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poetry and politics
Dwelling in Possibility: Adrienne Rich, Poetry, & Printing
Dwelling in Possibility:
Adrienne Rich, Poetry, & Printing
An introduction by Emily Hancock
Adrienne Rich. Photo copyright by Robert Giard.
There are some touchstone texts that seem to be always current, always resonant with wisdom, always “present” with us, whatever the year and however much the political and/or personal landscapes may have changed.
Many of the essays of Adrienne Rich (1929-2012) are such touchstones. I first encountered the transformative work of this American poet and essayist in graduate school, in her prose collection Blood, Bread, and Poetry, in which she declares (with Audre Lorde) that poetry is not (and poets are not) superfluous, but as necessary and nourishing as food and air to the person—the people—we might be and become. Poetry is communion and it is frontier—the meeting of the other and the self.
Jacket for St Brigid Press' edition of Adrienne Rich's essay, printed letterpress on Thai mulberry "water drops" paper.
One of Rich’s essays, “Permeable Membrane,” is this sort of text—invigorating, relentless, and charged with readiness to affect (infect?) the reader with its power and possibility. Again and again. First published in 2006, “Permeable Membrane” is a short piece capable of waking us up, of challenging our complacency, our silence, and our siloed existences.
Convinced of the inseparability of art and society, poetry and politics, Rich argues for and invokes a relational understanding of language: "Art is a way of melting out through one's own skin. 'What, who is this about?' is not the essential question. A poem is not about; it is out of and to.” As individuals and communities and a nation, we exist in a dynamic ocean of thought, culture, politics. We’re in the conversation—“root-tangled in the grit of human arrangements and relationships,” as Rich writes—whether we know it, like it, or actively participate in it or not.
Rich navigates both mystery (the “ghostly” presence and process of writing poetry) and politics (solidarity movements, dictatorship, and the American political machine) with equal subtlety, drawing from sources historical and literary to illuminate the world we find ourselves in as well as some of the choices and consequences that are laid before us. With the precision and prescience of an artist who has her finger on our pulse, Rich’s essay that was first published 12 years ago reads like it hit the newsstand this morning.
St Brigid Press' letterpress printed edition releases on March 8th—International Women's Day.
St Brigid Press' edition of "Permeable Membrane" was hand-set in Goudy Old Style type (cast by Patrick Reagh in California), printed on a hand-cranked press, and sewn by hand.
Why print something that is still available in numerous books and anthologies? One answer is that part of the job of craft is to make new what is not; to re-new and re-connect us, from the craftperson’s hand to the receiver’s. From me to you. An energetic and artistic renewal, and a conversation, happens in this process. The poet and essayist Jane Hirshfield says, “A work of art is not a piece of fruit lifted from the tree branch: it is a ripening collaboration of artist, receiver, and world.”
Another answer is personal to me: as much as I believe in and engage with the fantastic literature that is emerging daily, I believe in and desire to offer anew the already written—works like Rich’s and Thoreau’s and King’s that for years have been leaping off pages, enlarging perspectives, and spurring creative engagement. Each time we return to these touchstones, their wisdom becomes present again, positive change for our communities becomes possible again, and we become empowered again.
My hope for offering this edition of Adrienne Rich’s “Permeable Membrane” is that you may lean with her into the conversation and perhaps join more consciously in the great current of art that is making and re-making us, the poetry that is “language intensified, intensifying our sense of possible reality.”
If you would like to order the St Brigid Press edition of "Permeable Membrane," please click HERE. Scroll down below for additional details and photos of the booklet and the process of creating it.
The booklet's technical specs:
Hand-set in Goudy Old Style metal types, with Phenix titling.
16 pages, letterpress printed on Mohawk Superfine text paper, with Thai mulberry paper jacket.
Frontispiece print is a digital reproduction of an original watercolor by Nancy Maxson, commissioned specially for this publication.
Hand-sewn with Irish linen thread.
Limited edition of 190 numbered copies.
$28 each.
Very special thanks and appreciation goes to our friend and collaborator Nancy Maxson, who created a marvelous watercolor painting, entitled Mirror, to accompany this edition of "Permeable Membrane." The painting was digitally reproduced on fine vellum paper at Bailey Printing in Charlottesville, and serves as the frontispiece to the edition.
Thanks also to W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., for permission to reprint "Permeable Membrane."
If you'd like to read more of Adrienne Rich's prose writing, here are a few titles to get you started:
A Human Eye: Essays on Art in Society, 1997-2008 (the collection in which "Permeable Membrane" appears)
Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations (which collects Rich's earlier essay, "Blood, Bread, and Poetry")
What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
Some photos of "the making of" our edition of "Permeable Membrane": click the images to see a larger photo and accompanying text.
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Kamal Mouzawak
Synergos Social Entrepreneur & Founder, Souk el-Tayeb
Kamal Mouzawak created the first farmers’ market in Beirut, Souk el-Tayeb, which preserves food traditions and the culture of sustainable agriculture in Lebanon. Kamal is working to protect the interests of local small farmers and producers in Lebanon, enabling them to sell their products directly at the market, thus ensuring a fair price for their goods. Consumers come to the market twice a week to enjoy the selection of baked goods, yogurts, organic vegetables, honey, fresh juices, and local delicacies, and to celebrate the shared interest of food.
In a country that has been divided along ethnic and religious lines for decades, the common act of shopping and enjoying the same foods begins to erase invisible barriers and unite communities. According to Mouzawak, “in a country as divided as Lebanon, nothing can bring people together as much as the land and food.”? Through Kamal’s vision and leadership, Souk el-Tayeb has evolved into a network of 100 members serving over 350 farmers, producers, and their families at three different farmers markets, and has collaborated with similar local agricultural initiatives in neighboring countries.
In the five years since its founding, Souk el-Tayeb has grown into a food movement throughout Lebanon, expanding its operations to include educational programs in local schools and food festivals across the country to celebrate Lebanon’s culinary heritage. Kamal comes from a family of farmers and has a deep love and respect for his country and its diverse regions, which bear a rich assortment of natural foods and culinary delights. Often characterized as a “culinary activist,”? Kamal reaches many audiences both inside and outside of Lebanon through his advocacy for celebrating food traditions that unite communities and support the farmers and producers who tend the land.
Most recently, Souk el-Tayeb launched a producers’ open kitchen in downtown Beirut called Tawlet, where a different producer or cook prepares a traditional meal from their region every day. Expanding activities from the marketplace (souk) to the table (tawla) was a natural progression in the evolution of Kamal’s Lebanese food movement. Tawlet introduces patrons to the diversity of Lebanese food traditions through a shared experience at communal tables in Lebanon’s first urban kitchen.
Kamal has also launched a series of initiatives in partnership with international organizations and the public sector:
In partnership with the International Labor Organization, Beit Loubnan will establish communal homes of tradition in rural communities throughout Lebanon to perpetuate and revive disappearing traditions; to serve as production centers for cooking, planting, arts, and crafts; and to represent a home away from home.
Dekenet Souk el Tayeb is a cooperative boutique selling fine food selections from Souk el-Tayeb’s farmers and producers. The Dekenet Souk el-Tayeb label will provide a quality-assurance guarantee to customers and protect the interests of the small farmer.
Souk @ School will teach Lebanese children, aged ten through twelve, about healthy eating choices through educational games and school projects.
Through visits to international markets, the Farmers Exchange Program (FEP) will foster bilateral exchange between farmers and producers, raise recognition of small-scale farmers, and transfer culinary traditions around the world to look for similarities beyond differences.
Food & Feast one-day regional festivals will promote coexistence, preserve Lebanese heritage, and enhance a better understanding of the “other”? to promote reconciliation in Lebanon.
Along with his appointment as a Synergos Social Innovator, Kamal was listed as one of Monocle Magazine’s New Heroes-Worldwide in 2009, and his work was most recently featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, and a number of industry-specific publications. In addition, Kamal participated on a panel with Synergos in March 2009 at the Skoll World Forum in Oxford, UK, entitled “New Approaches in the Arab World,”? highlighting his contributions to the field of social entrepreneurship in Lebanon.
Read an article from Agence France Presse about Souk el-Tayeb.
View a photo slideshow of a presentation held by Souk el-Tayeb about the historical development and challenges of the market, as well as rules and regulations for participating farmers.
Watch a video tour of Souk el Tayeb with Kamal, including interviews with some local producers.
Watch an interview with Kamal and a snapshot of his daily routine.
To Contact Kamal:
kamal@soukeltayeb.com
Beirut, sector 79
Naher Street, No 12
Chalhoub Building, No 22 - Ground Floor
Tel: 00961-3-340198
www.soukeltayeb.com
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Taiwanese Association of America writes letter to AIT against Taipei Mayor
Ko fails to understand U.S. support and is moving closer to China: TAA
By Matthew Strong, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je in New York. (By Central News Agency)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) - The Taiwanese Association of America wrote a letter to the chairman of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT) to complain about negative remarks by Taipei City Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) on relations between Taiwan and the United States.
The mayor is currently touring the U.S. in a move which is widely seen as a form of preparation for an eventual candidacy in the January 2020 presidential elections.
Ko has made negative comments about Taiwan-U.S. relations and has been moving closer to China, wrote Shawfang Jeng (鄭劭方), the president of the Taiwan Association of America.
Ko characterized the relationship with Washington as “transactional” and described military aid as a useless “flat drill bit,” the letter said.
“His ignorance in the arena of strategic initiatives illustrates ignorance in that U.S. support has been a major point in deterring war in the Taiwan Strait for 60 years,” according to Jeng’s letter addressed to AIT Chairman James Moriarty.
The association also accused Ko of abandoning his principles and currying favor with China. “With every comment and action he voices, he continues to move closer to the agenda of the Chinese communist party,” Jeng writes, “The more pleased they are with Mayor Ko’s ideology, the more concerned we are as American citizens.”
The Taiwanese Association of America advised AIT and the U.S. government to “thread carefully” and “exercise caution” when approving future visits by Ko, the Liberty Times reported.
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Taiwan president speaks with US House Speaker on phone: official
Taiwan Foxconn founder to consider independent presidential bid: reports
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Linux Community Mounts Fight, SCO Responds
By Jay Lyman
Aug 8, 2003 12:26 PM PT
The Linux legal war increased in scope and ferocity this week as IBM coutersued SCO, which had claimed Big Blue wrongfully used SCO Unix source code in Linux. Meanwhile, the open-source community has almost unilaterally aligned against Lindon, Utah-based SCO by supporting the counterclaim.
The IBM counterclaim, which asks the courts to stop SCO from "misrepresenting its rights" and accuses SCO of patent infringement, won the support of Novell, according to an IBM e-mail obtained by TechNewsWorld.
Despite the open-source community's growing opposition to SCO's claims and call for licenses to use Linux, the company stood firm on its defense of its intellectual property rights and warned again that it might take legal action against commercial Linux users that do not purchase its license.
"SCO will remain on course to require customers to license infringing Linux implementations as a condition of further use," a company statement said. "This is the best and clearest course for customers to minimize Linux problems."
Open Opposition
IBM is only the latest player to fire back at SCO, which is suing IBM for billions of dollars. Linux distributor Red Hat also has filed suit against SCO, calling for a stop to "unsubstantiated and untrue public statements attacking Red Hat Linux and the integrity of the open-source software development process."
Red Hat also has established a US$1 million legal defense fund to help smaller firms battle SCO in court. Specifically, the "Open Source Now Fund" will cover the legal expenses of companies that choose to contest SCO's claims that enterprises running Linux also must buy UnixWare licenses to avoid legal action.
Code-Based Backlash
Companies that sell Linux products -- plus nearly the entire open-source software community -- have rallied around the countersuits against SCO, which has proceeded with its licensing plan for commercial Linux users.
IBM returned legal fire with patent infringement claims against SCO and touted the backing of Novell, from which Big Blue originally purchased the Unix license at the center of SCO's claims. IBM claims that its rights are irrevocable and that Novell, which is a party to the agreement under which IBM obtained the license, concurs.
"Novell ... agrees that SCO cannot terminate IBM's license and has exercised its right to waive this claim," said an e-mail from IBM Systems Group vice president of sales Bob Samson.
Convenient Counterclaims
In addition to complaints that SCO has improperly claimed a right to revoke IBM's Unix license, IBM also argued that SCO has violated the GPL that covers Linux and has directly infringed on IBM patents relating to SCO's UnixWare, OpenServer, SCO Manager and Reliant clustering software.
In response to IBM's countersuit, filed in federal court in Utah, SCO argued that the products in question have been shipped for many years, "in some cases for nearly two decades," and that this is the first time IBM has ever raised an issue about patent infringement.
"We view IBM's counterclaim filing as an effort to distract attention from its flawed Linux business model," said a statement from SCO.
The Indemnity Question
Calling IBM's claims a repeat of "unsubstantiated allegations made in Red Hat's filing," SCO argues that if Big Blue were serious about addressing the intellectual property issues hovering around the use of Linux, it would offer customer indemnification and move away from the GPL license.
Yankee Group senior analyst Laura DiDio told TechNewsWorld that IBM, which provides indemnification on every other platform it sells, needs to state whether customers will or will not be indemnified.
"The entire Linux community is saying to customers, 'You're on your own,'" DiDio said. "That's not a place I want to be."
Faith in Resolution
A spokesperson for IBM, which indicated industry-wide resolve against the SCO claims, rejected complaints about Big Blue's own patent infringement suit and pointed out that SCO had been a Linux distributor for five years before its own source-code infringement campaign.
IBM also expressed faith that it will successfully defend its Linux products and that the open-source software movement will continue to grow.
"Make no mistake, SCO will continue to look for ways to create fear, uncertainty and doubt," said the IBM e-mail. "As the lawsuit continues, understand that the industry will resolve it."
License or Litigate
Despite concerns that the smaller software company will not be able to stick it out in court with heavyweights like IBM and Red Hat, SCO spokesperson Blake Stowell told TechNewsWorld that the company is in strong financial shape.
"If we didn't feel like we could go the distance, we certainly wouldn't have initiated legal action against IBM," he said, adding that payment for the company's legal team is contingent upon courtroom success.
Stowell would not comment on whether any companies have purchased the SCO-proposed licenses, but he said SCO is anticipating that some will take out the licenses to use Linux.
"Our hope is that all of them will be [taking out licenses]," he said. "I don't think that any of them want the alternative, which is litigation."
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Last updated: 03:20 PM ET, Sun February 21 2016
Tropical Cyclone Winston Leaves 10 Dead in Fiji
Impacting Travel Amy Coyne Bredeson February 21, 2016
Photo via Wikimedia Commons
At least 10 people have died as a result of the category five cyclone that hit Fiji on Saturday, The Weather Channel reported.
Tropical Cyclone Winston brought dangerous flooding and strong winds to the popular tourist destination, unleashing devastation throughout the country.
Hundreds of homes were torn apart, according to The Weather Channel. People were killed by flying debris. Two drowned during storm surges. Seven fishermen are still missing at sea.
READ MORE: Record-Breaking Cyclone Leaves 1 Dead in Fiji
The country is under a curfew until 5:30 a.m. Monday, and a 30-day State of Disaster was issued by The Fijian government, The Weather Channel said.
All tourists on the island nation were safe, Tourism Minister Faiyaz Siddiq Koya told The Weather Channel.
READ MORE: Paul Gauguin Offers Fall Voyages to Fiji
Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama addressed the country on Sunday, saying that many people had no power, fresh water or communications, The Weather Channel reported.
"This is a time of sorrow, but it will also be a time of action," Bainimarama said. "We will stand united in the face of this disaster."
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UPDATE: Recreational crab season closed indefinitely
Domoic acid, caused by a bloom of harmful algae along the West Coast, threatens to delay or shut down the crab season.
UPDATE: Recreational crab season closed indefinitely Domoic acid, caused by a bloom of harmful algae along the West Coast, threatens to delay or shut down the crab season. Check out this story on thecalifornian.com: http://bit.ly/1MB1yoX
ERIN E.A. ROSS Published 5:49 p.m. PT Nov. 4, 2015
In June of 2015, a sea lion washed ashore in Long Beach, Wash., it’s body twisted and contorted, rocking from side to side.
The sea lion was having seizures.
When Kathi Lefebvre, a research biologist for NOAA North Coast Fisheries, was shown the video, she was horrified. The sea lion had domoic acid poisoning, caused by a bloom of harmful algae that has been sickening animals along the West Coast and threatens to delay or shut down California’s crab industry.
Lefebvre had never seen a case of domoic acid poisoning that far north. It was unprecedented. But then again, so was the algae bloom.
“Normally, these algae blooms happen in one spot, last a few weeks, and go away,” said Lefebvre. “This is the largest ever recorded, and it has lasted months.”
Lefebvre has been studying the algae, Pseudo-nitzchia, for 17 years. She has never seen an event like this. The bloom stretches from the Aleutian Islands in Alaska to Southern California. In May, researchers in Monterey Bay recorded the highest levels of domoic acid ever.
Domoic acid enters the food chain when it’s eaten by shellfish and small fish like sardines and anchovies, explained Lefebvre. If contaminated animals are eaten by a sea lion – or a human – it could mean diarrhea, seizures, or even death. Over the course of the summer, birds, sea lions, porpoises, and even two humpback whales have been sickened in California’s waters.
Endangered sea otters, which primarily eat crabs and shellfish, are also at risk.
“We know that they’re potential victims,” Lefebvre said.
The impacts of the algal bloom are far-reaching. Fisheries have been closing up and down the West Coast. In Oregon and Washington, the razor clam season was delayed indefinitely and the dungeness crab season never began.
In Monterey, officials issued warnings about sardines and razor clams from the bay. On Thursday, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife voted to delay the recreational crab season, due to begin Nov. 7. Officials have yet to decide if the commercial crab season, which starts on the 15th, will be delayed as well. The rock crab fishery, usually open year round, is closed until further notice.
Closing the dungeness fishery would have drastic consequences for local fishermen.
Keijan Skydecker, a manager at Sea Harvest Fish Market, said, “Dungeness is huge here. We’ve had people calling in for over a month now asking when we’ll have crab. It’s a huge part of our business.”
But, Skydecker notes, it will be much worse for the crab fishermen themselves.
“At the fish market, we sell other things. But for guys like the fishermen – this season pays for their entire year.”
Fishing isn’t a lucrative business, Skydecker explained, and for many fishermen, crab season is how they make ends meet. Closing the fishery would be a serious blow to an already-taxed industry. But things could get worse.
According to Lefebvre, this bloom could be a symptom of a larger problem.
“Algae blooms like this are worse when waters are warmer. And human-caused climate change is certainly making the oceans warmer.”
El Niño could play a role in this years’ bloom, Lefebvre said, but it wasn’t the entire picture.
“When you change the fundamental structure of an ecosystem, like humans have done by emitting greenhouse gases,” she said, “everything changes.”
Greenhouse gas emissions may make the algal bloom worse in more ways than one. A 2012 paper by Avery O. Tatters of the University of California found that Pseudo-nitzchia produced more domoic acid when it was stressed by acidic seawater. Ocean acidification is another product of greenhouse gas emissions.
“As our oceans continue warming,” said Lefebvre, “We’ll have serious things to think about. Algal blooms and fishery closures could be the new normal.”
Contact Erin Ross at erineaross@gmail.com
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teens Nov. 24, 2014
Willow Smith Is a Misfit Hero for the Millennial Generation
By Maggie Lange
Photo: Roger Kisby/Getty Images
Willow Smith — the 14-year-old daughter of Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith, and mystical Mother Earth — has been the recent subject of derision. Alongside her brother, Jaden, she waxed philosophic in an interview for T Magazine about paranormal life energies, illusive properties of time, and how much school sucks. The pair were ridiculed for every line. It’s fun to mock New Age aphorisms and it’s fun to mock teens. Feel-good fuzz told with posturing confidence is an irresistible combination to deflate.
What We Really Talk About When We Talk About Doofy Teens is self-deprecation for our past lives as teens. And this specific type of teen — this wide-eyed junior philosopher excited about lofty mental rubrics for considering the world — is ripe for teasing.
reality should be the same word as perception
— Gwee (@OfficialWillow) October 20, 2014
But if Willow is slightly ribbed, she should also be praised. She’s confident, ambitious, creatively motivated: Why deride these wonderful qualities? It’s kind of fantastic to use a standard publicity interview to talk over sky-scraping ideas about existence. In every conversation, she mentions a new way of thinking: a refreshing substitute for peppery anecdotes or false humility. Willow Smith doesn’t waste your time with a cute confession about insecurities: She wants to talk about truth.
She’s a born creator, who makes the world the place she wants it to be (of course, her opportunity to do this is immense). When asked “What are the things worth having?” she answered, “A canvas. Paint. A microphone.” A space to create, tools to do it, and a way for her creation to be seen and heard. If this mystic-loving Earth child can’t find something she likes, she makes it for herself. She said to T Magazine: “There’re no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it’s the best thing.” She started writing her own library at age 6.
we are all just a higher consciousness fragmented vibrating in a third dimensional form
Willow Smith uses her spotlight, initially given to her by circumstances of celebrity, to launch her specific ideas into the world. She oft echoes her father, an erstwhile teen-rights advocate, in his most concrete statement — “parents just don’t understand” — if one replaces the “parent” with with repressive society at large. She is outspoken about the deadening qualities of formal education. Her ideas about food politics are notably bananas.
when I'm down, I just study quantum physics.
— Gwee (@OfficialWillow) November 13, 2014
The accuracy of her brainchildren aside, the act of letting them flow easily and unselfconsciously is worthy of some praise. An award should be given, yearly, to a young unselfconscious teen and this is Willow’s year. Her New Age oddities presented with forthright clarity are reminders to consider the fun eccentricities of the mind.
Particularly in her music, Willow Smith wants to entertain with mellow existential whimsy. Her songs sound like the echoes of a fantastical elfin moss forest, with lyrics that want to rouse people into twisty mind-vortexes: “Our consciousness is all that is / But nothingness as well.” It’s not mind-breaking stuff, but it’s fun and curious about life.
Willow Smith’s personality is not a variation on a theme of the tween pop star or the rehearsed actress. When offerings of teen artists seem so similar to one another, Willow Smith comes on a refreshing hippy breeze from a magical desert. In her own “about me” biography, she writes: “I think of myself as an extension of source energy - always gathering information, spreading love and being free.” She seems to describe herself like a shooting star and speaks about pride in her own self-confidence: “Flexibility with yourself and with your looks shows self-confidence,” she said to Wonderland. “You’re willing to paint on your canvas with whatever comes from within you. I love doing whatever with my hair to shock the world.”
She envisions a grand point to her work. As she said to Fader, it’s her life’s mission to combat society’s “repression of creativity and repression of the naturalist.” That’s so ambitious! She’s not making music because she can. She’s got stuff to say. And sometimes it sounds like half-baked effervescence, but it’s a categorically better use of time than starting a sock line or a headphone-design company.
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Film - Heathers
Ren Zelen headed back to high school to remember Heathers...
Director: Michael Lehmann
Writer: Daniel Waters
Starring: Winona Ryder, Christian Slater, Shannen Doherty, Lisanne Falk, Kim Walker, Penelope Milford, Patrick Labyorteaux, Lance Fenton, Glenn Shadix, Carrie Lynn, Jon Shear, Jennifer Rhodes, Kirk Scott
To mark its 30th anniversary, a 4K restoration of Michael Lehmann's 1988 hit Heathers is being re-released by Arrow Films in August, in cinemas and also on digital and on-demand. Popular culture is currently swamped with remakes, reboots, updates and adaptations, so unsurprisingly, Heathers is also being remade as a musical, and in the US, as an anthology TV series.
The TV show promises something of the subversive spirit that defined the 1988 movie, but also updates its version of the high-school hierarchy. The 1980s types have been replaced by a diverse group of teen villains, while the adults agonize over ‘politically correct’ descriptions they use to self-identify.
It’s not even been shown yet, but of course it’s already being criticised. The wildly ‘woke’ are getting het up about the TV show trailer which contains jokes about gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, size and mental health. Also, in 2018, it’s apparently no longer acceptable to root for heroine Veronica Sawyer as a woman who doesn’t fit in and embraces her imperfections, moral ambivalence and individual quirks. Instead, we seem to feel safer rooting for a child of the status quo who prefers to eliminate her less conventional nemeses.
As a British kid who had little interest in American High School movies, I was shown the original 1988 film Heathers by an American friend and was much surprised and amused by the sly subversiveness of its pitch-black satire. It offered the conventional 'Mean Girls' social dynamics, but offset that with extremes of murder and suicide.
Made a decade before the tragic shootings at Columbine high school, Heathers is a film that appears more controversial now than it was at the time that it was made. Few predicted the dark path America's gun-love has taken since the 1980s, when John Hughes teen comedy-dramas ruled and Lehmann could make a film that mercilessly satirised the media fetish with teen murder and suicide. In Heathers, the hair and clothes may have dated, but the satire seems darker and bites harder than ever before.
The original Heathers is not a narrative which sets out to deal definitively in right and wrong, (a quality of greyness which would seem to confuse today's filmgoers). At its core it's a story about the moral confusion and ambiguity of our developing teen years, and particularly about the pitfalls of thinking in black and white - in absolutes and extremes. In the world of Heathers, Veronica mordantly observes: “My teenage angst bullshit has a body count.”
In the original film Veronica (Winona Ryder), isn’t so much a heroine as a lens through which we recognise varying shades of right and wrong. Despite being an unwitting accessory to the killing of some of her worst classmates, by the end of the film she’s considered enlightened enough to conclude that her boyfriend, J.D (Christian Slater) is too far gone to be redeemed.
Heathers is certainly very blackly funny, but it’s also a serious tale about how everybody, to a certain extent, is capable of doing very bad things. Really, the question is whether a person can stand up to someone who they can see is dangerously out of control.
Heathers also serves as an acerbic riposte to the romanticised notion of teen suicide, such as the one put forward in films like Dead Poets Society, where Robert Sean Leonard plays a character misunderstood by his parents (but beloved by everyone else) who chooses to end his life with his father’s gun. Following his suicide everyone, including his teacher played by Robin Williams, mourns and weeps for the dear, gentle, gifted soul that was too good for this world. Which teen wouldn’t want to have such adulation?
In Heathers Veronica points out the fallacy of such notions – “Suicide gave Heather depth, Kurt a soul, Ram a brain…” clearly traits none of the above characters ever displayed in life. The media love the tragic image of those too sensitive to deal with the world. Heathers on the other hand, sets out to thoroughly skewer the artificiality of this perception.
The film is named after the female characters who are engaged in a constant cruel exercise of their power and, although ostensibly a group of ‘friends’, are generally vile to all. Actual friendship is something they have eschewed in their ambition to rise into the upper echelons of their social hierarchy. One might level an accusation of misogyny at the writer Waters and director Lehman, but this would be taking a far too simplistic view of what is actually going on – general misanthropy might be a more accurate assessment.
Interestingly, when interviewed, screenwriter Daniel Waters asserted in relation to Westerburg High’s hierarchy: “The high school power centre is female... Girls negotiate high school through strategy, manipulation and compromise…understanding that like a game of chess, sometimes you must sacrifice a pawn to get a king.”
If we accept the claim that the high school is a microcosm of society at large, then these girls are merely imitating the behaviour of adult men that strive for power in the commercial and business world. An indication that this is the case comes when lead Heather (Kim Walker) is challenged with dissent - she pointedly declares, ‘Why are you pulling my dick?” an overtly masculine retort when an alpha-male is reasserting his status. However, in the more adult world of the college party, it becomes evident that her metaphorical ‘dick’ is no longer a source of power, as she is cowed into performing a sex act that she finds demeaning and after which she clearly feels degraded.
The male characters are simpler creatures - they dominate by showing aggression. Dumb jocks Kurt and Ram (Lance Fenton and Patrick Labyorteaux) are bullying and crass, but they don’t really call the shots. J.D is smarter, subtler and more foxy than they are, but ultimately just as aggressive. His only attempt at manipulation is heavy handed – blackmailing Heather Duke (Shannen Doherty) into distributing his ‘petition’.
We are given a cursory explanation for J.D's ultimate psychosis – he has a distinctly odd, role-reversal game with his father, who we understand is somehow indirectly responsible for the death of J.D's mother. J.D has also been moved around from town to town so often he has clearly never expected to achieve any real attachment to anything or anyone. What is telling though, is the overriding trait of the psychopath - his feeling of superiority to those around him.
What sets Heathers apart from less intelligent teenage movies is that it has a particular point of view toward its subject matter. It is shot in candy colours and set in an environment in which silly sight gags are allowed to coexist with a bleak, macabre and bitingly satirical tone. I imagine the film can still shock adults with its cold-blooded treatment of death among the young.
Heathers is not an easy film to classify, the best ones never are - is it a 'Bonnie and Clyde'-style teen rom-com, a black comedy about murder or a cynical morality play? What we can be sure of is that it is the kind of movie that would now probably be impossible to make, or at least release, in the post-Columbine world. To a British kid, the 1980s American High School was a relatively unknown territory, but I did recognise that Heathers was a film which had the ability to shock. It still does, now more than ever, and it should again inspire uncomfortable contemplation - two qualities that will always make it hard to dismiss.
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An old time, classic cookie. Snickerdoodle Cookies are a cookie like no other cookie. Crisp on the outside, tender and chewy on the inside. Forming the dough into balls first then rolling them into a mixture of cinnamon-sugar gives the cookies their classic taste and appearance we have all grown to love. Snickerdoodles, Cowboy, Peanut butter and Chocolate Chip cookies are four of my favorite childhood favorite cookies. You just can’t go wrong with the classics.
Snickerdoodle [SNIHK-uhr-doo-dl] Originating in 19th-century New England, this whimsically named cookie has a characteristically crackly surface and can be either crisp or soft. The dough sometimes contains nutmeg and cinnamon as well as raisins and nuts. Traditionally, snickerdoodles are sprinkled with cinnamon-sugar before being baked. The name appears to have no particular meaning or purpose…other than fun. Snickerdoodles cookies have a fun name but they’re also delicious. Crisp on the outside, yet soft on the inside.
Cinnamon-Sugar
Part of the appeal of Snickerdoodle Cookies is the cinnamon-sugar mixture that they are rolled in before baking. Certain recipes call for sprinkling the cookies with the cinnamon-sugar mixture before baking and other say to roll the cookie dough balls in the mixture. I like to roll them in the cinnamon-sugar mixture and completely cover them. To me that’s one of the best parts of a Snickerdoodle Cookie.
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butter, softened
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Heat oven to 400º
In a large bowl, cream together 1 1/2 cups sugar, butter, shortening, eggs and vanilla.
In a medium bowl, mix together flour, cream of tartar, baking soda and salt. Add flour mixture to creamed mixture. Shape dough into 1 1/4-inch balls.
Mix together 1/4 cup sugar and the cinnamon. Roll balls in cinnamon-sugar mixture. Place balls 2-inches apart on ungreased baking sheet.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes or until cookies are set. Remove cookies from baking sheet to wire rack.
Welsh Tea Cookies are very similar to Snickerdoodle cookies except they contain dried/candied fruit.
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‘Harry Potter: Wizards Unite’ rakes in cash, complaints in first week
The new Harry Potter AR mobile game, “Wizards Unite,” rolled out across the globe Thursday and is already making money, magic and disappointed wannabe wizards.
The free app, created by Pokémon Go maker Niantic, allows franchise fans to immerse themselves in the Potterverse, with spell casting, broomstick riding and much more.
It brought in $300,000 from in-game spending its first day launched in the US and UK alone, CNET reports. While free to download and play, the game has lots of real money purchasing options within the app, from “Spell Energy” to cauldrons, potions and other fanciful items.
“Harry Potter: Wizards Unite” was downloaded more than 400,000 times within 24 hours of becoming available on both Android and iPhone, earning it the No. 1 slot for free downloaded apps in the Apple US App Store.
But not everyone is happy.
While some players have taken to Twitter to sing the new game’s praises — even joking that it’s distracted them from their Pokémon Go characters — many are complaining about the game’s stingy “energy” situation.
Despite essentially being the game’s currency, characters’ energy level does not automatically recharge over time as it does in other games, and the cap for how much energy a player can have is quite low, making “Wizards Unite” harder to play. “Something feels off about the entire system,” according to the game gurus at Forbes.
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The imaginative inner life of the comic artist – in pictures
For new exhibition Comic Tragics, Art Gallery of Western Australian (AGWA) curator Robert Cook has collected more than 150 local and international contemporary comic pieces exploring hope, heartbreak, passion and anxiety, from some of the most exciting comic artists working today.
Here, Cook has selected 15 highlights for Guardian Australia: ‘As disparate as they might appear, each artist’s practice deals with the struggle of what it means to be human,’ he says
Comic Tragics: the exploding language of contemporary comic art is on display at AGWA until 25 July
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Tommi Parrish – I was just trying to be alive, 2014 Parrish makes emotionally loaded painted comics about everyday relationships and anxieties. This one is a simple but wonderfully evocative depiction of that point in a relationship, or life in general, when, for reasons you cannot even understand yourself, it’s all just too much and you just have to flee.
Photograph: Tommi Parrish
Tommi Parrish – Doubt, 2014 Here, Parrish takes an idea and experience well known to all of us and gives it figurative form. There is a real complexity here, as doubt cradles the doubted at the end. So, while doubt punishes us and chips away at our confidence, it also cares for us ... or thinks it does. Like the Freudian superego it is related to (that internal part of our personality that judges us against social norms), Parrish’s version of doubt is harsh but protective. It is this double nature of the comic, combined with its graphic quality, that makes this work resonate so powerfully.
Anders Nilsen – Don’t Go Where I Can’t Follow (page 79), 2006From a sequence of eight, this is addressed to Nilsen’s late fiancée, Cheryl Weaver. It depicts Anders, in the centre, carrying her ashes to a Chicago lake. The last words on this page read “that’s you in my arms”; it’s absolutely heartbreaking.
Photograph: Anders Nilsen
Gabrielle Bell – One page comics, I love you, 2013 This will make you think long and hard before you ever say those three words to anyone again. This small, richly detailed piece has all the hallmarks of Bell’s practice: it is incisive, freshly observant and sharply, painfully funny. Above all, though – and as is seen so strikingly in this work – Bell challenges received wisdom. When we look at her work I think we also sense someone battling to live in a world that remains fundamentally and freshly baffling.
Photograph: Gabrielle Bell
Dash Shaw – Blind Date 1, 2009 This is a still from an animated video Shaw made from the US television show Blind Date, in which he kept the sound and replaced the visuals with his own drawings. While a simple gesture, it opens up our imaginations, as image and sound work with and against each to create entirely new dramas. In Blind Date 1, this new drama comes in the form of an existential heightening of the already-fraught effort to find a mate for life.
Photograph: Dash Shaw
Emma Talbot - Texting, 2011 Emma Talbot’s faceless figures might initially appear like abstractions. Yet a little close looking reveals incredible depth of observation. Every gesture is brilliantly nuanced and revelatory of an attitude, a feeling, a mindset. This particular study of modern communication opens up the potential for romance in the contemporary world, capturing a feeling of longing and hope for connection.
Photograph: Emma Talbot
Emma Talbot – Before I loved you, nothing was my own, 2015 All of Talbot’s works are based on real-life experiences, conjured from memory. This work traces aspects of the death of her husband, and shows a world changed by loss.
Ron Regé Jr. - Thoughtforms, 2011 The incredibly energetic work of Ron Regé Jr. is often inspired by the more esoteric end of religious and philosophical thought. This work deals with theosophical ideas put forward by Anne Besant and Charles Leadbeater and shows the swirl of thoughts, emotions and energies radiating from, and encircling, the human mind and body.
Photograph: Ron Regé Jr.
Ron Regé Jr. – Gazeta (after William Blake), 2009Regé Jr. is a big fan of William Blake. Here, he pays homage to Blake in his own rendering of the late English artist’s original.
Stephen Collins - The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil, 2014 The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil tells the tale of Dave, an officer worker, whose beard suddenly sprouts and keeps growing and growing. It’s a tale about the futility of our efforts to control nature and the less civilised aspects of ourselves. It’s both humorous and bleak, as it also looks at how we treat those who differ from the majority. In addition, as is absolutely evident, Collins’s lead-pencil drawings are beautifully atmospheric and create an entirely believable alternative world.
Photograph: Stephen Collins
Stephen Collins - The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil (2), 2014
Aisha Franz - Soundheap, 2014 There is a punchy energy and dynamism in the work of Berlin-based artist Aisha Franz. These qualities show her making use of, and carrying forward, traces of early comic history; using line, shape and pattern to indicate movement and space, Franz composes comics as rhythmic entities with their own visual musicality. Soundheap is a brilliant example of this, as the musical references merge with her characters’ personality traits.
Photograph: Aisha Franz
Aisha Franz – Is She Dead, 2014 While her characters might appear cute, Franz does not offer a sentimental take on childhood and young adulthood. For instance, this comic deals with the pain Franz felt as an 11-year-old falling in love for the first time. It is about confusing feelings that build and build but are not even noticed, let alone reciprocated. It is a simple work that resonates deeply. Indeed, in all of her work and in various ways, Franz alludes to the hidden emotional life we carry inside.
John Porcellino – The Cat Man, 2001 John Porcellino’s comics are direct, intimate and economical. Like the work of Matisse, whom he counts as an influence, their simplicity belies sophistication: he’s a comic art minimalist. With just a few pen lines he conjures rich feeling, and exquisite tenderness. His work is conversational and completely devoid of cynicism or pretence. It’s honest, sometimes heart-breaking though mostly genuinely optimistic about what beauty can be made with an unguarded attitude to the world. In this, there is a purity and rigour that is all his own in the comic field.
Photograph: John Porcellino
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Airbnb in Paris to warn hosts over illegal listings
Paris hosts who breach housing regulations will receive warning letters from Airbnb, as the company reacts to pressure from City Hall to act on commercial listings
Will Coldwell
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View of Paris from Montparnasse Tower. Photograph: Alamy
Airbnb hosts in Paris who fall foul of housing regulations will be sent letters warning them to follow the city’s homesharing rules. The move has been announced in conjunction with Paris City Hall, and follows increasing pressure on Airbnb to manage the growing number of illegal listings on the site.
With listings growing from 40,000 to 60,000 over the last 12 months, Paris is Airbnb’s most popular city. However, the number of long-term rentals and businesses using the site to rent multiple properties – considered by many local residents and officials to be detrimental to the availability of residential housing – has also increased.
From April, Airbnb will send out communications to hosts likely to be renting their primary residence for more than four months or a home that is not their primary residence. In Paris, anyone who wants to rent their house for longer – or rent out a residential property they don’t live in – must apply for a change of use permit and register it as a commercial property. Breaking the rules can result in a fine of up to €25,000.
The new measures from Airbnb will be trialled for four months, after which City Hall will evaluate the impact.
A recent Guardian investigation into Airbnb found that up to 41% of Paris’s entire home listings were either rented out for longer than 120 days a year or rented by a host with more than one listing on the site.
Pont Neuf in the 6th arrondissement, one of the most popular districts on Airbnb. Photograph: Alamy
“Homesharing is a great opportunity to showcase the best of Paris and boost economic opportunities for Parisians, but it cannot happen at the expense of affordable housing,” said Jean-François Martins, deputy mayor in charge of tourism and sports. “This represents a step towards more responsible short-term rentals”
However, while the letters mark a positive step from Airbnb – which launched similar measures in San Francisco in January – it is not clear how far the company will go to help officials take action against hosts that ignore the warning and continue to breach rules.
In the last nine months Paris officials have carried out raids on apartments in some of the city’s most popular tourist neighbourhoods – the 1st and 6th arrondissements and the Marais area – in the hope of catching out unregistered commercial landlords.
Last year Airbnb agreed to collect tourist taxes on behalf of Paris, as it has previously in other cities, including Amsterdam, Washington DC and Chicago. But while it has tightened up its operations regarding taxes, it has so far proved reluctant to crack down on illegal rentals on its site.
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A woman who has reviewed over 50,000 résumés says these are the 7 most annoying mistakes she sees
Jacquelyn Smith
“I’ve read over 50,000 résumés,” she says. And there are a few mistakes that she’s seen over and over again that are “pretty irritating.”
When Tina Nicolai began working as a recruiter for Walt Disney World in the late 1990s, she noticed that many job seekers were submitting flawed résumés.
“I realized people simply did not know how to market themselves or their achievements,” Nicolai tells Business Insider. “And that’s how I knew there was a market to educate job candidates at all levels and in all industries.”
So in 2010, she founded Résumé Writers’ Ink. “Since launching my company, I’ve read over 50,000 résumés,” she says. And there are a few mistakes that she’s seen over and over again that are “pretty irritating.”
Since hiring managers often base their first impression of you on your résumé, it’s imperative that you review it closely before hitting “submit” on your job application. Especially when an opening yields a high volume of eligible, talented candidates, employers may be quick to toss your file in the “no” pile for even the smallest mistake.
So, as you give your résumé a final look, make sure it doesn’t include any of the following faux pas, which employers may find to be annoying. And when in doubt, have a friend or expert give in one last read, too.
According to Nicolai, these are seven of the most annoying mistakes people make on their résumés:
“The biggest mistake job seekers make: They are sloppy. They pay poor attention to detail. They are lazy!”
Nicolai says that she has seen too many résumés with typos, unprofessional fonts, outdated information, and irrelevant information.
Summaries that are too long
Summaries are annoying when they are written in a formal tone and include too many adjectives, she says.
“After a while, the summaries can read like a lengthy chapter in a book. It’s better to list a few bullets with pointed achievements and a branded tag line stating, ‘known for achieving XYZ.'”
“Stop stating the obvious!” she says. For example, there’s no need to write “cell phone,” “home phone,” or “email” in front of the phone numbers or email address.
That infamous ‘references’ line
Don’t waste precious résumé real estate with the “References available upon request” line. “Employers know to request references. Save the space and brand yourself with your personal branding statement or add your LinkedIn URL,” says Nicolai.
Starting a bullet point with ‘Responsible for’
This is another “lazy thing” that she has seen too many times on résumés.
“Candidates need to understand that starting a sentence with ‘responsible for’ tells the reader what the job requirements were supposed to be, but it does not state that the candidate actually performed the functions,” Nicolai says. “It does not state that the candidate was successful in these functions. Don’t be lazy: Take the extra few minutes to explain what you accomplished — not what you were expected to accomplish.”
Too many buzzwords
Résumé jargon such as “out-of-the-box,” “team player,” and “exceptional communicator” are “baseline expectations in today’s market,” Nicolai says. “A person who truly is a ‘unique problem solver who works well in teams’ will convey this succinctly and creatively on their résumé through a combination of few words and imagery.”
Being too formal
Finally, she says that she finds overly formal résumés annoying because they’re not engaging and don’t allow the reader to get a good sense of the applicant’s personality.
This article originally appeared on Business Insider.
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Boating and Waterways seeks input on mandatory boating education
Parimal M. Rohit January 10, 2019
Public comment period for proposed rulemaking will be open until Jan. 28.
SACRAMENTO—California Division of Boating and Waterways (DBW) has proposed a new set of regulations to govern the state’s boating card and education requirements. Members of the boating public have until Jan. 28 to provide input and comment on the proposed rulemaking, which updates and clarifies requirements of the California Boater Card (CBC) program.
A major proponent of the proposed rulemaking: mandatory safety education prior to the issuance of an official boater card.
“Statistics show that states with some form of mandatory boating safety education have fewer accidents and fatalities. In 2016, there were 588 boating accidents in California, which resulted in 266 injuries, 50 fatalities and $3,911,886 in property damage. Only two of the 50 boat operators involved in a fatal accident had taken a formal boating safety course,” the proposed rulemaking document stated. “Boaters learning safe boating practices can prevent boating accidents.”
“The CBC program may cause an increase in persons taking and passing boating safety examinations, and this may positively impact businesses providing these examinations,” the proposed rulemaking document later stated.
Fees already being collected for the CBC would cover associated costs for a mandatory boating safety education requirement.
“Fees collected for CBC’s will be deposited into the Vessel Operator Certification Account, established within the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund. Fees will be in an amount sufficient to cover reasonable costs of the program, but not exceed those costs,” the proposed rulemaking document stated.
DBW officials stated the mandatory boating safety education requirement would reduce accidents and fatalities.
“Statistics show that states with some form of boating safety education have fewer boating accidents and fatalities. The CBC requirement will educate the boating public to establish safer waterways,” the proposed rulemaking document stated.
Requiring boating safety education as part of the CBC process was not part of the original drafting and execution of California’s boater card programming.
No public hearing is scheduled for the proposed rulemaking, as DBW has classified the proposal as a clarification of current law. A public hearing can be requested, however, within 15 days of the public comment period closing.
“The Division [of Boating and Waterways] is not aware of any reasonable alternatives to the proposed regulations,” the proposed rulemaking document stated. “However, the division invites interested persons to present statements or arguments with respect to alternatives to the proposed regulations during the written comment period.”
Boaters who seek to make comments or have questions about the rulemaking process can reach out to Charley Hesse, a regulations analyst with DBW. Hesse can be reached via email at Charley.Hesse@parks.ca.gov, by regular U.S. Mail at California State Parks, Division of Boating and Waterways, One Capitol Mall, Suite 500, Sacramento, California 95814, or by calling 916-327-1741.
All comments must be made in writing, identify the proposed regulatory action and sent directly to Hesse.
The proposed rulemaking can be found on the DBW website (bit.ly/2VpwYvH).
The state charges boaters who passed a boating safety course $10 for a California Boater Card.
California implemented its boater card program on Jan. 1, 2018. By 2025 every boater in California must possess a boater card in order to operate a recreational vessel. Boaters between 16 and 25 years old, as of Jan. 1, 2019, are required to have a CBC; the card is still optional for everyone 26 and older.
The next age group to be required to possess a CBC: 26-35 by Jan. 1, 2020.
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Alia Bhatt says got a lot of excitement over pairing with Salman Khan
by Web Desk April 9, 2019
Alia Bhatt has reacted to criticism around her onscreen pairing with much older Salman Khan in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s next, Inshallah.
Speaking to Pinkvilla, she said that she received no criticism about the pairing; instead she saw a lot of excitement coming her way.
She was quoted as saying: “I didn’t get any criticism. I think I got a lot of excitement. I think speculation is also a form of excitement in a way and why shouldn’t there be speculation. There should be and at least I am not bothered by that and I don’t think Salman or Bhansali sir are bothered. I think this is a filmmaker who has given us very good films, he is someone who we all are very fond of and I think we should just trust him with his vision.”
It was announced last month that Alia and Salman would star in Bhansali’s next, a development not necessarily universally well received. Many of Twitter users expressed their disappointment and were quick in digging out an old picture of the two together when Alia was but a child. Alia remains unfazed by all the talk, so are Salman and Bhansali.
The Raazi actor remains busy as ever; come April 17 and her film, Kalank, will hit the screen. The multi-starrer is hugely anticipated with its trailer and various songs already a hit with fans. Alia has many other interesting projects in her kitty, including Ayan Mukerji’s Brahmastra, SS Rajamouli’s tentatively titled RRR, Karan Johar’s directorial Takht. She also has the sequel of Sadak in her kitty. Salman too is a busy star — his film, Bharat’s shoot is over and it is expected to be an Eid release. He is currently shooting for Dabangg 3 and also has another remake of a Korean film named Veteran in the pipeline.
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Editor's Note: Thanks to Cathy Kemer for the newspaper scan.
Petty Delivers Vibrant Show
By Bob Sharpe
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers delivered a vibrant, and not unmemorable, 105-minute Stabler Arena concert Thursday night before a lively audience of 4,563.
Opening with "A One Story Town," his current single, and selecting from his portfolio of five albums, Petty returned the crowd's energetic affection with dazed but knowing grins.
Petty and his band played such hallmarks as "Breakdown," "Refugee," and the plaintive "The Waiting," which was introduced by Petty as "one of my favorite songs."
Yet, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' most recent album, Long After Dark, may be the group's greatest accomplishment.
Carrying with them sincere overtones of bitterness and loneliness, "Change of Heart" and the synthesizer-coated "You Got Lucky" were among the new songs played by Petty.
Petty's voice can cry a delicate wail, or be surprisingly vibrant and bold.
"This is the world -- famous Allentown," Petty kidded the crowd. He later drew applause by inserting the phrase, "You work so hard down at Moravian," into a song.
Petty reappeared onstage for the first encore, understating, "We just came out to tell you rock 'n' roll didn't die." Then came 12 fun minutes of "Shout," always included in a Petty concert.
Petty, 31, is the son of a Gainesville, Fla., insurance salesman.
Band members are lead guitarist Mike Campbell, 32, also from Florida; keyboardist Benmont Tench; drummer Stan Lynch, assisted by tour percussionist Phil Jones, and new bassist Howie Epstein, who also lends vocals.
The opening act was Noise to Go, a name with singer-songwriters Nick Lowe, of pop fame, and Paul Carrack, formerly of Squeeze and Ace.
Carrack, who plays piano and organ, sang "How Long," a 1974 Ace hit, and "Tempted," last year's Squeeze hit.
Guitarist Lowe, who after joining with Carrack may have an identity crisis, failed to perform his best-selling song "Cruel to Be Kind," from 1979, and the 1978 pop classic "Breaking Glass."
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Auburn National Bancorporation Inc. (AUBN)
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Dykstra: Eastman Chemical Calls Brewing
The March options should reward investors. Also, the look at the Stat Book.
Lenny Dykstra
The Fed knocked one out of the park yesterday, and investors cheered and opened their wallets in celebration. Yesterday's highly anticipated interest rate cut announcement and subsequent market surge demonstrate just how quickly investors are willing to put their money back in the game.
Before the party's over, I plan to add to a few open positions while the deep-in-the-money (DITM) calls are still cheap. I am going to place the following market orders at the open today:
Motorola October $15 (MOTJC) -- 40 contracts.
Precision Drilling ( PDS - Get Report) December $22.50 (PDSLX) -- 30 contracts.
Methanex ( MEOH - Get Report) October $20 (QPNJD) -- 40 contracts.
Massey Energy October $20 (MEEJD) -- 30 contracts.
These buys will give me a much lower cost basis in these positions, and they will be in much better scoring position -- literally.
Now, let's move on to today's play.
Eastman Chemical ( EMN - Get Report) has developed into a major producer of chemicals, fibers and plastics. Among Eastman's operating segments are its CASPI (coatings, adhesives, specialty polymers and inks), specialty plastics (engineering polymers) and fibers (acetate tow and textile fibers) units.
Its performance polymers segment is the No. 1 maker of polyethylene terephthalate (PET), a plastic used to make packaging for soft drinks, food and water. The last segment manufactures performance chemicals and intermediates. Eastman's products go into such items as food and medical packaging, films and toothbrushes.
Eastman Chemical is also the proud owner of a solid balance sheet. The company has a forward price-to-earnings ratio of 13.91 and an ROE coming in at 18.50%, and its total debt-to-equity is an impressive 0.771. To finish it off, it has free cash flow of $208.50 million.
This leads me to select this stock as the DITM call play today. I will place a limit order to buy 10 March $55s (EMNCK) for $11.50, or better. I'll use limit orders.
Now, as I do every Wednesday, it's time for the real numbers in the Stat Book. This is my 149th column for TheStreet.com. I play to win -- that's the bottom line.
At the time of publication, Dykstra was long Motorola.
