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Sensormatic sells electronic article surveillance systems for managing shrinkage across a retailer's enterprise. "We have a significant portfolio of technology around exit gates," Brown says. TrueVUE enables the two applications to be merged into a single cloud-based solution, by which items detected as having been removed from a store are automatically updated in inventory as requiring replenishment. The company also offers its ShopperTrak Traffic Insights platform and its Sensormatic Shrink Management as a Service loss-prevention platform, both in a cloud model.
Sensormatic works with partners to provide hardware and other technology, and also makes some of its own sensors and devices. This includes BLE beacons that can transmit data to mobile phones and thereby identify the movements of shoppers and store personnel, while also providing them with content about products within a store. "We've provided a high degree of functionality on our legacy platform of TrueVue," Brown says, but adds, "It's just a more traditional environment. As we've moved toward a SaaS model and a SaaS platform, we're taking away the need for customers to worry about any hosting model. We take care of that."
Brent Brown
With the use of the GCP, Brown reports, retailers have few upfront costs. "We can turn them on very quickly and move the solution very quickly from pilot phase to deployment," he states. The solution is intended to be modular. If a customer doesn't want a particular feature, that feature can simply be turned off.
With the SaaS model, Brown says, businesses can now more readily expand beyond inventory management and loss prevention. "When a customer deploys," he explains, "the most pressing need is around inventory accuracy," but the next step is often loss prevention, followed by customer-facing systems.
The next step may be to manage the experience for shoppers in fitting rooms. For instance, retailers could provide touch screens or "magic mirrors" with built-in RFID readers in dressing rooms in order to detect what garment is being tried on, and then offer content about that item, as well as other products that could accompany it. Shoppers could request another size from sales associates by pressing prompts on the screen.
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Dr Megan Nethercote
Position: Postdoctoral Fellow
College / Portfolio: Design and Social Context
School / Department: Global, Urban and Social Studies
Email: megan.nethercote@rmit.edu.au
Campus: Melbourne City Campus
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Megan Nethercote is a research fellow at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT.
Dr Nethercote was awarded a Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2017 and is based in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. Her research investigates the impacts of urban intensification, and of capitalist political economy in particular, on households and cities. Her current work focuses on high-rise apartment development, and also the functions of housing and households under neoliberal shifts.
Dr Nethercote has experience working on several major, multi-institution interdisciplinary Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage grants with a range of government and industry partners. She currently manages ARC Linkage Project HOME, which is a large empirical study of infill apartment development across four international cities (Melbourne, Perth, London and Barcelona), to understand how we might characterise 'good' design for apartment developments and the institutional settings that encourage and impede its delivery. This research involves collaboration with industry partners, the Department of Premier and Cabinet, and the City of Melbourne, and responds to heightened national and international scrutiny surrounding the proliferation of substandard apartments and mounting pressure to better regulate this.
Dr Nethercote was awarded Malcolm Moore Award in April 2017 to pursue additional research on the political economy of apartment development, and specifically attempts to interrupt or contest ongoing housing commodification and financialisation. Through a pilot study with social enterprise Nightingale Housing, Dr Nethercote is investigating alternative relationships between land and housing, including understandings of their progressive possibilities to reorientate us towards de-commodification, and its impacts on households and communities.
She earned her PhD from RMIT University where she examined Indigenous housing policy reform and tenancy management in town camp communities. Prior to undertaking her PhD, Dr Nethercote worked as an architect on large civic and residential developments at international architectural practices in Melbourne and London.
PhD – RMIT
Bacherlor of Architecture – University of Melbourne
Master of Architecture – University of Edinburgh, UK
Nethercote, M. (2019). Revisiting the Household for Housing Research In: Housing, Theory and Society, , 1 - 20
Nethercote, M. (2019). In Press - Kemeny revisited: the new homeownership-welfare dynamics In: Housing Studies, , 1 - 26
Nethercote, M. (2019). Caring Households: The Social Ties that House In: Housing, Theory and Society, , 1 - 17
Nethercote, M. (2019). Immaterial Inheritance: The Socialization of Cultures of Housing Consumption In: Housing, Theory and Society, , 1 - 17
Nethercote, M. (2017). When social infrastructure deficits create displacement pressures: Inner city schools and the suburbanization of families in Melbourne In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 41, 443 - 462
Nethercote, M.,Horne, R. (2016). Ordinary vertical urbanisms: City apartments and the everyday geographies of high-rise families In: Environment and Planning A, 48, 1581 - 1598
Nethercote, M. (2015). Operationalizing a responsibility agenda in Australia's indigenous communities: Confused, doubtful and subversive public housing tenants In: Housing, Theory and Society, 32, 171 - 195
Nethercote, M. (2015). Neoliberal welfare, minorities and tenancy support In: Social Policy and Society, , 1 - 18
Nethercote, M. (2014). Reconciling policy tensions on the frontlines of Indigenous housing provision in Australia: reflexivity, resistance and hybridity In: Housing Studies, 29, 1045 - 1072
Habibis, D.,Birdsall-Jones, C.,Dunbar, T.,Scrimgeour, M.,Taylor, E.,Nethercote, M. (2011). Improving housing responses to Indigenous patterns of temporary mobility In: Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute Final Report No. 162�, , 1 - 197
View more outputs from this academic in the RMIT Research Repository
Living Change: Adaptive housing responses to climate change in the town camps of Alice Springs. Funded by: National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility Climate Change Research Grant Pre-2014 from (2012 to 2013)
Supervisor Interests
Housing, Urban development, Critical urban geography, Indigenous housing policy,
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Crystal Palace v Tottenham Hotspur
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Tottenham Hotspur are targeting a seventh victory from eight Premier League away matches this season as they visit London rivals Crystal Palace, who are are looking for a first win in seven top-flight fixtures.
Crystal Palace's squad is unchanged from their last match.
Spurs' midfield duo Eric Dier and Victor Wanyama have returned to training and could face Roy Hodgson's side.
But Mousa Dembele is likely to be out of action until the new year after suffering an ankle ligament injury. He joins Jan Vertonghen (hamstring) and Danny Rose (groin) in the treatment room.
Twenty-five of the last 26 goals scored in PL meetings between Crystal Palace and Tottenham Hotspur have been scored in the second half. There has only been one first-half goal in the last 14 clashes.
Spurs have won their last six PL matches against Palace, conceding only one goal.
Mauricio Pochettino’s side have won their last five PL London derbies. They last had a longer run in the top flight between October 1950 and August 1951, with eight in a row.
Harry Kane has scored 24 goals in 37 PL London derbies, a ratio of 0.65 per match. Of players who have appeared in a minimum of five, only Thierry Henry has a better ratio, with 43 in 59, or 0.73.
Referee: Jonathan Moss
Assistants: Eddie Smart, Andy Halliday
Fourth official: Roger East
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Paper $44.95 ISBN: 9781842775813 Published October 2005 For sale in North and South America only
China, Africa and the Re-shaping of Information Society
Iginio Gagliardone
Negotiating Public Services in the Congo
Tom De Herdt
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Jo-Ann Archibald
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Alexis Malefakis
The Urban Village
A Charter for Democracy and Local Self-Sustainable Development
Alberto Magnaghi
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240 pages | 5.4375 x 8.5 | © 2005
When first published in Italy, this book sold out in months. It stirred much media interest and was widely welcomed across the political spectrum and in scholarly circles. Now available in English in an updated version, The Urban Village introduces the concept of self-sustainable local development based on each locality's territorial specificities and traditions. After exploring the significance of local development in all its political, social and technical dimensions, Professor Magnaghi sets out a concrete vision for a new urban regional 'utopia'. He proposes, in addition to conventional indices of wealth and income, other criteria of social progress - including quality of life, social solidarity, and the development of non-commercial caring relations. Only when local communities value their local heritages, he argues, and build themselves on a basis of local economic self-government, will they be able to resist the colonization and marginalization that globalization so often inflicts on them.
At a time when the idea of the local, the demand for genuine decentralization capable of building effective community-level self-governing institutions, innovative democratic experiments, and ecological sustainability are all attracting more public interest, Alberto Magnaghi's blend of theoretical thinking and practical proposals is likely to prove a source of inspiration for politicians, planners and citizens wrestling with the challenge of building urban and rural communities.
Alberto Magnaghi is Professor of Land Use Planning at the University of Florence and leader of a nationwide research project to explore the importance of Italy's local heritage for endogenous development in the country's various regions. Besides many academic publications, he is the author of The Charter for a New Municipium that was presented at the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in 2002.
Preface by Edward Goldsmith
Part 1: The territorialist approach: towards local self-sustainable development
1. The metropolis form and deterritorialization
2. Beyond the metropolis form
3. The territory is not a beast of burden
4. The territorialist approach
5. Local self-sustainable development
6. The agents of change
7. The status of places
Part 2: Visions of a strategic scenario
8. Concrete utopia and strategic scenarios
9. Projects for open spaces: the landscape of the new farmers
10. Cities of the village, cities of cities, networks of cities
11. The New Municipium
12. Towards the construction of the urban village: from the hypermarket to marketing networks for local products
13. Local projects and the South of the world: from co-operation to the development of fair trade
14. The local project: summing up a political vision
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ScotRail forced to apologise after Aberdeen trains cancelled yet again
by Tom Peterkin
June 15, 2019, 9:09 am Updated: June 16, 2019, 8:07 pm
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ScotRail has apologised to north-east rail passengers after staff shortages led to several Aberdeen trains being cancelled.
Commuters living south of the city faced “serious disruption” as a result of the cancellation of eight of the local trains, which are supposed to run almost hourly between Aberdeen and Montrose.
InterCity trains travelling between Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen were forced to make extra stops at Portlethen and Laurencekirk in an attempt to minimise the impact of the cancellations yesterday afternoon and evening.
Another local service, which was supposed to go to Stonehaven, was terminated at Aberdeen.
North East Tory MSP Liam Kerr warned north-east travellers were “fast losing patience” with ScotRail.
He said: “This will cause serious disruption for passengers in the north-east today.
“I will be writing to ScotRail to ask if these staffing issues only apply to the north-east – as many locally are beginning to suspect. ScotRail must address any staffing shortages as quickly as possible.”
The company has faced widespread criticism for the frequency of delays and cancellations in the north and north-east.
Labour north east MSP Lewis Macdonald said: “There are lots of people from Montrose, Laurencekirk, Stonehaven and Portlethen who work in Aberdeen.
“They are being encouraged to take the train to reduce congestion in the city. But if they take the train on a Friday morning and they can’t get home on a Friday afternoon that’s not a good message.”
An inability to get enough crew led to the cancellation of four trains heading out of Aberdeen to Montrose, via Portlethen, Stonehaven and Laurencekirk, at 1516, 1610, 1953 and 2115.
In the other direction, the 1649, 1806, 2050 and 2303 from Montrose to Aberdeen were cancelled.
During the afternoon, four InterCity trains linking Aberdeen with Edinburgh or Glasgow, which already stop at Stonehaven, made an extra stop at either Portlethen or Lawrencekirk.
Staff shortages also led to the 1737 Dyce to Stonehaven train, via Aberdeen and Portlethen, having to stop at Aberdeen. Passengers seeking to get to Stonehaven were advised to the LNER’s 1818 service from the city.
Those wanting to travel on to Portlethen were told to ask station staff to organise alternative transport.
A train fault led to the cancellation of the 0802 service from Wick to Inverness.
A ScotRail spokesperson said: “We’re sorry to our customers who’ve been disrupted by these cancellations. Anyone delayed by 30 minutes or more can claim money back through the Delay Repay Guarantee on our website or mobile app.”
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I WANTED A CITY by Janet MarksPosted by Timothy Green
Review by Gail Fishman Gerwin
I WANTED A CITY
by Janet Marks
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We read Janet Marks’s poetry with the expectation that she should have something to teach us. She has lived through the Great Depression, two world wars, a presidential assassination and a handful of assassination attempts, and moon walks. She has crossed the Y2K line, she has experienced parental love and emotional distance. She has gone through divorce and has lived in many locales: urban, rural, crisp, muddy. Indeed she has stories to share.
She has survived with the insight—fortunate for readers—to provide us with a sweeping view of her own history in context of the history of preceding generations. I Wanted a City is her first full-length collection, one that has been building since her middle years. The book’s acknowledgments run the gamut of literary journals and her work along the road to this volume earned awards, a prestigious writing residency, and ongoing accolades from colleagues.
Some of the book’s most resonant poems come from her life in San Francisco, where the poem “Small View of the Big One” takes us to “… 2 a.m., my bed/ has surged with the inhaling-exhaling earth in/ Mill Valley where small tremors haunt the countryside …” She goes on to pull us through a quake-filled day (“I think the driver is playing with the brakes” … “the Bay Bridge has split apart”) on to 5 p.m. when she spots a “black and white dog” that has “bolted through a window in shock.” The dog teeters on a ledge; she urges him to go back, go in, “but he will not go.” In four short stanzas, she addresses the fear in all of us as disaster strikes, down to one of the smaller, helpless beings who can rely only on instinct. Where can we run to escape life’s big ones? What can we do with our fears? She leaves us on the ledge with these questions; she makes us worry. We don’t know if the dog survives. A true Bay Area resident, she is almost casual with her descriptions of the horror, just another day when “houses and apartments/ built on fill are caving-in and burning” while in counterpoint her tender heart enters the psyche of a defenseless creature. We are with her in her shaking bed, we are with her on the bus, we are with her as she walks in the street. Interestingly, in this and many of her poems, Marks does not always use end-punctuation. She maintains the momentum long after the poem is finished; we provide our own periods after returning to reread.
The book’s very next poem abruptly takes Marks back to a distant time and place, to her tenancy in the womb as another trick of Nature—Texas floods—assails the rural population. She notes, “my immigrant mother/ with me in her womb/ climbs a chair/ until father comes to save us.” Deep inside her mother, she is part of the family, part of the “us” that holds it together. She ages several years within two stanza’s of this poem, “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice,” to allude to her mother’s instinctual response to “my fevered brain … fetching more and more water/ with more and more pieces of herself.” Mother as protector, mother as nurturer, and in “Growing Up In The Thirties,” mother as stern guide:
she wanted me
to be a piano prodigy but intervened
between the piano & me
compelling me to give it up.
In this poem Marks reflects her generation, one where “college was inaccessible” and studying shorthand the practical path for young women.
Mother as someone distant and private, mother as an angry wife who “… raved at father as though he were to blame” for the Depression. (This father was her mother’s second husband; she lost her first love in the flu epidemic.) The poem “Seeking a Life” goes on to tell how this father borrowed money from an uncle who “never let him forget.” Marks’s mother struggles with her own secret demons, her lifetime of stoic loneliness:
forgetting two old parents she’d sailed away from
never seemed to turn back until the letter
came that her mother was gone
she went upstairs & cried alone
—“Growing Up In The Thirties”
Marks inserts some of her own isolation in this poem; she speaks of sailing into marriage and parenting and throughout the book offers glimpses of her feelings about these states In “Visiting Mother” she speaks of a marriage “cracking in ice storms.” In “A True Victorian Lady” her mother, who practiced her Judaism alone, silently lighting the candles, fasting on Yom Kippur, could not accept her daughter’s divorce and showed her distaste: “To her my words were a foreign tongue/ she picked off herself like fleas.” Despite this disapproval, Marks separates herself from the marriage, yet hints at a type of emotional reconciliation with her former husband in “Visiting Mother”: “now apart we’re kinder/ on the porch he brings our granddaughter home offers me/ his car—I walk this time.” She also lets readers know that despite her innate ability to survive as an independent woman, she misses her parents and her children. On one of her walks that populate the book, this time in Golden Gate Park, “I reach for the steel stays of my mother/ Her voice of loss grips me to her” and she imagines her father, who “comes to say there is too much rain/ on the grave where his bones whiten.” She tells us that the “children I have spawned have learned to swim alone.”
Marks, who describes herself as a wayfarer, belies generations of women who remained in sour liaisons. She comes across as a person who has gone through the funnel of hardship and disappointment yet is whole, who is satisfied with the woman she’s become, a woman unafraid to test herself in many locales. She often views these locales—and exquisitely shares the visuals with us—on foot (“and a blob of jelly quivers to my stick/ makes a hideous face at me./ I am not afraid”) or from a seat on a bus. We ride with her “downtown on the 163 Bus/ on Louisiana Street” when she spots billboards with life messages; in San Francisco she’s on the way to a Woody Allen movie by bus when the quake interfered. She climbs hills, she relishes all she encounters wherever she lives: the animal sculptures of Bufano in Sausalito, at San Francisco’s Aquatic Park pier, where she walks “near the edge of living” with “fourteen Cambodian students …”
Janet Marks has given readers the gift of her youth, the gift of geography, the gift of history, and the gift of her maturity. Yes, she has a lot to teach. She teaches us how to take routes that help us cope with what we cannot control. She teaches us how important it is to embrace the past and to see the present as adventure with no age limitations. And she teaches us how to create a work of art that combines specificity and metaphor. In “I Open My Eyes and It’s Spring,” she carries apples, eggplant, and Sunkist (oranges?) up Masonic Hill; “It’s cold without sun,” she says. Just when we become comfortable with the familiar, in the next moment we see that “the wind heaves me into the Pacific.” Where is she going? Why is she flying? Then back to a beggar at Portsmouth Square who says “all of my former lives were insane.” No insanity here, just a gift of tale. Janet Marks wanted a city and so she created a universal city that transcends any single place in this beautiful collection that mandates several readings to wrap our senses, our emotions, and our eyes around what the poet sees. I Wanted A City is a collection that needs to be read and reread.
Gail Fishman Gerwin’s poetry and reviews appear in journals including Paterson Literary Review, Lips, Caduceus, Pirene’s Fountain, Journal of New Jersey Poets, and The American Voice in Poetry. Her memoir Sugar and Sand was named a 2010 Paterson Poetry Prize finalist and her new collection Dear Kinfolk, was published in 2012. She is associate poetry editor of the journal Tiferet. A Paterson, NJ, native she lives in Morristown, NJ, and is principal of the communications firm inedit.
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Get your new-look copy of 'The Royal' this evening!
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As we celebrate 20 years at our home, the cover pages this season will reflect some of the most important moments here at Madejski Stadium since 1998!
Inside this edition is a programme exclusive feature-length interview with manager, Paul Clement as he discusses his life in football - as well as outlining his hopes for the upcoming season and his long-standing relationship with Derby County manager, Frank Lampard, who takes charge of his very first competitive match this evening.
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You can also get in the know ahead of tonight's game with our extensive opponents' section, which should give you an added insight into tonight's opposition before kick-off in RG2.
Get to know our new signings a little bit more as we profile all six of our new senior recruits, while you can learn about famous Royals of the past in the 250 Club - as club historian, David Downs writes about the exclusive band of players to make 250 appearances in a Reading shirt!
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Canada's new Conservative minority government on the brink of collapse
After just six weeks Canada's Conservative minority may be brought down by its own hubris
Canada’s six-week old government could be the main casualty of the country’s economic downturn, and will have only itself to blame.
The Conservative minority government in October forced the country into its third election in five years, hoping to pull off a majority. Instead for the grand cost of $300 million it won a few more seats, but was sent back to Ottawa still below the 50 percent mark.
Fast forward to the first fiscal update on Friday and Stephen Harper just couldn’t help himself. He used the global economic crisis to hammer his political opponents by wiping away the taxpayer subsidy paid to political parties, froze public service and politicians' pay rises and suspended the right of public servants to strike for the next couple of years – despite postal workers being on strike right now.
The rationale is beautiful. If ordinary Canadians have to tighten their belts then the government needs to look in the mirror and do likewise.
Where good old Machiavelli creeps into the equation is not the move to keep the clamps on pay, but with the subsidy of $1.75 paid to political parties for each vote they garner in an election.
Whether or not you agree with such a subsidy isn't the issue. Harper is using an economic crisis to pull off an ideological maneuver his party will emerge from the least scathed.
On the figures from the last election Harper’s Conservative Party was eligible for $10m through the subsidy, the Liberals $7.7m, the NDP $4.9m, the Bloc Quebecois (which only stands candidates in Quebe) $2.6m and the Greens (who failed to have any MP elected) $1.8m. Seems like the Conservatives give up the most... but statistics are so cute when you need them to be.
As a percentage of what the party can raise, it is the Conservatives that give up just 37% - all other parties give up between 57% and 65% of their total revenue making campaigning for another election very, very unattractive. The Conservative Party has a far more solid financial base than its foes and it intends to use it.
The fiscal update is more than wiping out the taxpayer subsidy. It is an attack on the political process on top of an assault on workers’ rights. Added to that, there was an announcement that pay equity settlements that the Conservatives have deemed “litigious and adversarial” are also now a no-no.
For a very thin fiscal update, it was laden with talk of how dire the world economic crisis is. It dripped of dramatic downturns, warned of prolonged contraction, or serious management flaws abroad and dangerous shortsightedness. Finance Minister Jim Flahrety talked big about sudden and devastating effects on the rest of the world, and then crowed about how Canada may technically be in a recession yet the next two years will produce razor thin surpluses.
This was apparently a good excuse to chop his political opponents off at their wobbly knees, but the razor may in fact cause the most damage to the Conservative government itself. It seems the wobbly knees have begun to stabilize.
The joke about Canadian politics goes along the lines of “why did the Canadian cross the road? To get to the middle”. The middle could soon be very ugly for Harper’s cocky regime.
The fiscal update – if it can really be called such – may prove to be a very costly political calculation because it is a confidence measure, and confidence measures that fail have a nasty habit of bringing down governments.
Harper seems to have bet his chips on the unpalatablity of yet another election forcing the acquiescence of his political foes. Not this time. The Liberal party during the last administration suffered the ignominy of having to go along with Harper because it was not in a position to fight an election should it force one to be called.
It seems the Opposition parties have been doing some scheming of their own, and with all three declaring immediately they will vote against the fiscal update there’s a new buzz in politics.
There have been rumours – the delicious foundation of politics – for the last ten days or so that the Liberals and the NDP could form a plausible working coalition, and the Bloc while not officially part of that team, would lend its support on confidence measures.
That means they are quite prepared to go to the Governor General and present as an alternative government should she decide to send Harper and his team packing to the Opposition benches.
We are all now waiting to see how Harper can get himself out of this one and save face. It is all very well to rant on and on about how careful and considered and conservative economic management has left Canada in the best position when compared to any of its G7 (or G8) mates. It is quite another situation to use the charade of belt-tightening to implement draconian measures for public servants and to inflict relatively major economic pain on political opponents for what, in the great scheme of things, amounts to a petty few dollars.
But overall the greatest cry from the opposition parties in Canada is why, when the rest of the world is working to stimulate their respective economies is Harper so sure that his reduction in GST last year is enough of a stimulus to date? Why is Harper, who a few weeks ago called deficits stupid, now obviously paving the way for the prospect of deficits in a few years time?
The calculation is obviously that Canada will plough on through and Harper will be a god – small g – and the country will fall to his feet praising him for such economic management. Zero to Hero stuff.
Fat lot of good it will do him however if the Governor General agrees to hand over the treasury benches to an opposition combo. Now who was it that told me Canadian politics is boring?
by Steve Barnes on November 29, 2008
Indeed, Canadian politics is far more interesting than one would expect!
I'm curious about how the Conservatives actually fund their election campaigns. As I understand it, Canada has some pretty tough electoral finance laws - no business or union donations allowed and individual donations capped (but indexed) at around $1,000.
So how can even the Conservatives afford elections? Do businesses funnel funds through employees who make 'individual' donations? Surely they can't have an exceptionally large membership either, given how frequently the Conservatives sit on the Opposition benches?
by Jane Young on November 29, 2008
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been spooked by the prospect of defeat, and has just announced Monday's vote will now be held on December 8 Harper has now fired the starting gun for a massive push to try and convince one of the three opposition parties to move back from the brink. One possibility is to promise the NDP a programme such as a bail-out type package for the auto industry in Canada which is, percentage wise, a more significant employer than the auto industry in the US.
Whatever Harper does, the credibility of his Finance Minister is now in tatters, and major question marks now hover over his own reputation as an extremely clever, albeit calculating, politican.
by Conor Roberts on December 01, 2008
I see the Conservatives have backtracked on right to strike and campaign subsidies. And have brought forward the budget date to 27 January.
And now it looks like the opposition parties have signed a coalition deal. Interesting...
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Politics: Election 2011
Lessons from a recount – where Labour went wrong
by Mike Williams
Labour failed to learn National's lesson from 2002 and paid the price, so it's now time for the party to get start selling Brand Shearer
A wise old mate once told me that if you want to understand any industry, enterprise or activity, just do the worst job it has to offer. There can't be any worse job in politics than being a scrutineer at a recount where your candidate slowly, vote by miscounted vote, loses a tenuous hold on an electorate.
That's just what I did a few weeks ago as Carmel Sepuloni's slim margin was turned around by Paula Bennett.
Gruelling and wearisome though this process may be, it’s the coal face of politics and there’s always much to be learned.
My first judicial recount was in Hastings in September 1978 and it was there I noticed something that arguably won an election thirty years later.
That happened again in Waitakere in 2011, but this time I also had the chance to cogitate on what had been a calamitous result for Labour and to plot an armchair strategy for the party’s return to the Treasury Benches in 2014.
Here’s chapter one.
First, it was a bad result for Labour with a loss of around eight per cent of its 2008 party vote and the associated reduction in its caucus numbers but let’s take a glass-half-full approach and see a glimmer of hope in an otherwise gloomy outcome.
Despite the twenty seven per cent party vote, the lowest since god-knows-when, the vote for Labour Party candidates was less demoralising at 35%. This means that a bit more than a third of the participating electorate voted Labour in one fashion.
It also points to a very basic strategic error by the Labour Party’s campaign planners.
It seems that Labour’s strategists decided that it was pointless and possibly counter-productive to attack John Key on the grounds of his stratospheric popularity.
This was probably right but the next decision, to leave Leader Phil Goff largely out of campaign publicity, was plainly a serious mistake. The Party Vote is presidential in nature, and no matter how your leader is scoring in the “beauty contest” it is essential that he or she is top-dead-centre in any campaign.
I take the attitude that Phil Goff was much more saleable than Labour’s strategists assumed, and I think that Goff proved this point late in the campaign.
In Te Atatu, the contrast between the two big parties’ approaches was plain.
National’s hoardings featured John Key and Tau Henare’s smiling faces with the slogan “Party Vote National”, whereas Labour heavily promoted its candidate Phil Twyford without any apparent attempt to feature Goff, or promote a party vote for Labour. The result was entirely predictable with Twyford scoring a heavy victory over Henare and National taking the all-important party vote in the electorate by a country mile.
The same happened all over the country. It was not a local phenomenon.
Add a couple of per cent to Labour’s Party vote and see what this does to the result.
Probably the most irritating aspect of this approach is that it exactly duplicated National’s 2002 election strategy and produced the same result. If we don’t learn from history we are doomed to repeat it (or something like that).
The lesson for 2014 is clear. A powerful Party Vote campaign featuring the Leader is essential for success.
I’ll scribble more about leadership in future offerings, but it is sufficient at this point to observe that David Shearer is the most naturally saleable Labour Leader in a generation, but can’t be expected to succeed without support from all levels of the party.
Getting out there and selling Shearer is a task that must start now and can be part of a broader Labour Party revival.
One other glimmer of hope for the Labour Party is that Prime Minister Key doesn’t appear to have Shearer’s measure as evidenced by his uncharacteristically inept speech at the opening of parliament.
It was a back-footed effort, strangely inappropriate for a PM who should have been revelling in a second victory.
This was the best evidence of a good start for Shearer.
by Simon James Parish on December 28, 2011
Your analysis of Te Atatu might be right Mr Williams, but it could also be that some electorate voters chose Twyford because he appears to have been much more active in the house than Henare already (- some would say that Mr Henare has been invisible) and also, of course, they were sure of getting two MPs, given the candidates list positions.
by mickysavage on December 28, 2011
Hey Mike I think you were spammed ...
[Ed: Yes - he was. For some reason, a bunch of Chinese fake goods suppliers think the Pundit audience really, really wants to buy shoes, jackets and US Football jerseys from them. This seems unlikely to us, but they make our life a merry hell tidying up after them.]
I agree with you whole heartedly about the effect on the party vote the campaign had. But there were generic party vote billboards to put up but the faint hearted electorate candidates preferred the electorate candidate billboards.
I think in the future some central discipline and guidance would not go amiss. And everywhere except in the most marginal ofseats should run a pure party vote campaign.
by Chris de Lisle on December 29, 2011
I'm a bit confused here; what happened in Hastings in 1978? I see that Labour won the seat, but I can't find much beyond that. What is the connection to Waitakere in 2011?
by XChequer on December 29, 2011
"I think in the future some central discipline and guidance would not go amiss"
lol @ Mickey Sav
Nice mate. Uncle Joe Vissarionovich couldn't (or wouldn't) have said it better. It's remarks like these that are at the core of Labour's inability to connect with the populace: the relationship seems to be what can the electorate do for us rather than how can we serve?
by Frank Macskasy on January 06, 2012
"One other glimmer of hope for the Labour Party is that Prime Minister Key doesn’t appear to have Shearer’s measure as evidenced by his uncharacteristically inept speech at the opening of parliament. Tt was a back-footed effort, strangely inappropriate for a PM who should have been revelling in a second victory."
Indeed, Mike. I watched a Youtube vid of Key's parliamentary response and it was truly embarressing to see. Key behaved like a hyped-up teenager pointing and hassling the new kid in class. It was juvenile behaviour.
Put those vids on TV1 and TV3 News for a week solid and the electorate's love affair with Key will evaporate by lunctime on Sunday.
by Baby Boomer on January 14, 2012
History does not repeat. Stupidty does. As a Labour supporter I can say that I have seen nothing that the Labour party has done since the election (including, or especially, the leadership change) that convinces me that the "gaggle of gays", (whose primary interest is Gay rights (above the party's philosophy)), who have such a large sway in the party, are coming to the party, to enbrace change that is needed. The opposite in fact, given that all candidates pandered to the gay faction by there choice of number 2's. Stupidity is repeating. People see Labour as a gay party. This is the image that needs to change. (NB: This is not a rant against Gays, but rather an anlaysis of where Labour has and continues to fail.)
by Chris Oden on January 29, 2012
The election was in November. It is now end of January and the Parliamentary year is yet to begin. What did Baby Boomer expect to happen over the holiday period?Also, I think BB WAS having a rant about Gays.Where is his evidence that the Labour Party is putting Gay rights above their philosophy? I have been hearing and reading a lot from people about Labour not performing yet but you need to give them a chance! Early days yet.
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Many decades of deforestation, fur trapping, and other destructive human activities have reduced Pacific fishers to a small faction of their historic range.
Lawsuit filed by Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental groups.
All of the parties claim an interest in protecting the Pacific fisher, whose population in the southern Sierra Nevada is now estimated to range between 100 and 500. Somewhere between 258 and 4,018 are thought to live in Northern California and southern Oregon.
Described in the lawsuit as “medium-sized members of the weasel family with thick, dark fur and long tails,” the Pacific fishers are wide-ranging mammals that favor remote locations. Once, they were abundant.
“Fishers are...gone from much of their historic range in the central and northern Sierra Nevada,” the lawsuit prepared by Earthjustice attorney Gregory C. Loarie noted.
Environmental groups first petitioned to protect the Pacific fisher in 2000. After many twists and turns, the Fish and Wildlife Service proposed in 2014 to list the species as threatened. By 2016, officials had changed their minds.
“The fisher is not exhibiting population declines in any portion of its range,” the agency stated, adding that “the best available information does not suggest any negative consequences in terms of population abundance or other indicators across the west coast states.”
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Posted on April 17, 2015 April 4, 2019 by Robert
#Periscope needs a ‘handover’ function
I’m really enjoying Periscope, the new app from Twitter that allows live broadcasts direct from your phone. It was launched very soon after its rival Meerkat and has, I think, better sharing and comment functionality.
Both apps, however, offer something utterly compelling — a live window into someone else’s world. In 5 minutes on Periscope, you can jump accross continents, watching forest fires in the Rockies, a sunset over the Pont Neuf in Paris, dinner with a family in Pakistan, or a toddler in Canberra learning to walk. Its magic, in the Arthur C Clarke sense.
With other forms of communication, the most fascinating developments come when the users push the platform in ways the developers had not anticipated. For example, the @ and # functionality in Twitter was something developed by the users and not by Twitter.
@keishaw1985 @CarsonAdkins01 @Dustin_Gervais well played everyone pic.twitter.com/vLe6pI4QqT
— robertsharp59 (@robertsharp59) April 14, 2015
My current obsession is the dynamic between different users of the service. How can the broadcasters with many followers interact with and give a voice to their viewers? How can they amplify the voices of those with less reach? Is Periscope anchored to the ‘one-to-many’ broadcast approach or can it take on aspects of the egalitarian ‘many-to-many’ approach found on Twitter?
I am eager to see how the use of Periscope evolves in this manner, and I’ve recorded a few modest broadcasts—or ‘scopes’—that raise these issues. For example, I hosted a game of noughts-and-crosses (tic-tac-toe) where two of the people watching became active participants in the game. I’ve broadcast a Periscope ‘vortex’ (a recursive Periscope of a periscope). And I also kicked off a ‘chain’ game: One Periscope broadcaster nominating another in a game of global tag. It went to at least 13 people over a couple of days, before I lost track of the thread.
Inspired by the chain game, I have a feature idea for Periscope: handover. What would be interesting and useful is the ability to handover a broadcast you started to another Periscope broadcaster. This would be similar to a TV news broadcast that cuts between two cameras—although its a different camera, the viewers are carried over and continue watching.
This would be very useful for several reasons. First, it would enable truly egalitarian conversations. Instead of just one broadcaster’s voice, the viewers/commeters can become the broadcaster themselves as part of the same conversation. Second, it would enable continuous coverage of a particular event even if one broadcaster can no longer continue to film (they may be experiencing a poor signal, or be running low on battery). If several people are present at the same event (for example, a civil rights march or a sports event ) then one broadcaster can hand over to another. This would give the viewers a different angle (political, artistic, or just literal/physical) on the event being streamed.
A handover function could work in two ways. Either, it would hand over complete control of the entire broadcast to the new broadcaster and wash their hands of it; or, the original ‘scoper’ could retain some kind of editor / anchorman functionality, choosing to cut away to other broadcasters but retaining control over the stream. Personally I prefer the first idea because there is no heirarchy involved. But those with lots of viewers and a particular agenda for their broadcasts would almost certainly prefer the latter approach.
Here’s a link to the Periscope broadcast I recorded today to discuss this. It is available to view for 24 hours after its published.
LIVE on #Periscope: Meta: Periscope needs a 'handover' function https://t.co/Z1imSZDg0b
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The Local Justice Pack, the first downloadable content pack for Max Payne 3, is now available for download worldwide on Xbox LIVE and PlayStation Network. This pack includes three new maps for Max Payne 3 Multiplayer based on areas from the game's intense final chapters (The Imperial Palace, Departure Lounge and 55th Battalion HQ), the new M4 Assault Rifle and attachments, the Light Fingers Item for faster looting, a new São Paulo Police multiplayer faction and associated new Achievements and Trophies.
The Local Justice Pack will be available for one week only at a discounted price of 480 Microsoft Points (Xbox LIVE) or $5.99 on PSN. The Pack will then return to its normal price of 640 Microsoft Points (Xbox LIVE) or $7.99 on PSN. Players who purchased the Max Payne 3 Rockstar Pass will receive the pack free of charge. The Rockstar Pass is currently available for 2400 Microsoft Points (Xbox LIVE) or $29.99 on PSN.
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E3 2017: Star Wars: Battlefront 2's DLC Maps, Modes, And Characters Are Free
Today during EA's E3 2017 briefing, developer DICE announced more details about Star Wars: Battlefront II's "live service" model.
By RSS Feed · Jun 10, 2017
Today during EA's E3 2017 briefing, developer DICE announced more details about Star Wars: Battlefront II's "live service" model. As suspected, there will not be a season pass, but instead, DICE will offer seasons of themed content, which the studio won't charge for.
The first of the batches of content will be themed around the upcoming movie Star Wars: The Last Jedi. It will include the characters Finn and Captain Phasma, and it launches in December. The planet Crait, seen in the movie's teaser trailer, will be included in the content release.
Battlefront II's free DLC will include maps, characters, vehicles, modes, weapons, star cards, "and more." Additionally, Battlefront II will host "live events and challenges," each with their own rewards.
"With Star Wars Battlefront II, we've really taken feedback from our players to heart, and you see that in the base game, which has so much more content than the first game--a new authentic single-player campaign, epic multiplayer, starfighter battles, and solo or co-op PvE on console – a huge game across all eras of the Star Wars films," Battlefront II executive producer Matt Webster said in a statement. "But just as important is how we support the game after launch. Our live service is built around the philosophy of keeping our fans playing together, with seasons that will add meaningful content and in game events on a regular basis."
Also during the briefing, DICE released an impressive new multiplayer trailer that showed an epic battle on Theed, the capital city of Naboo. We also saw a frustratingly brief clip of Battlefront II's new single-player campaign, which follows a soldier fighting for the Empire.
EA only discussed Battlefront II during its E3 2017 briefing today. There were no updates on the new Star Wars games in development at Dead Space studio Visceral or Titanfall developer Respawn.
Source: GameSpot
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Unclaimed property can work both ways for local government
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The Office of the Washington State Auditor’s Center for Government Innovation partnered with the Municipal Research and Services Center (MRSC) to bring you updated guidance for writing travel and credit card policies. This Audit Connection post is courtesy of MRSC. Be sure to visit our Resources Database for these and other resources created to assist local governments in Washington.
If you work in local government, you need to #BeCyberSmart, even if your job isn’t in IT
The need to be cybersecure isn’t going away-in fact, it’s an issue that grows more relevant each day. As more local governments in Washington are the unfortunate victims of cyberattacks, the reality of the situation cannot be ignored. Visit our new webpage for more information: www.sao.wa.gov/BeCyberSmart
Risky business? Discussing vulnerabilities with your auditors
National audit standards require every audit to include a formal inquiry with key staff and a member of the governing body to discuss their views on risks the government faces. While this is a routine part of every audit, we sometimes receive questions about the process, what to expect in these conversations, and why we do them. Here’s what you should know about these discussions.
Neill Public Library in Pullman improves services to patrons
Neill Public Library is a central gathering place where residents socialize, explore, discover and connect with the world around them.
Pullman city leadership
wanted to instill a culture of process improvement by using the Lean method in
city operations. The library, meanwhile, already had started to work on
improving customer experience. Library staff weren’t familiar with Lean, though, making the library a natural place for a pilot project.
Guide to Unauditable Governments in Washington infographic
State laws require local governments to be audited by our Office and for them to submit annual financial reports, yet every year many governments do not meet these obligations. Failure to be audited and provide annual financial reports keeps the public in the dark about how public money is being used, and impairs the decision making of management and elected officials.
Auditor’s Office issues fraud report regarding troubled King County drainage district, calls for public engagement in government accountability
Today the Office of the Washington State Auditor released a pair of reports regarding King County Drainage District 5: a fraud investigation and a new type of report identifying the district as “unauditable.”
The Office also published an online guide to more than 35 other small local governments that have failed to file any public financial information for years, rendering them unauditable.
Procurement a puzzle? Check out these resources
The Center for Government Innovation has added two procurement-related resources to the Resources Database in recent months, one on piggybacking and the other on change order best practices.
Avoid these common errors while preparing this year’s Comprehensive Annual Financial Report
The State Auditor’s Office (SAO) performs almost 200 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR) reviews each year. Local governments may also submit their CAFR to the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA) for a Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting. As part of their CAFR reviews, SAO and GFOA identified several common errors that could affect your government’s ability to obtain this certificate.
McCarthy says Wapato audits show need for accountability in the city
YAKIMA – The Office of the Washington State Auditor published two audits of the City of Wapato today, documenting significant violations of government standards. The accountability and financial audits include eight findings, an unusually high number and cause for concern. The State Auditor’s Office (SAO) also issued a letter to Wapato leadership responding to concerns that the public raised about the city. The reports come after SAO issued a fraud report in February detailing a $300,000 misappropriation in Wapato.
“These audits speak to a basic lack of accountability and transparency in the city,” said State Auditor Pat McCarthy. “It is important the State Auditor’s Office shine a light on issues that need public attention, and the situation in Wapato is deeply concerning.”
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Comfortable and spacious interior; advanced powertrain options; comfortable ride; excellent reliability; fun to drive The 2019 Honda Accord comes with three different drivetrain combinations. The base engine is a 1.5L turbocharged 4-cylinder producing 192 horsepower. It makes a little more horsepower and torque than the engine it replaces, which was not turbocharged had a larger displacement. Transmissions available with this engine include a 6-speed manual or a continuously variable transmission that can alter gear ratios on the fly. Meanwhile, the optional V6 has also been replaced with a 4-cylinder turbocharged engine. This one displaces 2.0L and makes 252 horsepower, slightly less than the V6 engine it's replacing. However, the new engine does make significantly more torque than that V6 while also producing better mileage, so overall, it's a tradeoff most buyers would be happy to make. Power is sent to the front wheels via either a 10-speed automatic or a 6-speed manual with the 2.0L engine. The optional hybrid drivetrain uses a 2.0L non-turbocharged engine in combination with two electric motors to send power to the front wheels while sipping a minimum of gasoline.
The Honda Accord comes in four basic trims, LX, Sport, EX and Touring. LX trim is available with the hybrid drivetrain or the 1.5L. It includes 17-inch wheels, LED daytime running lights, dual-zone climate control, a rearview camera displayed on a 7-inch color LCD screen, Bluetooth connectivity, USB ports and a pushbutton starter.
Sport models are available with either turbocharged engine and can be had with the 6-speed manual. Standard features on the Sport include 19-inch wheels, aluminum pedals and an 8-inch touchscreen display with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. If buyers option the Sport with the bigger engine, they'll also get heated front seats, a power moonroof, a blindspot warning system, SiriusXM satellite radio and a remote starter. If buyers want all those options with the 1.5L or hybrid powertrain, they should opt for the EX.
Top-of-the-line Touring models are offered only with the 2.0L engine and come even better outfitted with a power-adjustable passenger seat, a 10-speaker premium audio system, a navigation system, full LED headlights, adaptive dampers in the suspension, a heads-up display, wireless charging for phones, ventilated front seats and additional noise insulation. Honda's tenth-generation Accord debuted last year, and for 2019 the only real change is that the 1.5L engine is no longer offered on the Touring trim The Honda Accord is a mid-sized sedan, competing in a crowded segment against the Toyota Camry, the best-selling car in America for the past 15 years. But the Accord is no second-best, but rather it provides savvy buyers with a more interesting alternative in a category populated with uninspiring sedan options. The Accord offers everything a buyer would expect of a mid-sized car, including excellent ergonomics, a roomy interior and all the storage space a family might need. However, it promises to keep driving interesting. The Accord doesn't reduce driving to a chore; it reminds its driver that transporting yourself from place to place can be fun and engaging.
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In Defense of Justin Bieber: Why He's Not a Villain in His Comment War With Selena Gomez
Perhaps, nobody's the bad guy.
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Are you all caught up on the apocalyptic events that went down between Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez on Instagram over the past 24 hours? No? Well, here is the bullet-points version. 1) Justin threatened to go private on Insta over hate flung at his new bae, Sofia Richie. 2) Fans freaked out. 3) Selena stepped in, telling him not to post pictures with Sofia if he can't handle the hate and to appreciate his fans more. 4) Justin responded, accusing her of using him for attention. 5) Selena reportedly clapped right back, accusing him of cheating and not appreciating his supporters enough.
While all of this was going down, Twitter threw a #SelenaEndedJustinParty on Twitter, joyously celebrating Justin's downfall, and all of this kind of has me scratching my head wondering what the heck Justin Bieber did wrong in this situation.
Don't get me wrong — this isn't an essay about how Justin is a great guy and doesn't deserve to be criticized. Based on what we know of Jelena's relationship, Justin wasn't a great boyfriend. And if his hit single "Sorry" is anything to go by, he'd probably admit that. Plus, Justin's rocky past, including run-ins with the law, erratic behavior, and refusing to take pics with his fans, makes it easy to imagine him as the bad guy in this situation.
Based on what we know of Jelena's relationship, Justin wasn't a great boyfriend. And if his hit single "Sorry" is anything to go by, he'd probably admit that.
But does standing up for Sofia really make him a villain? Isn't Justin allowed to have his honeymoon phase with a new girlfriend/friend/fling/bae/whatever Sofia is to him?
Celeb couples post pictures together all the time. These days, it feels like not a day goes by when Chloe Moretz and Brooklyn Beckham don't share a new hopelessly adorable picture together. And even Selena posted a ton of pictures with Zedd when they were a thing last year. That's what two people do when they're exploring the beginning of a relationship — post pics together.
missing la and this punk, just a little tonight ☺️ shooting starts soon!! Eeeeekkkk --Fundamentals of Caregiving!!
