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Classification Society Issues New Class Guidelines for Autonomous Vessels
Cyber Security and First Class Software Must be Priorities
NORWAY – WORLDWIDE – After his outgoing speech as Chairman of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) in June it is hardly a surprise that Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, CEO of DNV GL - Maritime, has overseen his company's publication of a new class guideline covering autonomous and remotely operated ships. The classification society boss said at the time that the transformation in ship technology was 'astonishing' in such a short time, a point he reiterated when releasing details of the new guidelines. He said:
“A new set of sensor, connectivity, analysis, and control functions in maritime technologies is laying the foundation for remote and autonomous operations in shipping. Increased automation, whether in the form of decision support, remote operation, or autonomy, has the potential to improve the safety, efficiency and environmental performance of shipping. To reach this potential, the industry needs a robust set of standards that enables new systems to reach the market and ensure that these technologies are safely implemented.”
The guidelines cover new operational concepts that do not fit within existing regulations, and technologies that control functions that would normally be performed by humans. In terms of new operational concepts, the guidelines help those who would like to implement new concepts with a process towards obtaining approval under the alternative design requirements by the flag state. For novel technologies, suppliers can use the guidelines to obtain an approval in principle.
The guidelines cover navigation, vessel engineering, remote control centres, and communications. Particular emphasis is given in two key areas that emerge from the reliance of autonomous and remote concepts on software and communications systems: cyber-security and software testing. Both the concept qualification process and the technology qualification process include cyber security aspects in the risk analysis.
Not only the systems themselves, but the associated infrastructure and network components, servers, operator stations, and other endpoints should all take cyber security into account, incorporating multiple layers of defence where possible. In terms of software, quality assurance of software-based systems is essential, and well established development processes and a multifaceted end-product testing strategy should be used to ensure safe operation. Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen, concluded:
“This is a first step in the process to fully realise these technologies, but we continue to develop experience from several projects currently underway. In some areas, such as navigation systems and engineering functions we can already offer technical guidance based on our current class rules and as we progress new guides and rules will follow.”
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The Problem of Knowledge in Financial Markets
By Paul Jourdan
Published: 1st Jan 1970
Author: Paul Jourdan
Paul Jourdan
Paul Jourdan is an award-winning fund manager, AAA-rated by Citywire, with a strong track record in small cap investment. He is CEO of Amati Global Investors which he co-founded with Douglas Lawson in January 2010. He moved to Edinburgh in 1998, joining Stewart Ivory to work on UK, emerging market, and global equities. In 2000 Stewart Ivory was taken over by Colonial First State (subsequently ... Read more on Paul Jourdan
Introduction by Jonathan Davis
Paul Jourdan: The Problem of Knowledge in Financial Markets
Appendix: Nigel Lawson's Investing Rules
One of the undoubted highlights of the book 'Professional Investor Rules' is the chapter by Paul Jourdan,â??AAA-rated fund manager and CEO of Amati Global Investors. A highly pellucid and thought-provoking piece, it takes an unflinching look at what it means to be a successful investor engaged in the "living and strangely intelligent organism" of today's financial markets - the importance of self-knowledge, the vital role of history and stories, and the limits of certainty that every investor must come to terms with.
This eBook exclusively reproduces the chapter as a standalone piece. It remains a striking and provocative piece of essential reading for every investor.
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As if life isn’t hard enough to begin with, joint pain makes the most rudimentary tasks feel daunting.
Cutting an apple can feel like chopping down a redwood.
Playing with your kids can feel like wrestling with an alligator.
Joint pain is not only frustrating, but as anyone who experiences it will tell you, it can dramatically reduce your quality of life.
Rather than treating symptoms with anti-inflammatory drugs or analgesics that can bring about unwanted side effects, uncovering the actual degenerative mechanisms in the body can bring about root cause resolution and pain-free living.
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What Exactly is Joint Pain?
Joint pain, often referred to as arthritis, is inflammation of the joints.
Roughly 52.5 million adults in the United States reported being told by a doctor that they have some form of arthritis.1
The risk for getting arthritis increases with age. Causes also include heredity, excess weight, joint injury, gut inflammation, and hormonal imbalances.
The most common form of arthritis is osteoarthritis, which is a degenerative joint disease that tends to affect the large joints such as the hips, knees, and shoulders, though it can occur in any joint in the body.
Rheumatoid arthritis is another common form of arthritis. It’s a chronic inflammatory condition that affects the entire body, especially the joints. The joints typically involved are the smaller joints in the hands, feet, wrists, and ankles.
Arthritis causes pain, swelling, and stiffness that can range from mildly irritating to completely debilitating.
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How Does Joint Pain Occur?
Joint pain is experienced when there’s degeneration and inflammatory reactions occurring within the joints.
In osteoarthritis, joint tissue is degraded from “wear and tear,” as seen in injury, obesity, or repetitive use.
Wear and tear erodes the cartilage and roughens the articular (joint) surfaces of the bones.
The bones approximate with increased degeneration and grate against each other when the joint moves, instead of gliding smoothly. Degeneration of the cartilage can leave areas of underlying bone unprotected, causing pain and inflammation.
Systemic inflammation also occurs in autoimmune conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis, where the immune system releases inflammatory chemicals called cytokines and prostaglandins that attack body tissue.
Chronic inflammation will thicken the synovial membrane, which normally has a lubricating function for the tissue. Inflammation can extend over the surface of the joint cartilage, eventually destroying it. Severe damage to the joint surfaces over time makes the joint unstable and can lead to disability and deformity.
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Symptoms of Joint Pain
Typically, symptoms of joint pain present as:
Pain (deep ache or crippling), stiffness, or swelling of joints
Morning stiffness or stiffness after inactivity for more than 15 minutes
Stiffness related to weather
Instability of weight-bearing joints
Joint tenderness, swelling, warmth, or redness
Crackling joint sounds
Enlarged bone growth causing deformities
Limitation of motion, deformity, or progressive disability
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Types of Joint Pain
The two most common causes of joint pain are osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
Osteoarthritis (OA): The most frequent form of arthritis.
OA is a result of wear and tear on one or more of the major weight-bearing joints such as the hip or knee.
OA is also common in the joints of the spine, hands, and feet. Inflammatory mediators like cytokines and prostaglandins are released by cartilage, bone, and synovium that progress degeneration of the joint cartilage and changes in bone shape.
OA can develop before age forty, but it affects nearly everyone past the age of sixty to some degree and is more prevalent in women.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA): An autoimmune disease that affects the connective tissues throughout the body, but manifests mostly in the smaller joints.
Rheumatoid factor is an autoantibody produced by the immune system that directs cells of the immune system to attack the joints because the immune system mistakenly sees the cell lining of the joint as foreign.
A specific cytokine called tumor necrosis factor (TNF) appears to cause the most damage joint damage. Inflammation damages the cartilage, tissues surrounding the joint, and the bone surfaces. Scar tissue can cause bones to fuse together, which can produce a disfigured appearance. Women are also more commonly affected.
Gout: A syndrome associated with an elevated level of uric acid in the blood and body fluids. The excess uric acid leads to sodium urate crystals (tophi) forming in joints and other tissues, causing an inflammatory reaction.
Gout is typically caused by the metabolic disorder of purine metabolism seen from obesity, improper diet, overeating, stress, surgery, joint injury, excessive alcohol intake, kidney disease, and certain drugs.
The faulty metabolism of purines leads to an overproduction of uric acid, an inadequate excretion of uric acid, or both. Gout symptoms start with a person experiencing periodic episodes of extremely painful flare-ups in a single joint—often the base of the large toe. Gouty arthritis can occur after large amounts of urate crystals are deposited in and around the joint tissue.
Scleroderma: An autoimmune disease of the body’s connective tissue that causes thickening and hardening of the skin and can also affect joints.
Infectious Arthritis: Joint inflammation caused by a bacterial, viral, or fungal infection. The causative organism will be found in the joint space or tissue.
Psoriatic Arthritis: An autoimmune condition that can occur in individuals with psoriasis (skin condition). Fewer joints will be involved than RA, and there will be no rheumatoid factor in the blood.
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Reiter’s Syndrome: Known as reactive arthritis, it produces an autoimmune reaction in response to an infection. The characteristic triad of symptoms include joint pain, inflammation in the eyes (conjunctivitis or uveitis), and urethritis in men or cervicitis in women. Most commonly develops after intestinal or genitourinary tract infection.
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Pressure on the nerve in the wrist can cause tingling and numbness in the fingers, most often from repetitive use (as with computer work). It can also be associated with RA or other diseases. Permanent nerve and muscle damage can occur if left untreated.
This also occurs in the ankle, where it’s called Tarsal Tunnel Syndrome.
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE): Autoimmune condition involving multiple organs including skin, kidneys, heart, blood vessels, lungs, liver, nervous system, and joints. Arthritis is a common symptom.
Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS): Autoimmune condition most commonly associated with the spine, though it can affect any joint. In the spine, inflammation causes fusion of the vertebrae, creating a rigid spine, especially at the sacroiliac joints where the spine meets the pelvis. Common symptoms include low back pain and stiffness that continues for months. Genetic marker HLA-B27 is prevalent in people with AS, and it usually affects men.
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Root Causes of Joint Pain
Osteoarthritic joint pain can develop from joint injury. Trauma from high-impact sports or accidents, carrying extra body weight, repetitive use, chronic connective tissue tightness, ligament laxity, and muscle weakness in the muscles stabilizing or moving the joint can all lead to joint injury and pain.
Sadly, the majority of the US population is overweight, and being overweight increases the risk for OA. Extra weight adds additional pressure to the joint and leads to abnormal alignment of the joints, especially in the knee and hip.
Extra weight can cause joint pain that leads to altered posture and gait, which can make the OA worse. OA can also result in reduced physical activity, making it harder to lose weight. Further, less physical activity reduces muscle strength may contribute to a fall or injury, increasing the risk of getting more OA.
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Rheumatoid Arthritis development has strong correlation to a positive family history; however, the genetic risk is strongly connected to epigenetic factors.
Epigenetics refers to specific changes in the gene expression controlled nutrition and environmental factors. RA is an autoimmune condition, and current research is discovering that poor diet and unhealthy environments can trigger genes to express diseases like RA.
In addition to the above causes of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, there are several other underlying causes of joint pain, including vitamin and mineral deficiency, hemochromatosis, abnormal hormone levels, and inflammation, which all contribute to the development of any type of joint pain.
Root Cause of Joint Pain: Vitamin and Mineral Deficiency
Research has shown several specific vitamin and mineral deficiencies that are common in joint pain sufferers.
Zinc: Zinc deficiency is prevalent in RA patients. Low levels can lead to higher levels of inflammatory compounds because zinc has antioxidant effects and is used in the antioxidant enzyme superoxide dismutase (SOD).6 SOD is an important enzyme that quenches free radicals by changing them into more inert forms, thus decreasing inflammation.
Sulfur: Sulfur is the third most abundant mineral in the human body. Numerous studies have shown that sulfur levels in arthritic joints are lower than in healthy joints.20
Muscles, skin, bone, and enzymes contain sulfur. Connective tissue and cartilage contain proteins with flexible sulfur bonds. Only two of the amino acids (protein building blocks) contain sulfur. Methionine, one of the two amino acids, must come from the diet, while the other amino acid (cysteine) can be made by the body but requires sulfur from the diet to do so.21
Cysteine is required for the synthesis of glutathione, the master antioxidant in the body. When there isn’t enough sulfur, glutathione synthesis is interrupted, inflammation increases, and joints become less flexible and more prone to damage.
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Vitamin C: Works as an antioxidant and is significantly low in people with RA. Supplementation with vitamin C increases SOD activity and reduces histamine levels.6
Vitamin C also plays an important role in collagen formation and is a fibrous protein that supports cartilage, connective tissue strength, and elasticity and can help those with OA.
Vitamin D: There is a significant association between vitamin D deficiency and increased prevalence of autoimmune diseases, including a higher incidence of RA.
Low vitamin D levels have been correlated with worse RA symptoms.7 Studies have shown that for people under 60, low serum levels of vitamin D appear to be associated with an increased risk for progression of OA.6
Vitamins A, E, and K, pyridoxine, zinc, copper, and boron all have roles in bone and joint formation. They are required for the synthesis and repair of collagen and maintenance of cartilage structures. If any of these are low, joint degeneration occurs. Vitamin K regulates skeletal mineralization, and low levels are associated with OA.17
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Root Cause of Joint Pain: Hemochromatosis
Hemochromatosis is an iron storage disease and is North America’s most prevalent genetic disorder.
Hemochromatosis causes the intestines to absorb too much iron from food, leading to iron overload in the body. Extra iron becomes stored in the internal organs and joints, causing damage to them.
Hemochromatosis tends to cause OA symptoms in specific joints, especially joints in the hand.18 About 1 in 200 individuals is estimated to be homozygous for the most common mutation: C282Y/C282Y.
In this mutation, cysteine is substituted by tyrosine at amino acid 282. Removal of blood is a common treatment for hemochromatosis; men and postmenopausal women tend to be at a higher risk because they don’t have a monthly blood loss from menses.
Too much iron in the body will drive up inflammation. Excess iron can damage tissues by catalyzing the conversion of hydrogen peroxide to free-radical ions that attack cellular membranes, proteins, and DNA. Iron overload may amplify the damaging effects of superoxide overproduction (increases need for superoxide dismutase) in a very broad spectrum of both acute and chronic inflammatory conditions.19
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Root Cause of Joint Pain: Abnormal Hormone Levels
Low levels of androgen hormones are linked to RA. RA has been linked with chronically low levels of the hormones testosterone and DHEA.21
A small study found that testosterone hormone replacement therapy has benefited male RA participants by reducing rheumatoid factor, the number of affected joints, and NSAID use.22
Estrogens may be involved in sustaining inflammatory activity in activated immune cells.23 Estradiol levels are higher in RA patients and positively associated with markers of inflammation. A study found that women who had a lower androgen to estrogen ratio had more severe disease symptoms and fewer remissions than men.24
Low levels of the adrenal hormone cortisol are associated with increased inflammation, as one of cortisol’s most important roles is to decrease inflammation in the body. Chronic stress leads to low cortisol levels, also called adrenal fatigue. The result is amplification of numerous inflammatory pathways and increased susceptibility to developing inflammatory diseases, including autoimmune diseases, chronic pain syndromes, obesity, and fibromyalgia.
Root Cause of Joint Pain: Inflammation
Inflammation can be caused by obesity, leaky gut, and environmental toxins. These forces chronically overstimulate and impair the immune system, leading to a release of inflammation-causing chemicals that eventually destroy tissue in the body and lead to autoimmune diseases.
In rheumatoid arthritis, the body mistakes the joints for foreign invaders and organizes an immune attack on them, creating a storm of inflammation. Osteoarthritis is not autoimmune in origin, but it is inflammatory.
Obesity: Extra weight contributes to joint injury by placing increased mechanical pressure on the joints, tendons, and muscles. Further, fat cells are very metabolically active and release inflammatory chemical cytokines that fuel joint inflammation and pain.
Leaky gut: Also called intestinal hyperpermeability, leaky gut occurs when gut inflammation causes the lining of the intestines becoming more porous than usual, producing an immune response that leads to autoimmune conditions and other chronic diseases. When the integrity of the gut mucosa is compromised, inadequately digested foods, microorganisms, and toxins leak into the bloodstream.
These substances are identified by the immune system as foreign invaders, and the inflammation cascade is activated, antibodies are produced, and inflammatory reactions occur. This also allows the bad microorganisms to start to flourish (dysbiosis), which further perpetuates inflammation. The immune system can also become overstimulated and may mistakenly start attacking other tissues in the body, such as the joints.
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Dysbiosis occurs when the good bacteria are out of balance with the bad bacteria, viruses, yeast, and fungi that can grow in large populations when the gut is leaky.
In the event of dysbiosis, bacterial toxins can bind to the lining of the intestines and stimulate antibody production and an immune attack against normal tissues. Gluten and the milk protein casein cause this same response. As such, inflammation in the gut causes inflammation in the joints.6
Environmental Toxins: Pesticides and herbicides are problematic for those with RA due to impaired detoxification abilities. Slow detoxification increases the severity of RA symptoms. Ethyl mercury found in vaccines stimulates antibody production against normal tissues. Toxins in cigarette smoke interact with epigenetic factors to enhance the inflammatory process and increase the risk of RA.6 Toxin exposure is detrimental and inflammatory to anyone, but especially those who already have inflammatory conditions such as joint pain.
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Natural Relief from Joint Pain
Joint pain can be managed by incorporating lifestyle changes, dietary changes, herbs, supplements, and topical treatments.
Lifestyle Factors and Diet:
Water Intake: The cartilage surfaces in joints contain a lot of water. The lubricating property of water allows the joint to glide freely during movement. In a well-hydrated cartilage, the incidence of friction damage is quite low. In dehydrated cartilage, the rate of abrasive damage increases. In a dehydrated state, histamine directs the neurotransmitter system to conserve water and to promote water intake. This means histamine levels are increased. Histamine also directs inflammatory processes and can aggravate inflammatory conditions like OA, RA, bursitis, tendonitis, psoriatic arthritis, Reiter’s Syndrome, lupus, etc.2
Exercise: Being physically active can help you maintain a normal weight, as well as reduce abrasion of the joint and the severity of joint pain.3 Abundant evidence shows losing weight and regular exercise are the most effective treatments available for osteoarthritis pain.4 Research also shows that people with rheumatoid arthritis who did weight training for 24 weeks improved their function by up to 30 percent and their strength by 120 percent.3
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Elimination of Nightshade Vegetables: Consuming foods from this plant group may be contributing to pain and inflammation. Nightshades include tomatoes, potatoes, all types of peppers, and eggplant. Although not truly nightshades, blueberries, huckleberries, goji berries and ashwaganda all share the same inflammation-inducing alkaloids. Many who suffer with arthritis or an arthritis-related disease such as lupus, rheumatism, and other musculoskeletal pain disorders may be sensitive to nightshade vegetable alkaloids.5
Bone Broth: Reduces joint pain, inflammation, and heals the gut. Bone broth provides the building blocks for healthy joint formation—chondroitin sulfate and glucosamine. The proteins in bone broth, such as glycine, proline, and arginine, all have anti-inflammatory effects. Lastly, the gelatin found in bone broth can help heal and seal the gut, supporting gut health. The gut modulates inflammatory reactions, and an unhealthy gut is proinflammatory and will aggravate inflammatory joint conditions.
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Herbs and Supplements:
Turmeric: Curcumin, the yellow pigmented active ingredient found in turmeric, is a popular Indian spice effective for both OA and RA. Curcumin protects cartilage tissue and displays strong anti-inflammatory and antioxidant capabilities. It has been found to be as effective as cortisone and phenylbutazone (NSAIDs) in situations of acute inflammation.9 While phenylbutazone produces adverse effects, curcumin has not been shown to produce any side effects.8 Eating black pepper (piperine) and fat with curcumin or a complexed supplement form of curcumin increases its absorption
Glutathione: The master antioxidant of the body that regenerates other antioxidants and promotes healthy immune system function. Rheumatoid arthritis has been associated with significant depletion of glutathione and higher inflammation levels.
Tart Cherry: Useful for arthritis and gout symptoms. Studies have shown that those with OA who use tart cherry juice see improvement in pain, function, and a statistically significant decrease in inflammation. A Boston University study found that intake of cherry extract reduced the risk of gout attacks in those who suffered recurrent gout attacks by 45%. Tart cherries also subdue the inflammation caused by obesity.
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Probiotics: Healthy bacteria modulate the immune system in a positive way, reducing inflammation and pain. Probiotic supplements or fermented foods provide healthy bacteria.
Omega-3 Fatty Acids: Omega-3 fatty acids reduce inflammation by switching the body away from proinflammatory biochemical pathways. Studies in RA show that omega-3 supplementation has reduced the duration of morning stiffness, number of tender or swollen joints, joint pain, length of fatigue, and serum markers of inflammation.
Hyaluronic Acid: An important glycosaminoglycan (GAG) in joints that provides structural framework and supports the ability of the cartilage to hold water. Hyaluronic acid levels drop substantially with age. Hyaluronic acid is available via injection (improves pain) or orally (builds up hyaluronic stores).6
Topical Treatment:
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Capsaicin Cream: Capsaicin is derived from the chemicals that make peppers spicy and hot. Capsaicin interacts with how the the sensation of pain reaches the nerves and reduces inflammation. Capsaicin cream decreases the sensation of pain with continued use for RA and OA.13
Warm Bath with Epsom Salt: A warm bath reduces the pull of gravity that compresses the joint, can decrease swelling and inflammation, and increases circulation. Adding Epsom salt to the bath provides an absorbable form of magnesium. Magnesium deficiency has has been linked to inflammation in the body. Dr. Mark Hyman states that up to half of Americans are deficient in this nutrient and don’t know it. Magnesium encourages relaxation—something that may be hard to do when living with joint pain.14
Body Work and Therapies:
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Acupuncture: Has been shown to be safe and effective for reducing pain caused by OA.15 Electroacupuncture has also shown very good results, proving even more effective than the NSAID diclofenac in a head-to-head controlled trial.16
Chiropractic or Osteopathic Treatment: Manual therapies that involve moving the joints in specific, controlled ways are very effective for joint pain as they increase range of motion, improve nutrient and oxygen supply through increased mobility, loosen tight muscles, and improve nerve function as well as biochemical effects, including the reduction of inflammatory cytokines and release of endorphins.25
By following some of our suggested lifestyle changes, dietary improvements, herb and supplement recommendations, topical treatments and body therapies, you’ll be headed in the right direction toward joint pain relief. Once you’ve got the problem under control, get to true healing by addressing the root causes that were touched upon earlier.
AcupunctureAnkylosing SpondylitisArthritisCarpal Tunnel SyndromeChronic StressDrink WaterDysbiosisEnvironmental ToxinsExerciseGoutHemochromatosisHormone ImbalancesInfectious ArthritisInflammationJoint PainLeaky GutMineral DeficiencyNightshades AlkaloidsObesityOsteoarthritisPsoriatic ArthritisReiter's SyndromeRheumatoid ArthritisSclerodermaTarsal Tunnel SyndromeTarsal Tunnel Syndrome. Systemic Lupus ErythematosusVitamin Deficiency
1. http://www.cdc.gov/arthritis/data_statistics/arthritis_related_stats.htm
2. Batmanghelidj, F. Your Body’s Many Cries for Water. Tantor, 2012.
5. http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/link-between-nightshades-chronic-pain-and-inflammation
6. The Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine. 3rd Edition. Copyright 2012. Michael Murray, Joseph Pizzorno. Pages: pg 836-834, 934-941
8. http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/91259731/preliminary-study-antirheumatic-activity-curcumin-diferuloyl-methane
9. http://www.lifeextension.com/magazine/2012/8/safely-manage-joint-inflammation/page-0
11. http://www.lifeextension.com/Magazine/2013/6/Anti-Inflammatory-Properties-of-Tart-Cherry/Page-02
12. http://www.karger.com/Article/Abstract/228999
13. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1954640
14. http://drhyman.com/blog/2010/05/20/magnesium-the-most-powerful-relaxation-mineral-available/
16. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC102323/
18. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2823201/
20. http://europepmc.org/abstract/med/10914858
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Barry, Beeb, Blues and the BR on the Box
Longtime Boat Race commentator Barry Davies (centre), pictured before the 2001 Race. Picture: BBC.
By Chris Dodd
Chris Dodd reports from Henley-on-Thames.
The River & Rowing Museum welcomed the veteran commentator Barry Davies to Henley on 30 September to join a panel of experts celebrating 80 years of televising the Boat Race. The panel included the Cambridge Blue Hannah Roberts, the BBC’s producer and behind-the-scenes mover and shaker Nick Gilbey, and the radio commentator Robert Treharne-Jones, who has backed up several well-known wireless broadcasters, including Brian Johnston who inherited the Boat Race mantle from the peerless John Snagge, and Peter Jones who followed ‘Johners’ – tragically briefly, as things turned out.
John Snagge, complete with Leander cap, the ‘Voice of the Boat Race’ between 1931 and 1980.
Davies, who has just retired from football commentary, had his first impression of the Boat Race watching a black-and-white box in 1952, but his speaking role had to wait until 1993 when he took over from Gerald Sinstadt, coinciding with his son Mark – today the chairman of British Rowing – engaging with coxing at Cambridge.
The legendary British sports commentator, Frank Bough, broadcasting from the Boat Race start sometime in the 1970s. Picture: Roger Clark.
Barry proclaimed that the Boat Race is a ‘very, very special event’ and reiterated his view several times. Intense disappointment struck him when ITV captured the coverage for a few years and laid him off. When the race returned to the Beeb, Andrew Cotter took the reins, but Barry was engaged by the World Service to broadcast the battle of the Blues to hundreds of millions round the globe (and incidentally presenting the respective vice-chancellors with a ginormous free public relations bonanza).
All-purpose BBC presenter, Clare Balding, interviewing CUBC’s Steve Trapmore on the morning of the 2014 Boat Race.
Charles Runcie, the master of ceremonies, set the scene by showing clips of race incidents that included Oxford’s dramatic sinking in 1951 and Cambridge’s in 1978, aptly demonstrating Gilbey’s assertion that the Boat Race is an example of the Beeb doing its very best by delivering exemplary treatment of a live event. Nowadays 40 cameras are engaged – cameras on rooftops and bridges, cameras clinging to launches and helicopters, cameras raised on stalks above coxswains’ heads, and ever since Oxford’s one-foot verdict of 2003, a camera on the finish line.
Cambridge sinking in 1951.
Barry explained that the commentator does his gabbing from a trailer packed with monitors and parked on Putney Embankment, so he must rely on his collaborators, a not-so-old Blue of each colour, to spot what’s happening on the screens. Unlike the scribes and snappers aboard press launches, he doesn’t get to smell the coffee. He explained, too, that more is required to interpret the Boat Race than rocking up on the day. He would visit each crew up to half-a-dozen times during the months before the race, getting to know the coaches, presidents and the men or, these days, women. Rowing, Barry said, is without doubt the greatest team sport because of a crew’s dependence on each other.
The sort of thing that most of the television audience likes to see – disaster (Cambridge indulged in some bump racing on the day before the 1984 Boat Race).
But above all, the Boat Race is great fun, as well as challenging. One year, clouds were so low at the appointed hour that the helicopters couldn’t fly. The commentators were thus deprived of their revealing bird’s eye view of the Putney-to-Mortlake course. On another occasion during the ITV era, Barry was broadcasting for LBC radio from the finish line beneath a big screen showing the race as it happened. But as soon as the umpire yelled ‘Go’, the ITV director switched into commercials, and Barry had to ad-lib from thin air.
Radio broadcasting from a launch in 1928.
This reminded me of 1978 when Cambridge floundered under Barnes Bridge, and the hapless commentator in the Putney trailer, Jim Railton, described them as ‘going into the dolphin effect’. At the time he was talking to a screen showing Oxford stomping away through the bridge and creaming on toward Mortlake, while his spotter did not see – as we reporters in a launch could see – that Cambridge’s boat had been filling up with water from as far back as the ‘Crossing’ at Chiswick. Jim was caught by surprise, and reached for the place he wished to be, the Dolphin public house in his hometown of Wallingford.
Cambridge demonstrating the previously unnamed ‘dolphin effect’ in 1978.
Dr Robert T-J described the tragedy of Peter Jones, a great broadcaster who collapsed in the radio launch during his first Boat Race venture in 1990. The launch set course towards the good doctor’s car that contained his medical emergency bag while Dan Topolski, the other commentator, blustered on from what he could see on the small on-board TV monitor as the flotilla vanished round a bend. Jones was ambulanced to St George’s Hospital and died later that day.
Oxford, 1990.
When discussion opened to the floor, a gentleman referred back to that Saturday in 1951 when Chris Davidge’s Oxford boat sank before passing the end of the Fulham Wall, and the race had to be re-rowed on the following Monday. ‘I was in that winning Cambridge crew,’ said John Worlidge, and he gave the audience a flavour of the day.
The 1951 Cambridge Crew with John Worlidge at ‘5’.
More than winning the race was at stake in 1951, because the victor’s reward was to cross the Atlantic to race Yale and Harvard. Cambridge’s tour was triumphant, beating Yale on the Housatonic River and defeating Harvard, Boston University and MIT in a four-boat race on the Charles in Boston. They were given a replica of the Paul Revere Bowl, and on their return home presented to the King and Queen during their majesties’ official visit to Cambridge University. The crew’s inclusion in the line-up came by request of the King himself.
James Crowden shaking hands with King George VI at a ceremony at King’s College after the 1951 Cambridge crew came home from their successful trip to the United States.
It is worth remembering that television is the youngest branch of the media to involve itself with the Boat Race. The challenge of following a race in which the whole caboodle moves over four-and-a-quarter miles has been immensely important in the evolution of news coverage. Newspapers used horseback riders to keep up, fireworks to signal the position at intermediate points and at the finish, and floating canisters into which reporters on press steamers would seal their ‘running copy’ as the race progressed and toss the canister to a boy in a boat at a pre-arranged point. The canister was rowed ashore and handed to a runner who would leg it to a telegraph office.
Press reports in canisters, 1883.
Transmission of radio signals for live broadcast from a moving boat to Alexandra Palace, where the BBC had its studios, was another Boat Race first. The ability to film from a camera on a speeding boat in turbulent water, and steadying a camera aboard a juddering airborne chopper were questions that the BBC first answered on Boat Race Day. The exhibition at the River & Rowing Museum features both equipment and those operating it that is unrecognizable compared with today’s kit.
1949 saw the first continuous live camera coverage of the race. Picture: BBC.
The Boat Race – 80 Years through the Lens is showing at the River & Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, until 31 December.
In modern times, a semi-submersible television cameraman is always on hand to capture the fate of the winning cox. This is from 2013.
Charles Runcie’s history of broadcasting the Boat Race can be found here.
Further information about the Boat Race and the media, and more about Cambridge’s American tour, can be found in Chris Dodd’s The Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race (Stanley Paul, 1983) and Battle of the Blues (PtoM, 2004).
Apologies for the unintended Cambridge bias in the photographs.
Andrew Cotter
Barry Davies
Charles Runcie
Chris Davidge
Chris Dodd
Clare Balding
Dan Topolski
Frank Bough
Gerald Sinstadt
Hannah Roberts
James Crowden
Jim Railton
John Snagge
John Worlidge
Leander Club
Nick Gilbey
River and Rowing Museum
Robert Treharne-Jones
Steve Trapmore
The Boat Race
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Mandi tragedy: Family of students who died to get Rs 5 lakh eachhttps://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/mandi-tragedy-family-of-students-who-died-to-get-rs-5-lakh-each/
Mandi tragedy: Family of students who died to get Rs 5 lakh each
The order was passed by the court over a PIL initiated on basis of newspaper reports in a suo moto action.
Written by Ashwani Sharma | Shimla | Published: June 25, 2014 2:53:24 pm
Rajasthan flagged polluted water from Punjab last year
Beas pollution: Chadha sugar mill a serial offender
Molasses spill in Beas river a severe setback to aquatic bio diversity in state: Top expert
Massive search operations were launched to locate the 24 BTech students and a tour leader, who were washed away in the Beas river on June 8. (Source: PTI)
The Himachal Pradesh High Court on Wednesday ordered that the family of each student who died in the Mandi tragedy would get a compensation of Rs 5 lakh. Of this, Rs 2.5 lakh will be paid by the Larji project while the college will pay the rest.
A division bench comprising Chief Justice Mansoor Ahmad Mir and Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan announced the order after VNR Vignana Jyothi college and the state government filed a status report in in connection with the case.
The court also ordered that the officials of the Larji dam project, who were on duty when the tragedy struck, and college officials who accompanied the students, would be made party to the case. It further asked the state government and the college authorities to submit a fresh status report by July 9.
Meanwhile, the criminal investigation into the case, which has already been initiated, will be monitored by the High Court.
Larji project
Mandi tragedy
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2 Bihar CM rules out Maoist role in Rajdhani mishap
3 Delhi HC refuses to give urgent hearing to petitions on FYUP
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Mobile CT brings low-dose lung cancer screening to underserved
Posted by Vikki Harmonay on Fri, May 31, 2013 @ 15:05 PM
May 29, 2013 by Loren Bonner , DOTmed News Online Editor
Patients in an underserved area of the U.S. now have access to high-quality, low-dose lung cancer screening because of a mobile CT unit equipped with a universal CT image reconstruction add-on system.
SafeCT, from the Israeli company Medic Vision Imaging Solutions, was recently added to a mobile CT scanner that will serve patients in North and South Dakota.
"This is our first implementation on a mobile CT. All our installations so far were on non-mobile scanners in hospitals and imaging centers," Eyal Aharon, CEO of Medic Vision, told DOTmed News.
SafeCT works by automatically receiving the noisy images resulting from low-dose studies acquired on the scanner, processing them, and transferring the resulting enhanced images in real-time to the workstation, without the need for any intervention by the technologist.
Low-dose CT has garnered support recently from many major medical societies to screen patients for lung cancer, as opposed to chest radiography. Last week, the New England Journal of Medicine published results of the first of three planned annual screening examinations from the National Lung Screening Trial. Analysis of the initial annual screening found that more than twice as many early-stage lung cancers were detected with low-dose CT compared with chest X-ray.
CT as a screening tool has normally been controversial, and is still seen that way by many experts, due to concerns about radiation exposure, the costs of imaging, and follow-up testing on patients.
The new mobile CT equipped with SafeCT will provide low-dose lung cancer screening services to the general public at rural shopping centers in North and South Dakota.
Aharon said that adding SafeCT to an existing CT can eliminate the need for replacing the CT scanner with a more expensive new CT system. In the case of the mobile CT scanner in the Dakotas, SafeCT was added to a mobile GE Lightspeed 16, a common configuration, according to Aharon. In addition to saving the customer money, adding SafeCT also allowed them to avoid the hassle related to replacing the CT in the mobile unit.
"Unlike hospitals that typically have multiple scanners and therefore can accommodate a downtime of one of them, in a mobile unit every minute counts: downtime due to CT upgrade equals loss of income," said Aharon.
Mobile units also have limited staff and support, so the seamless integration and unchanged workflow was important in this case.
"The installation, integration, training and tests were all completed in just a couple of days, which made our customer happy," said Aharon.
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Hudson Valley Mother Abandons Newborn in Motel Room Toilet
OCDA
A Hudson Valley mother was sentenced after she confessed she left her newborn child in a motel room toilet.
On Tuesday in Orange County Court, 23-year-old Teresa Smith was sentenced to 10 years in prison in connection with Smith leaving her newborn baby in the toilet bowl of a motel room.
“It is hard to comprehend what could drive any mother to do this to her own baby by abandoning him under these circumstances,” Orange Cou District Attorney David Hoovler. “Infants are the most innocent of victims. We can only hope that there are no long-lasting physical effects which will be suffered by the victim in this case.
In April, Smith pleaded guilty to assault.
When Smith pleaded guilty, she admitted her actions in abandoning the newborn baby in the toilet bowl and leaving the motel room caused serious physical injury to the infant which created a substantial risk of death, officials say.
On November 1, 2018, motel workers at the Budget Inn Motel, located at 5202 Route 9W in the Town of Newburgh, discovered blood, other bodily fluids and soiled clothes in Smith's motel room and immediately contacted police.
Officers from the Town of Newburgh Police Department discovered the baby in the toilet bowl and immediately rendered first aid. The baby was rushed to the hospital and survived.
Prosecutors argued Smith abandoned the child in the motel toilet bowl moments after giving birth and left the room with no intent to return or care for her newborn.
Ex-Hudson Valley Resident Killed Dad, Free After 18 Months
2 Hudson Valley Teens Plead Guilty in Death of Teen
Fentanyl-Laced Heroin Sold Near Hudson Valley School, Cops Say
Hudson Valley College Student Killed in Alleged Drunken Crash
Car Fire in Driveway Kills Man, Dog in Hudson Valley
Filed Under: Newburgh, Teresa Smith
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Health, Modernising Drug Law Enforcement, 2016 UNGASS
Contribution of the UNODC Executive Director to the high-level review of the implementation of the Political Declaration and Plan of Action on the world drug problem, to be conducted by the 2014 CND
This paper intends to support the discussions of the high-level review by presenting global trends on the evolution of the drug problem since the adoption of the Plan of Action and by making some reflections on the way forward. It is divided
into three parts.
The first part reviews the drug situation mid-way towards the full implementation of the Plan of Action, assessing how the situation has changed during the last five years in terms of improvements, stagnations and setbacks.
The second part describes the lessons learned in the implementation of programmes which have effectively addressed the objective laid down in the international drug control conventions and the Plan of Action.
The last part presents some reflections on the way forward in drug control policy.
The paper does not intend to be prescriptive, since it is the prerogative of Member States to formulate decisions on the future of international drug control policy.
UNODC-ED-contributions-to-HLS-at-2014-CND_ENGLISH.pdf
UNODC-ED-contributions-to-HLS-at-2014-CND_SPANISH.pdf
UNODC-ED-contributions-to-HLS-at-2014-CND_FRENCH.pdf
UNODC-ED-contributions-to-HLS-at-2014-CND_RUSSIAN.pdf
UNODC-ED-contributions-to-HLS-at-2014-CND_CHINESE.pdf
United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Geneva drug policy week: When local and international actors meet in Geneva
Take Home Naloxone: best practice in preventing fatal opioid overdoses for prison leavers
Philippines: ‘They just kill’. Ongoing extrajudicial executions and other violations in the Philippines’ ‘war on drugs’
Eastern Europe and Central Asia: Right in the spotlight - Annual Report 2018
Chemsex-related drug use and its association with health outcomes in men who have sex with men: A cross-sectional analysis of Antidote clinic service data
Towards a health-informed approach to penal reform?
Chronic pain management among people who use drugs: A health policy challenge in the context of the opioid crisis
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Apply Now for New Turnouts through MSA’s Globe Gear Giveaway Program
by Horizons@Globe | Feb 19, 2019 | Featured, NFPA, PPE, Safety
Many volunteer departments are forced to make do with an inadequate amount of turnout gear or with worn-out, non-compliant gear they can’t afford to replace. That’s why MSA, DuPont, and the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) are working together again in 2019 to distribute new turnout gear to volunteer fire departments through MSA’s Globe Gear Giveaway Program. This annual program began in 2012 to help departments in need properly outfit their crew. To date, the program has delivered 455 sets to 95 departments.
“The NVFC is excited to partner with MSA and DuPont again this year on our annual giveaway,” said NVFC Chair Kevin D. Quinn. “Proper turnouts are essential to ensure the safety of our boots on the ground, but many volunteer departments struggle to provide adequate protection to their firefighters. We are grateful to MSA and DuPont for their generosity in giving back to those who serve.”
“MSA is pleased to continue this longstanding partnership with DuPont and the NVFC to provide advanced turnout gear to volunteer fire departments in need,” said Chief Operating Officer of MSA’s Globe firefighter protective apparel Tom Vetras. “For more than 100 years we’ve been dedicated to protecting those who protect us, so when there are first responders in need – we’re proud to be able to help.”
“With DuPont’s continued focus on protecting firefighters, we are proud and humbled to partner alongside MSA and the NVFC on this much needed gear giveaway program,” said John Richard, vice president and general manager, DuPont™ Kevlar® and Nomex®. “Ensuring that these brave men and women are protected as they selflessly serve their communities is paramount to DuPont, and we look forward to the kick-off of another successful Globe Gear Giveaway campaign.”
The 2019 application period for MSA’s Globe Gear Giveaway is now open. 13 departments will each receive four sets of new gear, for a total of 52 sets. The first 500 applicants will also receive a one-year NVFC membership, courtesy of MSA.
To be eligible to apply for MSA’s Globe Gear Giveaway, departments must meet the following criteria:
be all-volunteer or mostly-volunteer (over 50 percent)
serve a population of 25,000 or less
be located in the U.S. or Canada and legally organized under state/province law
demonstrate a need for the gear
department or person applying must be a member of the NVFC. To help departments meet the membership criteria, MSA will provide a complimentary NVFC Membership to the first 500 applicants.
Learn more and apply for MSA’s Globe gear at www.nvfc.org/globe-gear-giveaway. The deadline to apply is June 1, 2019. Winners will be announced monthly between July and December.
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The History of HiFi Audio Began with Yamaha.
It has been 60 years since the Yamaha HiFi Player, the world’s first audio component bearing the “HiFi" name, was released. As a comprehensive musical instrument maker, as a materials and semiconductor manufacturer, and as experts in architectural acoustics and music promotion, Yamaha has always applied its accumulated technology base and experience to the task of producing ever improving audio equipment. In this section we will present the representative products and technologies that formed the sound of each era of Yamaha’s history of innovation from the birth of the Yamaha HiFi player in 1954 to the present.
Introduction of the Yamaha HiFi Player.
Our debut product demonstrated sure sound and durability, finding a home in broadcast studios and elsewhere. Functional styling by the fledgling GK Design Group added to its value.
Bringing the principles of musical instruments to audio.
A JA5002 woofer unit was used in the first Natural Sound speaker, the NS-20. The design attempted to incorporate the principles of the grand piano soundboard to produce a greater sound dispersion.
The now-familiar pure Class A amplifier.
While it had excellent sound quality, the low efficiency of the power amplifier unit made commercialization difficult. This problem was resolved by making pure Class A operation switchable with general Class B operation. The difference in sound could now be compared with ease.
Introduction of the beryllium vacuum deposition method.
By applying an original vacuum deposition method used in the LSI manufacturing process, the difficulty of manufacturing the ideal beryllium material was overcome to enable completion of the beryllium diaphragm used in the NS-1000M and other products.
Practical application of the dream semiconductor, the SIT.
The world’s first practical application of the SIT (V-FET), ideal for audio with operating characteristics that overcame the sound quality flaws of the transistor. It was used in the B-1.
The world’s best FM tuner.
Yamaha earned top-class ratings even for tuners demanding high frequency technology. The CT-7000, completed within four years of the development of a dedicated measuring instrument, was its symbol.
Aiming to become an outstanding tool.
The cassette deck market in this era was divided into two parts, portable and stationary. Yamaha sought to integrate the two by hiring the world-class industrial designer Mario Bellini.
A light and efficient design that cut down on waste.
Our unique orthodynamic headphones featured a voice coil embedded in the diaphragm. Following the style of the TC-800GL, the light and efficient design by Mario Bellini cut down on waste.
Introduction of the definitive small monitor speaker.
An orthodox 2-way with a 16cm white paper cone woofer and 3.5cm soft dome tweeter. Long-loved for its exquisite total balance.
The symmetrical linear arm.
Development of the electronic control linear system reduced the previously inevitable tracking error of the record to zero and achieved high sensitivity even in a short arm of low mass.
Going back to the basics of audio with the GT concept.
Release of the GT-2000 record player, embodying the GT (Gigantic & Tremendous) concept of achieving high rigidity and resonance-free play through absolute mass.
The key high performance, low cost CD player.
The original LSI, which took the formerly complicated CD player and collected the control system and signal processing system circuits into just two groups. Widely supplied to other makers, it significantly contributed to the spread of the CD.
DSP*, the world’s first sound field creation technology, made commercially available.
The addition of four processing speakers to the existing stereo speaker arrangement enhanced the realism of live music. The predecessor of multi-channel playback.
* Digital Sound field Processing
The Yamaha 10000 Series of products celebrating Yamaha’s 100th anniversary.
A monumental series lineup including digital processing control amplifiers and superior phono EQ to meet the demands of all media, past, present and future.
Active Servo Technology
The development of the Air Woofer, using the air within the cabinet as a diaphragm, allowed practical use of the AST* method. Sold as a set of two speakers with dedicated amplifier.
* Now called YST (Yamaha Active Servo Technology)
The ultimate gold evaporation casting beryllium diaphragm.
The beryllium diaphragm that took the world by storm continued to evolve, adding gold evaporation to the high density, high purity casting beryllium diaphragm to produce ideal tone. Used on the GF-1.
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Israel Venture Network
From the Ashes of Disaster Grow the Roses of Success
Spotlight on IVN Members
Spotlight on IVN Events
Networking Needs
Crisis - Running Out of Time and Energy - The Israel Energy Forum Fights Back
IVN's Active Citizenship in Tuba Zangariya
IVN ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR FELLOWSHIPS
IVN's Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Program, together with its strategic partners, the New Israel Fund and the Sacta-Rashi Foundation, is delighted to announce this year's winners of IVN's Social Entrepreneur ("SE") Fellowships for 2007-2007.
The winners are Asher Elias for his 'Tech Careers: Computer Programming Training Center for Ethiopian Israelis' and Dana Weinberg for 'Women and their Bodies.'
Tech Careers enables Ethiopian Israelis to enter the Israeli high tech work for ce and earn far higher salaries by training them, providing job placement services and accompanying them in the work force to guarantee job satisfaction. Asher was born in Israel to Ethiopian parents, pioneers of the emigration from Ethiopia in the early sixties.
Asher will be mentored by Dr. Yuval Carmon, CEO of Calanit Carmon, the leading Israeli provider of information technology and outsourced services. Yuval himself is one of the leading Israeli executives in the areas of business development and management.
Women and their Bodies is a unique multicultural, multi-professional non-profit organization of women in Israel, Jewish, Arab and Palestinian, who have made it their mission to work towards empowering women to become self-health advocates who can protect and promote their own health. It is based on "Our Bodies, Ourselves" founded in Boston, that went on to inspire a world-wide movement of women's health; and aims to galvanize and energize any nascent women's health movements here in the region.
Isabel Maxwell, Chair of IVN's Social Entrepreneur Fellowship Program, said, "This year has been an inspiring and banner year for social entrepreneuring with the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Muhammad Yunis from Bangladesh - THE quintessential social entrepreneur - and we are delighted to welcome these new exceptional individuals to our program. Their projects are important and we believe they will have a strong and positive impact on society in Israel and beyond in the years to come."
Click here to see the full press release, Download press_release_final_se_winners_for_2007_ivn.doc
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Tag: Obama
Syria chemical weapons claim: The BBC just doesn’t give up By William Bowles
August 24, 2013 May 17, 2016 3 Comments
Evidently, the BBC was not satisfied with the propaganda pieces I referred to in yesterday’s article, so it’s come out with another, equally audacious piece of fiction that reiterates, again without any proof, the same drivel it peddled to us yesterday (and the day before). But what ‘UN’s Angela Kane in Syria urges chemical weapons probe‘ (24/8/13) does is communicate a sense that it (the BBC’s) wishes might yet come true; that the Empire would once again unleash the dogs of war this time on poor, destroyed Syria.
The BBC’s Syrian Chemical Weapons Coverage: An exercise in Imperial deception By William Bowles
August 23, 2013 April 14, 2016 3 Comments
Over the past three days, since the story first broke, the BBC’s news Website (I use the word news advisedly) has carried twelve stories on the alleged chemical weapons attack that took place in a suburb of Damascus. Today’s offerings include, Hague believes Assad behind attack (23/8/13), without offering a shred of proof that the Assad government is behind the alleged attack or even that it took place, takes foreign secretary Hague’s ‘belief’ as a given. The lead paragraph tells it all: Continue reading →
Pirates of the Mediterranean By William Bowles
“The media rush to glorify Obama the ‘warrior president’ is symptomatic of a Western society that has come to view war as entirely normal… It is by now almost impossible to imagine that the West would not always be attacking, or targeting for attack, some defenceless nation or other.” — ‘You Cannot Kill An Ideology With A Gun‘ By Media Lens
All things being equal, which undoubtedly they are not, and surely that’s point, the long overdue arrival of a truly socialized, globalized planet would have been able to tackle the mess capitalism has made of things. After all, our disasters are now planetary in scale and thus can now only be handled by the planet as a whole. That means all of us, not just a privileged few.
As things fall apart By William Bowles
February 5, 2011 April 12, 2016 4 Comments
4 February, 2011 — Strategic Culture Foundation
If it wasn’t such a tragedy the headlines in the corporate media would be truly laughable! Led of course, by the Washington Post and the New York Times, the duel cheerleaders for US corporate capital, where we read the following titled ‘Egypt has Obama cautiously shifting world view on democracy’:
“Shortly after taking office, President Obama traveled to Cairo to declare a new day in U.S. relations with the Muslim world – saying there was “no straight line” to building democratic societies in the Middle East.
“The June 2009 address was in part intended to show a clean break from a George W. Bush-era “freedom agenda” of promoting electoral democracies across the region. Yet Obama now finds himself forced to move much closer to that world view as he escalates pressure on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to make immediate changes.” — Washington Post, 4 February, 2011
‘Yes We Can’. ‘No We Won’t!’ By William Bowles
November 27, 2009 April 10, 2016 1 Comment
“It was amusing to read that a well-dressed Virginia couple, husband with a tux, blonde wife in a Sari managed to infiltrate the White House State Dinner, presumably an institution known for the highest of security. Red faced secret service officials muttered something about a security post that did not follow procedures. They hoaxed their way in.
“Oh, how could we be human without human errors? To add insult to injury, Joe Biden had his picture taken with the party crashers. All Smiles. Who knew?
“But a more insidious infiltration may have occurred and is still largely unaccounted for. Could there be an imposter in the oval office? In a scene out of the movie “ALIEN,” Barack Obama’s evil “Mini-Me” seems to have infiltrated the body and brain of the 44th President turning a Yes We Can candidate into the No We Won’t President.” — “Infiltrating” the Oval Office, an “Alien” Obama?, The News Dissector, 27 November, 2009
Imposter in the White House? What is it with a lot of liberal/left thinkers and the idea that somehow Obama started off as one kind of person (the ‘Yes We Can’ bit) and has been ‘turned’ into a ‘No We Won’t’ kinda prez? Where does this come from?
It was clear from the getgo what kind of president Obama would be. It’s like the argument that in the days running up to the March 18, 2003 invasion of Iraq by the barbarians, the whole thing could have been called off, if Saddam had done the ‘right thing’, whatever that was.
You don’t get to send 250,000 soldiers and materiel right up to the borders of Iraq and then send ’em all home again, any more than you get to become president of the United States without being already utterly and totally compromised on anything meaningful.
“It is in our strategic interest, in our national security interest, to make sure that al-Qaeda and its extremist allies cannot operate effectively in those areas…We are going to dismantle and degrade their capabilities and ultimately dismantle and destroy their networks.
“After eight years — some of those years in which we did not have, I think, either the resources or the strategy to get the job done — it is my intention to finish the job,” Obama said. “And I feel very confident that when the American people hear a clear rationale for what we’re doing there and how we intend to achieve our goals, that they will be supportive.” — Barack Obama, ‘Afghan troops announcement likely Dec. 1’, Washington Post, 24 November, 2009
The only people feeling conned are those who conned themselves into thinking that Obama was something other than a true servant of the Empire. The term ‘house negro’ comes to mind but that’s probably very non-PC these days. Whatever, he fulfilled a purpose, he fllled an ideological void with promise, in very much the same way as a TV commercial offers the fantasy of the faraway place, of being somebody else and last but not least, the fantasy of the skin.
It was a brilliant but extremely short-term ‘solution’ to the crisis of legitimacy the state was going through when it was decided at the highest levels that Obama was to be the ‘chosen one’. Short-term because, well look at what he‘s doing: aside from the rhetoric and the cool family photo ops, he’s Bush in drag. Okay, it was a toss-up between playing the female or race card but she’s right in there anyway and right from the getgo, and followed by all the usual suspects, Brzezinski, damn, the entire Cabal!
I could go about Danny Schecter’s piece, “‘Infiltrating” the Oval Office’ as it contains a very good analysis of what I’d expect the titular head of Empire to be doing, like receiving his corporate and political masters, who want to make sure he’s making the ‘right’ kinds of decisions for them. How could it ever be otherwise? It’s been this way for decades.
Without a really coherent, focused and determined force, independent of the current barbarians running the show, a force that can bring real pressure, not just on the prez but on the entire state machine, there is no way change can be effected and especially in the Oval Office (perhaps we’ve all been watching too many movies about fantasy presidents to recognize when the real fantasy prez comes along?).
Even if, and it’s a big if, Obama really does want to ‘heal the planet’, he has even less chance of effecting real change on just about anything than either you or I do. It’s self-delusion to think otherwise.
What depresses me about ‘Infiltrating” the Oval Office’ is the feeling of being betrayed and let down that pervades it, it shouldn’t be so. But if nothing else, the one positive aspect of the Obama ‘dilemma’ for left/liberals, is that perhaps at long last some very sacred bubbles have been burst? The same goes for the Left’s relationship to the Labour government here in the UK where a lot of bubbles have also been burst. I think it’s time for a real shakeup on the Left about what being Left is really all about?
Barack Obama, front man for the ‘man’ By William Bowles
I contend that ever since the first slave ship left the shores of Africa, the ideology of racism has been central to the success of capitalism. Without it and the wealth that slavery produced, Europe and its bastard offspring, the United States, would never have accumulated the capital that made today’s world possible. And if the corrosive and utterly destructive effects of the ideology of racism were not apparent to you before the election of Barack ‘Hope & Change’ Obama, then surely by now they should be, and especially its effects on the ‘left’.
Obama – Bush Lite or just Dark? By William Bowles
August 1, 2009 April 10, 2016 1 Comment
When it emerged that Barack Obama was to be the candidate for 2008 election I wrote extensively on why such a ‘radical’ solution was chosen, asserting that selecting a black man was a stroke of genius, if the ‘masters of the universe’ could pull it off. Amazing really, considering the people who did it, essentially the Democratic Leadership Council (see, ‘Not corrupted by DLC, says Obama’, Blackcommentator.com and where you can find a wealth of information on the DLC and Obama) and that the selection was made at least five years ago (see my ‘Sucker bait or the politics of smoke and mirrors’). At the same time, I was also aware of the paradox(es) involved and the potential pitfalls that might mean either bumping him off or removing him by some other means, I kid you not.
Barack Obama — a wolf in sheep’s clothing or just the shepherd? By William Bowles
November 13, 2008 May 31, 2019 3 Comments
“There is no doubt that the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States is historic. But does framing him as America’s “first black president” show that we have not come nearly as far as we’d like to think?” — How Far Have We Really Come from the “One-Drop Rule”? by Judith Siers-Poisson, The Weekly Spin
A triumph of image over substance
Well, depending on your politics, it seems that either Obama is the best thing since sliced bread (or Mandela, take your pick) or, he’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I lean toward the latter but with a lot of reservations and not just because of what he, Obama is but simply because of how and why he got to be prez. Thus I view Obama more as the shepherd, who, to paraphrase is instead leading the sheep to slaughter.
Vast forces were set in motion some time ago, a decision was taken at the very highest level, that an entire new reality had to be constructed if the gangsters were going to hang onto their ill-gotten gains. Bush and his half-arsed megalomaniac cronies had really fucked things up, it was time for the construction of a ‘break with the past’. And I said it at the time of Obama’s selection, that it was a stroke of pure genius, but one not without its opponents in the ruling political class who we might well term the ‘old guard’, witness the evil rantings of Hillary Clinton, who really blew her ‘feminist’ cachet, copious tears notwithstanding.
“Obama Wins! … Ad Age’s Marketer of the Year” — Advertising Age, November 5, 2008 and beating out Apple no less.
The Election Results by Age, First Time and Race
See William Bowles: ‘Obama and the Left’s Dilemma?’
Does a leopard change its spots? By William Bowles
July 26, 2008 April 8, 2016 2 Comments
The US government is talking with Iran, so what’s the catch? The simple answer is the November election. The move is clearly aimed at associating McCain/Republican Party with a new, kinder, softer Bush cabal although the Washington Post sees it somewhat differently. In an unabashed paean to Obama it says: Continue reading →
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Solving the Secrets of Forensic Science
by Rubina Munawar | Jan 18, 2019 | Stem Learning | 0 comments
“The fingerprints are a match!” How often have you heard those lines in your favorite crime-solving TV shows? From CSI to Law & Order, solving crimes by looking at fingerprints, shoe impressions, blood matches and even bite-marks, seems like the ultimate detective’s trick. But in real life, the science of forensics is a lot more complex. How do forensics help the law? How accurate are the results of forensic investigations? Let’s find out.
WHAT IS FORENSIC SCIENCE?
Forensic science is taken from the Latin word forensic meaning a public debate or discussion. In the world of law and order, it encompasses a broader perspective with applications in crime management and judicial system. Forensics are widely being used to solve crimes and investigate mysterious incidents through the application of scientific knowledge and techniques. Forensic science was used in the 16th century for the first time by healthcare officials and in the 18th century for pathology based write-ups. Advances in the technology have since then led to modern ways of uncovering mysteries and convicting crime suspects.
Forensic scientists today are experts in fields like botany, DNA, weapon analysis and odontology. They conduct both physical and chemical evaluations of evidence gathered by crime scene investigators. Evidence like fingerprints extracted from the scene, samples of blood, urine and other prints from the crime site are evaluated for traces of drugs or poison and other possible inferences. Specialists also use breathalyzer machines, calibrated for tests during incidents of drunk-driving. The different branches of forensics include Forensic Biology, Forensic Anthropology, Handwriting Examination, Behavioral Sciences and Forensic Dentistry.
HOW HAS FORENSIC SCIENCE BEEN USED?
The technology has been instrumental in providing some answers to prominent cold cases. Some of these include the murder of Krystal Beslanowitch and the disappearance of Amelia Earhart.
COLD CASE MURDER OF KRYSTAL BESLANOWITCH, 1995
This case involved the identification of the person responsible for the gruesome 1995 murder of Krystal Beslanowitch in Utah. The main investigator, Sheriff Todd Bonner, was determined to find the culprit who killed Krystal with a sharp blow to the head. In 2013, new forensic technologies aided the cops by analyzing the DNA extracted from the granite rocks near the body with the help of forensic vacuuming. According to evidence, the DNA matched with Joseph Michael Simpson a bus driver who was tried and convicted for the felony.
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF
AMELIA EARHART, JULY 2, 1937
Amelia Earhart, first female pilot to successfully fly solo across the Atlantic, disappeared while crossing the Pacific in 1937. Now, decades after her case befuddled historians and scientists, an anthropologist called Richard L. Jantz, claims the bones found on the Pacific island of Nikumaroro belong to the revolutionary pilot. Through forensic analysis of bone measurements, Jantz argues the possibility of his findings cannot be ignored. Forensic science may have helped to solve one of the biggest mysteries of all time.
IS FORENSIC SCIENCE ALWAYS RELIABLE?
The short answer is no, it isn’t. Judges normally put in their trust and confidence in forensic reports, a phenomenon termed as the CSI effect. Gathered evidence, unfortunately might not always be reliable and accurate as samples like blood, fingerprints and miscellaneous traces extracted from a scene are usually circumstantial. The validity of the forensic results and collected samples is dependent
on the technicians and the tool used for investigation, with suspects running the risk of being wrongly convicted in case the evidence is used to support criminal charges. Although forensic science has contributed to uncovering mysteries and solving complex criminal cases, you should always be careful before trusting the science in murder mystery shows on TV.
The short answer is no, it isn’t. Judges normally put in their trust and confidence in forensic reports, a phenomenon termed as the CSI effect. Gathered evidence, unfortunately might not always be reliable and accurate as samples like blood, fingerprints and miscellaneous traces extracted from a scene are usually circumstantial. The validity of the forensic results and collected samples is dependent on the technicians and the tool used for investigation, with suspects running the risk of being wrongly convicted in case the evidence is used to support criminal charges. Although forensic science has contributed to uncovering mysteries and solving complex criminal cases, you should always be careful before trusting the science in murder mystery shows on TV.
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“Derek Carr Struggles With Loss; Why He’s Still The Answer In Oakland; All The Video Highlights of Raiders v.s. Cowboys”
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Derek Carr struggles to come to grips that he fumbled out of the end zone
“No Excuses; I should have went out of bounds”.
Oakland Raiders QB Derek Carr
On a cool winter bay area night after a 20-17 loss to the Dallas Cowboys, Derek Carr grasps hands with players from both teams on the field. He leads them in prayer thanking God for all that they have been given in life and for their continued safety. His disappointment though is obvious. Carr had fumbled out of bounds in the end zone on the Raiders last play of the game for a touchback. With that, a bad season officially got worse. Less things have to happen to make Justin Bieber win an Oscar than for the Raiders to make the playoffs. And in reality they don’t deserve it.
As he walks off the field Carr hears the manic responses that are so prevalent after an NFL game, win or lose. Some fans are cussing, and there is the occasional you suck, mixed in with a supportive word. As he leaves the field, two young fans ask for his autograph and he obliges instantly with a grin. Just like the times when he visits children in hospitals or does some of his charity work, he always does it with a smile. The life of Derek Carr has it’s up’s and downs.
History of Domination:
It was a history lesson for some and a reminder for others. Two of the most storied franchises in history were meeting in Oakland. It wasn’t Stabler v.s. Staubach but it still meant something extra.
Derek Carr Fumbles out of the end zone in the final seconds of the loss to Dallas
The network showed that for 2 ½ decades, the Raiders and the Cowboys were NFL royalty. They always topped the NFL in tv ratings and they were must see TV. The goody America’s team with the cheerleaders and the too much makeup Texas look, against the bad boy Raiders and the cheerleaders who looked like the girls your mom warned you about. The NFL world stopped when the Raiders or the Cowboys played. When it looked like the Raiders and Cowboys were destined to play in the Super Bowl in 1978, the Raiders were derailed by several key injuries and a little event called the Rob Lytle fumble in Denver in the AFC Championship game. When the Broncos won, the network and the nation groaned. They wanted to see Oakland v.s. Dallas. The Cowboys dominated Denver 27-10 in a boring Super Bowl. What might have been.
(below are the condensed highlights. Click on the YouTube Icon on the bottom or double click on the video. The NFL will only allow viewers to watch it on YouTube)
What Do the Raiders Have in Derek Carr:
Four years ago some of us said the truth about Derek Carr. He’s got a good arm, is accurate when not rushed, and is a good leader. He also has limitations that may not improve with time. Even the melodramatic Chris Collinsworth said the same thing. He showed a shocking statistic that Carr’s QB rating was a whopping 60% less when he was rushed. He’s been that way since his Fresno St. days. I remember him literally imploding against USC. His psyche is a little fragile at times and he has to become more Brett Favre and Ken Stabler and less Bert Jones and Alex Smith. He needs to be a little more confident and borderline cocky but that isn’t in his makeup.
Even with the rules making breathing around a WR a penalty, the QB situation in the NFL is at an all time low. With this in mind, the Raiders are lucky to have Carr but they also have to realize he has limitations. Just look at the over-hyped Dak Prescott. He was the media darling last year but rarely did the game fall upon his shoulders. When they won though, he got the credit often. Cowboy fans fought with me online when I said how overrated he was. Well, with Ezekiel Elliott out for 6 weeks, the games were put on his shoulders and he failed. Even when they won, he struggled. People don’t think he’s elite anymore. It shows the Carr’s of the NFL world are very valuable. When you ask people who want to get rid of Carr what their choice is to replace him, many shrug and say I don’t know. One guy said just keep looking. This is why “geniuses” in the social media world will never run an NFL team.
(below are the game stats)
http://www.espn.com/nfl/boxscore?gameId=400951814
The Raiders Identity:
If I were the head coach or GM, I would go back to the Daryl Lamonica tapes and show Carr and the Raiders who they should be. The more things change the more they stay the same. This zone blocking scheme was created for a quick, fast OL and needs to be trashed yesterday. The Raiders ran for 122 yards last night with 47 of them coming from Carr’s scrambles. The Raiders are not a zone blocking team.
What they are is a huge, physical, bruising OL and they need to go back to being that. Collinsworth pointed out something I’ve been writing about all year. They have no offensive identity.
They need to go back to being a physical power rushing team that throws deep. During their glory days, often the Raiders would throw deep on their first offensive play of the game just to let teams know that Warren Wells, or a Cliff Branch or a Tim Brown was going to beat them some time that day and they better not forget it. You send a message that you will throw deep at any time and from anywhere. In one year the Raiders were in the top 5 for rushing and passing. That’s balance.
Oakland needs that identity. With a solid running game they now can use the play action pass and look downfield. Carr can excel in that type of offense. Carr is a solid B to B+ quarterback and in today’s game, those are getting harder to find.
I’d also tell Carr I could care less if you throw 4 interceptions. Stop worrying about reactions on social media, in the media itself, as well as perceptions and stupid stats. I want that ball going deep. Use those speedy WR talents to the limits. No one respects the Raiders deep throws anymore and it’s obvious Carr is playing not to make a mistake. Carr has been lucky the last 3 weeks. He’s thrown 6 passes literally right in the hands of defenders who just dropped the balls. He did it again last night with 2 more passes that defenders dropped which were thrown right at them.
It’s comical to have 3 super fast WR and not throw deep. And stop blaming everything on OC Todd Downing. I agree he’s not the answer but Carr wanted this guy as OC and the Raiders did it for Carr.
In regards to play calling, Carr can change the play any time he wants. Even an average fan can see when the two safeties are crowding the line that you don’t go with a run play; you throw the ball. Unfortunately on a few occasions last night, again no audible was called. The QB is the coach on the field and Carr needs to be that. Right now sometimes he’s not. Carr is the highest paid player in the NFL and the excuses have to stop and he needs to get to the next level.
Do you think John Elway, Brett Favre, or Ken Stabler ever worried about an interception or would ever let a play happen if they didn’t like it? Gunslingers in the NFL have one thing; a short memory; and a whole lot of wins. They are control freaks who play the game like they are playing chess. Carr needs to have that mentality. When he gets flustered he looks like Alex Smith at times, hoping something bad doesn’t happen. Carr works hard and he’s a good NFL QB but if he wants to be very good he has to improve his control of games.
Were the Raiders a One Hit Wonder?:
No, but they also weren’t as good as their record last year. At 12-4 the Raiders played the second easiest schedule in the NFL; and 7 of those wins were last minute or even last second games. They beat a lot of bad teams, with a lot of effort. This year they have the 2nd or third hardest schedule and it shows. You can’t just get by against good teams. You have to beat them. The Raiders had improved last year but no where near as much as their record said they did.
Jims Jamz:
Teams have adjusted to the Raiders and now they have to adjust. OC Todd Downing will almost certainly be gone but Carr still has to evolve and improve. As Marshall Faulk said, you want the big boy money then you have to play like a big boy. Next year Carr will be 27 and in the prime of his career. Many teams would love Carr but due to his huge salary and guaranteed money, he’s their quarterback for the present no matter what. John Elway often had little talent around him and even without a consistent run game, he was one of the all time greats. Derek Carr is not going to be at that level. What he is though is a solid QB who struggles against a rush. Not an uncommon problem but it means that a good running game is imperative to his success.
In reality the Raiders have a long way to go. They still need a lot of help on defense and their drafts outside of the 2014 draft have been borderline train wrecks. Until they have a consistent pass rush and can stop the run on a daily basis, it doesn’t matter who plays in the defensive backfield. And on offense the Raiders have to be tougher. Carr has to have more of a killer instinct and just let the ball go. It’s hard to see that happen though with his personality. He needs to know you can be a good guy off the field but a different one on it.
As Carr answers the last of the mundane and never ending questions of the media last night, he leaves with an obvious disappointment on his face. He looks forward to seeing his wife and kids I’m sure. And when they are fast asleep he will still be awake and fumble over and over all night long in his head with the outcome always being the same. And with the next game being against a tough Philadelphia team in cold weather and a slight chance of snow on Christmas day, he’s gone to bed with better thoughts. The life of Derek Carr has it’s up’s and downs.
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“Are Raider Fans Being Too Hard on Derek Carr; Is He Worth The Money?; What Happened to the Offense?; Derek Carr Thursday”
When will I learn.
Sometimes I get a little carried away on Facebook. I admit it. The good is that I see thoughtful, smart people bringing good takes and knowledge into many subjects. Some have even sought me out on social media to talk to me or ask me questions. Others personally email me or even talked to me on the phone. I’ve even become friends with some famous people who are mad enough to like my writing. Then I see some of the most insane comments and it makes my eyes pop out. From Tom Brady is a bad QB, to what leaders are part of the reptilian race, to the “fact” that the world is really flat and we could still fall off the end of it; there is no end to the Facebook insanity. The statements would be funny if these people didn’t have kids, but that’s for another day. In regards to the Raiders though, I was surprised at how nasty some Raider fans have been in regards to Derek Carr.
Is Derek Carr Worth the Money?
The reality is, Oakland had to pay Carr that much especially after such a great year. I get some people’s issues with spending that much. Let’s be real; MANY of the QB’s in the NFL aren’t worth the money. Even with the rules making looking at a WR a penalty, the QB position in the NFL may never be as bad as it is today. When the media is trying to tell us how good Kirk Cousins is, or that Jay Cutler is really a great QB when he wants to be, or that Matthew Stafford might be a hall of famer when he’s 4-45 against teams that eventually make the playoffs, I want to throw up. These are QB’s who are making gobs of money but no way are they great. Their numbers are amazing because the rules have changed so much making passing the ball so easy. Could you imagine Montana, Elway, Stabler or Marino, or Rice with these rules?
