up where Rylee left off," White said. "She kept them off balance and that was our plan."
First pitch against ICC in Magee is set for 7:30 p.m. The game will be streamed on LetsGoICCTV.com.
For the latest on Pearl River Community College athletics, follow us on Twitter (@PRCCAthletics) and Facebook (PRCCAthletics).
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Winner Best Emerging NZ Filmmaker
Special Mention Best NZ Feature Category
In a small town twelve thousand miles away from the battlefields of Europe stands a monument dedicated to all Māori who fought for King and Country during World War One.
Constructed in 1925, it was built so generations to come would remember the supreme sacrifices made by Māori soldiers.
Over time, the stone and the memories carved into it slowly crumble. Storms and earthquakes accelerate this erosion. The loss of generations and dispersal of whānau exacerbates it.
Stopping the erosion, conserving the stones and rebuilding the monument will take a specialist team over a year and cost more than half a million dollars. Restoring memories, reconnecting whānau, and ultimately welcoming a World War One hero back home will take the love of a whole community.
Set in Stone is told from the heart by people whose passion and skill unite them. Māori and Pākehā, German and English all contribute to this fascinating and moving story. Filmed with aroha in the gardens of Pākaitore, Whanganui, it’s a story about a New Zealand community doing what they do best – caring for those who lived and those still living.
"This New Zealand-made documentary showcases many elements of a complex, challenging, compelling story in its integration of historical and contemporary Māori and Kiwi communities — through its subjects and themes of duty, country, personal impact of a historic war, artistic restoration and craftsmanship, legacy building and memory. For these efforts, we would like to recognize, with a special mention in this category of highlighting New Zealand films and filmmakers, the documentary SET IN STONE by Kevin Double and his production team." Doc Edge Jury 2017.
Set In Stone is a feature documentary produced by Double Farley in association with Pākaitore Historic Reserve Board.
All images "Creative Commons 3.0 BY NC ND Set In Stone, by Kevin Double of Double Farley", unless stated otherwise.
Film and website content other than images copyright Double Farley © 2017.
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ACLU suing over abortion restrictions in Ohio budget
Today, the Ohio ACLU announced a lawsuit challenging three abortion-related amendments passed in June as part of Ohio’s state budget bill. The suit alleges all three amendments violate the Ohio Constitution’s “single subject” rule and are therefore unconstitutional.
“To put it simply, none of these amendments have any place in the state budget bill,” said Susan Scheutzow, ACLU cooperating attorney and partner at the law firm of Kohrman Jackson & Krantz. “This massive bill is not intended to deal with new policy; the single subject of the budget should be the appropriation of funds for existing government programs or obligations."
One of the amendments in question bans public hospitals from making transfer agreements with abortion clinics. Another requires clinics to present patients with evidence of a fetal heartbeat before performing an abortion.
The suit was filed on behalf of Preterm, a Cleveland women’s health clinic that provides contraception, birth control, pregnancy counseling, and abortion services.
Ohio Right to Life names Stephanie Krider as executive director
Ranade-Krider
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio Right to Life President Mike Gonidakis has announced that Stephanie Ranade-Krider will become the new executive director of Ohio's largest pro-life organization. Ranade-Krider will be responsible for all programs, activities and governmental advocacy related to the ORTL mission. She will begin her new position on August 4, 2014.
"On behalf of the Board of Trustees, we are delighted to welcome Stephanie, her wealth of knowledge and experience, and her proven leadership in serving others," said Mike Gonidakis. "Stephanie Ranade-Krider brings creativity and compassion to our mission. We are confident ORTL will make great progress under her leadership in expanding public understanding and appreciation for the enduring value of life in Ohio."
Prior to rejoining ORTL, Stephanie Ranade-Krider served as the program manager for the Governor's Cabinet Opiate Action Team (GCOAT), which is responsible for coordinating the Kasich Administration's cross-agency efforts to combat opiate abuse in Ohio. During her time with GCOAT, the state launched several new initiatives, including a pilot program to address Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome; an initiative to encourage adults to Start Talking to kids about drug abuse; and expanded work with Ohio's courts to promote best practices at specialty dockets. Ranade-Krider formerly served as the Ohio Right to Life director of legislative affairs, overseeing the enactment of more pro-life legislation than during any previous Ohio General Assembly session.
As executive director of ORTL, Ranade-Krider will be responsible for daily operations, crafting and implementing a robust legislative agenda, increasing the grassroots presence throughout Ohio's 88 counties, and managing the ORTL staff and volunteers. Under Mrs. Ranade-Krider's leadership, ORTL will continue its aggressive focus on enacting laws and regulations to protect mothers and their children.
Adoption Reform Legislation Introduced to House Health Committee
Representative Jim Buchy
Yesterday evening, Representative Jim Buchy offered sponsor testimony for HB 307 which eliminates unnecessary costs, protects birth parents and adoptive couples, prevents fraud and minimizes the bureaucracy in the Ohio adoption process. The goal of the adoption reform legislation is to eliminate the countless and unnecessary roadblocks with adoption. The bill is co-sponsored by Representative Dorothy Pelanda.
"Placing the best interests of the birth parents and adoptive couples ahead of the bureaucracy, lawyers, and special interests will allow more Ohioans to adopt infants in a safe and effective manner" said Kayla Smith, Director of Legislative Affairs at Ohio Right to Life. "The outdated and expensive business model of adoption has harmed too many families and we thank Representative Buchy for his leadership to address this critical issue."
Many Ohio families believe infant domestic adoptions to be too expensive due to an accumulation of fees throughout the adoption process. The proposed legislation will reduce unnecessary expenses and eliminate fraud. Additionally, the current adoption $1,500 tax credit will increase to $10,000 to provide the gift of adoption to those middle income families who otherwise could not afford the process.
The new law will provide a birth father with pre-birth notice if the mother chooses an adoption plan during pregnancy. This notice allows the father to declare or deny parental rights before the birth of his child, thus expediting the finalization of the adoption, while ensuring a smoother transition for the child, the birth parents and the adopting family.
Furthermore, the bill would allow for the adoption decree to be challenged for up to 60 days, rather than the current provision of 12 months, relieving the adoptive family from an unnecessary emotional burden, while still safeguarding the birth parents' rights.
Ambulance called to Dayton, OH abortion clinic after another botched abortion
(LifeNews.com) New information coming to light only today shows a woman was [apparently] rushed to the hospital in Dayton, Ohio following a botched late-term abortion that took place at the Women’s Med Center abortion clinic in Dayton.
Martin Haskell, who is credit with making the partial-birth abortion procedure a household name, runs the abortion facility that injured the woman.
Read the rest of this article at LifeNews.com
This is certainly a disturbing trend. Yet another Women's Med Center abortion clinic was forced to call paramedics to rush a woman to the hospital after a botched abortion. This incident occurred at the abortion clinic in Kettering, a suburb of Dayton, Ohio.
You can listen to a recording of the 911 call below.
Other WMC Locations
_Did you know that there are also Women's Med Center abortion clinics located in Dayton and Indianapolis? Read the new page about other Women's Med Center locations, including a transcript from a Dayton WMC 911 call, here.
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Dispatch report Feb. 12 •Complainant reported she is trying to get her boyfriend to leave her apartment, and he is throwing things at her. •Complainant requested to speak with someone about an elderly male who is driving and is revoked. •Complainant requested a deputy help her get rid of her ex. He...
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Feb. 5 •Complainant reported a trailer on fire in the parking lot. Owner of Glen’s was contacted and advised the trailer was away from the building, but there was some smoke damage to the front of the building. •Deputy reported subject came up to him and told him he ran away from home. He was taken...
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Dispatch report Jan. 29 •Complainant found a checkbook belonging to someone local by the ATM at the bank. •Deputy checked on headlights on the east side of the Jasper elevator. Found it to be employees that had just gotten done loading a train. •Complainant reported that his wife lost her phone in...
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Jan. 22 •Complainant requested help in finding an owner to get a vehicle moved. Someone dropped vehicle off and said they’d be back in a couple of days. Vehicle didn’t have a tire and was jacked up. It was in the way of the delivery truck, so they had it towed. •Deputy checked on a trailer that...
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Dispatch report Jan. 8 •Complainant reported she has been arguing with subject and wants to leave with kids. Verbal only. Subject may be intoxicated. Deputy transported two male parties to another location and advised them not to return to residence. •Complainant reported they had a flat tire and...
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Dec. 25 •Complainant reported his neighbor is playing their music very loudly and requested a deputy ask them to keep it down. Deputy spoke with female outside of residence who advised they were playing music but will keep it down. •Complainant reported the party on Brandenburg is loud and they...
Dispatch report Dec. 18 •Complainant reported she was sitting in her apartment watching a movie and someone threw a brick through her window. She ran out the front and left. Deputy reported victim is unwilling to file any charges and is being uncooperative. •Complainant reported that someone drove...
Dispatch report Dec. 11 •Complainant reported that he is doing some work in Rock County for a few days and gave us his information. •Complainant reported theft of five candy canes that were connected and wired together with lights. He had them lined up along his sidewalk up by his house. •...
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Dec. 4 •Complainant reported there are five drunk people leaving the bar on South Kniss. •Complainant reported four guys in the parking lot of bar on South Kniss. Complainant is unsure if they are fighting or messing around. Deputy checked and reported the guys were walking back to the motel and...
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Nov. 27 •Complainant reported a motion alarm at a business in Rock County. Audible alarm inside but no signs of forced entry. Manager will contact employee to shut off alarm. •Complainant reported a fire hydrant leaking at East Mead Court. Called the city. •Dispatcher received a 911 only cell call...
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Review: 'The Heart Is a Shifting Sea,' by Elizabeth Flock
NONFICTION: In a penetrating debut, a reporter studies three marriages in India.
By ANJALI ENJETI Special to the Star Tribune
March 2, 2018 — 11:19am
Ashok, a journalist, dreams of getting his first novel published while his wife, Parvati, a reluctant engineer who longs to be an artist, can’t stop fantasizing about her ex-boyfriend. Maya, the founder of a successful preschool, must cope with the knowledge that her workaholic husband, Veer, never got over his first love, another woman named Maya. Sabeena, a homemaker busy caring for her extended family, waffles on whether to have children, while her husband, Shahzad, a chicken seller turned real estate broker, is hellbent on finding a cure for his infertility.
Elizabeth Flock’s “The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai” is a scrupulous nonfiction examination of these six newlyweds from diverse backgrounds (Marwai Hindu, Tamil Brahmin Hindu and Sunni Muslim) who make their homes in India’s booming west coast city of 20 million with “majority Hindu and minority Muslim, wealthy and famished, native and migrant, hopeful young men and bent old women, all brushing up against one another.”
Flock, a reporter for “PBS NewsHour,” began work on the book in 2008, but after time spent in the U.S. recovering from a car accident, she returned to Mumbai to complete the bulk of her reporting in 2014 and 2015. “For months, I lived, ate, slept, worked and traveled alongside them.”
This intimate portrait illuminates how the marriages fluctuate between stability and dissolution. Infidelity, infertility, isolation and illness threaten the very foundations of these unions, and unfulfilled goals and dashed dreams exacerbate the tensions. The couples struggle, at times mightily, to honor their vows. Their honesty and authenticity speak volumes about how much they trusted Flock with their stories.
Among the book’s many strengths, Flock abstains from generalizing about India or Indian marriages. Instead, she nimbly captures the interiority of her subjects.
“Shahzad thinks of a beautiful woman he once saw on the street and then another. … He does not think of his wife, Sabeena.”
The Heart Is a Shifting Sea, by Elizabeth Flock
Maya recalls the timeline of her affair. “May was the ‘Big Bang,’ or so they called it — the day when the energy and tension between them led to a kind of explosion, everything out in the open at last.”
When Ashok is unappreciative of a pre-wedding gift, Parvati is reminded of the vast differences between him and Joseph, the man she could have married. “She realized Ashok was not the kind of guy who would quote her scenes from movies like ‘Up,’ the way Joseph had. He was not the kind of husband who would be romantic.”
Still, the couples forge ahead, as if tied together by an invisible string. And although they are imperfect people in imperfect marriages, in these resplendent passages, their humanity shines through.
Anjali Enjeti’s reviews appear in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Rewire News and elsewhere. She is a board member of the National Book Critics Circle.
The Heart Is a Shifting Sea
By: Elizabeth Flock.
Publisher: Harper, 358 pages, $27.99.
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By Dina Steele on April 9, 2014
Road construction activity always increases in spring, and this April is no different. Due to the increases in the number of construction zones in spring, the Texas Department of Transportation recognizes Work Safety Awareness Week each April in conjunction with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA).
Experienced Texas car accident attorneys encourage drivers to learn more about safety in Texas work zones. According to the Texas Department of Transportation, approximately 15,000 crashes happen in construction zones on Texas roads every year. More than 100 people lose their lives in these accidents annually, and about 3,500 are injured. While drivers and passengers make up most of these deaths, workers in construction zones are also at risk of serious injury or death.
The penalties for many driving infractions, including fines and prison time, are doubled in many work zones. Fines for moving violations may cost a driver up to $400, even if no one is injured. Because most work zone accidents are caused by speeding or by driver inattention, it is very important for Texas drivers to pay close attention to the road in these areas and to control the speed of their vehicles. Never drive faster than the posted speed limit in a construction zone, and be prepared to proceed at a much slower pace if traffic is heavy, weather or darkness obstruct vision, or workers are present.
As many as 2,500 active road construction zones appear in Texas at any given time. Along Interstate 35, there are currently 20 work zones, or approximately one work zone per five miles, according to the Texas Department of Transportation.
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Sleep in the Park: world’s largest sleep-out to end homelessness a success
By Mei Futonaka
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On Saturday 9 December, 8,000 people gathered at Princes Street Gardens for Sleep in the Park, the world’s largest-scale sleep-out to show their support for the 11,000 homeless households in Scotland. The event was organised by Social Bite, and £3.6 million was already raised before the event began. Of this, £0.5million was given by an anonymous donor on Saturday afternoon.
The charity has received visits from philanthropists including Leonardo DiCaprio and George Clooney. Last night, Bob Geldof was among the masses of people braving the cold in Princes Street Gardens, as well as several Scottish government ministers, and various members of the acts performing. These included Liam Gallagher, Deacon Blue, Amy MacDonald and Frightened Rabbit. John Cleese also told fundraisers a bedtime story, while Rob Brydon presented the show.
A minimum of £100 was raised by each participant to attend the sleep-out, which happened to hit one of the coldest weekends Edinburgh has had this season, with lowest temperatures at -7℃. The largest corporate donation was a huge £27,000, while the largest individual donation was £11,000.
Moreover, Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh, has pledged that “If we manage to raise £50,000 then the University will be able to proudly sponsor one of the proposed houses at the new Social Bite Village in Granton.”
In a news release, Josh Littlejohn MBE, Social Bite co-founder, said: “Tonight was the night when people from all walks of life came together in Scotland, to stick up for the most vulnerable people among us. This is the night that we collectively gave a voice to the people who have never had one.”
Social Bite started as a sandwich shop on Rose Street in Edinburgh in 2012, and has grown to be Scotland’s leading independent corporate catering businesses. The charity is the largest distributor of free fresh food to the homeless in the UK, giving out over 100,000 items of food and hot drinks per year. A quarter of the business’ staff are also homeless, employed and supported t get back into permanent accommodation.
Littlejohn continued: “Scotland is a small enough country, a compassionate enough country and a collaborative enough country, where nobody has to be homeless here. If we put our heads together, we can wipe out homelessness in five years.
“It is not a question of resource; it is simply a question of focus, and what the participants have all done tonight, by giving up their beds, is put a razor-sharp focus on the issue. I would like to thank all of the participants for creating this movement. I would like to thank Clydesdale Bank for raising £500,000. And I would like to thank EdIndex and Wheatley Group for making a bold commitment of offering almost 500 homes to rough sleepers and homeless people.
“We won’t end homelessness after one night, but we have made one giant leap towards that goal. And that is the victory of everyone who took part.”
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The Scottish and local governments should be (but disgracefully are often not) providing sufficient finance from their own budgets to provide for the homeless and so charity has kindly to step in where government provision is absent.
Thank you for charity but government really should be providing homes for the homeless as a core service.
Cuts in core government services are often excused by Scottish government ministers and councillors who try to blame a UK Tory government austerity agenda and cuts in the block grant to Holyrood and cuts in Scottish government funding of local councils.
Although certainly the Tories are partners in austerity crime, there is dishonest politics at work in Scotland because the Scottish government, the SNP government, have AGREED a fiscal framework deal with the UK government and therefore have effectively AGREED with the Tory austerity agenda.
Although they would most likely deny it, the SNP government is on the record as actually agreeing with austerity!
“The Agreement Between the Scottish Government and the United Kingdom Government on the Scottish Government’s fiscal framework
By Scottish Government, St. Andrew’s House, Regent Road, Edinburgh EH1 3DG ”
Published on the Scottish Government website.
It therefore beggar’s belief to witness the sheer brass neck of Deputy First Minister John Swinney hypocritically supporting this charity event for the homeless when it was he, Swinney. who negotiated, disgracefully agreed and recommended the bad deal austerity fiscal framework agreement to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for her final approval.
The austerity agenda is John Swinney’s, Nicola Sturgeon’s and the SNP government’s own austerity agenda – they signed up to the fiscal framework agreement which underpins austerity, which prevents the Scottish government from borrowing £ billions a year more every year interest-free from the central bank to invest in public services, for growth and prosperity, banishing austerity forever.
Instead, the really effective way to care would be for us all to demand a NEW DEAL fiscal framework, which can only really be expected when the Scottish government finally disowns Swinney’s recommendation in February 2016 to accept his negotiated fiscal framework deal with the UK, when finally Swinney’s deputy leadership is exposed and recognised as utterly incompetent, hypocritical and a menace to the finances, services and prosperity of the Scots.
It is no excuse at all for Mr Swinney to quote the rotten advice he received from the nutty professor Anton Muscatelli that the fiscal framework was allegedly “a good deal”. No that bad deal isn’t a “good deal”!
Muscatelli is unreliable as an adviser. Swinney was wrong to rely on the unreliable Muscatelli.
So Mr Swinney really ought to resign or be sacked as Deputy First Minister.
Sadly, there is no other way for Scots to care for the sick, the poor and the homeless – Swinney must go because he is threatening to make Scrooges of us all and no amount of sleeping out in the cold can salve the conscience of those who are foolishly tolerating such an intolerably inept man as Swinney as Scotland’s Deputy First Minister.
Shame on Swinney yes but shame on us too if we put up with him for one more night.
Other SNP cabinet government peas in the pod who share bad deal fiscal framework culpability are Derek MacKay MSP and Keith Brown MSP who have both failed to correct Mr Swinney’s mistakes regarding the fiscal framework.
Therefore it falls to me to offer the high quality economics and financial advice which First Minister Sturgeon deserves so that she can put our country on a better path.
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Lady Texans complete season sweep of Odessa
LEVELLAND - Sydney Hearn scored a game high 17 points, while Stephanie Moore andAlexius Dawn chipped in with 11 each, and the South Plains College Lady Texans overcame a nine-point halftime deficit to defeat Odessa College 55-46 Thursday night at the Texan Dome.
They victory improves the Lady Texans record to 22-5 overall and 9-3 in conference play, keeping them in the thick of a conference title race as the season winds down.
With only two games remaining, the Lady Texans trail Midland and Odessa in the standings. Midland (22-6, 10-2) currently has control with a one-game lead and are idle Thursday. Odessa (20-6, 10-3) holds a one-half game lead, but if the Lady Texans take care of business at Frank Phillips Monday and the in their season finale next Thursday at home against Clarendon, they will own the tie-breaker over Odessa since they also beat the Lady Wranglers Jan. 24 in Odessa.
New Mexico (19-5, 8-3) is also part of the four-team race and is playing at Clarendon tonight.
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Bill would allow Florida students to replace foreign language with computer language courses
A bill would let students choose computers over a foreign language.
Photo illustration. [AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes]
Sen. Jer?emy Ring said, “Technology is the great equalizer.”
By Jeffrey S. Solochek
LAND O'LAKES — Sunlake High School sophomore Chris Collins sees little value in his Spanish language courses.
"I was bored out," said Collins, 15. "If I want to travel in the future, I'd probably want to learn the language. I'm not planning to travel."
He much prefers learning the syntax and structure of computer programming, a foundation for the burgeoning international technology trade.
"Why can't code be a language?" he wondered. "I think it should."
State Sen. Jeremy Ring, a Margate Democrat who made his fortune as a Yahoo executive, aims to make it so.
With the backing of key Senate Republican leaders, Ring has filed Senate Bill 468 to allow high school students to replace their two-year foreign language graduation requirement with two years of computer coding courses.
"Obviously, if you can have computer language skills, you can communicate with people all over the world," he explained. "Technology is the great equalizer."
His proposal, similar to one that failed in the 2014 Legislature, resonates nationally as education and political leaders seek to more closely tie career skills to classroom lessons. The rapid expansion of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) programs along the way highlights the initiative.
But efforts to add coding into the languages curriculum have met with varying degrees of success in several states. They have fallen short in Kentucky, New Mexico and Oregon while winning out in Oklahoma and Texas, where the provision is set to expire in 2016.
One of the biggest issues is trying to equate coding with a spoken language. Coding is, by definition, a set of strings that determines how a computer behaves, devoid of cultural lessons and person-to-person communication.
"There are so few states that even have a foreign language requirement, and it's such a vital skill for all students," said Marty Abbott, American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages' executive director. "We hate to see any other subject put in place of having students learn a foreign language."
U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said in 2010 that just 18 percent of Americans reported speaking a language other than English, compared to 53 percent of Europeans who spoke two or more languages. A recent University of Florida survey, meanwhile, suggested that two-thirds of Floridians support requiring Spanish language instruction in public schools.
The only subject that got more backing as a required course? Computer skills.
Abbott suggested that Florida, like other states, could get both. Just place the computer graduation requirement within math and science credits, she said.
One of the nation's leading advocates of teaching students to code takes the position that computer language isn't a "natural" language. When Kentucky and New Mexico lawmakers contemplated bills similar to Ring's, Code.org's state policy and advocacy manager Amy Hirotaka wrote on her group's blog that computer sciences, if not considered a discipline, fit best with math and sciences.
"We still believe (coding) is fundamentally different than a world language," she said.
She declined to comment on the specifics of the Florida bill, but said she viewed it as a good starting point.
"We are really excited about all of the momentum around computer science in Florida, and we're really excited this bill has been introduced," she said.
Owen Barno, an eighth-grader at Liberty Middle School in Tampa, shared that enthusiasm. The 13-year-old, who is taking coding and Spanish courses this fall, finds them "equally fun and engaging."
Even if allowed to replace one with the other, Owen said, he'd likely still enroll in both.
"Coding I'd definitely take. The way everyone is leaning toward is computer-based everything. Coding is going to be a big part of the world," he said. "And Spanish is a language that, especially down here, is good to know."
Sunlake High sophomore Mark Johnson said he understood the inclination to call coding a language. In his course on the coding language Python, he said, students learn programming sentence order and other rules, similar to his French class grammar lessons.
Some differences are stark.
"I feel like the whole point of having a language class in high school is to expand your horizons . . . to broaden your perspective of learning and get you more familiar with the world," Johnson said. "With computer language, you talk to a computer."
Ring said his primary objective is to push more coding into public schools without adding the burden of more mandates. Offering it as an option within the foreign language requirement, recognized by state colleges and the Bright Futures scholarship program, accomplishes that aim, he suggested.
"The same way we have foreign language requirements — Spanish, French, German, even Mandarin Chinese these days — we should have the same requirements for computer language," he said.
So far, his proposal does not have a House companion.
Contact Jeffrey S. Solochek at jsolochek@tampabay.com or (813) 909-4614. Follow @JeffSolochek.
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BIAFRA: BUHARI'S TYRANNY MANIFESTED IN THE CLAMP DOWN ON NIGERIA JUDICIARY
BUHARI'S TYRANNY MANIFESTED IN THE CLAMP DOWN ON NIGERIA JUDICIARY
By Moses Agbo
The recent clamp down on judicial officials in Nigeria is a very shameful, barbaric and unlawful act, engineered by Buhari led All Progressive Congress {APC} the ruling party in the country.
Buhari's tyranny has moved to the Judiciary thereby forcing any judge who refuses to dance to their evil tune to resign. These Judges threatened by the APC led government are learned men unlike the President himself, who has no veritable educational certificate as required by the law.
In the Nigeria constitution, there is separation of powers. The three arms of government include, the Executive, the Legislature and the Judiciary. These arms of government are meant to function independently without any interference with each other.
The illegal raid and abductions of some of the notable Nigerian Judges by the Buhari Gestapo DSS in collaboration with some APC political figures, in the persons of the Minister of Transportation Mr. Rotimi Chibuike Amechi, and Minister of Science and Technology, Mr.Ogbonnaya Onu is a clear evidence of the violation of the rule of law and the principal of separation of powers as enshrined in the Nigerian constitution. It simply transformed the so called supremacy of the Nigerian constitution into a global caricature; and if something is not done quickly, it is likely to lead the country into a full blown anarchy.
The National Judicial Council {NJC}, the Nigerian Bar Association {NBC}, as well as the Nigerian Senate should have by now, investigated the DSS and other law enforcement agencies; that includes the politicians involved in this serious crime that has so far subjected the Nigerian constitution into ridicule. They should also, as a matter of urgency investigate and impose penalties on any political office holder who has been fingered in any of the dictatorial activities.
Nigerians must not allow Buhari APC government to successfully ruin democracy and the rule of law as they are persistently trying to do; otherwise, the people will be in severe danger. It is very important to note that, clamping down on judges is tantamount to clamping down on Justice and democracy, and that will definitely turn Nigeria into an authoritarian state.
I would like to remind Nigerian law makers and other law enforcement agencies to know that, there is a supposed valid law which States that, anyone or persons that seeks to contest for presidential election must at least obtain an SSCE certificate. Therefore, anybody who does not have the required certificate must not contest, and if by any means contested and won without any of this, it is of necessity that such person should be impeached.
Now, the president of Nigeria, Mr. Muhammadu Buhari is a victim of the said certificate saga. There are so many petitions seeking for Buhari's resignation if he fails to issue his school certificate or resign as the law stipulates. But instead, President Muhammadu Buhari decided to hire several senior advocates to defend himself in court.
The question every reasonable person is asking is this: Is hiring of fourteen senior advocates, the school certificate Buhari was supposed to produce? Is he using them to change the laws?
All these are the questions which justifies Mazi Nnamdi Kanu's assertion that Nigeria is a lawless country. Buhari should as a matter of fact, provide his school certificate or kindly resign as the law demands.
Finally, it is never the duty of the Buhari Gestapo DSS to investigate or even arrest any Judge without due process. Therefore, the so called DSS,whom the laws of the land doesn't even recognize, should not only desist from illegal arrest and detention, and disobedience to court orders; they should also apologize to those Judges and allowing the rule of law to prevail.
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Art Making
Whales, Horses and the Hand
Posted on October 26, 2015 by deborahbarlow
In praise of the hand (found on a trip to India several years ago)
Laurie Fendrich (painter/writer partnered with painter/writer Peter Plagens,) has written thoughtfully about the concept of a “mature” or “signature” style. “All serious painters, no matter the quality of their work, inevitably end up with a mature style,” she wrote in the Chronicle of Higher Education.
She continues:
More than one student has asked me why I don’t ever change my painting style—to which I respond, “It’s not so easy.” My artistic habits—the way I put on paint, construct compositions, and come up with colors—are deeply entrenched at this point, and are as big a part of my style as my temperament. To alter them is not impossible, but there’d have to be a reason beyond anything I can imagine.
What does signatory actually mean in an artistic sense? What is the power of the hand, our hand? Willem De Kooning famously suffered from Alzheimers but still produced over 300 paintings during that last period of his life. Those late works are, in spite of his compromised mental capacity, essentially De Kooningian. The way he put on paint, constructed his compositions, came up with colors—all those entrenched proclivities that Fendrich identifies as the fundamentals of a personal style—were operative regardless of his cognitive degeneration.
All painters, no matter their style, start off as whales going through plankton—soaking up as much as they can from their teachers and from the history of art and all the art going on around them, and playing around trying out this or that way of painting a picture. Gradually, however, they evolve into horses with blinders—painters trotting along at a rapid clip, mostly focused on their own art, but occasionally looking to the right or left and seeing something that affects their gait. In their mature years, painters turn pigheaded. It’s the time of their lives when they can’t help themselves from stubbornly pursuing their one painting idea, whatever it is.
I’d rather stay a whale than be a blinkered horse. But is it really a choice? It is a fine line we walk, that is for certain. To find our way between gestures that are elementally ours and embracing the new and foreign; between repeated deep dives into that secret self—a cenote of complexity we continue to plumb for hidden treasure—and those breathtaking opportunities to throw everything overboard and start fresh.
How quickly I find myself right back in the paradox, the territory of the both/and, a place that is multi-dimensional and uncharted. This is navigation without a map (which is code for “I don’t have a clue.”)
But mapless and pathless travel is not without its own rewards. From the poet Kazim Ali:
You can search alongside others, but I don’t think others can help you understand your own nature…I’ve always been on my own, a single person in the field of physical matter, on his back looking up into oblivion…I’d rather be wandering in a trance through the streets of a busy city, peeling an orange and whispering to the universe than sitting in a pew listening to a sermon or kneeling on a rug reciting chapters.
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4 Replies to “Whales, Horses and the Hand”
Barbara Grad says:
Well, it is said art chooses us; I wander through experiences and what informs my art will grow and change. It is a slow transformation, hardly noticeable but grounded by my hand. I don’t think think about style, it just appears through the process. BG
deborahbarlow says:
I so agree and feel the same way. But I was caught by Fendrich’s quote because I am aware of a hardening of the categories–I am so compelled by what I see and what I am capturing, I can at times become blinkered indeed. Thank you for your comment.
Well, yes, blinkered in the sense of narrow-minded is not a good thing but a horse wears blinders (is blinkered) to help it avoid distractions and stay focused while working. Not such a bad thing, I think.
A person’s voice, especially a singer’s voice, changes over time but is still recognizably hers or his. Many writers explore similar themes, or the same theme, throughout their careers. Why must visual artists be tasked with relentless innovation? I’ve seen a lot of clumsy art with the sole virtue of being somehow “new.”
As has been said in another context —
I say it’s spinach and I say the hell with it.
3beeches says:
that’s an extraordinary picture
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Hosting Collision Is a Big Win for Toronto and Canadian Tech
TORONTO—Hosting the Collision tech conference is a real coup for Toronto and Canada as 2019 marked the first time it was held outside the United States.
Collision is billed as the fastest-growing tech conference. In its fifth year, over 25,000 people from 125 countries came to listen to 730 speakers discussing the most pressing issues in tech.
Running from May 20 to 23, Collision is also a unique opportunity for Canadian tech companies to meet with international investors, network, and have some fun around the city.
The vibe at Collision is very upbeat and was livened by the appearances of musicians Jessie Reyez and Grammy Award winner Timbaland.
“It’s a lot of recognition for the good things that are happening in Toronto,” said Braden Ream, co-founder and CEO of Voiceflow. Based in Toronto, Voiceflow allows non-technical users to develop voice-based apps for Alexa and Google Assistant.
“We haven’t seen anything of this size before,” said Evan Kuhn, co-founder of cryptocurrency startup Coinberry. Also Toronto-based, the company made history in Canada in April by becoming the first to allow the payment of taxes using bitcoin.
Paddy Cosgrave, CEO of Web Summit, the organization that runs Collision, recounted the full-court press put on by Sunil Sharma, managing director for Techstars Toronto, to sell Toronto.
Initially, friends of Cosgrave from San Francisco told him the idea of Toronto hosting Collision was “silly.” But Sharma insisted Toronto would be the next big thing and it looks like he was right.
Part of the problem, Cosgrave says, is Canada’s humility when compared with places like Dallas and Houston.
“Canada short sells itself on the world’s stage,” he said.
But the numbers speak for themselves. Sharma says that between 2012 and 2017, Toronto created more jobs than did any other city in North America, including in Silicon Valley. There can no longer be any question that Toronto has arrived on the world’s stage. It has some 18,000 tech companies employing more than 400,000 people.
Whether or not tech can be considered an industry on its own or just a gradual revolution, it would not be successful if it was not helping people and other businesses become more efficient and ultimately successful.
Government Deserves Some Credit
Collision attracted politicians from all three levels of government who touted Canada’s strength in tech and what they’re doing to help it grow.
“No government has ever invested as much in the tech sector in innovation and research as this government over the past 4 years,” said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the conference’s opening night event on May 20.
He keyed on the talent generated from Canada’s universities and liberal immigration policies as a major contributing factor while other nations tighten their borders.
“We need to stay open. We need to make sure we’re drawing in the best and the brightest from all around the world,” Trudeau said.
Ream says the engineering talent available from Toronto to Waterloo is amazing, and the government’s role in incentivizing students to take up STEM as a matter of practice is its most impactful contribution to helping tech thrive.
“The way that the Canadian government has helped set up co-op programs in our education system has been absolutely huge,” he said.
Andrei Poliakov, co-founder and CEO of Coinberry, says that Canada has had a tendency to think that the best-case scenario for a startup is to be sold to a bigger American company.
“I think that’s very unfortunate as sort of a narrative,” he said. “We need to change that narrative.”
Continued government financial support or tax-based incentives can help establish business giants in Canada, he says.
But for cryptocurrencies, Kuhn says the government’s wait-and-see approach has been one of the best things it has done.
“They’ve allowed this technology to exist, to grow, develop. … I think that’s very valuable if you compare it to some of the other countries out there,” he said.
“If we started this business 10 years ago, we probably would have moved to Silicon Valley,” Kuhn said. “Now we can stay in a city we’re familiar with.”
Ontario Premier Doug Ford initially got a mixed reception when he took centre stage on May 21, as some of his just-announced budget cuts have hit the tech community. But after his speech, the response from the Collision audience was clearly positive.
Ford told Collision that he wants to cut red tape. Canada’s regulatory environment is often cited as an impediment to business success.
He wants small firms to get the same opportunity as the large firms do to get government business. To that end, his government is putting in a new procurement program.
“We are committed to growing global champions here in Ontario. The most valuable companies in the world today are data- and IP-driven businesses,” he said.
Ford has appointed Jim Balsillie of Research in Motion fame to head a panel on intellectual property (IP) to maximize commercial value within universities and innovation centres.
Toronto mayor John Tory knew Collision would do a lot for the city going forward.