Nicknamed 'Nails' for his tough style of play, Lenny is a former Major League Baseball player for the 1986 World Champions, New York Mets and the 1993 National League Champions, Philadelphia Phillies. A three time All-Star as a ballplayer, Lenny now serves as president for several privately held businesses in Southern California. He is the founder of The Players Club; it has been his desire to give back to the sport that gave him early successes in life by teaching athletes how to invest and protect their incomes. He currently manages his own portfolio and writes an investment strategy column for TheStreet.com, and is featured regularly on CNBC and other cable news shows. Lenny was selected as OverTime Magazine's 2006-2007 "Entrepreneur of the Year."
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Schlumberger Is a Dominant Energy Player Patiently Waiting to Shine
Despite the usual short-term headwinds, Schlumberger seems to be one of the best-positioned players in the energy services sector. Once the macro environment improves, the stock could head substantially higher from its current, depressed levels.
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Morgan Stanley: Now Could Be a Good Time to Buy Shares on the Cheap
The banking giant will be looking to regain investor confidence ahead of what could be a challenging quarter.
Apple Overhauls Its MacBook Lineup: 3 Key Takeaways
The tech giant cut the price of its latest MacBook Air and refreshed its cheapest MacBook Pro. It also discontinued a MacBook that felt strongly influenced by Jony Ive's design philosophy.
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The following cases were completed at North Somerset Courthouse between April 15-23:
* Penny Bohin (30), of Bloomfield, Brompton Road, Weston. Assaulting a police officer: Nine-month community order with 12-week curfew, ordered to pay £85 costs and £60 victim surcharge. Two counts of breach of conditional discharge: No separate penalty.
* Ethan Crosse (23), of Highbury Road, Weston. Drink-driving: Fined £140 plus £85 costs and £20 victim surcharge, banned from driving for 12 months.
* Anthony Harriman (45), of Locking Road, Weston. Two counts of theft: 12-month community order, ordered to pay £60 costs and £68 compensation. Breach of conditional discharge: No separate penalty.
* Paul Hirst (35), of Coleridge Road, Weston. Theft: 12-month community order with requirement to carry out 40 hours’ unpaid community work, ordered to pay £450 compensation and £60 victim surcharge.
* David Dixon (57), of Appletree Court, Worle. Fraud: Eight-week community order with curfew, ordered to pay £85 costs and £60 victim surcharge.
* Luke Neilson (36), of Sandford Road, Weston. Theft: Sent to prison for one week.
* Carlo Caltabiano (36), of Clevedon Road, Weston. Threatening behaviour: 12-month conditional discharge, ordered to pay £50 costs and £15 victim surcharge.
* Derek Cameron (35), of Wyvern Close, Weston. Failure to provide a breath specimen: Fined £550 plus £250 costs and £55 victim surcharge, banned from driving for 24 months.
* Valerie Davies (63), of Buttermere Road, Weston. Assault: 18-month conditional discharge, ordered to pay £50 compensation, £310 costs and £15 victim surcharge.
Click HERE to view more recently completed cases from North Somerset Courthouse
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Football session a hit ahead of new season
PUBLISHED: 20:02 14 August 2014
Report by Tom Wright
First team player Syd Camper, presenting awards to participants, pictured with organisers Geoff Stevens and Gregg Turner.
WITH the Premier League campaign kicking off on Saturday, it was the perfect time for the next generation of footballers to hone their skills.
Weston Football Club ran another of its popular school holiday courses and welcomed boys and girls last week.
The five-day programme was again run by the club’s charity, the Sports Active Seagulls Community Trust (SAS).
Geoff Stevens, SAS’ community manager, said: “Over the week they completed a series of skills challenges including speed gun, shooting target, passing tunnel and timed dribble.
“More than 30 youngsters, aged between six and 12, attended and all were presented with medals and certificates for various achievements including best skills, penalties, goalkeeper and the overall best player.”
Manchester United, Arsenal, Everton and Liverpool shirts were all on display as the children tried to emulate their Premier League idols.
Weston forward Syd Camper, who came on as substitute in the club’s first game of the season on Saturday, showed the youngsters a few skills and presented the prizes.
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DAVID CALE: MORE SONGS FOR CHARMING STRANGERS
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DAVID CALE
MORE SONGS FOR CHARMING STRANGERS
with Matthew Dean Marsh
Sylver Wallace - Vocals
Josh Henderson - Viola
Plus guests
David Cale's first evening of his original songs and his ever evolving musical collaboration with Matthew Dean Marsh, "More Songs for Charming Strangers" is a sharply witty and emotionally penetrating song cycle of love at large. Focusing on the nuances of romantic relationships, pick ups, blind dates and unlikely seductions, and by turns sensual, startling and sometimes hilarious, the songs in "More Songs for Charming Strangers" have all the qualities of the monologues for which David is nationally acclaimed. David's lyrics have been sung by a wide array of artists including Elvis Costello, Debbie Harry, John Kelly, Carol Lipnik and Jimmy Scott. A recent recipient of a 2018 Lucille Nortel Award for Outstanding Solo Show for his hit solo, "Harry Clarke", starring Billy Crudup, David's new solo musical "Were Only Alive for a Short Amount of Time", also in collaboration with Matthew, premieres this Fall on the Main Stage of the Goodman Theatre, Chicago.
DAVID CALE is the writer and performer of ten solo works including "A Likely Story" (The New Group), "Lillian" (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award) and "Deep in a Dream of You" (Public Theater, Bessie Award). He wrote the book, lyrics, co-composed the music for, and appeared as Floyd in the musical "Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky" (Playwrights Horizons, Outer Critics Circle Nomination). He wrote the songs for 600 Highwaymen's "Employee of the Year" (UTR Public Theater, Bessie Nomination). As an actor he appears in films including "The Slaughter Rule" and "Pollock", and most recently he performed on stage in "The Total Bent" (Public Theater).
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Beverly Johnson Says She Forgives Bill Cosby
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In December of last year, just a two shorts months after the Bill Cosby scandal finally broke wide, supermodel Beverly Johnson wrote a piece for Vanity Fair called “Bill Cosby Drugged Me. This Is My Story.” And as the details of the Cosby case unfolded over the course of the past year, Johnson has remained a vocal representative for his alleged victims. But when she appeared on Good Morning America, Johnson’s message wasn’t about blame. It was about forgiveness.
When talking about her upcoming memoir, The Face That Changed It All, Johnson did revisit some of the damaging fallout from her encounter with Cosby. ”It was almost like a family member had betrayed me. It was such a huge sense of betrayal for me. These women gave me the courage to come forward.” In an act of collective courage, Johnson appeared alongside 34 other Cosby accusers in a striking New York Magazine cover earlier this summer. The headline of that story calls out “the culture that wouldn’t listen,” and Johnson did the same on Good Morning America, calling Cosby “a lightning rod for a much bigger conversation—and that conversation would be the rape culture in America.”
But when asked what she would say to Cosby himself, Johnson didn’t hesitate before replying, “I forgive you.” Her interviewer, Amy Robach, paused before carefully asking, “What do you think should happen now to Bill Cosby?” Johnson responded, “I’m going to leave that to the justice department.” Bill Cosby has yet to face criminal charges since the scandal broke wide last October and there are still those who vocally defend him and refuse, as New York Magazine put it, to listen. You can see Johnson’s full interview here.
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Save Yourselves
Tommy Robinson Has Become a Hero to the Global Far-Right
Saturday's "Free Tommy Robinson" demo showed that there's an international coalition of dickheads backing him.
by Simon Childs
Photo: Penelope Barritt/Shutterstock
The stars and stripes, Union Jacks, Hungarian, UKIP and Generation Identity flags – as well as a blow-up sex doll, with a print-out of Sadiq Khan's face attached to it, riding a blow-up pig – flew over Whitehall on Saturday as people gathered for latest "Free Tommy Robinson" demonstration. There were about 6,000 attendees present, so this was smaller fry than the 10,000-strong June effort, which saw his supporters scaling the Downing Street gates and surrounding beleaguered police.
UKIP leader Gerard Batten was one of the first to speak, and compared Robinson's contempt of court offence – for which he was jailed in May – to the crimes of Robin Hood. I'm not sure endangering the trial of a rape gang is the same as stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but there you go. Either way, while the crowds were out to call for the freedom of a plucky British folk hero, all the evidence suggested that by getting himself banged up, Robinson has made himself a cause celebre for the international far-right.
The demo was funded by the Middle East Forum, a hard-right think-tank from America, and compered by Breitbart London's former Editor-in Chief, Raheem Kassam, who works for them. Daniel Pipes, President of MEF, pushed the myth of "no-go zones" for police because of Muslims in Europe.
Besides Batten and Pipes, the speakers list was an international right-wing shitterati: Kent Ekeroth from the Sweden Democrats, who wants to become an immigrant in Hungary to escape immigration in Sweden; Jérôme Rivière from the French Rassemblement National (formerly Fronte National); American singer Joy Villa; and US congressman Paul Gosar, who said the riots in Charlottesville were organised by an "Obama sympathiser". Between each speech, loudspeakers blared the sort of ditty that would soundtrack a Match of the Day hype montage, with the refrain: "This is how legends are made."
Via video link, Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom, asked, "Who deserves to live in 10 Downing Street – Mrs May or Tommy Robinson? And who deserves to be the Prime Minister of the UK? Theresa May or Tommy Robinson?"
If Tommy's getting the news in prison, you have to wonder if he can still fit his head through the door of his cell. Tommy Robinson of Luton has gone global.
(Photo: Penelope Barritt/Shutterstock)
Over the weekend, it also emerged that an ambassador of Trump's lobbied Britain to treat Robinson more sympathetically, or else face criticism from the Trump administration. Then Steve Bannon, Trump's former Chief Strategist, popped up on LBC radio to say that Robinson should be released from prison, while issuing a "call to arms" for people to "fight to take your country back".
While Robinson becomes a far-right revolutionary hero across borders, it's clear that Trump's America has become a sort of fascist Zion for the far-right – their fever-dream vision given a real life exemplar, and their weird conspiracies given the legitimacy of a Presidential seal.
Flemish secessionist MP Filip Dewinter gave a speech citing Trump's interview in the Sun, in which he said immigration is "changing the culture" of Europe. "Donald Trump is right!" he said. "Donald Trump is saying what European political leaders don’t dare to say. Our enemy is Islam. We have to stop mass immigration." If the most important man in the world thinks it's true, how can you be called a racist crank for peddling this bullshit?
Speaker after speaker lined up to hail Trump. At times, you could forget it was a rally for Tommy at all, were it not for the frequent "Oooh Tommy, Tommy" chants.
In his address, Batten attempted to fuse the right's confused free speech narrative with Euroscepticism and Islamophobia into a more holistically stupid outlook. He wants UKIP to be the party of freedom, including "freedom to live under laws made by a parliament of patriotic MPs, not a parliament of traitors" – which sounds super democratic and not at all scary.
Near the end of the afternoon, compere Kassam played a video that got the biggest applause of the afternoon. It was of Donald Trump on the campaign trail reading a poem about a kind woman who takes in and looks after a sickly snake she finds on the road, only for it to turn around and bite her, which is supposed to be allegory for immigration. It was clear, then, that the Trumpian alt-right's embrace of the Tommy cause has given them the opportunity to broadcast their xenophobic ideas to a receptive street movement which numbers in the thousands.
Recent iterations of Britain's racist street movements have been mercifully vague and obsessed with respectability. The leaders of the EDL swore they weren't against Muslims, just terrorists, even as they stomped around intimidating Muslims and making racist speeches. This led to a political incoherence that helped the EDL to falter. With US diplomats fighting your corner, the leader of the free world as your daddy and weird think-tanks ploughing cash into shaping the politics of a movement, things from here on out won't necessarily go the same way.
At the end of the demo, Robinson supporters wandered off to hassle a bus driver who was wearing a hijab and glass RMT trade union official Steve Hedley, in what he described as an unprovoked attack. All in a day's work for this newly legitimised mob.
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Loudoun County Voter Registration
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BSBWHS201 - Contribute to health and safety of self and others
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to work in a manner that is healthy and safe in relation to self and others and to respond to emergency incidents. It covers following work health and safety (WHS) and emergency procedures and instructions, implementing WHS requirements and participating in WHS consultative processes. It applies to individuals who require a basic knowledge of WHS to carry out work in a defined context under direct supervision or with some individual responsibility, in a range of industry and workplace contexts.
NOTE: The terms 'occupational health and safety' (OHS) and 'work health and safety' (WHS) are equivalent and generally either can be used in the workplace. In jurisdictions where the Model WHS Act has not been implemented RTOs are advised to contextualise the unit of competency by referring to the existing State/Territory OHS legislative requirements.
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Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce and extend knowledge and skill competence within set and controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes and performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines. Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills: - follow all relevant procedures and instructions relating to work health and safety (WHS) and emergency incidents; - identify and report hazards to designated personnel, and; - contribute to WHS consultative processes. Note: If a specific volume or frequency is not stated, then evidence must be provided at least once.Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge: - explain workplace safety procedures and instructions; - explain emergency procedures including those for fires and incidents; - define the meaning of commonly used hazard signs and safety symbols; - summarise the duty holder responsibilities, as specified in WHS Acts, regulations and codes of practice; - explain the difference between hazards and risks; - describe typical WHS hazards that may be present in the workplace, the harm they can cause and how this harm occurs, and; - outline the process of hazard identification and risk reduction.
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We look forward to welcoming you as a member of the Western Association of Broadcasters (WAB). WAB membership is opened to all broadcasters licenced to serve Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba and Associate Members from across Canada, U.S. and International. Associate membership is open to affiliated companies who do business with our broadcasting organizations. We encourage you to play an integral part in this association!
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Continuing the tradition from the CAB, the WAB is proud to help recognize broadcast employees of member stations for their 25 years and 50 years of service in the broadcast industry.
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On Dance Moms Season 6 Episode 30, Abby is all over the news again as a result of her trial. Fears also abound for the dancers. Go ahead and watch Dance Moms online right here and now. We make this is.
Dance Mom dancers are no stranger to the pressure and fame that come. 12-year-old dancer Maesi Caes had just wrapped up a performance in Las Vegas with the Abby Lee Dance Company troupe at the.
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Former Dance Moms star Abby Lee Miller is speaking out one day after being sentenced to 366 days in federal prison over fraud charges. The 50-year-old sat down on Good Morning America Wednesday and.
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The Boston restaurant where robots have replaced the chefs
Boston restaurant, Spyce, relies on seven autonomous cooking pots and other technology to prepare customer’s meals. (Photo courtesy of Spyce)
By Peter Holley
Peter Holley
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The debate about whether cooking is more art or science is a never-ending one.
But at Spyce, the latest culinary experiment in automation, that debate feels pretty well settled.
Started by a group of 20-something robotics engineers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who partnered with Michelin-starred chef Daniel Boulud, the new restaurant in downtown Boston is founded on the idea that a fulfilling meal can be more science than spontaneity.
The restaurant’s founders have replaced human chefs with seven automated cooking pots that simultaneously whip up meals in three minutes or less. A brief description of meal preparation — courtesy of 26-year-old co-founder, Michael Farid — can sound more like laboratory instructions than conventional cooking.
“Once you place your order, we have an ingredient delivery system that collects them from the fridge,” Farid said. “The ingredients are portioned into the correct sizes and then delivered to a robotic wok, where they are tumbled at 450 degrees Fahrenheit. The ingredients are cooked and seared. And once the process is complete, the woks tilt downward and put food into a bowl. And then they’re ready to be garnished and served.”
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A prototype of Spyce’s robotic chef was first assembled in the basement of the co-founders’ fraternity house at MIT.
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While meals are cooked, the customer’s name appears on an electronic display above their wok, showing their order. Once finished, hot water jets rinse the inside of woks before another collection of ingredients is dumped inside. Farid said they decided to place the robotic chefs out in the open to remove any lingering mystery.
“We didn’t want to create a black box that produces a meal,” Farid said. “We wanted this experience to be exciting.”
The restaurant’s motto: “Culinary excellence elevated by technology.”
First robotic US meal! (@ Spyce in Boston, MA) https://t.co/6SWcYlUQ6q pic.twitter.com/iaSeDiZGKj
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That motto is one that the restaurant industry is beginning to adopt as a whole, experts say. Restaurants across the country already incorporate automated technology, such as “self-service ordering” and “robotic servers,” according to a report last year by the McKinsey Global Institute.
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“According to our analysis, 73 percent of the activities workers perform in food service and accommodations have the potential for automation, based on technical considerations,” the report said.
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Farid said the robots add efficiency and lower operating costs, but he declined to say by how much. He said he sees the robots enhancing the dining experience, not replacing it, but declined to speculate on whether Spyce is opening the floodgates of a job-killing robot revolution.
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Democrat Senators sue, challenging Trump's appointment of acting AG Whitaker
Three Democratic senators on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the appointment of acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker, ratcheting up the court effort to declare his placement atop the Justice Department as unconstitutional.
Sens. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii filed the suit in US District Court on Monday, represented by the groups Protect Democracy and the Constitutional Accountability Center.
The lawsuit is only the latest challenge to Whitaker's appointment to replace Jeff Sessions after President Donald Trump fired his attorney general the day after the election.
Whitaker was serving as Sessions' chief of staff, and has not gone through the Senate confirmation process in that role. His appointment leap-frogged Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, which also gave Whitaker control over special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation that had previously been supervised by Rosenstein.
Whitaker's appointment has been criticized because of his vocal criticisms of the Mueller investigation, and Democrats have previously urged him to recuse himself from the probe in addition to questioning the constitutionality of his appointment.
Last week, the Justice Department issued a memo defending Whitaker's appointment , concluding that it was legally justified under the Vacancies Reform Act.
The Senate Democrats' lawsuit, however, argues that his appointment his unconstitutional under the Constitution's Appointments Clause requiring Senate confirmation of high-level federal appointees.
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IN - Abigail (Abby) Williams, 13, & Liberty (Libby) German, 14, The Delphi Murders 13 Feb 2017 #103
Discussion in 'Located Persons Discussion' started by Tricia, Apr 22, 2019.
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BNA said: ↑
I figure he probably posed them. That is not uncommon.
Carter's comments 1 month ago at the PC gave me that impression right off.
Posing victims actually IS pretty uncommon. The last stats I saw was something like fewer than 5% of the perps pose their victims. Washington State's Attorney General posted stats from 1982-2002 and found that 1.3% of victims are left in an unusual position, with 0.3% being posed and 0.1% being staged. That was posted in the Journal of Forensic Sciences 49(6):1308-12.
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These two girls didn’t die peaceful deaths.
No matter how he killed them, it was both violent and brutal.
I don’t think Carter was alluding to posing, as it is not a requirement for his statement to be true.
It is true on its face.
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mtnlites said: ↑
This article cites studies that put it even lower, at less than 1%.
Frequency of Body Posing in Homicides | Hendon Publishing
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ab01 "What is done in the dark always comes to light"
Posing victims actually IS pretty uncommon. The last stats I saw was something like fewer than 5% of the perps post their victims. Washington State's Attorney General posted stats from 1982-2002 and found that 1.3% of victims are left in an unusual position, with 0.3% being posed and 0.1% being staged. That was posted in the Journal of Forensic Sciences 49(6):1308-12.
Yah it’s extremely rare and that’s why everyone remembers cases where it happens.
It’s actually quite fascinating how we recall highly publicized cases where these things happen, and it actually sticks in our memories and we perceive them as being quite common.
When In actuality it almost never happens
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x_files said: ↑
He might NOT have close, true friends, that really know him but I do think he blends into the Delphi community. He wears a mask for society. Might be squeaky clean choir boy type.
I would hope that parents/family won't cover for him, but who knows...trying to guess why no one has id' ed him yet.
A) few/no witnesses on that trail;
B) what if he is a version of JP? He might present differently, but IRL, is so shallow and immature, that his “acquaintances”, or even classmates, on finding out who he was, would respond with “who is that?”. And even if they think he may resemble the sketch, no one can remember where he was during that day, because his absence was not missed.
C) DC mentioned “how he has changed since that time”. Now, this is interesting. Is he quieter, more subdued or, on the contrary, more outgoing, more omnipresent? Because this is something that people around him might have noticed. Huge change in personality. But even if they did, who would ID him on such a flimsy piece of evidence?
D) I sometimes wonder if he had totally different plans for that morning. Met with someone he really liked, and got a firm “no”, for example? And that someone either never connected the dots, or can not imagine that the person she/he always knew as loving is capable of such a horrible crime? Or simply, is afraid of revealing something about herself/himself?
Charlot123, May 23, 2019
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MassGuy said: ↑
Ha ha, I was JUST getting ready to edit my post to include that link.
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I seriously doubt anyone knows who BG is. With the thousands of tips they have had, people must be calling in anyone they can think of who could remotely be him. LE is hoping someone knows...but that is all. Jmo
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With 42,000 tips called in it seems that, by this point, half the men in central Indiana who own a blue jacket and use the word "guys" have probably been called in. Even if you ignore the 35,000 tips that probably consist of "I saw this picture on FB..." and "have you thought about looking at people who..." statistically alone there should've been at least ONE good tip and since they're still asking for someone in BG's life to call in...
Yeah, I don't think they know.
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What if... Active Member
And if you consider all the people that live there, have lived there, have family there, have worked there, etc,... “Local” May not be as local as we’d like to think it is.
What if..., May 23, 2019
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Charlot123 said: ↑
I think Patterson is a good example of how someone can commit a crime, and fly under the radar of suspicion.
In that case (Jayme Closs), they of course didn’t have an image of the perpetrator, or audio of his voice.
If they had though, I could still see him not being connected to that crime.
He was a loner, who rarely interacted with the outside world.
He lived in a bubble, had the benefit of living some distance away from the crime scene, and was never suspected of anything.
He’s not particularly intelligent, was brazen and reckless in the commission of his crime, and would have gotten away with it had Jayme not escaped.
BG and JP are very different in regards to the psychology behind their crimes, but they may have similar personalities.
BG might also be benefitting from similar isolation.
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PaulaDC said: ↑
Just listened to this Kelsi German interview. Now I know where the movie reference of The Shack came from, also her opinion is the killer was local. I wonder if when reviewing the case LE listened to her thoughts......I was surprised when Kelsi reveals her Grandparents heard more of the recording.
What a courageous young woman she is. Her reference to “the Shack” feels very different. It shows the generosity of her soul. Wish her and her family, as well as Abby’s family, to finally get successful closure.
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It is interesting how KG affirms that she believes the killer is local, from the area, as he's walking across that bridge with his hands in his pockets. She remarks how she crossed the bridge on her hands and knees! I'm not even sure I could do it that way looking at the condition and height of that bridge Her thoughts jive with what I have felt too, that whoever BG is, he is VERY familiar with the bridge and the terrain for all of that to have happened that quickly and get out of there without being seen or at minimum having gotten away with it thus far. It makes me wonder how LE ever thought it was just some random guy from God knows where that did this heinous deed. This perp is no stranger to the park although he may not live in Delphi now. JMT
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MOO, but I do believe that there is some...fear on the part of those who *do* suspect him. After all, LE has yet to be very clear that they will provide "protection" for those who fear for their lives/their family members' lives, should they give that "missing puzzle piece" of info. that will nail the case shut. (Someone please correct me if I am not accurate about this -- threads virtually "fly" by, and it's entirely possible that I have missed something HUGE as far as LE's words of assurance of protection for potential key witnesses/ tip-givers who can finish "connecting the dots" for LE as to the identity of the suspect.)
On a slightly different note, imo the suspect comes off as being squeaky-clean, "choir-boy" type (as an earlier poster suggested; my apologies for not recalling the name at the moment). Thus, though I do think that the suspect is very much a loner, the few that do know him, don't really "know" him (though they think that they do); they simply know about him (since he has very carefully guarded things about himself, I hypothesize). So from what little they can see/observe about him, the thought of his possibly being the suspect? Totally off-the-charts an impossibility. "Him? Why would you joke like that?" might be a typical comment his acquaintances might say about him, were we able to "listen in" to their occasional conversations. Totally MOO that the suspect has a "dark side" that no one knows/imagines -- least of all those who "think" that they know the suspect. Entirely conjecture and speculation, but am thinking that there is a distinct connection between that secret "dark side" and the taking of two young girls' innocent lives... For Abby's & Libby's sakes, I want justice. For the town of Delphi's sake (and for their future peace of mind), I want justice. For the sake of potential future victims (ughk!) of this suspect, I long for justice.
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And though Patterson took steps to be careful (trading license plates, shaving his head, scoping the place out, etc.) he was also one who benefited from luck. He drove right back the police car as he was leaving and if he'd left just 5 minutes later, he probably would've been caught. He wasn't on anyone's radar at all, and the forums were pointing fingers at every single person whose name came up.
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margarita25 Well-Known Member
tresir2012 said: ↑
DELPHI TIMELINE: The murders of Abby & Libby
a good timeline I've not seen before.
Only 10% posted below.
DELPHI TIMELINE: Disappearance and murders of Liberty German and Abigail Williams
The mystery surrounding a double murder continues over a month after the bodies of Liberty German, 14, and Abigail Williams, 13, were found.
MORE | Police search home on property where Delphi teens were found dead |
February 13, 1:30 p.m.: Liberty "Libby" German and Abigail "Abby" Williams were dropped off to go hiking near Monon High Bridgejust east of Delphi, according to family.
This was the last time anyone heard from the girls.
February 13, 2:07 p.m.: Libby posted a photo on her Snapchat account showing Abby walking across the old railroad bridge.
The girls had a set time to meet with family members to be picked up.
When family showed up to get them they were nowhere to be found. Family began canvasing the area for Libby and Abby but could not locate them.
February 13, between 2:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.:The girls had a set time to meet with family members to be picked up.
The Carroll County Sheriff's Department, Delphi Police Department, and Delphi Fire Department were joined by the Department of Natural Resources to search for the two missing girls.
Sheriff Tobe Leazenby said crews began canvassing the area and tried pinging the girls' cell phones into the evening hours but had no success in finding them. The sheriff said they believed the girls' phones were either dead or turned off.
February 13, 5:30 p.m.: After family could not locate the girls they contacted the Carroll County Sheriff's Department.
February 14, around 11:45 a.m.: The search for the missing girls was resumed. All crews were called to the area near the Monon High Bridge to continue the search for Libby and Abby.
At this point in time, Sheriff Laezenby said they had no reason to believe that the girls were in imminent danger and crews would resume their search in the morning.
February 14, 12 a.m.: The search for the two missing girls was scaled back around midnight because of the dark.
At this point in time, Sheriff Laezenby said they had no reason to believe that the girls were in imminent danger and crews would resume their search in the morning. "
Crossquoting from the media thread, I just came across the above statements again.
They make absolutely zero sense to me. Just sayin. All I can say is thank God the FBI is hopefully still overseeing this investigation, moo.
Like I said around April 22nd after the PC, if we are here in 6 months then ask me what I really think. I’m afraid that anything I say now may be misinterpreted and won’t come out right. All I can say is the same thing I’ve said since April 22nd that there’s something not right about all of this.
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I’m so sorry about how this horrific tragedy has affected Kelsi. I really admire how she and her Grandparents have tried their best to get the word out about BG. It is terrible how psych**s have tried to take advantage. *please note we are not permitted to discuss psych**s or the paranormal.
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Yup. He was “hiding in plain sight,” by simply maintaining the status quo.
He wasn’t fooling anyone; no one was looking in his direction to begin with.
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susiQ said: ↑
He probably walked this bridge, and the terrain, but not necessarily that many times. What if he works in construction and heights are habitual and non-frightening to him? People’s brains are wired differently for heights. The same is true about directions. (If he has learning disability of the type when his non-dominant hemisphere functions better, he might compensate by good memory for direction. I am not a specialist in it, just MOO).
And since I am on this topic...has LE, or anyone who has seen the whole video, the ability to determine dexterity? (Baby goat notwithstanding), some people here believed that BG had a gun in his pocket, and that the way the gun was placed indicated L-handedness. Could it be true? Because if true, it significantly narrows the group of potential suspects.
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margarita25 said: ↑
I think those statements make perfect sense.
This type of thing happens every single day in America. People get lost, and searchers set out to find them.
The vast majority of these cases do not involve foul play.
These were teenage girls, who could have walked out on their own, if they hadn’t already.
Protocols are put in place to handle what happens most of the time, not what happens on rare occasion.
There was nothing overly concerning at the time, and you don’t want to risk the safety of members of the search team.
As it turned out, it didn’t matter anyways. Those girls had almost certainly been dead for hours.
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heyjudette said: ↑
Agreed. Really makes me wonder how he got to the bridge/what direction he was coming from/what direction he left... was he lying in wait?
I keep checking back here everyday hoping for an update. I’m going to continue doing that. Thanks to everyone on here for continuing to keep this discussion alive.
Everything about this crime is unusual and how he’s managed to get away with it this long, is mind blowing. MOO I am constantly on here, waiting for the day they announce his arrest. Hopefully that’s sooner than later.
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Chocolate Peanut Butter 'Pieces Ice Cream
How is it that I married a man who thinks peanut butter is gross?! Well, it's no problem really because that simply means I can make all the peanut butter treats I want and have them all to myself! One such treat is this Chocolate Peanut Butter 'Pieces Ice Cream... and I love that he won't even touch it. It's a good thing too because it's one decadent and ridiculously delicious flavor...
David Lebovitz usually has ice cream recipes involving quite a bit of egg yolks. When I came across this recipe of his, I was thrilled that there was no egg yolks involved. Being so, this recipe was super easy to make with a small handful of ingredients. Simply combine half & half, cocoa powder, sugar and salt in a saucepan until it starts to boil and foam... then whisk in peanut butter. Chill the mixture and then churn away. To put the ice cream over the top, I mixed in Reese's Pieces candies after the ice cream churned. It added an extra burst of peanut butter and a nice touch of color too!
recipe adapted from David Lebovitz
2 cups half & half
1/4 cup unsweetened Dutch process cocoa powder
1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
1/4-1/2 cup Reese Pieces candies
In a large pan, whisk to combine the half and half, cocoa powder, sugar and salt. Heat the mixture, whisking frequently, until it comes to a full, rolling boil and begins to foam up. Remove the pan from the heat and add the peanut butter, whisking to blend thoroughly.
Refrigerate the mixture to chill thoroughly, then freeze it in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer’s instructions. After churning, fold in the candies into the ice cream and transfer mixture into a freezer safe container. Freeze overnight to ripen before serving.
Eva July 1, 2010 at 11:04 AM
You may think I'm weird, too! I don't like any nuts or nut-related products (like peanut butter). The only exception I make is Nutella because it tastes like chocolate!
-Eva =)
Chris July 1, 2010 at 11:04 AM
How can you say no to this? ;)
Cara! July 1, 2010 at 12:34 PM
I can't wait to try this one!!
Memória July 1, 2010 at 3:31 PM
I don't like nuts either, but I can take peanut butter from time to time. The yolks aren't necessary in this recipe because of the peanut butter's semi-solid viscosity. Your ice cream looks absolutely amazing.
Chefcalia July 3, 2010 at 11:55 AM
Chocolate and peanut butter together is a delicious combination!!!
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| ERROR: type should be string, got "https://www.wsj.com/articles/todays-top-supply-chain-and-logistics-news-from-wsj-1498647288\nWSJ Logistics Report\nToday’s Top Supply Chain and Logistics News From WSJ\nDelivering up-to-the minute news, analysis, interviews and explanatory journalism on logistics, supply-chain management, e-commerce and more\nPaul Page\nBiographyPaul Page\nJune 28, 2017 6:54 am ET\nSign up: With one click, get this newsletter delivered to your inbox.\nThe world-wide cyberattacks that have plagued corporations are hitting the shipping business in a big way. Container shipping giant Maersk Line was among a raft of global companies and institutions that were crippled by a virus similar to last month’s ransomware attack, with operations around the world rocked by the hack. APM Terminals, another unit of A.P. Moeller-Maersk AMKBY 0.60% A/S, halted handling at several ports, including New York-New Jersey. The WSJ’s James Marson, David Gauthier-Villars and Michael Amon report other corporate victims of the Petya attack include pharmaceutical giant Merck MRK 0.78% & Co. and Russian oil company PAO Rosneft, and TNT Express, the European operating unit of FedEx Corp. , was also affected. The biggest impact may have been on Ukrainian state institutions, but for a broad array of businesses the attack on Maersk marked an alarming sign of the vulnerability of supply chains to hacking. Maersk carries an outsize share of global trade on its ships, leaving the potential financial pain from the hack to reach companies far beyond the vessels themselves.\nBuying more tankers in an oversupplied market may seem foolhardy to some, but shipping magnate John Fredriksen is used to sailing against prevailing business currents. The self-made billionaire, leader of tanker operator Frontline Ltd. and head of a troubled offshore-drilling company tells the WSJ’s Costas Paris that he’s still looking to expand his fleet even after two unsuccessful takeover attempts of rival tanker firms. Mr. Fredriksen says he has some $2 billion targeted for acquisitions, and is looking for the biggest of tankers— very large crude carriers, or VLCCs. His reasoning: shipping companies will scrap three times as many tankers this year than they did last year, with fewer new vessels coming to market, placing a bigger premium on capacity. He’s moving in a depressed tanker market, but analysts note the shipping veteran has always had strong timing. And he’s trying to consolidate in a business that so far has averted the sort of consolidation that has marked the container shipping trade.\nTakata Corp. may be going under, but the company isn’t exactly going away. The company’s bankruptcy filing this week sets the stage for the dissolution of the eight-decade-old auto-parts maker, although the WSJ’s Sean McLain and Mike Spector write that the business could limp on for several years supplying parts for the approximately 54 million defective air bags that still need to be replaced in the U.S. alone. The unprecedented recall affects roughly 16% of the 260 million vehicles now on American roads. Takata is trying to get support from major car makers to support efforts to save the auto-components business, and in the meantime expects to sell itself to Key Safety Systems Inc. for $1.6 billion. That’s far less than Takata owes to car makers that have been recalling vehicles, and it will leave new leadership to manage the logistics behind the biggest and most complicated recall the auto industry has faced.\nThe Morten Maersk container ship. Photo: Bloomberg News\nBlue Apron Inc. is hoping to sell investors on its initial public offering, but the meal-kit maker’s biggest challenge may be finding customers. Company financial statements show that gaining and retaining buyers of its home-delivery service is getting harder and more expensive, the WSJ’s Eliot Brown reports, highlighting the tough economics behind many e-commerce startups. To live up to its targeted $3 billion valuation, Blue Apron must replace a large share of customers who quit after trying its food and lure ever more people through ads and free offers. That’s sent marketing costs as a share of revenue soaring, pressing the business to keep down spending in other areas while meeting its high logistics demands. The reality for such startups is that the vast majority of U.S. shopping still takes place in brick-and-mortar stores, and customers of online startups can easily jump from one app to another, making it difficult for a company to sustain growth.\nUnited Parcel Service Inc. is taking bigger actions to pare its growing pension burden. The package carrier plans to freeze pension plans for about 70,000 nonunion employees, the WSJ’s Paul Ziobro and Vipal Monga report, seeking to corral a retirement fund with a nearly $10 billion deficit. The company closed the pension plan to new hires last year and offered buyouts to former workers, joining major U.S. corporations looking to rein back a collective deficit in the S&P 1500 pension plans that totaled $408 billion last year. The deficits have persisted even as those firms contributed more than $550 billion combined into the plans from 2008 to 2016, pressing companies to look for more ways to stem the bleeding. The concern has been growing at UPS, and remains a major issue in other segments of the freight business. The Central States Pension Fund covering retired unionized truck drivers has assets of barely half of its obligations, and faces insolvency within the next decade.\n“ This is going to continue. There is no kill switch. This is going to go on all night. This is going to go on tomorrow. This is going to go on for years. ”\n—Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer with cyber security company F-Secure Corp., on the cyberattack.\nNumber of the Day\nThe new International Monetary Fund forecast for U.S. economic growth this year and in 2018.\nPuerto Rico is shopping private stakes in seaports, airports and other infrastructure, hoping to use private-public partnerships to help the troubled U.S. territory’s finances. (WSJ)\nThe International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for the U.S. economy, saying it could no longer assume tax cuts and higher infrastructure spending. (WSJ)\nThe Mexican peso rose to its highest level in more than a year against the dollar. (WSJ)\nU.S. home-price growth slowed in April for the first time in months. (WSJ)\nThe Trump administration added a new layer of duties on imports of Canadian lumber while saying it still hopes to negotiate a settlement. (WSJ)\nWestern Digital Corp. submitted to Toshiba Corp. a new proposal to buy their joint-venture chip business in partnership with private equity company KKR & Co. (WSJ)\nIndustrial parts giant W.W. Grainger Inc. expects online sales to account for 80% of the company’s business within five years. (Industrial Distribution)\nAuto-parts startup Pearl Automation, launched by former Apple Inc. engineers with $50 million in venture funding, shut down after three years. (Axios)\nGreek shipowners voted to voluntarily pay double tonnage taxes for another year to help the country’s struggling economy. (Lloyd’s List)\nSingamas Container Holdings expects to swing to a first-half profit on growing demand for its shipping containers. (Seatrade Maritime)\nChinese container makers are retooling factories to switch to a new, more environmentally-friendly paint. (Bloomberg)\nGrowth in the Port of New York and Jersey’s loaded import container volume slowed to 4.8% in May, down from 14% in April. (American Shipper)\nGerman discount grocer Lidl will build a fourth U.S. distribution center, about 45 miles northwest of Atlanta, as it adds more stores to its U.S. expansion. (Chain Store Age)\nGrocer Kroger Co. will get a $2.1 million grant from Michigan to build a distribution center north of Detroit. (Crain’s Detroit Business)\nUPS expects to expand its use of alternative fuels from 19.6% to 40% by 2025. (Air Cargo World)\nGrowth in freight volume within China accelerated to 9.9% in May. (Xinhua)\nVeteran public relations executive Heath Hall was named deputy director of the Federal Railroad Administration. (Progressive Railroading)\nPaul Page is deputy editor of WSJ Logistics Report. Follow him at @PaulPage, and follow the entire WSJ Logistics Report team: @brianjbaskin, @jensmithWSJ and @EEPhillips_WSJ. Follow the WSJ Logistics Report on Twitter at @WSJLogistics.\nWrite to Paul Page at paul.page@wsj.com\nShow Conversation Hide Conversation\nMcDonald’s Deal With DoorDash Delivers Blow to Uber Eats"
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On Witness Stand, Co-Founder Defiantly Defends Pirate Bay
Special correspondent Oscar Swartz reports.
STOCKHOLM — Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg took the witness stand Thursday afternoon, defiantly defending the BitTorrent tracking site he helped found five years ago.
He and the three other defendants are accused by Swedish authorities and the entertainment industry of facilitating copyright infringement by operating the world's most notorious BitTorrent tracker. Warg testified that no copyrighted works touch its servers that are scattered worldwide.
"The site is a blank space, created by its users. It is a technical service where users can communicate the material they want to communicate," the defendant, who goes by the moniker "anakata," said on the fourth day of trial.
He testified that the growth in popularity of the site went beyond what could be supported by donations and use of personal resources. Selling ads for the site, he said, made it possible to keep pace with that growth — now estimated at 22 million users.
Monique Wadsted, a Motion Picture Association lawyer, asked of him: "But why did you want to meet that demand? Why not just shut down instead?"
The defendant replied: "Because it is technically interesting. The site is about uploading torrent files."
Warg also testified about how he had to write code, because existing software simply could not handle the site's enormous traffic.
"I am particularly skilled in writing optimized code," he confessed when a lawyer wondered if he agreed that he was a "computer genius."
While on the stand, he was also asked about his habit of publicly ridiculing copyright owners who complained by sending Pirate Bay takedown notices.
"They still don't understand that they have to write to the persons who share the material, not us," he testified.
Earlier in the day, defendant Fred Neij took the stand, leaving a Swedish prosecutor baffled over who is in charge of the BitTorrent site.
Also charged are Peter Sunde and Carl Lundström.
Prosecutor Hakan Roswall has summarized the charges as "promoting other people's infringements of copyright laws."
Photo courtesy of Emil Oldenberg
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It's official! Frank Reich is the new head coach of the Colts
Posted: 3:49 PM, Feb 11, 2018
By: Katie Cox
<p>INDIANAPOLIS, IN - CIRCA 2011: In this handout image provided by the NFL, Frank Reich of the Indianapolis Colts poses for his NFL headshot circa 2011 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by NFL via Getty Images)</p>
INDIANAPOLIS -- The Indianapolis Colts have hired Frank Reich to be the 20th head coach in franchise history.
ESPN reports that the two have agreed to a 5-year contract.
Less than an hour after the news broke that Reich was on the short list, the Indianapolis Colts made it Twitter-official.
Reich is the former offensive coordinator of the Super Bowl-winning Philadelphia Eagles and a former assistant and quarterback coach for the Colts.
It's official Colts fans!
Frank Reich is your new head coach: https://t.co/ESDN4HNB5f pic.twitter.com/RzUlut63rp
— Indianapolis Colts (@Colts) February 11, 2018
The team issued a press release Sunday afternoon confirming their choice and welcoming Reich to the team.
“We are extremely excited to announce Frank Reich as head coach of the Indianapolis Colts,” said Colts owner & CEO Jim Irsay. “Frank has all the ingredients of a successful head coach: intelligence, innovation, character, organizational and leadership skills, and a commanding presence. He also has a stellar reputation, and his myriad of life experiences and the people he has worked with make him the perfect fit for us and our fans. I feel extremely fortunate and could not be more excited for Colts Nation and the future of our franchise."
“We are excited to have Frank Reich as our new head coach,” said Colts general manager Chris Ballard. “Frank is a leader of men who will demand excellence from our players on and off the field. I look forward to working with Frank to deliver a championship-caliber team to the city of Indianapolis.”
ESPN reported Sunday that Reich was the favorite for the job out of the three candidates the Colts have interviewed since the Josh McDaniels' spurn last week.
According to ESPN, the Colts interviewed New Orleans Saints assistant head coach Dan Campbell on Thursday, Reich on Friday and Buffalo Bills defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier on Saturday.
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Grand Journeys
Destinations 1
Africa & Exotics
South America & Beyond
February 6 - March 2, 2020
Start your tour with a journey to the South Shetland Islands and the Antarctic Peninsula in comfort. A charter flight ushers you from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia prior to embarkation. Once on board, you’ll marvel at the marine life and the myriad of seabirds swooping in close to show off just for you. As you cross the Drake Passage and near the northernmost tip of the 7th Continent, prepare to be dwarfed by massive, glistening icebergs and the looming peninsula—the most pristine region on the planet.
Then work Your way through the Patagonia region of Argentina to the heart of Chile. From the romance and food of Argentina, then to the charm and wines of Chile, finally the magic and mystery of Easter Island. There will be something new and amazing at every turn.
Signature Moments
Explore the most remote corner of the earth
Travel safely and comfortably aboard an ice-strengthened expedition vessel
Experience the Alpine beauty of Bariloche and it's Swiss Style
Savour some of the best wines in the world at a winery in Chile
Explore the mystery of Easter Island, truly one of the World's most unique places
Inclusions & Highlights
1 Nights first class accommodations prior to cruise in Buenos Aires
9 Nights shipboard accommodations
All meals, snacks, soft drinks and juices on board
Beer and wine during dinner
All shore landings per the daily program
Leadership throughout the voyage by an experienced Expedition Leader
All Zodiac transfers and cruising per the daily program
Formal and informal presentations by the expedition team and special guests as scheduled
Photographic journal documenting the expedition
Photography guide on the Expedition Team
Waterproof expedition boots on loan for shore landings
Walking poles and snowshoes (when applicable) provided at each landing
An official Quark Expeditions parka to keep
Coffee, tea and cocoa available around the clock
Comprehensive predeparture materials, including a map and an informative Antarctic Reader
All miscellaneous service taxes and port charges throughout the program
All luggage handling aboard the ship
Emergency evacuation insurance to a maximum benefit of US$500,000 per person
Group transfer from the hotel to airport in Buenos Aires
Return flight from Buenos Aires to Ushuaia
Group transfer from the Ushuaia airport to the ship and return
Combined airport transfer and express bus tour of Tierra del Fuego National Park after disembarkation
12 Nights superior accommodations
Transportation by private, luxury air-conditioned coach
Buenos Aires City Tour
Welcome dinner and Tango show
Tango lesson
San Carlos Bariloche Tour
Nahuel Huapi Lake catamaran cruise
Sailing trip across Lake Frias
Eco-lodge stay
Petrochue Falls Visit
Chacao Canal boat ride
Chiloe Island Excursion
Frutillar Excursion
Santiago City Tour
Vina del Mar and Valparaiso tours
Winery tours and tastings
Blend your own wine
Breakfast daily, 3 lunches, 4 dinners
3 Nights superior accommodations in Rapa Nui
Easter Island Excursion
Easter Island entrance fee
Women's Travel Club leader
Day 1 - Arrive Buenos Aires
Welcome to Argentina!
Known for its soaring architecture and rich European heritage, Buenos Aires combines faded European grandeur with Latin passion. You will have today at your leisure to relax or explore this vibrant city. We will meet this eveing for a welcome meeting to get acquainted and go over our fabulous upcoming adventure.
Accommodations - Hotel Emperador
Day 2 - Ushuaia
After breakfast at the hotel, the group will transfer to the airport and board our private charter flight to Ushuaia, Argentina. Upon arrival, you will have a little time to explore this quaint port town before heading to the pier. Embarkation will occur in the late afternoon, after which your vessel will sail down the historic Beagle Channel. This famous channel transects the Tierra del Fuego archipelago in the extreme south of South America. Expect an air of anticipation as you depart—the next time you’ll see land you’ll be in the world’s most southern continent!
Accommodations - Ocean Endeavor
Days 3 & 4 - Crossing the Drake Passage
Prepare yourself for potentially rough water, but hope for a smooth sailing, as the Drake is unpredictable and always changing. You’ll spend these first days getting to know your shipmates while your Expedition Team provides safety briefings and insights into what excitement lies ahead.
Days 5-8 - South Shetlands Islands and Antarctic Peninsula
Once the Antarctic Convergence is left in our wake, you will truly begin your Antarctic adventure. It is perhaps the first sight of land itself that is embraced as the true beginning of any Antarctic expedition. You will begin to appreciate why this region has long captivated the attention of explorers and travelersalike. Every time we visit Antarctica, we witness something new or unexpected, which means that your expedition will be unlike any other—creating a unique, personal experience. Each day, you will take Zodiac excursions from the ship to explore local bays, channels and landing sites. With wildlife always at the forefront of our minds, you will visit penguin rookeries, scout for humpback and minke whales, and search for a number of southern seal species, including the cunning leopard seal. The majesty of the Antarctic Peninsula’s mountains will enchant as you scramble up snowy pathways to vantage points offering you 360° views of your surroundings. One of these in particular, in Danco Island, affords us the opportunity to visit a penguin colony high up on a ridge. Here, you’ll have the choice between hiking to the island`s summit or spending time sitting quietly on a pebbled beach, enjoying the antics of curious penguins. If you’re feeling extra adventurous, participating in the Polar Plunge swim is about as crazy as it gets! Amid the serene silence of Antarctica, noisy interludes become indelible memories, such as penguins squabbling over prized pebbles, or the boom and crack of a calving glacier in Neko Harbour. Each day will be different, having been carefully crafted by your Expedition Team to entertain and educate you about this wonderful part of the world.
Days 9 & 10 - Crossing the Drake Passage
The journey back across the Drake Passage provides final opportunities to enjoy the crisp Antarctic air. Spend time on the deck, watching for seabirds and scouting for whales, enjoy presentations by your Expedition Team, or simply relax and reminisce about your experiences.
Day 11 - Disemmbark in Ushuaia & Fly back to Beunos Aires
You will arrive in Ushuaia in the morning, after breakfast. After disembarking, you will get a little taste of Patagonia, touring Tierra del Fuego National Park before transferring to the airport for the return group charter flight to Buenos Aires.
Possible Landings and Wildlife Sightings
Stepping foot on Antarctica is a moment of pleasure that affects each traveler differently. Your possible landing in Antarctica will take place on the Peninsula, which is an extension of the Transantarctic Mountains chain and is the most northern stretch of Antarctic land. Formed by uplifted submarine troughs that were filled with sediment about 220 million years ago, this is a dynamic land of both desolation and diversity. To the east is the frozen, wild Weddell Sea. To the west, howling winds and warming seas from the Southern Ocean create perfect conditions for whale sightings.
Cuverville Island
A gentoo penguin rookery is situated on a rocky beach at the north end of the island. Depending on when in the season you arrive, you may see the penguins building nests or attending to their chicks. Giant petrels and kelp gulls breed on the island.
Damoy Point
If you are lucky enough to mail a postcard in Antarctica, you’ll likely pass through Damoy Point, the northern entrance to the harbor where Port Lockroy is located.
Danco Island
Home to gentoo penguins, this small island is easy to explore, at only one mile (1.6 km) long. You can visit the marker of a former British Antarctic Survey hut, where you can watch for a variety of seabirds, such as snowy sheathbills, kelp gulls and blue-eyed shags.
Enterprise Island
Located in Wilhelmina Bay, this island was once used by whalers. A Zodiac cruise around the island passes a wrecked whaling ship.
Lemaire Channel
You’ll see firsthand why this strait, which runs between Booth Island and the Antarctic Peninsula, is one of the most scenic locations on the peninsula’s west coast, especially during sunrise and sunset. The channel may become impassable when ice fills the narrow 6.8-mile (11 km) long passageway, so we’ll hope for clear waters.
Melchior Islands
This group of low islands in Dallmann Bay is where you may see hauled-out male fur seals as they recuperate from their battles for supremacy at the end of their breeding season.
Neko Harbour
Little evidence remains that this bay was once used by the floating whale factory ship Neko. You might see whale vertebrae being used by resident gentoo penguins as shelter from the wind. Climb up a steep slope for spectacular views of the glacier-rimmed harbor.
Petermann Island
Here, near the Lemaire Channel, you can stand ashore and see the southernmost breeding colony of gentoo penguins. The dome of the island rises 650 feet (200 meters) above the sea, offering a challenging hike for panoramic views. Adélie penguins, shags and south polar skuas also inhabit the island.
Port Lockroy
As part of Operation Tabarin during the Second World War, a secret British base was built in this sheltered harbor, located on the west side of Wiencke Island. Now a designated historic site, the base is a museum and post office. Proceeds from your purchases in Port Lockroy support the British Antarctic Heritage trust, which preserves historic sites from the Heroic Age of Exploration. A large gentoo penguin population resides here and is observed for any effects of tourism.
Day 11 - Arrive Buenos Aires
Transfer in private service from international airport to hotel with guide. You will have today at your leisure to relax or explore this vibrant city. We will meet in the evening for a brief welcome meeting and then on to a fabulous welcome dinner. This evening enjoy a welcome dinner at tango show La Ventana. In the heart of San Telmo neighborhood, La Ventana Barrio de Tango opened for business back in 1982. This totally refurbished historical “conventillo” (tenement) offers a definitive tour of classic porteño culture. This typical early 20th century house is an ideal stage for a unique show: 32 artists, two tango orchestras, a folk music group, dancers and singers.
Accommodations - Kenton Palace Hotel
Day 12 - Buenos Aires
After breakfast, we depart our hotel for a half day guided city tour. On an unforgettable route, we will live all the porteño magic. These few hours feature all the magic of Argentina's capital city. In this most complete overview of the Paris of South America we will visit the glamorous neighborhoods of Recoleta and its most famous cemetery, Palermo, May Square and the Pink House, the Metropolitan Cathedral, the newest & trendiest Puerto Madero Area and many other emblematic buildings and palaces of unique architectural, historical, and cultural value. The visit would not be complete without the sights of the first settlements of the city of Buenos Aires. The pintoresque neighborhood of San Telmo, residence to the porteño aristocracy until the end of the XIX century and where the renowned antiques market is held every Sunday; Caminito Street, in the colorful, Italian immigrants neighborhood of La Boca.