The answer is no, Derek Carr is not worth the money but that is the going rate and they had to pay him or they would have lost him. The QB position is in such a bad state that many in the media were raving about Tyrod Taylor who was near last in most every passing category do having Carr is more than a good thing. The truth is the Raiders had to pay Derek or start over; again. Any Raider fan want to go back to that state?
The Truth About Derek Carr:
I’m so glad Raider fans have come around. Over the last 4 years I’ve taken a TON of heat from them for Derek Carr, but that hate is gone. Those same people are now understanding what I’ve been saying and even agreeing with me.
I said 4 years ago that he would be a good QB but not a great one. When many fans last year said he was the greatest QB in Raiders history I just winced. The media went nuts over him. Now the same media and some of the same fans are pointing out weaknesses and two prominent people in the media said he’s way overrated. One person this morning online wanted to start a petition to bench him. Everything is so manic these days in the world of social media.
AGAIN; Carr is a solid NFL QB. His strengths are his arm and he’s accurate when he has time to step up in the pocket and throw. When he’s on the move and no one is trying to sack him, he’s very accurate and makes good decisions. He’s a positive leader and takes responsibility for the team and the players. In today’s game that is rare.
What Derek struggles with is that he’s not good when he’s under pressure. He gets flustered when he’s under a tough rush and then he begins to throw too soon, missing passes. He also doesn’t run enough. It’s just not in his makeup.
He is also not a great game manager at times. Some fan tried to convince me that Derek isn’t allowed to audible but that’s insane; high school QB’s audible. He audibles at times, but not enough of the time. Watch Ben Roethlesberger, or Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady. There are some drives where they audible every play. The QB is the coach on the field and he has to have a feel for what plays are needed. You can’t rip on Todd Downing without ripping on Carr who has the final say for what plays are used on the field. A few fans said he’s just uncomfortable doing it. Well if you want to be the highest paid player in the NFL, then get comfortable.
Derek has mostly good and some bad, but he is solid and many teams would love to have him. If you are looking for Ken Stabler and Daryl Lamonica in Derek Carr, it’s not happening. With his arm, I wish Derek would watch a lot of Lamonica’s films because he could learn a ton from the “Mad Bomber”. I do agree however with some of the fans that have said he’s the highest paid player in the NFL so why should we cut him a break. I get it. I’m just telling you what I think are his talents and his weaknesses, but I hear you.
Why Has Carr & the Offense Struggled This Year:
First off, please stop with the injury excuses. Derek hasn’t been injured in weeks. The back injury he has is not rare. Players usually come back within 2 weeks. Some come back within a week. Tony Romo talked about the injury and said it sounds worse than it is. Yet months later some fans want to use that as an excuse. No; Even Derek said he’s good to go and has been for a while and he’s not even listed on any injury report. The NFL goes crazy if you are injured and you don’t report it. Tom Brady has been on the injury report for weeks with an Achilles injury but in reality it’s not a big deal. You have to report it though.
The rumor that the team turned on him due to the national anthem thing is ridiculous. These guys love him and are personal friends with him. Carr every year gets all of the OL big gifts for Christmas to thank them for their play. This issue was high school drama and the media tried to fuel it like they were creating a reality show. The NFL even got caught up into it thinking it would increase ratings but it did the opposite. Now you are hardly hear about it and the NFL doesn’t comment on it any more.
What DID happen is that the Raiders are playing a much tougher schedule than last year for one. Last year the Raiders were barely beating bad teams for much of the year. They were 12-4 but they also had the 2nd easiest schedule in the NFL. This year they have the 29th-30th easiest. That makes a huge difference.
Another thing is the Raiders are doing NOTHING different. Teams have adjusted to the Raiders and now play press coverage to take away the short passes. Last year if you look at tape, teams were giving the Raiders 10-15 yard cushions worrying about the deep ball. Carr lead the NFL on how quickly he got rid of the ball because the short throws were there all day. Unfortunately he leads the NFL again this year in that category. The problem is that teams are no longer giving the Raiders the short ball.
Look at the Chiefs? Head Coach Andy Reid won’t adjust anything even after a long losing streak. Teams now play 2 deep to take away the deep ball and try to take away the run on first down. He won’t change though. Change is a 4 letter word in the NFL. It’s been an Andy Reid weakness for years. Now QB Alex Smith is still trying to throw deep with really bad results.
The Raiders need to readjust but with an inexperienced OC and a QB who is not big on audibles, you have defenses daring the Raiders the throw deep. Carr has thrown many more interceptions this year and he seems gun shy now. Another area of concern is the Raiders WR’s have struggled with drops. Amari Cooper has been bothered by the more physical play of the DB’s on him and he needs to be stronger off the line. The press coverage has really controlled him. In Cooper’s big game against the Chiefs, KC played an insane defense of ½ cover 2 but then played up on Crabtree, and they gave a cushion to Cooper. Cooper was open all day. Andy Reid has a history of over coaching and over thinking things and he did it again. The Chiefs were one of the few teams that had been giving the Raiders trouble last year, but they changed their defense. It makes no sense.
The Raiders also went to the zone blocking scheme up front to suit Marshawn Lynch which was ridiculous. The Zone blocking scheme was popular when the 49ers and Broncos of the 80’s and 90’s used it due to them having smaller but quicker OL. The Raiders have a huge, physical OL. They need to go back to the power run game and tell Marshawn it is what it is.
The Future of Derek Carr with the Raiders:
Derek Carr is going no where so you can want to trade him, drop him or bench him, but none of that is happening. Until next year, he’s the highest paid player in the NFL. He’s going to be the Raiders QB for the upcoming years at least. The Raiders need to hire an experienced OC who is going to push Carr to be more aggressive on the field, something that won’t be easy.
Ken Stabler would throw an interception, look who’s in the crowd watching the game, and then throw a TD to Cliff Branch on the next drive. For the great ones, their confidence levels are extremely high and they get over an interception quickly and come out swinging. Derek is different and when he starts throwing INT’s you can literally see his demeanor change.
Even with the hiring of Downing, Carr has to take some blame. Part of the reason they hired him was to make Derek Happy because he really likes him. It’s obvious Downing is not the answer as offensive coordinator.
When you see the state of the NFL QB today, Derek Carr is a solid option and many teams would love to have him. He’s the Raiders QB and he’s a good one, but he also has limitations. Put Carr on Buffalo and they immediately become a top team. With the Raiders defense lacking talent, and their coaches on the hot seat trying to keep their jobs, the Raiders have a lot more bigger fish to fry than to worry about Derek Carr. This off season will definitely be a wild one in the east bay.
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“Evaluating the Oakland Raiders from GM & Coaches to DB & QB: Who Stays in 2018 & Who Doesn’t; Plus Possible Draft Picks”
You are what your record says you are.
The Raiders laid another egg yesterday in a 26-15 loss to Kansas City. Thanks to Alex Smith’s horrible day, he kept it close in a game that really wasn’t that close. Some say how can they be this bad after a 12-4 season. Part of the reason was that they played one of the easiest schedules in the NFL last year and barely won several games. They weren’t as good as their 12-4 record said. Also on offense where teams now no longer give them the easy, short passes, the Raiders have done little to adjust. After this disappointing loss in Kansas City, even though it’s way too early, let’s take a quick look at each position and coach to see who may or may not be back next year.
General Manager:
Mark Davis likes Reggie McKenzie and it’s hard to see him not back for at least one more year. I think the Raiders are frustrated though at another lost draft pick to injury just like DJ Hayden, and Karl Joseph who all missed significant time their rookie seasons just like CB Gareon Conley did this year.
From Derrick Gibson and Philip Buchanon, to DJ Hayden, the Raiders have been missing on DB’s for a long time. They also have had several signed busts as well. The Raiders front 7 has never been the focus; the DB’s are always the focus and it’s a terrible plan. Shore up the defensive front 7 and your defense will improve immediately. The best defenses in the NFL have stud front 7’s. With the new rules, the days of shut down corners and DB’s like the soul patrol are over. This is a huge off season for McKenzie.
Jack Del Rio:
When Jack Del Rio was hired, I wrote 2 articles saying this wasn’t a great hire. The Raider nation called me a fool. Huh? Oh how the mighty have fallen. All off season and last year you heard in Jack we trust and all of the other corny sayings. Those same people now want Jack’s head. Many fans online are calling for his firing.
KNBR’s Gary Radnich is not one to spread rumors. He said he’s close to some of the people on the Raiders present staff and they are saying Del Rio isn’t exactly the most loyal guy to his staff and he’s a huge micro manager. There are also grumblings that he’s not exactly getting along with Mark Davis and/or Reggie McKenzie. His firing which was once thought to be crazy may happen. Problem is he’s owed a ton of money after signing a 4 year extension in February. Look for Jack to be back for at least one more year. And remember in his tenure at Jacksonville he went through 19 coaches.
Todd Downing:
He hasn’t’ done a good job but he’s the fans and amateur writers scapegoat. The truth is Derek Carr holds some of the blame too. Carr is the coach on the field and he has the last say on plays that are called. If you are going to trash Downing then you need to trash Derek Carr who seems to only occasionally audible. Carr for this year is the highest paid NFL player. Rodgers, Brady & Roethlesberger to name a few, audible for most of the game.
Downing was in over his head and it’s hard to see him back next year but Carr loved this guy and this was a hire to please him.
John Pagano:
Pagano is a solid defensive coordinator and he should be retained. He still has a lot of work to do though. Kansas City’s offensive line and QB Alex Smith were horrible yesterday but they still got a 26-0 lead at one point. Smith in particular was bad with his decision making and accuracy being a mess when the Chiefs should have had 40 points easy.
Defensive Line:
The Raiders for years have tried to fix the defense by signing and drafting defensive backs; it doesn’t work. If you look at most of the teams that are thriving, the key to their defenses are the front 7. They may have quality DB’s but you have to have a pass rush to win in the NFL. The Raiders don’t.
Fans will lose their mind when a player has a big game but there is no consistency. Khalil Mack had a 6 game stretch this year where he had only 1 ½ sacks and only 27 tackles. The Raiders were 2-4 in that stretch. He once was benched for poor play. In the first 10 games of the year, Bruce Irvin had 2 ½ sacks and only 34 tackles. That doesn’t scare any opponent.
Mario Edwards had a few moments but he also has not proven he’s the answer to the DL issues. Jihad Ward was not a good pick last year and even though he played most of 2016, he had very little success. Even though he’s been healthy, the Raiders have not even had him suit up for some games so already his days may be numbered.
Eddie Vanderdoes is this years Ward and he has not had much of an impact as well with has only 13 tackles all year even though he’s started often. The Raiders have to sign or draft a dominating DT who can put pressure on the QB or they will struggle; AGAIN.
Linebackers:
Navorro Bowman loves the bay area and Reggie McKenzie loves him; he did a good job in signing him. Look for Bowman to be back next year. He’s not the player he once was but he definitely is an upgrade to what the Raiders had and he’s a hard worker with good leadership skills. I love him on the team.
To be honest other than Irvin, the rest of the LB core are borderline NFL starters. The Raiders LB’s still struggle a lot in pass coverage. The Raiders need another starter and if I’m drafting next year my first 2 picks are a DT and an LB. The Raiders have to improve their front 7 or not much will change. And to watch the 49ers Reuben Foster have 45 tackles in the last 5 games and 3 for loss, is a little rough when the Raiders could have drafted him.
Defensive Backs:
If there was ever any ammo against Reggie McKenzie, it’s his signings and drafting of DB’s. DJ Hayden was a huge bust and now he finally is starting on a bad Detroit pass defense after being a nickel back for most of the year.
David Amerson did well his first year but teams found out that he struggles covering the deep ball. If the Raiders keep him it will definitely be at a lesser salary. Sean Smith has been a bust and his big salary will be taken off the books in the off season. Reggie Nelson has never been a great factor and his 4 million will also be taken off the books. Whether Gareon Conley is ready or not, he’s going to start next year. He was never good against the run at Ohio St. but his claim to fame was as a coverage man. He will get his chance quickly next year after being another injured Reggie draft pick that didn’t do much his first year.
Karl Joseph is what he is. A hard hitter who is good against the run but will struggle at times in coverage. Covering the tight end is still an issue in Oakland. Joseph had a bad game in KC with some awful missed tackles.
Safety Obi Melifonwu is an amazing athlete and good tackler but he has a lot to learn. His struggles in college were due to a lack of instinct and he also will probably be thrown into the fire next year. That could get ugly. TJ Carrie is an OK DB but he’s never going to be the shut down corner or key safety. He can provide depth though. Due to the wasted money and mistakes, the Raiders will need help in free agency. PLEASE; No more high DB picks. I beg of you.
Quarterback:
Derek Carr is now the highest paid player in the NFL and he’s feeling the pressure. He is a good, solid NFL QB, but he will never be a great QB. His reluctance to run and his uncomfortable movements when he’s rushed are obvious even to the average fan. Last year teams gave the Raiders the short ball and this year they took it away and Carr and Todd Downing never adjusted. EJ Manuel signed a 1 year 800k contract so it’s not known if he will resign. To be honest if the Raiders are relying on their backup to win, they are in huge trouble just like everyone else in the NFL.
Running Backs:
Marshawn Lynch is signed for one more year and the Raiders are solid with DeAndre Washington Jalen Richard. Jamize Olawale is also a good player. I like these guys. Lynch is not a consistently good pass catcher though so when the Raiders are behind, his presence will diminish. The Raiders are not a zone blocking team and many have said so.
Wide Receiver:
Cooper and Crabtree are solid but both have struggled with drops. Cooper needs to get more physical and with DB’s now playing on the line, he’s had issues getting into his routes. He’s a hard worker and has too much talent not to come back next year. Cordarrelle Patterson runs the worst routes in the NFL but he can run fast downfield and also is great on reverses. He makes plays and is a great return guy. Johnnie Holton is a wild card who can make plays but he doesn’t show consistency. He’s also a fumble machine if he’s hit after the catch. Seth Roberts is liked by the Raiders but his days may be numbered as the #3 WR. With issues in other areas, WR can be fixed easier than the defense.
Offensive Line:
The Raiders OL is set for at least another year. They’ve played better in the second half of the season and they are a huge key to the success of the team. Using a zone scheme on running plays has hurt this team. They need to go back to the power scheme and Marshawn Lynch needs to accept it.
Draft Choices:
First off the draft positions change like the wind. These are players that I like early on. Oakland almost always picks a DB in the first 2 rounds so this may be wishful thinking. I haven’t agreed with a lot of their draft picks especially the DB’s, but it is what it is. Here are a handful of names that may help the Raiders.
Roquan Smith LB, Georgia:
The Raiders defense would immediately improve with this guy. He’s probably the best LB in the draft and he’s been a huge key to making Georgia a top defense. Many feel he should have gotten more Heisman hype than he got. A big playmaker that can start immediately. He would be great beside Navorro Bowman and can play all downs.
DaRon Payne DT, Alabama:
Payne has really come on this year after working hard in the off season to shed a little weight which has improved his speed. At 6’ 2” and 310 pounds he runs a 4.93 40 and is a freakish athlete. He can play in passing and running downs and can create pressure on the quarterback.
Maurice Hurst DT, Michigan:
Hurst has had a good season and is solid as a run stopper and a pass rusher. He’s very athletic and is projected as a first rounder by some, a second rounder by a few.
Clelin Ferrell, DE Clemson:
The Raiders really need a DT that can push the OL back and put pressure on the QB, but Ferrell is an excellent pass rusher that they might not be able to pass on.
Like I said, social media has a lot of people that love a player and coach one day and then wants them fired the next. In reality this is business. You evaluate long and short term to see if the person or player in the position will eventually be the answer to the problem.
Also the salary cap plays a role. You can’t fix everything so you need to fix the biggest issues and do your best at other positions.
This has been a disappointing year for Oakland but they played a much tougher schedule than last year. Last year the Raiders beat a lot of bad teams and often in the last minutes of games. I think the Raiders were not as good as their record was last year and they’ve now come back down to earth.
The defense has huge issues though and that has to be fixed. The Raiders also need to get an OC that will challenge Carr to be more of a game general out there. He will never be a running QB but a scramble now and then would help as well.
This off season will see changes and lots of decisions. Time will tell if the Raiders have the people to make the right ones, and the players to carry them out.
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“From Serial Killers to Cult Members; NFL & Pro Footballs Most Horrific Crimes & Dark Secrets”
November 30, 2017 jimjax4 Leave a comment
There are many other players that didn’t make the list but these are the stories that I found and they are quite disturbing. Some of you will remember these names, but some stories I’ve never heard of. Let’s get into the sad darkness of these individuals lives & tales of evil.
Eric Naposki being taken away after his murder conviction
#8 Eric Naposki: (Patriots 88-89, Colts 1989, Barcelona Dragons 1991-92, 96-97)
UConn Product Eric Naposki had a short stint in the NFL but some nice runs in the short lived World Football League. In 3 1/2 seasons with Barcelona he recorded 16 1/2 sacks along with several blocked punts and field goals. He also had a dark secret.
In May of 2009 he was arrested for the 1994 murder of Bill McLaughlin who was famous for creating a machine that could separate plasma from blood and also simplify the dialysis procedure. He and his partners collected over 8 figures for their invention.
Naposki had become the girlfriend of Nanette Packard Johnston who at 26 and with 2 kids, put up an ad in the personal section that stated, “Wealthy men only-I know how to take care of a man if he knows how to take care of me”. The newly divorced 52 year old McLaughlin fell for her immediately. She moved into his mansion and she talked him into letting her be the bookkeeper.
McLaughlin was eventually found dead at home with 6 gun shot wounds to the torso. Johnston was having an affair with Naposki and he killed him. After embezzling over $500,000.00 from McLaughlin’s estate, Johnston was arrested and convicted for taking the money from his estate but as is in Orange County she was given a suspended sentence. A cold case detective opened up the file years later and after talking to more witnesses, got the conviction. It made national headlines. To this day Naposki claims his innocence.
Kasandra Perkins, Jovan Belcher & baby Zoey
#7 Jovan Belcher: (Kansas City 2009-12)
Jovan Belcher at best was a long shot to make the NFL. He was not drafted and was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Kansas City Chiefs. In time he made the team and even started. His acts of kindness were of legend and he was adored by fans and players alike. He met and began living with his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins. She was only 20 and eventually she got pregnant by him
As time went on Jovan eventually lost his starting job as the Chiefs middle linebacker. After several concussions and threats by the Chiefs coaching staff that his days were numbered if his play didn’t improve, Jovan changed and the pressure was getting to him. He drank heavily, and popped pain pills due to the injuries he had sustained because he didn’t want to miss any playing time. Many friends said he was forgetful, moody, and very much not himself. After his death it was found that he had CTE due to the numerous concussions he suffered. The Chiefs refused to comment on his health.
http://www.kansascity.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/vahe-gregorian/article4201525.html
As with some pro athletes, Jovan had another girlfriend on the side. After their baby was born, the fighting increased between Kasandra and Jovan. One day after a huge fight, Jovan took a .40 caliber hand gun and shot Kasandra 9 times, killing her. He kissed her forehead and said he was sorry. His baby was in the house and his mother who was staying with them called 911.
Jovan Belcher
He then drove to the Chiefs practice facility and was seen by head coach Romeo Crennel and GM Scott Pioli along with other staff members. Even after talking with them, Belcher got on his knees, made the sign of the cross on his chest and said he had to go. He then shot himself in the head in front of everyone. Friends to this day remain shocked at this tragedy.
Darren Sharper during his trial
#6 Darren Sharper: (Packers 1997-2004; Vikings 2005-08; Saints 2009-10)
NFL players and sexual assault allegations are far from strangers, but Darren Sharper took it to a new level. The 5 time pro-bowler and Super Bowl winner with the Saints, was enjoying success as an analyst on the NFL Network. This good looking, popular player was on the party trail and loved the ladies. He was known as a smooth talker who definitely liked to play at night.
What people didn’t know is that Sharper and 2 of his friends were serial rapists. They would use various drugs including GHB (the date rape drug that scrambles your memory) to drug and sexually assault over 16 women in 4 states. In one binge, they sexually assaulted 4 women in 24 hours.
Another time Sharper admitted to meeting a man and 2 women at a club and when they went back to his hotel, he drugged all 3 and sexually assaulted the 2 women. Thankfully many went to the hospital immediately and through the use of rape kits and interviews, Sharper and his friends were arrested. Even with the first couple of allegations, Sharper got off the charges. When he was finally convicted, he did a plea bargain to only do 9 years in jail. The judge was so outraged at the sentence she changed it to 20 years in Federal prison. The judge and the DA also scolded the police departments and the justice system for it’s protection of Sharper citing his celebrity and fame from being a pro football player as being the reason.
Jim Dunaway
#5 Jim Dunaway: (Bills 1963-71; Dolphins 1972)
“Big” Jim Dunaway is one of the greatest Buffalo Bills players of all time. Dunaway played between 1963-1971 for Buffalo and ended his career in 1972 getting a Super Bowl ring with the perfect Miami Dolphins team. He was ranked as the 28th best Bill of all time by a local Buffalo publication. He was a 4 time AFL all-star, 2 time AFL Champion, and many for a time thought he should be in the pro football Hall of Fame. Alas his story reads somewhat like another Buffalo great, OJ Simpson.
After a nasty divorce and long legal battle in 1995, his ex-wife Nonnie got ½ of his NFL pension, 800 acres of land on their dairy farm, and $1800/month spousal support. Jim was outraged and felt he was screwed. In time it was found out that Jim had a woman on the side that he spent several thousands of dollars on to keep happy. In 3 years he spent over $81k on her, and the judge wasn’t pleased. Dunaway tried to hide his money and also filed bankruptcy while appealing the decision. It dragged out and it got ugly. One day Dunaway said that he went to his old house to get some clothes. He stated that he and his ex-wife were cordial and supportive. Later that day, Nonnie Dunaway was found in their half filled pool dead. After an autopsy it was found out that she did drown, but only after someone had crushed her skull before throwing her into the pool. The grand jury for some insane reason didn’t think there was enough circumstantial evidence to get a conviction so they did not even pursue going after Dunaway. The police had no other suspects.
His distraught kids were outraged. They stated publicly their father had killed their mom and filed a civil lawsuit against Jim. In 2002 the Jury found in favor of the kids and he was ordered to pay over $579k in damages. Jim was upset at his children for not believing him but they relented profusely. Most that were close to the case stated that they felt Jim got away with murder. He is now 76 years old.
Cherica Adams & Rae Carruth
#4 Rae Carruth: (Carolina Panthers 1997-99)
Rae Carruth grew up fast and self absorbed and made many mistakes in life. Even as a young adult his pension for selfish behavior was the norm. He was a star at Colorado and during his sophomore season his Sacramento girlfriend had his son. Carruth had nothing to do with the son until his girlfriend filed for child support. After talking with Carruth, she agreed to take ½ of the child support due to her as long as Carruth became a more responsible father. He agreed but failed to do it.
Carruth, like many athletes was no stranger to the dating world. He casually dated Cherica Adams and eventually she became pregnant. That was unacceptable to the narcissistic Carruth who demanded she get an abortion. He told others that he didn’t want to pay any more child support. She refused to end the pregnancy.
He paid $50,000 for a friend of his to kill Adams on a dark road. While she followed Carruth after going to the movies, Adams noticed he stopped. A car came up beside her and shot at her multiple times. Carruth coldly drove off with the deed done. The problem was Adams was not dead. Below is the actual 911 call of her harrowing experience after being shot. She soon would lapse into a coma and die a month later giving birth to her son.
Shockingly Carruth was given bail and told if the baby or Cherica died, he had to turn himself in. When Cherica died a month later, a manhunt ensued. He was found hiding in a trunk of a car with $3900, chocolate, and urine in bottles.
Their son, Chancellor Adams, was born with cerebral palsy due to the lack of oxygen. Thinking that Carruth would come off bad in his trial, his lawyers never let him take the stand. He arrogantly said he did nothing wrong even though his assailants turned against him and exposed their plot. Carruth was convicted of conspiracy to commit murder and other chargers but was not convicted of first degree murder which would have probably given him the death penalty. Carruth is scheduled to leave prison on October 22, 2018. Shockingly he has threatened to sue for custody of his son who was physically damaged due to a lack of oxygen because of the shooting.
#3 OJ Simpson:
This one is too well known to get too deep into. OJ lived a secret life while being loved by all. He was an abusive tyrant that most of the country felt got away with murder. He and Rae Carruth have some serious issues. Simpson was released from prison earlier this year after serving a 9 year sentence in Nevada for unrelated crimes. I’m sure he will look for Nicole and Ronald’s killer on some golf course somewhere.
#2 Robert Rozier: (St. Louis Cardinals 1979; Hamilton Tiger-Cats 1980; Saskatchewan Roughriders 1980; Oakland Raiders 1980 for 2 wks)
Robert Rozier was born in Alaska, and moved to California. He played High School ball during the glory days of the Rancho Cordova dynasty in Sacramento California where they were considered a national power.
Rozier was drafted in the 9th round and showed potential after a quality career at California Berkeley playing defensive end. The promise was wasted when it was found out he was also a heavy drug user. After several run in’s with the law, the Cardinals dumped Rozier after 6 games. Rozier played in Canada and had a cup of coffee with the Raiders before being released, never being able to conquer his demons.
Feeling lost, he began doing petty crimes and joined an African American cult based in Miami called the Temple of Love. After befriending the leader Yahweh ben Yahweh, he changed his name to Neariah Israel.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh
There was one problem in joining this group. To join the “brotherhood” you had to kill a “white devil” and bring back a body part to prove you did it. Rozier wanted to be an overachiever and admitted to killing 7 white people people and delivering the victims body parts to please his leader. After being arrested on Halloween of 1986, he agreed to turn on his leader and became a witness for the government. Even being a witness after a plea bargain, he was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his murderous spree.
After serving 10 years, Rozier was placed in the witness protection program. Due to the third strike law, he was sentenced to 25 years to life after writing 29 bad checks. He’s now serving his time in a California prison.
Randall Woodfield mug shot, & photo while he was with Green Bay
#1 Randall Woodfield: (Green Bay Packers 1974);
The I-5 killer. One of the most notorious criminals in the annals of the U.S. was the I-5 killer, Randall Woodfield. His story is bone chilling. Randall had severe problems even at an early age. He was a good high school and college football player but he often would get into trouble for petty crimes including flashing and indecent exposure. Even with his issues, the Packer’s felt he had potential and they drafted him, but he continued to have questionable behavior. With more trouble with the law due to his crimes, Woodfield was cut and placed on the practice squad. He played for the semi-pro team Manitowoc Chiefs where borderline players trying to make the Packers team often played.
The Packers put up with a lot but eventually they could not handle his many problems. After more arrests with flashing women, he was sent home by the Packers who refused to have anything more to do with him after this.
Woodfield went back home in Portland, Oregon and he started doing severe crimes. He made women perform sex acts by knife point and also robbed them. He eventually was caught and was given a 10 year prison sentence, but his crime spree was just starting. After he got out of jail, a classmate of his was brutally murdered and even though the police felt he did it, Woodfield was never charged due to a lack of physical evidence.
Woodfield sends a postcard to a writer who he is not pleased with
In the beginning he was dubbed the “I-5 Bandit” and his reign of terror was felt in California, Oregon and Washington along the I-5 corridor. The crimes worsened. When he was finally caught, he was linked to over 44 murders, and 60 sexual assaults from 1979-81. He is now doing life in prison and even today he is one of the first people they look to in many unsolved cold cases in California, Washington and Oregon. Most in law enforcement think he killed and raped dozens more people.
There you have it. The worst of the worst criminals in NFL history. Their stories give a disturbing reminder that things and people aren’t always what they seem.
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“From Coaches to Players; Why Are the Raiders 3-5 & How & When Can They Fix It”
October 30, 2017 jimjax4 Leave a comment
With so many expectations, the Raiders are a disappointing 3-5 half way through the 2017-18 NFL Season. Let’s look at why this has happened, and how and when it can be fixed.
Reggie McKenzie:
You heard a whole lot of Raider fans using the expression, “In Reggie We Trust” this off season. Many are now looking for him to either be fired or put on the hot seat.
I’ve written about McKenzie in the past. He’s done some good things but he’s also had some really bad signings and drafts. For every Derek Carr & Khalil Mack, there are the DJ Hayden’s, Jihad Ward’s and Clive Walford’s. Reggie has missed on several high picks and it’s hurt the Raiders.
The Raiders philosophy of trying to fix the defense with DB’s is wrong. They’ve been doing it for years. The Raiders need to stop pouring money and high draft picks into DB’s, and start building a dominating front 7. If you can’t rush the passer, you can’t stop teams in today’s NFL.
Khalil Mack’s contract is now up and Oakland must pay him. This will make things even harder for the Raiders and they can’t have so many misses in their signings and their draft picks.
The Raiders need a physical front 7 that can stop the run and get to the passer. They need to draft and sign players to fix this part of the defense. McKenzie has to dump many of the contracts that are coming off the books in the off season including Reggie Nelson, Sean Smith, and David Amerson. They need to get tougher as well.
I’d love to see the Rams disgruntled stud DT Aaron Donald on the Raiders. He may be the most dominating player in the NFL today. A pass rushing DT would be my first priority. If I’m GM the teams defensive identity would be a physical one that gets to the QB. On offense I’d run a power running game with an emphasis on throwing deep. With their financial belt tightened you better be right on who you sign and draft.
Another popular phrase this off-season was in “Jack we trust”. Now many are questioning whether he is a winner and if he’s a good enough leader.
When Jack was hired, I was of the few that really wasn’t into this signing. Del Rio is a very popular coach with the owners and players. He’s likeable, says the right things, and makes sure the guys writing his checks are happy. He also has limited success. In 12 years of coaching Oakland and the Jags he has only 4 winning seasons and one playoff win. At Jacksonville things got worse the longer he coached. In his last 4 years coaching the Jaguars he was 23-36 and was let go during his last season with them.
Del Rio is usually very loyal to his players and coaches and is not one to throw anyone under the bus. That is a good trait, but he’s also not good in press conferences during bad times. His “I don’t know what happened” comment in press conferences have a bad look to it and fans of the Raiders like it as much as Jacksonville’s fans did before.
The Raiders have to get an identity and stick to it and that is Jack Del Rio’s job. Bill’s head coach Sean McDermott has built an image in Buffalo that is equal to his. He’s also gotten rid of players that didn’t buy into his philosophy. The Bills are now tough, physical on defense, and have a good running game. Buffalo does not have a good QB and they are last in the NFL in passing offense but are 5-2 and they straight up believe.
Are the Raiders a pass happy team that doesn’t care about the run? Do they want to be a power running team that can throw deep? Do they want to be a physical defense that gets to the QB? Choose an identity and follow it.
Del Rio also has to be more authoritative and take control. Saying it’s my fault or saying we have to work on a better scheme is a lot better than shrugging your shoulders and saying I don’t know what happened. Some in the media have said he’s played a big role in the defense and it hasn’t helped. If the Raiders struggle for the next season and a half, his job won’t be his anymore.
Even some in the media are now saying Derek Carr might be overrated. That’s way too simple. The truth is Carr is a good but not great NFL QB. He’s also a QB that gets rattled under a pass rush. Carr’s interceptions have got to him mentally. He’s now throwing to the check down receiver much more than in the past, and he’s trying to pinpoint passes in between defenders instead of airing it out and throwing deep. Some have said the Raiders threw deep more than anyone last year and that’s not true. The Raiders were 11th in completed passes past 20 yards and 12th over 40 yards.
There were more than a few bad passes yesterday that were caused by the pressure Buffalo was putting on Carr. He looked like he did when he was a rookie at times. He anticipated the rush instead of feeling it and it showed. Last year he was the best protected QB in the NFL and he thrived. This year the OL has struggled and so has he. NOT a coincidence.
Raiders OC Todd Downing is also getting trashed by many and he deserves some of the heat. He’s made few changes to the offensive scheme and the rest of the league has changed a lot to defend the Raiders. For instance on the turnovers yesterday, each play Buffalo played in the face of the Raiders WR. Instead of airing it out, Carr nervously went for the check down passes or tried to pinpoint the ball in between defenders.
Marshawn Lynch struggled his last year with Seattle, and he’s still struggling. He looks like a 31 year old RB and RB’s usually don’t get better or faster with age. He’s taken a lot of punishment over the years.
The Raiders have solid RB’s that can run, block and catch the ball but the Raiders have to run more. Some fans tried to say after yesterdays game, “see; look how bad the Raiders RB’s are”. Well they ran only 14 times all game with DeAndre Washington leading the way with 6 carries for 26 yards. The Raiders are an amazing 26th in the NFL for the number of rushing attempts so far this year. Last year they ended the year with the 11th most rushing attempts.
Unless Downing steps up, a new coordinator is needed. They also need to back to the power blocking scheme and run the ball down teams throats. Marshawn Lynch enjoys the zone blocking scheme for his OL but it hasn’t worked. The identity of the offense should be a power running game and then use the deep ball with the play action pass. You can’t blame Todd Downing with poor play calling and not get on Carr. Carr is the coach on the field and he’s got to audible more. He has the final say on what play will be called. Part of being a QB is calling a great game and he was fooled a couple of times when the Bills showed blitz but didn’t.
Where do we start. At the start of the year some publications said that the Raiders had the worst LB’ s in the NFL. The Raiders still have 17.5 million guaranteed until next year with CB’s David Amerson and Sean Smith. Reggie Nelson’s 4.25 million will be off the books too. Amerson struggles guarding the deep ball and Smith has struggled with everything. Reggie Nelson is on his last legs and Karl Joseph still struggles defending the passing game. Gareon Conley’s rookie year is pretty much not going to amount to much and that’s another round 1 pick that didn’t help much their first year.
The Raiders defensive line still can’t create a pass rush or stop the run. Khalil Mack had only 2 tackles yesterday with no sacks and was kept out for a small part of the game without any injury. The team has only 12 sacks in 8 games and it’s the same old story, different day.
Fans posting that the Raiders have this amazing amount of talent on defense and all they need is good coaching are ridiculous. They need talent big time on defense. Ken Norton Jr. and Jack Del Rio may not be the answer to fix the defense, but until they improve the talent, NOTHING is going to change.
Blow it up. Get an experienced, quality coordinator. The Raiders want to win now. Mario Edwards Jr. has his moments but he’s not the answer so far. Jihad Ward was a bad pick. Keep Navorro Bowman but they need more help at LB. Let Amerson, Nelson and Smith walk. They have to get a DT that can put pressure on the QB and stop the run adequately. The Raiders have been fooling themselves on the defensive side of the ball for years. What they’ve done for 15 years hasn’t worked. It needs to be fixed yesterday.
Most feel it will take 10 wins to ensure a playoff spot this year. If that is true, Oakland will have to go 7-1 the rest of the way. The Raiders have games left at home with Dallas, Denver, and the Giants and have to play Kansas City, San Diego and Philadelphia on the road. In regards to the struggles the Raiders had with the weather in rainy Buffalo, that is a beach party compared to playing in Kansas City and Philadelphia in December. This doesn’t include a game in Mexico with the Patriots right after the bye week.
Next week the Raiders play at Miami which is always a tough game for them. Realistically they will have to play amazing football the rest of the season to get to the playoffs. The offense can be improved to a point this year with some adjustments but the defense needs a lot more help that must be addressed in the off-season.
The Raiders players have a good attitude saying that they are going to work hard and stay committed. They are sticking together and not throwing blame to each other. They also can’t think about playoffs but they do need to think about the next opponent.
The Raiders will have to play amazing football the last 2 months to make the playoffs. The off season darlings of the NFL are in trouble. The castle that looked so sturdy is now having it’s foundation checked for damage. Time will tell how much work will need to be done to fix the team and if they do it right.
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“Are the Raiders in Better Shape Than People Think? Key Stats on The Teams of the AFC West”
Navorro Bowman makes a tackle against the Chiefs
While people were trying to figure out why the Raiders were 2-4 in the early season, I and others took a simple approach and looked at the x’s and o’s. Teams had adjusted to the short passes of the Raiders passing game and we’re forcing them to throw deep and they were failing. I’ve been screaming for three weeks for the Raiders do to two things; open up the offense and throw downfield; and blitz often. They did both and pulled out a win at home against Kansas City and looked like a different team.
Even with the trying season and the need to talk fans off the ledge due to week to week reaction, in reality the Raiders have more of a chance than people think to get into the playoffs and possibly even win the division.
In Reality:
Let’s stop kidding ourselves. No, the Raiders don’t have amazing talent on defense and no they are not going to be good on that side of the ball this year. They may have some moments but for the most part they are not able to get it done. The offense is going to have to carry them and if they don’t play well, the Raiders are toast. Next year the Raiders HAVE to fix the defensive front 7 or they are going to turn into the Miami Dolphins of the 80’s and 90’s; all offense, little defense. Ask Dan Marino how many Super Bowl trophies he has.
No, Derek Carr isn’t the greatest QB in Raiders history and yes, he struggles big time if he’s rushed. Last year he was the best protected QB in the NFL and he thrived. This year he has had just ok protection and he’s struggled for the most part. In the KC game he was never sacked and had great protection and threw for over 400 yards. NOT a coincidence.
After admitting these facts, we can now look at the 4 teams and how they may fare for the rest of the season.
L.A. Chargers Melvin Ingram
Los Angeles Chargers:
As wrestling star Big Poppa Pump Scott Steiner used to say, pass rushing star Melvin Ingram is “legit”. While future star Joey Bosa gets most of the publicity, Ingram has turned into a one man wrecking crew with his fast and physical style. The Chargers DL is the real deal.
I like what is happening on the defensive side of the ball in Los Angeles for both teams. The formula in the wins for this team is simple; keep it close or get a lead, and then let the pass rush and pass defense take over. In the last 3 weeks that formula has worked.
The Chargers have been on their biggest high in a very long time. They have won their last 3 games beating the Giants and the Raiders on the road in close games, and then last week they shut out the punch-less Denver Broncos 21-0 in Los Angeles.
Their defense has been a key to their wins, especially in the red zone, not allowing a red zone touchdown in 3 weeks. They are 5th against the pass but are 31st against the run.
We will find out just how good the Chargers are this weekend when they visit New England. At 3-4 they still have a long way to go to take the division and their offense hasn’t exactly been lighting up the scoreboard. They are still very one dimensional being 8th in the NFL in passing yardage per game, and even with Melvin Gordon they are 31st in the run game.
Can They Win The AFC West:
The Chargers have some brutal road games ahead at New England, Jacksonville, Dallas and at Kansas City. They also have home games with Washington and Oakland ahead.
They will go as far as their offense takes them which I don’t think is far enough. Even with all of the publicity Phillip Rivers gets, earlier this year they broke a 24 game streak of not scoring a TD in the last two minutes of the half or at the end of a game. Could you imagine Tom Brady, Joe Montana or Ken Stabler having that streak? I don’t trust Phillip Rivers who to me is more of a stat stuffer than a winning QB at the end of games. A good guy, good QB but not great. The new rules are making legends out of average to good Qb’s because their stats are extremely hyper-inflated due to the rule changes the past 6 years. Look at the ridiculous illegal use of the hands call against KC on the play when Derek Carr fumbled. He literally didn’t touch the WR after 5 yards and barely patted him within 5 yards. In the 70’s-90’s that would have been considered a hand shake. That changed the game and it was a call you don’t see in flag football. The rules have gone overboard, but that is for another day.
The Chargers lack of a running game also continues to limit their offense. I don’t see them winning the division but a possible .500 record isn’t a crazy idea.
Kansas City Chiefs:
I’ve never been a huge Andy Reid fan but I’m really not getting what is going on in KC. I just read where Justin Houston; the Chiefs all star stud pass rusher; is now being asked to fall back into pass coverage 25% of the time. That is the third highest % of any edge rusher in the NFL. Here is a guy that can take over a game by himself and he’s in coverage 1/4th of the time? Wow.
The Chiefs defense used to carry them, and now it hinders them and they continue to struggle on defense. They are 25th against the run and 28th against the pass. Their pass rush when only rushing 4 players, hasn’t been good at all. They have only 15 sacks in 7 games and that is not KC football. The offense continues to shine being a top 5 offense. They did fail on their last drive against Oakland though when they could have iced the game.
The Chiefs offense is still on a roll and they have a key game at home with Denver next. With Denver struggling so much on offense this looks like a Chiefs win right? This is the NFL folks.
Can They Win the Division?:
Right now they are in the drivers seat, and if they beat Denver they are in great shape. With the easiest schedule ahead of all of the 4 teams, it will be hard to beat the Chiefs for the division. KC is the odds on favorite right now but anything can happen.
Broncos CJ Anderson scores a TD in the snow in Denver.
Denver Broncos:
I don’t care about all the love that Tony Romo and all of the other announcers give to Bronco QB Trevor Siemian; I think it’s become illegal for announcers to tell the truth anymore about NFL QB’S; he is a bad NFL QB.
With a lack of accuracy and vision to make the right throw, the Denver offense is hamstrung at QB. In their 3 losses this year, Denver has scored a total of 26 points. And to be shut out on the road against the Chargers 31st ranked run defense, is a bad sign. Bill Musgrave is Denver’s QB coach and he seemed a lot better coach when he had Derek Carr didn’t he? For all of you that want coaches fired after every loss, isn’t that crazy how that works out? Better players make coaches look better? Insane, I know. (highly sarcastic comment)
To be fair the Broncos left side of their offensive line has struggled all year and that hasn’t helped. Denver is 24th in scoring offense and is middle of the road in many offensive categories, but where they fail is in the red zone. They are 29th in scoring TD’s in the red zone and in their last 3 games they scored a TD in only 11% of their times in the red zone. On the road for the year their % is an abysmal 25% TD rate in the red zone. I don’t think this trend ends any time soon either. Siemian is a very limited QB and they will struggle in the red zone all year. What is scarier is how come Paxton Lynch cant’ beat him out when he was healthy?
Defensively Denver is 6th against the pass and 2nd against the run but they are 13th in sacks with 18 for the year. Their defense is still really good, but just not as dominating as in the past.
Can They Win The Division:
Denver will always be in the hunt because of their defense, but their offense is a hindrance. It’s hard seeing Denver taking this division unless Siemian improves, especially in the red zone. Don’t be surprised if you have a Brock Osweiller sighting soon. Osweiller was re-signed in the first week in September. Looking at the QB situation in Denver, it’s like I’m a sick child and the doctor asks if I want castor oil or a shot. With Paxton Lynch’s constant injury issues, the QB situation is as bad as it gets in the mile high city.
In regards to their schedule, Denver also has to play away games in Kansas City, Oakland, Philadelphia and Washington, along with home games with New England and Kansas City. With that schedule the odds of winning the division is shrinking. They are on the outside looking in if they lose to Kansas City in their next game.
Raiders DeAndre Washington scores a TD against KC on a tough run
Oakland Raiders:
After 4 straight losses with some Raider fans getting ready to throw everyone off the plank including the cheerleaders and announcers, the Raiders saved the season from going under with a big win against Kansas City at home. Even with this win there is a lot to do.
With the signing of Navorro Bowman, the Raiders now have a quality LB that is better than anyone they presently have on the roster. He’s no where near the same player that was one of the best in the NFL, but he definitely can still produce. Even with Bowman the Chiefs were 8-15 on third down and had 425 totally yards of offense. I’ve talked at length about the defense in past articles, so let’s just say that Oakland’s defense is not good, and it’s not going to be good for the rest of the season. He’s not going to help much in coverage but he does make the defense a little better.
For the Raiders to win, their offense will have to carry them like they did in the previous game. I was against the signing of Marshawn Lynch from the start and I really like the Raiders stable of RB’s. It will be interesting to see how they do against the stout defense of the Buffalo Bills. The Raiders have a nice match-up against a Buffalo team that has a solid defense but not much of an offense outside of LeSean McCoy. Tyrod Taylor is very limited at QB and a close Raiders win is probable but nothing is for sure.
The problem is down the road. After playing in Buffalo, they play a night game against Miami which I think they can do well in. Then it gets interesting. The Raiders go to Mexico to play New England, and have home games against Denver, Dallas & the NY Giants. Add road games in Kansas City, Philadelphia and against the Chargers and the Raiders second half schedule is as tough as anyone’s. The Chiefs and Eagles (on Christmas Day) games will be at least cold if not snowy. California teams don’t exactly thrive in the snow. As a lifelong northern Californian, I personally don’t even like to open the freezer let alone be in the cold midwest or east.
Will The Raiders Win the Division?
There are two huge games that will help in determining if the Raiders can win the division. One will be the Denver game in Kansas City this weekend. If KC wins that game, they regain control. Another game is the Chiefs hosting the Raiders in December. If the Raiders lose that game it’s hard to impossible to see them winning the division. As viewers it’s always fun to look ahead but in reality every week is like the playoffs and you can’t take anyone lightly anymore in the salary cap era. Every team has issues and it all changes week to week, especially with injuries.
The Bills game should be a tough, grinding game for Oakland. With temperatures in the 40’s with a 70% chance of rain expected, the road starts out as a tough one in upstate New York for the Silver and Black. The road to the AFC West crown will be a wild one for each team.
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“What the Oakland Raiders Must Do To Beat Kansas City Tonight; The Season is on the Line”
Raiders OC Todd Downing & QB Derek Carr
I’ve seen some of the craziest theories for some fans and even writers trying to explain the issues with the Raiders. I’m just not that smart I guess; I break it down to what is and not to what might be so let’s look at the statistics.
Raiders Issues:
If you follow the NFL you know that owners and coaches have 2 flaws. They hate change and when they do change they copy someone. Right now the Raiders need to change their philosophy on both offense and defense to combat the changes other teams have done to stop them. For 4 straight weeks they’ve refused to adjust and it’s cost them against teams with less talent.
What Needs To Change On Offense To Beat the Chiefs:
The Raiders have completed only 2 passes over 40 yards this year and 15 passes for over 20 yards. That is on the same pace for last year.
The problem with that is for the last 4 games teams have begun to play press coverage on the Raiders. Commentators have talked about how teams no longer give the Raiders the easy short throws and the Raiders have to stretch the field. So far they haven’t adjusted to the defensive changes of other teams.
Bill Musgrave is not a genius and he was not a big loss even though some are getting way too carried away with his importance. He’s now the QB coach at Denver and Trevor Siemian is borderline atrocious, and is a big reason their offense struggles. What OC Todd Downing and Derek Carr are not getting is that they need to adjust their philosophy and they aren’t. Teams are taking away the short game so now you have to throw deep.
The first thing I’d do tonight is run a play action pass on first down and throw the deep ball. Even if it isn’t caught, it will give the threat of it. Cordarrelle Patterson is lightning fast and so is Amari Cooper & Johnny Holton. What good is that speed if you are not going to stretch the field? The NFL is a game of adjustments and those that don’t adjust, fail to keep their jobs.
Marshawn Lynch & The Formula to Beat Kansas City:
I was in the 1% who did not like the Lynch signing. He’s not the same player and he’s lost his burst. I like youth at RB; always have. Also the Raiders changed to a zone blocking scheme to accommodate his running style. The zone blocking scheme is more for smaller and quicker OL. The Raiders have a mammoth sized OL and they should be running the power scheme and NOT zone blocking. The running game has suffered for it.
The Pittsburgh Steelers are 5-1 against the Chiefs in their last 6 games. Why? Because they stopped the nonsense of throwing 40-50 times and ran the ball down Kansas City’s throat each time. They also took away the run and the short pass to the RB’s and TE’s and tried to force Alex Smith to throw deep which is not his strength.
The Raiders need to run and run often. Jalen Richard & DeAndre Washington have to run the ball more. He’s quick to the hole where Lynch isn’t. If it were me Lynch would not even start, Richard would. I would employ Lynch as a short yardage or goal line back.
What Needs To Change On Defense:
The Raiders are 27th in the NFL in sacks with only 11. Sound Familiar? If you can’t rush the passer your defense will not be good; end of story. Especially in todays game with the rules protecting WR.
The Raiders also lack talent and you can’t fix that mid-season. Navorro Bowman was a great signing for the LB’s but he’s nowhere near what he was in the past. He’s had two terrible leg injuries and his speed has suffered a lot. If he can get there he can make a tackle that is for sure. On the Raiders though he immediately becomes their best LB. Bowman is not a blitzer; he’s a straight up LB and in his prime was as good as anyone in the game. All these ridiculous predictions of multiple sacks and 12-15 tackles and multiple fumble recoveries are fun stuff on Facebook groups I guess but it’s far from the real world. Hopefully Bowman can get into a regular rotation and get his sea legs in the Raiders defense for his first game.
The philosophy for years for Oakland was to sign and draft great db’s to fix the defense. That plan has failed miserably. With the rules today making looking at a WR a penalty, the QB and WR stats are like pinball scores. You have to have a pass rush or your DB’s are toast. The Raiders have failed to emphasize the DL and the LB and focus on DB’s and it doesn’t work. Right now they can’t cut Sean Smith who has around 9 million in cap room. They have to wait until next year. David Amerson who struggles with the deep ball, has 8.5 million on the books. That’s a huge amount of wasted money on limited return.
The Raiders DL still can’t rush the passer and for another painstaking year it’s killing the team on defense. Add that the last 2 weeks Mack has been quiet as well and wasn’t double teamed very much, and it’s a recipe for disaster.
It will take a miracle for the Raiders to win big with this defense but you have to make do. If I’m Jack Del Rio I go crazy with my play calls. The Raiders do not have the talent on defense to stop a lot of teams so I make sure on any third down with more than 5 yards to go I blitz someone. In fact I would blitz a lot but I’d change it up. If the Raiders do not get to the QB their DB’s and LB’s can’t cover. Karl Joseph struggles a lot covering TE and the LB’s coverage skills are so bad, ex-Raider Rich Gannon said he’d throw to the RB’s almost every time. The thought of Kareem Hunt and Travis Kelce running wild after catching passes tonight is a definite worry.
The Player The Raiders Need To Change Their Defense Immediately:
Rams DT Aaron Donald is extremely unhappy where he is. This guy at times is unblockable. He’s double teamed often but he still gets big numbers. He is probably the best DT in the game. He’s 26 and in the prime of his career and he want’s big money. Well I make it work. The Raiders overpaid for some free agents and their money is coming off of the books. Sign him and Mack and now you have a special tandem.
I’d play Donald on the same side as Mack. I’d then start moving Mack around when teams figured that out. This would give the Raiders a pretty much unblockable DL especially on obvious passing downs. Now THIS tranforms your defense immediately. Not a DB that you hope works out when you don’t have a pass rush. Will the Raiders give that type of money to the DL along with Mack? Probably not. A man can dream can’t he?
What is Going To Happen Tonight?
If the Raiders do nothing to their schemes and keep throwing short and keep trying to play their defense straight up, then a close loss at home is probable and a 2-5 start will destroy their season.
If the Raiders wake up and start throwing deep and setting that up with a physical running game, then they can score some points. Their defense also needs to become much more aggressive on blitzes to hide their deficiencies in coverage. If they do these adjustments I think the Raiders win. If not, a 2-5 start is assured and this is with the hardest part of their schedule waiting ahead. And if I’m the GM and they don’t make these adjustments for the entire year, both coordinators will be looking for jobs elsewhere. I’d also tell Jack Del Rio he will be next if they don’t adjust. When teams adjust NFL coaches, change is good. I guarantee it.
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CRM - Creating/Editing Fields, Views & Layouts
Clubessential Resource Center
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How to create new records in the CRM, and edit existing records with new/updated data.
Use Case(s)
A CRM Record is a collection of data from related fields from within the same object. The most common example of a record is a single Contact. This contact record contains various fields, housing specific data pertaining to that contact.
However, CRM Records are not limited to just Contacts. Often, you may need to create Activities, Notes, Event Opportunities … the list goes on!
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Accessing the Tool
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To access your CRM, sign in to your member website as an Administrator. Then, hover over the Admin toolbar in the top, left-hand corner of the page. The CRM link should appear in either the Communication or Content Management section, sometimes titled CRM & Data Warehouse.
The information covered in this section is mostly found in the Admin Dashboard of the CRM. To access this, while on the main CRM Dashboard (above), hover over your name in the top, right-hand corner of the CRM, and click the Setup option.
From here, you will see the CRM Admin Dashboard, which looks similar to the CRM Home Dashboard, but with a different sidebar on the left, and no Application Links at the top.
Editing Fields/Views/Layouts
As an administrative CRM User, you have access to almost all of the editable settings within your CRM. This includes creating new fields, adjusting the fields visible in a given View/Layout, and editing the values within an existing picklist field, among many other permissions.
Adding/Editing Fields
Your CRM should already include many different fields, containing a variety of different types of data. However, often you may need to begin storing a new piece of data that does not already have a corresponding field in the CRM, or you may need to edit the list of values available to choose from in a Picklist field.
Adding a New Field
To begin, you’ll need to first decide what Object your new field will reside in - that is, what is it that this field will be helping to describe? The most commonly used Object in CRM is Contacts Object. All fields in the Contacts Object should be used to directly describe a person, whether they are a Member, Prospective Member, Guest, or other. In this example, the field we are adding is “Beverage Preference”, which will allow us to choose which beverage this Member prefers when they dine. This field would most accurately describe a Contact, so we will create this new field in the Contacts Object.
To create your field, you’ll first need to access the Admin Dashboard. To do this, first start at your CRM home screen, then hover the mouse over your name in the top right corner, and click the Setup option.
To add your new field from here, you’ll first need to open your Contacts Object for editing. From the left-hand sidebar, click on Options to expand the list and display all of the Objects present in your CRM. Contacts should almost always be the first Object listed. Click Contacts to expand the list further, and then click Fields to view the list of existing Fields for the Contacts Object.
Before adding in your new field, scroll through this list to see if it already exists. If it does, then you can skip ahead to either Editing a Layout or Editing a View to add this field where needed. If it does not already exist, then navigate to the top of the list of fields, and click on the blue button titled + Add New Field.
Once you click on the + Add New Field button, you should see a list of blank field properties:
Label: This is the field name, as it will display across the CRM. When choosing a name, be descriptive, but concise. Ex: Application Date
Column Name: This is the database name of the field you are creating. This should automatically generate once you click out of the Label field. In most cases, it is best to leave this as the default value.
Description: An optional field that allows you to enter a longer description of the field you are creating. This will only be seen in the full list of fields for the corresponding Object. Typically, if your Label is descriptive enough, this can be left blank.
Data Type: Choose the type of data that will be accepted in this field. There are many options, but the most commonly used are:
Checkbox: Sets this field as a checkbox, which can either be checked (true) or unchecked (false).
Currency: Sets this field as a number, formatted for currency. Useful for tracking different revenue streams, and automatically appends the $ sign and decimal when entering data.
Date: Sets this field as a date, with no time value. Brings up a datepicker when entering data.
Date/Time: Sets this field as a date with the time appended. Brings up a datepicker with time selector when entering data.
Email: Sets this field as a text box with forced formatting for email addresses. Fields of this data type can be used as targets for Campaigns, or can be used to directly send emails from a View/Layout.
Number: Sets this field as a number, and allows you to configure the allowable size of number (in digits) and number of decimal places allowed.
Picklist: Sets up a dropdown list of options to choose from, of which only one option can be selected.
Picklist (Multi-Select): Sets up a list of checkboxes, representing options, from which multiple values can be selected.
Text: A standard text box, with no formatting applied. Useful for displaying short pieces of basic information, such as names, addresses, phone numbers, etc. Allows you to set the maximum number of characters that can be entered, and whether or not all values in this field must be unique across the entire Object.
Text Area: A larger text box, with no formatting applied. Allows you to set the maximum number of characters that can be entered.
For our example, we’ll choose the Picklist option, which will allow us to choose from a list of options (that will be populated now) when filling in this data on Member records later on. Once you select Picklist from the Data Type drop-down, the screen will reload and some new options will appear below.
To begin, the list of drop-down options to choose from will be blank, so we will need to populate those options. To do this, click inside the text box next to the blue button titled Add Option and type the name of the option that you would like to add. Once complete, click the Add Option button, and your option will appear in the box above. Repeat this process as needed until all the necessary options have been added. You can reorder the list by clicking on an option, and then using the Up or Down Arrow buttons to the right of the options box to move that option up or down in the list. You can remove options by clicking on the option to remove, and clicking on the “X” icon just under the Up/Down Arrows.
There are two more Field settings available before the Save button. Choose whether to sort the options in the order they appear in the listing you just created (default), or to sort all the options alphabetically, regardless of how they were entered.
Finally, choose whether this field should be required. If the field is marked as required, any record that is created or edited in this Object will not save until a value is entered for this field. It is recommended to only use this for fields that would appear to all types of records within this Object (in our example, the Contacts Object). Therefore, making the Member Number field required would not be recommended, as all Prospects, Guests, Realtors, etc. do not have a Member Number, and you would not be able to save a new Prospect (or similar) record until a Member Number was entered. However, the Primary Email Field may be good to set as required, if you are certain that you will be able to fill this in for each contact that you enter.
Once you have completed the steps above, click the blue button at the bottom of the page titled Save Properties, and your field will be created.
A field does no good if it is not visible, so continue reading to learn how to add this new field into a View and Layout, so you can both view and edit the information in this field for your CRM records.
Adding/Editing a CRM View
A View in the CRM is a screen that displays a high-level overview of a subset of records from within a single Object in the CRM. Views typically have filters in place that will display only records that meet certain criteria. For example, the “Our Members” View will display all records in the Contacts Object that have a status of “Member.” The fields displayed in a view are customizable to match the type of record displayed within. For example, the “Member Number” field makes sense to appear in the “Our Members” View, but not in the “Membership Prospects” view.
Adding a New View
To create your View, you’ll first need to access the Admin Dashboard . Similar to adding Fields, you’ll need to think about which Object this View will reside in. In this example, we’ll be adding the new View “Real Estate Prospects” to the Contacts Object.
To add your new View from here, you’ll first need to open up your Contacts Object for editing. From the left-hand sidebar, click on Options to expand the list and display all of the Objects present in your CRM. Contacts should almost always be the first Object listed. Click on it to expand the list further, and then click on Views to be brought straight to the Views section of the Contacts Object setup screen.
You should now see a list of all available Views within the Object you are editing. To edit an existing View, click on the gray Edit button immediately to the left of its name in the listing. To see a live representation of this View, click on the gray View button immediately to the left of its name in the listing. To add a new View, click on the large blue button titled + Add New View.
You should now see the Edit View screen:
Name: Enter a short, descriptive name for this View. Ex: “Real Estate Prospects”
Description: Optionally, enter a longer description of this View. This would be seen only on the Views overview, and not from the View itself.
Layout: Select which Layout will be related to this View. Whenever a user clicks to view a record from this View, this is the Layout that will display that record’s information. For example, a new View for “Members” should use the “Members” Layout so that, when a record is opened from within the new View, the full list of Member information is displayed.
Object Default: Check this box to make this View the default for this Object. Any reference to this Object that does not point to a specific View will instead show the Object Default View.
Object Display Name: Dictates how the Object will be referenced from within this View. For example, this changes the verbiage of the Add New Record button from within the View. If left blank, the default is set to the Object Name.
Fields: Lists which Fields are visible within this View. By default the system fields RecordName, Created, and Updated are visible. The order that the fields appear in this list is the same as how they will appear in the View (the top-most field will appear furthest to the left in the View). The options for each row are:
Edit: Allows you to change the value in the Display As and User Filterable columns for this row.
Column Name: Displays the Column Name of the field that is set to display in the View in this position.
Data Type: Displays the data type of the field that is set to display in the View in this position.
Display As: Allows you to change the verbiage that displays for this field in the View. For example, you could change the wording of the Updated field to Time of Last Update.
User Filterable: Enables this field to be added to an Advanced Filter in the View, for on-the-fly filtering.
Positioning Arrow: Click and drag this arrow up or down to reorder the fields within the table.
At the bottom of the list of fields is a blue button titled Add New. Clicking this button will add a new row to the bottom of the existing list, and allow you to configure a new field in this View.
7. Sorting: Allows you to configure the sorting options for records within this View. All sorting can be in either ascending order (lowest to highest) or descending (highest to lowest) order.
Enable User Sorting: Enables users to change the sort order in this View manually by clicking on the column header. Checked by default.
Multi Column Sorting: Enables users to sort this View by multiple columns.
Default Sort: Configures the sort order that will be applied to the records within this View by default when it first loads. More details on this below.
Default Sort Always Applied: When checked, the default sort order will always apply. Any user sorting (if enabled) will only take place after the default sort. In many cases, this prevents user sorting entirely, so it is recommended not to select this option unless you want to prevent user sorting.
Default Sort: Under the Default Sort option, click on the button titled Add Sort Field to configure the default sorting of this View.
From here, select which field you would like to sort by. The default sort order of any given field is descending (down arrow). Click on the field again to flip the order to ascending (up arrow). You can add additional sort fields to do more advanced sorting.
8. Filtering: Configure which field(s) this View uses to filter out records, and therefore which records are displayed in the View.
a. Quick Filter Field: Choose which field(s) will be used in the search field within this View. RecordName is always enabled by default, but you can enable more fields here as needed. For example, in order to search by both Contact Name and Email address, be sure to check the boxes for RecordName and Primary Email - then the desired search criteria will check both the RecordName and Primary Email fields for a match.
b. Show Letter Picker: Determines whether the letter picker will display at the bottom of the screen in this View. Checked by default.
c. Default Filter: Configures to default filter for this View, so you can tailor which records will be displayed. Click the blue button titled Edit Filter to open a popup window with the filter options:
At the top of the popup window is a table in which the field(s) to be used as filters are entered. Click on the blue Add New button to configure a field for this filter. The options for each line of the filter are as follows:
Index: Used in the Filter Logic section below to target this line in the filter. This value is automatically generated.
Column: Select which field to use in the filter.
Operator: Choose how to compare the selected field to the value entered in the Value column.
Value: Enter (or choose, for picklist fields) a value to compare the selected field against.
Once you have filled out all the fields in this line, click Save, and your new field comparison will be added to the table. You can repeat this as many times as necessary to build your filter.
Underneath this section is a text box to enter in logic commands to combine the fields entered in the table. This is only necessary if more than one field is selected in the table (if only one field was chosen to filter, then this section should be left blank).
In this section, use the operators “AND”, “OR”, “NOT”, and parenthesis to combine the field comparisons from the table above, using the Index value to refer to a specific line. See the below image for example:
In this image, there are three lines of logic entered:
Status Equal “Membership Lead”: will be True if a record has a value of “Membership Lead” filled out in their Status field, otherwise will be false.
Status HasValue: will be True if a record has any value at all in the Status field, otherwise will be false.
Membership Opp Stats Equal Open: will be True if a record has a value of “Open” filled out in their Membership Opp Status field, otherwise will be false.
In this example, we’ve entered the following line of logic:
(A OR NOT B) AND C
In plain English, this states that:
Records that have a Status that is either EQUAL to “Membership Lead” OR that have no value entered in the Status field, AND which have a Membership Opp Status EQUAL to “Open”.
Once you have set up your filter as needed, click on the blue button labeled “Apply Filter” and your filter will be applied to the View.
9. Options:
Use this section to configure some final miscellaneous options for this View. The Options available are:
Show Add New Record: When checked, a button will be present in the View to allow users to add new records. Unchecking the box will hide this button from this View only.
Show Edit Record: When checked, a link will be present next to each record allowing users to edit the selected Record. Unchecking the box will hide this link from all records in this View only.
Show Delete Record: When checked, a link will be present next to each record allowing users to delete the selected Record. Unchecking the box will hide this link from all records in this View only.
Allow Export: When checked, a button will be present in the View to allow users to export the records within this View. Unchecking the box will hide this button from this View only.
Allow Messaging: When checked, users will be able to send messages to records containing email addresses either by hovering the mouse over an email address visible in the View, or by selecting a record and clicking on the Messaging button. Unchecking this box will hide the button from this View only, and also prevent the Message option from appearing under email addresses in this View only.
Enable Paging: When checked, this View will be split into pages of 20 records each, which can be scrolled through to view all records. Unchecking this box will force all records returned in this View to load on the same page, and remove the paging for this View only.
Generally, security options for Views are not configured from the View itself, but rather in the Role Groups section, so we will not cover this section. By default, all options are set to Inherit From Parent Object.
Please contact your CRM Support Team if you need to lock down a View from certain users, as we are happy to cover this with you on a one-on-one basis.
Adding/Editing a CRM Layout
A Layout in the CRM is a detailed listing of all fields being used to store data for every Record in a CRM Object. A Layout is typically accessed by clicking a Record Name in an associated View. Layouts are typically broken up into sections, and can have up to four columns to store information in varying configurations.
Adding a new Layout
To create your Layout, you’ll first need to access the Admin Dashboard. Similar to adding Fields and Views, you’ll need to think about which Object this Layout will reside in. In this example, we’ll be adding the new Layout Real Estate Prospect Entry to the Contacts Object.
To add in your new Layout from here, you’ll first need to open your Contacts Object for editing. From the left-hand sidebar, click on Options to expand the list and display all of the Objects present in your CRM. Contacts should almost always be the first Object listed. Click on it to expand the list further, and then click on Layouts to be brought straight to the Layouts section of the Contacts Object setup screen.
You should now see a list of all available Layouts within the Object you are editing. To edit an existing Layout, click on the gray Edit button immediately to the left of its name in the listing. To add a new Layout, click on the large blue button titled + Add New Layout.
You should now see the Edit Layout Screen:
When first creating a new Layout, you will only see sections 1-4. Section 5 will appear once you click the Save Properties button.
1. Properties: In this section, enter the basic identifying information for this Layout.
Name: Enter a name for this Layout. You will use this to reference your Layout in a View, or for future editing.
Description: Optionally, enter a description of this layout. This is only visible when editing the Layout, not when viewing data within the Layout, so most users will not see anything written here.
Object Default: Check this box to set this Layout as the default for this Object. Any links to records of this Object will open the default Layout unless the link specifically targets a different Layout.
2. Security: Generally, security options for Layouts are not configured from the Layout itself, but rather in the Role Groups section. By default, all options are set to “Inherit From Parent Object”.
Please contact your CRM Support Team if you need to lock down a Layout from certain users, as we are happy to cover this with you on a one-on-one basis.
3. Header Text: This section is used by your CRM Support Team to add in client-side scripting or style code to this Layout. Generally, it is advised not to enter anything in this section yourself unless you are proficient in writing Javascript and/or CSS code.
4. Information: Displays system information about this Layout, and includes action buttons for the Layout.
Created: The time this Layout was created, and the user that created it.
Modified: The time this Layout was last modified, and the user that made the changes.
Save Properties: Saves the Properties of this Layout (anything entered in sections 1 -3 above).
Save As New Layout: Creates a brand new Layout in this Object, and gives it the exact same Properties and Structure as this Layout. Useful for creating two similar Layouts with only minor differences.
Archive This Layout: Will remove this Layout from the list of Layouts in this Object, and will prevent it from being displayed to Users.
Layout Structure: This section allows you to configure the structure of the Layout. Here you can determine which fields are shown in this Layout, and in which order.
At the top of this section is a list of actionable items (Available Fields and + Add Section), which can be dragged below to place them in the Layout body.
Beneath this is a canvas, on which you place Sections and Fields to display in the body of the Layout. This canvas is made up of Sections, and each Section is made up of Fields. When viewing a Layout from the user facing side, Sections keep fields organized within the Layout by providing a header/title, and each Section is also collapsible to enable the user to hide certain fields that they aren’t using at the current time. Typically, it is a good practice to have as many Sections as possible in your Layout to help group like fields together, and allow for a logical and visually pleasing display of data.
Utilizing these two sections, you should now be able to begin formatting this Layout by clicking any item in the top section, and dragging it to the desired location in the canvas below.
First, and most importantly, you’ll need to add in at least one Section, in which you’ll be able to place and order fields. Fields cannot exist in a Layout outside of a Section, so it is necessary to add in at least one Section before adding any Fields.
To add a new Section, find the tab at the top of the Layout Structure section titled + Add Section. Click and hold on this, and drag it down to the canvas section, then release it where you would like it to be placed. You can reorder existing Sections in your Layout by clicking on the Section heading and dragging it up or down in the Layout to its desired location.
By default, your new Section will not have a title, and it will contain only one column for Fields. To edit the settings of this Section, click on its title, and a popup will appear in which you can edit the Section settings.
In the Section Properties window, you can edit the following information:
Title: Give a title to this Section, which will be visible to users when viewing this Layout.
Column Count: Choose how many columns of fields should be available in this Section. The minimum number of columns allowed is 1, and the maximum is 4. Fields will stretch to fill the entire screen regardless of the number of columns. Therefore, fields will appear larger in a Section with fewer columns, and will appear smaller in a Section with more columns.
Collapsed on Display View Load: If this box is checked, then this Section will default to collapsed when the Layout is first loaded. Users would have to click on the Section title to expand it and view the Fields within. If this box is unchecked, then this Section will default to display all Fields within, unless the User clicks on the Section title to collapse it.
Once you’ve configured the Section as desired, click on the Save Properties button and this window will disappear. Then the Section will update in the Layout Structure beneath.