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European dominance for Lexus in 2012
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Luxury Japanese car maker Lexus is expecting European sales to boom in 2012 following a successful 2011. Last year, over 43,000 cars were sold in Europe, an increase of 40%, and this year Lexus forecasts sales to rise about 50,000. It is an ambitious target, as the overall luxury car market in Europe is expected to remain fairly flat throughout 2012. Lexus has made a few changes to its offerings, however, with a facelift given to its vehicles, new smaller models in its range, as well as more fuel efficient larger models, all of which are helping to drive its success.
Lexus has struggled particularly badly throughout the economic crisis, which hit back in 2008 and coincided with stricter controls on vehicle emissions, encouraging many motorists, including the crucial fleet buyers market, to downsize to smaller models. Lexus has traditionally sold larger cars with an emphasis on luxury rather than the environment and efficiency, but the changes it is making are helping to turn the company’s reputation around.
For example, the new RX 450h SUV, which was unveiled at the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, has CO2 emissions below 150g/km, making it suitable for company car buyers. In addition, the introduction of the CT 200h has helped to put Lexus back on the map with European motorists. The new hatchback made up almost half of all sales in Europe for Lexus in 2011, with 17,000 vehicles sold, as Lexus explored a new market.
Lexus has traditionally been very successful in the US market, and hopes to regain its position as the best-selling luxury car company there in 2012 with the launch of nine new models. This will help the car maker achieve its global sales target of 510,000 vehicles in 2012 compared to 404,000 in 2011. The new CT 200h is available now at every Lexus dealer across the UK, and the new RX 450h SUV will be available later this year.
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Anonymous Hacks Into U.S. Sentencing Commission Website in Response to Death of Aaron Swartz
Late Friday night, the hacktivist group Anonymous took control of the U.S. Sentencing Commission website in a new campaign called “Operation Last Resort.” The website was still experiencing downtime as of 11am PT this morning, and according to a ZDNet report, the website was re-hacked on Sunday afternoon and turned into a playable video game accessible from multiple U.S. government websites.
Upon visiting ussc.gov and entering the code in the Tweet below, the page becomes a playable version of the old Atari game, Asteroids:
Why This Website, and Why Now?
In a YouTube video published Saturday (embedded below this article), Anonymous explained that the hack was done symbolically in response to the recent suicide of Internet freedom activist and Reddit Co-Founder Aaron Swartz. Swartz was facing federal charges – a fine of up to $1M and potentially 3 decades in prison – for downloading academic articles from the MIT computer archive. Alongside Swartz’s family, Anonymous believes Swartz was “killed by the government” – an assertion that led the hacker group to target the U.S. Sentencing Commission website, which sets guidelines for sentencing in federal courts.
Implications for Federal Cybersecurity
No matter where readers stand on the case above, these recent hacks bring to light a broader issue related to federal cybersecurity. On the one hand, this hack could be seen as merely cosmetic. Since the U.S. Sentencing Commission website is outward facing, what Anonymous has done is essentially defaced the sign above the USSC’s front door.
Does it catch attention? Certainly. But is it dangerous? It depends.
The reality is that all computer systems with Internet access are connected to one another. This fact alone means that even if Anonymous cannot gain access to sensitive government information through this particular website hack, it’s not hard to imagine how their actions could escalate.
Hacking vs. Cyberterrorism
Should the actions of hacker groups like Anonymous be considered a form of cyberterrorism? In a way, this U.S. Sentencing Commission attack makes the threat of cyberterrorism seem less serious than it really is. After all, they defaced the ussc.gov domain with a game of Asteroids.
But if we look at the history of cyberterrorism, it has much more potential than defacing a government website in the name of social activism. For example, the Stuxnet virus, discovered in 2010, was powerful enough to cause physical damage to Iran’s nuclear program. While this wasn’t the first time that hackers have targeted industrial systems (i.e. power plants, water treatment facilities, gas lines, etc.), Stuxnet was the first virus developed by and designed to interfere with nation-states.
In response, the Pentagon is already on the move, looking to employ a larger cybersecurity force over the next few years to boost the nation’s defenses around critical computer systems. Only time will tell if these initiatives will be enough to prevent a major attack, but it’s certainly a step in the right direction.
For more technical details on the Anonymous hack, readers can check out this blog post from McAfee Labs, and be sure to follow us on Twitter @McAfeeConsumer to keep up-to-date as the story evolves.
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Pres Mnangagwa installed CUT chancellor
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been installed as chancellor of the Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) where he is presiding over the institution’s graduation ceremony today.
The installation, conducted by CUT Vice Chancellor Professor David Simbi, marked the beginning of the university’s graduation ceremony.
In his acceptance speech, CUT Chancellor President Mnangagwa challenged higher education institutions to become cradles of new design concepts, research and new technologies and systems with a positive impact on industry and commerce.
“Such technologies and innovations should be bench-marked against the best practices in the world,” said President Mnangagwa.
Cde Mnangagwa added that Zimbabwe has to continue to produce quality graduands capable of producing finished products onto the market.
The president said CUT has the special mandate to lead industrial development and nurturing of entrepreneurship innovation and creativity objectives that are in tandem with Zimbabwe’ thrust to empower young people with critical skills that drive industrialisation and modernisation of the economy.
Cde Mnangagwa said globalisation has increased competition in the world and Zimbabwe has to continue to produce quality graduates in the education sector so as to keep pace and remain relevant in the economic development race.
He said Zimbabwe needs to be vigilant to the fierce technological advancement synonymous with economic development and prepare young people to face these challenges if they are to guard the country’s resources for the benefit of the Zimbabwean people.
Cde Mnangagwa called on institutions like CUT to develop technological capabilities that enable Zimbabwe to process its rich reserves of natural resources, beneficiate them and maximise their profitability.
He saluted CUT for taking the lead in developing appropriate technologies to ease the shortages of equipment and improve productivity of farmers in crops and livestock.
In his congratulatory message, the chairman of the university council Dr Obadiah Moyo said the university will emulate the President and Chancellor’s hall mark of loyalty and hard work in supporting the new government.
A representative of CUT staff also presented their congratulatory message with the students’ representative imploring the new chancellor to consider re-introduction of students’ grants and improved infrastructure at the university.
A total of 1 218 graduates were conferred with various degrees – namely 7 PhDs, 163 masters and 1 048 undergraduates.
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Tiny One-Man Stealth Fighter
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth
The Tiny One-Man Stealth Fighter was invented by Professor Farnsworth. It has a cloaking device that makes it completely invisible and virtually undetectable, although the passengers inside will still be seen. It was originally supposed to fit only one person at a time, but both Turanga Leela and Zapp Brannigan drove it in an attempt to destroy V-GINY. The mission failed and the Stealth Fighter ended up crashed on Lo'ihi Island, but still functionable. The Stealth Fighter contains a mini-fridge fully stocked with mineral water, Doritos, beef jerky and fine chocolates.
Although its stealth shielding makes it entirely invisible, bolts of electricity will occasionally move from the front to the back of the ship, as to define the outline.
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The yacht “Thelginos” was built in 1926 by James A. Silver Ltd at Rosneath on the Gareloch in Scotland for Mr Walter Bergius, the designer of Kelvin engines, and managing director and founder of the Bergius Co Ltd, of Glasgow, makers of Kelvin engines. The Thelginos, originally named “Vailima II”, was designed by Mr Bergius as a replacement for his previous yacht, “Vailima”, which was used in the evacuation of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and other Allied troops from Dunkirk in 1940. She was the largest yacht that the well known motor yacht builders, J.A. Silver Ltd had built.
With her original rig of a single masted gaff cutter, she carries 1.600 square foot of sail. Her design is a result of many years experience of club sailing and her low displacement for her overall length of 78 feet, means that she has little resistance through the water. She has won two first prizes in the Hunter’s Quay to Tarbert race, out of six races entered, so becoming one of the most talked about yachts on the River Clyde. She was built as a yacht that would perform as well under power as she did under sail, her main Kelvin 150 horse power engine giving her a speed of 9-10 knots. With her fuel tank she has a range of 1000 sea miles, and can battle through even the strongest head wind. The great designer and sailor, Uffa Fox, has quoted her as an example of a yacht that possessed exceptional seafaring qualities.
Classic double-ender sailing yacht.
Length: O.A 78 ́ (23.78m)
Beam: 16.7 ́ (5.09 m), Draft 9.8 ́ (3.00m)
Tonnage: gross 65.74, net 40.55
Ballast: 20 tons
Construction: Oregon pine on oak frames Mainsail. Mizzen and foresail
Engine: KELVIN 150 B.H.P. diesel
Fuel tanks: 2,300 lt.
Water tanks: .800 lt.
Diesel Generator: Petter 25 kw
Equipment: VHF, GPS, NAVTEX, one inflatable with 20HP outboard.
Guest accommodation: This is provided for eight to ten guests, in one two berth cabin, two double berth cabins, and two twin berth cabins, with upper and lower berths.
Day cruises up to 22 guests can be accommodated Two W.C.s. Comfortable dining saloon below deck.
Open air dining saloon on fore deck. Spacious aft deck for sunbathing.
Wheel house settee arrangement.
Crew accommodation for three, with own facilities. Snorkeling equipment and fishing nets available.
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50 Gorgeous Ombre Matte Nail Designs You Will Love
The trend of matte nail art designs have been rising in recent years. You can use matte nail art designs to enhance your temperament and taste and make you look beautiful and gorgeous.
Ombre nail art designs make women look very attractive. They look complicated, but they are actually easy to make. Blending different nail polish on nails will be very good.
It's a good idea to combine matte and ombre. Check out these 50 gorgeous ombre matte nail designs. A great style that you can wear anywhere, we love the ombre matte nail designs.
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Core Tip：China's central bank on Wednesday announced that it will try to issue digital currency "as soon as possible." A team in the central bank is examining domestic and global experiences.
China's central bank on Wednesday announced that it will try to issue digital currency "as soon as possible." A team in the central bank is examining domestic and global experiences.
The team was set up in 2014 and has made progress on technology, legal issues, and the impact on financial systems.
Digital currency costs less in circulation than traditional paper, facilitates trade, boosts transparency, and cuts money laundering and tax evasion, according to the People's Bank of China at a conference on digital currency.
They will improve the central bank's control of currency, and bolster new financial infrastructure and complete payment systems, it added.
Taking the step would thrust China into largely uncharted waters. Ecuador last year became the first nation to issue state-backed digital money. All of the banks in the tiny South American country have been told to get behind the push.
Hu Zhibing, the chief operating officer at Haoyouqian.com, a crowd-funding startup in Beijing, said digital money is "definitely the future".
"China must seize the first-mover advantage to get on board – the central bank would be a sinner of the whole nation if other countries moved ahead while China lagged behind."
Next：Markets in for slower and bumpier climb
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Shreya Ghoshal Live in Concert, September 20th Dar Constitution Hall Washington DC; "Be There", Says Shreya
Submitted by WBRi Tollywood News on Fri, 08/23/2013 - 03:02.
Broadway and Theater
News - Media
Songs - East-West Fusion
The young music sensation of India Shreya Ghoshal will be performing live in Dar Constitution Hall Washington DC on September 20th and will be present with her troupe to perform some of the most happening Bollywood numbers for her fans in the U.S.
Intense Entertainment LLC who are the organizers of this concert have in the past organized many such concerts with some of the most popular Indie-Pop singers like Sonu Nigam, Mika Singh, Atif Aslam and Sunidhi Chauhan and others and now with Shreya Ghoshal’s live performance they are about to add another golden feather to their cap.
Shreya Ghoshal in DC (You Tube)
Shreya, who starts her U.S tour with the show in Washington D.C on September 20th is also quite excited about this musical tour and in a special message has invited her fans to be there at the concert.
With songs like Chikni Chameli, Balma, Teri Meri Prem Kahani and more from her list of Bollywood Superhits, Shreya aims to gift her fans a Bollywood rendezvous that they will cherish for life.
The tickets with the detailed seating plan is available at http://www.intenseus.com/
Shreya Ghoshal Live in concert on Sep 20th, 2013 (You Tube)
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Merry Go Round @ Surf Mall - Ocean City, NJ - Coin Operated Children's Rides on Waymarking.com
Merry Go Round @ Surf Mall - Ocean City, NJ
in Coin Operated Children's Rides
Posted by: Math Teacher
Quick Description: Colorful Merry-go-round will spin you for a minute inside the surf "mall", a converted movie theater.
Location: New Jersey, United States
Date Posted: 8/22/2010 2:06:38 PM
Waymark Code: WM9HBJ
Published By: monkeys4ever
One of two rides located in the center of the store. The ride is fifty cents and the machine only takes quarters. The ride feature two decked out ponies in opposite directions, with pink saddles and a gold base which spins them around.
I think this place used to be called Surf Theater and/or Showboat Theater. I remember watching movies here as a young man. It opened in the late 1920s after the great boardwalk fire and of course to quell fears, it was advertised as a fire proof building. The theater was originally vaudville but then changed to movies. The Shriver chain operated the theatre in the 1970s. It closed in the early 1980s and is now an enclosed shopping mall.
This converted movie theater is not really a mall even though the name outside says so. It is a neat place though of you are a music lover and a teenager. If you want an awesome tee shirt, or poster or anything any teenager could want, then this is the place to visit after you come up off the sand and beach. Its got stuff for everyone, and its huge! Be sure to check out the blacklight room!
I also found this on a nostalgia page for Ocean City: The Showboat Theatre, later the SURF Theatre, opened on Saturday June 29, 1929. The boxoffice record does not show the first film's title, but on Monday they were playing "The Flying Fool" along with five live acts. This view [of a picture I uploaded into the gallery] is of July 29, one month later. The Showboat was built after the devastating fire of 1927 and is advertised on the marquee as Ocean City's New Fireproof Theater. It was built of continuous concrete and still stands. SOURCE I also read the sign fell down one day and it was too expensive to keep the name as there was so many letters so they just shortened it to Surf, which accounts for the name change.
1154 Boardwalk
Ocean City, NJ 08226
Location: Indoor Mall
Nearest Coin Operated Children's Rides
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International Advisory Commitee
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About Optics and Photonics
Responsible Researchers
Optical trapping and microscopy
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SatelitArte
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The Travel of Light
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Carlos Enrique Saavedra Rubilar
International Congress
Experimental implementation of an eight-dimensional Kochen-Specker set and observation of its connection with the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger theorem, C. Saavedra, Quantum Optics VII , Argentina, Mar del Plata, (2014-10-27)
Two-qubit single-photon measurement-device-independent quantum cryptography, C. Saavedra, Quantum Optics VI, Uruguay, Piriápolis, (2012-11-12)
Fast Entanglement Detection of two Spatial Qutrits, C. Saavedra, RIAO-OPTILAS 2010, Peru, Lima, (2010-09-21)
Characterization process of a twister nematic lcd in single-photon limit detection, C. Saavedra, VII Reunión Iberoamericana de Óptica (RIAO) y X Encuentro Latinoamericano de Óptica, Láseres y sus Aplicaciones (OPTILAS), Peru, Lima, (2010-09-20)
Reconstrucción de estados cuánticos en sistemas multi-dimensionales, C. Saavedra, Láser y Óptica en Ciencia e Ingeniería LOCI 2009, Argentina, La Plata, (2009-10-01)
Quantum information with programmable optical devices, C. Saavedra, International Workshop on Quantum Information, Brazil, Paraty, (2009-09-10)
Unambiguous preparation of non-orthogonal quantum states, C. Saavedra, Quantum Entanglement and Decoherence: 3rd International Conference on Quantum Information (ICQI), United States, Boston, (2008-07-15)
Reconstrucción de qudits entrelazados de dos fotones, C. Saavedra, Third Workshop on Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Chile, Chillán, (2004-09-01)
Lecture on Quantum Information Theory, C. Saavedra, Bicentennial School on Contemporary Physics Topics, Chile, Valparaiso, (2010-06-29)
Quantum Optics Experiments, C. Saavedra, LOCI 2009, Argentina, La Plata, (2009-11-01)
Super-resolución and characterization of optical tweezers using fast cameras, C. Saavedra, Seminar, Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, Buenos Aires, (2011-04-12)
Fast entanglement detection of two spatial qutrits, C. Saavedra, Seminar of Imaging Processing Laboratory, Argentina, Buenos Aires, (2011-04-11)
Generation of qudits maximally entagled., C. Saavedra, XIV Chilean Symposium of Physics, Chile, Antofagasta, (2004-11-01)
Quantum state discrimination and Quantum Information, C. Saavedra, IX Jorge André Swieca School and Quantum and Nonlinear Optics, Brazil, Belo Horizonte, (2004-02-09)
Controlled generation of maximally entangled qudits using twin-photons, C. Saavedra, IX Jorge André Swieca School and Quantum and Nonlinear Optics, Brazil, Belo Horizonte, (2004-02-09)
Collaborative Activities
Quantum Optics Group, Universidad Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Brazil, 2009-10-01
Ceter for Optics Investigations, La Plata, Argentina, 2009-05-05
María Isabel Alvarez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. , Chile, 2010-01-04
Reinaldo Vianna., Chile, 2010-01-04
Janos A.Bergou, City University of New York,USA. I Summer Schools on Optics and Photonics, CEFOP., Chile, 2010-01-12
Francisco De Zela, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Lima, Perú. I Summer Schools on Optics and Photonics, CEFOP., Chile, 2010-01-12
Guilherme B.Xavier, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I Summer Schools on Optics and Photonics, CEFOP., Chile, 2010-01-12
Oscar N.Mesquita, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil. I Summer Schools on Optics and Photonics, CEFOP., Chile, 2010-01-12
Paulo H.Souto Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.I Summer Schools on Optics and Photonics, CEFOP., Chile, 2010-01-12
Laboratorio de Procesado de Imágenes, Departamento de Física, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Chile, 2011-04-10
C. Saavedra, Silva. A., R. Hernández, Elena Montilla, Cristofer Jimenez. Optical characterization of lower tropospheric aerosols by the Southern East Pacific Lidar station (Concepcion, Chile) , APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS , Vol. 92, pp. 16-26 (2016). 10.1016/j.jaerosci.2015.09.008
, L. Rebon, T. Ferreira da Silva, M. Figueroa, M. Curty, G. Lima, G. B. Xavier, W.A.T. Nogueira , C. Saavedra. Quantum key distribution with untrusted detectors, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 92, Issue. 2 (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.022337
Carla Hermann Avigliano, , M. Brune, J-M Raimond, C. Saavedra. Scheme for efficient generation of mesoscopic field-state superposition in cavity QED, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. (2015). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.91.013815
Gustavo Cañas, Sebastian Etcheverry Cabrera, E. S. Gómez, C. Saavedra, G. B. Xavier, G. Lima, A. Cabello. Experimental implementation of an eight-dimensional Kochen-Specker set and observation of its connection with the Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger theorem, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 90, Article. 12119 (2014). 10.1103/PhysRevA.90.012119
A. Delgado, C. Saavedra, W. M. Pimenta, B. Marques, T. O. Maciel, R. O. Vianna, S. Pádua. Minimum tomography of two entangled qutrits using local measurements of one-qutrit symmetric informationally complete positive operator-valued measure, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. (2013). http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.88.012112
Sebastian Etcheverry Cabrera, Gustavo Cañas, E. S. Gómez, W.A.T. Nogueira , C. Saavedra, G. B. Xavier, G. Lima. Quantum key distribution session with 16-dimensional photonic states, SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, Vol. 3, Article. 2316 (2013). 10.1038/srep02316
B. Marques, A. A. Matoso, W. M. Pimenta, A. J. Gutiérrez-Esparza, G. Lima, L. Neves, A. Delgado, C. Saavedra, S. Pádua. Optimal entanglement concentration for photonic qutrits encoded in path variables, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. , Issue. 87, Article. 52327 (2013). 10.1103/PhysRevA.87.052327
Javier Gutiérrez González, C. Saavedra, R. Fuentes. Active optics for dynamical correction of fluctuations of atmospheric refraction on a defferential optical absorption spectroscopy device, APPLIED OPTICS, Vol. 51, Issue. 50, Article. 2, pp. 7221-7228 (2012). 10.1364/AO.51.007221
Sebastian Etcheverry, Maria Jose Gallardo, P. Solano, Oscar Mesquita, Mario Suwalsky, C. Saavedra. Real time study of shape and thermal fluctuations in the echinocyte transformation of human erythrocytes using Defocusing Microscopy, JOURNAL OF BIOMEDICAL OPTICS, SPIE, Vol. , Article. 106013 (2012). 10.1117/1.JBO.17.10.106013
G. Lima, E. Burgos-Inostroza, R. O. Vianna, J.-A. Larsson, C. Saavedra. Optimal measurement bases for Bell tests based on the Clauser-Horne inequality, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 85, Article. 12105, pp. 12105-12105 (2012). 10.1103/PhysRevA.85.012105
R. Salazar, D. Goyeneche, A. Delgado, C. Saavedra. Constructing symmetric informationally complete positive-operator-valued measures in Bloch space, PHYSICS LETTERS A, Vol. 376, pp. 325-329 (2012). 10.1016/j.physleta.2011.10.074
Arturo Fernández Pérez, A.B. Klimov, C. Saavedra. Quantum process reconstruction based on mutually unbiased basis, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 83, Issue. 5, Article. 52332, pp. 523321-523326 (2011). http://lanl.arxiv.org/pdf/1104.2888
G. Vallone, Ilaria Gianani, E. Burgos-Inostroza, C. Saavedra, G. Lima, A. Cabello, P. Matalloni. Testing Hardy’s nonlocality proof with genuine energy-time entanglement, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 83, Issue. 4, Article. 42105 (2011). 10.1103/PhysRevA.83.042105
G. Lima, L. Neves, R. Guzmán, E. S. Gómez, W.A.T. Nogueira , A. Delgado, A. Vargas, C. Saavedra. Experimental quantum tomography of photonic qudits via mutually unbiased basis, OPTICS EXPRESS, Vol. 19, Issue. 4, pp. 3542-3552 (2011). 10.1364/OE.19.003542
W.A.T. Nogueira , M. Santibañez, S. Pádua, A. Delgado, C. Saavedra, L. Neves, G. Lima. Interference and complementarity for two-photon hybrid entangled states, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 82, Issue. 4, Article. 42104 (2010). 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.042104
G. Lima, E. S. Gómez, A. Vargas, R. O. Vianna, C. Saavedra. Fast entanglement detection for unknown states of two spatial qutrits, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 82, Issue. 1, Article. 12302 (2010). 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.012302
F. A. Torres-Ruiz, G. Lima, A. Delgado, S. Pádua, C. Saavedra. Decoherence in a double-slit quantum eraser, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 81, Issue. 4, Article. 42104 (2010). 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.042104
J.P. Staforelli, E. Vera, P. Solano, S.N Torres, C. Saavedra. Superresolution imaging in optical tweezers using high-speed cameras, OPTICS EXPRESS, Vol. 18, Issue. 4, pp. 3322-3331 (2010). http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/OE.18.003322
L. Neves, G. Lima, A. Delgado, C. Saavedra. Hybrid photonic entanglement: Realization, characterization, and applications, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 80, Issue. 4, Article. 42322 (2009). 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.042322
G. Lima, A. Vargas, L. Neves, R. Guzmán, C. Saavedra. Manipulating spatial qudit states with programmable optical devices, OPTICS EXPRESS, Vol. 17, Issue. 13, pp. 10688-10696 (2009). 10.1364/OE.17.010688
F. A. Torres-Ruiz, G. Lima, L. Neves, J.G. Aguirre-Goméz, A. Delgado, L. Roa, S. Pádua, C. Saavedra. Unambiguous modification of nonorthogonal single- and two-photon polarization states, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 79, Article. 52113 (2009). 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.052113
M. Yang, A. Delgado, L. Roa, C. Saavedra. Entanglement concentration for non-maximally entangled states of qudits, OPTICS COMMUNICATION, Vol. 282, Issue. 7, pp. 1482-1487 (2009). 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.12.042
G. Lima, F. A. Torres-Ruiz, L. Neves, A. Delgado, C. Saavedra, S. Pádua. Generating mixtures of spatial qubits, OPTICS COMMUNICATION, Vol. 281, Article. 19, pp. 5058-5062 (2008). 10.1016/j.optcom.2008.06.050
G. Lima, F. A. Torres-Ruiz, L. Neves, A. Delgado, C. Saavedra, S. Pádua. Measurement of spatial qubits, JOURNAL OF PHYSICS B-ATOMIC MOLECULAR AND OPTICAL PHYSICS, Vol. 41, Article. 185501 (2008). doi:10.1088/0953-4075/41/18/185501
A.B. Klimov, C. Muñoz, Arturo Fernández Pérez, C. Saavedra. Optimal quantum-state reconstruction for cold trapped ions, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 77, Issue. 6, Article. 60303 (2008).
O. Jiménez, X. Sanchez-Lozano, B. Burgos-Inostroza, A. Delgado, C. Saavedra. Experimental scheme for unambiguous discrimination of linearly independent symmetric states, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 76, Issue. 6, Article. 62107 (2007).
A. Delgado, C. Saavedra, J.C. Retamal. Quantum information and entanglement transfer for qutrits, PHYSICS LETTERS A, Vol. 370, Issue. 1 (2007).
L. Roa, A. Kruegel, C. Saavedra. Quantum state stability against decoherence, PHYSICS LETTERS A, Vol. 366, Issue. 6, pp. 563-568 (2007).
G. Lima, L. Neves, I.F. Santos, C.H. Monken, J.G. Aguirre-Goméz, C. Saavedra, S. Pádua. Generating and distributing two-photon entangled spatial qudits, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF QUANTUM INFORMATION, Vol. 5, pp. 69-81 (2007).
J.C. Retamal, A. Delgado, C. Saavedra. Atom-field entanglement at the collapse region, PHYSICS LETTERS A, Vol. 355, Issue. 1, pp. 7-11 (2006).
G. Lima, L. Neves, I.F. Santos, J.G. Aguirre-Goméz, C. Saavedra, S. Pádua. Propagation of spatially entangled qudits through free space, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 73, Issue. 3, Article. 32340 (2006). 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.032340
I. Sainz, A.B. Klimov, C. Saavedra. Effective Hamiltonian approach to periodically perturbed quantum optical systems, PHYSICS LETTERS A, Vol. 351, pp. 26-30 (2006).
L. Neves, G. Lima, J.G. Aguirre-Goméz, C.H. Monken, C. Saavedra, S. Pádua. Two-photon high-dimensional spatial entanglement: Theory and experiment, MODERN PHYSICS LETTERS B, Vol. 20, Issue. 1, pp. 1-23 (2006).
L. Neves, G. Lima, J.G. Aguirre-Goméz, C.H. Monken, C. Saavedra, S. Pádua. Generation of entangled states of qudits using twin photons, PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Vol. 94, Article. 100501 (2005).
A. Delgado, L. Roa, J.C. Retamal, C. Saavedra. Entanglement swapping via quantum state discrimination, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 71, Article. 12303 (2005).
I. Sainz, A.B. Klimov, C. Saavedra. Effective resonant interactions via a driving field, JOURNAL OF OPTICS B-QUANTUM AND SEMICLASSICAL OPTICS, Vol. 6, Issue. 11, pp. 448-453 (2004).
L. Neves, S. Pádua, C. Saavedra. Controlled generation of maximally entangled qudits using twin photons, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 69, Issue. 4, Article. 42305 (2004).
R. Guzmán, J.L. Romero, J.C. Retamal, C. Saavedra. Entanglement rate in qubits, PHYSICS LETTERS A, Vol. 323, pp. 382-388 (2004).
A.B. Klimov, R. Guzmán, J.C. Retamal, C. Saavedra. Qutrit quantum computer with trapped ions, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 67, Issue. 6, Article. 62313 (2003).
J.L. Romero, J.C. Retamal, L. Roa, C. Saavedra. Quantum entanglement purification in cavities, REVISTA MEXICANA DE FISICA, Vol. 48, pp. 74-76 (2002).
L. Roa, J.C. Retamal, C. Saavedra. Quantum-state discrimination, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 66, Article. 12103 (2002).
J.L. Romero, L. Roa, J.C. Retamal, C. Saavedra. Entanglement purification in cavity QED using local operations, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 65, Article. 52319 (2002).
A.B. Klimov, J.L. Romero, C. Saavedra. General properties of quantum systems interacting with a field mode in a low-Q cavity, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 64, Issue. 6, Article. 63802 (2001).
C. Saavedra, K.M. Gheri, P. Torma, J. I. Cirac, P. Zoller. Controlled source of entangled photonic qubits, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 61, Article. 62311 (2000).
S.M. Chumakov, A.B. Klimov, C. Saavedra. Dispersive atomic evolution in a dissipative-driven cavity, PHYSICAL REVIEW A, Vol. 61, Article. 33814 (2000).
CEFOP - Center for Optic and Fotonics
Esteban Iturra St. 6th Floor, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Mathematics, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
Telephone : 56 - 41 - 2204740.
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By Staff reporter | 11 May 2019 at 15:18hrs
Looking for a channel to advertise a product can be a daunting task. Whether you are a bigger corporate or a small to medium enterprise it is nerve wrecking to look for all mediums that can possibly be appropriate to advertise your product this can either be television, newspapers, magazines, billboards to mention only but a few.
Founder Simba Mukokera saw an opportunity to not only be innovative but to solve this problem through AdSpaces. Previously referred to as MediaBox before it got rebranded, AdSpaces is a platform that offers customers a listing service of all advertisers that they can pick from.
To date, the Automated advertisement channel has expanded its operations to South Africa in a bid to expand their operational plan across the continent and beyond to enable access to advertisement channels beyond borders.
Speaking to TechnoMag, AdSpace Founder Simba Mukorera said the organisation's vision is to become a one stop solution in advertising across the continent.
"We aim to span our operations across the continent, and so far we are in Zimbabwe and South Africa,"he said.
The platform is a revolutionary digital solution that transforms the way conventional advertisement is done through democratizing the relevant information and easing reach between service providers and prospective clients.
It is a web based platform that facilitates the process of discovering advertisement service providers and their respective product offerings under various marketing categories through to the creation and running of ad campaigns.
Mukorera said the platform would allow customers to spend less time looking for appropriate advertisers.
"The whole process that can take several hours to days using the conventional methods will be compacted to a couple of minutes through this efficiency leveling platform," he said
"Currently the advertising industry has no ubiquitous and scalable automated solution that integrates the whole ad discovery and campaign launch process like what AdSpace is bringing on board,".
AdSpaces is ideal for both clients and advertisers, as it brings both of them together- the former looking for a service and the latter offering that service.
In summary the platform brings the benefit of ubiquity to the advertising users as well as the publishers. Clients can quickly discover service providers listed on the platform, insights on the publisher's audience, reach and impressions, the nature of content published as well as pricing information.
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‘America’s Got Talent’ Season 13: And the Winner Is…
Emily Tan
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Congratulations to Shin Lim!
After months of competition, the Boston-based, self-proclaimed "sleight of hand artist" was named the winner of America's Got Talent Season 13 on Wednesday night (September 19). Lim won a prize of $1 million, as well as his own headlining show in Las Vegas.
During the final minutes of the show, Lim and aerial act Zurcaroh were vying for the AGT crown. Once his name was called, the Austrian acrobats, who took the runner-up position, ran over to Lim, lifted him up and celebrated his victory.
Violinist Brian King Joseph took third place while comedian Samuel J. Comroe and singer Michael Ketterer claimed fourth and fifth place, respectively.
Lim consistently wowed the audience and judges — Simon Cowell, Heidi Klum, Mel B and Howie Mandel — week after week with his mystifying magic act. Even host Tyra Banks was taken by him, calling him the "sexiest magician on the planet." During last night's finale, Lim blew American Ninja Warrior hosts Matt Iseman and Akbar Gbajabiamila away with his latest card trick.
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Before the top five were announced, rock legends KISS kicked off the show with a fiery performance and also announced their End of the Road tour. This will be the last hurrah before the iconic rock band call it quits.
Then, finalist Grace joined Bebe Rexha for a performance of her hit collab with Florida Georgia Line, "Meant to Be." Rexha also performed her single, "I'm a Mess."
Later, teen rocker Hadwin and UK rock band The Struts performed their single, "Could Have Been Me," as well as Janis Joplin's version of "Piece of My Heart." Emmet performed with opera legend Plácido Domingo, while Barbolak combined forces with David Spade to dig through what Hollywood speak really means. Afterwards, Ketterer performed "The Courage to Love," a song that Garth Brooks penned for the America's Got Talent contestant.
Finally, electro-violinist Lindsey Stirling and Joseph played an epic electronic instrumental piece while Duo Transcend performed jaw-dropping tricks. Zurcaroh closed out the performances with a beautiful dance piece.
See the AGT Season 13 Finalists
Source: ‘America’s Got Talent’ Season 13: And the Winner Is…
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Research: Global Automotive Blockchain Market Set to Reach $1.6 Billion by 2026
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The volume of the global automotive blockchain market is set to reach $1.6 billion by 2026. This estimation comes from a PR Newswire article published August 21, citing a report by Business Intelligence and Strategy Research (BIS Research). The BIS Research report forecasts that during the period from 2018 to 2026, the automotive blockchain market will grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 65.80%, reaching $1,575 million by 2026. The research was based on a financial analysis of the key market players: Ethereum (ETH), Ripple Labs Inc., IBM Corporation, BigChain DB, R3, and some others. The projected "robust growth" of the automotive blockchain market is due to the rise of the popularity of the distributed ledger technology (DLT) and "the myriad number of benefits associated with the blockchain technology," the report says.
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Global IoT Automotive Market Size, Status and Forecast 2025 provides a unique tool for evaluating the market, highlighting opportunities, and supporting strategic and tactical decision-making. This report researches the worldwide IoT Automotive Market size (value, capacity, production and consumption) in key regions like North America, Europe, Asia Pacific (China, Japan) and other regions. It provides information on trends and developments, and focuses on markets and materials, capacities and technologies, and on the changing structure of the IoT Automotive Market. Report provides information on trends and developments, and focuses on markets and materials, capacities and technologies, and on the changing structure of the IoT Automotive Market. Moreover, many local and regional vendors are offering specific application products for varied end-users.
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1 shot dead, 2 wounded outside Tennessee automotive plant
FOX News Apr-11-2017, 18:50:26 GMT
At least one person died Tuesday after a shooting outside of an automotive plant in Tennessee. The shooting unfolded at the Ficosa plant in Cookeville and three people were hit, including the alleged shooter, Putnam County EMA officials said. My heart is w/ the victims of this tragedy & I am following the situation closely. Police told WBXE radio that at least one person is believed to have worked at the facility. The three people involved were one man and two women, investigators said.