This evening it is your turn. After dinner, if you dare, you’ll have an authentic night of milonga in a true guapo style, like the brave men and the scoundrels who used to rule the tango scene in the old days. A tour of several tango ballrooms to take part in the lively musical and cultural scene. Note: this program is not for the early sleeper, as milongas usually open only after midnight.
Day 13 - San Carlos Bariloche
Today we say good-bye to Buenos Aires and head to the charming town of San Carlos Bariloche. Bariloche is in the heart of the Nahuel Huapi National Park, lying on the shore of the lake after which the park is named. It is the perfect mix of city life and the quietness of nature. Bariloche in many ways resembles the alpine resorts of Europe.
Accommodations - Panamericano Bariloche Hotel
To admire Bariloche in its greatest splendor, we will drive along the shore of Lake Nahuel Huapi on Bustillo Ave. until reaching Playa Bonita, with its beautiful view of Huemul Island. We will reach Campanario Hill and appreciate one of the most beautiful views: Lakes Nahuel Huapi and Perito Moreno, San Pedro Peninsula, Victoria Island, Otto, López, Goye and Catedral hills, and downtown Bariloche. At Llao-Llao, we will observe San Eduardo Chapel, and Pañuelo Port, on Nahuel Huapi. We will cross the bridge over Lake Moreno and, on our way back, we will skirt lakes El Trébol and Nahuel Huapi until reaching Bustillo Ave.
Day 15 - Peulla
Today sees you head for the lake shore and a transit through an amazing Andean mountain lake system into Chile. The original crossing was undertaken in 1913 by a group of tourists led by Ricardo Roth who crossed the Andes Mountains along a route joining Peulla in the Chilean side with Bariloche in Argentina. A combination of bus and boat sees you cut through the heart of one of the most magnificent mountain ranges and regions of the world.
Near Bariloche, at Pañuelo port, we will board a catamaran and navigate the Blest branch of Nahuel Huapi Lake. You'll observe the grandeur of the landscapes, the green tones of the forests, the birds that fly close and you'll learn more about the destination's fascinating history. (Boarding tax is not included. US$3 approx.). Arrival to Puerto Blest. We travel by bus along River Frías to Puerto Alegre, and then continue the sailing trip across Lake Frías, aboard the Victoria del Sur. Along this stretch of the lake, we'll experience beautiful views of Cerro Tronador. After a short sail, we'll arrive to Puerto Frías where we will complete the necessary steps at the border. We'll continue by bus to Peulla with beautiful views of the Andes Mountains. Arrival to Peulla, an ecological lodge and a paradise for nature lovers. Free afternoon to enjoy a range of excursions including canopy, horse-riding, 4x4 safari (additional cost).
Accommodations - Natura Hotel
Day 16 - Puerto Varas
Morning free for optional activities. In the afternoon, we'll sail to Petrohué, navigating across Lake Todos los Santos. If the weather permits, different and breathtaking views of the Osorno and Puntiagudo volcanoes and Cerro Tronador can be seen. Arrive in Petrohue, and private transfer to your hotel in Puerto Varas with visit to Petrohue Falls on route.
Accommodations - Cabanas del Lago Hotel
Day 17 - Chiloe Island
A full day, magical tour leaving from Puerto Varas. In order to delve into the Chilote world, we begin our day by taking a boat down the Chacao canal for 30 minutes, where we spot a wide variety of birds, before arriving to the village of Chacao to visit its square and church.
We will continue on to Castro to stop for lunch. Then, we will visit the stilted houses of Rio Gamboa, the square and its church which was declared a Unesco World Heritage site. Next, we will visit the recently restored Nercón Church (1890), which is a national monument and is also on Unesco’s protected list. The day continues in Dalcahue, where we stop on the waterfront to take in the wonderful natural landscape and visit the local artisan market, museum and church.
Day 18 - Frutillar
Today we will enjoy a half Day Excursion to Frutillar, a charming summer resort located at the shore of Llanquihue Lake, bedecked with old German-style homes and beautiful gardens. The tour includes a visit to upper and lower Frutillar with a wonderful view of Osorno and Puntiagudo volcanoes and Llanquihue Lake, its church and the museum devoted to the German Pioneers. Return to hotel in Puerto Varas.
Day 19 - Santiago
This morning we fly from Puerto Montt to Santiago. Once in Santiago we will transfer to our hotel and check in. This afternoon we set off on a tour of this beautiful and historic city. Visit the historic centre of Santiago, including the Palacio de la Moneda, the house of Government, and the Plaza de Armas where the Cathedral, National History Museum and the Central Post Office are found. Continue to the Parque Forestal, the Fine Arts Museum, and the bohemian area of Bellavista before climbing Santa Lucia Hill to enjoy a panoramic view of the city. The visit finishes with a trip to the craft village of Los Granerops del Alba, before returning to your hotel. Enjoy the rest of the day at your leisure to either relax at the hotel of explore Santiago
Accommodations - Intercontinental Hotel
Day 20 - Vina del Mar & Valparaiso
The tour will begin from Santiago to the Coast, located 120 kilometers from Santiago; crossing the fertile “Valle de Curacaví and Casablanca”, their vineyards, fruit plantations and forest reserves. In the tour, you will visit two main cities: “Viña del Mar” and “Valparaíso”.
You will first visit Villa del Mar city, often known as “Ciudad Jardín”; it is an elegant and sophisticated city inspired by the French Riviera. Then, you will cross the picturesque “Reloj de Flores”, you will go all over the “Avenida Perú” along with its traditional “Casino” and its elegant “Hotel del Mar”, which is the first of Chile established in 1930.
Later you will go to “Valparaíso”, which was declared a “World Heritage Site by the UNESCO”. It is also known as the cultural capital of Chile, a Commercial Port and Chilean Navy, University City and Bohemian city. It is a city with a charming, picturesque and historic port. It is called the “Jewell of the Pacific” due to its prevailed and beautiful Pacific Ocean view. The journey includes a tour with a panoramic view of the “National Congress”, the “O’Higgins Park” and “Italy Park”, the “Victoria Square”, “Sotomayor Square” and the “Muelle Prat”, located in the same port.
The tour ends at “Viña Matetic”. The history of “Viña Matetic” begins in 1999 when the Matetic family decided to diversify its businesses and get into the world of wine, strongly trusting the benefits from weather and soils of the “Valle del Rosario”. It was very important to have a professional team to manage this project. Therefore, Alan York (Biodynamic consultant), Ken Bernard’s (Winemaker Consultant) and Ann Kraemer (Production) joined in 2000; they were able to wines of “Matetic Vineyard” reach a high quality. This visit will start with the winery of the vineyard. You will be warmly received by a bilingual guide, who will take you for a tour of the winemaking winery, while you enjoying the panoramic view of vineyards. It is the perfect site to learn about organic farming and winemaking. After that, you will enjoy a wine tasting at the tasting room, located beneath the Surface of earth, it also includes a wine shop and you may buy wines and Matetic’s accessories, if you so wish. Finally, you will enjoy a delicious lunch at the vineyard restaurant, called “Equilibrio”, which is specialized in Chilean food. Those delicious lunch preparations magically fuse the wines vineyard together, offering an unforgettable experience. Return to the hotel in Santiago.
Day 21 - Isla de Maipo
We pick you up from your hotel in Santiago to take you to the area of Talagante in the Maipo Valley, to visit the house, cellar and park of the “Viña Undurraga”, one of the most traditional in Chile. The winery was founded in 1885 by Francisco Undurraga Vicuña, as Fundo Santa Ana, in honor of his wife. For that, he brought French strains (Pinot Noir and Cabernet Sauvignon) and German (Riesling and Gewurztraminer). In addition, he built a magnificent mansion surrounded by a beautiful park designed by the French expert Pierre Dubois. In 1903, “Viña Undurraga” was the first Chilean winery to export to the United States. “Viña Undurraga” is a pioneer in Chilean wine exports, reaching 60 countries in 5 continents. During the tour you will visit the park of the Undurraga family, and will also make a stop at the “Rincón Aliwen”, during which it discloses the worldview of the Mapuche, the main indigenous people of Chile. You will continue the tour through the vineyards and winemaking plant. Later, you will make a trip back in time to stroll through the centuries-old underground cellars that date back to 1885. The tour will end with a rewarding tasting of 3 Reserve wines. Furthermore, at the wine shop, located in the same farm, you will be able to buy wines, sparkling wines and a range of nice souvenirs. Later, you will visit “De Martino” Winery. The De Martino family came from Italy in 1934 and settled in Chile in Isla de Maipo (D.O. Maipo), during the beginning they specialized mainly in creating wines from Bordeaux grape varieties. Throughout the years, De Martino has strengthened as a Chilean family vineyard leader in innovation and distinguished by crafting wines coming from selected terroirs. This seal has entailed the search of new developments in different regions of the country, with the aim of discovering the potential of different climates and origins. Thus, De Martino currently produces wines in the following valleys: D.O. Maipo, D.O. Casablanca, D.O. Limarí, D.O. Cachapoal, D.O. Maule, D.O. Elqui and D.O. Choapa. In 1996, the family decided to label and export Chile's first Carmenere, coming from the renowned vineyard of Alto de Piedras, establishing a strong commitment with this variety from the very beginning.
You will make your own Wine! You will get to know the wine production process of one of the most progressive, exciting and internationally awarded wineries in Chile and you will be winemaker for a day. You will create your own wine with an expert guided hand throughout the blending process! A high quality and well planned experience difficult to find and live in other places. Lunch will be served in a local restaurant.
Day 22 - Maipo Valley
Pick up from your hotel in Santiago to Santa Rita Vinery, located in the town of Alto Jahuel, part of the marvelous Maipo Valley, known for its fertile and blessed soils which give life to their traditional wines Cabernet Sauvignon Terroirs. This vinery, founded in 1884 by Domingo Fernández Concha, has become a premium destination for its historical interest and the quality of the wines they produce and the tour covers the history of Chile and its viticulture.
Today you will enjoy a trip to the soul of Santa Rita. For a long time it was a privilege for a few people, nowadays, we open the doors of our centenary park for all the wine and lovers of exclusive moments. This park has the Casa Real Hotel and a beautiful Neo-Gothic Church as the main attractions for visiting. Here you can learn all about the history that it’s been connected for 120 years with noble and poets families. The tour finishes with an exclusive tasting of icons Santa Rita wines. Lunch will be served at a local restaurant. Finally, return to Santiago.
Day 23- Easter Island
This morning we say good-bye to Chile and transfer to the airport for our flight to Easter Island (not included) Arrive in Easter Island and transfer to hotel. Reception with flower necklace There is no inhabited place in the world as isolated as Chilean Polynesia. A mere point in the vast Pacific Ocean, Easter Island (known as Rapa Nui in the native language of the town) is a unique destination, whose remoteness gives it an unmistakable authenticity and an aura of mystery. It is time for you to come and discover its secrets!
Explore the pink sand beaches of Rapa Nui, its volcanic cones and windswept meadows, and of course, the monumental Moai statues, more than 1,000 of them silently testify of a lost and complex society. Rest of the day at leisure.
Accommodations - Altiplanico Rapa Nui Hotel
Departure from your Hotel to Experience a day of legends following the past of Rapa Nui. We will introduce you to the time of the island´s colonization and the life of the first Polynesian navigators once they had stepped ashore. Get to know the importance of the ariki (king) Hotu Matu´a – not only from the place of his disembarkation to his tomb, but also during the following 700 years after settlement with all the efforts that that went into the production of the moai (statues). We begin from Hanga Roa to Anakena Beach through the centre of the island, Vaitea, and back to Hanga Roa through the south coast.
1. ANAKENA BEACH: Once viewed it will be easy to understand why the first king of the island Hotu Matu’a landed at this beach and started one of the most amazing megalithic cultures this world has seen. Anakena has 4 Ahu sites, 2 which have been reconstructed and two others which attest to the weathering of time. The first Ahu is called Ature Huki which was restored by Heyerdahl in 1955 and the other is called Ahu Nau Nau which was restored by the same archaeologist Sergio Rapu. Anakena is located to 18 km from Hanga Roa in the North Coast.
2. AHU TE PITO KURA: This site only has one Moai, however it measures 10 m/30fand weights up to 90 tons making it the largest Moai to be raised on a platform. The topknot alone is worthy of praise weighing up to 11.5 tons. Here we will also find a very sacred stone that the Ahu is named after. It has been said that this stone was brought from the home island of Hiva by the first Rapa Nui king Hotu Matu’a. Ahu Te Pito Kura is located to 2 km from Anakena Beach by the North Coast.
3. RANO RARAKU: Without a doubt one of the most interesting archaeological sites on not only Rapa Nui but in the entire world, here we can find 396 Moai (statues) in the quarry which is an extinct volcano that has an amazing fresh water crater. Some of the statues are still encrusted in the rock of the quarry never to be moved. Others are in a process of getting their backs finalized and highlighted; some are in the “staging area” waiting for the moving crew to bring the Moai to its destined Ahu. Here we will also see the largest Moai ever carved called Te Tokanga or El Gigante which measures a staggering 22 meters/66feet and with an estimated weight of 220 tons. The Rano Raraku Volcano is located in the South Coast, around 20 km from Hanga Roa. App. We will have 1 hour for light lunch or box lunch, in a special site to enjoy and relax, and then we will continue the excursion, according to the weather conditions
4. AHU TONGARIKI: One of the most visually stunning sites on the island which shows how the ancient people were part of a true megalithic culture. Not only is Tongariki the largest reconstructed site on the island but it is the largest reconstructed temple in all of Polynesia. This site has 15 Moai that were restored in the 80’s after a huge tsunami came ashore in 1960 and tossed 80 ton Moai as far as 500 m/1500 f inland. This site is located in front of the Rano Raraku Volcano.
5. AHU AKAHANGA: “The Platform of the King” It’s believed the grave of the first king of the island Hotu Matu’a can be found in a cave in Akahanga. Here are four separate platforms with 12 Moai (statues), of various sizes, and 8 Pukao (topknots). One statue can be found behind the Ahu. Interesting lining stones made from red scoria, a type of iron rich volcanic stone used to make: topknots, funeral graves, boarding stones. Also, petroglyphs run along the front of the main Ahu. The back wall on the east end has a head of an older statue incorporated into the masonry which indicates that the ancient cultures were inveterate recyclers that reused older material to build and construct other features and works. This site, Akahanga is located in the South Coast, 15 km. app. from the Hanga Roa.
A day to relax, you have earned it! Savour the island’s warm waters and white-sand beaches.
Day 26- Depart
It is time to say good-bye to this beautiful destination and fabulous new friends. Transfer to the airport for your flight back to Santiago (not included).
**Prices are subject to change and availability. Space is limited and activities and specific hotels are subject to change. Travel insurance is strongly recommended.
Important Details & Pricing
Double Occupancy - Cruise - $10,435 USD per person & Land Tour - $7678 CAD(sharing a room )
Single Occupancy - Cruise - $11,155 USD per person & Land Tour - $10,668 CAD(your own room )
If you would like the double occupancy rate but don't have a roommate we will match you with a suitable roommate. The single occupancy rate will give you your own room. Single occupancy very limited.
Deposit of $2139 USD & $300 CAD(double occ) or $2479 USD & $300 CAD(single occ) per person due at time of booking.
Final Payment due - Cruise - Oct 1, 2019 & Land Tour - December 1, 2019
*All payments are non-refundable Please see full terms and conditions.
Booking Deadline
Book Now! Tour may fill up at any time.
Please do not book flights until after September 1, 2019 unless instructed to do so by the Women's Travel Club. If not enough ladies are booked by the release date then this tour may be cancelled. If the Women's Travel Club cancels the tour all payments made will be refunded. Antarctic Cruise is a guaranteed departure.
Moderate Activity
The included acitivity in this tour is fairly moderate but there are more acitive activities available. You should be able to walk for extended periods of time on uneven and possibly slippery terrain and get in and out of a zodiac easily. The land tour is moderate activity with some relaxed walking tours.
Minimum - 8 ladies
Maximum - 16 ladies
International Airfare (can be arranged by WTC)
Airfare from Chile to Easter Island (can be arranged by WTC)
Visa/passport handling fees
Meals not listed in itinerary
Gratuity
Early check-in and late check-out of hotel
Tour Leader
Marianne Southall
Marianne is the founder of the Women's Travel Club. She is well traveled and loves to get off the beaten path, her favorite type of tour would involve nature and animals. She loves photography and you will often find her off taking pictures of all the amazing sights you will see.
Once your flights are booked please forward a copy of your itinerary to info@womens-travel-club.com.
A Women's Travel Club agent is available to help you book your flights. Please do not book any flights until tour is confirmed. Follow this link to a form to request flight options and quotes. A Women's Travel Club agent will send you back the recommended flight option that best suits you. We are pleased to offer a flight booking service for your tour. As quoting of flights can be a time-consuming endeavor, a service fee of $113 ($100 plus HST) will apply.
Arrive to Buenos Aires, Argentina
Depart from Santiago, Chile
Flight Quote
Out of country medical insurance is required. We strongly recommend that you obtain cancellation and interruption insurance to protect your investment.
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Hotel Emperador
Emperador Hotel Buenos Aires welcomes you to experience a one-of-a-kind union of modern style and 5-star service to create an address of unmatched luxury and high tech connectivity.
Ocean Endeavor
Ocean Endeavour is a comfortable, well-appointed small expedition ship expertly engineered to explore the Polar Regions. The ship has an ice-strengthened hull, Zodiacs for exploration and remote landings, and advanced navigation equipment. The newly-refurbished vessel offers a superb guest experience with an expansive choice of cabin categories, large cabins and common areas, a sundeck and observation area, plenty of deck space for polar landscape viewing, and lounges for learning and reflection. The ship’s interiors have a contemporary aesthetic that provides a bright and spacious feel throughout. Endeavour is also the only polar adventure ship in Antarctica focused on health and wellness , and offers a contemporary approach to cuisine and newly-designed health and fitness features. Facilities include a spa serviced by organic spa provider VOYA, His & Hers saunas, a salt water pool, a gym, and a juice and smoothie bar. Complimentary activities include yoga and stretching classes, an exclusive Polar Photography program, the Scientists in Residence program, and more adventure activities than any other Quark vessel. The ship also has a polar library, and a Polar Boutique for gifts and any needed gear.
Kenton Palace Hotel
This lovely boutique hotel in Buenos Aires hotel is located near the airport, within a 10-minute walk of Ethnographic Museum, Plaza de Mayo, and Casa Rosada. Cabildo and Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral are also within 10 minutes.
Panamericano Bariloche Hotel
Bariloche Hotel, welcomes guests with warm, personalized attention to their beautiful hotel overlooking the majestic Lake Nahuel Huapi. With a prime location in the center of this iconic Patagonian city, it's a destination that attracts for the variety of its programs and the beauty of its landscapes, that travelers can start enjoying just by looking outside their room window.
Natura Hotel Patagonia
Natura Hotel is an eco-lodge and a nature lovers paradise. Set on the beach in Peulla and surrounded by beautiful gardens. The lodge offers a range of optional activities including canopy tours, horse-riding and 4x4 safaris.
Cabanas Del Lago
A beautiful hotel that rises majestically over the city of Puerto Varas. The rooms that have the most stunning view of Llanquihue Lake and the beauty of the neighboring volcanoes. Hotel Cabaña del Lago is a family business that has been growing since 1980 by fostering the German traditions and customs that are inherent to Puerto Varas giving it a truly unique character.
Intercontinental Santiago
A luxury hotel in Santiago's new financial disctict. A well appointed, well positioned hotel that checks all the boxes.
Altiplanico Rapa Nui Hotel
Set on a property of 1.5 ha the hotel has a panoramic view of the shoreline on one of the world’s most unique destinations, Altiplanico Easter Island is designed in the style of the traditional Easter Island boathouse, with luxurious gardens, a beautiful swimming pool viewing the sea and large open spaces to relax after encountering the seductive mysteries of the island. The deep blue of the Pacific Ocean will permeate your stay as well as the warmth of the Easter Island culture, with its music, art, history and architecture.
Extra Hotel Nights
Often ladies will book a night at the first hotel prior to the tour. This gives them a chance to relax after a long flight and settle in before the tour starts. Let us know if you would like pricing and information on the hotel.
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Todd Holthaus & Pima Women to hold Hoops Clinic in Whiteriver
By Andy Morales
Todd Holthaus draws up a play for the Aztecs. (Andy Morales/AllSportsTucson.com)
The Pima Community College women’s team will be visiting Whiteriver on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation this Saturday to complete a community service project in an effort to “give back” to the community that has supplied Todd Holthaus and the Aztecs with standouts including All-American Jacqulynn Nakai of Coconino High School.
Holthaus will be hosting a free basketball clinic for girls from third grade through high school.
“I’ll be talking to players and adults about the possibilities and importance of education and what it means to be a student athlete,” Holthaus said. “We will be donating some equipment and some school supplies, doing a two-hour clinic and possibly having an informal scrimmage,” Holthaus added.
To aide in his efforts, AllSportsTucson.com, through Kicks4Kids, Inc., will be sending up a few dozen pairs of sneakers to be shared with the girls attending the clinic. If anyone has sneakers to share please be in contact.
In addition, Flowing Wells High School will be inducting Holthaus into their Sports Hall of Fame this Friday night. More on that honor this week.
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‘The last few months have been interesting,’ says Charlie Wells, MD at Prime Purchase. He has 24 years in farms and estates under his belt, covering everything from commercial farmland to sporting estates and large country houses. Clients are seeking advice more than ever before, he says: ‘They’re no longer panicking about finding the property, but about finding it, properly appraising it and making sure it’s a sound investment’. Although the M40, M4 and M3 corridors and ‘anywhere near a good airport or good road connections back to the capital’ remain the hot spots, people are increasingly travelling further afield. ‘It’s a lot more sophisticated out there than people were giving it credit for a few years ago,’ says Wells.
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Home Colorado Plateau Archives Glen Canyon Dam [under construction][aerial view], ca. 1962.
Glen Canyon Dam [under construction][aerial view], ca. 1962.
Call number NAU.PH.92.12.2316
Creator McCullough, L.C.B.
Title Glen Canyon Dam [under construction][aerial view], ca. 1962.
Alternate title Glen Canyon Dam during and after construction, the Colorado River and Lake Powell, 1961-1969.
Context note Born in Pennsylvania, Emery Clifford Kolb (February 15, 1881--December 11, 1976) shared most of his early adventures with his brother, Ellsworth Leonardson Kolb (January 4, 1876--January 9, 1960), who left Pittsburgh and got a job at the Bright Angel Hotel at the Grand Canyon, Arizona. Back home, Emery had been experimenting with photography and when Ellsworth spoke of an opportunity to take pictures of the mule parties on the Bright Angel Trail, Emery went to the Canyon. In 1902, they opened a studio and began making pictures. The Canyons of the Green and Colorado Rivers had been successfully navigated by only a few parties, so, in 1911, the brothers decided to attempt the trip and successfully took the first motion pictures of the thrilling journey. Emery conducted an extensive lecture tour and in 1914, Ellsworth published the account in 'Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico.' The film and lecture ran continuously at their Canyon studio from 1915 until Emery's death in 1976. After serving in the Signal Corps, in 1919 Emery accompanied the National Geographic Society expedition which explored the Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes on the Katmai Peninsula of Alaska, as one of the photographers. In 1921, the U.S. Geological Survey employed Emery and Ellsworth as boatmen through Cataract Canyon to Lee's Ferry, with Emery as head boatman for the 1923 USGS Birdseye Expedition through Grand Canyon. In 1928 the brothers participated in a dramatic search for Glen and Bessie Hyde, who had disappeared while running the Colorado River, succeeding in finding their boat but not them. In 1938, Emery accompanied Norman Nevills' river trip in which two female botanists became the first women to complete the Grand Canyon run. Emery married Blanche Bender in 1905, with daughter Edith born in 1907. Ellsworth departed to Los Angeles in 1924, but Emery stayed, photographing until he died just two months short of his 96th birthday.
Collection name McCullough, L.C.B.
Finding aid http://www.azarchivesonline.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/nau/Clark_georgie.xml
Subjects Concrete dams
Dams--Design and construction
Water-power--Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.
Hydroelectric power plants--Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.
Dams--Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.)--Design and construction
United States. Bureau of Reclamation. Upper Colorado Region
Colorado River Storage Project (U.S.
United States. Western Area Power Administration
Places Glen Canyon Dam (Ariz.)
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Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)--Regulation
Powell, Lake (Utah and Ariz.)
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~* Chapter 10: Twilight *~
*Well since last time I wrote: I won the lottery, bought Squaresoft, and then lost them in a tragic corporate takeover. Alas, they are no longer mine so don�t sue.*
Rinoa could sense the uneasiness in the air, and feeling the need to clarify she offered, "I�um...didn�t mean bad memories like that. Please don't take it wrong. Just, you know, before I lost my sight and all. I wouldn�t have any use, I'd just be another burden placed upon you. I couldn�t stay at Garden and not work. Really, not much I could do around there."
Quistis wasn�t sure how to take Rinoa�s comment, but as far as her working, she had an idea. "Rin you could always teach. Garden would love to have an instructor in Magical History. Nobody could teach the history of sorceresses as well as... a sorceress."
"Thanks, but I can�t. My life is here�in Galbadia now. I don�t exactly know what the future has in store for me. I just know it has to be here."
"Away from you Squall," Rinoa added mentally.
Squall listened to the conversation for the last few minutes, without saying a word.
"What can I say, please come back because I still love you?" Maybe, it might be worth a try, but he had just promised to be friends. Plus, the simple fact that he had never told her in the first place, also weighed heavily on his mind. Getting her to trust him again would take a while. Getting her to love him again may take a lifetime. Maybe by giving Rinoa space and still keeping in contact�just might make her realize his feelings were genuine.
Squall closed his eyes, feeling as alone and confused as ever.
Finally, he spoke up, "Rinoa we�re going to be leaving for Garden tomorrow. The train's departure is at eight in the morning. Please�if you change your mind, I...we would love to have you come home with us."
Rinoa thought for a moment that the word 'home' seemed to have a completely different meaning these days. "I won�t change my mind Squall, but I�d be glad to see my best friends off. Well not see, but I could at least wave to you," she said trying to act cheerfully.
"Great," Irvine replied," Until tomorrow madam." He walked over, brought her hand to his lips, and gently kissed it.
Rinoa smiled holding Irvine�s masculine hand. She then got up on her tiptoes and raised her head towards him. She gave him a small kiss on the cheek, "See Squall, just like old times." Everybody laughed remembering the story that Irvine had told them earlier. This time Squall didn�t get mad, he had a genuine smile on his face.
After her friends headed back to the hotel, Rinoa went upstairs to change out of her wet dress. She dried her hair and changed into a T-shirt and shorts. Walking over to her bed, she recalled the comment Rob had made about the photograph of Squall. Pictures on the wall seemed so irrelevant now, she never thought about such things, but she immediately remembered where that particular picture was hanging. Rinoa went around the side of her bed and ran her hands over the smooth textured walls. She then felt the corkboard and took off the picture in the upper left-hand corner. It was strange, she never had too many pictures of Squall; he simply wasn�t the picture type.
She returned to the bed, and lied down on her back. With the sensitivity her fingers acquired, she could feel the glossy finish of the picture. In her mind, she could see it, plain as anything that ever stood before her. It had been taken six weeks after the defeat of Ultimecia. A party was held for the world heroes at the Estharian Presidential Palace. The picture had been of just the two of them, thanks to Selphie and her quick timing with a camera. Squall had been in his formal dress uniform, just as he had been tonight. Rinoa was in a short black sequin dress. She had been smiling in her usual happy fashion. Squall�s lips were slightly parted, but he held his usual non-emotional face.
That was just fine with her.
She did love to see Squall smile, though it had only happened a handful of times. The expression he wore in the picture is how she'd always remember him, much like the first time they met. Rinoa kept a few more photographs of them together. After returning to Deling, she had stored them in the attic, along with all the other pictures from her childhood�memories of the past. This one was kept up to remind her of trusting someone too much. She told herself, at the time, it was a reminder of why not to fall in love again... Now she admitted to herself, it was up because she still loved him. Rinoa didn�t want to let go of him completely.
There was an unsure knock at the door, yet she was sure who it was. Quickly she tossed the picture under a pillow. The last thing she needed right now was for him to find out that she still� "Still what?" she whispered to the heavy air. "Come in Squall."
"How did you know it was me?" he answered opening the door.
"I'm blind, not stupid. The maid taps three times, and Rob has the same knock as Zell�'let me in here now', and Caraway doesn't knock�so that leaves you and your 'I better knock, but don't want to sound like I'm overdoing it�but need to make it a manly sounding knock.' Trust me, you failed." He looked at her slightly mystified, before once again stepping outside and shutting the door.
This time, he knocked with more self-assurance before opening the door.
"That was better�you only sounded slightly pathetic this time."
"Rinoa what are you doing?"
"Sitting here�in my room�and you?"
He ran a hand through his still dampened hair. "You weren't coming to the station to say goodbye tomorrow, were you?"
Rinoa's spirits fell, no matter how hard she tried to raise them. "Squall�you just don't understand. It's not that simple. Life isn't that simple. Goodbye's aren't that simple."
"What Rinoa? What don't I understand� please explain it to me, so I can try. God, I want to try�"
Standing from her bed, she walked over to him guiding him into her room. She gestured to the bed, and he immediately sat down on the edge watching her intently, as she closed the shades and curtains.
"Plants," she mumbled. "If you wondering why I even open them�the plants need light. And that is your biology lesson for the day�now for your reality lesson." She moved in front of him, looking down into the darkness. "Squall, trust me. Close your eyes." He listened, to her�every word, every breath. He was surprised that even he could tell her rhythmic breathing pattern had changed. "Now answer me truthfully Squall�please." The room was a total void of darkness. The light was switched off, the stormy skies allowed no moonlight to break the material barrier of the curtains, and not one speck of the hallway light streamed under the heavy door.
"When you open your eyes what do you see?" Squall followed her exercise, not sure of what she was expecting from him.
"Darkness."
"Darkness?" It wasn't supposed to sound like a question. She just imagined some more elaborated answer. But, the simplicity caught her off guard.
"Why? What am I supposed to see? What do you see?"
"An empty slate, a new beginning, dreams that have yet to come. My life."
"Rinoa�I�m sorry, I just don't see that."
"Of course not Squall, you only see the darkness�because it's what's real. But I see that every minute� I only learned to see other things on faith and hope. Now when I open my eyes�I see the future."
He thought for a moment, closing his eyes once more, just as he allowed himself a second attempt with the knock. This time, it was symbolic more than necessary. He reached one of his hands out, accidentally landing a little too close to her chest. She froze, but was glad when he continued upward to her face. Slowly, he traced his fingers up the nape of her neck, and then over to her jaw line. She had done the same thing earlier at the reception, but now it was his turn. In the dark, he felt her�felt every bump, every imperfection of her skin, every tight muscle in her neck.
"Squall, what are you doing?"
"Ask me again�"
"Ask you what? What you see when you open your eyes?" she hesitated.
"Yes�" He rose to his feet, never repositioning his hands. "Rinoa, I see you."
"When I close my eyes now, or any time, I only see one thing�you."
This wasn�t the right answer. Well okay, it was�but that wasn't the point. He was only supposed to see the nothingness� not make some figurative stand for the first time in his life. He must have sensed her hesitation, her uneasiness.
"Rinoa� Please come back."
It was a statement with many implications. The tenderness, the evening, everything leading up to this one moment. His voice was haunting, everything about him was. Maybe he had changed, maybe this time it could be different. His breath was intoxicating; she tried to fight the feelings, the passion. She leaned forward, as he moved a pace closer to her. His hands were still caressing her face, and her own hands gradually moved up returning the gesture. His damp locks, his jaw�everything was so�perfect.
"Rinoa, may I come in a moment?" The voice was immediately recognized as belonging to her father. Both jumped away, acting as if caught in the most embarrassing of situations, as a light flipped on.
"Damn you for not ever knocking Caraway!" The Commander wanted to shout at the older man.
"Did I catch you at a bad time?" Rinoa pushed Squall away from her, with a surprising amount of force.
"No, it is a perfect time. Squall was just leaving. Right, Squall?"
"Yes, I guess so," he spat as he started walking out. Her mood had again altered the moment her father appeared. She went right back into the defensive, bitter mode. Turning before reaching the exit way, he called back, "Goodbye Rinoa."
"Squall, I'll be there tomorrow�we will say goodbye then."
Closing the door, he rested his head against the frame. Somehow, deep inside he knew she wouldn't come to say farewell; it would be too hard. Hell, it was hard for him, it always was. Losing someone never gets easier.
He mouthed the hurtful word once again, "Goodbye."
Caraway was at a loss for words; never had he expected to walk in on his daughter�and a man. "Guess I should try knocking once and a while."
"You think?"
"Yes, there is that temperament we all love so much."
"Look it's been a hard day. Is there any particular reason you are here?"
He noticed a small glossy corner from under the shadows of the pillow. He flipped on the light nearest her bed, and picked up the picture. His focus turned naturally to his daughter, how happy she looked in the photo, how carefree she used to be. He wasn't good at these relationship issues, he never was. "Rinoa, I know your friends are leaving tomorrow. I heard them asking you tonight to return to Balamb. As much as I can�t believe this is coming out of my mouth, I think you should go with them."
"I can�t!" her reaction a mixture of anger and confusion. "It�s too hard. I will not be hurt again."
"Hurt? They�re your friends, I�m sure none of them would intentionally hurt you." General Caraway traced the outline of the photo with his finger. "Rin, I�m going to tell you something I never told anybody. Not even your mother."
He definitely got Rinoa�s attention with that statement. She moved back to the bed, and pulled her knees up to her chest. Caraway walked over and sat next to his daughter.
"When I first joined the military many years ago, all I thought about was advancing in the ranks. Three years into my career, I was assigned to Dollet, stationed there for several years. I met someone very special there�first person I ever truly loved. We had a lot of fun together, spent an entire summer going to the beach. Eventually, I had to make a choice between my military career and her. I should have chosen the latter. But I couldn't�not someone whose parents expected nothing less than perfection from him."
"I sent her a letter, didn�t even have enough guts to say goodbye in person. Never look back - that was my motto. I could�ve gone back to her, even a couple years later. I still loved her� Finally time marched on, she found someone else. I met your mother a year later and we decided to get married. Rinoa, don't ever get me wrong, I did care about your mother�and yes, even grew to love her. However, when we made the decision to marry it was more of a career opportunity for us both. I did love Julia...in time. The fact was�we were never meant to be soul mates. I do believe in true love. I had it once�so did your mother. Our careers, our stubbornness got in the way for both of us. I just don�t want to see you married to one of these society snobs around here just because it�s convenient."
Rinoa sat listening intently to her father. This was the first time she had heard him talk as an adult to her. Moreover, about anything personal. She slid nearer to him and in the first time she could remember, Rinoa gave her father a hug. "I love you."
He too was returning the embrace and couldn�t believe how much he had missed her. That is, if he ever had her to lose. Maybe she would be going away again, but this time he couldn't be happier. "I love you too, Rin." Breaking the hug, Caraway remained holding her arm. "He might have made mistakes. We all do, but he came back to fight for you�that means something."
The train station was crowded. Weekdays were always busy, especially in the heart of the business district: men with briefcases, women with cell phones, and everyone in a hurry. One would be lucky just to find a place to sit with a cup of coffee. The train to Balamb would be leaving in a few minutes and the group remained on the platform, each trying to spot Rinoa through the overwhelming crowd.
"She�ll be here Squall," Irvine tried to comfort his friend. "You know Rin, probably had to make sure her hair was perfect before she�d show her face in public." Squall continued to stare out into the mass of people, in an unfounded hope she would have the courage to show.
"Maybe it was just too hard for her," explained Selphie trying to remain bouncy. "Saying goodbye isn�t easy. For Rinoa, maybe goodbye was too hard to face right now."
"I�ll be expecting a note in the mail," snapped Squall. "I thought she would change after�damn it, it's been a year."
"Squall," Quistis chimed in, "Rinoa is our friend. She just went through something very difficult last night. Be patient, have faith in her�she won't let you leave without saying goodbye." She noticed a slight eye roll from Squall, another show of emotion usually foreign to the Commander.
Zell was the first to notice a figure running through the crowd. "Hey guys, isn�t that Robert coming this way?"
The dark-haired man was trying to make it through the passengers arriving from the last train. He ended up doing a little more pushing and shoving than expected, but finally made it to the anxious group. "I�m so glad I got to the platform in time," Robert huffed out-of-breath. "Rinoa couldn�t make it this morning. I wanted to come down here and thank everyone personally. Rin�s never done well with goodbyes."
Squall just shook his head and turned around, "Whatever." He started walking toward the train. Part of him wanted to get on and leave this city behind and everyone in it. Still, he wanted to know that she would be okay, no matter how angry he was at the moment. Rinoa was all that was important.
As an afterthought, the commanding SeeD turned back to Robert. "Please take care of her. Rinoa is still one of my friends and no matter what, will always be. Don�t let anyone hurt her." Robert acknowledged Squall�s request with a slight nod. The Commander couldn�t be around the others anymore. "Last night meant nothing to you. I was right. Why now? Why again? Your mind games are so tiring. If this is how you want it, Rinoa Heartilly, so be it. Goodbye and good riddance."
The others said goodbye to Robert and wished him well, save for Quistis. They left the two as they talked quietly among the noisy station. Finally, the instructor boarded the train meeting up with Squall. All stood outside the SeeD luxury cabin, waving to Robert as the train pulled off.
"Open up the door, Squall," cried Selphie.
"Hurry man, before she makes us sing a stirring rendition of �Train, Train, Take Us Away, " exclaimed Zell.
Squall searched his jacket pocket for the key. Damn must have left it at the hotel. "Can this morning get any worse?"
There was a very audible scream echoing through the car. "Hurry Squall I gotta pee very badly. I don't think that those last five cups of coffee agreed with me."
"So you wouldn't want me to do this, would you?" Squall heard the sound of Irvine's fist making contact with Zell's bladder.
"Squall hurry!"
"It was a rhetorical question," Squall angrily shot back to himself. Now they would be forced to sit on the floor of this uncomfortable car for the trip back to Balamb, seven hours on the floor, what a fucking day. Babysitting Zell and Irvine� "I can�t find it guys, sorry."
Quistis spoke up swiftly, "Here, I carry a spare. I can get us in the SeeD compartment."
Well at least that wouldn�t be quite as bad. "How come I never knew Quistis carried a spare? And why did she never bother to unlock the car?" So many times, she could have saved him from Selphie�s downright-scary happiness. "Great, how will explain to Cid that I lost a SeeD train card key?" It wasn�t like him to misplace things, especially something that important. As they entered the hall to the SeeD compartment, Quistis grabbed Squall�s arm and walked him forward to the door.
"Technically Squall," explained Quistis, "since you are the highest ranking SeeD here, you need to open the door. It would be against regulations for a superior not in command to open said door. The SeeD manual strictly prohibits me from doing so with my pass code, unless you are incapacitated and/or found mentally incapable. Now, if we weren�t on Garden property, or the train car, I wouldn�t care. But, I certainly do not need to have my SeeD ranking go down because I performed a prohibited action."
"Shit man," interjected Zell, "I need a copy of that damn book� right now! It�s not possible to actually be a negative ranking SeeD, is it?"
Quistis just shot Zell a look, one of those 'shut up Mr. Know-it-all things' that Zell had grown quite accustomed to over the last couple of years. Squall grabbed the stupid key out of Quistis� hands.
"This is fuc�stupid�" low mutters were heard. Nobody dared ask for clarification. He slid the card in the slot and entered his code. "Happy now, Instructor Uptight?" he spat back at her. "Did I slide the card per regulation, or should I refer to the manual under the heading 'who the hell cares'? Whatever to�this�shi..." He heard the lock click on the door and furiously pushed it open.
"Yep, same old damn room, same old damn couch, same old damn Angelo�Angelo?!"
The dog looked at the Commander with head slightly tilted and ears standing up on end. Angelo seeming to have some sort of recollection of him, jumped down and sauntered over. Squall just stared as the dog grew closer, not exactly sure what to think. Lost in a time, when this was very commonplace.
"Angelo's still a little tired," a soft voice said. "Just came in by train from Dollet, it was a very long night� for both of us."
Squall quickly snapped his head around to the voice. "Rinoa?" he exclaimed letting his emotion get the best of him. She sat over on the bed wearing Jean shorts and red T-shirt. Her hair was pulled back into a long ponytail; much like when he first went to her house a few days ago. "What�what are you? How did you? Garden?"
"Easy for you to say," retorted Quistis. "But I guess it�s a step off from the classic 'whatever.' Oh by the way, here is your keycard back. You accidentally lost it when you fell asleep last night. Moreover, I do not have now, or never had for that matter, a keycard to this cabin. Don't you think that I would have loved to avoid a few rounds of the train song too?" She looked to Selphie who was smiling brightly. "No offence, Selph."
"None taken," she replied to the blonde.
Rinoa sat on the lower twin bed as Angelo jumped up lying protectively next to her. "To answer your questions Squall, or what I could make of them. I�m going with you. Quistis. And yes." She giggled for a second, "Guys, please why don�t you sit down? The train is moving. It�s pretty obvious, even to me, I�m not getting off."
Quistis, Zell, and Irvine walked over to the couch and sat down, while Selphie felt just as comfortable plopping herself down on the floor by Irvine�s legs. Squall stood for a moment, not knowing where to sit. Quistis just gave him the instructor/sister look, nodding obviously next to the dark haired girl. Taking the clue, he walked over to the bed and sat next to Rinoa.
Tapping her knee once, Angelo jumped down from the bed, lying next to her feet. Squall couldn�t believe how much he had even missed that stupid mutt. He really wasn�t a dog person, but Angelo was such a part of Rinoa he couldn�t help but care for the darn dog. Now he couldn�t even resist trying to pet Angelo, but surprisingly the dog growled.
Rinoa looked down at her furry companion, "Angelo, okay. Sorry Squall, Angelo thinks she is working. When she�s used as a guide dog, her only job is to protect me. I just have to give her the command to know its fine to relax. Try again, please Squall."
Eyeing the dog curiously for a moment, Squall reached down and gave her a tiny scratch between the ears. Enjoying the newfound attention, Angelo rolled over so she could get an all over belly-rub. "See, Angelo still loves... likes you too Squall. She just needed to be told she�s off duty. Kind of like you, Commander Leonhart."
"So you're implying that I need to be told when I�m off duty?" Squall inquired.
"Well, you certainly used to Squall. Separating work from your private life was never your strong suit."
Squall looked over at her, there was hurt in her eyes. Even he could see that. Maybe he hadn't been there, maybe he just didn't know how. However, he swore this time would be different�"So Rinoa, if I�m off duty, can I roll over on my back and you give me a belly-rub too?"
"Squall!" Rinoa yelled in shock. She still managed to elbow him in the stomach, with perfect aim.
Irvine piped up, "He stole my line, really, and I was going to say that!"
Everyone in the compartment was now laughing. It was so uncharacteristic for Squall to make such a comment. They knew he would only ever say that to Rinoa. Not for the fact that he didn't have a sardonic humor, which was evident only once in a great while, but because in fact it was true. Yet, nobody in the room was going to mention that.
"I got Angelo back last night from Dollet," continued Rinoa, "the trainers will be at Garden next week to work with us some more. I received a crash course last night, or was it early this morning? Everything has been this big blur�I guess I have no clue."
"It was morning Rin," Quistis interrupted, "about five this morning when I picked you up to meet Angelo."
Selphie looked suspiciously at Quistis, "So you brought her here? You knew that whole time we were out on the platform searching for her?"
"Um�well�er, "Quistis just tried to smile. "Well yeah, I received a phone call from Rinoa last night around ten o�clock, said she changed her mind about coming. She made me swear not to tell anyone. So, I kept my promise and didn�t say a darn word. Actually, it surprised me when Robert showed up this morning. What you guys didn�t see was he passed me the key. During the confusion this morning, I had left it in the train car. He waited until the last moment to give it back."
Zell scratched his head, "Okay�now�wait. Let me see if I got this right, Squall didn�t really have to open the cabin door. You just wanted him to be the one to see Rinoa first. So, you really weren�t issued a keycard either�you just had Squall�s?"
"Yes," stated Quistis. "I was supposed to put it back in his jacket before he noticed; only I didn�t get a chance. So I made up some ridiculous story about superiors opening doors, I guess Squall was mad enough he didn�t even question the fake rule."
"I wasn�t mad." Squall said matter-of-factly.
"Oh really Mr. Whatever," exclaimed Selphie, "I think your exact words were I�ll expect a letter in the mail. Trust me�you weren�t a very happy camper, Commander."
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Cyanotech needs still more time
Cyanotech Corp. said yesterday it needs additional time beyond its original extension to file its fiscal year-end financial report with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Kona-based producer of nutritional products from microalgae said it is continuing to work with accountant KPMG "to resolve possibly material non-cash technical accounting matters."
Cyanotech, which filed for a 15-day extension on June 29, said it believes it should be able to file its year-end report, or Form 10-K, by July 30.
Cyanotech has been plagued with delayed filings throughout its fiscal year due to an internal accounting probe. Last month, Cyanotech said in filing for an extension that its net loss in its fiscal year ended March 31 widened to at least $2.9 million from $391,000 a year earlier and its revenue fell nearly 13 percent to $9.7 million from $11.1 million.
Charges dropped in KPMG case
NEW YORK » A federal judge dismissed charges yesterday against 13 former KPMG employees in what the government had described as the largest criminal tax case in U.S. history, saying the prosecutors prevented them from presenting their defenses.
U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan said the dismissal was necessary because the government coerced KPMG to limit and then cut off its payment of the one-time employees' legal fees.
The case resulted after the government investigated what it described as a tax shelter fraud that helped the wealthy escape $2.5 billion in U.S. taxes.
SEC checks CEO's postings
WASHINGTON » Federal regulators have undertaken an informal investigation in the anonymous online postings of John Mackey, the chief executive of Whole Foods Market Inc., some of which denigrated a smaller rival grocery chain and that raise novel questions for securities watchdogs.
Mackey's postings over seven years on Internet financial forums, cloaked under the name "rahodeb," at times attacked Wild Oats Markets Inc., calling its stock overpriced and predicting it would fall into bankruptcy and then be sold after its shares dipped below $5. Whole Foods announced in February that it would buy Wild Oats for around $565 million, or $18.50 a share.
Loss amid gains: McDonald's Corp. said yesterday it expects to post its second quarterly loss in more than 50 years because of a hefty one-time charge on the sale of some Latin American operations. But the chain said its ongoing business is growing, with same-store sales up 7.4 percent in the second quarter.
Hunter may be hunted: Anglo-Australian mining giant BHP Billiton will decide whether to bid for U.S.-based aluminum company Alcoa Inc. within two weeks. Alcoa withdrew its own hostile takeover bid for Canadian competitor Alcan Inc. after mining giant Rio Tinto made a higher bid.
One head at Airbus: European Aeronautic Defence & Space Co. ended seven years of political infighting that has led to the crises plaguing its Airbus subsidiary. Louis Gallois, a 63-year-old French national, will become EADS's sole chief executive officer.
Inside | July 17
» New Jersey company might reopen Kilgo's
» go! briefly brings back $1 airfares
» Move over pineapple; exotic fruits take over isles
» Building a morning show, brick by brick
» Hawaii Stocks and Mutual Funds
» Hurricane Cosme expected near the Big Isle Friday
» State delays $43M due to nonprofits
» One-time Star-Bulletin owner to be honored
» A closer look at the giant 'golf ball'
» Waianae housing project in planning
» New teachers train for Hawaii schools
» Kauai bird struggles for spot on endangered list
» Kalaupapa resident William Malo was rights advocate
» Worker is injured at Waimea Bay
» Salt Lake streets to get sweeps
» Man drowns after aiding friend
» On the Scene
» What's the Law?
» Shining Stars
» Pottermania at fever pitch
» Bookstores and libraries host Potter parties
» Los Lonely Boys, Jimmy Buffett coming to town
» Herman Frazier opens up
» A's make room for Suzuki
» New civil rights panel might not reflect local sentiment
» Another View
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Literature & Creative Writing
Phillip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy
By moquist, August 4, 2003 in Literature & Creative Writing
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Northern Lights won the Carnegie Medal in 1995. Now it's one of a shortlist of ten contenders for the 'Carnegie of the Carnegies' - the best of the best from the 70 years for which the Carnegie Medal has been awarded. See the thread on the shortlist.
Since Philip Pullman was at school he has kept in touch with one of his teachers Enid Jones. A conversation between the two of them was recently broadcast on BBC Radio 4. I missed it at the time and thought I was too late for BBC Radio's 'Listen Again' service (normally available for a week) but I see that some clips are still available:
In a conversation between one of the world's greatest story-tellers and his former teacher, Philip Pullman reveals why he has kept in touch with Enid Jones since they first met nearly 50 years ago.
The BBC Radio Wales documentary Philip Pullman and Enid Jones lifts the lid on their pupil-teacher relationship that began in the late 1950s at Ysgol Ardudwy, Harlech, and has now ripened into a friendship.
Despite the popularity of Philip Pullman's work spreading around the world, he still finds time to correspond with his former teacher: "Whenever a new book of mine comes out I send Enid a copy. I've always done it and now, for me, the publication process is not complete until I send a copy to Enid.". . .
Pullman wins 'great book' title
Philip Pullman's Northern Lights [AKA The Golden Compass] has been named the best children's book of the past 70 years. A public vote selected the book from a list of past winners of the Carnegie Medal for Children's Literature.
BBC News, June 21
I was in Hungary yesterday and missed this piece of news. Wow! That's some honour for Pullman.
New book from Jossey-Bass:
Killing the Imposter God : Philip Pullman's Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials
Donna Freitas, Jason King
Killing the Imposter God explores the complex religious and spiritual dimensions of the best-selling fantasy series. Donna Freitas and Jason King -- scholars of religion and popular culture -- reveal how humanity's moral and religious issues play out in Pullman's literary phenomenon, showing that the trilogy -- far from preaching atheism, as many have suggested -- actually presents a vision of a universe permeated with divinity and rich with the Christian tradition Pullman himself so publicly rejects. Weaving together critical theory that spans the disciplines of theology, ethics, feminist studies, and philosophy, the authors examine the questions His Dark Materials raises about destruction and salvation, love and redemption, the abuse of power, and the divine -- making the case that Pullman the self-professed atheist has created a Christian classic of our times.
This sounds like a fascinating book. I'm really looking forward to reading it. I believe Youthworker.com is reviewing this (and mine) in their Nov/Dec issue.
First Things reprints Alan Jacobs' review of The Amber Spyglass.
Wow. I remember that review. It's so good. Thanks for finding that!
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Interests:I was born in Iowa, but escaped at an early age. I grew up in a Christian family, was educated in a Christian school my Mom started and ran, and then went to Hamilton College at the age of 16. After getting a BA in Studio Arts, I went to work for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, where I served for ten years. In 2003, I left IV to get my MDiv at Gordon-Conwell Seminary. I married the lovely Karina in July of 1997, our son Timothy was born in June of 2002, and Evelyn was born in July of 2006. I now serve as the pastor of Trinity Alliance Church near Rochester, NY.