A post shared by Selena Gomez (@selenagomez) on Jan 18, 2015 at 9:47pm PST
Even if the scandal is really about Justin's shade toward his fans, he isn't the first celebrity to threaten to quit Instagram and he won't be the last. Demi Lovato quit Twitter and Instagram back in June and came back a day later. Even Selena threatened to quit Instagram earlier this year when fans created unnecessary drama over a joke she made about having a bad boyfriend.
She didn't quit, though. She was just responding in the heat of the moment. Posturing, if you will. And the same can be said for Justin. While I can't say with certainty that Justin actually appreciates his fans or not, Justin's threat to quit Instagram in defense of someone he cares about shouldn't be damning in the eyes of Beliebers or Selenators. If anything, isn't it something you'd encourage him to do for a prospective girlfriend — a sign he's possibly turning a new leaf?
Of course, Justin's jab that Selena needed him for attention is laughable. She had a successful career before Jelena was a thing and will continue to slay long after Jelena is forgotten. Yes, she's written songs about him in the past that have garnered a ton of media attention ("The Heart Wants What It Wants", "Same Old Love"), but the same can be said for him ("Sorry", "Where Are U Now?").
Selena Does Not Owe Her Fame to Justin
Sure, it's pretty likely that Selena doesn't like seeing pictures of Sofia Richie plastered all over her ex's timeline, and who can blame her? No girl wants to see their ex bae'd up and happy with a new girl, especially when that ex never treated you right.
But responding to the situation publicly and cosigning fans' belief that Justin doesn't appreciate them wasn't necessarily fair to him, especially considering she could have DM'ed him privately. It's not hard to understand why Justin lashed out with a response that wasn't fair to Selena. And it's easy to get why Selena got the last word, dragging Justin's indiscretions in their relationship into the drama (if that last comment is real).
Jelena's endless relationship roller coaster — from trying to be supportive exes one day to taking jabs at one another the next — is probably the most relatable thing about them. They were each other's first loves, which explains why cutting each other out of their respective lives completely has been challenging. And I guess that's the thing about Justin and Selena — at the end of the day, these two still care about each other deeply, for better or for worse.
That's the thing about Justin and Selena — at the end of the day, these two still care about each other deeply, for better or for worse.
A post shared by Justin Bieber (@justinbieber) on Mar 19, 2016 at 4:07pm PDT
But in the end, Justin shouldn't be made out to be a bad guy for liking someone new and treating her well — it's what we all wanted for Selena, and what we should all want for Sofia, too.
You don't have to love Justin Bieber. You don't have to forgive him for how he treated Selena when they dated. You can even be skeptical about whether or not he's actually changed his ways — he's certainly done a lot in the past to warrant some skepticism.
But don't vilify him when he treats the new girl he's dating with respect. It's not fair. Sometimes good relationships just don't work out. It's easier to make sense of the confusion when you have someone to blame. But nothing about this is easy. Sometimes, nobody is the bad guy.
Don't vilify him when he treats the new girl he's dating with respect. It's not fair.
Years of Justin & Selena, Explained
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Lewis lifts Canisius past St. Peter's 60-57
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) Zach Lewis nailed a 3-pointer with five seconds left and finished with 12 points and Canisius outlasted Saint Peter's 60-57 Wednesday night.
The Golden Griffins (3-3, 1-0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) trailed by as much as 10, but chipped away at the deficit as Phil Valenti sank two 3-pointers and Jamal Reynolds made a layup to grab a 54-52 lead. Dominique Marvin answered right back with a jumper for St. Peter's (2-6, 0-2), but Kevin Bleeker followed with a trey.
Travis Hester tied it back up with a 3-pointer with 38 seconds left, and Lewis drained the shot clock before sinking the game-winner. Trevis Wyche couldn't connect on a 3 in the final seconds.
Valenti led Canisius with 14 points and Josiah Heath added 10 with seven rebounds. Lewis also had three steals.
Elisha Boone scored 11 points, Quadir Welton contributed 10 and Marvin chipped in 10 with eight boards.
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Will Smith's 'Concussion' to premiere at AFI Fest
NEW YORK (AP) The Will Smith NFL drama ''Concussion'' will premiere as the centerpiece to the AFI Fest.
The Los Angeles film festival announced Wednesday that the Peter Landesman-directed film will debut at AFI on November 10. Smith stars in the film, which Sony Pictures will release in December, as Dr. Bennet Omalu, the forensic neuropathologist who discovered brain effects from head trauma in football.
''Concussion'' has already proven a hot-button movie. The New York Times earlier reported that the film was altered to placate the NFL, a charge Landesman and Sony have denied.
Tom Rothman, chairman of the Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, said he wanted to unveil ''Concussion'' early ''so that the discussion can be more informed.''
AFI previous announced that Angelina Jolie's ''By the Sea'' will open the festival, and Adam McKay's ''The Big Short'' will close it.
http://www.afi.com/afifest/
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Neil Warnock Pays Tribute to Emiliano Sala After Cardiff's 2-1 Defeat to Arsenal
Cardiff manager Neil Warnock paid tribute to Emiliano Sala after his side's 2-1 defeat to Arsenal on Tuesday, confirming the club are not planning to bring in another striker during the transfer window.
Tributes were paid to Sala and pilot Dave Ibbotson in the Bluebirds' first game since the plane carrying the pair disappeared earlier in January.
Speaking after the game, Warnock confirmed Cardiff are not planning to sign another attacker. When asked whether the club will be active before Thursday's deadline, Warnock told Sky Sports: "Yes. But I don't think we will be bringing any strikers in.
#CityAsOne pic.twitter.com/z3m7AV0mwu
— Cardiff City FC (@CardiffCityFC) January 29, 2019
"Emiliano was the one I worked on for a couple of months. I don't see anyone else that we can get that will be better than we've already got.
"We need a couple of defenders to supplement the squad, because we are short in numbers there. We are working hard behind the scenes to try and bring one or two in."
City impressed during their trip to London, creating plenty of chances before succumbing to goals from Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Alexandre Lacazette, with Nathaniel Mendez-Laing netting a late consolation for the visitors.
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Warnock added: "This was probably the best away performance since I've been at the club, not just because of the circumstances but the opposition as well.
"I'm disappointed we didn't win, let alone draw. If Arsenal had the chances we had they'd have had four goals. We can't do anymore than what the players did tonight other than score goals.
"Bobby (Reid) knows he should hit the target. We had 19 shots, I don't think we've ever had that many away from home.
FULL-TIME: @Arsenal 2-1 #CardiffCity
Despite a brave effort, the #Bluebirds are beaten.#ARSCAR #CityAsOne pic.twitter.com/AxxQ2FocDH
"We were quite comfortable, I didn't see where they could break us down. That is why it's so disappointing to give them the incentive of a penalty, which was an obvious one."
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Royal Caribbean are starting a new class of ship called the "Quantum Ultra class", which is an enhancement of the Quantum class. Quantum Ultra ships are larger than the Quantum class ship. The first of its class is the Spectrum of the Seas, which is being built at Germany's Meyer Werft shipyard, and is due to be launched in 2019.
Symphony of the Seas' inaugural cruise is a 7 day cruise starting on the 21st April 2018, leaving Barcelona for Palma de Mallorca, Marseille, La Spezia, Rome, Naples, before heading back to Barcelona. The ship is 230,000 tons (3000 tons bigger than the current leader, Harmony of the Seas), has capacity for a massive 6870 passengers, and will have the highest slide at sea, which drops 10 floors down. She's the 4th of Royal Caribbean's Oasis Class of ship, and is being built in Nazairre, France, at the STX Shipyard. In June 2017 she was floated out of her dry dock for the first time. Technological features include facial recognition when checking in, virtual balconies, and a Bionic Bar where passengers are served by robotic barmen.
We knew something was up when in 2014 Royal Caribbean applied to trademark 8 new ship names - Apex of the Seas, Emblem of the Seas, Harmony of the Seas, Joy of the Seas, Ovation of the Seas, Passion of the Seas, Pulse of the Seas & Spectrum of the Seas. Then in February 2015 it was announced that the new Royal Caribbean ship would be called "Harmony of the Seas", and she'd be in the Oasis class, the largest cruise ships in the world. The other Oasis class ships are the Oasis of the Seas & the Allure of the Seas. Construction of the Harmony of the seas was completed in Saint Naizaire, France.
She set sail from Southampton to Northern Europe, before embarking on her maiden cruise to Barcelona in June 2016. During November 2016, Harmony of the Seas arrived at her homeport of Port Everglades. Harmony of the Seas has a "Central Park" in the middle, with balcony cabins facing inwards, water slides going over Central Park and real grass in Central Park. Even inside cabins have virtual balconies installed. And if you like cruising single, do not despair - the liner has studio options. If you're rolling in the green then book a suite, and enjoy an exclusive sun deck, lounge & restaurant.
In December 2017 the Harmony of the Seas was voted "Best Large Cruise Ship" by the readers of Cruise Hive.
View Allure of the Seas with Google Maps
7 July 2014. Royal Caribbean are using Google's Street View technology to allow everybody with an internet connection to explore the Allure of the Seas. Photos on which the walkthrough are based were taken using a fisheye lens on a DSLR camera. Click here to take a virtual tour of the ship.
Quantum of the Seas to Position in China
From May 2015, the newest Royal Caribbean Ship, the Quantum of the Seas will position itself in China.
Wow Band & Sea Beyond App
Since 2014 guests have been using a "Wow Band", which they can use to purchase food, drinks, goods and also function as their door key.
The Sea Beyond App can be used from both Apple as well as Android smartphones. It shows visuals of shore excursions, can be used for facial recognition for use in check-ins, when passengers are unaccounted for it could potentially be used to find them,
Introducing Dynamic Dining
Royal Caribbean is doing away with the traditional cruise ship methodology of huge seated dinners, and introducing "dynamic dining". The concept is first being introduced on the Quantum Class ships. Guests can choose from 18 restaurants, some free and some which require payment. Cruise passengers can book restaurants online in advance of their cruise, or on the ship.
Royal Caribbean cruise ships in order of size are:
If you can't afford a balcony suite here's the next best thing - Royal Caribbean are introducing virtual balconies in inside cabins on the Navigator of the Seas. The virtual balcony is an HD screen on the walk which shows the view outside the ship, as well as the sound of the sea.
Majesty of the Seas (In 2016 Royal Caribbean are selling the Majesty of the Seas to Pullmantur cruise line)
21 December 2018. The Empress of the Seas rescues 2 Costa Rican sailors, who had been adrift at sea for over 20 days. From the brink of starvation to unimaginable luxury. The ship had changed course to avoid a storm, and would not have found the sailors if they had stuck to their original plan. Well done Empress! The men were provided with medical attention by the ship's docters, and then disembarked at Ocho Rios (Jamaica). [The running joke was that Royal Caribbean does whatever it takes to keep their rooms full!]
2 January 2018. Royal Caribbean's daily gratuity fee increases by $1 a day; meaning that the fee increases to $14.50 per day for most passengers, and $17.50 per day for those booked into a suite.
13 December 2017. The USA's 11th Circuit court finds in favour of Royal Caribbean, after a passenger fell during a cocktail party, suffering injuries. She had tripped over the coaming on the helicopter deck; whilst not able to use her hands to hold the han rail because of a purse in one hand and a champagne glass in the other.
1 January 2014 - Royal Caribbean bans smoking on balcony cabins of all its ships except for Asia-based ships. You can still smoke in the smoking section of casinos, on the starboard side of ships (except Oasis-class ships where you can smoke on the port side), in the Connoisseur Club on Freedom- and Voyager-class ships and in the designated smoking area on cruises from China.
21 December 2013. At 1am a man is seen falling into the sea off the Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas some 550km east of Brisbane. Crew members through smoke markers & life rings into the water, the ship was turned round and rescue boats launched. The body of the man was recovered from the sea 7 hours later.
September 2013. Over the year to date Royal Caribbean has increased the internet bandwidth capacity on its ships by 700%, and expects to sell access from $179 per week or $49 per day. In the short time ships drop off passengers it has placed new antennas which receive satellite signals onto its ships. It has also changed the way its buys internet bandwidth from a per ship basis to a per region basis.
April 2013 - Royal Caribbean unveils the new Quantum Class ships - Quantum of the Seas and Anthem of the Seas. Quantum of the seas is expected to go into service in autumn 2014 and Anthem of the Seas in spring 2015.
March 2013 - Royal Caribbean's biggest ship (and the biggest cruise ship in the world), Oasis of the Seas, will be sailing to the Mediterranean for the first time in 2014. Book now to get your place on this epic ship.
Book a 6 night or more Royal Caribbean cruise in April 2013, for departure in May 2013, and choose the onboard credit option to receive $150 in spending credits ($250 if your cruise is 10 days or more).
27 December 2012. Royal Caribbean Cruises announces that it has requested STX France to build a a sister ship to the Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas.
On 11 July 2011 Royal Caribbean International announced that it will invest some USD300m to introduce the best-rate programs from its Oasis-class ships to the rest of the fleet. The revitalizations include new entertainment, dining options, oversized video screens on the pool decks and widespread Wi-Fi. The ships will be revitalized as follows:
Splendour of the Seas (November 2011)
Rhapsody of the Seas (March 2012) - Alaska, New Zealand, Australia cruises
Grandeur of the Seas (May 2012) - try its Mediterranean cruises
Serenade of the Seas (November 2012)
Legend of the Seas, Vision of the Seas, Navigator of the Seas, Voyager of the Seas, Explorer of the Seas, Adventure of the Seas, Brilliance of the Seas, Independence of the Seas, Mariner of the Seas and Enchantment of the Seas (2013 & 2014).
Royal Caribbean International's senior vice president of Hotel Operations, Lisa Bauer, said "We are thrilled that the ongoing Royal Advantage revitalizations will result in a virtually brand-new fleet that offers the most contemporary experience, no matter which ship or itinerary vacationers choose. From new dining concepts to cutting-edge entertainment to technological advancements, we are raising the bar across the fleet to offer guests our signature Gold Anchor Service and the world's most innovative cruise ships that sail to exciting destinations worldwide."
The Chief Executive of Royal Caribbean International, Adam Goldstein, said: "The Royal Advantage revitalizations takes many of the best features that we have created in recent years and introduces them across our fleet, offering our guests enhanced vacation choices around the world. We never stop trying to make the experience even better, and no other cruise line can offer the same high quality vacation experience with such an array of choices that cater to every guest.
Liberty of the Seas Mediterranean cruise review
Well we'd cruised on the Sinfonia, Melody, Rhapsody and even the RMS St Helena; but never before on the Royal Caribbean. In other firsts, we'd never cruised in the Mediterranean before (unless you count a ferry from Naples to Palermo), and never indulged in the luxury of booking a balcony cabin before.
(see Royal Caribbean news above)
We spent 7 nights in a balcony cabin on a ship called the MS Liberty of the Seas, a Freedom Class cruiser which entered service in May 2007, and made its maiden Meditteranean visit this year.
Royal Caribbean has 3 Freedom Class cruiseliners, the other 2 being the Freedom of the Seas and the Independence of the Seas. The Freedom Class ships were the largest passenger ships in the world, until the Oasis of the Seas was completed in November 2009.
The Liberty of the Seas has fifteen decks and can accommodate 3634 passengers, which compares with the 2065 passengers the MSC Sinfonia can accommodate (I'm not saying that more passengers is better, just stating the facts).
Experiences on Liberty of the Seas
whirlpools that project out from the ship to provide undisturbed views of the sea underneath
cellphone & wi-fi connectivity through most of the ship
DreamWorks character meet and greets, table-side visits from characters during meals, DreamWorks movies on stateroom TV & 3D DreamWorks movies
Tot's Nursery
wave generator for surfing
an interactive water play area for children
flat screens in some of the rooms
outdoor video screen in the main pool area
Cupcake cupboard
a boxing ring
a full-sized basketball/volleyball court
conference center for business meetings
a 3 level formal dining room
Jade Cafe Asian themed casual dining,
Windjammer Cafe traditional casual dining
Sorrento's Pizzeria
Promenade Cafe
Ben & Jerry's Ice cream shop
Johnny Rockets (1950s American style diner - kids will love it - milkshakes, & burgers, with everybody getting fried chips & onions. Every now and then the staff break out into a line dance)
Chops Steakhouse
Portofino Italian restaurant.
We depart from Barcelona at 5pm on the 10th of September 2011. On the 11th we arrive in Provence (Toulon, France), on the 12th we in Nice (Villefranche), the 13th in Florence, the 14th in Rome, the 15th in Naples/Capri, we then have a day at sea cruising before arriving back in Barcelona on the 17th of September. We plan on waking up early and having breakfast in our cabin on port days, so that we can see as much as possible in the cities.
We ended up paying a total of $5047.92 ($3587 for our cabin, $1134.72 port charges and $326.2 in prepaid gratuities). A deposit of $1000 was required to be paid by the 15th June, and the final payment had to be made by the 8th July.
Royal Caribbean and Celebrity strongly recommended that we purchase a Cruise Care Vacation Protection Plan, pointing out that we would not be covered under any circumstances if we declined this insurance." At $356, we thought it was a bit steep and rather took out our own travel insurance.
Royal Caribbean mentioned that "Visas are required for all cruises. There are no ship visas. It is the Travel Agent/Guests
responsibility to obtain all applicable visas. For all visa requirements kindly check with the relevant consulates or a visa service. Embarkation will be denied if the correct visas are not obtained. For your protection, your passport expiration date must not occur within 6 months of the voyage termination date." We got Shengen visas for ourselves, which covered all the countries we were visiting in the Mediterranean.
"The minimum age for infants is 6 months (a bit different to South Africa, where we took our son on a Melody cruise at the age of 2 months), as of the date of sailing and 12 months, as of the date of sailing for Transatlantic, Transpacific, Hawaii, selected South American cruises and other selected cruises.
No person under 21 may sail on any cruise holiday or have a stateroom on his or her own unless accompanied by a parent or guardian or authorized person who is over the age of 21. No guest under the age of 21 will be booked in a stateroom unless accompanied by an adult 21 years of age or older, except for minors sailing with their parents or legal guardians in adjacent
staterooms.
Individual staterooms can be booked by married couples whose minimum age are 18 (proof of marriage is required at time of booking)."
"Guests who will enter their 24th week of pregnancy by the beginning of, or at any time during their cruise holiday will not be allowed to cruise."
"You have a choice of seating times for meals in the Main Restaurant (Main Dining approx. 18h30 and Second Dining approx. 20h30) Dining times may vary according to ship and itinerary. Please request your preferred seating and table size at the time of booking. We cannot accept any bookings which are conditional on your preferred seating being or becoming available before departure. If you cancel because your preferred seating is not available, normal cancellation charges will apply. Seating requests cannot be guaranteed. My Time Dining (Royal Caribbean) and Celebrity Select (Celebrity Cruises) is now being offered. You can decide when you would like to dine between the hours of 18h00 and 21h30 each evening. Services Charges/Tips are mandatory when My Time Dining is selected."
"Kosher meals must be ordered at least 80 days in advance for international sailings (Europe, South America) and 40 days in advance for domestic sailings (Caribbean)."
The Eurostars Grand Marina Hotel is recommended for those wanting to cruise from Barcelona.
Moll de Barcelona WTC, Ciutat Vella
revenue@grandmarinahotel.com
We booked from the 7th to the 10th September 2011, and it cost us €1020 for a room for 2 adults, a child and an infant. This included breakfast (and the 8% VAT rate).
Getting there from the airport
According to the hotel website:
Take the airport bus (Aerobús: line A1 if you are in Terminal 1 and line A2 if you are in Terminal 2) heading towards Plaza Cataluña.
Get off at the Plaza de España stop and take Metro line 3 heading towards Trinitat Nova.
Get off at the Parallel stop. Go down Avenida del Paralelo until you reach Plaza de la Carbonera. After you cross the traffic circle you will reach Plaza de Les Drassanes, which leads directly to the Eurostars Grand Marina Hotel".
Wi-fi is available in the entire hotel and is free of charge.
Royal Caribbean announced in April 2013 that their new Quantum Class ships will be due to set sail towards the end of 2014 and early 2015 respectively. The Quantum of the Seas and Anthem of the seas will both be packed with new innovations, as well as their most popular features from the current ships, proving once again that Royal Caribbean are at the forefront when it comes to ship design.
Some of the new features include a skydiving simulator, a capsule that takes you 300 feet above sea level and bumper cars (dodgems.) Interior staterooms (no window) will have virtual balconies, which show real-time images of the sea and the ship's destinations. Everyone's favourites - the Flowrider, climbing wall, adults only Solarium and more - are back too. This will be THE ship to go on for the ultimate fun-packed family cruise. Bookings open in May 2013, so make sure you get your spot on this fantastic ship.
Royal Caribbean ships are known for offering the "Flowrider" surfing simulation, in which guests may surf on an artificial wave. Ships with Flowriders are the Adventure, Allure, Anthem, Explorer, Freedom, Harmony, Independence, Liberty, Navigator, Oasis, Ovation, Quantum and Voyager of the Seas.
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Kiir sends delegation to mediate political stalemate in Sudan
South Sudan has reiterated its interest to mediate the political stalemate between the Sudanese Military Council and the group representing the protesters.
In April, Kiir said he was ready to support the “democratic aspirations” of his former adversary in Khartoum and help bring about a peaceful transition.
The move came months after Bashir helped mediate South Sudan’s revitalized peace agreement.
Bashir, who seized power in a 1989 coup, was himself toppled by the military, which has promised to conduct a free and fair election within two years.
But protesters continued with the April civil disobedience demanding an immediate handover of power to an interim civilian authority.
In response, the Transitional Military Council deployed security forces in Khartoum and across the country to violently disperse the protesters.
At least 128 people were reportedly killed in June 3rd crackdown, majority on the day the sit-in was cleared.
On Thursday, President Salva Kiir sent a delegation to Khartoum headed by his Security Advisor, Tut Kew week.
The team met with the military leaders and officials representing the Freedom and Change group.
Speaking to the press in Khartoum after the meeting, Tut Kew said Kiir’s interest is to help restore stability in the Sudan.
“He [Kiir] said we are part of Sudan and that it is important for us to intervene and help find solutions to the current problems in Sudan, just like Sudan also helped resolve problems in South Sudan,” Tut Kew said.
The delegation includes; Mayiik Ayii Deng, Minister in the Office of the President, and Dr. Dhieu Mathok, Minister for Electricity & Dams.
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Early this month, the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed was in Khartoum to help break the deadlock between the country’s military rulers and the civilian opposition.
Abiy proposed a 15-member transitional council consisting of eight civilians and seven army officers to lead the country to democracy.
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MEC 'shocked and outraged' by rape at hospital
By Penwell Dlamini - 20 February 2018 - 15:06
Dr Gwen Ramokgopa.
Image: KABELO MOKOENA
Gauteng health MEC Gwen Ramokgopa says she is outraged at the allegations of sexual assault at the Dr Yusuf Dadoo Hospital in Krugersdorp.
The MEC said she was shocked to hear of alleged sexual assault by a sessional doctor at the hospital in the outpatient department.
“This horrifying incident is alleged to have taken place yesterday. Upon hearing about the matter‚ the hospital management assisted the victim and alerted the specialist family violence‚ sexual assault and child abuse unit of the South African Police Service where a sexual assault case was opened. The victim was then referred to Leratong Hospital’s crisis center for clinical assessment‚ trauma counselling and collection of evidence.
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“I am saddened by this allegation and it’s difficult for me to comprehend how a professional entrusted to look after our vulnerable patients can commit such a heinous act. Although we are allowing the police to do their work‚ we should send a strong message to our employees and community members at large that sexual assaults are human rights violations and should be strongly condemned and the perpetrators should face the might of the law‚” said Ramokgopa.
The department has stopped the services of the doctor implicated in the scandal with immediate effect.
“This incident should not have happened in the first place as doctors are trained to look after and care for patients and not abuse them in any form. The implicated doctor will also be reported to the Health Professions Council of South Africa for his alleged misconduct‚” concluded Ramokgopa.
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Spark fast-tracking build of long-range IoT network to meet strong customer demand
Image: Cameron Harris (left) of Beacon Marine Electronics and John McDermott (right) of BoatSecure, a new venture using Spark’s LoRa network technology to let boat owners monitor their vessels in real-time.
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Spark is building a long-range network to enable the Internet of Things in New Zealand’s most populated urban centres, switching on sites in Christchurch, Wellington, Hamilton and Auckland in time for the new year. Spark has been testing the technology with partners from a range of industries, from agriculture through to marine, and is seeing strong demand for the network as a result. Resource monitoring company Levno are working with Spark to have coverage extended into rural areas as well.
The days of the Internet of Things (IoT) being little more than a futuristic buzz word will soon be over for New Zealand’s top 20 urban centres.* Spark has begun building a long-range (LoRa) IoT network to cover around 70% of the population by the middle of the 2018 calendar year. Sites in Christchurch, Wellington, Hamilton and Auckland are being switched on in the lead up to Christmas. A further sixteen cities will be connected early in 2018.*
The network will allow businesses and local councils to connect to "things", like waterways, traffic lights, and machinery. Sensors in these real-world objects will send information over the LoRa network, providing real-time insight into the infrastructure New Zealand cities run on. In turn, it will help local councils and asset-heavy organisations run better, with lower costs.
Spark’s GM IoT Solutions, Michael Stribling says:
“The ways we’ll be able to use this new network are huge – it will change how our cities and businesses operate. We can put sensors on vehicles and equipment so we know where they are and how they’re being used. Sensors will be able to tell our councils when to carry out maintenance. There are so many examples of how it will help us manage assets better.”
In addition to the country’s urban centres, Spark plans to extend the network to rural parts of the Waikato, Manawatu and Canterbury in the 2018 calendar year. To deliver this, Spark is working with Levno, who plan to use the network to provide fuel tank, grain silo and milk vat monitoring services to farmers. This will enable farmers to react quickly to issues and increase the efficiency of their operations.
Spark’s national LoRa network is being built by specialist network provider, and IoT rollout experts, Kordia. It will suit low-power, low-data uses, complementing the high-power LTE network (LTE Cat-M1 or ‘M1’) that Spark began trials on this month. By 2020 Spark’s IoT networks will cover around 80% of New Zealand’s population.
LoRa already tried and tested in New Zealand
Spark has been trialling LoRa network technology for the past year, and now has over 30 operational sites across Auckland, Waikato, Christchurch and Wellington. A number of partners have been involved in testing use-cases for the technology.
An example is BoatSecure, a boat monitoring system developed by IoT Ventures and business owner John McDermott. Sensors on a boat continuously check the boat's battery, bilge pump, location, and shore power supply. This information travels over Spark's LoRa network to an app on the boat owner's phone.
Cameron Harris of Beacon Marine Electronics has been using the system since August 2017. “There was an instance when a storm hit, and I was able to see that a boat connected with BoatSecure had lost shore power during the night, hours before I would normally find out,” says Harris.
Farmers from the Matamata-Piako region and South Island have also been trialling the network for the past year as part of the Connecting Farms project. Data sent from sensors across the farm has helped inform important decisions for farmers, such as when to irrigate, spray or harvest.
Spark’s broader IoT plans
Spark has committed to two new network technologies (LoRa and M1). This month it began trialling M1 ahead of a launch planned for early next year.
Spark is also monitoring the global progress of a second LTE IoT network type, Narrow Band (NB-IoT). Like M1, it will run over Spark’s licensed spectrum and extensive wireless network. Spark will invest in a Narrow Band network when the use cases and ecosystem become more mature.
Spark has also partnered with leading global platform providers to enable New Zealand companies to seamlessly connect to its networks.
"There will be so many different uses of IoT, so we’re seeking to provide the broadest set of IoT options to customers,” says Stribling.
“To do this, we’re making sure New Zealand has access to a range of world class networks and management platforms. We’re also continuing to take advantage of the data analytics power of Qrious, to help make sense of all the information coming our way as our environment begins talking to us."
Notes to the editor:
*Spark is in the process of rolling out its LoRa network across:
Spark plans to significantly extend the scope of coverage in urban and rural areas over the next two years, and will also partner with customers to extend coverage based on their specific requirements, leveraging the flexibility of LoRa technology.
What the new network looks like Spark is building over 100 new LoRa sites in 20 towns. These sites will consist of a box and antenna (known as a ‘gateway’) installed, for the most part, on Spark 4G cell sites. Spark will install a small number of boxes on third party sites.
LoRa partners
To deliver the LoRa network, Spark is partnering with Actility for its ThingPark Wireless platform. The Actility platform will enable customers to monitor, control and capture information from their IoT devices in a simple and secure way.
Spark is also partnering with Kordia to deliver the physical network build, and maintain it once it’s launched.
Kerlink are supplying the box and antenna gateways.
The Connecting Farms pilot is a joint initiative from Spark, NIWA, Farmlands, and Ballance Agri-Nutrients.
If you’re interested in finding out more about a Spark IoT service, please visit sparkdigital.co.nz/solutions/iot or get in touch with us here and one of the IoT team will give you a call.
Lydia Tebbutt
Communications Advisor
+64 21 0224 2243 | Lydia.Tebbutt@spark.co.nz
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Why a wolf’s place is not in the kitchen…
The fad for owning animals from films is a reflection of humans’ disrespect for nature
Simon Barnes
Wolves have powerful symbolic meanings for humans. They are part of the mythology that defines us: Little Red Riding Hood, Romulus and Remus, the wargs in Tolkien, Mother Wolf in The Jungle Book, Maugrim in The Chronicles of Narnia. Wolves have profound resonance for us all.
Wolves intermittently break out in the stories we tell and are told; currently they have been doing their stuff in Game of Thrones and Twilight. And as Miss Jean Brodie said, for those who like that sort of thing, that is the sort of thing they like.
But do we really have to take the next step and fill our homes with wolves? Apparently we do. Since these entertainments entered British consciousness, there has been a great surge in demand for the wolf-iest dogs: huskies, malamutes and Saarloos.
Fair enough, if you feed them vast quantities of the right food and walk them for miles every day and build your life around their needs. Otherwise not. With the inevitability of night following day, animal welfare organisations like the Dogs Trust and Blue Cross report that wolfy dogs are being abandoned in unprecedented numbers. Battersea Cats and Dogs Home took in 66 huskies in just six months of last year. A six-day-old child was apparently mauled to death by her parents’ malamute, which takes folly to another level.
But there’s no end to our folly when it comes to animals. On fine days in ponds in certain parts of Britain you can watch red-eared terrapins emerge and bask in the sun. They came to Britain because of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. This was a manufactured craze involving comic books, cartoons, toys and films and the first wave hit us in the 1990s. Many people responded by buying baby terrapins: darling little things the size of a 50p piece. Alas, they can grow to the size of dinner-plates. When they got too much for their owners they were abandoned in ponds and lakes in city parks to gorge on tadpoles. A new Ninja Turtles film was released last year and the RSPCA was moved to issue a warning to parents against buying them as pets for a new generation of children. A few years ago an angler pulled a four-stone alligator-snapping turtle from Solihull reservoir.
The Harry Potter books and films inspired many families to get a Hedwig of their own: owls became fad-pets. An owl can live 20 years in captivity; they require commitment, proper feeding and will tend to decorate the ground beneath their perch in the most liberal fashion. Inevitably, there is now a parliament of unwanted owls across the country, one that was opened when their real nature proved a sore disappointment to the silly people who took them on.
Naturally, those who work in wildlife conservation try to find a meaningful use for our confusion between real and fictional animals. They hope that our fleeting interest in, say, the comedic lemurs in the Madagascar series of children’s films will lead to an interest in the nearly 60 species of real lemurs on the island. London Zoo now has a walk-through lemur enclosure. So, for that matter, does my local zoo at Kessingland in Suffolk; and here, I have seen how the athleticism of real animals can encourage a better understanding and a sense of ‘oneness’ with the non-human world.
Meerkats, similarly, were once familiar only to zoologists, but they’re now a must-have exhibit in many zoos. This can be traced to the influential wildlife documentary Meerkat Manor, and it gathered force when meerkats were used in a series of silly advertisements for the insurance-comparison site Compare the Market with the slogan ‘Compare the Meerkat!’
This is all very silly — an entirely frivolous way of dealing with living animals. This confusion between fictional and real animals doesn’t say much for our understanding of the world or of the creatures we share it with. The animal-as-toy notion has become part of national life and is inevitably followed by the animal-as-garbage phenomenon. Welfare organisations pick up the pieces.
But this is something more than an animal welfare issue. It’s not just about the relatively small number of daft people who fill their homes with wolves, terrapins and owls. That is just the extreme manifestation of something that lies deep in all humans and it is the idea that all non-human animals are ours to treat as we will: without any need for rights, consideration or common sense. They don’t matter. They can be cuddly toys, they can be jokes, they can be anything we want.
We are only just beginning to realise that our notions about the disposable nature of non-human species ultimately threaten not just their existence, but our own. We have extirpated vast acreages of forest and only comparatively recently learned that forest is important to the long-term interests of humankind: for carbon sequestration, flood prevention and regulation of the atmosphere. There is a continuum between the pet wolf and the degradation of the planet we live on. Some scientists now routinely refer to the current epoch as the ‘Anthropocene’, to reflect the idea that the human-worked changes to the planet are so far-reaching that they must be recognised in scientific terminology.
What links the wolf in the kitchen to the Anthropocene epoch is silliness. It starts with an inability to consider the interests of any species beyond our own and it ends up prejudicing the interests of our own species.
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Warning: there’s a plague of fake blue plaques
One of Britain’s great pleasures has been devalued by cheap imitations
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
Blue plaque spotting is one of the mind-broadening pleasures of British life. A walk to the dentist can be transformed into a serendipitous encounter with a forgotten genius from the past. ‘Luke Howard, 1772–1864, Namer of Clouds, lived and died here,’ says the blue plaque on 7 Bruce Grove, Tottenham. Even if you’ve never heard of Luke Howard, you instantly take a liking to him — and never again will you hear the word ‘cumulonimbus’ without thinking of him. ‘Lived here’ is the key: you’re passing the very house where the person woke up for breakfast each day, and the intimacy of that is what makes the encounter so much more affecting than merely reading about him or passing a statue of him.
But do you get the feeling that plaques are more ubiquitous, and therefore less frisson–inducing, than they used to be? They seem to be popping up all over the place. Most city councils now run blue plaque schemes and erect hundreds of the things. Last month a blue plaque was put up in London to commemorate the soft-porn star Mary Millington, ‘one of the hottest British sex film stars of the 1970s’, as Mail Online put it, combining a sense of salivating outrage with an excuse for dredging up photos of Millington in busty bikinis. On Midsummer’s Day 2013, in Brighton, a blue plaque to commemorate Doreen Valiente, ‘poet, author and mother of modern witchcraft’, was unveiled on the high-rise council block where she lived. The ceremony was attended by the mayor of Brighton and by hundreds of wildly celebrating pagans, some of them dressed as trees and banging green tambourines.
‘What is the world coming to,’ the purist blue plaque spotters among us fret, ‘if sex-film stars and witches are now being commemorated along with Winston Churchill and William Makepeace Thackeray? I’ll write a letter of complaint to English Heritage…’
But before you write that letter, halt! Have another look at that Mary Millington plaque. On closer inspection, it commemorates the film Come Play with Me, starring Millington, which ran at the Windmill Theatre for four years when it was still a cinema. It’s screwed to the wall of the Windmill Theatre. The words at the top of the roundel are not ‘English Heritage’ but ‘Great Windmill Street’.
Those are telltale signs. It’s not a fake blue plaque, exactly — it is blue and a plaque — but it has not passed the rigorous standards imposed by English Heritage, who took over from the Greater London Council in 1986, who followed on from the London County Council in 1965, who followed on from the Royal Society of Arts, who started London plaques exactly 150 years ago. English Heritage plaques are never screwed to the wall. They’re embedded into the brickwork or stucco so as to be flush with the wall, their convex surface making them self–cleansing and thus eternally gleaming. They are objects of great beauty, marred only perhaps by the small English Heritage ‘-castle-plan’ logo at the bottom. They’re never made of metal, but are ceramic, two inches thick and handmade by master ceramicists in Cornwall. Funded solely by donations, they cost almost £4,000 each to make and install, and it shows. A panel of historians meets three times a year to decide, from the hundreds of suggestions from the public, which should be shortlisted, and months are spent researching each person’s eminence and genuine association with the property in question, in order to whittle the shortlist down to about ten a year.
‘We have no copyright on the colour of plaques,’ says Howard Spencer, English Heritage’s plaques historian, ‘but we do say to others, “Try to make your style of plaque a bit different from ours.” ’ Other people do copy the style, however, just as people copy Prada handbags. It takes a discerning eye to tell a genuine English Heritage plaque from a copycat one.
There’s no law against any of us putting up a blue plaque wherever we like, as long as the owner of the property agrees and it’s not against planning regulations. For £24.99 you can buy a personalised ‘Heritage Plaque’ and have the words of your choice written on it, for example, ‘Aimee, born 1976, Party Queen and Best Friend in the World Lives Here.’ Some people have become so impatient with English Heritage’s exquisitely slow, rigorous process that they have started speedier and less strict plaque schemes of their own. An enterprising man called David Graham runs the Heritage Foundation and has started putting up plaques all over London commemorating celebrities from the world of showbiz and sport. ‘We have raised lettering on our plaques now,’ he proudly tells me. ‘They cost about 300 quid. I like to wait a year after someone’s died before putting one up.’ A year! English Heritage insists on 20 years after death. The British Plaques Trust set themselves up three years ago and have erected plaques (blue, metal, screwed to the wall) to commemorate, among other things, Tin Pan Alley and the house in China-town where the Magic Circle was formed. The Marchmont Association in Bloomsbury have put up 20 plaques since 2009, including one to the cross-dressers Stella and Fanny. Annoyed about Graham Chapman’s rejection by English Heritage, fans of Monty Python put one up in memory of him which reads ‘Jacob von Hogflume, 1864–1909, inventor of time travel, lived here in 2189.’ (Only fairly funny.)
As David Hare rightly said at a recent English Heritage plaque unveiling, ‘blue plaques are the only distinction that anybody really wants in life’, and ‘the great thing about it is they never know they have it’. The 20-years-after-death rule needs to be adhered to if we want to avoid a tide of over-commemorated celebs who don’t deserve ceramic or even metallic immortality.
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Both living in Zurich, each regularly performing as DJ's, and both named Adrian S. - perhaps it was destiny that Adrian Shala and Adrian Schweizer would meet in 2008 and form a near instant friendship. The two men carved out a career as one of the most consistently delivering DJ/producer duos in the house and techno scene: Adriatique.
Adriatique’s DJ performances are long, meditative, relentlessly building affairs, ever challenging the listener with subtle twists interrupting their hypnotic groove. What better place to enjoy their unique sound than at the dreamy setting of Sonus Festival on the shores of Pag Island?
After taking Sonus Festival 2018 by storm, techno phenomenon Amelie Lens is back to unleash her all-enveloping sound with the skill and sheer emotional engagement of someone who lives and breathes techno. Last year saw Amelie manifesting her stellar career, with a massive tour schedule that took her from Fabric to DC-10, by way of Time Warp Brasil and a myriad of stops in between. This year, she’s bringing her fierce, acid-leaning techno back to Pag Island. If you haven’t seen her already, make sure she’s at the top of your to-see list for Sonus Festival 2019.
Andrea Oliva’s current status as an established international headline act is the result of an entirely organic journey. With his status in his home country growing, Andrea teamed up with local club kid and friend Agi Isaku, and the duo were soon throwing sold out ‘Banditz’ parties across Switzerland. This home-based collaboration continues through to this day with Andrea playing regular sets at his beloved Nordstern. Needless to say, Andrea ́s dedication to the underground scene has garnered him widespread support and his music is appreciated by a range of dance music luminaries. We’re excited to welcome him back once again at Sonus Festival 2019!
Formed in 2012, Apollonia are the gods of groovy, stripped-back underground house music: The French trio, consisting of Shonky, Dan Ghenacia and Dyed Soundorom, will once again be bringing the sound of the after-party to our open-air dancefloor at Sonus Festival 2019. Often called the “supergroup of underground”, their sets are amongst the most in demand on the international scene. Get ready for one of their spectacular back2back2back sets that has captivated crowds all over the world and will soon be brought back to the shores of Pag Island!
Ben Klock
Berghain resident since 2005, "Klockwork" label owner and an ever-present symbol of Berlin’s vast musical landscape: Ben Klock has established himself at the forefront of the international techno scene. Those who have witnessed him perform not only praise the diversity in his track selection, but also his ability to create a room rather than just play to it. His ability to create an intricate narrative and sense of flow in his sets makes him a perfect addition to our stellar line-up for Sonus Festival 2019. Though intense and powerful, his DJ output reflects a certain kind of fervour, capturing an artistry and emotion that can often appear absent from the Techno genre. We are very much looking forward to Ben Klock's Sonus debut.
Over the past decade DJ duo Matt McBriar and Andrew Furguson have become two of the most trusted curators of electronic music. Starting off as the successful music blog “Feel my Bicep”, their ability to unearth obscure disco gems, electronic oddities and lost club classics has carried over to their versatile performances, which simultaneously entertain and educate the crowd. Every time the duo steps on stage they dive deep into their own music collection, making each set a personal and unique experience which emphasizes total immersion into the music. Join us this summer and witness Bicep flexing their muscles with a unique DJ set on Zrce beach for the very first time!
Binh
A longtime staple of Sonus Festival and resident at Berlin's iconic Club Der Visionaere, Germann Nguyen – better known as Binh – is back for yet another dance underneath the stars. Binh's part of a small but respected circle of DJs known for their laid-back approach to promotion, slick technique and, most importantly, an endless supply of forgotten bombs. Get ready for the most refined variety, defined by subtlety and sprinkled with the delightfully unexpected. It's music you need to seek out—it won't come to you. And if you do, you will not regret it.
Having earned countless awards over the last decade and establishing a global pre-eminence in vocal house music, Black Coffee’s reputation precedes him. By vigorously studying music behind the scenes and constantly discovering completely new ways of tapping into its potential, he regularly breathes life into the electronic music scene. Black Coffee’s inventive and soulful style will be keeping the crowd at Sonus awake this Summer.
Starting out as a DJ duo and recently going solo, Vivie-Ann of Blond:ish is known for her own inimitable style of slinky, psychedelic house music, which has seen her achieve global dancefloor domination. Creator of the ABRACADABRA label, the spiritual connection this techno shaman has to her music is felt in every single beat. Prepare for some bohemian magic at Sonus 2019.
After making his spectacular Sonus debut in 2018, Germany's electronic music powerhouse Boris Brejcha brings back his High Tech Minimal to Zrce Beach. During the last years, his pure, unadulterated groove swept through clubs and festivals across the world, including a debut set at Time Warp 2018, winning armies of fans along the way. Boris will once again be part of our week-long spectacular in the beautiful surroundings on Pag Island – do not miss out on this one and let your ears feast on a spectacle of dark and heavy beats.
If there’s one DJ taking the world by storm, it’s Charlotte de Witte. Despite being considered relatively fresh on the scene, the Belgian DJ and producer has been scorching through a myriad of uncompromising techno sets all around the globe. Championing her own style of relentless and headstrong techno with expertise and an uncanny composure and expertise, few DJs belong to the group that can work on that level - from the biggest stages to the sweatiest basement raves. We are more than excited for her return to Sonus!
No doubt – Chris Liebing is one of the reasons why heavy techno is as successful as it is today. Chris always stood and still stands for solid Techno on the deeper side of the musical spectrum while his DJ sets continue at full tilt - sonic journeys between darkness and light, always far from the beaten tracks of the musical mainstream. His sets move the crowd through tension and release, telling a captivating story through his track selection and the contrasts between the sounds. A long-time friend and musical companion, we’re excited to once again dance to Chris Liebing’s eclectic and atmospheric compositions underneath the stars at Sonus Festival.
A self-confessed late starter to the world of electronic music, instead being drawn to Rock guitars his teens, Daniel Avery has come a long way in a short space of time to make some of the most forward-thinking, original and diverse contemporary electronic music around. The British producer creates unique and moving worlds with his synth-heavy, atmospheric electronic music. But this is not thoughtless music; there’s a real need to take the listener somewhere far away with his sets, to take you by surprise and make you lose yourself within his expertly selected tracks. Whether at his residency at Fabric or for the very first time at Sonus Festival, Daniel Avery is bound to take you to another dimension.
Born in London, Dax J grew up listening to Jungle, Drum & Bass and UK Garage and started DJing when he was 15. Today he runs his own studio in Berlin as a prolific producer and successful record label boss – all the while remained purposefully rooted in the underground. A quintessential DJ in every sense of the word, through the years he has carved out and established his own unique sound. With his two albums, Dax J finally settled his trademark sound, firmly placing him at the forefront of a global DJ scene with his own individual style of raw and uncompromising Techno. With a constant supply of music set to be released and a tour schedule fully booked up a year in advance around the globe, we are excited to welcome Dax J to Croatia!
Dejan Milićević
For so many years Dejan has been on the scene, started dj-ing at the age of 15 and rolling for around 18 years now. As a part of the KneDeep family he played all the major events by now and also had the ex Yugoslavian region covered at the same time having every weekend full of new experiences. His music style is a mix of house and techno that has a flavor of a long and experienced career.