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The winners of 2017's CHEO Dream of a Lifetime are…
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The lucky winners of this year's Dream of a Lifetime lottery, which includes the CHEO Dream Home, have been announced. Jack Watt is the winner of the grand prize package worth more than $1.6 million, which includes a Minto home with all furnishings by La-Z-Boy Furniture Galleries, $100,000 in cash, a 2017 Infiniti from Myers Automotive Group, house cleaning for a year from Molly Maid, and a $5,000 gift card from Farm Boy. The 4,070-square-foot modern home is located at 540 Bridgeport Ave. in Manotick's Mahogany community. The custom house features 10-foot ceilings on the main floor, a grand front entrance, curved open staircase, gourmet kitchen, and a luxurious master bedroom and ensuite bathroom. Aaron Dinovitzer won the second prize that is worth more than $163,000, and includes $100,000 cash, a 2017 Toyota RAV4 from Myers Automotive Group, a $10,000 gift certificate from Jubilee Fine Jewellers, a trip for two to the Dominican Republic from Marlin Travel and Transat, and an Ottawa Senators 100 Level Flex 40 season tickets package.
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You Better Think!
On February 12, the 447 members of the Democratic National Committee are to elect a new chairman to replace Terry McAuliffe. Four days later, an important new book -- John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics, by Richard Parker -- is due to hit bookstores. These two events actually have a lot to do with each other -- or at least the appearance of the latter provides a timely dose of context for the former, and a suggestion of one unusual job the new party chairman needs to take on.
A party chairman, by tradition, is supposed to be a mechanic. He raises money, recruits candidates, assembles permanent databases of party activists. But if the next chairman wants to save his party from falling into minority status for the foreseeable future, he'll need to do more than that. He'll need to train his party to think again.
After John Kerry's defeat, the chief complaint was that both candidate and party failed to let Americans know what they stood for. It was typically appended -- or could have been when it was not -- that the reason for this was that they didn't know what they stood for themselves.
It's time to start knowing.
In the recent iteration of their quadrennial finger-pointing party, Democrats were quick to say that they will re-examine their position on this new controversy or rethink their attachment to that old piece of party dogma. It's all well and good, except for one problem: No one is ever in charge of the re-examination and rethinking. Different Democrats go on television and say A or Not A and B or Not B, but no one ever takes control of giving the debate any cohesion or direction toward an end point. Thus, nothing is ever quite anyone's fault. And before you know it, a new election rolls around, and the party still hasn't figured out what it stands for.
I used to ask congressional Democrats why -- in the wake of September 11, when it was obvious that new paradigms were in order -- they, or at least some of them, had not banded together and presented a Democratic vision for foreign policy in the post–9-11 world. Invariably, the answer was that coming up with something that grand wasn't their job. In 2003, after the Iraq War had started (and “ended”) and it was time for Democrats to formulate a response to the Bush administration, I used to ask what that response would be. Not our role, I was told; when we have a candidate, we'll have a response.
This buck-passing is how things have normally worked. But these are not normal times. The Democratic Party is in unique straits. Someone has to take charge, not necessarily of deciding what the party stands for but of initiating a serious process whereby that is determined.
This is where the Galbraith book comes in. Galbraith bestrode the world during the era of liberal dominance; part of the reason for that dominance was that Democratic politicians leaned on wise liberal intellectuals for advice and ideas. This relationship characterized Franklin Roosevelt's dependence on “brain trust” figures like Rexford Tugwell and Adolph A. Berle Jr.; Harry Truman's reliance on “wise men” like Dean Acheson, George Kennan, and John J. McCloy; and John F. Kennedy's relationships with men such as Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Thomas K. Finletter, and Galbraith himself. In each case, the thinkers came up with good ideas, and the Democrats listened. Can it be merely coincidence that all three of those presidents presented innovative ideas to the American people, and that when the man in the street was asked in those days what the Democrats stood for, he could think of an answer?
I am not saying that intellectuals can save the Democratic Party (indeed, one could argue that the intellectuals of the 1970s and '80s almost destroyed it). But politicians need to be in dialogue with thinkers, not just special-interest advocates and pollsters. One gets the sense that those relationships do exist on the Republican side, especially with regard to foreign policy. There is actual thought -- bad thought, but thought all the same -- in the neoconservative approach.
But with Democrats, a new approach always sounds more like superficial repositioning. When House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi encouraged the anti-abortion Tim Roemer to seek the party chairmanship, she was doing just that -- superficially pandering to the party's opponents while making party loyalists very nervous. The party needs to figure out what to do about abortion. But not like that.
This is a crisis -- one might say the crisis -- and the new chairman needs to address it. He should convene meetings where progressive thinkers of all stripes can meet with elected officials in a structured way to start thinking … about thinking.
Michael Tomasky is executive editor of The American Prospect.
Michael Tomasky is the American editor-at-large of the Guardian (UK). He was executive editor of the Prospect from 2003 to 2006.
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The Dispersal of Homo sapiens in Europe
Nature has two papers relating to the dispersal of Homo sapiens in Europe. The first, by Higham et al provides new dates on KC4 (Kent’s Cavern), a maxilla fragment attributed to Homo sapiens. The new dates (44.2 – 41.5 kyr cal BP) make KC4 contemporary with late European Neanderthals. The Higham et al article also rexamines the morphology of KC4 and confirms that it is Homo sapiens.
The second, arguably more interesting paper, by Benazzi et al takes a fresh look at two deciduous molars (Cavallo – B and Cavallo – C) discovered in 1964 at Grotta del Cavallo, Italy. The Grotta del Cavallo is the Type site for the Uluzzian – a industry seen as transitional between the Middle and Upper Paleolithic (as are the Chatelperronian and Szeletian). Cavallo – B has always been considered a modern human deciduous molar (a left upper 1st molar) whereas Cavallo – C has been classified as a Neanderthal and this has been this justification for the Neanderthal-Uluzzian connection. Benazzi et al re-examine both teeth and conclude that both come from modern humans. They go on to say that:
The re-attribution of the teeth of Grotta del Cavallo to anatomically modern human has implication for the interpretation of the Uluzzian technocomplex. The presence of personal ornaments in the form of marine shell beads, worked bone and colorants – including ochre and limonites – in the Uluzzian layers of Grotte del Cavallo has been used as direct evidence for the Neanderthals reaching behavioral modernity independent of, and before, anatomically modern humans reaching Europe. These attributes are all more typical of Upper Paleolithic industries. This multiple species model for the origin of fully modern behavior has been considered by some to be an impossible coincidence and a fervent debate has ensued among prehistorians on the behavioral and cognitive capabilities of the transitional industries found across Europe and the Levant. Our results show that the Uluzzian is not a Neanderthal industry.
Update 1: Hawks picks up on something I had missed in the Higham et al paper
For Further Reading
Higham et al (2010) Chronology of the Grotte du Renne (France) and
implications for the context of ornaments and human remains within the Châtelperronian
Mellars et al (2007) Confirmation of Neanderthal/modern human interstratification at the Chatelperronian type-site
Zilhao et el (2006) Analysis of Aurignacian interstratification at the Chatelperronian-type site and implications for the behavioral modernity of Neandertals
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No Decision Yet on Possible Move of Diamond Jacks Casino
Erin McCarty
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The gambling landscape in Shreveport Bossier could be changing. Penisula Pacific, the parent company of Diamond Jacks Casino says there has been no decision on a possible move of the local boat.
There are a couple of options. One would be an expansion at the local propery and the other involves a move to south Louisiana. In the meantime, there is now a push to bring a casino to the Monroe market.
Monroe Representative Marcus Hunter has filed legislation to pave the way for a riverboat casino to come to Monroe. The state has 15-licensed riverboat casinos and for a casino to be located on the Ouachita, the license would have to move from another location in the state. But Hunter wouldn’t say what gaming operator is interested in moving to northeast Louisiana. Ouachita Parish voters would have to okay a casino in Monroe.
Peninsula Pacific executives say they did have some discussions with the Southside Economic Development District, but right now are only focused on either Bossier or south Louisiana.
If a bill passes to move the local boat to Tangipahoa Parish,Gov. John Bel Edwards says he’ll sign it.
“I will sign the bill if it hits my desk and give the people of Tangipahoa Parish an opportunity to vote on whether they would want to have that casino,” Gov. Edwards said. “They would be able to evaluate the impacts, whether they’re pro or con — the job creation and total amount of investment — and see whether they would want that.”
He also added that as a voter in Tangipahoa Parish, “If the election is called, I will vote for it.”
Categories: Louisiana News, Shreveport News
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Amber Rose: ‘I Cannot Even Count How Many Times A Famous Guy Touched Me Inappropriately’
Ali Szubiak
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Amber Rose recently revealed she's been sexually assaulted by several famous men during a new interview with Yahoo! Style.
While speaking about Rose's SlutWalk initiative, stylist Joe Zee asked the former Dancing With the Stars contestant to comment on the controversy surrounding Donald Trump and the many women who have lobbed sexual assault allegations against the Republican nominee since the release of that Access Hollywood video where he admitted to potentially sexually assaulting several women.
“I want him to get in trouble for it because I cannot even count how many times a famous guy touched me inappropriately — seriously,” she said.
Rose continued, noting how difficult it is for women to come forward after being assaulted, especially when their abuser is in a position of power.
“Imagine this. Donald Trump comes and touches me inappropriately, right," she said. "I’m a regular ass girl. Do I call 911? Do I get on Twitter and tweet about it? How should I go about letting people know that this guy did it to me and who’s actually going to believe me? You know what I’m saying?”
Most women, Rose said, confide in their friends and then try to forget the incident in an attempt to carry on with their lives.
“You just try to get over it and it happens to so many women," she said. "That’s why I started SlutWalk. We talk about all these issues at SlutWalk.”
Head over to Yahoo! Style to see Amber Rose's full interview with Joe Zee.
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Source: Amber Rose: ‘I Cannot Even Count How Many Times A Famous Guy Touched Me Inappropriately’
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Lost phone leads to 30 years in Texas porn case
A federal judge in Dallas on Tuesday sentenced 26-year-old Gary Lee Jackson of Garland. Jackson in December pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography and to possessing more than 1,000 such images.
Police say an individual contacted officers last August about child porn images on a cellphone that Jackson left in the person's car.
Jackson told police that he has a history of exploiting children. An officer testified that Jackson described how in 2007 a woman named Amber Schmidt "bought" him a 12-year-old girl for his birthday. Jackson says he molested the child.
Schmidt in January pleaded guilty to transporting and shipping child porn. She awaits sentencing.
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How to interpret this rejection email from Journal of American Math Society? Anything to read between the lines?
I had submitted a paper manuscript to JAMS (J. of Amer. Math Soc) and recieved the following email 2 months after the submission. Can you help me interpret this email, as to what the situation is and what would be the best way moving forward. Are there any positives/negatives that can be taken. I have not received any referee reports or any technical points on my work, which is what disappointing me. I would like to understand the circumstances/rationale behind this decision.
I am new to journal publishing. I want to know how i can take this decision moving forward, while choosing another journal for submitting. And also self evaluating my work from this. Is there anything to loose heart?
email : (names and references removed for privacy reasons)
Dear Professor XXXX,
This message concerns the manuscript
XXXXX by XXXX
submitted to the Journal of the AMS.
We regret to inform you that we cannot accept this paper for publication in JAMS. The reviewers who evaluated this submission did not think that it meets the acceptance standards at JAMS.
JAMS is the premier journal of the AMS, with extremely selective acceptance criteria. A paper must be truly exceptional to obtain the unanimous approval from the editors, which is required for publication. We publish fewer than 30 papers per year in all of mathematics. As a result, less than 10% of submissions are accepted for publication, and many excellent papers are rejected.
One reviewer suggested that the discussion in your paper should include a comparison with the following reference:
XXX, XXXX, XXX. XXXX: XXX.XXXXX XXXXX XXXX, Journal of XXXXX. 5555;5(XXX):5555-4444.
XXXXXX, Editorial Assistant Journal of the American Mathematical Society
--- Sent via EditFlow by JAMS Editor <journal.american.math.society@gmail.co
Dear Professor XXXXX,
The reviews we received were intended for the editors' eyes only, so we are unable to send them to you.
Apologies, XXXX
journals peer-review rejection
Not sure what you are looking fot. The situation seems to be quite clearly laid out in that email. – Tobias Kildetoft Jan 9 at 12:50
JAMS is a top journal. Most papers, even excellent papers, will not meet their publication criteria. Do not despair...try for another journal. If you want AMS publication, you could next go for PAMS or TAMS (based on the length of your paper). Or you could try for a subject-matter journal: one that publishes only papers in your particular area of mathematics. – GEdgar Jan 9 at 15:35
Trying hard to read between the lines: maybe "should include a comparison with the following reference" means "someone else thought of something similar, first" – Words Like Jared Jan 10 at 22:22
There isn't anything between the lines. It's simply a rejection. The editor and reviewers feel that your paper is clearly not strong enough for this journal, and they're telling you so.
Note that JAMS is an extremely selective journal, generally considered one of the top four out of all the many hundreds of journals in mathematics. It is very very hard to get a paper published there. Most of the papers they publish will be major breakthroughs in an area, or solve a famous open problem. The "10%" is actually misleadingly high, because the vast majority of papers are never submitted there in the first place because the authors know they have no chance.
Such journals often do a quick first round of reviews, where the reviewers are only asked if they think the results are potentially important enough to warrant publication in JAMS. Only if they say yes does the paper go on to a full technical review. In this case, it sounds like they said no. You didn't receive a detailed report because they didn't need to do a detailed review of the paper to make a decision. Remember that their job is ultimately to make the decision; it's not their job to give you feedback or help you improve your paper. Sometimes that happens along the way, but when the decision is clear, they won't spend time on a paper that, in their view, can't be made publishable in this journal.
The reviewers can, as in this case, make comments about things they happened to notice as they were doing their quick review. That's why you got the note about the reference. You'll have to read the reference to determine exactly what was meant here; it may be that the reviewer thinks that paper may already contain your results, or at least that they are similar enough that you need to carefully explain the difference. But it sounds like the reason for rejection was the overall significance of your paper, and this was just something they noted in passing.
How to move forward: submit to a different journal. If you want feedback on your paper first, you'll have to get it from someone else, e.g. a mentor, PhD advisor, collaborator or fellow researcher. Such a person could also help you get some ideas of journals for which your paper might be better suited - where it would have a better chance of acceptance or at least a full review.
@Kimball: "Great minds think alike..." ;-) – Nate Eldredge Jan 9 at 16:35
@NateEldredge ... but great enough to submit a joint answer to JAMS? – David Richerby Jan 9 at 22:14
Fools seldom differ? ;-) – Peter K. Jan 10 at 2:43
@user102868 Submitting to a math journal does not mean you can't describe the real world applications. But being correct and citing work in top journals is in no way sufficient for the work itself to be publishable in a top journal (in fact, this describes by far the larger part of my own paper, but I have certainly not written any that could be published in JAMS or the like). As an aside: The fact that you describe the person you cite as your competitor makes me worried that your view of research is very different from your peers. – Tobias Kildetoft Jan 10 at 15:10
@user102868 Most people do not view themselves as competing with fellow workers in the field. That is neither healthy nor helpful. That is all it seems Tobias is saying. – user10060 Jan 11 at 7:13
Top journals, and JAMS is at the very top (most mathematicians probably will not have ever seriously considered submitting there), typically have 2 first passes before a proper peer-review (referee): (1) editorial consideration and (2) "quick" opinions from experts. Which is to say, there are 2 common ways for a paper to be rejected before it is sent for a full peer-review: (i) the editor decides from the title/abstract/info that it is not appropriate, or (ii) the editor solicits experts for an opinion of whether it is worth the effort of a full peer-review.
Based on your letter, and since you didn't receive a referee report, I would say the most likely scenario is (ii), and this is not surprising because unless you have done something really spectacular (I don't know that you haven't, but playing the odds...), you shouldn't bother submitting to JAMS, Annals, etc. (It can also happen that a referee who is asked to do a normal review, just sends back a few lines in the case of recommended rejection, in which case a full report would not be passed on to you either.)
So my suggestion listen to the expert's advice and compare what you've done with what's in that paper. Then, if possible, ask some more senior people for advice for where is an appropriate place to submit your work.
I have read that reference fully, and I am surprised that mathematically there isn't much to compare with my paper. Neither there is anything to compare in terms of theme, except to say that the suggested reference is an example of various traditional techniques being used in a field X (not mathematics), and that the theorems I have proved in my paper will give rise to tottally new techniques which overcome disadvantages of the cited traditional techniques. The suggested reference is not a math journal. – user102868 Jan 11 at 16:17
So my conclusion is, the rejection is largely might be due to standards not being met, rather than the cited reference. Infact citing that reference in my paper would actually help my cause. – user102868 Jan 11 at 16:19
@user102868: "Infact citing that reference in my paper would actually help my cause." Hmm, up until now I have been defending your right to resubmit the paper as is. But now you have me confused...if the citation helps your cause it means that it's (i) relevant and (ii) helps your cause! So you definitely should cite it, no? – Pete L. Clark Jan 11 at 18:48
@PeteL.Clark : Its just one of hundreds of such papers written about a class of methods and its not even foundational for that class. Its actually trivial that my method does not belong to that class. I don't think its a must to cite that particular paper. It would look like a random pick, if I cite it. The reviewer could have suggested to just mention about these class of methods and say that mine was different from that. This would take only a line. Over all its a positive suggestion is what I am feeling. May be that particular reviewer may not have voted for outright rejection. – user102868 Jan 11 at 19:16
@user102868 Or maybe that particular reviewer happened to know that that particular paper is about similar methods, but does not know the literature about that method very well. – Tommi Brander Jan 12 at 10:14
Most likely is that your theorem is just not ground breaking enough. It is possible there are other issues with the paper (writing quality of the text or logic of the math). But we really can't tell because the paper was not deeply reviewed. Go to a lower tier journal (more specialized) and submit it there. This will either get published or at least give you better feedback on your manuscript.
Note even on the off chance that your discovery should be at that top level journal, it is still their choice and people make mistakes. Nothing is perfect. Move on.
Here's a positive from this experience that nobody's mentioned:
You got your answer in 2 months. This is actually quite fast for an answer on a mathematics paper. This is much better than waiting 12 months or more, then getting that same response.
You should address the cited reference (which may be duplicating some of your ideas), and resubmit to another journal.
answered Jan 10 at 6:06
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It's not much of a positive! A rejection after a year would have come with constructive comments about how to improve the paper; getting rejected after two months for not being significant enough for the journal isn't much better than hiding the paper in a filing cabinet for that time and then submitting it to a more appropriate journal. – David Richerby Jan 10 at 17:59
@DavidRicherby I've submitted two papers to JAMS-level journals, each with multiplicity two. First paper: 2 months rejected with quick opinions at first journal, 5 months accepted at second. Second paper: 6 months rejected with quick opinions at first journal, then 15 months rejected with 8 reports none of which were sent to us at the second. 2 months is a good turnaround for a quick rejection, and long rejections don't always have meaningful feedback! – Noah Snyder Jan 10 at 20:49
@NoahSnyder Jeebus. I don't know whether to boggle more about the fact that eight referees were involved, or that none of their reports were sent to you! – David Richerby Jan 11 at 11:57
The thing is, the paper didn’t really need significant changes (it’s now accepted at another very good journal, with relatively few changes). It’s just that the opinions must have been pretty split about whether it was significant enough to make the cut. It’s not so clear how helpful it would be to us to see those opinions. – Noah Snyder Jan 11 at 13:40
The second paragraph of the mail is just boilerplate that everyone gets. The final recommendation is all you really need to be concerned with, but I'll guess that it is a big concern for the reviewers.
Is it the case, perhaps, that you missed an important earlier paper (the one cited) in developing your own? If so, you need to go back to your work and see how much you add to the earlier work. It may be that you only need a simple update before resubmission, but it is possible that you are left with too little that is new for you to proceed successfully without a lot of work.
But, no, nothing seems to be hidden or implied that isn't stated directly.
As for your comment about submitting (as is) to a different journal, they will likely have exactly the same reaction. Possibly even some of the same reviewers.
Actually, I doubt there is much chance of this paper being accepted in JAMS given that they already rejected it for not being up to their standard (I am not even sure if they allow resubmission, but I didn't check). – Tobias Kildetoft Jan 9 at 13:16
@Buffy : The paper was rejected not because of the reference. I don't think it has has nothing to do with it (having seen it). No point in resubmitting. – user102868 Jan 9 at 13:56
I downvoted because of the last paragraph. Many papers in mathematics are rejected upon first submission, resubmitted as is, and then accepted. Moreover your answer misses that where the OP submitted was in the top 0.1% of all math journals, a level of eliteness that doesn't exist in many other academic fields. Being rejected from such a journal says almost nothing about the value of a paper. – Pete L. Clark Jan 9 at 18:29
@Buffy There are no reviews. The paper was submitted to an absolutely top-flight journal. Before even doing full peer-review, they rejected the paper because, even if it's 100% correct, it's not significant enough for this particular journal. There's no basis on which to revise the paper, except perhaps to add the requested comparison. The correct course really is to submit it to a journal at a more appropriate level. – David Richerby Jan 9 at 22:41
@Buffy The asker explicitly says they didn't receive reviews, which is a strong indication that they don't exist. The other answers (which were posted after yours, but well before your reply to Pete Clark's comment) are written by people familiar with the journal and explain the situation, confirming this. And the asker has already commented to say that they don't think the suggested reference is very significant to their paper. – David Richerby Jan 9 at 22:58
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Strawberries and uni: Japan eyes ventures with Russia on islands
Territory's status still unresolved but Abe and Putin will affirm economic cooperation
Nikkei staff writers May 25, 2018 04:01 JST
Four disputed islands have prevented Japan and Russia from formally ending World War II. (Photo by Keiichiro Asahara)
TOKYO -- Japan will dispatch a private-sector research team to a disputed island chain held by Russia to explore joint ventures between the two countries such as greenhouse strawberry and sea urchin cultivation.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to approve the plan when they meet Saturday in Moscow for talks and events promoting cultural exchange. Abe left Tokyo Thursday for Russia and will speak at the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg Friday.
Tokyo and Moscow agreed in December 2016 to begin discussing joint economic activities on the islands, known in Japan as the Northern Territories and in Russia as the Southern Kurils. Last September, they set as their priorities five joint ventures, including aquaculture, tourism and wind power generation. Japan sent two private-public teams to conduct feasibility studies in June-July and October.
The latest research team will be dispatched as soon as this summer and will be private-sector led this time. It will study the feasibility of greenhouse cultivation for strawberries and sea urchin cultivation, narrowing down operational details and potential sites after surveying the islands and surrounding waters.
But negotiations are stalled on a "special system" that would allow for joint economic activity while preserving both countries' legal positions on the islands. Russia, which administers the islands, has pushed for the use of its own laws, a condition Japan does not accept.
"The upcoming round of talks will not touch on the special system," said an official from Japan's Foreign Ministry.
Abe also said he wants to make "definitive progress" on joint economic activities and visits by Japanese former residents of the islands to visit family graves.
The territorial dispute has also prevented Japan and Russia from signing a peace treaty to end World War II. "I need to have a heart-to-heart with President Putin on reaching a peace treaty," said Abe before takeoff.
On North Korea, Abe said he "wants to confirm that they will work together closely to comprehensively solve the abduction, nuclear and missile issues."
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First Bran chapter in TWOW
By Quaithe from Asshai, January 4 in The Winds of Winter
Deadliestviper7
5 hours ago, Endymion I Targaryen said:
What if this Bran chapter has to do with Winterfell and the battle between Stannis and Boltons?Possibly from the heart tree or ravens he can see things.
I suppose he could be a POV for pretty much anything that is or has happened now, will he try to influence the other characters to fight the Others/wights
and not each other? Would they listen?
Ibbison from Ibben
Hungry, but not for food
Location:- Upper reaches of the Boneyard
The Battle of Ice at the crofter's village will be told via a Theon or Asha POV. (This is confirmed. GRRM posted a pic of himself typing at his desk, and the text was readable. It was about one paragraph from early in the battle. I won't spoil the one tidbit that was revealed.)
Bran may very well see what happens in Winterfell through the heart tree. It could be part of the first chapter, part of a later chapter, or could be told as part of a flashback. But we are still faced with the fact that Bran had 3 POV chapters in the first half of Dance, and none thereafter. It seems likely that GRRM did this deliberately to conceal part of Bran's story for dramatic purposes. Bran showing up at Castle Black immediately after Jon's assassination would make for one hell of an entrance, you have to admit.
Jabar of House Titan
On 2/14/2019 at 1:48 PM, Ibbison from Ibben said:
Sorry for the delay in replying. I am an infrequent visitor here anymore.
It's fine.
The reasons for the dearth of Bran chapters are twofold. 1 - Bran is the toughest POV for GRRM to write, being the youngest and the most involved with magic. 2 - The abandonment of the Five Year Gap forced GRRM to put all three Stark kids on the shelf during FeastDance as they aged and trained. Not to mention that GRRM may be keeping Bran offstage for dramatic reasons during the last half of Dance.
But point #2 doesn't make sense because Arya -- compared to Sansa and Bran -- got a bunch of chapters. But more importantly, her character arc moved forward quite a bit. Sansa's arc dragged along at a snail's pace and Bran's arc has been spinning its wheels since Storm.
Songs are Power. Dany sings the Song of Fire, as all Valyrians did. Being a Stark, the former Kings of Winter, Bran will sing the Song of Ice, although he is being trained by Earth Singers. Jon will sing the Songs of both Ice and Fire, once he learns of his ancestry. He is the balance point between the two.
If the Song of Ice and Fire belongs to Dany, Bran, Jon (and perhaps even Euron), then why do characters like Tyrion and Arya have so many chapters. While things for Arya might change, but Tyrion is only tangentially related, if at all, to the "song of ice and fire" aspects of the books
6 minutes ago, Jabar of House Titan said:
In FeastDance, Arya has 5 chapters, Sansa has 3, and Bran has 3. Pretty equal. Bran doesn't spin his wheels - he becomes a greenseer who may be the most powerful human greenseer ever. His potential is massive. Arya may have had quite a few chapters in Storm, but she was merely an observer and victim. She didn't drive the story.
Dany is Fire. Bran is Ice. Jon is Ice and Fire. I have no idea why you include Euron, who openly proclaims himself to be a Storm - the enemy of the Ironborn.
Chapter counts don't necessarily reflect the basic elemental themes underlying the story, or the impact a character can have at the end of the story.. Tyrion cuts across all the storylines. Arya is our window into the fate of the commoners.
Arya - her father a Stark (Ice), her mother a Tully (Water). She's a water dancer who hangs out in the Riverlands before relocating to a city of canals.
Sansa, her sister, is her opposite. She is the little bird who hangs out with her cousin the Falcon Lord in the Eyrie. An Air elemental, reflecting her grandmother from House Whent. (Yeah, she will evenyually warg giant cave bats.)
In the end, this work is the Song of Ice and Fire. Elemental factors will become more prominent as the tale reaches its climax. And Bran, the head of House Stark, represents Ice. Of course, the origins of House Stark, the life of Brandon the Builder, and their relationship to the Others is perhaps the greatest mystery in the books.
1 minute ago, Ibbison from Ibben said:
When fire and ice come together, what do you end up with?
The Ironborn have a pretty damn big role to play in the series and they are the kings of the open water, the sea.
Patchface seems to be trying to tell anyone he encounters about what he saw underwater.
The strange oily rock material that no one knows the origin of? It can be found in Oldtown and Pyke--both being ancient.
Catelyn Stark, regardless of her birth, was of the North and a true member of the Stark family (ice). Yet she was resurrected with fire magic. And how did they retrieve her body? They pulled her out of the water.
Whatever horror that occurred at Hardhome -- at one point -- had something to do with the sea. It got into the water.
We've heard that there are dead things in the water as well as in the woods.
There are these crack-rumors about Varys being a mermaid that aren't being easily dispelled like other crack-rumors.
The Sistermen. Everything about the people who live on the Three Sisters points to some funny business. Some have webbed fingers?
The Rhoynish and the Children both practiced water magic and destroyed many things with it. The Orphans of the Greenblood, probably still hold true to those old Rhoynish ways.
Euron, the King of the Ironborn is all but established to be a sorcerer at this point, wants to destroy the world and remake it in his own image, thus becoming a god-king. God also did something very similar in the story of the Flood in the Book of Genesis.
The Ironborn are First Men, ethnically one and the same with the northerners and the wildlings. Except they worship a completely different set of gods and weirwoods have gone extinct on the Iron Islands. Why?
We hear of ferocious submarine beasts stirring in the oceans. Why? What the hell really happened in Valyria, what kind of creatures dwell therein and why is so much of it still buried underwater?
I think the invasions of Daenerys Targaryen and the Others -- while part of the climax -- are not going to be endgame. They are going to be a means to an end and the end is going to be Euron and whatever Lovecraftian monstrosities that have been lying dormant under the sea.
23 minutes ago, Ibbison from Ibben said:
Okay, I see what you're saying. But what is Sansa? She's just as important as Bran, Tyrion, Arya, Jon and Daenerys isn't she? Is she Arya's foil as a window into the fate of nobles?
Interesting. Sansa also is known for being a lover of songs/music, a storyteller in bloom and a big dreamer with her head in the clouds. Hmm....now that you mention it, Sansa is definitely going to end up marrying an Arryn. But which one?
But why giant cave bats? Why not regular birds? Or falcons?
And who is our earth elemental supposed to be? Bran again?
I agree about the mysterious origins of House Stark, Brandon the Builder and the ties to the Others and the Long Night. That's interesting. I don't expect it to get covered in the Game of Thrones TV show but I expect to see it play out in A Dream of Spring and the Long Night spinoff. I'm also looking to see what role House Dayne has to play in all of this as well.
Frankly, I disagree with you on almost every point, I'm afraid.
Catelyn Stark is a Riverlands girl, and still feels out of place in the North.
Euron isn't a sorcerer. He has a hostage Warlock (Pyat Pree) working for him. Although his use of Shade of the Evening allows him to mind rape people.
The CotF did not practice water magic - they Sing the Song of Earth.
The Ironborn are a bunch of drunken idiots, whose magic consists of intermediate level first aid. Many who their priests have "drowned" have no doubt suffered brain damage.
Valyria wasn't destroyed by magical creatures from the deep. It was destroyed by a massive magical backlash when their mages lost control of their sources of power, the Fouteen Flames.
It is well documented that the First Men did not originally worship the Old Gods of the CotF. They adopted the CotF's religion after the Pact .The Ironborn are a holdout. Compare them to the Sistermen and the Storm's End origin story and you get this -
source----------sea deity-----wind (storm) deity-----relationship
Storm's End-----male------------female---------------mates---
Three Sisters----female-----------male----------------mates---
Iron Islands------male------------male---------------enemies--
This may give us some hints as to the original religion of the First Men. You could make a sound case that the Ironborn and the Sistermen, being on the periphery of Westeros, rejected the CotF religion.
Elemental forces in ASoIaF come in opposite and complementary pairs - ice and fire, earth and water, storm and sea. When Ice and Fire magics meet, they do not create water - they cancel each other out. The Rise of Valyria ( a massive seizure of fire magic by the Valyrians) enabled the Rise of the Others by freeing an equal amount of Ice magic. Don't think matter and antimatter - think positive and negative ions.
In the end, this is the Song of Ice and Fire, not a story of Lovecraftian Eldritch Abominations. Euron and the Ironborn are a (rather pathetic) sideshow, tossed into the mix for the same reason time travel elements were tossed into Bran's story - because GRRM decided to add a little bit of everything. Both were probably mistakes. If Cthulu shows up, he'll just get sent back to bed.
39 minutes ago, Jabar of House Titan said:
Sansa's Closet in Feast suggests a marriage to Patrek Mallister. That blue and silver dress would look great on her. A political marriage, like her mother's. She's in love with the Hound, who will of course die heroically.
Bats are the sigil of House Whent, which was the House of her maternal grandmother. The CotF cave had a ton of giant cave bat skeletons hanging in it.
House Tyrell. Although the CotF Earth Singers seem to understand the idea of balance. For life to have a chance, no single element can dominate. That's what the Old Gods religion is about.
The Last hero was a Dayne. The proto-Starks and the proto-Others were one and the same. The Last Hero convinced Brandon the Builder to turn his cloak.
Jon's role as The Prince Who Was Promised is not to defeat the Others. That will be a byproduct of his actions. His job is to take that vast concentration of fire magic still hovering around Valyria and that vast concentration of Ice magic in the North and get them to cancel each other out. That will heal the planet and restore the seasons to normal.
Mooncalf
On 2/15/2019 at 10:00 AM, Endymion I Targaryen said:
What I think would be cool is if the first Bran chapter is him watching an trying to manipulate whatever goes on with Theon and Stannis in front of the heart tree they mention at the end of Theon's preview chapter. Now I don't think all the magic in the world could stop Stannis from beheading someone he wants to kill, nor do I think Bran has the means to do so, but it'd be interesting to see this go down from Bran's viewpoint.
We got the good outcome from Theon's perspective when he sees Bran's face and decides to do help rescue Jeyne. now we could get a different outcome from Bran's viewpoint were at the most, he could give Theon closure before he dies.
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Max points for Max Fewtrell at Hockenheim
At the conclusion of a very eventful race, Max Fewtrell (R-ace GP) takes his third consecutive win in the Formula Renault Eurocup. The British member of the Renault Sport Academy claims his sixth success of the season ahead of rookie Oscar Piastri (Arden Motorsport) and Yifei Ye (Josef Kaufmann Racing) and extends his lead over Yifei Ye and Christian Lundgaard (MP Motorsport) heading to the Barcelona season finale.
Lundgaard claims his third pole of the season
Despite overnight showers, the Group B drivers chose to qualify on slick tyres. Late in the session, Max Fewtrell posted the best time ahead of Neil Verhagen (Tech 1 Racing) and Alex Peroni (MP Motorsport), but Group A was quicker under the leadership of Christian Lundgaard, Yifei Ye and Oscar Piastri.
Thanks to his lap of 1:38.080s, Christian Lundgaard took the pole ahead of title rivals, Max Fewtrell and Yifei Ye. Neil Verhagen and Oscar Piastri completed the top five and they were followed by Alex Peroni, Logan Sargeant (R-ace GP), Thomas Maxwell (JD Motorsport), Charles Milesi (R-ace GP) and Victor Martins (R-ace GP).
Group B - Group A - Starting grid
Three on the trot for Fewtrell
Despite strong winds and a few sprinkles, the slick tyres were, once again, the way to go. When the lights went out, Christian Lundgaard held on to the lead, but Max Fewtrell was an immediate threat. Behind them, Yifei Yi held on to third place, while Oscar Piastri got the better of Neil Verhagen.
The start of the race was very hectic. Logan Sargeant overtook Neil Verhagen and Victor Martins for fifth place. On lap eight, Victor Martins saw his titles hopes vanish when his race came to an end in the gravel trap. The safety car was sent out to allow for the French driver’s car to be removed.