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I discovered the article (well, some of it) over the weekend via Google Books. What a pleasure to read the whole thing. Alan Jacobs rocks, and kudos to First Things for putting it back out there.
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Location:Waterloo, ON
Interests:I have a particular interest in the works of Hitchcock, Kurasawa, Nolan, Lynch, Malick, Wong Kar-wai, Welles, and Scorsese. I am developing an interest in Southeast and East Asian cinema. My research areas include film and literary theory. I am currently working on the topic of film, memory, and dreams - subjectivity in cinema. And I still love Spielberg and Lucas.
New book from Jossey-Bass:Killing the Imposter God : Philip Pullman's Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials
Isn't Freitas the one who wrote that article in the Boston paper arguing that that Pullman's trilogy wasn't really anti-Christian?
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Interests:wine, sports, fantasy sports
The Christian Century's cover story this week is on Pullman's books. Edited January 15, 2008 by Darrel Manson
There is also an article on Pullman and Lewis
Location:Washington DC
In regard to all the questions about Pullman's use of Milton and Blake above: Blake said that Milton was in the Devil's party without knowing it. But Blake invented a complex, mythological system to say all sorts of interesting things. He seperates the God of the OT, a removed law giver sitting in clouds on top of a mountain, from the God of the NT, who is incarnate, walks among us, suffers with us, loves us, etc. He calls the OT God Urizen and the NT God Los. Los is associated with Christ, but he's also associated with Satan, because Satan rebeled against the God of the OT. So Blake isn't interpreting the Bible like a fundamentalist. He focuses on how Christ trascends the Law, and how the Law binds people in an unnatural way. And he is completely uninterested in reconciling the OT and the NT into some sort of unified statement.
So really Blake is Pullman's spring board, not Milton, but unfortunately, Pullman really just reduces Blake's mythology to a simplistic anti-Christian message by making all of religion about the Law, punishment and destruction, and never about grace, freedom and creation.
Here's a shamelss plug for an article I wrote about Pullman for The Other Journal.
I've just finished the trilogy, and overall, like it very much.
Why is it that there's no mention in this thread (or others like it) of Lyra's learning to reject her own falsehoods - and embracing the choice to tell the truth? She changes profoundly, in good ways.
I think this is crucial to the whole trilogy. Lyra's process of growing up is centred on this issue. She is transformed as a person from a deceiver to a person of integrity.
(and thanks, Nardis, for replying to this thread which pulled me back into A&F - kind of like being dragged back into Narnia by an automatically sent email!)
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Location:North Carolina
Interests:medieval English literature, fantasy and science fiction, historical fiction, movies, music, travel, a unified Christian life
Good to see you here again, Nardis.
I admit that I stopped after book 1, so I have nothing more to say after that, but you've brought up some points that I have not seen elsewhere, so I'm now reconsidering finishing the trilogy...perhaps in a few months when I have more time to read.
nardis wrote:
: Neither The Authority nor Metatron are God; they are more like a Demiurge, as Tony has pointed out elsewhere. Pullman explicitly states that The Authority is a kind of usurping angel who has appropriated a lot of names and titles that have been cited in this and related threads.
"Appropriated"? That implies the names and titles existed elsewhere before "The Authority" used them. But does the trilogy give us any reason to believe that that is the case?
If "The Authority" is not God, then who is? Anybody? (Bueller... Bueller... )
: And I guess I would also like to say that they are novels. Granted, Pullman gets very heavy-handed in the last quarter of The Amber Spyglass, but to focus solely on that is to miss the point (i think).
Agreed that focusing "solely" on the last chapter of any book is to miss the point. But how a story ends -- and where an author chooses to end it -- is no small matter, is it?
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Berlin, Germany – 30th August 2018 - Segway-Ninebot, the world leader in personal electric transportation, will attend IFA 2018 in Berlin to show her full, recently expanded, product line-up. With a line-up that contains more than thirteen products, Segway-Ninebot is ready for the future. With a world where cities get more polluted and congested it is time for a change. Segway-Ninebot brings solutions for various kind of personal short-distance transportation that solve mobility issues and add a lot of fun and convenience to people’s daily lives.
On the 187 m2 booth at the Consumer Electronics Exhibition IFA, Segway-Ninebot will show the newest Segway Drift W1 and give visitors an opportunity to try the new e-Skates on the test track. Additionally, the new Ninebot by Segway Z10 unicycle will be presented for the first time in Europe and the Segway Robot Loomo will be available for sales to consumers.
Segway Drift W1 e-Skates
The new Segway Drift W1, recently announced on the 28th of June, bring out all the fun while moving effortlessly on the self-balancing e-Skates. The Drift W1 can go up to 12 km/h and is robustly made due to the magnesium alloy body, bumper on the sides and IP54 protection against water and mud. Ideal for having fun in the park, schoolyard and impressing others with advanced riding skills. The Segway Drift W1 is as of today available for pre-order in selected markets.
Ninebot by Segway Z10
The new electric unicycle is Segway-Ninebot’s most advanced product, that’s capable of reaching a maximum speed of 45 km/h and can reach as far as 90 km on one fully charged battery. The robust pneumatic tires of 4.1 inch with strong grid enables riders to go over bumps, small gaps on the road or off-road. The product will be available later this year, but signing up for pre-order is already available in selected markets.
The mini robot side-kick and a personal transporter in one that can auto-follow, capture video and avoid obstacles. With enhanced computer vision from Intel, depth sensing and other AI-driven capabilities, Loomo has the ability to recognize items such as objects, faces, and voice, enabling it to seamlessly interact with its user and the environment. The system is working on the Android platform which allows developers to be creative and give Loomo the capabilities they want. Segway Loomo is, as of today, available for pre-order in selected markets too.
KickScooter sharing
With a successful start in the United States where KickScooter sharing projects have become the revolutionized way of transportation in urban areas, Europe is quickly following. Sharing KickScooters in cities bring a solution to congested and polluted areas and improves urban sustainability. KickScooter sharing make commuting more efficient, fun, cheaper and environmentally friendly. Following the U.S., Segway-Ninebot will be one of the main partners for sharing projects in Europe and has developed, next to the current consumer KickScooter models ES1 & ES2, a dedicated sharing KickScooter model to fully service the enterprise market.
IFA attendants are welcome to visit the Segway-Ninebot booth at IFA, Berlin, Germany. With a test track and a full exhibition of all products, visitors can learn everything about Segway-Ninebot and get the chance to try out the new products. The booth is located in the IFA Next hall 26, booth number 225 and takes place from 31st of August until the 5th of September 2018.
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Segway-Ninebot is moving in a brand new and exciting direction. Segway is the world leader in commercial-grade, electric, self-balancing personal transportation. After Segway strategically merging with Ninebot, new product lines have been developed, as well as target markets, and some bold changes were made. The world-renowned intellectual property of Segway is now also appliedto consumer products, with a sharp focus on transportation for lifestyle and recreational riders as well as commuting solutions. For more information, please visit http://eu-en.segway.com.
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Movie Trailer – Concussion
Director: Peter Landesman
Starring: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks
Release: December 25th, 2015
Will Smith looks amazing in this trailer, both mature and ready for a big role like this. Mark my words, he’ll be the first to play Barack Obama in an Oscar-worthy docu-drama, here in the next 10 years. But going back to the film at hand, Concussion has what it takes to be a landmark film. Not only does it deal with a current issue and the country’s most popular television item, but it stars a man who might re-make his career with one character. Bring it on.
Movie Trailer – Carol
Director: Todd Haynes
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kyle Chandler
Release: November 20th, 2015
Cate Blanchett was made for this era, or at least movies about this era. She strikes us as a debutant with a dark secret, which looks like exactly what she’ll be playing here. I’m a little worried about Todd Haynes though, who directed both Far from Heaven and I’m Not There, two very boring movies. I hope there is more substance here and less reliance on pure mood.
DVD Review – Mad Max: Fury Road
Category : DVD Review
Director: George Miller
Starring: Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult
The Mad Max franchise is solid gold. Well, assuming that you’re a fan of psychotic Australian post-apocalyptic action films, but really who isn’t? This series of films has more than a cult following, which would only secure its place as a very weird yet very popular niche movie. No, it’s more than that; loved by critics & audiences alike, defining an era, launching a career, and cementing itself as more than one-of-a-kind. Or three-of-a-kind, more accurately: Mad Max, Road Warrior, Beyond Thunderdome. These are movies that you must see, must know, and need to appreciate, if not exactly understand. Fury Road is no different, another epic survival tale following our hero, the lone wolf of the wasteland. But it’s been 30 years since director George Miller last attempted this continuing saga, you wonder if there might be some rust. Well, wonder no more. There isn’t.
In the desert of a blighted land, every man is crazy. You’d have to be to survive, to do what it takes, to kill or be killed, to push yourself (and your car) farther than you ever thought you could go. For Max, life is a harsh reminder of the past, of ghosts that will never leave him in peace. Oh and evil rovers on souped-up dune buggies, those too. Max’s newest enemies are the War Boys, led by Immortan Joe, a tyrant of the Citadel who controls the water and therefore controls the people. His obsession is clean offspring, sons free of the diseases inherent in the world, and so he prizes his beautiful breeders above all else. But they’ve just gone missing, freed by the iron-willed Furiosa, who will now team up with Max to get the girls to safety, find the legendary Green Place, and rid them all of the guilt of living when so many have died.
But that won’t be easy, and, as Furiosa puts it, everything hurts in the wasteland. The breeders aren’t accustomed to life outside their jailed existence in the Citadel, nor are they prepared to kill anything that moves, which is what is so often required. And also, Furiosa & Max don’t quite see eye to eye, each forcing their party in directions that further their own goals. Add in a War Boy who has become a crafty stowaway, a gang of bikers who control the pivotal pass, a treacherous mud bog, & the ever-closing Immortan Joe at your back, and you’ve got yourself an adventure. Our heroes will have to count every bullet, make every kill count, spill gallons of blood, and put the pedal to the metal if they’re to have any hope of a future, of redemption, of a life that isn’t controlled by the madman who will stop at nothing to destroy them all.
Fury Road is one colossal action sequence with a few scattered moments of humanity. Twisted humanity, barely humanity, a mind-boggling alternate dystopic version of humanity, but humanity nonetheless. And as a genre that let’s us down more often than not, you’d think the never-ending, heart-pounding, explosion-laden action would turn us off from liking this movie. But they didn’t, and there’s a simple reason why; because they were crafted by a genius. George Miller may only do one thing well, but he does that thing so well that he becomes a little action god who can literally do no wrong. The constant violence & insane pace of this film are parts of the Mad Max world he creates, not something manufactured to impress audiences. And so the action feels natural in a way in can never feel in other films, regular in a world gone mad, typical for the lives of the people who are unlucky enough to still be alive. Every minute is filled with death & drama, yet it never gets old. I’d call that genius, wouldn’t you?
Perhaps you expected to love this movie, as I did, expected to dig the action, the fictional world, the odd language, the accents, the dust, the gas-guzzling pseudo-vehicles. But what I didn’t see coming was Charlize Theron. I knew she was in the movie, thought she’d play a part in the story, but I didn’t expect her to be the main character. And in a movie whose title comes from Tom Hardy’s role, why would I? But she was undoubtedly the lead. It was her drive, her motivation, her heart, that kept the plot going. Max became a narrator in a sense, a tool in the mission, but not a person that the movie relied upon. So Furiosa became the heroine, with Max as her sidekick in a strange way, and what’s most surprising is that it worked. Had Hardy been the only focal point perhaps we would have lost interest, perhaps we wouldn’t have been able to keep ourselves from comparing him to Mel Gibson, perhaps there would have had a been-there-done-that feeling. It’s hard to predict, but what I know is that Miller got it right. He brought the franchise back to life, gave us the pieces we always loved, twisted the frame of the story just enough, and turned the volume up to eleven.
The Blu-ray
Video – With an aspect ratio of 2.40:1 1080p HD 16×9, the Blu-ray is fully designed to blow your mind. The film was shot using five different cameras: Arri Alexa M, Arri Alexa Plus, Blackmagic Cinema Camera, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Olympus P5. Every shot was created with indescribable detail and rich tone. The quality of the Blu-ray disc brings out the pain-staking work that went into every scene, every pan, and every phenomenal explosion. The stunts were real, the cars were real, the minute pieces of metal on every car & creature were real. Be ready to see a clarity & color that you don’t get every day.
Audio – The Blu-ray disc was done in Dolby Atmos, with a choice between English and English Descriptive Audio 5.1. Also, in Dolby Digital, your choices are Francais 5.1 Dubbed, Espanol 5.1, or Portugues. Subtitles can be chosen in English SDH, Francais, Espanol, or Portugues. The audio quality of the Blu-ray is just as blastingly beautiful as the video, but perhaps just a touch too much so in some moments. Blu-rays too often tend to crank up the effect volume while keeping the dialogue sound on low. This leads to blast-out moments and you possibly having to keep a remote in hand. Still, with incredible effects & a great rock soundtrack, the greatness of the audio can’t be denied.
Extras – There are a large number of exciting extras on the Blu-ray disc. Maximum Fury: Filming Fury Road – 28 mins – behind the scenes, interviews, on set in Africa. Mad Max: Fury on Four Wheels – 22 mins – car design, vehicles as an extension of wardrobe. The Road Warriors: Max & Furiosa – 11 mins – character study of the two leads, the transition from Mel to Tom. The Tools of the Wasteland – 14 mins – prop details, minute addictions to a wacky world. The Five Wives: So Shiny, So Chrome – 11 mins – interviews with the ladies, their characters combined as notes in a melody. Fury Road: Crash or Smash – 4 mins – a combination of pre-production tests and raw footage. Deleted Scenes – I Am a Milker (30 secs), Turn Every Grain of Sand! (2 mins), Let’s Do It (1 min).
DVD Talk Collector Series. After my third time watching this film, I realized something: that I’m hard-wired to like action movies. I thought that a bit strange, since so many action flicks have been so disappointing in recent years and the genre as a whole has taught me to stay away. But it’s only that not many directors have been producing action correctly, we’ve all become a bit jaded, and ‘action’ has begun to mean stupid gunfights & judo chops. Not anymore, and I’m proud to say that my natural testosterone has finally been appeased. Fury Road is what we’ve been waiting for, and we can only hope that more will follow. The video quality is beyond belief, the audio just as strong, and the extras both plentiful & wonderful. With resoundingly positive reviews, this film still isn’t for everyone, though neither is the Mad Max franchise as a whole. It’s still action, still over-the-top, still insane, and can’t possibly be loved by all. But 9 out of 10 ain’t bad, as they say, and that seems to be the number of people who absolutely adore this wonderfully exciting & furiously entertaining film. I hope you’ll join me as one of them.
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Movie Trailer – The Perfect Guy
Director: David M. Rosenthal
Starring: Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut
Release: September 11th, 2015
How is this not a Zane novel? It reminds me of the sole Zane-based film I’ve seen, Addicted, with a bit of Fifty Shades thrown in for good measure. So, basically, it looks like crap. This type of movie is why people with taste look down on thrillers, when films like The Gift should be the norm, not this romantic/sadistic bullshit.
Movie Trailer – Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Starring: Tye Sheridan, Halston Sage, Patrick Schwarzenegger
Well I love Tye Sheridan (Mud, Joe, The Stanford Prison Experiment), and I like irreverently silly zombie movies (though they are getting a little old), so I think we’re in for a treat here. This looks original enough to make up for the recycled idea, and the young cast could be a strong unit. We’ll see, but I have high expectations.
Movie Review – Hercules
Category : Movie Review
Director: Brett Ratner
Starring: Dwayne Johnson, Rufus Sewell, Rebecca Ferguson
This might be an odd way to start off what will ultimately be an extremely negative review, but there are performances in Hercules that really impressed me. Rufus Sewell commits to a character like he never has before, allowing us exclusive access behind those heavily lidded eyes of his. Rebecca Ferguson, recently of M:I5 fame, plays the Greco heroine much better than you’re used to seeing. And John Hurt reigns over his scenes with a talent that’s as strongly exhibited as it has ever been before. But, unfortunately, you know who didn’t deliver? The Rock. Yes, Dwayne Johnson the wrestler turned actor and the unrelieved star of this film. He and the story around him were so incredibly terrible that they drove any positive aspects of this movie before them like sad, vanquished warriors, claiming the field in hollow victory.
There are two Hercules’ in this film; the mythical & the mortal. The mythical only exists in legends, in exaggerated tales of deeds that he may have accomplished, but that didn’t happen exactly as you’ve heard. The mortal is the man we see before us, a skilled warrior and unquestionably strong, but not the son of a god. Hercules is no more than a battle hero turned mercenary, a troubled soldier whose team will take on any mission, as long as the price is right. And so when the lord of Thrace asks for Hercules’ help in ridding the land of a band of evil marauders, he is only too willing to lend a hand. But not everything is as it seems, and the demons of his past will come back to haunt our hero Hercules, forcing him to confront the beasts that stalk his dreams and make decisions that will decide the fate of all Greece.
The Rock can’t act. Well, not like this, anyway. I actually enjoyed him in Pain & Gain, where he could let his natural charisma work to his benefit. Here, as in San Andreas, he was called upon to display emotions, and that’s just not where his talents lay. He can’t do it, can’t convince us, and so comes across as a very large dud, both figuratively & literally. His performance ruined those of higher quality around him, bringing every scene down to his level, which is unfortunate, since he both seems like a nice guy and makes me want to root for him to succeed. Well, he’s succeeded I guess, good for him, but he’s not a dramatic actor. Not that this movie was a drama, it was pure action, but it still required some feeling to make it work, and wow did it not work. It felt like a sequel whose original no one had seen. It had pseudo-zombies for no reason and mechanized weaponry that didn’t make any sense. The plot was ridiculous, the characters were stupid, every instant was incredibly unbelievable, and by the end I just wanted someone to tell me that I was the butt of a joke. But no, no joke, someone thought this was a good movie, just like someone thought The Last Legion worked, although I can’t imagine who that would be. I actually thought Hercules might be enjoyable, but boy was I wrong, and I’ll remember to stay away from fake histories starring Dwayne Johnson from now on.
My rating: ☆
Movie Trailer – Every Thing Will Be Fine
Director: Wim Wenders
Starring: James Franco, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rachel McAdams
Release: September 4th, 2015
I can’t be the only person who can’t possibly take James Franco seriously. He’s a funny pot head, not a quality actor. He can’t do this, play a guy whose life is defined by running over a kid and then becomes a successful author who saves people lives. I call bullshit. He just doesn’t have that in him and this movie is going to be terrible.
Movie Trailer – The Final Girls
Starring: Taissa Farmiga, Malin Akerman, Alexander Ludwig
Release: October 9th, 2015
Why yes I would like to watch a slasher movies that pays homage to slasher movies while also making fun of them while also actually being something other than a student film. Although, I really don’t like any single person in this cast; I’m hoping they can win me over with cheesy/wonderful performances.
Sports – Pater Familias 2015
Fantasy Football is here!
And Pater Familias is ready:
QB – Aaron Rodgers (GB) – No Jordy Nelson? No problem. Rodgers is Rodgers, and he elevates the players in his receiving corps, not the other way around.
QB – Carson Palmer (Ari) – A capable backup who should be a solid fill-in when Rodgers is on the bench for his bye week. Arizona is sneaky good.
WR – Dez Bryant (Dal) – I would be disappointed with anything less that 12 TDs & 1200 yds. Last year it was 16 & 1400, so I don’t think that’s asking too much.
WR – Davante Adams (GB) – With Nelson out, Adams will see an immediate boost in his targets, which should propel the second year player to great numbers.
WR – Jeremy Maclin (KC) – Now with the Chiefs, Maclin will see his stellar stats diminish, but he still might be the only WR to catch a TD this season in KC.
WR – Breshad Perriman (Bal) – Let’s see what the rookie can do, supposedly lining up opposite Steve Smith, if he ever gets healthy enough to participate.
RB – Mark Ingram (NO) – Ingram is ready for another solid season as the Saints focus on their running game and taking pressure off Drew Brees.
RB – Alfred Morris (Was) – Morris is the workhorse back for the Redskins and should see 300+ targets this year. At least I hope.
RB – Jonathan Stewart (Car) – With DeAngelo Williams finally gone, Stewart can finally attempt to have a break out season as the #1 back.
RB – Isaiah Crowell (Cle) – I’m not proud of picking any Brownies, but Crowell could be a solid backup and score a few points.
TE – Jimmy Graham (Sea) – Traded to Seattle in the offseason, Graham will see a dip in his numbers, but hopefully not too cavernous.
TE – Josh Hill (NO) – Speaking of Graham, Hill is his replacement in New Orleans. He’s not as talented, but still has Drew Brees throwing to him.
K – Justin Tucker (Bal) – Tucker has become my team captain, now in his 3rd straight year with my team. Let’s hope my luck changes and he can receive some credit.
K – Matt Bryant (Atl) – The veteran just keeps churning out the points, and Atlanta is always a strong enough team to put them on the board.
Def – Seattle (Sea) – The best defense in football, the Seahawks are still in the Super Bowl hunt, despite last year’s devastating loss to the Patriots.
Def – Minnesota (Min) – A solid backup defense, with some talented young players that could help this team transition into a strong club.
Movie Trailer – The Witch
Director: Robert Eggers
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie
Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. But I love this new trend of going back to the classics that made horror great, giving them a modern/artistic feel, and keeping the content so simple that it scares us to death. This film looks a little like a cross between The White Ribbon and The Village, which is fine by me, and I think it’ll end up being 2016’s It Follows.
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15 to 25 Aug. 2007 - Benguela, Lubango, Huambo, Cabinda, Luanda in Angola.
7 - Wael Badr
Wael BADR (EGY)
DOB: 1 Dec.1978
Place of birth: Mit Okba (EGY)
Position: Point Guard
Current club: (EGY)
6 160 10/31 32.3 8/21 38.1 2/10 20 27/29 93.1 0 14 14 16 11 18 14 2 49
vs CIV 21 3/4 75 1/2 50 5/5 100 0 1 1 3 2 1 3 0 14
vs MLI 30 2/6 33.3 0/3 0 6/6 100 0 1 1 4 0 2 3 0 10
vs SEN 37 0/4 0 1/3 33.3 9/10 90 0 3 3 4 2 3 2 2 12
vs TUN 38 2/3 66.7 0/2 0 2/2 100 0 4 4 4 4 6 2 0 6
vs CMR 13 0/0 0 0/0 0 2/2 100 0 1 1 0 2 3 1 0 2
vs CPV 21 1/4 25 0/0 0 3/4 75 0 4 4 1 1 3 3 0 5
Select a Team ------- Angola CAF Cameroon Cape Verde Cote d'Ivoire Dem.Rep. of Congo Egypt Liberia Mali Morocco Mozambique Nigeria Rwanda Senegal South Africa Tunisia
W. Badr (EGY)
2014 FIBA Africa Cup for Men's Clubs: Final Round 5.6 4 2.4
2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup 1.6 0.6 0.8
2013 FIBA Africa Cup for Men's Clubs: Final Round 9.5 4.2 3
2013 FIBA Africa Championship for Men: Final Round 9 2.1 2.9
2012 FIBA Africa Champions Cup for Men n/a n/a n/a
2012 FIBA Africa Champions Cup for Men: Qualifying Round n/a n/a n/a
2009 FIBA Africa Championship for Men: Final Round 10.6 3.5 3.1
2009 FIBA Africa Championship for Men: Qualifying Round 8.7 2.3 3.7
2007 FIBA Africa Championship for Men: Final Round 8.2 2.3 2.7
2007 FIBA Africa Championship for Men: Preliminary Round 9 1.8 3
17 Aug. 2007 vs CIV 73-65
18 Aug. 2007 vs MLI 66-73
19 Aug. 2007 vs SEN 66-63
21 Aug. 2007 vs TUN 67-57
23 Aug. 2007 vs CMR 52-58
24 Aug. 2007 vs CPV 51-53
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Trends in ice cover and associated pelagic ecosystem consequences at two Antarctic LTER sites Maciek Obryk 07/28/15 138
Solar radiation and temperature trends in McMurdo Dry Valleys explained: exploring the role of sulfur dioxide emissions Maciek Obryk 07/28/15 137
Floating Forests: Using Online Citizen Science to Assess 30 Years of Satellite Derived Giant Kelp Abundance at a Global Scale Kyle Cavanaugh 07/28/15 136
Urban Growth in Miami-Dade County: teasing out the impacts of Land Use Policy Jeff Onsted 07/28/15 135
Cascading impact of an invader on ecology and ecosystem services: Spiny water flea invasion into Lake Mendota (NTL-LTER) Jacob Walsh 07/28/15 134
Assessing the relationship between rainfall and nutrient concentrations in the coastal Everglades Mario Londono 07/28/15 133
Scaling properties of rainfall-runoff generation processes and nutrient flushing mechanisms in the Oregon Cascade Mountains. Part 1: Hydrologic modelling incorporating electrical conductivity and water stable isotopes Catalina Segura 07/28/15 132
Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve Forest Isbell 07/28/15 131
Scaling properties of rainfall-runoff generation processes and nutrient flushing in the Oregon Cascade Mountains. Part 2: Relation between rainfall runoff and nutrient flushing in the Oregon Cascade Mountains Lydia Nickolas 07/28/15 130
High rates of dormancy mask the effect of fertilization on microbial activity in salt marshes Patrick Kearns 07/28/15 129
Factors regulating nitrogen retention during the early stages of recovery from fire in coastal chaparral ecosystems Erin Hanan 07/28/15 127
GCE Data Toolbox for MATLAB: A Software Framework for Automating Environmental Data Processing, Quality Control and Documentation Wade Sheldon 07/28/15 126
Documenting and Perpetuating Long-Term Ecological Research: History and Historical Preservation at the H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Samuel Schmieding 07/28/15 125
Diel Vertical Distribution Patterns of Zooplankton along the Western Antarctic Peninsula Patricia Thibodeau 07/28/15 124
Land Ocean Interaction in the Santa Barbara Coastal LTER Dan Reed 07/27/15 123
The role of macrophytes in the greenhouse gas fluxes from a constructed wetland system in Phoenix, AZ. Jorge Ramos 07/27/15 122
"Finding NIMO" - Exploring ideas for a new Network Information Management Organization Philip Tarrant 07/27/15 121
Projected future distribution of an invasive grass, Lehmann lovegrass, in the Chihuahuan Desert Jin Yao 07/27/15 120
Spatial and temporal dynamics of wildflower blooms in the Southern Appalachians Rose Graves 07/27/15 119
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Diamond Hair Combs and Tiaras
Tiaras have been an essential part of a woman’s wedding dowry since the Middle Ages.
As early as the 1850’s, aristocratic women bought sets of diamond sprays and brooches. Delicately set in platinum and looking like embroidery, these pieces came with different fittings such as a tiara frame, hinge for a tortoiseshell comb, or pin back. Women could be practical and wear jewelry appropriate for formal and less formal occasions.
In England, agriculture, trade, and industry flourished, so ostentatious costume displays did not ignite envy. However in France, Napoleon III lost the Franco-Prussian War when he surrendered at Sedan on September 1, 1870. This act ended the Second Empire and ushered in the Third Republic.
In a republic, French women dared not appear in tiaras at official receptions. Instead, they took pieces of the tiara and adapted them into hair combs and other items for a parure.
Here are a few examples.
The Poltimore Tiara.
Garrard’s (London jewelers since 1735) made the tiara in the 1870’s for Lady Poltimore, wife of the 2nd Baron Poltimore. Princess Margaret wore it to her wedding to photographer Anthony Armstrong-Jones in 1960. With a screwdriver and different fittings, it can be converted into 11 brooches and a necklace.
Here is Princess Margaret wearing it in the bath!
The Archduchess Maria Anna’s Tiara.
Sets of crescents and pear-shaped diamonds flank two tiers of diamond clusters. A lever behind the tiara can adjust the height, and it can also be taken apart to make a choker, bracelets, and pins. It was made in Vienna by Moritz Hübner in 1903.
Mellerio Floral Tiara.
Diamond and emerald roses proudly rise above the frame, but it is still a practical piece. The diamond sprays can be separated and worn as hair combs or brooches. It was made by Mellerio dits Meller c. 1850 and belonged to the descendants of Eugéne de Beauharnais: the son of Napoleon I’s Empress Josephine, by her first husband. It is so ironic that she had a son by another man, when she was Napoleon’s true love, and he had to divorce her because she could not produce an heir.
Diamond Spray Tiara, c. 1855, The British Museum.
This diamond tiara combines three branches, two oak leaves and one acorn. They are set on a frame of silver and gold. The piece comes in its original case, with two tortoiseshell hair combs, the tiara frame, and brooch fittings. It was made by Hunt & Roskell, 156 New Bond Street.
Filed Under: English Hair Comb, Tiara
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"If I were around in WWII..."
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Logan Hartke
High priest in the black arts of profiling...
Rivet-counting whiffer
Alright, put your money where your mouth is. If you were in charge during WWII, how would you equip your armed forces? You know, I love these "Make your own army" sort of threads, but I think about these a lot.
So, I made a giant Excel with aircraft, ships, tanks, and other land equipment from 1939-1945. For the most part, it's sort of a "best of" type thing, but I do try to also pick things that would be compatible. Due to different engines, calibers, etc., many of my choices have significant modifications in some cases.
So, here's a few of my major choices for the "sexy" combat equipment at the start of the war, 1939-40.
Armored Cars
Daimler Dingo
Panhard 178 w/ Böhler 47mm
Landsverk L-60 (Toldi) w/ Böhler 47mm
PzKpfw III w/ Skoda 47mm
Matilda II w/ Skoda 47mm
Skoda Š-I-j
StuG III w/ 75mm Mle 1897/33
I've got naval combat aircraft, transports, trainers, infantry weapons, artillery, softskins, and ships, as well if anyone's interested.
kerick
Responsible for all surrendered booty....Arrrr!!!!
Re: "If I were around in WWII..."
The trick would be convincing the people in charge at the time to think to the future and design an American tank with a decent gun (37mm, are you joking?) and a British tank that is not specialized to death. What the h#ll is a cruiser tank anyway?
Well, the idea isn't so much a "Foresight War" sort of thing where you're trying to steer the ship. It's more of a "All Star Team" sort of idea where you can pick what you think was the best stuff going at the time and use it to equip your own army/navy/air force.
Here's the naval aircraft I considered. I could really go with the Wildcat just as readily as the Zero, to be honest.
Nakajima B5N "Kate"
Brewster F2A Buffalo
Douglas SBD Dauntless
Mitsubishi A6M Rei-sen "Zero"
Grumman J2F Duck
Kawanishi H6K "Mavis"
Arado Ar 196
Martin PBM Mariner
GTX_Admin
Evil Administrator bent on taking over the Universe!
Administrator - Yep, I'm the one to blame for this place.
Whiffing Demi-God!
I think you need to break selections into periods otherwise it gets confusing.
All hail the God of Frustration!!!
I did. This is just my 1939-40 lineup.
upnorth
Distorting a reality near you.
Reinvented Austria and the Stuka....Now what?
If I were to look at the Pacific Theatre, starting prior to Pearl Harbour, I'd have done a few things in Australia.
I'd have opened up production lines for Spitfires and Merlin engines in Australia very early in the conflict so that the RAAF could have something better and in good numbers than the Brewster Buffalo when the Japanese came knocking.
It would also negate the need for the Boomerang fighter, thus freeing up resources for other things, Perhaps domestic Lancaster production and similar for the Beaufighter and its Hercules engines .
Japan was known to be very aggressive to its neighbors well before they attacked Pearl Harbour and brought America into things. I've always felt it was quite short sighted to leave Australia so exposed as it was.
Australia had the resources and talent pool, there really was no reason to not get them pumping out modern fighters and bombers from day one of hostilities in Europe in order to make sure they were ready for impending Japanese attack.
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Volkodav
Counts rivits with his abacus...
Much older now...but procrastinating about it
Quote from: upnorth on April 28, 2013, 06:29:19 PM
Well we were warned and told what we needed to do to defend ourselves against Japanese imperialism
http://www.navy.gov.au/media-room/publications/reports-admiral-jellicoe-volume-i-iv
It could be a good start to the Australian version of this wiff.
In addition both Chauvel and Monash pushed for the formation of a regular Australian Army from the AIF and retaining/improving upon its already high (by contempory standards) level of motorisation. Instead the AIF was disbanded and its vehicles were left in Europe, UK and the Middle East, while the Australian economy was wrecked, in part, by having to pay for the gear left behind.
Spitfire would have been great but assuming we started local aircraft production in Australia a deal with Hawker and RR would have been good. Think Hawker Hart, Fury and Demon powered by the RR Kestrel from the late 1920s, followed by batches of improved Hawkers through to the Hurricane and Henley just before the start of the war.
Skyhawk stealer and violator of Panthers, with designs on a Cougar and a Tiger too
Chaos Engineer & Evangelistic Agnostic
Quote from: kerick on April 23, 2013, 11:40:11 AM
A fast, lightly-armoured tank that can exploit breakthroughs made by the infantry and their slow, heavily armoured infantry tanks. Think of it as a "cavalry tank" and you'll get the idea.
Note that I'm not saying that this was a good idea, just that it was the thinking behind the doctrine. Mind you, had the army had the resources to build any of their infantry/cruiser/light tanks to a decent standard, the concept might have stood up rather better than it did in real life. After all, the Christie-Cruisers were the British reaction to the Soviet BT-5/BT-7 designs. In Russia, those designs lead to the T-34....
Tank-wise, the failure in pretty much all armies in 1939 was the failure to predict the dizzying rate at which the armour/gun race would escalate in the next six years. If you'd told any "expert" in 1939 that he'd be looking at 50 ton tanks with 88mm high-velocity guns in a few year's time, he'd have laughed in your face.
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1. Improved Matilda II.
Turret ring was the same as the Churchill so fit 6lbr, 75mm and 95mm turrets from Churchill.
The twin engine setup was pretty chunky and complex, while the aft engine deck slopped down, so why not see if a much better engine could fit in the space.
The suspension was bolted to the hull sides under the armoured skirts with its 14" track width, should not be too difficult to replace it with a more durable design and wider track while using spacers as required for the skirts.
End result a much faster, more reliable, heavier hitting and capable medium tank for British and commonwealth forces that improved upon the strengths of the best existing design rather than trying to develop new designs (often already obsolescent) during the height of a battle for survival.
This effective medium tank permits the UK to concentrate on a modern heavy cruiser or universal design much earlier, resulting the deployment of the Centurion in late 44 early 45 as a counter to the Panther / Tiger I. The advent of the Tiger II and Intel on Soviet JSIII etc. leads to the prototyping and experimental deployment of the Conqueror in the last months of the war.
Oh yes of course, Australian licence production of the improved Matilda, maybe using US sourced (or designed) engine, suspension and tracks. Deployment with the 2nd AIF in 40-41 is one regiment of Improved Matilda per division, including the 8th in Malaya and Singapore (although leadership would likely needed to have changed for any real difference).
2. UK adopts a modified version of the CDK TNH (Panzer 38t base vehicle that was actually assessed by the UK pre-war).
An Anglicized version, called the Light Tank Mk X, is selected as the replacement for the various marks of light tanks in service and is in full production by the fall of France and thus becomes the standard British tank for the early years of the war as production is increased to replace the losses of the BEF.
The greater capability of the over the existing light tanks as well as the early cruisers makes it possible for the UK to skip the Crusader, Covenanter, Cavalier and Cromwell, permitting them to instead perfect and deploy the Comet Cruiser, much improved Challenger heavy cruiser and the Avenger tank destroyer in substantial numbers by D Day.
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I go by many names...you may know one...
Could I focus on the aviation side of things? I know far more about aviation than tanks, and I have a little bit of knowledge on aircraft carriers.
I'm also curious if it would be permissible to develop any of the following
A cancelled aircraft: With or without modifications
A fictitious design provided it follows a degree of realism
"Of course, I could be talking out of my hat"
Quote from: Volkodav on November 19, 2015, 09:42:58 AM
Turret Rings:
Matilda II - 54 inches (1.37 m)
Churchill I-IV - 54.25 inches.
While that extra quarter of an inch might appear insignificant, it means they weren't the same size. Further, the hull of the Matilda was engineered to prevent the addition of a Churchill turret to it. When they did add a new turret to the Matilda, experimentally, it required a new turret ring adapter, as the old one was considered too small to mount a 6 pounder.
As it was, the Matilda considered marginal with a 6 pounder turret, cramped and difficult to fight properly.
That's 3.175mm extra metal off each side of the turret ring, no need for an adaptor ring there, just remove the extra metal and fit the new turret, much easier than fiting the A24/27 turret with an adaptor. Not talking about modifying existing tanks to be retro fitted with a new turret but rather modifying the design to be built with new turrets.
Before you say it can't be done just look at the US M-2, M-3 and M-4 mediums, they started with a very limited design that, was inferior to most foreign contemporaries and ended up with a versatile design that remained viable, through never imagined upgrades, for decades. My suggestion is the that UK do the same with the Matilda, while working on a long term replacement based on combat experience, rather than committing resources to the Valentine and the Churchill. Take a perfectly capable and successful design and keep making it better until you have a fully sorted replacement ready and avoid wasting resources on multiple unsuccessful designs.
Looking at the early war British designs the Matilda was the most easily improved. It already had the armour, a large engine compartment, suspension mounted on the hull sides permitting easy replacement with improved, new design items. The US did this with the Sherman, the Germans with the Panzer III and VI, the Soviets with the T-34 etc. the UK on the other hand often seemed to go for new tank designs over and over.
taiidantomcat
Plastic Origamist...and not too shabby with the painting either!
Stylishly late...because he was reading comics
Don't know as much as others in this subject but:
I read a few weeks ago the Japanese could have used an airplane not unlike the B-25 in the south pac (so 1941-1943), a medium bomber. So that has my wheels turning
I was kind of surprised the Germans didn't go to something like the E-series tanks early on.
I have albert Speers book to read now, so there is probably a ton of stuff in there.
"They know you can do anything, So the question is, what don't you do?"
-David Fincher
Heres my (highly parochial) biggy, in addition to accelerating the local manufacture of the Beaufort in Australia the Commonwealth also decides to initiate a second project to manufacture a high performance fighter with a light / dive bomber derivative as a matter of urgency.
Australian licence manufacture of the Hawker Hurricane, Hawker Henley, Rolls Royce Merlin, Browning .303 (maybe another calibre)and .50 calibre machine guns and Hispano 20mm cannon.
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Equality and diversity, true respect and appreciation
Our vision for the Regions is way beyond BIM. It is for a world-class industry, digitally enabled, with UK PLC taking a leading position in the global information economy.
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Respected, valued, something to aspire to, great careers and opportunities, inclusive and diverse, sustainable in every sense of the word.
A diverse digital industry provides opportunities for all, and enables people to have flexible work and lifestyle patterns, that enable them to fulfill their potential, and complete their life and family commitments too. Remote working, and virtual environments, complete with mobile access to BIM data makes all this possible and more. What needs to change is our approach to working practices and culture.
Are we really ready to collaborate?
Working towards a common goal and objectives, but with none of the traditional barriers that are holding us back. So that we can contribute with all our ingenuity and skill, as true human beings, using all of our humanity to make life and work better for all.
Equality and diversity, true respect and appreciation are part of this mix. The Regions need to take a thought leadership position on what the industry should be like. That includes collaboration, communication, innovation and integration, but it also must include sustainability, safety, respect and….diversity/inclusion.
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We believe that the closer we move towards an inclusive and diverse workforce the nearer we are to a collective and inclusive culture; and it is these cultures that will allow us to achieve our ambitions for the sector
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Guildford Mysteries
Guildford Cathedral, Stag Hill, was used as a scene backdrop
for the creepy 1976 movie The Omen; yet, even away from such
works of fiction, this location is no stranger to genuine
supernatural happenings.
2 photographs taken in April, 2012, that appeared to show a
spooky shape on The Mount in Guildford, have caused a stir
among investigators of The Paranormal.
Amateur photographer, Mark Baker, 37, took the pictures when
trying out a new camera timer, and when he downloaded them to
his pc, they appeared to show a ghostly white form.
“It was not until I got home and was downloading, I noticed
it,” he said; and Mark went on to stress that he had not
digitally altered the images in any way.
Mr Baker's Images
UFO's For This Area
15 years' worth of previously unseen UFO files opened up by
the National Archives, revealed a very interesting UFO report
for Guildford.
2 objects measuring “elbow to finger size” were spotted for
a couple of minutes hovering above the railway bridge footpath
in Woodbridge Hill, Guildford, in July 1994 at 10.20pm.
The unidentifieds, described as having a browny-grey colour,
were spotted during a clear night and reported to police
12 hours later.
Mother Ludlum's 'Other Hole' is in Guildford
Records show that there is a small, narrow opening in Guildford,
(a 'hole' if you like), leading to a natural subterranean rock passage.
Although barely big enough for an adult to squeeze through, this
eventually leads to another hole... popularly known as
Mother Ludlum's 'Hole', an artificially widened outflow cave with a
spring stream flowing through and from it.
The main entrance of the cave is located in a sandstone cliff in
Moor Park near Farnham, Surrey, but is now closed-off to the
public due to safety concerns following a partial collapse of
its roof.
Folklore suggests that in the 13th century the "Ludewell"
(other spellings through history include "Ludwell" and
"Luddwelle"), was once home to a White Witch known as 'Mother'
who supplied the nearby *Waverley Abbey, (now a ruin after being
dismantled in 1536 under the Dissolution of Monasteries act)
with fresh water and cooking utensils in return for food.
*It is worth a quick mention that Waverley Abbey is where both
my partner and I had rather a good UFO sighting while skywatching
there back in 2010; the grounds are reputed to be haunted also.
Of course, that quaint little story of her arrangement with the
monks may be just folklore; and looking at the legend another way,
(from a pagan, living earth belief angle), the 'Mother' reference
might just as easily be considered as alluding to the 'Mother
Earth, (rock womb of) and the 'Hole', a symbolic reference to the
opening where the water emerges from - 'her' cavernous vagina...
Curiously, on the bank above Mother Ludlam's Cave there once existed
another, much smaller cave.
This was allegedly the shelter of a man named 'Foote',
who is supposed to have excavated the hollow;
locals referred to it as 'Father Foote's Cave'.
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Guest Post and Giveaway with P.R. Mason author of Entanglements
The Best Villain is a Hero Too
by P.R. Mason
As an avid reader, I enjoy learning about the authors' creative processes. So when Rebecca gave me the opportunity to participate in her excellent blog, I thought I would write about how I created one of my favorite characters.
ENTANGLEMENTS, my recent release, is a paranormal romance/urban fantasy about a teen who enters a dangerous alternate dimension to rescue her stepsister. In plotting the story, I wanted to include a villain who's more than just a stock baddie. He had to be dark and evil, of course. But I didn't want him to be like a slasher movie automaton, acting inexplicably except for some psychopathically insane dementia. To me, an evildoer's far more insidious and scary if there's an understandable motive to his actions. So I set out to create a villain who's also a hero...or at least one who thinks he's a hero.
I started by considering that much of Entanglements takes place in a dimension where history has taken an alternate path to that of our universe. I imagined a place largely frozen in Victorian times. It's a London where paranormal creatures abound.
In researching Victorian England to come up with an historical figure that could serve as the basis for my villain, I sought to find someone who could have, if events were slightly different, come into a position of power and authority. The perfect candidate presented himself in the personage of His Royal Highness Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, the son of Britain's Queen. My decision to use Leopold was solidified when I learned he was afflicted with hemophilia, a genetic disease that prevents blood clotting and significantly shortens the life of a sufferer. Even a trip and fall can result in internal bleeding and death...which is what happened to Leopold in real life.
In my alternate history, the Queen, desperate to save her son, employs a wizard to find a cure. But this cure is less than successful and transforms Leopold into a vampire. The prince then sets about fathering a vampire aristocracy and gathering other paranormal creatures into his Empire
As a side note, a bit of unexpected synergy occurred in the selection of Leopold as the villain. One integral part of the Entanglements plot is that heroine, Kizzy, accidentally opens a vortex/portal to the Prince's world. In researching one such alleged vortex located in my hometown of Savannah, Georgia, I discovered that the symbol purportedly drawn to open the portal was a swirling circle. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that a glyph used by Queen Victoria included this same swirl.
As Entanglements begins, the human race is on the verge of extinction in Leopold's world. Even though "free-range" humans are being rounded up and put into a feedlot system, the food supply for Leopold and his subjects is dwindling. He views the heroine, Kizzy, as the key to opening the portal to our world for exploration and plundering. Obviously, Prince Leopold thinks he's the hero of the story.
At one point, Leopold asks: “Am I so very different from you, Kizzy? You do all you can to save your sister and your friends. I merely do all I can to save my people. I wish to prevent them from perishing in unspeakable agony. How can that be wrong?”
And to her surprise, Kizzy sort of understands his logic. She recognizes the morality of monsters feasting on human flesh and using their bones as toothpicks is relative.
I hope I achieved my goal of creating a heroic villain or villainous hero. One the reader can empathize with even as he scares them silly.
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Thank you so much Ms. Mason for being on the Spine today! Below is more info on this awesome author, her books, and a giveaway!!!
P.R. Mason writes steamy contemporary and paranormal romance under the name Patricia Mason and young adult paranormal romance and urban fantasy as P.R. Mason. She escaped from the snowy Midwest winters of her youth by moving in 2001 to the strange and wonderful city of Savannah, Georgia to pursue her dream of being a novelist. Pat's background is eclectic. She was an Assistant District Attorney and for a number of years was the owner of an antique shop which was home to a number of ghosts. Her home is ruled by two black cats, one of whom was rescued from the most haunted cemetery in the southeast.
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Fifteen-year-old Kizzy Taylor is just hoping for an evening of fun when she joins her friends in a spelunking expedition through an under-city tunnel. But fun turns bizarre when Kizzy accidentally opens a vortex and her stepsister is swept through to an evil alternate dimension. The only way to rescue her stepsister is to reopen the vortex and go in after her. But will Kizzy be able to return home?
EVE has always played by the rules, afraid to take chances. HOLDEN wants to change that. She's certain they've never met before...or have they? Holden seems so familiar, but who is he? What is he? Yesterday her biggest challenge was trying not to bomb on her SATs. Today, paranormal forces have transformed an ordinary high school dance into a test of fate vs. free will and loving Holden could be Eve's end.
*Author note: Since Fated Hearts is a novella, it is intended to be a complete story which is much shorter than a full-length novel. Therefore, it can be enjoyed and finished in one sitting. An excerpt of my full-length urban fantasy/paranormal romance, Entanglements, is included at the end of the ebook.
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Up for grabs: 1 eBook copy of Entanglements and 1 eBook copy of Fated Hearts
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Confucius Cat February 10, 2012 at 7:15 AM
Thanks so much for allowing me to visit your fun blog. By the way, Fated Hearts is FREE today and tomorrow at Amazon. P.R. Mason
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The Ideal Man
by: Julie Garwood (author)
New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood delivers a contemporary romance that's pulse-pounding in every sense of the word. Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby, she witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit... show more
New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood delivers a contemporary romance that's pulse-pounding in every sense of the word. Dr. Ellie Sullivan has just completed her residency at a large urban hospital. While jogging in a park nearby, she witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent in pursuit of wanted criminals, a couple identified as the Landrys. The only person to see the shooter's face, Ellie is suddenly at the center of a criminal investigation. Agent Max Daniels takes over the Landry case. A no-nonsense lawman, he's definitely not the ideal man that Ellie has always imagined, yet she's attracted to him in a way she can't explain. Ellie heads home to Winston Falls, South Carolina, to attend her sister's wedding. Shortly after she arrives, though, she receives a surprise visitor: Max Daniels. The Landrys have been captured, and she'll be called to testify. But they've been captured before, and each time the witnesses are scared into silence-or disappear before they can take the stand. Max vows to be Ellie's shadow until the trial, and it isn't long before sparks fly.
Publish date: August 9th 2011
Publisher: Dutton Books
Adult Fiction, Romance, Adult, Mystery, Contemporary Romance, Contemporary, Thriller, Womens Fiction, Chick Lit, Suspense, Romantic Suspense
Series: Buchanan-Renard (#9)
The Book Diva's Reads rated it 6 years ago
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If you like reading Julie Garwood's books then this will not disappoint you, you'll love it. The story starts off simple enough, an off-duty trauma surgeon witnesses the shooting of an FBI agent during a sting operation gone awry. Although Dr. Ellie Sullivan can't actually identify the couple (other...
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DNF Review I think this was one of my quickest DNF yet - before I finished half of Chapter 1 - and that is saying something given that I try very hard not to. On the first page, the reader is introduced to Dr. Eleanor Kathleen Sullivan, Ellie: Ellie was observed by three second-year surgical res...
Beanbag Love rated it 7 years ago
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I guess my expectations were low, because I liked this one despite it's obvious weakness as a novel. The Ideal Man follows the Garwood suspense template closely. Dr. Ellie Sullivan goes for a quick run and manages to witness a shooting. FBI agent Max Daniels puts himself in charge of her safety. The...
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I first started this book on audio. I only listened for the first chapter or so before deciding the reader was overly enthusiastic at inappropriate times. So I decided to read the book myself.So... was this Julie Garwood? I'm a huge fan of hers and this just wasn't up to par. It kept me engaged an...
tonyawarner rated it 7 years ago
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Really enjoyable. Fast paced, sexy, just the right mix of intrigue. Dr. Ellie Sullivan knows all about isolation and fear. Hiding out from a mad stalker who has tried to kill her since she was a child, Ellie became a trauma doctor to help others in need. Coming across an FBI sting while on a run, s...
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TI, iRobot Announce Tech Partnership
Texas Instruments and iRobot Corp. announced a partnership today, whereby the latter will develop robotic technologies atop the former’s smart multicore OMAP platform. According to an official press release hailing the news, OMAP is a: …high-performing, ultra-power-efficient system-on-chip (SOC) that’s...
iRobot Nets Order for FirstLook Robots
iRobot Corp. announced a $1.5 million order for more than 100 of the company’s model 110 FirstLook robots. The order was funded by the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). Last April, we described the FirstLook as an unmanned...
iRobot Secures 100th Patent
Answer: U.S. patent (U.S. 8,108,092) Question: What is iRobot’s 100th patent, Alex? Correct! Bedford, Mass.-based iRobot Corp. has hit the century mark in terms of patents, a milestone, which it describes as “an important attainment reflecting the company's ongoing attention...
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iRobot Takes Minority Stake in Telemedicine Firm
Bedford, Massachusetts-based iRobot is expanding its relationship with Santa Barbara, California-based InTouch Health, a remote presence telemedicine solution provider by investing $6 million, which represents iRobot taking a minority position in the company. Back in July 2011, the two firms...