For the past 5 years Dejan is collaborating with Burn energy drink company and working as their music ambassador, also giving lectures on a regional level for Burn Audio Tool software and making it available to everyone.
Derrick May
Known as one of the greatest living figures in electronic music, Derrick May is one of the founding fathers of Detroit techno, essentially inventing the genre as a member of “The Belleville Three” in the 1980s. His vision of developing a style that was both futuristic and emotional has helped shape modern day electronic music significantly. Today he is still a dynamic force in the scene and advocates same animated creativity in his music with his soul-stirring rhythm and melody leaving a lasting impression. Celebrating his debut at Sonus this year, we are excited to have this legend take us on an electronic adventure!
A real Frankfurt veteran, spinning for over 25 years, his trustful taste in music made Robert Johnson Resident Dorian Paic a regular fixture on global line-ups. Blending minimal or classy modern tech house, Dorian Paic always plays with precision, passion and a sense of free-flowing energy that keeps dance floors around the globe mesmerized. At Sonus Festival 2019, Dorian will once again be hitting the deck with a choice of his finest black gold.
Starting out as a sound engineer and honing his skills in the Italian underground rave scene, Enrico shows no signs of stopping his continuous string of smash hits, and sharing his passion for everything music. His "Moon Rocks EP" on Drumcode was Enrico's standout release and could be heard at Sonus Festival multiple times. Enrico’s deep, hypnotic and rhythmic techno productions are loved by fans and luminaries of the scene alike, with support and plays from Adam Beyer, John Digweed, Alan Fitzpatrick, Carlo Lio, Karotte, Sven Vath, Christian Smith, Monika Kruse, Gregor Tresher, Joseph Capriati and many more. For Sonus 2019 it is time for the man himself to give his long-awaited debut.
The „Salty Nuts“ label founder and BE9 resident seamlessly incoorporates both irresistible grooves of old school house and powerful techno kicks into his sets, moving the crowd every step of the way. Born in Berlin and inspired by 90s hip-hop, Fabes music is strongly influenced by his roots, his dynamic style continuously impressing.
The deep, driven beats of Fur Coat have garnered the respect from the biggest names in techno over the last few years. Their cosmic sound is known for enveloping entire dance floors in a dark, techno shroud, leaving the crowd in a trance. The warm, starry skies of Pag Island are the perfect setting for their next performance.
Henrik SchwarzLive
One of Germany's most famous composers and a long-time veteran in the German deep house scene, Henrik Schwarz is part of countless music and art projects. His desire to breach musical and technological boundaries marked the starting point of his renowned live project. His unique sound combines acoustic and electronic elements - emotive soundscapes and slamming beats - effortlessly blending his passion for classical music and his background as a techno DJ and producer. In 2019 he takes his spectacular live set and nine years of production experience to Sonus Festival, marking his debut underneath the Croatian stars.
I Hate Models, the Parisian techno phenomenon, is giving his Sonus Festival debut in 2019. With an incomparable openness to all music genres, finding inspiration in synthwave and ambient styles, I Hate Models’ sounds often spills into a myriad of electronic genres. This unpredictability has helped him attract a legion of fans around the globe, all hailing his prolific sound – poising between rave, industrial, electro, post-punk and wave. We cannot wait to experience his unique blend of styles in the idyllic setting that is Pag Island.
Ian F.
Inhaling impressions from all of the globe: Ambasada Gavioli resident and driving force of Colours Music Ian F. will turn your world up side down. Switching between electro break-beats and funky tech-house grooves, his selections are proof that electronic music truly is timeless. We are excited to welcome Ian F. back to the shores of Zrce beach!
Jamie Jones
As the Co-Founder of Hot Creations, Jamie Jones became a leader in the field of super-hot and sexy house grooves. His deeply melodic sets paved the way for a warmer, more groovy and deeper side of electronic music to emerge. After a massive back2back with The Martinez Brothers in 2018, Jamie Jones is set to return to Sonus 2019 – bringing his own distinct sound along the way. Get ready to dance the night away underneath the Croatian stars!
Jesse Calosso
Jesse Calosso is a Bronx-born DJ and producer part of a tight circle of New York area artists. Expect some serious Tuskegee grooves.
Joey Daniel
Joey Daniel’s career can be summed up as nothing less than a well-deserved rise to fame. The Rotterdam born/Amsterdam-resident has been making waves through the Dutch dance scene for nearly a decade now. By now he has become a key figure in Dutch nightlife and a trusted provider of acclaimed sets, having played nearly every club and festival imaginable. His love for the low-end, dubby tech spectrum of dance music, incorporating driving percussion elements, has him taking complete control over the crowd. It doesn’t come as a surprise that Sonus Festival is welcoming Joey Daniel back for another appearance on the shores of Pag Island.
Joseph Capriati
Seven years of Sonus Festival – seven years of unforgettable sets with Joseph Capriati. Capriati's brand of slick and emotive techno, delivered with precision, flair and infectious energy, has become a staple highlight of Sonus Festival. With his powerful sets he has become a fan favourite and an ever-captivating performer, ready to bring the crowd onto the next level. Now over a decade into his career as a globally touring DJ and revered producer, Joseph Capriati remains amongst the most in-demand, well-respected and exciting artists in dance music.
Kobosil
Berghain resident Kobosil, born and raised in Berlin, stands for the dark and powerful side of techno, combining new music with genre classics in his straightforward sets. For the very first time in Sonus history, Kobosil brings his subtly hypnotic synth sounds, monochromatic textures and ambient excursions to the shores of Pag Island. His sets see him skilfully combine new techno records with timeless classics of the genre, acid, indie and industrial tracks, while adding pressure to his expressive and emotive track selection at the same time.
Rune Reilly Kölsch is a phenomenon: Well known for his productions, he has sold millions of records all over the world under his many different monikers and production work. With his natural flair for making music that makes people move, deeply rooted in the inspiring Chicago and Detroit scenes, Kölsch offered his exemplary remix abilities to London Grammar‘s 2017 hit ‘Hell To The Liars’, turning it into an emotive masterpiece. After a spectacular debut in 2018, the Dane will bring back his beats to Sonus Festival 2019, and you can catch his set right there, on the dreamy shores of Pag Island.
Konstantin Sibold
Since his breakthrough in 2013, Konstantin Sibold plays an essential role in the European electronic music scene. His music is played by artists like Sven Väth, Ricardo Villalobos and Dixon and spread around the world. Sibold’s sets show he pays little attention to the constraints of genres. Instead, he moves fleet-footed between musical categories, with a characteristic confidence that his quintessential style will shine through, whatever the musical template. In the studio, just as in the DJ booth, Konstantin lives and breathes the idea that music is fluid. With his touring schedule becoming ever-busier, now is the time to catch him at Sonus Festival 2019.
Another Sonus debut and another legend in the electronic music scene: DJ Koze is easily one of the most adventurous and artistic house producers of the 21st century. With previous experience in the German Hip-Hop scene, he blends this style with house and disco tracks in a furious groove of abstract and unusual samples which keeps the crowd on their toes the entire time. Using a wild selection of sound collages from a myriad of musical genres, nothing is normal or familiar in his world. The emotions felt during his sets are nearly impossible to express in words, but are strong enough to knock you off your feet.
La Fleur, the pharmacists turned DJ, is quickly making her mark as one of the most exciting talents in house and techno. Building on the success of various EP’s on her label Power Plant, the Swedish DJ and producer earned a well-deserved award as Mixmag’s “Breakthrough DJ” in 2017. In August 2018 she laid down a critically acclaimed debut Essential Mix that received plaudits from across the industry. For our seventh’ edition of Sonus Festival in 2019, we’ve invited La Fleur for her exciting debut at our festival in Croatia.
Len Faki
Credited as one of the first residents at techno mecca Berghain and one of the most in-demand techno artists of a generation, Len Faki doesn’t need to be introduced. His sound is constantly evolving without ever losing its vibrant, unique energy and the passion and heart he puts into his sets. His past sets at Sonus Festival have been an audio-visual adventure where he not only plays for the crowd but rather performs for and with them. Make sure you bring enough energy with you when facing this techno mastermind.
Loco Dice
Loco Dice, DJ, producer and Desolat record label co-founder, is up for his next Sonus appearance. Whether you’re a dreamer or a 9-to-5er who just wants to lose everything in a moment of abandon on the dancefloor, you will click to Loco Dice. One of electronic music’s most enduring and respected artists, he’s always shown an uncanny ability to read the crowd and take them in an unexpected direction. His delicate sense for sounds and reflective atmospheres, underpinned with solid, physical grooves inspired by the hip hop that was his early sonic stomping ground in the mid- to late ‘90s, will have you lose control in no time.
Luciano directs the crowd with unparalleled sophistication and gets them exactly where he wants them - on the dancefloor! He draws the crowd in from the surrounding beaches with raw energy, thousands dancing at his feet to his expertly selected tunes. Luciano can handle all angles of the musical spectrum, blending tech house beats into techno with ease, all the while keeping the room locked in a trance. Get ready to be held by the soundtrack which makes the Sonus experience so unique.
Luigi Madonna
A prominent DJ worldwide with releases on some of the leading labels in techno, Luigi Madonna has absorbed the influence of his native Italy and those who have gone before him to create a modern, ever-evolving sound of his own. As Madonna began to develop his style and seeking a sound to reflect his soul, the rise of minimal techno arrived at the perfect time, leading him to further delve into the realms of production. He plays with infectious energy, commanding the booth with a strong-yet-graceful presence and mixing with real flair. After two consecutive years at Sonus, he is back again for a third round at Sonus Festival 2019.
Maceo Plex's unstoppable, genre-spanning sets always revolve around his dedication to crafting sounds that continue to devastate dance floors around the world. The DJ Award winner and label boss of Ellum Audio graced the Sonus Festival booth in 2018, leaving the crowd astonished with an impromptu back2back session with Chris Liebing. For our 2019 edition, we’re nothing but excited to celebrate his deep and dark flavours against the perfect backdrop that is Pag Island.
Magdalena’s past as a booker and club manager might have given her those crucial skills that every DJ needs: knowing what the people want, reading them and reacting to their needs, while simultaneously directing those needs in a path that you have laid out for the night. A part of the Diynamic family since the beginning, Magdalena captivated bookers and the crowd of the White Isle alike – earning her a residency as well as a regular radio show in 2016. Her back2back set with Solomun at Sonus 2017 has us excited for her comeback to Pag Island – do not miss out on this one.
Marco Carola
Music On in the house! For techno lovers worldwide, Marco Carola is one of the most respected artists in the scene. An integral part to the development of Italy’s techno scene in the early 90s, he has since distinguished himself an ambassador of spitfire electro-dance beats. Famed for his energetic and impressive three-deck style of mixing and long journey sets, Marco has remained one of the most in demand DJs on the planet throughout the last two decades – and a regular guest at Sonus Festival.
Marko Nastić
Marko and friends accomplished and built one of the most vibrant club scenes in Balkan.
In carrier long almost 20 years Marko has done more than 200 releases including rmx and co productions. He is most famous for his high end 3 decks sets which gave him opportunity to tour globe many times. Currently releasing on his label Sake &Vinyl Only and Ama.
Pan-Pot's uncompromisingly pumping techno opens awe-inspiring acoustic spaces, fuelled by rocking sequences, darkly euphoric synths and cascades of white noise. Unconstrained by boundaries, they traverse techno, house and everything in between with a master’s touch. Sonus family members and companions from day one, they are ready to twist our festival crowd into rapturous fits with their colossal, haunting techno. Each year we see Pan-Pot touching the writhing, euphoric, dancing seas of bodies at Sonus Festival – if you have not had the pleasure of experiencing them yet, put them on the top of your to-see list for Sonus 2019.
Following a string of sold out shows all around the globe we’re proud to welcome the U.K. powerhouse that is Patrick Topping to Sonus Festival. He has evolved from underground stars to playing a major part in the British house music’s recent renaissance, and that’s why his mutual debut at Sonus is guaranteed to be a defining moment of the entire festival.
Petar DundovLive
Petar Dundov runs his own ‘Neumatik’ studio in Zagreb where he works as a sound engineer as well as producing his own take on techno, ambient and electronica, much to the liking of respected artists such as Carl Craig, Sven Väth or François K.
The Croatian producer might be best known as a producer of wondrous, melodically complex techno - but as revealed on his first two albums Escapements and Ideas From The Pond, his ambitions and talents as a musician are considerably more expansive than simply servicing the dancefloor.
Reinier ZonneveldLive
Reinier Zonneveld
Previously composing classical music pieces and subsequently teaching himself his electronic production skills, Reinier Zonneveld is an outstanding talent who, despite his young age, is one of the most supported techno producers at the moment. His newest hits become instant classics, being played at raves across the world. Pounding techno conducted by the director himself - we are pumped for Reinier's Sonus debut!
Ricardo Villalobos b2b Zip
With over 25 years of experience, Ricardo Villalobos is one of the most beloved DJs in the industry with regular appearance at the most revered clubs and festivals worldwide. Whether it’s at a night time set or one of our legendary afterhours, Ricardo’s love for music can be felt in every note he plays.
Not many have managed to stay off the limelights while heavily influencing the whole club scene - Zip did, although Perlon has become one of electronic music's most established institutions. For many people he flourishes best in his DJ sets, where you’ll hear a discerning mix of sublime 90s house weaved together with trippy minimal, all the while championing a style of deep digging that’s hard to find around.
Richie Hawtin is a genuine original who left an indelible mark on the global techno scene. His critical acclaim spans the realm of the fine art community to the technological vanguard. During the span of his career, Hawtin created a unique techno sound, which is regarded as synonymous with the city of Detroit. His distinctive sound, electro house, has a minimal taste but is yet highly danceable. As a long-time member of the Time Warp and Sonus family Hawtin will make his return to the Sonus Festival stage in 2019.
The second half of the unstoppable force that is called Hot Creations. His positive mental attitude is just an endless source of vivacious vibe.
Rødhåd
With the perfect balance of timeless techno, dub and house, Rødhåd is going to take our open-air dance floor deeper and deeper into Berlin’s urban techno mood. His distinctive style - deep, powerful and melancholic – incorporating influences from dub to techno and percussive grooves, will be the perfect soundtrack to yet another perfect Sonus Festival memory. Get ready for a whole new dimension of techno - energetic but often vague, leaving space for your imagination and frequently rattling the brain with a distinctive psychedelic edge.
Seth Troxler
Cultural commentator, art curator, restaurateur and entrepreneur – not to mention long-time Sonus family member and exceptional DJ. Who better to paint the perfect musical backdrop to our festival at the Croatian sea than Seth Troxler? With his expert blend of early Chicago house and minimal techno through to obscure indierock and ambient psychedelia, Seth Troxler casts a spell on the crowd like no other. We cannot wait to have him back gracing our decks for our seventh edition of Sonus Festival.
With a release on Tale Of Us' "Afterlife" and running their own label "From Another Mind", SHDW and his studio partner Obscure Shape have been causing waves in the techno scene. Since their start in 2014 the duo has been building up a large and loyal following that continuously keeps growing with each year. Their surprising and energetic sets often combine a multitude of styles, including classic Detroit techno, rave, EBM and acid.
Solomun plays a major role in redefining European house music with productions, remixes and DJing by taking the very building blocks of House and deftly reconstructing them with a modern twist. A respected underground DJ, label boss and producer for a number of years, his stratospheric rise in popularity kicked off in 2012. His mastery in the art of musical storytelling, where vigour, deepness and emotion go hand in hand, left the Sonus crowd in awe at the festival’s closing last year. For our 2019 edition we expect nothing less.
Sonja Moonear
There aren't many artists who embody the Sonus values as much as Sonja does: She’s a passionate selector, slick behind the decks and, perhaps most importantly, has a keen eye for the dance floor. Moonear now ranks among dance music's most in-demand acts, with a versatile and rhythmic style that takes in a broad cross-section of house, techno and minimal. A Sonus companion from day one, Sonja is sure to bring back her expert blend of styles to our perfect summer rave adventure on the shores of Pag Island.
Stephan BodzinLive
Stephan Bodzin has been a hugely influential figure within the global techno scene for years. His driving, hypnotic productions are highly authentic with a memorable sense of melody which sticks in your mind and his impressive live performances take entire dance floors on a ride through his diverse musical influences. Known for his iconic and vivid sound design, one of the modern greats will be back for another unforgettable live performance at Sonus in 2019.
The legend himself, cocoon mastermind, "papa" of the global techno scene, personification of "Gude Laune" and so much more. Sven Väth is a risk-taking visionary, an instigator, an innovator and indelible part of Sonus Festival history. With an unmatched passion for his craft, Sven shaped the advance and evolution of electronic music. Those who have witnessed him play, immediately felt connected by the sheer magic of his charisma. Sven’s set is something you simply must experience if you want to comprehend where techno comes from and where it is headed. No Papa, no Party.
The Tale Of Us is one of the most exciting stories in electronic music and one that's by far not finished yet. The Berlin based duo's deep house and techno sound has captured the imagination of dance music fans worldwide. With multifaceted focus, Tale Of Us break poetic and emotional boundaries, bringing reverie and awe back to Sonus Festival for the fifth time. Their mesmerising soundscapes and lush rhythms are set to shake the vibrant Isle of Pag to its core – and you with it. Watch as this tale grows and flourishes.
The Martinez Brothers
Hailing from the Bronx, The Martinez Brothers are two of the most recognizable global stars in house, techno, and club culture. Influenced by the black and Latino music style of the early 90s, the two producers are owners of their own music label “Cuttin’ Headz” and have emerged as leaders in the global house music scene. Regularly performing at the world’s largest venues, this Summer their groovy and energetic sound will bring a taste of New York to Pag Island!
Whether it’s producing or playing, Valentino Kanzyani is one to crush borders and limitations of genres. Instead of joining trends, Valentino decided to release his label’s music mainly on vinyl as a way to support the true original format of the DJ. And it is his love for vinyl that has seen him flourish today, to become one of most respected underground vinyl DJs around. One of the founding fathers of Slovenian techno, he’s been a loyal companion and one to perfectly embody the sound of Pag Island.
Voigtmann
Voigtmann started his career out as the co-founder of London’s most underground and conceptual party, Toi.Toi.Musik. With sublime dedication to DJing and music production Voigtmann has patiently acquired the respect of his peers in what is considered to be remarkable achievements in such short time. Coming from a punk band background, he rocks his sets with that certain punk attitude and never ceases to move the floor. Groove and funk are ever present. Voigtmann is an artist with an ever-increasing catalogue of knowledge, taste, and skill – and we are more than happy to welcome him for his Sonus Festival debut!
William Djoko
William Djoko’s entire persuasion emits pure charisma. While his DJ Sets are drenched in both groove-laden house and rugged, motor-city techno (sprinkled with his famed frisky footwork of course) his productions don the same eclectic charm: flirting between playful, cut for the club and trippy, mischievous percussions. It’s a unique approach to his artistry that is by far the pinnacle of his success thus far. William’s collab with label boss and good friend Loco Dice – the record was released on Dice’s LP ‘Love Letters’. The futuristic sound can also be heard on William’s latest release ‘Whiplash’, a funk-inflected dance weapon that debuts as the very first record on William’s brand new imprint DJOKO Records.
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Home / Sports Betting Tips / July 9th, 2019 Betting Tips: MLB All Star Game, WNBA
July 9th, 2019 Betting Tips: MLB All Star Game, WNBA
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With the All-Star Game today, we look ahead to the MLB Trade Deadline which takes place on July 31st. This is the last chance to make trades without players clearing waivers before being traded and thus the time when trading is made the easiest. There are a lot of contenders out there who need pieces to add and it should make for an interesting trade market.
Some teams that I can see making trades are:
Twins: This team has the best hitting in the league right now and just needs some pitching. They have been linked to the Blue Jays and Marcus Stroman which would be a huge add for them.
Red Sox: Another team that needs a starter. They have been reluctant to spend money this year, but a fourth or fifth starter type would help a lot. Thinking someone like Andrew Cashner here.
Indians: This team needs hitting. They are one of the best pitching teams in the league, but the offense has been terrible. One interesting idea I’ve seen floated is moving Trevor Bauer for some help on the hitting side. Not quite a white flag trade, but it would be a tough sell to fans unless they got back an immediate impact hitter under team control. Hard to see anyone giving that up.
The NL Central: Just 4.5 games separate first and last place in this division. The Cubs probably already made their move with the signing of Craig Kimbrel while the Brewers seem to be going with internal upgrades, calling up Marcio Dubon and Keston Hiura. The Cardinals are the most likely to add here while I’d put the Pirates as the most likely to move players.
Nationals: I think this team should make a move to add people. With the Phillies losing two key players in Andrew McCutcheon and Obduel Herrera for the season and the NL Central in a bloodbath, the Nationals are in a great spot to grab the Wild Card.
Dodgers/Yankees: Do they need to add? No. Will they? Probably.
MLB All-Star Game Betting Tips:
I never take this game too seriously, but it’s hard to ignore the American League’s dominance in this game over the years. The AL is 13-3 going back to the infamous tie game and they have won six straight games here. The American League always has higher payrolls and has been the World Series winner over the past few seasons. It’s just a better league and I think they continue their run here.
Bet American League -111
WNBA Betting Tips:
Los Angeles Sparks at Dallas Wings: This is a pretty big mismatch. The Wings have lost four of their past six games while the Sparks are in the midst of a three-game winning streak. The only real worry here is that this is an early game which can be kind of sloppy. We also have the Sparks on just one-day rest. That said, sloppiness goes for both teams and I don’t think it matters all that much.
Bet Sparks -5
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The Most Powerful Woman in the Room Is You | Lydia Fenet
From: Answers for the Family
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6-3-19 Answers for the Family Interview with Lydia Fenet
Host: Allen Cardoza & Co-Host: Gabriella van Rij
When Lydia Fenet steps on stage for a charity auction, she knows how to captivate and sell to thousands of people—she’s raised over half a billion dollars for nonprofits globally. After all of her well-earned success, Lydia has crafted a manifesto to inspire, motivate, and push you to achieve your goals—and then set higher ones. Written in Lydia’s poised and relatable voice, The Most ... See More Powerful Woman in the Room prepares readers with everything they need to know to successfully sell themselves in every facet of their lives, whether it be seeking a new career or promotion, selling a company, or improving their overall public speaking, networking, and negotiation skills.
With poignant charm, smart sensibility, and inspiring anecdotes, Lydia describes her own personal and professional journey—from landing an internship at Christie’s to combatting being paid a third of her worth to spearheading a new department of international strategic partnerships. Now, more powerful than ever, she’s sharing her tried and true secrets of success.
Find your own “strike method”: To get in the zone and command a crowd at an auction, Lydia always strikes her gavel three times—she even carries a gavel with her at all times “just in case.” What’s your strike method?
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Social Studies in the Southern York County School District has a mission to help create critical and empathetic learners who will use the world and its experiences to prepare themselves to become global citizens in the 21st century.
The table below contains the Social Studies Curriculum Maps.
Social Studies United States History, Grade 8
Social Studies United States History I, Grade 9
Social Studies Comprehensive Units and Standards, Grade 8
Social Studies United States History II, Grade 10
Social Studies Introduction to Sociology
Social Studies Introduction to Psychology
Social Studies US Government and Economics
Social Studies Human Geography
Social Studies AP Psychology
Social Studies AP American Government
Social Studies AP Human Geography
Social Studies AP European History
Resources for Social Studies
U.S. Debt Clock - This displays the U.S. debt in real time.
The British Museum - Ancient civilization tours with many pictures of artifacts, interactive stories, and maps.
Mark Millmore’s Ancient Egypt (Discovering Egypt) - Very informative, interactive website that covers all major aspects of ancient Egypt.
Odyssey Online - Website for ancient Asia, Rome, Egypt, Africa, and the Americas webquests.
CIA Factbook - Up to date information on countries throughout the world.
Junior Scholastic Magazine and corresponding articles on historical and current events.
Eyewitness to History - Resource with primary source accounts throughout United States history.
Gilder Lehrman - Great reference for Unites States history. Includes a collection of videos, primary source documents, timelines, and history lectures.
American Experience - Resource contains a variety of documentary videos on American history.
Library of Congress Primary Sources - Website contains many important primary resources on American History.
The Constitution Center - Resource for students to explore constitutional issues today
The Smithsonian National Museum of American History - Contains collections and exhibitions from United States History as well as resources for students.
New York Times Upfront - Up-to-date resource for current events articles
United States History I
American Experience - Resource with a variety of documentary videos on American history.
Eyewitness to History - Resource with first hand accounts throughout history.
United States History II
270 to Win - Resource on historical election maps
Khan Academy - Contains video lectures to help support student learning.
AP U.S. History Description
Gilder Lehrman - Great reference for AP U.S. History. Includes a collection of review videos, primary source documents, timelines, and history lectures.
AP Review YouTube Channel - Contains a collection of review videos on a variety American History topics
ABC News: International - International/world current event resources.
CIA Factbook - Excellent, up to date resource on countries throughout the world. It includes vitals statistics for countries studied.
BBC - Excellent resources for seeking global news from a different perspective.
New York Times Upfront - Up-to-date resource for current events articles.
AP Human Geography
AP Course Description - AP Human Geography course description from the College Board.
AP Course Credit Policy - Link to investigate whether a college will accept the course for credit and if so, what score is needed.
CIA Factbook - Excellent, up to date resource on countries throughout the world. Includes vitals statistics for countries studied.
National Geography AP Human Geography Page - Interesting view of the course from the National Geographic Society.
Learnerator - This company offers some practice questions for AP Human Geography. Students can pay to receive additional questions, but the ones offered for free are good practice.
AP Human Geography Help on You Tube - Page with various videos that will help bridge gaps for students.
TED Talks - This includes lectures on a variety of topics including many within Human Geography.
TED ED - More great educational videos from TED.
US Government and Economics
U.S. Debt Clock - This site displays the U.S. debt in real time.
U.S. Constitution Center - Official website of the Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Excellent resource for past and current Constitutional issues.
U.S. and World Population Clock - Website displaying the U.S. and world population in real time.
The White House - The official website of the White House.
U.S. Congress - The official websites of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate:
http://www.house.gov/
http://www.senate.gov/index.htm
The U.S. Supreme Court - The official website of the U.S. Supreme Court.
PA General Assembly - The official website of the PA General Assembly.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - Official website for the state of Pennsylvania.
York County - Official website for York County, Pennsylvania.
National Archives - The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
270 to Win - Provides interactive and historical data on the presidential electoral map.
AP Course Description - AP United States Government course description from the College Board
AP Course Credit Policy - Link to investigate whether a college will accept the course for credit and if so what score is needed.
BBC - Excellent resources for seeking global news from a different perspective
CNN - Excellent resource for news from the American perspective, on both domestic and foreign policy topics.
Fox News - Excellent resource for news from the American perspective, on both domestic and foreign policy topics.
Gallup - Provides multitudinous polls that allow students to access contemporary and historical polling data.
Learnerator - This company offers some practice questions for AP United States Government and Politics. Students may pay to receive additional questions, but the ones offered for free are good practice.
Roper Center - Provides students access contemporary and historical polling data and an exclusive educational polling resource in the form of iPoll.
Student Notes - This resource provides students with access to a comprehensive list of course related vocabulary words that they can use to prepare for the AP Exam.
TED Talks - Lectures on a variety of topics including many within American Government and Politics.
TED ED - More great educational videos from TED
U.S. Congress- The official websites of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate.
AllPsych - Billed as a virtual psychology classroom, the site houses a wide variety of psychology resources.
AP Course Description - AP Psychology course description from the College Board
AP Psychology - This site offers unit by unit practice questions for the AP Psychology Exam.
AP Psychology YouTube Review - The YouTube channel amalgamates review resources from contributors across the nation; students can search by specific topic in which they are interested.
Learnerator - This company offers some practice questions for AP Psychology. Students may pay to receive additional questions, but the ones offered for free are good practice.
Neuroscience for Kids - This site provides interactive and easy to understand resources on neurotransmitters, glial cells, and biological psychology.
Schallhorn’s AP Psychology Channel - Hosted and populated by a veteran AP Psychology teacher from California, Chuck’s YouTube site covers myriad psychology topics in simple and easy to understand ways.
TED Talks - Lectures on a variety of topics, including many within psychology.
Learnerator - This company offers some practice questions for psychology courses. Students may pay to receive additional questions, but the ones offered for free are good practice.
PsychCentral - This site offers links to a variety of online psychology resources, many of which can be beneficial to high school students as they seek opportunities to extend their domain-specific studies.
Student Notes - This resource provides students with access to a comprehensive list of course related vocabulary words that they can use in their study of psychology.
TED Talks - Lectures on a variety of topics including many within psychology.
American Sociological Association - This site provides updated research and educational links.
The Cranky Sociologist - The blog provides a myriad of sociological resources from data interpretations and analysis to sociology related book reviews.
Khan Academy - The site provides snippets on a variety of the most important sociological topics.
Sociological Cinema - The site gathers and organizes video clips through which students can understand the connection between esoteric sociological ideas and contemporary happenings using a visual medium.
Sociology Toolbox - The blogging site houses a variety of resources from which students can learn about the relationship between current events and sociological principles.
TED Talks - Lectures on a variety of topics including many within sociology.
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VIDEO: Introducing the New Magpul Bipod & RLS Sling
The new Magpul Bipod, built from Mil-spec hard anodized 6061 T-6 aluminum, and the RLS sling, with 1 ¼-inch nylon mesh webbing, will hit shelves this summer.
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Magpul RLS
Magpul has a bunch of new products in the pipeline; the first two the Texas-based company has released details on are its bipod and RLS (Rifleman Loop Sling).
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The Magpul Bipod is built from Mil-spec hard anodized 6061 T-6 aluminum, stainless steel internals, and injection-molded reinforced polymer. It’s available in black or FDE. In addition, it comes in three mounting options: M-LOK, 1913 Picatinny rail and A.R.M.S 17S. It weighs just over 11 ounces. Furthermore, its legs extend a full four inches, from 6.3 inches to 10.3 inches. MSRP: $109.95.
The Magpul RLS, meanwhile, boasts Magpul’s proprietary chafe-resistant 1 ¼-inch nylon mesh webbing. It also features lightweight reinforced high-strength injection-molded polymer hardware. In addition, it weighs in at just 4.4 ounces. Functioning both as a standard weapon sling/retention device and a stabilized shooting aid, the RLS is priced at $19.95 and comes in black and coyote brown.
Look for both of these to be available this summer. Check the email blast and videos below for more details.
For more from Magpul, go to Magpul.com.
The Magpul Bipod is designed as the most durable and versatile bipod for the money. Rich with important features, our lightweight Mil-spec hard anodized 6061 T-6 aluminum and injection-molded polymer bipod brings innovation in ergonomics, functionality, strength and value together. An aesthetically pleasing, low-profile design conceals its mechanisms and hardware, smoothly brushing off snags and bumps. Optimized for rapid one-handed adjustments, the bipod quickly and quietly transitions between countless user configurations. The Magpul Bipod includes many features normally found on bipods at a significantly higher cost.
The Magpul Bipod is available in BLK or FDE and comes in three popular mounting platforms: M-LOK (MAG933), 1913 Picatinny Rail (MAG941), and A.R.M.S 17S Style (MAG951)–the Bipod for A.R.M.S. 17S Style must be used in conjunction with an appropriate 17S-style mounting device that is purchased separately and typically is quick-detach capable, for proper mounting to your weapon system of choice.
Building on the heritage and proven performance of Magpul’s MS Sling series, the Magpul RLS (Rifleman Loop Sling) is a durable, lightweight, and affordable shooting aid and retention device. What at first appears to be an unassuming weapon sling is quickly transformed by the end user into a rock-solid, adjustable, isometrically-tensioned shooting aid. Combining the best features of Rhodesian and 1907 match-style slings, the RLS is born of Magpul’s famous proprietary nylon mesh webbing and high-strength polymer hardware.
The American-made Magpul RLS combines legendary Magpul innovation, quality, and design into a simple and effective shooting aid for less money than many slings that merely carry a rifle. Available in BLK or COY.
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Suspect sought after civilian worker killed in shooting at Fort Knox
An Army civilian employee was killed in a shooting Wednesday…
An Army civilian employee was killed in a shooting Wednesday afternoon in a parking lot outside Fort Knox’s Human Resources Command headquarters in Kentucky.
The victim, a human resources employee, was transported by ambulance to Ireland Army Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the Army said Wednesday night in a news release.
“Special agents from the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command are investigating a personal incident and not a random act of violence,” Command spokesman Chris Grey said.
The victim’s name is being withheld until 24 hours after the family is notified, the Army said.
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Home Articles The Sun ROOST proposes bed tax increase, ‘Community Enhancement Fund’
ROOST proposes bed tax increase, ‘Community Enhancement Fund’
Proposal would redirect portion of Essex County revenue to local capital projects
by Elizabeth Izzo
ROOST CEO James McKenna and Chief of Staff Mary Jane Lawrence proposed a change to the Essex County Occupancy Tax Law, which would increase the tax by 2 percent and direct that additional revenue to a “Community Enhancement Fund.”
ELIZABETHTOWN | A proposal to increase the county’s tax on hotel rooms by 2 percent and direct that new revenue to fund local capital projects was put forward by the Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism (ROOST) Monday.
If approved by the Essex County Board of Supervisors, a plan to increase the county’s tax on hotels and short-term rentals from 3 to 5 percent will move ahead.
According to county Manager Dan Palmer and county Treasurer Mike Diskin, the state legislature would then need to authorize a change in home rule legislation to allow for an occupancy tax increase.
Last year, the county’s occupancy tax generated $2,869,255 in revenue. ROOST CEO James McKenna believes a 2 percent increase would generate $2 million in additional revenue, which could be directed to town-level projects like bike paths and wayfinding signage.
“Done right, we think this will actually grow business,” McKenna told supervisors Monday.
Currently, the county retains 5 percent of all occupancy tax revenue, and the rest, 95 percent, is directed to ROOST.
As part of ROOST’s proposal, approximately $1.7 million of the new revenue generated through a tax increase would be designated for a Community Enhancement Fund (CEF) designed to steer money toward projects in the Lake Champlain, Schroon Lake, Whiteface and High Peaks regions.
An additional $97,715 would be used to fund administration of the CEF. ROOST Chief of Staff Mary Jane Lawrence said the creation of a CEF would likely require setting up regional committees of five to seven people to vet project applications.
The county Treasurer’s Office would retain an additional $102,858.
Supervisors on the Economic Development committee moved the proposal on to Ways and Means, the next step before reaching the full board at the next regular session March 4.
SUPERVISORS REACT
Not everyone is satisfied with the plan as proposed.
Minerva Town Supervisor Stephen McNally said that rather than entrusting a committee to look over applications to receive CEF funding, the revenue should be doled out directly to each town.
“I think that personally, if this money was split up directly to the towns, that would be better,” he said.
McNally said he was “totally against” the creation of regional committees and said that town governments know best where the money would do the most good.
McNally also took issue with the High Peaks region — the towns of North Elba, Keene and St. Armand — receiving the lion’s share of the new revenue, an estimated $1.4 million. That’s compared to a projected $85,000 to 90,000 boost for the other three regions.
Moriah Town Supervisor Tom Scozzafava noted that no towns apart from Wilmington and North Elba have single destinations to attract tourists.
“I think it’s a good approach,” he said.
Essex County Board of Supervisors Chair Shaun Gillilland said outlying towns are already spending money on attracting visitors anyway.
“We’re already in the Hunger Games for tourists,” he said, adding that towns in a particular area would be able to bolster their existing advertising budgets and marketing efforts by working together on a cohesive strategy.
“The sum of all of our coordinated efforts is better than one town alone,” he said.
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Sunderland Council bosses approves 3.99% council tax rise plans
Council bosses in Sunderland have given the green light to plans to raise council tax by almost 4%.
Thursday, 14 February, 2019, 11:29
An increase of 3.99% is being sought by Sunderland City Council, a proposal first outlined in November last year in the authority’s budget planning.
The rise has now beenformalised by cabinet ahead of a final decision next month.
For Band D properties, tax will rise by £1.04 per week with residents set to pay an extra £54.25 per year.
One per cent of the increase is also linked to the adult social care precept which helps to fund services to nearly 3,800 Sunderland adults with disabilities or illnesses.
Cabinet secretary, Coun Paul Stewart stressed that the rise was needed as councils continue to have their budgets squeezed.
In Sunderland’s case, the authority is facing a budget gap of more than £54million up to 2021/22 with a need to cut £25million in 2019/20 alone.
He added: “This council’s ability therefore to deliver even on a statutory basis for Sunderland services for the most vulnerable in our communities is going to be severely tested and challenged in years ahead.”
At the meeting, council bosses blamed government austerity and funding cuts for difficulties balancing the books.
Cabinet member for communities and culture, John Kelly, said: “It’s another little con by the Conservatives who take away funding and come back and say ‘if you want you can raise that funding by charging your public directly.
“What they have done is taken away the subsidy we used to get and directly placed it on the people of Sunderland.”
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Deputy council leader, Coun Michael Mordey, said austerity had “shifted the burden from central government to the local council tax payer.”
He added: “I think it’s an absolute disgrace that areas such as Sunderland, which have such a low council tax base, have been unfairly funded.
“The residents of Sunderland should be made aware that, if this government gets their way, that burden will be even greater.”
Council leader, Coun Graeme Miller added: “All we can do as local authority councillors is get that balanced budget and do what we can to ensure that services are protected as much as possible.
“As my colleagues have said it’s the devil if you do and it’s the devil if you don’t. We have to raise council tax to protect essential services, statutory services and the things people expect us to deliver.”
The comments came as the council formalised its revenue and capital budgets for next year.
This includes a decision to withdraw £1.250m in ‘one-off’ reserves to support budget pressures in 2019/20.
Council tax for 2019/2020 is due to raise 15 pence in every pound of the council’s income as the majority of its spending is grants from central government.
The 3.99% increase is also expected to raise £99.6million towards a budget of £651.4million for 2019/20.
A final decision on council tax increases and capital/revenue budgets will be made at full council on Wednesday, March 6.
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Family Histories & Gen Charts > Summary for Fred Harvey Seymour
Compiled by Evelyn W Henry, g/d of Fred Seymour
Individual Summary for Fred Harvey SEYMOUR
Date(s) Place Description
Buried —
10 Mar 1865 Hume Twp, Whiteside, IL
28 Oct 1939 Tampico, Whiteside, IL Tampico Memorial Cern. Lot 13
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Last Changed: 22 Mar 2003
AKA: Married Name:
ID: AEN:
Relationship Mother -
Biological Martha Jane PADDOCK
- Biological
Harvey Hervey SEYMOUR
Marriage Date/Place
Emma Alice BOWMAN
9 Dec 1886 Sterling, Whiteside, IL
GRANDPA FRED H. SEYMOUR: Compiled by Evelyn (Whitmer) Henry - 2002
Fred Harvey Seymour was the youngest of the six children born to Harvey Hervey Seymour and Martha Paddock Seymour. Being six years younger than his sister, Clara, he was the “baby of the family.” Fred broke his hip in a fall on the ice when he was about nine years old, and apparently there was no professional care available for him. As a result, he suffered life-long problems. The following is excerpted from one of Aunt Daisy Nokes’ “See More (Seymour) of Old Tampico” articles. This appeared in the PROPF-IETSTOWN ECHO 23 June 1982:
“Since there was no one there who knew how to care for his hip properly, to set it or otherwise correct it he was crippled the rest of his life, suffering untold agony as bits of broken bone worked out of his back and chest in later years.” (One actually emerged from his shoulder area.)
Daisy said his mother, Martha (Paddock) Seymour. “carried my father around on her back and hip and lifted him wherever he had to go, for a year or more until he was well enough to walk by himself with a great lift in a shoe.” All his adult life Fred wore a shoe with a six inch lift, which helped him to walk, but with an off-balance, swinging gait.
Because of his limp, Fred wasn’t able to run and play like the other boys his age, but he wasn’t idle. From Daisy’s 11 August 1982 “See More” article: “He got other youngsters to catch frogs for him - he would clean and dress them, pack them in ice and sell them to hotels and restaurants. He made enough money to buy his own clothes... children used to call him “Hoppy Bob-Tail” when he was in the school yard, since he had to kind of hop instead of being able to run.”
“Between the ages of 12 and 20 he began to trade and barter, selling Western Cottage Organs and Melodians, and New Home and Singer Sewing Machines.” No doubt, Fred knew enough about the musical instruments to demonstrate them. He probably learned the piano from his older sister, playing well enough to tune the pianos for his customers. He became an accomplished fiddle player, and played a piano accordian, as well. He and his brother, Charles, often played their fiddles for local dancing parties. (Perhaps the Seymours’ musical talent was inherited - their grandfather, Collins Seymour, played the fife during his service in the War of 1812, and their father, Harvey H. Seymour, played drums during parades down the main streets of Tampico.)
During his youth, Fred and the other townspeople of Tampico lived through many disasters. There were three fires that devastated the village, one occuring in 1872, and others in 1874 and 1876, each causing huge monetary losses to the merchants along Main Street. In between the last two big fires, there was a tornado which tore through the town and
destroyed thousands of dollars worth of property. A graphic description of these catastrophes can be found in a PROPHETSTOWN ECHO article written by Paul Nicely and published 28 May 1981, as well as in the Tampico Centennial booklet.
Fred H. Seymour married on 9 December 1886, Emma Alice Bowman. Emma was the much younger stepsister of Elizabeth Bowman Seymour, who was married to Fred’s father, Harvey H. Seymour. (See Emma’s biographical notes.) The marriage took place in the nearby city of Sterling, Whiteside County, Illinois.
Following their marriage, Fred and Emma apparently traveled to her mother’s home in Lewis, Iowa to spend Christmas with her family. A few months later, Fred wrote the following in his young bride’s little autograph book, in his beautiful script:
“Tampico May 22nd 1887 “Written with a stick
Well chosen Friendship the most noble
Of virtue all our joys make double
And into halves we will divide
Our troubles Your husband F. H. Seymour, Tampico, Ils”
and, on another page:
‘To Emma S. Tampico, Aug. 18, 1887
Think of me when I am far away
Think of the hours you have spent with me
Think not alone of the future year
But think a slight thought of the past one
(Your sincere husband Mr. Fred Seymour) Tampico, Illinois”
Fred and Emma returned to his home town after their honeymoon trip to Iowa, and set up housekeeping there. According to Aunt Daisy, they were living in a house on Washington Street in 1887 when she was born, although her mother was actually in Lewis, Iowa, with her own mother for the birth. Deed records show that Fred purchased a house on Washington Street, Tampico, in 1889, and acquired additional property on that street in 1893. Some time before December of 1891, Fred became the Tax Collector for Tampico, an elected office. He was reelected several times, according to notices in THE TAMPICO
Deed records show that, between 1891 and 1894, Fred Seymour bought and sold several properties within the Village of Tampico, some of them residences, some for his business. The family was still on Washington Street in 1892, when a second daughter, Ethel, was born, but in 1893, the family was living on Benton Street. Fred was making his living by selling organs, pianos and sewing machines on his own, and working part time in the general store owned by his sister Clara’s husband, John Paice. He continued his musical instrument sales for years after, as a sideline to his grocery business. On December 23rd of 1893 Fred’s name appeared in THE TORNADO on a poetic list of merchants doing business along Main Street as:
“F. H. Seymour, Dealer in organs and pianos grand. Who will also sell you sewing
machines, as cheap as anyone in the land.”
In the new year (1894), Fred decided to venture out on his own, believing he had learned enough about running a retail business from John Paice to conduct a similar business, It was time to fulfill his dream of opening his own general store, apparently with the blessing of his brother-in-law. According to an item in The TAMPICO TORNADO, dated 3 March 1894, Fred had purchased a wooden building on the east side Tampico’s Main Street. (County Grantee Records show he had purchased Lot 5, Block 21 from George Ruck, in May of 1893, laying the groundwork for opening a business.) This was the first of several successive and successful Seymour stores in Tampico.
Family records indicate that the first wooden store on Lot 5, forty feet deep, soon proved too small for the Seymours’ growing business. Fred had the building moved back on the lot and extended the front. The picture shows this wooden store building as it looked in 1894.
At the time the second wooden store was under construction, the Seymours lived on Benton Street, near the home of Fred’s father, Harvey H. Seymour and step-mother, Elizabeth, who owned Lots 17, 18 and 19 in Block 21. In 1896, after his father’s death and estate settlement, Fred purchased his father’s home from Elizabeth, and moved his family into it. The homestead stood on the northwest corner of Benton and Booth Streets.
In 1897, construction began on a new single-story house for the Fred Seymours on one of the other Benton Street lots. This home, located at 104 S. Benton, was referred to by the family as “the cottage.” It was located near the rear of the Seymour store, and, for a while, the family enjoyed living where the girls could play in their own yard. But, it was a tedious walk to and from the store for Fred, with his lame leg. A third daughter, Vera May, arrived at the Seymour’s on 29 May 1897. The same year, Fred was once again reelected as tax collector.