While Christian Lundgaard kept Max Fewtrell under control at the restart, the Dane was let down coming out of the hairpin by his driveshaft, on the same wheel he had contact with Victor Martins on Saturday. From there, Max Fewtrell was in the lead, while Oscar Piastri made the most of the confusion in the field to surprise Yifei Ye.
Max Fewtrell went on for the win ahead of Oscar Piastri and Yifei Ye. From 14th on the start grid, Lorenzo Colombo put on an overtaking demonstration in the final laps to move up to fourth place before threatening Yifei Ye. Logan Sargeant was fifth, followed by Neil Verhagen, Thomas Maxwell, Charles Milesi and Eliseo Martinez (AVF by Adrián Vallés), who finished in the points for the first time. Arthur Rougier (Fortec Motorsports) completed the top ten.
Race 1 - Drivers classification - Teams classification
Max Fewtrell (R-ace GP): “It was not an easy race! Something black came out of the exhaust of Christian’s car a few laps before I overtook him. Thankfully, I was able to avoid contact when he slowed down at the exit of the hairpin. These last few weekends have gone really well. We’ve always known that we have the pace and we showed it at the start of the year. At times, we have been unlucky this season. It had cost us a lot of points, but we have never given up and I am delighted with how strong we’ve been since the end of the summer break.”
Oscar Piastri (Arden Motorsport): “The wind gusts made this race very difficult. I think we were all just trying to stay on the track in the final laps! I didn’t get a very good restart, but I caught Logan’s draft before making the most of a small mistake from Yifei and a problem for Christian. This second place finish is a good result to wrap up an excellent weekend. I hope I can reach the highest step on the podium in Barcelona, but my rivals are not going to be easy to beat!”
Yifei Ye (Josef Kaufmann Racing): “This isn‘t the result we were hoping for even though it was hard to manage the wind at the end of the race. After setting the best time in our qualifying group yesterday, we wanted to do the same to get the pole. Unfortunately, I had a problem changing gears in the last corner of my final flying lap. It cost me a tenth of a second and the difference for the pole was 0.022s. It is a shame, but the title still isn’t settled. There are two more races to run and we still have a chance.”
Provisional general classification*
Drivers Points
1. Max Fewtrell (R-ace GP) 251.5
2. Yifei Ye (Josef Kaufmann Racing) 231
3. Christian Lundgaard (MP Motorsport) 215
4. Logan Sargeant (R-ace GP) 175
5. Victor Martins (R-ace GP) 171
*Results subject to confirmation following technical and sporting verifications.
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The automaker, which floated on the London Stock Exchange last year, has been plagued by higher costs as it invests more in its manufacturing plants and expands vehicle offerings. REUTERS | May 15, 2019, 16:19 IST
Aston Martin reported an adjusted operating loss of 2.2 million pounds, compared with a profit of 22 million pounds a year earlier.
Luxury carmaker Aston Martin posted better-than-expected first-quarter revenue on Wednesday as it sold more vehicles in the Americas and China, but higher costs to push expansion led to a loss in the period.
The automaker, which floated on the London Stock Exchange last year, has been plagued by higher costs as it invests more in its manufacturing plants and expands vehicle offerings. It has also tacked on more expenses for contingencies put in place to tackle industry-wide Brexit uncertainties.
"We remain conscious of the challenging external environment in certain of our markets and we have taken this into account in our planning whilst ensuring we do not compromise on delivery," Chief Executive Officer Andy Palmer said while affirming full-year prospects.
The company's third ever report card showed wholesale vehicle sales in China surged 29% in the three months ended March 31, and the Americas jumped 20%, offsetting weakness in the UK and Europe.
"This performance reflects the higher than usual dealer inventory levels at the start of the year, particularly in the UK and Europe given the late December deliveries due to fourth quarter supply chain disruption," the automaker said.
Revenue rose 6% to 196 million pounds ($252.98 million), compared with an company-supplied consensus estimate of 191.4 million pounds.
However, it reported an adjusted operating loss of 2.2 million pounds, compared with a profit of 22 million pounds a year earlier.
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Overview Bulletins, newsletters, and correspondence of the West Virginia Association of College English Teachers. An organization whose purpose is to facilitate communication between its membership keeping them informed of teaching and publication activities of fellow members. There are also conference presentations which are mainly drafts of upcoming articles for publication. Prominent among these is "Trousered Apes" by Duncan Williams of Marshall University. This essay, later published as a book,...
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West Virginia State Board of Control, Correspondence
Overview Correspondence of the West Virginia State Board of Control, which was responsible for all state correctional institutions, educational institutions, and hospitals from 1909 to 1949. Individuals serving on the three-man board at various times were John S. Lakin, J.W. Barnes, J.A. Chambers, J.S. Darst, Edgar B. Stewart, J.Z. Terrell, W.R. Thurmond, John B. White, and F.W. McCullough. State institutions covered in the correspondence are Bluefield State College; Berkeley Springs Sanitarium;...
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Every year, Bay Nature Institute selects three people whose extraordinary work on behalf of conservation and environmental education in the Bay Area warrants special recognition and appreciation. This year’s Local Hero for Youth Engagement is Javier Ochoa Reyes, project coordinator of Groundwork Richmond. This award recognizes an individual, 25 years old or younger, who is making significant contributions in the fields of natural history, stewardship of the natural world, conservation action, and/or environmental education.
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Youth Engagement award winner Javier Ochoa Reyes. Photo: JO Reyes
Javier Ochoa Reyes is a binational Mexican-American who was born in San Pablo, CA to parents who had immigrated from Mexico several years earlier. When he was five years old, the family returned to their small hometown village in Mexico. In 2008, when he turned 16, Javier decided to return to California on his own in search of a better education and greater opportunities. As a student at Richmond High, Javier signed up to be tutored as part of the Straight Talk on Prison (S.T.O.P.) program and eventually became a tutor in the program himself. Through his work with S.T.O.P., Javier came into contact with several local environmental initiatives. One was the Sunshine Organics community gardening project, a public-private partnership that helps youth in Richmond learn how to grow healthy food. Another was Groundwork Richmond, which recruits and trains teens to work on projects benefitting the community, such as the Richmond Greenway, a 3.5 mile long trail that is bringing nature back into the heart of this East Bay city. For two years, Javier brought teens from S.T.O.P. to work on the Greenway. Impressed by his leadership, Groundwork Richmond hired this charismatic and dedicated young man to be its program coordinator. Now Javier is responsible for partnering with a range of community youth groups to restore two segments of the Greenway in east Richmond, clearing away brush and trash, planting trees, and creating miniparks.
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Anthony Cummings looks to youth in Qld
May 12, 2019 12:53 pm. by AAP
Trainer Anthony Cummings will turn his attention to Brisbane with some promising young horses.
Having decided to spell emerging star Libertini and sprinter Baller, Anthony Cummings will rely on a small team of young, progressive horses to fly the flag for his stable during the winter carnival in Brisbane.
Libertini franked her promise with an impressive win in Saturday’s Listed Woodlands Stakes at Scone and will now be set for the Princess Series and the Group One Flight Stakes in spring.
Baller had been among nominations for Saturday’s Doomben 10,000 won by The Bostonian but Cummings pulled up stumps on his winter plans after the horse produced an average gallop at trackwork.
He is hoping the colt can instead return in the spring and stake his claims for a spot in The Everest.
In the interim, Cummings will put his faith in a trio of up-and-coming horses, including Agassi who is slated for a start in the Group Three Fred Best Classic (1400m) at Eagle Farm on May 25.
A son of Pierro, Agassi has won two of his nine starts and was a last-start second to Fuchu on the Kensington track on May 4.
Cummings is weighing up several options for the three-year-old, including a tilt at next month’s Group One Stradbroke Handicap.
“He’ll go for the Fred Best and then either the Stradbroke or the Guineas,” Cummings said.
“The Fred Best will probably determine where we go.”
Two-year-old Prince Fawaz has also earned a trip north after an eye-catching third to Autocratic at Newcastle midweek when he stormed home from the rear.
Before that he finished fifth to Castelvecchio in the Group One Champagne Stakes at just his second start and Cummings is keen to give the colt another shot at the top level.
“He’ll have another run in Sydney and then go there for the Atkins,” Cummings said.
While Prince Fawaz was luckless at Newcastle, stablemate Constellations produced an impressive turn of foot to score a stylish maiden win on the same program
A daughter of Fastnet Rock, the four-year-old was having just her second start and Cummings rates her highly enough to consider a trip north for the back-end of the winter features, nominating the Gai Waterhouse Classic (1500m) at Ipswich in June as a possible target.
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Snap gaming platform on the way now that Facebook has copied everything else
Andy Meek @aemeek
The parent company of Snapchat is working on something new, along the lines of this AR “game” I’ve swiped across a few different lenses in the app to get to — past the morbidly obese cat dancing to some jams, past the lens that gives me a goatee. It’s one of those games to the far left in the app, this one having me “tap” on falling animated water bottles to keep them from polluting a beach.
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After getting mercilessly hammered by its much larger competition that’s copied the app’s key features with abandon, Snap Inc. is getting ready to launch a gaming platform inside the app. That’s according to a report in The Information, which says the platform coming this fall will let outside developers create games to play in the app and that the company has already lined up at least one gaming publisher to participate.
This is reportedly an attempt for Snap to finally put some distance between it and especially Instagram, which has surged past 1 billion users thanks in part to a seamless integration of the Stories idea that Snap pioneered.
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The report in The Information also makes note of Snap CEO Evan Spiegel’s admiration for Tencent, the business model of which sees the Chinese multinational score almost 40 percent of its revenue from WeChat in-game purchases.
Wall Street didn’t seem too impressed by the news of the coming platform today, as Snap’s share price of $12.96 rose about 1 percent this morning on the news but is still not trading very high above the stock’s 52-week low of $10.50.
Zuckerberg & Co. will no doubt be watching this closely, as many of the better features that have materialized in the FB empire lately have been inspired by Snap. (To be sure, you can already play short games inside something like FB Messenger.)
As noted, such as with the water bottle experience, Snap has also already been dipping its toes into the world of simple AR games called Snappables. They tend to incorporate Snap’s camera in a way that makes you, say, raise your eyebrows a certain number of times or fast enough to accomplish a task. You do that, and then you can also challenge a friend to do the same.
Per TechCrunch, “Snap simply seems to be striving to be the app that’s home to several of these experiences. This is an advantage Snapchat still seems to hold over Facebook and Instagram’s in-app cameras, which anecdotally don’t seem to be used very heavily by users, though the companies have not released usage numbers.”
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Christopher C. Sellers
Crabgrass Crucible
Suburban Nature and the Rise of Environmentalism in Twentieth-Century America
Author: Christopher C. Sellers
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Although suburb-building created major environmental problems, Christopher Sellers demonstrates that the environmental movement originated within suburbs--not just in response to unchecked urban sprawl. Drawn to the countryside as early as the late nineteenth century, new suburbanites turned to taming the wildness of their surroundings. They cultivated a fondness for the natural world around them, and in the decades that followed, they became sensitized to potential threats. Sellers shows how the philosophy, science, and emotions that catalyzed the environmental movement sprang directly from suburbanites' lives and their ideas about nature, as well as the unique ecology of the neighborhoods in which they dwelt. Sellers focuses on the spreading edges of New York and Los Angeles over the middle of the twentieth century to create an intimate portrait of what it was like to live amid suburban nature. As suburbanites learned about their land, became aware of pollution, and saw the forests shrinking around them, the vulnerability of both their bodies and their homes became apparent. Worries crossed lines of class and race and necessitated new ways of thinking and acting, Sellers argues, concluding that suburb-dwellers, through the knowledge and politics they forged, deserve much of the credit for inventing modern environmentalism.
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Health figures centrally in late twentieth-century environmental activism. There are many competing claims about the health of ecosystems, the health of the planet, and the health of humans, yet there is little agreement among the likes of D.C. lobbyists, grassroots organizers, eco-anarchist collectives, and science-based advocacy organizations about whose health matters most, or what health even means. In this book, Jennifer Thomson untangles the complex web of political, social, and intellectual developments that gave rise to the multiplicity of claims and concerns about environmental health. Thomson traces four strands of activism from the 1970s to the present: the environmental lobby, environmental justice groups, radical environmentalism and bioregionalism, and climate justice activism. By focusing on health, environmentalists were empowered to intervene in the rise of neoliberalism, the erosion of the regulatory state, and the decimation of mass-based progressive politics. Yet, as this book reveals, an individualist definition of health ultimately won out over more communal understandings. Considering this turn from collective solidarity toward individual health helps explain the near paralysis of collective action in the face of planetary disaster.
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Smarter Growth
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Author: John H. Spiers
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Suburban sprawl has been the prevailing feature—and double-edged sword—of metropolitan America's growth and development since 1945. The construction of homes, businesses, and highways that were signs of the nation's economic prosperity also eroded the presence of agriculture and polluted the environment. This in turn provoked fierce activism from an array of local, state, and national environmental groups seeking to influence planning and policy. Many places can lay claim to these twin legacies of sprawl and the attendant efforts to curb its impact, but, according to John H. Spiers, metropolitan Washington, D.C., in particular, laid the foundations for a smart growth movement that blossomed in the late twentieth century. In Smarter Growth, Spiers argues that civic and social activists played a key role in pushing state and local officials to address the environmental and fiscal costs of growth. Drawing on case studies including the Potomac River's cleanup, local development projects, and agricultural preservation, he identifies two periods of heightened environmental consciousness in the early to mid-1970s and the late 1990s that resulted in stronger development regulations and land preservation across much of metropolitan Washington. Smarter Growth offers a fresh understanding of environmental politics in metropolitan America, giving careful attention to the differences between rural, suburban, and urban communities and demonstrating how public officials and their constituents engaged in an ongoing dialogue that positioned environmental protection as an increasingly important facet of metropolitan development over the past four decades. It reveals that federal policies were only one part of a larger decision-making process—and not always for the benefit of the environment. Finally, it underscores the continued importance of grassroots activists for pursuing growth that is environmentally, fiscally, and socially equitable—in a word, smarter.
Lily Geismer
Don't Blame Us
Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party
Author: Lily Geismer
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Don't Blame Us traces the reorientation of modern liberalism and the Democratic Party away from their roots in labor union halls of northern cities to white-collar professionals in postindustrial high-tech suburbs, and casts new light on the importance of suburban liberalism in modern American political culture. Focusing on the suburbs along the high-tech corridor of Route 128 around Boston, Lily Geismer challenges conventional scholarly assessments of Massachusetts exceptionalism, the decline of liberalism, and suburban politics in the wake of the rise of the New Right and the Reagan Revolution in the 1970s and 1980s. Although only a small portion of the population, knowledge professionals in Massachusetts and elsewhere have come to wield tremendous political leverage and power. By probing the possibilities and limitations of these suburban liberals, this rich and nuanced account shows that—far from being an exception to national trends—the suburbs of Massachusetts offer a model for understanding national political realignment and suburban politics in the second half of the twentieth century.
Andrew C. Isenberg
The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History
Author: Andrew C. Isenberg
The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences. With the current trend towards internationalizing history, environmental history is perhaps the quintessential approach to studying subjects outside the nation-state model, with pollution, global warming, and other issues affecting the earth not stopping at national borders. With 25 essays, this Handbook is global in scope and innovative in organization, looking at the field thematically through such categories as climate, disease, oceans, the body, energy, consumerism, and international relations.
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Southeastern Geographer
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Table of Contents for Volume 53, Number 2 (Summer 2013) Cover Art Sleeping Kudzu J. O. Joby Bass Introduction to Southeastern Geographer, Volume 53, Number 2 David M. Cochran and Carl A. Reese Part I: Papers Recovering Destination from Devastation: Tourism, Image, and Economy Along the Hurricane Coasts Ronald L. Schumann, III Foreign-born Latino Labor Market Concentration in Six Metropolitan Areas in the U.S. South Sara Gleave and Qingfang Wang Downstream Trends in Grain Size, Angularity, and Sorting of Channel-Bed and Bank Deposits in a Coastal Plain Sand-Bed River: the Pascagoula River System, Mississippi, USA Zachary A. Musselman and Allison M. Tarbox Displacement and the Racial State in Olympic Atlanta, 1990–1996 Seth Gustafson Pentagon Contracts and Dixie Barney Warf Part II: Reviews Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades Laura A. Ogden Reviewed by Scott H. Markwith Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi Timothy R. Pauketat Reviewed by William I. Woods
Colin Fisher
Nature, Recreation, and the Working Class in Industrial Chicago
Author: Colin Fisher
In early twentieth-century America, affluent city-dwellers made a habit of venturing out of doors and vacationing in resorts and national parks. Yet the rich and the privileged were not the only ones who sought respite in nature. In this pathbreaking book, historian Colin Fisher demonstrates that working-class white immigrants and African Americans in rapidly industrializing Chicago also fled the urban environment during their scarce leisure time. If they had the means, they traveled to wilderness parks just past the city limits as well as to rural resorts in Wisconsin and Michigan. But lacking time and money, they most often sought out nature within the city itself--at urban parks and commercial groves, along the Lake Michigan shore, even in vacant lots. Chicagoans enjoyed a variety of outdoor recreational activities in these green spaces, and they used them to forge ethnic and working-class community. While narrating a crucial era in the history of Chicago's urban development, Fisher makes important interventions in debates about working-class leisure, the history of urban parks, environmental justice, the African American experience, immigration history, and the cultural history of nature.
Nancy C. Unger
Beyond Nature's Housekeepers
American Women in Environmental History
Author: Nancy C. Unger
From pre-Columbian times to the environmental justice movements of the present, women and men frequently responded to the environment and environmental issues in profoundly different ways. Although both environmental history and women's history are flourishing fields, explorations of the synergy produced by the interplay between environment and sex, sexuality, and gender are just beginning. Offering more than biographies of great women in environmental history, Beyond Nature's Housekeepers examines the intersections that shaped women's unique environmental concerns and activism and that framed the way the larger culture responded. Women featured include Native Americans, colonists, enslaved field workers, pioneers, homemakers, municipal housekeepers, immigrants, hunters, nature writers, soil conservationists, scientists, migrant laborers, nuclear protestors, and environmental justice activists. As women, they fared, thought, and acted in ways complicated by social, political, and economic norms, as well as issues of sexuality and childbearing. Nancy C. Unger reveals how women have played a unique role, for better and sometimes for worse, in the shaping of the American environment.
David Stradling
Where the River Burned
Carl Stokes and the Struggle to Save Cleveland
Author: David Stradling
Publisher: Cornell University Press
In the 1960s, Cleveland suffered through racial violence, spiking crime rates, and a shrinking tax base, as the city lost jobs and population. Rats infested an expanding and decaying ghetto, Lake Erie appeared to be dying, and dangerous air pollution hung over the city. Such was the urban crisis in the "Mistake on the Lake." When the Cuyahoga River caught fire in the summer of 1969, the city was at its nadir, polluted and impoverished, struggling to set a new course. The burning river became the emblem of all that was wrong with the urban environment in Cleveland and in all of industrial America. Carl Stokes, the first African American mayor of a major U.S. city, had come into office in Cleveland a year earlier with energy and ideas. He surrounded himself with a talented staff, and his administration set new policies to combat pollution, improve housing, provide recreational opportunities, and spark downtown development. In Where the River Burned, David Stradling and Richard Stradling describe Cleveland's nascent transition from polluted industrial city to viable service city during the Stokes administration. The story culminates with the first Earth Day in 1970, when broad citizen engagement marked a new commitment to the creation of a cleaner, more healthful and appealing city. Although concerned primarily with addressing poverty and inequality, Stokes understood that the transition from industrial city to service city required massive investments in the urban landscape. Stokes adopted ecological thinking that emphasized the connectedness of social and environmental problems and the need for regional solutions. He served two terms as mayor, but during his four years in office Cleveland's progress fell well short of his administration’s goals. Although he was acutely aware of the persistent racial and political boundaries that held back his city, Stokes was in many ways ahead of his time in his vision for Cleveland and a more livable urban America.
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Buffalo Jump Blues
In the fifth novel in the Sean Stranahan mystery series, Montana's favorite fly fisherman-detective tackles a case of lost love, murder, and wildlife politics. Cold Hearted River, the sixth in the series, is now available.
“Keith McCafferty is a top-notch, first-rate, can’t-miss novelist.”
—C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author
In the wake of Fourth of July fireworks in Montana’s Madison Valley, Hyalite County sheriff Martha Ettinger and Deputy Sheriff Harold Little Feather investigate a horrific scene at the Palisades cliffs, where a herd of bison have fallen to their deaths. Victims of blind panic caused by the pyrotechnics, or a ritualistic hunting practice dating back thousands of years? The person who would know is beyond asking, an Indian man found dead among the bison, his leg pierced by an arrow.
Farther up the valley, fly fisherman, painter, and sometime private detective Sean Stranahan has been hired by the beautiful Ida Evening Star, a Chippewa Cree woman who moonlights as a mermaid at the Trout Tails Bar & Grill, to find her old flame, John Running Boy. The cases seem unrelated—until Sean’s search leads him right to the brink of the buffalo jump. With unforgettable characters and written with Spur Award Winner Keith McCafferty's signature grace and wry humor, Buffalo Jump Blues weaves a gripping tale of murder, wildlife politics, and lost love.
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At the start of McCafferty's absorbing fifth Montana-set Sean Stranahan mystery (after 2015's Crazy Mountain Kiss), something causes 11 bison to jump off the Palisades cliffs. Nearby, Sheriff Martha Ettinger and Deputy Harold Little Feather discover the corpse of a Native American man who was disemboweled, shot with an arrow, and left to die. Down at the local mermaid bar, performer Ida Evening Star hires fly-fishing private eye Stranahan to track down her childhood sweetheart, John Running Boy, whom she thinks may be in town. The cases intersect, and the investigators join forces when it's determined the bison were driven to their deaths during a reenactment of an ancient hunting ritual in which Running Boy likely participated. Nuanced relationships, nontraditional heroes, and a strong sense of place offset two-dimensional antagonists with murky motives. McCafferty's entertaining tale, which shines a light on the government's slaughter of migrating bison, is sure to please advocates for change in current U.S. wildlife management policy.
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Well worth the wait.
At times this author approaches lyrical, and I was reminded how I feel reading Conroy.
It has been a while since I read all night, but I couldn't put this one down. I hope Stranahan and The Club return soon.
More Books by Keith McCafferty
The Royal Wulff Murders
The Gray Ghost Murders
Dead Man's Fancy
Crazy Mountain Kiss
Cold Hearted River
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The Jains
Paul Dundas
Routledge, 2002 - Religion - 354 pages
The Indian religion of Jainism, whose central tenet involves non-violence to all creatures, is one of the world's oldest and least-understood faiths. Dundas looks at Jainism in its social and doctrinal context, explaining its history, sects, scriptures and ritual, and describing how the Jains have, over 2500 years, defined themselves as a unique religious community. This revised and expanded edition takes account of new research into Jainism.
If mahavira is the last thithankara, (corresponding to time of buddha), and in jainism there were 24 thithakars who appear average 250 yrs, them jainism goes back in time to abt 6000BC, the firtst thithankara, Rishaba, sounds like siva, means siva? Or jainism is way of life of Shaivism
True knowledge of human life.
Jainism though the most ancient religion or rather science of human life is well explained in the book the auther has made sincere effort to introduce to the world the philosophy of Ahimsa which is the source of inspiration to Mahatma Gandhi and almost all the religions on the Indian subcontinent. Sincerely the theory of human life as explained in Jain sutras need advanced research which shall unravel the secrets of human life.
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Marcus Banks
The Oxford Handbook of Religion and Ecology
Roger S. Gottlieb
Paul Dundas is senior lecturer in Sanskrit in the School of Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, specialising in middle Indo-Aryan philology and the Jain religion. He is the author of The Sattasai and its Commentators
Title The Jains
Library of religious beliefs and practices
Author Paul Dundas
Publisher Routledge, 2002
Religion / Jainism
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Why is Taylor Swift on Time's "Silence Breakers" Person of the Year Cover? And why is Rose McGowan not?
Quite a few people are asking this question, e.g., Vox:
Swift does have grounds to appear on the cover: She was at the center of a sexual assault trial this summer that in retrospect seems like a precursor to our current post-Weinstein moment.... In 2013, Taylor Swift was groped by radio DJ David Mueller, who grabbed her butt during a meet-and-greet photo session. Swift told Mueller’s boss, who fired him following an investigation. Mueller then filed a defamation suit against Swift, saying that he never touched her and that she ruined his reputation and cost him his job. So Swift filed a countersuit, claiming assault. She sought — and won — an award of just $1, saying through her lawyer that she wanted to “serve as an example to other women who may resist publicly reliving similar outrageous and humiliating acts."...
Swift’s appearance also raises the specter of those not included on the Time cover who were arguably more central to the #MeToo moment. Rose McGowan, who led the charge against Harvey Weinstein and his associates, is relegated to the interior....
It might have something to do with who was willing to sit for the portrait Time wanted for the cover. Maybe McGowan didn't want to be in that group or didn't like the words Time wanted to use or the strange aesthetics of the cover — with the women all draped in black and looking grim.
Notice that the names of the women do not appear on the cover, and I'm sure that caused many people (including me) to say I know that one's Taylor Swift but who are these other women?
I can see why Time was eager to include the very famous Taylor Swift on the cover. Swift was in the running for Person of the Year in her own right as an individual, and she did very well on Time's poll to find out who readers wanted to see.
I can think of all kinds of things that may have caused McGowan to decline to participate. Maybe she's just angry that the silence-breaking has taken so long. Why didn't Time Magazine apply its journalistic resources to breaking the silence itself long ago? Now that others have done the work, Time wants to reap rewards from doing its traditional end-of-the-year cover. I can see resisting that.
But let's see what Rose McGowan herself may be saying. Ah!
Ronan Farrow. Investigator of the Year. Writer of the Year. #MyTime
— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) December 7, 2017
She thought Ronan Farrow deserved it. That's something many of you were saying in the comments to yesterday's post about the Person of the Year:
I guess it would kind of mess up the narrative if they named Ronan Farrow.
It should be Ronan Farrow. Would any of this have broken without him?
Lucien said...
Agreed - it should have been Ronan Farrow. These women have been silent for many years and would have gone on being silent if not for him.
"It should be Ronan Farrow. Would any of this have broken without him?"
No, embodying the story in the person of a privileged white male would lead to criticisms that I don't think Farrow would even want. In fact, I believe that if they contacted him about being the person, he would have said no, focus on the women (they're the ones with the courage, they're the ones who suffered).
Tank said...
No, embodying the story in the person of a privileged white male...
You mean the guy who did the hard work, him? No, can't be him.
"No, embodying the story in the person of a privileged white male would lead to criticisms that I don't think Farrow would even want. In fact, I believe that if they contacted him about being the person, he would have said no, focus on the women (they're the ones with the courage, they're the ones who suffered)."
I agree with all of this, but I want to point out how false media generally is. Ronan Farrow is objectively deserving of huge accolades for this. (Much to the embarrassment of certain media outlets forced to chase the story after him.)
Tags: defamation, Freeman Hunt, journalism, Lucien (the commenter), Ronan Farrow, Rose McGowan, Tank, Taylor Swift, Time Magazine, William (the commenter)
Which one is Taylor Swift?
Why no Rose McGowan? Might as well ask why Norway has no statues of Vidkun Quisling.
Maybe McGowan didn't... like... the strange aesthetics of the cover — with the women all draped in black and looking grim.
Yeah, what is that they're all wearing, bath robes? Are we having a business meeting in their hotel room?
I don't know that much about her but I get the sense that Rose McGowan is kind of flaky. Precisely. A well balanced woman who was able to weigh the consequences would never have raised such a stink. That's why its important to have privileged white males around. They act out their grievances in sane, reasonable ways. They're much more credible than the average rape victim. Taylor Swift in her way is a honorary white male, except that she's more privileged.
Whose elbow is that in the bottom-right corner?
Why not Juanita Broaddrick, Kathleen Willey, et al.
#TooLateTime
That's the worst photograph of Taylor Swift I ever have seen.
james james said...
"Silence Breakers" is too close to a Fart Joke for something like The Reckoning in the Era of That's Not Funny.
- james james
Assrat said...
I'd argue this is an argument in favor of giving it to Farrow.
You can't put all the women and men on the cover. There's hundreds.
The sane,responsible way of handling a rape by Harvey Weinstein is to claim it never happened or that you pushed him off. Jennifer Lawrence claims that Harvey's interest in her was strictly paternal. Gwyneth Paltrow says that she resisted his advances but continued to work with him. Both women are saner and far more successful than Rose McGowan, and no honorable man would ever doubt their word.
I'm glad I went and looked at the original article before commenting on the paragraphs Ann excerpted here.
Ann, I'd like to suggest that, when you skip over entire paragraphs in a block quote, you put the relevant ellipses on a line all by themselves:
Excerpted Paragraph One
Excerpted Paragraph Two
Makes it more clear that the original author didn't intend for the two paragraphs to follow one after the other.
Just my two cents. :)
Took a look at Rose recently. Um...it might have been a purely aesthetic choice.
So Ms. Althouse...no man can now be given credit for anything, is that what we can consider for the future? It is a zero tolerance policy for all men now?
This does not bode well. And that you give it even tacit traction...shame on you.
Frankly, half these ladies passed any statute of limitations criminally, arguably profited from 'giving out the goodies' way back then and now seek to profit from it yet again.
To wit, they are punishing (arguably all) men for their lack of courage or character of years ago.
So I have an extra reason to ignore Times.
"Makes it more clear that the original author didn't intend for the two paragraphs to follow one after the other."
Thanks, but I'm not going to do that. That's not the convention in legal writing and not the convention on this blog in 13 years of writing. I don't like seeing things excessively spaced out and I often close up paragraph breaks. It's an aesthetic preference. And sometimes I like to put things closer together than the author intended. As long as I show that there's something left out, it's not dishonest. Sometimes the original has put things farther apart to make it harder to see connections, and that's manipulative in a different way. I cop to being manipulative: I am trying to show people things. Look closer at this. See this next to this. I mean to do that.
"women all draped in black and looking grim." Just to make it very, very clear, as you've stated, that this is the age of That's Not Funny.
@FIDO:"no man can now be given credit for anything . . . It is a zero tolerance policy for all men now?" Correct. Because "criticisms."
Apparently, putting men down is the only way to achieve equality between men and women.
Where was the discussion of whether this was a public problem.
BADuBois said...
Why is Ashley Judd there? She had a chance at the March on Washington to speak out about Weinstein, but instead she went on a weird poetry slam... hating on Trump, calling him a man who bathes in Cheeto dust.
True bravery would have been taking *that* moment in the sun to speak about Weinstein.
jerpod said...
“Ann, I'd like to suggest that, when you skip over entire paragraphs in a block quote, you put the relevant ellipses on a line all by themselves.”
No extra lines!
Mac McConnell said...
Rose might not be included because she took Weinstein's $100,000.
The photographer thought s(he) needed a blonde.
Caroline Walker said...
I still have a yuuuge problem with equivalence between some guy with wandering hands and another guy who locks you in a room and strips nekkid.
have any of you people seen what passes for dancing in high school these days? Girls dressed like porn stars, twerking and "presenting" posteriors; boys thrusting and grabbing.
By all means let's have a cultural "moment" to reconsider; but it will have to include reviving the concept of modesty & chastity among women, as well, or it's bogus.
@Althouse, did you mean to create a tag for Rose McGowan and instead create a tag for George McGovern? Something I just noticed.
The setting makes it look as though they're still in the shadows. I thought the whole point was that they're out of the shadows.
It's been pointed out elsewhere that Gretchen Carlson should perhaps be there as one of the first, having taken down Roger Ailes, which led to Bill O'Reilly which likely led to all this.
"Whose elbow is that in the bottom-right corner?"
The elbow is a stand-in for all the unpictured women and those who have yet to come forward.
A woman who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.
Taylor Swift is a hugely successful and famous pop star with loads of money. She "stood up" to a moron DJ. The guy is scum and deserved what happened to him, but it didn't take huge amounts of courage for Swift to squash him like the bug he is.
Lesson: Don't piss of people with more money and lawyers than a lot of small countries by taking indecent liberties with them.
This conflicting edits thing is getting beyond annoying.
Celebrate the Year of The Feeble, Enabling Victim of Not Much.
The Swift was an airplane that tended to spin at low speed, unfortunately made by Globe and not Taylor.
Why does it exclude male "silence breakers", victims and reporters?
The cover is objectively sexist. Not very diverse in the progressive sense. Perhaps this is Time's effort to resuscitate the feminist mystique after decades of exploiting women, men, children, and babies, too.
How much would you require to allow me to grab your butt? Asking for a friend.
No, I'm serious. How much. He's got money, and he's rich and famous. One second, that's all he wants.
Would that question offend you or make you feel kinda good?
My lady thinks it's all about power. I disagreed, but now have evolved. I think it different for each side. For the man, it is about sex, but for the woman, it's about feeling powerless. Just like my lady and I, they are communicating on different terms.
George Grady said...
This is true. If they don't punch you back, you aren't really punching up.
Lesson: Don't piss of people with more money and lawyers than a lot of small countries.
Gen. Flynn learned that.
If Time named Ronan Person of the Year, they also would have to deal with the uncomfortable fact that they're still giving his dad standing ovations.
@Caroline: "let's have a cultural "moment" to reconsider; but it will have to include reviving the concept of modesty & chastity among women, as well, or it's bogus." That we cannot have. Prog moves are bound to be bogus--i.e., instrumental. They are not about to declare defeat in the culture war. They'll live with the contradiction of having unmoored sexuality from morality while lamenting men's sexual transgressions, the better to exploit it against conservatives in the future. The Reckoning is about restoring the Narrative, not the culture.
Swift isn't as big an issue as Judd. Judd playing the victim card is pure nonsense. I think Time is going to eventually look pretty stupid on that one.
Where's Monica?
...spacing of lines... ...Fight the pressure to put one thing rightnexttoanother... appropriating its meaning...creating false or abitrary associations...
Freedom of association!
If Farrow was the Person of the Year, it puts the spotlight on all the media outlets who failed or refused to follow up and print the story.
No way they want you standing in the checkout line at Whole Foods thinking about that...
Owen is a white space supremacist.
Font Heil!
The all-black outfits are kind of weird and dystopian. I think the dystopian vibe was on purpose. But between the outfits and the institutional gray, it looks like the women are waiting for a police lineup. Not to witness one, but to appear in one.
At least Time had the good sense not to dress them all in red with giant white cowls.
TwilightofLiberty.com said...
Taylor Swift is young and hot (in the 'her career is on fire' sense).
Rose McGowan is old and not.