With a new Section in place, now you can place some Fields. Adding Fields works very similarly to adding Sections - simply find the Field you would like to add in the list of available Fields in the top section, then click and drag it down to the canvas where you would like to place it. You can also reorder existing Fields in the canvas by clicking and dragging them around to their desired location.
Each field within a Layout has some basic properties that can be edited. To access these properties, hover over the field you need to access, and click on the small gear icon that appears over the bottom-right corner of the field.
For most fields, there are only a few properties to edit:
Read Only: Mark this field as read only, so that users can view the content within it, but never edit it.
Required: Mark this field as required to be filled out before saving the record in this Layout. Choosing this option will only affect this field in this specific Layout.
Hide Label: When this box is checked, only the data contained within this field will be displayed - not the name of the field itself.
Finally, once all the Sections and Fields have been added to the canvas as needed for this Layout, click on the Save Structure button, which is located at the bottom of the list of available Fields.
Accessing Data From Outside Objects in a Layout
While using your CRM, you may have noticed cases in which data from one Object is displayed inside a Layout of a different Object. The Activities section within a Prospect Layout is a great example of this, as is the Notes section.
These sections within the Prospect Layout are what are called Parent-Child Relationship fields. They allow data from one Object, in this case either the Activities or Notes Objects, to be displayed within a different Object, in this case the Contacts Object. In order to display this kind of information in a Layout, the associated Parent-Child Relationship field should be added to the Layout.
Before editing the Layout, you should first determine which Parent-Child fields are available in your Object. Open up your Object for editing, and view the list of available Fields. You will be able to tell if a field is a Parent-Child field based on the Data Type of the field. Instead of showing a standard data type, a Parent-Child field will instead show the name of the Object that it is relating to.
In the above example, the field Activity History has a data type of Activities signifying that it is a Parent-Child field, relating to the Activities Object.
Once you’ve identified a Parent-Child field, open up the Layout to edit, and scroll down to the Layout Structure canvas. To begin, add a new Section to house this field - generally you will want to have each Parent-Child relationship field to live in a section alone, as the field will display as a full section in the Layout. Typically, it is best to leave this section set to only one column as well, for the same reason.
Next, locate the Field that you identified earlier from the list of available fields, and drag it down to this new Section. Instead of appearing as most of the other fields, this field will instead say “Record Name Object View”.
Once the field has been added to the Layout, click the Save Structure button, and it should be ready to use. However, there are a few more properties that can be edited for this type of field, which can improve the user experience when viewing this Layout. To access the field Properties, hover over the field in the canvas, and click on the small gear icon that appears over the bottom-right corner of the field. This will bring up a popup window, pictured below:
Here you’ll see the same list of field properties that exists for all fields, plus two new options:
Display Type: Select from the list which View from the Child Object (in this case, Activities) to use to display the content within this Layout. The fields that will be shown in your Layout are determined by the View selected in this option.
Layout: Select from the list which Layout from the Child Object (in this case, Activities) to display when a record from within this View is clicked.
If none of the options available in these lists are what you need, you’ll need to open up the Child Object and edit/create the Views/Layouts as needed.
Q: Why can't I access the Object settings? I'm receiving an error 'Invalid Permissions to View This Page"?
A: Only Object Administrators have access to edit settings within an Object. If you are receiving this message, your account may not be set as an Object Administrator. Please note that CRM pricing is based on a per admin user basis, so adding additional Object Administrator accounts may incur additional fees. Contact your Account Manager to discuss this further.
Adding/Editing Fields: Be as descriptive as possible with field titles to make data entry easier in the future. Typically, if a piece of data can be described using multiple fields instead of just one, it should be, to allow for more granular reporting. For example, instead of one address field, we have 5 - Street Address 1, Street Address 2, City, State, Zip Code.
Adding/Editing Views: Keep the filters in Views simple - leave the more advanced filtering options for queries/reports. Try to design your Views to display large chunks of similar records, separated out by basic identifying features, such as Status, or Contact Type, etc.
Adding/Editing Layouts: Generally, it is easier for users to use a Layout that has more Sections, as opposed to those that have fewer Sections. Use Sections liberally to group like fields together. For example, have a “Prospect Information” Section containing basic identifying and demographic information about a Contact, a Section for Addresses, one for Opportunity information, and another for Spouse/Family information.
Downloadable Guide
Creating Editing CRM Fields Views and Layouts - Guide
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Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't | Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Binding of the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Gag polyprotein to cyclophilin A is mediated by the central region of capsid and requires Gag dimerization.
J Colgan, H E Yuan, E K Franke, J Luban
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H E Yuan
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J Luban
The cellular peptidyl-prolyl isomerase cyclophilin A (CyPA) is incorporated into human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) virions via direct contacts with the HIV-1 Gag polyprotein. Disruption of the Gag-CyPA interaction leads to the production of HIV-1 particles lacking CyPA; these virions are noninfectious, indicating that contacts between CyPA and Gag are necessary for HIV-1 replication. Here, we have used the yeast two-hybrid system in conjunction with an in vitro binding assay to identify the minimal domain of Gag required for binding to CyPA. Analysis of a panel of gag deletion mutants in the two-hybrid system indicated that a region spanning the central portion of the capsid (CA) domain was sufficient for interactions with CyPA, but discrepancies between results obtained in different fusion protein contexts suggested that multimerization of Gag might also be necessary for binding to CyPA. Consistent with a requirement for multimerization, the binding of Gag to CyPA in vitro required a region within the nucleocapsid (NC) domain shown previously to be important for Gag self-association. Substitution of a heterologous dimerization motif for the region from NC also promoted specific binding to CyPA, confirming that interactions with CyPA are dependent on Gag multimerization. Fusion of the heterologous dimerization motif to a 100-amino-acid domain from CA was sufficient for binding to CyPA in vitro. These results define the minimal CyPA-binding domain within Gag and provide insight into the mechanism by which CyPA is incorporated into HIV-1 virions.
Journal of Virology Jul 1996, 70 (7) 4299-4310; DOI:
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Life is a collection of stories – some are available here.
In Search of Women Poets from Germany – 2
True that monasteries and convents were the education hub and the centre of all literary activities in middle age Europe, but all the ladies who wrote poems, wrote on religious matters only? A Carolingian capitulary of 789 AD forbids women other than nuns, who stayed in the convent without taking a vow, from writing or compiling love poems. When something was needed to be forbidden, how shall we deny its existence? Writing to express love towards human beings was a desire religious organization didn’t allow; probably found no other option but to pass explicit order against them. No, poem documenting expression of love between people is not found in the beginning of the history of poems written in German. Anyway we find the trace of a didactic poetry in13th century which is a motherly suggestion to the daughter of the poetess, Winsbeckin. Guess love between mother and daughter like that between father and son (ref. Didactic poem by the Knight Winsbecke to his son) was considered acceptable that time.
Another area really difficult to explore is the Minnensong – a middle age practice of venerating distinguished ladies by noblemen, usually knights or war heroes. The songs were written ritualistic way, at a time when expressing love for revered ladies was considered a proof of a man’s cultural and educational competence; hence not exactly women’s domain. But there used to be women’s part – lyrics written on behalf of the noble ladies. In this section, the man’s admiration is viewed from the perspective of the woman who has been addressed. She accepts the reverence and regrets that she must reject him.
There was also another kind of Exchange lyrics (Wechsellied) where the man and the lady expresses own emotion for the other, but ironically never talks to each other.
In dialogs\conversational lyrics we find exchange of dialogue between a man and a lady but the lady had to be an allegorical figure or a fictitious character.
Interesting is, in the list of names of lyricists, we don’t find any women poets name in 12\13th century. Is it because women were not allowed to take part in writing court-poems or publishing women’s’ names as composer of poems was taboo? We find personal letters between the knight Ulrich, his lady and his niece in 1255 AD, which proves that women of noble families were well-versed in writing skill. It’s little difficult to imagine that in the land where women lyricist-singer won the title like ‘magician of music’, ‘nightingale’ etc in 19th century, no sign of their predecessors are found in 13th\14th century.
Later, in 1471, we find one book of Lyrics written by Klara Hätzlerin. But she was only a professional writer, not the composer. She had written the book under a contract given by a patron from Augsburg. Why are the composer’s name hidden? Another work of this type was published in 1606, in which poems are claimed to be written by “Respectable ladies” – married and unmarried. This is a collection of love poems exclusively. But how to ascertain whether these were written by women or men who probably wanted to be published as women-poets to attract attention?
(To be cont.)
#History of German literature#Literature
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Undertale's Unused Music Is Pretty Sweet
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For the past week, infamously reclusive Undertale creator Toby Fox has been celebrating the RPG mega-hit’s first anniversary with tidbits and snippets (but sadly no butterscotch cinnamon pie). The best part? Music that never made it into the final game.
First up, an early version of Alphys’ lab:
Here’s a version of Undyne’s theme before it was really Undyne’s theme (but it still sounds pretty good):
This one is just called “Dog Hole”:
Self explanatory:
And here’s a more somber take on what ultimately the big, triumphant, bittersweet main theme:
Fox also posted a brief retrospective about Undertale’s unexpected popularity, where he said he still thinks it’s “about an 8/10, niche RPG game,” but added that it made him happy when the game legitimately moved people.
“But, the game became very popular. Unavoidable, even. At the height of its popularity, ‘not liking the game’ felt like a cardinal sin to many fans online. In reaction to these circumstances, others began actively hate the game, creating an endless whirlwind of discourse… Like a thunderclap to a small dog, all of this attention stressed me out. And every time it seemed to die down, something revived it, such as the GameFAQs contest, the award shows, bizarre theory videos, and so on. At times, I wished I had a way to quell the attention. I felt a strange powerlessness. (And guilt, for feeling stressed when the success of the game SHOULD be something I’m nothing but ecstatic about.)”
“At the same time, countless wonderful things were happening. People told me the game helped them through a difficult part of their life. Others told me that the game had made them laugh, or cry, or say ‘I want to be kinder.’ Many young kids told me they wanted to create games or music because of it. And, on a personal level, because of its popularity, I have been able to help myself and many people in my life. (And, hopefully, in the future, I can help many other people because of it, too.)”
Lastly, Fox held a Q&A with the game’s characters that... well, just go experience it for yourself.
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FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2018, file photo, The U.S. Supreme Court is seen at sunset in Washington. The Supreme Court enters its final week with two issues to decide that could shape the distribution of political power for the next decade: whether to rein in political boundary-drawing for partisan gain and allow a citizenship question on the 2020 census. The justice also might say whether their election-year calendar will make room for President Donald Trump’s effort to end the Obama-era program that shields young immigrants from deportation. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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FILE - In this March 20, 2019 file photo, Attorney Sheri Johnson leaves the Supreme Court after challenging a Mississippi prosecutor's decision to keep African-Americans off the jury in the trial of Curtis Flowers, in Washington. The Supreme Court is throwing out the murder conviction and death sentence for Flowers because of a prosecutor's efforts to keep African Americans off the jury. The defendant already has been tried six times and now could face a seventh trial. The court's 7-2 decision Friday says the removal of black prospective jurors violated the rights of inmate Curtis Flowers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
Court tosses black man's murder conviction over racial bias
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday threw out the murder conviction and death sentence for a black man in Mississippi because of a prosecutor's efforts to keep African Americans off the jury. The defendant already has been tried six times and now could face a seventh trial. The removal of...
Women protest after Spain's top court found five men known as the "La Manada," or "The Animal Pack" guilty of rape outside the Supreme Court in Madrid, Spain, Friday, June 21, 2019. Spain's Supreme Court on Friday overruled two lower courts and sentenced five men to 15 years in prison each for raping an 18-year-old woman. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)
Spain's top court convicts 5 men in gang rape case
MADRID (AP) — Spain's Supreme Court on Friday overruled two lower courts and sentenced five men to 15 years in prison for raping an 18-year-old woman. The case had triggered an outcry because the lower courts last year convicted the men of the lesser crime of sexual abuse and handed down nine-year...
FILE - In this June 6, 2018, file photo, then Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker speaks at a news conference in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin's conservative-controlled Supreme Court on Friday, June 21, 2019, upheld lame-duck laws limiting the powers of Democratic Gov. Evers and Attorney General Josh Kaul, handing Republican lawmakers a resounding victory. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer, File)
Democrats look to other lawsuits to block GOP lame-duck laws
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democrats trying to undo laws passed by Republicans during a lame-duck session just before Gov. Scott Walker left office are putting their hopes behind a federal court challenge following a resounding legal defeat Friday. The conservative-controlled Wisconsin Supreme...
4 states added to suit to stop $26.5B Sprint-T-Mobile deal
NEW YORK (AP) — Hawaii, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Nevada are joining the legal fight against T-Mobile's $26.5 billion bid for Sprint in a case that lawyers on both sides say they hope will reach trial in October. Beau Buffier, a lawyer for New York state's attorney general, told a judge at a...
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Justices: Proof needed that person knew he couldn't have gun
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court says prosecutors must prove that people charged with violating federal gun laws knew they were not allowed to have a weapon. The government says the decision could affect thousands of prosecutions of convicted criminals who are barred from having a firearm. The...
FILE - In this Sept. 21, 2018 file photo, Pennsylvania resident Rose Mary Knick stands next to a private property sign on her farmland in Lackawanna County's Scott Township. The Supreme Court is siding with Knick in a case that gives citizens another avenue to pursue claims when they believe states and local governments have harmed their property rights. The high court ruled Friday in the case. (AP Photo/Jessica Gresko)
Justices: Landowner can take property case to federal court
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Friday to allow people to sue in federal court when they believe states and local governments have harmed their property rights, handing a victory to a Pennsylvania woman fighting her town over a cemetery ordinance. The high court ruled 5-4 along...
Syrian refugee charged in church bombing ordered detained
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Syrian refugee charged with plotting to bomb a Pittsburgh church to inspire followers of the Islamic State of Iraq has been ordered detained in federal court Friday. A criminal complaint alleges Mustafa Mousab Alowemer planned to bomb an unidentified church in Pittsburgh and...
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BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - A lawyer at the center of the scandal over the $300 million settlement of a State Street securities case told a federal judge in Boston it was “stupid and sloppy” to sign a false application for his firm’s share of $75 million in fees, but he didn’t intend to mislead the court.
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The federal judge who unleashed a wide-ranging investigation into the fee practices of Labaton Sucharow was unimpressed by the class action firm’s agreement to install an ethics monitor and revamp its rules.
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BOSTON (Legal Newsline) - Securities class action firm Labaton Sucharow has reached a tentative truce with the special master investigating questionable activities that include a $4.1 million referral fee paid to a lawyer who did no work but served as the middleman between Labaton and an Arkansas pension fund that served as lead plaintiff in a lawsuit against State Street Bank and Trust.
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A federal judge unsealed a lengthy report accusing Labaton Sucharow and a Massachusetts law firm of deliberately misleading the court about how it distributed the fees in a $300 million settlement with State Street Bank and Trust Co., including $4.1 million paid to a Houston lawyer who did no work on the case.
Labaton escalates spat with judge in State Street case, demands ex parte communications
Labaton Sucharow, having failed to get a federal judge to recuse himself, asked him to turn over records of any out-of-court communications with the special master probing allegations that Labaton overcharged its clients and improperly shared part of its $75 million fee.
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An Arkansas pension fund has retained a law firm with expertise in criminal and corporate investigations as arguments over $75 million in class action attorney fees continue in federal court.
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LVstartup: Penn State and City Center Lehigh Valley Join Forces
By Colin McEvoy on January 7, 2016
The newest issue of LVstartup, a monthly e-newsletter focused on the needs of startups and entrepreneurs in the Lehigh Valley.
Penn State University and City Center Lehigh Valley have joined forces to open a new community-based program for entrepreneurs in downtown Allentown called the Lehigh Valley LaunchBox.
That news is leading the latest edition of LVstartup, a monthly e-newsletter written and distributed by the Entrepreneurship Council of the Lehigh Valley.
Click here to see the full version of the new issue. If you’d like to subscribe to the e-newsletter, click here.
Released the first Thursday of each month, LVstartup is focused on the needs of startups in the region, providing information about local events, news, and resources available to entrepreneurs.
The newest issue, released today, highlighted the Lehigh Valley LaunchBox, a business accelerator program that will award micro grants to budding entrepreneurs who have scalable business ideas, and connects the grant recipients to business leaders, academic partners, and Penn State alumni.
The LVstartup featured other news stories, including the social media company STRIVR joining Ben Franklin TechVentures, the Southside Bethlehem Keystone Innovation Zone awarding grants to three companies, and Year in Review stories for the Allentown Ecomic Development Corporation and the Bridgeworks Enterprise Center.
The new issue also highlights various upcoming events, like Northampton Community College hosting an information session about the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, Lehigh Valley Startup Digest and LVTech’s Tech Happy Hour, and the 15th annual Lehigh Valley Collegiate Career Expo.
Each month, LVstartup also spotlights a Lehigh Valley startup. This issue, the company is Netizen Corporation which was recently named Emerging Business of the Year by Lehigh Valley Business. A cybersecurity software company located in Upper Saucon Township, Netizen provides solutions focusing on application security, software assurance, and Agile development.
To see other past issues of LVstartup, click on the links below:
Dec. 4, 2015 — Lehigh University Makes Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Five
Nov. 5, 2015 — Allentown Business Incubator Named PEDA Program of the Year
Oct. 1, 2015 — Award-Winning Gin, Talking to Whales, and More!
Sept. 3, 2015 — Skiing, Musicians, Photometric Testing, and More!
Aug. 6, 2015 — Mead, Startups, Therapy Bikes, and More!
July 2, 2015 — Entrepreneurs, Velociraptors, Wineries, and More!
The Entrepreneurship Council of the Lehigh Valley is a council of the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (LVEDC), whose mission is to improve the entrepreneurial environment of the region by listening to its entrepreneurs, identifying their unmet needs, communicating regional entrepreneurship initiatives between council members, and connecting local resources to continue the development of new entrepreneurial support initiatives.
LVstartup receives input from various organizations that serves the local entrepreneurial community, including LVEDC, the Baker Institute for Entrepreneurship, Creativity and Innovation at Lehigh University, Lehigh Valley Tech, Allentown Economic Development Corporation (AEDC), the Bethlehem Department of Community and Economic Development, Ben Franklin Technology Partners, the Community Action Committee of the Lehigh Valley (CACLV) and others.
Don Cunningham: Metamorphosis of Lehigh Valley Will Continue in 2016
This column, written by LVEDC President and CEO Don Cunningham, originally appeared in Lehigh Valley Business on January 4, 2016. (Click here to read Cunningham’s previous col[...]
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Simple Staging of France’s Amir at Eurovision 2016 is Elegant and Beautiful (Video)
Photo copyright Thomas Hanses
Amir, France‘s representative to the Eurovision Song Contest 2016, has had his first two rehearsals in Stockholm in the last couple of days and, while some writers were whinging about how boring Amir’s staging and performance was, from what I saw, I love it.
Because look at it. Rather than the typical everything-including-the-kitchen-sink staging we often get at Eurovision, Amir’s staging is cool, elegant and beautiful. (photos here). Which, isn’t that how we usually think of the French anyway?
Amir stands alone on stage in front of a blue backdrop of stars, galaxies and lights and, instead of relying on an extravagant LED screen and other staging to make his song seem better than it actually is (which is what so many Eurovision acts do), he simply presents ‘J’ai Cherché‘ — his song.
The song itself is such a strong, upbeat pop anthem that gives you a hugely irresistible urge to dance every time you hear it, you don’t need any other hoopla to make the song great. Plus, it’s radio-friendly too so, as a Eurovision winner, would get a helluva lot of air play this summer.
For me, I find ‘J’ai Cherché‘ ridiculously catchy, I think the presentation of it at Amir’s first rehearsal was simple and lovely, and he is fabulous.
Throw in that Amir is deaf in one ear, yet manages to sing better than a huge percentage of other singers all of the time, and France is an act I am hoping does very well this year. After their last couple of Eurovision disappointments, they deserve to.
Watch Amir during his first rehearsal with ‘J’ai Cherché’ in the snippet video below. I think it’s the coolest thing.
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Florida is so nice this time of year…the warm weather…the beach…and Starfire beating the crud out of the bad guys! You should really try to get down there and see for yourself.
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From the writers of the outrageous smash hit HARLEY QUINN comes former Outlaw Starfire in her all-new ongoing series! She's an alien warrior princess trying to find peace on Earth, and she'll fight anyone and anything to get it!
Poison Ivy: Cycle of Life and Death (2016)
Life. Death. Poison Ivy has power over both. But can she keep her friends and hold down a regular job at the same time? As Dr. Pamela Isley, she joins the prestigious plant sciences department at Gotham Botanical Gardens, but things quickly get complicated when a fellow scientist is murdered and it looks like the work of Ivy. Don’t miss the start of this new 6-issue miniseries!
Harley Quinn and Power Girl (2015)
Hey, remember the panel gutter between panels 3 and 4 of page 20 of HARLEY QUINN #12? What? You DON’T? It’s only, like, the most memorable panel gutter of the twenty-first century. Well, either way, have we got the miniseries for you, in which the full tale of that momentous and momentary pause can be told! It’s a cosmic adventure beyond your wildest imaginings: Power Girl and Harley Quinn,
Supergirl (2005-2011)
Superman long believed he was the sole survivor of the destruction of Krypton...until he met Kara Zora-El, who would become Supergirl! The Girl of Steel has had many secrets, and more secret identities, but she remains one of the DC Universe's greatest female heroes!
Raven (2016-2017)
In a tale set between TEEN TITANS #24 and TEEN TITANS: REBIRTH #1, Raven takes a break from the team and moves to San Francisco to stay with her estranged aunt and face her most perilous challenge yet: high school! As Raven discovers more about her human side, one of her classmates goes missing under mysterious circumstances, and she must face an evil like none she's known before!
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Angelmaker
Harkaway, Nick
eBook - 2012 | 1st American ed.
Avoiding the lifestyle of his late gangster father by working as a clock repairman, Joe Spork fixes an unusual device that turns out to be a former secret agent's doomsday machine and incurs the wrath of the government and a diabolical South Asian dictator.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Characteristics: 1 online resource (481 p.)
Additional Contributors: OverDrive
Alternative Title: Angel maker
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NedSu Apr 24, 2018
Other reviewers have said it before, but it bears repeating. Some novels, like Gravity's Rainbow (Pynchon) or the Baroque Cycle (Stephenson) grab you and take you for a ride that overloads the mind, and you are not sure what's going on. It's like you are one page behind all the time, but the ride is so interesting that you just hang on and enjoy it. Nick Harkaway is one of those authors, too, and this book is a perfect example of his ability. Like horology, the action is tightly wound, and every little incident plays its part into making this a masterpiece. What may seem incidental becomes a key cog in a complicated story. And like his first book, Harkaway finds a way to make a train an integral piece in the wild ride. It is a fascinating read that defies genre, but overall tells a great story- and that is what novels should do.
SCL_Justin Jul 20, 2017
Angelmaker was my first Nick Harkaway book. It’s about superspies, the clockworking son of London’s criminal king (but the good kind of crimes that are all about sticking it to society’s betters), a corrupted cult of technologists against mass-production and a globe-spanning swarm of mechanical bees. It’s pretty amazing.
In a lot of ways it reminded me of a more pulpy-fun Thomas Pynchon novel, though Neal Stephenson might be a bit more apt a comparison. Joe Spork doesn’t fall into the Stephenson-ultracompetence trap though. He’s just a guy caught up in things too big for him to deal with on his own. There’s a murder and torture and with the support of his lawyer and some revelations about himself and his ancestry there’s a plot to save the friggin world. Very good book. Lots of fun.
3reading4stem2011 May 09, 2017
I think that if someone had a lot of money this would make a good movie as long as they paid attention to the details of the story and also included a prologue statement on the screen(like they did in "Star Wars"(the first movie).
Chapel_Hill_KenMc Dec 22, 2014
A richly constructed fantasy world of London gangsters, wildly improbably technology, apocalyptic threats, and an eerie cult of John Ruskin followers. Hugely entertaining, and a bit like reading a hybrid of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
Eosos Jun 05, 2014
I loved this book. If it was possible to give it more than 5 stars I would have.
Joe Spork fixes antique clocks for a living. It is a quiet life and nothing like that of his fathers, the infamous Mathew “Tommy Gun” Spork, which is just how he wants it. When Joe comes across an unusual clockwork mechanism that he could only dream of being able to build, his orderly life is thrown into disarray. The British government, a South Asian dictator, monks, an ex-secret service agent, his father’s old cronies and a secret from the 1950’s, all join together to make this a memorable story.
This tale was complex, funny and spellbinding. It makes me wish I was a bit cleverer so I could do a review that does it justice. But seeing as I am not that kind of person I will just stick to saying that I highly recommend this book to everyone.
strat Dec 14, 2013
This is a complex and hilarious read. I really enjoyed it and now I am enjoying listening to my husband laugh out loud as he reads it.
JeremiahSutherland Jan 11, 2013
The author says it most succinctly close to the end of his book. "Windbag". Some great ideas, amusing wordplay and good narrative. Too bad there's so much padding with pointless prose that does nothing to advance the story. Very sad.
emerge Nov 06, 2012
Like nothing else I've ever read, this book is a combination of modern/victorian England, steampunk, hilarious british wit & mayhem. I'll never look at bees the same way.
ChristchurchLib Sep 19, 2012
"Is it too early to be picking favourites? I hesitate to say this, but I think I may already have found my best read of 2012 ... Can it really be that everything else is downhill from this book?"
Read the Christchurch City Libraries blog post http://cclblog.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/have-i-read-the-best-book-of-the-year-already/
jenevold Jul 16, 2012
Well, that was fun!
'To wait up with the dead; to take what they have no use for and set it aside; that the corpse looks lively on the day; to see the dead from bed to dirt, and no indignity more than what fate inflicts; to serve the wailing widow and the lonely man with grace, and carry the Waiting Man's Quiet like a comforter, that is lent at need; to hear the Screaming, and let it have no voice; to preserve the silence of the dead, and keep their secrets; to take fair payment and seek no favours; and to move on, without regret.'
--The Waiting Man's Promise
Clocks and Watches — Repairing — Fiction.
Children of Gangsters — England — London — Fiction.
Fathers and Sons — Fiction.
Older Women — Fiction.
End of the World — Fiction.
London (England) — Fiction.
Spy Stories.
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Maldives parliament appoints first female secretary general
Fathmath Niusha had been standing in for the secretary general since he resigned in February.
The Maldives parliament on Monday appointed its first female secretary general.
Fathmath Niusha, who had been standing in for the secretary general since his resignation in February, was appointed with the votes of 33 lawmakers from the ruling Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM).
Niusha is the first woman to lead the secretarial duties of majlis (parliament) since the formation of its secretariat in 1971.
Her predecessor, Ahmed Mohamed, resigned “for personal reasons” following the political crisis that led to the arrest and detention of former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and two Supreme Court justices.
Speaker Abdulla Maseeh said that only Niusha had applied when applications were opened for the position. She was vetted by a committee selected by the speaker, who recommended her appointment.
Niusha, who studied at the Australian National University and the International Islamic University of Malaysia, has a law degree and been majlis deputy secretary general since 2012.
Women in the Maldives remain underrepresented in the political sphere.
Just five out of the country’s 85 parliamentarians are women. There are only 40 female councillors, out of 653, and there are just 22 women serving as ministers, state ministers or deputy ministers.
Monday’s first majlis session parliamentary session was delayed for hours due to a lack of quorum.
Once under way the speaker announced the vote for the secretary general appointment, and the first reading of an amendment bill to the Jails and Parole Act was proposed.
The amendment bill proposes renaming the Maldives Correctional Service to “National Prison Service” and gives it the responsibility of overseeing all centres where prisoners will be held including jails, remand jails and detention centres. That function is currently fulfilled by the police.
New additions to the law also focus on administrative issues, giving the prison service powers to enact regulations and procedures in jail supervision.
No MPs talked about the amendments at the first debate stage, but parliament passed a motion to forward them to the committee stage for further debate.
The parliament session – with voting – lasted around 10 minutes.
This article has been updated.
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Brown leadership ‘still threatened’
metrowebukmetroSaturday 13 Jun 2009 4:40 am
Gordon Brown will face another challenge to his position as Prime Minister around the time of Labour’s annual conference in September, Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has predicted.
He said a “small group” within the party would never be reconciled to Mr Brown’s leadership, but insisted he would not “lose any sleep” over it.
Gordon Brown pictured during a meeting of his new Cabinet
Meanwhile, Foreign Secretary David Miliband indicated that he had considered following James Purnell in quitting the Cabinet last Thursday.
Mr Miliband told The Guardian that he accepted his old friend’s decision to resign as Work and Pensions Secretary was made “in good faith”.
Their comments came as former Home Secretary Charles Clarke said that Mr Brown must win two upcoming by-elections in Norwich North and Glasgow North-East and improve Labour’s standing in the polls if he was to escape calls for his removal.
Mr Clarke is expected to use a BBC interview on Sunday to indicate that he still wants Mr Brown to go.
And prominent backbencher Jon Cruddas warned that Labour could be finished as a major force in British politics unless it had a fundamental rethink of its policies and approach.
In an interview with the Daily Telegraph, Lord Mandelson acknowledged that Mr Brown had not silenced his internal party critics when he faced down demands for his resignation at a meeting of the Parliamentary Labour Party in Westminster on Monday.
“There’s a small group who keep coming back. They won’t be reconciled to the Prime Minister’s leadership,” said Lord Mandelson, who was last week named First Secretary of State – effectively deputy prime minister.
Mr Miliband left no doubt that he was faced with a decision over whether to stand down as Foreign Secretary last week during a reshuffle which saw 10 ministers leave the Government. Many commentators believe that if he had followed Mr Purnell in quitting as polls in the council and European elections closed on Thursday night, he would have forced Mr Brown out of office.
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Assassin’s Creed III set in ancient Egypt claim rumours
GameCentralThursday 17 Nov 2011 9:28 am
All or part of the next Assassin’s Creed game will take part in the land, and time, of the Pharaohs according to new rumours, although Ubisoft have yet to say anything on the matter.
Is this really a hint of the next game?
The new rumours relate to the next mainline entry in the series, due for release next year. According to the latest issue of PSM3 magazine ancient Egypt will be the setting for, ‘at least part of the game’.
Although Ubisoft has confirmed that there will be a ‘major’ entry in the franchise next year they’ve never specifically said it’s Assassin’s Creed III. Although they have promised that this year’s Assassin’s Creed: Revelations is the last one to focus on Ezio and the Renaissance period.
So how likely does that make the Egyptian setting? The rumours seem to be based on two fairly flimsy pieces of evidence, the first being the above bit of artwork.
Despite what it looks like though it’s part of a comic book collaboration from back before Brotherhood was released last year and there’s no proof it has anything to do with an actual game.
The other element to the story relies on a spoiler from the end of Assassin’s Creed: Revelations, so excuse us a minute while we put up a special warning.
*** SPOILER WARNING ***
At the end of the game Altaïr’s son Darim mentions he’s taken some of the assassin’s books to hide in Alexandria, capital of Egypt.
The problem is the time of the Pharaohs, which is presumably when any game set in Egypt would take place, is sometime around the 3rd to 1st century BC – well before Altaïr and his son. So whether that really counts as a clue is open to debate.
Although ancient Egypt has been mentioned a few times more common, and popular, suggestions for Assassin’s Creed III’s setting include the French Revolution, Victorian London, and the First World War.
But perhaps this rumour is right and the import aspect is the ‘part of the game’ quote. Maybe Assassin’s Creed III will feature multiple time settings from across history and Egypt is just one?
Thoughts? Email gamecentral@ukmetro.co.uk or leave a comment below
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WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (October 3, 2018) – There is a new leader at the helm of the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate, but he’s certainly no stranger.
Tim Sakulich was appointed to Senior Executive Service and installed as the director of the organization Monday, Oct. 1. A familiar face to many in the directorate, Sakulich previously served as both the deputy director and the director over a decade prior, while a colonel in the Air Force.
Sakulich brings with him a wealth of Air Force knowledge and experience. A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, he went on to serve a 26-year career in the Air Force before taking on a number of civilian AFRL leadership positions.
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As the first civilian vice director of the 711th Human Performance Wing, Sakulich helped lead the 2000+ strong, geographically-separated organization comprising the Airman Systems Directorate, the U.S. Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine, and the Human Performance Integration Directorate. Through his leadership, he helped shape the diverse, multi-disciplined organization into the strong entity it is today.
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Sakulich rejoins the directorate with fondness for the past and an eye toward the future.
“This directorate and its predecessor organizations have been pivotal to realizing American airpower for more than 100 years,” he told the audience at the ceremony. “And we have 100 years ahead of us and more to meet the new challenges.”
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The Silent Sea
PROLOGUE:
PINE ISLAND,
A GOLDEN BLUR LEAPT OVER THE SMALL BOAT'S GUNWALE just as the bows met the rocky beach. It hit the water with a splash and plowed through the surf, its tail raised like a triumphant pennant. When the retriever reached land, it shook itself so that drops flew like diamond chips in the crisp air, and then it looked back at the skiff. The dog barked at a pair of gulls farther down the beach that took startled flight. Feeling its companions were coming much too slowly, the purebred tore off into a copse of nearby trees, her bark diminishing until it was swallowed by the forest that covered most of the mile-square island just an hour's row off the mainland.
Amelia, cried Jimmy Ronish, the youngest of the five brothers in the boat.
She'll be fine, Nick said, shipping his oars and taking the boat's painter line in his hand. He was the eldest of the Ronish boys.
He timed his leap perfectly, landing on the pebbled shore as a wave receded. Three long strides later he was above the tidal mark of flotsam and drying kelp, looping the rope around a sun- and salt-bleached limb of driftwood that was a crosshatch of carved initials. He hauled back on the line to firmly ground the fourteen-foot craft and tied it off.
Shake a leg, Nick Ronish admonished his younger siblings. Low tide's in five hours, and we've got a lot to do.
While the air was reasonably comfortable this late in the year, the north Pacific was icy cold, forcing them to unload their gear between the lapping waves. One of the heaviest pieces of equipment was a three-hundred-foot coil of hemp line that Ron and Don, the twins, had to shoulder together to get it up the beach. Jimmy was given charge of the rucksack containing their lunch, and as he was nine years old it was a burden to his slender frame.
The four older boys Nick at nineteen, Ron and Don a year younger, and Kevin just eleven months their junior could have passed for quintuplets, with their towheads of floppy blond hair and their pale blue eyes. They retained the buoyant energy of youth wrapped in bodies that were rapidly becoming those of men. On the other hand, Jimmy was small for his age, with darker hair and brown eyes. His brothers teased that he looked a lot like Mr. Green-field, the town's grocer, and while Jimmy wasn't exactly sure what that implied, he knew he didn't like it. He idolized his older brothers and hated anything that distinguished him from them.
Their family owned the small island off the coast and had for as far back as their grandfather could remember, and it was a place every generation of boys for the Ronishes hadn't produced a girl since 1862 spent adventurous summers exploring. Not only was it easy to pretend they were all Huck Finns marooned on the Mississippi or Tom Sawyers exploring the island's intricate cave systems, but Pine Island had an inherent sense of intrigue because of the pit.
Mothers had been forbidding their boys from playing near the pit since Abe Ronish, great-uncle of the current Ronish brood, had fallen to his death in 1887. The directive was as inevitably ignored as it was given.
The real lure of the place was that local legend told that a certain Pierre Devereaux, one of the most successful privateers to ever harass the Spanish Main, had buried part of his treasure on this far northern island to lighten his ship during the dogged pursuit by a squadron of frigates that had chased him around Cape Horn and up the length of the Americas. The legend was bolstered by the discovery of a small pyramid of cannon balls in one of the island's caves, and the fact that the top forty feet of the square pit was braced with rough-hewn log balks.
The cannonballs had long since been lost and were now considered a myth, but there was no denying the reality of the timberworks ringing the mysterious hole in the rocky earth.
My shoes got wet, Jimmy complained.
Nick swiftly rounded on his youngest brother and said, Damn it, Jimmy, I told you already if I heard one complaint outta you I'd make you stay with the boat.
I wasn't complaining, the boy said, trying to keep from sniveling. I was just saying is all. He shook a few drops from his wet foot to show it wasn't a problem. Nick shot him a stern look, his blue eyes glacial, and turned his attention back to the job at hand.
Pine Island was shaped like a Valentine's Day heart that rose out of the cold Pacific. The only beach lay where the two upper lobes come together. The rest of the islet was ringed with cliffs as insurmountable as castle walls or was protected by submerged rocks strung like beads that could tear out the bottom of even the sturdiest craft. Only a handful of animals called the island home, squirrels and mice, mostly, who had been marooned there during storms, and seabirds that used the tall pines to rest and search for prey amid the waves.
A single road bisected the island, having been laboriously hacked twenty years before by another generation of Ronish men, who had made an assault on the island using gasoline-powered pumps to drain the pit, only to see their efforts fail. No matter how many pumps they ran or how much water they sucked from the depths, the pit would continuously refill. An exhaustive search for the subterranean passage connecting the pit to the sea turned up nothing. There was talk of building a coffer dam around the mouth of the bay closest to the pit, the thinking being that there was no other logical choice for the conduit, but the men decided the effort was too much and gave up.
Now it was Nick and his brothers' turn, and he had deduced something his uncles and father had not. At the time Pierre Devereaux had excavated the pit to hide his treasure, the only pump available to him would have been his ship's hand-operated bilge pump. Because of its inefficiency, there was no way the pirates could have drained the pit with their equipment when three ten-horse pumps couldn't.
The answer to how the pit worked lay someplace else.
Nick knew from the stories his uncles told that they had made their assault during the height of summer, and when he consulted an old almanac, he saw the men had been working during a period of particularly high low tides. He knew that to be successful he and his brothers would have to try to reach the bottom at the same time of year Devereaux had dug the pit when the tides were at their very lowest and this year that fell at a little past two o'clock on December the seventh.
The older brothers had been planning their attempt at cracking the pit since early summer. By doing odd jobs for anyone who'd hire them, they'd scraped together money to buy equipment, notably a two-stroke gasoline-powered pump, the rope, and tin miner's helmets with battery-powered lights. They'd practiced with the rope and a laden bucket so their arms and shoulders could work tirelessly for hours. They'd even devised goggles that would let them see underwater if necessary.
Jimmy was only along because he had overheard them talking about it all and had threatened to tell their parents if he wasn't included.
There was a sudden commotion off to their right, an explosion of birds winging into the bright sky. Behind them, Amelia, their golden retriever, came bounding out of the tree line, barking wildly with her tail swinging like the devil's own metronome. She chased after one gull that flew close to the ground and then halted, dumbfounded, when the bird shot into the air. Her tongue lolled, and a string of saliva drizzled from her black gums.
Amelia! Come! Jimmy cried in his falsetto, and the dog dashed to his side, nearly bowling him over in her excitement.
Shrimp, take these, Nick said, handing Jimmy the mining helmets and their satchels of heavy lead batteries.
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Bryce Harper hitless in unofficial pro debut
By D.J. ShortSep 23, 2010, 9:19 PM EDT
Nobody has cared about an instructional league game this much since, well, Stephen Strasburg last October. Oh well, here goes.
Nationals top prospect Bryce Harper made his unofficial pro debut earlier today, going 0-for-2 with a pair of strikeouts, reports Alden Gonzalez of MLB.com.
Harper struck out swinging on both occasions, according to Gonzalez, being caught out in front on a pair of off-speed pitches. The teenage hitting sensation started the game in right field, but sat down after five innings. Harper took the experience of his first pro game in stride, however.
“When you haven’t seen pitching for five months, it’s a little hard.”
“Everybody gets their Spring Training. This is mine.”
Little do the Nationals know, his now absent streaking eye black is actually the source of his super powers.
The instructional league schedule, which consists of 16 games, wraps up on October 12. According to Gonzalez, the Nationals want to see how Harper fares in his current “controlled environment” before they decide whether to send him to the prospect-rich Arizona Fall League. For entertainment’s sake, I hope he’s included.
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RaiderZ Remake Reveals Changes To Action Combat System – No More Invincibility With Dodge
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Developers at Masangsoft have revealed new information about the combat changes that will be in the remake of the action-combat MMORPG RaiderZ. Important mechanics to the non-targetting combat system will be changed.
Dodging was a key function in the original RaiderZ’s battles because each dodge came with a limited invincibility effect. The developers of the new RaiderZ have decided to remove that effect so that dodging will not be saved as a “damage nullification move” and instead be used for its primary purpose of avoiding visible attacks by moving in a certain direction.
You can visit the RaiderZ Facebook post to read about other combat changes that are planned to be in the RaiderZ remake.
If this is your first time hearing about RaiderZ, the game is an action combat MMORPG with a fantasy world where you can quest and hunt world bosses in parties as a cleric, mage, berserker, assassin or guardian. The game was a breathe of fresh air for the genre at the start of the century as it released with an impressive combat system.
Unfortunately, the game was closed down in 2015 due to its original developer, MAIET ceasing all operations. Its publisher at the time stated that as a result of MAIET’s closure, troubleshooting persistent server issues or “delivering a quality experience” was no longer viable. Now three years later, Masangsoft, a different Korean developers has bought up the rights for the RaiderZ IP and is in the process of re-making the game for a re-release.
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Rackspace Finally Goes Public with OpenStack Cloud Servers
Wednesday Aug 1st 2012 by Sean Michael Kerner
After more than two years of promoting the open source OpenStack project, Rackspace is finally ready to deliver it for its own cloud customers.
Rackspace customers can now, at long last, benefit from the open source OpenStack project. Rackspace today announced the general availability of its Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack technology.
Rackspace is one of the original co-founders of OpenStack alongside NASA back in 2010. Over the last two years, more than 80 other organizations have joined the effort, including big names like IBM, Dell, Cisco, HP and AT&T. Yet despite the growing vendor participation, Rackspace has not had its own public cloud offering powered by OpenStack, until now.
Back in April, Rackspace first began to offer OpenStack as a beta to select customers. It's an effort that has now led to the general availability of the stack.
Existing Rackspace cloud customers, though, will not automatically benefit from the new OpenStack based offering. Jim Battenberg, senior marketing manager at Rackspace, explained to ServerWatch that existing customers will not be automatically upgraded, even though they will now be given more choices.
"Customers can spin up for Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack, which are faster and feature a more responsive API, or they can stay with their existing legacy servers for now," Battenberg said.
Not only are OpenStack servers faster, they actually cost less for customers as well.
"We have lowered our entry-level 512MB pricing by 27 percent, from $0.03 an hour to $0.022 an hour," Battenberg said. "We are also reducing the price of our 15GB and 30GB by 6 percent and 33 percent respectively to provide better pricing for larger customers."
The new public Rackspace OpenStack offering is leveraging the Essex version of OpenStack. Essex was first publicly released in April of this year. In the fall, the new Folsom release is set to make its debut.
Today's Open Cloud Announcement "Just the Beginning"
One of the things that might be possible now that there are multiple OpenStack clouds being deployed is an OpenStack-to-OpenStack cloud migration.
"Depending on the version of OpenStack, our partners are finding that API operations are working across Openstack versions of the same release," Battenberg said. " For example, Essex to Essex."
Currently, there are multiple OpenStack private and public clouds being deployed. HP, AT&T, Ubuntu, Red Hat, SUSE and Dell all have OpenStack-based efforts now underway. Rackspace also has a private edition of OpenStack that it has been selling as a managed services offering.
While the open source project continues to push forward, so too is Rackspace in its effort to further profit from OpenStack. Battenberg noted that today's open cloud announcement is just the beginning.
"Rackspace is developing a broad portfolio of OpenStack-based solutions," Battenberg said. "In addition to Cloud Databases and Cloud Servers powered by OpenStack, we will release our Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Block Storage and Cloud Networks solutions by the end of the year."
Sean Michael Kerner is a senior editor at InternetNews.com, the news service of the IT Business Edge Network, the network for technology professionals Follow him on Twitter @TechJournalist.
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Matt Waldman’s RSP NFL Lens: QB Chad Kelly’s Preseason Debut
By Matt Waldman August 12, 2018
Matt Waldman’s RSP NFL Lens examines Broncos QB Chad Kelly’s preseason debut against the Minnesota Vikings.
I’ve been eagerly anticipating Chad Kelly’s first game exposure since last year because he’s an intense, decisive, and aggressive football player. His game lacks fear. I know, this doesn’t sound like hard-hitting analysis, but it is.
Football is a performance craft. Performing requires comfort in the performance environment — whether it’s a studio, a stage, when the camera rolls, or on the field in game conditions with a crowd.
Performance conditions can create a tendency to overreact to the surrounding stimuli and it can generate self-conscious, tentative, and cautious behavior. Quarterbacks who act this way, second-guess decisions, hesitate when they read an open look and deliver inaccurate targets, or lack the necessary aggressive mindset to take appropriate chances.
The best performers thrive in these moments. They have good reactions to the energy. They lock in and let their tools flow. They’re aggressive, decisive, creative, and when they make mistakes they don’t dwell on them and let it impact their performance.
I could tell you about Chad Kelly’s arm, accuracy, reading of the field, pocket presence, and mobility, but it’s his ability to thrive on stage as described above that ties all of his physical, technical, and tactical skills together in a promising way. Pat Mahomes as the same underlying quality and Andy Reid and Chiefs GM Brett Veach know it, which is why they’re not concerned about him making mistakes in practice and Veach literally said that he’s anticipating that Mahomes will make “head-scratching” mistakes this year.
They know they have a quarterback with the right mentality; one they can feed the information, coaching what to do, and get out of the way and let him learn from mistakes without micromanaging his development and stifling him.
Kelly has this potential and there are a few plays from this game that gives a small taste of it.
His second touchdown of the game is a good example of his looking right, and coming back to his left because of the open space he knows will be there based on the developments in the middle of the field. He also shows the poise, and off-platform adjustment to lead his receiver in stride with the throw while hit in the face by the defensive end.
Two plays from Chad Kelly's debut that caught my eye. #Broncos pic.twitter.com/3LrNKo6xAT
— Matt Waldman (@MattWaldman) August 12, 2018
On the same video above is also a small example of his underrated burst as a runner. In case you weren’t aware, Kelly was a dual-threat quarterback recruited by Clemson. If he wasn’t so immature as a freshman, he might have kept Deshaun Watson on the bench for a little while.
The next play comes after Kelly throws an interception in the right flat. Kelly scrambled to his right, saw the intermediate target crossing the middle to the right flat and decides not to check-down but go for the big play. The trailing defender undercuts the off-target throw off the scramble for an interception.
This is a typical mistake for Kelly when he errs because it’s rooted in him being too aggressive. He has to learn to pull back a little bit as a situational decision maker and learn his boundaries. He actually had another three passes in this game that should have been picked off.
However, what I like about Kelly is his willingness not to let the mistakes dissuade him from aggressive decisions that should be made. This is a good read and throw to start the following drive.
And a third after an interception where he was too aggressive. #Broncos pic.twitter.com/wjRvL0Rqfu
And Kelly gets Denver inside the five on this drive, delivering two pinpoint targets that his receivers dropped in the end zone. Overall, I was pleased with what I saw from Kelly. Like any aggressive-minded player on the NFL stage his first time, it’s understandable that he lacked the maturity for when to be cautious.
I’m hopeful that he earns a shot to play ahead of Paxton Lynch against second-team defenders in Week 2. We’ll see if the Broncos think he earned that opportunity.
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The Cable Guy
Chip Douglas, cable installer was raised on television sitcoms. When he meets single guy Steven Kovacs he sees his chance for some serious male bonding. But Chip's idea of friendship may be hazardous to Stevens health.
Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia Pictures, c1996.
Characteristics: 1 videodisc (96 min.) :,sd., col.
Additional Contributors: Stiller, Ben 1965-- Director
Carrey, Jim 1962-- Actor
Broderick, Matthew 1962-- Actor
Licht, Andrew - Producer
Mueller, Jeffrey A. - Producer
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raymind Dec 06, 2018
Humor and wrongdoing.
reginator_22 Feb 12, 2018
People didn't like this one, but I thought it had good moments.
loganlib_Ashley Jun 26, 2016
The Cable Guy was one of the films that dangerously came close to being a disposable comedy, in this case, some kind of buddy film.
It instead has very few rivals in films depicting sociopathic thrillers/black comedy. Also it's depiction of a media obsessed individual cuts closer to home with each year of entertainment and culture saturation.
Also, huge amount of cameos from the Ben Stiller group, including Ben Stiller of course, Bob Odenkirk (as a family member with one line), David Cross (as a coworker with one line), Janeane Garofalo (as a waitress), Andy Dick (as a king) and Jack Black (with more than a few lines, as well as his bandmate Kyle Gass).
Oh, and Mathew Broderick was in it too, I'm pretty sure.
britprincess1ajax Apr 11, 2016
I've been reading Judd Apatow's book, SICK IN THE HEAD, and learned that the world was not ready for a film like THE CABLE GUY. It wasn't well received because it was ahead of its time. I truly think it would have found an audience in this century. Darkly comedic and wonderfully well written, I enjoyed the warped mentality of the titular cable guy as he systematically meddles in his client's life. You felt he was fully absorbed in what he was doing and, in this interconnected era, we can see how easily the television becomes the baby-sitter. There's more than just laughs to this film. I definitely recommend it.
LAGastelum May 01, 2014
Classic. Dysfunctional dark humour that works not only do you laugh you get annoyed you get perturbed you chuckle again. Classic! It's funny how people get uncomfortable with the preachy ending and miss that it's still resonating the dark humour from the first scenes ... Make popcorn, we did Jiffy POP (death to mircowaves)
bdls206 Aug 08, 2011
This movie is absolutely hilarious, and has a wonderful cast. If you are a fan of dark comedies then this movie is a must see.
zorg Jul 27, 2009
To me, the only word that comes to mind when I think of this film is WEIRD. Despite its over- the- top, creepy style, I liked this movie
Other: Crude humor
Sexual Content: This title contains Sexual Content.
Violence: This title contains Violence.
Coarse Language: This title contains Coarse Language.
Chip Douglas: The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities!
Chip Douglas: You were never there for me were you mother? You expected Mike and Carol Brady to raise me! I'm the bastard son of Claire Huxtable! I am a Lost Cunningham! I learned the facts of life from watching The Facts of Life! Oh God!
bdls206 thinks this title is suitable for 13 years and over
A lonely and disturbed cable guy raised on television just wants a new friend, but his target, a designer, rejects him, with bad consequences.
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Family Of Alleged LAX Gunman Issues Statement
Filed Under:Family Statement, Gunman, LAX, Paul Ciancia, Shooter, Shooting, TSA Agent
(credit: CBS)
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — The family of the alleged LAX gunman Monday released a statement about Friday’s shooting, which left one TSA agent dead and several others injured.
Paul Ciancia, 23, is accused of opening fire in Terminal 3 at LAX on Friday morning, specifically targeting TSA agents.
RELATED LINK: TSA Agent Killed, 6 Injured In LAX Shooting
Agent Gerardo I. Hernandez, 39, was fatally shot in the incident. Two other TSA agents, Tony Grigsby, 36 and 54-year-old James Speer, were also wounded.
Six people were hurt, including Calabasas High School teacher Brian Ludmer, who was shot in the leg, before Ciancia was taken down by authorities.
His family issued the following statement through attorney John Jordan in New Jersey Monday morning:
“We like most Americans are shocked and numbed by the tragic events of last Friday. We acknowledge the need to understand what happened and why it happened. To that end, we as the Ciancia family have fully cooperated with the FBI and other law enforcement agencies over the last several days.
It is most important for us as a family to express our deep and sincere sympathy to the Hernandez family. On all accounts, Officer Hernandez was an exemplary member of the law enforcement community and a good family man; our hearts go out to his family and any others who grieve his passing.
We wish to convey too our hopes for those who were wounded in this incident will experience quick and full recoveries. We also regret the inconvenience experienced by thousands of travelers as well as the administration and the employees of the Los Angeles Airport.
Paul is our son and brother. We will continue to love him and care for him. We will support him during the difficult times ahead. While we do not mean to minimize the grief and stress experienced by many other families, we hope that the public will understand that this is a very difficult time for our family too.”
Ciancia had lived in Sun Valley for a year and a half, but is originally from Pennsville, N.J.
Ludmer has been upgraded from fair to good condition, officials at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center said Monday.
Agents Grigsby and Speer were released from the hospital over the weekend.
Ciancia remains unconscious and under guard at UCLA. He was shot four times and sustained a gunshot wound to the head.
The FBI has yet to interrogate him. Ciancia could face the death penalty as a result of the charges being filed against him.
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Janet Dubois Net Worth
Janet Dubois Net Worth 2019: Wiki Biography, Married, Family, Measurements, Height, Salary, Relationships
Jeannette Dubois net worth is
Jeannette Dubois Wiki Biography
Jeannette Dubois was born on the 5th August 1945, in Brooklyn, New York City, USA of African and American ancestry. She is an actress, who is probably still best known for her appearances in the role of Willona Woods in the TV series “Good Times” (1974-1979), and as Momma Bosley in the film “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” (2003). She is also recognized as the co-founder of “Pan African Film & Arts Festival”. Her career has been active since 1966.
Have you ever wondered how rich Ja’net Dubois is, as of mid- 2016? According to authoritative sources, it has been estimated that the total size of Janet’s net worth is as high as $2 million. She has been accumulating her net worth through a successful career in the entertainment industry as a professional actress.
Ja’net Dubois Net Worth $2 Million
Ja’net Dubois’ career began in the late 1960s, firstly appearing in the film “A Man Called Adam” (1966), and three years later in the film made for television “J.T” (1969). With the beginning of the next decade, little by little her career began to improve, and she featured in the soap opera “Love of Life” (1970-1972), in the film “Diary of a Mad Housewife” (1970), with Richard Benjamin and Carrie Snodgress in lead roles, “Five on the Black Hand Side” (1973). and “The Blue Knight” (1973), with William Holden and Lee Remick. The following year she was selected for the role of Willona Woods in the TV series “Good Times”, which aired until 1979, increasing her net worth by a large margin, and also boosting her popularity. In the late ’70s she also featured in the film “A Piece of the Action” (1977),
During the 1980s, Ja’net continued to feature in several TV series and films, however, usually in minor roles. Some of the most notable roles include those in films and series such as “The Sophisticated Gents” (1981), “The Tom Swift and Linda Craig Mystery Hour” (1983), and “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka” (1988), written and directed by Keenan Ivory Wayans. She was also a cast member of the film “Kids Like These” (1987), which also added to her net worth.
Ja’net`s career stagnated a bit in the 1990s, but it returned back on track in 1996 when she featured in the TV series “The Wayans Bros.” until 1998. She also appeared in the films “Best Friends For Life” (1998), and “Hard Time: Hostage Hotel” (1999), with Burt Reynolds in the lead role.
Ja’net transferred the momentum from the late 1990s into the early 2000s, appearing in the film “Waterproof” alongside April Grace and Burt Reynolds, and “Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle” (2003), with Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz, increasing further her net worth. Ja’net has also been recognized as a voice actress, lending her voice to characters from such animated TV series as “The PJs” (1999-2001), and “As Told by Ginger” (2000-2004), which also added to her net worth.
Thanks to her skills, Ja’net has received several prestigious awards, including a Primetime Emmy award in the category Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for her work on animated TV series “The PJs”, among others. Speaking about her personal life, Ja’net Dubois is a single mother of three children; one of them is actress Rani Dubois. Other information about her personal life is kept private from the media.
Full Name Ja'net Dubois
Net Worth $2 Million
Date Of Birth August 5, 1945
Place Of Birth Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States
Profession Producer, Actress
Children Rani DuBois, Yovanne Dubois, Burghardt Dubois
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/Dubois.Janet/
Nominations NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
1 Her acting mentor was Esther Rolle.
2 Despite the controversy, she enjoyed working with Esther Rolle on Good Times (1974).
3 Mother of Rani DuBois.
4 Ms. DuBois is credited as the first African-American woman to appear regularly on a daytime soap, Love of Life (1951).
5 Her first assignment as a professional model was the cover of Percy Faith's 1959 "Porgy and Bess" LP.
6 Appeared as a centerfold in Jet Magazine's March 24, 1960 issue.
7 Wrote and sang the theme song to the Jeffersons before she ever knew what the show was about
8 Honorary Member of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Inc.
9 Best-known for her portrayal of the sassy, energetic busybody and neighbor, "Willona Woods", on the classic 70s TV series Good Times (1974), that's her voice you hear on the "Movin' on Up" theme from The Jeffersons (1975), which she also co-wrote and composed.
The Jeffersons 1975-1985 TV Series composer - 253 episodes
She's Got a Plan 2016 Betty Angelo
G.I. Joe: Renegades 2011 TV Series Grams Hinton
Cold Case 2007 TV Series Edna Johnson '07
Random! Cartoons 2007 TV Series Mom
Crossing Jordan 2006 TV Series Mrs. Jones
As Told by Ginger 2000-2004 TV Series Mrs. Patterson
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle 2003 Momma Bosley
One on One 2003 TV Series Queen Esther
Boomtown 2003 TV Series Denise Smith
The PJs 1999-2001 TV Series Mrs. Avery
Waterproof 2000 Viola Battle
Everybody Loves Raymond 2000 TV Series Dottie
The Steve Harvey Show 2000 TV Series Delores
Hard Time: Hostage Hotel 1999 TV Movie Lefty, Logan's Assistant
Clueless 1999 TV Series Aunt Liddy
Hard Time 1998 TV Movie Lefty (as Ja'net Du Bois)
Best Friends for Life 1998 TV Movie Katie Pegues
The Wayans Bros. 1996-1997 TV Series Grandma Ellington / Willona Woods
Touched by an Angel 1997 TV Series Esther Hamilton
Moesha 1997 TV Series Mrs. Moss
Don't Look Back 1996 TV Movie Mrs. Lawson
Sophie & the Moonhanger 1996 TV Movie Agnes
Magic Island 1995 Video Lucretia
ER 1995 TV Series Macy Chamberlain
Home Improvement 1991-1995 TV Series Carol / Judith Potter
Hangin' with Mr. Cooper 1994 TV Series Dorothy Cooper
Sister, Sister 1994 TV Series Mom O'Danielle
Other Women's Children 1993 TV Movie Roberta (as Ja'Net Du Bois)
Harlan & Merleen 1993 TV Movie Maxine
The Golden Palace 1992-1993 TV Series Louise Wilson
Beverly Hills, 90210 1992 TV Series Arlene
Dream On 1991 TV Series June
True Colors 1991 TV Series May Freeman
A Different World 1991 TV Series Brenda Hanes
Penny Ante: The Motion Picture 1990 Aunt
Hammer, Slammer, & Slade 1990 TV Movie Joanne Wilson
Doctor Doctor 1990 TV Series Ella Wilkes
New Attitude 1990 TV Series Irma
Heart Condition 1990 Mrs. Stone
Nearly Departed 1989 TV Series Leona
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka 1988 Ma Bell
Houston Knights 1988 TV Series
Kids Like These 1987 TV Movie Mrs. Page (as Ja'net Dubois)
Stranded 1986 TV Movie Bettina
Crazy Like a Fox 1985 TV Series
Spencer 1984 TV Series School Secretary
The Tom Swift and Linda Craig Mystery Hour 1983 TV Movie Mrs. Gorman
The Facts of Life 1981 TV Series Ethel
Hellinger's Law 1981 TV Movie Dottie Singer
The Sophisticated Gents 1981 TV Series Onetha Wiggins
The Love Boat 1980 TV Series Evelyn Hopkins
Roots: The Next Generations 1979 TV Mini-Series Sally Harvey
Good Times 1974-1979 TV Series Willona Woods
A Piece of the Action 1977 Nellie Bond
Caribe 1975 TV Series Melinda Jameson
Kojak 1974 TV Series Paula Thomas
The Blue Knight 1973 TV Movie Celia Louise
Shaft 1973 TV Series Diana Richie
Five on the Black Hand Side 1973 Stormy Monday
The Resolution of Mossie Wax 1973 TV Movie Francelia (as Jeanette Dubois)
Sanford and Son 1972 TV Series Juanita
Diary of a Mad Housewife 1970 Vera
J.T. 1969 TV Movie Rodeen Gamble (as Jeannette Du Bois)
A Man Called Adam 1966 Martha (as Jeanette DuBois)
Love of Life 1951 TV Series Loretta Allen (1970-1972)
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You 2016 Documentary performer: "Movin' On Up Theme for The Jeffersons" written by nm0058033 & nm0238840
Chelsea Lately 2012 TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno 2011 TV Series writer - 1 episode
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon 2011 TV Series writer - 1 episode
Lottery Ticket 2010/I performer: "Whoa Now" - as Ja'net Du Bois / writer: "Whoa Now" - as Janet Dubois
The Office 2010 TV Series writer - 1 episode
Tropic Thunder 2008 performer: "Movin' On Up" 1975 - as Janet Dubois / writer: "Movin' On Up" 1975 - as Janet Dubois
The X Files: I Want to Believe 2008 performer: "Movin' On Up" 1975 - as Ja'Net DuBois / writer: "Movin' On Up" 1975 - as Jeannette DuBois
Littleman 2006 writer: "Movin' on Up" - as Janet Dubois
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties 2006 writer: "Movin' on Up" - as Janet Dubois
Everybody Hates Chris 2005 TV Series performer - 1 episode
The King of Queens 2005 TV Series writer - 1 episode
The Cookout 2004 performer: "Whoa Now" / writer: "Whoa Now"
Chappelle's Show TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2004 writer - 1 episode, 2004
The Simpsons TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2004 writer - 1 episode, 2004
Scrubs TV Series performer - 1 episode, 2002 writer - 1 episode, 2002
The Original Kings of Comedy 2000 Documentary writer: "Movin' On Up" - as Janet Dubois
Hanging Up 2000 performer: "Movin' On Up" / writer: "Movin' On Up"
Next Friday 2000 writer: "Movin' On Up" - as Janet DuBois
Senseless 1998 performer: "Movin' on Up" - as Janet' DuBois / writer: "Movin' on Up" - as Janet' DuBois
Mystery Science Theater 3000 1994 TV Series writer - 1 episode
Who's the Man? 1993 writer: "Movin' on Up" - as Janet DuBois
Basic Instinct 1992 writer: "Movin' On Up" - as Janet DuBois
Saturday Night Live 1982 TV Series writer - 1 episode
Good Times TV Series performer - 3 episodes, 1976 - 1978 lyrics - 1 episode, 1976 music - 1 episode, 1976 writer - 1 episode, 1976
The Jeffersons 1975 TV Series performer: "Movin' On Up" / writer: "Movin' On Up"
Steve Harvey 2016 TV Series Herself
TV Land Confidential 2007 TV Series documentary Herself - Interviewee
BET Comedy Awards 2004 TV Special Herself
TV Land Awards: A Celebration of Classic TV 2003 TV Special documentary Herself
E! True Hollywood Story 2000 TV Series documentary Herself
Martin 1995 TV Series Herself
Good Evening, Captain 1981 TV Special Herself
The Hollywood Squares 1977-1978 TV Series Herself
Celebrity Sweepstakes 1976 TV Series Herself
Celebrity Bowling 1976 TV Series Herself
Sammy and Company 1975 TV Series Herself
Dinah! 1975 TV Series Herself
Archive Footage
Extra 2015 TV Series Herself - Good Times
TV's Illest Minority Moments Presented by Ego Trip 2004 TV Movie Willona Woods
2006 Impact Award TV Land Awards Good Times (1974)
2003 Lifetime Tribute Award Sacramento GAFFERS
2001 Primetime Emmy Primetime Emmy Awards Outstanding Voice-Over Performance The PJs (1999)
1995 CableACE CableACE Awards Supporting Actress in a Movie or Miniseries Other Women's Children (1993)
1998 Image Award Image Awards Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Touched by an Angel (1994)
Known for movies
Good Times (1974-1979)
as Willona Woods
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
as Momma Bosley
The PJs (1999-2001)
as Mrs. Avery
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka (1988)
as Ma Bell
IMDB Wikipedia
$2 million Actress American Brooklyn Burghardt Dubois Janet DuBois Janet Dubois Net Worth Lottie Deno (2015) New York New York City producer Rani DuBois Stay Cool (2009) The Magic Season (2016) The Smell of Success (2009) United States Yovanne Dubois
Jacob Pechenik Net Worth
Warryn Campbell Net Worth
Mike Wolfe Net Worth
Jennifer Pritzker Net Worth
Paul Millsap Net Worth
Kalanithi Maran Net Worth
Sheridan Smith Net Worth
Gautam Thapar Net Worth
Viviana Serna Ramirez Net Worth
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EFIJY Concept to make North American Show Debut
December 20, 2006 Australia’s General Motors subsidiary Holden had a worldwide hit with its one-off 21st Century hot rod, EFIJY, at the Australian International Motor Show in Sydney in October 2005, making news everywhere cars were the topic and a lot of places they weren’t. Remarkably, the acclaimed concept car will be shown at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit next month – the first time it has been seen outside Australia. EFIJY is a contemporary reincarnation of an iconic Australian-made 1953 Holden FJ sedan, restyled as a low-slung hot rod with a supercharged six-litre V8 engine. The car has been featured in magazines, websites and television programs around the world. Its most critical acclaim came from the United States when it was named Hot Rod of the Year by the influential Hot Rod magazine.
EFIJY chief designer Richard Ferlazzo, who will be at NAIAS with the vehicle, said having the car at the biggest event in the world’s biggest car culture was incredible recognition for everyone who worked on the project. “It’s fantastic for our design organisation to be recognised in the world’s biggest car culture,” he said. “Ed Welburn has been such a big supporter of Holden Design and the car itself and he was really the one who made this happen. “It’s kind of like selling ice to the eskimos when you have a car at the Detroit show. I can’t wait to see the reaction from the American public.”
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Van breaks through ice, two dead, two still missing ({{commentsTotal}})
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Four passengers went down with the vehicle. After the Rescue Board finished its operation at the surface, the police took over, and divers are looking for the van. Source: (PPA)
A van broke through the sea ice about 500 m away from Munalaiu harbor in Pärnu County's Tõstamaa area. Six people were on board, of which two were rescued off the ice, two were found dead, and two are still missing.
The West emergency center received a call at 12:07 p.m. on Tuesday that a van had broken through the sea ice some 500 m away from the port. A hovercraft of the Rescue Board was able to get a 41-year-old man and a 51-year-old woman off the ice. Both were taken to Pärnu Hospital. The man is in critical condition.
According to information currently available, the two that got out were in the front of the van. Of the two dead bodies found by Police and Border Guard divers, one apparently was the driver of the vehicle.
The police are still looking for the remaining two passengers of the van.
Divers were called to the location where the van broke through the ice to look for the four remaining passengers. The water depth in the area is roughly 4 m.
The divers were expected for 1:30 p.m., Rescue Board personnel finished their search at the surface at 1:45 p.m., with the Police and Border Guard (PPA) taking over.
There are no official ice roads in the area. There is currently no information available about the reason why the van left the mainland and drove out onto the ice. According to preliminary information, the people on board the van were intoxicated.
Local Mark Soosaar told ERR early on Tuesday afternoon that the ice is currently too thin to walk on. The van was seen heading towards the Kihnu ferry that was in the harbor at the time, but then apparently the vehicle turned away towards the sea, drove onto the ice and headed towards Manilaid.
Editor: Dario Cavegn
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Hasbro Studios Officially Rebranded As Allspark
Posted on March 28, 2019 at 11:40 am by Silver Optimus under G.I. Joe Cartoons
Hasbro has issued an official statement for the rebranding of their in-house television content production and distribution division; Hasbro Studios.
Titled as Allspark, the division is in charge of all TV animation content (Transformers, My Little Pony etc.) as well at live action programming (Power Rangers, Clue etc.).
“We are excited to refine our brand in the industry under the moniker ‘Allspark’, which is a fun homage to the life force in Transformers,” says Stephen Davis, Hasbro’s executive VP and chief content officer.
The official website is currently undergoing an update following the announcement. The URL is now updated as https://allspark.hasbro.com/ (formerly known as hasbrostudios.com).
Allspark is currently working on Season 2 of Transformers: Cyberverse, Zoids: Build Them To Life, Power Rangers: Beast Morphers and the final season of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
You can check out the full press release, after the jump.
Discuss on the HissTank Forums› Views: 742
› Companies: Hasbro Studios, Allspark Studios
G.I. Joe Homage On My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic 2018 Christmas Special
Posted on October 31, 2018 at 3:17 pm by Silver Optimus under G.I. Joe Cartoons
Here’s a little news which flew under our radar. My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic 2018 Christmas Special aired last weekend and featured a brief homage to the G.I. Joe Franchise.
On a mission to find the best gift ever, MLP: FIM character Discord used his magic to disguise himself and Rainbow Dash as Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow respectively. It is ironic really; considering the fact that Snake Eyes is a silent character and Discord is quite the jabberjaw.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and G. I. Joe: Renegades both began airing on Discovery Family Channel (formerly known as The Hub) about the same time. Renegades received the axe at the end of Season 1 but MLP trotted on to its current 8th Season with Season 9 green-lighted for a future date.