The next year, 1898, Fred Seymour took a partner into his business, and ads began to appear in THE TORNADO for” Seymour & McGrady,” inviting customers to “call and get their bedrock prices on all groceries.” With a partner, Fred hoped to be able to slow down a bit. Early in 1899, The Seymour family made a month-long trip to Iowa, but in April, THE TORNADO reported that Fred had bought out his partner and was to become sole proprietor once again.
However, before long, Fred decided that the second wooden store, 60 feet in length, was still not large enough. In 1900, he sold LotS, Block 21 to George W. Stoufer, who opened a Department Store in April 1900. On 29 March 1900, Fred Seymour purchased Lot 6, next door in Block 21, from George B. and Sarah Jackson. His family and his stock of merchandise were moved into a vacant store building across the street, where Fred continued to conduct business during the construction of a new, two-story brick building.
There were actually two brick store buildings, constructed simultaneously, one by Mr. M. A. Lyons on Lot 7, and the Seymour building on Lot 6. The two buildings had identical adjoining front facades, and shared a common wall between, just one brick wide. There is a deed document referring to an agreement about this common or “party wall.” In 1901, Mr. Lyons opened a restaurant in his building on Lot 7, and called it the Conundrum. It did not stay in business very long, and that building became the home of the furniture business owned by the Parent family.
According to THE TORNADO, the new Seymour building on Lot 6 was completed by July 1900. Fred immediately rented the new building to Mssrs. Pollock and Ripley, who purchased his stock and ran the store for about a year. Though Fred Seymour, no doubt, enjoyed a respite from doing business and found some relief from his aches and pains, within a few months, he decided to buy back his stock and go back into business. The family moved into the spacious apartment above the new store. New ads began appearing in THE TORNADO in March 1901. Daughter Daisy, at 13, was now old enough to be a real help to her father. At onetime, he left her in charge (with a clerk to help lift heavy goods) while he, Emma and the younger girls took a trip to Iowa. (See Daisy’s ‘See More” article dated 30 November 1983.)
Fred’s daughters remembered their father as a strict, but loving parent, and proud of his girls’ accomplishments. It gave him great pleasure to drive Miss Daisy all around the area to participate in elocution bees, and great pride when she so often won the contest. Fred and Emma must have been very proud when Daisy went off to college and when she taught school in Tampico and Sterling. Family togetherness was very important to the Seymours. When Daisy began teaching at the High School in Sterling (1908-09), the whole family moved there. This was possible because Fred had earlier sold the grocery and clothing business to Mr. P. H. Likes. But the move to Sterling was to be a temporary one. By October of 1909, Fred was back in business in Tampico at his store, and the family had moved back to the upstairs quarters.
1910 was an eventful year. Daisy married H. Leo Nokes, and Ethel married C. D. Whitmer, each couple moving away from the hometown, but visiting frequently. When the girls started their own families, Fred and Emma were overjoyed at the arrival of each new grandchild. In 1920, when Ethel and her husband had their first, long-awaited baby, (my sister, Denise,) Fred gave them a car so they could visit Tampico more often. Of course, Fred and Emma must have been especially happy that their youngest daughter, Vera, and her husband, Olof Lewis, elected to stay in Tampico with their lift le daughter, Eloise. Vera had developed a good business sense, ably assisting her father in the store. Eventually, Vera and Olof operated the business on their own for a number of years.
As a result of his early entry into the business world, Fred Seymour became adept at managing money. He was a tough bargainer and handled trademen and sales reps who supplied goods for his store with shrewd business tactics, and his customers with kindness and great diplomacy. He excelled at public relations, building good will among his customers and townspeople by generous gifts to schools, charities and community enterprises such as the baseball team. He gave away candy at Christmas time, and ice cream in the summer. On a few occasions, the family set up tables in the store and treated good customers and friends to one of Emma’s delicious home-cooked dinners. According to THE TORNADO, Fred was wellliked and respected for his integrity and good nature. But he was not naive - some of his encounters with people who tried to put something over on him - and failed - were reported in the TORNADO.
Fred’s first and only grandson, my cousin, Fred Nokes, recounts some of his remembrances of his time in Tampico, and of Grandpa. He recalled that when Grandma, in the apartment above the store, was ready to serve lunch, she would pound her heel on the floor to signal Grandpa that it was time to hang out the “Closed for Lunch” sign, and make his difficult, painful climb up the long, steep stairway to their living quarters. Fred remembers, also, that every Saturday night was a big occasion in the town. Stores were open for business and it seemed everyone came into town to socialize. Fred said he and his cousins would wander the length of the street, and enjoyed watching Grandpa in his store. Once, in the middle of the night while young Fred was sleeping in the front bedroom above the store, he was awakened by a “big boom. The whole town got out of bed and went down to the Post Office, where they found that burglers had blown the safe.” So much foot traffic “ruined all the evidence for the investigators.”
Cousin Fred recalls that Grandpa sometimes took him along when he had to have his “big shoe” repaired orto have a new one made. He said he felt proud when Grandpa would ask for his opinion. Fred tells of his own mischievious streak, saying that he locked Grandpa in the outhouse a couple of times. Good thing Grandpa had a sense of humorI
A list of land transactions involving Fred Seymour appears on a separate page. Whiteside County, Illinois, Grantee and Grantor Records show that, through the years, he and Emma bought and sold a number of other properties in addition to their store. Fred was excellent at bartering, a fact attested to by his daughters and evidenced through items published in THE TORNADO. Sometimes Fred would take a piece of property in trade for a purchase, sometimes a horse or livestock. Fred owned two farms near Tampico, and once gave one to Daisy and her husband, Leo, and the other to Vera and her husband, Olof, to operate on their own. (One of my mother’s stories tells that her father, Fred, was baptized on one of the farms, in a cow’s tank. Cousin Fred Nokes adds that his dad, (Leo Nokes) made a step ladder on the outside of the tank so Grandpa could climb into it. This probably took place around 1920.)
Deed records show that Fred and Emma purchased Lots 16, 17, 18 and 19 in Block 20 on 19 January 1925. The two-story house on Lots 16 and 17 (209 N. Main Street) was the Seymour home until the time of Fred’s death in 1939. This is the house that I remember so well. Grandpa had a very large garden on one of the out-lots where he grew every manner of vegetables after he retired from regular work at the store. Grandma had the chore of canning the produce not given away to friends and neighbors. Her canned stock was stored in a small earthen basement area. Coal and corn cobs were also stored in the basement, and used to stoke fires in the iron stove that provided heat for the main part of the house during winter.
Cousin Fred Nokes recalls how proud Grandpa was of his automobiles in the 19205-1930’s. At separate times, he had a Buick and an Oakland, both large cars. Being a rather small man, he was, no doubt, even more proud of his motorcars than he had been of his fancy horses and buggies. Only trouble was that the garage on the property at 209 N. Main had been intended for carriages, and Grandpa had to park his car at an angle because the garage was too short.
Grandpa grew weary of the hard work in the store, and tried to retire more than once, only.to find he had to take charge of the business again. In 1928, when he was about sixty-three, Grandpa sold the grocery store to youngest daughter, Vera and her husband, Olof Lewis. They operated the store until about 1943. Fred found it hard to leave the business he was so long associated with, and was always happy when he was called back to help out, or to fill in when Vera and Olof needed a break. In a letter, Cousin Fred Nokes said, “After he sold the store to Olof and Vera, he would park his car out in front on Saturday night, and would look so sad. I’ll always remember his face.”
Sadly, I remember Grandpa only in his old age. I can picture him sitting in front of his radio wearing a dark vest over his white shirt, with elastic garters holding up its overly long sleeves. A gold watch chain was draped from pocket to pocket. His silver hair was combed into a neat little swirl on each side of his part, and his faded blue eyes shone with pleasure at having his granddaughters there for a visit. He was an avid baseball fan, and found the radio a great comfort in the years after his beloved Emma passed away. He stayed in the large home on Main Street with the help of a series of housekeepers. (Since he had always considered himself somewhat of a “ladies’ man,” my mother and Aunt Vera were rather suspicious of these women, and Aunt Vera kept a close watch on them.) An outstanding memory of us cousins was that the house (and Grandpa) always smelled of Sloan’s Liniment, his remedy for the painful rheumatism that plagued him throughout his life.
Fred Harvey Seymour died (of colorectal cancer) on Saturday, 28 October 1939 in Tampico, Illinois, as recorded in Whiteside County records and family records. There is no will on record for him. He was buried in Lot 13-G, in the Tampico Memorial Cemetery,Tampico, Whiteside County, Illinois, beside his beloved Emma. A photo of their graves is in the possession of this compiler. The following obituary appeared in the TAMPICO TORNADO following his funeral on Monday, 30 October 1939:
“FRED H. SEYMOUR LAID AT REST MONDAY - Passed away Saturday morning after an extended illness.
“Funeral services for Fred H. Seymour, one of Tampico’s oldest business men, were held Monday afternoon at the home with Rev. G. D. Lamb, pastor of the Church of Christ, officiating. Two favorite hymns, “The Old Rugged Cross” and ‘Whispering Hope” were sung by Mrs. G. D. Lamb and Mrs. Archie Yarde, accompanied at the piano by Mrs. Nell Glassburn. There were
many beautiful flowers. The business houses were closed during the services which were attended by a large number of relatives, neighbors and friends.
“Burial was in the Tampico Memorial Cemetery with Fred Klobes, Thomas Dillon Jr., Elmer Jones, Joe Graham, George Oetzel and William Burden serving 2s pallbearers.
“Among those from out of town who attended the services were James Bowman, Silas Bowman, Mrs. Agnes Holmes and Mrs. Mary Kusserow of Eldora, Iowa; Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Bowman and son of Rockford; Mrs. Cora Underhill, Mr. and Mrs. George Merrill and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph McGrady of Prophetstown; Elmer Paice and Pearl Paice of Chicago; Mr. and Mrs. Bert Stewart, Mr. and Mrs. Frank P. Stabler and daughters Emma and Della of Sterling; Mrs. Hattie Besse of Erie; Mrs. Fred Near and Mrs. Lawrence Renner of Deer Grove; Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Whitmer of Madison, Wis.; Mrs. Bridget Maxtield, Mrs. Vernon Van De Mark and Laverne Van De Mark of Lyndon; Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Pierceson of Rock Falls.
“Fred Harvey Seymour passed away Saturday, Oct. 28 at 10A.M., at his home on north Main Street after an illness of several months.”
Fred Seymour was a man small in stature, but big in the hearts of his family, friends and the community he so dearly loved. There is a great snapshot of him taken in front of his store, which pictures him in his prime, sporting a mustache, and wearing
a derby hat and vest. With arms akimbo, black sleeve protectors sheathing his white shirt sleeves, he looked every bit the genial proprietor so often described in THE TAMPICO TORNADO.
>Family Records of Daisy Seymour Nokes, Ethel Seymour Whitmer, Eloise Lewis Stabler, and Barbara Seymour (Stewart) Cunniff.
>BIRTH:-MARRIAGE-:Family Bible Listing Recorded by Fred H. Seymour, himself, photocopy of the family pages now in possession of this compiler.
>Handwritten records of Martha Paddock Seymour, in possession of Daisy Nokes, copies shared by Daisy and Barbara Cunniff. (According to Barbara (Stewart) Cunniff, a great granddaughter of Martha and H. H. Seymour, the handwritten record of Martha Paddock Seymour was found “in a small box of her possessions after she died, and Daisy Nokes has the original.” A photocopy of this was sent to this compiler by Barbara in 1981 and a somewhat clearer copy sent later by Elsie Nokes. It is a list of the
children of Martha Paddock and H. H. Seymour, including Fred, and of the parents and siblings of Martha Paddock.
>Family records of the Bowman Family also confirm the birth dates and marriage of Fred and Emma Bowman Seymour.
>Personal knowledge of compiler, her mother, Ethel (Seymour) Whitmer
>Correspondence with Daisy (Seymour) Nokes, Elsie and Fred Nokes, Denise (Whitmer) Johnson and Eloise (Lewis) Stabler.
>Transcripts of misc. items from the weekly newspaper “TAMPICO TORNADO” Many items on the Seymour family appeared in “The Tornado” concerning day-to-day events in the lives of the Seymours. These newspapers have been microfilmed and are on file at the Illinois State Historical Society, and also at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Most of the family items were transcribed from the microfilms by Evelyn W. Henry during the 1980’s. Typed copies were shared and cherished by Ethel Whitmer, Daisy and Elsie Nokes, and Eloise Stabler, ~nd remain in the family files.
>Aunt Daisy Nokes’ “See More (Seymour) of Old Tampico” articles that appeared during the early 1980’s in the PROPHETSTOWN ECHO, Prophetstown, Whiteside County, Illinois
>Article in the PROPHETSTOWN ECHO “Researching Reagan - History of Tampico, III”, written by Paul Nicely and published 28 May 1981.
>Autograph book belonging to Emma Alice Bowman, Fred’s wife.
>Funeral Director’s Record, Tampico, Illinois, dated 28 October 1939
>Obituary, THE TAMPICO TORNADO, 30 October 1939
>Cemetery Records of the Tampico Cemetery, Tampico, Illinois, and personal knowledge from viewing of the graves in Lot 13G. Photo of graves on file.
>Grantee and Grantor Records, Whiteside County, Illinois 1889-1 943
>Numerous family photos passed down from Emma’s daughters, Daisy and Ethel.
>Census records - see below.
Census records from New York and Illinois confirm that Fred Seymour’s parents, Harvey H. and Martha (Paddock) Seymour, left Oneida County, New York about 1855. They located for short periods of time in Dixon, Morrison and Prophetstown, all in Whiteside County, Illinois, but by 1857 they were settled in Hume Township, Whiteside County, where Fred Harvey Seymour was born in 1865, just as the Civil War was winding down. By 1874, the H. H. Seymours were living in the Village of Tampico. They lived on Benton Street, and H. H. Seymour worked as a wagon wheel maker.
1870 Census - Whiteside County, Illinois
1880 Census - Whiteside County - Tampico, Illinois - Page 3016 Seymour, H. H. M W 53 Born New York
Fred M W 15 “ Illinois
(In 1880, all of Fred’s siblings had married and most were living nearby. His mother, Martha, died earlier in the year, before
the census was taken, and his father had not yet remarried.)
1900 Census - Whiteside County. (transcribed from book by Baer, Snyder, Bush, Nelson)
Tampico Village
1231126 Seymour, Fred M 35 M McGr’ Born IL Fa: born NY Mo: born NY
FE. r 31 Wf IL WV OH
Daisy F 12 Da IA IL IL
EtheIF 8 Da IL IL IL
Vera F 3 Da IL IL IL
*MCGr = Merchant, Grocer
1910 Census - Whiteside County, Tampico Township - p. 225- 16 April 1910- Theodore W. Stock
187-190 Seymour, Fred H. 45 Ml 23 yrs b. IL Parents NY Merchant,Grocery House free of mort.
Emma A. 42 “ 3 ch IA “ IL IL (error, should be IL - OH - OH)
Ethel 5. 18 IL IL IA 0cc. Saleslady - grocery
Vera M. 12 IL “ “ 0cc. none aft sob.
(Next door on Main Street lived the John E. Reagans with their son, Neal. This was one year prior to the birth of Ronald R. Reagan.**)
1920 Census - Whiteside County, Illinois- Village of Tampico - p.258, Sheet 2A, Enum. Dist. 178
31-35 Seymour, Fred Nd Ni 54 Mar b. NY Ia IL mo IL Salesman,Groc. Owned home, free/mortgage Emma WI 52 “ IA IA IA No occup.
Note: Whoever gave the information that year was wrong on all birthplaces
1930 Census - Whiteside County, Illinois - Tampico Village - p. 1 B, 7 April 1930 - Tracy Pierce
30-30 Seymour, Fred 65 Mar. b. IL parents b. NY Occupation - none R.E.alue $2000 Emma 62 b. IL Fa. W. Virginia Mo. OH
**(There was also a common wall, just one brick wide, between the new Seymour store and the brick building later constructed
on Lot 5. It was in the apartment above that store on Lot 5 where future President Ronald R. Reagan was born years later [in February 1911]. The building now houses the President’s Birthplace Museum. This was where good friends Nelle Reagan and Daisy (Seymour) Nokes used to chat through the window that opened into both apartments. Daisy told how Nelle Reagan sometimes passed little Ronnie through the window to her or her teen-aged sister, Vera, so she could baby-sit with him.)
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Business rates unsustainable at present, say experts
By Hamant Verma on 21 June 2019
The Treasury Committee this week continued its inquiry into business rates to scrutinise how government policy has impacted business.
The committee is examine how business rates policy has changed, including business rates retention, alternatives to property-based taxes, such as the proposed digital services tax, and how changes to business rates could impact businesses.
Conservative Nicky Morgan is chair of the committee.
Previous hearings featured representatives from ICAEW, the Rating Surveyors Association and others (May 7; reported here), and representatives of business and local government (May 22 and Jun 4; reported here).
The fourth oral evidence session, held on Wednesday 19 June, took evidence from Jerry Schurder, Head of Business Rates, Gerald Eve LLP; Rachel Kelly, Senior Policy Officer, British Property Federation (BPF); Kevin Muldoon-Smith, Lecturer, Northumbria University; Tej Parikh, Chief Economist, Institute of Directors (IoD); and Steve Rigby, Group Property Director, Tesco.
Nicky Morgan asked about wholesale reform of the business rates system
Tej Parikh (IoD) said the primary reason why the present situation is unsustainable is the increase in business rates and the cumulative burden that businesses now face. The amount being charged is the problem, he added. He went on to say some of his members might be put off from opening another property because they might lose small business rates relief.
Steve Rigby (Tesco) said the system can be repaired, but it actually needs fundamental rebalancing, because in the retail industry now, 20 per cent of the sales are online. “We believe there needs to be a rebalancing. Our proposal is twofold. In reality, it is a 20 per cent reduction in the UBR (Uniform Business Rate), back to a level seen in 2010, to 40p for the bricks and mortar retailers. To create a level playing field, it is a two per cent online sales levy, which will broadly have a tax position for the online retailers similar to the tax paid as a percentage of sales for those in bricks and mortar. Broadly, they should be fiscally neutral for the Government.” He accepts that Tesco would have to pay both.
Kevin Muldoon-Smith (Northumbria University) agrees with the property tax basis but with more frequent valuations. The check, challenge, appeal needs to be improved, though it is getting better, he added. We need a hybrid system in which digital, online forms of tax would be included, he suggests.
Morgan then asked whether the market rental system is working. Morgan suggested that people involved in the property market want there to be high asset valuations. She said: “They want there to be high rents, and it does not matter if properties are sitting empty as long as the rental value is high people—property businesses—can then borrow more money, regardless of what is going on on the ground.”
Jerry Schurder (Gerald Eve LLP) believes business rates should continue to be based on property rental values. Schurder said one of the fundamental fixes that is required to make business rates fair again is far more frequent revaluations—far more frequent than even the three-yearly revaluations that the Government intend to introduce. He added that businesses do not realise that if they pay a high rent, the chances are that they will end up with a high rateable value and therefore a high rates bill. That is because the relationship has been broken by the infrequent revaluations and the transitional arrangements, which prevent the largest increases and deny the largest decreases.
BPF’s Rachel Kelly agreed with Schurder, saying a rational investor is not going to purposefully keep a property empty.
Conservative Kevin Hollinrake asked about business rates’ disproportionate burden.
Steve Rigby explained that retail pays 25 per cent of the rates bill yet represents around five per cent of GDP. Looking at the example of Tesco, its rates bill is around £700 million, but corporation tax is about half of that, so the fixed costs in retail have become completely disproportionate, he said.
Schurder said the total take from business rates has increased at a gross level from £10.4 billion in 1990 to well over £30 billion, well outstripping the rate of inflation, whichever measure one uses. The amount that businesses pay here by way of local property tax far exceeds what is paid in most other countries in the EU and the OECD. The UK should reduce the rate back down to 34.8p or thereabouts—a third of current market rental value, he suggested, saying: “I believe that business would accept that a tax at about that level would be a fair contribution towards local services.”
Labour’s Catherine McKinnell asked about a possible business growth accelerator in England. She added separately that the idea of local authorities being able to competitively lower their business rates does not seem very realistic.
Although supportive of the accelerator, Rachel Kelly urges caution not to ‘over-incentivise’ new development. On the question of locally set business rates, she does not necessarily think that it would be the best thing for the Exchequer if local authorities could undercut their neighbours. It would just add complexity to the system, she added.
Kevin Muldoon-Smith agreed with the accelerator, ‘but it is a more progressive type of relief, so if we were to go down that route, it would need to be in the context of evaluating all the other reliefs as well’. On McKinnell’s second point, he said it could be very difficult to lower the multiplier in local areas and, in business rate retention, an awful lot of the growth from economic development that local areas might do over time is stripped out of the system, so you can only really reward new property development.
Jerry Schurder has no doubt that business remains vehemently against the idea of local rate setting. “They have very long memories, going back to the 1980s, when they were treated as the cash cows to fund profligate spending, with massive increases year on year in some local authority areas.” He went on to say it becomes almost impossible for a multi-site occupier to manage its rates liabilities when there are 317 different calculations of rates at a local level. We would still have to have a redistribution system behind the scenes; otherwise, half of councils would go completely bust overnight, he added.
Kevin Hollinrake asked about the check, challenge and appeal system.
Kevin Muldoon-Smith said it has got better over time but it was introduced too early, and the portal did not work particularly efficiently. It is quite complicated even for rating professionals to use; when you have businesses trying to do it themselves, it is very complex, and that is just getting through the checkpoint. You then get the challenge, and you face a problem at the VOA, which is quite under-resourced, he said. It is also still dealing with appeals from the last set of appeals on the last rating list.
Jerry Schurder said it is the most preposterous, manifestly unfair system of challenging or objecting to rates assessments that anyone could ever possibly devise. They have devised a system in which the entire burden of proof is on the business to prove the assessment to be wrong, he complained. In relation to the 2010 appeals, as at 31 March this year, the official statistics were that there were 66,000 appeals still outstanding, and 45,000 of those are related to the ATM case.
Steve Rigby said his company has thousands of outstanding appeals but this is mainly around the ATM inquiry.
Self-assessment creates some efficiencies, in theory, but you need to offset that against the fact that a number of SMEs might not have the expertise in-house to deal with the self-assessment process, he said.
Labour's Alison McGovern asked about a single consolidated tax for small businesses
Steve Rigby prefers the current model of a mixed system, but it needs rebalancing. Rigby believes business rates is an effective tax because it is easy to collect and difficult to avoid, and he does not see a clear case for abolishing a property tax.
Tej Parikh said we need to capture different forms of economic activity, it will be difficult to do that through a single, one-size-fits-all tax. Parikh went on to say the difficulty with things such as basing tax on turnover is that businesses have different models. Some might operate with a higher turnover and lower profit margin, and some with lower turnover.
Jerry Schurder said he is concerned about the overall burden of business rates and not the overall tax burden.
Conservative MP Steve Baker wondered why, despite so much wide support for land value tax, it is used so rarely internationally. He has misgivings about land value tax.
Kevin Muldoon-Smith said the structural change that would need to be in place to move to a land value tax would be huge. It has the potential to increase the density of development, promote investment and deal with things like land banking and that type of stuff, but that is very much in the abstract sense, he said.
Jerry Schurder said the biggest challenge, though, is where the evidence is going to come from to establish the value of unencumbered land—land without buildings—because, particularly in urban locations, there is as good as no evidence of clear land sales on which to form the basis of the valuation. You would need a planning inquiry to determine the highest and best use that could be made of each parcel of land. Then you have an argument, potentially, about what the value is of the individual parcel of land: “I think there would be a 100 per cent appeal rate against land value taxes,” he suggested.
Steve Rigby said if the tax rate for the UBR were lower, investment would be encouraged. The issue is not how we come to it; the total burden is a more important part of it, he added. Tej Parikh opined that land value tax might fit well with some businesses because it is not necessarily a tax on the property.
Rachel Kelly has doubts, saying: “There are going to be uses that are not profitable—parks, schools, museums—things that we want in our communities, and would a land value tax detract from being able to create that kind of mix in our communities?
Labour’s Rushanara Ali said one way of filling the gap in the public purse would be through a digital or an internet sales tax.
Steve Rigby talked about Tesco’s proposal for an online sales levy, which is effectively a sales tax, but is actually a tax on the operator and not on the consumer. “At the moment, the retail bricks and mortar retailers are paying at least two per cent of their sales base on rates—it is two per cent plus—so that tax is already in existence in physical bricks and mortar retailing. Our proposal is to level the playing field on that.”
Rachel Kelly said if we are looking to the business rates system to address some of those global challenges with international and digital businesses, she thinks we are trying to do too much. The OECD has done a lot of work in the areas around profit shifting and taxation of digital businesses, and we would be better placed to support that work alongside this.
SNP MP Alison Thewliss asked some more about online sales tax for physical goods.
Steve Rigby said the burden has become too much for the physical retailer. Tesco thinks that because it is two per cent, it broadly raises the same in revenue as the reduction for the physical estate retailers would be—about £1.5 billion a year. Exceptions from the online sales levy would be orders effectively done in a store—for bulky goods, and so on, that might be delivered at home—and, conversely, things that are ordered online and actually delivered in store (click and collect). “Clearly the losers today are all the retailers operating in physical estates that pay a higher tax burden than online retailers.” In terms of sales on marketplaces, the marketplace would pay the tax; that gets over some of the points that there may have been around retailers not being properly registered, and paying VAT and all other things, he said. Tesco would be looking for the online sales levy to be, in reality, a UK-wide tax, which hopefully could be achieved, so customers in England Scotland would not be treated any differently.
Rachel Kelly said the crux of the issue comes down to the business rates system not accurately valuing property in real time.
So long as we are properly capturing the value of property in real time, through rental valuations, we should be picking up the changes as the economy moves and markets increase or decrease in value, said Jerry Schurder.
On empty property relief, Kevin Muldoon-Smith said the way it is designed, it almost rewards local authorities and the public purse to perversely go for empty property rates, because the multiplier is so high. He wants to see the business rate accelerator in Scotland, ‘where you can almost incentivise occupation’ extended across the UK. He said: “It is such an avoidable tax [empty property rate] because it is such a bad tax that it would be mad not to try to avoid it. There are lots of businesses out there whose business model is helping landlords to avoid tax. There are these fake companies that are set up just to trigger rate reliefs over a time, and then they will be extinguished straight away. You will have just a modem in an office that is masquerading as a business. There are many ways of avoiding empty property rates.”
In general comments, Tej Parikh said there is also a case for looking at the role of reliefs and what role they can play in regional growth, such as enterprise zones. Awareness of reliefs available is certainly a challenge as well. Kevin Muldoon-Smith added that some businesses have the reliefs but did not realise that they had them, because they were automatically sent over.
The full session can be read here.
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Justin Fairfax placed on leave at law firm sexual-assault investigation
Sarah Gray
Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax is on leave from the north Virginia law firm where he works, while the firm investigates allegations of sexual assault.
The lieutenant governor position is only part time; Fairfax is employed at Morrison & Foerster, an international law firm that represents financial institutions, startups, and tech companies.
“We take the allegations against Justin very seriously,” the firm’s chairman Larren Nashelsky told the National Law Journal on Friday. “As a firm, we believe that it is important to seriously listen to any allegation of sexual assault or harassment, and to treat all persons making such allegations with respect and sensitivity.”
The firm retained outside counsel to look into the allegations, and Fairfax is cooperating with the investigation, according to Nashelsky’s statement.
Read more: Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam is resisting pressure to resign, and has reportedly been given homework by his advisers to read ‘Roots’ and ‘The Case for Reparations’
Fairfax has been accused of sexual assault by two women.
Vanessa Tyson, a professor at Scripps College in and fellow at Stanford University was the first to come forward after the conservative publication Big League Politics published her account.
On Wednesday, February 6, Tyson released a statement through her lawyers detailing the alleged assault, which she said occurred in 2004 during the Democratic National Convention.
“What began as consensual kissing quickly turned into a sexual assault,” Tyson says in her statement.
Later that week, a woman named Meredith Watson came forward alleging that Fairfax assaulted her in 2000 when they attended Duke University.
Fairfax has forcefully denied both allegations, but he has faced calls from Democratic lawmakers to resign over the allegations.
“I deny this latest unsubstantiated allegation,” Fairfax said in a statement, which was send to INSIDER on Friday. “It is demonstrably false. I have never forced myself on anyone ever.”
“I demand a full investigation into these unsubstantiated and false allegations,” the statement continued. “Such an investigation will confirm my account because I am telling the truth.”
Read more: 2020 Democrat candidates join lawmakers calling for Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax to resign as a 2nd woman accuses him of sexual assault
Fairfax is one of three Virginia lawmakers embroiled in scandal.
The allegations against Fairfax emerged as lawmakers called for the resignation of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam over a photo on Northam’s medical school yearbook page that shows a man wearing blackface and one dressed in Ku Klux Klan robes.
Northam, after initially saying he was in the photo and apologizing, later denied being in the photo. At a press conference on Saturday, February 2, he admitted to wearing blackface while dressing up as Michael Jackson for a dance contest. He has rejected calls for his resignation.
Virginia’s attorney general also came forward saying he wore blackface in college in 1980.
Howard Schultz on selling Starbucks shares if he runs for president
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Was the 12th dynasty of Egypt ruling at the time of the exodus ?
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This post suggests the end of the 12th dynasty of Egypt as the time of the exodus.
Egyptologists consider the 12th dynasty to be the apex of the Middle Kingdom. This dynasty was based at (or nearby) the city of Memphis (Noph or No-Ptah), which agrees with details of the scriptural account and Hebrew tradition.
Pharaoh Amenemhet I may have been the ruler of Lower Egypt (near Memphis) when Joseph was appointed as the second ruler of the land (Genesis 41:40-46) and when Jacob and his family moved into Egypt (Genesis 45:16-20) to buy food during a great famine. Contemporary records of the 11th dynasty based in Thebes refer to "seven empty years" following the death of Mentuhotep III (in Thebes). This may represent a time of famine, co-incident with a seven year period during the reign of Amenemhet I (in Memphis). Seven years of famine did occur over a wide area. (Genesis 41:41-46).
Pharaoh Amenemhet III was one of the most notable and powerful rulers of Egypt, he was probably the pharaoh of “the oppression”. During this time the royalty and clergy of Memphis were closely linked. The Israelites were forced into slavery, producing bricks to build the storage cities of Pithom and Ra-amses. There is no need to assume any connection between the city of Ra-amses and later Pharaohs of the same name.
His son Amenemhet IV was probably the pharaoh of the exodus. The 12th dynasty did not gradually weaken and decay slowly into oblivion. The end of this dynasty was sudden.
Amenemhet IV has no known pyramid. This is reasonable if he died in the Red Sea and his body was lost.
Amenemhet IV was succeeded by his sister Sobekneferu (possibly his wife), the first known female pharaoh of Egypt. This may be because there was no male heir. The son of Amenemhet IV may have died during the tenth plague. Sobekneferu ruled less than four years, when she died the Twelfth Dynasty came to a finish.
Amenemhet IV shared in construction at two temples. One was a temple begun by his father Amenemhet III and was dedicated to Renenutet and Sobek, the other was a shrine at the temple of Hathor (the cow goddess). Renenutet was represented as the serpent goddess, and Sobek was represented as a crocodile and associated with the River Nile.
The first miracle (Exodus 7:10-12) performed by Aaron was turning his rod into a snake which ate the Egyptian serpents. This would be a humiliation directed toward the goddess Renenutet. The first plague (Exodus 7:19-25) was the turning of the Nile into blood, this was a humiliation of the god Sobek. This plague included canals, and reservoirs (Exodus 7:19). The 12th dynasty was known for promoting irrigation projects, including canals and reservoirs. The goddess Hathor was humiliated by the fifth plague (Exodus 9:1-6) directed against livestock.
The very gods promoted by Amenemhet IV were all humiliated.
Due to the terrible effects of the ten plagues and the loss of elite military forces in the red sea, it is reasonable to assume that the twelfth dynasty would weaken quickly and collapse into anarchy. A time of anarchy did occur beginning with the so called 13th dynasty. The 13th dynasty was not factually dynastic, it appears to be a time of multiple rulers struggling for power. This period is sometimes described as an era of chaos and disorder.
After the Israelites along with a great number of Egyptians departed, the land of Goshen would have been virtually empty. Sometime later Canaanites moved into this “void region”. These newcomers would have occupied empty villages, with access to lush marshes, pastures and irrigated fields, free for the taking. They prospered and eventually became powerful and ruled over Lower Egypt. They were known as the Hyksos (foreign rulers). The Israelites were long gone when the Hyksos ruled.
The foregoing points of interest suggest that the 12th dynasty may have ruled Lower Egypt at the time of the residence of Israel in the land of Goshen.
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Re: Was the 12th dynasty of Egypt ruling at the time of the exodus ?
« Reply #1 on: 19/12/2017 18:39:02 »
This post would imply that the tribes of Isreal were resident in Egypt for approximately two centuries.
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It's a really good story. I like the story very much. It's really mysterious.
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Mainstream archaeology suggests that the Exodus was entirely fictional. For an introduction, see here.
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Would I be right in thinking that, apart from the Bible, there is no evidence that the Israelites were enslaved in Egypt at all?
There never was nothing.
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The Bible story about the Exodus is constructed of different historical events from different periods, but there is some historical backround. Hyksos played an important role in that event. They had ruled Egypt (Kemi at that time) several centuries earlier and when they had left, people who had supported them and other Apirus or Habirus (falsely labeled as "Israelites"), mainly followers of the Old Kingdom tradition, had been surpressed in Egypt.
The Sea People who were so called Habirus as well, supported Hyksos (related tribally to the Old Kingdom elite) who had settled in Levant, and some rebellious circles in Egypt. Many of The Sea People troops were captured and enslaved to quarries when they had attacked Egypt. All these people were Habirus, whose Sumerian based name has been wrongly transformed as "Hebrew". They were not ancestors of modern Hebrews, but Sumerian- Aryan people (Y- haplogroup R1a), descendants of the priestly and kingly elite of Sumeria and Ancient Egypt. Hyksos (originally Haka-Kasvut) were their tribal brothers.
After Seti II died, his wife Meryamaan Twasarat (Biblical Mirjam) took power with her lover vizier Bay (Aria/ Kuru), who became know as Aaron. There was a destruction in Egypt during their rule. Rebellious people destroyed temples and looted everywhere, demanding a religious and cultural change in Egypt. Pharaoh Amenmose (originally Sama Moni/Muna), who had co-ruled with Seti II, was part of the team and he became known as "Moses" in future.
This team asked Levantian Hyksos to help them. It is estimated that about 150 000- 200 000 Hyksos came to help with the rebellious who had now liberated also the enslaved Sea People Habirus from quarries. However, they lost at the end and had to leave Egypt with ex- prisoners, leprous, Habirus, Hyksos etc. Part of them directed to Levant, and part of them invaded Greece and finally established a Hellenic high culture there.
I would like to underline, that "Moses" or Amenmose (Sama-Moni/Muna) was tightly related to Hyksos and he even used a Hykso title "Haka-Wasat", which is falsely translated as "Heka- Waset" by ignorant egyptologists.
Hyksos or originally Haka-Kasvut weren´t Asiatic or Semitic, but Aryan Habiru people who had left Egypt during and at the end of the Old Kingdom to establish mines and metal cultures. Arkaim was one of these sites established by Kemi-Egyptian Aryans and they became known as "Hyksos". The problem is that egyptologists have no idea about the language used by Aryans. Their names are systematically wrongly translated.
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Thanks for that fascinating reply, Magnetic views. I don’t know much about ancient Egyptian history, but there has, for many years been a lurking interest at the back of my mind.
I guess the history you outline suggests that the theory that Moses got the idea of a single God from Akhenaten might be a bit wide of the mark.
Did Amenamhet I locate the Hebrews (Jacob and family) in the land of Goshen to counter untrustworthy tribes already living in the region? He may have directed naval action in the area.
There is a canal in Egypt currently named "Joseph's canal". Of course there is no absolute basis for this connection. However the name suggests a tradition that has existed for a very long time. Who knows, it may be correct?
There may be evidence to suggest that Hebrews were living in Egypt as free people during the earlier part of the dynasty.
An Egyptian official named Khnumhotep is believed to have lived during the reign of pharaohs Amenemhet II and Senusret II. His tomb contains paintings of everyday life in Egypt. Two scenes show Semetic people (possibly Israelites) offering gifts (tribute, or tithes, or taxes) to Egyptian scribes. At this time the Hebrews were not enslaved.
One scene includes women and children. This agrees with the scriptural account that the Israelites “became fruitful and began to increase greatly, and they kept on multiplying and growing mightier at an extraordinary rate” (Exodus 1:7). It would be unusual if this scene did not include children. The scene probably represents occasions familiar to Khnumhotep.
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It may be that baby Moses was adopted by a daughter of pharaoh Senusret III. This pharaoh had at least four daughters; Sithathor, Menet, Senetsenebtysy, and Mereret. They probably outlived their father and were eventually interred in the royal burial complex at the pyramid of Senusret III. These daughters had the title “kings daughter” and this agrees with biblical terminology (Exodus 2:9).
Biblical events may be distributed over the twelfth dynasty as follows;
Pharaoh Years Possible Events
Amenemhet I 29 Joseph appointed as overseer, Jacob enters Goshen, Jacob dies
Senusret I 45 Israel Prospers
Amenemhet II 34 Joseph dies
Senusret II 19 Israel increases greatly, Khnumhotep II dies
Senusret III 39 Israel enslaved, Moses adopted by daughter of Pharaoh
Amenemhet III 46 The oppression continues, Moses flees to Midian
Amenemhet IV 9 The Exodus, collapse of the dynasty
Sobekneferu 4 End of dynasty
8 rulers 225 total years of rule (28 year average rule)
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I have read a book 5hat states Arkenaten, who was moving toward a monotheistic religion, who also was cosidered a heratic at the time was ruling. He moved toward monotheism possibly because of a jewish influence. Unfortunatley the island of thera where the atlantis myth is set exploded in a volcanic eruptionand flooded the nile delta. This was taken as the last straw by the standard old guard priests, and arkenatens fate was sealed.
As you can see there are various myths created.
Atlantis and its destruction
God parting the red sea and drowning the egyptians
Evil pharaoh
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It was hypothesised that the jews where a race of egyptians and moses was infact the offspring of arkenaten, thrown out of egypt for heresy and the wrath they had brought. The plague of frogs and locusts and blood rain can all be attributable to volcanic eruptions Before moses there is no real history of the jews, just lots and lots of fairytales like abraham amd methusela, noah and his ark, who all lived for hundreds and hundreds of years.
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It appears that the 12th dynasty was proceeding at full strength until it ran into a brick wall and collapsed suddenly.
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“Now, that’s why we played Swindon!” smirked Luke Pritchard of The Kooks as the band finished their smash-hit single “Naïve” midway through their set. He was having fun, and not afraid to show it as the Brighton four piece played the second night of their UK Tour.
Rewind two hours and Brighton co-residents The Rivers opened up the evening as the hoards of people piled into the gym of Swindon’s Oasis Leisure Centre for what felt like a special after-school treat. Quickly followed by the marvellous Kid Harpoon who bought their British-Decemberists sound to the masses, managing to turn a few sceptics into fans (though that may just be because of the lead singer, who looks distinctly like Mackenzie Crook from a distance!)
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Mamula Fortress before the development
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The plans are to turn the abandoned WWII fortress into an island resort that will feature a beach club with two beaches, a water sports centre, restaurants and bars, a spa and three swimming pools.
There will be a marina for guests to sail into, which will be overlooked by some of the outdoor dining areas.
For guests for are staying on the island, it's expected that there will be 33 rooms available.
One of the new restaurants at the resort
According to the island's website, the resort will have a party atmosphere, with DJs and a dance floor at its heart.
But in tribute to its past, it will also feature a gallery museum on the events that took place on the island.
Mamula, originally built by an Austro-Hungarian admiral as a sea fortress, has a dark past.
According to The Irish Independent, around 2,000 prisoners were jailed there during WWII, under the reign of Mussolini, with an estimated 130 of those having been killed or starved to death.
There will be 33 rooms at the resort for guests to stay in
First photos of what the rooms might look like reveal an incredibly spacious sitting area
Each of the rooms are open plan
It has sporadically been a tourist attraction, but was abandoned for some time.
The project, originally approved in 2016, has long had objections from families of those who were imprisoned there, as well as heritage group Bokobran Initiative.
The group is said to have written to the Montenegrin government to accuse the developers of "devastating" the fortress, which they have denied.
There are also worries that the island will be closed to the public, which the developers have also denied.
The development company expects to maintain the local flora and fauna
A model of the planned resort
A spokesperson for OHM Mamula Montenegro told Sun Online Travel: "All works on the reconstruction and adaptation of the Mamula fortress on the Island of Lastavica are in accordance with planning, building, and conservation conditions and under the supervision of relevant experts.
"The historical value of the island will be recognized and honored through the establishment of a memorial gallery which Orascom is obliged to develop as part of its lease agreement with the Montenegrin government."
They added: "Furthermore, the revitalisation design encompasses maximum efforts to protect the environment and aquarium, with all waste waters collected and treated, and modern reconstruction techniques used to reduce the heating and cooling needs.
"The entire autochthonous plant life of the island will be preserved and further improved, so that Mamula will still be specific for its numerous agave trees and slender Mediterranean herbs, including its characteristic big pinewood that has been growing for decades on the south-eastern end of the fortress rampart.
Mamula had been abandoned for some time before the project was approvedCredit: Alamy
The developers are said to have invested millions into the projectCredit: Alamy
The fortress once housed political prisonersCredit: OHM Mamula Montenegro
"All the wells and reservoirs on the island will be preserved, while on the west side of the tower, hidden by natural relief and vegetation, there will be the most modern desalination plant for seawater, which will provide the supply of all facilities with potable and technical water.
"A sewage treatment plant will be installed, which will then be used for irrigation of greenery and other needs that can be satisfied with this technical water. OHM Mamula Montenegro Company is planning to deploy a submarine cable that will supply Mamula with electricity."
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CentER's Research Master's program in Business offers two years of graduate level coursework and research training. The program prepares students for a PhD dissertation research. Students gain deep knowledge in a chosen Track: accounting, finance, marketing, operations research, organization & strategy or tax-economics.
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Excellent track-record in graduate placements at top universities worldwide
The Research Master in Business is a "Top rated program" in the Dutch Keuzegids Masters ranking 2018
The program enables students to accumulate theoretical and technical knowledge of research methodology courses and to develop the skills required for cutting-edge research in their field. It also enables students to become acquainted with analytical and empirical tools frequently used in business research.
The courses of the Research Master's program in Business are taught by internationally renowned researchers, members of CentER’s faculty, supplemented by some excellent scholars invited from abroad.
The Research Master in Business offers seven different program tracks:
Accounting managerial, financial accounting
Finance corporate finance, asset pricing, banking
Marketing marketing research, consumer psychology
Operations Research operations management, optimization techniques
Tax Economics taxation, principles of accounting, behavioral theories
The Research Master in Business Management program is divided into two tracks:
Information and Supply Chain blockchain, buyer-supplier relationships, information flows
Organization and Strategy strategy, organizations, entrepreneurship, international business
The CentER Graduate School:
Excellent track record in publications, awards and student placements
CentER conducts fundamental top research in every field of economics and business management, and strives to create optimal conditions for the research and investigation of important issues in these areas. The goal is to create an open atmosphere conducive to intellectual exchange. Because scientific developments are inherently unpredictable, CentER does not devise elaborate research programs.
Researchers are encouraged to follow their intellectual curiosity rather than adhere to previously formulated paths. PhD candidates play a crucial role. Not only do they dedicate themselves to learning the trade; they also stimulate faculty members to remain critical and alert.
You will find our former Research Master's students at universities all over the world, like:
University of Chicago, Booth School of Business (USA)
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management (USA)
University of Rochester (USA)
University of Toronto, Joseph L. Rotman School of Management (Canada)
University of British Colombia, Sauder School of Business (Canada)
HEC Montreal (Canada)
Bocconi University (Italy)
HEC Paris (France)
University of Warwick (UK)
Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands)
University of Melbourne (Australia)
University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
Nanyang Technological University, Nanyang Business School (Singapore)
And at renowed organizations, such as:
Dutch Central Bank
TNO Delft
Central Bank of Sweden
Washington Federal Reserve Systems
You can also have a look at the full overview of placements from 2011-2016.
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The Graduate Students' Society (GSS) consists of and represents over 160 CentER graduate students from both the Business and Economics programs. Our main goal is to support you in your professional development while enabling you to enjoy your time at Tilburg University.
The GSS is active in three main areas:
Organizing social events and sporting activities
Planning professional events and promoting communication among graduate students
Voicing your concerns on matters and issues
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Various seminars and informal workshops
CentER has seven seminar series, providing many opportunities for visiting researchers, Research Master's and PhD students, and CentER faculty members to discuss current research and ongoing projects.
Each year about 200 seminars and 30 informal workshops are organized.
Every week on Thursday the Graduate Students’ Society organizes a special seminar for the Research Master’s students to present and discuss their research papers.