Ron Winkleheimer: good point about Taylor Swift. Not to knock her action, but it is easy (and smart) to guard (or build) your reputation as a strong un-slut when you have that kind of motivated and effective staff and money to burn.
That DJ picked the wrong target. That said, how does her action "scale" to a wider and less-wealthy population? What about the shopgirl who reads People for its life guidance: who can she sue? Does Swift's move produce useful externalities, or (never mind her spin) is it just a gesture?
@n. n. You are right. There is a big stink going on right now in MA where the Senate President's (Male) husband (male) has been accused of sexual assault on several males. Of course, there's Kevin Spacey's accuser(s) and others. Wouldn't you have been shocked if Time had actually taken a balanced visual approach? The again everyone knows that (female) "sex sells".
The only reason Ronan Farrow isn't on that cover is because TIME wanted to put women there. Because.
And remember these were mostly women who were too cowardly to make the accusation at the time it would have helped others. They waited years for the most part.
Taylor Swift cannot be among this select group of TIME's because a. she is not a victim; b. she did not keep silent about her outrage at being groped.
Interestingly, for years Taylor Swift has been regarded as an uptight, white bitch in the music business because a. she has talent; b. she won't Party/Put-out.
Interesting how that has played out.
McGowan is not on the cover, but she has a prominent and striking photo in the article.
Haven't seen the print version yet.
Wilbur said...
I'm with Oso Negro. I wouldn't know Taylor Swift if she walked in my office. I do know her music is largely unlistenable.
"Why is Taylor Swift on Time's "Silence Breakers" Person of the Year Cover? And why is Rose McGowan not?"
Swift is a global pop star with a huge following.
Placing her on the cover is likely to sell quite a few more magazines.
Should have been Ronan Farrow.
As it is, we are honoring people women made a cynical career choice and placed other women at risk, and then changed their minds when it was in their interest to do so.
Which doesn't make them bad people, but it doesn't distinguish them either.
Oh, btb, what about the men who were assaulted or harassed by gay celebs? What about Corey Feldman, who courageously tried to alert everyone about Kevin Spacey before it was popular to do so? Objectively it is hard to see why his experience was any less meaningful that underage women who were harassed. It seems as if criticism of gays, even if pedophiles who committed assault, is too far for Time, which shines a bright light on Time's hypocrisy
Farrow's story and his doggedness in getting it published after NBC turned it down, were the key to the whole thing. While he does not show the heroism of a fireman running into a burning building, neither is he morally compromised as a careerist, which so many of the women are.
Well, there is another key: the Democratic Party and its media enablers are having a problem getting the Clintons off the stage, and feel less compelled than before November 2016 to sweep all this under the rug for fear it will bring the light back on Bill Clinton's career as a sexual abuser.
Does anyone know the circulation figures for "Time"? It used to be magazines had to print them in an issue once a year due to USPS rules; don't know if that is still the case.
Anyway, I bet the print issue is more of a loss-leader for all this online hoopla.
@Achilles: "TIME wanted to put women there. Because. And remember these were mostly women who were too cowardly to make the accusation at the time it would have helped others. They waited years for the most part."
True but irrelevant. If you glance at the article, you see that this is strictly a play on female sympathy and solidarity, not a Reckoning with cowardice and complicity. It is how the witch hunt will unfold. Progs lost control of the narrative momentarily, but the restoration is in full swing. Women, perhaps AA excepted, will let them.
After half a century of claiming equality and autonomy, women will finally achieve it through stories of weakness and dependence.
"If Time named Ronan Person of the Year, they also would have to deal with the uncomfortable fact that they're still giving his dad standing ovations."
We're absolutely convinced at our house that his dad is Frank Sinatra, not Woody Allen. I mean, just look at him.
Yes. It's important to read the article.
The article is roughly chronological, which is why it leads with Ashley Judd's story about Weinstein.
The most poignant part of the article are the photos of woman who are not stars, but "dishwasher", "strawberry picker", "hotel employee."
The buzz on the right is that the next stage will be entirely homosexual pedophilia.
The target, or nexus, frequently mentioned, is Geffen.
That would put women out of the picture.
On the other hand it would, oddly maybe but it makes sense, not be invested with such hysteria.
There was the case of the Italian model who, the very next day, went to the NYPD to file a complaint. While there, Harvey called her to hit on her again. She arranged to meet him while wearing a wire. She met him and recorded some of his smooth moves. The result: she got negative publicity in the Post and the DA said the charges against Harvey were unprosecutable......Those who criticize these actresses for keeping silent should ponder the example of this woman. The actresses Did not have a winning hand, and both they and Harvey knew it. There was no career enhancing way to make their grievances known, or, in fact, any way at all. Not everyone wants to be a noble martyr or even to have their victimhood known. I'm sure that there are very many women who will take their stories about Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy or MLK to the grave. These are not stories you share with the family.
How about a little perspective, all these women are in the top 10% in being good looking and wealthy and a lot of them are also smart. I wonder what all the average and all the not very attractive women think about these women playing the victim when they've been so blessed. We're living in crazy times. I think it's just another example of our decadence.
>Those who criticize these actresses for keeping silent should ponder the example of this woman.
Yeah, it's easy to judge; when it's your career on the line it's different.
There's got to be a middle ground, especially since there's no way to be sure what really happened.
Rose was in India at least Dec. 1 and 2. It;s possible that she simply wasn't available for the photoshoot.
As far as the Taylor Swift lawsuit goes,
David Baker said...
Taylor Swift is the modern master of self-promotion. Hardly a minute goes by when we don't see a picture of her or mention of her name somewhere.
I think Ms. Althouse is likely correct- had Farrow been offered the designation, he would have turned it down, but he was the catalyst for this, and no one else.
Doug said...
According to Swift, the DJ didn't just put his hand on her ass, he slid it up under her skirt. That's a little more intimate, and harder to claim a "mistake".
She then complained to the DJ's boss, who fired the DJ.
THE DJ then sued for defamation.
She COUNTER-claimed and won. $1.
Obviously she's rich and has hot and cold running lawyers on tap. That said, she does rely on DJs to play her music. If DJs as a community turned against her, it would be very costly.
Why is Swift wearing a neckline that draws attention to her boob?
Gretchen Carlson broke the silence a year ago, before it was a trend. Doesn't she deserve more credit? She filed a lawsuit and a bunch of other women then felt free to break their silence as a result, and it took down one of the most powerful men in news, Roger Ailes.
Not everyone wants to be a noble martyr or even to have their victimhood known. I'm sure that there are very many women who will take their stories about Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy or MLK to the grave. These are not stories you share with the family.
Somewhat surprising none of these bigs seem to get murdered.
McGowan was a fierce fighter that gave no quarter to her enemy. That is taboo for women who are supposed to
Be seekers of peace and harmony.
Nobody liked Joan D’Ark either. If she stood up and beat the powerful men,she made the other women look weak and men
Look useless. That
Was Joan’s status after the win. The cultural Taipans hate that. Think ofKentucky forbidding scheduling Louisville in basketball, or TCU forbidden
Scheduling Texas in football , for decades.
they're the ones with the courage...
A tag like #MeToo doesn't exactly suggest courage.
Better for Farrow to be slightly out of the picture, I think.
I mean, look: it's his story, and everyone knows it's his story. The last thing he needs to do is compete with his own story by taking the focus off of the women.
There will be plenty of time for honors after the story has finished playing out.
McGowan was a fierce fighter that gave no quarter to her enemy
They used to say that a lot about McGowans back in Scotland.
@Althouse, you are a very smart prolific writer, I do not know about your readership but your comment section certainly consists nothing except old dums at the public library, I swear I can smell rum from here, it must be depressing you deserve better
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"Intolerance, theories cut off from reality, empty terminology, usurped ideals, inflexible systems."
"Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe. Of course it’s important to know what’s right and what’s wrong. Individual errors in judgment can usually be corrected. As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form, and continue to thrive. They’re a lost cause, and I don’t want anyone like that coming in here.”
That's a passage from Haruki Murakami's "Kafka on the Shore" that came up today in my relistening to the audiobook. It jumped out at me because it resonated with "America is an idea," Biden's new campaign slogan.
By the way, I was resting in the shade on a hike with Meade. He walked on a difficult path ahead, and I simply waited an hour until he got back. As I was waiting, another woman — whose husband was also going on the difficult path without her — waited in the same shade. We got to talking. She was traveling in America from South Korea, and I talked with her about where she was going, and what traveling in South Korea is like. America is so big, and South Korea quite small. I said I liked traveling within Wisconsin, and ventured the guess that Wisconsin and South Korea are about the same size. That was the substance of our conversation. Then Meade showed up and I introduced him to my new South Korean friend. Meade's first question — said in an expansive, exuberant way — was "So what do South Koreans think of our President?" Without hesitation, she said with enthusiasm, "We love him!" Should one immediately talk to a foreigner about politics? I would have thought no, but it worked out okay... though it was not long at all before she said she didn't concern herself with politics.
By the way, North Korea is an idea.
Juche... is the official state ideology of North Korea, described by the government as "Kim Il-sung's original, brilliant and revolutionary contribution to national and international thought." It postulates that "man is the master of his destiny," that the Korean masses are to act as the "masters of the revolution and construction" and that by becoming self-reliant and strong a nation can achieve true socialism.
Tags: America is an idea, Haruki Murakami, Korea, North Korea
Optimists say the glass is half full; pessimists say the glass is half empty. Engineers say the glass is too big.
- Scott Adams (approx)
The whole world is amazed at Trump's high level of intelligence and cold courage. Where do we get people like that? We get them from the American WASP idea.
gilbar said...
my dad spent about a year in Korea, about 30 miles north of Seoul;
he didn't like it, he said the people were VERY Rude.
But, the people he met were mostly Chinese, and They probably thought my dad was rude too.
Do they still speak of the Wisconsin Idea?
" Reality-- what a concept!!" -- L. Tomlin
America is an idea, but it is an expansive idea (unlike North Korea). The list of things that are American is huge, larger than the imagination of the elites who control our cultural and political institutions. The problem with believing in social progress is that it narrows your vision of what the future can be, and what man can do. The real world don't work that way.
"But intolerant, narrow minds with no imagination are like parasites that transform the host, change form, and continue to thrive. They’re a lost cause, and I don’t want anyone like that coming in here.”
Sounds pretty intolerant to me.
Gender is an idea, too.
Speaking of ideas:
https://saraacarter.com/breaking-fbi-texts-show-agents-discussed-recruiting-white-house-sources-to-spy-for-bureau/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social-pug&fbclid=IwAR1BTxiUx4uV1eISBEtMxnjKgx5RixQDuQTzqdkubW_54PIyUHJb2PlQr2g
The other night I was watching a WW2 era cartoon produced by Disney. It was made in '43 or '44. It talked about all the wonderful things the military was doing to win the war. It didn't mention the atom bomb, but it had a longish segment on supposed "earthquake bombs" the government was working on. The narrator described with glee the effect of the bombs -- buildings collapsed and a firestorm, a true city killer with tens of thousands of dead civilians.
A year or two after the cartoon was released we dropped atomic weapons on a pair of Japanese cities.
This is America. It is as much a part of our DNA as civil rights marches and the Berlin airlift.
stevew said...
"Then Meade showed up and I introduced him to my new South Korean friend. Meade's first question — said in an expansive, exuberant way — was "So what do South Koreans think of our President?"
Did you cringe? Smirk? Adopt a bemused smile?
Of course they love Trump in South Korea, he has so far defused a very unstable situation.
"Korea hangs like a lumpy phallus between the sprawling thighs of Manchuria and the Sea of Japan."
--William Manchester
Kathryn51 said...
".... the Berlin airlift".
My Millennial kids/in-laws don't even know what this is. In their frame of reference, Germany has always been reunited; NAZIs are bad, Hitler was the most evilest/murderous person in the history of mankind; they've heard the names Pol Pot, Mao, Stalin and Lenin but aren't sure if they are bad or good. Actually, they are pretty sure that Stalin was a bad man.
But they DO know that America is unique; America IS exceptional for a variety of historical reasons; and they are willing to go to the Reagan Presidential Library from time to time (if Mom and Dad pay for the trip).
Automatic_Wing said...
Lumpy phallus, eh? Sounds painful.
stephen cooper said...
Of course Koreans generally love Trump.
Thais and Japanese generally love him too.
(I don't know enough Chinese people to have an opinion, and we are just talking about one part of Asia here.
I could go on for paragraph after paragraph, in Russian or English, about what Russians think about Trump, but why should I bother).
He says out loud he wishes we had not gotten into so many wars back in the day.
Koreans and Japanese people understand that, in a non-obvious way.
The Koreans have a complicated history with Americans, about which they feel almost no guilt.
The Japanese have a complicated history with Americans, about which they feel lots of guilt, in some ways, and not so much, in other ways.
Trump is open to discussion on just about anything.
Not saying he is better than other presidents, just saying he is willing to talk things out.
History is a nightmare that is hard to emerge from and it is hard to talk about things.
And Sometimes the people who want to talk about history are unrepentant about having been on the side of the villains in the nightmares.
But they are still, usually, human. It is wrong to dislike someone simply because you happen to have had a nightmare where someone like them was on the side of villains, But it is also wrong not to take that knowledge you have and try - if only in prayer - to make them a better person. Bad people need people to pray for them too. And if you can do that successfully or can do more than that -----
then you are one of God's chosen.
God loves us all of us even the way we are, but loves all of us too much to let us stay that way (that is a quote from the quirky "independent film" Junebug).
A good study of how the American Idea works is the reaction to the threats from a British Army unit that was pacifying South Carolina in Cornwallis's southern campaign of 1780. In September, 1780, Ferguson's 1,000 man British unit was pacifying the areas around Charlotte, NC and sent a written demand for surrender of the "over the Mountains Men which were American militiamen in East Tennessee.
Their response triggered the chain of American Victories that ended in The British surrender at Yorktown. In two weeks the fighting Ulstermen in the area assembled 1,200 riflemen, elected their leaders at a local meeting place and immediately started out in pursuit of the British unit that had just threatened to kill them all.
They caught them. They surrounded them on a hill called King's Mountain and then charged from up the hill from all sides until 400 British were wiped out and 600 surrendered and many hung for their earlier tactics of slaughtering captured Americans.
That event sent Cornwallis into a retreat through the battles of Guilford Courthouse and Cowpens( well portrayed in the Mel Gibson film The Patriot) on to evacuation by ship at Yorktown. But the French Fleet and Army showed up and joined Washington's troops brought down from Pennsylvania and they ENDED the British Empire's attempt to kill free Americans and steal their land.
"America is an idea." This is so old-liberalish. Doesn't Biden know it is a racist and oppressive idea?
It's the fundamental Dem challenge: their base and their leading "intellectuals" despise America, idea and all; but to win they have to persuade enough of the rubes in flyover country that they are patriots of a sort. Of course, Dems have lied about things large and small for years, from Ocare to collusion to Charlottesville. But as Biden is about to illustrate, their very MO is a lie.
Althouse was annoyed at Biden's "demonstrable" and disqualifying lie. Good for her. Will the bigger lies, and the lie-as-MO, turn her away from the Dems for good?
I predict the pull of "women's rights" and "how we imagine law" will keep her close to the fold. Let's call it CBF syndrome.
For the record, Wisconsin is almost twice the size of South Korea. South Korea has ten times the population that Wisconsin has.
I doubt if any other nation than the US would have come up with a working atomic bomb. The Germans never got close, they were more interested in nuclear power than atom bombs. The Japanese had a very small, eccentric program. I believe that they got as far as containing uranium flouride gas, a precursor to enriching uranium. It was not a high priority for them. The Soviets were army-centric, they wanted weapons for their the army, specifically weapons that would support tank and infantry attacks (like short range rockets).
The hated Curtis LeMay (Geo. Wallace's 1968 running mate) did more to stop fascism than all the campus radicals of the 1960s put together. LeMay did it by dropping bombs on them.
That must be a burn.
I had many thoughts and feelings and I tried including some of them in this post. If I were writing a novel, the transition in the conversation that happened on the arrival of Meade could go on for pages. I’ll just say that a lot is done through smiling.
Ya know.....Mr Marakami might be NUTS!!
"Meade leaned in close to the tiny, cowering Korean Girl. His arms were straight down, his hands were tight fists, the veins on his neck stood out. 'SO, WHAT DO SOUTH KOREANS THINK OF OUR PRESIDENT!' he said through clenched teeth.
The Korean girl seemed to become even smaller. She kept her head down, and said in small voice 'We love him, Meade-nim' as she looked desperately for a path to escape."
But Korea before it was occupied it was the joleon kingson for hundreds of years, they had friction with not only Japan, but china.
And goldwater was a pilot over the Himalayas, once of the most treacherous air routes.
@Lewis Wetzel
Nooooo!
Like an anxious bride-to-be answering "YES!!" before Hubby2B can finish proposing,
The Korean woman blurted " WE RUV HIM!!!" before Meade, almost deferential, concluded the question
I was raised on the East Coast and sometimes it feels like travelling all the time just to live in one place in the MidWest. Sometimes Joshua Tree National Park doesn't seem like a stranger place than a winter day in Wisconsin.
Today, my adorable wife of nearly 30 years spent the afternoon helping her parents sift and sort through their home of many years to prepare them for the eventual sale and downsizing that must occur. Assisting was her younger sibling who, for some reason, decided that today was the day he could no longer keep quiet about his hatred for Donald Trump. He began yelling, face twitching and all, about how Trump is a liar, a racist, sexist, and is ruining America. He recounted how he had to “bite his tongue” for all the years when people spoke ill of Obama, (we never let our views of the Obama years be known) but now he can no longer remain silent. He asked my wife what she thought about global warming and scolded her when she questioned the science saying it was the number one threat to humanity. We enjoy the company of her brother and his spouse. They are truly great people. Great family. Their kids are super. My wife, to her credit, attempted to defuse the melee by repeatedly saying that we should be able to “talk” about these things and try to see the others points of view. Then they sat down and had a nice lunch. I’m sorta glad I’m in CA for a few more days.
Meade would make an excellent ambassador. Our Man in Seoul.
Korea hangs like a lumpy phallus between the sprawling thighs of Manchuria and the Sea of Japan.
The Korean Peninsula is China's wattle, and China wants its wattle back one day.
America was founded on faith, we cant talk about that, that's theocracy it rebuts Darwin, enterprise it's about envy rebuts Marx and self restraint and deferral, Freud tells us thats repression, so what are we left with.
Here's a fun story.
I work at a remote site. There is a sort of hotel there that I stay stay when I am working: I have a small room, and there is a lounge and dining area for workers like me. The people who take care of the place are housekeepers and cooks. The guy who runs the place is a big local guy. Happiest guy I've ever met, always cheerful, whistling as he works, he genuinely seems to love his job of cleaning bathrooms and making beds for people like me.
Last year I found that he has led a life of tragedy. His brother was a drug addict shacked up with another drug addict. They had a couple of kids together. Then she died of an overdose. A few weeks later the brother hanged himself.
This guy, who makes maybe twice the minimum wage, stepped up and took the kids to raise. Nothing in it for him, he was in his early twenties.
He has no career, no social status, a ton of responsibility he never looked for, and he is the happiest guy I know.
So what is one left with as identity, race ethnicity and gender, but they dont unify in the absence of the former they are corrosive.
I like Trump, me and him were at the same bar in old NYC back in the day, one late Thursday evening, we were both flirting with the hottest girl in the bar, she left with me and not him, he did not even hardly notice, he just started flirting with the second hottest girl in the bar.
The guy is not a liar, no more than most people, anyway, he is definitely not a racist, and he is not sexist, and America is too strong to be ruined by a mere mortal.
The Joseon period was an interesting era. I think when I'm through studying Japanese history [if that ever happens] I'll start on Korean history. The Japanese actually did annex South Korea in the early 20th century but there was never quite the animosity that there was between China and Japan.
Stephen Cooper fantasizes: I like Trump, me and him were at the same bar in old NYC back in the day, one late Thursday evening, we were both flirting with the hottest girl in the bar, she left with me and not him, he did not even hardly notice, he just started flirting with the second hottest girl in the bar.
Sure, Stephen. Trump doesn't drink and certainly never had to pick up girls in a bar. Are you just bored, or what?
Yes I blame autocorrect but it's only recently that I've done a deep dive into Korean history, there a couple of interesting series on Netflix among other places about major figures
Should one immediately talk to a foreigner about politics?
yes, if they are on American soil.
Approach them, assume an official demeanor, and ask them pointed political questions.
Brusquely rifle thru their personal effects, and demand to see requisite identification.
Scan the documents with mock-scrutiny, then abruptly hand them back.
Look intently into their eyes, pause, then with a big, warm smile, say:
"Welcome to the U.S.! Enjoy your stay!!"
Well BIL also said “that wall won’t do shit”
Nes to check in with CNN where Tom Friedman just told Blitzeder...”You’d Better Believe We Need A “High” Border Wall,”
Pigs really do fly, don’t they?
mockturtle ----
or what is the right answer
Very risky to ask a foreigner about US politics as they probably get their info from CNN International. What do Americans know about politics in the UK or Brazil?
Correction: Korea, not South Korea.
The Left’s ideas can drive one to insanity. I recall the story of some guy who jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge because he bought into Gore’s global warming scam.
Do we kill ourselves in 12 years? What happens if AOC is wrong?
So imho that's what extolling that trio of thinkers has done to this country.
Teraz, zostava viera, nadej a laska.
Ale najvacsia znich je laska.
(or what is the right answer)
try that in Trieste.
(that was Slovenian for There are these three, faith hope and charity. and the greatest of these is charity).
I remember, thanks.
Pray for someone tonight that you have not prayed for in a while
My Father-in-Law served at the tail end of the Korean War. Without the US, South Korea spends the last 70 years as an oppressive Commie Hellhole under the boot of the Norks.
Of course, the South Koreans like us.
"America is an idea." I don't take offense at the statement. I don't know whether I'd describe it as a banality or a vacuity, but it's not offensive......I've been re-watching Veep. It's a good show. It dramatizes the thought and care that goes into composing these innocuous slogans. This reminds me of something that Veep's brain trust would come up with.......I can't say that my character declined or improved during the Obama years. I don't think my character has changed much during the last two Trump years either. My character has always been pretty much independent of who the current president is.......The stock market has boomed during the Trump years. That has improved my mood but not my character.
livermoron said...
Tradguy:
I have two ancestors (brothers) who were Overmountain Men fighting against Ferguson. I also have a relative who fought FOR Ferguson.
Of all the men on that mountain that day, only Ferguson himself was British. All the rest were Americans (Colonials for the nit-pickers) either Loyalists to the Crown or Rebels. The 400 uniformed soldiers fighting for the Crown were Americans from New York under Captain DePeyser, also an American.
King's Mountain was the only major battle in the War for Independence where no British troops were involved. The land was laid waste in the Carolinas not just by the troops of Tarleton; it was American-on-American internecine warfare. Farms and crops were burned, families were driven out of their homes, old antagonisms resurfaced and were avenged. More than one tree bore 'strange fruit'. The American Revolution was our first civil war.
The Battle of King's Mountain exemplifies the spirit behind the Second Amendment. Brave and angry farmers and hunters left their families behind during a spate of American Indian predations, gathering their muskets from off their mantelpieces, their rain slickers from the hook on the door, and handfuls of parched corn that they could eat in the saddle... to ride across the mountains and face down and destroy an existential threat.
Oooo-rah!
"He has no career, no social status, a ton of responsibility he never looked for, and he is the happiest guy I know."
What a great guy and a great story! I bet he gets a ton of love from the kids he adopted.
mock:
I have been to South Korea about 8 times. All on business. The South Koreans do not like the Japanese. Part of my role at Sun Micro was to speak about the future of technology - 'futurist'- to audiences all around the world. Setting up a big event in Asia, we chose Seoul as the venue. The Koreans were very wary of allowing the Japanese to attend and the Japanese knew it and segregated themselves throughout the event.
Of course, I have also been in company bars in Japan where some of the hostesses were of Korean heritage. Although born in Japan, they were given 2nd class citizenship and required to carry passports that were different from Original Recipe citizens.
So I guess the feeling is mutual.
The South Koreans do not like the Japanese
Genetically, the Japanese and Koreans are the same people. Japanese are descended from Koreans who pushed the Ainu off the islands. Japan and Korea have had centuries of history of conflict. The term kamikaze comes from a storm that sank a Korean invasion fleet. The Japanese conquest and occupation of Korea in the twentieth century was brutal. Many Korean women were forced to become "comfort women" to Japanese soldiers or were simply outright raped. They have long memories. Don't ever call a Japanese person Korean, or a Korean person Japanese. Huge insults.
America was founded on faith
America was colonized on faith. America was founded on Enlightenment ideals.
So two out of two women who wait in the shadows for an hour whilst their men folk exercise support Trump...
I wonder what the ladies hiking on ahead with your men think... or was it a "Boys Only" trail? ;-)
(Get off your asses and move 'em, ladies! Yep, you two...)
Crazy World said...
That sassy scamp Meade!
I for one am STOKED rocket man is not firing missiles at me tonight, actually read where this little island we live on tested a few of our own.
Reference GARDEN ISLAND NEWS as much as their reporting pretty much blows.
Richard Epstein says three problems with an obstruction of justice charge
1. Trump has no motive for obstruction. He knows there was no collusion.
2. Everything was done in public. He's not trying to conceal anything.
3. Mueller explicitly skips that President has the power to do what he did.
American ideas.
Richard Fagin said...
We don't teach our kids fairy tales any more. That's a shame because some have valuable lessons, an important one being from, "The Emperor's New Clothes."
"The Transition in the Conversation that Happened on the Arrival of Meade" reads like one of Murakami's chapter titles.
Here's one from The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle:
"Culverts and an Absolute Insufficiency of Electricity * May Kasahara's Inquiry into the Nature of Hairpieces"
Those are the things that really frighten me. What I absolutely fear and loathe.
"Only two things scare me. One is nuclear war..."
Speaking of Korea, I recommend Martin Limon's novels based in the 70s and focused on two Army CID investigators, Sueno and Bascom. Those books have generally informed my thinking, right or wrong, about Korea and how it views its American ally.
I think it's possible that the vast majority of the people in the world don't really care about politics. It's why we all end up with such crappy politicians making bad policy.
Althouse's story would be better if the Korean woman was instead a Japanese girl in a schoolgirl skirt and long white socks.
Meade would seem very American to her, and she would Japanese-girl-giggle behind her hand.
"Would you like to buy my bicycle seat?" she would ask, because in Japan the Japanese men were always offering her money for the temporary use of her bicycle seat.
Meade's polite refusal would only make her Japanese-girl-giggle more.
"You are like American Samurai," she would say to him. While peeling a banana with delicate fingertips.
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Tommy Duncan said...
Blogger tcrosse said...
"Do they still speak of the Wisconsin Idea?"
Yes, but only when it provides Democrats with political advantage.
"My Grandfather, he died in the Big War," she would say to Meade.
"A lot of good men died in that Big War," Meade would reply stoically.
"Yes," she would answer. "He was killed by American soldier."
Meade would nod, because an Old-School American understands that sometimes the right words are no words at all.
"There is pride in being killed by big strong American," she would say, her delicate fingertips touching the tip of the peeled banana. "Not like being killed by dirty Korean gangster."
Meade would nod again, because that is what Gary Cooper would've done.
"After the war, my father would work twelve hours a day. He did not have a war to fight, and he wanted to make his father proud."
"Making a respected father proud is deep in the heart of a true man," Meade would reply, sharing an understanding that bridged between cultures like a bridge bridges between two land masses separated by water.
"To bring home a strong true man like you -- my father would be proud of me but never say the words."
Meade nodded, because, again: Gary Cooper.
"Then my father would sadly disown me because you were an American."
"Fathers can possess great wisdom but not always be wise," Meade would say, staring into the middle distance.
"We would have to go to America, and I would have to try to be American Girl."
"To be an American Girl means not having to try to be an American Girl. It just means you need to be you. A girl. In America..."
Why not? Turn about is fair play.
When I visited the "old country," the first thing people would do was to attack me to explain what in the world those crazy Americans were about for them, and it was not easy for me, since I too think you people are passing strange, but I would do the best I could.
Kind of like Kissinger, who as a German born and raised but a longtime resident in the U.S., tried to explain the U.S. to the rest of the world and vice versa as best he could.
Pretty safe to ask an Asian. They get Trump. He gets them.
"Many men, they like the young Japanese girl," the young Japanese girl would say. "They like the schoolgirl skirt and the tall white socks."
"There is more to a woman than just what she wears," Meade would say to the the young Japanese girl in the schoolgirl skirt and the tall white socks.
"It's funny," she would say, after suppressing behind her hand a Japanese-girl-giggle. "You are more American man because you are so very different from so many American men."
"Like the difference between Gary Cooper and John Wayne?" Meade would reply, staring into that great American middle distance.
"Oh, the difference, it is much bigger than THAT," she would whisper, putting the banana to her lips...
Angle-Dyne, Samurai Buzzard said...
AA: Should one immediately talk to a foreigner about politics? I would have thought no...
I don't see a problem with a native asking the foreigner for his opinion. For a foreigner to bang on with his unsolicited opinions is not recommended, however.
Meade is an Idea.
iowan2 said...
Tom Freidman is a White Nationalist, Not very bright, doesn't read. The highlight of his life is when SharkWeek! is airing.
Is Denmark Socialist?
South Koreans love American Strength. Leftists in America are more like Kim Jong Un. Control freaks.
Hemingway at his best.
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"North Korea presented US with $2 million bill for care of Otto Warmbier[the guy who returned in a coma and soon died], but Trump says US didn't pay"
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The universal constant is female self-help books.
Here's a twist thread:
Intolerance: deplorables.
theories cut off from reality: Trump is a danger to America.
empty terminology: racism.
usurped ideals: equality means equal outcomes.
inflexible systems: single-payer, government-run healthcare.
Don't do what Donny Don't does, which lately is acting like a dominationst firmly!
"The Korean people value the independence of the country and nation and, under the pressure of imperialists and dominationsts[sic], have thoroughly implemented the principle of independence, self-reliance and self-defence, defending the country's sovereignty and dignity firmly."
Orange Juche Bad.
Browndog said...
I'm going with "The United States is a country. A sovereign nation."
Well it's more than that, obviously.
Sounds like a direct quoting of any Democrat office holder in Portland, SF, NYC, Seattle, et alia.
"I don't see a problem with a native asking the foreigner for his opinion"
I make it a point never to bring up politics when abroad. If somebody asks me, I usually try to keep the answers as simple and polite as truth will allow. (I'm always asked about American politics. Nobody ever wants to know what I think of local events – probably figuring that I've never heard of them.)
The worst thing is running into other Americans gassing on about American politics.
South Koreans and Japanese are usually very polite in public. So they wouldn't come to the USA and say they hate Trump unless you were a liberal and asked a loaded question like "How do you like our bigoted, racist, Orange Man?" and then they would agree - out of politeness.
And there's no reason for the Koreans to like Japan, anymore then there's reason for the Poles to like the Germans. And Korea and Japan are not "ideas" - they're peoples and they not intention of importing 40 million Zulus and giving them the keys to the country.
Livermoron @ 12:33: Oooo-rah!
Indeed! And I hope that spirit is only dormant, not dead.
Phidippus said...
Japanese schoolgirl fantasies bring out the Laslo in Laslo.
I look forward to the movie version.
Will the naughty bits be pixelated out, Japanese-style? Maybe only in the version for the Japanese market.
It's ironic that given a quote about intolerant narrow-mindedness, the immediate response is to use it as an accusation.
stlcdr said...
Blogger Paco Wové said...
If it comes up, I note how great things are in the US; the economy is doing great, low crime rates, low unemployment, wages are great, people just doing what they want to do.
Of course, they try to bring up Trump. I usually say I like him, he's great, and just point out what I previously said. They say the rest of the world sees him as an awful hateful little man. Just shrug.
It's 'Make America Great Again', not 'Make The World Happy and not Hate You'.
But I’ll bet you have more cows
Heck of a job:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6961389/Biden-campaigns-hires-include-onetime-Harvey-Weinstein-adviser-former-Bernie-spokeswoman.html
And more communists.
Laslo is ideal.
I, Meade
In my experience, the notion that Amurrcans are some uniquely ignorant population about the rest of the world is risible. Ignant we can be, but no more than they can, and the flipside idea that Europeans have some sophisticated understanding of politics that we lack is even stupider.
Before the WABAWTS (1861-1865) the biggest streams of immigration here, and hence the weightiest cultural traditions, were British Isles (esp. Scots-Irish early, Irish later), and German (especially 1840-1870). The so-called WASP is more or less a convenient figment, but they sat atop the uncouth newcomers as well as they could.
Others have already attributed motives, more or less accurate. I like Amy Clampitt: old Europe, "that hodgepodge of ancestral calamities."
The shift to other sources of immigration is also pretty well known, and is inextricable from the development of modern America. (More calamities.)
Of course in the South, mostly, there was the enormous influence of African people on oh, just about everything here. (Calamity at both ends.)
Here's the thing, we shouldn't encourage people to bring the calamities with them.
Fan of the Three B's: Bach, Basie,and Brubeck
Them furriners are a beef-eating people, I would not be so sure.
so the times and the journal, decided to choose today to focus on the mastermind of the easter massacre, but they follow the narrative of finding if not an excuse a rationalization in an event that happened 29 years ago,
Narr sez: Here's the thing, we shouldn't encourage people to bring the calamities with them.
Yes. The immigration officials should make this clear. As in, "Did you bring any calamities with you? Are you sure?" [Searches bags, plucks out two or three obvious calamities and tosses them into the trash]
Mockturtle 7:31 PM
La Migra are overworked already.
Got to watch for the ones that have ah internalized the calamity. There are some tells.
gerry said...
So the men took on the tough path, and the ladies waited in the shade? LOL.
(Sorry, I had to take the bait).
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Tag: Michael Gastauer
Diving into WB21—the company holding $9 million of Quadriga money
A “bitcoin friendly” payment processor with a reputation for accepting bank wires and not actually processing them, is sitting on $12 million CAD ($9 million USD) of Quadriga funds.
WB21 is not showing any sign of wanting to hand over those funds either. That has some Quadriga creditors worried that more of their money has vaporized.
When Quadriga, the largest crypto exchange in Canada, went belly up earlier this year, it owed its customers $250 million CAD ($190 million USD). Two thirds of those funds are in the form of cryptocurrency stuck in cold wallets that only the company’s dead CEO Gerald Cotten held the keys to.
Meanwhile, Ernst and Young (EY), the court-appointed monitor in Quadriga’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA), is trying to round up any funds that remain. EY has contacted nine third-party payment processors that may be holding money on behalf of Quadriga. Two of them, Billerfy/Costodian and 1009926 BC LTD, are in the process of signing over $30 million CAD ($23 million USD).