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iRobot Receives a Pair of Contracts from the U.S. Navy
Bedford, MA-based iRobot Corp. announced this week that it had received two contracts from the Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO) at NASA's Stennis Space Center, in southern Mississippi, related to its iRobot Seaglider Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV). The first contract, valued at...
iRobot in Deal to Provide 125 PackBots
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Industry, Academia Team Up for National Robotics Week
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iRobot Sets Consumer Robotics Milestone
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iRobot Hopes to SPARK Science, Tech, Engineering and Math Education
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Novint Adds Tactile Feedback for PackBot Operators
Novint Technologies, Inc. has been awarded a subcontract with iRobot Corp. for a military robotics project funded by the Secretary of Defense Joint Ground Robotics Enterprise through the Robotics Technology Consortium (RTC). The arrangement calls for Novint to co-develop...
iRobot Forms Healthcare Business Unit, Intros President
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Engineers Look to Improve Military Robots
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iRobot's Angle Honored with Lifetime Achievement
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Home>New Songs>D.I.T.C. Songs> D.I.T.C. - 16 & Out Feat. AG (Prod. By Lord Finesse)
D.I.T.C. - 16 & Out Feat. AG (Prod. By Lord Finesse)
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16 & Out
D.I.T.C. Feat. AG
Produced by Lord Finesse
Diggin in the Crates tease new music in advance of their upcoming compilation project.
The famed NYC-based hip hop collective Diggin in the Crates is slated to drop a compilation project sometime this spring. In the past couple weeks, they've given us "Diggin Numbers" & "Gotta Be Classic" -- today they return "16 & Out," a brief 85-second track (hence the name) that probably won't appear on the project but bangs regardless.
"16 & Out" is simply a verse from AG over a Lord Finesse beat that combines horns and rock guitar elements over a heavily compressed drum break. You know it's gonna be dope as soon as that siren goes off #FreeShmurda
Couldn't see us if you wanted to
Do it for the kids, you probably throw the kids right in front of you
RIP to Chris Rios while we punish you
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Toward an Epoch of International Immigration:
A Japanese Perspective and Experience
The Center for Global Studies (ceglos), Graduate School of International Relations, University of Shizuoka, is organizing a forum on international immigration, with a focus on the social integration of immigrants into societal institutions. The ceglos forum will be held March 31, 2010, at Eizo Hall in Granship (near JR Higashi Shizuoka station) in Shizuoka.
Japanese law does not permit the entry of "immigrants." However, so many foreigners stay in Japan for extended periods. Japan, like other countries in the world, cannot stop the influx of foreign workers. How can the Japanese adopt a broad vision to cope with globalization?
The ceglos forum would be ideal for Japanese government officials, corporate managers, citizens, academics, and students to share ideas and discuss solutions for the issues surrounding globalization. It will offer three roundtables addressing issues related to policies, citizenships, and the identities of both the existing residents and newcomers from the perspective of global studies, a newly designed discipline. The speakers include:
Nobue Suzuki, an anthropologist from Chiba University
Keiko Yamanaka, an anthropologist form University of California at Berkeley
Saichi Kurematsu, a union leader
Jandyra Maeyama, a sociologist from Tokoha Gakuen University
Kimihiro Tsumura, an educationist from Hamamatsu Gakuin University
Kotaro Ogino, the president of NPO Platform Shizuoka
Kazuki Suzuki and other college students.
Date & Time: 13:20 p.m.–18:45 p.m. on Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Venue: Eizo Hall, Granship (near JR Higashi Shizuoka station), Shizuoka-shi, Japan
Coordinator: Takahito Sawada, Center for Global Studies, University of Shizuoka, and Kotaro Ogino, NPO Platform Shizuoka
Phone: 054-264-5254 (Sawada)
E-mail: sawada(at)u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp
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I wish we had a KitchenCru
1st October 2011 2:21 pm 1 Comment
Final appointment of the day was to take a look at KitchenCru. I’d heard about the facility from Tails and Trotters who use it as a base for their production and who also use the facility for retail sales once a week. The facility is the brain child of Michael Madigan and I was mightily impressed. Taking it to the most basic level, it’s a commercial kitchen that’s available to rent – it’s similar to the facility that I use at Food Centre Wales, just scaled down, minus the white coats, hair nets and bear snoods and with up to a dozen other people sharing the space and producing food elbow to elbow with you.
The site was inspiring, a patisserie chef was working next to a vegan, gluten-free baker next to a sea salt maker. It only opened at the start of this year, with five clients but has grown quickly and now has over thirty companies producing from the site. There was a real buzz to the place and I can well imagine that it’s a hot bed of collaboration – where one person uses anothers product or gets inspiration from one another. I also particularly liked the flexibility of the site – it has countless pieces of equipment, but it’s also available 24hrs a day for processing, so if you’re a night owl, there’s a better chance of a quiet space in the wee hours.
For some far better pictures than what I took it’s worth looking at this article. One of the other nice little features was the availability of a dining room and a bar with seating for 10 that looked directly into the kitchen. Jeff who showed me around runs his own monthly event TenTop, a supper club with a changing theme. The next one is offal, which I’d love to attend but sadly I’ll be further South in the Bay Area by then.
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A4 Art Australia 2018
at the Herring Island Gallery
17-18 & 24-25 & 31 MARCH
& 1-2, 7-8 & 14-15 APRIL
as part of the Herring Island Summer Arts Festival 2018
Review by Cheryle Bannon
An exhibition of small format artworks by the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria Inc and open to Artists Australia wide, as part of the Herring Island Summer Arts Festival 2018
For five weekends from 17 March to 15 April, including the Easter public holiday, a total of 401 artworks by 133 Artists across Australia is enjoyed by the public. A big crowd attended the opening on 17th March, a grand occasion where the exhibition was officially declared open by City of Stonnington Councillor Glen Atwell, who spoke on behalf of the Mayor. He spoke beautifully about the array of unique art as he admired and immersed himself in the array of art on show made possible by the support of the Stonnington Council and Parks Victoria.
President Robert Lee thanked City of Stonnington for their very kind support of the Herring Island Summer Arts Festival 2018, with a generous grant and assistance with promotion.
The opening was a celebration of art talent on a warm autumn day as everyone enjoyed the beautiful environment and social gathering of art enthusiasts. The art remained at a high standard as always with lots of people finding homes for their special new pieces.
I'm sitting here as visitor after visitor comes to the front desk to purchase that special piece, to be taken home after the exhibition ends in April. All very happy purchasers who have chosen their new treasures from this show.
The A4 Art Australia Exhibition is an opportunity to showcase artistic talent across Australia. Also, the small format theme of the show - A4 sizes artworks, and small sculptures that fit within 21 x 21 x 29.7 cm - makes it easy for artists in rural areas and interstate to get their works to us by mail. One of the sculptors, David Doyle, sought to challenge the A4 theme with his work titled 'Pushing The Limits, All Size Is Relative', in which he took an A4 sizes metal sheet and carefully placed it on a base on an angle, so that its dimensions still came within 21 x 21 x 29.7 cm.
The variety and quality of the art took my breath away. I was drawn to the printmaking pieces of Carmel O’Conner with her Australian flower and bird imagery. Her linocut, 'Australian Mistletoe Birds', woodblock reductive 'Eucalyptus Macrocorpa', and linocut reductives 'Hakea Laurisina' and 'Pied Oyster Catcher', showed strong, simple designs.
The black and white ceramic piece titled 'Unknown' by Sally Walk was a delicate yet strong seedpod image that held a beautiful strength, as if the delicate looking frill around it contained an inner strength. Thalia Andrews' impressionistic interpretations of the four seasons showed a fine play of light and colour.
There seemed to be a lot of birds and a lot of different species thereof, both domestic and wild, from chooks, cockies and magpies, to penguins, oyster catchers and a mallee emu wren. However, like the landscapes, they formed only about 9% of the whole exhibition. The variety of subject matter, and the approaches the artists took to interpret them, was immense.
Such an array of artworks is on display at this year's A4 Art Australia, inspiring and beautiful. I feel so grateful to be part of such an amazing array of artists. I am so thankful to all the artists who have shared their art adventures to inspire and delight us. Well Done to all involved.
NOTE: Images of all 401 artworks from the show are HERE.
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Information Meeting Helps Veterans Medical Claims
August 25, 2016 /in Community, Events, Featured /by Michael Papich
Cary, NC – When dealing with veteran claims, some can feel frustrated not talking directly to a person. But at the upcoming Veterans Benefit Action Center, former military from around the state will be able to talk with VA personnel one-on-one to sort out their health care.
Creating Important Connections
Richard Spyrison with American Legion Post 67 is one of the Action Center’s lead organizers and said the event is meant to help those who have had problems with their veterans claims in the past by gathering veterans’ officials in Cary’s Herb Young Community Center.
“We have so many veterans around North Carolina, and around the country, who have never put in a claim or have put in their claim and had it go nowhere,” Spyrison said.
North Carolina has a Veterans Benefits Administration location but Spyrison said there can still be a disconnect.
“They’re typically located in a federal building in Winston-Salem but they never get to sit down and talk with veterans face-to-face,” Spyrison said.
But at this Action Center – the sixth one in North Carolina so far – veterans will have the opportunity to get assistance from a team of Veteran’s Organization service officers, Department of Veterans Affairs Benefits officials and other healthcare representatives.
“This is going to cover the central part of the state,” Spyrison said. “We could have people come in all the way from Wilmington to the Southern counties of Virginia.”
And people from Virginia and other neighboring states may come in because according to Spyrison, North Carolina is the only state that puts on this kind of event.
American Legion Post 67 in Cary.
Difficulties in Organizing
In Wake County alone, there are roughly 70,000 veterans but this kind of program did not start until about three and a half years ago when a variety of factors animated the state American Legion to act.
“The state American Legion has a VSO (Veterans Service Organization) officer who was at the federal building in Winston-Salem and he saw problems there and came up with this idea,” Spyrison said.
Spyrison himself said he got “fired up” about the idea when he heard a speech by U.S. Representative David Price about getting veterans to meet directly with VA officials and the plan went from there.
But creating these Veterans Benefits Action Centers has not been easy. The information sessions this year will be the first of 2016 and almost had to be pushed to January 2017.
“A big issue has been funding. They are funded through the VA and they have a hard time putting it together,” Spyrison said.
Spyrison said he hopes these kinds of events garner more attention so more states can get involved and these Action Centers spread nationally.
But when it comes to the VA and healthcare, after long wait times and mishandled patients became a national scandal years ago, Spyrison said there are some signs of improvement.
“After all the attention, I can’t believe nothing has changed. Wait times have gotten a little better but it’s not great,” he said. “Everyone is trying to make it better but funding is still a big issue.”
Veterans Benefit Action Center
Herbert C. Young Community Center, 101 Wilkinson Ave.
Thursday, Sept. 8 to Saturday, Sept. 10
Thr/Fri: 9 AM to 10 PM || Sat: 9 AM to 6 PM
Story by Michael Papich. Photos by Ben Earp and American Legion Post 67.
Tags: Community, veterans
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The Shazam/Isis Podcast: Episode 33 - SHAZAM! - "The Odd Couple"
"Speak No Evil"
Paul and his friends are hanging out on a Sunday afternoon and are bored. So they decide to go to school. Makes sense, right? Paul has his misgivings and he's proven right when his friends accidentally start a fire and his dog is almost killed in it before being saved by Captain Marvel. Billy and Mentor know Paul knows something but he doesn't want to be a "fink". Will he see it's better to admit the truth before it's too late?
Danny Bonaduce plays the misguided, but well intentioned teen who keeps his silence in this episode. John and Richard play the hosts of a podcast discussing the episode. They discuss how many kids learned to take off in flight from Superman and Captain Marvel as well as the "rural" effect on television in the 70s.
It's all here and we want to hear from you on what you think of the episode. Write us as ShazamIsisPodcast@gmail.com.
Moral: “Don't ever be afraid of being called a name. As long as you're sure what you're doing is right, there's no word... no name... that can harm you."
Melvin F. Allen as Sheriff
Danny Bonaduce as Paul
Eric Chase as Sam
Ty Henderson as Kyle
Hal Lynch as John Jerome
Kerry Maclane as Chuck
Direct download: Shazam_Isis_-_Ep_33.mp3
Category:Shazam/Isis Podcast -- posted at: 8:05am EDT
The Batcave Podcast: Episode 63 - "Penguin's Clean Sweep"
"Penguin's Clean Sweep"
Aired January 25, 1968
It's the final appearance of Burgess Meredith as The Penguin and he doesn't exactly go out in a blaze of glory. The story involved Penguin trying to collect all of Gotham City's money that he has convinced the public is tainted with Lygerian Sleeping Sickness. Despite the hokey sounding plot, John still feels there are some things of merit in this one and talks about it with Batman at 45 author Chris Gould.
Comment on the episode here or write thebatcavepodcast@gmail.com
Chris Gould was born in the UK in 1983, and has lived in Japan since 2008. His career so far has seen him work as a political researcher, local government officer, sports journalist, business English teacher, translator and magazine writer.
Introduced to Batman re-runs as a child, Chris would watch the show as a junior high-schooler, university student and mid-career professional, his appreciation taking on new forms at every step.
Convinced that Batman constitutes the definitive guide to mid-60s popular culture, and is therefore an invaluable source of study for future generations, Chris took to researching the show in detail, eventually producing the ebook: Batman at 45: The Ultimate Tribute to Pow, Bam and Zap!
The aim of his research is to underline the point that no matter how many years have passed, Batman, through its sheer diversity of stars and insightful lines, helps us fully understand how we got to where we are today.
Click on the image to the right to get your copy of Chris' book.
Direct download: The_Batcave_Podcast_-_Episode_63.mp3
Category:Batcave Podcast -- posted at: 9:20am EDT
The Hornet's Sting: Episode 9 - "The Preying Mantis"
"THE PREYING MANTIS"
AIRED: NOVEMBER 18, 1966
It's another challenge for The Green Hornet, but for John and Jim, there's not much of a challenge in reviewing this episode. Both are excited by this story that gives Bruce Lee a chance to stretch a little as the Hornet and Kato investigate a protection racket by a tong in Chinatown. The thing is, there's more to the tong than simply an extortion racket. There's a great deal to like about this fan favorite as the two discuss. Plus, there's some trivia on this episode from The Green Hornet: A History of Radio, Motion Pictures, Comics and Television by Martin Grams and Terry Salomonson, including Green Hornet creator George Trendle's dislike for this episode. Pick up your copy by clicking on the link and getting it today.
Take a listen and then let us know what you think of the episode by writing us here or at thebatcavepodcast@gmail.com.
Direct download: The_Hornets_Sting_009.mp3
Category:The Hornet's Sting -- posted at: 8:48am EDT
Fri, 25 August 2017
The Weekly Podioplex: August 22, 2017
On The Weekly Podioplex, we present a double feature in honor of Dragon Con, but itís a tale of good news and bad news: Starting with the bad, this summer is not good. This weekís winner was a so-so flick, and the other newbie at the box office couldnít even break third place. Logan Lucky, The Hitmanís Bodyguard... you have failed this summer season. On the other hand, Wonder Woman is a shining star around the world an in the DC Extended Universe. Over the next two weeks, things wonít get better, but at least the studios can clear the decks and get ready for autumn.
The home entertainment slate sparkles in comparison with Guardians of the Galaxy (Zardu Hasselfrau!) Wonder Woman leading the charge. We also get Supergirl, The Walking Dead, both Jessica Jones and Daredevil, Gotham, Star Wars Rebels, and (literally) more titles than we could cover. With new television on the horizon, itís a clearinghouse of titles ready for you. After that bumper crop, Denise offers up news of Good Omens, The Jetsons, and two beasts ñ one is an animal, and the other is Daniel Craig. With that, we put a wrap on summer and this Dragon Con double digest edition of The Weekly Podioplex, brought to you on The Chronic Rift Network.
Weekly Podioplex Notes for August 22, 2017
Opening Clip: Leap!
#1 – The Hitman’s Bodyguard – [New Release]
#2 – Annabelle: Creation – [-1]
#3 – Logan Lucky – [New Release]
#4 – Dunkirk – [-2]
#5 – The Nut Job: Nutty by Nature – [-2]
#6 – The Emoji Movie – [Even]
#8 – Girls Trip – [-3]
#9 – The Dark Tower – [-5]
#10 – Wind River – [+10]
2012 – The Expendables 2
2007 – Superbad
1997 – G.I. Jane
1977 – The Kentucky Fried Movie
Box Office Premieres for the weeks of August 25, 2017 and September 1, 2017
August 25, 2017: Wide
Leap! – [PG]
All Saints – [PG]
Birth of the Dragon – [PG-13]
August 25, 2017: Limited
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) – [R]
Beach Rats – [R]
Polina – [NR]
A Gentleman – [NR]
Ghost House – [R]
Red Christmas – [NR]
Served Like a Girl – [NR]
The Villainess – [NR]
Tulip Fever – [R]
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) – [PG]
Unlocked – [R]
Delores – [NR]
Viceroy’s House – [NR]
Do It Like an Hombre – [NR]
The Teacher – [UR]
Temple – [NR]
Jackal – [NR]
Home Entertainment for the weeks of August 22, 2017 and August 29, 2017
August 22, 2017: New Releases on DVD and Blu-Ray
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 – [PG-13]
Baywatch – [R]
Batman and Harley Quinn – [PG-13]
August 22, 2017: New Releases on Digital Video
August 22, 2017: TV on DVD and Blu-Ray
Supergirl: Season Two (2016)
The Walking Dead: Season Seven (2016)
Ash vs Evil Dead: Season Two (2016)
Lucifer: Season Two (2016)
Jessica Jones: Season One (2015)
Daredevil: Season Two (2016)
Star Wars Rebels: Season Three (2016)
Gotham: Season Three (2016)
Elementary: Season Five (2016)
Designated Survivor: Season One (2016)
August 22, 2017: Blu-Rays From the Past
Life Is Beautiful (1997) – [PG-13]
Sabrina (1954) – [NR]
Generations Geek is a family-friendly celebration of geekdom by a father/daughter crime-fighting duo. Okay, perhaps they don’t fight crime, but they are two generations of geek. In every monthly episode they talk about stuff like books, movies, comics, games, and any other geeky thing they think of.
Puppies PSA: Revisited (we’re serious this time)
The Jetsons TV pilot (er, what?)
The Beast is an Animal and Ridley Scott
Daniel Craig returns as James Bond
The Shazam/Isis Podcast: Episode 32 - "The Outsider"
"The Outsider"
A new student shows great potential in environmental science, but he's having trouble fitting in with the student body. He discovers that a nearby piece of land that supports a great deal of wildlife in the area is in danger of being cleared for new housing. Will he take the law into his own hands or can Isis resolve the situation before it gets out of hand or worse, deadly?
Moral: "Don't judge a book by its cover."
Mitch Vogal as Wayne Moss
Morgan Jones as Mr. Tilden
Harry Hickox as Mr. Winstead
Wirt Morton as Charlie Michaels
Anson Downes as Phil Hobbes
We're really not sure which is scarier: The number one film or the descent of the summer box office. Annabelle may have won the weekend, but this year's summer season is not performing well at all. Between The Hitman's Bodyguard and Logan Lucky, maybe there's hope in two adult comedies as the season winds down.
The home entertainment slate looks a little better with Alien: Covenant leading the pack, backed by heavy hitters like Once Upon a Time, The Blacklist, Legends of Tommorrow, and Riverdale. Oh, and a little creepshow known as Pet Semetary. So many chills down the spine. After that, Denise brings news of Hannibal, Hellboy, Neuromancer, Dawn, and whatever The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is. It's the dog days of summer right here on a new edition of The Weekly Podioplex, brought to you on The Chronic Rift Network.
Weekly Podioplex Notes for August 15th, 2017
Opening Clip: The Hitman’s Bodyguard
#1 – Annabelle: Creation – [New Release]
#3 – The Nut Job: Nutty by Nature – [New Release]
#6 – The Emoji Movie – [-3]
#7 – Spider-Man: Homecoming – [-1]
#8 – Kidnap – [-3]
#9 – The Glass Castle – [New Release]
#10 – Atomic Blonde – [-3]
1997 – Cop Land
Box Office Premieres for the week of August 18th, 2017
The Hitman’s Bodyguard – [R]
Logan Lucky – [PG-13]
Patti Cake$ – [R]
Gook – [UR]
Lemon – [NR]
Marjorie Prime – [NR]
Sidemen: Long Road to Glory – [NR]
6 Days – [R]
The Adventurers – [NR]
Home Entertainment for the week of August 15th, 2017
Alien: Covenant – [R]
Chuck – [R]
Once Upon a Time: Season Six (2016)
The Blacklist: Season Four (2016)
The Blacklist: Redemption: Season One (2016)
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow: Season Two (2016)
Riverdale: Season One (2016)
Pet Sematary (1989) – [R]
Full of Sith
The Full of Sith Podcast is a show dedicated to bringing the most interesting Star Wars conversations in the galaxy with hosts Bryan Young, Tha Mike Pilot, and Holly Frey.
Hannibal revival in discussions
The BPRD and the Hellboy reboot
Deadpool’s Tim Miller gets Neuromancer
Octavia Butler’s Dawn goes to television
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs meets Netflix
Presenting the Transcription Feature: VIC & SADE and NERO WOLFE
“Vic and Sade” is the driest of domestic comedies. We present two 15-minute visits to “the small house half-way up on the next block.” First, the son of the house, young Rush, has plans to single-handedly tear down a brick building – purely for the honor. Then Rush recruits his father to teach his high school principle, Mr. Chinbunny, the manly art of cigar smoking. “The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe” are based on the classic characters created by Rex Stout and star the magnificently-voiced (and appropriately-girthed) Sydney Greenstreet as New York’s brilliant, but lazy, private investigator. Wolfe leaves the legwork to his assistant, Archie Goodwin – a man about town who really gets around.
Vic and Sade
“Tearing Down a Three-Storey Brick Building”
“Mr. Chinbunny Wants to Smoke Cigars”
The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe
“The Lost Heir”
Direct download: Presenting_the_Transcription_Feature_-_VIC_AND_SADE_and_NERO_WOLFE.mp3
The Weekly Podioplex: August 8, 2017
The battle between good and evil seems to be a winner, but the victory is tainted by really low attendance numbers. That's unfortunate, but audiences may find some respite from The Dark Tower with another crack at The Nut Job. There's also some real life drama in The Glass Castle, a creepy creepy doll in Annabelle: Creation, and the hope that Detroit finds legs in the interim.
The home entertainment slate is heavy on film and light on TV, showcasing King Arthur, Snatched, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid. Blindspot and the mysteries of amenesiacs and terrorists amp up the action before moving into retro titles with two Teen Wolf tales. Wrap it all up with Denise and news of an Ant-Man sequel, a Pacific Rim sequel, and a Nintendo Classic sequel. We seriously hope that they work out the bugs in that last one. Also, a PSA on fantasy, dogs, and milkshakes. Seriously, be kind to living creatures and #MakeMineMilkshake on a new edition of The Weekly Podioplex, brought to you on The Chronic Rift Network.
Weekly Podioplex Notes for August 8th, 2017
Opening Clip: The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature
#1 – The Dark Tower – [New Release]
#5 – Kidnap – [New Release]
#7 – Atomic Blonde – [-3]
#8 – Detroit – [+8]
#9 – War for the Planet of the Apes – [-3]
#10 – Despicable Me 3 – [-3]
2012 – The Bourne Legacy
2007 – Rush Hour 3
1997 – Conspiracy Theory
1987 – The Living Daylights
1977 – The Spy Who Loved Me
The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature – [PG]
The Glass Castle – [PG-13]
Annabelle: Creation – [R]
Ingrid Goes West – [R]
The Only Living Boy in New York – [R]
The Trip to Spain – [NR]
Home Entertainment for the week of August 8th, 2017
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword – [PG-13]
Snatched – [R]
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul – [PG]
Blindspot: Season Two (2016)
Teen Wolf (1985) – [PG]
Teen Wolf Too (1987) – [PG]
Talking Apes TV
Every episode of TALKING APES TV will delve into one episode of the PLANET OF THE APES TV Series, with plenty of quotes, audio and social commentary pulled from each show.
PSA: Game of Thrones, dogs, and #MakeMineMilkshake
Ant-Man and the Wasp is underway
Nintendo SNES Classic
Pacific Rim: Uprising moves to March 2018
Doctor Who & Mister Drew: "The Romans"
Production: M
Airdates: January 16 - February 6, 1965
The TARDIS takes the time travelers to ancient Rome where Ian and Barbara are captured as slaves while the Doctor and Vicki are guests of Nero. The Doctor is mistaken for a murdered musician and enrages Nero with his performance in Nero's court. It all leads up to the burning the Rome. Can the travelers escape their situation and return to the TARDIS?
It's Doctor Who's first stab at a comedy, but is it straight comedy or more like dark comedy? In any event, this is a favorite of John's and he enthuses about it on this episode. Do you agree? Let us know here.
Direct download: DWMD_-_The_Romans.mp3
Category:Doctor Who & Mister Drew -- posted at: 11:31am EDT
Tue, 8 August 2017
The Batcave Podcast: Episode 62 - "Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club"
"Nora Clavicle and the Ladies' Crime Club"
Feminist Nora Clavicle has plans for Gotham City as she takes control of Gotham City's police department. It looks, on the surface, that is a blow for women's rights as she replaces every male police officer with women. The problem is the women are ineffective when it comes to enforcing the law and nobody is aware of Nora's plan to destroy Gotham City.
John is joined by podcaster Chris Franklin of the Super Mates Podcast to discuss what may possibly be the worst episode in the entire series. (Yes, even worse than "Marsha, Queen of Diamonds".) They wonder if this is supposed to be camp, a spoof on women's lib, or just bad writing. They also try to figure out just how Batman, Robin, and Batgirl allow themselves to be turned into a human Siamese Knot by, and you'll excuse us here, a trio of women.
Chris Franklin is a mild-mannered graphic designer by day, but at night, he retreats to his secret headquarters festooned with action figures, and podcasts with his long-suffering wife Cindy on the Super Mates podcast, a proud part of The Fire and Water Podcast Network. Together they take a look at all things geeky, such as comics, TV, movies, and toys, from a couple’s perspective.
Doctor Who and Mister Drew: "The Rescue"
"The Rescue"
Production: L
Airdates: January 2-9, 1965
The Doctor has left Susan behind on a future Earth, recovering from Dalek occupation. He appears to be even more distracted than usual. And then the TARDIS lands on the planet Dido, a world the Doctor visited once before. There, he, Ian and Barbara find the wreck of downed space ship and the two survivors who are being terrorized by Koquilion, an inhabitant of the planet.
This story sets up the introduction of Vicki, as played by Maureen O'Brien. She will join the TARDIS and while the producers were looking for her to be a replacement for Susan, she is clearly much more than that. Take a listen and see if you agree with the assessment of the episode overall and where it places in the ranking.
1 - Dalek Invasion of Earth
2 - Marco Polo
3 - The Daleks
4 - The Aztecs
5 - An Unearthly Child
6 - The Reign of Terror
7 - Edge of Destruction
8 - The Rescue
9 - Planet of Giants
10 - The Keys of Marinus
11 - The Sensorites
Direct download: DWMD_-_The_Rescue.mp3
Category:Doctor Who & Mister Drew -- posted at: 9:02am EDT
The Hornet's Sting: Episode 8 - "The Ray is For Killing"
"THE RAY IS FOR KILLING"
John and Jim are excited to be talking about this episode as it's another high concept episode that manages to work in the Hornet's usual angle of getting inside the criminal organization for a "piece of the action". A group of thieves have stolen a cache of artwork which they wish to ransom. They have everyone at bay though because they carry with them a powerful laser weapon. While Britt negotiates for the release, the Hornet goes inside to learn about who is holding the artwork. It's a tight, well-written adventure and has a great deal going for it as John and Jim discuss. Plus, we've got listener mail. We also introduce The Green Hornet: A History of Radio, Motion Pictures, Comics and Television by Martin Grams and Terry Salomonson. We'll be referring to this extensive tome from time to time in our discussions. Pick up your copy by clicking on the link and getting it today.
Doctor Who & Mister Drew: "The Dalek Invasion of Earth"
Production: K
Airdates: November 21 - December 26, 1964
The TARDIS winds up in the near future Earth that is strangely deserted. There's a good reason why as a Dalek emerges from the Thames and our four heroes are quickly separated and forced to find their way back while also discovering there's more to the Daleks' invasion of Earth than mere conquest.
John loves this story very much and really could have take more time than he did in this encapsulated review to talk about all the merits of it. From Barbara and her encounter with the Daleks in her truck to Doctor getting into a scrap in the sewers to Susan's budding romance. Yes, he goes there and he likes it, for the most part. Take a listen and see if you agree with his reasons.
Direct download: DWMD_-_Dalek_Invasion_of_Earth.mp3
Category:Doctor Who & Mister Drew -- posted at: 12:56pm EDT
Fri, 4 August 2017
Sometimes, not even secret agents and poop are enough to win the weekend. On this edition of The Weekly Podioplex, we face the triumph of Dunkirk and the rise of The Dark Tower, and we question if Stephen King is enough to defeat Christopher Nolan and dramatic war dramas. [CONFORM] This week also sees the wide releases of Kidnap and Detroit, dramas starring Halle Berry and John Boyega.
The home entertainment slate tries to steal hearts with a bank heist in Going in Style, a thrilling mystery in The Circle, an extraterrestrial horror in Alien: Covenant, and a blast from the past with They Live. [OBEY] To wrap it all up, Denise brings us a few confrontations, including the singularity (and Melissa McCarthy), Confederate (and HBO), and Castlevania (and the video game curse). Did we mention Darkwing Duck? Yes, there's Darkwing Duck. This and more on a new edition of The Weekly Podioplex, brought to you on The Chronic Rift Network. [CONSUME]
Weekly Podioplex Notes for August 1st, 2017
Opening Clip: The Dark Tower
#1 – Dunkirk – [Second Week]
#2 – The Emoji Movie – [New Release]
#4 – Atomic Blonde – [New Release]
#7 – Despicable Me 3 – [-1]
#8 – Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets – [-3]
#9 – Baby Driver – [-2]
#10 – Wonder Woman – [-1]
2012 – The Dark Knight Rises
2007 – The Bourne Ultimatum
1997 – Air Force One
Box Office Premieres for the week of August 4th, 2017
The Dark Tower – [PG-13]
Detroit – [R]
Kidnap – [R]
Midnight Sun – [PG-13]
Step – [PG]
Wind River – [R]
Home Entertainment for the week of August 1st, 2017
Going in Style – [PG-13]
The Circle – [PG-13]
All About the Money – [NR]
Big Little Lies: Season One (2017)
The Secret World of Alex Mack: Complete Series (1994-1998)
They Live (1988) – [R]
MASH 4077 Podcast
MASH 4077 Podcast is a fan cast covering one of the most well known and highly successful series in television history. Hosted by Kenny, Meds, and Al, each episode will cover a single episode of MASH starting at the beginning with the pilot. We hope to share with our listeners some cool and informative behind the scene information, cool trivia and little know facts about this wonderful TV series.
Melissa McCarthy vs. the singularity
Confederate vs. HBO
Netflix’s Castlevania vs. the video game curse
Darkwing Duck vs. DuckTales revival
John Wick vs. the expanded universe
Thu, 3 August 2017
The Shazam/Isis Podcast: Episode 31 - SHAZAM! - "Goodbye, Packy"
"Goodbye, Packy"
Kathy has raised Packy since he was a pup. It's an adorable relationship, but there is one hitch - Packy is a wolf. He's getting older now and harder to control. Add to it, the danger he poses to livestock in the area and Kathy's father wants to release him to the wild. But Kathy and Packy run away and quickly find themselves in danger. Can Captain Marvel rescue the two in time?
It's the first episode of the season that John and Richard do not like which is surprising considering how good the stories have been to this point and the fact that this one was written by a team who wrote some good stories in the first season. The two discuss where this one went wrong, the laws concerning the possession of wild creatures, and the motif of eating that runs throughout the entire Shazam! series.
Moral: “Having a pet carries responsibilities. Some animals are born to be free. To deprive them of that right is selfish, so we all must understand and respect the laws of nature... for our sake, as well as for our animal friends."
Conlan Carter as Bob Rose
Shannon Terhune as Kathy Rose
The Batcave Podcast: Episode 61 - "Louie's Lethal Lilac Time"
"Louie's Lethal Lilac Time"
Louie the Lilac is back in Gotham City and this time he plans to corner the perfume market with the help of a kidnapped Bruce and Dick.
John is joined by podcaster Joseph Culp and they discuss how Berle actually works in the role of Louie and how this episode, warts and all, is not a bad little story. They also lament the missing Madge Blake, who doesn't appear in this episode, but her character Aunt Harriet gets a name drop.
Pastor Joseph "Captain Scotland" Culp is a licensed and ordained minister. He serves as the Host of The weekly Podcast, The Highlander's Heart at
www.highlandersheart.com. He is an expat from Turriff, Aberdeenshire Scotland who now lives in Pickerington, Ohio. He works with the the elderly in senior ministry at Abbington of Pickerington Ohio bi-weekly. He is a Batman '66 fan as well an an avid reader of history, mystery novel and old comic books from 1938 to 1977. His favorite shows are Batman with Adam West, The Avengers with Patrick Macnee, Shazam, Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman classic Doctor Who (the 1st 3 Doctors only) and the current show of Super Girl, The Flash, Arrow, Doctor Who. He is married to his lovely wife Serene of 24 years and is the proud father of 2 great cats, Princess Bella and Prince Caledonia. You can reach him at joseph.captainscotland.culp@gmail.com or facebook at https://www.facebook.com/joseph.culp.9.
WCRS Radiostage: "The Mirror"
WCRS Radiostage returns with the final run of episodes from their catalogue. In "The Mirror", a young couple buys a mirror in which they can see the faces of the dead - when the moon is right. What will the mirror reveal?
Direct download: Rstage21_theMirror.mp3
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Almost no Tom in this episode, as the Flip the Table guys help Eric host part 1 of the TotalCon 2014 experience. They talk about new games they've played at the show, have a multi-voice Tale of Horror, start a contest, and talk about giant and miniscule board games.
TDT # 343 - Best Auction Games
In this show, we talk about several games, giving a detailed look at the upcoming Marvel: Dice Masters game. We hear from several contributors, and end the show with our top ten auction games1
In this show, we take a look at Theseus, Scallywags, Dungeon Guild, Pandemic: The Cure, Crossways, and 1775 Rebellion. We also answer a pile of questions, and then end the show with our favorite games from 1999 - fifteen years ago!
Tue, 4 February 2014
TDT # 341 - Gamer's Remorse
In this show, we look at the games Mush Mush, Robinson Crusoe, Scoville, K2, Loka, Professor Pugnacious' Portfolio of Perils, Pugilism, and Perfidy: The Card Game of Victorian Combat, and Myth. Brian talks about Show Manager, Greg goes to another store, we hear a truly terrifying tale - and finally, we end the show talking about moments of Gamer's Remorse.
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Wingnut (Juglandaceae) as a new generic host for Pityophthorus juglandis (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and the thousand cankers disease pathogen, Geosmithia morbida (Ascomycota: Hypocreales)
Stacy M. Hishinuma (a1), Paul L. Dallara (a1), Mohammad A. Yaghmour (a2), Marcelo M. Zerillo (a3), Corwin M. Parker (a1), Tatiana V. Roubtsova (a2), Tivonne L. Nguyen (a2), Ned A. Tisserat (a3), Richard M. Bostock (a2), Mary L. Flint (a1) and Steven J. Seybold (a4)...
1 Department of Entomology and Nematology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States of America
2 Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, United States of America
3 Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management, Plant Sciences 1177, Colorado State University Fort Collins, Colorado 80523, United States of America
4 United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Davis, California 95616, United States of America
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4039/tce.2015.37
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 July 2015
The walnut twig beetle (WTB), Pityophthorus juglandis Blackman (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), vectors a fungus, Geosmithia morbida Kolařík, Freeland, Utley, and Tisserat (Ascomycota: Hypocreales), which colonises and kills the phloem of walnut and butternut trees, Juglans Linnaeus (Juglandaceae). Over the past two decades, this condition, known as thousand cankers disease (TCD), has led to the widespread mortality of Juglans species in the United States of America. Recently the beetle and pathogen were discovered on several Juglans species in northern Italy. Little is known about the extra-generic extent of host acceptability and suitability for the WTB. We report the occurrence of both the WTB and G. morbida in three species of wingnut, Pterocarya fraxinifolia Spach, Pterocarya rhoifolia Siebold and Zuccarini, and Pterocarya stenoptera de Candolle (Juglandaceae) growing in the United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, National Clonal Germplasm Repository collection in northern California (NCGR) and in the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in southern California, United States of America. In two instances (once in P. stenoptera and once in P. fraxinifolia) teneral (i.e., brood) adult WTB emerged and were collected more than four months after infested branch sections had been collected in the field. Koch’s postulates were satisfied with an isolate of G. morbida from P. stenoptera, confirming this fungus as the causal agent of TCD in this host. A survey of the 37 Pterocarya Kunth accessions at the NCGR revealed that 46% of the trees had WTB attacks and/or symptoms of G. morbida infection. The occurrence of other subcortical Coleoptera associated with Pterocarya and the first occurrence of the polyphagous shot hole borer, a species near Euwallacea fornicatus Eichhoff (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), in Juglans are also documented.
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Samia Lahmar, Paul R. Torgerson, Hana Mhemmed, Lamia Tizaoui, Néjib Mhadhbi, Abdelkader Bani, Hanan Driss, Nébiha Ghrissi, Manel Makhzoumi, Amel Ben Houidi, Mokhtar Dhibi, Yousra Said, Edoardo Pozio, Belgees Boufana
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Journal: Journal of Helminthology , First View
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 February 2019, pp. 1-4
Trichinellosis is a cosmopolitan zoonotic parasitic disease caused by the nematodes of the genus Trichinella, through the consumption of raw or semi-raw infected meat from swine, horses and wild animals. This disease has been sporadically reported in Greece since 1946. The aim of the present study was to describe a trichinellosis case in a patient hospitalized in northern Greece, in 2017. A 47-year-old male was admitted to hospital with intense generalized myalgia, periorbital swelling, fever, exhaustion and anorexia. Biochemical and haematological profile showed eosinophilia and elevated creatine phosphokinase (CPK). Anti-Trichinella spp. IgG and IgM antibodies were detected by serology and Trichinella spp. larvae were found in two muscle biopsies by compressorium and histological examination. A larva collected from the muscle biopsy was identified as Trichinella britovi by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Albendazole (400 mg twice per day × 10 days) was administered and the clinical condition of the patient promptly improved. This is the first identification of T. britovi in a patient in Greece.
Identification of Giardia species and Giardia duodenalis assemblages by sequence analysis of the 5.8S rDNA gene and internal transcribed spacers
SIMONE M. CACCIÒ, RELJA BECK, ANDRE ALMEIDA, ANNA BAJER, EDOARDO POZIO
Journal: Parasitology / Volume 137 / Issue 6 / May 2010
PCR assays have been developed mainly to assist investigations into the epidemiology of Giardia duodenalis, the only species in the Giardia genus having zoonotic potential. However, a reliable identification of all species is of practical importance, particularly when water samples and samples from wild animals are investigated. The aim of the present work was to genotype Giardia species and G. duodenalis assemblages using as a target the region spanning the 5.8S gene and the 2 flanking internal transcribed spacers (ITS1 and ITS2) of the ribosomal gene. Primers were designed to match strongly conserved regions in the 3′ end of the small subunit and in the 5′ end of the large subunit ribosomal genes. The corresponding region (about 310 bp) was amplified from 49 isolates of both human and animal origin, representing all G. duodenalis assemblages as well as G. muris and G. microti. Sequence comparison and phylogenetic analysis showed that G. ardeae, G. muris, G. microti as well as the 7 G. duodenalis assemblages can be easily distinguished. Since the major subgroups within the zoonotic assemblages A and B can be identified by sequence analysis, this assay is also informative for molecular epidemiological studies.
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MP37: Adherence to Canadian Cardiovascular Society guidelines for prescribing oral anticoagulants to patients with atrial fibrillation in the emergency department
D. Hung, M. Butler, S. Campbell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 May 2019, pp. S55-S56
Introduction: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common arrhythmia treated in the emergency department (ED) and is associated with an increased risk of ischemic stroke. Studies have shown that only oral anticoagulant (OAC) therapy reduces risk of AF related stroke. Our objective was to measure the prescribing practices for OACs for new onset AF at a tertiary ED and two surrounding community EDs, and identify rates of adverse effects within 90 days. The findings of this study will provide quality assurance information for the management of patients with new onset AF. This information has the potential to promote adherence to prescribing guidelines for AF in the ED and the reduction of common adverse events such as ischemic stroke. Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review of 385 patients with new onset AF who presented to the ED between November 2014 to Mach 2018. We defined new onset as symptoms <48 hours and had AF confirmed with electrocardiogram. We recorded the selected therapy choice of cardioversion and/or rate control, gender, age, and assessed CHADS-65 score. We recorded who was prescribed OAC and those who were referred to cardiology, family medicine, or did not have a documented follow up plan. Patients with a previous history of AF or current anticoagulant therapy were excluded. We recorded if any patients returned to the ED within 90 days with ischemic stroke, AF recurrence, myocardial infarction, other embolic disease or death. Results: 86 of 294 (29.5%) of patients who qualified under CHADS-65 received OACs appropriately. 64 of 66 (97.0%) of patients who did not qualify under CHADS-65 did not receive OACs appropriately. 5 patients overall returned within 90 days with ischemic stroke, 4 of those were not prescribed OACs, however this was not statistically significant (P = 0.999). Conclusion: This data suggests that physicians in the study are under-prescribing OACs relative to published guidelines. A larger study is necessary to elucidate the effect of ED OAC prescribing patterns on long-term patient outcome.
More than Mothers: Juries of Matrons and Pleas of the Belly in Medieval England
Sara M. Butler
Journal: Law and History Review / Volume 37 / Issue 2 / May 2019
Common law was an all-male system, with one glaring exception: juries of matrons. If a convicted felon requested a reprieve from execution on the grounds of pregnancy, it was the responsibility of a group of twelve matrons to perform an inspection in order to determine if she was in fact pregnant. Matrons were in a position of great authority. Their verdicts were definitive: if they decided a woman was pregnant, then she was sent back to prison. Despite the significance of their role, little is known about medieval matrons and what qualified them to sit on a jury. Were they mothers? Honorable wives? Midwives? The goal of this paper is to argue that matrons had training in obstetrics. This was particularly important for medieval matrons because the quickening (that is ensoulment, signaled by the first fetal movements) did not become the focal point of the matrons' assessment until at least 1348. Before this, the diagnosis was much more medically challenging as matrons had to determine whether a felon had conceived. Overall, the medieval records demonstrate great confidence in medieval matrons and their obstetrical expertise.
Role of magnetic field evolution on filamentary structure formation in intense laser–foil interactions
HPL_EP HEDP and High Power Laser 2018
M. King, N. M. H. Butler, R. Wilson, R. Capdessus, R. J. Gray, H. W. Powell, R. J. Dance, H. Padda, B. Gonzalez-Izquierdo, D. R. Rusby, N. P. Dover, G. S. Hicks, O. C. Ettlinger, C. Scullion, D. C. Carroll, Z. Najmudin, M. Borghesi, D. Neely, P. McKenna
Journal: High Power Laser Science and Engineering / Volume 7 / 2019
Filamentary structures can form within the beam of protons accelerated during the interaction of an intense laser pulse with an ultrathin foil target. Such behaviour is shown to be dependent upon the formation time of quasi-static magnetic field structures throughout the target volume and the extent of the rear surface proton expansion over the same period. This is observed via both numerical and experimental investigations. By controlling the intensity profile of the laser drive, via the use of two temporally separated pulses, both the initial rear surface proton expansion and magnetic field formation time can be varied, resulting in modification to the degree of filamentary structure present within the laser-driven proton beam.
20 - Riding the New Wave
from Part II - The New Wave
By Andrew M. Butler
Edited by Gerry Canavan, Marquette University, Wisconsin, Eric Carl Link, Purdue University, Indiana
Book: The Cambridge History of Science Fiction
17 - Social Anxiety Disorder
from Section 4 - Etiology and Phenomenology of Specific Anxiety Disorders
By Arielle Horenstein, Rachel M. Butler, Richard G. Heimberg
Edited by Bunmi O. Olatunji, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Book: The Cambridge Handbook of Anxiety and Related Disorders
Pearl Hogrefe. Tudor Women: Commoners and Queens. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1975. xiv+170 pp. $6.95.
Janis Butler Holm, Katherine M. Loring
Journal: Renaissance Quarterly / Volume 30 / Issue 2 / Summer 1977
Print publication: Summer 1977
Matthew Lockwood, The Conquest of Death: Violence and the Birth of the Modern English State, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. ix, 404. $85.00 (ISBN: 978-0-300-21706-3).
Journal: Law and History Review / Volume 36 / Issue 4 / November 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 December 2018, pp. 1089-1091
On the Limits of Officials’ Ability to Change Citizens’ Priorities: A Field Experiment in Local Politics
DANIEL M. BUTLER, HANS J.G. HASSELL
Journal: American Political Science Review / Volume 112 / Issue 4 / November 2018
We test whether politicians’ communications shape their supporters’ policy priorities by conducting a field experiment in collaboration with several local elected officials. In the experiment, the officials sent out email messages to the constituents on their distribution lists. Half the constituents received messages where the official advocated for the priority of a given issue, while the other half received a placebo email. We surveyed the constituents one to two months before the message went out and again the week after the official sent the message. The experiment shows that politicians did not change citizens’ priorities in the desired direction. Moreover, citizens who received a message where the official indicated the issue was a priority were not more likely to act when invited to sign a petition on the issue. Elected officials’ ability to shape the priorities of the politically active citizens with whom they regularly communicate is limited and can even be self-defeating.
Prophecy, Gender, and Culture: Ellen Gould Harmon [White] and the Roots of Seventh-day Adventism
Jonathan M. Butler
Journal: Religion and American Culture / Volume 1 / Issue 1 / Winter 1991
“… the weakest of the weak…”
Ellen G. White, nee Harmon (1827-1915), is among the least known of the prophet-founders of major American religious movements. The Seventh-day Adventist prophet has received neither the celebrity nor the notoriety of Mormonism’s Joseph Smith, Shakerism’s Ann Lee, or Christian Science’s Mary Baker Eddy. Yet she deserves at least the recognition of these other sect founders. Ill, introverted, and undereducated, White ultimately asserted the most forceful influence on Seventh-day Adventism and ensured it a place among the major American sects. Her long and resourceful career as the Adventist visionary inspired the transformation of a single-minded, other-worldly, Millerite off-shoot into a complex and established denomination with wide-ranging interests in sabbatarianism, eschatology, health reform, temperance, medicine, child nurture, education, and religious liberty. Her legacy includes an impressive global network of sanitariums and hospitals and a vast educational system unparalleled in contemporary Protestantism. Her writings number eighty printed volumes, circulated among an Adventist world membership of over five million.
Procedural sedation by advanced care paramedics for emergency gastrointestinal endoscopy
Hana M. Wiemer, Michael B. Butler, Patrick C. Froese, Allan Lapierre, Chris Carriere, Glen R. Etsell, Dana Farina, Jennifer Jones, Jock Murray, Samuel G. Campbell
Journal: Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine / Volume 21 / Issue 2 / March 2019
At the QEII Health Sciences Centre Emergency Department (ED) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, advanced care paramedics (ACPs) perform procedural sedation and analgesia (PSA) for many indications, including orthopedic procedures. We have begun using ACPs as sedationists for emergent upper gastrointestinal (UGI) endoscopy. This study compares ACP-performed ED PSA for UGI endoscopy and orthopedic procedures in terms of adverse events, airway intervention, vasopressor requirement, and PSA medication use.
A data set was built from an ED PSA quality control database matching 61 UGI endoscopy PSAs to 183 orthopedic PSAs by propensity scores calculated using age, gender, and the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) classification. Outcomes assessed were hypotension (systolic BP<100 mm Hg or a 15% decrease from baseline), hypoxia (SaO2<90%), apnea (>30 sec), vomiting, arrhythmias, death, airway intervention, vasopressor requirement, and PSA medication use.
UGI endoscopy patients experienced hypotension more frequently than orthopedic patients (OR=4.11, CI: 2.05-8.22) and required airway repositioning less often (OR=0.24, CI: 0.10-0.59). They received ketamine more frequently (OR=15.7, CI: 4.75-67.7) and fentanyl less often (OR=0.30, CI: 0.15-0.63) than orthopedic patients. Four endoscopy patients received phenylephrine, and one required intubation. No patient died in either group.
In ACP-led sedation for UGI endoscopy and orthopedic procedures, adverse events were rare with the notable exception of hypotension, which was more frequent in the endoscopy group. Only endoscopy patients required vasopressor treatment and intubation. We provide preliminary evidence that ACPs can manage ED PSA for emergent UGI endoscopy, although priorities must shift from pain control to hemodynamic optimization.
MP01: Use of an unmanned aerial vehicle to provide situational awareness in a simulated mass casualty incident
A. K. Sibley, T. Jain, B. Nicholson, M. Butler, S. David, D. Smith, P. Atkinson
Introduction: Situational awareness (SA) is essential for maintenance of scene safety and effective resource allocation in mass casualty incidents (MCI). Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) can potentially enhance SA with real-time visual feedback during chaotic and evolving or inaccessible events. The purpose of this study was to test the ability of paramedics to use UAV video from a simulated MCI to identify scene hazards, initiate patient triage, and designate key operational locations. Methods: A simulated MCI, including fifteen patients of varying acuity (blast type injuries), plus four hazards, was created on a college campus. The scene was surveyed by UAV capturing video of all patients, hazards, surrounding buildings and streets. Attendees of a provincial paramedic meeting were invited to participate. Participants received a lecture on SALT Triage and the principles of MCI scene management. Next, they watched the UAV video footage. Participants were directed to sort patients according to SALT Triage step one, identify injuries, and localize the patients within the campus. Additionally, they were asked to select a start point for SALT Triage step two, identify and locate hazards, and designate locations for an Incident Command Post, Treatment Area, Transport Area and Access/Egress routes. Summary statistics were performed and a linear regression model was used to assess relationships between demographic variables and both patient triage and localization. Results: Ninety-six individuals participated. Mean age was 35 years (SD 11), 46% (44) were female, and 49% (47) were Primary Care Paramedics. Most participants (80 (84%)) correctly sorted at least 12 of 15 patients. Increased age was associated with decreased triage accuracy [-0.04(-0.07,-0.01);p=0.031]. Fifty-two (54%) were able to localize 12 or more of the 15 patients to a 27x 20m grid area. Advanced paramedic certification, and local residency were associated with improved patient localization [2.47(0.23,4.72);p=0.031], [-3.36(-5.61,-1.1);p=0.004]. The majority of participants (78 (81%)) chose an acceptable location to start SALT triage step two and 84% (80) identified at least three of four hazards. Approximately half (53 (55%)) of participants designated four or more of five key operational areas in appropriate locations. Conclusion: This study demonstrates the potential of UAV technology to remotely provide emergency responders with SA in a MCI. Additional research is required to further investigate optimal strategies to deploy UAVs in this context.