See an overview of planned seminars
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CentER conducts fundamental research in the field of economics and business management, and strives to create optimal conditions for the research and investigation of important issues in these areas.
Excellent, world-class research facilities are in place for our researchers, Research Master's and PhD students:
About 200 seminars and 30 informal workshops a year
Excellent facilities to conduct experiments
CentERdata expertise on data collection and innovative research
Work on your projects in the Research Master's students' room
Extensive research databases
State-of-the-art library
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Short overview of the Research Master in Business
Start End of August
Duration 2 years. Those with 1 or 2 relevant MSc degrees, with excellent grades, are eligible for a reduction to 1 year of doctoral course work
Title Master of Science with a Master of Philosophy supplement
Tuition Fee Tuition Fees
Specifics Specialized program to prepare for a PhD or for a professional career in a (international) research-based environment
More information Graduate Officers: center-gs@tilburguniversity.edu
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BSNL revises its prepaid plans to offer more data at the same price
Updated Jun 19, 2018 | 13:31 IST | Times Now Digital
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced a revision of prepaid special tariff vouchers (STVs) and now, its Rs. 155 prepaid plan will offer 2GB per day data benefits which is up from 1.5GB per day. Here are all the other offers.
BSNL has announced a revision for all its major prepaid plans
In what could easily be termed as the ‘Jio Effect’ all major telecom operators in India have been revising their prepaid as well as postpaid plans, and now, BSNL has joined the bandwagon by announcing a revision to several of its prepaid plans which will now offer more data at the same price and with the same validity period.
Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) has announced a revision of prepaid special tariff vouchers (STVs) and now, its Rs. 155 prepaid plan will offer 2GB per day data benefits which is up from 1.5GB per day. Along with this, the Rs. 14, Rs. 29, Rs. 40, Rs. 57, prepaid plans from BSNL and Rs. 68, Rs. 78, Rs. 82, Rs. 85, Rs. 198, Rs. 241 prepaid STVs prepaid plans have also been revised, as per a report by TelecomTalk.
Starting from the Rs. 14 data STV plan, it now offers 1GB of data for one day, which is up from the earlier 110MB. The Rs. 29 plan, which used to offer 150MB of data with a validity of three days, now gives 1GB data benefit with the same validity. The BSNL Rs. 40 prepaid plan has been also revised and it gives 1GB of high-speed data for five days, while the BSNL Rs. 57 prepaid plan now offers 1GB data for 21 days.
The BSNL Rs. 68 prepaid plan has now been revised to offers 2GB of data for five days, up from the earlier 1GB data benefit. On the other hand, the Rs. 78 and Rs. 82 data STVs from BSNL now come with 4GB of 3G data benefit with a validity of three days and free PRBT with the Rs 82 plan, as a bonus.
The BSNL Rs. 85 plan will now offer 5GB of data, whereas the Rs. 155 prepaid plan comes with 2GB of daily data benefit for 17 days. On the other hand, the BSNL Rs. 241 prepaid plan now offers 7GB of mobile data benefit for 30 days, which is up from 2.7GB data.
BSNL has been on a roll lately as the state-owned telco has recently upgraded its existing 'unlimited' prepaid packs as well as special tariff vouchers (STVs). The upgraded packs now offer as much as 2GB of high-speed daily data benefits while the company also rolled out some new offers targeting Eid and FIFA World Cup 2018.
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Muslim mayor to ‘do more to protect Jewish Londoners’
Sadiq Khan laments alarming rise in anti-Semitism
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Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis of the United Congregations of the Commonwealth poses with Mayor of London Sadiq Khan ahead of the Yom HaShoah Commemoration, the UK Jewish community's Holocaust remembrance ceremony, in Barnet, north London, on May 8, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / LEON NEAL)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan called for the rooting out of anti-Semitism in his city and in his party.
Khan said he wants “to send a message around the world by being the London mayor of Islamic faith who does more to protect Jewish Londoners from anti-Semitism than any mayor in this city’s history.”
Khan, a Labour Party member who was elected May 5 and is the first Muslim to lead a European capital city, made his remarks in an op-ed in the Jerusalem Post on onday.
Noting that he has signed the American Jewish Committee’s Mayors United Against Anti-Semitism pledge, Khan called the recent rise in anti-Semitism “alarming” and said, “We need to send the message far and wide that anti-Semitism is totally unacceptable and can never be justified.”
“We must work together to root out anti-Semitism wherever we find it – and, yes – that includes within the Labour Party,” he added.
Sadiq Khan and his wife Saadiya Khan, May 5, 2016. (Simon Dawson/Bloomberg, via JTA)
In explaining his commitment to fighting anti-Semitism, Khan noted: “As a British Muslim, I am no stranger to prejudice. I know what it’s like to be discriminated against just because of your background or religion.”
Khan spoke out against anti-Semitism throughout his mayoral campaign and has attended numerous Jewish communal events since becoming mayor. His first public act as mayor was to attend a Yom Hashoah Holocaust commemoration ceremony on May 8. He has also said he plans to visit Israel as mayor.
Accusations of anti-Semitism have roiled the Labour Party in recent months, with dozens of members suspended allegedly for making anti-Semitic remarks. London’s former Labour mayor, Ken Livingstone, was suspended for anti-Semitic remarks in late April following a series of interviews in which he claimed that Adolf Hitler had supported Zionism.
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2019 Polar Plunge raises SOAR funds
Marisa Hicks
Feb 9, 2019 at 6:28 PM Feb 9, 2019 at 6:28 PM
Nearly 70 participants plunged into the ice-cold waters of Lake Bennett at Woolly Hollow State Park on Saturday to raise money for area Special Olympics of Arkansas athletes.
The Polar Plunge raises money so that athletes have the opportunity to participate in all events at the Special Olympics, Chairman Brenda Dowdy said, noting money raised during the plunge helps cover all funds from supplies to training athletes and educating coaches.
Dowdy, who is also a member of the Polar Plunge Board for Area 17, which covers Faulkner, Pope, Conway, Perry and Van Buren counties, said the Polar Plunge works in connection with the Law Enforcement Torch Run, which also raises money for the Special Olympics of Arkansas (SOAR).
The 2019 Polar Plunge held at Woolly Hollow State Park, which rests about seven miles outside of Greenbrier, raised more than $10,400 unofficially for SOAR.
Saturday's event saw nearly 70 plungers, who ran into the 52-degree waters of Lake Bennett. The outside temperature was 36 degrees.
Woolly Hollow Superintendent Matt Woodard said he was excited to see the park fill up with Polar Plunge participants and supporters Saturday. The event has been held at the park for nearly a decade, and it's a park favorite among staff, he said.
While the Conway Human Development Center's team was unable to make this year's event, the group and all its athletes were in Springdale participating in the 2019 SOAR Winter Games. Despite not being at the event in person, CHDC Superintendent Sarah Murphy said she is forever thankful for the opportunities the event provides.
"CHDC is so thankful that Special Olympics Arkansas hosts fundraisers like the Polar Plunge that support Arkansas Special Olympic athletes. Special Olympics is about so much more than just sports; it is experiences, relationships and building self confidence," she told the Log Cabin. "We care about what our residents care about. They enjoy participating in Special Olympic events and activities all year long."
For several 2019 participants, it was their first to take part in the plunge.
One team — Brain Freeze — was composed completely of first-time plungers.
Vilonia Public Schools Superintendent David Stephens, Michael Johnson of the Liberty of the Nazarene, Mike Jensen of the Vilonia Police Department, Gina McNew, who works for Conway Regional Medical Center's Vilonia clinic, and Ashley Palmer of Conway Orthopedics decided together to jump into the frigid waters at Woolly Hollow to benefit SOAR athletes.
McNew said the idea for their group came to life when a friend passed along a Polar Plunge T-shirt but guilt began to sit in each time she wore the shirt.
"One day, I was wearing the shirt and I felt guilty for wearing it since I haven't actually done this. But [recently] flyers for this [year's] event began popping up, and now here we are. Now, I can say I've earned my shirt," she said.
Multiple law enforcement agencies and officers were also onsite including, the Faulkner County Sheriff's Office, University of Central Arkansas Police Department, Vilonia Police Department, Conway Police Department and Guy Police Department.
It was the polar plunge for @SOArkansas ..while we were enthusiastic about raising money for a good cause some of us were less than enthusiast about going into freezing water in 30 degree weather but we did! #yourconwaypolice #polarplunge2019 #SpecialOlympicsarkansas pic.twitter.com/F8qOR9wZ5w
— Conway Police Dept. (@ConwayPolice) February 9, 2019
Maj. Chris Harris said CPD is involved in supporting SOAR year-round by providing financial support through a number of fundraisers. Events such as the Polar Plunge help Conway officers and more to further build relationships with local athletes.
"The Polar Plunge is an opportunity for police officers from various divisions to come together and publicly show their support for this deserving group of athletes," Harris told the Log Cabin. "The public often only sees officers in a time of crisis and negativity — this is one of the many activities where the men and women in blue along with civilians from other departments give back and show the community the other side of policing."
Sheriff Tim Ryals said the Polar Plunge and other like fundraisers are important to FCSO.
"We've been participating in this for many years," he said. "It's obviously important to the sheriff's office and myself. It's amazing how first responders and law enforcement officers are always the first ones to step up to the plate when it comes to supporting our communities, especially when it's dealing with the Special Olympics and with those with special needs."
The 2018 Polar Plunge raised funds to purchase two sets of softball uniforms for area athletes. This year, organizers plan to purchase wind suits for athletes from money raised at the annual Polar Plunge event.
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The Growing Need for Auction Mechanic Transparency
Sponsored by: OpenX
07 September 2017 14:00pm
For as long as there's been programmatic advertising, the second-price auction has been a crucial component of the efficient marketplace we've all been working to build.
The value in the second price auction is that it encourages buyers to bid the true value of what the impression is worth to them -- without having to worry that a lower bid would have saved them money. As a result, bidders can be confident that each impression will be awarded to the buyer who values it most. Or at least that's how it used to work.
Over the past 18 months, a glut of header bidding partners have flooded the marketplace, creating a muddled digital landscape that has threatened conventional auction dynamics. Whereas buyers could once count on a standardized second-price auction for every bid, agencies and DSPs must now grapple with a suite of SSPs that use different mechanisms to determine the winning bid. This has created uneven results for buyers across their SSP partners, even in instances in which the SSPs are offering the same exact impression.
To ensure a fair, stable marketplace, the digital media industry must acknowledge and adjust to the changing auction mechanics. Ultimately, it's up to buyers, sellers and vendors to decide the fate of the second-price auction for real-time transactions.
If you want to understand why the second-price auction is under attack, it's important to first consider how header bidding has changed the way SSPs compete with one another.
Prior to header bidding, publishers often chose to work with one SSP over another, making an either/or decision on which vendor to use. They could work with Rubicon Project, OpenX or PubMatic, but not all at the same time. Publishers had to choose the technology partner that offered the best combination of product features and customer service, and could only layer in a select group of other partners behind the primary (i.e. the waterfall approach) to keep latency to a minimum.
All of this changed with the introduction and expansion of header bidding, which allows publishers to offer each impression to numerous SSPs simultaneously. Partner selection became an “and/and/and” situation, with publishers choosing to work with potentially dozens of partners. Rather than competing on feature sets for a long-term partnership, SSPs are now fighting one another to offer publishers more money for every impression. As a result, vendors have been heavily incentivized to alter their auction logic in such a way that they can pass higher bids along to the publisher.
Here's what this looks like in practice:
In header bidding, the programmatic auction is essentially split into a two-step process. First, the SSPs collect bids from their demand partners, choosing a winner via the auction logic of their choice.
After each SSP has made its decision, the winning bids are then passed into a larger header bidding auction, which uses a first-price mechanism to determine the winning SSP and the final price the publisher receives.
Due to the added pressures of header bidding, SSPs are now migrating closer and closer to a first-price mechanism in the initial auction. As a result, publishers are now getting almost the entirety of a DSP's $10 bid, which otherwise might have been chopped down to $5 under the old second-price model.
All of this is to say that the growth of header bidding is having a profound effect on how SSPs run their auctions. In the months and years to come, these changes are causing everyone involved to carefully consider how they approach the market.
While the long-term future of programmatic auction logic remains murky, the near-term future is already unfolding. Above all else, the new mechanics of header bidding are causing buyers to pay more money to publishers. In recent months, winning bidders who were used to paying out at a second price are beginning to see their clearing prices rise under first-price auctions. Meanwhile, publishers are enjoying significant (but temporary and unsustainable) boosts in the amount of money they're clearing for each impression.
Buyers are already reducing bid prices as a result of this trend as they cannot simply pay more for impressions that haven’t increased in value. The problem is that bid prices are being lowered across the board, as buyers don’t have any insights into the auction mechanics for a specific impression opportunity, or even for a specific SSP. If this continues, and buyers lose faith in how their bids are treated by exchanges, publishers risk declining programmatic revenue. It will also push buyers to invest in new algorithms to bid the lowest price possible to win an impression rather than what the impression is worth to their advertisers.
To maintain healthy bidding practices exchanges need to provide buyers with clear insights into how closing prices will be determined. In fact, the time has come for some exchanges to run first price auctions which provide the buyer with the ultimate clarity on how auction mechanics work. First price auctions make sense in a world where the result of that auction is passed to the publisher to compete with other channels of advertising demand. As long as the buyers understand auction mechanics they can bid appropriately to preserve advertiser performance while still bidding aggressively to drive reach and frequency.
Since header bidding is not, and will not be, pervasive, second price auctions will still have a place in programmatic advertising. Anywhere there is a single auction which determines to whom an impression is sold, the second price auction is ideal. But the mechanics of those second price auctions need to be made clear to buyers. As we have learned, black box auction mechanics don’t allow the algorithms behind programmatic buying to maximize value for advertisers, and it is that maximization of advertiser value that ultimately makes programmatic an optimal technology for publisher monetization.
The best path forward
While it's unclear exactly what the future of programmatic auctions looks like, a healthy evolution of the ad-tech marketplace requires three elements: transparency, standardization, and an extended and steady transition period.
Transparency is needed so buyers can bid efficiently, and so publishers benefit from a healthy marketplace. Standardization is needed in how that transparency is communicated to buyers so the integration work required to understand these new signals is minimized across exchanges. And, a transition period is needed so DSP’s data science teams can adjust bidding algorithms to buy efficiently through different auction types.
Buyers have a right to know the kind of mechanism they’re bidding into for the sake of creating effective bidding strategies and the only way to ensure this is by facilitating the move to a standardized, industry-wide auction setup. These elements empower buyers and publishers to do business with the confidence that they can generate similar results across every auction taking place. Programmatic is a complicated space, and any major shift will have to give vendors, buyers and publishers adequate time to prepare. OpenX is the only company that recognized this with the launch of a first price auction functionality that puts the best interests of all partners first.
Ian Davidson, VP of platform demand, OpenX.
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By Sidharth Bhatia
Maneka Gandhi is an accidental saffronite. She did not grow up in the Sanghi culture and from 1989, won as either a Janata Dal or an independent candidate in Pilibhit (and once from Aonla). She thus has political clout of her own in her constituency; but an independent candidate can only do so much, so in 2004, she joined the BJP and her winning record has continued. In 2009, her son Varun contested from the Pilibhit and won.
The BJP demands complete fealty to its cause and entrants are expected to demonstrate their commitment to the core agenda. Between elections, the mother works for her favourite cause – the welfare of animals – the son writes learned articles about poverty and also poetry. During electoral campaigns, they are expected to toe the party line – which constitutes minority bashing and rubbishing the Nehru-Gandhi family, where Maneka and Varun hail from. It is as if Maneka and Varun Gandhi were hoping to pass the BJP loyalty test with flying colours.
So duly, Varun Gandhi, as a 29-year-old in 2009, threatened to ‘cut off the hands-of the Muslims of his constituency if they raised a finger against Hindus. This time round, he hailed his leader NarendraModi as a prime minister who has brought more glory to India than anyone from ‘my family’.
His mother on the other hand, has got down to the point, telling Muslims in her constituency that if they do not vote for her, they shouldn’t expect any help when they came to her. “I have already won the election, so you decide,” she is reported to have said.
In Unnao, rabid Muslim baiter SakshiMaharaj, who has in the past faced allegations of rape and murder, warned Muslims in his constituency that his curse would fall on them if they did not vote for him.
Elections are a time when candidates are at their charming best, making all kinds of promises to the voters. In 2014, NarendraModi, who had made openly communal speeches in earlier elections, switched gears and talked mainly about corruption and bread and butter issues economic growth and jobs, knowing fully well that voters, fed up with the UPA, were looking for a genuine alternative with ideas and a vision.
This time round, with little or nothing to show by way of economic performance and his government facing allegations of crony capitalism, Modi and his party have decided to change tack – they are threatening and scaring voters into supporting them.
Enemies – real and imagined, within and outside – are being invoked to instil fear among voters, especially Hindus. There is no word on what a BJP government will do to boost the economy – instead, the party is openly saying it will go after every kind of malcontent – from alleged ‘outsiders’ to dissenters with tougher policies.
Rajnath Singh – apparently a more reasonable man than hardliners like Modi and Amit Shah – has declared that if his party comes to power, it will make the sedition law so stringent that it will ‘send shivers down their spine.” ‘They’ in this context means every kind of ‘anti-national’, which could apply to anyone who asks difficult questions or protests against the government.
BJP president Amit Shah has openly said that if elected, his party will remove ‘every infiltrator’ from India except “Buddha, Hindus and Sikhs.” It has been taken to mean that a Muslim refugee will not be allowed to enter the country, but that is be the literal interpretation.
The real meaning is obvious: Muslims (and Christians) should know that they are suspect till proved otherwise. And if they are at all allowed to remain in India, it is on sufferance. It portrays Muslims and Christians as not being truly native to this land and loyal to an outside power.
This has long been a BJP and Sanghparivar staple, but is now being declared in stark terms. The Citizenship (Amendment) Bill has created a storm in the Northeast, but far from abandoning it, even if tactically, for the duration of elections, the BJP has decided to forge ahead with its plan to weed out those it considers foreigners.
That it may help consolidate the Hindu vote is only a part of the reason. The BJP strongly believes in the idea of Hindus being the sole inheritors and citizens of India, while the rest are interlopers of one sort or the other. There may well be some thinking within the party that the Modi government left it too late and should have introduced the Bill early on in its life, when it had much more goodwill and support. By now, it may have even been passed.
Many of the BJP’s earlier campaign strategies have not achieved the required traction – the whole post-Pulwama-Balakot hyper-nationalism collapsed almost immediately. State-level coalitions are proving to be a real challenge. Now, the BJP has decided to fall back on its old reliables – Hindu consolidation by way of isolating Muslims, and flogging that old, tired horse, the failures of the Nehru-Gandhi family.
Going on about the Gandhi dynasty is somewhat tricky, since the BJP itself is full of dynasts. But the family’s long list of crimes and misdemeanours always comes in handy to reach out to the faithful. Whether it works beyond the hardcore devotees and will be enough to assuage the distressed farmer, the suffering small businessman and the jobless graduate is to be seen.
The party’s campaign playlist now is now tired and jaded, with little or no new ideas to offer. But open threats is certainly a novel twist – never have politicians in the past so directly issued dire warnings to its own citizens. Building bogeymen is a tried and tested political strategy, and it often works.
But the current BJP approach, reminiscent of Hitler’s constant vilification of Jews, communists and other internal threats to German Herrenvolk, is a frightening addition to our political lexicon. It will serve to alienate large sections of society and whatever the final results, it will create a deep rift between citizens on the basis of religion.
Muslims – and others – will be viewed with suspicion as not Indian and inimical towards the nation. This suspicion will manifest itself in different ways – sometimes violently, at other times under the radar. In the absence of a strong counter voice, there will be no one to speak up for the idea of equal citizenship.
Other, more sober parties need to quash this demon forcefully. The Congress has said that it will do away with the law on sedition, which is heartening, but it needs to do more. This election will pass, but the hate that the BJP has aroused towards Indian citizens will not go away soon. In its bid to win these elections, the BJP has unleashed a monster which will remain us for a long time.
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By Yasser Latif Hamdani
In the on-going political maneuvering and power plays between various state institutions and political parties, Pakistan as a nation state has taken its eyes off the real ideological fault line in Pakistan which lies between Orthodox reactionaries and the Muslim Modernists.
NadeemFarooqParacha’s excellent study “Muslim Modernism; the case for a Naya Pakistan” succinctly summarises the history of the defeat of the idea of Muslim Modernism in Pakistan. The idea of Pakistan was a Muslim Modernist project that took root in Aligarh Muslim University, the arsenal of Muslim India. It was in the hallowed halls of that great university that the plans of a new Muslim majority nation state were debated and finalized. It had a direct link to Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s legacy of keeping Muslims away from Congress, which he charged with being a Hindu dominated body. Men like Jinnah who had joined the Congress and the mainstream of the Indian Nationalist struggle ultimately were forced to accept the wisdom of the grand old man of Aligarh. By the 1940s, the Best Ambassador of Hindu Muslim Unity had taken on the role of the undisputed Quaid-e-Azam of Muslim India and the movement he spearheaded was the apex of Muslim modernism. Arrayed against him were reactionaries of Majlis-e-Ahrar and Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind backed by the Indian National Congress. They attacked and abused him for being too modern and too secular. Their real ire was against the very idea of Muslim modernism that Jinnah had come to embody.
Muslim modernism in South Asia was an idea that was born out of the fall of the Mughal Empire. It stood in stark contrast to the other modern Muslim ideas including Islamic fundamentalism. Islamic fundamentalism called for a return to what they viewed as fundamentals of Islam and was inherently sectarian in nature. Muslim modernism rejected the idea of a fixed dogma and instead emphasized the dynamic and ever evolving nature of Islam through the principle of Ijtehad. Muslim modernism also embraced modern education, secular system of government and modern economy. Syed Ameer Ali’s classics “History of Saracens” and the “Spirit of Islam” were written in this vein. Iqbal was another figure in this movement towards modernity who with his “Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam” laid out a roadmap with identifiable waypoints on the route to Muslim enlightenment and renaissance through an embrace of modern knowledge and modernity. To achieve this, Muslims of the subcontinent needed a state of their own, within or without the Indian whole. This in a nutshell was the idea of Pakistan.
When the idea of Pakistan began to take root amongst the Muslims, leaders of religious orthodoxy calculated that if these men managed to seize the leadership of the Muslim community, the ulema would be left out in the cold. Therefore the Jamiat-e-Ulema Hind and Majlis-e-Ahrar, which were led by men seized of an irrational hatred for all things modern and by extension western and British, put in their lot with an increasingly nativist Indian National Congress under Gandhi. After all Gandhi, who had shunned western modernity, had supported them during the Khilafat Movement. The calculation was that in an India dominated by the Hindu majority, the Muslim community will forever be in the sway of the bearded men with flowing robes educated at Darul-UloomDeoband. With the help of their Hindu friends, the leaders of this religious reaction set up a university of its own in form of Jamia Milli. They set about trying to divide the ranks of the Muslim League by raising sectarian questions against Shias and Ahmadis, many of whom were in leading positions in the League.
Pakistan from 1947 to 1977 was committed to the idea of Muslim modernism. While some tragic compromises were made on the way in the closing stages of the Ayub regime and by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the state was moving in the general direction of becoming a modern democratic state based on principles of enlightenment. General Zia ulHaq changed all of that. A massive re-writing of the history of the Pakistan Movement was undertaken and Muslim modernism was slowly but surely written out of it. This was done under the auspices of parties like Jamaat e Islami whose historical role against the Pakistan Movement was conveniently ignored and who began a massive re-engineering project to make Pakistan a fundamentalist state. The generation that grew up in the 1980s and 1990s grew up with a world view that rejected modernity. It was in large part aided by Pakistani diaspora who had arrived in the Gulf in the 1970s. Islam was equated with all things Arab. It was a striking departure from Iqbal’s famous Allahabad address where he had put as one of the objectives the idea of liberating South Asian Islam from the stamp of Arab imperialism. Thus from 1980s Pakistan had not just rejected Jinnah’s secularism but also comprehensively buried the very idea which had led to its creation. Jinnah’s ideas had already been marginalized but now Iqbal was sanitized and only those parts of his philosophy were allowed dissemination that fit the regime’s Islamisation.
This is what makes the ongoing political battles entirely out of step with the real ideological issue in Pakistan. The current government’s overbearing attitude towards freedom of speech masks the low-grade conflict between the modernists and the orthodoxy. What is at stake is our future as a people and our attitudes to new problems that face us. Ultimately the direction human progress takes is one and that is forward. Gender rights, freedom of speech and even questions of sexuality will become major points of contention in very near future. Will we then remain wedded to an orthodox fundamentalist interpretation of our faith or will we embrace the idea of modernity itself marching in step with the rest of the world. None of our politicians or other power brokers seem to realize the challenges ahead. As a first step though we must reject the faux national narrative that has been shoved down our throats since the 1980s and re-invigorate the inherently enlightened and modern ethos that led to the formation of Pakistan.
(The writer is an Advocate of the High Courts of Pakistan and a member of the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn in London. This article first appeared in Daily Times, Lahore)
By Jawed Naqvi
Seeing the legendary Farokh Engineer among the spectators at the Old Trafford, with his shock of curly white hair and a Falstaffian girth that seemed to meld nicely with his incorrigibly impish smile, my mind went into the enticing time machine for a rendezvous with the great Parsi cricketers India once flaunted.
Then, the penny dropped.
The 1983 and 2011 Indian cricket teams that won the world cup encompassed what Rahul Dravid would call the country’s cultural colours, which were just about missing in ViratKohli’s social mix. This is not to say that a cultural mix is necessarily more formidable or that it would have produced a happier result, say, in the critical semi-finals that India lost to New Zealand. In fact, on the flip side of the argument, the all-white South Africans were probably the stronger team in the world on their day, even if few were willing to court them for fear of violating stringent anti-apartheid laws.
The all-black West Indies could be just as invincible on a given outing, but they gained and certainly didn’t lose when RohanKanhai and Alvin Kalicharan came into the squad with a different colour of skin, just as MakhayaNtini, HashimAmla or Imran Tahir among others brought new energy to the post-apartheid South African team.
And why forget that even the West Indies inducted a white player in the squad against New Zealand in the 1970s.
And doesn’t it behove mention that the solitary black man in the squad who delivered the crushing blow for the mainly white English team in the nail-biting finals against New Zealand at Lord’s was not even in the national eleven a few weeks earlier?
In the early days of Indian Test cricket, it was a common habit to expect Parsi players of the order of Nari Contractor, Polly Umrigar, Engineer or RusiSurti to embellish every Indian’s favourite team. It was thus that for a predominantly Hindu country, KapilDev’s squad that lifted the first World Cup for India boasted of Roger Binny, Syed Kirmani and Balwinder Singh Sandhu who added to the cherished moment on the world stage, just as Harbhajan Singh, Sreesanth, Zaheer Khan, Yusuf Pathan and Munaf Patel were in the trophy-winning squad in 2011.
One could identify at least two solid players in the Bangladesh World Cup squad who breached its dominant cultural profile. And in a heavily Sinhalese Sri Lanka, where would the team stand without the priceless talent of MuttiahMuralitharan?
Pakistan, where display of majoritarian religion has gained currency for a variety of sociopolitical reasons, Anil Dalpat and Yusuf Youhana had fortified the squad. It is another matter that Youhana discovered greater spiritual solace in embracing the identity of Pakistan’s religious majority.
A country’s approach to inclusivity need not, of course, be worn as a cultural amulet in a thread around the neck. New Zealanders, for example, found a subtler method to express their eclectic cultural expanse — by singing the national anthem in two languages, English and Maori, spoken by the country’s original inhabitants.
We had read in school about Britain’s bold, risky, but often humorous enterprise to initiate the natives of Gilbert and Ellis Islands to cricket. A Pattern of Islands by Sir Arthur Grimble was a regaling story as much as it also informed the reader about the colonial celebration of cultural diversities they tried to encourage and preserve, including by introducing cricket to the remote Pacific islands.
A friend recently forwarded an essay from the BBC’s website by PrashantKidambi of Leicester University. It offers a brilliant insight into the early efforts of Indian and British elite to stitch together an ‘Indian’ cricket team.
“In this last decade,” Kidambi quotes former cricketer Rahul Dravid as saying in 2011, “the Indian team represents, more than ever before, the country we come from — of people from vastly different cultures, who speak different languages, follow different religions, belong to different classes.”
And yet, the link between cricket and the nation was neither natural nor inevitable.
“It took 12 years and three aborted attempts before the first composite Indian team took to the cricket field in the summer of 1911. And contrary to popular perception — fostered by the hugely successful Hindi film Lagaan — this ‘national team’ was constituted by — and not against — empire.”
The first Indian cricket team sparked great interest in the British press, according to the historian from Leicester. A diverse coalition of Indian elite and British governors (among others) made possible the idea of Indians on the cricket pitch.
The ‘Indian’ cricket team was thus first broached in 1898, inspired by the rise of Kumar ShriRanjitsinhji, or Ranji, an Indian prince who bewitched Britain and the wider imperial world with his sublime batting.
The early British ventures failed to put together a team “because of fierce divisions between Hindus, Parsis and Muslims over the question of their representation in the proposed team”.
When they succeeded, the captain of the team was 19-year-old Bhupinder Singh of Patiala, “the pleasure-seeking, newly enthroned maharaja of the most powerful Sikh state in India”.
Others were selected on the basis of religion: there were six Parsis, five Hindus and three Muslims in the side. PalwankarBaloo, the Dalit bowler, was the “first great Indian cricketer”, Kidambi writes.
“The composition of this team shows how in the early 20th-century, cricket took on a range of cultural and political meanings within colonial India.”
Farokh Engineer’s presence in Manchester reminded me of a hair cream the debonair cricketer advertised — and a generation embraced. But he also triggered memories of an interview the great playback singer AshaBhosle gave. Asked to choose between Kishore Kumar, Mukesh and Manna Dey as her favourite legendary duet singers, she said: “You have forgotten Mohammed Rafi.”
By Sanjoy Hazarika
The National Register of Citizens process in Assam ploughs relentlessly on. At the end of this month a full list is to be published, ostensibly of all Indians identified in the state. That is when the scale of misery and jubilation may be gauged. Yet that’s not the end of this long, complex journey.
A few days back, another list was published of one lakh persons who are to be left out of the list because they could not produce convincing documentation; this followed scattershot complaints by unidentified persons against some who were already on the NRC.
For those who do not make the cut on July 31, there is a longer battle in store — they will have to spend time, funds (invest in lawyers) and appear before quasi-judicial processes, the foreigners tribunals, to prove their nationality. These courts, manned by lawyers without extensive judicial experience or deep knowledge of jurisprudence, are the first point of appeal followed by the state high court and finally the Supreme Court.
The Assam government had said it would add 400 FTs more to the current 100 (it later promised 1,000), but has it made the clear determination of whether the person is fully qualified for that office and can take a decision without fear or favour?
Many of us who have followed the long and tortuous journey of the NRC — and the earlier struggle between the 1970s-1980s by student groups and others for detection of foreign nationals (that is, the ubiquitous ‘Bangladeshi’) — had pinned faith in a process that would create a list which would be clean, clear and correct. Knowing the complexities of Assam, a simple land with deep divisions, this was perhaps a naive hope.
The ‘foreigners issue’, as the question of informal migration (largely from Bangladesh) is defined in popular terms in Assam, is a challenge that goes back to the time of Independence. However, critical perceptions about in-migration and demographic change precede that.
Assam now appears to be entering an uncertain period with little clarity on a fundamental question: will the list competently identify ‘foreigners’? Arguably some 29 million persons had made the cut last July but all hell broke loose with the announcement that nearly four million had not. Of the latter, 3.2 million persons have petitioned for their inclusion and the issue has figured at international and national forums. Some of the stories which have emerged over the past year are worth repeating, for they cut across religious, ethnic and language divisions and point to major inaccuracies.
In case after case, a pattern has emerged showing a combination of poor judgment, problematic data, arbitrariness or just indifference that has harmed Indians. A Kargil veteran who was marched into a detention camp and then released; a policeman who cannot vote since he has been proclaimed a foreigner; a 92-year-old man who has had to be carried into court to face trial; a woman who ended up in a detention camp when the police could not find the person they were looking for and just picked her up; prominent Gorkhas including a SahityaAkademi winner find themselves in the excluded list. In many cases, a mismatch of a letter in a name connecting them to either parent or grandparent was enough to bar them.
Most of the cases cited above, barring the Gorkhas, were people of Bengali origin, both Hindu and Muslim. It is not just about religion. The poor and vulnerable who cannot afford lawyers find themselves in this situation.
The NRC impact is spreading: other states are arming themselves with similar plans. Nagaland has started a 60-day exercise aimed at identifying the indigenous people (read members of 16 Naga tribes whose homes are in the state) and one anti-immigrant group has declared that the “indigenous” are those who are “Naga by blood”. Does the definition of the indigenous in Nagaland includes mainland Indians, be they Assamese, Bengali (Hindus and Muslim), Marwari, Bihari or from other parts of this country?
It does not take a tarot card reader to see that a major storm is brewing. Many may not have predicted this when the NRC was given wings in 2016, after the BharatiyaJanata Party gained power in Assam. What has unfortunately happened is that the exercise in Nagaland and in parts of Assam could end up condemning Indians to an appalling fate.
Even pro-BJP groups recognize this. One said recently that it had procured 2.8 million signatures of people in Assam demanding an “error-free NRC”. It pointed out that the Supreme Court itself had suggested a pilot sample reverification of 10 per cent of the total number on the NRC but not issued orders for this. Its concern was that many Hindus of Bangla origin would be left out.
A recent citizen’s group which travelled across three districts in Assam found that many women, both Hindu and Muslim, have been declared foreigners because they did not have the documents to link them to their father, the crucial “legacy data” or family tree link in the NRC.
PrateekHajela, the NRC state coordinator, has said that “inability to provide linkage documents appears to be the biggest reason why applicants couldn’t substantiate their claims”.
Indeed, from its very start, the NRC exercise has struggled with technical hurdles.
For one, the key base document for the NRC is its predecessor: the first and only NRC of 1951. Yet enumerators found that copies of this NRC were not available in three districts: Sivasagar, Cachar and KarbiAnglong. So new data based on 16 parameters were developed for these district populations — 67 to 68 years after this initial exercise, based on electoral rolls and census data. Two separate systems of checks and cross checks have had to be created, quite different from each other. Is it surprising that there should be confusion?
The exercise is officially over on July 31. But there is no clarity on what happens to those out of the lists — will they stay at their homes and fight trials, will they have to move elsewhere, will those found as foreigners by FTs be sent to detention camps after a 120-period when appeals can be heard?
A Union minister of state for home affairs has told Parliament that a new manual for detention camps was being prepared with the following proposed facilities: “electricity, drinking water, hygiene, accommodation with beds, sufficient toilets with running water, communication facilities, provision for kitchen”. The draft manual has been sent to all state governments raising questions about how long the Centre proposes to keep people at such sites.
This is aimed obviously at blunting criticism by some who have been released from detention camps in Assam after their Indian-ness was upheld. They describe conditions are appalling with scores packed into a single room and sharing a single toilet.
Exacerbating the issue is the fact that even those detected as Bangladeshis cannot be deported unless Bangladesh acknowledges them as its own — which it steadfastly refuses to do.
Governments are required to uphold Constitutional obligations, especially Article 21 of the Constitution, which proclaims that no one may be deprived of his life and liberty except by due process. In addition, there are India’s international commitments to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which does not recognize statelessness.
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Strache, a former dental technician who replaced Hilmar Kabas as the leader of the Vienna branch of the FPÖ, is poised to see the right-wing party (often associated with the colour blue in Austrian politics) which he now chairs make considerable gains in upcoming EU elections.
He was elected national party leader of the FPÖ in April 2005, when a faction of the party split away under the leadership of the late Jörg Haider to form the more moderate Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ.)
He's recently been in the news with a controversial rap video, which plays on Austrians' patriotic feelings. The Local doesn't expect his chances of representing Austria in the next Eurovision Song Contest to be highly rated, regardless of his electoral success.
The Austrian Freedom Party is a natural ally of other European right wing parties, who are primarily concerned with their common grievances against Islam, immigration and ethnic minorities like the Roma.
Strache was for many years seen as a disciple and the natural successor of Haider until the split, which was likely triggered by the anticipated electoral defeat of Haider's sister.
In 2010 Strache's party received 26% of the vote in Vienna's mayoral and council elections, increasing their seats in the city council to 27. His supporters tend to be aged under 30 years.
Strache has strong links to the right-wing student fraternities known as the Burschenschaften, which seek pan-German unity and nationalism. He readily acknowledges his membership of the secretive Vandalia organization, as was quoted in 2009 by the UK's Daily Mail. ‘The Burschenschaften was founded during the wars against Napoleon Bonaparte in the beginning of the 19th century. These are the historical origins I am proud of,’ he wrote.
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Does EU Decision On Persian Gulf Airlines Help US Efforts?
Airlines & Airports American Airlines Rich Thomaselli June 09, 2016
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Did Tuesday’s decision by the European Union to negotiate new aviation agreements with the governments of Qatar and the United Arab Emirates breathe new life into U.S. efforts to halt the growth of Gulf airlines?
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American, Delta and United airlines certainly hope so.
The U.S. Big Three were buoyed by the news that European Union governments gave EU transport chief Violeta Bulc permission to negotiate with the UAE and Qatar, which have been accused of violating the spirit of Open Skies agreements by allegedly giving government subsidies to Emirates, Etihad and Qatar airlines.
The U.S.-based trio of airlines has alleged its Gulf counterparts have accepted a combined $42 billion in subsidies over a 10-year period.
According to Bloomberg News, European transport ministers meeting in Luxembourg included a provision on financial transparency in the negotiating mandates for Bulc, targeting any market-distorting aid to Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar, and also included similar mandates for agreements with Turkey – Turkish Airlines has also grown substantially in the last decade – and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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“These agreements will offer new business opportunities to the whole aviation sector, new routes and better fares to passengers, while guaranteeing a level playing field to our companies,” Bulc said in a statement.
American, Delta and United have been fighting that fight for more than a year now as they and their umbrella lobby group, the Partnership for Open & Fair Skies, await a decision by the Obama administration to pursue similar negotiations.
Jill Zuckman, chief spokesperson for the Partnership, released the following statement regarding the EU decision: “The E.U. has felt firsthand the devastating impact that the subsidy-fueled Persian Gulf airlines’ rapid expansion has had on European aviation markets, just as we’ve experienced here in the U.S. We applaud the Council of the European Union for taking an important step to address the Gulf carrier subsidies that are distorting the marketplace, forcing route cancellations and threatening jobs across the world. It’s time to put a stop to these massive subsidies once and for all and level the playing field for airlines and their workers across the globe.”
But, just like in the U.S., there is division in the EU among the four largest countries. Germany and France are proponents of open skies and new agreements; Britain and Italy, whose largest carriers have ownership stakes by Gulf airlines, are opponents of the talks.
In America, the U.S. Airlines For Open Skies group, which includes JetBlue, Hawaiian and the cargo carrier FedEx, all want to keep the current open skies agreements. In its own letter to the administration, the group wrote: “Ultimately, the Big 3 are not asking the U.S. government to enforce the rules as outlined in our agreements, they’re asking it to break the rules to limit competition. If the Big 3 are successful, not only will they have cut off a major flow of foreign tourists, but they will have opened the United States up for retaliation in a way that could put at risk the savings and efficiencies that benefit U.S. travelers.”
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Get Your Jam on: 20 Summer Music Festivals in Wisconsin
Music is much a part of Wisconsin as our thousands of lakes, proud brewing traditions or legacy as America's Dairyland. Not only is our state home to the world's largest music festival, Summerfest, but you'll find a lot more good vibrations in Wisconsin this summer – from top-name country music stars to small-town celebrations of song.
Here are some of our picks for the season. Don't see your favorite? Add it to the comments below!
Blue Ox Music Festival – Eau Claire
Touted as "the Midwest's premier bluegrass, roots and Americana music festival," Blue Ox's lineup this year includes the Grammy-winning Del McCoury Band and "Newgrass" frontrunner Sam Bush.
Northwoods Bluegrass Festival – Ladysmith
Hear from six different groups – including Minnesota group the WoodPicks and Wisconsin's own Art Stevenson & High Water – or check out the instrument workshops at this family friendly, alcohol-free fest.
Porterfield Country Music Festival – Marinette
Bask in nine whole days of country favorites at the perfect setting – a campground west of Marinette called Green Acres. Performers in the past include Jerrod Niemann, Georgette Jones and Radio Romance.
Metro Jam – Manitowoc
About ten different acts bring multiple genres to this weekend festival. Rich Robinson, guitarist and founder of the Black Crowes, is this year's featured performer.
Country Thunder USA – Twin Lakes
As Thunder's organizers put it, this year's lineup "reads like a who's who in country music, with past performances from 2015 CMT Music Awards nominees Luke Bryan, Blake Shelton, Dierks Bentley, Maddie & Tae, and The Swon Brothers."
Eaux Claires – Eau Claire
Returning in 2020, more than 40 acts of varying genres will perform throughout the weekend on multiple stages set against the backdrop of Foster Farm on the Chippewa River. Past headliners include Bon Iver, the National and Spoon.
Country USA – Oshkosh
Country USA is getting ready for five days of non-stop, world class entertainment this year, with performances by Keith Urban, Jason Aldean, Maren Morris and about two dozen total acts filling the lineup.
Country Fest – Cadott
More than 30 performers will take the stage over four days, including Jason Aldean, Brad Paisley and Brantley Gilbert.
Hodag Country Festival – Rhinelander
Celebrate country music in the Northwoods as Hodag favorite Neal McCoy returns. Other featured artists in the 16-performer lineup include Cole Swindell and Toby Keith.
Lifest – Oshkosh
Wisconsin's largest Christian music festival boasts 150 acts on seven stages, along with a 5K, arts and crafts, tournaments and worship services.
Viroqua Bluegrass Festival – Viroqua
Bring your own chair to hear traditional bluegrass and gospel music from regional acts Monroe Crossing, Sawtooth Brothers, The Punches Family, Barton's Hollow and The DisChords.
Jazz on Jefferson Street Festival – Sturgeon Bay
Do some of the best shopping in Door County to the swinging soundtrack supplied by Sturgeon Bay's yearly bash, which combines strolling entertainers and live music performances with in-store deals at downtown shops and boutiques.
Rock Fest – Cadott
Ahout 50 bands will quake this year's main and side stages, with featured acts including Disturbed, Godsmack, and incubus.
Country Jam USA – Eau Claire
Alabama, Blake Shelton and Billy Currington round out the 16 acts at this summer festival main stage.
Prairie Dog Blues Festival – Prairie du Chien
A dozen bands will play on two stages across two days of blues and roots music from Chicago Blues to West Coast Jump, Mississippi Hill Country Blues, New Orleans horns and Texas Boogie, Zydeco, Gospel, and Blues Rock.
Country on the River – Prairie du Chien
Alabama, Jake Owen and Dierks Bentley lead the lineup of more than a dozen performers at this year's three-day festival just outside Prairie du Chien. Don't miss the Next Big Star singing contest!
Big Bull Falls Blues Fest – Wausau
Not only is Big Bull Falls Wisconsin's longest-running blues fest, but its location – an island in the middle of the Wisconsin River – couldn't be groovier.
Summer Set Music Festival – Somerset
About 70 performers will party out the summer season in Wisconsin's northwest, with hip-hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony and electronic dance acts Bassnectar and deadmau5 leading the lineup.
HarborPark Jazz & Blues Festival – Kenosha
Panoramic lakefront views blend with the smooth sounds of jazz, funk and soul at this Kenosha fest, which benefits the Mary Lou & Arthur F. Mahone Fund.
Great River Folk Festival – La Crosse
Bring the whole family for a weekend of tunes, crafts and hands-on children's interactive activities. The music, workshops, crafts and food appeal to all ages!
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Letters: Flannels and poplins, sure, but muslins?
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I was heartened to learn that perennial candidate Sharon Anderson is running for the St. Paul City Council in Ward 2 (“In St. Paul, 20 candidates have declared for 7 city council seats in fall election,” Feb. 10). Pioneer Press writer Frederick Melo referenced campaign emails from candidate Anderson in which she declares her opposition to an “influx of Muslins.”
I share Anderson’s concern. St. Paul has always welcomed Flannels, Ginghams, Poplins, Fleeces, Denims, Chinos — even Chintzes and Gabardines. But we have to draw the line on Muslins.
Dave Healy, St. Paul
Oppose legalized marijuana
Thank you, Thomas Mortensen, for your excellent review (Feb. 3) of all the past efforts of the state to reduce the unhealthy habit of smoking and the disasters attributed to distracted driving.
Your review of the negative effects of marijuana, which are much the same, in fact, worse than smoking, that will result in cognitive impairment, reduced coordination, and tiredness/fatigue leading to highway driving safety. How anyone in their right mind can support the legalization of recreational marijuana is beyond comprehension. Some point to the income from state taxes as a plus. Financing the problems resulting from marijuana will soon consume the hoped-for income. Note the cost of the present opioid problem.