But according to an affidavit filed by Cotten’s widow Jennifer Robertson on January 31, WB21 has another roughly $9 million CAD and $2.4 million USD “but is refusing to to release the funds or respond to communications from Quadriga.”
After this story was published, Amish Patel, WB21’s global head of litigation, said in an email that the balances stated by Robertson “are not confirmed,” and that the account is “under investigation.” Patel also accused me of defamation and threatened me with legal action if I did not make several updates to my story.
1/4 – WB21 sent me an email accusing me of defamation and threatening me with legal action if I did not immediately make changes to my WB21 article.
My original article: https://t.co/7DFAT1Xird
WB21 full letter: https://t.co/Mr1KVKOR0V
WB21 amended doc: https://t.co/ejVOUFpnvK pic.twitter.com/h1e9VQaY6E
— Amy Castor (@ahcastor) March 6, 2019
So, who is WB21?
WB21 stands for “web bank 21st century.” Launched in Switzerland in late 2015, the company touts itself as a virtual bank that lets you “streamline” opening up a bank account from 180 countries. But it is really a payment processor with a shady past that Quadriga got involved with—another shady business partner, what are the odds?
In June 2016, WB21 announced that it was accepting bitcoin deposits. Send in your bitcoin, and WB21 will credit your account in fiat—though it relies on payment service BitPay to convert the bitcoin to fiat. “The funds are instantly available on the account and can be sent out by wire transfers or spent with a WB21 debit card,” WB21 says.
The startup went on to launch a PR campaign that consisted of mainly, well, making stuff up. After 10 months of doing business, WB21 claimed it had 1 million customers and that it had sent cross-border payments totaling more than $5.2 billion.
Those number don’t really add up, especially when you consider it took Transferwise, one of the biggest London-based fintech companies, four years to get a comparable $4.5 billion in transfer money. Also, as Gruenderszene points out, in September 2016, WB21’s official app had only 100 downloads on Google’s Play Store.
In defense, WB21 CEO Michael Gastauer told Gruenderszene that WB21 doesn’t rely on its mobile app. A few hours after the conversation, Gruenderszene noted that the app disappeared from the store.
Boasting a $2.2 billion valuation, WB21 also claimed that Gastauer sold Apax Group, a previous payments business, for $480 million, and that WB21 turned down a $50 million funding round after Gastauer invested $24 million of his own money. Kadhim Shubber at the Financial Times did some digging and found no evidence of Apax being sold.
Yet Forbes (wait, did Forbes pull that story? Try this link), The Huffington Post and Business Insider all wrote about WB21’s incredible success. Though to its credit, Business Insider later added it was “unable to independently verify these numbers.”
In late 2017, WB21 even got itself in the Wall Street Journal after announcing that it was moving its European head office from London to Berlin after the Brexit vote.
How did WB21, a company spewing so many questionable facts and figures, manage to get all this media coverage? Like another company that we’ve been hearing about lately, the payment processor leveraged the power of social media. WB21 has a Twitter account with 65,000, mostly fake, followers.
Gastauer, a man in his mid-40s who hails from Germany, also appears in an impressive Youtube video at an unheard of “Global Banking Award 2018” event in Frankfurt, where he apparently won the award. Dressed elegantly in a tux, with a fog machine in the background, he gives a speech on the future of banking. “How do you come up with an idea like this?,” he says. “Do you wake up one morning thinking you want to revolutionize an 80 trillion dollar industry?”
But the truth has a way of catching up. In October 2018, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) revealed a civil lawsuit accusing Gastauer of aiding and abetting the fraudulent sale of $165 million USD worth of shares in microcap stocks.
“In reality, WB21 Group was not a registered bank, and Gastauer’s ‘solution’ was actually a circumvention of banking regulations designed to disguise his clients’ [ . . .] identities,” the SEC said.
As it turns out, this was not Gastauer’s first run in with authorities. Writing again for the Financial Times, Shubber notes:
“In 2010, [Gastauer] was given an 18-month suspended sentence by a court in Switzerland for commercial fraud and counterfeiting. Around the same time, a British gambling company sued him in London for allegedly taking millions of pounds from it. He had set up a payments processor, the company claimed, but kept the payments.”
Shubber goes on to comment:
“The story of Mr Gastauer is not just about alleged wrongdoing in the financial markets; it shows how an accused fraudster might sell himself and his fantastical story using the modern tools of the internet age.”
A Google search finds the Internet littered with WB21 customers claiming the company stole their money.
In August 2018, “bitcoinjack” wrote of WB21 on Reddit, “They will accept incoming funds and credit your account but you will never be able to get it out. They will lie about outgoing payments until you give up.”
Consumer review website Trustpilot has a long list of people complaining that WB21 has taken their money and gone silent.
Quadriga customers began having trouble with WB21 about a year ago. They complained on Reddit that their bank wires were either not coming through or delayed. In response, Quadriga covered for WB21, blaming the delays on a bank in Poland that it was using:
“We used WB21 for about a week, but the vast majority of delays related to wires comes from the fact that the intermediary bank that handled CAD wires for the Polish bank cut them off due to the association with Bitcoin. We had to reissue all of these from other payment processors, all manually, which has caused delays.”
(This story was updated on March 5 to include a statement from WB21.)
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Explorer of the Week: Mike Wesch
Cultural anthropologist and media ecologist Mike Wesch examines how the internet has changed communication and relationships today. He addresses questions of anonymity, user generated filtering, participatory culture, and more with various experiments online. As one reviewer exclaimed, “Who knew anthropology could be so much fun?”
What project are you working on now?
I am working on a book about “wonder”—what it is, how to harness it, how to inspire it, why it is on the decline right now, and how to bring it back. Wonder is both a sense of awe and a capacity for contemplation. More than just curiosity, wonder allows us to see beyond the surface of things, to seek patterns, or even better, to question the patterns we have taken for granted. To wonder is to embrace the possibility that we have it all wrong, that the frameworks around which we have built our view of the world might need to change, that the pillars upon which our worldview sit might need readjusting or be destroyed altogether. To wonder is to leave aside our taken-for-granted assumptions, peel away our biases, and contemplate the world beyond our judgments and desires. In wonder, the world invariably reveals itself to us in ways we have never seen it before.
How has being a National Geographic Emerging Explorer helped your work?
Being a National Geographic Emerging Explorer connects me to a broad range of people from many disciplines who share my enthusiasm for “anything goes” question asking, unbridled curiosity, and insatiable wonder. Here were people who, like me, were much less concerned with the disciplines they were from, than by the questions that drove them. Explorers are a truly undisciplined group of folks, harnessing and leveraging tools and perspectives from any and every field, reaching far beyond academia, in pursuit of answers and solutions to big, relevant, and important questions and problems.
What are your favorite and least favorite things about the internet?
My favorite thing about the internet is that it is, quite simply, the world’s most amazing knowledge machine ever created. But, it runs on wonder. Without wonder, it becomes my least favorite thing—the world’s most seductive distraction device.
Out of all your viral videos, like the The Machine is Us/ing Us, Information R/evolution, and An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube, which is your favorite?
I see these videos very differently than other people might. When I watch them I am immediately drawn back into the creative process through which they were created. Watching them is a journey of the spirit, taking me back to those wonderful “aha” moments, as well as the sometimes long and arduous creative struggle. So my favorite is “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube,” because it takes me back to all the raw moments of insight I shared with my students as we were creating it. YouTube was so new and exciting back then, and we really felt like we were exploring a foreign frontier, and the people we encountered there were wonderful. They opened up and shared themselves so deeply.
Watch “An Anthropological Introduction to YouTube”
In addition to the YouTube project we created a heart-warming promotion for K-State Proud, a student organization on our campus that collects donations from students to give money and support to other students when they need it most. Since the organization is all about “students helping students,” we gathered about 100 students, pooled all of our money together, and then ran around doing good deeds for people while capturing it all on video. We handed out money, bought strangers lunch, and even paid for a student’s textbooks. It was kind of like a “flashmob of kindness.” We posted the video on YouTube, it went viral, and several universities were inspired to start their own similar organizations.
Watch “Students Helping Students”
If someone wanted to create a viral video, how would you suggest they proceed?
Step 1. Do not set out to create a viral video.
Step 2. Think. Open yourself up to new ideas and perspectives. A good video always has what we call a “KYHOI”—a “Knock Your Head Off Idea.” These are not easy to come by. If you have one KYHOI in your entire life, you will have one more than most. KYHOIs tend to be found in the spaces between disciplines, so read broadly and always look for connections.
Step 3. Embrace the medium. Video is a different language. You can’t convey the KYHOI in the same way you would in text or by voice.
If you had unlimited funds what project would you work on?
I would probably spend the funds on city infrastructure, health promotion, and other methods to transform our little town of Manhattan, Kansas into the ultimate bicycle-friendly and walkable city and then study the effects of the transformation on sense of place, community, creativity, and wonder.
What do you wish for your students and the future of education?
I used to think of the shift we need to make in education as one in which we move from making our students simply knowledgeable (knowing a bunch of stuff) to being knowledge-able (able to find, sort, analyze, criticize and ultimately create new information and knowledge). But more important than anything is that we must inspire them to wonder. Wonder is the wellspring from which ideas and creativity flow. One could even argue that there is no truly creative act or critical thinking without wonder, for it is only through wonder that we attempt to go beyond what has been said and done
What do you see for the future of the internet and mobile devices?
We are headed for ubiquitous communication, ubiquitous networks, and ubiquitous information about everything everywhere from anywhere on multiple kinds of devices. We are moving beyond the screen to information, communication, and “intelligence” being embedded in door knobs, appliances … almost anything. But the buzzword of the day will no longer be “mobile” or “social media.” The hallmark of our time is the algorithm. Algorithms create the “intelligence” of these devices, and algorithms are proliferating everywhere. They are already involved in over 70% of trades on Wall Street. They help decide which movies we watch, and which movies are created. They don’t *make* movies yet, but they do make music that is so good that even a discerning scholar cannot recognize it as coming from a machine. They are becoming more involved in every aspect of our society, economy, and culture.
If you could trade places with one explorer at National Geographic, who would it be and why?
Do I really only get to pick one? I fell in love with the people of the Pacific when I did my PhD fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, and I love working with video, so trading places with Elizabeth Kapu’uwailani Lindsey and taking on her magnificent travel schedule would be fun, but I also love my students and the sense of place and connectedness I feel living in Manhattan, Kansas.
What do you think National Geographic explorers will be exploring in a hundred years?
Same as today. They will be on the frontier. We just have no idea where that frontier might be, or if it is a “where” at all.
Have you ever been lost? How did you get found?
I once tried to travel between neighboring villages in Papua New Guinea by myself. The villages were about seven miles apart, which in the mountainous terrain of New Guinea is a hard day’s walk. I lost the trail several times, and at one point the path I was on came to a river and just stopped. I assumed that people must cross here, so I grabbed a good strong stick to brace myself against the powerful current of the river. It was all I could do to keep from being swept away. I made it, but barely. When I arrived at the next village they asked me why I was wet. I told them about the river and a look of concerned terror came across their faces. “Ah, you took the dry season road!” they exclaimed. I was lucky to have survived.
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John Legend To Play The Main Character In The Hugely-Acclaimed ‘Jesus Christ Superstar Live In Concert!’
Ashley Mitchell Dec 19, 2017 1:16 PM PDT
Source: etonline.com
It sounds like John Legend has managed to get the role of a lifetime! What an honor! We have learned that the star is set to play Jesus Christ in NBC’s well-acclaimed Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert special.
The show will be airing on Easter Sunday.
Legend released an official statement, saying: ‘I am thrilled to join the cast of the production of Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert. It is such a powerful, meaningful musical and I am humbled to be part of this performance. We have already formed a great team, and, as we finish casting, I am certain we’ll put together some of the greatest talents around to do this work justice.’
The musical is about the last weeks of Jesus’ life and will be produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
The musical first appeared on Broadway back in 1971 and was nominated for no less than five Tony Awards.
The movie adaptation was also nominated for an Oscar.
Chairman of NBC Entertainment, Robert Greenblatt stated that: ‘We are overjoyed to have world-class musical artist and producer John Legend starring as Jesus. This score demands an artist with an amazing range and actor with great depth, and there is not anyone better to bring the story to a new audience. His casting’s also groundbreaking as the traditional image of Christ will be seen in a new way.’
As fans definitely are aware, this is not the first time John Legend has been part of an acting project.
Not only did he star in La La Land last year but he also had roles in Soul Men, Curb our Enthusiasm and Underground.
What do you think about John Legend playing Jesus in the well-acclaimed musical?
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Drawing on campus-wide resources, Duke MBA students can complete either of two MBA concentrations related to Energy & Environment, taking classes not just at Fuqua School of Business but also across graduate schools and departments across campus.
MBA Concentration in Energy & Environment
The Duke MBA E&E concentration enables students to enhance their MBA skillset by gaining specialized expertise in corporate sustainability, environmental management, energy science and policy, cleantech/energy entrepreneurship, carbon markets, environmental law, and other topics. Students pursuing this concentration gain tools for analyzing energy and environmental problems, and develop strategies for business to succeed in an economy in which these issues are increasingly critical. Students also gain personal access to a network of global experts in the domain of energy and the environment, as well as a well-established network of Duke alumni in these sectors.
Daytime MBA — Energy & Environment concentration
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MBA Concentration in Energy Finance
The Duke MBA concentration in Energy Finance enables students to dive deeper into issues of project finance, markets and trading, corporate finance, and risk management, with a grounding in the specifics of global energy markets. Students pursuing this concentration take advanced finance courses as well as classes in energy fundamentals. They also have the opportunity to participate in experiential learning projects as part of the Fuqua Client Consulting Practicum program, participate in a host of extracurricular activities, and gain access to a well-established network of Duke/Fuqua alumni in the energy and finance industries.
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"The Energy & Environment concentration builds depth in an industry domain that will be an exciting focus of innovation in the next few decades. Through coursework that connects the evolution of the energy value chain with current trends and future imperatives, I can assemble a diverse and detailed perspective of the energy field." - Deepak Suryanarayanan, MBA '11
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22 WAYS TO BE A GOOD DEMOCRAT
October 20, 2007 — budsimmons
1. You have to be against capital punishment, but
support abortion on demand.
2. You have to believe that businesses create
oppression and governments create prosperity.
3. You have to believe that guns in the hands of
law-abiding Americans are more of a threat than U.S.
Nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese and
North Korean communists.
4. You have to believe that there was no art before
Federal funding.
5. You have to believe that global temperatures are
less affected by cyclical documented changes in the
earth’s climate and more affected by Soccer moms
driving SUV’s.
6. You have to believe that gender roles are
artificial but being homosexual is natural.
7. You have to believe that the AIDS virus is spread
by a lack of Federal Funding.
8. You have to believe that the same teacher who can’t
teach fourth graders how to read is somehow qualified
to teach those same kids about sex.
9. You have to believe that hunters don’t care about
nature, but loony activists who have never been
outside of San Francisco do.
10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more
important than actually doing something to earn it..
11. You have to believe that Mel Gibson spent $25
million of his own money to make ‘The Passion of the
Christ’ for financial gain only.
12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it
supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the
ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the
13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but
ATM fees are too high.
14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and
Gloria Steinem are more Important to American history
than Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, and A.G..Bell.
15. You have to believe that standardized tests are
racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
16. You have to believe that Hillary Clinton is normal
and is a very nice person.
17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism
hasn’t worked anywhere it’s been tried is because the
right people haven’t been in charge.
18. You have to believe conservatives telling the
truth belong in jail, but a liar and a sex offender
belonged in the White House.
19. You have to believe that homosexual parades
displaying drag, transvestites, and bestiality should
be constitutionally protected, and Manger scenes at
Christmas should be illegal.
20. You have to believe that illegal Democrat Party
funding by the Chinese Government is somehow in the
best interest to the United States.
21. You have to believe that this message is a part of
a vast, right Wing Conspiracy.
22. You have to believe that it’s okay to give Federal
workers the day off on Christmas Day, but it’s not
okay to say ‘Merry Christmas.’
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Islamic Bigotry: The Slaughter of 4,000 Gays
October 2, 2007 — budsimmons
By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | 10/2/2007
At Columbia University on Monday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared: “We don’t have homosexuals like in your country. We don’t have that in our country. We don’t have this phenomenon; I don’t know who’s told you we have it.”
If there were any truth to this – and there is none – it would be because because the Islamic regime in Iran had killed them, since homosexuality can be a capital crime in that country. One notorious case occurred on July 19, 2005, when two teenage boys, Mahmoud Asgari, 14, and Ayaz Marhoni, 16, were hanged in a particularly brutal manner in Iran for the crime of homosexual activity. Although Iranian officials insisted that the death sentence was for the rape of a third boy, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, has said otherwise. But Asgari and Marhoni were not alone. According to the Iranian gay and lesbian rights group Homan, the Iranian government has put to death an estimated 4,000 homosexuals since 1980. According to Scott Long, director of the Human Rights Watch Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program, Iranians who are suspected of being gay commonly face torture. Hossein Alizadeh of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission said Iran gays live with “constant fear of execution and persecution and also social stigma associated with homosexuality.”
This is true not only in Iran, but in all too many areas of the Islamic world. The Qur’an characterizes those who “practice your lusts on men in preference to women” as “transgressing beyond bounds” (7:81). A hadith pronounces “the curse of Allah” upon those who engage in homosexual activity. A contemporary Muslim writer, Shaykh Abdul-Azeez Al-Fawzaan, called homosexuality “one of the most sinful acts known to humankind” and said that it was “evidence of perverted instincts, total collapse of shame and honor, and extreme filthiness of character and soul.”
Legal views on punishment vary. Among the Sunni schools of Islamic jurisprudence (madhahib), the Hanafi school mandates a severe beating for the first offense, and the death penalty for a repeat offender. The Shafi’i school calls for 100 lashes for an unmarried homosexual, death by stoning for a married one. The Hanbali school requires stoning across the board. Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, directed his followers to “kill the one who sodomizes and the one who lets it be done to him” (‘Umdat al-Salik, p17.3).
In many areas these injunctions are still followed. The Islamic Penal Law Against Homosexuals in Iran calls for the death penalty for sodomy and one hundred lashes for lesbianism for the first three offenses, with death for the fourth offense. Homosexuality is a capital offense not only in Iran, but also in Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Yemen and Mauritania. In Malaysia, it can draw a twenty-year prison sentence, and is illegal also in Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bosnia, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Malaysia, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Uzbekistan, among others.
Of course, Afghanistan under the Taliban regime drew international attention for killing gays by toppling walls onto them. Pakistani law mandates two years in prison for homosexual activity, but the traditional Islamic penalties of lashing and stoning are still widely popular. When authorities in the United Arab Emirates arrested twenty-six men whom they accused of participating in a mass gay wedding – with twelve dressed as grooms and twelve as brides, plus a disc jockey and a man who was to perform the wedding ceremony – in November 2005, they announced plans to subject the men not only to lashings and jail time, but also to hormone treatments.
In light of all this, the silence of campus gay rights groups and the so-called “progressive” Left generally about the global efforts by Islamic jihadists to impose Islamic Sharia law is appallingly short-sighted. While they attack Christians, who are not calling for gays to be imprisoned or killed under any circumstances, they say nothing about a genuine threat to their survival. While they attack Israel, a gay-friendly country, they are silent about the murder of gays in Islamic Iran.
The late columnist Cathy Seipp recounted a telling incident in March 2006, when a friend of hers went into San Francisco’s City Lights bookstore and asked for a copy of the late and much-missed Oriana Fallaci’s The Force of Reason. “We don’t carry books by fascists,” sniffed the clerk, prompting Seipp to muse: “Strangest of all is the scenario of such a person disliking an author for defending Western civilization against radical Islam — when one of the first things those poor, persecuted Islamists would do, if they ever (Allah forbid) came to power in the U.S., is crush suspected homosexuals like him beneath walls.”
Robert Spencer is a scholar of Islamic history, theology, and law and the director of Jihad Watch. He is the author of seven books, eight monographs, and hundreds of articles about jihad and Islamic terrorism, including the New York Times Bestsellers The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) and The Truth About Muhammad. His latest book is Religion of Peace?.
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The Islamist Head Fake
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The following is a MUST-READ for anyone who wants to understand how Islamic radicals think and how they have been infiltrating the highest levels of America for years. We’ve highlighted certain segments in red. Please forward this email to everyone you can think of, and direct them to our website, www.americancongressfortruth.com. Thank you!
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http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=275871309181046Homeland Security: When dealing with Muslim leaders, Washington should borrow a page from Ronald Reagan’s Soviet playbook: Trust, but verify. Many aim to deceive us, court evidence shows.
It’s now believed that several leaders of the Muslim establishment in America last decade conspired to infiltrate the U.S. political system, change Middle East policy and gradually Islamize America. [red emphasis added]. At the same time, they hatched a plot to fund overseas terrorists.
Of course, they couldn’t do this out in the open. So they set up benign-sounding nonprofits and charities to “camouflage” their traitorous activities, say U.S. prosecutors who cite wiretap transcripts and other documents uncovered in a criminal probe of the Holy Land Foundation, the largest Muslim charity in America.
During a secret meeting at a Philadelphia hotel, the charity’s president and other prominent Muslim leaders were recorded allegedly plotting ways to disguise payments to Hamas terrorists as charity.
“I swear by Allah that war is deception,” said Shukri Abu-Baker, now on trial in the federal terror-funding case. “We are fighting our enemy with a kind heart. . . . Deceive, camouflage, pretend that you’re leaving while you’re walking that way. Deceive your enemy.” [red emphasis added]
Another participant at the Hamas summit was the founder of the Council on American Islamic-Relations, or CAIR, the largest Muslim civil-rights group in the country and an unindicted co-conspirator in the terror-funding case. [red emphasis added]
Adding to Abu-Baker’s point, Omar Ahmad compared the deception needed to fool the infidels with the head fake in basketball. “He makes a player believe that he is doing this while he does something else,” Ahmad said. “I agree with you. . . . Politics is a completion of war.”
The Islamist head fake has worked all too well over the past decade. Blind acceptance and validation of Muslim leaders with questionable loyalties hardly missed a beat in Washington even after 9/11.
Many were invited to the White House and Congress. The head of the FBI spoke at their conferences, calling them “mainstream” and “moderate.” Many naive officials still confer legitimacy on them.
But what Muslim leaders tell us and what they tell Muslim audiences are often two entirely different things. The deception is astonishing. They’ve really played us for suckers.
Here are just a few examples:
Sami Al-Arian: The popular and respected Muslim activist was a White House guest of both presidents Clinton and Bush. He assured his hosts he was both peace-loving and patriotic. “I am a very moderate Muslim person,” he said. “I also condemn violence in all its forms.”
All the while, Al-Arian was secretly running a U.S. beachhead for Palestinian terrorists. In a speech at a Cleveland mosque, he once thundered: “Let’s damn America, let’s damn Israel, let’s damn their allies until death.”
He’s now a convicted terrorist.
Abdurahman Alamoudi: This pillar of the Muslim community also went from the White House to the Big House. But not before developing the Pentagon’s Muslim chaplain corps, and acting as a goodwill ambassador for the State Department. [red emphasis added]
He, too, strongly denounced terror. “We are against all forms of terrorism,” he claimed. “Our religion is against terrorism.”
Privately, however, he raised major funds for al-Qaida and was caught on tape grumbling that Osama bin Laden hadn’t killed enough Americans in the U.S. embassy bombings. [red emphasis added]
Also, at a Muslim conference, he was recorded saying the following:
“Muslims sooner or later will be the moral leadership of America. It depends on me and you. Either we do it now or we do it after a hundred years, but this country will become a Muslim country. And I think if we are outside this country, we can say, ‘Oh, Allah, destroy America.’ But once we are here, our mission in this country is to change it.”
Ali Al-Timimi: A noted imam and native Washingtonian, he also put on a moderate face in public while secretly plotting against us. The internationally known Muslim scholar had government clearance — even worked with a former White House chief of staff — and was invited to speak on Islam to the U.S. military. [red emphasis added]
Publicly, the imam denounced Islamic violence. “My position against terrorism and Muslim-inspired violence against innocent people is well known by Muslims,” he said.
But privately, a darker picture emerged. Five days after the 9/11 attacks, he called them “legitimate” and rallied young Muslim men at his mosque to carry out more “holy war” and “violent jihad.” [red emphasis added]
Al-Timimi even cheered the Columbia space shuttle disaster, calling it a “good omen” for Muslims because it was a blow to their “greatest enemy.” He also said the U.S. “should be destroyed.”
This high-profile moderate is also now behind bars, for soliciting terror and treason.
What other Muslim leaders are betraying our trust? Who else is “camouflaging” their radical beliefs and agenda with smiles and soft rhetoric?
To reach out to the Muslim community, we must deal with its leaders. But based on their proven track record of dissembling, we can no longer go on blindly trusting them.
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President Ahmadinejad’s Vision
Being the observing Shia that he is, President Ahmadinejad, Mahmood (let’s call him PAM, for short) has adopted for himself a Marjae Taghleed (Spiritual Guide, Point of Emulation), as recommended by Shia doctrine. The Spiritual Guide, chosen from the ranks of the clergy, supposedly personifies a living example of piety to be consulted in all matters, revered and emulated.
It is no secret that Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi (let’s call him AMY, for short) is Ahmadinejad’s Point of Emulation. AMY is nicknamed crocodile for his reptilian brains, by his numerous “admirers.” Given the high office Ahmadinejad holds, he has free access to AMY and frequently seeks solace and guidance from him on religious as well as matters of the state. Furthermore, AMY often times serves the role of father figure, confidant, as well as therapist for PAM.
Recently, petrified by a vision, PAM rushed to AMY for interpretation of the meaning of his vision and regarding the course of action he should take. Below is a digest of what transpired between PAM and AMY.
PAM. Your Holiness, no words can adequately express my infinite gratitude to you for your unfailing generosity to this worthless speck, for your willingness to see me, for your priceless counsels…
AMY. (Okay Speck speak up, he says to himself). Yes, yes. No need, no need. Please proceed. What is troubling you my son?
PAM. Your Holiness, I had a vision—an incredible and disturbing vision. I could not sleep the night, counted the minutes until I could attend your presence and find relief from my torment…
AMY. Yes?
PAM. Last night, I was pulled by an irresistible force to pilgrimage the holy mosque at Jaamkaaraan…
AMY. (Sighing exasperatedly and saying, “Oh, oh, not again”). Yes?
PAM. Your Holiness, you will excuse my imposition if I report to you in some details. It is a matter of great disturbance to me. I beg your forgiveness in advance for wasting your invaluable time…
AMY. You are already doing so by not getting to the narrative. Please proceed.
PAM. Yes, Your Holiness. As always, you are so correct and wise. Yes, as I was about to say, it was last night, this very past Friday. As it is my habit I performed the ablution, secluded myself in my chamber and busied myself with earnest prayers of thanksgiving to God, the Prophet, and the Pure Imams. I particularly prayed to the object of my heart, the Hidden Imam, the Saaheb-u-Zamaan__ Lord of the Age…
AMY. (If this s.o.b. was not the president of our nation I would already have him tossed out). Yes, that is commendable that you prayed so earnestly. So, what is so unusual about that?
PAM. Your Holiness, I am getting to that part. You, in your infinite wisdom have frequently admonished me, “Patience is Godly while haste is Satanic.” Hence, I am taking your advice and describing things in details hoping that I do not tax your patience.
AMY. (Well, you take in a snake, you live with a snake. Hear out the bastard). Yes?
PAM. Immersed as I was in my prayers, oblivious of the entire world, when bandeh manzel—my house [a way good Muslims refer to their wives]—entered the chamber and entreated me to take my evening meal. What an atrocious thing to do? Interrupting my state of utter bliss and spiritual ecstasy in order to take food? But, women! What is that old saying, “Women are catastrophe, yet no home should be without one?” That is exactly what they are. Catastrophe…
AMY. (I certainly can think of many men who give women a run for that distinction. And you, my little idiot are definitely one of them. Except that no home should ever be cursed with your presence, and here you are inflicted on an entire nation). Yes, yes, I have heard that gem.
PAM. My bandeh manzel is an insistent woman. She has her ways of doing things in matters domestic. She insists that I eat and drink more nurturing food to gain strength since on my frail shoulders rests the responsibility of leading God-fearing Muslims of our nation, nay the entire world of Islam…
AMY. (I wager that she has found you sub-strength in performing on her, you little weasel. Just think what the faith of God has come down to—for an imp like you seeing himself as the one to lead the Muslim world). Yes, yes, it is so. Please get to the main point—the vision.
PAM. After consuming a sumptuous meal, together with delectable beverages and partaking of a few puffs of smoke, bandeh manzel felt amorous—if you know what I mean?
AMY. (No, I really do not know what you mean. I can not fathom any woman, naaghes-ul-aghl—[mentally deficient that women are by nature]—would feel amorous toward a monkey like you). Yes?
PAM. Having discharged my conjugal duty, once again I embarked on deep meditation…
AMY. (I bet you did discharge). Which wife?
PAM. The first one, Sakeeneh Sultan. She is so demanding Your Holiness.
AMY. Yes, yes. Women, as they get older they become less pleasing and more pain. This is one of the reasons that we men are allowed tajdeede faraash—renewal of bedding [bedding in this case means wife]. No matter, proceed.
PAM. Your Holiness, would you overlook my impertinence if I am to ask you a personal question? I am terribly embarrassed to present you with this question. But, it is of vital importance to me…
AMY. Proceed.
PAM. When you are in amorous disposition, how do you convey your desire to a wife?
AMY. Simplicity itself, my dear son. I whistle.
PAM. But how would whistling convey the message to the desired wife?
AMY. I whistle a different tune for each zaeefeh—[weak-one—another Islamic way of referring to women].
PAM. Ingenious. It is an outstanding solution indeed. But, what if a zaeefeh finds herself in amorous mood? How does she signal her desire?
AMY. Simplicity, again. She enters my chamber and asks, “Did you whistle, sir?” Enough of all this side-tracking, please proceed with the vision.
PAM. Thank you, Your Holiness. You, with your infinite wisdom, never fail to resolve my profoundest of puzzlements. Yes, back to the vision. Deeply immersed in meditation, I lost track of time. Suddenly the room was filled with luminous light, two magnificent angels appeared. I was completely overwhelmed. Beads of sweat covered me from head to toe, tears gushed out of my eyes, and I felt soaked all over…
AMY. (You little creep. I wager you had pissed all over yourself). You said that you consumed a sumptuous meal and delectable beverages. What kind of beverages did you imbibe, my son? Were they by any chance, God forbid, the kind that should never touch our lips? And you also said that you had a few puffs of smoke after the meal. You must tell me about that too.
PAM. Your Holiness, no, no. I swear on the Quran that not a drop of that satanic brew did touch my lips last night or ever…
AMY. (Why is it that anytime anyone wants to lie, they swear on the Quran?). Yes, yes. I do believe you that not a drop of the satanic brew has ever touched your lips. I heard that line from another president of our country, Akbar Refsanjani—a pistachio farmer turned billionaire by stealing the nation blind. Yet, all evidence indicated that the conniving hypocrite was a habitual imbiber of alcoholic beverages. To make matters worse, rumor circulated that he had a special affection for Scotch whisky and Bourbon, distillations of the infidels. No matter.
PAM. Did he actually break that cardinal law of our faith?
AMY. Well, I had personally seen in him signs of drunkenness and decided to investigate the matter for myself. First, I confronted him and he brought out the Quran, placed one hand over it and the other over his black heart and swore that not a drop of any form of satanic brew has ever touched his lips. Never trusting a word of him, I assigned one of my loyal agents to stealthily keep Akbar under observation, and guess what he found out? You get three guesses.
PAM. I give up, Your Holiness.
AMY. Mullah Akbar was telling the truth, just like you are. Not a drop of the stuff touched his lips, while his gut got loaded to the rim. Do I have to spell it out for you? Fine. He was drinking right from the bottle, using straws. Not a drop was touching his lips. You must have at some point attended Akbar’s hozeh—religious seminary—of chicanery. Have you?
PAM. Your Holiness, it is for this very reason that I have chosen you as my Spiritual Guide. Not only are you a true man of God, you have unsurpassed intelligence—something that I sorely lack. Admitting my sins to you is like confessing to the All-forgiving and Merciful God. You recognize my failings, forgive my sins, and admonish me to do the right things and to mend my ways…
AMY. Now, be done with the confession and get to the vision. And the puffs of smoke you had? Opium, correct? The stuff is not forbidden in our faith. I can not chastise you for its use. Why do you not limit yourself to the ones that are sanctioned? Does not the holy Quran command us, “Eat and drink of what we have given you?” Of course we must refrain from the use of the ones that are specifically forbidden, pork, alcohol and the blood of the dead.
PAM. Are we allowed to drink the blood of the living?
AMY. (Wise ass s.o.b.). We suck the blood of the living of people. Can’t you see the emaciated skeletons of our poor people? They do not have much blood. And that is the way it should be. They prosper and we will have a rebellion on our hand. It is either them or us. And I say, it better be us.
PAM. Yes, yes Your Holiness. Admitting that you are correct is as superfluous as saying that the Quran is the book of God. It is self-evident. Yes, indeed I took a few puffs of the stuff, but I did not inhale…
AMY. Now, you are using a page from the book of another conniver president. This one was the president of the Great Satan, Clinton the name. Recall what he claimed? That he had smoked marijuana, but had not inhaled. Also fornicating with that young Jewess, Monica was it? Yes, Lewinski or such. The fool made matters worse by saying that he did not have sex with that woman. Then, when he was proven lying, he was demanding people define “truth.” What are you doing my son, scouting the world to learn every form of deception?
PAM. I apologize for taxing your patience, Your Holiness…
AMY. While I am at it, I would like to elucidate the Clinton-Lewinski shenanigan. It was just another case of Zionists controlling every aspect of America: its finances, by owning the Wall Street; its culture, by monopolizing Hollywood; and, its government by having the politicians by their proverbial. Clinton was not 100 percent in their pocket. He paid some lip service to the cause of our Palestinian brothers. So, the Zionist set up the Monica trap for him and they almost had him impeached. Yet, they stopped short of impeaching him, because all others got the message. Fail to toe the line of Zionism, and you do it at your own peril.
PAM. Yes indeed, Your Holiness. It is precisely the way I see it. Zionism and America are two sides of a bad penny; two names for the same satanic entity. Once we defeat one, we destroy them both.