Will we see another G.I. Joe animated series? Hopefully. Since the cancellation of Renegades, changes happened to Hasbro; including the acquisition of Boulder Media Animation Studio which is currently producing many projects for Hasbro brands including Transformers (Cyberverse / Rescue Bots Academy), Littlest Pet Shop (World Of Our Own), Micronauts and My Little Pony (Equestria Girls). Hasbro also formed its own animation production company titled Allspark Animation. May be one day, the odds will be in our favor and we’ll get to see a new show based on the franchise we know and love. Yo Joe!
You can check out some screenshots from the latest episode, after the jump.
Remembering Legendary GI Joe Artist Russ Heath!
Posted on August 29, 2018 at 7:35 pm by xerofall under G.I. Joe Cartoons, G.I. Joe Comics
It’s been a few days, but legendary GI Joe artist Russ Heath has passed away. If you’re not immediately familiar with his name, you’ll certainly be familiar with his work, he was responsible for the basic look and feel for the Sunbow GI Joe characters, locations, animals, vehicles and storyboards. He penciled Marvel’s GI Joe issue #24 and inked issue #64. He also did a lot of work on titles like the Punisher and Punisher War Journal, etc…
Tim Finn has blogged a wonderful tribute on A Real American Book that I wanted to share with everyone here at Hiss Tank.
Discuss on the HissTank Forums› Views: 1679 › Credit: Tim Finn
› Companies: Hasbro, Marvel, Sunbow, DIC › Characters: Snake Eyes, Cobra Commander, Baroness, Duke
SDCC 2018 Gallery – PCS Toys GI Joe
Posted on July 20, 2018 at 4:00 pm by Joe Moore under G.I. Joe Cartoons, San Diego Comic Con
At San Diego Comic-Con 2018, there were a few G.I. Joe items on display by Pop Culture Shock Collectibles. Included is a prototype for their new 1/4 scale classic Storm Shadow Statue. They also have artwork showcasing design art for classic snake Eyes and Baroness 1/4 scale statues. See them after the jump.
GI Joe DIC Cartoon Serpent-Man Custom by Ian!
Posted on June 7, 2018 at 9:52 am by xerofall under G.I. Joe Cartoons, G.I. Joe Customs
Hisstank member Ian dropped another carton custom for your viewing pleasure! This time Serpent-Man from the DIC cartoon 1990 episode “Injustice and the Cobra Way.”
Check out more images after the jump.
Discuss on the HissTank Forums› Views: 1407 › Credit: Ian
› Characters: Cobra Commander, Serpent-Man
Exclusive Reveal of the G.I. Joe Stop-Motion Film Festival Launch Trailer
Posted on April 5, 2018 at 11:00 am by xerofall under G.I. Joe Cartoons, G.I. Joe Movie, G.I. Joe Various, HissTank Community
The “G.I. Joe Stop-Motion Film Festival” kicks off in Denver this September and Collider.com has the exclusive reveal of our announcement trailer! Since 2005, this festival has been displaying the best indie animators who bring their fan-favorite action figures to life!
http://collider.com/gi-joe-stop-motion-film-festival-trailer/
Discuss on the HissTank Forums› Views: 1376 › Credit: GIJOEFEST
› Characters: Snake Eyes, Cobra Commander
New Agreement Between Hasbro And Paramount On Theatrical And Television Content
Posted on November 3, 2017 at 4:13 pm by Silver Optimus under G.I. Joe Cartoons, G.I. Joe Movie
Hasbro is letting us know that they have entered a brand new agreement with Paramount regarding Theatrical and Television content based on Hasbro properties for both Live Action and Animation fronts.
“Paramount has been a valuable partner of Hasbro’s for more than a decade, and we’re looking forward to taking our relationship to the next level,” said Brian Goldner, Chairman and CEO, Hasbro. “Storytelling, in its many forms, is revolutionizing our business and differentiating Hasbro in all sectors where we operate. We look forward to collaborating with the talented team at Paramount to create powerful new stories for kids, fans and families globally.”
While terms of the relationship are not being disclosed, Paramount and Hasbro will partner on financing projects at varying levels of investment, and Paramount will distribute the projects produced during the five year term of this deal worldwide. Paramount and Hasbro will also collaborate on television programming.
This really is an interesting development considering the fact that cartoons based on Hasbro properties such as G. I. Joes may fall under Viacom (Paramount’s parent company) owned Nickelodeon.
Check out the full press release, after the jump.
Hasbro Applies For G. I. Joe Logo Trademark
Posted on October 21, 2017 at 12:49 pm by Silver Optimus under G.I. Joe Cartoons, G.I. Joe Vintage
Hasbro has recently applied for the G. I. Joe logo trademark at the United States Patent And Trademark Office.
What’s interesting is the fact that they have applied for the log0 which we saw during the 80s Era of G. I. Joe rather than the modern one. The document submitted contains an attachment with the logo under the description of “The mark consists of the words G.I. JOE followed by three bars, with a star on top of the “J” in the JOE portion”.
The trademark is filed under “Toy action figures and accessories for use therewith”.
While we believe that this may have been a move on Hasbro’s part to strengthen their trademark portfolio by renewing old ones, we cannot help but wonder if this means new action figures. In fact, It was not too long ago that we heard Hasbro planning to revitalize the brand.
You can check out additional information and the logo, after the jump.
Hasbro Hascon G.I. Joe VIP Update Custom Folio-Style Animation Cells Exclusive
Posted on August 9, 2017 at 12:16 pm by DESTRO under G.I. Joe Cartoons, G.I. Joe Comics
Hasbro Hascon has just updated their Facebook page with new updated information for G.I. Joe VIP ticket holders.
“The G.I. Joe animated series of the 1980s and 1990s were instrumental in driving interest in the G.I. Joe vs. Cobra storyline. Drawn from our store of production animation cells in the Hasbro Vault archives, we will be packaging eight randomly-selected original cells from the 1990s series in a custom folio-style envelope. This unique, first-of-its kind offering was produced by IDW and is exclusive to G.I. Joe V.I.P. ticket-holders at #HASCON2017!”
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Hasbro Applies For Knowing Is Half The Battle Tagline Trademark
Posted on March 16, 2017 at 1:36 pm by Silver Optimus under G.I. Joe Cartoons
After quite a while, Hasbro has applied for a G. I. Joe related Trademark at the United States Patent And Trademark Office.
The requested trademark is a tagline so familiar among the ARAH Sunbow Cartoon crowd. At the end of each episode (on the PSA segment) we would always hear…
“Knowing Is Half The Battle”
Trademark details:
Trademark Name: KNOWING IS HALF THE BATTLE
Trademark ID: 87364420
Trademark Owner: Hasbro, Inc.
Filed Date: Mar. 14, 2017
Trademark Description: Toy action figures and accessories for use therewith; toy vehicles and accessories for use therewith
We currently do not know why Hasbro applied for the trademark. It could very well be to keep the rights with them or it can be for new animated series. Only time can tell.
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Understanding the concept of a “Cadence”
According to the Wikipedia article on Cadences, they create "a sense of resolution [finality or pause]."
This got me wondering about a more modern and pop context, where simple chord progressions tend to be repeated; sometimes, the end and start of such a loop seem to constitute of chords that seem to be eligible to be considered as a "cadence".
As an example, in Johann Pachelbel's Canon, the chord progression 15634145 (in Roman Numerals) is repeated for pretty much the whole piece; it ends with a 5, and starts with a 1. Is every "loop" of this chord progression considered a cadence, or is only the end of a piece with 5-1 considered a cadence?
Another thought that popped into my head was, if I had a song with a similar loop, but the chord progression changes from the 5 chord into something like 1-4-5, would that be considered a change of "phrase", and hence considered a cadence as well?
Each loop is considered a cadence, see also my answer. – user408858 Jan 11 at 19:20
I'm glad someone finally asked this question.
Let take a pop progression like |: I V vi IV :| and compare that with the formal concept of a cadence.
If we have the mistaken idea that cadences are merely specific chord progressions, then the pop progression produces...
I V a supposed half cadence
V vi a supposed deceptive cadence
IV I a supposed plagal cadence
Any of the three supposed "cadences" clearly does not conclude a phrase or the end of a section.
Yes, the vocal part sung over the progression eventually will stop when the section ends, but it will be coincidental to the harmony. The vocal will stop simply because ...well, honestly it stops after about 4 repeats of the progression or whatever is enough time to fulfill the expected length of a verse or chorus in a pop song. But without doubt, the vocal phrase doesn't end as a result of the harmony of the chord progression effecting a cadence!!! This is an important distinction.
The actual definition of a cadence requires the end of something. The end of a phrase (even if the music doesn't stop, ex. elided phrases) or there should be an actual stop in the music. But, really we need the end of a phrase, otherwise musical rests could be misconstrued as demarcation of cadences.
Let me reiterate: repeating the pop chord progression does not necessarily generate phrases. It's just a harmonic background. This contrast strongly with classical style where repeats normally help demark formal sections and phrases.
I like to think of repetitious pop chord progressions as an anti-cadence device. The whole point is to not stop. Keep the groove groovin'!
Pachelbel's Canon brings up a specific case: a ground bass. Yes, it repeats the same harmony over and over. But it's a variety of theme and variations form. Importantly, the repetitions of the harmony do mark the end of phrases.
Another way you can bring in classical music to understand this distinction between mere chord progression versus a cadence is looking at the so-called 'first theme group' in a sonata. Many sonatas start with several thematic ideas which harmonically might be I V I. Those ideas unfold as an unbroken chain which harmonically just defines the tonic. It would be inappropriate to call those things "cadences." It is often described as cadential harmony, but without out a doubt it would not be formally a bunch of cadences.
Whether analyzing pop music or classical music the term "cadence" should be used only to describe formal endings.
Essential reading: WILLIAM E. CAPLIN, The Classical Cadence: Conceptions and Misconceptions
Re. the blues, which came up in @AlbrechtHügli's answer.
Obviously, 12 bar blues is familiar in the pop style and like pop progressions it repeats over and over. But I would put the 12 bar blues into a category sort of like classical ground bass. The blues turnaround whether V IV I I :|| or V IV I V :|| does demark a phrase ending and a type of cadence.
edited Jan 11 at 20:09
Michael CurtisMichael Curtis
The word cadence comes from the Latin 'to fall', and originally the majority of music ended with a fall in notes - often the '3 Blind Mice' motif. It ended on the first beat of a bar, bringing the piece back home unequivocally. That was, and is, the perfect cadence - authentic over the pond.
A cadence is anywhere where there is a lull in proceedings - the end of a phrase, end of a line, and certainly the end of a piece. It really comprises the last two harmonies at that point - called a cadence point - both being responsible for what it gets called.
So, yes, the end of a phrase, if it could be deemed a pause in the piece, can have a cadence. The most used are: V>I, IV>I, IV(or other) >V, V(or other) >vi. Others, such as Phrygian and suspended cadence, through to even a 'feminine xxx cadence'. Worth doing a bit of research!
There are more than the usual four (just done some homework!) that are the perfect, imperfect, plagal, and interrupted - which get christened with different names in U.S.
An interesting one is used by Bach, amongst others: the Phrygian cadence. Imagine a piece being in C major but finishing on E G♯ B - E major. That piece could be construed as actually being in E Phrygian, which is a minor mode, but then has a tierce de Picardie to end on.
Am I misunderstanding your explanation of a Phrygian cadence? A Phrygian cadence is simply iv6 to V, a kind of half cadence. The Phrygian label is applied because the lowered ^6 half step down to ^5 and ^4 whole step up to ^5 voice leading for those chords looks like a clausula vera in a Phrygian mode. – Michael Curtis Jan 11 at 19:54
There's another use of the term cadence in the solo concert, when the orchestra holds on a I(46) chord while the soloist plays the climax of his part (to show his virtuosity and his ability to improvise) leading into the final passage of the solo concert. Correction: this the cadenza
The cadence I - IV - V - I is the ultimate chord progression in classical music to determine the tonality of the piece. (Most music of Bach's Suites and piano pieces start and end with this cadence or their substitution I - IIm - VII - I.)
https://kingedsmusic.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/harmonic-sequences-notes.pdf
In jazz this is I - IIm - V7 - I ( developed from the IIm6 or VI with sixte ajoute and also from the mentioned barock music (e.g. prelude D major Bach WTC.
Often used is the in popmusic is the so called "quintfall sequenz" (sequence of falling fifths that goes I - IV - VII- III - VI - II - V and can be started by any of these chords. (eg. Vivaldi, Händel, Bach)
From the aspect of "cadere" also the sequence of falling fifths maybe considered as a cadence.
the chord progression changes from the 5 chord into something like 1-4-5, would that be considered a change of "phrase", and hence considered a cadence as well?
As the 12 bar blues scheme ends on V and can as long be looped as you like but finally will end on a I (exactly I7) the loop of the Pachelbel canon will finally end on the tonic (I) and finish with IV - V - I, if it will not be played eternally.
It won't be a change of phrase: It's the ending the Pachelbel cadence by the "classic cadence", that existed already in baroque.
Albrecht HügliAlbrecht Hügli
I like the vast content of the answer but I think it fails to address the OP's question more directly... – coconochao Jan 11 at 15:49
There's cadence and cadenza. What you describe at the beginning of your answer is a cadenza, and quite different from a cadence. – Tim Jan 11 at 20:05
Thank you, Tim, in german the term is identical but the italian makes it clear. – Albrecht Hügli Jan 11 at 20:13
Today's music theory is thought way too much vertical. You always have to consider how notes behave in a horizontal way. In renaissance there were several rules how notes are allowed to move with respect to each other. One of those rules is, that if one note makes another one dissonant, the latter one has to drop downwards, such that the notes become consonant again. Simple example:
Consider two notes. Note 1 and note 2 on C. If note 1 goes up to D, you will have a dissonance, in that way, that note 1 made note 2 dissonant. So note 2 has to move downwards to B, such that it is consonant again. After that, it is again possible for both notes to move to C again, what actually is happening in the most known chord progression I-IV-V-I in C major.
So a cadence is more like a sequence of how notes, starting from being consonant, finding it's way out of dissonance into consonance again in a horizontal point of view. So this can happen in a very playful way, and of course the example I gave was just really simple.
Try to listen to some really old music, so you will hear that the notes in the "chord progressions" (which is actually a concept in which you look vertical on notes) never really changed at the same time. There was always this little gap, where another note had to move downwards finding it's way out of a dissonance.
Now if you imagine that note 2 is always trying to get consonant again "as fast as possible", you kind of forget about the horizontal moving and find a more vertical approach. That is what happens when you are looking at chords. It is kind of a more abstract concept. So as a beginner it is hard to find out which role has each note, because you cannot read out the horizontal concept out of chords. You are missing a lot of information about notes from a historical point of view.
I think you are mixing up - at least in part - tendency tones with dissonance. In a basic cadence the ^7 has a strong tendency resolved by moving to ^1, but that ^7 as a member of the V chord is not dissonant, nor is the V triad. You might say the ^7 is sort of dissonant in the tonality as the leading tone pulling to the tonic. But that phenomena is really just called a tendency tone. – Michael Curtis Jan 11 at 19:39
Thanks, I want to make this more clear: I am not saying that the ^7 is dissonant. I am saying the opposite. If you listen to old music you will not hear the ^7 coming just like that. Again being in C major, you would first hear $G-C-D$ such that $C$ was made dissonant by $D$ and has to resolve downwards to $H$. After that, of course, it has the tendency to go upwards to $C$. I am referring to a more historical context. – user408858 Jan 11 at 20:39
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Court Watch: Do Georgia Predators Have It Easy?
October 30, 2014 by Public Information Officer
Is being a sexual predator in Georgia just entertainment, or are we ready to call it a crime to sexually assault someone or to secretly videotape children and adults during private moments?
Three fathers in Georgia have so far avoided conviction and real consequences for alleged sexual misconduct, as has former magistrate judge and Guardian ad Litem Doug Nelson in the Augusta Judicial District.
Before we get into the specifics of these cases, we want to make sure you are aware of this video and the related document. The Georgia Domestic Violence Bench Book exists to help guide professionals in family law and child custody cases involving violence and various forms of abuse.
In the Atlanta area we are asking the question, “Should this man, William Randolph Cushen, be considered as safe for any child?” Would you leave him unsupervised with your own child or anyone else’s child?
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This post covers the issue of protection being avoided intentionally by certain professionals, and avoided consistently across Georgia counties in family law, child custody, family violence and child abuse cases. It touches on our analysis and reporting from the Atlanta area counties, including Cobb and Fulton counties, to the Augusta circuit including Richmond and Columbia counties. The more you learn about what it takes to prosecute offenders and to protect victims, the more you realize we clearly need more help in Georgia on abuse cases. We hear and read a lot about DFCS being blamed for situations involving harm to children due to a shortfall on caseworkers, negligence or lack of oversight, but what about cases where DFCS and law enforcement are kept out, and family court professionals are to blame?
Comparisons: Some crimes are committed and recorded – literally – which show that assault is a crime. (See Turnage and Cushen, as examples.) Others are clear as well in that ethical, credible professionals have substantiated claims of abuse, only to be blocked from testifying or ignored by the courts.
Turnage: This past year we learned this older GOP official, also a predator, was foolish enough to “play” around in front of Skype getting himself caught in the act of attempted rape. Billy Joe Turnage, chairman of the Union County Republican Party in northern Georgia, was arrested after police responded to an ongoing rape that had been seen on Skype. (Photo removed March 2015)
Georgia just can’t help it, it seems, when it comes to sexual predators and wanting to be seen in the news. This official and GAL Doug Nelson were caught in the act, but only one was arrested. The one responsible for helping to commit fraud during litigation and causing damages to innocent parents – and to their children – has not been arrested, and the family court judge close to this situation said “sexual harassment is not a crime in Georgia.” Judge Roper, what was done in Augusta is not mere harassment; it was assault and it was done in the context of coercing victims using their children as leverage.
Other judges in that area knew the Guardian ad Litem Doug Nelson was a predator, sexually assaulting mothers, throwing cases based on whether they complied or not, but they did nothing to intervene. Nothing has been done yet to correct the situation. This damaged both good mothers and good fathers. The toll on the children is still rising, but Georgia officials have done nothing so far. Some of these family court cases involve DFCS investigations, but we can show that the injury to children and parents is not related to any alleged DFCS failures. It is the family court professionals who are blocking protections.
How is it that sexual predators just have an easier time with help in avoiding prosecution? Either way this news coverage of sexual misconduct and attempted assault or actual assault is critical.
What is hard to believe is that the Cobb County, Georgia, man – William Randolph Cushen – who secretly videotaped adults and children using the bathroom in two states is still able to avoid consequences in Cobb County Family Court while his victims await justice in the criminal court. He was able to plead out in Florida on similar charges after avoiding arrest in Georgia to be extradited to Florida, but family court professionals like Guardian ad Litem Larry Yarbrough do not appear interested in using the evidence on this case to protect the children. Certain court professionals have held the mother hostage in the legal process while waiting to see if the father Randy Cushen was indicted. They stalled decisions and protections in this case, even though there is no question that he committed these crimes, including secretly filming other adults and children.
Update: now that Randy Cushen has been indicted, we will get to see if the Child Custody expert, GAL (guardian ad litem) Larry Yarbrough and the Superior Court judge give this man free reign to continue abusing, or if they protect the children and hold him accountable. In addition to the damages caused to the victims of his crimes, and the risk to his own children, the father’s attorney and other court professionals appear to want the mother to lose her business and to be unable to provide for their children. There is still much here to investigate. One question parents and counsel might consider is whether or not to allow a criminal defense attorney who is positioned to defend alleged perpetrators (as opposed to protecting children) to be assigned as guardian, especially in cases where child abuse or violence may exist.
Case history:
MARIETTA, Ga. – November, 2013. A Cobb County man is accused of secretly photographing and recording both children and adults at a pool and in restrooms. Investigators say William Randolph Cushen, III of Kennesaw set up hidden cameras at both a neighborhood pool and his own home. According to an arrest warrant, Cushen secretly photographed women at the pool at the Overlook at Marietta Country Club, and in a bathroom at his home on Grey Point Court. The warrant says Cushen secretly videotaped women, men and children in the bathroom. Cobb County police would not comment about the case, citing its nature and an ongoing investigation. …Talk about being caught in the act!
We want to bring your attention quickly to a major problem for victims and for our State leadership:
Victims often do not get the support or protection they need, or the crime isn’t called a crime apparently until the victim is nearly dead, or deceased. This is not just because victims are afraid to speak up, and it’s not just that the evidence does not exist or hold up. This may be over-simplifying the answer, but it seems that the core issue is that it is more profitable to avoid protecting victims and to let true offenders off the hook. This is what we refer to as putting profit over protection.
Maybe the assault in front of Skype referred to here will make a difference even though police say the victim was “not physically injured,” or will this be forgotten? Thanks to this assault being seen, Billy Joe Turnage was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual battery and criminal attempt to commit rape.
But what about Randy Cushen’s victims?
When is it their turn to have justice?
Perpetrators of sexual assault, even those careless enough to leave evidence on text (Doug Nelson, GAL), on their computers (Cushen), or on Skype (Billy Joe Turnage), and even those exposed in the news media, often do not get prosecuted, and in some cases they do not face the consequences that early reporting suggests they will receive.
Two other cases we follow, one in Fulton County and another one in Cobb County, both involved investigations that led to substantiated abuse reports (one by DFCS), but the alleged perpetrators are still given either primary custody or visitation rights without any regard for the protection needed by the children.
It does seem that Georgia has a problem with tolerating sexual assault and abuse, even when the crimes and evidence are clearly identified and the victims are begging for justice (Cobb County let father John Kristofak out of jail knowing he was mentally unstable and committed to murdering his former wife).
These are not isolated incidents and much of the injury is predictable, and avoidable.
If national news media is what is needed to make a difference, then we hope this SKYPE spotlight will serve us well!
In the meantime, please keep asking this question: is it all of Georgia leadership and all courts or agencies, or is it mostly family court professionals who put profit over protection?
Either way, KEEP THE PRESSURE ON to have predators and those who cover for them held accountable, while ensuring protections and treatment for victims.
Union County Sheriff Investigator Staff Sgt. Darren Osborn told the paper that 911 dispatchers received a report of an ongoing “assault and rape” of a 39-year-old female at Turnage’s residence last week. Osborn said that investigators from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation conducted two days of interviews before bringing criminal attempt to commit rape charges against Turnage.
This is KEY: the GBI only needed two days to decide to bring criminal charges for the attempt to commit rape.
But in the Fulton County Superior Court case, the GBI did not follow through on twice-confirmed evidence of child pornography, and both police and forensic experts were not allowed to testify for the protection of this child. Now the alleged perpetrator is getting away with making false allegations against the abused child’s mother, and she has been run into the ground from trying through the court system to defend herself and to protect her child.
Why should the public follow up on this particular story about the rape assault on Skype? Because other sexual assault victims in Georgia, and victims of other types of assault or exploitation, are not getting justice or any kind of protection in many cases. If we lose interest in these stories everyone loses, especially victims of crimes. In other cases the perpetrators do not have the political pull and connections this man apparently has. So if those other offenders are never convicted and their victims do not get justice, what do you think might happen here?
In the Augusta area, mothers who were sexually assaulted by the GAL Doug Nelson during their child custody cases cannot get law enforcement to take action against this predator. This is in spite of his text messages revealing his actions and their video testimony, and in spite of the fact that there are multiple victims and clear damages.
There is even proof that judges knew this was going on and did not intervene, ignoring the damages to both parents and to their children. Good mothers lost custody of their children when they did not comply with his demands for sex, while at least two good fathers lost their rights – and a lot of money – when the mothers on those cases allegedly complied with Nelson’s advances.
What in the world is going on outside the gates of the peaceful and austere grounds of the Augusta National Golf Course, home to the Masters Tournament? This can’t possible be the same place the world sees as a golfers paradise?
Back to other news: The New York Daily News and other major media outlets spent time to learn whether this is the norm in Georgia, or was this aging now-former official just that stupid on top of being willing to commit the criminal act of raping a woman?
“A Georgia Republican official is facing criminal rape charges after he broadcast on Skype an alleged sexual assault attempt, according to a bombshell report.
Billy Joe Turnage, the 76-year-old GOP chairman in Union County in northern Georgia, allegedly tried to rape a 39-year-old woman in her house — and he televised the disgusting act on the Internet, according to the North Georgia News.”
On this AJC page covering the Georgia election updates, more is explained about how this went down – or actually went UP, as in on the air: “Oct. 22, dispatch received a 911 call at approximately 4 p.m. of what was believed to be an assault and rape,” Sgt. Osborn said. “It was being viewed via Skype. Deputies responded and I responded as well.”
Ryan Mahoney, a spokesman for the state GOP, said state party officials have received no communication regarding Turnage’s status. Any effort to remove him would require action at the local level, Mahoney said. A picture of Turnage and David Perdue, the GOP candidate for U.S. Senate, is on the Union County GOP Facebook page. It’s not likely to be there long. (If you follow up on this story, please let us know if this offender was held accountable.)
Correction: the Union County GOP Facebook page is GONE. So apparently that is one way to rid yourself of pesky photos of predatory pals.
For now we’ll leave you with these questions:
Do victims of assault experience real damages even if they are not physically injured or if the injuries do not include physical bruising or tearing?
Do we expect our Courts and Law Enforcement to prosecute crimes and protect victims even when news media is not applying pressure?
If this kind of abuse is being reported on by news media, and victims are still not receiving any help from the courts or from state agencies, then what hope is there for other victims?
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Tiger heroics can inspire Cardiff’s survival bid, says Warnock
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Cardiff City manager Neil Warnock has called on his players to take inspiration from golf icon Tiger Woods’ sensational comeback story as he tries to defy the odds and keep the Welsh club in the Premier League.
Woods completed one of the greatest sporting comebacks on Sunday when he claimed his fifth Masters title, 11 years after winning his last major championship.
A final round resurgence earned Woods another Green Jacket and Warnock said Cardiff also needed to rediscover their spark with five games remaining in the season.
“We’ve just got to look at the golf, and look at what he’s done, Tiger, which was amazing and nobody had given him a chance either,” Warnock told reporters ahead of Tuesday’s relegation ‘six-pointer’ against Brighton & Hove Albion.
“It’s an opportunity for us to give ourselves a chance until the end of the season. We have to grab that.”
Cardiff travel to the Amex Stadium five points adrift of the safety zone and relegation rivals Brighton, who have a game in hand and sit one place above the Welsh side in 17th.
“We’ve had that many kicks in the teeth in the last four months (and) we keep bouncing back really,” Warnock added.
“And obviously over the last few weeks we have felt sorry for ourselves a few times and we haven’t got time to do that now. We have to give it our best shot and if it’s not good enough we’ll accept it.”
Defeat at Brighton would leave Cardiff seemingly doomed to an immediate return to the Championship, with their season run-in including daunting fixtures against league leaders Liverpool and fifth-placed Manchester United.
Cardiff have come out on the wrong side of refereeing decisions in recent weeks.
They had a penalty appeal turned down in a 2-0 loss at Burnley on Saturday, two weeks after conceding an equaliser against Chelsea which was widely viewed as offside.
The FA charged Warnock for his post-match comments about the officials after the 2-1 home defeat by Chelsea.
The 70-year-old confirmed that he is appealing against three breaches of FA Rule E3 for bringing the game into disrepute.
“I’ve pleaded not guilty to the charges and I expect to have a hearing some time this week, I hope,” Warnock said.
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LA riots: Violent revolution or staged operation? (Part III)
newsspellcom.org in #conspiracyorfiction, pop culture, truth info March 20, 2018 November 21, 2018 2,088 Words
The LA riots were nothing more than a Hollywood produced spectacle recorded and directed on a movie set – a psychological operation designed to entice enmity between the races and bring new order out of manufactured chaos.
As one shall soon observe, the event known as the LA riots were no different than Sandy Hook, Boston bombing, Columbine, and the latest government sponsored psychological operation in Florida – all designed to destabilize, reshape and subsequently reprogram human perception – oh and let’s not forget something just as paramount – to the ruling elite Jesuit families at least – television ratings and advertising revenues.
The usual elements were also present – Hollywood set pieces, scripted melodrama, and host actors portraying characters directed to credibly deliver scripted lines designed to emplace a cohesive narrative in the mind of the masses while they remained glued to their television screens to see what happened next. One shall begin this final installment by providing an historical recap. The alleged unrest of the LA riots officially began on April 29 of 1992 after the acquittal of four Los Angeles police officers indicted for the use of excessive force in the beating of Rodney King. The rioting appeared to have continued unabated both in the South Central and Korean Town regions of metropolitan Los Angeles for six days until finally in May the 7th Infantry Division of the California National Guard were summoned to help quell the mayhem which reportedly resulted in not only the destruction of over 1 billion dollars of private businesses and property but also 63 deaths, 2,383 injuries and over 12,000 persons arrested (according to official statistics reported by mainstream periodicals LA Times/New York Times/ and online at Wikipedia).
Before one delves into an analysis of these alleged ‘facts’ derived from mainstream media sources perhaps an overview of the cultural and social climate of the era would prove demonstrative and even instructive. Regarding the LA riots, a major historical event pushed to the forefront of American consciousness by the mainstream news, there seems to have existed other social and political forces largely congruent.
As loyal readers and everyone knows, Los Angeles is not only home to the cinema making dream factory known as Hollywood, it also has been for decades, at least since the 1960’s the music industry capital of not only America but the entire world.
As the twentieth century dawned and technological developments with cinematic video and recording audio continued apace, the ruling elite Jesuit families were keen to observe absolute control of both Hollywood and the music industry would be key in bolstering and eventually maintaining their psychological, social and cultural hold over the masses.
It follows then that it is truly interesting to note a popular form of ‘music’ dubbed ‘gangster rap’ – parallel with the time period of the LA riots – was just beginning to gain prominence on commercial radio and major mainstream music video channels such as MTV. Artists such as Ice T, Snoop Dog, Doctor Dre and NWA were suddenly contracted and heavily promoted by major music industry labels and their ‘music’ was summarily and rabidly consumed by millions of suburban white teenagers seduced into thinking that to purchase and listen to such dreck could be construed as wildly rebellious, as if they were embarking upon some sort of exotically adventurous and even forbidden cultural field trip.
But in reality folks, an entire generation was being programmed with shock and awe style psychological and social programming carefully devised by London’s Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, which has always had a very close relationship with not only Hollywood but the American music industry and the entertainment/military/industrial complex.
This ‘music’ and its inherent provisions of both violent and visceral imagery of the ‘gangster life’ acted as predictive programming that began even prior to the LA riots in the late 1980’s.
The social scientists at Tavistock and Stanford Research Center determined long ago that for social and cultural change to be rendered effective the individual human mind and on a macro scale the collective mind of the masses must be incrementally prepared beforehand. This sort of programming was foisted upon the masses prior to the Russian communist revolution of the early twentieth century, before the German nationalist socialist movement taking place later on in the era of the 1930’s, and even prior to the American suffrage movement occurring approximately during the identical era.
As such, the introduction of ‘gangster rap music’ into the American social fabric served to prepare the minds of the American people for the major event that would follow in the spring of 1992 in the form of the Los Angeles riots, accentuating racial divide and reinforcing the need for greater police security on the streets of most of the major metropolitan and urban centers of America.
This predominantly fabricated public perception became political reality when newly elected president William Clinton signed into law what officially became known as the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, which provided over 100,000 new police officers and 14 billion in government grants for what was termed ‘community oriented policing’ (i.e. profiling/gang stalking/warrantless surveillance) and featured a newly enacted ‘three strikes provision’.
And yet, despite the government’s own statistics demonstrating violent crime and other related felonious offenses in major metropolitan and urban areas had reflected a sharp decline prior to the bill’s passage in 1994, statistics relating to overall levels of incarceration nearly doubled after the Violent Crime Control bill’s passage, as did the significant growth of the American private prison industry.
In other words folks, the US government handed out incentives to law enforcement and state governments to unlawfully but legally warehouse its own citizens in the name of satisfying political appearances subsequent to the LA riots. But once again, one observes real laws enacted based upon public perceptions primarily drawn from the mainstream media promotion of fabricated news events, and done with not only the complicity of federal and state governments, but Hollywood and the music industry.
If that isn’t conspiratorial, folks, one can’t possibly conceive of what truly is.
Reginald Denny
One of the first widely publicized violent confrontations between alleged rioters and Los Angeles pedestrians involved Reginald Denny, a thirty-three-year old delivery truck driver. Comparable to all the suspect elements one is presented regarding the event known as the LA riots, this highly publicized event stands out as particularly anomalous. An analysis of the video footage provided by mainstream sources proves problematic, raising the question of why a delivery truck was allowed to progress into an area allegedly rife with violence, looting and destruction of property.
One can only speculate Denny was present simply because it was part of the script that called for a racially themed violent spectacle that would ignite the requisite emotional reaction of the public and induce the desired mass psychological impact, if not incite similar incidents of a genuine nature elsewhere. One may wonder – if the Reginald Denny incident was indeed staged as part of a psychological operation – how such an operation could be set up and executed.
One imagines the event was staged similar to the Boston bombing, in that a specific area was cordoned off (intersection of Florence and Normandie) and kept secure by law enforcement and made accessible only by authorized personnel, participating actors, film and mobile sound crews all directed and monitored overhead by aerial helicopter surveillance. With both large scale events such as the Boston bombing and the LA riots this appears to be the case. Taking a closer look at the video footage culled from mainstream news sources, the dramatic beating of Reginald Denny appears to be a scene directed from the set of a Hollywood action movie. For example, where among the entire number of frames throughout the duration of the second video displayed below does one observe empirical evidence of widespread rioting? An examination of the mainstream news footage taken from an aerial vantage point appears to indicate a paucity of rioters other than Denny’s truck and the handful of attackers. The entire scene appears to have been staged.
Notice too, Denny’s truck cab is colored orange (which translates to the numerology equivalent of 33 or the highest degree in Scottish Rite Freemasonry). Also, at between approximately 4:15 and 4:30 minutes into the second video displayed below, notice the poses of the attackers with their arms outstretched parallel to the ground near where the prone body of Denny seems posed with his legs splayed and arms outstretched in a similar manner, almost as if the figures, or actors were purposely posed in geometric proximity.
Has one surely witnessed this before?
The answer would be affirmative. It is a representation of Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man, symbolic of the perfect alchemical balance between square and circle, the masculine and feminine, or in occult lore, symbolic of the Baphomet and the Kabbalah tree of life, also the Temple of Solomon and the Castle of Camelot.
It must also be pointed out that the occult symbolism continued during the trial, with Denny’s three indicted attackers symbolically representing the three ruffians of masonic lore who attacked Hiram Abiff, beating him to death when the masonic master refused to hand over the masonic secret word. The symbolic ritual of Hiram Abiff is reportedly still uniformly carried out in all masonic lodges, and it is still required for any prospective candidate wishing to enter the blue lodge’s master mason third degree.
And where exactly were the over 12,000 incarcerated rioters warehoused upon being apprehended? And the total number of those rioters reportedly incarcerated appeared to have vastly outnumbered the total roster of the Los Angeles police department. Bolstering this reasoning are the usual Kabbalah numerology markers left by the engineers of this massive psychological operation:
# of days LA riots: 6=3+3 or 33
#of police unit apprehended Reginald Denny assault suspects: 77th (Twin lightning charges of Lucifer/Wizard of Oz intelligence code)
# of deaths: 63 (6+3=9/Satan’s number/golden mean/3, 6, 9/sacred geometry)
total # of arrested: 12,000/777 (angelic/angle transformation/intelligence joker code)
(7)th infantry division of National Guard: 7 (G centering masonic square and compass/Zayin Kabbalah mind weapon)
LA police chief Daryl Gates
Reportedly, LA police chief Daryl Gates had announced his retirement prior to the outbreak of the riots, but was saddled with much of the blame for the conduct of the officers under his charge during the Rodney King beating, and for what was viewed as the largely discriminatory and abusive treatment of those in the African-American community by LA police during his tenure as chief of the department.
Turns out though folks, Gates was merely a character presented to the public and portrayed by a host actor, albeit at the time of the LA riots a very famous one. Perhaps it is entirely fitting and not at all surprising to see this particular actor cast in such a role.
Many of you have assuredly watched him portray starring roles in several Hollywood productions, the most notable of which may have been Oliver Stone’s JFK, which cast Kevin Costner, the host actor in question in the starring role of attorney Jim Garrison.
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What is fascinating is that not only did Costner star in the role of LA police chief Gates, but in his role as down and out big league baseball catcher “Crash” Davis in Bull Durham, he is featured in a scene with co-star Susan Sarandon referencing the JFK assassination. The character of “Crash” Davis apparently wished to have it known (apropos of nothing within the context of the scene) that he was dismissive of any conspiracy theories there may have been more than one shooter involved in the killing of Kennedy:
“I believe Oswald acted alone,” went Costner’s line.
This is indicative of the fact Hollywood celebrities because of their overly exalted status within American culture are continually used as behavioral modification models.
Indeed, Costner’s role in JFK may have been designed to lend credence to the conspiracy theories spun by the CIA psychological operations and counter-intelligence masters at Langley with the result that it would spin anyone away from ever conceiving of the idea – whether or not one believes there was a single or multiplicity of shooters – that like the LA riots and indeed perhaps the entirety of recorded and accepted American history, the JFK assassination may have been a complete and utterly fabricated hoax.
"three strikes and your out"
LA riots
LA riots Hollywood production
LA riots were a staged Hollywood production
newsspellcom.org Novelist/Indepedent researcher/creative writer/free thinker
Published March 20, 2018 November 21, 2018
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2 thoughts on “LA riots: Violent revolution or staged operation? (Part III)”
takingletiss says:
Gangster rap ‘music’ lol
In the 1980s lots of private prisons were built which were fairly empty. Once gangster rap went mainstream these prisons filled up quickly. I imagine there is a link between the prison owners and record labels…
newsspellcom.org says:
An examination of the major stockholders will reveal a definitive nexus between the two profit making entities. The ruling elite families plan their political and social transformations decades in advance, this is known as the Fabian methodology of incremental change. And although most would likely scoff at the notion, there is ample scientific evidence demonstrating the frequency level of not only “gangster rap” but all genres of popular music has not only a profound effect upon the human nervous system but is deliberately designed to specifically induce the desired state of mass behavioral modification sought by the ruling elites.
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Interview with Martin Tillman
Photo Credit: Balbina Bruszewska
Famed cellist and composer Martin Tillman has had an accomplished career as a film soundtrack musician/creator and solo artist. He has over 77 film soundtrack credits to his name, including The Dark Knight trilogy, Black Hawk Down, The Ring, The DaVinci Code, and most of the Pirates of the Caribbean series. Tillman’s latest oeuvre is his solo album Superhuman, an uplifting and mind-expanding, rhythmically-driven, cinematic journey where he fuses the classical, electronic, and rock genres with the film soundtrack experience. Superhuman is available now via Symphonic Distribution.
Northern Transmissions: Hello Martin! It’s so amazing to have the chance to touch base with you about your storied musical career as a cellist and composer and to find out more about your latest creation, the album Superhuman. You have amassed quite a body of work in the film soundtrack arena, with scores of credits to your name as a composer, musician, or soloist and you have also released a stream of solo albums. Where are you at this very moment and how are you doing?
Martin Tillman: Thank you so much for being here doing an interview with me. It all sounds so amazing when you list all my credits… In the end though, it’s just work we all do for ourselves and the people around us. I am in Los Angeles, happy to have released Superhuman, and about to get ready to perform in Napa Valley for some really important film music folks…
NT: Your work in the motion picture industry has been a constant in your life since your contributions to the 1996 film The Fan, but your solo output has been intermittent. The delivery of Superhuman comes over a decade after the release of your previous solo album, A Year in Zurich. Why such a long hiatus between albums? Were you too busy with your soundtrack-related endeavors?
MT: I suppose I was very busy with film projects. The last two were Last Knights and Little Mountain Boy. Superhuman took me 5 years to write and record. And, most importantly, my wife needed my support with her dealings with multiple sclerosis….
NT: It sounds like you and your wife have a lot to deal with, but you were still able to release Superhuman and it’s an ambitious genre-b(l)ending opus that showcases symphonic, electronic, rock, even acoustic-leaning styles (like on “Future Dawns”). Most compositions are upbeat while still retaining a centered reflection. What is the main concept of Superhuman? What do you hope that listeners will get out of your new music?
MT: I just wanted to make a record with my favorite musicians and to give a present to my wife to make her feel good.
NT: A few songs on Superhuman are immersed in EDM, including “Wonder” and the title track with its all-embracing atmosphere, rapid dance tempo, and high-shining washes of synths. Have you always had a passion for electronic dance music? Is this the first time you’re expressing yourself through this style?
MT: I always was a fan of EDM. I love Avicii and Deadmau5, to name some EDM artists … and yes, I thought EDM would be such a great vehicle to express my music to current listeners….
NT: While you are a world-renowned cellist, you don’t specially focus on this instrument on Superhuman. What was the musical spark for the 11 diverse compositions? Why did you decide to continue with a panoramic film soundtrack feel for the album instead of spotlighting just the cello?
MT: I wanted it to be a record to be remembered as being melodic and full of energy. But, yes, film is my background… If I had decided to make it a cello record, maybe I would have gotten more gigs for weddings!
NT: A slew of talented musicians and singers appear on Superhuman. Who contributed to the album and what was the recording process like? Did you have several artists performing at one time in the studio or did each one play his/her part and were later mixed together?
MT: I have the most incredible artists performing on Superhuman. Individually they have performed with Michael Jackson, Elton John, Sting, Zappa, Joni Mitchell, Peter Gabriel, TOTO, Air Supply, Ziggy Marley, and the list goes on. From Davey Johnstone (Guitarist)…to Michael Landau (Guitar) , Leeland Sklar (Bass), Vinnie Colaiuta (Drums), David Paich (Keys), Graham Russell (Guitar), Dee Clay Lewis, Anonymous 4 (Vocals on “Involuntary Midnights”), Christopher Healings (remix master from the UK)… and many more including the City of Prague Orchestra. We recorded in 8 different studios around the world. The only two performing together was Leeland and Vinnie (Drums and Bass)… as it should be.
NT: Speaking of mixing, movie score engineer and music mixer Jeff Biggers mixed your album. Have you worked with him before on film soundtracks? What did he bring to your (mainly) instrumental compositions?
MT: We worked for years together… with Hans Zimmer… and I always loved his approach to recording and mixing. Straight-forward. The past few years I have worked with him on my own movies. He really understands what a certain project requires… and most importantly he understands amazing sound. Layers. Jeff made Superhuman 3D. Truly amazing. Because we needed three things: The album needed to be cinematic , electronic, and rock & roll .
NT: You did incorporate some vocals into certain tracks on Superhuman. Why did you decide to utilize some vocal passages, like on the shadowy “Involuntary Midnight” and bluesy “Celluloid Spaces”, on an otherwise all-instrumental record?
MT: I was, and always am, inspired by Pink Floyd. “Us and Them” is such a great example of how to use vocals as a part of the instrumentation…
NT: You are celebrated for pushing the expected boundaries of acoustic and electric cello function. Is this via experimenting with your playing technique or by shaping the cello’s sound on specific equipment in the studio?
MT: I believe shortcomings make you innovative…
NT: What was your all-time favorite film soundtrack to work on from a musical standpoint? What about from the viewpoint of being a fan of the director or artists you collaborated with – or the film itself?
MT: Black hawk Down. Loved Ridley Scott. Everything fell into place. A rare circumstance…
NT: You have recorded with the legendary Hans Zimmer, as well as performed with luminaries like Sting, Elton John, B.B. King, Elvis Costello, Beck, Alison Krauss, and Tracy Chapman. What is a favorite memory (or more!) of yours from your time spent with any of those artists above, or perhaps someone I didn’t mention?
MT: One of my favorite memories is performing at Elton John’s 60th Birthday Concert at Madison Square Garden. AMAZING! I’ve never truly forgotten this. The 300 people in the front row represented just about everybody legendary… Also B.B. King. It was an incredible recording day for the album Deuces Wild with Tracy Chapman in Los Angeles. And a memorable tour in Japan with Beck for his album Mutations…
NT: What is your next post-Superhuman venture or is it too soon to be asking about your future plans?
MT: Planning some fun shows next year, in Europe, with the Superhuman Band, 30 cellos, and a multimedia show with a ballerina and a breakdancer.
interview by Jen Dan
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Let the sun shine, Shelly
July 6, 2014 | 9:27pm
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver Chad Rachman
It looks like 2013 was a very, very good year for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver. The man who single-handedly runs half our state Legislature got a raise of as much as $400,000 — all in his spare time.
Silver reported earning between $650,000 and $750,000 for his role “of counsel” to the tort-law powerhouse Weitz & Luxenberg, up from between $350,000 and $450,000 in 2012. That’s on top of the $121,000 he’s paid as the Assembly’s highest-ranking official.
Problem is, we don’t know what he does for all that cash. And Silver has labored mightily to ensure neither he nor any other lawyer-legislator will ever have to tell us.
Indeed, Shelly wouldn’t even disclose his outside income until forced to by a 2011 ethics law. And he furiously resisted when the anti-corruption Moreland Commission — saying part-time jobs create “the risk of criminal behavior” — demanded a full list of his and others’ clients. When Gov. Cuomo disbanded the commission in a backroom deal, they were all off the hook.
For more than three years now, The Post has pressed for a complete disclosure of this information. But while Silver insists he represents no clients doing state business, the problems go much deeper than that.
Silver, after all, has been a one-man roadblock to tort reform, which would seriously impact his firm’s earnings. He fights repeal of the Scaffold Law, a measure unique to New York that balloons the cost of construction projects. He named his firm’s founder to a judicial screening panel that will help select judges who later could preside over W&L’s lawsuits. And three upstate counties, which rely on Silver for funding, hired W&L to recover overbilled Medicaid funds.
Shelly’s not alone: The Senate’s top two leaders, Dean Skelos and Jeffrey Klein, also rake in six figures from their work for outside law firms.
Our solution has been the same for years: more sunlight, via full disclosure and full transparency. But Sheldon Silver remains Albany’s Prince of Darkness.
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Corrupt-cop doc ‘The Seven Five’ is a must-see
By Kyle Smith
May 6, 2015 | 11:44am
A still of Michael Dowd (left) and Kenny Eurell. Sundance Selects
The Seven Five
Running time: 104 minutes. Rated R (profanity, violent images, drug references).
Mike and Kenny are a couple of regular guys who get drawn into the gang world around them. They steal bags of money, pocket drugs, work as bodyguards for big-time dealers. Mike and Kenny are NYPD cops.
“The Seven Five,” a riveting documentary about Brooklyn’s 75th Precinct, takes place in 5 square miles of hell on Earth in the 1980s.
Michael Dowd, at first a decent cop making $600 a week, began pocketing bricks of money he found in dealers’ houses, then went on the payroll of a local cocaine emperor for $8,000 a week. Using tactics learned at the police academy to rob rival dealers, he’d call out, “What the f - - k you doing with my money?” Kenny, his partner, joined his life of crime in Brooklyn’s East New York neighborhood. “Forget about Beverly Hills and all that other stuff,” says another cop. “The ghetto is one of the richest neighborhoods there is.”
Kenny EurellSundance Selects
It’s that priceless dialogue, the bitter ironies, the magnificently skeevy cast of characters and even the overall structure that make “The Seven Five” “Goodfellas” in blue. Director Tiller Russell, a disciple of Martin Scorsese right down to the freeze-frames and the Rolling Stones music, lands knockout interviews with the principals, from Mike (a double for Henry Hill) to Kenny’s wife (who sounds much like Karen Hill as she sheepishly admits, “Money . . . always feels good”) to Adam Diaz, the Bryan Adams-loving kingpin who sells kilos of coke in the back of a working grocery store. Diaz says of a guy who crossed him, “He’s not around anymore. I’m not saying I killed him. He’s not around anymore.” Smile.
Russell’s film is hair-raising, hilarious, dizzying stuff, building up to a nutty kidnapping-murder plot that Mike planned around a fake flower delivery, only to see on TV news that some other thug used the gag first. “The flower thing can be used a few times,” he argued. “Not every flower delivery is a f - - king armed-robbery-murder!” “The Seven Five” is cruelly funny, roguishly charming, as cool and crazed and tough as the big bad city itself.
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Data in the public sector
Data leadership
Building data capability
Sharing data
Data security Over the last year, we’ve looked at how public organisations are using the data they hold to improve the services they provide to New Zealanders. We expect public organisations to have effective controls over information systems to prevent unauthorised access and loss or corruption of data. In this article, we summarise common data security themes from our audit work. Our focus was on the financial data that we audit. https://oag.govt.nz/2018/public-sector-data/data-security https://oag.govt.nz/@@site-logo/controller_ag_international_400x37.png
Over the last year, we’ve looked at how public organisations are using the data they hold to improve the services they provide to New Zealanders. We expect public organisations to have effective controls over information systems to prevent unauthorised access and loss or corruption of data. In this article, we summarise common data security themes from our audit work. Our focus was on the financial data that we audit.
By data, we mean forms of information held electronically by a public organisation. Data security is protecting that data from being lost or corrupted and from unauthorised access.
What are public organisations expected to do to protect their data?
Recent attacks on data security have increased the importance of getting the security of information systems right. Public organisations need to manage data security and privacy so that the data they collect is suitably protected, including when it’s shared with other public organisations. When data security is breached, people can quickly lose trust and confidence in the public sector. It’s important that public organisations respond to security issues in a proactive, rather than reactive, way.
New data security threats are constantly emerging. To stay effective, the controls over information systems must be regularly reviewed and updated.
Many of the recommendations we make during our annual audit work are about important cornerstones of good information system practice. Public organisations will be vulnerable to data security problems until they fix the basic weaknesses in security controls and procedures that we see during our audit work.
Recommendations about data security need to be implemented when they are made by internal or external specialists.
Who’s responsible for data security?
Chief executives and senior leaders are accountable for managing risks in their organisation, including data security risks.
Managers put the controls in place, but the ultimate responsibility for data security sits with the most senior executive or the board, if there is one. Controls can be applied regardless of the size and complexity of the information systems. Control activities can be at a:
detailed process level, to make sure the accounting records are reliable;
information system level, ensuring that there is a defined information system strategy; or
governance level, to support the public organisation’s strategies and objectives.
Who helps public organisations with data security?
The Government Chief Privacy Officer and Protective Security Requirements support public organisations by making sure that appropriate information system controls are in place to minimise the risks identified by those charged with governance.
This approach is designed to result in a consistent approach throughout the public sector, and to support smaller organisations that may not have a large in-house IT team.
Not all public organisations are required to pay attention to guidance from the Government Chief Privacy Officer and not all have to meet the Protective Security Requirements. An organisation can choose to apply the guidance issued, even if they aren’t required to do so.
The Government Chief Privacy Officer has issued core expectations that represent good practice for managing privacy. There’s also a “Privacy Maturity Assessment Framework” to help public organisations assess their capability and make improvements. The Government Chief Privacy Officer has a long-term focus on privacy management and building privacy capability throughout the State service.
The Protective Security Requirements provide guidance on information security controls that could be implemented to reduce identified risks, and to help public organisations in determining the level of controls required. They’re administered by the New Zealand Security Intelligence Service, on behalf of the New Zealand Intelligence Community.
Other sources of good practice include the New Zealand Information Security Manual , which provides guidance on information assurance and information systems security. Managed by the Government Communications Security Bureau, the manual also covers the security controls that are expected to be in place.
What’s our role with data security?
The purpose of the annual audit is to obtain reasonable assurance that a public organisation’s financial statements and performance information is materially correct.
During our annual audits, we usually review the information systems in the public organisation to the extent they are relevant to the preparation of the financial statements and performance information.
As part of our audit, we usually test a selection of controls relating to the security of financial data. Audit work is tailored to fit what the public organisation does, its size, and the complexity of its day-to-day business. We might test some controls on a rotational basis, such as at least once every three years. If a public organisation’s controls are effective and working as intended, we’ll do less detailed audit testing.
If significant controls aren’t designed or implemented properly, or aren’t working effectively, we tell the public organisation. Usually we do this through a recommendation made to those in charge – the most senior executive or the board, if there is one.
How did we identify common data security themes?
We reviewed the findings of our audits of 61 public organisations that are within the mandate of the Government Chief Privacy Officer and/or subject to the Protective Security Requirements. These public organisations complete privacy and protective security self-assessments. We’d expect the most senior executive or the board, if there is one, to be paying attention to these matters.
What common data security themes did we identify?
We made 742 recommendations in our reports to those organisations after the annual audits for the year ended 30 June 2017. Of those 742 recommendations, 169 were about data security matters in the financial and performance information systems.
We put the 169 recommendations into five broad categories to help our analysis. Figure 1 shows how many recommendations were in each category.
Figure 1: Recommendations for the year ending 30 June 2017 relating to data security
We regularly identified basic weaknesses in security controls and procedures. Often, these were unresolved matters that we had identified already after previous audits. Several had been recurring for many years.
When responding to the recommendations, some public organisations did not appear to be resolving some of them as a matter of priority. This suggests that they considered the risks to be minor. We’re not so sure. Here’s a bit more about our findings for each category and why it’s important that public organisations deal with these matters.
Weak policies and procedures for user access increases the risk of unauthorised access to data.
Our findings included:
staff and/or third-party contractors with inappropriate access to information system(s), including administrative and “superuser” accounts;
former staff retaining access to information system(s);
a lack of formal user-access reviews being performed or documented; and
password policies that were weak or not enforced.
Change control
The procedures for making changes to masterfile data have to be robust. Unauthorised access could be used to change personal details of employees or supplier bank account details, increasing the risk of fraud.
no clear trail of changes made to the masterfile data;
no clear trail or review of changes made to the information systems; and
no clear trail of the user-testing strategy or retention of user-testing findings.
Public organisations need to have a disaster-recovery plan to minimise the amount of data that could be lost. That plan needs to include processes to recover data in the event of a data security breach.
back-ups not completed regularly or not in a separate secure location;
no testing of back-ups to ensure that files can be restored;
no formal review of system events and security logs; and
no disaster management and recovery plan.
It is important that malware and firewall protection software is in place and up to date. If an information system’s network security is easy to breach, the data held is vulnerable.
unnecessary delays in deploying security patches to servers and computers;
security patches installed only in batches every six months; and
information about installed patches wasn’t recorded, except by the system on individual machines.
Information system policies
Policies need to be regularly reviewed to ensure that they reflect the changing technology environment and intent of the public organisation. Changes in the way public organisations store data, including moving to “cloud-based” services, can make current policies obsolete. This can result in employees failing to follow the principles of the policies and increase the risk of something going wrong.
no current information policies about security monitoring;
policies that were not reviewed regularly; and
no processes to ensure that third parties comply with the public organisation’s information system policies.
What do our findings mean?
These findings aren’t unique to the 61 public organisations that we focused on for this work. Instead, our auditors find these common themes throughout the public sector. They’re also common in other countries – auditors in Australia have reported similar findings.
In our view, public organisations need to take these issues more seriously if data security risks are to be properly managed.
Questions arising from our work …
If you’re in charge of a public organisation, are you asking the following questions?
Do we manage user access to information systems appropriately?
Do we manage the changes made to information systems, including masterfile data, to ensure that all changes are authorised and understood?
Do we keep disaster recovery plans up to date and test them regularly to ensure that critical operations can be recovered quickly?
Do we implement timely security patches and service packs?
Do we regularly review information system policies to ensure that they reflect the changing technology environment and strengthen the governance of the public organisation?
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Open Influence Privacy statement
Privacy Statement Overview
This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) describes how and when INSTABRAND, INC. (“Open Influence” “us” “we” “our”) collects, uses, and shares your information when you use the Open Influence website located at www.Openinfluence.com (the “Site”) and our related application(s), service(s) and software (collectively, with the Site the “Services”). This Privacy Policy explains the information gathering, use and sharing practices for the Services, including what information is collected, how that information is acquired, maintained, stored, shared and/or used, and your privacy choices. This Privacy Policy is independent from our offline personal data collection practices. By using our Services, you are consenting to the collection, transfer, manipulation, storage, disclosure and other uses of your information as described in this Privacy Policy now and as amended from time to time at our discretion.
Your privacy is important to us and Open Influence is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and the information that You share in connection with Our Service. Our Privacy Notice describes how We share and transfer Personal Data (defined in the Privacy Policy below) that You voluntarily provide Us and Our Privacy Policy provides a more detailed description of how We collect, process and manage Your Personal Data and informs You of Your rights with respect the privacy practices associated with the, use, and disclosure of Personal Data through the Site and Service. Open Influence may provide additional notices through the Site or Service in addition to these practices or provide You additional choices about how Open Influence may process Your Personal Data. If You have any questions about this Privacy Notice or Privacy Policy (“Privacy Statement”), please contact us at compliance@instabrand.com.
This Privacy Notice describes Open Influence’s collection, use, and disclosure of the information You provide to Us through Your use of the Site or Service, as well as the rights You have with respect to Your Personal Data. For any questions regarding this Privacy Notice please contact Us at compliance@instabrand.com.
I. What Information Do We Collect And How Do We Use It?
Information We collect from You.
– We will collect limited Personal Data that You voluntarily provide us, for example, when You register for campaigns, or interact with Open Influence personnel through the Site or Service. We may also collect Personal Data when You sign up for marketing emails, events, or other opportunities through Open Influence. Personal Data may contain Your name, email, contact information, or other information You provide to Open Influence.
– Transactional information pursuant to Your use of the Site and Service.
– Broad Geographic Location
– Contact information.
Examples of how We use Your Personal Data.
– To provide You with Site and Service
– To include you on campaigns, pay your for marketing services, or reach out for marketing efforts.
– To enhance the Site
– To monitor the security of the Site or Service
– To provide You with promotional communications and materials
Information from third party sources and affiliated companies.
We may also obtain information about You through third party sources as permitted by applicable law, such as public databases, social media platforms, and reseller, channel, and joint marketing partners.
II. Sharing Your Information
We may share Your Personal Data with third parties as follows:
We may share Your Personal Information with third parties, such as vendors and service providers who provide assistance with billing, payment processing, marketing, data analytics support and service associated with the Site or Service.
Business Partners.
We may share Your Personal Data with Our channel partners to fulfill obligations and requests, to deliver support, and to provide users and Our customer’s users with information about Open Influence. Open Influence does not control how a business partner may use Your Personal Data. Our business partners are responsible for managing the use of Personal Data collected in these circumstances.
Compliance with laws and for other legitimate business purposes.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Privacy Policy, we may preserve or disclose your Personal Information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect Open Influence’s rights or property. However, nothing in this Privacy Policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party’s, including a government’s, request to disclose your information. We may also disclose Your Personal Data when it may be necessary for other legitimate purposes as reasonably determined by Open Influence.
III. International Transfers of Information
Information, including information collected in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) may be transferred, stored and processed by Us and Our services providers in the United States and other countries whose data protection laws may be different than the laws of Your country. We will protect Your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Notice wherever it is processed and take appropriate steps to protect the information in accordance with applicable laws.
IV. Information Security and Confidentiality
Open Influence maintains (and requires its subcontractors and service providers to maintain) appropriate organizational and technical measures designed to protect the security and confidentiality of any information We process. However, no organizational or technical measures are 100% secure so You should take care when disclosing information online and act reasonably to protect Yourself online.
V. Privacy Rights
You may modify the information You have provided to Open Influence by emailing info@openinfluence.com. You can also opt-out of receiving marketing communications, deactivate, or delete Your account at any time.
You can also permanently delete your Open Influence account by contacting Open Influence via email at help@Openinfluence.com.
You may opt-out of receiving email communications and other marketing materials from us (or any third party email marketing service we may use) via link provided in each email.
VI. Additional Rights for EEA users or similar international areas
If You live in the European Economic Area, or a similar international area, You may have additional privacy rights available to You under applicable laws. We will process Your requests in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If You would like to exercise any of the below rights, please contact compliance@openinfluence.com so that We may consider Your request in accordance with applicable law:
Right not to provide or withdraw consent: You have the right not to provide or withdraw Your consent at any time.
Right of access: You may have the right to access the Personal Data that You provided Us.
Right of erasure: You may have the right to the erasure of Personal Data that We hold about You.
Right to object to processing: You may have the right to request that Open Influence stop processing Your Personal Data and/or to stop sending You marketing communications.
Right to rectification: You may have the right to require Us to correct any of Your Personal Data.
VII. Additional Information
How long We retain Your information
We will retain personal information We collect from You for the period allowable by law and where We have a justifiable business need to do so, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law. You can request deletion of Your Personal Data at any time and We will consider Your request in accordance with applicable law.
The Open Influence Site and Service may link to other websites or services. Open Influence does not control those websites or their privacy practices. The personal information You choose to give to such parties is not covered by this Privacy Notice or the Open Influence Privacy Policy.
Open Influence will review and update this Privacy Notice in response to changing legal, technical and business developments. Please review this Privacy Notice frequently to understand how Open Influence is protecting Your Personal Data.
Open Influence has appointed a Data Protection Officer to ensure continued commitment to privacy and security practices. For further information please contact Us at: compliance@openinfluence.com
This Privacy Policy describes in further detail Open Influence’s collection, processing, and treatment of Your information, as well as the rights You have with respect to such information. This Privacy Policy will provide You with further technical information regarding the processing of Your Personal Data described in the Privacy Notice.
If You have any questions or concerns or complaints about this Privacy Policy or Our data collection or processing practices, or if You want to report any security violations to us, please contact Us at: compliance@openinfluence.com.
I. User Consent
By submitting Personal Data through Our Site or Service, You agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, as well as Our Privacy Notice and the Terms of Service, and You expressly consent to the collection, use and disclosure of Your Personal Data in accordance with the Privacy Policy, Privacy Notice, and Terms of Service. If You do not agree, You should discontinue use of the Site and Service immediately.
II. Our Policy Towards Children
The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) protects the online privacy of children under thirteen (13) years of age. Our Services are not directed to individuals under the age of thirteen (13). If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with personal information without his or her consent, please contact us at help@Openinfluence.com. We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from children under 13, unless or except as permitted by law. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account unless we receive verifiable parental consent. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information to us without their parent’s or legal guardian’s permission.
III. A Note To Users Outside Of the United States
If You are a non-U.S. user of the Site, by accessing the Site and providing us with Personal Data, You acknowledge and agree that Your Personal Data may be processed for the purposes identified in the Privacy Policy. In addition, Your Personal Data may be processed in the country in which it was collected and in other countries, including the United States, where laws regarding processing of Personal Data may be less stringent than the laws in Your country. By providing your data, You consent to such transfer. For further information please consult Our Privacy Notice.
IV. Types Of Data We Collect
“Personal Data” means data that allows someone to identify or contact You, including, for example, Your name, e-mail address, as well as any other non-public information about You that is associated with or linked to any of the foregoing data. “Anonymous Data” means data that is not associated with or linked to Your Personal Data; Anonymous Data does not, by itself, permit the identification of individual persons. We collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data, as described below.
V. Information You Provide To Us
We may collect Personal Data from You, such as Your first and last name, location, phone number, gender, e-mail and mailing addresses, and password when You create an account to log in to Our network (“Account”).
When You post content or make edits to your profile biography (text, images, photographs, messages, comments or any other kind of content) on various social platforms, the information contained in Your posting may be stored on Our servers and other users will be able to see it, along with Your profile photo and any other information that You choose to make public on Your public profile page (“Profile”). The information that You provide in Your Profile will be visible to others.
We may also collect Personal Data at other points on Our Site and Service that state that Personal Data is being collected.
(a) Information Collected Via Technology
Information Collected by Our Servers. To make Our Site and Service more useful to You, Our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) collect information from You, including Your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address (a number that is automatically assigned to Your computer when You use the Internet, which may vary from session to session), domain name, and/or a date/time stamp for Your visit.
Log Files. As is true of most websites, We gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes IP addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (“ISP”), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movements around the Site, gather demographic information about Our user base as a whole, and better tailor Our Site and Service to Our users’ needs. For example, some of the information may be collected so that when You visit the Site or use Our Service again, it will recognize You and the information could then be used to serve advertisements and other information appropriate to Your interests. Except as noted in this Privacy Policy, We do not link this automatically-collected data to Personal Data.
Cookies. Like many online services, We use cookies to collect information. “Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to Your computer’s hard drive while You are viewing the website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once You close Your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on Your computer until You delete them) to provide You with a more personal and interactive user experience. This type of information is collected to make Our Site and Service more useful to You and to tailor the experience with Us to meet Your special interests and needs.
Pixel Tags. In addition, We use “Pixel Tags” (also referred to as clear Gifs, Web beacons, or Web bugs). Pixel Tags are tiny graphic images with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, that are used to track online movements of Web users. In contrast to Cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, Pixel Tags are embedded invisibly in Web pages. Pixel Tags also allow Us to send e-mail messages in a format users can read, and they tell us whether e-mails have been opened to ensure that We are sending only messages that are of interest to Our users. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to a User. We do not tie the information gathered by Pixel Tags to Our users’ Personal Data.
Links: We may keep track of how you interact with links across our Services, including our email notifications, third-party services, and client applications, by redirecting clicks or through other means. We do this to help improve our Services, for example to provide relevant advertising, and to be able to share aggregate click statistics such as how many times a particular link was clicked on.
Affiliated Sites: We offer some of our Services in connection with other third parties, and Personal Information that your provide to those third parties may be sent to Open Influence in order to deliver the Service. We process your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy, however, such third parties may have different privacy practices. Therefore, we encourage you to read their privacy policies prior to disclosing any Personal Information.
Google Analytics. We use Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the Site. Google Analytics uses Cookies to collect information such as how often users visit the Site and use Services, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to Our Site. We use the information We get from Google Analytics only to improve Our Site and Service. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to You on the date You visit the Site, rather than Your name or other personally identifying information. We do not combine the information generated through the use of Google Analytics with Your Personal Data. Although Google Analytics plants a persistent Cookie on Your web browser to identify You as a unique user the next time You visit the Site and use Services, the Cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about Your visits to the Site and use of Services is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy.
(b) Information collected from You.
Creating an Account and Profile Information: To use certain features of the Services, you may be required to provide information such as your name, username, password, email address, mailing address, zip code, telephone number, gender, age verification and/or country of residence. You may optionally provide us with additional profile information, including a short bio, location, profile picture and other information (collectively “Personal Information”). You may update or modify your profile information and contact information at any time. Profile information may be available publicly on our Services, such as on your profile page. In addition to using your contact information to create your account, we may use this information to send you information about our Services, respond to your requests and facilitate use of the Services. We may use your name, email address and other information you provide to notify you of new products, releases, service notifications, events and to solicit your feedback and input. We may also use your Personal Information to send you marketing materials or newsletters and to improve the Services.
When You Send Email Communications: When you contact us via email, the email address you use to communicate with us will be subject to this Privacy Policy. We may collect, store and use the email address you used to communicate with us to communicate with you, respond to your requests, to inform you about our products and services (unless you opt out of receiving such communications), to answer questions, resolve concerns or send you other information related to the Services. The contents of your email communications including any information, resumes, ideas, concepts or inventions, will not be subject to this Privacy Policy. We may keep a record of your communications with us and use the contents of those communications for any purpose.
(c) Information Collected From Third Party Companies
We may receive Personal and/or Anonymous Data about You from companies that provide Our Service by way of a co-branded or private-labeled website, companies that offer their products and/or services through Our Services, and/or companies that otherwise collect such information. These third party companies may supply Us with Personal Data. We may add this information to the information We have already collected from You via Services in order to improve Services We provide to You.
VII Use Of Your Personal Data
In general, Personal Data You submit to Us is used to aid Us in serving You better. We use Your Personal Data in the following ways:
Facilitate the identification/discovery of your profile for branded campaign
Gather insights on content, hashtags, targeted audience.
provide improved administration of the Site and Service;
provide the Site and Service;
improve the quality of experience when You interact with the Site and Service;
send You administrative e-mail notifications, such as information about potential campaign, security or support and maintenance advisories;
send newsletters, surveys, offers, and other promotional materials related to the Site or Service and for other marketing purposes of Open Influence.
We may create Anonymous Data records from Personal Data by excluding information (such as Your name) that makes the data personally identifiable to You. We use this Anonymous Data to analyze request and usage patterns so that We may enhance the content of Service and improve Site navigation. We reserve the right to use Anonymous Data for any purpose and disclose Anonymous Data to third parties in Our sole discretion.
VIII Disclosure Of Your Personal Data
We disclose Your Personal Data as described below and as described elsewhere in this Privacy Statement.
(a) Third Party Service Providers
We may share Your Personal Data with third party service providers to: provide You with the Service; to remunerate you for participation in campaign; to conduct quality assurance testing; to facilitate creation of Accounts; to provide technical support; and/or to provide other services to Open Influence. These third party service providers are required not to use Your Personal Data other than to provide the services requested by Open Influence.