Risk factors for influenza-related complications in children during the 2009/10 pandemic: a UK primary care cohort study using linked routinely collected data
J. J. Lee, C. Bankhead, M. Smith, A. A. Kousoulis, C. C. Butler, K. Wang
Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 146 / Issue 7 / May 2018
Primary care clinicians have a central role in managing influenza/influenza-like illness (ILI) during influenza pandemics. This study identifies risk factors for influenza-related complications in children presenting with influenza/ILI in primary care. We conducted a cohort study using routinely collected linked data from the Clinical Practice Research Datalink on children aged 17 years and younger who presented with influenza/ILI during the 2009/10 pandemic. We calculated odds ratios (ORs) for potential risk factors in relation to influenza-related complications, complications requiring intervention, pneumonia, all-cause hospitalisation and hospitalisation due to influenza-related complications within 30 days of presentation. Analyses were adjusted for potential confounders including age, vaccination and socio-economic deprivation. Asthma was a risk factor for influenza-related complications (adjusted OR 1.48, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.21–1.80, P < 0.001), complications requiring intervention (adjusted OR 1.44, 95% CI 1.11–1.88; P = 0.007), pneumonia (adjusted OR 1.64, 95% CI 1.07–2.51, P = 0.024) and hospitalisation due to influenza-related complications (adjusted OR 2.46, 95% CI 1.09–5.56, P = 0.031). Neurological conditions were risk factors for all-cause hospitalisation (adjusted OR 4.25, 95% CI 1.50–12.07, P = 0.007) but not influenza-related complications (adjusted OR 1.46, 95% CI 0.83–2.56, P = 0.189). Community-based early interventions to prevent influenza-related clinical deterioration should therefore be primarily targeted at children with asthma and neurological conditions.
Reducing Clostridium difficile Colitis Rates Via Cost-Saving Diagnostic Stewardship
Christina Yen, Paul Holtom, Susan M. Butler-Wu, Noah Wald-Dickler, Ira Shulman, Brad Spellberg
Journal: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 39 / Issue 6 / June 2018
We conducted a quality improvement project at a large public tertiary-care academic hospital to reduce reported hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) rates. We introduced diagnostic stewardship and provider education, resulting in a 2-fold reduction in C. difficile nucleic acid amplification test (NAAT) orders and markedly lower hospital CDI rate.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2018;39:734–736
Who Gets the Credit? Legislative Responsiveness and Evaluations of Members, Parties, and the US Congress – ADDENDUM
Daniel M. Butler, Christopher F. Karpowitz, Jeremy C. Pope
Journal: Political Science Research and Methods / Volume 6 / Issue 4 / October 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 March 2018, p. 847
Seventh-Day Adventist Historiography: A Work in Progress
Journal: Church History / Volume 87 / Issue 1 / March 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2018, pp. 149-166
In the past decade, Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) historiography has enjoyed an efflorescence that warrants the attention of church historians. Two notable books mark the surge of interest in Adventism and its prophet: one of them an extraordinary denominational history, Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream, by Malcolm Bull and Keith Lockhart (1989; 2007); the other an excellent collection of essays, Ellen Harmon White: American Prophet, edited by Terrie Dopp Aamodt, Gary Land, and Ronald L. Numbers (2014). Both books remind church historians that Seventh-day Adventism deserves its due as one of America's original religions. Since 2005, however, a number of books have appeared that understandably have received less scrutiny. The Adventist Pioneer Series, in particular, produced by SDA scholars and published by SDA presses, has largely escaped the notice of the wider, non-SDA historical community. This is unfortunate. There is the inevitable unevenness among these volumes, and given their intent to serve a popular Adventist audience, there is also the predictable parochialism in them, in some more than others. Nevertheless, to date there are several books in the series, and no doubt more to follow, which should command serious scholarly interest. To make our way through this largely unfamiliar historiographical landscape calls for a little mapping. Most of these authors come from SDA backgrounds, whatever distance they have gone from them. It will be necessary, then, to reflect on the differences between a historian of Adventism and an Adventist historian, secular versus supernatural history, and apologists who rate scholarly notice and those who do not. It will be important as well to realize that there is no hard, unyielding line between these differences.
Hollie L. S. Morgan . Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England: Readings, Representations and Realities. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, 2017. Pp. 254. $99.00 (cloth).
Journal: Journal of British Studies / Volume 57 / Issue 1 / January 2018
The influence of chemical treatment on the degradation characteristics of weathered maize stover components
M. Mwiinga, F.L. Mould, E. Owen, E.A. Butler
Journal: Proceedings of the British Society of Animal Science / Volume 2002 / 2002
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2017, p. 148
Zambian small-holders are dependent on natural grazing to supply the nutrient requirements of their cattle. During the dry season grazing is severely limited, production declines steeply, reproductive cycles become dormant and new-born calves are subject to a high mortality rate. A potential supplemental feed, maize stover, is poorly exploited resulting in extensive field losses. Collection and controlled feeding would greatly increase its efficiency of use, plus such a feed system offers the opportunity to chemically treat the maize stover pre-feeding. This study was conducted to identify the degree to which the nutritive value of this material could be improved using such techniques.
Effects of feeding fish meal or fish oil fatty acids on energy balance and plasma concentrations of insulin and insulin-like growth factor binding proteins in early postpartum dairy cows
A. Heravi Moussavi, T. R. Overton, M. Danesh Mesgaran, M. J. Zamiri, W. R. Butler
The early lactation period in dairy cattle is characterized by negative energy balance (NEB). Insulin-like growth factors (IGFs) have an important role in regulating nutrient utilization and act as a mediator of the effects of energy balance on reproduction. The capacity of IGF-I to access cell surface receptors is controlled by insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (IGFBPs). Insulin is a key signal of metabolic status and its infusion altered IGF-I and IGFBP concentrations in plasma (Butler et al., 2003). The objective of the present study was to compare the effect of dietary supplementation of fish meal (FM) or Ca salts of fish oil fatty acids (CaFOFA) on energy balance during early lactation period and on the circulating concentrations of insulin and IGFBPs on d 32 post-partum (PP).
Are Donations to Charity an Effective Incentive for Public Officials?
Daniel M. Butler, Miguel M. Pereira
Journal: Journal of Experimental Political Science / Volume 5 / Issue 1 / Spring 2018
Print publication: Spring 2018
Incentivized experiments are frequently used to learn about individuals’ social, political, and economic behavior. However, public officials and other individuals are sometimes barred from accepting payment for anything related to their position, so money cannot be used in experiments (e.g., Butler and Kousser 2015). We assess whether donations to charity can be used to incentivize public officials, as an alternative to traditional monetary inducements.
Do contamination of and exposure to chicken meat and water drive the temporal dynamics of Campylobacter cases?
J. M. DAVID, F. POLLARI, K. D. M. PINTAR, A. NESBITT, A. J. BUTLER, A. RAVEL
Journal: Epidemiology & Infection / Volume 145 / Issue 15 / November 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2017, pp. 3191-3203
Campylobacteriosis, the most frequent bacterial enteric disease, shows a clear yet unexplained seasonality. The study purpose was to explore the influence of seasonal fluctuation in the contamination of and in the behaviour exposures to two important sources of Campylobacter on the seasonality of campylobacteriosis. Time series analyses were applied to data collected through an integrated surveillance system in Canada in 2005–2010. Data included sporadic, domestically-acquired cases of Campylobacter jejuni infection, contamination of retail chicken meat and of surface water by C. jejuni, and exposure to each source through barbequing and swimming in natural waters. Seasonal patterns were evident for all variables with a peak in summer for human cases and for both exposures, in fall for chicken meat contamination, and in late fall for water contamination. Time series analyses showed that the observed campylobacteriosis summer peak could only be significantly linked to behaviour exposures rather than sources contamination (swimming rather than water contamination and barbequing rather than chicken meat contamination). The results indicate that the observed summer increase in human cases may be more the result of amplification through more frequent risky exposures rather than the result of an increase of the Campylobacter source contamination.
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Integrative emotion regulation: Process and development from a self-determination theory perspective
Guy Roth, Maarten Vansteenkiste, Richard M. Ryan
Journal: Development and Psychopathology / Volume 31 / Issue 3 / August 2019
Grounded in self-determination theory's (SDT; Ryan & Deci, 2017) organismic perspective, we present a process view of integrative emotion regulation. SDT describes three general types of emotion regulation: integrative emotion regulation, which focuses on emotions as carrying information that is brought to awareness; controlled emotion regulation, which is focused on diminishing emotions through avoidance, suppression, or enforced expression or reappraisal; and amotivated emotion regulation, in which emotions are uncontrolled or dysregulated. We review survey and experimental research contrasting these emotion regulation styles, providing evidence for the benefits of integrative emotion regulation for volitional functioning, personal well-being, and high-quality relationships, and for the costs of controlled emotion regulation and dysregulation. The development of emotion regulation styles is discussed, especially the role of autonomy-supportive parenting in fostering more integrative emotion regulation, and the role of controlling parenting in contributing to controlled or dysregulated emotion processing. Overall, integrative emotion regulation represents a beneficial style of processing emotions, which develops most effectively in a nonjudgmental and autonomy-supportive environment, an issue relevant to both development and psychotherapy.
15 - Motivation
By Richard M. Ryan, Emma L. Bradshaw, Edward L. Deci
Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University, New York, Wade E. Pickren, Ithaca College, New York
Book: The Cambridge Handbook of the Intellectual History of Psychology
Print publication: 16 May 2019, pp 391-411
Determining Key Influences on Patient Ability to Successfully Manage Noncommunicable Disease After Natural Disaster
Benjamin J. Ryan, Richard C. Franklin, Frederick M. Burkle, Erin C. Smith, Peter Aitken, Peter A. Leggat
Journal: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine / Volume 34 / Issue 3 / June 2019
Natural disasters often damage or destroy the protective public health service infrastructure (PHI) required to maintain the health and well-being of people with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). This interruption increases the risk of an acute exacerbation or complication, potentially leading to a worse long-term prognosis or even death. Disaster-related exacerbations of NCDs will continue, if not increase, due to an increasing prevalence and sustained rise in the frequency and intensity of disasters, along with rapid unsustainable urbanization in flood plains and storm-prone coastal zones. Despite this, the focus of disaster and health systems preparedness and response remains on communicable diseases, even when the actual risk of disease outbreaks post-disaster is low, particularly in developed countries. There is now an urgent need to expand preparedness and response beyond communicable diseases to include people with NCDs.
Hypothesis/Problem:
The developing evidence-base describing the risk of disaster-related exacerbation of NCDs does not incorporate the perspectives, concerns, and challenges of people actually living with the conditions. To help address this gap, this research explored the key influences on patient ability to successfully manage their NCD after a natural disaster.
A survey of people with NCDs in Queensland, Australia collected data on demographics, disease, disaster experience, and primary concern post-disaster. Descriptive statistics and chi-square tests with a Bonferroni-adjustment were used to analyze data.
There were 118 responses to the survey. Key influences on the ability to self-manage post-disaster were access to medication, medical services, water, treatment and care, power, and food. Managing disease-specific symptoms associated with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, mental health, and respiratory diseases were primary concerns following a disaster. Stress and anxiety, loss of sleep, weakness or fatigue, and shortness of breath were common concerns for all patients with NCDs. Those dependent on care from others were most worried about shortness of breath and slow healing sores. Accessing medication and medical services were priorities for all patients post-disaster.
The key influences on successful self-management post-disaster for people with NCDs must be reflected in disaster plans and strategies. Achieving this will reduce exacerbations or complications of disease and decrease demand for emergency health care post-disaster.
Understanding the role of the family physician in early psychosis intervention
Kelly K. Anderson, Suzanne Archie, Richard G. Booth, Chiachen Cheng, Daniel Lizotte, Arlene G. MacDougall, Ross M. G. Norman, Bridget L. Ryan, Amanda L. Terry, Rebecca Rodrigues
Journal: BJPsych Open / Volume 4 / Issue 6 / November 2018
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2018, pp. 447-453
The family physician is key to facilitating access to psychiatric treatment for young people with first-episode psychosis, and this involvement can reduce aversive events in pathways to care. Those who seek help from primary care tend to have longer intervals to psychiatric care, and some people receive ongoing psychiatric treatment from the family physician.
Our objective is to understand the role of the family physician in help-seeking, recognition and ongoing management of first-episode psychosis.
We will use a mixed-methods approach, incorporating health administrative data, electronic medical records (EMRs) and qualitative methodologies to study the role of the family physician at three points on the pathway to care. First, help-seeking: we will use health administrative data to examine access to a family physician and patterns of primary care use preceding the first diagnosis of psychosis; second, recognition: we will identify first-onset cases of psychosis in health administrative data, and look back at linked EMRs from primary care to define a risk profile for undetected cases; and third, management: we will examine service provision to identified patients through EMR data, including patterns of contacts, prescriptions and referrals to specialised care. We will then conduct qualitative interviews and focus groups with key stakeholders to better understand the trends observed in the quantitative data.
These findings will provide an in-depth description of first-episode psychosis in primary care, informing strategies to build linkages between family physicians and psychiatric services to improve transitions of care during the crucial early stages of psychosis.
Reducing Non-communicable Disease Exacerbation after a Disaster
Benjamin J. Ryan, Richard C. Franklin, Frederick M. Burkle, Erin C. Smith, Peter Aitken, Kerrianne Watt, Peter A. Leggat
Journal: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine / Volume 32 / Issue S1 / April 2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2017, pp. S194-S195
66 - The Empirical Study of Human Autonomy Using Self-Determination Theory
from Section A - Motivation
By Ryan Richard M
Edited by Robert J. Sternberg, Cornell University, New York, Susan T. Fiske, Princeton University, New Jersey, Donald J. Foss, University of Houston
Book: Scientists Making a Difference
Print publication: 11 August 2016, pp 311-315
Among the most important concerns of people across the globe are issues of freedom and control. Indeed, despite some horrific exceptions, the modern world is trending toward greater human rights, tolerance for diversity, and allowance for individual choices in vocations and lifestyles. Everywhere people fight against oppression and dictatorial controls, and groups that have been stigmatized struggle for equal rights and respect. At a more individual level, people move during their development toward greater self-regulation. They suffer under excessively controlling caregivers, teachers, clinicians, coaches, and bosses. In general, people are more likely to thrive and be positively engaged and motivated in settings where they are empowered and feel a sense of autonomy.
Although most laypeople grasp the import of these issues in everyday life, when I was a young clinical psychologist studying motivation, these topics – human freedom, people's capacities and needs for choice, and development toward increased self-direction and autonomy – were mostly treated as pseudo-phenomena, and were at best topics peripheral to mainstream empirical psychology. Some humanistic and psychodynamic psychologists had made such issues their central themes, but they were often not applying strong scientific methods to support their ideas.
Could it be right that people's concern with freedom and choice – and, oppositely, their feelings of alienation and frustration when overly controlled – are merely illusory issues? Could it be, as a famous cover of the American Psychologist once claimed, that human behavior is actually “involuntary”?
Despite the strong pull of clinical work, I was decidedly preoccupied with such questions during graduate school and was convinced, in part because of philosophical training, that psychologists had largely misconceptualized the issues in this area. I was also, in my everyday work in hospital and outpatient settings, confronted with the costs of compromised human autonomy, and I felt that understanding how autonomy and volition could be better supported could have implications in every applied field, from workplaces and schools to sport fields and psychotherapy clinics.
Thus, despite my initial plan to pursue full-time clinical practice, I began to research this topic, in part occasioned by my friendship and collaborations with Edward Deci, who also has a chapter in this volume (see Chapter 61).
Defining, Describing, and Categorizing Public Health Infrastructure Priorities for Tropical Cyclone, Flood, Storm, Tornado, and Tsunami-Related Disasters
Benjamin J. Ryan, Richard C. Franklin, Frederick M. Burkle, Kerrianne Watt, Peter Aitken, Erin C. Smith, Peter Leggat
Journal: Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness / Volume 10 / Issue 4 / August 2016
The study aim was to undertake a qualitative research literature review to analyze available databases to define, describe, and categorize public health infrastructure (PHI) priorities for tropical cyclone, flood, storm, tornado, and tsunami-related disasters.
Five electronic publication databases were searched to define, describe, or categorize PHI and discuss tropical cyclone, flood, storm, tornado, and tsunami-related disasters and their impact on PHI. The data were analyzed through aggregation of individual articles to create an overall data description. The data were grouped into PHI themes, which were then prioritized on the basis of degree of interdependency.
Sixty-seven relevant articles were identified. PHI was categorized into 13 themes with a total of 158 descriptors. The highest priority PHI identified was workforce. This was followed by water, sanitation, equipment, communication, physical structure, power, governance, prevention, supplies, service, transport, and surveillance.
This review identified workforce as the most important of the 13 thematic areas related to PHI and disasters. If its functionality fails, workforce has the greatest impact on the performance of health services. If addressed post-disaster, the remaining forms of PHI will then be progressively addressed. These findings are a step toward providing an evidence base to inform PHI priorities in the disaster setting. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2016;10:598–610)
Metamorphic epitaxy for multijunction solar cells
Ryan M. France, Frank Dimroth, Tyler J. Grassman, Richard R. King
Journal: MRS Bulletin / Volume 41 / Issue 3 / March 2016
Multijunction solar cells have proven to be capable of extremely high efficiencies by combining multiple semiconductor materials with bandgaps tuned to the solar spectrum. Reaching the optimum set of semiconductors often requires combining high-quality materials with different lattice constants into a single device, a challenge particularly suited for metamorphic epitaxy. In this article, we describe different approaches to metamorphic multijunction solar cells, including traditional upright metamorphic, state-of-the-art inverted metamorphic, and forward-looking multijunction designs on silicon. We also describe the underlying materials science of graded buffers that enables metamorphic subcells with low dislocation densities. Following nearly two decades of research, recent efforts have demonstrated high-quality lattice-mismatched multijunction solar cells with very little performance loss related to the mismatch, enabling solar-to-electric conversion efficiencies over 45%.
By Cecil S. Ash, Paul Barach, Ulrike Buehner, M. Ross Bullock, Leonardo Canale, Henry G. Chou, Jeffrey A. Claridge, John J. Como, Armagan Dagal, Martin Dauber, James S. Davis, Shalini Dhir, François Donati, Roman Dudaryk, Richard P. Dutton, Talmage D. Egan, Yashar Eshraghi, John R. Fisgus, Jeff Gadsden, Sugantha Ganapathy, Mark A. Gerhardt, Inderjit Gill, Joseph F. Golob, Glenn P. Gravlee, Marcello Guglielmi, Jana Hambley, Peter Hebbard, Elena J. Holak, Khadil Hosein, Ken Johnson, Matthew A. Joy, George W. Kanellakos, Olga Kaslow, Arthur M. Lam, Vanetta Levesque, Jessica Anne Lovich-Sapola, M. Jocelyn Loy, Peter F. Mahoney, Donn Marciniak, Maureen McCunn, Craig C. McFarland, Maroun J. Mhanna, Timothy Moore, Cynthia Nguyen, Maxim Novikov, E. Orestes O’Brien, Ketan P. Parekh, Claire L. Park, Michael J. A. Parr, Elie Rizkala, Steven Roth, Alistair Royse, Colin Royse, Kasia Petelenz Rubin, David Ryan, Claire Sandstrom, Carl I. Schulman, Rishad Shaikh, Ranjita Sharma, Jeffrey H. Silverstein, Peter Slinger, Charles E. Smith, Christopher Smith, Paul Soeding, Rakesh V. Sondekoppam, P. David Soran, Eldar Søreide, Elizabeth A. Steele, Kristian Strand, Dennis M. Super, Kutaiba Tabbaa, Nicholas T. Tarmey, Joshua M. Tobin, Kalpana Tyagaraj, Heather A. Vallier, Sandra Werner, Earl Willis Weyers, William C. Wilson, Shoji Yokobori, Charles J. Yowler
Edited by Charles E. Smith
Book: Trauma Anesthesia
Print publication: 09 April 2015, pp vii-x
By Agoston T. Agoston, Syed Z. Ali, Mahul B. Amin, Daniel A. Arber, Pedram Argani, Sylvia L. Asa, Rebecca N. Baergen, Zubair W. Baloch, Andrew M. Bellizzi, Kurt Benirschke, Allen Burke, Kenneth B. Calder, Karen L. Chang, Rebecca D. Chernock, Wang Cheung, Thomas V. Colby, Byron P. Croker, Ronald A. DeLellis, Edward F. DiCarlo, Ralph C. Eagle, Hormoz Ehya, Brett M. Elicker, Tarik M. Elsheikh, Robert E. Fechner, Linda D. Ferrell, Melina B. Flanagan, Douglas B. Flieder, Christopher S. Foster, Lillian Gaber, Karuna Garg, Kim R. Geisinger, Ryan M. Gill, Eric F. Glassy, David J. Glembocki, Zachary D. Goodman, Robert O. Greer, David J. Grignon, Gerardo E. Guiter, Kymberly A. Gyure, Ian S. Hagemann, Michael R. Henry, Jason L. Hornick, Ralph H. Hruban, Phyllis C. Huettner, Peter A. Humphrey, Olga B. Ioffe, Edward C. Klatt, Michael J. Klein, Ernest E. Lack, James N. Lampros, Lester J. Layfield, Robin D. LeGallo, Kevin O. Leslie, James S. Lewis, Virginia A. LiVolsi, Alberto M. Marchevsky, Anne Marie McNicol, Mitra Mehrad, Elizabeth Montgomery, Cesar A. Moran, Christopher A. Moskaluk, George J. Netto, G. Petur Nielsen, Robert D. Odze, Arthur S. Patchefsky, James W. Patterson, Elizabeth N. Pavlisko, John D. Pfeifer, Celeste N. Powers, Richard A. Prayson, Anja C. Roden, Victor L. Roggli, Andrew E. Rosenberg, Sherif Said, Margie A. Scott, Raja R. Seethala, Carlie S. Sigel, Jan F. Silverman, Bruce R. Smoller, Edward B. Stelow, Nora C. J. Sun, Mark W. Teague, Satish K. Tickoo, Thomas M. Ulbright, Paul E. Wakely, Jun Wang, Lawrence M. Weiss, Mark R. Wick, Howard H. Wu, Rhonda K. Yantiss, Charles Zaloudek, Yaxia Zhang, Xiaohui Sheila Zhao
Edited by Mark R. Wick, University of Virginia, Virginia A. LiVolsi, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, John D. Pfeifer, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Edward B. Stelow, University of Virginia, Paul E. Wakely, Jr
Book: Silverberg's Principles and Practice of Surgical Pathology and Cytopathology
Published online: 13 March 2015, pp vii-x
By Richard Arneson, Mark E. Button, Thomas Christiano, John Christman, Andrew Jason Cohen, Philip Cook, Gerald F. Gaus, Jeremy Jennings, Paul Kelly, Frank Lovett, Alan Ryan, John Skorupski, John Tomasi, Jeppe von Platz, Steven Wall, Daniel Weinstock, Nicholas Wolterstorff, Linda M. G. Zerilli
Edited by Steven Wall, University of Arizona
Book: The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism
Print publication: 19 February 2015, pp vii-ix
Analyzing the Impact of Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi on Public Health Infrastructure and the Management of Noncommunicable Diseases
Journal: Prehospital and Disaster Medicine / Volume 30 / Issue 1 / February 2015
Traditionally, post disaster response activities have focused on immediate trauma and communicable diseases. In developed countries such as Australia, the post disaster risk for communicable disease is low. However, a “disease transition” is now recognized at the population level where noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are increasingly documented as a post disaster issue. This potentially places an extra burden on health care resources and may have implications for disaster-management systems. With increasing likelihood of major disasters for all sectors of global society, there is a need to ensure that health systems, including public health infrastructure (PHI), can respond properly.
There is limited peer-reviewed literature on the impact of disasters on NCDs. Research is required to better determine both the impact of NCDs post disaster and their impact on PHI and disaster-management systems.
A literature review was used to collect and analyze data on the impact of the index case event, Australia's Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi (STC Yasi), on PHI and the management of NCDs. The findings were compared with data from other world cyclone events. The databases searched were MEDLINE, CINAHL, Google Scholar, and Google. The date range for the STC Yasi search was January 26, 2011 through May 2, 2013. No time limits were applied to the search from other cyclone events. The variables compared were tropical cyclones and their impacts on PHI and NCDs. The outcome of interest was to identify if there were trends across similar world events and to determine if this could be extrapolated for future crises.
This research showed a tropical cyclone (including a hurricane and typhoon) can impact PHI, for instance, equipment (oxygen, syringes, and medications), services (treatment and care), and clean water availability/access that would impact both the treatment and management of NCDs. The comparison between STC Yasi and worldwide tropical cyclones found the challenges faced were linked closely. These relate to communication, equipment and services, evacuation, medication, planning, and water supplies.
This research demonstrated that a negative trend pattern existed between the impact of STC Yasi and other similar world cyclone events on PHI and the management of NCDs. This research provides an insight for disaster planners to address concerns of people with NCDs. While further research is needed, this study provides an understanding of areas for improvement, specifically enhancing protective PHI and the development of strategies for maintaining treatment and alternative care options, such as maintaining safe water for dialysis patients.
Ryan BJ , Franklin RC , Burkle FM Jr , Watt K , Aitken P , Smith EC , Leggat P . Analyzing the Impact of Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasi on Public Health Infrastructure and the Management of Noncommunicable Diseases. Prehosp Disaster Med. 2015;30(1):1-10 .
By Dor Abrahamson, Jerry Andriessen, Roger Azevedo, Michael Baker, Ryan Baker, Sasha Barab, Carl Bereiter, Susan Bridges, Mario Carretero, Carol K. K. Chan, Clark A. Chinn, Paul Cobb, Allan Collins, Kevin Crowley, Elizabeth A. Davis, Chris Dede, Sharon J. Derry, Andrea A. diSessa, Michael Eisenberg, Yrjö Engeström, Noel Enyedy, Barry J. Fishman, Ricki Goldman, James G. Greeno, Erica Rosenfeld Halverson, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Michael J. Jacobson, Sanna Järvelä, Yasmin B. Kafai, Yael Kali, Manu Kapur, Paul A. Kirschner, Karen Knutson, Timothy Koschmann, Joseph S. Krajcik, Carol D. Lee, Peter Lee, Robb Lindgren, Jingyan Lu, Richard E. Mayer, Naomi Miyake, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Mitchell J. Nathan, Narcis Pares, Roy Pea, James W. Pellegrino, William R. Penuel, Palmyre Pierroux, Brian J. Reiser, K. Ann Renninger, Ann S. Rosebery, R. Keith Sawyer, Marlene Scardamalia, Anna Sfard, Mike Sharples, Kimberly M. Sheridan, Bruce L. Sherin, Namsoo Shin, George Siemens, Peter Smagorinsky, Nancy Butler Songer, James P. Spillane, Kurt Squire, Gerry Stahl, Constance Steinkuehler, Reed Stevens, Daniel Suthers, Iris Tabak, Beth Warren, Uri Wilensky, Philip H. Winne, Carmen Zahn
Edited by R. Keith Sawyer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Book: The Cambridge Handbook of the Learning Sciences
Published online: 05 November 2014
Print publication: 17 November 2014, pp xv-xviii
By Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, F. H. Buckley, Mina Cikara, David Combs, N. T. Feather, Kurt Feyaerts, Agneta H. Fischer, Susan T. Fiske, Charles Hoogland, Giselinde Kuipers, Colin Wayne Leach, Antony S. R. Manstead, Bert Oben, Diederik Oostdijk, Jaap W. Ouwerkerk, John Portmann, Caitlin A. J. Powell, Mark Rotteveel, D. Ryan Schurtz, Elise C. Seip, Richard H. Smith, Russell Spears, Jill M. Sundie, Stephen M. Thielke, Niels van de Ven, Wilco W. van Dijk, Lotte F. van Dillen
Edited by Wilco W. van Dijk, Universiteit Leiden, Jaap W. Ouwerkerk, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Book: Schadenfreude
Print publication: 24 July 2014, pp x-xii
By Lenard A. Adler, Pinky Agarwal, Rehan Ahmed, Jagga Rao Alluri, Fawaz Al-Mufti, Samuel Alperin, Michael Amoashiy, Michael Andary, David J. Anschel, Padmaja Aradhya, Vandana Aspen, Esther Baldinger, Jee Bang, George D. Baquis, John J. Barry, Jason J. S. Barton, Julius Bazan, Amanda R. Bedford, Marlene Behrmann, Lourdes Bello-Espinosa, Ajay Berdia, Alan R. Berger, Mark Beyer, Don C. Bienfang, Kevin M. Biglan, Thomas M. Boes, Paul W. Brazis, Jonathan L. Brisman, Jeffrey A. Brown, Scott E. Brown, Ryan R. Byrne, Rina Caprarella, Casey A. Chamberlain, Wan-Tsu W. Chang, Grace M. Charles, Jasvinder Chawla, David Clark, Todd J. Cohen, Joe Colombo, Howard Crystal, Vladimir Dadashev, Sarita B. Dave, Jean Robert Desrouleaux, Richard L. Doty, Robert Duarte, Jeffrey S. Durmer, Christyn M. Edmundson, Eric R. Eggenberger, Steven Ender, Noam Epstein, Alberto J. Espay, Alan B. Ettinger, Niloofar (Nelly) Faghani, Amtul Farheen, Edward Firouztale, Rod Foroozan, Anne L. Foundas, David Elliot Friedman, Deborah I. Friedman, Steven J. Frucht, Oded Gerber, Tal Gilboa, Martin Gizzi, Teneille G. Gofton, Louis J. Goodrich, Malcolm H. Gottesman, Varda Gross-Tsur, Deepak Grover, David A. Gudis, John J. Halperin, Maxim D. Hammer, Andrew R. Harrison, L. Anne Hayman, Galen V. Henderson, Steven Herskovitz, Caitlin Hoffman, Laryssa A. Huryn, Andres M. Kanner, Gary P. Kaplan, Bashar Katirji, Kenneth R. Kaufman, Annie Killoran, Nina Kirz, Gad E. Klein, Danielle G. Koby, Christopher P. Kogut, W. Curt LaFrance, Patrick J.M. Lavin, Susan W. Law, James L. Levenson, Richard B. Lipton, Glenn Lopate, Daniel J. Luciano, Reema Maindiratta, Robert M. Mallery, Georgios Manousakis, Alan Mazurek, Luis J. Mejico, Dragana Micic, Ali Mokhtarzadeh, Walter J. Molofsky, Heather E. Moss, Mark L. Moster, Manpreet Multani, Siddhartha Nadkarni, George C. Newman, Rolla Nuoman, Paul A. Nyquist, Gaia Donata Oggioni, Odi Oguh, Denis Ostrovskiy, Kristina Y. Pao, Juwen Park, Anastas F. Pass, Victoria S. Pelak, Jeffrey Peterson, John Pile-Spellman, Misha L. Pless, Gregory M. Pontone, Aparna M. Prabhu, Michael T. Pulley, Philip Ragone, Prajwal Rajappa, Venkat Ramani, Sindhu Ramchandren, Ritesh A. Ramdhani, Ramses Ribot, Heidi D. Riney, Diana Rojas-Soto, Michael Ronthal, Daniel M. Rosenbaum, David B. Rosenfield, Durga Roy, Michael J. Ruckenstein, Max C. Rudansky, Eva Sahay, Friedhelm Sandbrink, Jade S. Schiffman, Angela Scicutella, Maroun T. Semaan, Robert C. Sergott, Aashit K. Shah, David M. Shaw, Amit M. Shelat, Claire A. Sheldon, Anant M. Shenoy, Yelizaveta Sher, Jessica A. Shields, Tanya Simuni, Rajpaul Singh, Eric E. Smouha, David Solomon, Mehri Songhorian, Steven A. Sparr, Egilius L. H. Spierings, Eve G. Spratt, Beth Stein, S.H. Subramony, Rosa Ana Tang, Cara Tannenbaum, Hakan Tekeli, Amanda J. Thompson, Michael J. Thorpy, Matthew J. Thurtell, Pedro J. Torrico, Ira M. Turner, Scott Uretsky, Ruth H. Walker, Deborah M. Weisbrot, Michael A. Williams, Jacques Winter, Randall J. Wright, Jay Elliot Yasen, Shicong Ye , G. Bryan Young, Huiying Yu, Ryan J. Zehnder
Edited by Alan B. Ettinger, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, Deborah M. Weisbrot, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Book: Neurologic Differential Diagnosis
Published online: 05 June 2014
Print publication: 17 April 2014, pp xi-xx
By Jane Balme, Graeme Barker, James Blinkhorn, Sandra Bowdler, Christopher Clarkson, Richard Cosgrove, Iain Davidson, Robin Dennell, Anne Ford, Natalie R. Franklin, Ian Gilligan, Huw S. Groucutt, Phillip J. Habgood, Chris Hunt, Michelle C. Langley, Armand Salvador B. Mijares, M. J. Morwood, Sue O’Connor, Stephen Oppenheimer, Alfred F. Pawlik, Michael D. Petraglia, Anne Pike-Tay, Philip J. Piper, Martin Porr, Ryan J. Rabett, Wil Roebroeks, Glenn R. Summerhayes
Edited by Robin Dennell, University of Exeter, Martin Porr, University of Western Australia, Perth
Book: Southern Asia, Australia, and the Search for Human Origins
Print publication: 24 February 2014, pp xi-xvi
Chapter 2 - The Importance of Autonomy for Development and Well-Being
from Part I - Dialectic Between Organismic and Social Processes
By Edward L. Deci, Richard M. Ryan
Edited by Bryan W. Sokol, St Louis University, Missouri, Frederick M. E. Grouzet, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Ulrich Müller, University of Victoria, British Columbia
Book: Self-Regulation and Autonomy
Print publication: 18 November 2013, pp 19-46
Chapter 9 - Toward a Social Psychology of Assimilation: Self-Determination Theory in Cognitive Development and Education
from Part III - Self-Regulation and Autonomy at School
By Richard M. Ryan, Edward L. Deci
Print publication: 18 November 2013, pp 191-207
By Janet Bottoms, Michael Cordner, Hugh Craig, Péter Dávidházi, Tobias Döring, John Drakakis, James Hirsh, Ton Hoenselaars, Russell Jackson, M. Lindsay Kaplan, Hester Lees-Jeffries, Sonia Massai, Richard Meek, Michael Neill, Scott L. Newstok, Reiko Oya, Varsha Panjwani, Michael Pavelka, Stephen Purcell, Carol Chillington Rutter, Kiernan Ryan, David Schalkwyk, Charlotte Scott, James Shaw, Erica Sheen, Tiffany Stern, R. S. White, Richard Wilson, Cordelia Zukerman
Edited by Peter Holland
Book: Shakespeare Survey
Print publication: 07 November 2013, pp vi-vi
By Ioannis P. Androulakis, Djillali Annane, Gérard Audibert, Lisa L. Barnes, Paolo Bartolomeo, Walter S. Bartynski, David A. Bennett, Nicolas Bruder, Nathan E. Brummel, Steve E. Calvano, Alain Cariou, F. Chretien, Jan Claassen, Colm Cunningham, Souhayl Dahmani, Robert Dantzer, Dimitry S. Davydow, Sanjay V. Desai, E. Wesley Ely, Frédéric Faugeras, Karen J. Ferguson, Brandon Foreman, Sadanand M. Gaikwad, Rebecca F. Gottesman, Maura A. Grega, Richard D. Griffiths, Marion Griton, Stefan D. Gurney, Hebah M. Hefzy, Michael T. Heneka, Dustin M. Hipp, Ramona O. Hopkins, Christopher G. Hughes, James C. Jackson, Christina Jones, Peter W. Kaplan, Keith W. Kelley, Raymond C. Koehler, Matthew A. Koenig, Jan Pieter Konsman, Felix Kork, John P. Kress, Stephen F. Lowry, Alawi Luetz, David Luis, Alasdair M. J. MacLullich, Guy M. McKhann, Jean Mantz, Panteleimon D. Mavroudis, Mervyn Maze, Bruno Mégarbane, Lionel Naccache, Dale M. Needham, Pratik P. Pandharipande, Jean-Francois Payen, V. Hugh Perry, Margaret Pisani, C. Rauturier, Benjamin Rohaut, Jennifer Ryan, Robert D. Sanders, Jeremy D. Scheff, Frederic Sedel, Ola A. Selnes, Tarek Sharshar, Martin Siegemund, Yoanna Skrobik, Jamie W. Sleigh, Romain Sonneville, Claudia D. Spies, Luzius A. Steiner, Robert D. Stevens, Raoul Sutter, Fabio Silvio Taccone, Richard E. Temes, Willem A. van Gool, Christel C. Vanbesien, F. Verdonk, Odile Viltart, Julia Wendon, Catherine N. Widmann, Robert S. Wilson
Edited by Robert D. Stevens, Tarek Sharshar, E. Wesley Ely, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee
Book: Brain Disorders in Critical Illness
Published online: 05 October 2013
Print publication: 19 September 2013, pp viii-xii
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UN Treaty on Business & Human Rights "Zero Draft" Negotiations Day 1
Oct 16, 2018 / By ECCJ
Record number of registered participants. EU is present but does not participate in negotiations, some EU member states present but follow the EU’s line, as does Switzerland. Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights recalls the goal of this process: Stopping corporate abuse. MEP Helmut Scholz calls for urgent acceleration of negotiations based on the EP’s resolution for genuine and constructive engagement of EU. Civil society voices strong support and need for extending Draft Zero.
On Monday 15 October 2018, the forth session of the Open-ended intergovernmental working group for the elaboration of an International Legally Binding Instrument on Transnational Corporations and other Business Enterprises with respect to human rights, Resolution A/HRC/26/9 opened in Geneva.
Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights, Kate Gilmore, congratulated Ecuador on releasing the Draft Zero as a basis for negotiations.Despite different views, she recalled the shared goal: Putting an end to corporate abuses. She mentioned the record number of civil society representatives who have traveled to Geneva, giving a headcount of 280 accredited members as well as 25 experts speaking as panelists. She made it clear that the UNGPs and a binding Treaty should be mutual and complementary, not in competition with each other. The Treaty process should advance the application of the UNGPs. This process is needed as a bold step forward, for strengthened accountability and effective remedy. She called on participants to engage constructively in this complex process.
Then followed the election of the chairperson rapporteur, and the Ecuadorian Ambassador to the UN, Luis Gallegos, was elected. He agreed with Ms. Gilmore that this was are a historic moment to create a process that protects the victims. He explained that the Zero Draft was not the position of Ecuador or any other state, it is a result of consultations and experts’ contributions. The agenda and the program of work was unanimously adopted without any comments from any delegations.
A positive signal was the fact that Dominique Poitier was the key note speaker to start off the debate. As a Member of the French National Assembly he continues to play a key role in fighting for the French law on the duty of vigilance. He invited negotiators to be courageous and highlighted the need for justice in times of globalization. He had been the key note in the previous session, too.
Several African countries showed their support to the negotiations on behalf of the African Union and pleaded for speedy proceedings. South Africa reminded the room that this negotiation must be done with a sense of urgency and that the European Parliament’s resolution in favor of the Treaty should be commended.
Until the very last moment, civil society had heard contradicting information on whether the EU would take part and if they would, what approach they would take. Whereas at the 3rd session in 2017 they had obstructed the appointment of the Chair as well as the adoption of agenda and program of work, this year they refrained from any such practice. The EU’s representative to the UN, Jerome Bellion, presented a very reserved view on process and content. He underlined however that the EU was present, showing commitment to effective multilateralism. He deplored a lack of consensus building by Ecuador and South Africa, the two initiators of the process. The EU feels that none of their proposals had been taken into account. The biggest concern was the restriction to transnational corporations, the fact that not all human rights violations would be covered but also a lack of reference to the UNGPs. He continued to highlight the EU’s smart mix of legislation and voluntary measures in the field of business and human rights and its support for the National Action Plans (NAP). ECCJ has criticized in numerous instances the actual ineffectiveness of voluntary measures and the lack of innovative forward looking or binding measures stemming from NAPs. If only the EU was as assertive in making rules applicable to all businesses when it comes to European legislation.
‘We do not shy away from binding norms when they are needed’, Bellion repeated twice. He said the EU looks forward to listening and the receiving the report of the 4th session at the end, in which all positions should be nominally reflected. He conceded that there had been internal reflections of which format would best fulfill the need for a legally binding instrument, which would ensure level playing field. The EU is committed to building legal framework, addressing the real needs to prevent abuses, and ensure remedy when abuses occur.
MEP Helmut Scholz recalled the challenging situation in which the negotiations take place and the damage that is done to people and the environment by transnational companies. He recalled the EP’s resolution and emphasized that due diligence can strengthen access to remedy and a coherent binding framework was needed. In view of the urgency, he urged the negotiations not only to start but to accelerate with a focus on transnational companies which are still the focal point of the problem. He thought the Zero Draft was open enough to broaden the scope in the course of the process.
With special interest, participants awaited the intervention of the only EU member state on its own behalf, France’s intervention was fully in line with the EU’s statement, highlighting France’s engagement transposing OECD guidelines and UNGPs and in addition the French law on the duty of vigilance.
Also Switzerland’s intervention was interesting with respect to the Responsible Business Initiative, which, together with the existing French law, is the most concrete step towards national legislation on an overall corporate duty of care so far. However, the Swiss representative didn’t even mention this development at home, and instead emphasized its reservation towards the process. Switzerland prefers to focus on the its National Action Plan implementing the UNGPs as well as the OECD Guidelines for multinational enterprises and the OECD Guidance for responsible business conduct. Echoing the EU position, Switzerland wants to see the extension of the scope to all enterprises and criticises the Zero Draft’s definition of transnational, following Professor John Ruggie’s analysis. Switzerland reserves the right to intervene on content at a later stage during the negotiation week.
The OECD as an observer in the negotiations offered its support in order to align the Treaty with the OECD guidance’s understanding of due diligence which has been the result of a comprehensive multi-stakeholder process. The OECD National Contact Points could also serve as a model for grievance mechanisms, the representative said.
The International Chamber of Commerce as well as The International Organisation of Employers presented key points of their responses to the Zero Draft established together with Business Europe, unsurprisingly completely opposing the Draft and rejecting it as not helpful and allegedly undermining the UNGPs. Perfectly in line with the EU’s argumentation, the scope being limited to transnational companies, is seen as a key obstacle to establishing a meaningful instrument.
Civil society organisations representing a broad range of interest groups ranging from feminist, environment and development background, as well as research institutes spoke out and presented their support for the Treaty process, highlighted the need for action, and asking for refinements. The extension of scope to include domestic as well as state-owned companies was shared by many of them.
In the last part of the session, the Chair proceeded to the first reading, presenting the Zero Draft in detail, starting by Article 2. Statement of purpose and Article 8. Rights of victims. Comments were made by Ibrahim Salama, OHCHR, Ana María Suárez Franco, FIAN, Gabriela Quijano, Amnesty International, and finally MEP Molly Scott Cato. The latter deplored the unwillingness of the EU to engage more actively and recalled that human rights are only a valid instrument when they are binding.
The civil society delegations are invited to meet the EU delegation on Tuesday morning for an exchange of views.
When sitting, live coverage of the negotiations can be streamed here.
Transcribed representations from all states and parties to the sessions can be viewed here.
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#Medicinegetsbetter – Dr Partha Kar’s latest blog post
It's actually Helgi's fault. Yep, pure and simple – a chap otherwise known as @traumagasdoc on twitter. He got me started when we discussed whether things got better in medicine – and to be honest, reminiscing...would I do it again...yep, without a doubt – and Helgi as ever, eloquently put his thoughts down
So here's my tuppence worth. I was a House officer, then a Senior House Officer for nearly three years then became a Specialist Registrar for five years – with two years added on doing research- and you know what? It's been quite a ride. I am not going to get sucked into those puerile debates about "in my days" – I interact with juniors enough to know that the fire of dedication, the urge to work hard and do good is exactly in the same proportion as we had in "our days". It's not their fault if hours have changed,training have shortened – within those limitations, all junior docs are as hard working as ever or at least the proportion isn't any different.
Do they moan more? Well – it's more public now – why? Because we have social media – on twitter, in 140 characters, you can offload your angst, grief, frustration – which to many may seem like moaning. To the bystanders, I was no different. We used to do it in a pub, among friends, complain about the system – the opportunity for it being public simply wasn't there. If there was, would it be any different from now? Probably not.
A petition has been launched for all people with Type 1 diabetes to be issued with certificates providing them with free access to diabetes medication for life.
Gavin Griffiths, a 23-year-old athlete with Type 1 diabetes who raises money for diabetes charities through a range of fitness challenges, launched the petition through his website diathlete.org.
The number of people with diabetes seen by specialists at an Exeter hospital has more than doubled thanks to a pioneering assessment and referral system.
The initiative at the MacLeod Diabetes & Endocrine Centre at the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust allows ward nurses to complete three referrals in three ‘clicks’ to three specialists. To read more, click here.
Diabetes UK is looking for 16 enthusiastic clinicians who want to be local ‘Clinical Champions’ and deliver the leadership to improve services for people with diabetes.
The roles are open to any healthcare professional experienced in treating the complex needs of people with diabetes and with the potential to lead real change, including consultants, GPs, nurses and senior pharmacists. To read more, click here.
The thresholds GPs use for diagnosing pregnant women with gestational diabetes should be lowered, according to updated NICE guidelines.
It is being advised that if a pregnant woman has a fasting plasma glucose level of 5.6 mmol/litre or above, or a 2-hour plasma glucose level of 7.8 mmol/litre or above they should be diagnosed. To read more, click here.
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Type 1 rugby hero returns to England squad
JDRF supporter and rugby star Chris Pennell, who lives with Type 1 diabetes, has returned to England’s squad for the Six Nations.
As full-back cover for another player recovering from concussion, he’s now got a chance to edge back into the team after being injured himself at the end of last year. To read more, click here.
Self-care to be promoted at conference
Structured education is the only “long-term answer” available to the NHS in meeting the challenge posed by the increase in prevalence of Type 2 diabetes, the Director of DESMOND has said.
Bernie Stribling said structured education programmes are a proven method to enable supported self-care in diabetes.
Bernie was speaking ahead of the Diabetes UK Professional Conference 2015, which takes place between March 11 and 13, where DESMOND will be part of the Self-Care Village. To read more, click here.
Awards kick off at national conference
The 2015 Quality in Care (QiC) Diabetes awards programme will be launched at this year’s Diabetes UK conference. The event takes place at London’s ExCeL between March 11 and 13.
Emma Clear, Quality in Care programme co-ordinator, said: “Visit stand D24 where you can speak to the QiC team and learn more about the programme and how you can enter the great projects and initiatives you’re working on." To read more, click here.
Filmmaker to host Facebook chat
A filmmaker who has documented his father’s battle with diabetes is taking part in a social media Q & A on Sunday, March 1.
Anthony Whittington and his dad Geoff Whittington will be answering questions from the diabetes community between 7pm and 8 pm on the Diabetes.co.uk Facebook page.
For more information, cliick here.
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Leaf 93 - Domus Aurea Neronis Abaede S. Io Et Pauli Colosseu Versus Ad Hortos Maecena
Architecture, Domestic -- Italy -- Rome.
Domus Aurea -- Rome(Italy).
Nero, Emperor of Rome, 37-68.
Palaces -- Italy -- Rome.
The Domus Aurea or "Golden House" was a large landscaped villa built by the Emperor Nero. Built after the great fire of 64 AD, the house was located in the heart of ancient Rome. Built of brick and concrete and covered with the gold leaf that gave the villa its name, the house was extravagant. Ceilings were faced with semi-precious stones and ivory veneers, floors were mosaic, and the walls were frescoed. The complex was designed to be a place of entertainment. Nero maintained his own palace on the Quirinal Hill. The original size of the complex is not known as it has not all been excavated yet.
The verso of this leaf contains text in three languages with page title in Italian: La Casa Aurea di Nerone.
Leaf 93 Recto and Verso.
Image 23.5 x 17.75 cm.
Domus Aurea, Rome
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Buick Water Towers
These are the water towers north of factory #02. The photo below shows their beginning. This photo was taken from the roof of the power house #14. This view is also facing south-east as shown below. These towers were removed I believe in 1963. The old single water tower which was adjacent to the old original powerhouse #26 built in 1906 was torn down along with the powerhouse during the 1923 -1924 remodeling for the Unified Assembly plant #62. This photo is from Don Bents book “A Place Called Buick”.
This photo taken on October 14, 1920 obviously shows the Buick warehouse and train shed. The crane and donkey engine in this photo are getting ready to start construction on the two matching Buick water towers. You can see the footing for the west tower in the lower left corner. The steel beams are the parts to be erected. That is Division street in the lower right corner heading south. That is the new factory #40transmission plant in the distance. The cooling pond for the power plant (being built at the same time) will occupy this whole area along Division st. very shortly. This photo is from the Buick Research Gallery.
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Leith Street Then And Now.
The same view as shown below only fifty years earlier. The photo above this one is from before 1920. It is hard to believe now that this (St. Johns neighborhood) was once a thriving community. That is the Buick power plant #14 belching out coal smoke. The women in this large community always complained about the coal smoke getting on the clean wash hung on their clothes lines. The small parking lot on the right was where I parked the day I hired in at Buick 1972. Personnel at that time was in building #85 just under the overpass and up the hill on the right. photo courtesy of the Buick Research Gallery in Flint, Michigan. Excuse my thumb in this photo. You have to wear gloves when researching the archives. Leith Street subway.
Leith Street looking west at the rail bridge on July 22, 2011. Using Google Chrome you can enlarge by left clicking ,then right clicking and choosing open image in new tab and left click once more. All browsers are different but most photos on this blog can be enlarged.
links: St. Johns Industrial Park Urban Renewal near Buick
Buick Powertrain North Site Demolition
Factory #05 transmission support factory (gears and such) is still in tact. But the Demolition Man is approaching. This was originally building #43 constructed for the Korean war effort. This view is facing south-east from Industrial Avenue and Stewart Street on August 29, 2011. It was built in 1951.
The small Building #38 built in 1985 is still standing. I can not see any sign of the old factory #03 spring plant. Or before that; factory #30 aluminum plant. It stood as a skeleton for many years. I think they left it standing as a warning to the others. "How sad".
Factory #70/#81. The old Buick foundry which became the torque converter factory in 1981. It was the first factory at the Buick site that done away with time clocks.
Factory #70/#81 in the background.
This is factory #70/#81 in the background. Demolition has also started on old factory #10 at the north-end on Stewart Street. Factory #10 was the arsenal of defense during World War II making many components for the Liberator engine. My batteries went dead before I reached Stewart Street.
Factory #70/#81 the old Buick foundry is in the background.
They say "DEMOLITION MEANS PROGRESS" but I don't see it. My ancestors and I worked there many years and I still don't quite understand. "And yes"-- sometimes when I worked there I felt like knocking walls down.
Factory #70/#81 built torque converters from 1981 until last year.
Just piles of rubble now. Factory #70/#81 is still standing in the distance.
This is the same spot July 15, 2011 (shown below) one month ago. The old crankshaft factory #66 at the north-end of #31 is now gone also. It was still standing a month ago.
Industrial Avenue facing north. Boy it sure looks empty now.
Factory #31 used to fill this view facing north-east on Industrial Avenue. Before that factory #16 built in 1910 filled this view until 1941.
Leith street gate looking east.
Links: Factory #66 Demolition Leith Street Revisited. Factory #03 Forge Buick WWII First Metal July 17,1942 Buick Northend Industrial and Leith Over 100 Years Factory #31 2/28/04 Factory #31 Axle Line Factory #31 Exhaust Pipe Bending Factory #10 Factory #05 Machine Work
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Hellcat Loading & Shipping During World War II
This ad appeared for publication after it had already destroyed many German tanks and was no longer a secret.
Notice the cables under tension behind the turret at the front of this tank. The tanks were shipped with the barrel facing the rear. This is factory #01.
Loading the M-18 in factory #01.
The M-18 uncovered on a New York Central flat-car.
See description below.
The same as described below.
Hellcat tank destroyers heading for the main line. In this south-west view you can see part of factory #70 and #71 at the left, Building #71a would be built on the west side of #71 along Division st. after the war. Factory #11 is in the distance and would be re-numbered after the war, becoming factory #31. The barn like structure in the right background is the sand shed #76.