To the legislators who are supporting this — wake up, get real — oppose, don’t support, efforts to legalize recreational marijuana. Citizens — speak to your legislator about all the negatives if he/she is supporting recreational marijuana and write a letter to the editor.
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Lawmakers find common ground on opioid fees,…
Lawmakers find common ground on opioid fees, hands-free calls and missed school days
By Christopher Magan | cmagan@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: March 18, 2019 at 10:29 pm | UPDATED: March 19, 2019 at 3:32 pm
Minnesota lawmakers took a big step Monday toward proving politically divided government can get things done.
With three bipartisan votes, House lawmakers advanced bills that would require drivers to use cellphones in hands-free mode, charge new fees on opioid makers and distributors to fight prescription misuse and forgive school days missed because of the “polar vortex” in January.
Minnesota has the nation’s only divided Legislature with Democrats controlling the House and Republicans leading the Senate. When the legislative session began, leaders were quick to say they wanted to find common ground.
Halfway through their session such agreements have been rare, until Monday’s six-plus-hour House floor session. All three of the bills passed have a strong chance of eventually making it to Democratic Gov. Tim Walz’s desk for his signature.
After years of trying, House lawmakers backed with a 94-34 vote an opioid stewardship bill that will impose $20 million worth of new fees on drug makers and distributors. A new advisory council will decide how to use that money to battle opioid addiction.
The powerful painkillers continue to kill Minnesotans in record numbers. The state Department of Health reported Monday that 422 people died from opioid overdoses in 2017, a 12 percent increase over 2016.
“The cost of responding to this crisis is huge,” said Rep. Liz Olson, DFL-Duluth, who is the chief sponsor of the bill. “As Minnesotans, we have all paid for this crisis.”
For some lawmakers it’s personal.
State Rep. Dave Baker, R-Wilmar, lost his son Dan to an opioid addiction. Holding drug manufacturers accountable for their role in the opioid crisis was a key reason why Baker ran for office.
“He didn’t know what he was getting into,” Baker said. “My beautiful son Dan didn’t want to be an addict.”
Other lawmakers questioned the impact the new fees will have on the cost of opioid painkillers for patients who depend on them to treat intractable pain. Their efforts to amend the bill to fund the advisory council another way or to sunset the fees failed.
“This will literally increase the cost of health care for every Minnesotan,” said Kurt Daudt, R-Crown, the House minority leader. “That doesn’t mean the things paid for in this bill aren’t worthy.”
HANDS-FREE CELLPHONES
Just a year ago, further restrictions on how a driver can use a cellphone seemed like a long shot at the Legislature. But when they returned to the Capitol in January lawmakers had a simple message for backers of requiring only hands-free use behind the wheel — your activism worked.
State Rep. Frank Hornstein, DFL-Minneapolis, thanked those who lost family members and friends for sharing their heartbreaking stories with lawmakers. Many were gathered in the House gallery for Monday’s vote.
Hornstein said the point of the hands-free bill was also clear: “Hang up and drive. Your life and the life of your fellow travelers depend on it,” he said.
Texting while driving is already illegal under state law. The change approved with a 106-21 vote Monday would essentially ban handling a phone while behind the wheel.
To legally make a call, drivers would have to use a “one-touch” device such as those commonly integrated into newer model cars.
If they don’t and they get caught they will face a misdemeanor charge and a fine of $50.
Advocates and lawmakers say the change should stop some of the more than 50 people killed in Minnesota annually because of distracted driving.
Critics said they were disappointed the bill didn’t have increased penalties for repeat offenders or for those who cause fatalities.
State Rep. Eric Lucero, R-Dayton, said the bill penalizes people with older vehicles that do not have new technology to make hands-free calls.
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Lawmakers finished their night of bipartisanship with something most Minnesotans love to debate — the weather.
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State law requires students attend a set number of hours each year. If a district fails to provide enough instruction, schools can lose money and administrators could even be jailed.
However, state officials couldn’t recall a time when a district was penalized for shorting students on time.
This winter, some districts missed as much as 10 days of classes because of the weather, including three in late January because of the cold. Gov. Tim Walz said last month that he didn’t want to penalize schools for keeping students safe.
State Rep. Steve Drazkowski, R-Mazeppa, said waiving required instruction time hurt students and taxpayers. “We are shortchanging our kids with this bill,” he said.
A similar bill that would forgive all school days missed for inclement weather has already passed the Senate. The differences between the two proposals will have to be resolved by a joint committee of lawmakers.
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In what promises to be a memorable end to Matariki 2019, these two exceptional artists will deliver their music within the hallowed confines of the Arataki Visitor’s Centre, framed by the surrounding majesty of the Waitakere Ranges.
Sherydon Ngaropo Te Tai (Te Rarawa, Ngati Porou)
A protege of Maisey Rika and Tama Waipara, Sherydon Ngaropo Te Tai is a rare talent. Possessed with both a songwriting craft and voice beyond her years, she casts a spell on the listener, drawing them into a world of yearning and nostalgia.
Ed Waaka (Te Rarawa, Te Aupouri, Ngati Pahauwera)
It would be fair to describe Ed as one of New Zealand’s hidden gems. He possesses a soul man’s voice and a poet’s soul. Within his songs we find messages that are universal. He takes pride in writing songs that are consciously direct and spiritually uplifting.
Our Matariki celebration is family friendly and will include kai offered by the Friends of Arataki.
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A WARNING FROM CANADA
“Increasingly the answer is, the state owns the children and allots them”, shares Prof. Douglas B Farrow, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. “If the state doesn’t like what you’re teaching your children. If it doesn’t think you’re forming your children in a way that suits the new morality and the new program, well then that’s another matter.”
He explains, “if your child comes to our state school and we persuade him or her to be in doubt about his or her own sexual orientation, or even his or her own sex. We will help this child make their transition and you will have no right to interfere or even to know this is happening.”
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Michael Kellahan
In accordance with s 6(5) of the Marriage Law Survey (Additional Safeguards) Act 2017, this communication was authorised by Michael Kellahan of Sydney for Freedom for Faith.
Zero public good in changing marriage law.
FamilyVoice slams “shallow and superficial” Yes campaign
FamilyVoice Australia has released videos to counter the “shallow and superficial” Yes campaign on same-sex marriage.
“Advocates for same-sex marriage are bombarding voters with expensive advertising that makes no contribution to public policy,” he said.
“Australians will not be bullied or herded into approving anything,” he said.
“If the proponents of same-sex marriage have good public policy to justify redefining marriage, they should express their views without relying on flimsy and glossy marketing.
“Shallow and superficial campaigning discredits and denigrates the Australian voter,” he said.
FamilyVoice videos released today feature former homosexual activist James Parker, who provides public policy arguments in favour of heterosexual marriage.
Click here WhyVoteNo.org.au/BigDeal to view the videos.
For more information, contact Ashley Saunders on 0407 218 246
Ashley Saunders, DipLaw(SAB), BMin, MA(Min)
National Director
FamilyVoice Australia: a Christian voice for family, faith and freedom
Phone 1300 365 965 (national office) Email office@fava.org.au Website www.fava.org.au
"It's OK to say NO." Too much to risk by saying yes.
A new website has been released called "It's OK to Say NO". Dr Con Kafataris has provided a detailed booklet entitled "The Big Questions About Marriage?"
Too often, we can feel alone in this fight for marriage. But the truth is, we’re not. There are so many Australians, just like you, who want to defend marriage.
And they are beginning to make themselves heard – loud and clear!
We have been getting some wonderful feedback from those people who have been attending our neighbourhood visitation campaigns; they tell us that they never realised how many like-minded people are out there, and how fun it is to stand up for marriage!
This weekend, we have around 20 different events, happening all across Australia. We’d love you to join in and see how easy – and fun – it is to be part of the Freedom Team!
RSVP to an event in your area
If there’s no event in your area this weekend, there is still much to do:
1. Commit to a Campaign Induction Conference Call – to hear about the winning plan.
2. Sign up to join our Freedom Team as a Volunteer.
3. Get training on an online conference call – get the skills needed to speak more confidently to your family, friends and neighbours about the consequences of changing the Marriage Act.
Marriage Alliance
The Health Hazards of Homosexuality
Every Australian needs to be aware of the health risks in homosexuality to fully understand a need to vote NO.
MassResistance book on LGBT health risks gaining endorsements from physicians and conservative activists
http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen3/17c/Health-Book-reviews/index.html
It’s the subject that no one on the Left wants to talk about – and most conservatives are afraid to talk about. But it’s one which must be talked about.
Our groundbreaking MassResistance book, The Health Hazards of Homosexuality, <http://www.healthhazardsofhomosexuality.info/> is really getting people’s attention. This month the book was endorsed by two more prominent physicians, Dr. Michelle Cretella, president of the American College of Pediatricians, and Dr. John Diggs, a prominent internist in Massachusetts. The book also continues to be endorsed by prominent pro-family leaders across the country and discussed in conservative media.
Most important, the book fills a huge void that the medical establishment, the mainstream media, and the popular culture refuse to address. The book documents the vast and shocking medical and psychological health problems surrounding LGBT behavior that are rarely discussed, but commonplace. It brings together research from widely dispersed sources including the federal Centers for Disease Control, medical professional groups, published medical research, media reports, and even LGBT medical groups – and presents it for the reader in clear layman’s terms.
Moreover, it is a tool and information source that is sorely needed by the average person confronted by the overwhelming and aggressive LGBT agenda throughout society.
Physicians recommend the book because it is virtually the only exhaustive compendium available, taken from unimpeachable sources. Moreover, it deals with the fallout from LGBT behaviors as a public health issue.
Activists see the book as the crucial missing piece for parents and citizens confronted by all the school programs, media propaganda, government mandates, corporate intimidation, and everything else that the LGBT agenda controls and pushes. Despite all the media propaganda, the actual scientific data shows that the LGBT lifestyle is anything but stable and healthy.
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<http://www.healthhazardsofhomosexuality.info/purchase.html> Read excerpts from the book. <http://www.healthhazardsofhomosexuality.info/>
Below are excerpts from the endorsements of the book. (Read the full endorsements here. <http://www.healthhazardsofhomosexuality.info/endorsements.html> ) http://www.massresistance.org/docs/gen3/17c/Health-Book-reviews/index.html
An Urgent Message for Australian Parents from Dr. James Dobson
An Urgent Message for Australian Parents:
“The most shocking evidence of this targeting children appeared in the following article written by Michael Swift, who worked for a publication called the Gay Community News. It was read during a congressional debate by former Congressman William Dannemeyer, who also entered it into the Congressional Record. Here is a short excerpt from that shocking statement:
The Gay Rainbow Movement Manifesto
“We shall sodomize your sons, emblems of your feeble masculinity, of your shallow dreams and vulgar lies. We shall seduce them in your schools, in your dormitories, in your gymnasiums, in your locker rooms, in your sports arenas, in your seminaries, in your youth groups, in your movie theatre bathrooms, in your army bunkhouses, in your truck stops, in your all-male clubs, in your houses of Congress, wherever men are with men together. Your sons will become the minions and do our bidding. They will be recast in our image. They will come to crave and adore us.
All laws banning homosexual activity will be revoked. Instead, legislation shall be passed which engenders love between men. All homosexuals must stand together as brothers; we must be united artistically, philosophically, socially, politically and financially. We will triumph only when we present a common face to the vicious heterosexual enemy.
The family unit – spawning ground of lies, betrayals, mediocrity, hypocrisy and violence – will be abolished. The family unit, which only dampens imagination and curbs free will, must be eliminated. Perfect boys will be conceived and grown in the genetic laboratory. They will be bonded together in a communal setting, under the control and instruction of homosexual savants.
All churches who condemn us will be closed. Our only gods are handsome young men. We adhere to a cult of beauty, moral and esthetic. All that is ugly and vulgar and banal will be annihilated. Since we are alienated from middle-class heterosexual conventions, we are free to live our lives according to the dictates of the pure imagination. For us too much is not enough.
We shall be victorious because we are filled with the ferocious bitterness of the oppressed who have been forced to play seemingly bit parts in your dumb, heterosexual shows throughout the ages. We too are capable of firing guns and manning the barricades of the ultimate revolution.
Tremble, hetero swine, when we appear before you without our masks.”
It is clear, however, that our boys need to be protected from sexual abuse, whether it is homosexual or heterosexual character. Guard them day and night when they are young. Don’t send them into a public bathroom alone. Be very careful whom you trust in summer camp, in Sunday school, or in the neighbourhood. Any sexual exploitation of children, whether from a family member of the man next door, whether gay or straight, has the same deleterious effect.
I don’t think it is a good idea to leave your children of either sex in the care of teenage boys. Nor would I allow my teenage son to baby-sit. Why not? Because there is so much going on sexually within adolescent males. It is a preoccupation that invades every aspect of life. The sex drive in boys is at its lifetime peak between the ages of 16 and 18. Under that influence, children have been severely damaged by “good kids” who meant no harm but who were enticed by curiosity to experiment and explore. I’m sure many of my readers will disagree with this position and may even be shocked by it. In the vast majority of cases, it would be safe to ignore my warning. But I simply would not take a chance during the vulnerable years. There is simply too much at stake. I have talked to too many parents who have regretted trusting someone they thought was okay.
Returning now to the issue of homosexuality, I am concerned not only about the sexual abuse of boys (and girls), but also about what they are being taught by the culture at large. Suddenly, everyone seems to be talking about a subject that I didn’t know about until I was 11-years-old. Now we seem determined to tell every 5-year-old about this aspect of adult sexuality.
How about other cultural influences, including television and movies, that are urging boys and girls to “think gay” and to experiment with role-reversal behaviour? When combined with the absence or disengagement of fathers, we can begin to understand why the incidence of homosexuality appears to be rising and why more and more children and teens are reporting they think they are homosexual (footnote). As the institution of the family continues to unravel, we are laying the foundation for another epidemic like those that have occurred historically.
Moms and dads, are you listening? This movement it the greatest threat to your children. It is of particular danger to your wide-eyed boys, who have no idea what demoralization is planned for them. I would ask, “Is there anything more important than taking the time to protect your kids and to be there when they need you most.” I think not. “
Bringing up Boys, 2001, Pages 125-126
National Security Chairman Sounds the Alarm. Vote NO Australia!
From the Herald Sun:
"THE question facing the Australian people is this: should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry? Seems pretty simple, right? Well, not so fast.
Advocates for the Yes campaign want to limit the debate strictly to the question, do you agree with same-sex marriage?
I can understand why: redefining marriage has far greater implications than just extending marriage to same-sex couples. They don’t want to talk about the impact of the change.
But the reality is that redefining marriage poses serious questions for all Australians. What is a marriage? Why is it such an important social institution? And will redefining it have consequences?
We need to think those questions through before casting our vote. I’ll be voting No. Here is why. Marriage is good, true and beautiful. It is a public and societal good. In its ideal form, it brings a man and woman together in a lifelong exclusive union and provides an optimal setting for the raising of children.
That is why the Commonwealth has a direct interest in the regulation of marriage. It is inherently linked to the welfare of children. The home is where self-government begins and future citizens are grown. All governments are poor substitutes for parents, which is why the Commonwealth has an interest in strong, long-lasting marriages. Children are best raised by their biological parents, in loving, happy homes.
And it’s not just Australians who have practised marriage. It’s been at the heart of civilisation throughout history. It has, of course, been expressed differently through the prism of cultural and religious differences, but it has always been between a man and a woman. It is also not just a religious sacrament — as some people suggest — unique to Judaism, Christianity or Islam. Even pagan cultures practised it.
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http://truemarriageequality.com/blog/enough-is-enough
It's OK to Vote NO Australia!
Why I Voted NO. By Eric Abetz:
"Over the weekend, I joined with the millions of Australians who voted NO in the marriage survey.
If the laws are changed there will be many consequences for parental rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of conscience and even for sex education in our schools. Indeed, we don’t know the full extent of the consequences because if a yes vote is returned, it’s a blank cheque for the Parliament.
You can watch my video here or read my full statement here.
If the ‘yes’ campaign is successful, the kinds of ugly intolerance that have seen people sacked, threatened, assaulted and dragged before government tribunals could become the new normal – it happened overseas and there is no reason it wouldn’t happen here.
Thanks for your continued support for the 'no' case and be assured I will continue to advocate for the truth of marriage. If you have any free time and can support the campaign please let me know by return email.
Eric Abetz
Liberal Senator for Tasmania
Ps. Feel free to take a look at my new website at www.abetz.com.au or follow me on Instagram here. "
Churches are burning. Senator's offices are trashed. Opponents of rainbow ideology threatened. What next?
Post from April 2016: They may well be unrelated to the issue of homosexual normalization in society and the opposition to this ideology from the Church, but for whatever reason there have been four different churches burnt down in the past six months in Victoria alone (including the Geelong West Presbyterian Church which burnt down in the early hours of Friday morning 15th April 2016 under suspicious circumstances).
Victoria is of course the Australian State where the Premier Daniel Andrews has been subtlety fomenting hatred toward Christians for some time now. He has banned the teaching of Christianity in government schools, replaced that with soon to be compulsory encouragement of and teaching of gay sex acts to school children, banned the singing of Christian carols such as "Away in a Manger," (one of our Sovereign Queen Elizabeth's personal favourites), legalized homosexual men adopting babies, banned public protests over protecting babies from being unnecessarily killed in government funded death clinics etc. etc..
The proponents of destroying marriage and family in Australia, when they promote same-sex "marriage" are simultaneously promoting hatred toward Christians who they call bigots, dinosaurs, homophobes for defending marriage, children and family.
Whether the rise in anti-Christian sentiment these things are creating have anything to do with the increase in burning churches, trashing Senator's offices, or threatening Christians is not known for sure. But it is a pointer of where our society is heading and will head if traditional marriage and family, the Christian view of marriage and family, is outlawed by changing the marriage laws.
Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has noted the "dangerous anti-religious push" which has emerged in Australia generally, and specifically singled out Victorian Premier Daniel Andrew's anti-Christian pogrom as "pernicious" (evil or wicked.)
Urging frightened Australian citizens to speak up, he said, "There is nothing homophobic about supporting traditional marriage."
He also said, "There is sense in which people are so frightened of being accused of being discriminatory or intolerant that they don't speak the commonsense view."
"The standards of civil society in Australia were being undermined by a growing intolerance towards people who don't subscribe to a range of progressive views,"
"I think the problem is that too few people are prepared to call it for what it is," he said.
The terrorizing of staff, and trashing of Senator Bernadi's office, for which 12 people have now been charged, send a chilling message of what is to come if same-sex "marriage" succeeds in undermining marriage and family in Australia. Socialists/communists always seek to destroy family as family (like the church) competes with their utopian view of the State controlling everything. Don't let them succeed in Australia. Act now.
“Same-sex political activists need to engage in civil dialogue rather than trying to perpetuate fear among those who have differing views to them.
“Intimidation and bully tactics have sadly become all too common amongst those pushing rainbow ideology.
“Calling people bigots or homophobes does not address the issues that are being raised and is designed to silence any opposing views.”
ACL staff have been subject to threating phone calls, death threats and intimidation as a result of the work that has been done to expose what is contained in the gay recruitment Safe Schools program and security at national office has been beefed up.
In February, several ACL staff members were sent graphic and disturbing pornographic images. This included images which appear to contain children. ACL has reported this to Police, who are undertaking an inquiry.
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: A resource for parents to work through with their teenagers about the confusion engulfing their world. Do it before it is too late
Parents/Guardians: Your children are already having conversations about homosexuality, same-sex marriage and gender. Here is a vital talk parents desperately need to have with them too, so they get the full story and not the LGBTQI spin all around them at school, social media, movies, music, corporate ads, etc, etc. Do not delay, print this out for them and you and work your way through it urgently together. Once it is done you can rest easier knowing they are more equipped to handle the deluge of LGBT propaganda flooding our nation. They will know you love them and you may well save them from a lifetime of brokenness, heartache, shame, mental illness, physical diseases or even suicide.
LGBTQI and the war on God, Family, Freedom, Truth and Reality
What is LGBTQI? They are mostly a group of anarchist people (also known as gays or homosexuals and transgender, gender fluid theory -i.e. NOT fact- proponents) who insist that God does not exist and that no one can tell them what to do or that something is objectively true. They get mad at the idea of God and shake their fists at the God they insist does not exist. They are at war with reality in the west, and the attempt to change the definition of marriage is just one battle they have launched in their war on truth and morality.
The transgender, gender confusion being taught by Daniel Andrew’s Victorian state government, the "Safe Schools" and "Respectful Relationships" deception programs is another battlefront. They have a lot of government money for their programs, they have successfully infiltrated the media and govt. education departments over many years, left-wing political groups have joined in and now promote this movement. Together they are flooding our nation with their dangerous anti-truth, anti-children ideas.
The truth is, always has been, and always will be that men and women are designed for each other. Sex is when a man and a woman physically come together. Children most often result and society flourishes and continues. It is best for the man and the woman (and the children) for them to come together for life, excluding all others.
All other sexual activity outside of marriage is simply not marriage, is often not good for the man or the woman or the children. It is most often not good for society either, as there are health costs involved from the diseases which are often associated with these sex acts.
Truth is truth, no matter what sort of laws may be enacted by man to pretend otherwise. No matter what happens in the postal vote, marriage will remain what it is. If the law is changed, the law will be promoting a lie. Anything built on shaky foundations will not stand. Other truths will fall. People will suffer. Children will suffer. Enough is Enough! Vote NO Australia!
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What if marriage was more than about love? What if it was about children? The next generation? Our society's future?
What if marriage was more than about love?
Enough is enough! Vote NO Australia!
"There is nothing homophobic about supporting traditional marriage." - John Howard, former Australian Prime Minister
"There is nothing homophobic about supporting traditional marriage." - Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard.
So true! Please do not be intimidated or cowed into thinking you can't speak up for traditional marriage, for family, freedom of speech and for children. You can and you should. There is absolutely nothing wrong with speaking up in the face of this attack on our society's foundations.
Speak boldly for your children's sake and your grandchildren's sake. When future generations see the consequential fruit of destroying traditional marriage and teaching children to accept and try depraved sex acts in school sex-ed classes they will ask: "Why did our parents and grandparents allow this?"
It is a bad idea. People who enter into homosexual relationships have full equality under Australian law already. They can do what they like. Over 80 pieces of legislation have already been passed to grant full equality to their relationships in the eyes of the law. They are free to enter into what ever sorts of relationships they choose with no discrimination whatsoever. That is up to them and people are generally not too worried about that.
But it is not marriage. Marriage is something very different. Marriage is simply a man and a woman coming together promising to remain faithful to each other at the exclusion of all others, and to build society through having children (if possible) and loving and protecting those children in the structure best designed for doing so.
People are free to behave however they want and reap the consequences of their actions, as applies to all of us, however they are not free to impose gay sex on children, effectively grooming them to become gay or gay activists. They are also not free to deprive a child of their mother or father.
Every child needs a Mum and a Dad. A man simply cannot be a mother and a woman just cannot be a father. For the sake of children and our society, marriage deserves to be preserved.
Australians should not even be asked to have to choose to change marriage. It simply is what it is. Those proposing to make the change do not even want to debate the merits of what they propose. They just want to impose it. What will they want next?
They have taken away valuable parliamentary time and resources over many years trying unsuccessfully to change marriage laws. They have had their say. They are the ones now forcing tax-payers to bear the cost of a plebiscite. They should do the honorable thing and concede that they already have equality and for the sake of national unity, for the sake of children, they should abandon their selfish quest.
People who live the homosexual lifestyle are also not free to donate their blood according to the Red Cross and FDA, because it is deemed at a high risk of being contaminated with diseases which will wreak havoc on our communities. Therefore warnings and disclaimers should be a mandatory inclusion in their campaigns to normalize and promote such sexual behaviour.
Defend Marriage, Children, Freedom of Speech and Religion.
Please print off a few copies of this great 1 pager to help inform your neighbours: "5 REASONS"
You might also like to read the larger: 100 Reasons
NOTE: For whatever reasons the reality is that the media have locked out the voice for traditional family and marriage. They are actively trying to silence debate on this issue and silence free speech in Australia. It is not just a debate over marriage it is also, according to an Australian Senator, a political attempt by left-wing Marxist influenced ideologues to secure control of Australia.
The only way Australians will hear the case to defend and preserve marriage and family is if YOU speak up and act. PLEASE do not delay. The anti-traditional marriage movement is gathering pace and they will be putting intense pressure on Australians to secure victory. Once we have lost our freedoms it is very difficult to regain them.
Written and authorized by Craig Manners, Ngumbe, Malawi.
A lie would become a pillar of the State. Lies subjugate. They never set your free. Vote NO Australia!
The Juggernaut is about to unleash their Trojan horse in one change of one law. Change marriage and we lose the Australia the ANZACS fought and died for.
By Mr. Olga Palovski *
Any society which can so quickly fall for something like the normalization of a man “marrying” another man will soon fall for anything and everything. Pedophilia, bestiality, polygamy, Communism, Nazism, Seriously, why not? If we can’t defend marriage from this assault then everything is up for grabs. It signals a dangerous direction for such a society.
Our enemies will be sitting back waiting for us to self-destruct, which we will. If you remove the foundations from a house, the house can no longer stand. It is that simple.
The rapid speed with which homosexual “marriage” has bullied its way into Western societies and found limited resistance is just the beginning. If we can offer no answers against this surely we can offer no answers against anything.
As proof of this, the 2015 “Woman of the Year” is a man named Bruce! Say no more. Reality has left the West.
In our society’s attempt to become “secular,” to remove religion from society, we have not gotten rid of religion at all, we have simply, but dangerously, swapped religions to evolution based “Secular Humanism,” a religion which worships and serves self, rather than God. A religion which tramples over the weak, the old, the infirm, rather than one which protects, is selfless and defends.
There is no secular "utopia" just a world where man is exalted rather than God, where lies are exalted rather than truth, where vulgarity becomes the norm rather than civility etc. etc.
Historically such blind, anti-God rebellion has always led to dishonest, selfish, hedonistic, immoral living and ultimately brings brokenness and great harm to individuals, communities, tragically, especially to a society’s children. Such societies do not last! They are self-defeating in many ways.
Ironically, the pro-homosexual movement depends on the theory of evolution to supposedly allow them to push God out of the picture and enable immoral living without being haunted by conscience.
Of course this is ultimately impossible, so they need to rebel more and more in hate filled tirades and campaigns against the God they claim doesn’t exist. Yet, they can never push Him far enough away, not even into outer space (if Aliens planted humans on earth we still have the question, “Well who made them?)
At its heart the war on marriage is very much a part of the wider war on God. Which side do you really think will win?
An irony of the rainbow ideological takeover of the West comes from the fact that evolutionists claim we humans are evolving into higher beings, becoming better etc. Yet, the human race cannot even continue to apparently evolve if men stop impregnating women and new human beings are born. A man and a man or a woman and a woman cannot make a baby. So those societies who embrace homosexuality as good and normal become self-defeating. Our enemies love this part.
Of course, they respond that the modern god called “science” can find a way around this by IVF, surrogacy etc. But again, no-one is thinking of the children. The motives for doing this are mostly to satisfy adult selfishness and to “prove” a point that traditional families are not necessary, or the extreme feminist cry of “we do not need men!”
Again , these irresponsible, selfish adults are not concerned for the children. Many of the homosexual lifestyle community have no inclination to have children anyway. They are too selfish to share their life with a dependent child. There will be children born from this mess, but the self-centred “parents” will soon tire of them when they realize the work and expense involved.
Picture what will be going on in the homes of those homosexuals who do manage to buy children. Their whole lifestyle is in general all about getting sexual satisfaction as often as they can. The word “restraint” is abhorrent to most of them. What sort of an environment will it be for a little boy or girl to grow up hearing and seeing two men sodomizing each other and doing all the other things they do to each other every day?
This is child abuse, but the “responsible adults” in charge of our nation have neglected their duty of care as guardians of our children. Daniel Andrews, the Victorian Premier, is championing the legalization of this sort of thing. He will be held to account one day.
The rainbow movement are but one enemy at the gates of the West, though they are the most advanced. But as the homosexual community birth rate declines, and the birth-rate of communities with different (and quite ruthlessly anti-homosexual), but still Totalitarian, ideologies continue to increase rapidly (e.g. Islam), things will change as dramatically in the next generation as it is now.
It is telling that the Muslim community is relatively quiet on the same-sex marriage debate. I think this is because they probably can’t believe their luck that a Trojan horse such as this could be working in tandem with their own efforts to infiltrate Western society.
The SS juggernaut will just hasten the demise of the West and allow Islam to fill the void, as their percentage of the vote increases in 10-20 years due to their men having 4+ wives each and 10+ children per wife.
Ironically, when Sharia law takes a hold in Australia, possibly as early as in 10+ years’ time, homosexual behavior will not only become a crime again, but it will be possibly be punished with extreme severity.
Once the SS Trojan horse enters Australia’s legal system there is pretty much nothing standing in the way of Sharia law or anything else out there. Right on cue the pedophiles are now getting in on the act and using the destructive homosexual, "Born this way," deception tactics to try to normalize their sick depravity.
Read about it here. What comes after this, as the tsunami of hatred and immorality gathers force, I am too scared to contemplate.
Enough is Enough Australia! Vote NO!
*To protect the author's privacy, to prevent rainbow flag carrying thugs "visiting" her home, threatening her with violence, all the rainbow intimidation, discrimination, hate filled name calling, loss of employment, being unable to fly on QANTAS, being blacklisted as a bigot at ANZ, Woolworths, blockaded by rainbow Marxists on her way to school to protest at the Safe Schools deception, being ordered to "re-education camp" for refusing to arrange the flowers at a "wedding" for two men, speaking out loud to her friend that she really thinks that marriage is only between a man and a woman etc. etc. etc. etc. etc. ... Mr. Olga Palovski is not her real name.
Enough is Enough! Vote NO Australia.
"There is nothing homophobic about supporting traditional marriage." - John Howard, former Australian Prime Minister
John Howard is an example to all Australians to boldly speak up and defend children and freedom of speech, religion and conscience.
Year after year we see valuable parliamentary time, political energy and millions of taxpayer dollars absolutely wasted on this destructive and divisive issue. It is time to say "Enough is enough!"
Year after year we see continued media forcefulness insisting that the people of Australia must accept the imposition of this unusual sexual preference as now being on a par with and even more exalted than heterosexual unions. "Enough is enough!"
We see school children increasingly bullied in school yards across our once young and free nation just for supporting traditional marriage, and for not wholeheartedly embracing, affirming and promoting homosexual sex acts or for not flying the rainbow flag. "Enough is enough!"
This issue long ago stopped being about equality. There have already been over 80 pieces of legislation changed to ensure there is no inequality under the law. They already have equality. Changing marriage will not be the end of the issue. It is a political battle for our nation, for our children, for our institutions, not just for marriage. The political rainbow mob of bullies will not stop at marriage.
Millions of Australians have simply had enough of the left-wing rainbow ideological push to change our nation for the worse. It is time to tell them: "Enough is enough!"
It is time to start to focus on things which will help our nation, unite our nation, prosper our nation, advance our nation, economically and socially.
The ANZACS fought for a free nation. The rainbow movement want to make it illegal for Australians to be able to speak freely and to believe openly. This is not a freedom promoting trade-off, it is the opposite, it subjugates, it promotes tyranny and authoritarianism.
The rainbow movement is demanding their sexual acts be recognized as normal and be affirmed by society, and in return they insist that Christians and Jews, and everyone else who disagree with them, must be persecuted for not doing so. They insist that our freedom of speech, religion and conscience be removed and replaced by gay tyranny.
They insist that children must miss out on either a mother or a father so as to satisfy their selfish agendas.
They insist that children must now be taught (the "Safe" Schools deception) that dangerous sex acts are now normal, fashionable, safe and encouraged. They cause children to suffer mental and physical abuse to advance their cause. They are leading impressionable youth to be seriously confused and to behave in ways contrary to mental and physical health. Enough is enough Australia!
Children cannot even have normal childhood friendships anymore. They are confused. They are intimidated. They are suffering just to appease a handful of adult bullies who want to force on society and normalize their worldview, behavior and lifestyle.
They fly the rainbow flag on public buildings as an enemy would do having subjugated its target. The Australian people have historically not welcomed such authoritarian antics. It is now the turn of the silent majority to speak and put an end to such arrogant, forceful imposition of ideological tyranny.
Bill Shorten and the Greens want to make it illegal for Australians to be able to say that "marriage is between a man and a woman," and that "homosexual sex acts should not be promoted to children, are not normal, not good for people physically nor mentally, not healthy, but are a risk to children, human health and society."
Bill Shorten, Penny Wong, the Greens, Warren Entsch, Daniel Andrews, James Merlino and their comrades across Australia want anti-discrimination laws to discriminate against, fine and imprison decent Australian citizens for holding to traditional understandings of human sexuality, marriage, family and communal good.
They want to oppress anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of the world, of life, who wants to openly investigate the big issues of life and who may think differently from them. In short, they want to intolerantly impose their intolerant worldview on Australians.
But these truths, about marriage, family, human sexuality, gender, child protection, freedom, religious reality, the reality of morality, are things which millions of Australians believe, and will continue to believe no matter what the law may suggest otherwise. These are things which millions of Australian's religion teaches and will continue to teach. Jews, Christians, Muslims....
Religion or no religion, these are things which millions of Australian's consciences attest to, and will continue to attest to.
Bill & comrades want to remove our freedoms of speech, religion and conscience. These are the very things the ANZACS fought and died for. These are the very freedoms which make us free. Many countries around the world do not have these freedoms and they have and will continue to suffer greatly.
Why should we allow Australia to join them? Please don't remain silent in the face of this threat. Please speak and act now before it is too late.
Now is our time to say, "Enough is enough"! Put an end to the rainbow juggernaut, VOTE NO to the proposition to change the marriage law. Let the people finally do what the politicians have been unable to do for years: put an end to this divisive, destructive issue. To do so will require a massive landslide though, so please join the fight today.
It is OK to Vote NO Australia! Even if you are not interested in this issue please vote NO anyway, as this will affect every Australian, not just the religious. If you are unsure but feel you are not really fully-informed, or you don't want to offend your gay friend, play it safe and just vote no anyway. They already have full equality at law, there is no reason to make a change.
Written and authorised by Craig Manners, Ngumbe, Malawi.
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Laws Teach: The Upcoming Rainbow Inspired Public Rule of Law and Health Crisis in Australia
Print out copies of "5 Reasons" and letter box drop them in your neighbourhood today.
Australians are about to vote, and its important you stand up as a voice for a continuing free Australia:
Redefining marriage will threaten your freedom of speech.
Redefining marriage can take away your religious freedom.
Redefining marriage is a package deal with gender-fluid ideology and radical sex education.
Your voice is important. Every Australian must hear the truth about the consequences of changing the Marriage Act.
With your help we can defend religious freedom, freedom of speech and ensure that parents are free to protect their children from radical gay sex education classes in schools.
Please help educate Australians about the harsh consequences of redefining marriage.
Your help is more essential now than ever.
Thank you for your support to preserve marriage.
"Safe Schools" is child abuse pure and simple. Vote NO Australia! Protect your children and grandchildren. Let the people do what the weak politicians could not do.
Why are our weak politicians allowing the promotion of sexual activity which is proven to spread diseases?
Dear Australian Politician,
You are a paid political leader in our once young and free nation Australia. Could you please tell me, a taxpayer, why $8m of taxpayer funds are being spent effectively promoting and normalizing homosexual sex acts to Australian school-children through the Safe Schools deception?
The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency among homosexual practitioners as a result of (not-so) gay sex is alarming:
Herpes simplex virus
Human immunodeficiency virus
Human papilloma virus
Isospora belli
Microsporidia
Viral hepatitis types B & C
Some of these diseases are then spread to heterosexuals who are not aware of their partners previous homosexual practices. It is a mess for any society because we all pay the price, with higher health services costs, longer waiting lists at doctors surgeries and hospitals etc etc.
Children are being groomed on a massive scale by "Safe Schools" and manipulated by people with an ideological agenda to try these acts and/or let depraved adults do them to them. If marriage laws are changed it will legitimize this and unleash a tsunami of child sexual abuse.
If we thought what happened inside the Catholic church, when they were infiltrated by homosexual men, was horrendous, wait and see what marriage law changes will unleash.
Why is the government funding a program which has already sexualized children younger than 12? Government has a duty to restrain behavior harmful to children not to unleash it on them en masse. It is child abuse on a massive and purposefully organized scale.
Vote NO Australia and protect our nation's children and future generations.
Written and authorized by Craig Manners, Ngumbe Malawi
Stop the forceful Rainbow Movement. Vote NO Australia.
The ANZACS fought for a free nation. The rainbow movement want to make it illegal for Australians to be able to speak freely and to believe openly. This is not a freedom promoting trade-off, it is the opposite, it subjugates, it spreads fear (fear of speaking freely, thinking freely, discussing freely, debating freely, investigating freely), promotes tyranny and authoritarianism.
The rainbow movement is demanding their views be elevated and recognized as normal and be forced on and affirmed by society, and in return they insist that everyone who disagrees with their view, especially the religious (mostly Christians and Jews), must be punished and persecuted for doing so. Put simply the same-sex "marriage" rainbow movement insist that our freedom of speech, religion and conscience be removed and replaced by an intolerant tyranny.
One change of one law (marriage) will hand them the full power of the law and State to crack down on all opponents of their worldview.
They insist that children must now be taught (the "Safe" Schools deception) that dangerous sex acts are now normal, fashionable, safe and encouraged. They cause children to suffer mental and physical abuse to advance their cause. They are leading impressionable youth to be seriously confused and to behave in ways contrary to mental and physical health.
Enough is enough Australia! Vote NO and halt the march of the rainbow banner.
"Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move. It is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say, NO!"
"Compromise where you can, but where you cant, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong (homosexual "marriage") is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move. It is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye and say, NO!" (From Captain America-Civil War)
Enough is Enough! Vote NO Australia and protect our nation's children, freedom of speech, religion and future generations.
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www.TrueMarriageEquality.com
Every child comes from and needs BOTH a mother and a father. Same-sex "marriage" intentionally keeps either a mother or a father from the child. Government should protect the child through upholding traditional marriage.
A good old-fashioned Australian grass-roots revolt against authoritarian agendas is needed if we are to protect our children and remain free. Vote NO Australia!
Australian's traditionally do not take kindly to authoritarian movements trying to pull the wool over their eyes and force through such major structural changes to our good society, especially without a free and fair debate, a thorough investigation of the consequences of making such a change, and a vote for the people.
The opponents of our freedom have infiltrated the media and government elite. A grass roots movement is required to counter the forceful homosexual movement. Please do your part. Lets not give away our freedom without some resistance.
But how do we get the word out to people so they can use it with their neighbors if the media are only promoting the homosexual agenda?
That is what a grass roots movement is all about. We can get the message out over the backyard fence, around the BBQ, over a beer at the cricket or the footy. Print out a few copies of the great one pager "5 Reasons" and just letterbox drop them to a few neighbours.
Spread the word that the media and the political elite have been compromised, infiltrated and/or hoodwinked. That it is time for ordinary Australians to take action, to speak up and stand up for common sense, for the future of our nation, for freedom of speech and religion, and for our children and grandchildren. The sex-education about to be imposed on them if marriage laws are changed is pure child abuse.
The battle looks very different from the ones our forefathers had to go and fight, but they are just as real and just as serious a threat to our freedom.
Societies can be changed by movements at the grass roots. The Eureka stockade is just one example. Thankfully violence is not required in this battle, but active participation is needed if we are to remain young and free.
What the proponents of homosexual marriage are proposing, in forcing Australians to normalize sodomy and remove non-conforming Australian's rights to object to this sexual practice being normalized, is a very big can or worms, a massive Trojan horse.
They are not allowing free debate on this issue. They are trying every trick in the totalitarian book to silence all opponents of their proposal. That fact alone does not auger well for our future if they succeed.
Your small part to play in this grass roots movement, combined with many others, can stand up to this juggernaut hell bent on subjugating all their opponents. Please stand for freedom and childhoods free from forcefully imposed radical sex-ed in schools.
Read on-->> Must read article: Enough is Enough! Vote No Australia!
A Secular Case For Defending Marriage and Children
Allowing the law to normalize, promote, and protect against criticism, homosexual behavior and all the consequences of such a lifestyle, will damage our nation’s children and lead to a massive increase in child abuse (emotional, mental and physical), drug abuse and youth suicide. Adults have a duty of care to protect children, not harm them.
There is enough for children to worry about as they grow up, they should not need to have to deal with such things as a man "marrying" another man and pretending that doing such sexual acts to each other is good and normal.
Australia’s children are having divisive arguments about homosexual “marriage” in school playgrounds. They should not need to even have to think about a man putting his penis in another man’s anus (designed to excrete human waste), let alone have to take sides as if sodomy is some sort of human rights or civil rights issue, instead of an act which has among other things caused the worldwide spread of the AIDS virus and left millions of children orphans.
Please do not pander to a minority of selfish adults seeking to normalize their own unnatural lifestyle. Please be a responsible adult and leave marriage alone, if only for children's sake.
This is not an issue of civil rights. The issue of redefining marriage to pretend that a man can “marry” another man and then do the sexual things they do to each other as “husband” and “wife” is a long way from being a civil rights or human rights issue.
It is in fact nothing of the sort. It is an issue Australians are being bullied into accepting by a vocal minority of intimidators who have managed to silence the media and politicians on this issue. In fact I suggest that any attempt to normalize this sexual activity is in reality a child protection issue.
Please think of the message being taught to the children of Australia by our leaders pretending such an issue is akin to freeing slaves or fighting apartheid. Children will be intimidated into thinking sodomy is okay because it is being elevated to such heights and fought for as if it was the most noble cause in the world.
Enough is Enough
AN UNPRECEDENTED ATTACK ON OUR FREEDOM AND FOUNDATIONS. THIS WILL NOT BE THE END OF IT. VOTE NO AUSTRALIA.
Help us protect the rights of all Australians
“Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?”
This is the question Australians will be asked from today onwards, as the first ballot papers are posted.
It’s crucial that all Australians understand the serious consequences of making such a radical change as they prepare to vote. Consequences such as radical LGBTIQ sex and gender education programs being made compulsory in every school classroom.
And, right on cue, a prominent gay marriage advocate has called for exactly that.
Fairfax columnist Benjamin Law wrote the latest Quarterly Essay, in which he calls for a national rollout of the controversial “Safe Schools” program and even suggests parents might not be best placed to determine what is in the best interests of their children. He states:
“Here’s the uncomfortable reality: parents don’t always know best.”
The very same activist revealed his true colours recently in an aggressive tweet directed at the very politicians who have been standing up for the rights of Aussie parents:
(Material and photos withheld due to vulgar sexually depraved obscenities and foul language, still uncommon in mainstream media and unsuitable for publication other than on homosexual sites, but soon to be common if marriage laws are changed).
So, let me get this straight: the same-sex activists who endorse such vile and disgusting language also think they know better than you about what is best for your children?
The same-sex marriage debate also threatens other basic freedoms – freedoms that we have perhaps taken for granted until recently.
Last week in Brisbane, a group of same-sex activists blocked the entrance to a church where an information session about the “Safe Schools” program was due to be held.
This was essentially an “angry mob” blocking an otherwise peaceful event from going ahead. But how did the media report it?
As you can see from the photo below, it was reported as a violent clash between rival groups. And some news outlets even reported that same-sex marriage activists had been injured after a car drove into the crowd at full speed.
However, this was simply not true. Queensland Police confirmed that the young woman alleging she was injured following a car driving into the crowd had actually fallen over and, refusing medical assistance, chose to speak with reporters instead.
It’s clear what we should expect if same-sex marriage is legalised.
The current attacks on our rights as parents, our basic freedoms, and even on reality, are unprecedented in this country – and man-woman marriage is still the law of the land.
The good news is that we have – as part of the unified Coalition for Marriage campaign – thousands of volunteers joining the fight and helping with things like letterboxing, door knocking and phone canvassing. Now we need to reach every Australian household.
Will you help protect the rights of all Australians?
Please give today to help encourage all Australians to vote ‘NO’.
Your gift will help equip volunteers with the training and resources they need to educate Australians about the harsh consequences of redefining marriage.
Sophie York
Marriage Alliance Spokeswoman
P.S. Ballot papers will start arriving in the next day or two. Your support for the campaign could not be more timely. Please CLICK HERE to make a donation towards preserving marriage.
Marriage Alliance is committed to ensuring Australians are presented with the facts and potential consequences of redefining marriage leading up to a vote.
For more information, see www.marriagealliance.com.au or our Facebook page.
Australia's virtuous foundations are about to become "Hate Speech" if marriage laws changed.
So the situation is that we live in a country which would not be so great without the foundational contribution of the Bible and Christianity. The culture has been taken over by a rainbow totalitarian ideology which clashes violently with our nation's foundations. In one legal manoeuvre, changing marriage laws, Australia will wake up and find that freedom of speech, religion and conscience has been removed. Islamic terrorists would love to do that to us, but they do not need to, it is about to be done from the inside by the rainbow coloured Trojan horse.