Furthermore, in connection with the operation, promotion, advertising or marketing of our Services, we may provide certain of our partners with Personal Information (e.g., your name or Open Influence username) and other content or information related to you (e.g., your profile picture), or provide certain of our partners with access to our application programming interfaces (“APIs”) in order to access such information using information (such as Twitter handles) already in their possession. Please note: each time we provide any of your Personal Information to our partners, we only provide information to these partners that is publicly available or publicly viewable in your Open Influence profile at the time we provide it.
(b) Affiliates
We may share some or all of Your Personal Data with Our parent company, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (“Affiliates”), in which case We will require Our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Statement.
(c) Corporate Restructuring
We may share some or all of Your Personal Data in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of Our business or assets. In the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, Personal Data may also be transferred as a business asset. If another company acquires Our company, business, or assets, that company will possess the Personal Data collected by Us and will assume the rights and obligations regarding Your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
(d) Social Networking Sites (“SNS”)
Our Service may enable You to post content to a SNS. If You choose to do this, We will provide information to such SNS in accordance with Your elections. You acknowledge and agree that You are solely responsible for Your use of those websites and that it is Your responsibility to review the terms of use and privacy policy of the third party provider of such SNS. We will not be responsible or liable for: (i) the availability or accuracy of such SNS; (ii) the content, products or services on or availability of such SNS; or (iii) Your use of any such SNS.
(g) Other Disclosures
Regardless of any choices You make regarding Your Personal Data (as described below), Open Influence may disclose Personal Data if it believes in good faith that such disclosure is necessary (a) in connection with any legal investigation; (b) to comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on Open Influence; (c) to protect or defend the rights or property of Open Influence or users of the Site or Service; and/or (d) to investigate or assist in preventing any violation or potential violation of the law, this Privacy Policy, or Our Terms of Use.
IX Third Party Websites
Our Site may contain links to third party websites. When You click on a link to any other website or location, You will leave Our Site and go to another site, and another entity may collect Personal Data or Anonymous Data from You. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites or content, or to any collection of Your Personal Data after You click on links to such outside websites. We encourage You to read the privacy policies of every website You visit. The links to third party websites or locations are for Your convenience and do not signify Our recommendation of such third parties or their products, content or websites.
X Your Choices Regarding Information
You have several choices regarding the use of information on Our Service:
We will periodically send You free newsletters and e-mails that directly promote the use of Our Site or Service. When You receive newsletters or promotional communications from us, You may indicate a preference to stop receiving further communications from us and You will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the e-mail You receive or by contacting us directly (please see contact information below). Despite Your indicated e-mail preferences, We may send You Service related communications, including notices of any updates to Our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.
(b) Cookies
If You decide at any time that You no longer wish to accept Cookies from Our Site or Service for any of the purposes described above, then You can instruct Your browser, by changing its settings, to stop accepting Cookies or to prompt You before accepting a Cookie from the websites You visit. Consult Your browser’s technical information. If You do not accept Cookies, however, You may not be able to use all portions of the Site or all functionality of the Service. If You have any questions about how to disable or modify Cookies, please let us know at the contact information provided below.
(c) De-linking SNS
If You decide at any time that You no longer wish to have Your SNS account (e.g., Facebook) linked to Your Account, then You may de-link the SNS by contacting us at info@openinfluence.com. You may also manage the sharing of certain Personal Data with us when You connect with us through an SNS, such as through Facebook Connect. Please refer to the privacy settings of the SNS to determine how You may adjust Our permissions and manage the interactivity between the Service and Your social media account or mobile device.
(d) Changing Or Deleting Your Personal Data
You may change any of Your Personal Data in Your Account by editing Your profile within Your Account. You may request deletion of Your Personal Data by us, and We will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor Your request, but please note that We may be required to keep such information and not delete it (or to keep this information for a certain time, in which case We will comply with Your deletion request only after We have fulfilled such requirements). When We delete any information, it will be deleted from the active database, but may remain in Our archives. We may also retain Your information for fraud or similar purposes.
XI Security Of Your Personal Data and Information Security
Open Influence is committed to protecting the security of Your Personal Data. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to help protect Your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We employ administrative, physical and electronic measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (b) the security, integrity and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed; and (c) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third party. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we will make any legally-required disclosures of any breach of the security, confidentiality, or integrity of your unencrypted electronically stored Personal Information to you via email or conspicuous posting on this Site in the most expedient time possible and without unreasonable delay, consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement or (ii) any measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach and restore the reasonable integrity of the data system. We also require You to enter a password to access Your Account information. Please do not disclose Your Account password to unauthorized people. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while Open Influence uses reasonable efforts to Your Personal Data, Open Influence cannot guarantee its absolute security.
XII Changes To This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated from time to time for any reason, without advanced notice to you. We will notify You of any changes to Our Privacy Policy by posting the new Privacy Policy here: https://openinfluence.com/privacy-policy/ and We will change the “Last Updated” date above. You should consult this Privacy Policy regularly for any changes. Continued use of Our Site or Service, following posting of such changes, shall indicate Your acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms of such changes. If You do not agree, You should immediately discontinue Your use of the Site or Service.
XIII Notice to California Residents
Under California law, California residents who have provided personally identifiable information to a company may have the right to request a list of all third parties to whom that company had disclosed such information for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year, along with a list of the categories of personal information that had been so disclosed. If you are a California resident who would like information on how to exercise your rights concerning third party disclosures, you may send an email to us or contact us via postal mail at: 11520 San Vicente Blvd., Los Angeles, 90046, CA.
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OWA Summer Sport's Day and BBQ
On Sunday 11 June, the School grounds were taken over by OWs and their families and friends, as the OWA Summer Sport's Day arrived back School. We had indoor hockey in the Sports Centre against the Wellington Town Foxes team, cricket against the School team, and a tennis tournament with parents, teachers, students and OWs. And it was all rounded off with a super BBQ.
Many congratulations to the School Cricket team who won by 5 runs on the last over, Hugo Hoare (Willows '74) and Michele Harding (nee Hainsworth, Price's 1985) who won the tennis and for the hockey, it was fast and furious, with several matches played and draw between Foxes and OWA team.
The School grounds looked wonderful, and it was great to see so many OWs, parents and teachers supporting the events. Just what summer is all about!
Chairwoman Caroline Heaton, presenting the OWA Cricket Cup to Steffan Jones, Director of Sports Performance and Well-Being
Hugo Hoare and Michele Harding, winners of the tennis tournament.
Steffan and Rob Stevens, Deputy Head of Sixth Form, keeping an eye on the score
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Nonviolent Cities Project Conference Call
On November 7th we held a conference call for the Nonviolent Cities Project. We discussed the progress cities around the country are making and the steps budding organizers can take to build momentum. If you missed the call, you can read the notes or listen to the audio below. Click here for more information about the Nonviolent Cities Project.
Nonviolent Cities Project Organizing Conference Call
November 7, 2017, 5pm Pacific/ 8pm Eastern (60 minutes)
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Welcome – Ryan Hall
Opening Quote – Veronica Pelicaric
“I urge you to see people you find amazing as an indication of your own potential and a promise of a future in which each person’s unique brilliance contributes to the co-creation of a beautiful world. It is in you and in me. Once you know it is there, you will have a burning desire to rekindle it. That is the desire that will change the world.” – Charles Eisenstein, The Ascent of Humanity
Roll Call – Ryan Hall read the list of people who were on the call and where they were calling in from.
Updates – John Dear
Movement started with the city of Carbondale Indiana looking at the future of their city and deciding they wanted it to be nonviolent. NV Carbondale started to organize and set the path for other cities. Check their website for more info: http://www.nonviolentcarbondale.org/
Have been working on NV Cities Project for about a year and a half and now have 50 cities involved. At this point we are looking at what is most useful for organizers. On this call we will talk to organizers who have been at this for a little longer to share their insights on the project with other aspiring nonviolent cities. Will have a short Q&A with these established leaders. Everyone is doing good work, and it’s important to connect the dots and unite people in their efforts.
Sister Andrea – Cincinnati, OH
Started because she was intrigued by the challenge extended by Pace e Bene and CNV to become a nonviolent city. Cincinnati is plagued by nonviolence. Has incredible resources, but is one of top three cities in the nation for children living in poverty and associated violence. One catalyst for becoming a NV city was an 8-year-old boy who hanged himself one day because he was so bullied at school. Building a NV city seemed the best way to address these problems for children and everyone in the city.
Decided to try to involve as many people from the community as possible in the project. Sr. Andrea works for a nonprofit called Intercommunity Justice and Peace Center used an event featuring their annual report to announce the launching of Nonviolent Cincinnati called “Pursuing Peace in Cincinnati.” Gave out awards to acknowledge two local lifelong peace activists who have been involved in the community. They each spoke about what it meant to them to be peace advocates. Also had a sponsor drive with three levels of sponsorship to reach out to people across the region to get them to invest financially and emotionally. The next day they invited people interested in the NV Cities Project to come talk about how to get started.
Meeting about launching NV Cincinnati established a steering committee. They have been working on building a clear vision and mission statement. Another subcommittee has been working on the name — landed on NV Greater Cincinnati — to be inclusive of everyone who wants to be involved. Still working on naming their purpose.
Showing the documentary The Narrow Path: Walking Toward Peace and Nonviolence with John Dearand using the Engage curriculum to help introduce people to nonviolence and start to dig into the work of nonviolence.
John asks if they have planned farther into the future, a year out or so.
Have not yet planned farther than the film screening and beginning the workshop with Engagein January. There is still good energy from getting the project started, and lots of people who are directly affected by violence want to get involved and make a change. Hopes for more progress once their steering committee clarifies their vision.
Jim Weber adds that they have to decide what they are going to do. Are they going to work on specific issues, or are they going to serve as a coalition to bring many groups together in pursuit of nonviolence? Must determine their structure before they determine the next steps of action.
Kendra in California asks more about the event that they planned, since it took a year.
Event was designed to showcase all of the work that had been done in the previous year. The two awards involved a nomination process that highlighted a lot of people doing great work in Cincinnati. Choosing the winners got their whole circles involved. The sponsor drive pushed the organization out into the community. The three levels of sponsorship were Peace Promoter, Peace Builder, and Peace Advocate. Were hoping for three or four major sponsors, but ended up with 11. Found that people were really invested in creating a nonviolent city.
John notes that allowing a full year to plan was helpful, and scheduling it to coincide with the CNV Week of Actions helped capitalize on the movement.
Jane in Massachusetts asks if there are any cities on the international scene that had an impact on NV Greater Cincinnati.
Sr. Andrea said they were focused more nationally than internationally
Laveda in Delaware asks how they identified stakeholders and if those stakeholders were involved in interfacing with the mayor.
The stakeholders were other nonprofits or interfaith groups, including the American Islamic Group, the local Jesuits, the local Catholic high schools/colleges/universities, etc. Also invited the city council, the vice-mayor, the superintendent of the schools, and the police department. Reached out to everyone they could think of and only got a fraction of them involved.
Patty in Ohio asks about linking with sister cities across the globe to share the nonviolent goals globally. Also asks about the 12 week program focusing on the tenants of nonviolence, when and how is it going to be spread in the area.
Have sent the information out to hundreds of people and have information available on the website. They will be offering classes twice a week based on the curriculum developed by Pace e Bene. Ask people to come every week, but if they can’t they can follow along in the book.
Dave in Minnesota asks about their experience with the police department.
Nobody from the police department attended the event, but they have maintained communication with an outreach officer who wants to get the department involved.
Andrea notes that it sounds daunting, but there is a lot of potential and it is exciting to see the movement gaining some energy
Dave Gagney – Minneapolis (and St. Paul), MN
They have been meeting for about 8 months. Began calling people together to talk about what a vision for Twin Cities Nonviolence would be. Invited 40-50 people to talk about the vision. Also developed a list of potential collaborators — peace groups, anti-gun groups, etc. — while learning from Carbondale that this was a long term goal. Have been methodical about creating their mission, vision, and strategy. Have a steering committee. First major public meeting is scheduled for January 9th to talk about a vision for a week or 10 days of action for the fall of 2018 (maybe the spring of 2019 if the timing doesn’t work out). Have created a website and facebook page to get people involved. There is a lot of excitement for this movement. The twin cities have a lot of gun violence and are very unequal. Assuming that they will start small and will continue to grow the way Carbondale has.
John asks when they will officially launch their program and get the media involved.
Dave says they are planning on fall 2018. Jan. 9 meeting is to broaden the steering/planning committee. Right now they are only 10 people, and they are hoping to recruit more then. Jan. 9 will be when most people find out about the group and what they are doing.
Paulette Schrader
Envision themselves as dropping seeds for a while. Committee of 13 people includes a judge, a councilman, and some professors. Town is only about 17,000 people. There is a huge problem with heroin in their town, which is what the five churches involved and others, are focusing on. Have had six meetings so far, meeting once a month. At the committee meetings they have decided that they want to deal with at risk individuals from schools and from the recovery units. Defer to youth who have already been sucked into drug culture to reach at risk or drug-addicted individuals. Trying to elevate the dignity of each individual and reach out, distribute information throughout town. Hope to launch officially in May with art projects throughout town empowering individuals to take action against the drug problem.
Laveda – Wilmington, DE
Have just gotten the core group together. Have been working with the Attorney General on some youth and recovery projects. This is their first conference call. Grateful to have John come to visit and help raise interest in nonviolence. Working hard to eliminate their reputation for violence and murder.
Ruth Ann Angus – Morro Bay, CA
NV Morro Bay is expanding to NV Central Coast, California. Enjoying a lot of momentum. Currently involved in educational projects, expanding into the schools to teach students about basic human rights that were established in 1948. Trying to combat bullying, human trafficking, etc, working with rotary clubs and schools in 4-5 different cities around the central course. Are looking forward to starting Engage training and helping people become nonviolent communication trainers.
Final thoughts – John Dear
Urges everybody to use the word nonviolence and to incorporate Kingian language into their work in order to connect the dots and mainstream nonviolence. This is all about organizing, reaching out, and connecting. For those on the call who have had some successes and made some progress, please help those getting started by writing up something about the work you’ve been doing to share with everybody.
Veronica Pelicaric reads the CNV Pledge! – Sign the Campaign Nonviolence Pledge if you haven’t done so yet!
Nonviolent Cities ProjectRyan Hall November 11, 2017
Tiffin, Ohio Becomes Nonviolent Tiffin
Nonviolent Cities ProjectRyan Hall January 3, 2018
Catholic Church Moves Toward Nonviolence?
Catholic NonviolenceRyan Hall October 31, 2017
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"Role of Religion and Community Values (Session 2)"
L. Fischer Hines
Whitney Bates
Charles Jordan
Doris Ellis
Steve Snyder
Religion and Human Values Workshop
Recorded at the Albina Art Center. Sponsored by the Albina Ministerial Alliance and others.
This workshop, recorded at the Albina Arts Center, was co-sponsored by the Portland State University Black Studies Center, among others.
Part two of a three part series.
From the event program:
"School of Urban Affairs Black Studies Center Cultural/Intellectual Activities Religion and Human Values Workshop March 16,17,18 Albina Art Center 8 North Killingsworth (between Williams and Cleveland)
"The influences which cities exert upon the social life of man are greater than the ratio of the urban population would indicate." - Louis Wirth
The three session of the Religion and Human Values Workshop will involve humanists from several disciplines discussing the personal, religious, and community values as they are affected by urbanization.
March 17 - Religion as a Force--Social Institutions Change Invocation - Rev. L. Fischer Hines (Bethel AME) Music - Area Church Choirs Panel 2: Dr. Whitney Bates (Portland State), Charles Jordan (Portland City Commissioner), Doris Ellis (Community Representative), Steve Snyder (Center for Urban Education)."
Transferred and preserved by Portland State University Library’s Special Collections with the generous support of the Institute of Museum and Library Services through the Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the Oregon State Library.
Religion, Social values
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Hines, L. Fischer; Bates, Whitney; Jordan, Charles; Ellis, Doris; and Snyder, Steve, ""Role of Religion and Community Values (Session 2)"" (1978). Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers. 152.
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Facing soil crisis, US farmers look beyond corn and soybeans
Shovel in hand, Duane Hager heads for his cornfield and digs up a shovelful of dirt, revealing wriggling earthworms. Although a pelting rain has soaked his gray T-shirt in seconds, not a single puddle lies in the field or in the cow pasture beyond – a sign of vigorous, uncompacted earth.
“If you have soil that is healthy and balanced, it translates into your animals,” says the Kellogg, Minn., dairy farmer.
Across the American Midwest and Plains, small groups of farmers are looking at their most important resource – the soil – and contemplating big change. Their grandfathers and great grandfathers planted trees for windbreaks and planted along the contours of the slopes rather than up and down them to reduce soil erosion. Their fathers began leaving crop stubble in their fields to improve moisture retention, and some gave up tilling the soil altogether. Now, the new generation of producers is looking underground to try to replenish their soils, and they’re doing it by growing something in addition to corn and soybeans. The new farm bill, which President Trump signed on Dec. 20, includes measures that could help popularize the idea.
“Mainstream agriculture, they just don’t get it,” says Jerry Doan, standing by a mix of 20-plus cover crops from low-lying legumes to tall stalks of millet on his farm in Sterling, N.D. “You have got to feed the biology of the soil.”
It’s an international problem, with a third of the world’s soils already degraded, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization estimates, due to everything from erosion and salinization to untreated urban waste and mining. Here in the United States, a big concern is commercial agriculture, where evidence is growing that decades of an exclusive corn-soybean rotation has caused farmland to lose nutrients and its ability to hold and filter water.
The effects reach far beyond the farm to waterways and the grocery store. Because farmland doesn’t hold the nitrites and nitrates produced from fertilizers and herbicides, they leach into the water and find their way as far as the Gulf of Mexico, creating state-sized areas of low or no oxygen, which kills fish and other marine life. What’s more, the commercial vegetables at the grocery store have fewer nutrients than in the 1950s, according to several studies, in part because the soil has fewer nutrients they can take up.
Story Hinckley/The Christian Science Monitor
Duane Hager, owner of Hager Farms, a dairy farm in Kellogg, Minn., has been embracing healthy soil practices, such as limited fertilizer and no till, for years. On a rainy summer afternoon, his efforts pay off: There is no flooding, or even large puddles, anywhere in his field.
Farmers have tried to minimize the environmental damage by using GPS and soil analysis to fertilize only areas of fields that need it and by creating buffer strips between crops and ditches and waterways, so the nitrates and nitrites stay put.
But “we are not going to fix water quality with just fertilizer [reduction],” says Sarah Carlson, strategic initiatives director for Practical Farmers of Iowa, a nonprofit helping producers build resilient farms and communities. “We need other products with more roots.”
In the Midwest and Plains, that means finding something to grow in addition to corn and soybeans.
“We’re always going to grow corn and soybeans but we need other stuff,” says University of Iowa water expert Chris Jones. “We need a third crop in Iowa really badly.”
Seeding ‘hotspots’
Farmers are experimenting with growing cover crops on their fields, such as barley or oats, during the winter season. The Land Institute in Salina, Kan., is pushing perennials, such as Kernza, an intermediate wheatgrass it developed and trademarked. That way farmers wouldn’t have to plant new crops every spring. Still others are calling for a return to a mix of animal and crop agriculture that used to predominate in rural America.
“My grandfather started contouring, my dad started no-till, so I wanted to do this,” says Darrell Steele, a farmer in Iowa’s Washington County, who’s experimenting with 10 acres of barley, which he mixes into the feeds for his 2,000 hogs. “But when you put these things in, you take a hit. In the off-season, the ground is on the couch eating Ho Hos. But when you start putting this stuff in, it’s like telling the ground to run a marathon. It’s going to stumble and fall at first.”
That’s a problem for many producers, whose thin margins make them reluctant to make big changes if their yields are going to fall, even temporarily. Another challenge: Making the switch can be costly. For example, continuous no-till and low-till farming, which decades of studies have shown improve the soil and reduce costs, is still used on only 1 in every 5 acres of US cropland, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA). One big reason: It requires farmers to invest in completely new equipment.
Then there’s the cultural barrier: Farmer communities tend to be conservative.
“That peer pressure, that is huge,” says Kristin Brennan, state soil health specialist at the Minnesota office of the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). “No one wants to be the weird farmer with lots of Kernza.”
Still, there are exceptions.
“Where we see it really taking off is where you have a community of farmers,” says Ms. Brennan. “We call them hotspots.”
Washington County, which has the most acres of cover crops of any Iowa county, appears to be one of those communities. Farmers tour each others’ farms. Mr. Steele, the local hog producer, says he tried barley on the advice of a fellow farmer. At least once a week, he talks to Steve Berger, a Washington County farmer who has gained national attention for his use of no-till cover crops. “We all do our own thing but it’s teamwork, too.”
“In this neighborhood you just have a bunch of really conservation-minded folks,” says Tony Maxwell, a district conservationist for the NRCS.
Provisions of the new farm bill, which encourages farmers to plant cover crops and use soil-sensitive crop rotations and grazing techniques, suggest that awareness of the problem is growing. “We had a lot of strong champions this past year for legislation related to soil health,” says Alyssa Charney, a senior policy specialist for the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, a Washington-based alliance of grass-roots sustainability groups. “There’s a growing interest for sure.”
CS Monitor
7 Comments on "Facing soil crisis, US farmers look beyond corn and soybeans"
makati1 on Sun, 30th Dec 2018 6:37 pm
So, farmers are going back to the old methods> Crop rotation and soils conservation? Too little too late, I think, but a good idea.
Go Speed Racer on Sun, 30th Dec 2018 10:29 pm
Farmers are conservative?
There is so much bullshit fake news
coming out of CNN, just use it for fertilizer.
Davy on Mon, 31st Dec 2018 6:19 am
The story is familiar for any of the monoculture grain belts in the world so there is no need to summarize the story. I preach real green. This means localism and adapting and connecting to planetary cycles and harnessing the web of life as support not as an adversary. I am doing permaculture multispecies grazing system now coupled with supported and protected natural areas. The natural follow areas are 3 to 1 so in effect most of the land I husband is natural. I maintain wood lots for fuel. I also manage some ground for hay. I use chemicals very little and lately not at all. I do use diesel and depend on transport. My goal would be to involve more animals in my operation and deal locally with my production. As it is now I have to deal with others regionally within my State of Missouri and some dealings with surrounding states. I am dependent on the delocalizing effects of globalism. I am stuck with fossil fuels especially with transport and supply of goods. I have gone renewable with a hybrid power system that utilizes solar and the grid. I plan on adding a wind component down the road.
I am preaching to those that do have some marginal room with their farming operation to embrace real green. This means localism, seasonality, and embracing the demand management of power intermittency. This is not only electric power it is also with food and water gathering based upon the seasons. I have a couple of acres of garden, orchard, and grapes. I would like to have more animals for transport and fertilizing. Currently the animals in the grazing system fertilize the fields but I would like to utilize more of that manure with the small areas I hay. Currently I must spread chemical fertilizer on hay ground eventually. I am hitting areas for hay and moving on with fallow periods which reduces the fertilizer needs but taking production off fields requires fertilization.
My operation is really not for profit because I maintain stocking rates too low for a business to be profitable but the infrastructure is there to treble my size to make a small profit. Currently this is an experiment and a doomstead effort. My grazing system and food from the natural areas offer food to get me through a collapse process mild to moderate. Most farmers don’t consider this but it is not hard to do for a farmer to incorporate prep efforts. Most country people are somewhat prepped anyway. This is about those who can using the status quo to leave it and in the process reconnecting to our human roots. Turn your back on who we have become as a goal seek. What I mean here is become a hybrid of what we once were and what we are now. Very few can leave what we have become so this is not about transcendence this is about a transformation. It is about behavior and the resulting wisdom guiding a new lifestyle that connects to nature and the local community no matter how disrupted and marginal. If you can relocate and if you can reskill but if you cannot take what you have and find meaning.
One could write a book on real green but the first requirement is attitude. Once you readjust your thinking and actions the rest fall into place. You will according to your local and your skill set make your impact on a new way of life in tune with the collapse process we are in. This is not about being a special one who survives it is about acceptance of the possibility of death but with hospices for that process but also lifeboats of hope. It is about being a constructive part of the ecosystem instead of a destructor. Ecosystems cycle in a way that we have climax and succession. Constructive and destructive events both natural and geologic occur. This is about adapting per your local with this process and living as best you can within it and ultimately dying there like it always has been. Some of you may become migrants especially the young and the strong but for those older like me it is about making your last stand. It is about commitment and dedication to your place. It is about building a microcosm that is a mini monastery of knowledge, skills, and development. It is a kind of microclimate within a harsh world of storms and drought.
Chico on Mon, 31st Dec 2018 9:38 am
Thomas Robert Malthus
Sissyfuss on Mon, 31st Dec 2018 10:17 am
And not a word of the disappearance of small family farms being swallowed up by the corporate mega farms that answer to their shareholders with short term methods producing maximum return. The farmer feeds the world while the corporate farms feed their bottom lines.
makati1 on Mon, 31st Dec 2018 6:13 pm
Sissyfuss, and when the corporate farms go down, so goes the US food “independence”. Eventually the soil will not even grow healthy weeds. It certainly doesn’t grow healthy food. Most of the micro-nutrients are long gone. Nothing is returned to the soil but oily products which have nothing healthy to add. Most American farm soil is sand with oily additives.
The US is dying. Nothing will save it now. All of its resources are being stretched to their limits. That is why it is trying to plunder other countries. The rich want more. Fuck the serfs. I’m enjoying the collapse. Perhaps this is the year? We shall see.
majece majecet on Thu, 3rd Jan 2019 9:12 am
If you want to write the best college thesis, try to check https://get-thesis.com/blog/winning-college-thesis out. Here you can read more about it
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Shovel Knight Will Appear In Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
By My Nintendo News Admin June 12, 2015
26 Comments on Shovel Knight Will Appear In Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night
If you are a fan of Shovel Knight you will be pleased to learn that the fearless knight will be appearing in the promising Bloodstained: Ritual Of The Night. We don’t know too much at present, other than he will make an appearance of some kind. Here’s what the Bloodstained team said via Kickstarter.
Remember Natsume’s Shovel Knight fanart from earlier in the campaign? It’s been about a decade, in Kickstarter years, so I’ll refresh your memory (see above).
We’ve got good news: Inti Creates and Yacht Club Games have agreed that Natsume’s reimagining of their hero feels right at home in the demon castle!
They won’t tell us any more than that, but when the game comes out remember that you might bump into this guy in a crowded corridor somewhere. Who knows what might happen after that?
Thanks, MasterPikachu6
Tags: bloodstained: ritual of the night shovel knight
pink0crystal0midbus says:
Cool! I’m a Bloodstained backer and I’m getting the physical Wii U version of the game. I will be enjoying Shovel Knight’s appearance that’s for sure.
SuperPS4 says:
Yah and enjoy with no voice chat feature
GTron says:
Yeah, if there’s one thing we associate with Igavania games, it’s… voice chat.
celsius says:
Please stop… Just stop calling this genre igavania… He didnt invented it… He just copied a formula created by METROID for the nes and Castlevania II: simon’s quest (a castlevania game in which he DIDNT colaborate) yes, he added a few details to an stablished formula but those changes arent enough to justify naming this genre after him… It would be like callin 2d platforms Shiguerios (shigeru miyamoto + mario bros.) just because he add a couple of improves to an stablished formula.
So please stop giving this man that credit that que doesnt deserve… Its a metroidvania game or a side-scrolling action adventure but it would NEVER BE an igavania game.
Skull Face says:
Hey is the $60 digital part of the Wii U? Want to support it? Don’t get paid till midnight.
It is indeed available for Wii U. The Wii U was added as a stretch goal, so it wasn’t included in the rewards and couldn’t be edited in.
This was to keep the stretch goals a secret “just in case” some could not be reached. Of course, this ended up not being a problem and pretty much every stretch goal has been obliterated. All you really need to know is that there is a physical release of the game coming to Wii U and if you back the kickstarter you get exclusive content as well.
Only thing the Wii U is missing is the special edition bundle (which is only coming to Xbox One and PS4) and it also is signed by Igarashi himself… I really wish that version was coming to Wii U. I would LOVE to get the official signature of the creator of Castlevania on my Wii U copy of the game. That would be incredibly awesome.
And don’t forget no voice chat with the wii u version
I don´t need voice chat personally because when I´m playing multiplayer, I play locally. But I really like that Armature is developing the Wii U Port, thats going to be awesome! Especially how they involve the Gamepad into this :-)
Shovel Knight’s doing cameos in almost as many games as Commander Video now!
Hey, bet his next appearance will be in Smash Bros as it’s first Indi smasher
Okumei says:
Shovel Knight didn’t even come out in Japan, dipshit. That’s the equivalent of Sakurai putting Captain Rainbow in the game.
Think logically here.
Fault says:
I want Captain Rainbow though….
thedonutgamer says:
he put marth in
Lord Zedd says:
Marth has been in Fire Emblem games released in the U.S.
My guess is….
Third character?
Metal Max says:
Great. Now when the hell is the physical version of Shovel Knight for 3DS finally getting a release date?!
The Physical Version was only a mockup. I was shocked when I saw that. :/
joemama93 says:
Shovel Knight is low quality indie game sucky game
Okumei you DickFace why did you have to call dude “dipshit” when he said nothing offensive to you Bitch?
Shovel Knight is one of my favorite gaming characters since I played the original Zelda. This is amazing news.
Shovel Knight is a crappy indie game who give a shit hoe?
Nice. Hope this makes it to Wii U.
Fuck the Wii u and u 2
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great :3 Shovel Knight is frickin’ awesome, I hope there’s a Shovel Blade weapon to vanquish evil.
p3n0rz says:
Just when you were worried that the indie industry was finally going to overcome it’s “circle jerk” status, you get this fantastic piece of news. /S/
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5 Reasons Monsanto Will Continue Losing Money in 2015
2015 may be the tipping point
By Natural Society
The biotech giant known as Monsanto is facing major financial downturn amid the backlash from consumers over their concerning GMO creations and the international rejection of various GMO exports following the confirmation of crop contamination across the United States.
Going further into 2015, it’s clear that this GMO behemoth has many more obstacles to face that will most likely lead to a continued loss. Here are the top 5 reasons Monsanto will continue to lose money (and at the very least, reputation) in 2015 and beyond.
1. 96% Want Their GMOs Labeled
Not 30%. Not 75%. Not even 85%. A powerful 96 plus percent of individuals within the United States are in serious favor of labeling Monsanto’s GMOs. And despite Monsanto’s millions defeating many labeling campaigns within various states like California, public resistance is catching up.
In the past, the company has used a number of pro-GMO agencies to band together in forming campaigns aimed at stopping GMO labeling altogether. Oftentimes, these groups use fabrications regarding the increased cost of groceries and even fake quotes from the FDA in order to push their agenda.
But despite the millions, the propaganda messages are no longer working.
2. Fast Food is Failing
Monsanto and the GMO industry at large absolutely love the fast food industry. They are what I call the ‘soul mates of the disease industry.’ Specifically, you have to remember that the fast food industry absolutely thrives on the cheapest, lowest quality ingredients. A market where there is no room for health, environmental concerns, or even morality.
The result: Monsanto’s GMOs are absolutely coveted in order to help produce the mass array of ultra low quality fast food ‘meals’ that, for the last few decades, have made up a major part of the American diet. Yes, it’s depressing.
But now, with McDonald’s continuing to lose money month after month, and the growth of competitors to fast food titans that are choosing to use local and even organic ingredients, the end of the fast food leaders is quickly coming. McDonald’s has even announced on record that they will not be switching to the new GMO potato, and claims have been made that their new chicken purchasing will be from farms that do not abuse antibiotics.
Is it a farce on behalf of McDonald’s and other fast food chains? It’s certainly a PR and marketing move to entice health-conscious and informed customers to consider coming back. And the end result will, ultimately, not benefit Monsanto as the company is forced to move away from many GMO-containing products.
3. The Spread of Information
Perhaps the most important key, nothing will stop the continued spread of Monsanto-related information throughout social media, websites like Natural Society, forums, blogs, and even the mainstream media. The most important intellectual tool in the fight to reclaim the food supply, the spread of information ultimately leads to the other 4 key factors in Monsanto’s financial decline.
It was back in 2011 that myself and Natural Society declared Monsanto to be the Worst Company of 2011. A campaign that, backed with an international news press release, ended up on major websites like Reuters, Yahoo News, Market Watch, Bloomberg, and many others.
What was even more empowering, however, were the 225,000 plus Facebook shares that came with an accompanying article on a major victory against Monsanto in Hungary. That’s the spread of information.
4. GMO Labeling
Undoubtedly, GMO labeling initiatives will continue to pop up around the United States, and with more support than ever. The result, I believe, will be a very serious victory in the realm of GMO labeling that ultimately spells the beginning of the end for Monsanto’s GMO peddling.
With the over 96% support for GMO labeling in the polls that we talked about, there is no question that we will be seeing a lot more labeling bills sprout in 2015. And, since Monsanto knows GMO labeling will impact their business (to such a degree that over 90% of Monsanto shareholders actually oppose labeling), we should see a decline in the company’s stock.
5. International Agencies Declare Monsanto’s Products as Poison
We have the support on the GMO labeling front, and the public backing on social media. We even have the countless scientists, researchers, doctors, and other experts who are on the forefront of taking on Monsanto. But, until recently, we did not have the World Health Organization.
This is one of the most exciting new developments for me. The World Health Organization recently released a report labeling Monsanto’s top selling herbicide Roundup as a ‘probable carcinogen’ — meaning that it can give you cancer. Now remember, this is the herbicide that goes hand in hand with GMO crops.
Millions of Americans and even individuals from other nations are spraying this stuff on their lawns, their home gardens, and even indoors. That is extremely concerning.
With the new announcement from the WHO on Roundup, we can expect to see other large international bodies come out and show support with similar findings. After all, the research is already out there on Roundup (and the chemical known as glyphosate which is the bedrock of the formulation).
Going forward in 2015, it’s always possible that Monsanto will pull strings within the US government thanks to some of its many current and previous employees that currently hold high level positions within several branches of government, major corporations, law foundations, The Supreme Court, and even the FDA.
That said, it is clear to me that Monsanto’s continued decline is in full swing. And, as a result, we are going to see these 5 factors show themselves more so than ever in the past several decades.
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Natural Society staff contribution
19 responses to “5 Reasons Monsanto Will Continue Losing Money in 2015”
For over 14 years, over 60 countries have label certain foods with GMO, even Communist China. We have yet to have that freedom in the USA.
American companies have competed in these countries and have label GMO that they sell, and organic, with competitive prices. If they can do it there they can certainly do it here in the US without a problem. Since food corps. are changing labels all the time, this should not be an issue, or an added expense, as we have been lied too on this matter.
Mitzi Renee says:
Monsanto is a filthy word. What about class action lawsuits? Kill the beast. Let’s finish them off by suing them into extinction.
Gregory Hancock says:
Once Monsanto has been dealt with, we need to turn our attention to the FDA and EPA and hold them responsible for allowing so much death and destruction.
David Lloyd-Jones says:
Um, Monsanto made $2.9 billion in the quarter just reporting, Marsh 2015. That’s down, but not out.
I.e. your “continue losing money” is a lie.
-dlj.
Joseph Chastain says:
Just because they made $2.9 billion doesn’t mean they didn’t lose money you have to looks at how much they lost vs how much they made.
That $2.9 is the net figure, income minus outgo, pretty much.
What you call “what they lost,” Joseph, has already been included in the calculation.
If you’re still puzzled, maybe take a look at an elementary accounting course. My Google on “elementary accounting” gets 62 million hits, but all the stuff on the first page look like they might help you.
GMO Roberts says:
Strange how financial wizards like “little” Johnny below have said people are dumping monsanto stock for years now. Strange how it keeps on going. Of course it is all he can do to manage his welfare check. No wonder his wife is usually out tool shopping, he doesn’t even know what kind of government takes of him.
tsyganka says:
Chuckle. More childish insults from paid Monsanto shill, GMO Roberts. His obsession drives him to repeat the same mistakes over and over, but they never persuade anyone. GMO Roberts’ actions fit the classic definition of insanity. Here he is, below. Let him pass, whining into the wilderness.
At least I don’t make feeble insult attempts like you do.
Kānāwai Māmalahoe says:
#1 reason…they put the poison Gmo test center on Maui. We voted for independent long term environmental and Health impact studies before approved Gmo moratorium is lifted. If they get a corrupt judge to overturn our law, they will realize how David conquered Goliath.
john biscit says:
Huge Hedge Funds are starting to dump Monsanto completely!
Blue Ridge Capital Exits entire Position in Monsanto
By Adam Rogers • Mar 26, 2015 12:52 pm EDT
Blue Ridge Capital and Monsanto
Blue Ridge Capital has exited its position in Monsanto (MON). The
investment represented 4.06% of the hedge fund’s overall portfolio. The
fund sold all 3,050,000 shares
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jWyrbP0TJQ
Sure I’ll drink it, no problem, bring in on….on second thought, I’m not thirsty anymore, no, I don’t think I’ll have that drink after all…..perhaps I am an idiot!
Undecider says:
It doesn’t matter how much money Monsanto and like companies lose. They are an arm of the ______ Industrial Complex that seeks to wage war on mankind. Whatever they lose will be made up for in bailouts. The best thing is to simply refuse to consume it and let it pile up on the docks. Make private neighborhood gardens and defend them with the 2A.
A CATAL says:
I can see Monsatan is fallen and when this happen, it is a good ridden.
Free People says:
Great article and good news! Yes, MonSatan will go down worldwide and it can’t happen soon enough. Why?
“Monsanto will be destroyed by the grassroots. No matter which way we look at it, the people will not stand for this madness for much longer…and all the lobbyists in the world cannot stop a movement that has made its decision.” —Anthony Gucciardi
For Monsanto, a Season of Woes
Warning on Roundup weed killer follows low crop prices, criticism of biotech food
By Jacob Bunge March 26, 2015 3:13 p.m. ET
Time to sell your shares trolls!
Agribusiness giant Monsanto Co. is confronting some of its stiffest challenges in years, as it contends
with consumer criticism of biotech foods, farmers tightening their belts, and a global health agency that has labeled its trademark weed killer as a potential carcinogen.
The latest and most prominent threat came from a World Health Organization agency’s classification last week of glyphosate—which Monsanto sells under the Roundup brand—as likely having the potential to cause cancer in humans. The finding marks the highest-profile critique of Roundup, a product the U.S. agriculture industry has long touted as a safe way to protect cornfields and lawns.
The challenge to Roundup adds to a pile of other woes. Monsanto’s stock is roughly flat over the past 12 months)—lagging behind the S&P 500 index’s 11% rise and far underperforming its own 65%
increase from 2009 to 2014. Back-to-back bumper harvests in 2013 and 2014 in the U.S. have also been bad for Monsanto, as prices of corn and soybeans are down to their lowest level in years, prompting some farmers to choose cheaper seeds and skimp on other farm supplies. Currency
shifts have also made seeds and chemicals more expensive for farmers abroad in agricultural countries including Brazil, analysts said.
Monsantoand other biotech seed companies meanwhile have spent heavily to combat efforts to label foods made with genetically modified ingredients, part of a movement that has fueled sharp growth in sales of non-GMO food products. Meanwhile, farmers are battling hard-to-kill weeds and bugs
that have evolved to resist sprays of glyphosate and the insect-killing proteins produced by some biotech crops.
“They just can’t catch a break,” said Mark Connelly, analyst with brokerage firm CLSA Ltd. The IARC classification, he said, “is very significant because it’s the first time a relatively credible agency has taken aim at glyphosate.”
Monsanto shares have declined 2.9% over the past week.
The steep drop in crop prices may be Monsanto’s biggest challenge,
analysts say. Corn futures prices have dropped 47% over the past two
years, and soybeans 33%, crimping spending by farmers Monsanto relies on
to pay for high-tech seeds and farming services. The U.S. Department of
Agriculture in February projected that U.S. farm incomes will drop by
nearly one-third this year to the lowest level since 2009, amid a third
straight year of lower prices for major agricultural commodities.
Louis-based Monsanto grew to dominate the agricultural seed business by
jumping aboard the biotech bandwagon in the early 1980s. It hit upon a
method to insert genes into plant seeds that enabled them to withstand
glyphosate, which Monsanto had patented and launched in the early 1970s.
Since the first “Roundup Ready” seeds hit the market in 1996, such
products have become pervasive in the U.S. Farm Belt, with genetically
modified crops planted on 93% of corn acres and 94% of soybeans last
year, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
embraced the crops partly because glyphosate made it simple to eradicate
weeds—which can choke out crops and diminish yields—but also because of
the product’s safety versus older, harsher chemicals, according to
academics.
Monsanto’s agricultural productivity segment, which
includes Roundup sales, generated $5.1 billion in revenue for fiscal
2014, representing about one-third of total sales. Stiff competition
from rival glyphosate makers, however, means the division is only about
63% as profitable as Monsanto’s core seeds business, and some analysts
believe Monsanto may eventually spin off the division. Monsanto declined
to comment.
Frank Cannon says:
Farmers have a long history of being traditional and doing things the way Grand dad , Dad and so forth did over generations. Most are not open to outside ideas, unless of course it comes from their friendly good old boy county agent or local Ag Rep. They have a heavy tradition of hanging on every word the government says and have been nursed along with several welfare entitlement programs. There was an article some time back about how ideology keeps them from making changes. The example was Wheat farmers. Organic growers make more profit, but conventional growers receive the Farm Subsidies benefits. This is not given the organic growers because they do make profit on their crop. That safety net is hard for them to give up. They don’t know any other way of living. Every so often though some farmers get fed up and will want to change from the Industrial Ag clutches. Joel Salatin is a great example. Man used his head, figured out just exactly how nature works and replicated it in his own business model. Biomimetics is far superior to anything the Biotechs are offering as Life. There is no Bio in Biotech. Just industrial.
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PRO BASKETBALL TALKPBT Central Division
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Canada’s FIBA World Cup training camp features 17 NBA players
No Andrew Wiggins, no problem.
The disconnect between Wiggins and Canada Basketball seemed like a big deal when Wiggins looked like a budding star from a country without much basketball pedigree. But Wiggins has stagnated. Canada, on the other hand, looks like a rising international power.
Canada Basketball announced its training-camp invitations for the FIBA World Cup. The list includes a whop 17 NBA players:
Jamal Murray (Denver Nuggets)
Tristan Thompson (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (Oklahoma City Thunder)
R.J. Barrett (New York Knicks)
Nickeil Alexander-Walker (New Orleans Pelicans)
Brandon Clarke (Memphis Grizzlies)
Kelly Olynyk (Miami Heat)
Cory Joseph (Sacramento Kings)
Dwight Powell (Dallas Mavericks)
Dillon Brooks (Memphis Grizzlies)
Trey Lyles (San Antonio Spurs)
Khem Birch (Orlando Magic)
Mfiondu Kabengele (Los Angeles Clippers)
Nik Stauskas (Cleveland Cavaliers)
Chris Boucher (Toronto Raptors)
Luguentz Dort (Oklahoma City Thunder)
Marial Shayok (Philadelphia 76ers)
Though the Nuggets clearly expect Murray to reach the next level, this group is short on star power right now. Don’t expect Canada rival Team USA. But this is a deep pool of solid players. They should be competitive in the tournament this fall in China.
This group is also pretty young. Players like Murray, Gilgeous-Alexander, Barrett, Alexander-Walker and Clarke could take Canada to an even higher level in years to come.
And then the generation that’s growing up idolizing the championship Raptors will come through. Expect Canada’s climb to continue.
The other 12 players invited to Canada Basketball’s training camp: Aaron Best, Aaron Doornekamp, Andrew Nembhard, Andy Rautins, Brady Heslip, Kevin Pangos, Kyle Wiltjer, Melvin Ejim, Naz Mitrou-Long, Oshae Brissett, Phil Scrubb, Thomas Scrubb.
Tags: Andrew Nembhard, Andrew Wiggins, Brandon Clarke, Chris Boucher, Cory Joseph, Dillon Brooks, Drew Nembhard, Drew Wiggins, Dwight Powell, Jamal Murray, Kelly Olynyk, Khem Birch, Luguentz Dort, Marial Shayok, Mfiondu Kabengele, Nickeil Alexander-Walker, Nik Stauskas, Oshae Brissett, R.J. Barrett, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Trey Lyles, Tristan Thompson
Report: As expected, Cavaliers waive J.R. Smith; ‘unlikely’ he joins Lakers
As we warned readers was coming earlier in the day, the Cleveland Cavaliers have waived J.R. Smith.
This was expected as they could not find a trading partner looking to save money for a pick, so rather than pay him his full $15.7 million the Cavaliers will pay Smith $4.4 million and make him an unrestricted free agent. Shams Charania of The Athletic broke the news.
Sources: The Cleveland Cavaliers have waived JR Smith, making him a free agent. Cavs had been attempting to move Smith all the way up until the 5 p.m. ET waiver deadline today.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 15, 2019
There has been an assumption among many fans that if he became a free agent Smith would reunite with LeBron James on the Lakers, adding another big personality and flawed player to an interesting bench.
But not so fast my friend, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN.
Once guard JR Smith clears waivers, the Los Angeles Lakers are an unlikely destination, league sources tell ESPN.
— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) July 15, 2019
Smith will turn 34 before next season starts and his skills are in decline, he shot just 30.8 percent from three last season. I can see a playoff/contending team making a run at him for the minimum, but there is not a lot of demand for his services because he’s not expected to be able to contribute a lot.
Tags: J.R. Smith, LeBron James
NBA Power Rankings after wildest summer in league history
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That. Was. Insane.
The NBA has never seen an offseason like this last one where so many elite players moved teams and shifted the balance of power around the league. While all the dust has not settled (Chris Paul, for example) we can now take a step back and put out our annual power rankings. The basic ranking criteria here is “chance to win an NBA title” which means a couple top teams from the East are ranked ahead of better teams in the West, just because their odds of getting through to the Finals are higher. Let’s go at it:
1. Clippers (Last Season 48-34). No team had a better summer than Steve Ballmer’s crew: They had stalked Kawhi Leonard for a year, and not only did he come he recruited Paul George to come with him. The Clippers should be lock-down defensively (Patrick Beverley will get more time at the point), has offensive versatility, and still brings Lou Williams and Montrezl Harrell off the bench. In a deep West that makes them the team to beat.
2. Bucks (60-22). They re-signed Khris Middleton and Brook Lopez, their two biggest off-season priorities, but they could not keep Malcolm Brogdon, and that will sting. Wesley Matthews will have a lot asked of him to fill that role. Most importantly, they still have an improving Giannis Antetokounmpo. Having both Brook and Robin Lopez will make the Bucks entertaining off the court.
3. 76ers (51-31). They lost Jimmy Butler, the guy who was their end-of-game playmaker in the postseason, but adding the underrated Josh Richardson and glue guy Al Horford will help a lot to ease that blow. This should be an elite defensive team that will be right in the middle of it all in the East, but with one big question: Is Ben Simmons ready to be the team’s crunch time, halfcourt ball handler and shot creator?
4. Jazz (50-32). Utah had as good an offseason as anyone (except maybe the Clippers). They upgraded at point guard with Mike Conley, who gives them a second shot creator next to Donovan Mitchell. Then they poached Bogdan Bogdanovic out of Indiana, adding more shooting and a guy who can do a little shot creation himself to the mix. This is still one of the league’s best defenses built around Rudy Gobert, but now the Jazz can score a lot, too.
5. Lakers (37-45). In Anthony Davis, at his peak at age 26, LeBron James has the single-best teammate he has ever had, one that almost perfectly complements his game. In an NBA filled with powerful duos, the Lakers have the best one. The question becomes: is the rest of the roster good enough to win? The Lakers have talented but flawed players in Danny Green, DeMarcus Cousins, Kyle Kuzma, Rajon Rondo, Avery Bradley and the rest. The Lakers may not be a great regular season team (four seed?) but watch out come the playoffs.
6. Rockets (53-29). Whatever you think of the fit, Russell Westbrook is a talent upgrade over Chris Paul at this point in their respective (and Hall of Fame) careers. James Harden is still there, as are Clint Capela, P.J. Tucker, and Eric Gordon (despite trade rumors). This was (for my money) the second best team in the West playoffs each of the last two years, they got a little bit better (if Harden and Westbrook can share the ball), and they remain a real threat to win the West.
7. Nuggets (54-28). Denver poked around the free agent market, but in the end got the band back together, including bringing back Paul Millsap. The Nuggets were one of the youngest teams in the NBA last season and are counting on internal improvement from Jamal Murray, Nikola Jokic, and company — plus the addition of Michael Porter Jr. to the rotation (not seeing Porter Jr. in Summer League due to an injury was a disappointment) — to take them to the next level. Denver remains an outstanding team, the question is will they have grown and learned enough to take the next step in the playoffs come spring?
8. Warriors (57-24). Write off Golden State at your own peril. They are not the juggernaut team of the past three years, Kevin Durant will rehab in Brooklyn and Klay Thompson is not expected back from his ACL tear until after the All-Star break (if he comes back next season at all). However, they still have Stephen Curry, they have Draymond Green in a contract year, and D’Angelo Russell is an All-Star added to the roster. The Warriors will take a step back in wins (less than 50 probably) but will be a dangerous playoff team.
9. Trail Blazers (53-29). There were no bold moves (don’t be shocked if they try to make another play for Kevin Love, but his price is high), but they landed Hassan Whiteside to play the five until Jusuf Nurkic returns from injury, and they made a nice wing signing with Kent Bazemore (plus bringing back Rodney Hood). Portland got marginally better this summer, but will that be enough to take the next step in a West filled with teams making big, bold moves?
10. Celtics (49-33). Kyrie Irving headed to Brooklyn, but replacing him with Kemba Walker means Boston didn’t lose a lot on the court (casual fans don’t get just how Walker carried the Hornets) and they get a better leader for their culture. Expect big step from Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown. Losing Al Horford will sting more, they didn’t really replace him. Boston will be fun, they will score a lot of points but not stop much of anyone.
11. Pacers (48-34). Indiana paid big to steal Malcolm Brogdon out of Milwaukee, giving them another shot creator and someone on Victor Oladipo’s timeline. The Pacers made nice pickups at a good price in Jeremy Lamb and T.J. Warren, but this team is going to miss Bogdanovic a lot (he’s in Utah now). The Pacers need to keep their heads above water until Oladipo returns from injury (Christmas or a little after).
12. Raptors (58-24). They did everything right but could not compete with the lure of home for Leonard (and they won a title with that gamble), but now they are without their alpha. This is still a talented team with Kyle Lowry, Pascal Siakam, Marc Gasol, Serge Ibaka, Fred VanVleet, OG Anunoby and others. When the trade deadline nears will the Raptors move some of those older players, all in the last year of their contracts, to jumpstart the rebuilding process?
13. Nets (42-40). Brooklyn was one of the biggest winners in free agency landing Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant. However, with Durant out likely most or all of next season (and not fully his old self yet if he does return), the Nets are not yet a threat to win the East. Irving, however, is an upgrade over D’Angelo Russell on the court. Irving struggled to lead a young, talented team in Boston, can he do better in Brooklyn with a team that made the playoffs with a gritty, team-focused style a year ago?
14. Spurs (48-34). No big moves this summer, although they picked up DeMarre Carroll on a nice contract. The biggest improvement will be getting Dejonte Murray back at point guard, an All-Defensive team level point guard (with rumors that his shot has come a long way). Paired with Derrick White that’s a strong defensive backcourt. Don’t forget, they still have DeMar DeRozan and LaMarcus Aldridge on the roster. The Spurs are going to be tough to play against every night and make the playoffs.
15. Mavericks (33-49). Now we get to see what the Luka Doncic/Kristaps Porzingis pairing looks like — can this be one of the elite super duos in the West? Dallas is betting yes, but the rest of us need to see it work on the court before buying in. I like the Seth Curry and Delon Wright signings, Boban Marjanovic is always fun, and re-signing Maxi Kleber was smart. This team should be in the mix for a playoff spot in the West, but there is no margin for error.
16. Timberwolves (36-46). They struck out landing D’Angelo Russell or any other star on Karl-Anthony Towns’ timeline, but this team should be improved next season by not having Jimmy Butler torpedo them to start the season (then switching coaches midway through the campaign). Getting Robert Covington back from injury will help a lot, too, this was a much better defensive team with him out there. I expect more from this team than many others, but Andrew Wiggins remains the anchor on how high they can climb.
17. Kings (39-43). Everyone’s favorite League Pass team from last season is not sneaking up on anyone this time around. They have a good new coach in Luke Walton and made a nice signing with Cory Joseph, and I like the Dewayne Dedmon signing more than most, but for Sacramento it’s going to be about internal improvement if they are going to end the longest playoff draught in the NBA (13 years and counting).
18. Pelicans (33-49). This may be too low a ranking for a team with a lot of potential. New Orleans will be a League Pass favorite this season — Alvin Gentry will have them playing fast and that should benefit Zion Williamson (put it bubble wrap early at Summer League) and Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram can just get buckets, and Jrue Holiday is a good leader. This team could live up to that potential and be a playoff threat in the West. Either way, they will be must watch.
19. Heat (39-43). They landed Jimmy Butler in an impressive sign-and-trade and then maxed him out, but he is surrounded by role players — Justise Winslow, Kelly Olynyk, Bam Adebayo, Goran Dragic — who have to step up big if this team is going to make a splash in the East. Tyler Herro showed promise at Summer League. The most interesting thing to watch with Miami is them chasing another star to go with Butler (is Chris Paul, with that contract, a good fit?).
20. Magic (42-40). This may be too low a ranking, but it’s hard to get excited about this team. Orlando re-signed Nikola Vucevic, but didn’t address their other big need at point guard. The Magic remain a decent team stuck in the middle of the East. They do have Markelle Fultz on the roster, that was a good role of the dice, but team officials said they’re not sure he’ll be ready to start the season. Not a good sign.
21. Pistons (41-41). This is a nice team led by Blake Griffin and Andre Drummond, but it’s hard to see their perimeter players taking them forward much. Reggie Jackson is who he is at this point, although I like the pickup of Derrick Rose behind him as a backup. Maybe Luke Kennard can take another step forward. This is a nice team, one that will battle for a playoff spot in the East, but little more.
22. Bulls (22-60, LW 27). Another team that may be too low in these rankings because they have a lot of interesting young players in Zach LaVine, Otto Porter, Wendell Carter Jr., and maybe their star in Lauri Markkanen. I like the Tomas Satoransky signing, he played well a couple seasons ago in Washington when John Wall was out. There is good talent on the roster, but who is the alpha who brings it all together?
23. Hawks (29-53). Atlanta is building a nice young team around Trae Young and John Collins, and we’ll see what De’Andre Hunter and Cam Reddish can add to that (the Hawks need a player on the wing and hope one of those two becomes that guy). I expect to see improvement, and for the Hawks to remain entertaining, but they may be a year or two and a player or two away from being the kind of threat they hope to become in the East.
24. Suns (19-63). The Suns starting five is not bad: Ricky Rubio, Devin Booker, Kelly Oubre, Dario Saric, Deandre Ayton. They also have Mikal Bridges on the wing, but things get thin fast for the Suns. I expect Rubio stabilizes their offense and makes them an improved team from a year ago, but there is a lot of roster building still be be done in the Valley of the Sun.
25. Wizards (32-50). It feels like the Wizards will be Bradley Beal against the world every night. This is a thin roster and John Wall is out for the season. We’ll see what guys like Rui Hachimura and Moritz Wagner can develop into for them, but it’s not moving the needle much now. The biggest storyline around the Wizards will be all the teams calling about a Bradley Beal trade, right now those calls are being shot down. Oh, and they may want to hire a formal GM for the season. Just saying’.
26. Knicks (17-65). It was a kick to the… er… punch to the guy summer for Knicks fans, who had high hopes going in of stars coming to be the franchises’ savior. The reality, the Knicks need to work to build up a base of talent, and an organizational culture, those stars want to be a part of. R.J. Barrett struggled in Summer League (15.4 points per game but on 34 percent shooting) but second-year guy Kevin Knox concerned me more when I watched him, 16.8 points per game but on just 40 percent shooting in games he should have dominated.
27. Grizzlies (33-49). The rebuilding is underway and the combination of Ja Morant and Jaren Jackson Jr. give them a good base. Brandon Clarke has shown some promise in Summer League, 14.6 points per game but shooting 57 percent. The team will trade (or waive) Andre Iguodala at some point, but no team is giving up a first-round pick for a 35-year-old role player making $17.2 million. Clippers and Rockets are considered the frontrunners.
28. Thunder (49-33). It’s hard not to feel for Thunder fans, one year ago they had watched Paul George decide to stay and thought they had him and Russell Westbrook for years, now it’s all gone. Sam Presti pivoted as well as anyone could and stockpiled picks that will help the coming rebuild, and this is one of the league’s great scouting teams, but it will take time. Chris Paul will get traded, and they likely will listen to offers for Steven Adams, but with two-years, $53 million on his contract the market will be thin.
29. Cavaliers (19-63). It was a disappointment not to see Darius Garland or Kevin Porter Jr. in Summer League, but both will get plenty of run come the season as the Cavaliers continue their rebuild. Right now the Cavaliers are keeping the price for a Kevin Love trade so high nobody is interested (top young players and multiple picks), but other teams are waiting for that to change as we get into the new season. Teams are calling about him.
30. Hornets (39-43). Without Kemba Walker the Hornets are starting a major rebuilding project, but they can’t even take on other team’s bad contracts for picks/young players until they get Nicolas Batum, Bismack Biyombo, Marvin Williams and the rest off their own books. I like the idea of giving Terry Rozier the ball and a chance at the point guard spot. Beyond that, watch a lot of college ball, Hornets fans, your team needs to start nailing the draft (not exactly a franchise strength over the years).
Tags: Al Horford, Andre Drummond, Andre Iguodala, Andrew Wiggins, Anthony Davis, Avery Bradley, Bam Adebayo, Ben Simmons, Bismack Biyombo, Blake Griffin, Boban Marjanovic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Bradley Beal, Brandon Clarke, Brandon Ingram, Brook Lopez, Cam Reddish, Chris Paul, Clint Capela, Cory Joseph, Danny Green, Dario Saric, Darius Garland, DeAndre Ayton, Delon Wright, DeMar DeRozan, DeMarcus Cousins, DeMarre Carroll, Derrick Rose, Derrick White, Devin Booker, Dewayne Dedmon, Donovan Mitchell, Draymond Green, Drew Wiggins, Eric Gordon, Fred VanVleet, Giannis Antetokounmpo, Goran Dragic, Hassan Whiteside, Ja Morant, Jamal Murray, James Harden, Jaren Jackson Jr., Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, Jeremy Lamb, Jimmy Butler, John Collins, John Wall, Josh Richardson, Jrue Holiday, Justise Winslow, Jusuf Nurkic, Karl-Anthony Towns, Kawhi Leonard, Kelly Olynyk, Kelly Oubre, Kemba Walker, Kent Bazemore, Kevin Durant, Kevin Knox, Kevin Love, Kevin Porter Jr., Khris Middleton, Klay Thompson, Kristaps Porzingis, Kyle Kuzma, Kyle Lowry, Kyrie Irving, LaMarcus Aldridge, Lauri Markkanen, LeBron James, Lonzo Ball, Lou Williams, Luka Doncic, Luke Kennard, Malcolm Brogdon, Marc Gasol, Markelle Fultz, Marvin Williams, Maxi Kleber, Michael Porter Jr., Mikal Bridges, Mike Conley, Montrezl Harrell, Moritz Wagner, Nicolas Batum, Nikola Jokic, Nikola Vucevic, OG Anunoby, Otto Porter, P.J. Tucker, Pascal Siakam, Patrick Beverley, Paul George, Paul Millsap, R.J. Barrett, Rajon Rondo, Reggie Jackson, Ricky Rubio, Robert Covington, Robin Lopez, Rodney Hood, Rudy Gobert, Rui Hachimura, Russell Westbrook, Serge Ibaka, Seth Curry, Stephen Curry, Steven Adams, T.J. Warren, Terry Rozier, Tomas Satoransky, Trae Young, Tyler Herro, Victor Oladipo, Wendell Carter Jr., Wesley Matthews, Zach LaVine, Zion Williamson
Report: Cavaliers waiving J.R. Smith
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By Dan FeldmanJul 15, 2019, 10:22 AM EDT
The Cavaliers really hyped J.R. Smith as a trade asset.
For most contracts, only the guaranteed portion of a player’s salary counts toward matching in a trade. But because Smith signed his deal under the previous Collective Bargaining Agreement, his full $15,680,000 salary counts even though just a small portion of it is guaranteed.
That structure would’ve been helpful for another team looking to shed salary. That team could trade a similarly expensive player for Smith’s contract, waive Smith and pay only his small guarantee.
The Cavs were so confident they’d deal Smith, they even increased his guarantee from $3.9 million to $4.4 million in exchange for him pushing back his guarantee date from June 30 to July 15. That bought more time to find a trade.
But a trade like that has long seemed unlikely for Cleveland.
The Cavaliers are near the luxury-tax line, and using Smith’s contract as a trade chip that way would’ve increased their payroll. By enabling another team to unload salary, the Cavs would’ve taken on that money. They would’ve had until the final day of the regular season to escape the tax, but they’re reportedly not interested in trading their most expensive player, Kevin Love. They have other burdensome contracts that aren’t easy to move. There just isn’t appetite for even risking paying the tax on such a lousy team.
So, Smith’s time in Cleveland will reach its predictable end today.
Chris Fedor of Cleveland.com:
#Cavs are expected to waive JR Smith this afternoon, league source tells @clevelanddotcom
— Chris Fedor (@ChrisFedor) July 15, 2019
The Cavaliers must stretch Smith’s guaranteed salary to get under the tax line now. That will lock in a $1,466,667 cap hit the next three seasons.
Smith will become an unrestricted free agent. There had been talk of him joining the Lakers, but they now have 14 players with standard contracts – only one short of the regular-season limit. I suspect Kyle Korver will be a bigger priority.
In Cleveland, Smith will always be remembered for helping the Cavs win the 2016 championship and his shirtless summer of celebration. It went south for him after that. He struggled on a long-term contract, threw soup and spent nearly all of last season exiled as the Cavs eyed trading him this offseason.
That idea fizzled, and Smith’s career could, too. He’ll turn 34 before the season and hasn’t played well in years. Maybe another team will take a flier on him. This also might be the end.
Tags: J.R. Smith, Kevin Love, Kyle Korver
Cavaliers reportedly still not interested in trading Kevin Love
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By Kurt HelinJul 15, 2019, 9:00 AM EDT
With so many teams going all-in this summer to chase a ring, Cavaliers GM Koby Altman’s phone was ringing with his counterparts asking about the availability of Kevin Love.
Each time the answer was the same: No. Cleveland is not interested.
Despite the Cavaliers being in a rebuilding phase, Cleveland is frustrating other franchises because they are not looking to move one of the holdovers from the LeBron James title team, reports Chris Fedor of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Many around the NBA are incredulous when it comes to the Cavs’ stance, especially with so many teams taking an all-in approach this summer, believing Golden State splitting up makes for a wide-open title race.
At each stop, people were asking the same question: Are the Cavs really going to keep Love? Shouldn’t they explore deals that will accelerate their rebuild?
The answer still hasn’t changed. While it’s not wise to use the never term in this ever-changing league, the Cavs don’t want to trade Love… If the Cavs are blown away by a Love offer and receive the package that meets their demands then, of course, they would consider it. It would be foolish not to. According to sources, the Cavs would want some combination of young players and draft picks. Not one or the other. Both.
Kevin Love played in just 22 games last season due to a toe injury, has missed at least 22 games each of the previous three seasons. Also, he saw a decline in production when he did play last season, and at age 30 his four-year, $120 million contract extension kicks in next season.
Yet the buzz around the league is to expect some team with title aspirations that starts slowly to come in hard and fast for Love to try to bulk up the roster. In his down season last year he still averaged 17 and 11, can still shoot the three, and he remains a strong rebounder and the best outlet passer in the game. He brings something valuable to the table.
But for right now, that value is remaining in Cleveland. If another team wants him, the bar is set high.
Canada’s FIBA World Cup training camp features 17 NBA players July 16, 2019 2:55 pm EDT Report: As expected, Cavaliers waive J.R. Smith; ‘unlikely’ he joins Lakers July 15, 2019 5:47 pm EDT NBA Power Rankings after wildest summer in league history July 15, 2019 3:15 pm EDT Report: Cavaliers waiving J.R. Smith July 15, 2019 10:22 am EDT Cavaliers reportedly still not interested in trading Kevin Love July 15, 2019 9:00 am EDT Report: Nets signing David Nwaba to two-year contract July 14, 2019 4:00 pm EDT MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo: ‘I think I am at 60 percent of my potential’ July 14, 2019 2:00 pm EDT Rumor: Pistons could target Pau Gasol as backup center July 13, 2019 11:00 pm EDT Kawhi Leonard, Paul George (Clippers), Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving (Nets) form pop-up super teams July 11, 2019 2:43 pm EDT Ten 2019 free agency moves/trades that changed face of NBA July 10, 2019 1:25 pm EDT Summer League load management? Zion among many top picks sitting in Las Vegas July 9, 2019 2:05 pm EDT Cavaliers’ Kevin Porter Jr. takes discount on rookie-scale contract July 9, 2019 1:23 pm EDT Pelicans’ Jaxson Hayes almost leaps over player for best dunk of Summer League (VIDEO) July 8, 2019 11:04 pm EDT Report: Bucks sign Thanasis Antetekounmpo to two-year deal July 8, 2019 8:00 am EDT Rockets, Heat, Pistons all reportedly in mix for Russell Westbrook July 7, 2019 2:00 pm EDT Winners and Losers in Kawhi Leonard, Paul George choosing to play with Clippers July 6, 2019 5:54 pm EDT Report: Suns trading former No. 4 pick Josh Jackson to Grizzlies July 3, 2019 5:01 pm EDT Report: Pacers add point guard depth in deal with T.J. McConnell, two-years, $7 million July 3, 2019 4:15 pm EDT Report: Pistons add power forward depth, agree to one-year deal with Markieff Morris July 3, 2019 3:15 pm EDT Bulls big man Wendell Carter Jr. will have surgery to repair core muscle injury July 3, 2019 12:21 pm EDT Notes from second night of Salt Lake Summer League July 3, 2019 1:04 am EDT Notes from first night of Salt Lake Summer League July 2, 2019 12:47 am EDT Report: Bucks signing Wesley Matthews for minimum salary July 1, 2019 4:36 pm EDT Report: Wizards signing Ish Smith, signing-and-trading Tomas Satoransky to Bulls July 1, 2019 9:24 am EDT Ten things learned on wildest day in NBA history July 1, 2019 2:44 am EDT Report: Knicks signing Bobby Portis to two-year, $31M million deal July 1, 2019 12:39 am EDT Robin Lopez reportedly agrees to two-year deal with Bucks July 1, 2019 12:26 am EDT Report: Bucks re-signing George Hill for three years, $29 million June 30, 2019 9:05 pm EDT Report: Jeremy Lamb agrees to three-year, $31.5 million contract with Pacers June 30, 2019 8:34 pm EDT Phoenix gets its point guard, Ricky Rubio reportedly agrees to three-year, $51 million contract June 30, 2019 7:30 pm EDT Report: Utah adds shooting, agrees to deal with Bojan Bogdanovic for four-years, $73 million June 30, 2019 7:07 pm EDT Report: Bucks signing-and-trading Malcolm Brogdon to Pacers on four-year, $85M contract June 30, 2019 7:05 pm EDT Report: Thaddeus Young signing three-year, $41M contract with Bulls June 30, 2019 6:28 pm EDT Report: Derrick Rose signing two-year, $15M contract with Pistons June 30, 2019 6:07 pm EDT Report: Bucks to re-sign Khris Middleton to five-year, $178 million deal June 30, 2019 5:34 pm EDT Report: Bucks to re-sign Brook Lopez to four-year, $52 million contract June 30, 2019 5:16 pm EDT Report: Jazz could be team to poach Bojan Bogdanovic from Pacers June 30, 2019 1:40 am EDT Reports have Derrick Rose destined for Pistons next season June 29, 2019 11:00 pm EDT Nicola Mirotic to forgo NBA, reportedly set to sign with Barcelona in EuroLeague June 29, 2019 9:00 pm EDT Darren Collison surprisingly retires from NBA June 29, 2019 8:00 am EDT
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As Exxon Mobil (XOM) Market Value Rose, Richard C Young & Company Raised by $2.08 Million Its Holding; Seatown Holdings Increases Holding in Visa (V)
Posted by Clara Lewis on July 14, 2019 at 3:43 pm
Seatown Holdings increased its stake in Visa Inc (V) by 177.78% based on its latest 2019Q1 regulatory filing with the SEC. Seatown Holdings bought 40,000 shares as the company’s stock rose 13.45% with the market. The institutional investor held 62,500 shares of the business services company at the end of 2019Q1, valued at $9.76M, up from 22,500 at the end of the previous reported quarter. Seatown Holdings who had been investing in Visa Inc for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $406.28B market cap company. The stock decreased 0.23% or $0.41 during the last trading session, reaching $180.33. About 7.08M shares traded or 0.63% up from the average. Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) has risen 24.07% since July 14, 2018 and is uptrending. It has outperformed by 19.64% the S&P500.