Links: Factory #62 Getting Ready For War Division Street Revisited. Genesee County Tanks Buick At It's Battle Stations M18 Hellcats ready for shipping. Factory #62 WWII Buick 1911
The T-70 Tank Prototype
That is the Buick main office along Hamilton avenue in the background. In this photo you can see where the old bridge to factory #01 used to be connected before the remodeling of #01 done in 1934. This open area was the location of the original south section old factory #01. "This area would be rebuilt after WW II". The army ordered two test models of this design. They were needed at that time (in 1942) for the British army in Libya. This first model with a 57mm cannon was completed in July of 1942. the second revised model with a 75mm cannon was completed in October 1942. This cannon would eventually become 76mm in size which required a complete rework of the tank. The army also requested that a machine gun be added. This first model had a Buick engine installed. Due to the increased weight factor they eventually used a radial air craft engine to power it. A line worker at Buick dubbed the tank "HELLCAT" and the name just stuck. The first of the tanks now known as the M-18 were completed on April 15, 1943. And the rest is history.
The T-70 under power. This is the same location as shown below.
This view of the T-70 prototype shows factory #01 at the right with factory #01's original west section in the background. This open area was created during the 1934 remodel of this factory.
Trying out the T-70 at the north Buick site.
The T-70 tank in front of the not yet finished aluminum factory #20. This factory would become factory #10 transmission plant after the war. This view is facing west near the Pere Marquette rail line and Stewart street.
Testing the T-70 tank at Buick in Flint, Michigan. The T-70 was still a far cry from the finished product. Notice the coil spring suspension. Torsion bar suspension was one of the main attributes of the M-18 and is still in use today on our modern tanks.
Army Air Force Training School
The classroom layout for the Liberator engine training at Buick. This building was the original factory service center at Buick and later (in my time) it was truck repair. Link: for school story. More on the training of engine mechanics.
Where the training took place for the Liberator engine at Buick in Flint, Michigan. This view is facing north-east.
Showing the students how magnesium burns.
Accessories class in factory #17-b.
Carburetor class.
In factory #17.
In #17-b.
In factory #17-b.
Electrical class.
Electrical classroom.
Inspection area.
Nose section area.
Power section area.
Same as below, only a full photo.
Power section classroom.
Supercharger class in factory #17.
Supercharger class.
Supercharger class. You are facing east.
Engine adjustment area. You are facing north inside factory #17.
Engine adjustment area.
Final adjustment.
A completed engine used in the classroom.
Engines ready for testing.
Heading for the engine test shed.
Engine test layout.
Engine test shed facing east. St. Johns st. is just beyond this. This buildings location is shown in the map farther below.
A group of graduates.
Mail call.
You had to look good for graduation.
The military band rehearsal.
The Army Air Force band.
The same buildings as described below.
Factory #94 in the background.
The south wall of factory #94. Bridge #23 is visible at the left. This bridge exited on Division street.
Location for the final graduation ceremonies.
This shows the factory layout during the war. The graduation ceremonies took place between factory #17 and #94. Also the final ceremony took place at the I.M.A. auditorium in downtown Flint. Original (unmodified) map from "A Place Called Buick" by: Don Bent.
Left to right we see factory #17-b, #28, #40, #41 heat treat, #03, #02, bridge #23 and #94.
This photo of graduation day shows factory #94 at the right with a part of factory #28 at the left. Factory #40 and #02 are in the background. The photographer must have been standing on the roof of the engine test shed.
Army air Force brass outside of factory #17-b at the north-end during graduation ceremony's.
Graduation ceremony's at the north-end of factory #17 and #17-b. Engine assembly and adjustment took place on the first floor north-end just inside the doors in factory #17.
W. F. Hufstader (dark suit) at graduation ceremony. This east facing view shows factory #94 at the left with the engine test shed in the background right. Saint Johns street (later James P. Cole blvd.) would be just beyond the test shed.
W. F. Hufstader with army air Force officers. Hufstader was the General sales manager for Buick but since there were no cars built during the war he took over the job of running the school.
William F. Hufstader was the dean of the school.
Links: Factory #35 And #94 Factory #17 A View From The Past And Present Army Air Force Technical Training Liberator Engine work at Buick. Factory #28 #17 & #94 Demolition 2000Factory #17 Truck And Customer Service Inside Factory #17 War Work Factory #17-b and #17 Training School WWII Buick At It's Battle Stations Factory #28 #17 & #94 Demolition 2000 THE FACTORY BEHIND THE CAR 1917 factory school story.
War Work in Factory #11
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McKenzie, Retallick star as Chiefs run riot to end winless run
By AFP Issued on 23-03-2019 Modified 23-03-2019 to 20:03
Damian McKenzie starred for the Chiefs on Saturday AFP
All Blacks Damian McKenzie and Brodie Retallick starred as the Chiefs ended a five-match winless run since the Super Rugby season began by hammering the Bulls 56-20 in Pretoria Saturday.
Full-back McKenzie was involved in almost every attacking move of the New Zealanders, who outscored the lethargic South Africans by seven tries to two at Loftus Versfeld Stadium.
He was also immaculate with his goal-kicking, slotting nine consecutive kicks before a difficult conversion rebounded off the post with his last attempt.
Lock Retallick scored pushover tries just before and after half-time with the first giving the Chiefs a 24-6 half-time lead and the second effectively ending the match as a contest.
It was the first victory by the Chiefs in Pretoria since 2001, and was achieved without All Blacks centre Anton Lienert-Brown, a late withdrawal due to injury.
From start to finish, the visiting team dominated possession and territory, belying the fact that they began the match bottom of the 15-team combined standings.
Before the match, the teams, replacements and match officials formed a circle and observed a brief period of silence in memory of the victims of the Christchurch massacre last weekend.
"That was a really good result because it is never easy beating the Bulls on the Highveld," said man-of-the-match McKenzie.
"Our attitude was great, there was a lot of energy within the team, and we scored some really great tries by playing good footie."
Winger Solomon Alaimalo, who was sin-binned for a high tackle in the second half, scored two tries for the two-time champions.
Retallick and centre Alex Nankivell also scored two tries each and replacement back Te Toiroa Tahuriorangi one for the New Zealand outfit.
McKenzie slotted six conversions and three penalties for a 21-point tally that lifted him to second behind Handre Pollard of the Bulls in the Super Rugby scoring charts.
Centres Jesse Kriel and Burger Odendaal scored a try each for the Bulls and fly-half Pollard kicked two conversions and two penalties.
Later, brothers Robert and Daniel du Preez contributed 23 points between them as the Sharks coasted to a 28-14 victory over the Melbourne Rebels in Durban.
Loose forward Daniel used his strength to barge over for a seventh-minute try and open the scoring at Kings Park.
Fly-half Robert then took over, scoring a try and kicking two conversions and three penalties while a try by winger Makazole Mapimpi completed the South Africans' total.
Winger Tom English and full-back Jack Maddocks scored a try each for the Australians and fly-half Quade Cooper converted both.
Defeat completed a disappointing tour by the Rebels, who arrived boasting a three-match winning streak only to squander a 28-point lead when losing to the Lions in Johannesburg last weekend.
The Sharks were happy to get back on the winning trail after losing their last two matches having begun with two victories.
"We are very disappointed having come to South Africa aiming for at least one victory," admitted Rebels skipper and loose forward Angus Cottrell.
"The positives included our line-outs and scrums, but we missed too many tackles and conceded a lot of penalties."
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Soil Microbial Functional Gene Beta-diversity Is Determined by the Variation in Aboveground Plant Biomass Composition
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Understanding linkages between the diversity of organisms aboveground and that of organisms belowground constitutes an important challenge for our knowledge of the maintenance and stability of ecosystem processes. Increased attention has been paid to the biodiversity linkages between aboveground and belowground biological communities in last decade.
However, since most studies did not survey the corresponding plant and microbial communities within strictly dependent sampling sites, direct comparisons of plant-microbial diversity at the community level are still limited.
Dr. LI Hui and her colleagues from the research group of Soil Chemistry in Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Aacdemy of Sciences used a 9-year field experiment established in a typical steppe in Inner Mongolia, China, and explored diversity linkages between plant and soil microbial communities.
They evaluated soil microbial community composition by both taxonomic (16S rRNA) and functional genes, and estimated plant community composition by traditional "species composition" and species-specific "biomass composition", which constitutes the biomass of each species.
They found that the richness and Shannon diversity of 16S rRNA genes was significantly correlated with plant species richness and Shannon diversity, whereas microbial functional gene richness was weakly associated with total plant biomass.
Microbial beta-diversity, evaluated by 16S rRNA genes, was coupled with plant beta-diversity as estimated by both "species composition" and "biomass composition", while microbial functional gene beta-diversity was only correlated with the dissimilarities of "biomass composition".
The observed data suggested that soil metabolic potentials could be more determined by the heterogeneity of resources returned to soil than controlled by the species composition of the macro-organism communities.
The functional gene detection by using Geochip is collaborated with Professor ZHOU Jizhong in Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, USA.
This research has been published in Plant and Soil as an article entitled "Soil microbial beta-diversity is linked with compositional variation in aboveground plant biomass in a semi-arid grassland".
This work was funded by National Key Research and Development Program of China, and the National Science Foundation of China.
Comparison of beta-diversity between plant and microbial communities. Bray-Curtis distances of microbial communities computed based on 16S rRNA gene data (a, b) and functional gene data (c, d) were regressed against plant community dissimilarity calculated based on the number of individuals in each species (a, c) and species-specific biomass (b, d), respectively (Image by LI Hui)
YUE Qian
Institute of Applied Ecology
E-mail: yueqian@iae.ac.cn
Soil microbial beta-diversity is linked with compositional variation in aboveground plant biomass in a semi-arid grassland
Genes Contribute to Biological Motion Perception and Its Covariation with Autistic Traits
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Prof. FU Xiangdong’s group at the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB), Chinese Academy of Sciences, has identified a quantitative trait locus for rice grain quality, qGW7, reflects allelic variation of GW7, a gene encoding a TONNEAU1-...
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Experts Pinpoint Gene for Better Rice
Scientists said they had pinpointed variants of a gene to improve the quality and yield of rice, a staple starch for billions of people. Working in two separate groups, researchers from China discovered that mutations in a specific gene resulted in lon...
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Jimmy Kimmel Will Host 90th Academy Awards in 2018 – Variance Magazine
Jimmy Kimmel Will Host 90th Academy Awards in 2018Variance MagazineJimmy Kimmel will host the 90th annual Academy Awards next year, ABC announced on Tuesday. The news had been expected, but this year’s Best Picture snafu had left next year’s ceremony unclear. Both the network and the Academy have confirmed … …read more Source:: Academy Awards […]
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AllAfrica.comOrganisers of widely considered to be Africa’s most important film event and the most prestigious film award in Africa, Africa Movie Academy Awards, popularly known as AMAA May 13, 2017 announced the nominations for the 13 edition. The award is aimed …Nigerian movies top 2017 AMAA nomination listPremium Times all 7 news articles …read more […]
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First it was the sixties that were in vogue, with remakes of films like The Italian Job and Get Carter. Then it was the 70s, with Starsky and Hutch and The Dukes of Hazzard. Then along came The A-Team, and we knew that the age of cinema revivalism had reached the 80s.
And they're just getting started. Next up comes the movie version of perhaps the most 80's of 80's TV series, Dynasty.
Having said that, Dynasty the movie is going to cash in on Mad Men 60s-mania (it all goes round in circles) as well as 80's revivalism. 'We want to go back to the beginning with these characters and use the film to trace their roots,' says creator Esther Shapiro. 'We're taking Blake Carrington back to his young manhood and when he met Alexis, and setting the movie in the Mad Men-era of the 1960s.'
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FCPA Flash – A Conversation With FCPA Violator Frederic Pierucci Regarding FCPA Enforcement Against European Companies
By Mike Koehler on March 5, 2019 in ALSTOM, FCPA Flash, Foreign Issuers, Foreign Non-Issuer Company, Frederic Pierucci, Jurisdiction
The FCPA Flash podcast provides in an audio format the same fresh, candid, and informed commentary about the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and related topics as readers have come to expect from written posts on FCPA Professor.
This FCPA Flash episode is a conversation with Frederic Pierucci. In April 2013, Pierucci (a French national) was among a group of current or former Alstom executives criminally charged in connection with an alleged bribery scheme in Indonesia. Pierucci ultimately plead guilty to FCPA offenses. Upon release from U.S. prison, Pierucci authored a book titled “The American Trap.” During the podcast, Pierucci talks about his book, what motivated him to write the book, and his views that the FCPA is a “tool to destabilize” European companies and how the U.S.’s use of the FCPA is like “underground economic warfare.” During the podcast, I take issue with certain of Pierucci’s comments (for instance 7 U.S. companies have resolved FCPA enforcement actions over $100 million not the number Pierucci suggests) and the podcast contains a good back-and-forth discussion.
FCPA Flash Podcast – A Conversation With Philip Urofsky Regarding 2018 FCPA Trends And Developments
By Mike Koehler on January 9, 2019 in China, Enforcement Agency Policy, FCPA Flash, Foreign Issuers, Foreign Nationals, Foreign Non-Issuer Company, Jurisdiction, Lawrence Hoskins, OECD, Parent – Subsidiary Issues
This FCPA Flash episode is a conversation with Philip Urofsky (Shearman & Sterling and a former FCPA enforcement official at the DOJ). During the podcast, Urofsky elaborates on various issues such as jurisdiction over foreign actors and parent-subsidiary issues found in the firm’s always informative FCPA Digest. Urofsky also opines on what the FCPA enforcement landscape might look like if business organizations would put the government to its burden of proof in enforcement actions.
DOJ Quietly Releases “Declination With Disgorgement” Letter Agreement Concerning Insurance Corp. Of Barbados Ltd.
By Mike Koehler on August 27, 2018 in 2018 Enforcement Actions, Barbados, DOJ Enforcement Action, Donville Inniss, Foreign Non-Issuer Company, Insurance Corp. of Barbados, Insurance Industry, Jurisdiction
Yesterday, the DOJ quitely posted to its FCPA website this “declination with disgorgement” letter concerning Insurance Corporation of Barbados Limited (ICBL).
Pursuant to the agreement, ICBL agreed to pay approximately $94,000 to the U.S. for alleged bribes to a Barbadian government official in exchange for insurance contracts.
The full text of the DOJ’s letter to ICBL’s counsel (Adam Siegel – Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) is as follows.
Societe Generale Resolves Net $293 Million FCPA Enforcement Action Concerning Conduct In Libya That Occurred 9-14 Years Ago
By Mike Koehler on June 4, 2018 in 2018 Enforcement Actions, DOJ Enforcement Action, Financial Services Industry, Foreign Non-Issuer Company, Libya, Societe Generale
Earlier today, the DOJ announced that “Société Générale S.A. (SoGen), a global financial services institution based in Paris, France, and its wholly owned subsidiary, SGA Société Générale Acceptance N.V. (“SGA”) agreed to resolve a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act enforcement action “relating to a multi-year scheme to pay bribes to officials in Libya.” As indicated in the DOJ release and confirmed by a DOJ representative, the net FCPA settlement amount is $293 million after crediting $293 million for a related French law enforcement action.
In addition, the DOJ announced that Société Générale agreed to pay $275 million for violations arising from its manipulation of the London InterBank Offered Rate (LIBOR).
Supreme Court Questions Whether Dollar-Denominated Transactions Or Other Financial Transactions In The U.S. Are Sufficient To Assert Jurisdiction Over Foreign Corporations
By Mike Koehler on May 8, 2018 in Foreign Issuers, Foreign Non-Issuer Company, Jurisdiction, Supreme Court
Largely because of how the DOJ and SEC have chosen to enforce the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (that is resolution vehicles not subjected to any meaningful judicial scrutiny), the Supreme Court has never been presented with an opportunity to interpret the FCPA (and likely never will be so long as the current state of affairs continues). Heck, you can count on one hand (and have a few fingers left over) the number of substantive FCPA decisions issued by appellate courts.
Nevertheless, in recent years the Supreme Court has issued several decisions that are FCPA relevant and in every one the court has questioned certain aspects common in FCPA enforcement. The most recent example occurred in an Alien Tort Claims Act case (Jesner v. Arab Bank) in which the majority opinion questioned in dicta whether dollar-denominated transactions or other financial transactions in the U.S. are sufficient to assert jurisdiction over foreign corporations.
Prior to discussing the recent Jesner decision, this post highlights how such allegations are common in FCPA enforcement actions against foreign corporations.
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The Eastern region of Ghana is actually located more in the south-central area Ghana. The region offers visitors a great mix of scenic natural beauty, unique geography, rich history, and welcoming Ghanaian culture.
Along the eastern edge of the region, the Akosombo Dam backs up the Volta River to form the scenic Lake Volta, which is one of the world’s largest man-made lakes. The construction of the hydroelectric dam across the Volta River was completed in 1965, and the lake the formed stretches across five regions, from Akosombo in the south to Buipe in the north.
The region also offers picturesque mountains and highlands, such as the Akwapim Ridge, the Krobo Mountains, and the Kwahu Scarp, plus lush tropical forests, rolling hills, and low-lying plains.
Nkawkaw, Eastern Region, Ghana
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Cocoa and the slave trade dominate the history of the Eastern Region. The first cocoa seed ever planted in Ghana was planted at Mampong-Akwapim. Tetteh Quarshie is the man who brought the seed to Ghana, and his home is open to visitors. Additionally, the Cocoa Research Institute at New Tafo welcomes visitors interested in learning more about cocoa and its impact on the local culture and economy.
The Eastern Region was not influenced as much by the arrival of the Europeans as were the areas in Ghana along the coast where the slaves were actually bought. However, the area was still an important part of the route that the captured slaves had to travel.
For a period of 70 years, which ended in 1990’s, the diamond mines at Akwatia and Takrowase in the Birim River Valley were producing high quality industrial diamonds. Today, Ghana’s only commercial diamond mine at Akwatia.
The region has four major ethnic groupings: the Akan (52.1%), the Ga-Dangme (18.9%), the Ewes (15.9%) and the Guans (7.2%). All of the ethnic groups are indigenous except for the Ewes, and each ethnic group has its own distinct, language festival practices.
The regional capital is Koforidua, a pleasant traditional town with agreeable hotels and a busy market.
Boti Falls
Lake Volta and Akosombo Dam: known around the world for its massive size, and known as one of Africa’s greatest construction projects, Lake Volta offers visitors plenty of recreational opportunities, including sport-fishing for tilapia, and cruising, especially to the Dodi Island on the Dodi Princess. For a lengthier trip, the Volta Lake Transport Company takes guests on a 28-hour journey up the lake, stopping at the town of Kete-Krachi before arriving at Yeji the following evening.
Aburi Botanical Gardens: these beautiful botanical gardens date back to 1890, and the tranquil paths reveal a rich variety of subtropical trees and plants which attracts scores of birds and butterflies.
Boti Falls: these spectacular waterfalls can be found in Koforidua in the forest reserve at Huhunya. The cascades are seasonal and at their best from June to August.
Waterfalls of Begoro: the forests of Begoro feature a series of spectacular falls and cascades, including the Trudu, Akrum and Osuben. The various falls are popular for picnics and can be very popular during holidays.
Atewa Range: this rain forest is part of the upper Guinea Forest and ranks among the world’s 34 most important biodiversity hotspots. The range consists of steep-sided hills with fairly flat summits and holds a huge variety of plants, birds and butterflies, including Africa’s largest butterfly, the Giant Swallow.
Atew-Atwirebu Butterfly Sanctuary: this beautiful sanctuary has over 150 different species of ferns and other flora, plus a huge variety of birds and butterflies, including the “Papillio Antimactus,” one of the largest butterflies in Africa.
The Great Boabab Tree (Adansonia Digitata): this giant baobab sits just north of the entrance to the great Dodowa Forest. Legend has it that Shai warriors fired their last bullets into this tree to declare the end of the Kantamanso War on 26th August, 1826. The bullets used consisted of beads, beans, millet rice, salt, black potions, and talismans, and the tree still displays bumps from the shots.
The Big Tree: the Big Tree measures 12 metres in circumference and is 66.5 metres tall, and it is said to be the largest in West Africa. It is located in a beautiful spot in the Esen Epan Forest Reserve.
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Tetteh Quarshie’s Cocoa Farm: this was the first cocoa farm established in Ghana and it was planted with cocoa seeds brought from Fernando Po Island by Tetteh Quarshie in 1879. From this humble beginning, cocoa grew to become a major industry in Ghana. The farm was replanted in 1960, but 3 of the original trees still remain to this day. For serious cocoa fans, there is also a Cocoa Research Institute located at New Tafo.
Slave Market of Abonse: the town of Abonse was an important hub on the Slave Route, and visitors can explore the remains of the 17th and 18th century slave market there.
Okomfo Anokye’s Shrine: Okomfo Anokye was a legendary 18th century priest who is credited with founding the great Asante Empire. He was rumored to have supernatural powers, and many mysterious phenomena in the area are attributed to his powers. The shrine is dedicated to him, and visitors can see his had and foot imprints permanently etched in solid stone and an “Oware Board” that he reportedly carved from stone.
Woodcarving and Pottery: the regions of Krobo, Kwahu, and Aburi areas are known for their woodcarving and pottery prowess and worth a visit.
Beadmaking: the regions of Somanya and Odumase Krobo are known for bead making. There are bead market in Koforidua and Cedi.
Dipo: this important festival takes place in April and celebrates the initiation of young girls into womanhood. As part of the ritual, adolescent girls are clothed in a tiny piece of cloth and beautiful beads. There has been some public outcry against the ritual, but it is still very popular.
Odwira: this festival and the Ohum festival are two of the most famous cultural festivals celebrated in Ghana, and they both take place in towns on the Akuapem Ridge. Odwira occurs in September is a festival of thanksgiving, a remembrance of those who passed away during the year, and spiritual renewal for the coming year. The festival also celebrates the rich cultural history of the area and gives thanks to God for protection.
Ohum: this festival marks the anniversary of the Akyem Nation and takes place twice a year: June/July and September/October. The celebrations include the purification of the ancestral stools and the spirits of those who formerly occupied them. The celebration also marks the yam harvest and seeks spiritual renewal for the coming year.
Akwantukese: this festival is celebrated in November and includes a purification of the sacred stools, and blessing of ancestral spirits, and a thanks to the gods for their guidance and protection. The festival ends with a colorful durbar of chiefs.
Begoro Odwlra (Ahwie Festival): similar to the other festival, this festival gives thanks to the traditional gods and goddesses for their guidance and protection, is a period of spiritual renewal, and a consecration of the sacred stools.
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Evergreen Air is a CIA front company for chemtrail operations within the US
Posted by Alexandra | Sep 21, 2013 | 2013, Conspiracy, Cabal, Education, Environment, Financial, Economy, Government Laws, Policies, Politicians, Military, Metaphysics and Beliefs, Consciousness, Science | 0 |
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Source: GeoEngineeringWatch
Evergreen Air is a CIA front company for chemtrail operations within the US, based out of Marana Air Park near Tucson Arizona and McMinville Oregon, near Portland.
A major missing piece of a grand conspiracy has been targeted by a drunk pilot. In a small town 30 miles east of the Pacific Ocean in Oregon is the center of a major global operation. At a bar in McMinnville, Oregon, an inebriated pilot attempted to impress one of the pretty ladies with tales of his secret mission.
The pilot’s pathetic attempt to portray himself as a Sean Connery or Daniel Craig caused him to (ante up) his importance and spill the secrets of the CIA’s asset Evergreen International Aviation.
The slurred revelations confirmed suspicions that Evergreen (International Aviation) is part of the major crap dump on the planet. Chemtrails made up aluminum, barium and other ingredients contribute to respiratory ills and change the acidity of the soil.
Evergreen works from over a 100 bases and employees 4,500 people. Delford Smith privately owns the company. They admittedly “perform” for the CIA.
Evergreen was given a no contest bid that gave them all the facilities in Marana, Arizona that previously belonged to CIA’s Air America (Pinal Air Park, Arizona).
The security at the Pinal site is said to be as severe as that of Area 51. It is run as a military base where one lost pilot got an armed escort immediately off the operational base. The 10 year pilot said it was nothing like anything he has ever seen.
Evergreen International Aviation brags of their planes that have 7 times the capacity of other fire fighters. One can carry 20,000 galleons. Firefighting … Right … and next we will be told the chem trails are to prevent global warming as millions more are advancing to an early death.
Evergreen International Aviation has exemptions from the law that are advertised on their web site. They can fly anywhere and not stay on a designated route. Has CFR members paved the way? People like Philip Lader and John Wheeler III … they were in a position to do just that.
Evergreen’s public relations (propaganda) spokesman is handled by WPP run by Council on Foreign Relations member Philip Lader. He worked under the present head of the CIA … Leon Panetta as White House deputy of staff under Bill Clinton.
Philip Lader is an “inside” authority on international affairs and business. He is the non-executive Chairman of WPP Group, Senior Adviser to Morgan Stanley International, and a board member for think-tank RAND Corporation. He is also a trustee of UC Rusal (largest aluminum company in the world) the British Museum and St. Paul’s Cathedral Foundation. Ambassador Lader has addressed trans-Atlantic audiences from the U.N.’s General Assembly Hall to state chambers of commerce and local world affairs councils, is a member of Rockefeller’s Council on Foreign Relations.
Philip Lader (CFR) is a key player driving toward world government. In addition to running the Public Relations for Evergreen International Aviation … Lader is a director of UC Rusal, the largest Aluminum producer in the world located in Moscow, Sweden, Italy, and Australia. Nathaniel Rothschild is a big investor.
Eugenic operation of Chemtrails has had the assistance of Mitre a non-profit Corporation that manages the Federal Aviation Administration, Homeland Security, and IRS. (1) The IRS is part of the Federal Reserve which is a major transmission belt driving the conspiracy.
Philip Lader’s fellow Council on Foreign Relations member John P Wheeler III was recently dumped into a land fill in Wilmington, Delaware. Wheeler III was a consultant to Mitre the non profit corporation with jurisdictional advice over the Federal Aviation Administration’s flight patterns.
Was John P. Wheeler III to sentimental for the killing underway? And got murdered by the Company?
The CIA is the enforcement arm of the Council on Foreign Relations
Mitre is conveniently located in McLean,Virginia home of the CIA.
Thanks to the drunken pilot and his loose lips … the Free People of the world can focus on the criminals who are poisoning our air and our water.
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TARLÓS: EXTRA FUNDING FOR CYCLE PATHS
The municipality of Budapest has earmarked an additional 800 million forints (EUR 2.4m) in its budget for the development of cycle paths, Mayor István Tarlós said on Monday. The state will provide matching funds of 800 million forints, Tarlós told a press conference. With a total of 1.6 billion forints, the first phase of the development of the European cycling route network Eurovelo will be implemented, he said. Over the past ten years, Budapest’s leaders have invested far more money in cycling paths than previous municipal leaders, Tarlós said. The MOL BuBi bike-sharing scheme and the cycling path network have been expanded, and funding has been provided to promote the cycle to work scheme, he said. Máriusz Révész, government commissioner for an active Hungary, said promoting cycling would benefit car drivers as it reduces congestion.
Csaba Horváth, a Budapest assembly lawmaker for the opposition Socialists, said Tarlós and Révész had “kept secret” that 85% of the funding is European Union money. With the European parliamentary elections around the corner, this is something Budapest residents should know, he added. Horváth said the cost per kilometre of 120-150 million forints was extremely high. The construction of cycling paths should not require substantial spending on associated projects, he argued.
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Pounds Regained After Weight-Loss Op Can Tell Your Doc a Lot
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 17, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- Tracking pounds regained after weight-loss surgery can help predict a patient's risk for serious health problems like diabetes, a new study says.
"Clinicians and patients want to know the extent of weight regain following bariatric surgery and how it may affect their health," said study lead author Wendy King, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh.
"Our study will help clinicians and patients understand the timeline, magnitude and impact of weight regain, as well as lead to further studies on how to best avoid and manage weight regain for better health outcomes," King said in a university news release.
The study included more than 1,400 adults who had a type of weight-loss surgery called roux-en-Y gastric bypass. They had their weight checked eight times over almost seven years after surgery, on average.
Maximum weight loss occurred two years after surgery on average, but there was significant variation. About 20 percent of the patients continued to lose weight more than four years after surgery, the study found.
But no matter when maximum weight loss occurred, the rate of weight regained was highest in the first year following greatest weight loss. And the percentage of weight regained helped predict major health problems, according to the study authors.
As an example, the researchers pointed to someone who lost 150 pounds after bariatric surgery, and then put back on 28 pounds. That person regained 19 percent of the maximum weight lost.
The researchers said this level of weight regain was tied to a 51 percent higher risk of diabetes progression and a 28 percent higher risk of decline in physical health-related quality of life.
Doctors should realize that this level of weight regain may lead to the progression or development of various health problems. Besides diabetes, these problems include high blood pressure and high cholesterol, the researchers said.
King noted that five years after maximum weight loss, patients maintained an average of 73 percent of their maximum weight loss.
"So despite weight regain, in general patients are much healthier having had surgery," King said.
Study senior author Dr. Anita Courcoulas is chief of minimally invasive bariatric surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She said the study "highlights the importance of longer-term, close follow-up to help maximize weight and health results following bariatric surgery."
The study was published Oct. 16 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The U.S. National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases has more on weight-loss surgery.
SOURCE: University of Pittsburgh, news release, Oct. 16, 2018
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Canada must expand public health care or fall further behind
Author: Danyaal Raza
The Commonwealth Fund’s recent report, Mirror, Mirror, ranked Canada’s health care system as ninth among 11 countries. That elicited everything from scathing indictments of Medicare to a quick dismissal of the report itself. The truth, however, lies very much in between.
Mirror, Mirror should act as a wake-up call to policy-makers and health care advocates across the country that without action we will continue to fall behind.
While critics of our public health care system are quick to call its advocates defenders of the status quo, you will be hard pressed to find anyone taking such a position. No doctor wants to see their patients wait for necessary care. No patient wants to wait longer to see a specialist. Public health care advocates across the country are calling for innovative reforms to our health system, investments in our infrastructure, and expansion of coverage into areas like prescription drugs and dental care.
Before throwing out the proverbial baby with the bathwater, it’s important to look at the categories we do poorly in: equity and access.
In these categories, the top performing countries are the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany (the UK and Netherlands earn top marks in both). Per dollar spent overall on health care, each of these countries spends more on public health care (80-85 percent) than Canada (73 percent), including on a broader range of covered services like dental care and prescription drugs.
It’s an important reminder that Canada’s problem is not too much public funding. It’s not single-payer payment either. In fact, single-payer health systems are administratively efficient and equitable.
It’s that our definition of universality where single-payer applies (hospitals and doctors) is too narrow. We need to update what’s covered in our public system to meet the health needs of Canadians in the 21st Century.
With one in five Canadian families reporting they are unable to fill prescriptions due to cost, it’s no wonder Canada ranks low on equity. The affordability of prescription medications has serious health implications as well. Between 5.5 and 6.5 percent of hospitalizations in Canada are attributed to Canadians inability to take drugs as prescribed.
The situation is eerily similar in dental care. A report from the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences in 2014 found that roughly half of Canadians who lacked access to dental coverage through private insurance avoided going to the dentist at all because of the cost. The Ottawa Board of Health has reported a 52 percent increase in emergency room visits for dental services between 2004 and 2014. In fact, in 2014 there were 1,740 avoidable ER visits for dental services in Ottawa alone.
Wait times and access are also a challenge in any health care system. Though the mechanisms we choose to finance health services are vital, we ignore health care delivery at our peril. While Canadians receive high quality, patient-centered care, many wait too long to access it. The good news is that there are great examples from not just around the world, but also within our own borders of how we can (and are) improving accessibility, equity and quality of care.
For example, in British Columbia, the Mount Saint Joseph Hospital Cataract and Corneal Transplant Unit employed production-line efficiency and shared patient lists to decrease wait times of 12 to 16 weeks to just eight weeks.
Using an interdisciplinary team, advanced practice physiotherapists and centralized intake systems, the Alberta Bone and Joint Institute reduced wait times from 11 months to nine weeks for hip and knee surgery.
An eConsult project built around virtual access to specialists reduced the need for in-person consultations by 40 percent, with specialist advice arriving, on average, in just two days. Piloted in Ottawa, this program is now available across Ontario.
As is often pointed out, we need to do better at spreading and scaling these innovations. Though there is no cookie-cutter approach to this, there are jurisdictions that do this well from whom we can learn. Health care leaders across the country are taking on this challenge.
There is a lot to be proud of in our health care system. But this pride doesn’t preclude a burning desire for improvement and doing better on health care outcomes.
When premiers met at this year’s Council of the Federation, they agreed to push the federal government to open up a dialogue about pharmacare. And when doctors from across the country meet later this month for the Canadian Medical Association General Council, we will discuss innovation and how to continue to work together to improve our health care system.
It is by expanding and enhancing Medicare, not dismantling it, that we will see Canada rise in the ranks among its international partners.
Danyaal Raza is Chair of Canadian Doctors for Medicare, a family physician at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto, and Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.
s August 16th, 2017 at 11:35 am
Agree re need to expand the definition of universality – but WHO decides this is as important to consider as WHAT is covered. Government (provincial and/or federal?) and doctors? What would be the process for decision-making around expansion of coverage? Everyone has inherent biases in what should be covered. Is it possible to have unbiased leadership to move this forward? I think you’d be hard-pressed to find anyone disagreeing with your statement to expand and enhance Medicare, but perhaps some ideas on an approach to how to do so effectively to further this discussion would help. Also- there’s a lot of rhetoric around team-based care, but the hierarchies and systematic ways in which “non-MD” regulated health care professionals are undermined is a problem. One can look no further than Health Debate to see how many articles are MD-written or with a strong MD voice versus non-MD providers.
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Suzanne Weagle August 16th, 2017 at 5:39 pm
Accountability to the Federal government to assure transfer payments to the provinces for medical care, to ensure that the allotted money actually gets used for medical care.
A nation wide standard for Family Physician care ensuring that these doctors are paid sufficiently for the care they give.
A removal of a Family Doctor’s Quebec remuneration being penalized if they do not spend the first 3 years of their practice in a non urban area. I was without a family physician for 7 years when my wonderful prior Doctor became ill and left her practice. She made conscientious attempts to distribute her patient care load among other West a Island physicians. Not one would take any of her patients because they were already overworked.
A thorough examination of all provincial practices across Canada to ensure all Canadians have access to primary health care physicians.
A cross country standard for health care workers and a cross Canada standardized salary scale for health care workers, registered nurses, registered respiratory therapists, licensed practical nurses, personal service workers, lab technicians, physician assistants, community health care workers in remote areas.
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Susan August 16th, 2017 at 6:08 pm
Meds are a big deal. 1 in 9 trips to the ER are due to adverse drug events; two-thirds of these usually preventable. Also, there’s a huge proportion of unnecessary med use. Eg About 30% of antibiotics in the community are prescribed needlessly. And there is also the problem you identified around non-adherence to meds being a cause of trips to the hospital. Beyond Pharmacare, we need a mechanism to ensure medications are necessary, safe and effective. We need to capitalize on the knowledge and skills of pharmacists who remain one of the most underutilized regulated health care professionals in Canada. Pharmacist services should be part of the expanded definition of universal coverage. And their scope of practice and funding need to be harmonized across the country.
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Kelley Mattila August 16th, 2017 at 6:12 pm
I live in British Columbia which is surely lacking an educated doctors that can fill the various treatment that is needed right now or auction and private clinics I can’t afford that and why can everybody get treatment for this disease if they live in Ontario or United States or any rust in the world by Canada which is supposed to have Universal Health Care I’m barely standing on one leg homeless no healthcare left no human rights we need to fix just because my body is broken doesn’t mean I’m not a human and I don’t matter resources resources
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Tom Collins August 16th, 2017 at 9:53 pm
This article offered no new ideas.
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Chris Bonnett August 17th, 2017 at 11:42 am
Note: Healthy Debate has deleted Chris Bonnett’s comments off this thread at his request.
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Mike Fraumeni August 17th, 2017 at 3:46 pm
Although as Tom Collins points out the article hasn’t provided new ideas, the importance of this article lies in pointing out that Canada has more work to do especially as it indicates – “The Commonwealth Fund’s recent report, Mirror, Mirror, ranked Canada’s health care system as ninth among 11 countries”. Full awareness of a problem is needed before real solutions and how to go about finding solutions and mechanisms to correct the problem, can be attained. A problem in Canada is that far too many people just believe our health care system is basically flawless for whatever reason and I believe this complacency has led us down the path where we are situated now in the rankings.
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Kevin Nguyen August 17th, 2017 at 5:55 pm
Doctors need to get their own house in order. The OMA is a disaster. Poor leadership for their own profession does not bode well for health care leadership. Physicians seem to assert themselves when they really lack the ability to do so. I would also agree with around constant overt and subtle undermining of other regulated health professionals eg NPs. The arrogance of the medical profession in assuming they can solve the problems we have in health care, when doctors have been a huge contributor of problems in the healthcare system demands the need for external leadership and accountability.
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Martin Franco August 17th, 2017 at 6:31 pm
Idealism from a doctor at St Mikes. Shocking. Listen, when you practice in the real world where you don’t have nurses, social workers and a whole academic team behind you, then let’s talk about real problems and helpful solutions. Let’s fund good nutrition so poor people can eat a proper diet. Let’s fund exercise programs and community centres so that people can socialize and be active together. Let’s stop incentivizing welfare and fund opportunities for education and employment. Let’s fund affordable housing. Pharmacare and dental care are much much lower on the priority list. But they keep academic doctors talking.
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Vanessa Milne August 18th, 2017 at 9:38 am
Thanks – that is a good suggestion!
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Dee August 20th, 2017 at 10:58 am
And how about some research done into how naturopathy and herbalism can lower costs by improving general health across the board
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Chris Bonnett August 23rd, 2017 at 5:57 pm
Dr. Raza notes the importance of equity and access, and the shortfall of both in Canada relative to other nations. So far, I agree. He then suggests that expanding our single-payer model to include drugs will solve equity and access problems. This assumption is hard to prove.
In Ontario, equity is also important in health services. It’s noted (twice) in the Minister’s mandate letter. Instead OHIP+, Ontario’s new drug plan for children and young adults under age 25, will provide equal access to the public drug plan. Young Ontarians will pay no deductible, and so will do better than the social assistance recipients and seniors already covered by the OPDP. OHIP+ will replace adequate private drug coverage instead of targeting resources to those who need coverage – the definition of equitable. So governments are no guarantee of equity, even with a mandate to do so.
Persistent and sometimes lengthening waits for surgery, chronically slow emerg department service, and inadequate, uneven home care services are examples that suggest our single-payer model has not yet solved access either.
The Netherlands and Germany, noted as high-performers in these rankings, have national social insurance systems with universal coverage, minimum coverage standards and regulated payer roles for employers and citizens. Neither is perfect but we can learn from them.
Dr. Raza doesn’t explain how expanding our single-payer system to include drugs will automatically cause our poor-performing system to improve equity and access. Years of Commonwealth Fund rankings indicate there is no straight line between the system model and its performance.
Rather than recommending one model over another, these rankings more directly call into question system governance. System-level plans and priorities should be accessible by the public; some should even be open to public consultation. That might inform and engage citizens and help hold governments accountable for better equity and access. Recently, the PMPRB set a good example in their guidelines and regulations review process.
We need to be careful about rushing to pharmacare with only one model, no consultation and too many assumptions.
G. Hamza August 24th, 2017 at 10:31 pm
Hear, hear. Chris Bonnett’s comment is thoughtful, evidence-based and encourages reflection. It is truly this sort of thinking that readers of Healthy Debate would benefit from. I would encourage Healthy Debate to reconsider authorship from their usual pool of writers, who all seem to have a fairly myopic view on policy.
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Karen Palmer August 28th, 2017 at 1:49 pm
We would welcome submissions from any and all voices. We have some guidelines for submissions here, if you’re interested: http://healthydebate.ca/guest-post-submission.
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Linda Salmon August 31st, 2017 at 6:27 pm
Working in health care over 30 years and seeing the outcomes getting worse has been disheartening. Our voices have not been heard. Prevention is worth a pound of cure, but we’re still stuck on putting out fires and throwing money at crisis situations. We love sirens, bells, and whistles. Health prevention (formerly “public health”) has been virtually eliminated because acute care and chronic disease consumes all our resources. It’s time we seriously view social determinates of health (educational attainment, housing, cost of food, ability to lead an active lifestyle), as important as medication and surgeries. We need to walk and cycle more, we need to have access to affordable higher education to create jobs and work, we need affordable high quality food. We need housing – in a country the size of Canada, why are people littered over the streets? We and educational system that covers more than academics and provides children with life skills. These interventions will improve health more than a prescription drug plan.
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Notarobot November 15th, 2017 at 2:04 pm
Acedmecizing Medical issues is really dangerous. Public health care is insurance, the tax payers pay their insurance through taxes, and then others are also covered. The problem with public health care is a lack of competition and low standers than private health care. There is also ethnic divides, overuse of pharmasuticals leading to more health problems and coruption and control. People are being diagnosed with things and they are not even sick. Personally I think in health care less is more with the exception of emergercy services. Overwhelmed doctors (part time?)are good doctors not the other way around.
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Bleeding Kashmir: a call for action and diplomatic offensive strategy
Syeda Asma Hussain August 12, 2016
A soldier guards the roadside checkpoint outside Srinagar International Airport in January 2009 (Photo: Courtesy of Wikipedia)
By Syeda Asma Hussain
Kashmir issue is the violation of international law. The recent martyrdom of Burhan Wani along with other more than 50 dead and many injured people has upped the aggression in the disputed territory once again after 1989. Tear gas and the pallet guns are damaging the eyes of the Kashmiri youth who are once again in the protest for their right of self-determination. India and the big powers are always reluctant towards a peaceful dialogue process and agitating the diplomatic relations. Human rights associations are not allowed to enter the disputed territory; so that the world can’t get the true picture of the situation. After 9/11 the whole scenario has changed and the Kashmiris are forced to take the guns; in the initial stage they started a peaceful resistance against the atrocities. In 90’s massacres in kupwara and the other cities were so on and so far.Indian never adopted international procedures to control. The abrogation of article 370, India started separating towns for the Hindu pundits. Just diplomatic words are not needed as people were not allowed to attend the funeral of Burhan wani; ambulances were not allowed after the uprising situation in the valley. Is this a human attitude or is it not the violation of Geneva Convention? No eye-specialists are there; international community should show their concerns. Kashmir is not dived but the people are divided in Indian –held Kashmir and the Azad Jammu Kashmir.
No bilateral peaceful relations are possible between the two states until or unless the Kashmir issues is not to be resolved. Foreign policy of Pakistan should be very clear about the Jammu Kashmir. We didn’t forget the unjudicial abduction of Maqbool Butt, Afzal Guru, Khawaja Abdul Ghani and the father of Mir vice Omer Farooq. The puppetry CM of the Jammu Kashmir has nothing to do with paramilitary forces and the forces are empowered and are increasing day by day. Pakistan should launch an effective offensive diplomacy to explain the situation to the international community. Kashmir movement is an indigenous movement and the Islamic countries must have the same viewpoint regarding the identity and their right of self-determination. We can’t deny the role big powers and hope that the sacrifices bring liberation according to their sentiments of the natives.US is trying to move towards Russia and from there towards Asia, to the warm waters of central Asia and as we have seen Us invasion in Afghanistan and still waiting to see the US-exit and the so-called End Game narrative. We can’t ignore the role of geopolitics; as US trying to curtail its rival China .There is no say of UN decisions to Modi’s government. Issue of the fundamental human rights and no right of self-determination is the core issue of the disputed territory. There is a lack of political will and the failure of US-lobbying to resolve the issue. There is a trust deficit among the Pakistani government and the general Public. Global awareness is mandatory and Pakistan must have to send competent delegates to communicate the issue on the international forums. Special envoy to the Kashmir and the other parts of the world should be appointed to advocate the issues to the outer world.
A discussion by All Parties Hurriat Conference (APHC) in collaboration with Kashmir Institute of International Relations (KIIR) & YFK-International Kashmir Lobbying Group has been conducted on 19th July 16.The session was attended by Diplomats, politicians, government official, Media professionals and the members of civil society. The political leadership that has attended the event was enlisted as Molana Fazl ur Rehman, Senetor Sheeren Rehman, Raja Zafar ul Haq, Samia Raheel Qazi, Aijaz ul Haq. Ambassador Masood khan and the prominent APHC figures such as Ghulam M.Safi and Altaf Hussain Wani has also attended the session .Hamid Meer has given a three point agenda that was applauded by all of the factions present there at the session and his recommendation were also been instructed by the Raja Zafer ul haq to be included in the final press –release that has be issues and to be send to international community by the foreign Office.
A prominent APHC figure Ghulam Muhammad safi has started the session with his opinion based on the current uprising that has been upheld since the Eid ul fitar; he commented that it’s not enough to condemn the Indian hostilities of the paramilitary forces as it is the time to activate machinery to work for the Kashmiris who are fighting for their right of self-determination. He emphasized on the UN Secretory Gen.Banki Moon should initiate efforts by using their good offices to address the current humanitarian dilemma in occupied Kashmir.
Evacuation of paramilitary troops from the occupied Kashmir is the need of the hour; house arrests should be abolished from the prominent Political leaders who are fighting for the liberation of the disputed territory since the six decades. Media should play its pivotal role to highlight the current situation internationally; so that international community should know the atrocities of the Kashmiri people who are sacrificing their lives to liberate their mother land. All of the international organizations like OIC, SAARC, UN, EU and other humanitarian Associations should be stimulated for the pious cause for our brethren Kashmiris. UN and the other big Powers should play their role and must force the Indian government to evacuate Kashmir and to stop their brutalities on Kashmiris.
Kashmir is the most militarized area on the planet earth; no sincere efforts has been done yet and the RAW’s involvement in Pakistan’s internal issues is also a hindrance to the efforts by Pakistan. It’s an issue of right of self–determination; so Pakistan should adopt a bold and a clear policy with respect to Kashmir. A joint session of parliament should be called off.
“All parties’ conference and the international level conference is required off; International law experts and media personals should be invited to sort out the permanent solution to this problem”, Hamid Meer.
UN stance on the Kashmir should be clear and bold; we have seen UNSC role in recent Niece incident but no response with respect to Kashmir has yet been seen by its permanent and temporary memebers.In the past while talking of the international politics we were an allay to Us and the India used to be an allay of USSR. So the two big economies has used both states for their vested interests and that lead towards an extreme wave of tension to the regional rival states. In this regard the role of overseas Pakistanis and Paki-American community should not be ignored. Ban on the means of communications should be abolished at the first place; so that the outer world may get the idea about current synergy in the disputed valley of Kashmir. National Stance should be observed and the slogan may represent a clear view “Abhi nhi to kabhi nahi”
The recent act of state terrorism is an alarming situation but the world powers are not paying the attention towards new wave of hostility in Indian –held Kashmir. State- terrorism is prevailing since decades by the Indian government which is the so-called advocate of secularism. It’s not just a bilateral issue; it’s a political problem that should be addressed according to the international laws and by Political insight. Main stream consensus is necessary and the diplomatic relations should be according to the wishes of the Pakistani and our brethren Kashmiris. The use of pellet gun that is a very lethal weapon should be stopped as soon as possible as large no of young Kashmiris are becoming victim of this weapon. National narrative is required off and the efforts at international level are to be made to sort out the permanent solution to this disputed territory according to the wishes and sentiments of the Kashmiri people.
In a nutshell we should strive to pressurize the Indian government to stop inhuman acts in the disputed territory. There should be no use of bullets and the pallet guns. We can’t solve a problem on a gun point as the political dialogue with all of the factions of Kashmiri people and the concerned states is to be required off. Kashmir issue is to be solved according to the wishes and the sentiments of the Kashmiris and the barbaric inhuman policy of the Indian government should be ended .There must be a respectful conduct towards the Kashmiri people’s sentiments and viewpoints. If the Kashmir is the integral part of India then why the Indian government is not listening to their voices against the grievances? On the part of Pakistan a bold diplomatic offensive strategy is required off according to the wishes of our brethren Kashmiris.
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Syeda Asma Hussain is an analyst at CSCR (Center for Strategic & Contemporary Research) & Stratagem, freelance journalist, and development communication consultant.
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Faheem Sajjad says:
… The issue has been advocated in comprehensive and vivid manner with good deal of objectivity. …
Syyed Aftab Bukhari says:
It’s an xclnt display of Indian atrocious n cruel act over innocent Kashmiris
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Rage and revenge, then dialogue and understanding
Kiel Johnson (L) and Mark Holzmann.
Last Thursday, local advocate Kiel Johnson and I met with Mark Holzmann. Yes, the same Mark Holzmann who made headlines a week prior for his role in a sordid tale about road rage and revenge.
In an opinion piece published by The Oregonian, on his Facebook page, and on local TV news, Mark said he was victimized by a man on a bike who yelled at him and pounded on his car after the two were involved in a close-call near the Moda Center on October 22nd. Then a few days later Mark said he woke up and realized all four tires of his car had been slashed and someone had left a spooky and threatening note on his windshield.
Unfortunately that’s the full extent of the story most people heard. As such, it probably only served to perpetuate existing biases people have about each other.
But it’s what happened after the initial news cycle that I think is worth remembering about this story.
When I first heard about what happened to Mark, I was sad. I figured the narrative it would promote would only entrench people further into their worldview — the exact opposite of what we need in the country right now. It turns out I’ve been pleasantly surprised with what has happened since our story was posted on October 25th.
The first sign of hope was that Holzmann began posting in our comment section. I’ll often encourage news subjects and writers to participate in the comments because it can give much-needed depth and improve the dialogue around stories. But Mark started commenting before I even mentioned it to him. And he commented well. He was open-minded, tactful, and even a bit humorous with his replies. He entered “The belly of the beast” (which is how he referred to it at our meeting last week) and came out unscathed.
“The silver lining for me, this motorist, has been a heightened awareness of safety and regards to rules and regulations of the Portland roadways in general.”
— Mark Holzmann
The next twist in the story was that Kiel Johnson started a GoFundMe campaign to reimburse Mark for the damage to his tires. Kiel, who owns the bike valet and bike shop under the Aerial Tram, is known for his thoughtful and creative bicycle activism. From earning national attention for his work on school bike trains to organizing around SW Barbur Blvd and the human protected Better Naito event, and his most recent effort to spur dialogue around the Lloyd-to-Woodlawn greenway project
Last week Kiel asked me to put him in touch with Mark so he could buy him a beer and give him the $190 he had raised. Mark suggested I join and I jumped at the chance.
We met near the scene of the crime at Dr. Jack’s on the Moda Center campus.
We had a great time and chatted for well over an hour. Kiel and I laughed when Mark said he, on a whim, jumped on an e-scooter for the first time to retrieve his car from the tire store (he loved it!).
We spent most the time talking about our lives and experiences, without a focus on the issue that brought us together. When we did focus on that, we talked a lot about the power of perspective. I did my best to share with Mark an explanation — and my concerns — about the way people reacted to his story. Kiel and Mark discussed what to do with the money. Mark said he wanted to donate it to a group that educates drivers about how to more aware of bicycle riders.
The thing Mark said I’ll remember most is how much this experience has broadened his understanding of cycling and people who ride in Portland.