AMY. Yes. As for you being the president of our God-fearing nation, it is understandable that you are in a very delicate and difficult position; that you rightfully need to master the art of statesmanship and exercise it to full effect to the advantage of our people. You should study your predecessor’s practices. You know who I mean, not the thieving pistachio farmer but the smiling mullah Khatami: The conman who had the world fooled by his rhetoric on “Dialogue of Civilizations,” reciting the names and works of infidel philosophers, while all along pushing his agenda forward. The Master Cotton Killer…
PAM. Pardon me for interrupting. But, what is a Cotton Killer?
AMY. There are two major ways of killing your enemies. The most obvious and crude type is the overt method—use of the sword or its modern versions. These weapons, as deadly as they are, are not easy to use without producing undesirable consequences for the user. The other is the covert method—Cotton killing. The latter is most deadly and if practiced skillfully, it can kill without anyone suspecting a thing. You perform the latter while smiling and appearing most gentle all along. See how the Cotton Killer Khatami in the course of his eight years as president managed to kill the budding movement for democracy and secularism? Now, you have it easy. Thousands of troublemakers are either dead, in prison or in exile. It is credit to the smiling mullah, and no one can really pin any blames on him, even to this day.
PAM. (How can Cotton Killing work for my mission, how could I eradicate Israel by this method, and pave the way for the Hidden Imam to appear? Each problem requires its own solution. I can realistically achieve my objective by the bomb. But, Israel is in a small area of Palestine. Palestinians and Jordanians are within an earshot. A bomb can get them also. No matter, those people are not true Muslims. They are Sunnis. They deserve what is coming to them. What about our Shia brothers in the Baka Valley nearby? Well, we all must make sacrifices for the cause. They will go to heaven anyway…)
AMY. My son, wake up. Speak up. Where are you?
PAM. I apologize, Your Holiness.
AMY. No matter, tell me about the vision. (Somehow Friday nights seem to be the nights for visions. Every other two bits lout imbibes the satanic brew, takes a few puffs and in his drunken opium-induced trance has visions).
PAM. Your Holiness, I am afraid that I am taking the risk of making a jackass of myself…
AMY. (You already have done that many times, take the next bus). No matter, no matter.
PAM. As I was saying, overwhelmed as I was, soaked and shaking uncontrollably with excitement, the two magnificent angels, grabbed me, each under one arm and in an instant I found myself in Jaamkaaraan. I am certain that only you can fully appreciate the ecstasy that enveloped me. I felt that the Imam had sent his very own emissaries to take me to his hallowed presence…
AMY. (Horse feathers, you bastard. Do I have to listen to you gherd—a derogatory term for monkey). Get to the point and leave the details out. I have a seminar to attend to.
PAM. Yes Your Holiness. Next thing I knew, I was at the bottom of the well in semi darkness and I saw the visage of the beloved of our hearts…
AMY. Are you absolutely certain that it was the blessed Imam?
PAM. Now that you mention it, I can not swear on the Quran that it was him, particularly after what transpired in my extended meeting with him…
AMY. Strange things transpired?
PAM. Yes, unbelievably strange and frightening indeed. For this very reason I sought your presence to relieve me of my perplexity.
AMY. It sounds serious. You must tell me all about it.
PAM. Fearing to run the risk of boring you Your Holiness, I shall make it short…
AMY. (Boring me? You are killing me). Please continue. So, you are not certain that it was our Beloved? Then why bother with the vision. It may have been nothing more than what we call khaabe shekammee—gut-overload dreaming—as the saying goes. Or, it could be that the demon alcohol had done its mischief.
PAM. No, no, Your Holiness. It was no such a thing, since I have had those types on occasion. Yet, this vision was far from being due to perturbations of the guts by excessive eating and drinking…
AMY. No matter. Proceed.
PAM. Thank you. I had difficulty breathing in that tiny pit. It seemed like the walls were pressing on me from all sides. Dampness and stench were intolerable. It broke my heart to think that the beloved Imam had taken refuge in that dreadful hole for over a thousand years. I looked all over hoping that there was a passageway that led to paradise where the Imam actually resided. I found none. Of course it was fairly dark in there…
AMY. Yes, yes. Wells are known to be dark, and the deeper the well, the darker the well. And it is believed that where the Imam is in occlusion is several leagues deep.
PAM. Now I understand. No wonder I could not breathe. No wonder the stench and dampness. No ventilation. That is what I say.
AMY. (You must have lost control of your systems, covered under the quilt. That is what I say you little twerp). Yes? Please relate the salient points and dispense with the ancillary material.
PAM. Yes Your Holiness. As you can imagine I had so many questions to ask. I did not know where to start. But, I felt that I must first thank him for all the things he has done for me. It is only decent to do that, is it not Your Person?
AMY. (If I and my hozeh were not dependent on your financial largess, I would have kicked your bonny hindquarters out of here, the minute you arrived. You are killing me). Please get to the salient points.
PAM. You will forgive me, in obedience to your command, if I share with you some of the points in a random manner as they come to my mind?
AMY. (I was not aware that you had a mind). Yes.
PAM. I thanked the Imam for making me, his servant, the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran and his Viceroy.
AMY. (Why thank him? Thank the illiterate Khameniei, the egomaniac supreme guide. He is the one who hand-picked you and gave the desperate people of Iran a choice between a crook and a monkey. People picked you, the monkey, hoping that you would not loot them as heartlessly as the crook Refsanjani would). Yes?
PAM. I thanked him for answering my prayer by inflicting severe harm on that fat Zionist dog, Ariel Sharon. Do you know what the beloved said in response? You get three guesses just like you in your fairness allowed me three guesses earlier.
AMY. I give up.
PAM. You would not believe this, Your Holiness. I swear on my late father’s grave…
AMY. (Oh, oh, he must be telling the truth. He is not swearing on the Quran). Yes?
PAM. The Imam looked puzzled and asked, “Who is Ariel Sharon? I do not get the papers here regularly. Besides, it is too dark to read and my contacts with the outside world are infrequent and not very reliable.” Would you believe that? See what I mean when I said that the pilgrimage was most perplexing?
AMY. I see. I see. Is this the end of it, I hope?
PAM. I am not perplexed because I am dumb. It is a most confounding thing to be coming from the one who knows everything, spoken or unspoken, overt or covert…
AMY. (You could have fooled me. No, you are correct. You have to work your way up to dumbness. Idiot. That is what I say you are. Idiot). Yes?
PAM. I can see that I am taxing your patience. It shows in your visage. In any event, I will make it short. Then he asked me to tell him a bit about Sharon. I did. He was visibly upset when I related to him the terrible things that this man and his Zionist occupiers of our holy land have done and continue to do to the God-fearing Palestinian Muslims in their very own ancestral land. Then the Imam wanted to write down Sharon’s name. He said, “I must be getting old. I do not remember things like I used to. I have become very forgetful. I must write things down.”
AYM. (I might just forget that you, imitation human being, are the President and have my servants cut your both earlobes, stuff them in your mouth, before tossing you out of my chamber). Did he truly say that?
PAM. Yes, he did indeed. The sad part is that there was no one around to bring him his writing instruments. No one showed up. Just the two of us squeezed in the terribly confining quarters. I reached in my pocket and offered him my PDA. He was visibly upset when I did that and chastised me, “What in the world is this? This is not a writing instrument. Are you mocking me?” See what I mean by this terribly puzzling vision?
AMY. Yes.
PAM. Moments later, he calmed down and I decided to thank him for commissioning Imam Khomeini on his mission of reviving Islam. Do you want to guess what his response was? Again, you will definitely get three guesses, even more if you like.
AMY. What was his response? (You slime).
PAM. Unlike his oblivion about Sharon, he indeed recognized Khomeini. What he said however, seemed blasphemous to this speck of dust, particularly coming from the Imam. He said, “That imposter villain? Why do you call him imam in the first place? You fools have no sense, do you? He was an imam, murdering thousands of Iran’s young men and women for the sin of wanting to be treated as humans, rather than fanatical jackasses like you and your ilk? Tangling with the accursed Saddam in a senseless war and between the two of them maiming and killing millions of people from both sides? He was imam by making stone-age rulings, supporting terrorism and promoting a doctrine of hate? By dishonoring an ancient nation, making Iran a pariah, the nation of Cyrus the Great who was the very first author of the Charter of Human Rights and by thoroughly sullying the reputation of Islam? That killer is presently, and forever, is paying for his crimes. No 72 virgins for him, no rivers of milk and honey, no lush fruits, just the full amenities of the dreadful hell. He shares a cell with Hitler, soon to be joined by Saddam…
AMY. Please that is enough…
PAM. Only one last thing, Your Holiness. I begged the Imam to appear and set the world aright. I told him that it was beyond any mortal’s capability to do so. Do you know what he said?
AMY. No, and I do not want three guesses. Please be done with it.
PAM. He said, in unequivocal terms that we should not accommodate the Great Satan and its little proxy, the Zionist State; that any negotiated settlement of our difference would constitute appeasement of the satanic forces; and, that we should take the struggle to its very end. It is then and only then that he would emerge and rescue the world. Would you believe that? Is it not wonderful? He will be coming, only if we do our assignment and prepare the conditions…
AMY. (I hope that he brings with him the sure cure for the mentally-deranged like you).Yes, yes, yes. I believe that is enough. I recommend that you completely forget about this vision and attend to your urgent duties as the head of our nation during these turbulent times.
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Why the Ground Zero Mosque Must Be Stopped
May 10, 2010 — budsimmons
By Madeline Brooks
Planting a mosque just two blocks from where Muslims murdered Americans on 9/11 in the name of Islam is a huge slap in the face. Why shouldn’t Muslims be sensitive enough to realize that a huge mosque planted right near the horrific wound to the U.S. created at Ground Zero by Muslims is outrageous to us? They claim a right to be insulted by cartoons mocking their prophet, even to the point of beheading people.
The Imam of the Ground Zero Insult, Faisal Abdul Rauf, is not the nice guy he likes to hold himself out to be. At his Friday afternoon khutbah services and in his book What’s Right With Islam Rauf states that he wants the mosque to be a place where inter-faith understanding is fostered. His sonorous voice is smooth and almost hypnotic. His writing style appears to be rational and unthreatening.
However, this does not jibe with the aspects of him that are downright hostile and frightening.
During a recent Friday sermon, this writer did due diligence as a mosque monitor and heard Rauf deny that Muslims perpetrated 9/11. In an interview with CNN shortly after 9/11, Rauf said, “U.S. policies were an accessory to the crime that happened. We [the U.S.] have been an accessory to a lot of innocent lives dying in the world. Osama bin Laden was made in the USA.” Elsewhere, Rauf has stated that terrorism will end only when the West acknowledges the harm it has done to Muslims. And that it was Christians who started mass attacks on civilians.
Rauf has numerous ties to CAIR, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Department of Justice funding case brought against Hamas, an openly terrorist organization. CAIR is also the initiator of numerous cases designed to intimidate non-Muslims from criticizing aggressive Muslim behavior, and to use our own legal and democratic processes to undermine and dominate America, forcing it to become Islamic.
Rauf calls himself a Sufi, evoking among non-Muslims a “peace and love” image. But that’s not the whole picture. Sufism has many sides to it, including the Koranic injunction to spread Islam one way or another, and it has a rich history of waging war, too. Could it be that one of the frequently used tools of war, lying to the enemy, explains the contradiction between Rauf’s image as reconciler of religions and his sympathies and associations with terrorists?
A previous Rauf project, Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow, clearly shows on its website that it is headed and funded by individuals from Saudi Arabia, the country that spawned fifteen of the nineteen jihad jockeys who rode the 9/11 planes of destruction. The funding for the mosque at Ground Zero is much murkier so far. All that has been publicly disclosed is that the support comes from unidentified sources in Saudi Arabia and Muslim-ruled Malaysia. Rauf reportedly says he paid $4.85 million for the property — in cash. Where exactly did this money come from? Was it Wahhabist-supporting Saudi sources, which have already funded many other mosques in New York City?
The mosque is called Cordoba House. Muslims like to refer to Spain and especially the city of Cordoba as a place where their rule reached a glorious peak. Contrary to the myth of a Golden Age of equality during the Muslim occupation of Spain (and in particular in Cordoba), Spain and Cordoba were places where Christians and Jews suffered as social inferiors under Islamic oppression. Equal civil rights never existed for non-Muslims under Sharia, or Islamic law. Rauf even admits as much when he writes, “Jews and Christians living under Muslim rule simply had to pay a tax to finance their protection by their Muslim overlords.” This is not equality! Americans do not demand a special tax to protect Muslims from ourselves. That would be extortion, not “protection.”
Through another organization Rauf started called the Cordoba Initiative, he created the “Sharia Index.” This will measure how closely countries follow Sharia, or Islamic law. While Sharia can cover such relatively innocuous aspects of Muslim life as religious weddings (hopefully not to twelve-year-old girls), it also demands that all Muslim life be governed by laws derived from the Koran, without the intervention of civic institutions, such as democracy. And the Koran dictates that everyone, even non-Muslims, must ultimately live under Sharia. Do you understand how that is in direct conflict with our Constitution and other aspects of our secular society?
Rauf gets even trickier here. He states in What’s Right With Islam that a society that follows natural law, such as America, is already practicing Sharia. However, he does not note that his peculiar definition of Sharia acceptance is shared by just about no other Imam. So what prevents him from adjusting his singular idea of Sharia back to the norm of forced conversions, murdering non-Muslims and apostates, amputations of thieves’ hands, stoning of adulterous women, execution of homosexuals, etc.? Throughout his writing, Rauf floats an image of a harmonious, pleasant Islam — nice to everybody. But this is totally disconnected from Islam’s actual history of bloody conquest, enslavement, and humiliation of other people — which he never acknowledges.
Still another unsettling part of Rauf’s problem mosque is why the city has given the building a pass. Records for the Department of Buildings have shown numerous complaints for illegal construction and no access, yet the issues were listed as “resolved.”
Community Board One’s financial district committee needs to reconsider its endorsement of this mosque. The prestigious American groups that are reportedly also financing the mosque, The Ford Foundation and The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, need to think again about what they are getting into. The Department of Buildings needs to reassess its action. The Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs, which supports the project (Why? What has a religious building got to do with immigration?) needs to reevaluate its approval.
Mayor Bloomberg himself needs to withdraw his support for this mosque, especially in light of the recent Times Square car bomb attempt. If not, he will be helping to provide a handy meeting place for future terrorists, those who understand Imam Rauf’s real message: Speak sweetly, appear to be a well-adjusted member of American society, and plan the destruction of America, either with bombs or “peaceful” undermining.
Madeline Brooks is an NYC resident and writer.
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“This is war of religion, not just a war between Arabs and Israelis…this is an Islamic war, which will end in victory only under the banner of Jihad”
April 26, 2010 — budsimmons
Here is yet more indication that the war against Israel is a jihad against Israel, motivated by an antisemitism with deep, ancient roots in Islam — and thus it will not be solved by Israeli concessions, or the establishment of a Palestinian state. The one thing we can be sure of about this is that Western analysts will ignore it, as they have all the other indications of the same thing. “Calls for Jihad in a Rally of Kuwaiti Students Union: This Is a War of Religion, Not a War between Israelis and Arabs,” from MEMRITV, March 29 (thanks to all who sent this in):
The following excerpts are from a rally in which Kuwaiti students show solidarity with the Palestinian cause. The rally aired on Al-Jazeera TV on March 29, 2010.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/04/this-is-war-of-religion-not-just-a-war-between-arabs-and-israelisthis-is-an-islamic-war-which-will-e.html
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Islam in the family: Two-day-old girl killed in ‘honour killing’ …”Not Uncommon in Muslim Turkey”
They killed a two day old newborn to uphold their honor. They have …….uh, different priorities. But don’t slam them, it’s an islamic cultural thing, and we must respect our Islamic overlords. Have the feminists come out, tongues flapping, saying it was a “late term abortion”?
OT but related: Why is it that the term “muslim mother” doesn’t evoke the same imagery and warmth as “Jewish mother”? Just sayin. And yet society increasingly chooses to give more respect to the former — another giant step backwards for mankind and the West.
Two-day-old girl killed in ‘honour killing’
Turkish police on Friday detained an unmarried mother and six other people near Istanbul for their suspected role in the so-called “honour killing” of a 2-day-old baby girl, state news agency Anatolian said.The baby was suffocated by her grandmother after the family learned the 25-year-old mother became pregnant out of wedlock, Anatolian said.
“My family decided to kill my baby,” the mother told the police, according to Anatolian. “My 55-year-old mother choked the baby with a cloth. Then, my brothers buried the baby in a hole in the garden and covered the hole with cement.”
Police found the body after receiving an anonymous phone call.
Among those detained were also a doctor and the doctor’s secretary, They allegedly had agreed not to register the baby’s birth in return for an undisclosed amount of money.
The baby’s father is doing his military service and was not involved in the incident.
“Honour killings,” or crimes carried out against women seen to have tainted the family’s name, are not uncommon in mainly Muslim Turkey, particularly in poor and rural areas.
The European Union, which Turkey has applied to join, has repeatedly urged Ankara to take a tougher stance against such crimes.
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HOW IMMIGRATION AND MULTICULURALISM DESTROYED DETROIT
By Frosty Wooldridge
For 15 years, from the mid 1970s to 1990, I worked in Detroit, Michigan. I watched it descend into the abyss of crime, debauchery, gun play, drugs, school truancy, car-jacking, gangs and human depravity. I watched entire city blocks burned out. I watched graffiti explode on buildings, cars, trucks, buses and school yards. Trash everywhere! Detroiters walked through it, tossed more into it and ignored it.
Tens of thousands and then, hundreds of thousands today exist on federal welfare, free housing and food stamps! With Aid to Dependent Children, minority women birthed eight to 10 and in once case, one woman birthed 24 kids as reported by the Detroit Free Press—all on American taxpayer dollarss. A new child meant a new car payment, new TV and whatever mom wanted. I saw Lyndon Baines Johnson’s “Great Society” flourish in Detroit. If you give money for doing nothing, you will get more hands out taking money for doing nothing.
Mayor Coleman Young, perhaps the most corrupt mayor in America, outside of Richard Daley in Chicago, rode Detroit down to its knees. He set the benchmark for cronyism, incompetence and arrogance. As a black man, he said, “I am the MFIC.” The IC meant ‘in charge’. You can figure out the rest. Detroit became a majority black city with 67 percent African-Americans.
As a United Van Lines truck driver for my summer job from teaching math and science, I loaded hundreds of American families into my van for a new life in another city or state. Detroit plummeted from 1.8 million citizens to 912,000 today. At the same time, legal and illegal immigrants converged on the city, so much so, that Muslims number over 300,000. Mexicans number 400,000 throughout Michigan, but most work in Detroit.
As the Muslims moved in, the whites moved out. As the crimes became more violent, the whites fled. Finally, unlawful Mexicans moved in at a torrid pace. You could cut the racial tension in the air with a knife! Detroit may be one our best examples of multiculturalism: pure dislike and total separation from America.
Today, you hear Muslim calls to worship over the city like a new American Baghdad with hundreds of Islamic mosques in Michigan, paid for by Saudi Arabia oil money. High school flunk out rates reached 76 percent last June according to NBC’s Brian Williams. Classrooms resemble more foreign countries than America. English? Few speak it! The city features a 50 percent illiteracy rate and growing. Unemployment hit 28.9 percent in 2009 as the auto industry vacated the city.
In this week’s Time Magazine October 4, 2009, “The Tragedy of Detroit: How a great city fell and how it can rise again,” I choked on the writer’s description of what happened.
“If Detroit had been savaged by a hurricane and submerged by a ravenous flood, we’d know a lot more about it,” said Daniel Okrent. “If drought and carelessness had spread brush fires across the city, we’d see it on the evening news every night. Earthquake, tornadoes, you name it — if natural disaster had devastated the city that was once the living proof of American prosperity, the rest of the country might take notice. Top of Form
But Detroit, once our fourth largest city, now 11th and slipping rapidly, has had no such luck. Its disaster has long been a slow unwinding that seemed to remove it from the rest of the country. Even the death rattle that in the past year emanated from its signature industry brought more attention to the auto executives than to the people of the city, who had for so long been victimized by their dreadful decision-making.”
As Coleman Young’s corruption brought the city to its knees, no amount of federal dollars could save the incredible payoffs, kick backs and illegality permeating his administration. I witnessed the city’s death from the seat of my 18-wheeler tractor trailer because I moved people out of every sector of decaying Detroit.
“By any quantifiable standard, the city is on life support. Detroit’s treasury is $300 million short of the funds needed to provide the barest municipal services,” Okrent said. “The school system, which six years ago was compelled by the teachers’ union to reject a philanthropist’s offer of $200 million to build 15 small, independent charter high schools, is in receivership. The murder rate is soaring, and 7 out of 10 remain unsolved. Three years after Katrina devastated New Orleans, unemployment in that city hit a peak of 11%. In Detroit, the unemployment rate is 28.9%. That’s worth spelling out: twenty-eight point nine percent.”
At the end of Okrent’s report, and he will write a dozen more about Detroit, he said, “That’s because the story of Detroit is not simply one of a great city’s collapse. It’s also about the erosion of the industries that helped build the country we know today. The ultimate fate of Detroit will reveal much about the character of America in the 21st century. If what was once the most prosperous manufacturing city in the nation has been brought to its knees, what does that say about our recent past? And if it can’t find a way to get up, what does that say about our future?”
As you read in my book review of Chris Steiner’s book, $20 Per Gallon, the auto industry won’t come back. Immigration will keep pouring more and more uneducated third world immigrants from the Middle East into Detroit—thus creating a beachhead for Islamic hegemony in America. If 50 percent illiteracy continues, we will see more homegrown terrorists spawned out of the Muslim ghettos of Detroit. Illiteracy plus Islam equals walking human bombs. You have already seen it in the Madrid, Spain, London, England and Paris, France with train bombings, subway bombings and riots. As their numbers grow, so will their power to enact their barbaric Sharia Law that negates republican forms of government, first amendment rights and subjugates women to the lowest rungs on the human ladder. We will see more honor killings by upset husbands, fathers and brothers that demand subjugation by their daughters, sisters and wives. Muslims prefer beheadings of women to scare the hell out of any other members of their sect from straying.
Multiculturalism: what a perfect method to kill our language, culture, country and way of life.
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Dying for Love: Child Bride Dies After Sex Organs Rupture A religion of peace and love. Muhammad married a six year old, so it’s all good. Obama say: Respect it!
April 9, 2010 — budsimmons
Dying for Love: Child Bride Dies After Sex Organs Rupture
A religion of peace and love. Muhammad married a six year old, so it’s all good.
Obama say: Respect it!
Child Bride Dies After Sex Organs Rupture FOX News
A 13-year-old Yemeni girl who was forced into marriage died five days after her wedding when she suffered a rupture in her sex organs and hemorrhaging, a local rights organization said Thursday.
Ilham Mahdi al Assi died last Friday in a hospital in Yemen’s Hajja province, the Shaqaeq Arab Forum for Human Rights said in a statement quoting a medical report.
She was wedded the previous Monday in a traditional arrangement known as a “swap marriage,” in which the brother of the bride also married the sister of the groom, it said.
“The child Ilham has died as a martyr due to the abuse of children’s lives in Yemen,” the non-governmental organization said.
Her death was a “flagrant example” of the results of opposing the ban on child marriage in Yemen, which was leading to “killing child females,” it said.
The marriage of young girls is widespread in Yemen, which has a strong tribal structure.
The death of a 12-year-old girl in childbirth in September illustrated the case of the country’s “brides of death,” many of whom were married off even before puberty.
Controversy heightened in Yemen recently over a law banning child marriage in the impoverished country through setting a minimum age of 17 for women and 18 for men.
Thousands of conservative women demonstrated outside parliament last month, answering a call by Islamist parties opposing the law.
A lesser number of women rallied at the same venue a few days later in support of the law, the implementation of which was blocked pending a request by a group of politicians for a review.
MUSLIM CLERICS CAUSE DEATH OF ANOTHER CHILD BRIDE
12-year old Yemeni girl dies three days after wedding Some report she was 13 years old. Who really cares? The fact is that all over Yemen girls die because they are forced to marry too young. This one died because acute bleeding caused by sexual intercourse. A few months ago another died in child birth. An ten year old had to seek a divorce after being raped and beaten. These cases are but a tip of a huge iceberg and they are NOT limited to Yemen. The girls are known as “brides of death.” And no, poverty and tribal customs are not solely to blame. Islamist Imams are as they fight tooth and nail any legislative effort to ban child marriage. Maktoob News reports Top Yemeni and Saudi clerics fight child marriage ban.
—-Judith Klinghoffer
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Will America Survive Islamofascisim?
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Nearly 1400 years ago, a large number of Muslim jihadists from across the scorching Arabian desert, motivated by the ideology of Islam, indoctrinated by Muhammad, unafraid of death, conquered Iran (Persia), one of the greatest, strongest and most tolerant empires known throughout the history of man. The Bedouin Arabs who toppled the Sassanid Empire were propelled not only by a desire for conquest and to steal Persian Jewels and treasures, and also to enslave Iranian women and children, while imposing their barbaric ideology upon the entire population. With that, they almost destroyed one of the most benevolent religions of all humanity, Zoroastrianism, often called the mother of all revealed religions.
The political nature of Islam demanded that a conquered people, not only convert to Islam but also to regard its past history as a time of darkness before the light of Islam came. Today, the Islamic Republic of Iran is busy purging Pre-Islamic Persian history from children text-books. Islam required conquered people to scorn their own past and love their Islamic Arab conquerors by striving to imitate them. According to Islam, all history before Islam was an era of “darkness” and should be discarded.
The prophet of Islam motivated his rapidly growing body of followers to rally around him by proclaiming: if they are victorious they will have the treasures of the infidels as well as their women and children as slaves to hold or sell; if the faithful kill the infidels in doing the work of Allah, further reward awaits them in paradise; and, in the unlikely event that they are killed, they find themselves in Allah’s glorious paradise for eternal life of joy and bliss. The Persians underestimated the power and dedication of this newly formed Islamic ideology of hate and vigilance by the desert dwellers. Their unorthodox attack on Persian army caused the Persian army to fall into the hands of the butchers of Islam and eventually the culture of death prevailed and the era of Islamic terrorism began.Islam once again, 1400 years later, flushed by petrodollars, is seeking world domination through worldwide Islamic terrorism. It is seeking the destruction of everything in the world that is good, and intends to replace it with the most barbaric ideology known as Sharia law. Islam sees Christian America as a formidable enemy standing in its path of world-domination. Hence, it has waged stealth jihad on Christian America.
In many surprising ways America resembles the great ancient Persian Empire. Like the ancient Persians who were the first world managers and the most tolerant empire-builders, America, by its constitution, is also the most tolerant and benevolent nation in the world. Is America’s destiny will end up like the Persians?
Reading about the Islamic religiously mandated horrific acts and even seeing them on television or the Internet may momentarily repulse, but does not terribly concern many Americans. After all, those things still are happening on the other side of the world and away from their homes, we are safe in fortress America, so goes the thinking. Wrong!
“Fortress America” is a delusion that even the events of 9/11and Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan massacre seem to have failed to dispel. Many prefer to believe that the assault of 9/11 was an aberration, since nothing like it has happened again, and it is unlikely that anything of the sort will ever happen again, so goes the wishful thinking. The reality portrays a vastly different picture. America is far from a fortress, given its vast wide-open borders. It is a nation of laws where all forms of freedom are enshrined in its constitution; where Americans live by humane ethos diametrically different from those of Islamist savagery. Sadly, these differences confer great advantage to the Islamists and place America in imminent danger.
The breach of “Fortress America” from the air on 9/11 is only the first installment of many more forthcoming heinous assaults, about which we have been repeatedly warned by Muslim thugs living in caves. Unless we abandon our way of thinking, we will suffer the consequences of a dangerous complacency. We need to stop relying on the invincibility of the law-enforcement people and willingly make the sacrifices that would protect our way of life.
I have never claimed that the reported 1.2 billion Muslims are all jihadists aiming to destroy civilization and establish Muhammad’s Ummah over all of us. I certainly know that the active jihadists are a small minority. Yet, it takes a blind eye to ignore militant minorities. Did Hitler become the Chancellor of Germany because he and his gang got the majority vote in Germany? More than 65% of Germans were not supporters of Hitler and his party and viewed the Nazis as louts and worthless. Yet, we all know what this little minority did while being ignored.
What about forest fires? You cannot ignore a little smoldering fire here, a little smoldering fire there because the rest of the forest is not on fire. Only a fool will ignore these fires, because they will eventually devour the forest.
Now, wishful thinking and being optimistic on the basis of some evidence here and some evidence there is the way some people prefer to deal with the Islamic threat. In the process, they tell us how some Muslim Turkish officers are working to combat Islamic terrorists or how some Pakistanis are also helping the West. Surely these folks don’t want to look at the horrors of this “minority” in places such as Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and every other Islamic country.
A longstanding Islamic practice is to be meek while weak and assume despotic intolerant power as it gains strength. Recent migration of Muslims to non-Islamic lands began as a seemingly harmless, even useful, trickle of cheap needed labor. Before long, greater and greater numbers of Muslims deluged the new territories and as they gained in numbers—by high birth rate as well as new arrivals—Muslims began reverting to their intolerant ways by, for instance, demanding legal status for Sharia (Islamic laws), the type of draconian laws that for the most part resemble those of man’s barbaric past.
Just a sobering note; mild Islamism is already here. As an example, there is the Muslim cab driver of the Minneapolis Airport’s refusal to ferry passengers with alcohol or even those with seeing-eye dogs, Muslim inmates demanding to be served only halal food, Kentucky Fried Chicken opens first halal restaurant in New York City, honor killing, Muslim students badgering universities for special facilities for their meetings, and, for the first time ever Muslim Congressman’s assuming the office by swearing on the Quran and not the Bible.
Islam need not even literally destroy the civilized world. All it needs is to gain enough power to impose its worse than death Sharia on everyone. If you are not up to speed with the horrors that Muslim governments and their jihadist foot-soldiers commit on a daily basis, you need to open your eyes and deal with this deadly threat of Islam with much more realism.
“Hitler knew that it would be an easy matter to transform the skilled, young glider aviators into fighter and bomber pilots. As the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad know today that once they have enough enriched uranium, have the missile tested out for their range and have other building blocks of nuclear technology in place with uranium enrichment, it would be a walkover to a nuclear weapons suite to blackmail and then destroy the civilized world,” while the rest of the world is snoozing.
Ignoring the smoldering fire and relying on a few local “firefighters” to keep the fires from spreading is either naive or outright criminal. But it is certainly the easiest thing to do. That’s why I have chosen to fight the fire and I am calling for help to put out Islam, the source that raises arsonists — the minority that they may be. It takes one arsonist to set a fire that a thousand firefighters will have difficulty putting out, right? The few Muslims who are brave enough to advocate reform of their religion are tossed out of mosques or, very likely, much worse.
When our leaders, for instance, call Islam a great religion, they are appeasing, if not lying outright. We the people elect our leaders and we hold them accountable to be honorable: using their voice to call a great religion a most deadly threat to everything we cherish as a great religion legitimizes Islamofascisim, on the one hand, and infuses the rest of us with a false belief.
In this relentless campaign, the Islamists have a vast cadre of “experts,” “talking heads,” and for-purchase politicians who keep endlessly broadcasting the false mantra that Islam is a religion of peace. This latter bunch is criminally complicit in making the populace complacent and furthering the work of the Islamists.
While President Obama glorifies Islam, the barbarians have made it inside our fortress. They have infiltrated our system of government. This time around, the people of the sword have their collaborator, Useful Idiots, inside busily doing all they can to dismantle our republic and replace it with the tyrannical Islamofascisim by appeasing our enemy.
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Islamist Gülen Movement Runs U.S. Charter Schools
March 29, 2010 — budsimmons
By Stephen Schwartz
A secretive foreign network of Islamic radicals now operates dozens of charter schools — which receive government money but are not required to adopt a state-approved curriculum — on U.S. soil. The inspirer of this conspiratorial effort is Fethullah Gülen, who directs a major Islamist movement in Turkey and the Turkish Diaspora but lives in the United States. He is number thirteen among the world’s “50 most influential Muslims,” according to one prominent listing.
Gülen has been criticized as the puppet master for the current Turkish government headed by the “soft Islamist” Justice and Development Party, known by its Turkish initials as the AKP, in its slow-motion showdown with the secularist Turkish military. But Gülen is also known in Muslim countries for his network of 500-700 Islamic schools around the world, according to differing sources favorable to his movement. A more critical view of Gülen’s emphasis on education asserts that his international network of thousands of primary and secondary schools, universities, and student residences is a key element in solidifying an Islamist political agenda in Turkey.
But in startling news for Americans, the Gülen movement operates more than 85 primary and secondary schools on our soil. A roster of the Gülen schools and of the numerous foundations that support them has been released to the public by the patriotic group Act! for America. The Gülen schools are often designated as “science academies” and are concentrated in Texas, Ohio, and California — with others scattered across the rest of the country.
Two states that host Gülen charter schools are Arizona and Utah. In the former, the Daisy Education Corporation (the Gülen movement loves friendly-sounding institutional names) operates three schools in Tucson: one serving kindergarten through the eighth grade, another designated as an elementary school, and a middle-high school, all under the rubric of the Sonoran Science Academy. In Phoenix, it runs a satellite kindergarten-to-10th-grade campus with the same name.
The appearance of Gülen charter schools in Tucson has produced critical attention in local media. The Tucson Weekly published a report at the end of 2009 noting that the Sonoran Science Academy in the southern Arizona town had been named “charter school of the year” by the Arizona Charter School Association. But writer Tim Vanderpool reported that according to one dismayed parent, who declined identification while pointing out the Gülen movement’s history of intimidating critics, “the Sonoran Academy seems constantly to be bringing Turkish educators into the United States, and subjecting students to substitute teachers while the teachers await work visas.” Vanderpool submits that “several Sonoran Academy parents believe the school has a hidden agenda to promote Gülen’s brand of Turkish nationalism, advance sympathy for that country’s political goals such as winning acceptance into the European Union, and discourage official acknowledgment of Turkey’s genocide against the Armenians during World War I.” Such issues are exotic, to say the least, for Tucson parents.
Earlier in 2009, the Beehive Science and Technology Academy, a high school in Salt Lake City, came under similar critical scrutiny from the Salt Lake Tribune. That major daily’s writer, Kirsten Stewart, reported that the Utah State Charter Board had begun an investigation of the Beehive school following complaints from a former teacher and an alarmed parent. The complainants asserted that while “Beehive advertises itself as a public charter school offering college-bound seventh through 12th graders a foundation in math and science … the school has another mission: to advance and promote certain Islamic beliefs. They point to questionable financial transactions and hiring practices as proof of the school’s covert ties to Turkish Muslim preacher Fethullah Gülen.”