Richard C Young & Company increased its stake in Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM) by 38.06% based on its latest 2019Q1 regulatory filing with the SEC. Richard C Young & Company bought 25,972 shares as the company’s stock rose 0.16% with the market. The institutional investor held 94,212 shares of the integrated oil company at the end of 2019Q1, valued at $7.61M, up from 68,240 at the end of the previous reported quarter. Richard C Young & Company who had been investing in Exxon Mobil Corp for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $328.62 billion market cap company. The stock increased 0.08% or $0.06 during the last trading session, reaching $77.63. About 5.87 million shares traded. Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) has declined 6.67% since July 14, 2018 and is downtrending. It has underperformed by 11.10% the S&P500. Some Historical XOM News: 05/03/2018 – CERAWEEK-Nigeria minister says majors in shale, OPEC should keep crude price stable; 14/05/2018 – Exxon Beaumont, Texas refinery to perform work on coker; 06/03/2018 – EXXON’S XTO PRESIDENT SARA ORTWEIN COMMENTS DURING CERAWEEK; 25/04/2018 – HESS CORP HES.N SAYS EXPECTS ITS GUYANA INVESTMENT TO START GENERATING CASH AFTER SECOND PHASE COMES ONLINE IN 2022; 23/05/2018 – EXPLAINER-Drilling down: Risky hunt for oil in Vietnam’s South China Sea blocks; 11/04/2018 – EXXONMOBIL REPORTS 84% BOOST IN P’NYANG RE; 08/03/2018 – DAILY SABAH: BREAKING – US Navy denies reports on bolstering its presence in the Eastern Mediterranean theater through the; 09/04/2018 – Exxon Sparks IMF Concern With Weighty Returns in Tiny Guyana; 06/04/2018 – EXCLUSIVE-Biofuels battle: Senator moves to expand small refiner exemption; 31/05/2018 – EXCLUSIVE-Late to teapot party, ExxonMobil breaks with tradition in wooing China’s oil market
More notable recent Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) news were published by: Nasdaq.com which released: “Dow Jones Today: Almost Some Half-Day Fireworks – Nasdaq” on July 03, 2019, also Investorplace.com with their article: “The 7 Best Dow Jones Stocks to Buy for the Rest of 2019 – Investorplace.com” published on June 20, 2019, Finance.Yahoo.com published: “Tez Financial Services and Green Girls Organization Selected as Winners of Visa Everywhere Initiative: Women’s Global Edition After Worldwide Search – Yahoo Finance” on June 30, 2019. More interesting news about Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) were released by: Investorideas.com and their article: “Play by Play: Nautilus (NYSE: $NLS) Names New CEO and Millennial eSports (TSXV: $GAME.V) to Conduct a Non-Brokered Private Placement of Convertible Debentures – InvestorIdeas.com” published on July 09, 2019 as well as Seekingalpha.com‘s news article titled: “Wall Street Breakfast: IPO Market On Fire – Seeking Alpha” with publication date: June 14, 2019.
Investors sentiment increased to 1.05 in 2019 Q1. Its up 0.05, from 1 in 2018Q4. It increased, as 49 investors sold V shares while 631 reduced holdings. 164 funds opened positions while 551 raised stakes. 1.54 billion shares or 4.83% less from 1.62 billion shares in 2018Q4 were reported. Dock Street Asset Management owns 122,487 shares. Bluemountain Management has 10,926 shares. Rafferty Asset Mngmt Llc, a New York-based fund reported 356,503 shares. Schnieders Cap Mngmt Limited Liability Company accumulated 21,614 shares. Macroview Invest Management Ltd Liability Corp invested 0.02% of its portfolio in Visa Inc. (NYSE:V). Peapack Gladstone Fincl Corp holds 0.4% or 56,050 shares in its portfolio. 127,306 are owned by Incline Mngmt Limited Liability Corp. Berkshire Asset Mngmt Ltd Co Pa reported 0.07% in Visa Inc. (NYSE:V). Wills Inc owns 29,842 shares for 3.16% of their portfolio. New York-based Cohen & Steers Inc has invested 0.02% in Visa Inc. (NYSE:V). Segment Wealth Mgmt Lc stated it has 38,007 shares. 11,263 are owned by Evermay Wealth Limited. Tokio Marine Asset Mgmt Co stated it has 0.12% of its portfolio in Visa Inc. (NYSE:V). Macquarie Gru Limited reported 1.45 million shares or 0.39% of all its holdings. Ledyard Bancorp invested in 72,082 shares or 1.49% of the stock.
Seatown Holdings, which manages about $848.77M US Long portfolio, decreased its stake in Xpo Logistics Inc (NYSE:XPO) by 14,063 shares to 162,465 shares, valued at $8.73M in 2019Q1, according to the filing. It also reduced its holding in Zayo Group Hldgs Inc (NYSE:ZAYO) by 155,138 shares in the quarter, leaving it with 440,520 shares, and cut its stake in Worldpay Inc.
Investors sentiment increased to 0.92 in Q1 2019. Its up 0.28, from 0.64 in 2018Q4. It increased, as 51 investors sold XOM shares while 747 reduced holdings. 125 funds opened positions while 607 raised stakes. 2.24 billion shares or 0.17% more from 2.24 billion shares in 2018Q4 were reported. Alpha Cubed Limited Com reported 245,085 shares stake. Coho Prns Ltd holds 0.04% of its portfolio in Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) for 22,610 shares. Deroy And Devereaux Private Investment Counsel Inc has invested 2.11% in Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM). Berkshire Asset Ltd Llc Pa reported 2.06% of its portfolio in Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM). Exchange Cap Management Inc has invested 1.19% in Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM). Lockheed Martin Invest Management has invested 0.66% in Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM). Westwood Management Il reported 0.08% in Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM). Moreover, Tarbox Family Office has 0.27% invested in Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM). Old Dominion Management reported 61,075 shares. Bb&T Corp invested in 0.99% or 689,014 shares. Aqr Management Llc owns 2.23M shares. The Missouri-based Paradigm Advsr Limited Liability Co has invested 0.69% in Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM). Ballentine Partners Ltd Com has invested 0.13% of its portfolio in Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM). Ally Fincl has invested 2.77% in Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM). Lafleur And Godfrey Limited Co holds 0.12% of its portfolio in Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) for 5,783 shares.
More notable recent Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) news were published by: Seekingalpha.com which released: “Exxon Mobil updates on Q2 performance – Seeking Alpha” on July 02, 2019, also Seekingalpha.com with their article: “Chevron, ConocoPhillips better investments than Exxon, Goldman says – Seeking Alpha” published on July 12, 2019, Seekingalpha.com published: “Exxon: Stay Away From This Oil Major – Seeking Alpha” on May 25, 2019. More interesting news about Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) were released by: Seekingalpha.com and their article: “Exxon may exit stakes in offshore Norwegian fields – Seeking Alpha” published on June 23, 2019 as well as Benzinga.com‘s news article titled: “New Orleans May Face Daunting Tropical Storm, More Flooding This Week – Benzinga” with publication date: July 10, 2019.
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The possibility of free electrical energy?
Please excuse my lack of knowledge/understanding.
Question: Why Nikola Tesla's Free Energy concept was never worked upon? Even today.
Context: Now that we know Nikola Tesla was a genius and did exceptionally well with his works and the Free Energy concept. Why his idea was never adopted or was worked upon, even now? I know, back then, Edison didn't let him do much. But now, in our times, why GE or any other company or well the physics PhDs aren't following up? Why CERN is not working over it?
By the articles that I have read over the internet I am under an impression that everyone (now) feel that we have "missed" the free-energy chance that we had as a planet, that Nikola Tesla was trying to bring in. I see a lot of brag (to an extent, as well) which leaves no doubt that his Free-Energy concept would have been must-have.
But if I look at the actual followups, no one it seems got actually interested to pursue his theories; or is it that no one is capable enough to do it? Which would be strange, given that we are at the peaks of technological advancements. How hard is it to build a prototype? Really?
Or people might have worked over it, but Tesla's blue-prints were not correct, and that is why no one came up with the actual implementation of it? Or is it that he was really a crackpot as politically-publicized by Edison?
I would really appreciate an answer, because this is beyond me, to understand why no one followed up on this concept?
Thank you, in advance.
energy electricity history
KMånKMån
$\begingroup$ Tesla's "free energy" device did not and could not actually produce free energy. The energy had to come from somewhere. If you edit this to add a description of how Tesla's "free energy" device was supposed to work, someone might be able to explain where the energy is coming from. $\endgroup$ – Colin McFaul Jul 17 '12 at 18:37
$\begingroup$ Don't put anybody on a pedestal. Try to learn what they are saying. So what if they're a "genius"? You are smarter than you might think. $\endgroup$ – Mike Dunlavey Jul 17 '12 at 19:30
Assuming we're thinking about the same thing, Tesla believed that cosmic rays (his words) carried a net charge. You could put a metal plate high in the atmosphere and the cosmic rays would charge it, then you could discharge the plate to ground and use the flow of electricity to do work.
This is a perfectly plausible idea, however cosmic rays don't carry a net charge so the plate won't get charged and you can't generate any power from it. That's why Tesla's idea won't work. There is nothing wrong with his reasoning, but one of his premises was flawed.
I've put cosmic rays in italics because I'm not sure whether Telsa meant what we currently mean by cosmic rays, i.e. particles from deep space, or whether he meant what we now call the solar wind. The solar wind doesn't carry a net charge, but I think cosmic rays do as they're mostly protons or alpha particles. However the flux of cosmic rays hitting the Earth is too small to extract any useful amount of power from. Solar radiation is of course much more intense, which is why everyone is trying to sell you solar panels at the moment.
John RennieJohn Rennie
$\begingroup$ Also, given the enormous energy of cosmic rays, the construction of working collection plates opaque enough to be effective while suspended high in the atmosphere would be, shall we say, challenging. Thin and lightweight won't cut it. $\endgroup$ – WhatRoughBeast Jun 6 '16 at 21:08
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Marshall Neighbors: Remembering Mr. Adolph
By Jonathan McCarty, Contributor
editor@pineywoods.news
In Memory of Mr. Adolph
MARSHALL – As a child, I had a number of influences on my life. Older people who had been around before me. They had, of course, seen and done things that I might never consider. One such person was Mr. Adolph Firchau, who was my neighbor for twenty years.
Mr. Adolph was a man of slightly above average height, a warm, loving smile, and a kind heart. He had married Mrs Lela Shaklee, who had been my neighbor since I was a child. They were happy together. Happier than I had ever seen most people; especially when playing dominoes.
Mr. Adolph enjoyed working in his yard, and tinkering. Boy, did he love to tinker. That was one of his gifts to the world. Like my grandfather, Mr Adolph had a mind for all things technical. He had worked for Ford in an assembly plant in his youth, and his array of tools and mechanical aptitude could actually rival my grandfather.
Over the years, Mr Adolph taught me a lot of things. The first one, a memory which I shared with him before he passed on, was how to seal a paper boat with wax. I know that seems childish and silly, but it was something that I won’t ever forget.
It was just those little things that he did, or that people in general do, that make up who and what we are. I remember helping this man put a roof on his shed, re-lay a piece of broken sewer line, and many more things.
But, the small moments where he and I would just sit and discuss something meant more to me than the world. They’re what helped him become not only my neighbor, but my friend.
Mr Adolph was born in Detroit, Michigan on August 21, 1926. I never knew what brought him to Marshall, Texas. But, I am glad he was here. I am glad to have had him as my neighbor.
My friend left us on April 19, 2016 after having gone home to Michigan with his family one final time. I remember saying goodbye to him after having sat in his kitchen eating fried chicken and coleslaw. Mrs Lela sat to my left and nibbled on a cookie.
Even though I knew that he would be leaving that day, it didn’t feel final. Mr Adolph had always gone on trips across the country, and he took my hand and reminded me that this was just another vacation.
Now, when I look across the street at the closed door, and turned out lights, I remember his laugh, his smile, and his company. He was a funny man, and a great man.
And, I will miss him.
Tags: Jonathan McCarty, marshall, Mr. Adolph
One Response “Marshall Neighbors: Remembering Mr. Adolph”
Sherrel Price
What a great story. We should all get to know our neighbors better.
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Live at Park Avenue EP
ThinkIndie
by Marc Hogan
The nine-song, half-hour Live At Park Avenue EP (available via ThinkIndie or in certain independent record stores) aims to keep live recordings relevant at a time when they, like recorded music itself, are both ubiquitous and easily acqiured by illegal means.
If you thought the music industry was in a state of flux, then consider the state of the live album. Thanks to YouTube, bit torrents, and YouSendIt-style file-transfer sites, amateur concert recordings are available as never before, almost instantly, to anyone in the world who wants to hear them. At the same time, indie listeners' growing acceptance of electronic-based music has made for live shows that are more about fans' communal experiences than any notes actually being played "live"-- just ask anyone who has ever seen Girl Talk, or go pick up Justice's unconventional A Cross the Universe live CD. It's no surprise, then, that some of last year's most rewarding live albums came from the vaults: Otis Redding's Live in London and Paris, Neil Young's Sugar Mountain: Live at Canterbury House 1968.
José González, the brooding Swedish bard of Argentine breeding, is in some ways a throwback to that earlier era. The songs on González's haunting sophomore album, 2007's In Our Nature, have the focused political fury and stripped-down arrangements of another generation of acoustic troubadours. But González's minimalist folk-pop shows a painterly appreciation for the nuances of organic sound-- a foot tap here, an off-mic murmur there-- that you won't find from your average coffeehouse singer-songwriter. The nine-song, half-hour Live At Park Avenue EP (available via ThinkIndie or in certain independent record stores) exemplifies one way to keep live recordings relevant at a time when they, like recorded music itself, are both ubiquitous and underappreciated. Although it can't capture all the subtlety of González's studio output, the EP is also an ideal introduction for González noobs.
Park Avenue CD in Orlando, Fl., isn't exactly Carnegie Hall, but the instore crowd gives González's slow, moody polemics the kind of patient silence that never ceases to amaze me about the audience on Bob Dylan's Live at Carnegie Hall 1963 EP. The five songs from In Our Nature on Live At Park Avenue are clandestine descendants of protest songs like "With God on Our Side". Written after reading atheist extraordinaire Richard Dawkins, "Abram" blasts organized religion over descending acoustic guitar arpeggios gentle enough to cut the bitterness-- "well, most of the time." The terrible prophecies coursing through the percussive bass lines of "How Low" (performed here with murmuring introspection that belies its political fire) and the droning high strings of "Down the Line" will outlive the Bush administration-- and, I'm sorry to say, the Obama administration, too. González directs the intimate, elemental "Time to Send Someone Away" at someone who goes "walking over bodies/ just to witness something new"; you think Gonzo's in for that? No way, José. "The Nest" is about birds the way "The Ant and the Grasshopper" is about Aesop's entomology research.
The philosophical underpinnings of the songs from González's Pink Moon-esque debut album, Veneer, come to the surface next to his In Our Nature material. Pensive charmer "Deadweight on Velveteen" opens Live at Park Avenue with a slightly brighter guitar tone than its Veneer original, though still fuming against base dishonesty. With a refrain as catchy as its main guitar figure is repetitive, "Hints" shifts from Gonzalez's usual second-person lyrics to the first-person plural, including us in a community of independent thinkers; the flattery works. Vivid Veneer standout "Crosses", like the religious icons of its title (or Massive Attack), offers protection, and González doesn't disappoint on probably his best-known number, "Heartbeats". The imagery of devils, wolf's teeth, and hands from above goes a long way to explain why the Knife's song suits his repertoire so well.
Live at Park Avenue EP features near-flawless performances of most of González's best songs, and the sound quality is fine, if a bit less appealing than on his lo-fi debut or its immaculately recorded sequel. There's little in the way of between-song banter, and the tracks stay pretty faithful to the originals. So if you already have the albums, this EP is a lovely live document-- just don't expect anyone to break new ground. Although an artist's ability to play well live on traditional (read: non-electronic) instruments has fuck-all to do with the quality of his records, live performances of those records tend to be more enjoyable when the performers-- imagine this-- know what they're doing. González's harrowing way with an acoustic guitar will be sure to please stuffy authenticity squares as well as listeners more interested in minor-key artistic relevations. But don't hold that against him.
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Entry #1152
Title: Burnt ends, brisket, chicken, ribs, pulled pork, beans w/pork, mac & cheese
And there was great rejoicing in the Nikon lands, as the D300s replacement finally arrived, in the form of the rather sublime D500. People had been hoping for a new pro DX body for years, but nothing appeared, with the D90 simply evolving through the D7x00 line. (It's rumored the Thai floods disrupted these plans) It'll be a while before I can consider migrating, but when I'm able to, I'll do so with enthusiasm - the new body's 10fps maximum continuous shooting speed will be very nice to have on those occasions where there's a frenetic chase or a tall leap, not to mention a very generous buffer. (The D7100 can manage 6fps, with a bizarrely bijou buffer of only about 4 RAWs; the D500 offers 10fps, and whilst the buffer itself is "only" 14-16 RAWs deep, the speed of the cards permits around 79 RAWs in uncompressed 14-bit mode, or 200 in lossless compressed 12-bit) For anyone interested, Nikon has a technology digest available, which goes into more detail on aspects like the AF specifics. The catch is that it's priced commensurately, similar to the FX wunderkind, the D810. But, its 36MP would do me little good, given I'm much more interested in pixel density, let alone its rather modest continuous framerate, or the various other nifty goodies the D500 offers, like easy AF fine adjustment for any lens, or flicker compensation, which times exposures to take place at the peak of fluorescent or similar lighting's AC cycle - something even the new D5 flagship doesn't offer!
As for what it brings to the party: UHD video (including uncompressed video out over HDMI), 10fps, XQD support (one XQD slot, one SDXC slot), new AF module with 153 points, ISO up to 51,200 natively, expandable to 1,640,000, 2.3MP touch LCD with tilt articulation, WiFi working alongside Bluetooth, and more. It's essentially a DX version of the D5. =:D You can even read an in-depth review, from someone who was sent one in November 2015. There are also a few extra clarifications in this internal document, and in the comments, where it's noted that the D500 buffer is actually more around 14-16 RAWs deep, with the balance made up by the far faster card writing possible with XQD and UHS-II SDXC. Interestingly, it seems the XQD version of the D5 can write faster than the CF version (the D5 comes in two versions, one with twin XQD, the other with twin CompactFlash) - finally, CF's days appear to be numbered.
This SatW comic delves into film title translations - worth a look, and do go down into the comments for many more manglings, some quite poetic. ^_^
If you have questions to ask of Ebbe Linden, he's now accepting questions, to be submitted before Friday, Jan 15 2016, for a meeting on Thursday, Jan 21, 1030 SLT (1830 GMT). (Yes, I'm a bit late in posting this.. ^_^;;)
jeriendhal's daughter is participating in a half-marathon in May 2016, should you feel inclined to sponsoring her, via the charity Love Without Boundaries, which "provides life-changing surgeries and medical care, runs well monitored foster care programs, operates in-orphanage schools and offers student support, and gives quality formula and nutrition to orphaned and impoverished children."
Rather cool to see.. say you're an airline, and need to get a spare engine out to another craft in a hurry. How would you transport it? In this case, Qantas mounted it on the wing of another 747. Not operational, of course - the blades were removed, and fairings added to reduce drag, but there it is: a 747 with five engines on its wings. =:D
Dirk Gently lives again! BBC America & AMC have ordered eight episodes. I am, however, a touch nervous, as the writer is the guy responsible for 2012's "Chronicle", which wasn't exactly a masterpiece of subtlety. Still, we'll see.
Ah, that's a (minor) pain.. we enjoyed a power cut from around 10am-3pm on Monday, which I didn't actually notice for a good hour, given my primary system is a MacBook Pro, backed up by an iPad Air. I did notice the iPlayer downloads seemed to be running a bit slowly, but thought it must be just one of those things, especially as the entire BBC site had been down a few hours previous. Eventually, I noticed I wasn't actually connected to my usual WiFi node - it'd helpfully fallen over seamlessly to another access point. Unfortunately, not the iPad, which is on a 10GB/mo plan, but the iPhone, on a nominal 500MB/mo (plus 250 mins, unlimited texts).. so, yep, those iPlayer downloads slammed that data allowance into the ground, leaving me data-less until I buy another bundle, which I'd just done on Saturday. =:P (I can still use the voice time and texts, and data on the phone's fairly unimportant - the iPad's the mobile workhorse. Still, frustrating, for want of accidentally leaving the phone's "personal hotspot" pref enabled)
I finally got to see the "original" buns again. ^_^ That was the first time since July, which turned out to be a touch less rewarding than I'd hoped, as the field was all but overrun with wildflowers and other tall vegetation - for which the buns may well have been very grateful, but, I'm not currently equipped to shoot in infrared. =:) There weren't really any gasp-worthy moments, I'm afraid, but it was nonetheless a delight to see them all out and about, across the length of the space - and being relatively accustomed to people walking and cycling by on the path, they tend to be a good notch less skittish than most. (I did, unfortunately, forget to provide a tribute of raisins. If I get another opportunity in the coming weeks, I must try to remember. And the new Doc Martens came in beautifully handy, as there'd been some rain recently, making for a substantial puddle of a couple inches' water across the entire width of the path, through which I could merrily stride, casting my hair back with a laugh. Or something like that =:)
It's a bit of a messy composition, with so much bramble around, but still - I had to try capturing that moment, with the two of them quite deliberately nestled up to each other, side by side. ^_^
Do you go out to see many films on theatrical release, or do you tend to leave them for video nights, when you can invite friends over? For my part, it varies a lot where I am at the time - back in Bath, I loved going along to films at The Little, set in (of course) a Georgian building, with so much atmosphere, and the pleasant ability to buy lovely choc'lit and cider. Here, rather less so, with the local place being a generic multiplex. I am, however, tempted to try catching The Danish Girl - I'm a little surprised it even reached here, TBH, let alone four times daily. There's also Star Wars, of course, but I'd prefer to keep that for some monumental screen - I understand the South Bank's IMAX is quite good. ^_^ And I might see what The Good Dinosaur's like - that's also apparently still showing.
So, I finally got to see "Crusaders of the Lost Mark". Of course, I cried. ^_^ Not just for the CMCs, but for Diamond Tiara as well, finally breaking free of her mother's selfishness, becoming the pony she wants to be. There've been some very good episodes in season 5, but that's one of the best of all. Just beautiful. ^_^
Huh. Is "mutual friends" screwed up for anyone else's profile? (And then there's LJ's adoption of that wretched web design fad for hiding as much as possible, on profiles) If I show "friends", it lists everyone correctly - but if I ask for "mutual friends", it only actually offers up the names of about half the actual people, the rest sucked into some bit bucket along the way.
We watched "Alejandro Jodorowsky's Dune". I'd heard about the project, and a couple of the notable figures involved, but to see that extraordinary assembly of talent.. ye gods and little fishes, it would have been truly glorious. Ah, the film? It's about the making of, or rather, the non-making of - tragically, even once all the talent had been assembled, and a weighty tome produced with the entire project storyboarded out, and all the effects work considered, Hollywood simply wouldn't bite, leaving the production without the full money required to make it happen. So, you've got him as director, of course - and then, on visual design work, there's Mobius, Chris Foss, and Giger. As one of the main protagonists, Mick Jagger. As another, the director's son, who was trained for the role in all manner of martial arts, for six hours a day, for two years. As the totalitarian leader of the Universe, Dalí. As Baron Harkonnen, Orson Welles. Music by Pink Floyd, who were just putting the finishing touches to Dark Side of the Moon. Intriguingly, toward the end, AJ actually specifically notes that today, this could be perfectly feasible as an animation project, not necessarily with him involved. FSM, if there were any way I could play a part in bringing that into reality.. !
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Assassin’s Creed: Origins’ post-launch content announced
October 11, 2017 Posted by Leo Stevenson News, PC, PS4, Xbox One
Ubisoft has today unveiled the Assassin’s Creed: Origins‘ Season Pass DLC and post-launch content. Season Pass holders will gain access to two DLC packs and two item packs. Those who don’t purchase the Season Pass will still get some additional content, though it’s not as substantial.
The two DLC packs for those with the Season Pass are “The Hidden Ones” and “The Curse of the Pharaohs.” “The Hidden Ones” is set one year after the events of Origins. Taking place in a new, Roman-occupied area, Bayek must continue to grow the Brotherhood of Assassins and throw the Romans out of Egypt. It will be available in January 2018.
“The Curse of the Pharaohs” pits Bayek against all manner of mythological Egyptian creatures. Transported to a magical realm, Bayek will face these monsters to find out what has brought them to life. It will be available in March 2018.
The “Roman Centurion Pack” and “Horus Pack,” available to Season Pass holders, grants access to new weapons, shields and gear. They will both be available in November.
Free Content For All Players
Free content coming to Assassin’s Creed: Origins for all players includes;
The Trial of the Gods – Face off against the Egyptian gods in boss battles during special timed events, and receive valuable rewards for victory.
The Nomad’s Bazaar – Track down a wandering merchant who will give you daily quests to pursue and reward you with exotic mystery rewards.
Photo Mode – Capture the beauty of the Egyptian landscape and indulge your inner wildlife photographer.
Discovery Tour – This new game mode turns the world of Assassin’s Creed Origins into a combat-free living museum. Read more about this mode and the educational guided tours in our previous coverage.
Horde Mode – Hone your skills with blade and bow in the Gladiator Arena.
While Assassin’s Creed: Origins’ Season Pass DLC is certainly meatier, the free content is decent too. You can purchase the Season Pass and it’s also included in the Gold Edition of Assassin’s Creed: Origins.
Assassin’s Creed: Origins will be available for PC, PS4 and Xbox One on October 27.
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Toronto’s Moon King will be issuing their debut European release on September 16th via Tough Love. Entitled Obsession, the record compiles all of the band’s output to date as well as one previously unreleased track, and will be available on LP, CD and digital download.
Comprised of Toronto native Daniel Benjamin and collaborator/co-conspirator, Maddy Wilde, the duo have been making music together for most of their lives. As Moon King, the two singers weave dreamlike harmonies over buzz-saw guitars and electronic percussion, their live performances capturing a raw-nerve intensity that verges on ecstatic.
While they have ties to a handful of other Canadian projects – Majical Cloudz, Grimes, Austra – they more obviously share a sonic affinity with the alien androgyny of Cocteau Twins, mbv and The Breeders. Many of Daniel’s songs appeal to our darker subconscious desires, revelling in the embrace of fear and ego as a means of escape. Daniel also frequently performs with his brother Airick’s group, Doldrums
Girls Names – The New Life
Formed in January 2009, Girls Names quickly garnered recognition outside of the confines of their hometown of Belfast with the release of their eponymous debut EP in 2010 through New York’s Captured Tracks. A mini-album through London imprint Tough Love soon followed, setting the foundations for their critically acclaimed debut LP Dead To Me, released in April last year again by Tough Love in Europe and cult West Coast label Slumberland Records in the US. Earlier this year the band released a split 7” with Weird Dreams and contributed with a new single called ‘A Troubled See’ that saw them spread far and wide.
Girls Names are now hinting at making their boldest and most exciting record to date. New single ‘The New Life’ clocks in at over 7 minutes and takes you on a journey that mirrors the feelings of a band living and working in economy stricken Northern Ireland – the perfect soundtrack of the bleakness to where they exist. The B-side on the 12” is a J D Twitch Optimo remix of the single.
CYMBALS | Winter ‘98
With their new album, Cymbals wanted to have fun, but not be dismissed as trivial. The first song to emerge suggests they’ve done just that
Disclosure | Help Me Lose My Mind (SOHN remix)
Dance-pop bros Disclosure have been sharing a few remixes from their excellent debut album ‘Settle’ lately to mark the release of its deluxe edition, and the latest and most exciting to see the light of day is this touching, sparse rework from Austria-based British producer SOHN.
Having signed to 4AD this year and produced heart-stopping tracks for the likes ofBANKS and Kwabs, SOHN has had a solid 2013 with glimmers of an astounding year to come. His light touch is all over this blissfully restrained Help Me Lose My Mind remix, pushing London Grammar singer Hannah Reid’s vocal to the fore and stripping the percussion to a restless heartthrob.
Shuanise | Shuanise We rise
Born in Dallas from Nigerian roots but both raised and living in London, Shuanise has been making music for almost all of her life, developing into one of the very few artists who really create a unique atmosphere and an own vibe within her music, sounding like nothing you have heard before. As far as musical influences go she cites Zap Mama, Fela Kuti, Dilla or Sun Ra amongst others and one can be pretty sure it`s not a long time from now that Shuanise herself and her music will be called influential.
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The Avalanches | Since I Left You
The Avalanches are an electronic music collective from Melbourne, Australia. They are well known for their use of eclectic sampling, having created their debut album, Since I Left You(2000), entirely out of over 3,500 samples of obscure records, movies, and television shows. This is famously demonstrated on their hit single “Frontier Psychiatrist”.
Before this, they were a hip-hop group with the single album Rock City and the EPy El Producto. Currently, The Avalanches are appearing at outdoor festival events with a DJ set, and are reportedly working on new material.
Jan Jelinek | Secret Thirteen Mix 101
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Secret Thirteen Mix 101” is a retrospective and highly exceptional audio journey through different periods of electronic music. The eclectic selection connects 32 unique records in less than an hour. Even though the works are quite eclectic and resonate with each other, Jelinek finds ways to deal with the situation and in the end it feels like a well measured sustained musical narrative. His skilled use of effects, thoughtful mixing techniques and long experience of working with sampled music add new colours and flavours to each record and sometimes even entirely reshape the mood or dynamics of well-known works after unexpected collisions. The music varies in time from the early 1950’s to these days thus creating the wide range of associations, elaborate connections that inspire and also prove that some music is relevant forever and were made to stand for centuries as brilliant monuments of the music history. The mix includes unreleased material from Jelinek’s various projects and unpublished recording cuts from his earlier live performances, also the record from the forthcoming Faitiche release. It is so inspiring to hear old gems by such historical rock/reggae musicians as Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa or Susan Cadogan weaved together with unforgettable pieces by such prolific modern composers as Bernard Parmegiani, Luc Ferrari, Vladimir Ussachevsky. This mix hides many emotional voyages and technical aspects to be written about as each part requires an in-depth study, but also it is like a beautifully packed Christmas gift from the whole Secret Thirteen team and from the artist himself that needs to be unboxed individually.
Bernard Parmegiani | Jazzex (1966)
Bernard Parmegiani (1927 – 2013) was a French composer of musique concrete who trained (1959) under Pierre Schaeffer.
Raised amidst two pianos, Bernard Parmegiani grew up under the Sign of Sound, listening to the everyday scales practised by his mother, a teacher, and to the virtuoso repertoire of his step-father.
He was taken on as a sound man first on the radio and later on TV, which is where he conducted his first experiments with “bit twiddling” on tape. During this time he was also studying mime with Marcel Decroux and later at Jacques Lecoq’s theatre school, which gave him an awareness of the plasticity of space, a lesson that he would draw on in his later compositions and in the architecture of his sound universe.
Then he met Pierre Schaeffer, who encouraged him to attend a training course in electro-acoustic music (1959) and shortly after he joined the Groupe de Recherches Musicales (1960), of which he was to remain a full member right up until 1992.
Schaeffer put Bernard Parmegiani in charge of the Music/Image unit of the ORTF’s Research Departement, where he went on the compose the music for both full-length and short films made by the likes of Robert Lapoujade, Peter Foldés, Piotr Kamler, Valerian Borowczyck, Pierre Kast, Jacques Baratier and Peter Kassovitz, amongst others. This proved to be a first class training ground for learning how to deal with the problems of musical form as these relate to time, and how to overcome the constraints imposed by the medium of the cinema.
La Logia Sarabanda – Todos o ninguno
Super-obscure quasi solo project by M. Loubet, author of all tracks with the exception of the cover version of Tito Puente’s ‘Guayaba.’ This Uruguayan group — originally released on Lider — mixes up traditional candombe essences with Latin funk psych-fuzz influences for a very neat piece of pop music history of pre-dictatorial Uruguay (1973).”
This track is part of the sound track of a Mexican cult movie from early 70’s “Las puertas del paraizo”
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Aristotle’s Metaphysics
Wisdom, therefore, considered as a causal knowledge of particulars, resembles the knowledge of Divinity, and is consequently most honorable and most excellent. And hence the wise man, from resembling, must be the friend of Divinity. Beautifully, therefore, is it observed by Aristotle, “That the man who can live in the pure enjoyment of his intellect, and who properly cultivates that divine principle, is happiest in himself, and most beloved by the gods: for, if the gods have any regard to what passes among men (as it appears they have), it is probable that they will rejoice in that which is most excellent, and by nature the most nearly allied to themselves; and, as this is intellect, that they will requite the man who most loves and honors this, both from his regard to that which is dear to themselves, and from his acting a part which is laudable and right.”
The contemplative or intellectual energy indeed, when it is possessed in the highest perfection of which our nature is capable, raises its possessor above the condition of humanity. “For a life according to intellect,” says the Stagirite [Aristotle], “is more excellent than that which falls to the lot of man: for he does not thus live, so far as he is man, but so far as he contains something divine. And as much as this divine part of him differs from the composite, so much also does this energy differ from that of the virtues. If, therefore, intellect compared with man is divine, the life also which is according to intellect will be divine with respect to human life…”
After this, he shows that intellect is the true man, from its being that which is most powerful, principal, and excellent in our nature; “so that,” says he, “it would be absurd not to choose that which is our proper life, but [instead] that which belongs to something different from ourselves.”…
Virtuous, therefore, is the man who relieves the corporeal wants of others, who wipes away the tear of sorrow, and gives agony repose; but more virtuous he, who, by disseminating wisdom, expels ignorance from the soul, and thus benefits the immortal part of man; for it may indeed be truly said, that he who has not even a knowledge of common things is a brute among men; that he who has an accurate knowledge of human concerns alone, is a man among brutes; but, that he who knows all that can be known by intellectual energy, is a god among men.
Wisely, therefore does Plato assert that the philosopher ought not to descend below species, and that he should be solely employed in the contemplation of wholes and universals. For he who descends below these, descends into Cimmerian realms, and Hades itself, wanders among spectres devoid of mind, and exposes himself to the danger of beholding the real Gorgon, or the dire face of Matter, and of thus becoming petrified by a satiety of stupid passions… [Introduction, Pp. xiii-xv]
The qualifications which are peculiarly requisite in an auditor of the following work are a naturally good disposition, a penetrating sagacity, and an ardent love of truth. For, as he is here led to the contemplation of eternal and immoveable natures, and the first cause of all things, a naturally good disposition is necessary, that he may possess the moral as preparatory to the reception of the theoretic virtues. Penetrating sagacity is likewise necessary, from the unavoidable obscurity of the subject, and from its being last in the progressions of human understanding, though first in the nature of things. To which we may add, that to see distinctly that there are other objects more real than those of sense, to elevate the mental eye to the principles of things, and gaze on their dazzling splendor, requires no common acuteness, no small degree of penetration. And both a good disposition and sagacity will be unequal to the task, unless attended with an ardent love of truth: for this is the wing by which the mind rises above sense, and soars to the summit of philosophy.
The design of Aristotle in this work is to lead us from forms merged in, or inseparable from, matter, to those forms which are entirely immaterial, and which, in his own words, are the most luminous of all things. But he considers these forms so far only as they are beings; or, in other words, so far as they are the progeny of one first being, and are characterized by essence. Nothing, therefore, is discussed in this work pertaining to will or appetite, or any thing of this kind, because these are vital powers; nor to sensation or the dianoetic energy [immediate intuition] and intelligence, because these are the properties of gnostic [esoteric] natures. Hence, we shall find that the Metaphysics of Aristotle unfold all that is comprehended in the great orb of being, so far as every thing which this orb contains is stamped as it were with the idiom of its source. The same thing is likewise effected by Plato in his Parmenides; but, as we have before observed, more theologically, conformably to the genius of his philosophy, which always considers nature so far as she is suspended from divinity. The Metaphysics of Aristotle are, therefore, the same with the most scientific dialectic of Plato, of which the Parmenides of that philosopher is a most beautiful specimen, with this difference only, that in the former the physical, and in the latter the theological, character predominates.
That the reader, however, may be convinced of this, it will be requisite to be more explicit, and to show in what the employment of scientific dialectic consists. The business, then of this first of sciences is to employ definitions, divisions, analyzations, and demonstrations, as primary sciences in the investigation of causes; imitating the progressions of beings from the first principle of things, and their continual conversion to it as the ultimate object of desire. [Introduction, Pp. v-vi.]
“But there are three energies,” says Proclus [Parmenid, lib. i], “of this most scientific method: the first of which is adapted to youth, and is useful for the purpose of rousing their intellect, which is, as it were, in a dormant state; for it is a true exercise of the eye of the soul in the speculation of things, leading forth, through opposite positions, the essential impression of ideas which it contains, and considering, not only the divine path as it were, which conducts to truth, but exploring whether the deviations from it contain anything worthy of belief; and lastly, stimulating the all-various conceptions of the soul. But the second energy takes place when intellect rests from its former investigations, as becoming most familiar with the speculation of beings, and beholds truth itself firmly established upon a pure and holy foundation. And this energy, according to Socrates, by a progression through ideas, evolves the whole of an intelligible nature, till it arrives at that which is first; and this by analyzing, defining, demonstrating, and dividing, proceeding upwards and downwards, till, having entirely investigated the nature of intelligibles, it raises itself to a nature superior to beings. But the soul, being perfectly established in this nature, as in her paternal port, no longer tends to a more excellent object of desire, as she has now arrived at the end of her search: and you may say that what is delivered in the Phaedrus and Sophista is the employment of this energy, giving a twofold division to some, and a fourfold to other operations of the dialectic art; and, on this account, it is assigned to such as philosophize purely, and no longer require preparatory exercise, but nourish the intellect of their soul in pure intellection. But the third energy, which is exhibitive according to truth, purifies from twofold ignorance [That is, when a man is ignorant that he is ignorant; and this is the disease of the multitude], when its reasons are employed upon men full of opinion; and this is spoken of in the Sophista.”
Proclus in the same work further observes concerning this master science as follows: “The dialectic method is irreprehensible and most expeditious; for it is connate with things themselves, and employs a multitude of powers in order to the attainment of truth. It likewise imitates intellect, from which it receives its principles, and ascends through well-ordered gradations to being itself. It also terminates the wandering of the soul about sensibles; and explores every thing by methods which cannot be confuted, till it arrives at the ineffable principle of things.
“The multitude, however, are unacquainted with the power of dialectic, and are ignorant that the end of this scientific wandering is truth and intellect: for it is not possible for us to recur from things last to such as are first, except by a progression through the middle forms of life. For, as our descent into the realms of mortality was effected through many mediums, the soul always proceeding into that which is more composite, in like manner our ascent must be accomplished through various mediums, the soul resolving her composite order of life. In the first place, therefore, it is requisite to despite the senses, as able to know nothing accurate, nothing sane, but possessing much of the confused, the material, and the passive, in consequence of employing certain instruments of this kind. After this, it follows that we should dismiss imaginations, those winged Stymphalidae of the soul, as alone possessing a figured intellection of things, but by no means able to apprehend unfigured and impartible form, and as impeding the pure and immaterial intellection of the soul, by intervening, and disturbing it in its investigations. In the third place, we must entirely extirpate multiform opinions, and the wandering of the soul about these; for they are not conversant with the causes of things, nor do they procure for us science, nor the participation of a separate intellect. In the fourth place, therefore, we must hastily return to the great sea of the sciences, and there, by the assistance of dialectic, survey the divisions and compositions of these, and, in short, the variety of forms in the soul, and, through this survey unweaving our vital order, behold our dianoetic part. After this, in the fifth place, it is requisite to separate ourselves from composition, and contemplate by intellectual energy true beings: for intellect is more excellent than science; and a life according to intellect is preferable to that which is according to science. Many, therefore, are wanderings of the soul: for one of these is in imaginations, another in opinions, and a third in the dianoetic power. But a life according to intellect is alone inerratic. And this is the mystic port of the soul, into which Homer conducts Ulysses, after an abundant wandering of life.” [Introduction, Pp. vi-vii]
In the course of this work, Aristotle denominates this metaphysical science at one time wisdom, at another time the first philosophy, and at another theology; signifying, by each of these appellations, that it does not rank among those arts and sciences which are conversant with the knowledge of things necessary, or which inquire into things subservient to the advantages and conveniencies of the mortal life, but that it is a knowledge and science to be pursued for its own sake, and which speculates the first principles and causes of things; for these are beings in the most eminent degree. Hence, in the sixth book of his Nicomachean Ethics, he defines wisdom to be the most accurate of sciences, the science of things most honorable, that is principles, and the summit of all disciplines. With the multitude, indeed, merged in sense, whatever does not contribute to the good of the merely animal life, is considered as a thing of no value; and hence, by the better part of them it is regarded with indifference, and by the greater number with contempt. It is vain to talk to such as these of a good purely intellectual, which is independent of chance and fortune, which is desirable for its own sake, and which confers the most pure and permanent felicity on its possessor: for, what passion can it gratify? what sense can it charm? Ignorant of the mighty difference between things necessary and such as are eminently good, they mistake means for ends, pursue the flying mockeries of being, for such are all sensible natures, and idly attempt to grasp the phantoms of felicity.
The conceptions of the experimental philosopher who expects to find Truth in the labyrinths of matter, are, in this respect, not much more elevated than those of the vulgar: for he is ignorant that the Truth is the most splendid of all things, that she is the constant companion of Divinity, and proceeds together with him through the universe; that the shining traces of her feet are only conspicuous in form; and that in the dark windings of matter she left nothing but a most obscure and fleeting resemblance of herself. This delusive phantom, however, the man of modern science ardently explores, unconscious that he is running in profound darkness and infinite perplexity, and that he is hastening after an object which eludes all detection, and mocks all pursuit.
It is well said indeed by Aristotle, that wisdom is the science of principles and causes, since he who knows these, knows also the effects of which they are the source. Such a one knows particulars so far as they are comprehended in universals, and this knowledge is superior to that which is partial, and co-ordinated to a partial object: for, does not every thing energize in a becoming manner, when it energizes according to its own power and nature? As, for instance, does not nature, in conformity to the order of its essence, energize naturally, and intellect intellectually? for, this being admitted, it follows that knowledge subsists according to the nature of that which knows, and not according to the nature of that which is known. Particulars, therefore, when they are beheld enveloped in their causes, are then known in the most excellent manner; and this is the peculiarity of intellectual perception, and resembles, if it be lawful so to speak, the knowledge of Divinity himself. For, the most exalted conception we can form of his knowledge is this, that he knows all things in such a manner as is accommodated to his nature, viz. divisible things indivisibly, things multiplied uniformly, things generated according to an eternal intelligence, and totally whatever is partial. Hence, he knows sensibles without possessing sense, and, without being present to things in place, knows them prior to all local presence, and imparts to every thing that which every thing is capable of receiving. [Introduction, Pp. xi-xii]
It will be proper to observe that metaphysical doubting, according to Aristotle, begins from an ignorance of the causes of being, from whence admiration of the greatest effects arises, and then receives its consummation when the causes and principles of the universe are known. But the philosopher in the third book of his Metaphysics, which, as we have observed, is wholly employed in the enumeration of doubts, assigns four reasons why in the investigation of truth, we should begin from doubting. The first is, “because the power of acquiring posterior knowledge is derived from the solution of prior doubts.” Hence, in his Nicomachean Ethics, he says that the solution of doubts is invention [a more profound investigation, and a solicitude of penetrating through all doubts, and increasing the doubt itself by various reflections and arguments]. The second reason is, “because those that investigate without having previously doubted, resemble those who are ignorant whither they ought to go.” For he shows that doubting is a road through which we must necessarily pass in the investigation of truth. Not that we are to be continually employed in doubting, but only till we arrive at truth, the object of our search. The third reason which Aristotle assigns is, “because without doubting those that investigate cannot know whether they have found what they explore. For, the end to these is not manifest; but is manifest to those who previously doubt in a proper manner.” Hence, those only who have previously doubted, know truth when they have found it; but those who without doubting happen to meet with truth, are ignorant that they have found it. And the fourth reason which the philosopher assigns why we should begin from doubting is, “because he is necessarily better fitted to judge, who has heard all the opposite reasons, which may be compared to the adversaries in a law-suit.” Conformably to this, he elsewhere observes, “that the demonstrations of contraries are doubts concerning contraries; and, at the same time, assertions will be more credible, if, previous to their being delivered, all that can be urged in defense of the contending arguments is heard.”
In short, the whole of his Metaphysics consists either in the enumeration and solution of doubts, or in the discussion of such things as are subservient to their solution. [Introduction, Pp. xxix-xxx]
–Aristotle, Metaphysics, tr. from the Greek by Thomas Taylor, London, 1801.
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Ebony Antebellum
After being tasked to betray his People for their own good, a Black teen thug uses his street-smarts, cultural magic and icy wit to survive the deadliest school of magic.
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Magic returned, and whether it was the Adversary who followed it or the warfare -- America couldn't survive it. Torn apart by a world truly made equal, the last scions of humanity peeled apart the earth and created a New World out of what remained: the Last City, Antebellum and put up a Wall to split the city: one side for wonders and the other side for everyone else.
All seventeen-year-old Tyree DuBeau ever wanted was two things: to cure his ailing mother, avoid incarceration and to not wind up dead by the hands of Antebellum's government approved killers, the Coven Marshalls. But, when thrust into a Black man's worst nightmare, Ty must make a deal with his local crime lord and community organizer and abandon the street life that raised him, enrolling at the deadliest finishing school for the City's future enforcers and leaders specializing in all forms of oppression, a place known only as the Orthodox of Magic. The wealthy students of the Orthodox understand victory is not a question of can you succeed, but a question of what you will kill to do it; and if its them or him, Ty will learn what little value a Brown boy truly holds in a world on the brink of destruction.
Ty studies turn from political to something far more sinister as his old home descends further into rampant chaos as incarcerations rise and the dark instruments of war play their perish song and seek to destroy the city for crimes it is very likely guilty of.
The story begins with a Boy in the Browns, showcasing the struggles and tribulations of the city's ghetto district: the Browns, while also the racial and cultural beauty of the place that has become a subculture all its own even though most of these people work on the opposite side of the Wall, serving the "Blues". In this section, Tyree's circumstances thrust him into the hands of the "Blue Bloods", the magical elite, who will kill him before allowing someone from the other side of the Wall from becoming a Marshall. We're introduced not to one, but several forces that are conspiring an agenda -- and now each of them have placed Tyree into the middle of them.
The next section looks at the Conservatory of Magic, a finishing school for the most elite of the City. Those attending this place aspire to become courtisans, senators, tastemakers and leaders. It is said the future of the City can be glimpsed in a report card here. The school also trains the Law Enforcement -- allowing the priviliged to hand-pick future personal enforcers and guards. No longer able to return home, Tyree is constantly surrounded by threats to his life. A secret society seems to be working to end Tyree before he has an opportunity to even fail.
The final section is War in Antebellum, as Tyree has finally exposed each of his enemies, and now they're making their own bids with Tyree's graduation lingering in the distance. However, Tyree is no longer alone -- and this City will either end or surge before the end of this evening.
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The Magicians, Lev Grossman, Viking, 2009: A depressed young adult searching for purpose enrolls into a magical university in Upstate New York, but finds that purpose is a lost magic of its own.
The Bartimaeus Trilogy, Jonathan Stroud, Hyperion, 2003: After a humiliation by his Master's superior, a young British magician summons an ancient djinn to assist him in getting revenge and destroying an enemy 20 years his senior. The djinn himself will comply, just as long as he gets to kill Magicians and snark.
The Paper Magician, Charlie N. Holmberg, 47North, 2014: Recent graduate magician, Ceony Twill wants to be a Smelter. Unfortunately, when a shortage of Paper magicians turns up during her graduation -- Ceony is forced to study the dull and underestimated art of Paper Magic. A compromise? Her Master is extremely attractive.
The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday, 2011: Two magicians are raised to adopt their Master's centuries spanning war to find out who is the superior magician at a Circus as the culture of the American 1920s shoots up around them. The situation is made far more perilous when they fall in love.
Children of Blood and Bone, Tomi Adeyemi, Henry Holt Books for Young Readers , 2018: Zélie Adebola seeks to liberate her race of magi from the brutal oppression of the king -- while falling for his son.
Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone, TOR Books, 2012: A God has died. Now a league of mystical lawyers and priests begin a legal battle to discover who shall take their place -- an inherit their magically-driven metropolis.
Akata Witch, Nnendi Okorafor, Vikings Children, 2011: A young Nigerian Albino girl discovers she is a Leopard Person, a sorcerer. She and her friends must use their ancestral magic to protect the world from an evil sorcerer who preys upon children for sport.
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There was something wicked in these excellent ghettos and it slipped in from across the Wall.
Quinto Glover sniffed it down the second it landed – a pungent odor of fuchsia and dandelion, typical fragrances of the wealthy who ruled the territories from that side.
It couldn’t have gotten far – not here in his home. No matter how these streets have decayed in the devastation of the Great Fires, every nook and cranny of the Browns drew power from the Brownies therein: Black, Hispanic and every color of that cultural rainbow.
Quinto zeroed in on the wickedness, his cane clacking against soot covered asphalt. It’d secreted itself in a dilapidated part of his territory entitled “the Back-of-the-Wall” duly from its location, and how the Wall’s grand shadow cast upon the ghost town.
Once, the condominiums, boutiques and a few illegal markets overpopulated the streets. Now, all Quinto found a wasteland of blackened wood and brick, abandoned by all but the whispering horrors and chilled corpses of the ones who couldn’t outrun the flames – or the fiends that followed their dying embers.
The Adversary.
Their writhing shadows kept Quinto hurried along the barren streets, praying to his Ancestors, the powers and Art that so saved him in his youth.
Quinto didn’t often carry his frail old bones through these parts alone, but circumstances demanded it. He trusted no one to face this wicked parasite, save himself.
Along the road, Quinto found a few corpses hanging from the windows. Mostly skeletons, but amongst the clutter was a frost-bitten corpse. She was nine, maybe a little under 100 lbs: her casket wouldn’t be too expensive.
She must’ve come out here on a dare, Quinto frowned. No matter how many decrees he made, a child always tried to prove herself to the Community in an act of daring in spite of the living dangers of these parts.
Push on Old man, Quinto said to himself, before you lose the scent. It’s already hard enough thanks to that… thing!
Quinto, of course, referred to the Wall, a colossal pale fortification stretching many dozen leagues in either direction and so tall, it tossed an oppressive shadow over half of the Brown’s territory. If Quinto closed his eyes, he could almost hear the screams of terror from the Walls prisoners, their magic turned sour within its corrupt influence.
Almost in recognition of its crownless king, these damaged parts of the Brown’s seemed to bow in reverence.
If only the sunlight had such a regard; sadly, the white light of day was owned by his people’s oppressors. It would not bend to him without proper coaxing. Quinto’s eyes wincing in the sunset, he chanted a phrase of power and the sunbeams parted around him. Not as if by magic: but by magic alone. The same magic that allowed the magically artificial sun to shine, as it did the City to run, the wind to blow.
The magic that allowed life within a bubble in the middle of an eternal winter wasteland on the Eastern coast to exist. The contents of this city, Antebellum, was a patchwork – all parts snatched from one great American city or another after the Awakening. It took years to scrub the blood off of most parts, but they succeeded. A lot of the Blue districts, those places across the Wall, were made from the East Coast – its tall towers enamoring the elite. The Browns, however, came from so many disenfranchised and broken cities of the Midwest: some parts of Columbus, Chicago, and Detroit… They were the cities most harmed by the Adversary, and its stain never completely left.
A soul-shattering grey sickness hung over the Browns. At least, not before Quinto’s time. But in a year? Maybe.
Finally, Quinto arrived to a back lot busy with wooden crates and discarded furniture. Surrounding this crowded little space was a cold iron fence and bewitched graffiti art. Quinto closed his eyes, and zeroed in on the scent to one…tight… pocket—
“Are you winded, old man?” came the voice hiding in that pocket. She stepped out of nothingness, her thin, blonde frame popping into color. The intense shroud of Power around her paled in comparison to her might as a Seer. None of that matter too much, because as beautiful and useful as she might be, she was the Enemy. “I was barely hiding and it took you this long. You must’ve dropped several Degrees in your old age.”
“The rules are clear: you don’t come over here. If we are to ever meet, I summon you into a sanctified space, a protected place--”
“You really think of me as so low as to allow a common Brownie like you to conjure me? No thanks,” the Enemy smiled, her teeth like perfectly carved-and-polished pearls. “You really think your shamans are that good? That they could even hurt me if they found me?”
“It isn’t my shamans hurting you that I’m afraid of.”
“I’d never… so openly.” Her arrogant smirk made bile raise in the back of Quinto’s throat.
“And you aren’t the only threat to them from over there. Let’s get to business.”
Quinto wanted to get this over with quickly. By betraying protocol, this girl might have alerted others to her presence. If an accident didn’t happen soon, it would be a miracle. While she inherited all of her father’s talents for predestination, as a woman, she had none of his political nuisance.
“Where are the others?”
“Around.” The Enemy smiled.
“This isn’t how this is done between us. In the old days—“
“That’s the thing about the old days, though. They’re gone: dustier than you soon will be. If I’m going to inherit my father’s place, I think I’ll inherit it my way, rather than whatever joke of a premise allowed you all to toil as freely as you think you’re allowed to be.”
Quinto shook his head. “If you were half the man your father was, you’d know this is a formality. To keep—“
“To keep your people safe. Not mine. I mean, honestly, it’s not like in a war you think the Browns could ever stand a chance. The Great Fires are a testament to that. So shut up, kiss my ring, and we can start this exchange: you’ve submitted the names of those you wish protected from the Law and our investigations?”
“Yes. Last night. Were there any adjustments you wished to argue?” Quinto steeled himself mentally and spiritually. This was the kind of battle he’d done for years. An immortal give and take that --
“No need,” the Enemy shrugged. “Every name you offered will be protected.”
Quint trembled in his spot for a moment. This wasn’t how it supposedly done. For years, this entire process took hours of haggling: a constant give and take. If he’d known she’d approve everyone so easily, he would’ve—
“Wait. Why?”
“Look at you, thinking you have the power to ask why. Call it the spirit of the holidays, if you want. And, I can see those fear lines come in: we do want something big, but before we tell you, remember how much you need a win today: your numbers are next to nothing.”
She was right. The magic of the Browns had failed before. Years prior, when the armies of street shamans protecting their blocks numbered thousands, there were now only a few dozen in their collective.
In fact, the truth many of them were felled by one enemy: the Wall itself. That monument to the Saviors and their “Elegant” White magic, and a prison, full of shamans too old to defend themselves or too young to know how to properly defend themselves, the injured and the sickly, mothers whose young children were threatened. They were all imprisoned there, and if Quinto ever wished to see them again…
“Give me the name.” Quinto said, his mouth losing moisture by the second.
She strutted across the scene as crates and a large recliner ejected themselves out of her path with the list in hand. Quinto took it in his frail, spotted hands.
“Is this right?”
“I’ve foreseen it myself. His talent is…problematic. Rest assured that if my father had my levels of clairvoyant accuracy seventeen years ago, that child would’ve been drowned in his cradle. We want him vulnerable if not gone.”
Quinto frowned.
“You can’t take him. I’m willing to pay triple this year to see to that…”
“This isn’t negotiable. The very idea is laughable. You know what I’ll do to you.”
Quinto narrowed his eyes and raised his Presence. The bricks all over them trembled, the air bent with intense heat. The fences around them wilted like a dying rose and his cane wound about until the wood became leathery red scales and the pommel a writhing cobra head. It hissed in her face, flinging venom across her cheeks. She didn’t even flinch.
“You don’t threaten me, girl!”
“Your ego is wounded, Quinto. Calm yourself.” The Enemy smiled and stroked the serpent on its head. It snapped at her, wrapping barbed fangs around her fingers.
The Cobra’s teeth were a cloud of wood dust and splinters. They thing retreated back in fright. The Enemy giggled and pressed, slowly spreading her malice until the cane was a three inch length of wood in Quinto’s hand.
“Quinto, I don’t want to fight here: I have no time for anything that isn’t a challenge. This request is a generosity, and completely within your realm to let happen, but I’ll make it easier for you. All I’m asking of you right now is to remove your veil of protection from around him, leave him to me and my wolves and by the end of tomorrow,” the Enemy smiled, her lipstick the color of the blood frozen in Quinto’s veins. “Every single one of your soldiers still within your protection will find their lives much less difficult.
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I can’t wait to read it!
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Paul Washer Issues Urgent Prayer Request, Friend Detained in Chinese Church Crack-Down
Paul Washer, itinerant preacher and founder of HeartCry Missionary Society, gave an urgent prayer warning for a friend who was detained by Chinese authorities and may have to leave the country for good. According to Washer, his friend is a “spiritual father to many.”
Washer may be describing what is a systematic crackdown on Christian churches in China that have happened over the last few days. While China has been persecuting Christians for years, there seems to be a coordinated crackdown the last week or so, with it intensifying over the last 24 hours.
According to China Aid (HT Christian News Network), at least 15 churches have been harassed by Chinese officials this week.
They write:
At 9:30 a.m. on May 12, state security officers from the local religious management bureau invaded Jinxiangtan Church in Xiangtan, Hunan province, and stopped one of the church’s elders, a man surnamed Huang, while he was preaching. One of the bureau’s agents ordered the church to stop all evangelical events.
On the same day, Renai Reformed Church in Guiyang was also stormed by personnel from local government departments, including the religious affairs bureau, national security bureau, police officers, auxiliary police officers, and others, which have not been named.
Christians gathered there for worship said the officers requested the pastor stop preaching.
The pastor requested that they show us official papers, and the officials said they were being penalized for holding “illegal religious activities.”
Agents from the religious affairs bureau warned the church attendees not to film the incident and threatened legal consequences if they refused. Multiple Christians were detained and interrogated for several hours before being released, and the pastor’s computer was confiscated.
Additionally, two churches in Guangzhou were raided by officials on Sunday, and a local Christian, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said some of the church members were taken away by the police, detained, interrogated, and then released.
The same source said churches in multiple regions of China were simultaneously invaded and asked to cease holding services. In total, 15 churches have been harassed since Sunday, indicating a nationwide crackdown on the faith.
It is unknown if Washer’s friend was caught up in this latest Chinese crackdown (and it may be unsafe to speculate). Nonetheless, we must urgently pray for our brothers in China.
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Defending Modular Buildings
On August, 29, 2011 The Gazette published a response article in defense of modular buildings.
In Defence of Modular Buildings
” Re: “Failing grade for trailers” (Gazette, Aug. 6).
The Gazette’s story on emergency classrooms in Haiti called into question the quality and durability of those modular classrooms.
The reporters cited issues such as “incredible heat, unsatisfactory sanitation facilities, lack of ventilation, leaks, mould and, in one case, high levels of formaldehyde,” as well as questioning whether they are, as billed, hurricane-proof.
In 2004, four hurricanes hit Florida, causing over $50 billion in property damage. What went underreported was the fact that 1,600 manufactured homes built to the 1994 wind standards of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development were hit by those hurricanes.
How many were blown off their foundations? None.
How many were destroyed? Zero. Based on reading The Gazette’s story, would readers know that those classrooms, if properly installed, could withstand 140-mile-per-hour hurricane winds?
The story also said that the modular classrooms did not have running water and latrines. Imagine Haiti’s devastation. There are problems with infrastructure, transportation, shortages of materials and a host of other things.
Bathrooms in classrooms require hookups to sewer lines. There is no failure in design or construction if proper utility hookups were not done.
On the reported issues with air quality and mould: no air conditioning was evident in the photos, and it was not mentioned in the story. These modular units were probably designed to have air conditioning installed on site. Without air conditioning in a highly humid climate, mould could form. Blame nature, but not the builder or those who provided humanitarian relief.
Formaldehyde exists in most construction. It is found in building materials, resins and fabrics. It is also part of your body chemistry. Energy-efficient construction is “tighter,” so formaldehyde’s effects on the eyes in hot conditions are more acute. Air conditioning is a solution.
Can we believe that those involved wanted to do a bad job for Haitians? We do not know enough to cast blame on anyone or anything, other than the difficult conditions in Haiti.
Modular and pre-fab construction is used worldwide in commercial, office and residential housing. More than 20 million people in the U.S. and Canada live in factory-built homes.
Hundreds of thousands are employed by the industry and its suppliers. The article does an injustice to builders of manufactured and modular homes and those who dwell in them by using derogatory terms like “trailer.” The media should use proper terminology and avoid outdated stereotypes.
L.A. (Tony) Kovach Publisher, Manufactured Home Marketing Sales Management (MHMSM.com) Chicago
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Modular Construction News released a great article on how modular units are now being used in the Department of Corrections using steel units for cells. You can find a full version of the article here: www.modularconstructionnews.com
Modular Units: Construction Method Offers Quick, Inexpensive Solution
By Peter Krasnow, FAIA
Modular construction is an option that can accommodate program and building needs within a short time frame at a cost that is usually significantly less than conventional construction.
For correctional industry application the construction method has generally been narrowly focused on housing low-security populations in modular buildings, or higher security populations in precast concrete or steel-cell modular units. It is a method that has helped numerous jurisdictions get out of a bind, and decision makers at federal, state and local levels responsible for funding criminal justice building programs regularly consider it. However, modular construction is not always a catchall solution and some key factors must be considered before it is used at a new or existing facility.
Available Units and Systems
Early modular buildings used in the correctional setting were often created by combining12-foot-by-60-foot pre-manufactured units. Several companies manufactured the units — including SpaceMaster, Arthur Industries and Gelco — but the buildings sometimes had trouble enduring the wear-and-tear atmosphere at correctional facilities.
A modular housing unit was built for inmates at the Canyon County Jail in Idaho.
“New Jersey’s Department of Corrections built an entire minimum-security prison with Arthur system in the early 1980s in southern New Jersey,” says Robert T. Goble, AICP, principal at Carter Goble Companies. “I did an assessment of it for NIC after about five years of operation and found it to be deteriorating (as you would expect with wooden member structures in a correctional environment) and questioned whether it would last the entire 15 years the state had expected.”
Another early entry into modular building construction was built in New Jersey in the early 1990s.
“We successfully completed a 42,000 square-foot multi-story, medium-security correctional facility and administrative/visitor center for Hudson County, N.J., using modular unit construction,” syas Mickey Rosenberg, director of Mark Correctional Systems at Kullman Industries.
There are several modular building designs available that address the low-security needs of facility administrators. General Marine Leasing, Sprung Instant Structures, Miller Modular Construction and American Modular Technologies are some of the companies that specialize in modular buildings. They essentially provide large rectangular enclosures with open floor plan configurations that include bunk beds, and in some units, a separate toilet/lavatory/shower area. A few manufacturers have had success providing their products to correctional facilities for temporary use that occasionally result in permanent housing environments.
Modular concrete cell units can be lifted into place to reduce construction cost and save time.
Manufacturers such as Rotondo/Weirich and Old Castle Precast Modular Group supply concrete modular cells. Kullman Industries specializes in steel-cell modular units.
Modular building and modular cell construction both provide viable solutions. The option that is best for an individual facility is determined by security needs.
Security will always be an important, if not critical requirement for facilities that house prisoners.
When planning modular buildings, clear lines of sight must be included in the architectural design to enhance an officer’s responsibilities for good management. Although officers are encouraged to walk about the space in a direct supervision environment, it is important that they also have clear observation from a desk position. During planning, it’s a necessity that communication between the manufacturer, facility operator and professional advisor be open and unimpeded.
Modular concrete cells provide a uniform secure holding area for high-security inmates and they also can provide significant savings if the cells are poured and manufactured on-site.
“Precast modular cells provide the security benefit of uniformity in quality, tolerances and finishes for joints, cast-in doors and frames, and fixtures and furnishings,” says Steve Weirich, owner of Rotondo/Weirich Enterprises. “Eliminating possible hiding places for contraband is inherent to their concrete construction. With on-site precast modular construction, modular contractors are pouring quad cell modules with monolithic mezzanine balconies, further reducing joints and adding to the long-term integrity of new facilities.
“When cell modules are cast on prison job sites at dimensions larger than the allowance for road travel, the number of building components decreases, thereby providing a more seamless, secure structure.”
Relative Costs of Modular Units
Prefabricated unit costs vary significantly. Units can be purchased on a square-foot basis or, more typically, on total building size based on typical housing units of 50 to 100 prisoners.
Amenities such as day rooms and officer stations can be created with modular construction.
Estimating the cost of a modular unit system against conventional building must consider the amount of time saved with modular construction to obtain the true value for cost comparisons.
Speed of delivery to respond to immediate housing needs may be the primary reason for choosing a modular unit rather than pursuing conventional construction. In some instances, although these temporary structures outlast their life expectancy, they remain in place in lieu of building permanent units requiring a commitment of funds. In other cases, once they have served their purpose on a short-term basis and funding becomes available they can be removed and a permanent facility constructed.
“I have found that although the cost for modular units can parallel conventional construction, depending upon the region of the country, the speed clearly makes the difference,” says Roger Lichtman, AIA, of The Lichtman Associates (see Page 16 for more on Lichtman). “More often than not, time translates directly to money. In one previous experience, utilizing modular technology we were able to design and build, through the toughest weather of the year, a 192-bed permanent facility. These units are not the wood frame trailers of the past. They are built of the same materials used in conventional construction.
“From the time our contract was signed for architectural services until the time that inmates were moved in was a period of less than six months. Conventional design and construction would have taken three times as long. Twelve years later, the facility still houses 192 inmates in the best of conditions with minimal facility maintenance. To this day, the client remains an excellent reference for us.”
Your Project Needs
With budgets running out of control at all levels of government, it may be prudent to consider modular construction for upcoming projects since the method can be more affordable, faster to deliver and the potential procurement pitfalls of conventional contracting processes could be avoided.
In certain jurisdictions, these units can be purchased directly from a manufacturer without the requirement of procurement regulations associated with retaining services through a conventional request-for-proposals solicitation process. The RFP and interview process can often become very time consuming. If overcrowding or another crises at the facility is particularly bad, emergency measures can sometimes be declared to secure funding.
In many jurisdictions throughout the country, there are methods to purchase modular buildings directly from the product provider. Prefabricated units can often be modified to suit a specific program by adjusting the design elements of a unit without time penalties. In fact, the development of “new models” for modular construction seems most appropriate during these stressed economic times.
A modified modular model could be used during an expansion project at the county jail in Johnson County, Kansas.
“We are currently evaluating and conducting research on the various construction approaches and structural systems applicable for our 416-bed jail addition,” says Neal J. Americano, AIA, Johnson County deputy director of facilities. “A modular system is being considered mainly as a means to speed design and construction. Such a system must allow appropriate functionality of the facility while also providing the aesthetic continuity with the AIA award winning original building.”
Modular Development
Although modular units are still being utilized at correctional facilities, manufacturers have remained tied to early concepts and no significantly different new concepts have been released. And new modular systems do not appear to be in development in today’s marketplace.
One wonders why no one has taken up the challenge of new designs suitable for correctional settings, considering that most jurisdictions have an immediate need for additional bed space with limited funding streams available to them. Units that are secure and rapidly deployable and site-specific could fill the gap between need and cost.
Gregory Offner, principal at Jacobs Facilities Inc. outlined a modular unit he would like to see: “Refine the development, manufacturing, shipping and installation so a complete 200-bed housing building in modular, stackable design … fully outfitted, could be readily available to my clients.”
A key issue regarding modular units is their life expectancy. Most modular buildings on the market have a defined length of use based on the type of inmate population housed at the facility and the nature of the materials and structures employed. A product should be secure, easily maintained while simultaneously providing an environment that is suitable for prisoner containment and rehabilitation.
If the corrections community is committed to the rehabilitation of inmates, then environment plays a key element in behavioral change of those incarcerated. Modular units could also include educational, recreational, and socially relevant programs important for reorienting prisoners to return to a normal and productive life in society. n
Peter Krasnow, FAIA, is an Advisory Board Member of Correctional News and the author of “Correctional Facility Design And Detailing” (McGraw-Hill) a 1998 publication. He is a member of the AIA Justice Committee.
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UCLA Researches Modulars
Below is an article by Nicole Hemsoth from HPCwire. A full version of this article can be found here
Purdue University made waves last year with its selection of HP’s POD containerized datacenter, which was hauled in to help them cope with a power inefficiencies stemming from an existing brick and mortar datacenter on campus.
The university set the proof point for cost and efficiency of modular datacenters, with their associate VP of Academic Technologies, John Campbell claiming that for 60% of the cost of a collocation facility the university could install a POD.