If our foundational morality says marriage, sex and truth is one thing but the new "immorality" of the rainbow movement says it is now something altogether different and must be imposed on children at schools, who is going to prevail? The two will need to clash. If the rainbow wins, they will quickly label all opponents as "Haters," and make their "Hate Speech," Hate Literature" (the Bible) and "Hate Groups" (churches) illegal.
When the law of God, laws of nature, laws of most religions and the law of the land clash, we will get a conflict. Why would we vote for that?
Enough is Enough! Vote NO Australia!
Must read article. Read it while you are still free to do so. Paul Kelly Nails It! Vote NO Australia!
You must read this article.
Today in The Australian, Paul Kelly brilliantly articulates 'Why [the] YES case is shoddy'.
No article (except "The Juggernaut") better explains how politicians are willfully misleading voters when it comes to changing the Marriage Act.
With the Yes case positioned to win the postal plebiscite, it is more important than ever the misleading and false claims of its advocates — that there is no religious issue at stake — be confronted and the ramifications put on the table.
These claims are made by senior Coalition and Labor politicians. Indeed, it seems they think rejection of the religious argument is fundamental to the success of their campaign. This is alarming because it implies the Yes case depends on persuading the public of a false proposition.
The government and parliament, despite years of emotional debate, declined to address the wider religious freedom question. The political class engaged instead in a great pretence: that the only such issue concerned the wedding ceremony and protections in the Marriage Act for clergy and celebrants, an extremely narrow view of religious freedom.
Given legalisation of same-sex marriage means the laws of the state and laws of most religions will be brought into direct conflict over society’s most essential institution, the one certainty is ongoing legal and political trench warfare over the balance between acceptance of the same-sex marriage norm and the scope for freedom of belief and religion.
There is a litany of examples from the overseas experience. Fatuous remarks that “the world hasn’t come to an end” in countries that have legislated same-sex marriage are just that — and designed to deceive.
Having refused to confront the issue the advocates of the Yes case now get agitated and self-righteous when it has become an issue in the plebiscite. This was inevitable. While some aspects of the No case are obnoxious, its warnings about religious freedoms risks are entirely valid. What matters is that the many highly intelligent political champions of the Yes case are trapped: they are selling a shoddy intellectual bill of goods and many of them know it.
The first point is that religious freedom guarantees in this country are inadequate. This was agreed and documented in February’s Senate select committee report. Unlike many Western nations, Australia has no statutory expression of a stand-alone right to religious freedom. There are far greater legal protections in relation to sexual orientation than in relation to religious belief.
This is an anomaly given that under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights freedom of religion is an inviolable right. The risk now is our parliament undermining Australia’s commitment to the ICCPR.
Evidence presented to the Senate committee shows that statutory protection of religious belief is weak both in federal law and a number of states. It mainly exists as “exemptions” from anti-discrimination law. The Anglican Diocese of Sydney made the obvious point to the committee that this failed to treat freedom of belief and religion as a fundamental human right. Marriage Alliance said: “We submit that religious freedom is a fundamental human right (and) that framing a debate in terms of exemptions misunderstands this fact.”
There was strong support in submissions for parliament to legislate to enshrine religious guarantees as a protected attribute in federal anti-discrimination law. This is the pivotal point. The committee unanimously agreed there was a “need to enhance current protections for religious freedom”. The Human Rights Law Centre said: “Religious freedom should be protected in law. Indeed, we are on record in a number of inquiries supporting the addition of religious belief to protections under federal anti-discrimination law.”
Committee chairman Liberal David Fawcett warned that “if Australia is to remain a plural, tolerant society where different views are valued and legal” then such action on religious freedom is essential. What was the reaction of the Turnbull government and Labor to the Senate report?
It varied between disregard and contempt. The reason is apparent — politics. Labor has abandoned any interest in addressing the inadequacy of religious protection laws with its embrace of the LGBTI cause. As for the Coalition, the story is the weakness of its conservative caucus. The deeper point is the churches are vulnerable and the politicians know it.
The lamentable situation was summarised by the University of Sydney’s Patrick Parkinson: “There have been numerous bills introduced into parliament to enact same-sex marriage over the last few years and what has been common to most of them has been a minimalist protection for freedom of conscience.”
The second core conclusion is that this battle over rights will continue after same-sex marriage is legislated. In Denmark the Lutheran Church has had its rights restricted. The Swedish PM has said priests should no more be allowed to refuse to marry same-sex couples than medical professionals should be exempt from abortion procedures. The Speaker of the British House of Commons says “proper equal marriage” won’t happen until the churches are compelled to obey by law. Australian Greens formally say they want the religious exemptions in anti-discrimination law to be wound back. Many in the ALP left have the same view.
We are being put on notice. You would have to be politically blind to deny the reality (an option many politicians have deliberately chosen). The post-same-sex marriage battle is already under way. This is because while many people genuinely see same-sex marriage as an issue of non-discrimination, this was never its essence. It is an ideological cause seeking fundamental changes in Western society, laws and norms. It will continue apace after the law is changed.
Marriage equality is an ideology and ideologies, by nature, do not settle for compromise victories. As Benjamin Law says in Quarterly Essay: Moral Panic 101: “It might be stating the obvious but same-sex marriage is far from the final frontier in the battle against homophobia.” The struggle will continue — in schools and in institutions. Law says the two biggest LGBTI issues are Safe Schools and same-sex marriage.
He says Safe Schools is “supposed to discomfort people” by up-ending how we see gender and sexuality. He talks about exploding accepted norms with queer theory, inviting “people to reconsider why anyone should be obliged to identify as female or male at all”. The aim is to introduce Safe Schools across the country and make it compulsory.
The pretence by Yes case politicians that the plebiscite has no consequences for the Safe Schools program treats us like fools. Legislation of same-sex marriage will tilt the scales decisively in this struggle between sexual rights and religious freedom. This legal and cultural change will influence decision-makers everywhere — public servants, corporates, media and educational institutions.
The churches will remain a prime target and the fact their protections are weak makes them highly vulnerable once the assault gains momentum.
The Yes case bases its campaign on human rights but misses the exquisite irony that you cannot cherry-pick human rights and keep your integrity. As Parkinson said, consistency of principle means those who justify their campaign on human rights need to give proper consideration to how rights can be balanced.
That hasn’t happened in Australia, not even remotely. Every sign is Australia will legalise same-sex marriage devoid of any serious attention to religious freedom issues and, as a result, religious protections will be exposed and sacrificed.
The politicians are doing this because they think they can get away with it. They are entitled to that judgment. What they are not entitled to is a gross deception. The assurances they give on religious protection are worthless — their inaction proves that. People, regardless of how it affects their vote, need to know the reality.
Paul Kelly, The Australian
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Foundations built on a lie cannot support a strong nation. Marriage is marriage. Say NO Australia and protect children and freedom.
http://www.truemarriageequality.com/blog/without-strong-foundations-australia-will-not-stand
They have picked a fight Australia, it is time to fight back. Stand up for our children.
This is where the same-sex movement is taking our country. Did our forefathers fight and die for your freedom for nothing? Will you stand up now and defend Australia for your children and grandchildren? It is not a time to be silent and weak. It is a just fight. They are threatening our children as well as our way of life. It looks different than 1939 but it is a war we must now enter if we cherish our freedom and our children. Please watch the video below and ACT NOW.
The Safe Schools Coalition programs provide resources such as and teaches children as young as 11yo things like: Gay and lesbian sex techniques; Boys wearing girls school dresses; Chest binding for girls to inhibit breast growth; Penis tucking; Sex toy links; LGBT networks; Fetish club links. (www.KidsRights.org,au).
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All overseas passports are now issued in UK, and as a result a portion of the cost savings in processing the paperwork centrally - approximately 35% - have been passed over to the applicant.
UK Immigration and Security Minister, James Brokenshire, says Her Majesty's Passport Office is committed to delivering better value for money for our customers.
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2005 World Summit outcome factsheet
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Development; Terrorism; Peacebuilding, Peacekeeping, and Peacemaking; Responsibility to protect; Human rights, Democracy and Rule of law; Management reform; International health; Humanitarian assistance; Updating the UN Charter
2005 world summit outcome: Development
Strong and unambiguous commitment by all governments, in donor and developing nations alike, to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Additional $50 billion a year by 2010 for fighting poverty.
Commitment by all developing countries to adopt national plans for achieving the Millennium Development Goals by 2006.
Agreement to provide immediate support for quick impact initiatives to support anti-malaria efforts, education, and healthcare.
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2005 world summit outcome: Terrorism
Clear and unqualified condemnation—by all governments, for the first time—of terrorism “in all its forms and manifestations, committed by whomever, wherever and for whatever purposes.”
Strong political push for a comprehensive convention against terrorism within a year. Support for early entry into force of the Nuclear Terrorism Convention. All states are encouraged to join and implement it as well as the 12 other antiterrorism conventions.
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2005 world summit outcome: Peacebuilding, Peacekeeping, and Peacemaking
Decision to create a Peacebuilding Commission to help countries transition from war to peace, backed by a support office and a standing fund.
New standing police capacity for UN peacekeeping operations.
Agreement to strengthen the Secretary-General’s capacity for mediation and good offices.
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2005 world summit outcome: Responsibility to protect
Clear and unambiguous acceptance by all governments of the collective international responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity. Willingness to take timely and decisive collective action for this purpose, through the Security Council, when peaceful means prove inadequate and national authorities are manifestly failing to do it.
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2005 world summit outcome: Human rights, Democracy and Rule of law
Decisive steps to strengthen the UN human rights machinery, backing the action plan and doubling the budget of the High Commissioner.
Agreement to establish a UN Human Rights Council during the coming year.
Reaffirmation of democracy as a universal value, and welcome for new Democracy Fund which has already received pledges of $32 million from 13 countries.
Commitment to eliminate pervasive gender discrimination, such as inequalities in education and ownership of property, violence against women and girls and to end impunity for such violence.
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2005 world summit outcome: Management reform
Broad strengthening of the UN’s oversight capacity, including the Office of Internal Oversight Services, expanding oversight services to additional agencies, calling for developing an independent oversight advisory committee, and further developing a new ethics office.
Update the UN by reviewing all mandates older than five years, so that obsolete ones can be dropped to make room for new priorities.
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2005 world summit outcome: International health
A scaling up of responses to HIV/AIDS, TB, and malaria, through prevention, care, treatment and support, and the mobilization of additional resources from national, bilateral, multilateral and private sources.
Commitment to fight infectious diseases, including a commitment to ensure full implementation of the new International Health Regulations, and support for the Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network of the World Health Organization.
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2005 world summit outcome: Humanitarian assistance
Improved Central Emergency Revolving Fund to ensure that relief arrives reliably and immediately when disasters happen.
Recognition of the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement as an important international framework for the protection of internally displaced persons.
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2005 world summit outcome: Updating the UN Charter
A decision to revise and update the Charter by:
Winding up the Trusteeship Council, marking completion of UN’s historic decolonisation role;
Deleting anachronistic references to “enemy states” in the Charter.
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The unknown Minyans: The hidden history behind the legends and myths (Part 1)
Historical / The unknown Minyans: The hidden history behind the legends and myths (Part 1)
An out of this world place like Meteora it would be rather strange if it didn’t have the kind of legends and mysteries that spark the imagination of people. Faint memories of our prehistory preserved inside of our myths and the stories we tell to our children.
The Nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain and the history we once knew it became legends. And the legends became myths, rumors and whispers, like a nearly forgotten song of our childhood. And each coming generation had the duty to pass the memory down to those who followed; a constant reminder of who we are in this great voyage that we began so long ago and still continues.
Proto-Greeks in the prehistory: The dawn of the heroic period in Greece
When we were kids we were hearing stories of great realms, heroes and kings that once existed in our forgotten distant past. These early inhabitants of prehistoric Greece they lived and thrived more than 5,000 years ago. A faint memory of their existence survived inside our legends and in the myths. Long before the establishment of the Athenian democracy and the city states of classical Greece. Many believe those proto-Greek cultures they were the Pelasgians, others identified them as the Minyans (1) and some they have no name to call them. Not many things are known today from that early period of our history. Many trace the origins of the Minyans in prehistoric Thessaly of the early Bronze Age (~2,600 BC).
The best witnesses verifying their existence remain to this day the ruins of monumental engineering feats they left behind. Great technological achievements that defy logic, putting into question the established view of our history. Megalithic constructions, vast tunnels and massive fortifications, all made at a time when based to our current knowledge no form of writing existed in Greece. The common characteristics of all these prehistoric remnants are the huge stones they used and the massive scope and scale of their projects.
The people of ancient Greece at later periods believed that it was impossible for ordinary men to achieve such engineering feats. In their stories they describe how giants and Cyclops helped them to lift the huge boulders of the Mycenaean walls. Pausanias in his travels during the 2nd century AD he saw and described the ruined Cyclopean walls of Mycenae and Tiryns:
“There still remain, however, parts of the city wall [of Mycenae], including the gate, upon which stand lions. These, too, are said to be the work of the Cyclopes, who made for Proetus the wall at Tiryns. (2.16.5) Going on from here and turning to the right, you come to the ruins of Tiryns. … The wall, which is the only part of the ruins still remaining, is a work of the Cyclopes made of unwrought stones, each stone being so big that a pair of mules could not move the smallest from its place to the slightest degree. Long ago small stones were so inserted that each of them binds the large blocks firmly together. (2.25.8)” (2)
And for that reason these great fortifications that are found today in many ancients sites of Greece they became known in history as the Cyclopian walls.
The massive engineering project of Lake Kopais and the citadel of Gla.
To my opinion the most impressive and largely unknown engineering feat of those proto-Greeks, who many call them Minyans, it is found around the citadel of “Gla” of Orchomenos. The citadel of Gla has the longest Cyclopian walls measuring in total 3km. Compared to Gla Mycenae’s and Tiryns’s fortified perimeters they both look like insignificant outposts! The citadel of Gla was placed on top of a small islet of a lake called Kopais, a rocky hill measuring roughly 900 m in length and 580 m in width.
The Minyans not only did they manage to build a huge citadel on that islet but they also achieved to drain the waters of the lake surrounding the islet. A large-scale engineering project of gigantic proportions that transformed the Kopais basin with a perimeter of 70 km (ca. 20,000 ha) into the most fertile plain on mainland Greece! The submerged marshland was artificially drained by means of an ingenious and complex drainage control system which involved course diversion of six rivers and streams from the basin into wide peripheral –and possibly navigable (?)– canals, protected by massive watertight embankments (reinforced in places with Cyclopean revetments and bearing roads on their crowns) and supplied with underground drains and channels leading the water overflow into artificial polders, natural bedrock cavities and sinkholes (καταβόθραι) to the bay of Larymna. (3)
The Kopais drainage project was colossal by both ancient and modern standards: it is estimated that 2,000,000 cubic meters of earth were moved to build the extensive dykes and massive embankments (2m high and 30m wide) running for 43 kilometers on the periphery of the basin. More than 250,000 cubic meters of stone were used to rivet the embankments, and the water overflow of the main canal is estimated at 100 cubic meters per sec!
The Minyans they also drilled a long tunnel that to this day is the most ancient known tunnel of Europe. It was designed to be 2,2 km long with at least 16 vertical maintenance shafts adjusted along its route. Its main goal was to reinforce the natural underground drains and the sinkholes. Those underground drains and the natural sinkholes it was impossible to access them for regular maintenance and if they were blocked, then the whole plain would flood without warning. So the project of constructing the tunnel was undertaken in order to ensure that the waters will always flow constantly towards the sea in the nearby bay of Larymna. That area once named “Arne” was still remembered as “multi-vineyard” in the Iliad (“polystaphylon Arne,” II 507) and Orchomenos as one of the richest kingdoms of the heroic past (4)
A Greek archaeologist named Theodoros Spyropoulos who did excavations near the “Amfeio of Thebes” and the Minyan tunnel of Kefalariou he estimated that the ancient drainage project probably dates back to 3rd millennia BC! At a much later period and around the mid 13th century BC the citadel of Gla was destroyed and it was abandoned. A century later the waters had reclaimed completely the fertile land of Kopais basin. The myth says that Hercules became the one who defeated in battle the state of Orchomenos, the distant descendants of the Minyans. He achieved his victory by placing a huge stone at the entrance of one of the main sinkholes that drained the lake waters so the plain flooded. Through the flooding of the plain Hercules denied the forces of Orchomenos the advantage of deploying their powerful cavalry. A fierce battle then took place between Hercules leading the Thebeans against the forces of Orchomenos. The state of Orchomenos was defeated and the citadel of Gla consequently was burned to the ground. After the waters reclaimed the basin around 12th century BC, Lake Kopais was successfully drained again thousands of years later during the late 19th century AD. According to numerous studies performed on the site the modern project had failed to surpass in efficiency the ancient one!
In the second part of this post we are going to trace the origins of Minyans and their connection to local rumors and legends of ancient tunnels existing underneath of the two oldest known sites of Meteora, the citadel of ancient Trikki (modern day Trikala) and the church of the Dormition in Kalampaka.
The use of cavalry by the forces of Orchomenos in the myth is yet another clue to the Thessalian origins of the Minyans. Thessaly with its big fertile plain was ideal for breeding horses. Its people were a rare exception among the rest of Greeks in the usage of cavalry. At a much later period the Thessalian cavalry was even used by Alexander the Great during his campaign against the Persians.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minyans#Archaeology
Pausanias (2.16.5) (2.25.8)
http://glas-excavations.org/about.html
Iliad I. (381-382)
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Command oversight of investigative staff comprised of violent crimes, property crimes and special investigations detectives, sergeants, lieutenants and one commander.
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Provide instructional support to students in all courses of the MCJ Program.
Supervise the work of course facilitators to ensure compliance with program and academic standards.
Assist in development and revision of graduate school course work.
Assist on-campus faculty with the administration of on-line graduate course work in criminal justice.
Provide support to professors, students and course facilitators.
Captain: Division Commander - Operations Division South
Tucson Police Department
Provide command oversight of all aspects of patrol operations in a division comprised of a diverse population of approximately 150,000 with an area of about 50 square miles.
Direct supervisor of three commanders and administrative support staff. Authorized strength is currently 144 personnel.
Developed positive working relationships with community leaders, council offices, neighborhood/business groups.
Assumed incident command over numerous critical incidents and complex investigations.
Reviewed complaints of police misconduct and administered appropriate disciplinary interventions from counseling to termination.
Salary approximately $131,000/year.
Oversight of division operating budget of $14,431,900.
Tucson Police Department, Tucson, AZ 2005 - 2007Captain: Division Commander - Police Logistics Division
Project Manager for the construction of a 68,000 square foot police substation and a 70,000 square foot evidence facility. The project budgets were $24 million and $15.6 million respectively.
Supervised the purchase of both the marked and unmarked police vehicle fleet.
Interacted with various vendors, procurement and other city departments to purchase equipment for the Department.
Managed all aspects of the maintenance and remodel of police facilities.
Provided oversight and assistance in the development of two organizational budgets ($4,615,680 and $5,373,510).
Tucson Police Department, Tucson, AZ 2000 - 2005Police Lieutenant
Served as the CALEA Accreditation Manager.
Patrol Commander in Operations Division South.
Investigations Commander in the Property Crimes Section. Provided command oversight of the Burglary, Auto Theft, Fraud, Elder Abuse and Surveillance Units.
Served as the Department's Executive Officer providing direct administrative support to the Chief of Police.
Served as the Internal Auditor for the Department.
Guided Department through its first CALEA reaccreditation in September 2004.
Obtained grant funding from the Arizona Auto Theft Authority for auto theft enforcement and education initiatives.
Tucson Police Department, Tucson, AZ 1994 - 2000Police Sergeant
Served as a patrol supervisor in Operations Division South and Operations Division East.
Served as the Basic Training Sergeant at the Tucson Police Academy overseeing all elements of curriculum development and recruit officer training at a regional training center.
Supervisor in the Hostage Negotiations Unit also served as the unit's training officer.
Supervisor of the Planning and Research Unit completing complex staff studies and making recommendations to Senior Staff.
Served in Internal Affairs as the Backgrounds Investigations and Internal Audit Unit supervisor.
Instructor for the Arizona Regional Community Policing Institute for two years instructing Perspectives in Community Policing and Strategic Planning.
Tucson Police Department, Tucson, AZ 1987 - 1994Police Officer
Assigned to patrol and crime suppression assignments in high crime areas.
Certified as a Field Training Officer, H.G.N. Technician, Drug Recognition Expert and AZ POST certified instructor.
Assigned to the D.U.I. Squad.
Assigned to the Technical Support Section as the Vehicle Control and Court Liaison Officer.
National Training Consultant
National Emergency Communications Institute
Served as a National Training Consultant and provided training to law enforcement andemergency communications personnel from more than 200 agencies in 15 states.
Provided training to emergency communications personnel on topics ranging from development of policies and procedures to training officer certification.
Provided management/leadership training to law enforcement supervisors and commanders.
Provided stress management training to both sworn and non-sworn personnel.
Keynote speaker at the 2003 Arizona State APCO Conference.
Marshalltown Police Department
Patrol officer assigned to general patrol duties.
Assigned as a SWAT Team member.
"The Need for Higher Education." Law and Order Magazine. North Hollywood, CA, September 2005, 86 - 94. Article discussing the need for higher education for police commanders."Supplemental Training Manual." S.T.I.M.. Tucson Police Department, April 1999, 1 - 512. 512 page supplemental training manual to support basic training of new police officers
1981 - 2008. Approximately 2000 hours of training in police operations, tactics and administration in addition to specific training listed below
Planning, Designing and Constructing Police Facilities, International Association of Chiefs of Police. Roanoke, VA, 2006
Managing Construction Projects, Lorman Education Services. Tucson, AZ, 2006
Certificate in Public Policy Management, University of Arizona. Tucson, AZ, 2006
Success Facilities Planning, Police Facility Planning Institute. Kansas City, MO, 2005
Assessor Certification, Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). Pasadena, CA, 2004
Senior Management Institute for Police, Police Executive Research Forum. Boston, MA,
2003. Intense three-week command school instructed primary by Harvard Kennedy School of Government faculty. Generally considered as one of the top police command schools in the country.
Accreditation Manager Training, Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). Orlando, FL, 2003
Public Executive Program Training, Arizona State University. Phoenix, AZ, 2001
Project Management Certification, City of Tucson. Tucson, AZ, 2001
Applied Strategic Planning, University Associates. Las Vegas, NV, 2000
Background Investigations/AZ POST Audit Process, AZ POST. Phoenix, AZ, 1999
Designing Experiential Learning Modules, University Associates. Las Vegas, NV, 1997
Staff Skills School, ALEOAC. Phoenix, AZ, 1992
Arizona Police Officer Certification, ALEOAC. Tucson, AZ, 1987
Iowa Peace Officer Certification, Iowa Law Enforcement Academy. Des Moines, IA, 1982
Certificate of Appreciation, Boston University. Boston, MA, 2007
Certificate of Appreciation, American Legion. United States Army, 2007
Certificate of Appreciation, Miami Dade Police Department. Miami, FL, 2005
Chief of Police Citation of Excellence, Tucson Police Department. Tucson, AZ, 2005
2002 Law Enforcement Unit of the Year, Arizona Auto Theft Authority. Phoenix, AZ, 2002
Medal of Service, Tucson Police Department. Tucson, AZ, 2001
Civic Service Award, Homicide Survivors. Tucson, AZ, 2000. Operation Safe Summer 2000 - recognition for a community policing program that dramatically reduced the incidence of violent crime in the S. 6th Avenue corridor in Tucson.
Letter of Appreciation, Arizona Regional Community Policing Institute. Phoenix, AZ, 2000.
For training more than 400 law enforcement supervisors and community leaders over a 2 year period in Perspectives in Community Policing and Strategic Planning
Medal of Merit, Tucson Police Department. Tucson, AZ, 1998
Exemplary Service Award, Arizona POST. Phoenix, AZ, 1996
Unit Citation, Tucson Police Department. Tucson, AZ, 1994
27 years experience as a law enforcement professional, currently holding the rank of Assistant Director. More than 9 years experience in command level assignments, to include as the second command of a major city police department. A diverse work history touching virtually every facet of administration, investigations and operations within a law enforcement agency. Decorated five times in the line of duty. An earned Masters Degree in Criminal Justice from Boston University and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Social Psychology. A 2003 graduate of the Police Executive Research Forum's Senior Management Institute for Police (SMIP) command school. An established criminal justice educator/trainer for more than 15 years. Currently the Lead Facilitator for the on-line Masters in Criminal Justice Program at Boston University. Possessing a solid knowledge of the NISPOM and NISPOM Supplement. Willing to, and capable of, obtaining up to a Top Secret security clearance. Able to solve complex problems with minimal direction and proficient in conducting detailed investigations. Excellent written, oral and presentation skills. Able to travel on company business. An energetic self-starter who is able to meet deadlines and work with little supervision. Will be pursuing certification as an Industrial Security Professional (ISP).
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Cavan Scott talks Dooku: Jedi Lost on StarWars.com
Cavan Scott was interviewed by StarWars.com and spilled some information about the hotly anticipated Dooku: Jedi Lost!
Eric Eilersen
“There has to be a reason he’s so shut down...and it can’t just be because he’s been turned by Darth Sidious.”
Now that we're mere days away from the release of Dooku: Jedi Lost, we are absolutely chomping at the bit for any tidbit of information we can get about the first audio drama in the Star Wars Canon. Luckily, writer Cavan Scott was kind enough to spill more details about the project over on StarWars.com
In addition to professing his intense love for all things Dooku (including an astonishing amount of merchandise - much to his wife's chagrin), Scott talks about the details in Dooku's life that drew him to the project as well as what we can expect to discover about the Count of Serenno when Jedi Lost drops on April 30th.
Here are some of the interview's highlights:
Scott was fascinated by what caused Dooku to fall as he did. “There has to be a reason he’s so shut down,” Scott says of the cold, manipulative Sith Lord. “And it can’t just be because he’s been turned by Darth Sidious.”
Asajj Ventress learns lessons about Dooku's past alongside the listeners including the reveals of his father, brother, and sister.
The story takes place between Dooku's time as Yoda's apprentice and his decision to leave the Jedi Council, fully encompassing his journey from dedicated acolyte to one of The Lost.
Scott had somewhat of a "blank canvas" to work on with Dooku, and he collaborated closely with Claudia Gray as she was writing Master & Apprentice (which we recently reviewed in its entirety HERE)- specifically regarding Rael Averross, who appears in both projects.
We're going to get WAY more information about Sifo-Dyas!
When Scott was discussing Ventress, one quote especially stood out...
“It’s called Jedi Lost,” he says. “It’s not just about Dooku.”
Check out the full interview at StarWars.com HERE, and pre-order Dooku: Jedi Lost on Amazon before its release later this week. We couldn't be more excited to dive into this brand new Star Wars project, and keep an eye out for our official Youtini review in the coming weeks!
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How to Win an eBay Auction
All's fair in love, war, and online shopping
By Alexandra Duron
eBay auctions: proof that shopping is a sport. Okay, so that might be kind of a stretch, but it turns out that auctions can thrill and excite you, according to a new study in the International Journal of Electronic Commerce. Plus, the competition can be pretty fierce.
As exhilarating as bidding on—and actually winning—an auction may be, missing out on a coveted item can be a huge bummer. In fact, the study shows you have a stronger reaction when you lose an auction than when you win. So the next time you sit down in front of your computer, hoping to beat out your competition for a much-desired item, use these tricks from Terry Gehrke, certified eBay business consultant and founder of MyAuctionExpert.com.
Glue yourself to your computer "The number one way to ensure winning an auction is to monitor it carefully," says Gehrke. "Be on the site, know when the auction ends, and have your finger posed over the refresh button." The "serious" bidders come out during the last minute, or even the last 30 seconds, he says. At that point, they'll put in a max bid, and your earlier bid might be out of running.
Consider using sniping software While it's frowned upon by many eBay users, using sniping software will give you an added, almost-foolproof advantage over the other bidders—and is completely legal, according to Gehrke. "It holds off submitting a bid so that it doesn't raise the price up and won't show you as a potential watcher or potential bidder," he says. "Then it submits your bid during the last 5 seconds of the auction. No one will beat it just by hitting refresh on their computer." Just know that it won't score you etiquette points on eBay, but as Gherke says, "All's fair in love, war, and buying on eBay." Gehrke recommends Myibidder.com. "It's inexpensive and it's a $15 one-time fee and you own it."
Put in a max bid "Put a big maximum on the auction to drive away people who don't want it as badly," says Gehrke. A max bid—the highest amount you're willing to pay for a certain item—can deter the competition. When you put in a max bid, eBay will bid only as much as it has to to make sure that you remain the high bidder. But be sure that you’re 100% willing to pay the amount of your max bid (should you win). If you win the auction, you're obligated to fulfill the bid, according to Gehrke. If you don't, eBay can actually take your buying privileges away, he says. Also, know that this isn't a foolproof plan: If someone outbids your max bid amount, you're out of luck if you don't catch it in time to outbid them.
Choose your auctions wisely Gehrke looks for items that are misspelled. "Instead of thousands of people finding it, maybe one or two people will find it," he says. "Your chances of winning the item are greater." Another of Gehrke's strategies: Look to see how many people are bidding on a particular item. The more bidders there are, the more competition you have, and the higher risk you run of losing the auction. Your plan: Check to see if there are multiple listings of the same item, and choose to bid on the one with the least amount of bidders.
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Libyan army official threatens assembly, no coup
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan insisted that Libyan security agencies are in full control of the situation on the ground.
Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan has denied reports about a military coup in Libya.
"There is no coup," Zeidan said in a speech aired on the Libyan television on Friday.
"There will be no return to the era of coups," he said.
Military commander Maj. Gen. Khalifa Haftar earlier claimed that his forces have seized control of several military and vital sites in the country.
Haftar alleged that his forces have suspended the General National Congress (interim parliament) and the government.
But Zeidan insisted that Libyan security agencies are in full control of the situation on the ground.
He went on to say that he has given orders to the Defense Ministry to "take all necessary measures" against Haftar, calling for public support for the government and GNC "to cruise the country to safety".
Libya has fallen into a political crisis since the GNC voted to extend by one year both its mandate and the country's transitional period, which followed the fall of Muammar Gaddafi in late 2011.
Under an original timetable for transition, parliament should have elected a constituent assembly, drafted a constitution, and put the draft charter to a popular referendum before holding parliamentary polls sometime before February.
The new GNC-endorsed timetable, however, stipulates that a constituent assembly be elected by February and a new constitution drafted by July, to be put to a vote by August. Parliamentary elections should be held by December, according to the new timeline.
The twin extensions have been met by anger on the part of many Libyans, who have called for protests aimed at pressuring parliament to reverse the move.
FORMER ALLY OF GADDAFI
Khalifa Haftar was once a confidant of Muammar Gaddafi and then his sworn enemy, he led a band of Libyan exiles trying to overthrow the Libyan regime before being spirited in secrecy to the United States when things went bad.
Haftar has lived in Virginia for 20 years but he turned back in Libya.
The former Libyan ambassador in Washington, Ali Aujali, described Haftar as "a very professional military man."
Haftar and Gaddafi first found common cause in 1969, when Haftar, as a military cadet, supported the coup that removed King Idris. He was rewarded with a position on the Revolutionary Command Council.
His subsequent ascent through the military ranks was rapid.
Haftar was captured by the Chadians at the battle of Wadi Doum in 1987, along with several hundred Libyan soldiers. Gaddafi refused to acknowledge the existence of Libyan POWs and said he knew no one called Haftar.
Haftar and several hundred former Libyan soldiers trained at a base outside the Chadian capital, N'djamena, as the Libyan National Army - the military wing of the opposition Libyan National Salvation Front.
"AMERICANS KNOW HIM VERY WELL"
Several Libyan exiles and a former CIA officer said that the United States was involved. Former Libyan envoy Aujali would not be drawn out on whether the CIA was the paymaster, but said, "The Americans knew him very, very well."
He added: "I think working for the CIA for the sake of your national interest is nothing to be ashamed of."
After unrest flared in Libya, Haftar received many calls appealing for him to return. On March 14, he arrived in Benghazi to take charge of the rebels' military campaign.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/ftc-commissioner-urges-ad-industry-to-let-consumers-opt-out-of-tracking-1453410282
FTC Commissioner Urges Ad Industry to Let Consumers Opt Out of Tracking
Julie Brill also warns publishers and advertisers to make sure native ads are clearly labeled
Mike Shields
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mike.shields@wsj.com
Jan. 21, 2016 4:04 pm ET
Photo: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg
The Federal Trade Commission had two direct messages for the advertising industry on Thursday: Some advertisers are going overboard tracking consumers across multiple devices without giving them any say in how they are being tracked. And Web publishers and advertisers alike better start clearly labeling content paid for by marketers as “advertising.”
Those messages were delivered by a gentle scolding from FTC Commissioner Julie Brill, who spoke at an AdExchanger conference in New York on Thursday. Ms. Brill started off joking about how the some of the advertising issues that the FTC focuses on had broken out in pop culture, noting references to native advertising in HBO’s “Last Week Tonight With John Oliver” and ad blocking on “South Park.”
“We’re on fleek,” she cracked.
But Ms. Brill’s tone shifted quickly, as she talked about how the organization has been conducting research on the growth of advertisers and publishers targeting the same person across their laptop, phone and tablet—and doesn’t like what it is finding.
Specifically, the FTC recently looked at the top 20 websites in five different content categories, Ms. Brill said, and found that many of these sites were employing some sort of cross-device tracking mechanism. But few were disclosing that they were doing so. Even worse, few of these sites made it easy for people to opt out of said tracking—something Ms. Brill said she found “troubling.”
Cross-device targeting “is harder to detect and harder for consumers to control,” she said. “It’s not clear consumers are meaningfully informed about cross-device tracking.”
“The ad tech industry—you—should be mindful that the Federal Trade Commission has pushed for more consumer control over third-party data for at least 15 years,” Ms. Brill said. “And yet, here we are in 2016, and consumers still do not have adequate means to opt out of data collection.”
As a result, some consumers are avoiding digital ads altogether by employing ad blockers. And Ms. Brill wasn’t all that subtle in identifying who was to blame for that phenomenon: the ad tech industry.
“It’s really somewhat surprising to me that the ad tech industry hasn’t been more motivated to offer consumers better tools to protect their privacy,” she said. “It’s always been the case that consumers could take matters into their own hands. And that is what precisely appears to be happening.”
As a remedy, Ms. Brill urged advertisers to opt to deliver ads to customers using less data, arguing that is better than not being able to deliver ads at all.
Of course, many publishers and advertisers see native ads as a way around ad blocking and the overall overabundance of digital ad targeting. But Ms. Brill also warned against abuses in this realm. She pointed to the guidelines the FTC released last month as it seeks to make sure consumers aren’t being misled by such native ads.
Ms. Brill summed that document up as follows: “No matter the media or format, advertising messages should be easily identifiable to consumers as advertising.” And that’s not always the case today, she said. Some publishers and advertisers take effort to hide labels indicating that sponsored content is paid for by a brands, making people click or hover over these messages to find out.
Native ads “cannot function as a workaround that tricks consumers,” she said. “It’s in everybody’s interest to ensure that consumers understand” that advertisers are the ones paying for sponsored content. Such transparency is “key to preserving consumer trust.”
Write to Mike Shields at mike.shields@wsj.com
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Galway's Picture Palace Fuses the City's Film History with its Present
Photo by Peter Maybury.
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Galway Picture Palace
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Architecture Practice dePaor Area (sqm) 1385 Completed 2016
The contemporary art house cinema, the Picture Palace, in the Irish harbor city of Galway rises above the low skyline like a giant, concrete monolith. Developed by Solas Galway Picture Palace Teoranta, with the financial assistance of Galway City Council, the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Bord Scannan na hEireann / The Irish Film Board, the Arts Council and the Western Development Commission, when completed - the project is currently 80% finished -it will be the first state-of-the-art, art house cinema of its kind in western Ireland.
Historically, Galway has one hundred year old ties to moviemaking; UNESCO's City of Film, it's no surprise that history is also a part of this building's construction. The plot of land that the concrete building is situated on dates back to 1806 and originally belonged to a Georgian merchant, with previous incarnations as a toy store, livery stables, a grain depot and a private house. In fact, the original three storey structure is still very much present and has painstakingly been reconstructed to match the stylistic character of the original to now function as a "gatehouse" to the modern, concrete monolith that houses the main cinemas behind it.
Photo by Tracy Geraghty.
Designed by Tom de Paor of de Paor Architects, both the contemporary historical structures tie in to each other, juxtaposing their stylistic differences with touches of similarities, such as the polished concrete used throughout, as well as the buildings' slate pyramid and pitch gabled roofs, respectively. The cinemas themselves cantilever on the contemporary structure, creating both a sense of movement as well as providing more space to the interior facilities.
Inside, the public rooms provide a wide range of offerings for patrons to enjoy, each decorated in its own idiosyncratic fashion. The tea room is therefore sheathed in glass, offering ample daylight to flood in; the bar is paneled in hardwood, creating a cozy atmosphere; and the cinemas are draped in a moody, red fabric that conceals behind it each room's technically state-of-the-art, acoustic insulation.
Photo by Anna Hofheinz.
But perhaps one of the most memorable decor touches are the windows that mark the walls of the contemporary structure facing the street (specifically, punctuating the staircases and the bar). Each windows' resin-painted, double glazed glass was created by the late, great Irish artist, Patrick Scott, who donated this work - his last in fact - to the Picture Palace. Concentric, geometric designs of circles within squares and squares within squares are done up in various color "suites," such as shades of greens and blues; red, orange and amber; or pink, purple and yellow.
These all cast a dramatic light when viewed from within the structure, when the natural light streams through them by day, as well from the outside the structure, when the interior's light streams through them by night, proving in their own way how the city of Galway has impacted the creation of the Picture Palace, and by consequence, how the Picture Palace - upon its completion - will be impacting the city.
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Keeping its commitment to the community to "attract and retain high-quality staff", bargaining units for Westminster Public Schools (WPS) and the Westminster Education Association (WEA) reached a tentative agreement on Feb. 4, 2019.
Under the proposal, starting teachers will earn $50,000 a year with an opportunity for long-term teachers to earn up to $100,000. In the following year, beginning pay will start at $52,820 and top out at $106,702.
"This tentative agreement shows how much we value our staff and keeps a promise we made to voters," said Superintendent Pam Swanson." As I told our community when we moved off the accountability clock last year, our success was because of everyone pulling together and this agreement reflects that point of view."
Voters passed a $9.9 million mill-levy override in November of 2018 with the understanding that a significant portion of the money would go to employees of the district. Those dollars, combined with a projected increase in funding from the state of Colorado, will pay for the salary and benefit increases offered to district employees. Click here to see the detailed agreement.
"Resolving contract issues in one session allows us to all pull together and focus on educating our children. This is a win-win for everyone," said Swanson.
In 2007, WPS (then Adams County School District 50) offered a $40,000 a year starting salary to attract the best and brightest teachers to the district. At the time, it was the highest starting salary in the metro area. During the same period, the district moved to a Competency Based System (CBS) in which students advance to the next learning level only after showing mastery and understanding of a learning topic. CBS allows some students to advance more quickly, while others can take the necessary time to fill in gaps in their learning. The goal is to ensure that every student is ready for the day after graduation.
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The Caretakers of Whitman's Tree Canopy
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June 2, 2019 From native plant gardens buzzing with honeybees to flowering shrubs to “celebrity” trees and all the flora and fauna in between, the campus brims with natural beauty. Maintaining its luster for everyone to enjoy is a team effort.
Math Professor Adam Graham-Squire '98 Receives Distinguished Teaching Award
May 20, 2019 The associate professor of mathematics was honored with the Meredith Clark Slane Distinguished Teaching-Service Award during High Point University’s 2019 Commencement ceremony. The award is named for Meredith Clark Slane and has been given annually since 1973 to recognize excellence in teaching. Graham-Squire has been teaching at High Point since 2011.
Aisha Fukushima '09 Returns to Tell Her Story at Commencement
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May 14, 2019 The notable alumna returns to Whitman May 19 to deliver remarks on her worldwide journey as an artist and activist as the college's 2019 commencement speaker. "An image came to my mind of a cycle, of 10 years, and returning full circle," Fukushima said of being asked to address the graduating class. "I’m excited, I’m curious. I’m coming in with an interest in their goals. I hopefully have a message that the next generation of leaders need to hear."
Professor Aaron Bobrow-Strain Publishes Nonfiction Border Story
May 2, 2019 In his new book, "The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez," Professor of Politics Aaron Bobrow-Strain weaves "a rich, novelistic tale of a young woman whose life spans both sides of the United States-Mexican border."
Bécquer Medak-Seguín '10 Examines Impact of Spain's Election
April 30, 2019 Bécquer Medak-Seguín '10 is an assistant professor of Iberian studies at Johns Hopkins University. He co-wrote this essay titled, "In a Polarized Spain, Voters Give the Socialists Another Chance." It reports on the latest political shifts within Spain's government, including Socialist gains as well as the emergence of a strong far-right.
Patrick Page '85 Nominated for Tony Award
April 30, 2019 The actor earned his first Tony nod for his role in the new Broadway musical "Hadestown," from director Rachel Chavkin and singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell. The show, which brings the ancient Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice and their journey to the underworld to 1930s America, leads the field of Tony Award nominations this year with 14, including Page's for best featured actor in a musical.
Lauren McCullough '12 Featured in Photography Series on Multilayered Identity
April 28, 2019 A politics major at Whitman who currently resides in Seoul, McCullough provided this statement to accompany her portrait: "I'm Korean. I'm American. I'm an adoptee. I don't care to hyphenate or qualify; if I did, where would it end? I push against the rigid boundaries of Koreanness." Korean-Canadian photographer Hannah Yoon, who is behind the project, says connecting with other Koreans abroad while collaborating on her work led to a deeper understanding of her own life experience.
Sociology Professor Discusses Implications of Household Contaminants
April 22, 2019 Assistant Professor of Sociology and Garrett Fellow Alissa Cordner, who specializes in environmental health and risk management, talked about the public safety concerns associated with a group of fluorinated pollutants known as PFAS, common but little-understood chemicals used in water-resistant clothing, stain-resistant furniture, nonstick cookware and many other consumer products. Cordner is one of the organizers of a nationwide PFAS contamination list.
Sociology Professor Explores How to Help Kids in Blended Families Feel at Home
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April 21, 2019 Raymond and Elsie DeBurgh Chair of Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology Michelle Janning explained the importance of personal space for children living in blended families, whether that means a room, a shelf, a chest, a desk or a drawer of their own. She noted, "The amount of stuff or the size of the space one controls doesn’t matter so much as the feeling that you have control over your things."
Politics Professor Interviewed on New Immigration Book, Border Policy
April 20, 2019 Professor of Politics Aaron Bobrow-Strain spoke to NPR Weekend Edition host Scott Simon about his new book, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez, which chronicles one undocumented woman's journey through the U.S. immigration system.
Whitman Marine Biologist on Groundbreaking Snailfish Genome Sequencing
April 15, 2019 Carl E. Peterson Endowed Chair of Sciences and Emeritus Professor of Biology Paul Yancey described the "exciting" new genetic mapping of the hadal snailfish, the first animal from the extreme depths of the ocean to have its genome sequenced. It may reveal clues as to how such organisms survive in hostile environments like the Mariana Trench, the deepest place in the ocean.
Whitman Professor Calls Notre Dame Fire a "Call to Conscience" for World Heritage
April 15, 2019 Assistant Professor of Sociology Álvaro Santana-Acuña, an expert on world heritage sites, reflects on the symbolic and material damage of the fire at France's Notre Dame cathedral (link in Spanish).
Politics Professor Writes Nonfiction Border Story
April 14, 2019 In Professor of Politics Aaron Bobrow-Strain's new book, The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019), he explores the boundaries of empathy and justice and reveals the human cost of militarizing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Sociology Professor Publishes Essay on García Márquez Screen Adaptation
March 28, 2019 Assistant Professor of Sociology Álvaro Santana-Acuña writes that just as the announcement that Netflix will turn One Hundred Years of Solitude into a series has reverberated throughout the world, the global distribution of the streaming giant may give new life to the stories of Macondo and the Buendía family.
Brennan Johnson '16 Opens Community Supported Bakery in North Carolina
Asheville Citizen-Times
March 13, 2019 The environmental humanities major from Minnesota has set up shop in a space he named The Walnut Schoolhouse, located in the town of Marshall outside Asheville. His new business offers weekly bread deliveries and will sell baked goods at the local farmer's market this summer. Soon he hopes to also host workshops for community members to learn how to bake bread, cakes, croissants, bagels and other items.
Lia Beatty '21 Advocates for Accessibility Amid Cheating Scandal
March 13, 2019 Beatty, who is studying neuroscience at Whitman, lobbied for students with learning disabilities on Capitol Hill last month as part of the National Center for Learning Disabilities' #StandWithLD event. She spoke out against the recent admission fraud case, calling it "deeply unsetting and upsetting." Since part of the scam allegedly involved exploiting test-taking accommodations meant for students with special needs, advocates like her fear it could become tougher for applicants who actually need such accommodations to get them.