But while Fatih Karatas, principal of the Sonoran Science Academy middle school in Tucson, flatly denied any connection with the Gülen movement, Beehive principal Muhammet “Frank” Erdogan in Salt Lake City admitted such links in the case of his school. The Salt Lake Tribune quoted his admission that along with him, “many of Beehive’s teachers and founders also support Gülen’s ideals.” The paper also described how “Adam Kuntz, a first-year history teacher at Beehive, was fired [in spring 2009], he alleges, for taking academic freedom concerns to the state board. Earlier in the school year, Kuntz had a run-in with Erdogan over a lesson plan on World War II and the Holocaust. Erdogan wanted Kuntz to revise the plan and during a tape-recorded meeting, questioned conventional accounts of the genocide.”
Kelly Wayment, a parent of three children in the school, was removed from his post on the Beehive administrative board after he e-mailed other parents about Gülen movement influence in the school. Wayment told the Salt Lake Tribune that as in the Tucson case, teachers “tend to be from Turkey and central Asian republics living here on work visas.”
Americans should ask both why and how the Islamist Gülen movement has managed to establish such a large presence for Turkish religious political indoctrination in publicly financed education — and should unite to oppose it.
Stephen Suleyman Schwartz is executive director of the Center for Islamic Pluralism in Washington, D.C. This article was sponsored by Islamist Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum.
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Black Rock traffic stop yields 94 fake $100 bills
By Aaron Besecker|Published Tue, Jun 18, 2019 |Updated Tue, Jun 18, 2019
Buffalo police charged an 18-year-old with felony forgery Monday night after finding 94 counterfeit $100 bills during a traffic stop in Black Rock, according to a police report.
Hector L. Quinones, of Churchill Street, was a back-seat passenger in a car pulled over on Churchill, a dead-end street off Amherst Street, west of Military Road, shortly before 11 p.m., according to the report.
Officers found the counterfeit cash in a bag next to Quinones in the back seat during a search of the vehicle, according to the report.
Quinones was charged with first-degree forgery, and the vehicle was impounded.
Police said officers pulled the car over because it was missing a license plate and a registration sticker. The driver, who was not identified in the report, was issued several citations, including for driving without a license. Police also found the vehicle’s license plate was registered to another vehicle.
Story topics: Buffalo Police Department/ crime/ police
Aaron Besecker – Aaron Besecker is a criminal justice reporter for The Buffalo News. He has been a News staff reporter since 2007.
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An American teenager believed to be armed and "infatuated" with the Columbine massacre has been found dead by authorities http://bit.ly/2vbIiiY
Tweeted by SBSNews on April 17, 2019 at 9:19 PM
> Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Shrader said Ms Pais was discovered by the FBI with an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
so it went from horrible (this woman now has the guns to do another school shooting) to strange (she's killed herself?)
@TimStone I'm not even sorry
Climate change protesters have glued themselves to a London train, only a day after hundreds were arrested for blocking major roads in the city https://t.co/NpySxpULLW
Tweeted by SBSNews on April 17, 2019 at 11:20 PM
Indigenous Alliance Without Borders releases Handbook on Indigenous Peoples’ Border Crossing Rights
This was never something I really considered as a need, but I am happy it exists.
While California was working on passing its landmark transparency law for police misconduct records, some cities were shredding their files https://theappeal.org/california-cities-have-shredded-decades-of-police-misconduct-records/
Tweeted by trevortimm on April 17, 2019 at 5:32 PM
BREAKING: The @NRA is in trouble - internally and externally. According to this new article, the lobbying organization’s tax transgressions are so egregious that their tax-exempt status may be in jeopardy. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/secrecy-self-dealing-and-greed-at-the-nra
Tweeted by shannonrwatts on April 17, 2019 at 11:59 PM
For whatever reason I never considered that the NRA would be a tax-exempt org but hey maybe now I won't have to
@TimStone i am pro crime so i take no pleasure in reporting this
Reuters: Gunmen have killed 14 people after hijiacking a passenger buss in Southwestern #Pakistan - local media
Tweeted by Rover829 on April 18, 2019 at 4:45 AM
@TimStone :/
@TimStone oh damn :(
From July, the UK becomes the first country in the world to make porn websites verify the age of UK visitors to their pages - or face being blocked. It's to try and stop under 18s viewing it. Let us know your thoughts #BBCTheBriefing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47960775
Tweeted by BenMBland on April 18, 2019 at 3:14 AM
> Twitter, Reddit and image-sharing community Imgur, for example, will not be required to administer the scheme because they fall under an exception where more than a third of a site or app's content must be pornographic to qualify.
Likewise, any platform that hosts pornography but does not do so on a commercial basis - meaning it does not charge a fee or make money from adverts or other activity - will not be affected.
Furthermore, it will remain legal to use virtual private networks (VPNs), which can make it seem like a UK-based computer is located elsewhere, to evade the age checks.
> Mindgeek, one of the adult industry's biggest players, has developed an online system of its own called AgeID, which it hopes will be widely adopted. It involves adults having to upload scans of their passports or driving licences, which are then verified by a third-party.
It has said that all the information will be encrypted and that the AgeID system will not keep track of how each users' accounts are used.
lets hope that the GDPR makes those scans safe for the user with the third parties
Dec 21 '18 at 12:11, by Memor-X
question though, these age verification cards, they are still anonymous right?
> High street stores and newsagents will also sell separate age-verification cards to adults after carrying out face-to-face checks, according to the government.
Dubbed "porn passes" by the media, the idea is that users would type in a code imprinted on the cards into pornographic websites to gain access to their content.
ok, good alternative and seems to keep the anonymity so not entirely bad if you're in the UK. only issue is that whether this then get implemented globally and everyone but the UK has to be sending their Drivers Licences/Passport images across the net
still, bet you the kids will just use VPNs
this sounds like a ridiculous thing that will be quickly circumvented
and/or help entrenched businesses stay on top by make start up costs worse
@GodEmperorDune well considering that a VPN would get around it it's probably the quickest to be circumvented
unless porn sites implement the system world wide
@Memor-X i imagine big or uk centric sites will comply, smaller sites will just block, like GDPR
@GodEmperorDune true but in that case VPN again. i was more thinking that really the only way to stop someone in the UK using a VPN to get around is if the system is implemented world wide. otherwise most measures to block access in and for UK users will jsut be gotten around by making you appear to be in the US
@Memor-X i mean netflix figured out how to mostly stop VPNs from getting around region restrictions
@GodEmperorDune they did? huh, but in that case isn't that the destination doing it then as opposed to middlemen like ISPs
also i would think it's a different situation, like Netflix wanted to segregate the user base by location from the start. Porn sites i would assume don't
ofcause most of this i'm just speculating from what i read about Porn Hub which may be erroneous due to lacking any experience on the platform
@Memor-X yeah netflix has different content in different countries because of distribution rights and laws and such, people were using VPN to access whatever they wanted that was available in other countries, so netflix blocked huge amounts of known VPNs somehow
i dunno if they just looked up all the major VPN providers and did IP blocks or what
A Federal Court judge has ruled that the ticket reseller, which sold tickets for events such as Queen concerts and the Australian Open, made false claims to consumers. https://bit.ly/2VQTdKJ
Tweeted by SBSNews on April 18, 2019 at 5:16 AM
pro-tip: don't try to mislead customers with those shoddy marketing tricks
Nzall
The strange story of a flight departing out of JFK that took one of the airport’s runway lights with it to 20,000 feet. https://onemileatatime.com/american-airlines-flight-jfk-takeoff-incident/
Tweeted by nycsouthpaw on April 18, 2019 at 11:13 AM
.@PaulaReidCBS reports the Mueller report will be delivered to the Hill on CDs tomorrow. House Judiciary Committee staff was prepared for this possibility — among many — and checked they still have a computer with a working CD-ROM drive (they do).
Tweeted by RebeccaRKaplan on April 17, 2019 at 11:25 PM
Could be worse. Could be delivered on floppy disks
@Nzall Barr, probably: "... knew I should've gone with the punchcards..."
@Yuuki Or Laserdisk
Or maybe he puts it all on some obscure file format.
@Yuuki audio recordings read by Gilbert Gottfried for a live studio audience that's constantly bursting into laughter, delivered on an UMD disk as the backing track of a "best of Ron Jeremy" compilation
Well, maybe that last part is a bit over the top
Static, that when put through a specific speech to text algorithm, transcribes the report with no less than 92% accuracy.
@Ronan Yeah, but you first need to reverse the sound waves and reflect them off the spire of Notre Dame. Oh wait...
@Yuuki I think Zip disks would have been just as good.
Huge news! NY Court System issues rule prohibiting ICE from making courthouse arrests without a judicial warrant. https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/wp-content/uploads/04172019142009.pdf
Tweeted by alicia_bannon on April 17, 2019 at 10:25 PM
Oh that's pretty good
Also 'uniformed UCS uniformed personnel'
(I mean, it's probably specific for a reason "uniformed personnel, employed by UCS, that are currently in uniform")
I also like that they have to be specific about "judicial warrant" because ICE has some variety of administrative warrant or some shit that does not give them authority to enter a residence or vehicle, it just gives them a piece of paper with which to tell the lie "police, we have a warrant, can we come in"
(to which the correct answer is "no", "please slide your 'warrant' under the door" observe no judge signature "this is not a warrant and I am not required to open the door")
@Unionhawk but wouldn't their response then be "but your an alien so you have no rights *bust door down*"
They're only allowed to come in if you invite them in or if they have a real warrant
they're like vampires
"can I come in" opens door at all or "can I come in" "yes" constitute an invitation
The cops (at least in the state of Ohio) are also not allowed to ask for the identification of anyone except the driver as long as everyone is wearing a seat belt
Well z they're allowed to ask, but you don't have to oblige them
Mueller report did not find that Trump team conspired with Russia: U.S. attorney general
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/mueller-report-redacted-released-1.5103136
@Wipqozn more or less confirming a worse nightmare, there was no conspiracy, the american people wanted Trump <sub><sub>in the key battleground states</sub></sub>
curious about the obstruction thing as you'd think reasonable doubt would be enough to exonerate a person
@Memor-X The obstruction part, from what I understand based on comments from law professors: obstruction is a catch-all term for loads of different legal statutes based on where the obstructed case was in the legal cycle. However, DoJ has to prove all the elements of a specific statute, and Mueller couldn't do that because Trump's conduct didn't neatly fit in any one statute. Congress doesn't have the same restrictions DOJ has so has broader jurisdiction
1/2 There isn’t just 1 obstruction statute in the criminal code, it’s a series of statutes designed for different stages in an investigation, different kinds of cases, different conduct & so on. Trump’s public conduct looks so clearly obstructive. One possibility for Mueller’s...
Tweeted by JoyceWhiteVance on April 18, 2019 at 2:39 PM
2/2 decision not to charge obstruction could be technical: prosecutors must prove all the elements of a specific statute. Trump’s conduct may not fall neatly within a statute but still be aimed to end investigation. That’s exactly why Congress has broad jurisdiction.
Tweeted by JoyceWhiteVance on April 18, 2019 at 2:43 PM in reply to JoyceWhiteVance
The basic rationalization Barr gives for why Trump didn’t legally obstruct justice is that he was emotionally upset about being accused of potential crimes and bad media coverage and acted out. That’s the actual argument the Attorney General of the United States made.
Tweeted by samstein on April 18, 2019 at 2:17 PM
The new “mad online” defense
This has been going on for decades & they need at least $20 million to fix it while companies & people donate almost a billion dollars in a matter of days to fix an old church in another country : Arsenic In Hopi Water Is Three Times The Legal Limit https://fronterasdesk.org/content/801226/arsenic-hopi-water-three-times-legal-limit
Tweeted by heather28df on April 18, 2019 at 3:13 PM
@GodEmperorDune lmfao
I mean it was the obvious result of all of this, "The President is a very dumb man so who can say if he really broke laws because intent matters only in this instance?" but it's still pretty incredible to see someone actually say it
@TimStone whomst amongst us hasn't obstructed a federal investigation by yelling at people on the internet
Evidence supports inference @POTUS intended @PaulManafort to believe he could get a pardon.
Tweeted by W7VOA on April 18, 2019 at 3:28 PM in reply to W7VOA
Special counsel determined @wikileaks asked @DonaldJTrumpJr to tweet Podesta emails and 4 days later he tweeted the link to them.
Not that we didn't know this already but like come on
Barr totally lied about why Mueller didn't decide whether Trump obstructed. https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
Tweeted by emptywheel on April 18, 2019 at 3:17 PM
... Did Time magazine seriously name both Kavanaugh and Ford as their Most Influential Person of the Year?
Oh, they're on the list of most influential but not at the top.
@GodEmperorDune There's a lot of black in there, but not as much as I had feared.
@Yuuki Ford, as in Doug Ford?
@Yuuki yes
@MBraedley there are much worse pages
I'm not an expert on this stuff, but this seems like an interesting part on page 18 of the PDF that I haven't seen other people point out, where Mueller says his conclusions could conceivably be different if not for witnesses lying, invoking privilege, etc.
Tweeted by NateSilver538 on April 18, 2019 at 3:21 PM
@GodEmperorDune I'm talking about the entire doc
@MBraedley ah, gotcha
Whoa, wait, was the report made publicly available?
anyway there is a lawsuit already to make sure that what is redacted is the absolute minimum
@SaintWacko justice.gov/storage/report.pdf
@MBraedley @GodEmperorDune In this context, it's Christine Blasey Ford.
Oh dang
Did not expect that without a much longer fight
@SaintWacko the fight is with the redactions and whether the summary mislead the public now
Yup: Mueller decided Don Jr was too stupid to conspire. Told ya.
Tweeted by emptywheel on April 18, 2019 at 3:49 PM in reply to emptywheel
trump tweeted with the game of thrones font again, any bets on how long until it gets DMCAd?
yay, searchable version:
OCR'd Mueller Report: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17W-jNqybJAj7N3c1I87OWdQCitG0zh_7/view?usp=sharing https://twitter.com/patdennis/status/1118893271437271040
Tweeted by patdennis on April 18, 2019 at 3:39 PM
@GodEmperorDune something something ignorance of the law
Although I suppose that gets weird when it comes to conspiracy charges.
Mueller: After telling McGahn to get the special counsel fired, Trump told McGahn to deny reports that he had done so. McGahn also told Mueller that Trump scolded him for taking notes, saying, "Lawyers don't take notes. I never had a lawyer who took notes."
Tweeted by ddale8 on April 18, 2019 at 3:38 PM in reply to ddale8
squints
It's really important not to think too hard about the fact this man is President because my word
HuffPost front page right now... https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mueller-report-does-not-exonerate-trump_n_5cb619a6e4b098b9a2db6c69
Tweeted by jbendery on April 18, 2019 at 3:57 PM
> The (Maybe Fake) Pee Tape
Mueller’s report shows that Michael Cohen, Trump’s longtime fixer, received a text message from Russian businessman Giorgi Rtskhiladze during the election campaign saying that Rtskhiladze had “stopped flow of tapes from Russia but not sure if there’s anything else.” Cohen told the special counsel’s team he briefed Trump on Rtskhiladze’s texts.
> Rtskhiladze said the tapes referred to compromising recordings of Trump, which were rumored to be held by people associated with the real estate group that helped host Trump’s 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Russia. The description of the tapes appeared to match an unverified allegation from a dossier compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, who was hired by a private firm during the 2016 campaign to collect information about Trump.
> stopped the flow
puzzlepiece87
@TimStone And still has the full support of his party
White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told investigators she lied to the press after Comey firing
Tweeted by DoreyScheimer on April 18, 2019 at 4:27 PM
Wow huge revelation that Sarah Sanders lies to reporters every time she speaks
1. After his Russia if you're listening presser, Trump asks Flynn to get Clinton's deleted emails 2. Flynn reaches out to several people, incl Peter W. Smith 3. Smith raises money, hires staff to do this 4. Smith represents he's in contact w Russian hackers 5. ... but it's BS.
Tweeted by nycsouthpaw on April 18, 2019 at 5:05 PM
This is also hilarious. They tried really hard to do the crime but actually it was just a grift
This is the part of the sentence Barr chose not to cite in either of his whitewashes of the results. (PDF 13)
although we have evidence that both sides wanted to do the crimes, we don't have enough evidence of them agreeing with each other to do the crimes
facebook deciding to dump bad news of more user password compromises ("Millions" of Instagram users, up from "thousands" a month ago) on mueller day https://twitter.com/KurtWagner8/status/1118926820785606657
Tweeted by MikeIsaac on April 18, 2019 at 5:26 PM
@GodEmperorDune Well, and to the issue specifically of the Russian interference of the election, benefiting from that interference is itself not technically assisting in the interference, I guess? Which matters more from a legal perspective than a practical one, I imagine
South Carolina GOP consultant Richard Quinn indicted for perjury http://hill.cm/nycQdAd
Tweeted by thehill on April 18, 2019 at 5:28 PM
> Quinn was previously charged with other corruption-related charges…but they were dropped in 2017 under the terms of a guilty plea deal involving his son Rick
@TimStone yeah trump is very into breaking spirit of the law if not letter of the law
> Last April, Pascoe said Quinn would face no further criminal charges unless he was determined to have committed perjury
womp wooooomp
i mean he tries to break letter of the law too but staffers just ignore it
lol the pee analyst has the most blasphemous take
I knew today would be dumb af but my god
NEW: Following their felony indictments in October 2017, Paul Manafort told Rick Gates he was given assurances by Trump’s personal counsel that they were "going to take care of us,” Mueller report says. https://abcn.ws/2Xh3JLI
Tweeted by evanmcmurry on April 18, 2019 at 5:32 PM
@TimStone as one does
Imagine being Manafort though and that like, not happening
It certainly still could but I don't see why Trump would give a damn about him now
“Investigating the investigators is something some of the investigators think is a good idea,” according to @KellyannePolls.
Yeah Nunes does not count as investigator he barely counts as a Congressperson
He's more of a sprinter.
@SaintWacko here is a visual of the redaction: latimes.com/projects/…
it was redacted by the department of justice, lead by Attorney General Barr, not the white house, but there seems to be close coordination between the two and trump specifically appointed AG Barr who has a history of covering up white house crimes
...I should probably disable my Trump to Kittens converter
yeah lol
@SaintWacko No, that's exactly what Barr sent to Congress.
Huh, okay, it's not as badly redacted as I was afraid
I do hope that the justice department didn't have too much of a hand in the redacting
They're clearly corrupted
i mean they did all the redacting
and are currently being sued by journalists to prove that the redactions are legit
2 hours ago, by MBraedley
its more about the quality of the redactions vs the quantity
we have no idea what kind of stuff is behind them
and personally i won't give the trump admin benefit of the doubt, given their track record
@SaintWacko What you mean is that you hope most of the redacting was done by career civil servants and not appointed bureaucrats.
Yeah, some of it seems questionable as it doesn't relate to the (apparently 14?) matters referred to outside prosecution
Look who also helped with redacting stuff!
Bannon and Prince no longer have all their relevant texts... nothing to see here
Tweeted by nycsouthpaw on April 18, 2019 at 5:52 PM in reply to nycsouthpaw
"I didn't delete anything they just…disappeared, like magic!"
@MBraedley Right
New: James Cohen Agrees to Buy the National Enquirer for $100 Million, reports @wsj My big question now is what happens to “the vault” of damaging stories that have been caught-and-killed over the years. https://www.wsj.com/articles/james-cohen-agrees-to-buy-national-enquirer-for-100-million-11555609554
Tweeted by christinawilkie on April 18, 2019 at 5:51 PM
@TimStone release the KRAKEN
and/or use it to extort celebrities to recoup your investment
$100 million seems cheap, I wonder if they already sold that stuff to the highest bidder
qanon is already waiting for the proper time to release it
I see Greenwald is corncobbing too. I don't understand why he's so invested in undermining the reality of the Russian involvement. Like if you think it doesn't matter in comparison, sure, but he tries to act like it didn't really happen?
Which, buddy
the whole report is just a magic eye puzzle
people are going to look at it and determine for themselves what it means
for example, Seth Abramson sees a 200 tweet thread in it
@Unionhawk That's to be expected with a 400 page report where people can decide 6% of the contents for themselves.
wake me up when don jr goes to prison or whatever
Okay Jr isn't going to prison yet but did you want a vivid description of the part of Herman Cain you haven't seen?
I know that it's been a crazy news day, but this is truly wild https://www.thedailybeast.com/herman-cain-accuser-ginger-white-threatens-to-describe-his-parts-before-congress-if-he-doesnt-withdraw?ref=author
Tweeted by OliviaMesser on April 18, 2019 at 7:43 PM
@TimStone is this toadstool from mario kart all over again?
@TimStone No
Basically but also worth noting Cain is accused of abusing four women so!
Sears has filed a lawsuit against its former chairman and CEO, Edward Lampert, and his hedge fund, claiming they siphoned $2 billion in assets from the company as it headed toward bankruptcy. https://trib.al/q4XxuAW
Tweeted by chicagotribune on April 18, 2019 at 4:18 PM
Oh wow weird
@TimStone apparently this dude was like a mega Randian or some shit which is why the overall organization was actually just a series of competing departments to the detriment of the whole?
which like, what
@TimStone There is one batshit crazy thing Cain can do to take the sting out of that threat, and that's to go on live national television and expose himself before she testifies so he can claim she knew what his genitals looked like because she saw them on Fox and Friends
Over the last few weeks, one of Iran's most active state-sponsored hacker groups has been getting thoroughly Shadowbrokered, with no end in sight: https://www.wired.com/story/iran-hackers-oilrig-read-my-lips/
Tweeted by a_greenberg on April 18, 2019 at 7:06 PM
.@realDonaldTrump walks by reporters at the White House with @FLOTUS and, surprising everyone on the #MuellerReport day, does not stop to take any questions.
Tweeted by jeffmason1 on April 18, 2019 at 8:16 PM
lol I wonder how they managed to convince him to not run his mouth
New details on messages between Don, Jr. and Wikileaks in the Mueller Report –– In a footnote, the report details how Wikileaks got the password to break into an anti-Trump site. Trump's son may well be in violation of federal anti-hacking law https://slate.com/technology/2019/04/mueller-report-donald-trump-jr-wikileaks-twitter-hacking.html
Tweeted by aprilaser on April 18, 2019 at 5:52 PM
Yeah, though the report basically says again that he was too dumb I think
Though maybe that was only about the meeting
i understand ho being too dumb to realize you were conspiring messes with the legal definition of intent or whatever
but like "hey here's a hacked password" and then "i used the password and it works" IN AN EMAIL
More excellent framing, this time on the WaPo homepage. Great to see that the media isn't buying Barr's and Trumpworld's spin.
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Caroline Leighton, Life at Puget Sound
“Life at Puget Sound:
With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon, and California, 1865-1881″
Boston: Lee and Shepard / New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1884
The title and subtitle tell you the genre of this typically Alki-spirited piece of booster literature. (For fun, contrast her outlook with that reported on page 159.) There are unpredictable elements, like the stop at Mariguana Island (!) in the Bahamas on Leighton’s way to the Pacific Northwest. ‘
Mariguana Island is probably better known now for its role in the video game Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag.
And the diary format lets the author express herself free of terribly restricting conventions, as when she observes how little interest fellow passengers had in religion when threatened with shipwreck on a coral reef. Leighton raises her credibility in my estimation, not only by being female and therefore providing a somewhat rare counterpoint to the monotonies of male bravado in much of our region’s historical sources, but also by evaluating Native, Chinese and other people around her with a good deal of compassion.
Chapter 2 opens the curtain on Caroline Leighton in the PNW, having a house built at Port Angeles, Washington Territory, on July 20, 1865. As the linguist who’s guiding you through her book, I have to point out right over there, where she refers to that prominent local flower that she calls “Indian-flame” (Indian paintbrush, Castilleja, surely).
The Leightons receive the customary unexpected Native visitors whose relative lack of garb discomfits them, and with whom they can’t–yet–communicate verbally.
We shall endeavor to procure from Victoria a dictionary of the Haidah, Chinook and other Indian languages, by the aid of which we shall be able to receive such visitors in a more satisfactory manner.
(Page 20; this is a reference to one of the earlier popular CJ handbooks, the assiduously reprinted Dictionary of Indian Tongues, containing most of the words and terms used in the Tsimpsean, Hydah, & Chinook, with their meaning or equivalent in the English language. Published by Hibben &Carswell, Victoria, V.I..)
These visitors are “Hunter” and his wife, and the Leighton’s carpenter explains that this man has done some work for him and has come for his pay;
that he would not take a white man’s word for a moment, but if, in making an agreement with him, a white man gave him a little bit of paper with any thing written on it, he was perfectly satisfied, and said [in pidgin English], “You my tilikum [relation]–I wait.”
That’s a reference, also on page 20, to the pan-Northwest custom of skookum papers, not always called that but in wide use.
By the summer of 1865, Chinook Jargon had broad currency at the Straits of Juan de Fuca. Newly arrived non-Natives like Leighton were learning it as quickly as possible, and sucessfully speaking it with the range of Native people that they encountered. No longer was CJ the tool primarily of trade or diplomacy, a really interesting development to keep in mind as we see how this author was using it. One of the things you might take note of is the definition she assigns to each CJ wowrd; they seem both accurate and the product of her personal experience.
August 2, 1865 (page 22):
We went this morning to an Indian Tamáhnous (incantation), to drive away the evil spirits from a sick man.
August 17, 1865 (page 22):
He [Hunter] called me “Closhe tum-tum” (Good Heart), and gave me a great many beautiful smiles.
Yeomans, an old Indian chief, the Tyee of the Flat-heads at Port Angeles, came to see us to-day. He pointed to himself, and said, [in pidgin English] “Me all the same white man;” explaining that he did not paint his face, nor drink whiskey.
‘Flat-heads’ is consistently applied to the local Salish people, in contrast with the Makahs. The same day (page 24):
Sometimes I see him [“Mr. Yeomans’s son”] going out with his klootchman in their little canoe; she, crouched in her scarlet blanket at one end…
Same day, pages 24-24, also about the son:
To-night he came in to tell us that there was going to be a great potlach at the coal-mines, where a large quantity of iktas would be given away, –tin pans, guns, blankets, canoes and money.
Those all are things you’d ask a shopkeeper for in CJ, aren’t they?
Page 28, entry for September 20, 1865: sallal (salal) is an established English word, used without definition beyond “the Indian’s berry”. On the same page:
It [walking through the forest] recalled to me the Indian’s dread of skookums (spirits) in the deep woods.
Pages 30-31, same entry, have Leighton squeezing narrative effect out of overstating her Jargon neophyte status:
We should not have ventured to go alone with the Indians [by hired canoe northward from Port Gamble in Puget Sound], not understanding their talk; but another passenger was to go with us, who represented that he had learned the only word it would be necessary to use. He explained to us, after we started, that the word was “hyac,” which meant “hurry up;” the only danger being that we should not reach Port Townsend before dark, as they were apt to proceed in so leisurely a way when left to themselves. After a while, the bronze paddlers–two siwashes (men) and two klootchmen (women)–began to show some abatement of zeal in their work, and our fellow-passenger pronounced the talismanic word, with some emphasis; whereat they laughed him to scorn, and made some sarcastic remarks, half Chinook and half English, from which we gathered that they advised him, if he wanted to reach Port Townsend before dark, to tell the sun to stop, and not tell them to hurry up.
Page 32, same entry, engaging a Native man named Tommy to canoe them from Port Discovery with apparently minimal CJ skill:
…as the weather was still unsettled, we took the precaution, before starting, to give him his directions for the trip: “Halo wind, Port Angeles; hyiu wind, Dungeness,” meaning that we were to have the privilege of stopping at Dungeness if it should prove too stormy to go on…When we reached the portage over which they had to carry the canoe, he pointed out the place of the memaloost (the dead).
Page 33, same entry, talking more with Tommy, where ‘all the same’ resonates with pidgin English:
He said it was all the same with an Indian, whether he was memaloost, or on the illahie (the earth); meaning that he was equally alive…When we reached the other side of the portage, the surf roared so loud, it seemed frightful to launch the canoe in it; but Tommy praised R. [Leighton’s husband?] as skookum (very strong) in helping to conduct it over…[at Dungeness] he pointed to some one he said was all the same as his mamma.
Page 37, October 5, 1865: Leighton muses over the Indians’ reputed belief that the “crows” [ravens?] are their ancestors, connecting it with their languages’ prominent “use of the palate–kl and other guttural sounds occurring so oftten”.
November 5, 1865, page 39, datelined Seattle: Leighton mentions a great “laurel” tree by the house they are staying in; her detailed description of it matches the madrone, a.k.a. arbutus (Arbutus menziesii) nowadays north of the border.
April 6, 1866, page 40: the author mentions local Indian women “with their little bundles of ‘fire-sticks‘ (pitch-wood)”–a phrase that could be CJ or pidgin English.
April 30, 1866, page 41: the Native people refer to the “‘red Tamáhnous,’ presumably pil Tamáhnous, which means ‘love’.” This phrase reveals a fascinating additional cultural dimension behind the term “black tamanous” or klale Tamáhnous, for evil sorcery that’s noted in contemporaneous sources from Puget Sound (and on page 114 of this book). What other colors of tamanous might there have been?
(These dudes picked a kill name for a death-metal band. Mine is going to be Mëmälööst Chïckämïn, and we’re going to do very snappy versions of Rev. Eells’s CJ hymns. Wait till you hear me growling “Whiskey memaloost tillicums!” over a raging double kick drum and weedly guitars. I don’t mention my own bass playing, out of obvious modesty.)
Oh right, back to the book.
Page 42, same entry, a couple of CJ anthropological linguistic observations on ‘expressive lengthening’ intensification and on vocabulary:
The Indians, by prolonging the sound [stressed vowels] of words, add to their force, and vary their meaning; so that the same word signifies more or less, according as it is spoken quickly or slowly…The Indians have no word, as far as I can learn, for “busy.” So, when I cannot entertain her [a very persuasive Pend d’Oreille woman], I have to make the nearest approach I can to the truth, and tell her I am sick, or something of that kind…As old as she is, she still carries home the great sacks of flour–a hundred pounds–on her back, superintends the salmon-fishery for the family, takes care of the tenas men (children), and looks after affairs in general.
May 10, 1866, page 43, at Lake Union–meeting an elderly Native couple leads to this light on the recency of CJ on Puget Sound:
The most primitive of the Indians, the old gray ones, who look the most interesting, do not commonly speak the Chinook at all, or have any intercourse with the whites.
Page 51, entry of June 8, 1866, traveling up the Columbia from Portland:
The bodies were always laid with the head toward the west, because the memaloose illahie (land of the dead) lay that way.
Chinese miners are noted (pages 51-52) as patiently working abandoned claims, not interfering with rich ones, and nearly alone among immigrants, making sure to pay their mining license taxes.
On page 55, getting into north-central Washington’s semidesert, Leighton marvels at what’s obviously the bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva) flower, for which she has no name, and at the “cayotes”.
Same entry still, page 56, ‘stick Indians’, a phrase that everyone uses to signify someone else’s exotic tribe:
We noticed the superiority of the “stick” Indians (those who live in the woods) over those who live by the sea.
Page 57, same entry still:
…the lazy Clalams on the Sound, who used to say to us in reply to our inquiries as to their occupations and designs, “Cultus nannitsh, cultus mitlight” (look about and do nothing), as if that were their whole business all day long…
The Leightons meet and apparently talk (in CJ) with a Spokane Indian who is roaming the country locating stolen horses. On page 60, two great smoking mounds turn out to be “kamas” ovens. Other roots are eaten, with Salish names pohpoh and spatlam.
Page 89, visiting Father Joseph [Joset?] at Old Fort Colville, a Chinook Jargon name is heard:
…a messenger rode up to the door, and told him that Tenas Marie (Little Mary) was dying.
Page 99, visiting Pelouse Fall [Palouse Falls]: in the entry of August 23, 1866, is a mention of cayuse ponies and a hackama, defined as a buffalo-hair rope.
October 26, 1866, page 110:
We have had a great storm; and last night, about dark, a white figure of a woman appeared in the water, rising and falling, outside the breakers. Some Indians went out in their canoes, and took her in to the shore. One of them came to tell us about it. A “ship’s klootchman” (wife or woman), he said it was, and a “hyas (big) ship” must have gone down. It was the figure-head of a vessel.
Page 111, October 29, 1866:
I took one [sea urchin] up, and asked him [Yeomans] if they were good to eat. He said, “Indian muck-a-muck, not for Bostons“ (whites).
On page 112, same entry, the word mesahchie (outrageous) is used in addressing local Native people about their behavior. On page 113, at a beach location that’s unclear, the Leightons run into a previous acquaintance, Tleyuk (Spark of Fire), who knows little English but usually greets them with a pleasant Klahowya (glossed as “How do you do?”). [Interestingly, this is the name of a Shoalwater Bay man often mentioned in JG Swan’s 1857 book.] This section of the book deals with a trip from Puget Sound to the Columbia River.
Entry of December 23[?], 1866, page 120, having engaged Indian boatmen bossed by a Native man “Shorty” to transport them from Cowlitz Landing:
Always in the most difficult places, or if his energy seemed to flag in the least, Shorty would call out to him, in the most animated manner, mentioning a canoe, a hammock, and a hyas closhe (very nice) klootchman; at which the young man would laugh with delight, and start anew. I considered it was probably his stock in life, the prospect of an establishment, which was presented to rouse and cheer him on.
Entry of December 1, 1868, page 141, referring to Victoria:
They [the Hudsons Bay Company] gave the Indians better goods than they got from the United-States agents; so that they even now distinguish between a King George (English) blanket, and a Boston (American) blanket, as between a good one and a bad one.
Entry of April 4, 1869, datelined Port Townsend, page 146; talking to people busy at a Native burial ground, obviously in CJ–emphasis added by me:
We asked them if a chief were dead. “No,” it was her “little woman.” [An old man at the burial of the girl] apparently called to the spirit of the child to come and receive it [a little purple woollen shawl]; and he then cast it into the fire. He spoke in the old Indian language, which they do not use in talking with us. It sounded very strange and thrilling.
Page 147, continuing this scene:
The old man…lay motionless, looking at the fire, once in a while turning and saying something to the women, apparently about the child, as I several times distinguished the word tenas-tenas (little one).
Entry of October 15, 1874, apparently near Port Angeles:
We stopped, and asked her [a distraught-acting old Native woman] if any one was dead. She pointed to a square box in the canoe, and said, “mika tenas” [sic] (my child). She said, afterwards, that she was as tall as I, and “hyas closhe” (so good)!
Page 201, entry of November 8, 1875, in California: some Chinese Pidgin English: “Me heap smart.” And on page 236, “Melican man no sabbe Chinaman medicine” and “Melican medicine no good for Chinaman“.
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