The selling point for containerized datacenters in general is that they come fully configured (although customizations can be made) with all the cables, power, cooling and racks in place and ready to roll. For Purdue, the savings mounted in the arenas of colo leasing, cutting back on staff to man datacenters, extension of on-campus networks, reduced power costs—which came, in part, because of the university’s own power plant.
UCLA announced this week that it has climbed aboard the containerized datacenter bandwagon with its head of academic technology services and managing director for the Institute of Digital Research and Education, Bill Labate, extolling the benefits of containerized HPC.
Labate’s group is responsible for providing university research cyberinfrastructure via its shared cluster system, which allows researchers who want to build their own clusters to instead buy compute nodes that Labate’s team integrates into the shared cluster. This allows the team to make the cycles available for over 170 research projects, from particle physics to genomcis and beyond.
As the need for cycles grew steadily, Labate saw a need for new equipment. He said that they had an existing datacenter that was a target for retrofitting, but when the team examined the possibility, it was clear there would be power and cooling limitations even though the space itself would have allowed room for growth. Labate’s team was able to secure $4.4 million to retrofit the existing data center, but when they received their final estimate for $7.2 million for the project, the shortfall led Labate down a different path.
Since it was not possible to scale down the potential retrofitted datacenter to remain within budget constraints, the possibilities of modular datacenters entered the picture. Labate said that to scale down to the level needed to suit the allotted funding would not have served even intermediate needs. Furthermore, since the goal of this undertaking was to enhance growth potential for the shared cluster resources, the retrofit would have been a waste of effort and money.
Labate approached UC San Diego for opinions about their experiences with a Sun-Oracle Black Box containerized solution, but found that they faced challenges with the U-shaped layout. UCSD told him that one thing they did not like was that the Black Box required specialized equipment and brought logistical challenges when it came to replacing and maintaining hardware since entire sections needed to be pulled out for fixes. This would not suit UCLA’s needs since, again, their system of buying new hardware was based on price-performance options among vendors, thus requiring flexibility to swap components based on what individual vendors offered. Besides, the Black Box solution was only a 20-foot container, and Labate knew that he needed to be able to power more cycles than the smaller Sun-Oracle solution could provide.
Labate’s team eventually settled on HP due to its high density, which was a good fit for what they were trying to accomplish in terms of providing as many cycles as possible. Other vendors they evaluated offered attractive density but Labate said there was not enough flexibility–that they needed to be able to grow with solutions that weren’t specialized for a particular container environment.
Before choosing the high-density, 40×8 feet POD container from HP, the team also looked at options from Dell, Rackable and as noted previously, the Sun-Oracle Black Box, which Labate says was the first to be struck from the list due to the size and shape limitations. He did not go into detail about the reasons behind abandoning the Dell and Rackable solutions, other than to say that for their specific needs, density was the deciding factor. Still, he noted that there were many similarities between the HP, Dell, IBM, and Rackable solutions—the choice simply came down to price, performance, flexibility of equipment solutions, and density.
The site preparations for the container began in October 2010 and moved swiftly until ending in mid-April of 2011. This entailed extending the university’s existing chilled water, power systems and pumps, fiber networks and laying the solid foundation required to support 110,00 pounds of steel and equipment.
Many modular datacenter makers emphasize the quick installation and set-up of their containers, claiming that it can be humming away in a few short weeks. As Labate says, however, anyone who knows anything about datacenters knows that you “can’t just plunk down a datacenter in your backyard and hook into your garden hose.” All told, from site prep to shared cluster bootup the team was looking at several months.
The shared cluster is distributed across campus with one building housing around 300 nodes, another with roughly 500 and now the POD, which packs in over 1500 nodes. His team ran a wide area InfiniBand network throughout, pulling all the nodes onto the same fabric for efficient management. They connected the Ethernet network for storage traffic, creating what he describes as a “geographic spread out single cluster.”
The team chose to keep the storage resources outside of the POD, in part to protect the valuable applications and results of long runs, but also because the POD has been optimized for compute nodes according to his team’s purpose to deliver shared cluster resources as if it was a single system. He emphasized repeatedly that their needs are specific—they wanted to be able to maximize the number of cycles available for university research.
When asked about usability or performance tradeoffs, Labate was adamant that containers are more efficient and perform for their needs, which again, are focused on providing more compute for the shared HPC cluster. He said that in many ways, the container streamlines their HPC operations by shedding the maintenance and efficiency hassles of brick and mortar. As he noted, “there are no other people in the POD, in fact, we limit our time in there since we want to keep it buttoned up as tight as possible. It’s been freeing, no operators in the pod, no need for anyone to sit in there and monitor—it’s all automated with all the tools we need for monitoring, powering on and off and so forth.”
According to Labate, there were no power and energy consumption problems with their use of POD. He said that compared to one of their brick and mortar datacenters which was operating at 1.5 PUE, the POD was running a steady 1.17 PUE. He claims that this translates into roughly a $200,000 difference in power costs, which represented a secondary but very important consideration as they looked at the POD capabilities.
Despite the lack of wide user adoption of modular datacenters, it was nearly impossible to get Labate to remark on any drawbacks to such solutions. He said that outside of the obvious negative factors, which include working inside small boxes with 36 raging blowers and tight quarters (which his team overcomes by saving fixes inside for once-weekly missions) and the aesthetic problem of having an giant, ugly shipping container fitting in with an artful sense of campus uniformity (an issue he said gave the campus aesthetics folk a few gripes) he can’t imagine traditional datacenters to address growth ever again.
When pressed about what he might warn others about when considering such solutions, Labate said environmental conditions were critical. First, in terms of making sure it is possible to locate the container close to needed power and cooling resources. Also, in terms of actually environment—he said that during a recent conversation with someone in an snow-bound region, he suggested that to avoid preventing access to the container they might need to consider building enclosures or renting indoor space.
Snow might not be a problem for UCLA, but earthquakes certainly are. Labate said this is another important distinction between brick and mortar and containers—while he notes he hasn’t researched his hunch, these massive, solid steel, windowless shipping containers were far likely more structurally sound than any existing traditional datacenter on his campus. Let’s hope he never gets a chance to prove that theory.
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MBI: Modular Building Institute
Prevost Construction is proud to participate with Modular Building Institute. A brief history can be found on their website: www.modular.org. Founded in 1983, the Modular Building Institute (MBI) is the international non-profit trade association serving non-residential modular construction. Members are manufacturers, contractors, and dealers in two distinct segments of the industry – permanent modular construction (PMC) and relocatable buildings (RB). Associate members are companies supplying building components, services, and financing.
This is a great association to be a part of to get the latest information on modular buildings as well as discuss information with other contractors, manufacturers or dealers. Being that Prevost is a big part of school and modular buildings, education is a big part of this association. Below find an article that can be found here, to learn more about the school system’s involvement with modular buildings.
Cutting-Edge, GREEN Modular Classrooms
Permanent Construction
From single classrooms to complete campuses, permanent modular construction offers public, private, and charter schools what other construction methods cannot: accelerated project timelines, more economical pricing, and less disruption. Permanent modular schools are indistinguishable from other schools and can be constructed to any architectural and customer specifications. MBI members design and build schools of all types and sizes using traditional building materials like wood, steel, and concrete. Virtually any size permanent school can be built, installed, and ready for occupancy, some in as little as 90 days. Perhaps most importantly, by using off-site technology, open construction sites are eliminated while school is in session. Students are safer and teachers compete with less disruption.
High Tech High in Chula Vista, CA by Williams Scotsman. Find case study here.
Millmont School, Reding, PA by Triumph Modular & NRB Inc. Find case study here.
Relocatable Buildings
Relocatable buildings have become a critical factor in managing student demographics and increasing enrollments. Relocatable classrooms are also ideal for use during new construction or renovation. Convenient, flexible, cost-effective buildings can be delivered and operational in as little as 24 hours. Relocatable classrooms are measured for quality and code-compliance by state or third-pary agencies through routine and random inspections, testing, and certification services. Single classrooms or multiple buildings can be arranged in clusters to create a campus feel. MBI members supply steps, decks, ramps, and even furniture. Members also offer lease, purchase, and lease-to-purchase financing for a variety of public and private school needs.
Harvard University, Child Care Center by Triumph Modular.
Performance IQ, High Performance Green Modular Classroom design by M Space Holdings LLC.
Dearcroft Montessori School, Oakville, ON by Provincial Partitions Ltd.
Modular classroom design by Perkins+Will.
Case Study-North Andover Early Childhood Center:
This entry was posted in Commercial, Commerical Modular, Modular, New Construction, Remodeling and tagged Commercial Modular Renovation, Go Green, Modular, Modular Building Institute, Modular Classrooms, New Construction.
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Southbank Place, Waterloo, SE1 7NW
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This premium office building is established on 2 Southbank Place, Waterloo, and comes complete with an excellent mix of features including the ability to save space and resources through our hot desking facilities, lounge room provided with comfortable furnishings and shared office space facilities. Office and building amenities come complete with a top of the line A/C system to ensure a comfortable working environment, access suitable for those with disabilities or reduced mobility and 24 hour accessibility to the building and offices, every day of the week.
The building sits right on the riverside at London’s South Bank – an epicentre of culture, arts, technology and business. Waterloo is also one of London's most connected destinations, with direct underground links to the City, Canary Wharf, and the West End, as well as at Waterloo Station just minutes away.
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Due to its location just south of the River Thames and its excellent transport links, the district of Waterloo provides more than 50 per cent of all the jobs in the borough of Lambeth, to which it belongs. The most important sectors are business services, cultural, creative, and leisure. Over the past few years, Lambeth Council has aimed to capitalise on Waterloo's privileged location to promote economic growth and business diversity in the area. As a result, nowadays Waterloo is one of London's leading business districts, where companies like Shell or IBM are head-quartered.
Waterloo station is a major transport hub that offers train services to the counties that surround London and to the South West. Four underground lines converge at Waterloo station.
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CELEBRATE SIX YEARS OF GHOST TOWN POETRY OPEN MIC AT COVER TO COVER BOOKS with Miles of Pies author Eileen Elliott and songwriter Matt Meighan
Posted on January 5, 2013 January 5, 2013 by Printed Matter Vancouver
Printed Matter Vancouver would like to thank the following businesses and individuals for making 2012 another great year for poetry in the ‘Couve: The Catalyst, Everybody’s Music, Leah Jackson (Angst Gallery and Niche Wine and Art Bar), Mint Tea, Moe’s, One World Merchants, Pop Culture, and Urban Eccentric.
We would also like to thank the featured readers and musicians who shared their work with our community in 2012: Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Bret Jorgensen, Lincoln’s Beard, John Sibley Williams, John Burgess, Raul Sanchez, Jenney Pauer, David Matthews, Leah Stenson, Patrick Bocarde, Melissa Sillitoe, A. Molotkov, Ragon Linde, Julene Tripp Weaver, Kristin Roedell, Traci Schatz, Ric Vrana, Jane Ormerod of great weather for MEDIA, Gina Williams, Dan Raphael, Richard Loranger, and Mary Slocum.
In addition, we owe a debt of gratitude to the many poets who have moved and entertained us at the open mic—without your continued participation and support, we would have nothing to celebrate.
Finally, our thanks to Mel Sanders for staying open late once a month and for her undying commitment to local writers.
Bios:
Eileen Davis Elliott works as a poet and visual artist after retiring from a career in mental health and education. She has consistently focused on themes of struggle and redemption of the human spirit in whatever state it finds itself; trying to find personal meaning or while interacting with other souls. She has two books of poetry: Prodigal Cowgirl and the newly released Miles of Pies. Her most current writings have focused on how autism affects families. She is also doing a series of prose poems about life in Mexico, for a chapbook with the draft title Pobrecitos. Her art quilts tell stories about the people who receive them and she hopes they give warmth and comfort. She also likes to feed people and have long, lingering conversations while the dirty dishes wait for later.
“Though the way ahead never did get clear, I guess we made it after all” sings Portland songwriter Matt Meighan, and the experience of miles traveled is easy to hear in his music. Drawing on his years as an activist, journalist, parent and poet, Matt writes tradition-steeped, thought-provoking songs that are at turns personal, political, poignant and funny, infused with a philosophical bent and an audible love of language.
A song collector as well as writer, Matt mixes his originals with songs by fellow songwriters as well as older songs from the folk and blues traditions. His commitments to good writing and “truth-telling” are clear in the songs he chooses and the songs he writes, many of which are performed by other songwriters. He is currently recording his second CD, Long Way ‘Round.
Matt’s engaging, relaxed performance style and fingerstyle acoustic guitar make him an ideal performer for house concerts and similar listening venues. He also performs as a duo, with Sherry Pendarvis on upright bass, and adds a fiddle or mandolin player to perform as a trio.
After earning an MFA in poetry at the Jack Keruoac school of Disembodied Poetics (Naropa University) in Boulder, Colorado, Matt turned his hand to songwriting and became a signifcant part of the Boulder acoustic music scene, organizing monthly songwriter gatherings and hosting numerous songwriter showcases. In 2003 moved to Portland, where he performs regularly, teaches a popular “Songwriting as Truth Telling” class, and hosts the weekly Songwriter Roundup show at Artichoke Music.
Matt began playing songs while still in high school in Chicago in the 1960s. His musical education began at the Old Town School of Folk Music and haunting the blues and jazz clubs of 1960s Chicago. He has since traveled the world with his music, performing in venues and on street corners across the U.S., Australia and Italy, and has regularly brought his songs to the pubs of Ireland over the last 20 years. He and his wife Nancy met at the Kerrville Folk Festival in Kerrville Texas, which they attend every year. Since moving to Portland Matt has become both a popular performer and an ardent supporter of the Portland-area acoustic music community.
Tagged A. Molotkov, Angst Gallery, Bret Jorgensen, Cover to Cover Books, Dan Raphael, David Matthews, Eileen Elliott, Everybody’s Music, Ghost Town Poetry Open Mic, Gina Williams, great weather for MEDIA, Jane Ormerod, Jenney Pauer, Jennifer Pratt-Walter, John Burgess, John Sibley Williams, Julene Tripp Weaver, Kristin Roedell, Leah jackson, Leah Stenson, Lincoln's Beard, Mary Slocum, Matt Meighan, Mel Sanders, Melissa Sillitoe, Mint Tea, Moe’s, Niche Wine and Art Bar, One World Merchants, Patrick Bocarde, Pop Culture, Printed Matter Vancouver, Ragon Linde, Raul Sanchez, Ric Vrana, Richard Loranger, The Catalyst, Traci Schatz, Urban Eccentric, Vancouver (WA)
Printed Matter Vancouver Nominates Jenney Pauer for the 2012 Pushcart Prize
Announcing a Call for Submissions: GHOST TOWN POETRY VOLUME TWO
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Big Crisis, Big Banks, Big Crimes
May 11, 2014 7:00pm by Washingtons Blog
6 Years After the Financial Crisis Hit, The Big Banks Are Still Committing Massive Crimes
Preface: The “Great Recession” started in December 2007. More than 6 years later, the big banks are committing more crimes than ever.
You Won’t Believe What They’ve Done …
Here are just some of the improprieties by big banks over the last century (you’ll see that many shenanigans are continuing today):
Laundering money for terrorists (the HSBC employee who blew the whistle on the banks’ money laundering for terrorists and drug cartels says that the giant bank is still laundering money, saying: “The public needs to know that money is still being funneled through HSBC to directly buy guns and bullets to kill our soldiers …. Banks financing … terrorists affects every single American.” He also said: “It is disgusting that our banks are STILL financing terror on 9/11 2013“. And see this. This has been going on for decades. For example, Bank of America funneled massive amounts of money to BCCI – itself connected with the CIA – and, according to the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Terrorism, Narcotics and International Operations, BCCI in turn funneled huge sums of money to Bin Laden and other terrorists)
Financing illegal arms deals, and funding the manufacture of cluster bombs (and see this and this) and other arms which are banned in most of the world
Handling money for rogue military operations
Laundering money for drug cartels. See this, this, this, this and this (indeed, drug dealers kept the banking system afloat during the depths of the 2008 financial crisis). A whistleblower said: “America is losing the drug war because our banks are [still] financing the cartels“, and “Banks financing drug cartels … affects every single American“. And see this. This is actually a decades-old practice)
Funding the Nazis (while we’re referring to funding the original Nazis many decades ago, the U.S. is now backing the neo-Nazis in Ukraine, and banks are undoubtedly involved in some of the support)
Launching a coup against the President of the United States (an old – but vital – story)
Engaging in mafia-style big-rigging fraud against local governments. See this, this and this
Shaving money off of virtually every pension transaction they handled over the course of decades, stealing collectively billions of dollars from pensions worldwide. Details here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here
Manipulating aluminum and copper prices
Manipulating gold prices … on a daily basis
Charging “storage fees” to store gold bullion … without even buying or storing any gold . And raiding allocated gold accounts
Committing massive and pervasive fraud both when they initiated mortgage loans and when they foreclosed on them (and see this)
Pledging the same mortgage multiple times to different buyers. See this, this, this, this and this. This would be like selling your car, and collecting money from 10 different buyers for the same car
Cheating homeowners by gaming laws meant to protect people from unfair foreclosure
Committing massive fraud in an $800 trillion dollar market which effects everything from mortgages, student loans, small business loans and city financing
Manipulating the hundred trillion dollar derivatives market
Engaging in insider trading of the most important financial information
Pushing investments which they knew were terrible, and then betting against the same investments to make money for themselves. See this, this, this, this and this
Engaging in unlawful “frontrunning” to manipulate markets. See this, this, this, this, this and this
Engaging in unlawful “Wash Trades” to manipulate asset prices. See this, this and this
Manipulating corporate bonds through derivatives schemes
Otherwise manipulating virtually every market
Participating in various Ponzi schemes. See this, this and this
Charging veterans unlawful mortgage fees
Helping the richest to illegally hide assets
Cooking their books (and see this)
Bribing and bullying ratings agencies to inflate ratings on their risky investments
Violently cracking down on peaceful protesters
The executives of the big banks invariably pretend that the hanky-panky was only committed by a couple of low-level rogue employees. But studies show that most of the fraud is committed by management.
Indeed, one of the world’s top fraud experts – professor of law and economics, and former senior S&L regulator Bill Black – says that most financial fraud is “control fraud”, where the people who own the banks are the ones who implement systemic fraud. See this, this and this.
Even the bank with the reputation as being the “best managed bank” in the U.S., JP Morgan, has engaged in massive fraud. For example, the Senate’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a report today quoting an examiner at the Office of Comptroller of the Currency – JPMorgan’s regulator – saying he felt the bank had “lied to” and “deceived” the agency over the question of whether the bank had mismarked its books to hide the extent of losses. And Joshua Rosner – noted bond analyst, and Managing Director at independent research consultancy Graham Fisher & Co – notes that JP Morgan had many similar anti money laundering laws violations as HSBC, failed to segregate accounts a la MF Global, and paid almost 12% of its 2009-12 net income on regulatory and legal settlements.
But at least the big banks do good things for society, like loaning money to Main Street, right?
The big banks no longer do very much traditional banking. Most of their business is from financial speculation. For example, less than 10% of Bank of America’s assets come from traditional banking deposits. Instead, they are mainly engaged in financial speculation and derivatives. (and see this)
The big banks have slashed lending since they were bailed out by taxpayers … while smaller banks have increased lending. See this, this and this
Virtually all of the banks’ profits comes from taxpayer bailouts. For example, 77% of JP Morgan’s net income comes from taxpayer subsidies
The big banks are looting, killing the economy … and waging war on the people of the world
And our democracy and republican form of government as well
Indeed, top experts say that fraud caused the Great Depression and the 2008 crisis, and that failing to rein in fraud is dooming our economy.
We can almost understand why Thomas Jefferson warned:
And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies ….
John Adams said:
Banks have done more injury to religion, morality, tranquillity, prosperity, and even wealth of the nation than they have done or ever will do good.
And Lord Acton argued:
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
No wonder a stunning list of prominent economists, financial experts and bankers say we need to break up the big banks.
Reproduced by permission from Washington’s Blog
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Jakub Vrana Wows With Fancy Passing, Gets Two Assists (GIF)
Photo: Peter Skaugvold / Bildbyran
Czech forward Jakub Vrana, who was selected by the Capitals in the first round of the 2014 draft, assisted on two goals as his Linkoping defeated Skelleftea AIK 3-1. Vrana missed the two previous matches (including a Champions League game against Sparta Prague) as he had not yet returned from Czech Republic, where he suited up for his national team at the junior Four Nations tournament.
Vrana is in blue and wears number 13.
On his first assist of the night, Vrana threw a beautiful pass to the goalmouth. Jacob Micflikier couldn’t corral it, so Jeff Taffe picked the puck up and fed it back to Micflikier for a one-time shot at a gaping net.
To get his second assist, Vrana put a perfect pass on the stick of Micflikier, who had a one-timer from point-blank range again and didn’t miss.
With two points on Saturday, Vrana now has eight points in 13 games, which makes him third in points per game among junior (U20) players who played significant amount of games behind two other top picks from 2014 Draft, William Nylander and Kevin Fiala. Vrana also has five points in his last five games.
GIF, Jakub Vrana
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PHOTOS: The Boathouse opens at Short Pump Town Center
Local restauranteur Kevin Healy’s fourth restaurant offers a slightly different menu offerings and a lot more sushi.
June 15, 2015 Trevor Dickerson Features, Weekly Food News
Local restauranteur Kevin Healy opened his fourth restaurant this past weekend, this one marking his first foray into the Far West End. The third location of The Boathouse dry docked at Short Pump Town Center, underneath the Hyatt House Hotel.
The 5,800-square-foot restaurant is notably different from other Boathouse locations, with whitewashed wood, reclaimed timber flooring, and rustic, upscale décor.
“People have asked us to come to the West End for years,” Healy said of his decision to come to Short Pump. “When the opportunity arose, we knew had to jump on it.”
The Short Pump location’s menu varies slighting from those of the Rocketts Landing and Sunday Park locations, but still embodies the same classic coastal cuisine. Unique to the new restaurant is a full sushi menu by Sushi Chef James Kim, who hails from the Caneel Bay Resort on the island of St. John in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
The restaurant features a large open sunroom with garage doors that open to the mall’s Restaurant Row, wrap-around bar and separate sushi bar, an open kitchen format, and a private room–known as The Owner’s Room–equipped with a flat panel television for meetings and other functions.
The Boathouse at Short Pump Town Center is open nightly at 5:00 PM and will begin lunch service on Friday, June 19th.
Photos: Trevor Dickerson/RVANews
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Risk Factors for Rapid Kidney Function Decline Among African Americans: The Jackson Heart Study (JHS).. 68:229-239. 2016
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Comparative effectiveness of early versus conventional timing of dialysis initiation in advanced CKD.. 63:806-815. 2014
Incident ESRD and treatment-resistant hypertension: the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke (REGARDS) study.. 63:781-788. 2014
The landscape of clinical trials in nephrology: a systematic review of Clinicaltrials.gov.. 63:771-780. 2014
Community mobility among older adults with reduced kidney function: a study of life-space.. 63:429-436. 2014
Association of a reduction in central obesity and phosphorus intake with changes in urinary albumin excretion: the PREMIER study.. 62:900-907. 2013
Comparison of life participation activities among adults treated by hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, and kidney transplantation: a systematic review.. 62:953-973. 2013
Association of serum bicarbonate with risk of renal and cardiovascular outcomes in CKD: a report from the Chronic Renal Insufficiency Cohort (CRIC) study.. 62:670-678. 2013
Phosphate homeostasis in CKD: report of a scientific symposium sponsored by the National Kidney Foundation.. 62:457-473. 2013
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Trends in relative mortality between Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites initiating dialysis: a retrospective study of the US Renal Data System.. 62:312-321. 2013
Urinary cystatin C and acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery.. 61:730-738. 2013
Usability testing and acceptance of an electronic medication inquiry system for CKD patients.. 61:644-646. 2013
Why not nephrology? A survey of US internal medicine subspecialty fellows.. 61:540-546. 2013
Effectiveness of educational and social worker interventions to activate patients' discussion and pursuit of preemptive living donor kidney transplantation: a randomized controlled trial.. 61:476-486. 2013
Geographic variation in CKD prevalence and ESRD incidence in the United States: results from the reasons for geographic and racial differences in stroke (REGARDS) study.. 61:395-403. 2013
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Presurgical serum cystatin C and risk of acute kidney injury after cardiac surgery.. 58:366-373. 2011
High-normal albuminuria and risk of heart failure in the community.. 58:47-55. 2011
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Population-based screening for CKD.. 53:S64-S70. 2009
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HIV-associated nephropathy: a case study in race and genetics.. 47:1084-1085. 2006
De novo congestive heart failure after kidney transplantation: a common condition with poor prognostic implications.. 46:720-733. 2005
Physician-diagnosed depression as a correlate of hospitalizations in patients receiving long-term hemodialysis.. 46:642-649. 2005
CKD progression and mortality among older patients with diabetes.. 46:406-414. 2005
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Education standards continue to rise at GCSE and A level
A GOV.UK press release reports that educational standards continue to rise across England’s secondary schools, as results published today (Thursday 25 January) show more young people from disadvantaged backgrounds achieving good grades in the core academic subjects.
Following the introduction of more rigorous GCSE and A levels to match the best education systems in the world, the data shows:
The attainment gap between disadvantaged secondary school pupils and their peers has narrowed by 3.2% since last year and 10% since 2011;
Results for Multi Academy Trusts, with Harris Federation, The Thinking Schools Academy Trust and The Diocese of Westminster Academy Trust among the top MAT performers;
Schools in London continue to perform strongly, with 12 schools in the top 20 for the government’s pupil progress measure (Progress 8); and
More pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, SEN pupils and pupils on free school meals being entered for EBacc subjects since last year – helping ensure pupils have the knowledge and skills they need for future success.
The number of students entering at least four of the five subject areas which are part of the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) – maths, English, sciences, humanities and modern foreign languages (MFL) have increased by 4.8 percentage points this year – up to 82.0% in 2017; and
GCSE (A*-C) pass rates at 16-18 have increased in English, up from 22.8% to 27.1%, and total entries to English and maths GCSEs by 16-18 students increased by 26.3 percentage points and 13.6 percentage points respectively. This will help ensure pupils leave their education with the knowledge and skills they need for future success.
Confirmation of the top performing schools based on Progress 8 measures, which are as follows:
Tauheedul Islam Girls’ High School, Blackburn;
Wembley High Technology College, London;
Taheedul Islam Boys’ High School, Blackburn;
Harris Academy Battersea, London; and
The Steiner Academy Hereford, Herefordshire.
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wasateacher January 26, 2018 at 10:29 am
how very convenient that the Government releases information which has been challenged in so many ways in order to push through its continued drive to academise all schools. Unfortunately the original link for Education DataLab’s research doesn’t seem to work. However, this is the BBC report on it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38809805 As long as academy trusts are not held accountable for their covert selection and as long as they are allowed to dump schools which do not show them in a good light, we will continue to be fed this myth that academisation is good for education, whereas the reverse is true. It is an expensive, chaotic system which offers no stability.
mandyhoneyman January 29, 2018 at 5:45 pm
Celebrating half the number of young people achieving A*-C compared with 2012 exam data? https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/oct/18/gcse-english-rates-local-authority
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What Eats Coral Reefs?
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A List of Pelagic Fish
By Kelly Masi
Though often referred to as a plant or rock because of its appearance, coral is a living animal. Coral comprises tiny polyps that divide asexually to form the colonies off of which marine life tends to feed. Many organisms hide in and live on coral -- another reason marine animals eat the coral along with the organisms. Coral is crunchy, and divers can often hear these animals chewing.
Parrot fish, which live in tropical marine climate, feed off algae found on live coral, which normally requires them to chew off the coral heads. They crush and chew the coral with grinding teeth in their throats to get to the algae-filled polyps inside. Parrot fish are easy to catch at night due to their colorful appearance. They will often create a transparent cocoon to sleep in, which supposedly hides their scent from predators.
Crown of Thorns Sea Star
Crown of thorns sea stars are live in the Indian and Pacific oceans. The animals are have as many as 23 arms, which they use to glide over coral. They travel in groups of tens of thousands and destroy living coral as they eat it down to almost nothing; the coral may take years to recover. With their long, poisonous spines, they are known as one of the most destructive marine animals. Conservationists have tried to control their population through methods including fencing in areas of coral. Due to the sheer width of the ocean floor, however, this process is only a stepping stone.
Butterfly Fish
Butterfly fish, the most commonly seen fish on reefs through out the world, can exhibit colors such as blue, red, orange or yellow. They eat coral which contains food sources they like such as polyps, worms and other small invertebrates. These fish usually mate for life and stay together with their offspring. They travel in large schools, and if one mate dies, the other usually follows shortly after. These fish often become aggressive as they defend specific coral reefs, which help scientists determine which type of butterfly fish eat which type of coral.
Nudibranchs
Nudibranchs include more than 3,000 species of sea slugs that feed off coral. These slugs have the ability to emit toxic secretions and defend themselves with stinging cells. They do not make the poison themselves; they take toxins from sponges and other food to create the toxins within their body. Besides coral, these animals eat sponges, barnacles, eggs and other small marine animals -- including one another. They normally have a lifespan of a little more than a year. Scientists say they have only uncovered half of the known species of nudibranch.
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Researcher develops advanced computer vision technology
- Christina Cardoza
A researcher from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a new artificial intelligent user interface designed to simplify the detection and analysis of images. While computer vision technology for images has been popping up more recently, this new UI allows users to visualize, navigate and manipulate visual media.
The system was created by Jeff Hansberger, a researcher at DARPA’s U.S. Army Research Lab, as part of DARPA’s Visual Media Reasoning (VMR) program to extract mission-relevant information from visual media. “Our adversaries frequently use video, still and cellphone cameras to document their training and operations and occasionally post this content to widely available websites,” said Hansberger, according to the U.S. Army. “The volume of this visual media is growing rapidly and is quickly outpacing our ability to review, let alone analyze, the contents of every image.”
After observing how analysts interact with images, and identifying the biggest challenges, Hansberger decided to create a touchscreen user interface for the VMR system.
“People looking within and for visual information prefer to have 1) an overview first, then 2) zoom and filter through the information and retrieve 3) details on demand,” he said. “Touchscreen technology and the use of zooming, similar to how Google Maps utilizes zooming across physical spaces was therefore selected as a primary design element of the user interface.”
In addition to creating a touchscreen interface, Hansberger also created a traditional keyboard and mouse interface for organizations that want to use the system, but avoid buying new hardware.
According to Hansberger, the UI is designed to reduce the time it takes to analyze images, and support pattern detection. For pattern detection, the interface features visual diagrams and highlights patterns and relationships across images.
“The more care and effort we spend in understanding the questions users will be asking and how we can craft the information in the interface to answer those questions, the easier their job will be,” he said.
More information is available here.
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Sales Objection Handling from the Master: Insights from Best Seller Jeb Blount
Our guest, Jeb Blount CEO at Sales Gravy joins Matt Heinz to discuss his new book,
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After the Morgan Fire
April 3, 2016 by Adrian Cotter
Joan Hamilton joined us on March 22nd at The Rotary Nature Center in Oakland. You can read her article on the fire and its after effects on Bay Nature Magazine’s website and other related articles. All with more details and better pictures than my summary below.
Investigating the after effects of the Morgan fire on Mount Diablo was the best article assignment Hamilton said she has ever had. For two years (and another year on now) it brought her to Mount Diablo to witness what happens after a fire here in California. She had been working in Perkin’s Canyon on an audio guide, but now that project was literally toast. But Mount Diablo has a fire interval of 40 to 70 years, so this was pretty much a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study the effects of fire in-depth.
“Nature is pulling back the curtain. Let the play begin. We’ll see who shows up and gives the best performance.”
— Nomad Ecology botanist Heath Bartosh
The fire started on September 8th 2013 when a young man doing target practice hit a rock which sparked a grass fire which then lit a grey pine and then from then took off through the mountain.
Joan visited a few days after the fire, and the ground was still smoking, oak leaves were toasted, meadows were black, and the chaparral burnt. They found themselves being bit on the necks and hands by beetles a species that firefighters know well. The beetles only show up after fire, looking to lay their eggs in the smoldering trees. Apparently, way back mid-20th-century, used to show up at Cal games, drawn to cigarette smoke.
The fire had gone clear to the top of the mountain. Fire fighters had dumped lots of fire retardant to keep it from going over the summit, but they spent much of their effort (hundreds of firefighters, 6 planes, and 25 bulldozers) protecting homes and communities outside the park. The state park wanted the fire to take its natural course inside the park.
On first look, it seemed like it might have been too much. Some oaks had burned down to the roots, and slopes seemed like they might erode away from lack of vegetation. But even that first visit they noticed that rodents were already at work disturbing the burnt soil.
By the 9th day, plants were poking out: grass, vetch, mustard and others. At 6 weeks, shrubs were beginning to resprout at their base. By April, there was skullcap, baccarus, deerweed, and a fire follower called whispering bells (because of the sounds it makes when it is dried up).
Researchers Heath Bartosh and Brian Peterson decided to do a study of this “fleeting abundance” to see what wildflowers would come up three years running after a fire. They set up a series of 1m square research areas across the mountain listing every species and the % of cover. They did this out of curiosity not because someone was paying them.
What they found were 28 opportunists — species like the Mt. Diablo globe lilly — which were are commonly found there, but came on strong because of the extra space and sunlight the fire afforded them. But there were also 17 fire followers like the whispering bells, and golden ear drops. The species that everyone wanted to see, the flame poppy, was elusive at first, but eventually showed itself.
The second year made the work of this research difficult as a native morning glory flourished (they referred to it as trip vine). There was also some nice surprises: Kellog’s climbing snapdragon which hadn’t been seen 80 years, and the sleepy catchfly which hadn’t been seen in 125 years. Bulb plants went crazy: mariposa lilies, fremont star lily. California poppy, Mt Diablo jewel fire were both abundant.
The burnt chaparral was where the diversity seemed richest.
There were other researchers out there as well. Mandi McElroy got a grant for remote cameras and began a study of mammals on the mountain. The cameras have so far caught the obvious ones: black tailed deer, wild pigs, and coyote. But it will take a while longer to sort out the effect on smaller animals. The pigs seem to be doing well from what they have seen so far.
Entomologist Kip Will began a 5 year study of arthropods in the area. Setting out to trap insects on land in the air, day and night, to be as an detailed as possible to get baseline data. So far, beetles are two times as numerous in burned areas, and 16 new species of moth have been recorded on the mountain including the sphinx moth with a whopping 4” wingspan.
Lindsey Hendricks began looking at the effects of the fire on the previously dominant Chamise, looking at growing chamise in different fire affected soils. It turns out the Chamise likes it hot. It only sprouted in soil that was moderately to severely burned soil. In unburned soil the enormous numbers of seeds that chamise produces simply did not germinate.
At the tree level, the oaks came back. Only small handful did not survive the fire. In some cases, the trees were resprouting from the trunk and biggest branches. A lot of big grey pines on the other hand did not make it… Their chemical makeup is such that they burn up quicker and easier than other pines having a chemical similar to gasoline. But they are coming back from seed.
There were few problems with invasives, even in areas where they thought it was more at risk (the bulldozed zones in particular), erosion turned out to not be a problem because the root systems of many plants were still intact holding the soil together (and until this year we had below level rainfall probably did not hurt).
All in all seeing the mountain change from year to year was an amazing opportunity for Hamilton. She had a few suggestions for places to go if you want to check out the burn sites:
The North Peak Trail from Devil’s Elbow down to Prospectors Gap. From there, you can either head up to North Peak or down to the park boundary along the Prospectors Gap fire road.
Green Ranch Road from Oak Knoll picnic area down to Rhine Canyon and Frog Pond.
Perkins Canyon on Ray Morgan Road and Perkins Canyon Trail.
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GE2015: PM Lee tells Aljunied voters WP ‘buay sai’
Yahoo Newsroom• 4 September 2015
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke at the PAP rally for Aljunied GRC, in a bid garner support for the PAP team in the WP-held area (Photo: Kenneth Khoo)
By Kenneth Khoo
Two veteran politicians from the People’s Action Party (PAP) lent their support at a PAP-hosted rally Friday (4 Sep) for Aljunied Group Representative Constituency (GRC) in Defu Lane, in a bid to convince voters to put PAP back into the Workers’ Party-held ward.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong reminded voters in his rally speech to believe in his track record, saying residents “know [his] character and [his] personality,” and that if he were to tell them that he would do something, he would do it. However, if he were to “say ‘cannot’, then buay sai (Hokkien for ‘cannot’).”
“WP is buay sai,” he said.
Another battle cry came in the form of former Cabinet Minister Lim Boon Heng, as he tried in his rally speech to underscore the PAP’s past efforts in Aljunied.
“The grey hair that Mr Lee Kuan Yew had, the grey hair that Mr Goh Chok Tong has, the grey hair that Mr Lee Hsien Loong has today, is all for you,” said Mr Lim.
PAP had ceded control of the GRC in the previous General Elections of 2011 to WP, losing then-Minister for Foreign Affairs George Yeo in the defeat.
PM Lee also reminded Aljunied voters of plans for the ward, including transforming the adjacent Defu industrial estate into a greener, more modern area. He noted that shifting Paya Lebar Air Base to Changi within the next 15 to 20 years will mean that the noises of jet planes will no longer be a disturbance to residents.
PAP’s Aljunied team for this elections – Chua Eng Leong, Shamsul Kamar, Victor Lye, K. Muralidharan Pillai and Yeo Guat Kwang – echoed sentiments of determination to recapture the ward.
“Some of them wanted to intimidate me, and I wanted to tell that that I won’t be intimidated,” said PAP’s Aljunied candidate K. Muralidharan
Although Muralidharan recounted an experience with an Aljunied resident who said to him “I only accept WP rice, I don’t accept PAP rice”, the PAP candidate promises that the PAP will ensure residents have “seamless service”.
“You (Aljunied residents) don’t have to wonder whether or not removing the crow’s nest outside your house is an AVA (Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority) problem or a town council problem.”
“At the PAP, we are not a wayang (Malay for theatre) party. We are an action party!” said PAP candidate Chua Eng Leong.
PM Lee said that a vote for the PAP’s Aljunied GRC team will be a vote towards “stop[ping] things from going wrong” and that the GRC will begin “work again”.
The PAP plans to conduct two rallies for Bukit Panjang Single Member Constituency (SMC), and Choa Chu Kang GRC tomorrow evening (5 Sep) from 7 to 10pm at the field next to Blk 136 Petir Road and Choa Chu Kang Secondary School respectively.
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Sources (novels)
Source:Nosferatu
Authors Carl Sargent, Marc Gascoigne
Publisher Roc Books
Nosferatu is a Shadowrun novel by Carl Sargent and Marc Gascoigne.
Publisher blurb Edit
Serrin Shamandar, rootless mage and part-time shadowrunner, is on the run. First he flees New York, hoping to find refuge in Europe. But somebody is determined to corner him--he doesn't know who or why. On the run with Serrin is a brilliant decker named Michael and a burned-out troll samurai named Tom. Behind them is Kristen, a street kid from Capetown with a list of names...or victims, if you will. Now Serrin and his friends are driven by mounting panic. Everywhere they go they feel evil eyes, elven eyes, watching them. Gradually they learn of their enemy's plan to wipe humanity from the face of the earth, and they are desperate to confront him. Their enemy, however, is in no such hurry. Why should he be? Relentless, powerful, demonic, hasn't he already been waiting for more than three hundred years...?
Warning: Spoiler Information Below
In brief Edit
When an ancient elven vampire plots genocide, it's up to a handful of shadowrunners to save the human race.
Detailed plot summary Edit
Summer, 2055.
While doing magical research in Manhattan at the University of Columbia, Serrin Shamandar chances to save the Mayor of New York from an assassination attempt by a Damascus League terrorist. In doing so, he attracts the interest of a tabloid reporter who publishes an exposé, making him the celebrity hero of the hour in the UCAS. Fleeing the glare of publicity, Serrin leaves the city on the first available overseas flight, which takes him to Germany. He ends up in the small tourist town of Heidelberg.
In Cape Town, Kristen sees Serrin's picture on the cover of Newsday and becomes fascinated by him.
Serrin narrowly escapes a kidnapping attempt in Heidelberg. He considers flying to London to enlist the aid of a friend, Geraint, but the Welsh nobleman is in Hong Kong on business. Serrin decides to fly to Seattle instead, where he hopes to find help from friends in the local shadowrunning community.
In Tir Tairngire, an elven mage named Magellan reports to his mistress, the powerful noblewoman Jenna Ni'Fairra. On her behalf, he has been investigating an elven nosferatu, Luther, in rural Germany. Magellan has discovered that Luther has a very specific and rare dietary requirement, forcing him to send minions far abroad in search of prey. One such victim, Serrin, recently escaped his grasp. Magellan has also discovered that one of the ruling families of Tír na nÓg, the O'Connors, has also been watching the nosferatu closely. Luther is pursuing a project of great interest to extremist factions in both elven countries.
Geraint calls Serrin in Seattle, and Serrin relates his current troubles. Geraint offers to help, mentioning a Cambridge classmate, a phenomenally talented decker named Michael Sutherland. Serrin makes a few calls looking for local muscle, which lead him to another old friend, a troll street samurai named Tom. Serrin is amazed to learn that the troll has become a Bear shaman in the five years since he last knew him. While Serrin and Tom are reminiscing, they are joined by Michael, the decker hired by Geraint to help Serrin.
Kristen witnesses a kidnapping near Cape Town's red light district. One of the kidnappers drops a palmtop computer in the struggle. Kristen recovers it and finds a list of names -- one of them is Serrin Shamandar. Kristen contacts Serrin to warn him. Immediately afterward, she narrowly escapes a hit squad sent to the location from which she placed the call.
In New York, Serrin, Tom, and Michael are the targets of careful magical surveillance by Magellan and another elven mage, Niall O'Connor. Neither mage notices the runners' secretive departure.
Michael, Tom, and Serrin travel to Cape Town to meet Kristen. Comparing Kristen's list to Michael's own investigations, they identify a series of kidnappings in locations all over the world, apparently at the direction of a single person. The common thread connecting them is a very rare, very specific blood type. The pattern of kidnappings (first mundane humans, then Awakened humans, then Awakened elves as a prey of last resort) suggests that the kidnapper might be an elf. An eminent geneticist confirms Michael's guess based on the blood group of the victims. The runners are on the trail of an elf nosferatu.
Apart from Serrin, there has only been one other failed kidnapping attempt, of an elven shaman named Shakala in the Umfolozi Domains, a nature preserve in the Zulu Nation. The runners track down Shakala, who agrees to help them after a ritual confrontation with Tom. From information supplied by his visitors, Shakala connects his attackers to a nearby corporate biomedical research laboratory. Accompanied by the runners, Shakala leads an assault force on a raid to the facility, only to find it already in ruins, destroyed by a recent fire.
At odds with his family over the actions of the nosferatu, Niall O'Connor determines to deal with him independently. In desperate need of power with which to confront Luther, he succeeds in harnessing the power of the daoineann draoidheil, a magical storm at Rathcroghan in Tír na nÓg. Armed with the power of the storm trapped in a focus, Niall prepares to face Luther.
Luther begins the final testing of his project, the culmination of several decades' work -- a virus that will devastate humanity, leaving elves (and for the moment, other metahumans) untouched.
Magellan follows the runners' trail, and finally catches up to them in the Zulu nation, where he kidnaps and interrogates Serrin. In the course of their interview, Serrin learns about Luther's goal, and that Magellan represents a faction in Tir Tairngire that wants the nosferatu to succeed. Michael, Tom, and Kristen rescue their companion from his captors, but Magellan escapes.
The runners return to New York. In order to bring Kristen through immigration, Michael marries her. From there, Michael is able to trace the ownership of the Azanian research facility through various holding companies to Luther von Hayek at a monastery outside Regensburg, Germany. After coaxing a six-figure bankroll out of Geraint, the runners fly to Berlin. Immediately after cutting a deal with a local arms dealer for weapons, Michael is shot in the back by Magellan. Once Michael is stable in intensive care, Kristen closes the weapons deal while Tom and Serrin negotiate for muscle, fourteen ork samurai and a street shaman.
Niall arrives at Luther's monastery, only to find it protected by an impenetrable barrier. He despairs until the runners appear.
Attacking in force, the runners and the orks overcome automated defenses and corpses animated by toxic spirits, finally breaking into the compound with heavy losses. Once they reach the heart of the building, however, Luther kills the remaining orks and magically seizes control of Tom, Serrin, and Kristen. In classic villain style, he gloats to his captives about his impending triumph.
From outside the monastery, Niall is finally able to penetrate the barrier through Tom. By blasting a hole through the earth to the surface, Niall exposes Luther to daylight and the nosferatu is destroyed.
Serrin Shamandar: An elf magician born in Louisiana. Serrin's parents were corporate researchers who traveled regularly. They lived in Johannesburg in the Cape Republic for a few months when Serrin was nine years old. When Serrin was eleven, his parents were killed by a shadowrunner -- Serrin had to identify the bodies at the morgue. As an adult, Serrin became a shadowrunner, partly in the hope of finding his parents' killer. His right leg was badly injured during a shadowrun for Renraku, leaving him with a permanent limp. Serrin is a specialist in magical defense, surveillance, and watcher spirits.
Tom: A troll street samurai who found his calling as a shaman late in life. Serrin knew Tom as a street samurai in Seattle in 2050. At the time, Tom was involved with an eco-activist troll shaman named Anna. When Anna was killed in a gang fight, Tom became a violent, self-destructive alcoholic. Serrin fought to help the troll clean up, but ultimately gave up on him. Serrin succeeded, however, because shortly afterward Tom met his Totem, Bear, and became a shaman. His magical abilities are greatly handicapped by his cyberware -- wired reflexes, muscle augmentation, and smartlink. Tom is an active reformer in Seattle's Redmond Barrens. He is allergic to silver.
Kristen: A human girl of mixed ethnic background, half-Xhosa (black African) and half-Caucasian, living on the streets of Cape Town. Kristen had an abusive, alcoholic father who abandoned her at a very young age. She learned to take care of herself the hard way, drifting and scavenging. She is smart, resourceful, and resilient, beyond her limited means. Kristen is nonetheless illiterate.
Michael Sutherland: A human decker from England, classically educated at Cambridge (along with Geraint, a Welsh nobleman and one of Serrin's closest friends). Michael enjoys dual citizenship in Britain and the UCAS, and he lives in Manhattan. Michael is six feet tall, tan, with bleach-blonde hair. He is good-natured and garrulous, and something of a control freak. His only real vice is a weakness for expensive clothes. Michael is a hyperactive insomniac and probably one of the world's foremost deckers. His Matrix icon is a university professor.
in order of their appearance:
Serrin Shamandar
Julia Richards: reporter for the Newsday tabloid, interested in the supernatural and the occult
Andrew T. Small: mayor of New York
Dan McEwan: reporter for the New York Times
Randy Simmons: cameraman for the Times
Geraint: wealthy Welsh nobleman, close friend of Serrin
Francesca Young: female human decker, friend of Serrin and Geraint, currently in Saudi Arabia
Ganzer: ork, regular patron of Crusher 495 in Redmond
Janus Koskey: owner and manager of Crusher 495 in Redmond
Denzer: large ork, regular patron of Crusher 495 in Redmond
Nasrah: Javanese human, educated, living in Cape Town
Muzerala: black troll bodyguard and bouncer in Cape Town
Indra Maharana: madam of a cheap Cape Town flophouse
Nasser: Cape Town fixer
Jenna Ni'Fairra: female elf, ruthless, member of Tir Tairngire's ruling Council of Princes
Magellan*: elf, investigator for Jenna Ni'Fairra
Sean Laverty: elf, altruistic, member of Tir Tairngire's ruling Council of Princes
Michael Sutherland
Rani: Punjabi ork street samurai, works for Geraint in Wales
Gulrank: ork street samurai in Seattle
John: street samurai in Seattle
Torend: street samurai, recently moved from Seattle to Nagoya Japan
Manoj Gavakar*: shopkeeper and fence in Cape Town, half-Indian
John: Manoj's brother, smuggler and black-marketeer in Simon's Town
Martin Matthaus*: elf, principal henchman of Luther
Luther Hayek (Lùtair)*: elf nosferatu
Lothar: another one of Luther's henchmen
Netzer: ork bouncer at Indra's
Sunil: street doc in Cape Town
Niall O'Connor: powerful elf magician in Tír na nÓg, opposing Luther and the Tir
Mathanas: extremely powerful spirit allied to Niall
Mujaji: the Rain Queen, Great Dragon living on Table Mountain above Cape Town
The Fool: mystic, oracle in Tír na nÓg
Prof. Richard Bruckner: geneticist, isolated the Bruckner-Langer strain of HMHVV
Ruanmi: safari guide, Lion Shaman, Zulu Nation
Intulo: safari guide, Crocodile Shaman, Zulu Nation
Nholo: safari guide, Zulu Nation
Shakala: Cheetah shaman, Zulu prince
Patrick: faithful henchman of Niall O'Connor
Walter: arms dealer in Berlin
Gunther*: ork street samurai in Berlin
Mathilde*: ork Cat shaman in Berlin
Grunnden*: ork street samurai in Berlin
these characters are dead by the end of the novel.
The UCAS:
Columbia University (NAGtNA, p.123)
Times Square (NAGtNA, p.124)
JFK Airport (NAGtNA, p.116)
Crusher 495 (Seattle, p.131; New Seattle, p.63)
Warwick Hotel (Seattle, p.27; New Seattle, p.120)
Bargain Basement (Seattle, p.130)
Madison Hotel
Frankfurt (Germany, p.85)
Heidelberg (Germany, p.86)
Rhine-Ruhr Megaplex (Germany, p.66)
Berlin (Germany, p.102)
Metropolitan (Germany, p.125): luxury hotel
Meld In (Germany, p.126): bar
Tarantel (Germany, p.128): bar
Regensburg, Bavaria
Azania (Confederated Azanian Nations, including the Cape Republic, Zulu Nation, Oranje-Vrystaat, and the Trans-Swazi Federation)
Cape Town (capital, Cape Republic)
Manoj's store
Indra's flophouse
Longmarket warren
Simon's Town (city, Cape Republic)
New Hlobane (capital, Zulu Nation)
Nkandla (city, Zulu Nation)
Umfolozi Domain (nature preserve, Zulu Nation)
Babanango (industrial city, Zulu Nation)
Tir Tairngire:
Crater Lake (Tir Tairngire, p.21)
Tír na nÓg:
Rindown
Rathcroghan (Tír na nÓg, p.91)
Notes and analysis Edit
Carl Sargent and Marc Gascoigne together are the authors of the London Sourcebook (1991), Tír na nÓg (1993), Celtic Double-Cross (1993), and three Shadowrun novels: Streets of Blood (1992), Nosferatu (1994), and Black Madonna (1996). On his own, Carl Sargent is also the author of Imago (1992) and Paranormal Animals of Europe (1993). Both men live in Britain, and given their publishing history could be considered FASA's designated regional experts on Europe.
About the cover: once again, the cover by Romas Kukalis is quite good on its own merits, but bears no similarity to the events of the novel.
The first line of David Bowie's Diamond Dogs is quoted on the bookcover: "This ain't rock and roll. This is genocide." The central plot of the book concerns Luther's planned genocide of the human race, but what does rock and roll have to do with it?
Good interior illustrations by Karl Waller, better known for his superb chapter portraits in the Tir Tairngire sourcebook, among others.
The main antagonist of the novel, Luther, is something of a contradiction: an elven nosferatu. Nosferatu (Paranormal Animals of Europe, p.74) are victims of the Bruckner-Langer strain of the Human-Metahuman Vampiric Virus (HMHVV). This strain is supposed to be lethal to non-humans, but Luther is a one-in-a-million statistical exception. Since Carl Sargent is the author of Paranormal Animals of Europe as well as co-author of this novel, I suppose he's justified. In the context of the novel, Professor Richard Bruckner (who isolated the Bruckner-Langer HMHVV strain in the first place) himself confirms the remote possibility of an elven nosferatu.
Niall O'Connor is the nominal author of the Tír na nÓg posting to Shadowland. He received a bequest in Dunkelzahn's Will (Secrets, p.29), so he was probably still alive in '57 despite the stated intentions of the anonymous Tír na nÓg mage at the end of the novel.
p.6: Andrew Small is the mayor of New York. He is described unflatteringly in The Neo-Anarchist's Guide to North America (p.120) as "a vacillating Democrat with one finger in the air to test the political winds and another up his butt... a veteran of the corporate machine... knows as little about city government as he does about personal hygiene." Small's security is provided by Knight Errant.
p.8, 27, 31: Serrin has a spell lock (or in SR3 terms, a sustaining focus) devoted to a Detect Enemies spell.
p.15: Chinese proverb, "both guests and fish stink after three days." Cute.
p.19: Serrin's background in a nutshell. "His murdered parents, the leg shattered during his stint with Renraku, the Atlantean scam, even the story of how he and Geraint and Francesca had helped solve the gruesome murders in London last year." The latter reference is to the events of Streets of Blood.
p.22: Thanks in large part to Tom, the Plastic Jungles (Seattle, p.130; New Seattle, p.65) recently received a large grant from Redmond's mayor, Jeffrey Gasston, to detoxify the soil. It is currently able to support agriculture suitable for animal feed, producing income for the residents. No mention of the clean-up effort is made in New Seattle (Steve Kenson, 1999), which states that the soil remains toxic, so the reclaimed soil may be limited to certain areas of the Plastic Jungles rather than the entire region.
p.34: In Cape Town, the insult kaffir, once applied to black people by whites, is in 2055 attached to people with mixed ethnicity, usually by pureblood Africans.
p.36: The basic unit of currency in the Cape Republic is the rand.
p.38: Jenna Ni'Fairra is supervising Tir Tairngire's operation at Crater Lake, mentioned on page 21 of the Tir Tairngire sourcebook (Nigel Findley, 1993). She herself is described on page 51 of that sourcebook.
p.58: Michael keeps two modified Fairlight Excalibur cyberdecks at his apartment in Manhattan. "Serrin was astonished, not least by the plural. Any decker he knew would have killed his own mother to get his hands on just one of the most advanced cyberdecks on the market. To even dream of owning more than one was somewhere between hallucinatory and criminal hubris."
p.64: The Houses of Parliament in Cape Town were converted into a prison in 2035.
p.115: Mujaji the Rain Queen is described alternately as a woman, a dragon, and a spirit. She lives on Table Mountain above Cape Town. According to myth, she protects the Xhosa people from their traditional enemies, the Zulus. SR3 (p.269) lists her as a Great Dragon, feathered serpent.
p.136: The daoineann draoidheil are described in the Tír na nÓg sourcebook, page 101.
p.146: the Confederated Azanian Nations is composed of four member states -- the Cape Republic, Zulu Nation, Oranje-Vrystaat, and the Trans-Swazi Federation. Azania's administrative center is Pretoria-Witwatersrand-Vaal (PWV), a city held jointly by all four states. Zulu Nation is an elven country, governed by a King from its capital in New Hlobane (formerly Pietermaritzburg). Zulu has the second-highest per capita income in Africa.
p.155: the safari passes a pride of shaman lions, Awakened critters capable of casting illusions. Shaman lions are not described in any sourcebook.
p.172: According to Serrin, Shakala exhibits the characteristics of both mage and shaman. His magical tradition defies conventional categorization. This is touched upon in Cyberpirates (p.151), which describes African magical traditions as being Totem-based, shamanic and hermetic alike.
p.218: "Julia's chummer has tabs on a Luther Hayek, citizen of Zvolen -- in Slovakia -- circa eighteen-ten." Later, on p.272, Luther himself states, "I've been waiting for nearly three centuries for my own people to be born into the world." Luther is not an immortal elf in the conventional sense. He's a "spike baby" born in the late eighteenth century, infected by a nosferatu. Talk about a spectacularly improbable origin -- first a spike baby elf born centuries before the Awakening (which would have required an enormous mana spike), second an elf with the extremely rare genes to survive infection by the nosferatu virus.
p.223: "Ever get a massage from a troll who really knows what he's doing?" There's a massage agency in Manhattan called the Troll Roll that provides this service. Sounds fun.
p.226: "[Magellan's] mind flashed to the nightmare portrait of Jenna back in Tir Tairngire. Her beautiful face, but on her body the thorns and the endless blood." A reference to the Tir Tairngire sourcebook, page 51, in which an anonymous runner describes the portrait in Jenna's home.
p.272, 275: As a side effect of Tom's possession by Mathanas, the troll's body is completely purged of cyberware and his Essence and Magic restored to their uncorrupted values. Mathanas is a phenomenally powerful entity.
p.276: According to Niall, Serrin and Kristen were doomed lovers in previous lives. This life is their long-awaited opportunity to be together.
German: Nosferatu 2055
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Mason's: 3 out of 5.
“ Decent book. 3 out of 5. „
Doug's: x (out of A, B, C, D scale)
“ Nosferatu is a pretty good idea for a Shadowrun book, but in my opinion it was handled poorly. Michael was really the main character for most of the book, despite how it's all about Serrin, and the resulting story didn't work well at all. Combined with pages of pointless goings-on and some irritating mumbo-jumbo about past lives — the existance or possibility of which had never been mentioned or even hinted at in any previous novel — I found it a seriously flawed tale. „
Goodreads: 3.44 (as of June 2013)
Based partially on Mason's review
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Fighting, Escaping, And Evading The Japanese, 1941-1944
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Odyssey of a Philippine Scout is the true, verified story of a young American lieutenant’s stubborn refusal to give in to overwhelming odds.In the earliest, darkest days of American combat involvement in World War II, the small, vastly outnumbered United States forces in the Philippine Islands fought a bitter, hopeless battle against the invading Japanese. Among the US Army defenders of the Philippines--then still a US Protectorate in the process of gaining independence--were several regiments of “Philippine Scouts,” units consisting of well-trained, highly disciplined Filipino enlisted men and American Regular Army officers. One of these regiments, the 26th Cavalry Regiment (Philippine Scouts, or PS) was the last US Army horse cavalry regiment to ever see action as a mounted unit; its soldiers fought in the desperate, ferocious battles on the island of Luzon in December 1941 and early 1942 against Japanese infantry, supported by tanks and artillery. Arthur Kendal Whitehead was one of the officers in the 26th, and was knocked out of action in one of the Regiment’s first engagements against the Japanese. Separated from his unit, Lieutenant Whitehead spent over two years in his attempts to regain contact with American forces in an odyssey that took him to islands throughout the Philippine Archipelago and eventually by small boat to Australia. In the process, he not only evaded myriad determined Japanese Imperial Army units and patrols, but was captured, escaped, and hunted by a tenacious and cruel enemy. Along his tortuous and perilous path, he encountered the full spectrum of factions in the Philippines, from his fellow desperate American and Filipino soldiers and sailors, to peace-loving and kind Filipino farmers, fishermen and merchants, to merciless renegades and bandits . . . and many others with agendas and outlooks somewhere in between.Odyssey of a Philippine Scout is a thrilling and inspirational example of the legendary resourcefulness, resilience, and resolution of the American soldier in World War II.
Publisher: Bedford, PA : Aberjona Press, c2006
Characteristics: xvi, 288 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
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Poltergeist Review
Horror, Thriller / PG-13
Director: Gil Kenan / Writers: David Lindsay-Abaire, Mark Victor, Michael Grais, Steven Spielber
Cast: Kennedi Clements, Rosemarie DeWitt, Sam Rockwell, Saxon Sharbino, Jane Adams, Jared Harris, Kyle Catlett, Nicholas Braun, Susan Heyward
Movies By Russ Ceccola on May 22, 2015
Certain movies and scenes stay with you forever. That’s the power of the moving image on our impressionable minds. I feel conflicted when someone remakes an iconic movie because I don’t want to taint my memories of the original with variations of scenes or new people in the same situations. The 2015 Poltergeist brings up these issues. Sure, there are generations of younger moviegoers who never saw the original. For them, this might be their version. I’d sooner hand them the original and spare us the inferior experience. That all said, I was pleasantly surprised by this new movie. Poltergeist is entertaining and occasionally scary, but it’s ultimately unnecessary.
The plot of this modern Poltergeist is really the same as the original. Only the cast and the advances in special effects have changed. Director Gil Kenan previously directed only City of Ember and Monster House, but he manages to pull off a masterful feat by making this flick watchable. Writer David Lindsay-Abaire previously adapted Rise of the Guardians and Inkheart from other source material, so this was no stretch for him other than the challenge of somehow adding new aspects to the story. The Bowen family moves to a new development in Illinois. Amy (Rosemarie DeWitt) is an aspiring writer, while Eric (Sam Rockwell) just lost his job at John Deere’s corporate office. The three kids include teenage, cell phone-obsessed Kendra (Saxon Sharbino of Touch), nervous Griffin (Kyle Catlett of The Following) and adorable Madison/”Maddy” (Kennedi Clements in her first feature film role). As mysterious events begin to happen (blinking lights, etc.), each family member reacts differently until they all become united against hostile spirits when Maddy gets taken by them into another dimension.
Rockwell and DeWitt make a nice couple here. Rockwell really showed up on my radar with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and he continued to impress me, including his tour de force performance in Moon. DeWitt has a history in smaller films like Rachel Getting Married and Your Sister’s Sister, so it’s nice to see her in a bigger role. The child actors also make the whole thing believable, but for this film, it all comes down to the little girl at the heart of the abduction. Clements is brunette instead of the blonde Heather O’Rourke from the original. That was a conscious decision by the filmmakers, perhaps to distance the remake from the 1982 classic. Clements pulls it off because she exudes cuteness and curiosity and has chubby little cheeks to boot. Plus, she gets to spout the two most important lines in the film. I liked this movie family, and that made me root for them all the more.
The familiar aspects of the plot are tense and exciting. The scenes with Griffin and some toy clowns that he discovers in his bedroom closet kept me on the edge of my seat. A sequence with tree branches poking threateningly against Griffin’s skylight leads to even greater dangers. Most of what works here involves special effects mixed appropriately with physical effects. Although the other dimension and the ghosts in them are presented with the best computer graphics that money can buy, this isn’t as important as the things that happen within the house itself to the family members. I was worried that Kenan would rely too heavily on the full-screen CGI work to make this film stand out. Fortunately, these sequences are limited and not as crucial to the plot as the rumblings in the house.
Poltergeist is not entirely a retread of the original. The filmmakers tried to modernize it a bit by introducing iPhones and flat-screen TVs. As much as I like Jane Adams, her appearance as a paranormal investigator didn’t convince me. The biggest misstep is the inclusion of Jared Harris as a TV personality named Carrigan Burke, the host of a show called Haunted House Cleaners. He goes into people’s homes to scare away spirits, so he’s a resource for the Bowens when nothing else seems to work. Daughter Kendra loves this show, so when Burke shows up, the film takes on a bit of the feel of Fright Night with a TV host assisting a fan with supernatural problems. Burke is sort of witty, and his humor lightens the mood when it should be getting more intense. Most of all, Harris’s jokey performance made me yearn for the crucial role played by Zelda Rubinstein in the original film and its sequels as a creepy, unsettling medium and psychic who brought a goofy kind of gravitas to the role.
If there’s one sequence that just doesn’t make sense anymore, it’s the one in which Maddy stares at the white noise on a TV and senses beings in the TV reaching out to claim her from the other dimension. Back in 1982, TV stations still went off the air in the middle of the night and displayed static or white noise when you tuned to them or other channels that didn’t have broadcast signals. Modern TVs don’t experience that phenomenon. If there’s a signal, you see something; if there’s no signal or broadcast, it’s typically just a black screen. Maybe I’m thinking too much about it, but it seems to me that they had to go to great lengths to reproduce the most memorable scene from the first movie only to have it no longer carry the same weight. If you stared at white noise just for fun, you’d swear that you saw certain images or shapes, and that concept inspired the television sessions with the spirits.
Just like a superfluous remake in 2013 of Carrie, this is one that you can skip if you don’t want to sully the memories you have of Rubinstein in her squeaky voice telling little Carol Anne to go into the light. Those afraid of clowns should probably avoid it, too. You could do much worse at the local multiplex than a well-made update, and horror films are almost always better with friends, even if they’re bad. There are plenty of original ideas out there for ways to scare an audience, so filmmakers should turn off the TVs, stay out of the closets and find other ways for spirits to stalk little girls.
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BACKGROUND: Interferon gamma (IFNγ) plays an important role in the development of chronic lung diseases via the production of inflammatory mediators, although the exact mechanism remains unclear. The present study aimed at investigating the potential mechanisms by which IFNγ induced over-production of interleukins through the interaction between carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 1 (CEACAM1) and phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 3-kinase (PI3K) pathway.METHODS: IFN-γ induced over-production of interleukin (IL) 6 and IL8, and RNA expression of CEACAM1 and its subtypes or PI3K and its subtypes in human bronchial epithelial cells (HBE). The production of IL6 and IL8 or cell proliferation and movement were also evaluated in cellCEACAM1- or cellCEACAM1+ after the induction of IFN-γ. Roles of PI3K subtype proteins, e.g. PI3Kp110α/δ, Akt, p110α/γ/δ/β/mTOR, PI3Kp110α/δ/β, PI3Kp110δ, or pan-PI3K in IFN-γ-induced CEACAM1 subtype alterations were furthermore validated using those proteins of PI3K subtypes.RESULTS: CEACAM1, especially CEACAM1-S isoforms, was significantly up-regulated in HBE cells after treatment with IFN-γ. CEACAM1 played roles in expression of IL-6 and IL-8, and facilitated cellular proliferation and migration. IFN-γ up-regulated the expression of CEACAM1 in airway epithelial cells, especially CEACAM1-S isoforms, promoting cellular proliferation, migration, and the production of inflammatory factors. PI3K (p110δ)/Akt/mTOR pathway was involved in the process of IFN-γ-upregulated CEACAM1, especially CEACAM1-S. On the other hand, CEACAM1 could promote the activation of PI3K/Akt/mTOR pathway.CONCLUSION: IFN-γ could induce inflammatory responses, cellular growth and proliferation through the interaction of CEACAM1 (especially CEACAM1-S isoforms) and PI3K(p110δ)/Akt/mTOR in airway epithelial cells, which might be new alternative of future therapies against epithelial transition from inflammation to cancer.
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Mitchel London Pizza
Address: 456 Ninth Avenue, New York NY 10018 (b/n 35th and 36th streets; map)
The Skinny: Good mozzarella on the Margherita; careful balance of crust, sauce, and cheese; crust could stand some more salt and some more crispness. The Provençal seems to be a sort of Mitchel London specialty, and, with its interesting mix of fresh mozz, Gruyère cheese, and herbs de Provence, was our favorite pie on each of our visits.
Cost: large Margherita, $13.95; small, $7.95. Large Provençal, $13.95; small, $7.95. Premium pies run $1 to $2 more.
From left to right, top to bottom: Mitchel London Pizza's large Margherita, whole pie, on August 10; the upskirt shot from the August 10 pie; our large Margherita from August 13; the upskirt from the August 13 pie.
Yeah. I know. It's been a while since I've evaluated a pizzeria. So when news of the recently opened Mitchel London Pizza hit the web a couple weeks ago and I saw how close it was to the office, I figured this would be an easy opportunity to get back in the saddle.
I visit first for a solo dinner after work on Friday, August 10, and order a large Margherita. The space is clean and efficient looking, equipped with no-nonsense stainless steel racks and prep tables, as befits its history as the production kitchen for London's catering business. Pizzas are rolled out very thin with a rolling pin before being built up and slipped into a small Wood Stone gas-fired oven that doesn't look like it could handle more than a couple pies at a time.
The Margherita arrives soon after I order at the counter, take a seat, and puzzle over the crossword for a bit. In appearance, it seems to have the right balance of crust, sauce, and cheese. In taste, well, that's another matter. The crust is barely crisp and lacks any hint of saltiness. The cheese is good (nice, buttery fresh mozzarella), and the tomatoes are just fine (canned San Marzanos). But the thin, bland crust, though pleasingly tender, leaves me wanting more from this pie.
I know that London is passionate about food, and he serves excellent burgers and cupcakes next door at Burgers & Cupcakes, so I chalk this one up to the place's overall newness and the fact that London was not at the oven at the time of my first visit. I hope for a crisper, tastier pie on my next trip, which I plan for the following Monday, August 13.
Monday rolls around, and I gather my coworker Raphael and pizza freak Tien Mao, a Friend of Slice from way back. We get there shortly after 1 p.m., and Mitchel London himself is making pies and overseeing the operation. Our expectations rise, and, with more mouths to feed, we order a large Provençal in addition to another large Margherita.
The Margherita, though slightly better than on the first visit, is still barely crisp, and the crust is again bland. This time, however, the sauce is heavily salted—too much so. It's as if the crew is trying to make up the dough's lack of salt in the tomatoes. The crust has marginally more char, as you can see in the composite photo above.