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Emails show Monsanto tried to 'ghostwrite' research
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of USA Today
USA Today, March 16, 2017
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/03/16/ema...
Emails released as part of a federal lawsuit against Monsanto suggest the agriculture supplier cozied up to an EPA regulator and sought to whitewash studies to ignore potential cancer-causing effects of an herbicide found in weed-killer. NPR reports the emails show the company asked scientists to co-sign safety studies on glyphosate, an active ingredient in Roundup, after the International Agency for Research on Cancer found glyphosate may cause cancer. The emails show company representative William Heydens suggesting the company "ghost-write" a finding. He wrote, according to NPR, "we would be keeping the cost down by us doing the writing and they would just edit & sign their names so to speak." The emails ... also show EPA regulator Jess Rowland boasting in a 2015 email to Monsanto that, "If I can kill this I should get a medal," referring to a Monsanto effort to stop a government investigation into glyphosate. CBS reported another email from a Monsanto employee to an EPA director said, "I doubt EPA and Jess can kill this, but it's good to know they are going to actually make the effort." The company defended the relationship in an interview with Bloomberg. Rowland ... has left the EPA's pesticide division and is involved in about two dozen lawsuits related to the company not disclosing potential cancer-causing hazards of glyphosate.
Note: The negative health impacts of Monsanto's Roundup are well known. Major lawsuits are beginning to unfold over Monsanto's lies to regulators and the public on the dangers of glyphosate. Yet the EPA continues to use industry studies to declare Roundup safe while ignoring independent scientists. For more along these lines, see concise summaries of deeply revealing news articles on food system corruption and health.
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November 22, 2016Updated Nov 22, 2016 6:25 PM
Former Massachusetts House Speaker Sal DiMasi is supported by family members while speaking to members of the media as he arrives at Logan Airport Tuesday. (Steven Senne/AP)
Former Massachusetts House Speaker Salvatore DiMasi had an emotional homecoming Tuesday, five years after being sent to federal prison on public corruption charges.
DiMasi, 71, arrived at Boston's Logan airport Tuesday after being released from a prison in North Carolina, looking significantly thinner from health problems he battled while he was incarcerated.
"I just love being back in Boston," DiMasi told reporters, as his wife, Debbie, and two grown children rubbed his shoulders while he sat in a wheelchair.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Mark Wolf granted a request for compassionate release for DiMasi, who was treated for both throat and prostate cancer while in prison. His lawyers said he has lost 70 pounds.
The once-powerful Democrat was convicted in 2011 of steering state contracts to a software firm in exchange for $65,000 funneled through his private law firm. He served five years of an 8-year sentence.
DiMasi said he is grateful to his friends and family, especially his wife, who lobbied for his early release.
DiMasi speaks to the press alongside his stepchildren Ashley, left, and Christian, center top, and wife Debbie, right. (Steven Senne/AP)
"It's a very emotional day for me," DiMasi said. "It's been a trying and difficult experience."
DiMasi said he is looking forward to regaining his health and being treated by his own doctors. His lawyers have said his cancer is in remission now, but his treatments caused a narrowing of his esophagus that creates a risk of choking and requires him to be on a pureed diet.
"I'm a fighter, so I had to fight this all the way," he said.
DiMasi said he is looking forward to "a very special Thanksgiving" at home with his family.
Judge Grants 'Compassionate' Early Release For Ex-Speaker DiMasi
Judge Hears Arguments For DiMasi Compassionate Release
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Home News Film & TV BLACKPINK Appears on ABC’s ‘Strahan and Sara’… ‘Overtakes Major US TV Programs’
BLACKPINK Appears on ABC’s ‘Strahan and Sara’… ‘Overtakes Major US TV Programs’
Following their appearances on CBS’ ‘Late Show’ and ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’, girl group BLACKPINK proved their strong presence as a global girl group by appearing on ABC’s ‘Strahan and Sara’, overtaking major TV programs of the US.
On February 15(local time), BLACKPINK grabbed the hearts of local fans who gathered in Times Square with their eye-catching performance of ‘FOREVER YOUNG’ and a fluent English interview on ABC’s ‘Strahan and Sara’.
ABC’s ‘Strahan and Sara’ revealed BLACKPINK’s performance of ‘FOREVER YOUNG’ and their interview video through the program’s official Facebook page and YouTube channel.
Prior to the interview with BLACKPINK, the host welcomed BLACKPINK, the girl group who’s writing a new page in K-Pop history, by introducing, “They set a milestone with their album ‘SQUARE UP’ by achieving the highest chart success in K-Pop girl group history, along with reaching the highest number of views on YouTube in K-Pop group history”.
BLACKPINK introduced themselves in fluent English and replied to various topics from their ‘official lighting sticks’ to their ‘North America tour’, proving themselves prepared as a ‘global girl group’. The group also displayed their professional attitude by exchanging jokes with the host without being nervous.
The host mentioned ‘Coachella’, after revealing that BLACKPINK has been invited by ‘Coachella’ for the ‘first time as a K-Pop girl group’. ROSÉ shared her thoughts by stating, “It reminds me of the music, hot weather, amazing bands and artists, and a floral garland” and added, “I’ve always dreamt of the festival, and it’s an honor to be invited as a performer”.
When the host flowed up by stating, “Many Blinks are curious about BLACKPINK’s comeback schedule”, JENNIE replied, “We’re currently working on a new album. I would like to say it will be released soon”, raising curiosities on their new album. ROSÉ also raised expectations on their new tracks by adding, “We’re working hard in the studio every day”.
The group also revealed their love towards the fans by mentioning the ‘North America tour’. JENNIE chose ‘meeting the Blinks’ as the most exciting point of their upcoming ‘North America tour’, while ROSÉ revealed her affection towards the fans by stating, “I like it when our fans’ faces brighten up”. She added, “The best thing about a tour is that we can make our fans smile and that they are truly happy”. The audience responded with cheers.
Global media and press have spotlighted BLACKPINK, who took over major US TV programs including not only ‘Strahan and Sara’, but also ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ and ‘Good Morning America’.
ABC News introduced, “BLACKPINK made their US morning show debut through ‘Good Morning America’” and added, “The group has over 18 million subscribers on YouTube, while their MV is racking up immense numbers of views”.
‘E! News’, one of the largest US entertainment news, spotlighted BLACKPINK’s global popularity which shook Times Square by writing, “BLACKPINK presented an amazing performance of “DDU-DU DDU-DU’ in front of numerous fans and studio audience, who gathered in Times Square, New York to watch BLACKPINK appear on ‘Good Morning America’ live through the electronic display”.
Furthermore, they mentioned, “The group’s UMG Grammy Artist Showcase performance got on the list of Twitter’s global real-time trend” and forecasted, “According to these passionate responses on BLACKPINK, their upcoming US tour is expected to set a successful start”.
US Billboard also spotlighted the group’s global popularity by writing, “As the excited fans are waiting for BLACKPINK’s performance during ‘The Late Show’, the hashtag, ‘BLACKPINKonLSSC’, got on the global social media real-time trend list”. The Rolling Stones praised BLACKPINK’s skills by writing, “All members of the group shined on their appearances on US broadcasts by performing rap and vocals with high notes.
While firmly showing their presence in the US by appearing on the most popular TV shows day by day, BLACKPINK will perform at ‘Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival’, the largest music festival of the US, for the first time as K-Pop idols on April 12 and 19. Following their performance at the festival, the group will go on their North America tour consisted of 6 concerts in 6 cities starting in Los Angeles on April 17 which will follow up in Chicago on April 24, Hamilton on April 27, Newark on May 1, Atlanta on May 5, and Fort Worth on May 8.
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Want Me?
East/West
West awoke to blackness. Not complete blackness, there were stars overhead. Billions and billions. West had never seen so many stars, too many stars . . .
“Is she asleep?”
“We’re joined at the neck, not the brain,” East snapped.
West raised her left arm, the only one she could control, toward the night sky, but they were just out of reach. Her arm drifted back down to her side as if underwater.
I am dreaming.
“Her arm rose up,” Dr. Jonathan Taurus-Littrow insisted, confused by the woman’s sudden anger.
“She’s often restless in sleep. I can’t tell you how many times she’s poked me in the eye, or punched my nose while we slept.”
She sensed her sister was with her–she was always in reach but never in sight–so she was not afraid. West saw through East’s eyes. The landscape was dusty, dark and barren, illuminated by sporadic, soft white beacons. She saw what looked like huge, white balloons bouncing lazily across the landscape, lit like fireflies. They appeared to be herded by a lovely pink angel.
It was beautiful.
“Is it not true that dicephalic parapagus twins share thoughts, at least some forms of rudimentary consciousness?”
The doctor asked.
“That’s a myth,” East lied.
I must be in Heaven.
West fell back asleep.
“I must be in Heaven . . .” was all East received. She paled. “I thought you said that the Neuro-blocker would work for fifteen hours? I’m not prepared for her to wake up early.”
“Yes, yes,” he explained. “But many things function unpredictably here.”
‘Here’ was the dark side of the moon, more specifically The Fermi Institute for The Obese, an outlaw research institute far from the prying eyes, laws and regulations of that planet below. Located on the rim of the Fermi Crater, it could not be viewed from Earth and even the occasional satellite crossing would be unable to distinguish it from the surrounding rocks, as it was mostly sub-lunar. One had to be in the know to even know it existed, much less be invited to become a patient.
“Have you had enough site seeing?” Dr. Taurus-Littrow asked.
East spun lazily in her high-bounced arc to face him. Even here they made a strange sight: two space-suited figures taking loping bounds across the harsh, dark landscape; one beautiful and slender, with dual bubble helmets; the other, an obese, silvery beach ball of a man, unexpectedly graceful in this element.
“I can’t wait for West to see this. She loves stars more than anything. Her greatest wish has always been to see the stars from space, her vision of heaven,” East sighed.
“She’ll see it all, soon enough,” Taurus-Littrow said, glancing at his watch. “We should get back.” He bounced off.
East waited a moment longer. She looked to the stars for forgiveness. She hated tricking her conjoined sister; she loved her with a love that was entangled into her soul, something impossible for separates to understand. I am doing this for her as much as me! she insisted.
She felt West stir.
What are you dreaming about, dear sister? Do you have any idea what is about to happen? Are you excited to be free? Are you afraid? Will you still love me? East wondered.
Neither her sister nor the stars answered.
Dr. Taurus-Littrow eased his bulky frame through the door. East noticed an unusual amount of massively obese people, dulled and passive, being led through the halls by attendant women in smart pink jumpsuits.
“Who are those people?” she asked.
“Left-Overs,” he replied dismissively. “Your Somas are in B.D. 3.” They made their way down a warren of passages to a closed, frosted door marked: Birthing Dock 3. He opened the door.
East was dumbstruck by the sight before her.
A slip of dream-thought from West penetrated her mind.
We are binary stars, linked and forever circling. We shine and shine and shine . . .
It had been difficult keeping the secret from West. Circumstance naturally allowed for no privacy, but they had taken a solemn pledge to respect each other’s needs. West had been naturally curious when she noticed an onslaught of scrambled correspondences from one ‘DRT-L’.
“A secret lover?” She had teased. “Is he handsome?”
“If you must know, it’s a secret for your birthday. So mind your own business.”
West had laughed her airy, sparkle of a laugh. “Now I’ll have to figure out what to get you.”
“You’re all I need,” East had replied, choking on the enormity of what she was attempting.
Later that night East had injected a neuro-blocker into West as she slept.
Fortunately their vehicle had been specially equipped for either to drive independently–the perk of being an elite fashion model sensation–allowing her to make her clandestine rendezvous. The industrial complex had displayed no signage only discreet unit numbers. East had located 1147, was scanned, verified then allowed in. She had been met by Dr. Laura Taurus-Littrow, Jonathan’s sister, slim, handsome and warm (all that he was not). Funds were exchanged, legal waivers signed (most likely unenforceable) and a private rocket secured.
“You are doing the right thing,” Laura had assured her with a hug. “Your sister will be forever thankful.”
Next she had known, East was slipping from Earth’s gravity. She slept as the blue planet dwindled below and then awoken on the Moon.
“I want her to see the big picture first,” East said.
“You do know she can’t back out,” Taurus-Littrow added apprehensively. “We have invested considerable funds in you two.”
“Don’t worry. I’ve never had any trouble leading her along.”
They were in Hangar C going over the checklist and instructions for the Rover. It was largely foolproof: program in the coordinates and then set the autopilot. East/West climbed in.
“May I ask why you have not chosen a thinner body that would allow you to live on Earth with your sister?” East asked.
Taurus-Littrow sucked his lips as if seeking to taste the correct response. This was a question most patients eventually asked, and in turn would have to ask themselves. He had an answer prepared, but it was a lie.
“It was essential that one of us remain permanently here to oversee the operation. We cannot operate legally on Earth for religious and ethical reasons, and though I cannot be extradited, I cannot ever return to Earth without facing severe consequences. It was decided that Laura, also obese, would take a Soma replacement, and I would stay here. Given the lesser gravity, I am quite comfortable here, so I saw no reason to exchange.”
East nodded and as she rolled the Rover out the exit ramp, she realized that she suddenly knew the answer to a puzzle that had plagued a handful of conspiracy theorists, namely: To where had all the obese suddenly disappeared?
In 2061 the Extreme Consumption Act had been introduced in the World Court making excess consumption illegal, outlawing the amount one could consume in one sitting. It had become fashionable for the elite to gorge in secret restaurants that trended fast and large, in direct proportion to their clientele. If one had been found to weigh more than one-and-a-half times their ideal body weight, they would be incarcerated and sentenced to diet and exercise until their ideal weight was achieved. The elite obese had gone underground, seemingly en-masse. The World Court had been satisfied. Earth had continued to spin. Only a few wondered or had even cared what had become of the obese.
It should have been obvious, East realized, bumping along the uneven surface. What better place for the obese than on a satellite where no matter how heavy you were, you were only 1/6th of your Earth weight? Much more than a fat farm, this had become a haven for outlaw genetic experimentation, advanced cloning, Neuro-programming and transference, which was why she and West were here.
Dr. Taurus-Littrow went into a private inner office. Left-Over Laura, obese, slack-jawed and dimmed, ate ice cream and looked up at him happily.
“Wan’ sum?” she asked through a mouth full of chocolate and whipped cream.
“No, thank you. You enjoy.”
“Okie-dokie!” She happily went about her business.
‘Left-Overs’ were an occasional, unfortunate side effect of a soma transference. It was listed in the small print, but few saw it or understood the ramification. Generally a transfer was complete, but on the rare occasion that some residue of the former self lingered, a Left-Over remained. It varied from individual, but anywhere from a mere flicker to 60% full retention could exist. What to do with the Left-Over was an ethical, moral and very personal decision. On Luna there were no laws to dictate policy, so Dr. Taurus-Littrow left the decision solely up to the individual. His sister, however, had told him to destroy her Left-Over as it had made her feel creepy. But Jonathan couldn’t bear to do it. Knowing Laura would never come back here, and he could never go home, he had lied.
East approached the horizon. She held the hypo-plunge to West’s neck and slowed the Rover down to a crawl as the light side of the Moon came into view.
West beheld the amazing sight: a curved line of grey-white surface, scissor-cut by a stark, black horizon.
“Where are we?” she whispered.
“Just watch,” East croaked. She hadn’t expected the sight to be so profoundly beautiful. West was the poetic one–the spiritualist–while she was the pragmatic–the ‘get it done girl’–who fearlessly pushed them through all obstacles.
When Earth finally slid into view, their heart stopped.
“Happy Birthday, Sis,” East managed to whisper, but she wasn’t sure West heard as she was too busy ‘aweing’ and ‘ooohing’.
“My God,” West exclaimed, taking her sister’s hand. She turned her head as much as she could to touch cheeks, their version of a kiss.
They watched Earth spin in silence.
“There’s more,” East announced, feeling like Judas.
“How can there possibly be more?” West sighed, so trusting.
“I don’t understand,” West said upon entering Birthing Dock 3. “What is this?”
Soma East and Soma West stood side-by-side, identical twins (save one had blue, the other brown eyes) in the soft, glowing light, hands held, no longer joined at the neck. They were nude, their skin flawless and their hair luxurious; twin shells waiting for their spark of life.
“Imagine two legs of your own to walk or run in any direction. Or having the freedom to make singular, unshared love . . . To be truly free, truly you and you alone at last?”
“I don’t understand,” West repeated, “Is this what you want? To be apart from me. Forever?”
Their blood ran cold, East couldn’t control the feeling.
“No. No. We would still be together. Our bodies would be separate but our heart’s will always be together.”
“Our minds will be transferred to those bodies?”
“Yes. Aren’t they beautiful? You can choose, blue eyes or green!”
“What about our souls?” West wondered.
Dr. Taurus-Littrow stepped in, attempting to assuage her fears. “A soma placement is not like a clone. We ‘map’ your consciousness onto this new version of you, and activate it. You come alive in this new body with all memories intact. All you felt, thought, imagined, dreamt will carry along with you. Your new life will start up just where this one left off, except as two separate beings.”
“And our old body?” West asked.
“It is disposed. Without a functioning brain the autotomic support systems shut down.” Taurus-Littrow cleared his throat. “On rare occasions some retention of the host body remains-”
“In English!” West insisted.
“What remains, a Left-Over we call them, may have some slight cognitive abilities.”
“Lovely name,” West replied sarcastic. “What do you do with the Left-Overs?”
“If the Source insists on keeping it alive, it can continue on living a peaceful life here.”
“I don’t understand . . . I would be in two places at once?”
Dr. Taurus-Littrow cleared his throat. “Well, yes, in a manner of speaking–”
East stepped in. “What’s important is that we could return to Earth and begin living a normal life. Dr. Taurus-Littrow has created an extensive cover story detailing our fictional operation and plastic surgery.”
“So,” West tried to reason it all out. “I could choose to remain here. In this body, while you transfer, to that…” she pointed to the Soma East.
“Why would you want that?” East asked, shocked. “Haven’t you always wished to be apart? To be normal? To be whole?”
“I think God made us the way we are for a reason,” West said simply. “I, we, have had no experience living any other way. This is normal, this is whole.”
East felt a helpless wave of emotion wash over her. “How can you assume that this is not all part of a divine plan? What if our destinies are inside those bodies?”
“That may be true,” West conceded. “But this is all so overwhelming. Please allow me to meditate on it.” She closed her eyes and went deep inside.
The two Somas stared at her blankly.
“I love you, East,” West said after several minutes, “but I don’t want to risk losing my soul. I have no other Birthday gift for you, I’ll give you this. You go ahead. I’ll stay here as I am.”
East was stunned.
“You want to stay in this body? Here? Without me?”
“No! I don’t ever want to leave you, but I also don’t want to imprison you. You deserve to be normal.”
“I don’t know that I can do that,” East cried. “I thought of this as a great adventure we’d experience together. I never considered . . . ”
West pulled East’s head close to her. “You gave me Heaven, the least I can do is give you Earth.”
East turned toward the doctor, incredulous, tears flowing down her cheek. “Is that even possible?”
The doctor rubbed his chin, deep in thought. “I had anticipated this . . . ”
West watched the Earthrise over the horizon. She came here every day at the same time, just as California was spinning into view below.
“East. I love you,” she whispered to the detached part of her skimming freely on the planet below.
The part of East that was with her, had eyes perpetually closed in a deep sleep, (for that is how West had to imagine her, always asleep, always dreaming).
If West could have turned her head enough, she would have seen her sister’s lips silently echo her words:
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CUIP Tech EXPO 2009!
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"I Have A Dream" Video
School: Irvin C. Mollison Elementary
Teacher: Ms. Jones
Project Purpose: To help students connect with civil rights and African American history through art and Dr. King's famous speech.
Procedure: Ms. Jones took an expert from Dr. King's "I Have a Dream" speech and wrote each word (over 600!) on an index card. Students and staff members each took at least one card and decorated it in their own way. The cards were then displayed in a mosaic format at the school's front entrance. CUIP helped take a digital photo of each card and make a video that synced the photos with the audio of the original speech, so that as each word was on the screen as it was being said. The video was used at the school's Black History Month assembly.
Technology: Digital camera, iMovie.
Audio Interview with Ms. Jones
The 'I Have a Dream' Mural
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The Ultimate Battle: Old vs New Graphic Design
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Two Things People Judge You On When You Meet
Many people are worried about the kind of first impressions they make. In fact this worry can be a major factor of social anxiety and a reason why people skip out of networking events. But, does knowing exactly what people are judging you on help to boost your confidence in these meetings?
Amy Cudd, a Harvard Business School professor, has spent the last 15 years studying first impressions alongside fellow psychologists Susan Fiske and Peter Glick. Through her research, she’s managed to find out the two main things that people are judging you on and the questions they’re asking:
Can I trust this person?
Can I respect this person?
In psychological terms, these represent Warmth and Competence respectively and to make a good first impression, you need to give off positive answers to both questions.
The research appears in Cuddy’s new book, “Presence“, a culmination of her and her colleagues 15 years of research.
“From an evolutionary perspective,” says Cuddy, “it is more crucial to our survival to know whether a person deserves our trust.” It makes sense when you consider that in cavemen days it was more important to figure out if your fellow man was going to kill you and steal all your possessions than if he was competent enough to build a good fire.
Order matters too, it doesn’t matter how competent you may seem, establishing trust is the essential first step of meeting someone. Placing too much emphasis on displaying your strengths and competency in a first-time meeting can be a waste of time. You need to focus on building trust first and then move onto your competencies.
“If someone you’re trying to influence doesn’t trust you, you’re not going to get very far; in fact, you might even elicit suspicion because you come across as manipulative,” Cuddy says. “A warm, trustworthy person who is also strong elicits admiration, but only after you’ve established trust does your strength become a gift rather than a threat.”
When a person is lying there is likely to be discrepancies between what they are saying and what they are doing, she suggests.
“Lying is hard work,” she writes. “We’re telling one story while suppressing another, and if that’s not complicated enough, most of us are experiencing psychological guilt about doing this, which we’re also trying suppress. We just don’t have the brainpower to manage it all without letting something go – without ‘leaking’.”
Cuddy’s book has been written with the hope of increasing people’s confidence in these nerve-wracking social encounters.
If you’re someone who dreads events and meeting someone for the first time, keep the two main factors of a first encounter in mind. Remember, you’re building trust before chasing anything else, especially sales.
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Sigrid - Don't Feel Like Crying Music Video
Sigrid - Don't Feel Like Crying Video
Artist: Sigrid
Song title: Don't Feel Like Crying
Genre(s): Indie
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Musician/Activist, Drea Pizziconi Premieres Global Empowerment Anthem ‘Let Us Dance’
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Musician/activist, Drea Pizziconi has premiered her new global empowerment anthem ‘Let Us Dance’ featuring Maimouna Youssef and The Dap-Kings Horns, with a live performance at the CAMFED 25 Gala honoring singer-songwriter, social activist and philanthropist, Annie Lennox on May 9. The gala’s theme is ”Education Changes Everything”.
‘Let Us Dance’, as released worldwide, with all profits in 2019 supports the Campaign for Female Education’s (CAMFED) work to educate girls in Africa. ”In 2019, it is still dangerous to be a woman in most parts of the world. Yet education is a basic human right and there is no better investment in our world’s future, than the investment in a girl’s education. But the barriers for women to reach our potential remain high. I wrote this song for all the girls out there who won’t give up and who want to tell the world, get ready… we’re coming”, expresses Drea Pizziconi.
‘Let Us Dance’, written and produced by Pizziconi with a rousing rap by Youssef, follows that invaluable narrative. ”It’s time that we have an affirming women’s empowerment anthem that’s not reactionary, but powerfully proactive and fiercely feminine”, says Maimouna Youssef about the record. ‘Let Us Dance’ is the first release of several new singles Pizziconi will be releasing in the coming months in support of her social justice activism and especially the right for women to speak up and share their stories of survival.
The multi-faceted musician is an award-winning music director, producer and arranger, who is classically-trained as a vocalist and percussionist, having toured extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, Asia and the Middle East as a recitalist and featured artist. Her exposure to daily life around the world as a touring musician not only inspired her early social and entrepreneurial activism in favor of expanding education access for youth, but constantly reignited her storyteller musical roots, compelling her to write music that would give a voice to those without a platform to speak, so these critical stories of survival can be told.
The Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) is an international non-profit organization tackling poverty and inequality by supporting girls to go to school, succeed, and empowering young women to step up as leaders of change. CAMFED invests in girls and women in the poorest rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, where girls face acute disadvantage, and where their education has transformative potential.
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Some recent New Zealand fiction set in Europe
Some Recent New Zealand Fiction Reviewed by Marcus Hobson
By ARTbop on October 24, 2017 Book Reviews, HOBSON'S CHOICES, WORDS
ARTbop Contributions Editor, Marcus Hobson, says it is always good to feature new books from New Zealand writers in our column. This time I have two which share a common theme of being set in Europe, one contemporary fiction and one a piece historical imagining.
The first is Sarah Quigley’s latest, The Suicide Club. I saw the book criticised in one review for glamorising the problem subject of suicide. I take an alternative stance, mainly because this is fiction. While I fully understand how much of a problem suicide is in New Zealand society right now, I think having books in which it is a theme just helps to put it more into the limelight. Also, this is a brilliantly written story. The characters are beautifully drawn, the writing is alive with wonderful language and the plot has you on the edge of your chair. You are moved to tears and to laughter. What more could you ask for from a novel? Even the first line has you completely drawn into the story, “In the minutes before Bright O’Connor tumbled nineteen floors to his death…”
The Suicide Club begins by charting the lives of three individuals, lives thrown together and then interwoven by the twisting serpent of the plot. Bright is a red-haired, flamboyant young writer who throws himself off a twenty story building. Gibby is the ungainly young man who has left his newspaper cart at the foot of the same building so that he will unwittingly save Bright’s life. Lace is the beautiful young woman who everyone desires but no-one can reach. She is friends with Gibby and so will eventually encounter Bright. All three are propelled for different reasons to an experimental institution run by the enigmatic Dr Geoffrey in the remote countryside of Bavaria. They all have a lot to learn about each other but more about themselves and their inner motivations. The institution they attend for a few weeks allows us to unfold the depths of their psychoses and also allows them to encounter each other properly for the first time.
Sarah Quigley’s latest novel set among some of her other works
The Suicide Club is a great tale of psychosis and friendships, full of humour and beautifully written. The characters of Bright, Gibby and Lace are not a million miles for people we may have met at a party or in a university tutorial. It is their convincing reality that makes the novel work so well. We are compelled to like them, to laugh at Bright’s clever jokes and fall in love with Lace’s beautiful looks and to sympathise with Gibby’s awkwardness.
The second novel is a venture into adult fiction by Mandy Hager. Heloise is a dense work of historical fiction, based on a true story and rich with actual quotes from the main characters. The story is a familiar one, Heloise and Abelard were lovers in the same vein as Dante and Beatrice or Romeo and Juliet, but different because they were also thinkers, scholars and deeply religious.
They lived during the twelfth century, with Abelard being born only ten years or so after the Normans had swept to power in England at the battle of Hastings. It was a primitive time, as Europe emerged from the period known as The Dark Ages, but one in which we see the beginning of scholarship and great religious development. All over Europe great monasteries began to flourish and huge churches and cathedrals were being built. From a historical perspective the times were full of wars, crusades, battles and power struggles, but we hear little of everyday life. So the survival of the letters between Heloise and Abelard are a unique insight into more ordinary concerns, and in particular the expression of personal love when everything else spoke only of the divine.
Mandy Hager’s new novel is the latest of many works about Abelard and Heloise
I think Heloise is a remarkable achievement, turning the story into a full scale novel, but also one which catches both the spirit of the time and the dangers that lurked for all the parties concerned. It also tells the story from Heloise’s viewpoint, not Abelard’s.
When all said and done this is essentially one thing, a love story, but it is such a complex story. Having fallen in love the two will eventually be forced to separate, but both will struggle with their emotions for each other for the rest of their lives. The book captures both the length and the struggle of that relationship, as it unfolds over decades.
I enjoyed the story for its details but it is certainly not a quick book to read. The lists of real characters and places named in the text as well as a list of sources and references at the back show that we are reading a work of erudition as well as great beauty.
Marcus Hobson is the ARTbop Contributions Editor, regular book reviewer, writer, and the former Secretary of the Tauranga Writers group Marcus has been, and continues to be, lots of things. An aspiring author of both novels and reviews, he has always said he wants to be a writer and 40 years later is making that come true. He has in the past done such varied things as study ancient and mediaeval history at Uni in London, worked as an archaeologist, as an economist in central and southern Africa, and as truck driver in a quarry. About two years ago he relocated to the beautiful Bay from a finance job in Auckland. He is a lover of art, the written word and a full-time fanatical book collector, with over 3,000 volumes on his shelves. He lives close to Katikati with his wife and sometimes their three daughters, two cats, a library and the odd chicken. Marcus is currently working on a “factional” work about World War One.
ARTbop Contributions Editor Marcus Hobson and Parewhati Taikato Curator of the exhbition Rules of Engagement by Tracey Tawhiao to support the performance by Ria Hall of the same name.
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Issue 18: July 2012
Welcome to the eighteenth issue of Networks
Drawing on All Resources: developing open educational practice in art, design and media
Reflect:on Learning Experiences in Art, Design & Media
Learning outcomes and assessment criteria in art and design. What’s the recurring problem?
Collaborative discovery across disciplinary divides: promoting interdisciplinary learning via student-led extracurricular art/science research and practice
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Storytelling, Advertising and Paradigm Fusion
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The Art Group Crit. How do you make a Firing Squad Less Scary?
Stories & Streams: overcoming the student as consumer mindset through peer-to-peer learning
Themes of drawing and digital context: student engagement with theory and practice using the tool of the integrated learning portfolio
Processing: Analogue / Digital Material Surfaces (imprecise with precise tools): A collaborative student-staff workshop with international guests
Work Informed Learning - the design student perspective
Art Design Media Learning and Teaching Projects 2011-12 - Final Reports
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11 Course Leaders: 20 Questions – A Collection of Interviews with 11 London BA Fine Art Course Leaders
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Art, Equality and Learning: Pedagogies Against the State
Overlooking the Visual – demystifying the art of design
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Sandywell, B. (2011), Ashgate Publishing Limited. .......... In the age of the Internet, in which information and facts can be sourced almost instantly, it becomes questionable whether a ‘tome’ of over 700 pages dealing with idioms from ‘abschattungen’ to ‘zykt’, a lexicon of terms, fulfills a necessary or functional purpose. However, reassuringly, this book is also available as an e-book and ...
Author:Barry Sandywell
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Limited
ISBN: 978-1-4094-0188-9 (hardcover) 978-1-4094-0189-6 (e-book)
Price: £120.00 / £108.00 (e-book)
In the age of the Internet, in which information and facts can be sourced almost instantly, it becomes questionable whether a ‘tome’ of over 700 pages dealing with idioms from ‘abschattungen’ to ‘zykt’, a lexicon of terms, fulfills a necessary or functional purpose.
However, reassuringly, this book is also available as an e-book and the author perhaps defines the relevance of the printed word by quoting from Heinrich Heine, Emerson, Nietzsche and Gadamer as a preface to the introduction, and includes the aphorism ‘words have created the world ’, perhaps alluding to the value of the printed word in the form of a book? And it is in the introduction or prologue that the author excels in a series of short essays that define the parameters of the rest of the work by dealing with such seminal issues as, for instance, ‘Experience in a Thanatonic Age’, ‘Ritual to Political Aesthetics’, ’Re-inventing Visual Culture’, ‘Future Thought’ and other useful, more than sufficiently explained and referenced aspects of current cultural theory and language.
In these introductory passages Sandywell asks a series of questions such as ‘how should we reflect upon and understand the terms of vision?’ ‘Is it possible to disclose the hidden order behind the new visual culture?’ and ‘How, in other words, should we think the visual?’ These opening sections, and the addition of two further introductory chapters ‘Preview and Methodology’ and ‘Thematic Orientations’ further serve to define the purpose and functionality of a Dictionary of Terms. Both inform and explain wide ranging aspects of current thinking, the debates in visual culture and the philosophical deliberations that surround, and most importantly inform, the visual arts.
The bulk of this volume, over five hundred pages, forms the basis of any researcher’s quick reference for a multitude of dialectical knowledge, description of commonplace concepts, languages, cultures and sometimes obscure terms (as already mentioned ‘abschattungen’ to ‘zykt’) Each entry is authoritative and incorporates inter-textual links which, in the main, fully explore the concept, meaning and range of the topic. For instance, the entry on ‘Perception’ as a ‘many dimensional term’ (over five pages), cross references to ‘Epistemology: Idea: Representation: Sensation and Ideology’, ends with a lengthy quote from Sartre and suggestions for further research including ‘Perpectivism’ ‘Rashomon Effect’ and, for good measure, ‘abschattungen’. Via the Harvard system each entry engages the reader with an impressive bibliography (one hundred and eighty five pages) and sets a paradigm for good practice and further study, particularly useful for undergraduate students and other researchers.
However the entry on Structuralism (a mere one page) seems rather short, but nevertheless serves its purpose, with profuse referencing and recommendations in the generous and lengthy bibliography. For instance, there are thirteen references to Foucault’s published work although there is no entry that might have summarized his philosophy (but that of course would be more appropriately found in a dictionary of western philosophy or of modern thought?).
Overall this work is an enjoyable experience, formative in constructing arguments and debates surrounding visual rhetoric, and where student, lecturer or researcher within the creative arts is challenged to find authoritative and easily understood explanations of discourse, commonly used in studio practice, tutorials and theoretical guidance.
It more than provides understanding of the complexities and motivations of current academic thinking surrounding theoretical and academic discourse, as well as the visual culture engaged in everyday life. Also, as mentioned, the exhaustive bibliography serves in itself to inform and instigate further research as the reader delves into subject matter. This firmly places the work in the context of contemporary thought, working as an interdisciplinary guide to the vocabularies and grammar, the philosophical understanding, theories and other frameworks that are essential reading for practitioners and scholars in a wide range of creative disciplines, including art history, film, media and communication studies, sociology of visual culture.
It comes highly recommended as an addition to Art and Design libraries, but will find students, lecturers and researchers from a wider range of disciplines using it as essential reading. It stands as a lucid, intellectual, substantially comprehensive survey and academic contribution to contemporary thought in the field of visual studies, as well as a formidable contribution to the language of visual discourse.
Paul Taylor is Programme Leader: Art, Design & Media at University Centre Croydon.
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Vintage Vacation: Rum Roaming at The Hukilau, the World’s Most Authentic Tiki Event
Posted on: Jun 3rd, 2015 By: Anya99
by S.J. Chambers
The 14th annual Hukilau shimmies and shakes this June 10-14, in Fort Lauderdale, FL, promising to be bigger and grander with new digs at the historic Hyatt Regency Pier 66. This vintage venue is celebrating its 50th anniversary as one of South Florida’s iconic hotels and features a groovy retro-tastic space-age design and rotating cocktail lounge. Last year was nearly the premier Polynesian Pop Fest’s swan song, but, Tiki fans, you are in luck! Two of the festival’s long-time attendees and lovers of the luau lifestyle refused to let the festival set sail into the great beyond, so they did what any business gentleman would do – they revived the revival and are giving means to the festival, allowing it to grow bigger and more diverse, which can be seen in this year’s highlights, listed below: 1) Shipwrecked with Mary Ann. This year’s special guest is Dawn Wells of GILLIGAN’S ISLAND, who will host a three-hour South Seas-styled cruise aboard the Lady Windridge Yacht on the waterways of Fort Lauderdale’s historic Pier 66. 2) Lounge Luau-Style! The Tiki Tower Takeover will kick happy hour up 17 notches as Tiki’s best barmen— Jeff “Beachbum” Berry (Latitude 29, New Orleans) [See ATLRetro’s Happy Hour & Supper Club feature on Berry here], Martin Cate (Smuggler’s Cove, San Francisco), Paul McGee (Lost Lake, Chicago) and Brian Miller (Tiki Mondays With Miller, New York City) — will be pouring signature drinks to loungers enjoying the rotating view over the Fort Lauderdale sky and shorelines. 3) Tiki University. Six symposiums include Disney artists Kevin & Jody (Kevin Kidney and Jody Daily), Oscar-nominated filmmaker Arthur Dong, author Domenic Priore, author Jeff Chenault, Jon Bortles and Tiki Gardener, as well as thirst-quenching explorations with guest bartenders: Jeff “Beachbum” Berry, Brian Miller, Martin Cate, Paul McGee, Dean Hurst, and the Straw Hat Barmen. 4) Surf ‘n’ Tiki Tunes. Musical guests and performers: Alika Lyman Group, The Intoxicators!, Gold Dust Lounge, Pablus, Slip and the Spinouts, Kinky Waikiki, Skinny Jimmy and the Stingrays, King Kukulele, Marina the Fire Eating Mermaid, Lila Starlet, DJ James Brown’s Sweat. Special ATLRetro correspondent S. J. Chambers attended last year’s Hukilau (June 11-15, 2014) with publisher Anya Martin, and the following dispatches give a tantalizing tropical glimpse into what fest-goers can expect from this year’s Tiki haven!
For five days, “Tikiheads” from all over the U.S., and even as far as Japan and Belgium, gathered in Ft. Lauderdale, FL at the Bahia Mar Resort for the 13th annual Hukilau which served up sunshine, camaraderie, music, symposiums and the ever-tempting Tiki cocktail. Tagged as “The World’s Most Authentic Tiki Event” and founded by Christie “Tiki Kiliki” White, Hukilau has been keeping this retro culture of Polynesian kitsch and tropical libations alive and kicking since 2002, when it sprang to life at Atlanta’s own Trader Vic’s.
The Disasternauts and a very green lady friend.
The event ventured South in 2003, to honor the Mai Kai Restaurant. One of the last remaining original Tiki establishments, the Mai Kai serves Don the Beachcomber’s original recipes while entertaining diners with an authentic Luau floor show. Each year has always outdone the last, bringing out performers such as Robert Drasnin and Los Straitjackets, renowned artists like Swag and Bosko, and the foremost Tiki gurus like Sven Kirsten and Duda Leite. Last year’s event was no different, and of course, it was impossible to experience it all. However, our correspondents tried their darndest, so come take a peek at what they pulled from this vast Tiki sea!
We ran into artist Derek Yaniger, who designed ATLRetro’s logo, in the vendors’ bazaar.
Music and Performers While surf was king with shreds by Florida bands The Intoxicators, The Disasternauts, and Skinny Jimmy & the Stingrays, there was also an air of jazz fusion, punk and Ska coming from Miami-based Gold Dust Lounge and Atlanta’s own Grinder Nova. Les Baxter would have been proud of Belgium’s Left Arm of Buddah, who gave a heck of an exotic show that featured multiple dancers performing Arabian and Asian-influenced moves. The early days of the cocktail were represented as well by Japan’s The Sweet Hollywaiians, whose 20s and 30s-inspired sets gave Hukilau-goers a relaxing atmosphere to really deconstruct the Mai Kai Mai Tai.
The presence of Burlesque and Go-Go dancers kept the crowd moving.
One favored moment was seeing Angie Pontani perform. Her fun Go-Go vibe melded perfectly with the Hukilau, and her movements and demeanor reminded me of later bombshells like Bridget Bardot and Sophia Loren. She did this one thing with a scarf was reminiscent of the Marilyn Monroe photography session with Bert Stern that just completely put Salomé and her whole seven scarf shtick on notice. Seminars Alas, we did not arrive at the Hukilau in time to catch Jeff “Beachbum” Berry’s symposium, “Tiki’s Dark Ages,” which he gave at the legendary Mai Kai Restaurant, but we heard from the general chatter that the sold-out event was remarkable, and we will make sure to catch it next round. We did get our books signed by the “Beachbum” at the Cocktail Kingdom table, and got to meet Steven Yamada, co-manager and head bartender of the Beachbum’s new New Orleans Tiki restaurant Latitude 29.
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I was able to catch two symposiums, Philip Greene’s “To Have and Have Another: A Hemingway Cocktail Companion,” based on his book of the same name, and “RetroRenovation.com presents: Create Your Own Suburban Savage Paradise!” Greene’s presentation began with an interesting question: Was Hemingway a Tiki guy? Sort of. He definitely shaped the associations we have between drinks and lifestyle; so much that he was one of the inspirations for the Dos Equis Most Interesting Man in the World. Why? Like Don the Beachcomber, Papa traveled the world and brought back food and cocktail recipes as souvenirs for the rest of us. He also was close friends with rumrunner Joe Russell, who was also the owner of Sloppy Joe’s in Key West, and who inspired TO HAVE AND HAVE ANOTHER. Perhaps most important to the cocktail crafting debate, he dabbled in recipe-making so much that he ruined Floridita’s Constante Daiquiri perfection—depending on who you ask—by adding another shot and cutting the sugar for what is known as the “Papa Doble.”
The Sweet Hollywaiians.
Greene was witty, and his slideshow presentation was filled with jewels, like a manuscript from a nine-year-old Hemingway, who even then had the mission statement of wanting to grow up to write and travel. Greene also served the audience two drinks from his book, the “Josie Russell Cocktail”, which Greene uncovered from Hemingway’s fishing log, and the infamous “Papa Doble”—both served with Papa’s Pillar Rum, a new libation from Tampa blessed by the Hemingway estate and for whom Greene is now a spokesman. “RetroRenovation.com presents: Create Your Own Suburban Savage Paradise!” was also a very fun symposium and a historical benchmark for the Hukilau. Hand-picked by Tiki Kiliki, the panel was comprised of Tiki Designer Deities Bamboo Ben, Danny Gallardo a.k.a. Tiki Diablo, U. K.’s Jamie Wilson & Anjy Cameron of Cheeky Tiki, and David Wolfe a.k.a. Basement Kahuna.
Tiki treasures abounded in the vendors’ bazaar.
RetroRenovation.com’s authors, Pam and Kate, were moderators of the panel, and they led the audience through beautiful examples of the various styles of Tiki (from Swiss Family Robinson to Asian-fusion) from restaurants like Mahiki by Cheekytiki to private residential dens done by RetroRenovation.com readers. To attest for the growing rise in commercial Tiki design, Anjy Cameron remarked that Cheeky Tiki has designed 21 bars in eight years, and that “the crowd is young, and they are enjoying it and it’s like going on holiday.” The Jungle Queen Cruise On Friday, attendees wishing to take a break from the hotel were able to do so via The Jungle Queen cruise. This antique riverboat is a tourist staple at the Bahia Mar Yachting Center, and is considered one of the oldest roadside attractions in Florida. It definitely maintains that bit of kitsch, with snarky commentary on the landmark homes dotting the canal. Normally, a three-hour dinner cruise, it was truncated to an hour and half and was transformed by The Straw Men serving up welcome cocktails including Josie Russells and Witch Finders (maybe my first complex punch I’ve ever had with spices like nutmeg), and the funny ditties by King Kukulele and Crazy Al TikiMania on the coconuts. The Mai Kai and Luau The centerpiece of the Hukilau is the Mai Kai Restaurant, which opened its doors in 1956 and is one of the few remaining, original Tiki restaurants. There were parties every night with bands in every room, symposiums, and of course the Saturday night dinner show featuring an authentic Luau. It really is something to be experienced. With its main window-waterfalls, nautical decor, and Polynesian artifacts, the bar felt like you were below-deck in ship quarters. There is also an impressive tropical garden with orchids and lush palm fronds flanked by flaming torches and various wooden Tiki totems. It is very easy to feel separated from the busy highway beyond the fauna. I let myself get lost, to just sip meditatively on my grog and listen to some hidden ukulele player, when I came across a group of elegant older women standing on the lagoon bridge. They were dressed in sarongs and wore blooming, dewy tropical flowers in their hair. They were talking amongst themselves, but every once in a while, they would break away, as if summoned, to dip their hands into the water. When I later learned that they were retired mermaids from the Weeki Wachee golden age, and guests of the “Cocktails and Fishtails: The Untold Story of the Porthole Cocktail Lounge” event by Vintage Roadside and Marina the Fire-Eating Mermaid, their inability to resist the water made sense and became a metaphor for the entire Hukilau experience. The word “Hukilau” refers to the traditional Hawaiian fishing festival where the community would gather to cast large nets into the sea that would ensnare a variety of fish. The celebration and feast that would follow not only nourished the community but also brought the villagers together to celebrate kinship. That is what the Hukilau in Fort Lauderdale has accomplished over its thirteen year run. It has brought together all the tiny villages from Polynesian Pop–the mermaids, the bartenders and scholars, the performers, and the collectors–to celebrate, collaborate, and corroborate on the continuation of the grand Tiki tradition.
Mai Kai Floor Show
For more information about Hyatt Pier 66 and the Hukilau (including schedule and tickets), check out the official site here. S. J. Chambers is a writer from Tallahassee, FL. When not found drafting pool-side, she is sublimity-seeking on the road, or in the air, and sometimes in a glass. She blogs irregularly atwww.selenachambers.wordpress.com. ATLRetro Managing Editor Melanie Crew also contributed to this article.
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