The Provençal that we eat features a heavier coating of cheese as well as herbs de Provence and olives. If you witness London's enthusiasm for herbs de Provence on pizza in this video, you'd come away, like I did, with the idea that it's a sort of signature pie for him. And of the pizzas we sample this day, it's the winner. The Gruyère and mozzarella make an interesting combination—a nutty and buttery flavor that goes well with the assorted herbs sprinkled atop. Were it not for the crust, this pie would be a real treat—that, and the fact that the "olives" promised on the menu turned out to be a single olive holding court at the center of the pizza. (On a third visit, the Provençal had a generous helping of sliced olives scattered over it, which increased the deliciousness level considerably.)
On our next visit, we had a chance to talk to London about his pies and the oven. Turns out it he's been running it around 550°, after playing with it to find a temperature that cooks the top and bottom evenly, though on the day of our third visit, it was running around 527°, which may explain the crust issues. We'll check in periodically, since he's still breaking the place in. Given London's careful eye toward food, I'm hoping he'll address the salt and crust issues that are holding back what would otherwise be good pies.
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Pictures worth a 1000 words
January 22, 2012 at 12:00 pm (british royalty, diaries, history, jane austen, news, people, portraits and paintings, research) (bendor grosvenor, bognor regis, brooklands, emma rutherford, frances anne seymour, Jane Austen, mrs spencer smith, paula byrne, portrait miniatures, queen adelaide, silhouettes, susannah mackworth praed, susannah smith, thomas smith of bersted)
This picture isn’t worth only the proverbial “thousand words,” it was also worth a £1000 to the lucky purchaser at a November 2011 Bonhams auction. The sitter: Mamma Smith’s aunt, Susannah Mackworth Smith (wife of Thomas Smith of Bersted Lodge, Bognor).
Emma’s diaries mention a near-yearly visit to Bersted; though very little is said about the Aunt and Uncle found there… AH, joys and frustrations of working with primary materials. You wish people would ‘spill their guts’; instead they tempt you with teasing clues.
You can see the entire Susannah Smith miniature at Bonhams‘ website. If you search for Mackworth Praed you will also find her twin sister (Arabella, Countess of Mayo; a lady attached to the household of Queen Adelaide); and two of their brothers.
Susannah has not been my only *find* recently. Gosh! so many families purging themselves of ancestral miniatures… Don’t know which is more depressing: people selling their ancestors or all those portraits of “A Lady” or “A Gentleman” who could be someone in the Smith & Gosling family and friend tree!
{Hell, there even could be some Austens out there… going through life as unnamed Ladies and Gents.}
Another family member “found” and not yet discussed, although I posted her portrait a short bit ago, is Frances Anne Seymour — who married Spencer Smith. I actually have a photograph of Frances, granted – as photography was a later medium, taken when she was in her late 50s. Still so much FUN to compare the two, young “Bride” Frances and older “Matriarch” Frances. She, too, sold through Bonhams (in 2008). Note that on the website her middle name is spelled Ann; oh, spelling differences just kills me! {And Paula Byrne thinks she has problems with Austin… Try Jelfe/Jelph; Dickins/Dickens; Du Val/Duval; Susan/Susannah/Susanna; and a whole host of others… Never mind, just trying to find people named SMITH!}
Frances and Spencer were the parents of the trio of girls whose miniatures sold at auction I discussed in December. They sold through Christie’s. Mike E., who photographed the album into which Frances and her three daughters were “pasted,” was surprised yet happy that the girls had sold as one lot. May they remain together!
Emma Rutherford‘s Facebook page offers some fascinating reading about the world of miniatures and silhouettes. Let’s face it, for most of my people — even those who lived into older age and photography — these are the types of images that (might) survive. Emma has a new article out in Homes & Antiques Magazine; I’ve unearthed an earlier conversation on miniatures from the same magazine. Her February 2012 article is on silhouettes. Not sure how easy it is to find the magazine in the US. You can read more about Emma Rutherford at her website. Emma kindly alerted Two Teens readers to an article on the Byrne Jane Austen portrait.
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IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 9043 OF 2014
(Arising out of Special Leave Petition (C) NO.12019 of 2014)
Vijay Shankar Pandey
Appellant
Union of India & Another
CHELAMESWAR, J.
Leave granted.
The unsuccessful petitioner in the Writ Petition
No.87(S/B)/2014 on the file of the High court of Allahabad is
the appellant herein.
By the impugned judgment dated
3.4.2014 the said writ petition was dismissed by a Division
Bench of the Allahabad High Court.
Administrative Service. On 22.7.2011 he was served with a
chargesheet consisting of five charges. All the charges are
to the effect that the conduct of the appellant is contrary to
Rule-3, 7, 8 and 17 of The All India Services (Conduct) Rules,
1968 (hereinafter called CONDUCT Rules). After certain
correspondence, (the details of which are not necessary for
the present purpose), the disciplinary authority appointed an
Enquiry Officer on 27.2.2012.
The appellant submitted his
reply on 5.3.2012. The appellant challenged the chargesheet
before the Central Administrative Tribunal in O.A.No.623 of
Aggrieved by the same, the appellant filed a writ petition in
subsequently.
withdrew
The order of the Central Administrative
Tribunal became final.
The Enquiry
report on
30.8.2012 exonerating the appellant of all the charges. The
copy of the said report is not served on him.
9.9.2012,
Committee for considering the cases of officers of the Indian
Administrative Service for promotion to the Super Time
Scale-II (ASTS-II) was held. The case of the appellant was
considered and the decision was kept in a sealed cover. The
appellant, therefore, submitted a representation to the Chief
Secretary of the State of Uttar Pradesh on 11.9.2012
requesting that in view of exoneration by the Enquiry Officer,
he be promoted to the Super Time Scale-II (ASTS-II).
there was no response to the representation, he approached
the Central Administrative Tribunal on 26.9.2012 once again
in O.A.No.381 of 2012 with prayer as follows:
to issue an order or direction commanding the
respondents to take a final decision on the enquiry
report which has already been submitted by the
enquiry officer;
respondents open the sealed cover of the
recommendations of the selection committee and to
forthwith issue promotion orders in respect of the
applicant;
Such other orders as this Tribunal may deem just, fit
and proper be also passed in the interest of justice.
On the same day 26.9.2012, an order (hereinafter referred
to as the IMPUGNED Order) invoking Rule 8(3) of the All
(Discipline
Appeal)
Rules,
(hereinafter referred to as DISCIPLINE Rules) came to be
passed by the State of U.P. rejecting the Enquiry Report
dated 30.8.2012 (referred to supra). The relevant portion of
the order reads as under:
2. Enquiry Officer Sri Jagan Mathews sent the enquiry
report vide his letter dated 30.08.2012. On examining the
enquiry report of the Enquiry Officer at government level it
was found that the Enquiry Officer had submitted a
cursory report without observing the mandate
of Rules -8(15), 8(16), 8(20) and 8(24) of All
India Service (Discipline & Appeal) Rules, 1969
as criticism has been leveled in the writ petiion of the
Central Government filed through Sri Vijay Shankar Pandey
before the Hon'ble Supreme Court and as such it is a clear
violation of Rule-3(1), Rule-7, Rule-8(1) and Rule-17 of the
All India Service (Conduct) Rules, 1968. Therefore the
Enquiry Officer has failed to properly investigate
the facts in the enquiry proceedings.
Therefore, in the matter of Sri Vijay Shankar Pandey
IAS-1979, the Hon'ble Governor, after rejecting the enquiry
report of Enquiry Officer, Sri Jagan Mathews, constitute in
his place a 2 member Inquiry Board under sub-rule (3) of
Rule-8 of All India Service (Discipline & Appeal) Rules,
1969, comprising of Sri Alok Ranjan, Agricultural
Production Commissioner, Govt. of U.P. and Sri Anil Kumar
Gupta, Infrastructure and Industrial Commissioner, Govt.
of U.P. in order to enquire into the charsges imposed
against him.
26.9.2012,
appellant again approached the Central Administrative
O.A.No.381/2012
O.A.No.395/2012.
Administrative Tribunal on 16.4.2013 on the ground that it
infructuous.
dismissed on 20.12.2013 with certain directions. The later
decision was challenged by the appellant herein in Writ
Petition No.87(S/B) of 2014, in which the order under appeal
herein (hereinafter referred to as the Order under APPEAL)
came to be passed dismissing the writ petition.
The background facts of this case are that a Writ
Petition (C) No.37 of 2010 titled Julio F. Ribero and others
vs. Govt. of India including the appellant herein, came to be
filed under the name and style of India Rejuvination
Initiative, a non-Government Organisation (NGO).
The said
Writ Petition along with another culminated in a judgment of
this Court in Ram Jethmalani & Others v. Union of India
& Others, (2011) 8 SCC 1. All the charges against the
appellant are in connection with the filing of the said Writ
Petition on the ground that the conduct of the petitioner is
violative of the various CONDUCT Rules. Charge No.1 is on
account of certain statements made in the said Writ Petition
against certain senior officers of the Government of India.
The second charge is that the appellant failed to comply
with the requirement of Rule 13 of the CONDUCT Rules
whereunder he is obliged to give information to the
respondent within one month of becoming a member of the
such organization (NGO). The third and the fourth charges
are based on the allegation made in the Writ Petition (Civil)
No.37 of 2010. The substance of the charges is that those
allegations tantamount to criticism of the action of the
Central as well as State Governments and of giving evidence
without the previous sanction of the government and,
therefore, contravention of Rules 71 and 82 respectively of
the CONDUCT Rules.
Charge No.5 is that the appellant
violated Rule 173 of the CONDUCT Rules.
Charge No.1
Rule 7. Criticism of Government.No member of the Service shall, in any Radio
Broadcast or communication over any public media or in any document published
anonymously, pseudonymously or in his own name or in the name of any other
person or in any communication to the press or in any public utterance, make any
statement of fact or opinion,
Which has the effect of an adverse criticism of any current or recent
policy or action of the Central Government or a State Government; or
which is capable of embarrassing the relations between the Central
Government and any State Government; or
Government and the Government of any Foreign State:
Provided that nothing in this rule shall apply to any statement made or
views expressed by a member of the service in his official capacity and in the due
performance of the duties assigned to him.
Rule 8 Evidence before committees, etc.(1) Save as provided in sub-rule (3), no
member of the Service shall except with the previous sanction of the Government,
give evidence in connection with any inquiry conducted by any person, committee or
other authority.
Where any sanction has been accorded under sub-rule (1) no member
of the service giving such evidence shall criticize the policy or any action of the
Central Government or of a State Government.
Nothing in this rule shall apply to
(a) evidence given at any inquiry before an authority appointed by the
Government, or by Parliament or by a State Legislature; or
(b) evidence given in any judicial inquiry; or
(c) evidence given at departmental inquiry ordered by any authority
subordinate to the Government.
(4) No member of the Service giving any evidence referred to in subrule (3) shall give publicity to such evidence.
Rule 17. Vindication of acts and character of members of the service:No
member of the service shall, except with the previous sanction of the Government
have recourse to any court or to the press for the vindication of official act which has
been the subject-matter of adverse criticism or attack of a defamatory character.
Provided that if no such sanction is conveyed to by the Government
within twelve weeks from the date of receipt of the request, the member of the
service shall be free to assume that the sanction sought for has been granted to him.
Writ Petition No.37(Civil)/2010 Julio F. Ribero and Others v.
Govt. of India and others has been filed through India
Rejuvenation Initiative, NGO before the Honble Supreme
Court wherein you are also a petitioner.
aforementioned writ petition on behalf of the petitioners
(which also included you) an additional affidavit has been
filed by Sri Jasbeer Singh wherein para 4 of the allegations
made by Sri S.K. Dubey against senior officers of the
Enforcement Directorate in his letter to the Honble Prime
Minister have been endorsed, which was not expected of
you being a member of the All India Services.
This conduct of yours is contrary to Rule-3 of the All
India Service (Conduct) Rules, 1968 and you have violated
the aforesaid rule.
Before becoming member of the institution named India
Rejuvenation Initiative, you did not inform the government,
whereas as per Rule-13 of the All India Service (Conduct)
Rules1968 information is to be given within one month of
India Service (Conduct) Rules-1968 and you have violated
In the writ petition No.37(Civil)/2010 Julio F. Ribero and
others v. Govt. of India and others filed by you before the
Honble Supreme Court, by way of an additional affidavit
filed by the petitioners (which also included you), senior
officers of the Government of India were criticized, whereas
the members of the All India Service are prohibited from
criticizing, in the media or in the press, the actions of both
the Central as well as the State Government, either in their
own or in another persons name. as such you violated
Rule-7 of the All India Service (Conduct) Rules-1968.
Explanation.Nothing in this rule shall be deemed to prohibit a
member of the Service from vindicating his private character or any act done by him
in his private capacity. Provided that he shall submit a report to the Government
regarding such action.
In Writ Petition No.37(Civil)/2010 Julio F. Ribero and Others v.
Govt. of India and others filed before the Honble Supreme
Court, by way of an additional affidavit filed by the
petitioners (which also includes), officers of the Enforcement
Directorate of Government of India were criticized, whereas
as per Rule-8 of the All India Service (Conduct) Rules-1968,
members of the All India Service are not allowed to depose
in any enquiry wherein the Central or the State government
may be criticized.
Court, no permission of the State Government was sought
for filing the additional affidavit which was filed by the
petitioners (which also includes you), whereas members of
the All India Service are not allowed to give any such
information without prior permission of either the Central or
the State Government which brings disregard to the Central
or the State Government. As such you failed to observe
Rule-17 of the All India Service (Conduct) Rules, 1968.
This kind of your conduct is against Rule-3 of the All
India Service (Conduct) Rules-1968 and you are guilty for
violating the aforesaid provision.
The appellant herein never disputed the fact that
he was one of the petitioners in Writ Petition (Civil)
No.37/2010 (referred to supra) nor did he disown statements
(allegations) made in the said writ petition.
Officer exonerated the appellant of all the charges.
second respondent rejected the report of the Enquiry Officer
on two grounds;
that the Enquiry Officer submitted a
cursory report without observing the mandate of Rules8(15), 8(16), 8(20) and 8(24) of the DISCIPLINE Rules; and
failed to properly investigate the facts.
Interestingly, the
IMPUGNED order, states that the conduct of the appellant as
recorded in the charge-sheet is in clear violation of Rules3(1), 7, 8(1) and 17 of 1969 Rules. Therefore, the second
respondent ordered to constitute a two member Inquiry
Board to again enquire into the charges framed against the
Mr. Pallav Shishodia, learned senior counsel appearing
on behalf of the appellant attacked the IMPUGNED order
dated 26.09.2012 on two grounds:
That invocation of Rule 8(3) of the DISCIPLINE
Rules is wholly illegal. It is submitted that the said rule
only enables the State to make a choice between the
two courses of action available in case it decides to
conduct an enquiry contemplated under the rules;
Appointing
misconduct of the Public Servant; or
Appoint an authority or board under the Public
Servants (Inquiries) Act, 1850.
10. It is further submitted that the State cannot resort to
the provisions of the 1850 Act after having had appointed an
Enquiry Officer under the DISCIPLINE Rules merely because
the State is not able to agree with the report submitted by
the Enquiry Officer.
11. Learned senior counsel further argued that the reason
given (by the State for rejecting the Enquiry Officers report)
that the enquiry was conducted in violation of the mandate
Rules-8(15),
DISCIPLINE Rules, is wholly unsustainable in law - for the
reason that the Order dated 26.9.2012 fails to specify the
exact violations of above mentioned rules, committed by the
Enquiry Officer. On the other hand, none of these provisions
are attracted in the case on hand as each one of the above
mentioned rules pertain to the procedure to be followed
while conducting an enquiry. Rules 8 (15) and 8(16) of the
DISCIPLINE Rules, incorporate the rule of audi altem partem
to enable both the delinquent officer as well as the State to
adduce evidence in support of their respective stands on the
various charges set out in the chargesheet.
Rule 8(20) of
the 1969 Rules only enables the Enquiry Officer to either
receive written briefs or hear both the Presenting Officer and
the delinquent. The Rule does not mandate either causes of
the action unless the parties desire so. It is not the case of
the State at any stage that the Presenting Officer either
wanted to be heard in person or to file a written brief,
therefore, there cannot be any infraction of Rule 8(20) of the
1969 Rules.
Lastly, it is submitted that Rule 8(24) of the
DISCIPLINE Rules only prescribed the format in which the
report is to be submitted. The non-compliance, if any, with
the format (because the appellant is unable to make any
submission as the copy of the report itself is not made
available to the appellant), is not fatal to the validity of the
report. According to the learned counsel Rule 8 (24) of the
DISCIPLINE Rules is to be construed only as recommendatory
but not as mandatory.
The ultimate conclusion of the State in rejecting
the Enquiry Report dated 30.08.2012 is that the
Enquiry Officer has failed to properly investigate the
The learned counsel submitted that there are
no facts in dispute which require to be investigated. All
facts alleged in the chargesheet against the appellant
are admitted by the appellant.
The Enquiry Officer is
required only to record a conclusion whether, in his
opinion, the admitted facts constitute any misconduct
under any of the CONDUCT Rules referred to in the
chargesheet.
12. On the other hand, Shri K.V. Vishwanathan, learned
senior counsel for the respondent submitted that the Order
under APPEAL does not call for any interference as the order
of the Enquiry Officer is in utter non-compliance with Rule
8(15), (16), (20) and (24) of the DISCIPLINE Rules.
counsel also submitted that the decision of the State is well
within the authority conferred under Rule 8, sub-Rule (3) of
the DISCIPLINE Rules.
13. The Division Bench based its conclusion, that the
IMPUGNED order dated 26.9.2012 cannot be faulted, on two
factors. They are:
that the Enquiry Officer submitted his Report dated
without following the procedure prescribed by
law under Rule 8 of the DISCIPLINE Rules; (ii) More
interestingly, the High Court accepted the submission on
behalf of the State that the initial order of the appointment
of Enquiry Officer under Rule 8 is unsustainable in law. Such
a flaw was realized by the State only at the stage of
considering the said Enquiry Officers report.
14. The High Court, therefore, came to the conclusion that
the State Government is justified in law to appoint a Board of
Enquiry, contemplated under Rule 8(3) of the DISCIPLINE
15. Now, we proceed to consider the submissions.
16. The first submission of the appellant is to be examined
in the light of Rule 8(1), (2) and (3) of the DISCIPLINE Rules.
Rule 8 as far as is relevant is extracted:
Rule 8. Procedure for imposing major penalties (1) No order
imposing any of the major penalties specified in Rule 6 shall be made
except after an inquiry is held as far as may be, in the manner provided in
this rule and Rule 10, or, provided by the Public Servants (Inquiries) Act,
1850 (37 of 1850) where such inquiry is held under that Act.
(2) Whenever the disciplinary authority is of the opinion that there are
grounds for inquiring into the truth of any imputation of misconduct or
misbehaviour against a member of the Service, it may appoint under this
rule or under the provisions of the Public Servants (Inquiries) Act, 1850,
as the case may be, an authority to inquire into the truth thereof.
(3) Where a Board is appointed as the inquiring authority it shall consist
of not less than two senior officers provided that at least one member of
such a Board shall be an officer of the service to which the member of the
service belongs.
17. It is apparent that Rule 8(1) prohibits imposition of any
accordance with the procedure prescribed under the Rules or
under the provisions of the Public Servants (Inquiries) Act,
18. Rule
specifically
authorises
authority to appoint an authority to enquire into the truth of
any imputation of misconduct or misbehaviour against a
member of the service if the disciplinary authority is of the
opinion that there are grounds to inquire into.
Such an
authority could be appointed either in exercise of the power
conferred under Rules or under provisions of the Public
19. Rule 8(3) contemplates appointment of a Board as an
Inquiring Authority and stipulates that such Board shall
consist of not less than two senior officers of whom at least
one should be an officer of the service to which the
delinquent officer belongs. The expression Board is not
defined under the Rules.
The only conclusion that can be
drawn from the scheme of Rules 8 (2) & (3) is that the
expression Enquiring Authority implies either a single
member authority or Board consisting of two or more
20. All the parties - the appellant, the respondents and the
proceeded
IMPUGNED
constituting a two member Enquiry Board under Rule 8(3) of
the DISCIPLINE Rules is an order constituting such a Board
We do not see any basis for such a conclusion.
IMPUGNED order nowhere refers to the Public Servants
(Inquiries) Act, nor there is anything in Rule 8(3) which
suggests that whenever a multi-member Board is appointed
as an Enquiring Authority, such a Board could be appointed
only under provisions of the Public Servants (Inquiries) Act.
The language of Rule 8(2) is wide enough to enable the
disciplinary authority to appoint either a single member
Enquiring Authority or a multi-member Board to inquire into
the misconduct of a delinquent officer.
21. Be that as it may, the question is whether the
disciplinary authority could have resorted to such a practice
of abandoning the Enquiry already undertaken and resort to
appointment of a fresh Enquiring Authority (multi-member).
The issue is not really whether the Enquiring Authority
should be a single member or a multi member body, but
whether a second inquiry such as the one under challenge is
permissible.
A Constitution Bench of this Court in K.R. Deb
v. The Collector of Central Excise, Shillong, (1971) 2
SCC 102, examined the question in the context of Rule 15(1)
of the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and
Appeal) Rules, 1957.
It was a case where an enquiry was
sub-Inspector,
appellant before this Court).
(the
The inquiry officer held that
the charge was not proved. Thereafter the disciplinary
authority appointed another inquiry officer to conduct a
supplementary open inquiry.
Such supplementary inquiry
was conducted and a report that there was no conclusive
proof to establish the charge was made.
Not satisfied,
the disciplinary authority thought it fit that another inquiry
officer should be appointed to inquire afresh into the
22. The Court held that:
12. It seems to us that Rule 15, on the face of it, really provides for
one inquiry but it may be possible if in a particular case there has been
no proper enquiry because some serious defect has crept into the inquiry
or some important witnesses were not available at the time of the inquiry
or for some other reason, the Disciplinary Authority may ask the
Inquiry Officer to record further evidence. But there is no provision
in Rule 15 for completely setting aside previous inquiries on the ground
that the report of the Inquiring Officer or Officers does not appeal to the
Disciplinary Authority. The Disciplinary Authority has enough powers
to reconsider the evidence itself and come to its own conclusion under
Rule 9.
13. In our view the rules do not contemplate an action such as was taken
by the Collector on February 13, 1962. It seems to us that the Collector,
instead of taking responsibility himself, was determined to get some
officer to report against the appellant. The procedure adopted was not
only not warranted by the rules but was harassing to the appellant.
(Emphasis supplied)
and allowed the appeal of K.R. Deb.
23. It can be seen from the above that the normal rule is
that there can be only one Enquiry.
This Court has also
recognized the possibility of a further Enquiry in certain
circumstances enumerated therein.
The decision however
makes it clear that the fact that the Report submitted by the
Enquiring Authority is not acceptable to the disciplinary
authority, is not a ground for completely setting aside the
enquiry report and ordering a second Enquiry.
24. The scheme of Rule 8 of the DISCIPLINE Rules and Rule
15 of the Central Civil Services (Classification, Control and
Appeal) Rules, 1965 are similar. Therefore, the principle laid
down in Debs case, in our opinion, would squarely apply to
the case on hand.
25. Therefore, it becomes necessary for us to examine the
legality of the IMPUGNED order in the light of the law laid
down in Debs case i.e. whether a further enquiry is really
warranted on the facts of the case. We shall proceed for the
purpose of this case that such further enquiry need not be by
the same officer who initially constituted an enquiring
authority and could be by a multi-member board.
26. The respondents recorded four reasons for ordering a
fresh inquiry by a Board, under the IMPUGNED order.
The Inquiry Report dated 30th August, 2012 is
cursory.
The inquiry was conducted in violation of
Rules 8(15), (16), (20) and (24) of the
DISCIPLINE Rules.
(iii) The contents of Writ Petition (C) No. 37 of
2010 on the file of this Court constitutes a
criticism of the Central Government, and
therefore, is a clear violation of Rule 3(1),
Rule 7, 8(1) and 17 of the CONDUCT Rules.
(iv) That the Inquiry Officer failed to properly
investigate the facts before submitting his
27. The legality of the IMPUGNED order depends on the
tenability of the above.
We shall deal with the last of the
above-mentioned four reasons:
4th Reason:
It is an absolutely untenable ground, since there was
nothing for the Enquiry Officer to investigate regarding the
facts of the various allegations in the charge-sheet.
appellant herein never disputed the factual correctness of
the allegations. He admitted that he was a petitioner in Writ
Petition (C) No. 37 (supra).
He never disowned any one of
the allegations made in the said Writ Petition.
there were no facts to be investigated into.
Ist Reason:
Coming to the first reason - that the report is a cursory
report. A copy of the report is not made available to the
appellant. The content of the said report is not known. The
only admitted fact about the report is that the appellant was
exonerated of all the charges made against him. If such a
conclusion is otherwise justified, whether the report is
cursory or elaborate, should make no difference to the
legality of the report. What matters is the correctness of the
conclusions recorded, not the length or the elegance of the
language of the report which determines the legality of the
conclusions recorded in it. Therefore this ground is equally
untenable.
2nd Reason:
The second reason stated is that the Enquiry Officer did
not observe the mandate of Rule 8(15), (16) and (24) of the
We deem it appropriate to examine the
content and scope of these rules 4 and record our conclusion
(15) On the date fixed for the inquiry, the oral and documentary evidence by which the articles of charge
are proposed to be proved shall be produced by, on behalf of, the disciplinary authority. The witness shall
be examined by, or on behalf of, the Presenting Officer and may be cross-examined by, or on behalf of, the
member of the Service. The Presenting Officer shall be entitled to re-examine the witnesses on any points,
on which they have been cross-examined, but not on any new matter, without the leave of the inquiring
authority. The inquiring authority may also put such questions to the witnesses as it thinks fit.
(16) If it shall appear necessary before the close of the case on behalf of the disciplinary authority, the
inquiring authority may, in its discretion, allow the Presenting Officer to produce evidence not included in
the list given to the member of the Service or may itself call for new evidence or recall and re-examine any
witness and, in such case, the member of the Service shall be entitled to have, if he demands it, a copy of
the list of further evidence proposed to be produced and an adjournment of the inquiry for three clear days
before the production of such new evidence, exclusive of the day of adjournment and the day to which the
inquiry is adjourned. The inquiring authority shall give to the member of the Service an opportunity of
inspecting such documents before they are taken on the record. The inquiring authority may also allow the
member of the Service to produce new evidence, if it is of opinion that the production of such evidence is
necessary in the interests of justice.
NOTE.- New evidence shall not be permitted or called for or any witness shall not be recalled to fill up any
gap in the evidence. Such evidence may be called for only when there is an inherent lacuna or defect in the
evidence which has been produced originally.
regarding the applicability of each of the rules to the facts of
28. Rule 8(15) provides that both the oral and documentary
evidence by which the articles of charge are proposed to be
proved by the disciplinary authority shall be produced on the
date fixed for the Enquiry; witnesses on behalf of the
disciplinary authority may be examined both in chief as well
as cross etc.
It is obvious from the Rule that the rule
cannot have any application where the delinquent officer
admits the correctness of the factual allegations against him.
29. Rule 8(16) speaks of adducing additional evidence and
the procedure thereof.
For the reasons mentioned in the
context of sub-Rule (15), sub-Rule (16) will equally have no
application, where the delinquent officer does not contest
the factual correctness of the allegations made against him.
30. Rule 8(20)5 enables the Enquiring authority to hear both
the presenting officer on behalf of the disciplinary authority
Rule 8(20). The inquiring authority may, after the completing of the production of
evidence, hear the Presenting Officer, if any appointed, and the member of the
Service or permit them to file written briefs of their respective cases, if they so
and the delinquent officer, after recording of the evidence is
In addition, it enables the Enquiring Authority to
permit written briefs by both the parties, in case they desire
31. Application of Rule 20 thus depends upon the existence
of two factors.
the appointment of a presenting officer.
the presenting officer desires to file a written brief.
32. We could not find any categorical assertion on the
record by the State that a presenting officer was in fact
appointed and such officer desired to file a written brief or
make oral submissions, but was prevented from doing so by
the Enquiring Authority.
Therefore, even this reason must
33. Coming to Rule 8(24), the sub-Rule reads as follows:(24)(i) After the conclusion of the inquiry, a report shall be
prepared and it shall contain(a)
the articles of charge and the statement of imputations of misconduct or misbehaviour;
the defence of the member of the Service in respect
of each article of charge;
an assessment of the evidence in respect of each article of charge; and
the findings on each article of charge and the reasons
therefor.
Explanation.-If in the opinion of the inquiring authority
the proceedings of the inquiry establish any article of
charge different from the original articles of charge, it may
record its findings on such article of charge.
Provided that the findings on such article of charge
shall not be recorded unless the member of the Service has
either admitted the facts on which such article of charge is
based or has had a reasonable opportunity of defending
himself against such article of charge.
The inquiring authority shall forward to the
disciplinary authority the records of inquiry which shall
include(a)
the report prepared by it under clause (i);
the written statement of defence, if
submitted by the member of the Service;
the oral and documentary evidence produced in
the course of the inquiry;
written briefs, if any, filed by the Presenting
Officer or the member of the Service or both
during the course of the inquiry; and
the orders, if any, made by the disciplinary
authority and the inquiring authority in regard to
the inquiry.
any,
34. It stipulates as to what should be the content of the
From a reading of the above Rule, it is clear that the
rule will have virtually no application to a case where the
correctness of the allegations contained in the articles of
charge. Therefore, it follows that this reason also is wholly
3rd Reason:
Coming to the 3rd reason given in the IMPUGNED Order
that the content of the Writ Petition (C) No. 37 of 2010 is
critical of the Government of India, and therefore, violative of
Rule 3(1), 7, 8(1) and 17 of the CONDUCT Rules, we are of
the opinion that this ground is equally untenable.
35. Rule 17 of the CONDUCT Rules reads as follows:
17. Vindication of acts and character of members of the service.No
member of the service shall, except with the previous sanction of the
Government, have recourse to any Court or to the press for the vindication
of official act which has been the subject-matter of adverse criticism or
attack of a defamatory character.
within twelve weeks from the date of receipt of the request, the member of
service shall be free to assume that the sanction sought for has been
granted to him.
member of the Service from vindicating his private character or any act
done by him in his private capacity. Provided that he shall submit a report
to the Government regarding such action.
We fail to understand how this Rule could be said to have
been violated, in the background of the allegations contained
in the charges framed against the appellant. In our opinion,
this rule has no application whatsoever to the allegations
contained in the charge-sheet.
The rule only prohibits a
member of the service from having recourse either to a
Court or to the press for vindication of the official acts of
such member which have been the subject matter of
adverse criticism or a defamatory attack.
It is not the
content of any one of the charges against the appellant that
he sought to vindicate any one of his official acts by filing WP
(C) No. 37 of 2010.
36. Rule 7 of the Conduct Rules reads as follows:
7. Criticism of Government.No member of the service shall,
in any Radio Broadcast or communication over any public media
or in any document published anonymously, pseudonymously or in
his own name or in the name of any other person or in any
communication to the press or in any public utterance, make any
statement of fact or opinion
which has the effect of an adverse criticism of any current
or recent policy or action of the Central Government or a
State Government; or
which is capable of embarrassing the relations between the
Central Government and any State Government; or
Central Government and the Government of any Foreign
Provided that nothing in this rule shall apply to any
statement made or views expressed by a member of the service in
his official capacity and in the due performance of the duties
assigned to him.
37. Clearly this Rule only prohibits criticism of the policies
of the Government or making of any statement which is
likely to embarrass the relations between the Government of
India and a Foreign State or the Government of India and the
Government of a State. Allegations of mal-administration, in
our opinion, do not fall within the ambit of any of the
abovementioned three categories.
The entire burden of
song in the Writ Petition (C) No.37 of 2010 is regarding maladministration.
8. Evidence before committees, etc.(1) Save as provided in sub-rule
(3), no member of the service shall, except with the previous sanction of
the Government, give evidence in connection with any inquiry conducted
by any person, committee or other authority.
Where any sanction has been accorded under sub-rule (1)
no member of the service giving such evidence shall criticize the policy or
any action of the Central Government or of a State Government.
evidence given at any inquiry before an authority appointed
by the Government, or by Parliament or by a State
Legislature; or
evidence given in any judicial inquiry; or
evidence given at departmental inquiry ordered by any
authority subordinate to the Government.
In substance the Rule prohibits a member of the service to
give evidence in connection with any inquiry conducted by
any person, committee or other authority except with the
previous sanction of the Government. However, sub-rule (3)
(b) makes a categorical declaration that nothing in the Rule
shall apply to evidence given in any judicial inquiry.
petition filed in public interest before the highest court of the
country cannot be an inquiry contemplated under Rule 8(i).
This is apart from the fact that sub-rule (3)(b) expressly
excludes evidence given in any judicial inquiry. Dehors such
an exception, Rule 8 would be subversive of the basic
freedom of the citizens of this country, detrimental to the
norms of good governance and antithetical to the liberal
democratic structure of the Constitution.
39. Rule 3(1) reads as follows:
3. General.(1) Every member of the service shall, at all
times, maintain absolute integrity and devotion to duty and
shall do nothing which is unbecoming of a member of the
40. We are at a loss to comprehend how the filing of the
writ petition containing allegations that the Government of
India is lax in discharging its constitutional obligations of
establishing the rule of law can be said to amount to either
failure to maintain absolute integrity and devotion to duty or
of indulging in conduct unbecoming of a member of the
41. Even otherwise, the IMPUGNED order, in our opinion is
wholly untenable. The purpose behind the proceedings
appears calculated to harass the appellant since he dared to
point out certain aspects of mal-administration in the
Government of India. The action of the respondents is
consistent with their conduct clearly recorded in
(2011) 8
SCC 16. The whole attempt appears to be to suppress any
Ram Jethmalani & Others v. Union of India & Others, (2011) 8 SCC 1 - 40. We must express our
serious reservations about the responses of the Union of India. In the first instance, during the earlier
phases of hearing before us, the attempts were clearly evasive, confused, or originating in the denial mode.
It was only upon being repeatedly pressed by us did the Union of India begin to admit that indeed the
investigation was proceeding very slowly. It also became clear to us that in fact the investigation had
completely stalled, inasmuch as custodial interrogation of Hasan Ali Khan had not even been sought for,
even though he was very much resident in India. Further, it also now appears that even though his passport
had been impounded, he was able to secure another passport from the RPO in Patna, possibly with the help
or aid of a politician.
41. During the course of the hearings the Union of India repeatedly insisted that the matter
involves many jurisdictions, across the globe, and a proper investigation could be accomplished only
through the concerted efforts by different law enforcement agencies, both within the Central Government,
and also various State Governments. However, the absence of any satisfactory explanation of the slowness
of the pace of investigation, and lack of any credible answers as to why the respondents did not act with
respect to those actions that were feasible, and within the ambit of powers of the Enforcement Directorate
itself, such as custodial investigation, leads us to conclude that the lack of seriousness in the efforts of the
respondents are contrary to the requirements of laws and constitutional obligations of the Union of India.
It was only upon the insistence and intervention of this Court that the Enforcement Directorate initiated and
secured custodial interrogation over Hassan Ali Khan.
probe into the question of blackmoney by whatever means
fair or foul. The present impugned proceedings are nothing
but a part of the strategy to intimidate not only the appellant
but also to send a signal to others who might dare in future
to expose any mal-administration.
The fact remains, that
this Court eventually agreed with the substance of the
complaint pleaded in Writ Petition No.37 of 2010 and
connected matters; and directed an independent inquiry into
the issue of black money.
42. The Constitution declares that India is a sovereign
The requirement of such democratic
republic is that every action of the State is to be informed
with reason.
State is not a hierarchy of regressively
genuflecting coterie of bureaucracy.
43. The right to judicial remedies for the redressal of either
42. The Union of India has explicitly acknowledged that there was much to be desired with the
manner in which the investigation had proceeded prior to the intervention of this Court. From the more
recent reports, it would appear that the Union of India, on account of its more recent efforts to conduct the
investigation with seriousness, on account of the gravitas brought by this Court, has led to the securing of
additional information, and leads, which could aid in further investigation. For instance, during the
continuing interrogation of Hassan Ali Khan and the Tapurias, undertaken for the first time at the behest of
this Court, many names of important persons, including leaders of some corporate giants, politically
powerful people, and international arms dealers have cropped up. So far, no significant attempt has been
made to investigate and verify the same. This is a further cause for the grave concerns of this Court, and
points to the need for continued, effective and day-to-day monitoring by an SIT constituted by this Court,
and acting on behalf, behest and direction of this Court.
personal or public grievances is a constitutional right of the
subjects (both citizens and non-citizens) of this country.
Employees of the State cannot become members of a
different and inferior class to whom such right is not
44. The respondents consider that a complaint to this Court
of executive malfeasance causing debilitating economic and
security concerns for the country amounts to inappropriate
conduct for a civil servant is astounding. There is another
factor which brings the respondent virtually within the ambit
of legal malice, to say the least Mr. Jasveer Singh, another
employee of the respondent was also a co-petitioner in the
Civil Writ filed in this Court.
However, no action is taken
This leaves much to be desired and makes
bonafides of the respondents suspect.
45. The appeal is allowed. The judgment under appeal is
set-aside. Consequently, the O.A. stands allowed as prayed
for. The respondents are liable jointly and severally to pay
costs to the appellant which is quantified at Rs.5,00,000/3
(rupees five lakhs).
those who
It is open to the respondents to identify
are responsible for
the initiation
of such
unwholesome action against the appellant and recover the
amounts, if the respondents can and have the political will.
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Home Office Tips – Eliminating Distractions When Working From Home
By Joel Falconer on June 16th, 2011 Freelance
If you’re new to working from home, you’re probably discovering that the distractions are constant.
Sure, you had people randomly approaching your desk to inquire about things in the office and other such nuisances, but you knew that with your boss watching, you had to snap back to it quickly and at least appear to be working.
At home, there’s no such motivator. It’s just you, the television and a bag of Doritos — who’s gonna know? And when you miss your first deadline and don’t get paid by your client, you’ll realize that it doesn’t matter whether anyone else knows or not. You need to be your own motivator and stick to the task.
There are two sets of people that you need to defend against: yourself, and other people. It’s not just the lack of oversight that can make the home more distracting. It’s other people. If you have a family or roommates, they’ll find the novelty of your presence a great thing. They’ll interrupt you all day. You’ve got to put an end to it somewhere.
After seven years of working from home, I like to think I’ve got a system that works. I know that I’m less easily distracted in my home office than in any corporate office in the world. But it’s only by training yourself like one of Pavlov’s dogs and training those around you with the threat of severe consequences that you’ll be able to work like this too.
Use Your Door as a Signal System
Over the years, the use of my door as a signalling system for members of my family has proved much more efficient than using a sign and allows me to balance family and work much better than a blanket “If I’m in my office, leave me alone” system.
Your office always has a door, and that makes it the easiest tool to use in teaching those you live with when you can be interrupted and when you absolutely cannot be interrupted.
My system is simple: if it’s closed all the way, leave me alone — unless one of the kids is dying or the house is on fire. If it’s half-closed, interrupt me for important things — for instance, if my wife needs my card to go get some groceries — but not for anything trivial. And if its open, it means it doesn’t really matter. I’m catching up on industry news or taking a break and I don’t care if one of the kids wants to come in for a game of Angry Birds.
Set your boundaries and enforce them. Someone comes in for a pointless chat while the door is half-closed? Use a flamethrower or whatever it takes to dissuade future infringements.
Headphones: Signal & Moodsetter
If your office is in a more public place such as in the corner of the lounge room — perhaps you haven’t moved to a place that can accomodate your work-from-home lifestyle yet — headphones can serve as a good replacement for door signals. Put them on to indicate to the rest of the world that you’re not up for interruptions.
But even if you have an office, many people find that using headphones whenever they need to concentrate eventually evokes a Pavlovian reaction. It puts them in the mental state to work: not to fluff around on YouTube or pretend that all that Twitter chat time is “marketing”. The more little rituals like this you associate with work, the more triggers you have to induce a productive mood.
Music Keeps Your Pace Up
Since you’ve got headphones on anyway, put some music through them. The rhythm that’s present in all but the most experimental of tunes serves to set a pace to your work, and the majority of people find that they get more done with tunes rolling than they do to a backdrop of silence.
Some have suggested that lyrical music is too distracting and that soothing tunes work best. I personally don’t buy it — music with a strong rhythm is the most output-inducing in my experience — but if relaxation music works for you, by all means listen to it.
Just don’t listen to hip-hop — spoken words register differently to sung words and our brain is trained to focus on the sound of another human talking. Plus, I did say you should play music.
Productive Distractions Are Still Distractions
Need to get those dishes in the dishwasher before you start work? Need to tidy your desk? Stop kidding yourself. You’re trying to delay the work, and the number of dishes in the sink don’t make a bit of a difference to your ability to focus.
It’s the greatest temptation of the home worker: using housework and busywork to escape from the real work. Even when we say we’re not going to do it, we end up doing it without realizing. You need to commit to noticing when you’re distracting yourself with things that seem urgent or productive but really aren’t and get yourself back on track.
Cultivate Focus with Technological Crutches
Apps like Vitamin-R for the Mac are particularly useful: essentially, it puts a timer on your next task and tells you to get it done before it hits zero. When we feel as though we’re on a clock, we’re less likely to pay any attention to the distractions that come our way. The deadline is the ultimate motivator. Internally-set deadlines — telling yourself to get something done by a certain time even though its well before the real deadline — are more prone to failure, but when the computer is screaming at you to hurry up, the technique is effective.
Develop a Work Ethic
A lot of criticism of productivity advice suggests that the advice is porn for the weak-willed. To an extent, it is, but there are also a lot of tools that are helpful to the weak-willed in that toolbox. The point of productivity crutches is to redirect your mind to the work while you have a weak work ethic until that mental muscle becomes exercised enough that you don’t need the gimmicks.
As far as advice that teaches you to avoid distractions — excluding distractions forced on you by others — treat it as a training dumbbell to get you to a point where you’re focused naturally.
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Tullaroan’s Tommy Walsh
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I was driving through North Kilkenny one evening last August. As the road passed through the tree lined green of Freshford I noticed a queue of cars accumulating outside the local GAA pitch of St Lachtains. I was in no particular hurry; in fact I had just been out killing time so I joined the queue. To my delight it turned out that St Lachtains were hosting their near neighbours Tullaroan in a tournament match.
The players from both sides were already on the pitch warming up. I wandered down towards the Tullaroan end; I was on the lookout for one man; then there he was. Anyone with even a passing interest in hurling will recognise Tommy Walsh instantly. There the bould Tommy was, dancing on his toes underneath the iconic red helmet. It had been a few years since I saw him last. The last time I had seen him play was up in Croke Park in the colours of Kilkenny as he drove the Cats to yet another All Ireland victory against Tipperary. That was the match that gave us the famous picture of Tommy catching the ball over Noel McGrath’s head; he must have been a good four feet off the ground as he plucked the sliotar from the Dublin sky. As I leant on the railing of the St Lachtains pitch I watched Tommy warm up and wondered if he was still capable of such feats.
Tommy was always destined for greatness. His grandfather Paddy Grace enjoyed a long career with Kilkenny, winning two All Irelands. His father Mikey was a fixture on the Tullaroan team for years. Mikey was full back on the last Tullaroan side to win a senior county final in 1994. If you can dig up a picture of the Tullaroan team photo taken before the game you will see a young Tommy sitting in front of his father. Tommy deserved his place in the photograph. Although only eleven years old he went to as many training sessions that summer as many of the players. Tullaroan people will tell you that from a very young age Tommy was forever down in the hurling field, at first watching his dad train and then as he began to hurl himself underage for Tullaroan.
Tommy got used to success from an early age. Tullaroan National School is a small rural primary school. They have spent almost their entire history competing in the second or third level of Kilkenny School’s competition. Tommy arrived as one of the main men within a very talented bunch of youngsters. They won Roinn C, then Roinn B in successive years. When Tommy was in sixth class, in 1995, Tullaroan won the Roinn A title for the first and only time in their history. According to locals they did so at a waltz. They also won the Country Cup and the Lisdowney Seven’s for good measure. Nobody could touch them that year.
This bunch of young hurlers carried their dominance into the Kilkenny under 14 grade. By now the competition was tougher. James Stephens and Ballyhale gave them tighter matches but they still went on the win Kilkenny in 1997. Tullaroan won the prize of representing Kilkenny at the All Ireland Féile na nGael that summer and Tommy caught the attention of a wider audience for the first time. Tullaroan, a small village of less than 800 people became the smallest club to ever win the Féile na nGael division one hurling title. The final was held in Walsh Park Waterford. Irish Examiner journalist Enda McEvoy takes up the story –
Among the attendance for the final between Tullaroan and Sarsfields of Cork was Ned Power, the former Waterford goalkeeper and enduring coaching luminary. Power’s attention, as he wrote in his newspaper column the following week, was immediately drawn to the patent mismatch on the edge of the Tullaroan square. The Sarsfields full-forward was a human skyscraper in the form of a teenager. The opposing full-back was an elf who appeared so laughably out of his depth against his gangling marker that Power’s heart went out to him. After 20 minutes Power’s fears had been fulfilled, the twist being it was the unfortunate full-forward who was being eaten alive by the little fella. Power noted the name and filed it away for future reference. Tommy Walsh.
Tommy and his young teammates were brought home to a joyously proud village on the back of an open top lorry. Bonfires and celebrations were held in their honour. Tullaroan loves its hurlers. It would not be the last time Tommy experienced such adulation. Tommy went on to hurl underage with distinction for Kilkenny and St Kieran’s. He won a scholarship to UCC and around this time broke on to the Kilkenny senior panel. The rest is history. The young boy in the Tullaroan team photo grew up to become a legend, and here he was, in the twilight of his career warming up not ten feet away from me.
As the game opened up you could see that Tommy had lost some of his pace. There was mileage on the clock. But the magic remained. Tommy lined up at half forward that evening against St Lachtains. His brother Pádraig was not playing as he was preparing for an All Ireland final in three weeks. Yet another brother Martin, Tullaroan’s regular centre back was away in Asia on holidays I was informed. The youngest of the Walsh clan, Shane started in the corner. Shane has a big future ahead of him based on what I saw that evening. However it was Tommy that once again stole the show.
His legs may have slowed a little, but the wrists and the brain were still fully functional. From half forward Tommy scored six if not seven points from play that evening. He was involved in countless other scores. He drove his young team mates on at every opportunity, cajoling and encouraging. Every 50/50 ball he still won. Every 40/60 ball he still won. In fact he won ball he had no right to win. He can still pluck the ball from the sky as very few hurlers before or since could ever do. I left Pairc Lachtain that evening with my head spinning. Tommy was that good.
Christy Ring drew massive crowds to club games in Cork at the end of his playing days, supporters queuing to see a legend in the flesh before it was too late. Ring was before my time but I used to travel to see another all time great, DJ Carey, in action for his club – Young Irelands. DJ was exceptional, the only player I have witnessed bring a senior team to its knees on his own. There are some archaic clips of Christy Ring available online, quite a lot of footage of DJ. Have a look by all means. But it is not the same. You need to see these men for real to really appreciate their greatness.
Tommy Walsh is so good that his influence can never be really captured on camera. No microphone could pick up all his directions. To stand ten feet away and see him catch a puck out, turn and pop it over the bar, then immediately shout instructions to his team mates is something everyone should try and experience. Go watch Tullaroan. Go and see this giant of the game before it’s too late. Bring your children. Bring your grandchildren. Fifty years from now they will boast to their friends that they got to see the great Tommy Walsh hurl.
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1 oz 2018 Royal Mint Queen's Beasts | Unicorn of Scotland Gold Coin
You’ll enjoy the most competitive price on the web when you purchase your 1 oz 2018 royal mint Queen’s Beasts Unicorn of Scotland from us today!
This astoundingly beautiful coin is the fourth release in the British royal mint’s Queen’s Beasts range, which saw its debut in 2016. The contemporary rendition of the heraldic unicorn jumping over the Scottish royal Shield, which is featured on the reverse, was rendered, along with the obverse design, by Jody Clark of the royal mint. This powerful symbol of enduring strength and timeless beauty is framed by the coin’s title, ‘Unicorn of Scotland,’ as well as the year of release.
The obverse portrait of Queen Elizabeth II is equally well engraved and cast, with the finest detail clearly visible, down to the tiny jewels in the royal crown. The obverse is surrounded by the coin’s denomination, as well as her Majesty’s formal title.
Each one of the ten heraldic beasts which oversaw the Queen’s 1953 inauguration will be featured in silver and gold throughout the course of this fairly young series. Besides the ancient symbolism of the mythical creatures, the breathtaking design features of these coins make the 1 oz 2018 royal mint Queen’s Beasts Unicorn of Scotland gold coin the ultimate treasure with which to diversify your holdings.
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Country GB
Manufacturer Royal Mint
Obverse Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the words "Elizabeth II D.G. Regina Reg Fid 100 Pounds"
Reverse Stylized image of a Unicorn holding a shield bearing Scotland's coat of arms and the words "Unicorn of Scotland 1 oz fine gold 9999 2018"
Diameter (mm) 32.7
Legal Tender GBP 100
Designer Jody Clark
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Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II and the words "Elizabeth II D.G. Regina Reg Fid 100 Pounds"
Stylized image of a Unicorn holding a shield bearing Scotland's coat of arms and the words "Unicorn of Scotland 1 oz fine gold 9999 2018"
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1 oz 2018 Royal Mint Queen's Beasts | Unicorn of Scotland Gold Coin You’ll enjoy the most competitive price on the web when you purchase your 1 oz 2018 royal mint Queen’s Beasts Unicorn of Scotland from us today! This astoundingly beautiful coin is the fourth release in the British royal mint’s Queen’s Beasts range, which saw its debut in 2016. The contemporary rendition of the heraldic unicorn jumping over the Scottish royal Shield, which is featured on the reverse, was rendered, along with the obverse design, by Jody Clark of the royal mint. This powerful symbol of enduring strength and timeless beauty is framed by the coin’s title, ‘Unicorn of Scotland,’ as well as the year of release. The obverse portrait of Queen Elizabeth II is equally well engraved and cast, with the finest detail clearly visible, down to the tiny jewels in the royal crown. The obverse is surrounded by the coin’s denomination, as well as her Majesty’s formal title. Each one of the ten heraldic beasts which oversaw the Queen’s 1953 inauguration will be featured in silver and gold throughout the course of this fairly young series. Besides the ancient symbolism of the mythical creatures, the breathtaking design features of these coins make the 1 oz 2018 royal mint Queen’s Beasts Unicorn of Scotland gold coin the ultimate treasure with which to diversify your holdings.
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SR Gospel: Vickie Winans Nabs Show on GMC, Plus Dorothy Norwood, Gospel Dream Auditions, Top 10 Songs
By Singersroom|2016-01-01T19:56:39-04:00April 5th, 2009|Categories: Gospel, News|Tags: vickie winans|0 Comments
Former “We Shall Behold Him” and “Work It Out” Gospel Icon Vickie Winans is coming to the Gospel Music Channel (GMC) via new series ! Winans, a recent Stellar Award winner, will host “Best of Stellar,” a new original series highlighting the most memorable moments and performances from The Stellar Awards starting Sunday, April 5 at 8:00pm ET. According 1800 Gospel, the show will feature performances and other memorable moments from the first twenty-four years of The Stellars in themed-shows every week. Each episode of Best of Stellar will also feature exclusive backstage interviews with the Gospel artists. Among the many performers featured in Best of Stellar are Shirley Caesar, Bryon Cage, The Caravans, Kurt Carr and the Kurt Carr Singers, The Clark Sisters, Ricky Dillard, Fred Hammond, Walter Hawkins, Israel & The New Breed, Donald Lawrence, Mary Mary, Donnie McClurkin, and Dottie Peoples. News Bits: According to Malaco Records, Gospel legend Dorothy Norwood has just released the anticipated single “I Wanna Go” from the recently released album “50 Years: Its’ Been Worth It All” ! Norwood, also known for her stint in The Caravans, has also added the Ricky Dillard and New G assisted “Victory is Mine” (Obama Mix) to “50 Years: It’s Been Worth It All” in stores and available through Malaco.com Are you an aspirising Gospel recording artist ? GMC (Gospel Music Channel) is looking for you via the next installment of its reality series “Gospel Dream”. Inviting performers from all Gospel/Christian styles, including rock, country, pop, and soul, GMC hopes to fulfill a dream with the Grand Prize: a chance to win a record and music video deal, among other prizes. Solo artists, ages 16 to 40, are eligible to audition for Gospel Dream. According to organizers, auditions began this week in Seattle and will run through May 4 with stops in Detroit, Oakland, Orlando, Nashville and Oakland. Roughly 30-35 contestants will be invited to compete for the crown in Nashville over the summer. Gospel Dream is set to premiere on GMC June 27. For more information visit Gospel Dream at GMC. This Week’s Top 10 Gospel Songs (According to the Gospel National Airplay Chart) 1. “Souled Out” Hezekiah Walker & LFC (four weeks at no. 1) 2. “I Trust You” James Fortune & FIYA 3. “Back II Eden” Donald Lawrence & Co. 4. “Peace & Favor Rest On Us” Kurt Carr & The Kurt Carr Singers 5. “Praise Him In Advance” Marvin Sapp 6. “It Ain’t Over (Until GOD Says It’s Over)” Maurette Brown-Clark 7. “My Name Is Victory” Jonathan Nelson feat. Purpos 8. “Get Up” Mary Mary 9. “Cover Me” 21:03 feat. Fred Hammond 10. “Praise Me Now” Kierra Sheard Inspirational Song of the Week:: “Silver and Gold” – Kirk Franklin and The Family (Keisha Grandy)
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Jason Snell for Macworld
April 20, 2017 8:35 AM PT
After more than two years, Apple Pay still feels like the future ↦
There’s a lot of negativity out there, on the Web and in the world. People are angry, dissatisfied, tired of political clashes and online arguments and the realization that the Internet connects us directly the best and worst humanity has to offer.
I’m not saying the anger and frustration isn’t justified. If you’re feeling it, you probably have a good reason. But sometimes, even in dark times, it’s worth taking a deep breath, stepping back, and considering the bigger picture about 2017.
It’s this: It’s twenty seventeen. The. Future. And even though we don’t have flying cars or jetpacks or a colony on Mars, Apple’s done its best to make the future pretty darn amazing.
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Sarah Palin Continues To Confound Bitter Left
Remember the avalanche of political obituaries journalists wrote following Sarah Palin’s decision to step down as governor?
Sarah Palin was 14 for 14 defeating one trumped-up “ethics” violation after another from unhinged leftists who were using the courts as a means to attack her. But in today’s caricature of justice that liberalism has created, one can win big and lose huge: she was at least $500,000 in debt – and I’ve heard figures close to $1 million – fending off these frivolous lawsuits. With her own children under vile personal attack, with her family deep in debt through no fault of her own, and with her very ability to govern hamstrung by “Sarah Palin Derangement Syndrome,” she stepped down and left the governance of Alaska to her trusted lieutenant.
And it was revealing how the very same people who unrelentingly dumped on Sarah Palin as some kind of inbred hill-billy chick who wasn’t qualified to manage a 7-11 were outraged by her decision to step down as governor.
In any event, if I had a nickel for every mainstream media entry into the “Sarah Palin is finished” narrative, I’d be so filthy rich it would be unreal.
Sarah Palin redefined the entire debate on ObamaCare with a single Facebook entry submitted while she was on vacation.
Not bad for a political has-been who destroyed her platform and popularity by stepping down.
Now we learn another little factoid about Sarah Palin’s ongoing relevance:
Palin worth $100,000 per hour; over 1,000 invitations so far
August 31, 9:57 AM Fresno Political Buzz Examiner Nicco Capozzi
Many pundits, Alaskans, and simple political observers have pondered why Former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin resigned from office. One answer now seems apparent—money. Since her resignation, Palin has been offered over 1,000 invitations to make paid speeches, appear, and campaign on behalf of politicians and political groups.
She has received offers from numerous speakers’ bureaus (scouts for speechmakers) and has reportedly signed with at least one of them, the Washington Speakers Bureau. Washington Speakers Bureau’s clientele currently consist of Former President George W. Bush and Laura Bush, Bob Woodward, Katie Couric, Colin Powell, Rudy Giulianni, Alan Greenspan, and many others. For a full list of speakers click here.
Nearly all of the over 1,000 invitations include request for speeches. On top of the speeches, over 120 political candidates from all levels of federal and state government have requested Palin to appear on their behalf at various political events. She will also make cameos for charities, Christian organizations, and other related social causes and groups.
So when Palin beckoned to Alaskans that she would better serve them not as their governor but as a private citizen, what she really meant was, she will raise a tremendous amount of money so that she could have a better chance of running for President in 2012. Or, she could have resigned simply to make money without having any plans to run for higher office. Of the 1,000 speech invitations, almost all will be bring the former governor $100,000 each.
Palin has not yet confirmed where she will be speaking or campaigning, but responses to the invitations are expected to begin this week. However, one cannot expect Palin to hurry in confirming such invitations as she has her book to finish (reported to be 85% complete), and a giant file of other offers ranging from cable to business ventures that she is still considering. With all the possibilities, it is no wonder Palin left a $100,000 government job as she can now make that in one hour of work—a sum to which soccer moms and plumbers can certainly relate.
Now, of course, that last sentence immediately above is just pure bitter leftist showing through. Sarah Palin could be the most successful human being who ever lived, and the leftwing wouldn’t allow her so much as one yoctogram of praise or credibility. Comprehending reality is just not in their nature.
Not only has Sarah Palin not lost her relevance; but she has gained more than she had when she was serving as governor of Alaska.
You know who really SHOULD step down? Every single “journalist” who discredited himself or herself trying to tear Sarah Palin down. How much credibility do the people who wrote Sarah Palin’s obituary deserve?
Tags:$100000, Alaska, debt, ethics, Facebook, family, Governor, health care, hundred thousand, journalist, lawsuits, leftists, Obamacare, obituaries, resigned, Sarah Palin, speeches, stepped down
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Timberwolves Trounce Cougars
Clinton Community College 18 6 8 2 34
Pts: Amanda Laporte - 27
Reb: Zana Elshafay - 9
Ast: Jordanne Manney - 7
Pts: Kylee Brand - 17
Reb: 2 Players (#4, #32) - 9
Ast: Lacey Cormie - 6
The Timberwolves hosted the Cougars of Clinton today and made short work of the last place squad. The Cougars put up a fight in the first quarter, keeping pace with the home team to the tune of 18-18, but that would quickly dissolve as the Cougars would not score double digits in any of the final three quarters.
The Timberwolves opened up the margin to 35-24 at the half and cruised in the final two quarters. The final score was 81 to 34.
Kylee Brand led the offense with 17 points and grabbed 7 boards. Lacey Cormie rode three 3 point field goals to 13 points while filling out the stat sheet. She added 4 steals, 6 assists, 5 rebounds and 2 blocks to her totals. Kaicey Sardina collected 12 points and barely missed a rare form of triple-double with 9 steals and 9 rebounds. Brianna McKinney had her mid range shot on point and shot 5 of 10 from the floor for 11 points and displayed her rebounding skills with 9 boards.
Gwyn Gaulin had a career night as she peppered the Cougar defense with three pointers, going 3 of 4 from behind the arc.
The Timberwolves next play at Fulton-Montgomery on the 28th.
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An Ode to Brangelina
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By Jennifer Constable, Editor in Chief
Do you remember where you were when you heard the news? When you listening to the radio in your car? Scrolling through your Facebook feed on your half hour lunch break? Did you overhear it being whispered about in your local hairdressers? I remember when I was I found out; waiting at the bus stop in the pouring rain, absentmindedly checking the group chats, when the horrific news was broken to me, in a series of strongly worded, capitalised string of messages, that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, more commonly known as the coveted Brangelina, had split.
The celebrity couple had been a familiar backdrop in the social media and popular culture of our adolescence; they were the definition of “relationship goals”, the “go to” answer when asked about celebrity couples. While the reasons behind their sudden separation are still being debated, the fallout from their breakup has been messy in more ways than one.
Some of you may be reading this with haughty indifference, eyebrows raised thinking, “what’s the big deal? Couples break up all the time”, but this is precisely the issue- couples DO break up all the time, but not Brad and Angelina. They weren’t supposed to. They were different. And their breakup represents the end of something that runs a lot deeper than a relationship between two people.
Living in a society where over 50% of marriages end in divorce, it costs over £3 for a caramel latte in Costa, and there’s a very real possibility Trump could be elected as USA President come November, Love, in any form, is pretty thin on the ground. Romance has been reduced to getting repetitive strain injury from feverish swiping through tinder matches, and “security”, is when you feel brave enough to face your bae without mascara for the first time.
Maybe I’m being too harsh, but one thing remains certain; in a world where the rules of dating, romance and L O V E are perpetually defining and redefining themselves, Bragenlina represented a constant; a symbolic rock of stability and hope in a turbulent sea of otherwise doomed and dysfunctional relationships. They were an icon of how “good” love could be; a monument to all that is pure, right and wholesome, and what we all aspired to have for ourselves.
They were a reminder that no matter how bleak, hope hopeless our own relationships seemed to be, Love WAS out there; it was attainable, and it still existed; we just needed to wait out for it. Forget the six kids, forget the hefty divorce settlement- what about US? In some ways, we too have gone through a devastating breakup; a breakup with our ideals; a messy end to our blind faith that the world was untimely good place and that everything would eventually work out okay in the end.
If Bragenlina, a couple with years of companionship behind them; the postcard of wedded bliss, can’t make it work, then what hope do the rest of us have?
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Philip Mayo
Father William Mayo b. 6 Jan 1766, d. 1851
Mother Catherine Mayo b. 1780, d. 1843
Philip died.1 Philip was born.
[S169] He died of cancer of the face.
Maria Louise Mayo
Maria died. Maria was born. She married Robert B. Mayo.
Robert B. Mayo
He married Maria Louise Mayo. Robert died. Robert was born.
M. Lewis Mayo
M.'s occupation: Physician.. M. died. M. was born. He married Susan Mayo.
Susan Mayo
She married M. Lewis Mayo. Susan died. Susan was born at Cumberland County, Virginia.
James Mayo
James died. James was born. He married Mary Payne.
Mary Payne d. 1876
Mary Payne
F, d. 1876
She married James Mayo. Mary was born. Mary died in 1876.
Mary Mayo
F, b. 3 December 1767
Father Joseph Mayo b. 1739, d. 17 Jun 1802
Mother Martha Tabb b. 8 Mar 1744
Mary died. She married Thomas Watkins. Mary was born at Gloucester, Gloucester County, Virginia, on 3 December 1767.1 She married Col. John Trevillian in June 1815.1
Thomas Watkins
Jane Watkins
Martha Tabb Watkins b. 20 Sep 1795, d. 28 Jul 1862
Col. John Trevillian
Lucy Ann Trevillian
Col. John M. Trevillian
Harriet Tabb Trevillian+ b. 15 Feb 1801, d. 15 Nov 1858
[S750] Source: Marilyn Pickering, 492 E. 100 South, Pleasant Grove, Utah 84062-2802.
He married Mary Mayo. Thomas died. Thomas was born.
Mary Mayo b. 3 Dec 1767
Col. died. Col. was born. He married Mary Mayo in June 1815.1
Martha Tabb Watkins
F, b. 20 September 1795, d. 28 July 1862
Father Thomas Watkins
Mother Mary Mayo b. 3 Dec 1767
Martha was born at Goochland, Goochland County, Virginia, on 20 September 1795. She married Samuel Dyer Jr. at Goochland, Goochland County, Virginia, on 7 October 1812. Martha died on 28 July 1862 at Callaway County, Missouri, at age 66.
Samuel Dyer Jr. b. 1790, d. 1834
Samuel Dyer Jr.
Samuel was born at Albemarle County, Virginia, in 1790. He married Martha Tabb Watkins at Goochland, Goochland County, Virginia, on 7 October 1812. Samuel died in 1834.
Jane died. Jane was born. She married Thomas Curd.
Thomas Curd
He married Jane Watkins. Thomas's occupation: Physician.. Thomas was born at Goochland County, Virginia. Thomas died.
Father Col. John Trevillian
Lucy died. Lucy was born. She married Thomas Baber.
Thomas Baber
He married Lucy Ann Trevillian. Thomas died. Thomas was born at Goochland County, Virginia.
Harriet Tabb Trevillian
F, b. 15 February 1801, d. 15 November 1858
Harriet was born at Fine Creek, Cumberland County, Virginia, on 15 February 1801.1 She married Edward Osbourne Watkins at Johnson's Spring, Goochland County, Virginia, on 21 September 1820.1 Harriet died on 15 November 1858 at Presqu'isle, Chesterfield County, Virginia, at age 57.1
Edward Osbourne Watkins b. 6 Mar 1800, d. 1865
Mary Louise "Sally" Watkins+ b. 9 Sep 1820, d. 16 Jul 1855
Robert Henry Watkins b. c 1828, d. a 1863
Martha Jane Watkins b. c 1829
Ann Augusta Watkins b. c 1831
Edward Mayo Watkins b. c 1832
Harriet Trevillian Watkins b. a 1835
Sarah Osborne Watkins b. c 1836, d. 18 Jun 1858
Charles Edward Clay Watkins b. 1838
[S452] Source: Query posted on the Chesterfield Co., VA Query Forum found at CLAY, CLAYTON, DAVIES, FILMER, GREEN, MAYO, TABB, http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/usa/va/…
Edward Osbourne Watkins
M, b. 6 March 1800, d. 1865
Edward was born at Presque Isle, Chesterfield County, Virginia, on 6 March 1800.1 He married Harriet Tabb Trevillian at Johnson's Spring, Goochland County, Virginia, on 21 September 1820.1 Edward died in 1865 at Presque Isle, Chesterfield County, Virginia.1
Harriet Tabb Trevillian b. 15 Feb 1801, d. 15 Nov 1858
Col. died. Col. was born. He married Mary Argyle.
Mary Argyle
She married Col. John M. Trevillian. Mary died. Mary was born at Goochland County, Virginia.
Philip died. He married Susan Teackle. Philip was born at Gloucester, Gloucester County, Virginia, on 31 March 1769.1
Susan Teackle
Elizabeth Mayo
Fanny Mayo
Louisa Mayo
She married Philip Mayo. Susan died. Susan was born at Gloucester County, Virginia.
Philip Mayo b. 31 Mar 1769
Father Philip Mayo b. 31 Mar 1769
Mother Susan Teackle
Elizabeth died. Elizabeth was born. She married Carter M. Braxton.
Carter M. Braxton
He married Elizabeth Mayo. Carter died. Carter was born.
Fanny died.1 Fanny was born.
Louisa died. Louisa was born. She married T. L. Savage.
T. L. Savage
He married Louisa Mayo. T. died. T. was born at Northampton County, Virginia.
George Taylor Tabb
M, b. 1 December 1849, d. 22 November 1911
Father William Lafayette Tabb b. 3 May 1815, d. 16 Jun 1886
Mother Emily Robinson b. c 1825, d. a 1852
George's occupation: Farmer.. George was born at Houston, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, on 1 December 1849.1 He married Martha Exine Shannon at Smith County, Mississippi, circa 1876.2 George died on 22 November 1911 at Stilson, Liberty County, Texas, at age 61.1 His body was interred on 23 November 1911 at Liberty County, Texas, at French Cemetery.
Martha Exine Shannon b. 28 Apr 1855, d. 1 Feb 1923
John Shannon Tabb+3 b. 15 Nov 1877, d. 16 Aug 1965
Emma D. Tabb4 b. 1879
Susie Tabb b. 18 Feb 1882
Lucy Tabb+ b. 18 Feb 1884, d. 10 Mar 1965
Pearl Tabb b. Aug 1884
Henry Janario Tabb b. 11 Feb 1887, d. 31 Mar 1935
James Tabb b. Feb 1888
Carl Roy Tabb+ b. 30 Nov 1888, d. 19 Sep 1921
Neva Martha Tabb+ b. Jan 1892, d. 30 May 1970
Nona O. Tabb b. 28 Feb 1898, d. 6 May 1979
Ezgesue Tabb b. Oct 1899
Harriet E. Tabb4 b. c 1901
[S668] Source: Jeanette Probst Tabb, 5220 Valerie Street, Bellaire, Texas 77401.
[S673] Source: Research Vickie Pearson, 811 Green Valley C.W., Burleson, Texas 76028.
Caroline Eliza Atkinson
F, b. 21 July 1806, d. 15 February 1895
Caroline was born at 'Olive Hill', Chesterfield County, Virginia, on 21 July 1806.1 She married Philip Mayo on 6 February 1823. Caroline died on 15 February 1895 at age 88.1 She was buried after 15 February 1895 at Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia.1
Philip Mayo b. 2 Nov 1793, d. 21 Mar 1857
Theodorick Prynn Mayo1 b. 1830, d. 1889
Martha Tabb Mayo b. 1840, d. 29 Jun 1914
William C. A. Mayo1 b. 1842, d. 1873
Leah C. Upshur
Leah died. Leah was born. She married Peter Poythress Mayo in July 1824.
Peter Poythress Mayo b. 18 Jun 1797
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