Mark has updated his Facebook page to share our meeting with his friends (some of whom shared unkind feelings about bike riders upon hearing the initial story). “The silver lining for me, this motorist, has been a heightened awareness of safety and regards to rules and regulations of the Portland roadways in general,” he wrote, “I’ve made some great new friends in Jonathan and Kiel and who knows maybe I’ll be convinced to ride my bike to work a few times this next year!”
In a perfect world, a meeting like this would be the norm, not the exception. Or better yet, it wouldn’t have to happen at all. But since our world is far from perfect, I hope we’ve learned something from this episode. It’s a good reminder that the way things begin is often beyond our control; but how they end can be entirely up to us.
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ARIEL SHARON (1928-2014)
'I know best' this characterized Arik Sharon, both as a vaunted military commander and an unpredictable politician. He is destined to be remembered as the most controversial of all Israeli public figures. To friend and foe he became known as the 'bulldozer'- his driving determination could overcome most obstacles in his way whether his superiors or political supporters agreed or not. Some military commentators have rated him as the best field commander and strategist in the annals of the IDF, while in his subsequent career in politics he was a formidable opponent.
Lieberman's Gaza Proposal A Non-Starter
The week in Israel ended with some surprising developments. According to the Yediot Ahronot daily, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is about to propose a dramatic plan to lift Israel's naval blockade of Gaza and hand over control to countries from the European Union. The latest aid ship bound for Gaza complied with Israel's naval blockade and agreed to change course for Al Arish, Egypt without provoking violence. Meanwhile, U.S. envoy George Mitchell has met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah on the West Bank. However Abbas, who fears condemnation from Hamas, may not agree to return to direct talks with Israel, unless he gets the green light from the Arab League.
Israeli Double Bind Over Iranian Nuclear Threat
The Iranian nuclear threat was obviously high on the agenda of US President Barack Obama and Israel's Prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu when they met in the White House this week. So far, nothing has leaked about what they discussed. However according to the respected Al-Hayat newspaper, published in London, 'informed sources' have said Netanyahu told Sarkozy that Israel did not rule out a military strike against Iran. The French leader stressed the need of pursuing with the current diplomatic effort that has failed to dissuade to halt its uranium enrichment program. Meanwhile, in the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee, the IDF Chief Of Staff, Gen. Ashkenazi made some telling remarks that illuminate the nuclear double bind that confronts Israel at this juncture.
Iran & Israel Trade Warnings
Terrorists in south Lebanon have again fired Katyusha rockets at Israel, apparently as a warning to Prime Minister designate Binyamin Netanyahu who has declared: "Iran will not be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons!" In another development, more key Iranian military advisers have reportedly been stationed in south Lebanon. These events come against the backdrop of the latest IAEA report that Iran is continuing its nuclear program. Menashe Amir, a leading Israeli expert on Iran, assesses the current situation.
Listen to interview with Menashe Amir Includes transcript of the interview
Gaza At Crossroads
Rockets are being launched at Israeli civilians not only from the Gaza Strip but also from Lebanon. However, Israeli officials view the new Lebanese rocketing as a Palestinian attempt to draw Israel into war with Lebanon. IsraCast quotes one Israel source as saying "we have no intension of retaliating or being drawn into a second front, but let's hope Lebanon does not let it become a habit". Meanwhile, Israel has agreed to more three-hour ceasefires to allow Palestinians in Gaza to stock up on food supplies via Israel, while the Israeli leadership considers whether to expand the military operation in light of the continuous Hamas rocketing or to go for a ceasefire.
Anatomy of targeted killings
For the first time, an authoritative Israeli source has revealed how the Israeli defense forces conduct the targeted killing of Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip who deliberately rocket Israeli towns and villages. Prof. Asa Kasher has told IsraCast that Israeli security and political echelons carry out a complex process to limit Palestinian collateral damage in tracking down terrorists. Prof. Kasher, who formulated the IDF code of ethics, was speaking during a seminar at the Jerusalem center for ethics at Mishkenot Shaananim.
Listen to interview with Prof. Asa Kasher
GAZA'S NEW DIMENSION
'The Palestinian rocketing of Ashqelon from the Gaza Strip marks a new dimension in the confrontation and one which cannot be tolerated by Israel' - that's the reaction of Israeli officials to the Palestinian barrage of Ashqelon this week. Within forty-eight hours, Palestinian terrorists launched some 100 rockets at Israeli population centers. In escalating counter-terror operations, the IDF killed 18 Palestinians most of them terrorists. IsraCast is of the view that if there is no let-up in the Palestinian rocketing, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his government will not be able to hold off from launching a long awaited ground offensive into northern Gaza to drive out the rocket squads.
BUSH RUN-UP
Less than a week before U.S. President George W. Bush visits Israel, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza Strip have escalated their rocketing attacks by launching a Grad - Katyusha at the Israeli city of Ashqelon. Although the terrorists have been rocketing Sderot for years, the Ashqelon rocketing is being viewed with greater gravity. And even on the West Bank, the domain of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, terrorists shot dead two Israeli hikers. One of the killers was a Palestinian policeman on the Abbas payroll. Zalman Shoval, a former Israeli Ambassador to Washington told IsraCast that Prime Minister Olmert must tell the U.S. leader that the blood of Israelis will not be shed for the sake of American peace moves. Two years after former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a coma, Shoval has no doubt that things would be different if Sharon were prime minister today.
Listen to Interview with former Ambassador to U.S, Zalman Shoval
ANNAPOLIS SPIN VS. GAZA ROCKETS
Barring unforeseen circumstances, the Israeli-Palestinian confrontation will go to the conference table in Annapolis next month at the invitation of U.S. President George W. Bush. It's a command performance, neither Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert nor Palestinian West Bank President Mahmoud Abbas are likely to risk America's ire by refusing the invitation or being blamed for its failure. But IsraCast concludes that reality on the ground and the leadership status of Olmert and Abbas do not lend much credence for achieving a breakthrough.
BARAK BRAKES ON OLMERT
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak have crossed swords over what security risks should be taken in order to promote renewed peace contacts with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Olmert appears eager to produce results by easing restrictions on Palestinian movement on West Bank. However, sources close to Barak warn of a renewed threat of Palestinian suicide bombers if vital checkpoints are removed. IsraCast is of the view that Olmert of Kadima and Barak of Labor both require time to rebuild their leadership images with Israeli voters and therefore they will seek a short-term Modus vivendi to prevent a breakup of the government coalition.
ISRAELI - SYRIAN DILEMMA
As forecast by IsraCast, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is now ready to actively explore the intentions of Syria President Bashaar Assad. Olmert had to fill two necessary requirements: first the greenlight from U.S. President George W. Bush and second a new and respected defense minister, to ease the jitters of an Israeli public which has grave doubts about Olmert's capabilties after the Second Lebanon War.
AUTOPSY OF SECOND LEBANON WAR
The publication of the long awaited Winograd testimony has done little to alter the Israeli public's perception that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz fumbled the Second Lebanon War last summer. Olmert and Peretz, both inexperienced in conducting a war, rushed into battle with a military commander determined to prove that his pilots could win a guerrilla war with Hezbollah. When this strategy got bogged down, all three were at a loss of what to do. An IsraCast analysis indicates there although Olmert may have survived the first wave of public criticism, he now faces a political campaign of attrition calling on him to step down.
SECOND LEBANON WAR REVISITED
Not only Israel, but countries in the Middle East and the international community are still pondering what happened to the vaunted Israel Defense Forces Israel in last summer's war against Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon. The Winograd Commission has painted the the broad outline focusing on the faulty decision making of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and former Chief of Staff Dan Halutz. But it is Halutz's predecessor, Moshe Yaalon who has spelled out what what went wrong from the strategic and tactical points of view. Yaalon who served as Chief of Staff from 2002 , after the IDF withdrawal from southern Lebanon, until the spring of 2005, has given extensive interviews to the Maariv newspaper and Channel One TV. IsraCast summarizes these two important insights into what went wrong in the Second Lebanon war.
WINOGRAD COUNTDOWN
The futures of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz will be on the line when the Winograd Commission releases its partial report on April 30th.As previously reported by IsraCast, the chances are good that Olmert will survive the interim findings. The long awaited conclusions will deal with the period from the IDF evacuation of the security zone in southern Lebanon back in May 2000 until the first five days of the war that erupted on July 12th 2006. Leaks to the media from Winograd testimony have highlighted the responsibility of former IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz for failing to respond to warnings from senior officers before the war and his inexperience in conducting a war against the Hizballah guerillas.
OLMERT TO RESIGN?
Will Prime Minister Ehud Olmert be forced to resign next month when the Winograd Enquiry makes public its interim findings on the recent war with Hezbollah? Kol Israel, the publicly run radio network today reported that the commission has decided to issue 'personal conclusion' about role of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defense Minister Amir Peretz and the retired IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz.
GENERAL'S BOMBSHELL SHAKES ISRAELI CABINET
The question being asked in Israel and in corridors of power in the Middle East and beyond is what happens now on the Israeli political scene after the surprise resignation of IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz. The General as well as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz are blamed by many Israelis for bungling last summer's war with Hezballah in Lebanon. David Essing spoke to both opposition and coalition MK's:
Listen to Audio Report
GAZA STRIP = LEBANON II
Shabak Security Chief Yuval Diskin issued a dire warning about the Gaza Strip when he presented his biannual report to the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee. In response, Knesset Member Natan Sharansky of Likud said Prime Minister Olmert and his government cannot say they have not been warned.
Listen to Audio Interview - MK Natan Sharansky
IDF PARATROOPER FROM BALTIMORE
A twenty year old IDF paratrooper from Baltimore suffered a serious bullet wound to his hand, refused to be evacuated and stayed to fight on with his company in some of the bloodiest combat during the war in Lebanon. Reporter Arik Weiss wrote his story in the Israeli daily Maariv.
FARCE OF UN CEASE-FIRE
The IDF commando raid deep into Lebanon's Bekaa Valley near Syria highlights the dilemma now confronting Israel. U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701 based the cease-fire on a robust U.N. force moving into south Lebanon to prevent newed Hezbollah attacks on Israel as well as an arms embargo on the terrorists.
Listen to Audio Report - with MKs Shalom and Beilin
GENERAL HALUTZ AND THE WAR
IDF Chief of Staff Dan Halutz briefed the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee on the war with Hezbollah. He arrived amid calls for his resignation after it was disclosed that three hours after Hezbollah attacked Israel, General Halutz called his bank to sell off his stocks. But in committee, the Chief of Staff got a show of support in light of the fragile situation in the Middle East.
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Death By Lousy HRM — Chapter IV
[Chapter I, Chapter II, and Chapter III in case you missed them.]
It certainly felt like several hours had passed, but in fact it was only twenty minutes before DCI Fritz of the Peterborough CID arrived, followed shortly by his forensics, coroner and crime scene crew (collectively referred to as SOC). After asking Zelda if she would bear with him for a while before he interviewed her, if she’d like a cup of tea and perhaps to wait in the cafeteria, and accepting her thanks for the tea but that she’d wait right there, Fritz began the routine investigation that every sudden death and potential crime scene warranted. Always mindful of the SOC experts doing their preliminary examination of the body in situ, their photographic studies and fingerprinting of the surroundings, their retrieval for detailed analysis of all electronic devices, and so much more, DCI Fritz began his own assessment of the scene.
DCI Fritz was not a digital native, but he knew from his experience and training how much valuable information could be obtained from the digital, including video, records that surround all of us and from our social media exhaust. His team would take care of probing those sources carefully. But he also knew that, even at the end of 2016, most people still left a fair amount of physical detritus in their wake, from sticky notes inside their tablets with critical passwords to receipts — yes, some transactions still produce paper receipts — in their pockets. And the sudden death of someone, in their own office, inside a tight security building (security which had been tightened even further when Great Software housed their “bet the farm” next gen architecture project there), made a quick and then meticulous search of that office a focus for DCI Fritz.
Doing that quick first look, and remembering that DCI Fritz didn’t yet know who Cummins had been, the nature of his work, etc., two things really stood out. First, there were stacks of carefully labeled manila folders on Cummins’ desk, each with what appeared to be a person’s name on the tab. They were filled with printouts of electronic records, many with handwritten notes and multi-colored tick marks, as well as handwritten records. Second, there was a giant chart on the wall-sized whiteboard across from the desk whose rows were unknown names, whose columns had names which, on first glance, seemed to match those the folders, and whose cells were filled with multi-colored marks whose decoding wasn’t obvious. Taking pictures of the chart on his phone and gathering up the folders once the fingerprint folks had done their thing, Fritz decided it was well past time to speak with Ms. Kahneifmeyer.
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Jason Day Holds Off Jordan Spieth To Win PGA At Whistling Straits
The late afternoon point by which only Jason Day could defeat himself was the most dangerous. Not only did the Australian have previous for falling agonisingly short on the biggest stages but major upon major has been defined by closing stretch capitulations. Another would have been tough to watch, let alone for the emotional Day to endure.
Day stepped on to the 13th tee at Whistling Straits holding a four-shot lead. There was to be no fatal wobble. Day is no longer one of this sport’s nearly men. He is a major champion who has come full circle from delinquent teenager to one of the finest golfers in the world by the age of 27.
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Day’s US Open was overshadowed by a horrid bout of vertigo which left him prostrate on a fairway. At the Open Championship he shed tears of frustration after leaving a putt to enter a play-off short of the 72nd hole. He was to break down again here, this time in the name of joy even before tapping in his final putt. Earlier, pacing down the sun-drenched 18th fairway, Day’s caddie and mentor, Col Swatton, issued a simple instruction: “Enjoy this, mate.”
At 20 under par Day is only the 13th player in history to win a major with four rounds in the 60s. His last was of 67, sealing a three-shot success. His aggregate score is an all-time major record. One of Day’s key attributes is the ability to score on so many variations of course.
Jordan Spieth, who started and finished day four as Day’s closest challenger, displayed the latest, albeit tiny, signs of fallibility which seemed alien to him earlier in the year. A closing 68 was not enough to keep pace with Day.
A tearful Jason Day celebrates after sealing his victory at the US PGA. Photograph: Jae Hong/AP
Spieth can take consolation of second place and the small matter of upstaging Rory McIlroy as the top-ranked golfer in the world. “I will be the first to congratulate Jordan,” said McIlroy. Spieth is also in the record books; his 54-under-par total for 2015 majors has never been matched.
Justin Rose’s challenge was alive after making birdie on the 12th to reach 16 under par but the Englishman double-bogeyed the next hole after receiving a horrendous greenside bunker lie. Rose was to finish fourth, a shot and a place adrift of Branden Grace, of South Africa.
Many expected Day to wilt, not in the stifling heat but on account of the mental scarring that would be only natural after what had gone before. He entered this week with six top-five major placings since the start of 2011. Victory had eluded him in a manner of ways.
And yet Day had played flawless golf until dropping a shot on the 8th and inexplicably chunking an approach shot to the 9th. Crucially he holed from 10ft to save par on the latter as Spieth dropped a shot.
Related: US PGA Championship 2015: Jason Day wins to break major drought - live! | Scott Murray
Grace was, at this stage, the man on a charge. He had done likewise at the US Open. As at Chambers Bay one hole undermined his hopes. The South African missed the 10th green long and left, watching a subsequent chip shot roll back to his feet. Rose suddenly was Day’s biggest danger before he, too, slipped up.
By the 14th Day was holing out to reach the magical figure of minus 20. He missed for par on the 15th but the par-five next would always provide an opportunity which he duly took. All that was required from there was nerve.
Dustin Johnson’s quest was over within one Sunday hole. The 31-year-old took eight at the 1st; it would be tricky for mid-handicap amateurs to do likewise. He was five under on the 2nd tee and 13 under by the 17th, the consequence of six birdies, two eagles and two bogeys. What happened next? He pulled a tee shot into Lake Michigan.
McIlroy’s 69 left the Northern Irishman in upbeat mood. Perhaps a successful defence was always a bridge too far after the ankle injury which has disrupted his year. If his demeanour is anything to go by, McIlroy will relish an upcoming opportunity to make up for lost time.
“I feel like I’ve done well to come back and shoot the scores that I have,” McIlroy said.
“I’m walking away pretty happy. Obviously it isn’t a win and I didn’t get myself into contention but, considering six weeks ago I wasn’t able to walk, it’s not a bad effort.”
One of the best things about the US PGA Championship is the extended time afforded to the victor to bask in his glory. As Day held the Wanamaker Trophy aloft, 235 days stood between him and the Masters. He will arrive at Augusta National with a fresh impetus and mind-set; Australia has been afforded its latest sporting hero. In Day’s case it is not before time.
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This Saturday, a benefit show for Animal Aid will be taking place at the High Water Mark. Animal Aid is a nonprofit, no-kill animal rescue and welfare organization that has been serving Portland since 1969. Other Lights, Dog Years, and Childspeak will all be playing in support of the organization. With each band filled with animal lovers, you can expect each set to be high energy and full of enthusiasm.
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Sparkle Carpet
Feminist folk trio Sparkle Carpet are the tough, goth ladies we’ve been waiting for. Their album, We Do Stares, has such an “I don’t give a shit” attitude that reviewing it almost feels redundant. Emphasis on almost. Their music is lively and boisterous. “Mrs. Robinson Digs Me,” a playful take on the Simon & Garfunkel original, is incredibly fun to listen to. The use of triangle adds an enjoyably childlike aspect to the songs, but in no way does it make the music childish. It makes the music sharper, bringing attention to the cheeky smirks behind each word sung. Other songs, such as “You Don’t Think” reveal the steely inner core at the heart of the band. The resolve and determination in the song’s hoarse vocals are rousing.
Sparkle Carpet's next show is Friday, April 19th at Murder Mine. Loud in the Morning, Earth of Foxes, Geophagia will also be playing sets.
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-By Avril Carrillo
A while back I had a friend ask me why I listen to ambient music. For a bit, I rambled on about the way ambient music can be a soft place to mentally curl up in. It provides you room to think while also gently guiding the direction of those thoughts. However, if I had been asked the very same question today, I would have just made my friend listen to Amulets' Future Fog. Each song creates a vastly different mood, but it’s done so subtly and gracefully that you don’t pick up on it unless you’re paying close attention. You don’t get lost in his music, it gets lost with you.
Amulets, who also goes by Randall Taylor, has most recently released Mountains Past / Immortal Yeller. Created in conjunction with fellow drone artist Bus Gas, the album explores the relationship between cause and effect. It does so beautifully. “Mountains Pass” in particular stands out. The song maintains a balance between emotional distance and bare-bones vulnerability. Not too mention this doesn’t even touch on live performance. With the use of handmade cassette tape loops and live guitar loops, Amulets focuses on recontextualizing his soundscapes to produce unique and immersive experiences for every audience.
Amulets' next show will be Saturday, April 6th at the High Mark. Slow Crush, Holy Fawn, and Long Hallways will also be performing.
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This coming Friday pop-folk ensemble Lili St Anne will be releasing their album, Bone Marrow. The first single, “Eveline” has generated plenty of buzz around the album, and there’s a reason why. In it, vocalist Elizabeth Fagan sings with a fluid, languid tone. She sings the way two lovers would dance in the moonlight; intense but unhurried. The song is passionate but is layered with a strong desire to stop and enjoy each moment as it passes. The accompanying drums and trombone turn her voice into a distant memory, both comforting and confusing. Each instrument is played with a gentle tenderness that is hard to produce with louder instruments. It melts into you, as calmly and smoothly as day turning into night.
If you want to check out “Eveline” live, Lili St Anne will be playing a release show this Friday, February 8th. It will take place at The Hallowed Halls, with doors opening at 7pm. Indira Valey and a special guest will be performing as well, which means you have all the more reason to go. You can find out more information on the event’s Facebook page, or buy tickets here.
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Last post of April and thought I'd post a funny one... Some videos of things that just make me laugh no matter how many times I see them...
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Perfect Prince Setlist
Been listening to alot of Prince music lately. Made me think about what my perfect set list for a concert of his would be. A mixture of hits, rarities and never before performed live stuff would be amazing.
PRINCE - ONE NIGHT ONLY
1. For You (Introduction)
2. Let’s Go Crazy/Delirious/I Feel For You/Let’s Go Crazy (Guitar Closing)
4. Shhh (End features Prince screaming 'We March' with the open Guitar rifts from 'We March')
5. When Doves Cry
6. Little Red Corvette (includes audience singing 'Slow Down' for at least 5 minutes)
7. Piano Medley
a. I Love You, But I Don’t Trust You Anymore (verse 1 and chorus)
b. How Come You Don’t Call Me Anymore (verse 1 and chorus)
c. Starfish & Coffee (verse 1 and chorus)
d. Raspberry Beret (chorus)
e. When 2 R In Love (verse 1 and chorus)/The Most Beautiful Girl In The World (chorus)
f. Scandalous (verse 1 and chorus)/Insatiable (chorus)
g. The Beautiful Ones (full song)
8. Controversy (featuring. Housequake)
9. Musicology
10. Feel Better, Feel Good, Feel Wonderful (End features opening section of 'Endorphinmachine' before launching into 'Guitar')
11. Guitar
12. I Wanna Be Your Lover
13. Uptown (features a breakdown halfway through in which Prince asks if the audience remembers the 'oldies'. He then begins to perform 'Erotic City' which leads into 'Irresistable Bitch' which leads into Scarlet Pussy'. Finally after Prince orders the band to stop playing he is quiet for a moment and then shouts 'AND WHERE.... Is the partyman?'
14. Partyman
16. Mountains/Take Me With U/I Would Die 4 U
17. Baby I’m A Star
18. Acoustic Medley (Acoustic Guitar)
a. Forever In My Life
b. Shy
c. Crazy You
d. The Ride
e. Reflection
f. When U Were Mine (Incl. Band, Chorus, 2nd Verse & Chorus)
19. Sometimes It Snows In April (Piano Only)
20. Purple Rain
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Its been really nice weather here in London recently and it has made me want to grab some music that is just perfect for this weather. Thought I'd post some of them so next time your stuck for ideas of what to listen to and lift ur mood you might have a look at these.
Club Banger Nation - Nicole Scherzinger
Wet - Nicole Scherzinger
Right There - Nicole Scherzinger
Let Me Know - Janet Jackson
Rock With U - Janet Jackson
2Nite - Janet Jackson
On The Floor - Jennifer Lopez (feat. Pitbull)
If I Had You - Adam Lambert
Hollywood Tonight [Billie Jean Video Mix] - Michael Jackson
Til The World Ends - Britney Spears
What's My Name - Rihanna (feat. Drake)
Raise Your Glass - Pink
Latin Girl - Justin Bieber
Make Me - Janet Jackson
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Absolutely Fabulous Returns
Absolutely Fabulous is one of my all time favourite comedy programmes and after 7 years it is finally coming back to our screens. Joanna Lumley stated yesterday that they show is coming back and by the end of the year. What will the story be after 7 years away. Now in their 50s, age is unlikely to have mellowed them.
The original Absolutely Fabulous cast also included a raft of eccentric characters including Bubble (Jane Horrocks) Edina's dim-bulb assistant; Edina's daffy mother (June Whitfield); and her disapproving, prudish daughter Saffy (Julia Sawalha), who Patsy openly loathed: "Tell her not to speak when she's this close, I can feel her dog breath on my neck," was a typical complaint. See more brilliant one liners and outakes below.
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Post Pals
I was watching Russell Howard's Good News today and at the end of his show he shows a short clip of something nice to make you feel good. Today's clip featured a website started by a young girl named Vikki George, who is suffering from M.E, in which people send letters or presents in order to cheer up children with illnesses.
I couldn't help but think this was a great idea and thought that everyone should know about it as it is such a nice way of spreading a little joy to those who deserve it most. Follow the link to find out more and how to get started http://www.postpals.co.uk/ and read some quotes of those the website has helped below.
I would like to thank you for doing such a great think by running this amazing website that really makes sick children smile. My daughter Jessie really loves her post and can't wait for a postman every morning. When he knocks on the door she runs to meet him. She loves getting the cards and presents too. Thank you so much again. - Stana, Mum to Jessica M, aged 5, Ganglioneuroblastoma
When James was first diagnosed, he was really miserable because of his treatment and subsequently due to some abscesses he developed. One thing that really perked him up was the attention of the Post Pals girls. Apart from the fact that he received cards and gifts, the messages that they wrote gave him the strength to keep himself together. Often the cards were handmade and he was delighted with the effort people had gone to just because he was ill. 2 and half years on, James is still getting cards and his twin sister is good friends with a lot of the girls who sent them. Such a simple idea has paid dividends in contributing to James' recovery. It is said that people who are prayed for stand more chance of recovery, but I believe that those who are supported by people such as the Post Pals team have their chances multiplied 10-fold. - Jon, Dad to James R, aged 12, Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia
Labels: Russell Howard
Joe Mott & Ricky Gervais
In the Sun newspaper this week column maker Joe Mott said 'If Ricky Gervais was homosexual you would be wondering if he was, you know, ill. His dramatic weightloss has left him looking like a dying man'. This angered me alot and not just because I'm a fan of Ricky Gervais but this is blatent homophobia. What Mott is saying is that in order for a gay man to look ill they automatically must have AIDs. Its disgusting! Gervais is not a gay man and Mott knows this as Gervais has been married for years however he still decided to publish this distastful, unnecessary jibe at gay men.
This angered me also for the fact that celebrities are forced to look perfect all the time. When Ricky Gervais was slightly overweight he was front page news of the Sun when he was out jogging with his iPod. The heading being iPodge. Now that he has lost the weight he is suddenly a gay man with AIDs... Why is this acceptable?
Labels: Ricky Gervais
Well Written Songs: You And I
Written By Stevie Wonder, 1972
Here we are on earth together,
It's you and I,
God has made us fall in love, it's true,
I've really found someone like you
Will it say the love you feel for me, will it say,
That you will be by my side
To see me through,
Until my life is through
Well, in my mind, we can conquer the world,
In love you and I, you and I, you and I
I am glad at least in my life I found someone
That may not be here forever to see me through,
But I found strength in you,
I only pray that I have shown you a brighter day,
Because that's all that I am living for, you see,
Don't worry what happens to me
Cause' in my mind, you will stay here always,
In love, you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I
In my mind we can conquer the world
In love, you and I, you and I, you and I
'You And I' is a song written and sung by Stevie Wonder. The track is found on his 1972 album Talking Book. Covered by many artists including Michael Buble and more recently George Michael.
Labels: Well Written Songs
Well Written Songs: The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
Written By Ewan MacColl, 1957
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the empty skies
The first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth move in my hands
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command my love
The first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
And I knew our joy would fill the Earth
And last, and last, and last till the end of time
'The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face' is a 1957 folk song written by political singer/songwriter Ewan MacColl for Peggy Seeger, who was later to become his wife. At the time the couple were lovers, although MacColl was married to someone else. One of the most recorded songs ever, and covered by hundreds of artists including Roberta Flack, Elvis Presley, Celine Dion, George Michael, Shirley Bassey, Johnny Cash, Richard Marx, Vanessa Williams, Leona Lewis, Andy Williams and Harry Connick Jnr.
Sara Ramirez - The Story
Grey's Anatomy star Sara Ramirez, who plays Callie Torrez, recently released her first self titled EP. Featured on the EP is the song 'The Story' which featured on the latest Grey's Anatomy episode 'Song Beneath The Song'. The episode took people by storm and critics raved about Ramirez's vocal ability and favoured 'The Story'. The song is avaliable from iTunes via the EP and it is amazing. It is brilliantly sung and her effort with each line makes the song speak to you in ways most songs don't. Hear the song below as sung in the amazing Grey's Anatomy (which I will be blogging about very soon). Download the song here http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sara-ramirez-ep/id426509279.
Labels: Sara Ramirez
George Michael - You And I
George Michael released his Royal Wedding Single at 2am this morning. A Cover of Stevie Wonder's classic 'You And I'. It is a beautiful version of an amazing song. Sung and arranged so nicely. George Michael has covered many amazing artists in his nearly 30 year career including Elton John, The Beatles, New Order, Sting and Queen. This is not the first time he has covered Stevie wonder. He had a huge hit with 'As', recorded with Mary J Blige in 1999 and before that 'They Wont Go When I Go' from his 'Listen Without Prejudice' album in 1990. He has also performed amazing versions of his songs on various tours and live shows around the world. The song really is beautiful and can be downloaded for free at www.georgemichael.com. However,as the song is yet another freebie from George he asks that you make a donation to the Royal Wedding Charity Fund, which you can do at http://www.royalweddingcharityfund.org/.
Go download and go donate.
Labels: George Michael
Lady Gaga - Judas
If I'm honest I didn't like 'Born This Way' on first listen, but it grew on me. I didn't like 'Bad Romance' either but it ended up being one of my favourite tracks of 2010. But in all honesty I am getting annoyed at her for continuously copying other artists and taking the credit. Prince, Michael Jackson and more recently with 'Born This Way' which has exactly the same medley as Madonna's 'Express Yourself'.
Now it seems she has decided to copy herself. Judas, to me, sounds just like 'Paparazzi' with a bit of 'Born This Way' mixed it. I really don't think this one is going to be a grower. It's a shame because she is really talented and a great singer but she keeps cutting herself short copying and being far too over the top.
All that said, I am going to listen to it alot more and try to like it and looking forward to seeing the video, which promises to 'shock the world'.
Labels: Lady Gaga
Rihanna On American Idol
Rihanna sang her brand new single 'California King Bed' on American Idol last night and it was amazing. Unlike other live performances this year it really felt that Rihanna had thought about her performance and planned it, instead of just standing and singing her song. Easily the best celebrity performance this year so far.
Still to come on American Idol is Beyonce (singing her new single 'Girl'), Lady Gaga (singing her new single 'Judas'), Madonna (singing a medley of hits) and Aerosmith (singing thier classic 'I Don't Want To Miss A Thing').
In case you missed Rihanna's performance or want to see it again, here it is...
Labels: American Idol, Rihanna
Day At The Seaside
Had a really nice day at the beach last weekend.
Planned to go in the sea... and I did... until I realised it was cold enough to freeze me inside out. So I got out before the frostbite set in further than my feet.
Had a good time in the arcade. Never realised that they worked on a collecting tokens system, where you count up your tokens at the end and win a prize. Really want to go back there again.
Must go back as soon as possible (and when it is a bit warmer!)
Few Funny Fings
Karl Pilkington
More people need to know who Karl Pilkington is!
Karl Pilkington is an English radio producer previously best known for producing The Ricky Gervais Show on the radio station Xfm. After leaving Xfm, Pilkington reached an international audience through his appearances with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant on The Ricky Gervais Show. He is also a published author and the star of a Channel 4 documentary.
Karl began his on-air role by occasionally interjecting during the Xfm show co-hosted by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. As more of his anecdotes and opinions were revealed, he became more of a focal point of the show. Eventually, he began to take part in and create segments. The first bit that focused on Karl was White Van Karl where Karl spoke his thoughts on current events and minor news stories. Karl began creating his own segments after awhile such as Educating Ricky, Monkey News, and Rockbusters. With these bits, Karl's relative status on the show grew, Ricky eventually saying it should be called "the Karl Pilkington show". After the end of the Xfm show, Karl remained part of the trio, giving up his position as head of production at Xfm to make podcasts with Ricky and Steve and work on his writing.
The podcasts are the most downloaded ever with over 300million and rising!
Plus he has an amazing travel show called 'An Idiot Abroad' in which Ricky and Steve send him around the world to see the 7 wonders of the world. The show is up for a second season in which he is doing all the things you have to do before you die... The bucket list.
Plus you can see animated versions of the podcasts on HBO and E4 on 'The Ricky Gervais Show'.
Download the podcast on iTunes NOW!
Famous Karl Quotes
On Art... 'Stop Looking At The Walls... Look Out Of The Window'
On Old Age... 'By 78 you've done everything you're going to do. If you haven't bungee-jumped by the time you're 78 you're not going to do it'
On The Elephant Man... 'The Elephant Man would never have gotten up and gone, ‘Oh, God. Look at me hair today.'
On I'm A Celebrity... 'I Could Eat A Knob At Night'.
On Food... 'But hummus. When did that happen?...but there's a restaurant down the road that that's all they do. That is isn't a proper meal, that's a side-order innit? That's like having a restaurant just floggin' tomato ketchup. Hummus isn't a meal. They don't even try and kid ya to get you in to flog you just hummus, they actually say "Oh it's hummus today." Not gonna work, they shut down within a month'.
On Food... 'What's that plate that's above a saucer but below a plate?'
On Nature... 'Apparently you're not allowed to lick a toad's back'.
Labels: Karl Pilkington, Ricky Gervais, Steve Merchent
A lot of people slate Glee and so did I until I started watching it. I've nearly finished the first season and it's really good. The acting is pretty good (especially Chris Colfer, who plays Kurt Hummel), the characters are over the top in a really good way, the storylines are interesting and the musical numbers are always really good. Plus theres plenty of fitness to look at. If your not sure whether or not to watch it then you should check out some of the best musical numbers, it might make you want to watch it...
Don't Stop Believin' (Journey Cover)
Somebody To Love (Queen Cover)
Theres some really good solo performances aswell, such as Kurt singing 'A House Is Not A Home' and Mercades singing 'And I Am Telling You'.
Labels: Glee, TV Programmes
Rihanna & Britney
Rihanna had a huge number 1 all over the world with 'S&M', even though the video was banned in 11 countries due to its sexual content. Recently she has re-released the song with singer Britney Spears. This is the first time either of them have released a song that, a week later, I still haven't decided if I like it or not. Its really good, but when I listen to it I can't help thinking was it needed. It is a fun track but Britney's strange breathy vocals bring nothing new to the song. That said I've listened to it loads and like it more and more each time.
The song was teased on Twitter moments before its release by the two artists themselves.
Rihanna tweeted, “I got a #SEXY collabo comin your way supa dupa soon!!!! OH YEAH!!! By popular demand….”
Britney replied, “@rihanna You’re such a tease! I like it, like it….”
Rihanna: “Its BRITNEY B**CH!!!!”
Britney: “@rihanna You think they’re ready Ri Ri?… ”
Rihanna: “@britneyspears one of the biggest worldwide popstars! U gangsta #EPIC”
Britney: “You ain’t so bad yourself honey… ”
Download the new version on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/s-m-remix-single/id431637506
This post would not be complete without the brilliant music video of the original version.
Labels: Britney Spears, Rihanna
New George Michael Music
George Michael has been quiet on the music scene for quite some time but is making a huge come back with a string of songs in only a few months. First there was the amazing 'True Faith', a cover of the 1987 New Order track. The song was released to raise money for Comic Relief 2011. The video was simple but like all his video's still very effective. For people who haven't seen it or just want to see it again you can below. Or you can still download the video and single as a bundle on iTunes: http://bit.ly/GM-ComicRelief-Video-Bundle. Or you can buy online at amazon. Or you could just get off your ass and go to the shop :)
The newest music is on its way tomorrow. Via his Twitter George Michael has announced a new cover version in aid of the upcoming Royal wedding. He hasn't released many details yet but you can download it free tomorrow from cnn.com and as it is free he is asking that you also make a donation to the http://www.royalweddingcharityfund.org/
Finally there is news that a whole new album is on its way with a brand new 'official' single before that titled 'Every Other Lover In The World'. The album is set to be more upbeat and dance orientated. A small tour will also follow :)
Clouds - Prince
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TUNA JACKPOT TRAVELS:
2,000-mile trailerboat journey through Baja by road and water
not for everyone, but "we had a blast!” said the author
The following is a running account of a 2,000-mile Baja adventure by road and over 800 miles of water by a group of anglers who centered their trip on competing in the WON/Yamaha Los Cabos Tuna Jackpot Tourney held Nov. 3-6.
BY JOE McGINNIS
Special to Western Outdoor News
CABO SAN LUCAS -- First I would like to say "Thank You” to all of the people who helped make this trip in October and November an extremely successful endeavor.
THE THREE boaters that made the trip. It all originated in Simi Valley.
The road conditions and weather reports from Gary Graham, along with GPS coordinates and launching ramp information in Lopez Mateos came in very handy. Bob Hoyt and his wife Dianna were very cordial and instrumental in logistics for storing trucks and trailers at their facility and fuel delivery to Santa Maria Cove. Note: I would highly recommend Mag Bay Outfitters to any outdoors person wanting a grand experience fishing, camping or just exploring that area of Mag Bay down the Baja Peninsula's west coast.
Our trip began on Oct. 26 with our meeting at the first toll booth Mexico 1, crossing the border at Tijuana. There I met with Charlie Tripoli, Yence and Ken Sund, Ray Madrid and Bill Alexander. Our group was reduced in size due to a number of unexpected reasons. Our good friend, Ron Reinhardt (Black Knight), called and reluctantly cancelled, as did Wendal Harden of Vagabundos. Four vehicles headed to El Rosario after passing out Motorola radios to each vehicle, which were invaluable in passing other vehicles and as Charlie Tripoti made us aware of his first flat tire. This was one of a total of four for the entire trip. The first night we stayed at Hotel Sinahi and enjoyed a tailgate party in the large parking lot for the boats, and also drinks and dinner in the motel's little restaurant.
YENCE SUND, left, and John Chonette with a tiny roosterfish.
At 7 a.m. the next morning we departed for San Lucas Cove. Road conditions were better than expected. We arrived early evening and met up with avid angler David Hughes and wife Martha. They live in the cove eight months out of the year.
I was delighted when Dave agreed to participate in the Western Outdoor News Tuna Tournament on my boat the Baja Dawg. Listening to the radio after dark, I heard Charlie Tripoli talking to Ken and Yence trying to find their way into San Lucas Cove Trailer Park. A few minutes later, they arrived with a police escort with lights flashing as they dodged the trees with their radar towers. Everyone made it unscathed.
Cocktails and dinner aboard our boats and with a good night's rest we left early the next morning, stopping by Singular Marina in Puerta Escondido inquiring on their facility regarding parking trucks and trailers while we cruise the peninsula.
The wind was blowing 40-plus at that location and the report for the Pacific side was no better for the next few days, so we arrived in Lopez Mateos around 12:30 noon. We scouted the area, meeting up with one of the great captains in the area, Ruben Duran. Ruben informed us that the weather outside the Boca would not be favorable until day after tomorrow and recommended we fish the estuary inside, which we did. We caught grouper, corvina and snook. While in Lopez Mateos, Ruben opened up his house and the rental house next door.
We were able to camp in the backyard and take advantage of a hot shower. His wife even prepared meals for us. We want to say "Thank you very much and we look forward to our next visit with Ruben and family." Items were passed out through the Christian Church there in Lopez Mateos to needy families that were affected by Hurricane Jimenez (blankets, towels, clothing, shoes and more) from friends and neighbors in California. We also brought down candy to be passed out to the children on Halloween evening.
THE 2110 STRIPER Castaway with Charlie Tripoli during the 800-mile cruise from Mag Bay to Cabo to Loreto.
We fished on Saturday, Oct. 31 heading out the Boca to the Thetis Bank. Ruben had a charter and stayed close. He caught several small yellowfin. Charlie Tripoti had multiple hookups of tuna and dorado with his friend John Chonette, who joined us in Loreto. The four boats that headed through the Boca were: Baja Dawg (a 27-foot Sea Ray), Cast Away (a 21-foot Striper), Juliana (a 23-foot Blackman), and Heavy Metal (a 23-foot aluminum center console with Ray Madrid and Bill Alexander aboard. Heavy Metal's plan was to stay with us until we departed for Cabo San Lucas. Ray had a freezer on board and most of the fish we caught was donated to him. They were a great addition to our party. Bill cooked up a wonderful breakfast one morning for everyone.
That night we anchored in Santa Maria Bay and went ashore to Mag Bay Outfitters restaurant where we had shrimp and lobster dinner. Lobsters were provided by Joe McGinnis from a California catch.
The next morning, we returned to the Thetis Bank and fished that area for a ¾-day. The winds were calm. We were unable to hook up with the wahoo that were biting, but we landed tuna and dorado that were biting. We returned to Santa Maria Cove where we had arranged for fuel that was delivered that evening.
After topping off our fuel tanks and rafting together for dinner, we were amazed at the amount of sail boats that had entered the bay from the Baja Ha Ha group. We had made friends from a crew of a 97-foot sailboat who came over after our dinner and invited us for a cocktail aboard their boat. We spent an hour aboard and got the official tour. I talked to Rick, the captain, and got some valuable information on our next leg of our trip - 212 miles to Cabo San Lucas.
HAVING FUN IN the Bay of Dreams (previously called Muertos Bay) south of La Paz Bay were Mia Tripoli and the author's wife, Linda McGinnis of Simi Valley.
We had a short meeting and all agreed that the weather was right for departing early, so we pulled anchor and left out of Santa Maria Cove at 2 a.m. Seas were calm enough to run 20 knots and with a full moon, everyone was visible. We stopped for short periods for bathroom breaks. Since I was alone I could actually cruise a little faster than the fleet, allowing for them to catch up. Since we were on a mission to get to Cabo San Lucas in time to make arrangements for the tuna tournament, we did not stop and put lures out for the marlin that we saw right next to the boat.
We arrived in Cabo San Lucas at noon without incident. Seas and wind conditions were variable, mostly with trailing seas after the sun came up. After anchoring in front of Medano Beach, we took my dinghy to shore and had lunch at The Office. There were two cruise ships in and the place was very busy.
Yence checked into the Hotel Tesoro, tournament headquarters for WON. Charlie and John stayed aboard the Cast Away, Joe stayed aboard the Baja Dawg and Ken stayed aboard Juliana. Maya Tripoli flew in from Humboldt, Calif., Linda McGinnis from Simi Valley, Calif., and Scott Weems from San Antonio, Texas. Scott crewed on the Juliana. Clint De Spain and Joel McGinnis also flew in from Las Vegas to crew on the Baja Dawg. Joe Frasier and Debbie also came in from Humboldt, and Joe crewed with Charlie on the Cast Away for the tournament.
The next morning we checked into the marina and obtained our slips and hotel rooms and made ready for the tournament. We stored most of the heavy stuff we brought with us on the dock boxes. We double-checked our tackle and cleaned the boats.
The next day the rest of the party arrived, 14 total. No big fish were caught aboard our boats, though we were right next to the boats that did hook up. A record-breaking tuna weighed in at 383 pounds caught by a local captain out of Cabo San Lucas. This fish won the tournament. Each boat won something in one of the drawings during the tournament. The last night Joe won a new Seeker rod "collectors edition."
DOLORES BEACH was the spot to relax for Linda McGinnnis.
We departed Cabo, Sunday the 8th of November continuing our cruise around the southern Baja peninsula. Joe and Debbie Frasier rode with Joe and Linda McGinnis to Las Brailles. Yence Sund took John aboard the Juliana in place of brother Ken who needed to take care of business back home. Ken departed for home out of Cabo San Lucas.
After dinner ashore at Hotel Buena Vista and breakfast the next morning, we pulled anchor and said goodbye to Joe and Debbie. Cruising and fishing, catching and releasing a variety of fish, we arrived at the Bay of Dreams that evening. This is a beautiful bay and we went ashore in our dinghies to what used to be the Giggling Marlin restaurant for dinner. Charlie and John landed dorado and tuna that we had that night for dinner.
The next morning we departed for La Paz Bay. Linda and I stayed on the boat in front of the El Arco Hotel, Charlie and Yence got a slip and we all went ashore for dinner at a local restaurant. The dinner was great. After refueling in La Paz, we cruised around the islands just north of Tecolete, snorkeled and swam with the seals at the marine park called Los Islotes, at the north end of the islands. The most amazing thing was diving down through the millions of sardines and having them swim all around you. We watched John as he dove to 40 feet in and out of the large grouper at the bottom. I know he wishes he could use his spear gun there.
We fished all day the next day, then anchored for the night at Isles San Francisco where the "No See Em's" became our best friends, biting everyone incessantly, and causing Charlie to pull anchor and head into the wind to blow the insects out of their cabin. What a night that was! At least they weren't mosquitoes.
We headed out covering approximately 50 miles, stopping at a couple of beautiful beaches to swim and snorkel, and check out the locals. That day, Yence and John were the heroes of the day, landing a 40-pound bull dorado worthy of the cover of Chubasco. This was a gourmet dinner that night cooked by Charlie and Maya aboard their boat, with pasta to die for. Charlie made a heroic dive over the side to save a spatula and something else that fell in. This was at Puerto Los Gatos.
THE MAP is doted with the trail that the group made, trailering to Mag Bay, running the boats to Cabo for the Tuna Tourney, up the Sea of Cortez to Loreto (a total of 800 miles) before trailering home.
Fishing along, we passed Singular Marina. Charlie suggested that we continue on into Loreto to tie up at their guest dock, and since it was Friday afternoon, that worked for us.
The Baja Dawg spotted a panga close to shore and went over to investigate. We wrangled up about 4 pounds of lobsters and 50 chocolate clams. This would become dinner for us that evening in Loreto at the restaurant "Mediterranean." Be careful, it gets pricey if you don't pay attention to extra charges. We all stayed at the new Hotel La Mission overlooking the water. The rooms were beautiful. Yence, in honor of his big fish, was declared the winner of the big fish contest. He bought the first round of drinks.
Charlie, Yence, Joe and John checked out in the morning, paid our personal security guard who stayed with the boats all night, got into our arranged taxi-van who met us in front of the hotel at 8 a. m. By 10 a.m. we were back in Lopez Mateos to pick up our trucks and trailers. We thanked Bob Hoyt very much for taking care of them for us and paid him the $2 per day storage fee. We arrived back in Loreto at 12:45 p.m. Charlie and Maya decided to spend another night in the hotel. Yence and Joe retrieved their boats. Joe had help from John with his 4-wheel drive as the ramp was a little too steep and wet to pull out the Baja Dawg with 2-wheel drive vehicle. We spent the next couple of hours securing the boats.
Saying goodbye to John Chonette, who lives in San Nicholas, not too far away, we departed for Santa Rosalia and Hotel Moro to spend the night. Dinner there that night was great. We had the chef cook up some of the chocolate clams that Joe had found.
Early the next morning, after repairing Yence's trailer lights, we headed for El Rosario. We headed back to the Hotel Sinahi for the night. Just before dark, Charlie and Maya pulled in. They drove all day from Loreto to the motel and we all spent the night there.
Departing ways at daybreak, Charlie and Maya headed out for their place in San Felipe, and Yence headed for the border at Tijuana. Since we were spending another night m Tecate, we slept in, then took the road into Tecate and booked a room at the first hotel on the right that we saw before heading into downtown Tecate. The name of the hotel is Hotel Rosita and it is very nice. In the upstairs dining room, Joe met Alphonso our waiter who he booked to take us on a City Tour as soon as Alphonso was off work at 2:30 that afternoon. He drove us by the Tecate Brewery, by the fish market, and to the huge and best ever Panaderia. We bought pastries there to take back to our room. Alphonso also picked us back up that evening and drove us to a nice restaurant for dinner. It was called La Mission restaurant.
The next morning, to our amazement, as we rounded the comer heading for customs at the border, we discovered we were next in line to go through the process. By 9 a.m. we were over the border and on our way home to Simi Valley, arriving at approximately 2 p.m. that afternoon.
This was an adventurous trip and as Pat McDonell (Western Outdoor News Editor) put it, "The Most Ambitious" of the many trailer boats to participate in the WON Tuna Jackpot Tournament. We put 2,000 miles trailering and over 800 miles on the water. Not for everyone, but we had a blast!
Joe McGinnis is a resident of Simi Valley. He has competed in the Cabo Tuna Jackpot nearly every year.
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Team Looks For First Win at Home Allentown, PA: The Lehigh Valley Steelhawks (0-5) welcome the Columbus Lions (3-1) to the ’Hawks Nest in the second matchup between these teams. The game will be Sunday night, May 20th with a 6:00pm kickoff. The game will be viewable locally on Service Electric Cable TV. Lehigh Valley took another loss last week but made some steady improvements under new Head Coach Danton Barto. The defense only gave up 26 points and created four turnovers, tallying their first three interceptions of the year. The offense was able to move the ball but struggled in the red zone. Getting on the board early against a team that hasn’t allowed a first quarter point all season will be pivotal in giving the Steelhawks and their young Quarterbacks confidence. Pass protection also needs to be better, as the Lions recorded six sacks in the team’s first matchup. Columbus is coming off a close, one-point victory over Carolina in which QB Mason Espinosa threw for seven touchdowns and 276 yards. WR Jarmon Fortson (9 catches, 73 yds) was on the receiving end of four of those scoring passes. A lot has changed in the Steelhawks personnel since these teams faced off in their season openers. With new players heading into the game, a new game plan, and Steelhawks Nation behind them, Lehigh Valley looks to perform better than they did in their first meeting. Johnnie Lustig’s Frankfurters Keys to the Game for the Steelhawks: Convert in the red-zone
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The Steelhawks have a bye week over Memorial Day weekend and then will defend the Nest again on Saturday, June 2nd when the Cobras come to town. It’s LLS Night with special jerseys that will auctioned off during the game, presented by Capital Blue Cross. All proceeds from the jersey auction will go towards the Steelhawks LLS Man of the Year Campaign. Single game tickets, season ticket flex packs, and 2018 group packages are on sale now! Season ticket flex plans start as low as $40! Call 610-224-4625 to reserve your seats. All Steelhawks games are played on Embassy Bank Field inside the PPL Center. Visit the team web site at www.LVSteelhawks.com for the latest updates and recent Steelhawks news. The post STEELHAWKS AIM TO TAME THE LIONS appeared first on Lehigh Valley Steelhawks.
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José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1852–1913)
Region: Mesoamerica, Central America, and the Caribbean
Zinc etching
Medium: Prints, Drawings, and Photography
H: 12 in. (30.5 cm.), W: 16 in. (40.7 cm.)
Courtesy of Giraudon/ Bridgeman Art Library
Stanley BrandesProfessor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley
Brandes, Stanley. Skulls to the Living, Bread to the Dead: The Day of the Dead in Mexico and Beyond. Maden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2007.
Brandes, Stanley. “Iconography in Mexico’s Day of the Dead: Origins and Meaning.” Ethnohistory 45.2 (Spring 1998): 181–218.
Carmichael, E., and C. Sayer. The Skeleton at the Feast: The Day of the Dead in Mexico. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1991.
Frank, P. Posada’s Broadsheets: Mexican Popular Imagery, 1890–1910. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1998.
Milotes, D. José Guadalupe Posada and the Mexican Broadside. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, bilingual ed., 2006.
Stavans, Ilan. “José Guadalupe Posada, Lampooner.” The Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 16 (Summer 1990): 55–71.
La Calavera de la CatrinaJosé Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1852–1913) Bis PoleAsmat artist(s), Omadsep village, New Guinea, Papua (Irian Jaya) Province, Indonesia Twin Figures (Ère Ìbejì)Yoruba artist, Nigeria Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve (The Ambassadors)Hans Holbein the Younger (German, 1497–1543) My Love Sings When the Flower is Near (The Philosopher and the Woman)Angelo Filomeno (Italian, b. 1963) Memorial for Solomon and Joseph HaysUnknown artist, United States
Eagle CoffinWorkshop of Kane Quaye, Teshe, Ghana Death leading a doctor holding a vial of urine. La Danse Macabre.Unknown artist, France Triumph of DeathPieter Bruegel the Elder (Netherlandish, c. 1525–1569) A page from the Ars MoriendiUnknown artist, Germany Terracotta Army (detail) from the Tomb Complex of Qin Shi HuangdiUnknown artist(s), China Kha and His Wife Meryt Before Osiris (detail) from the Book of the DeadUnknown artist, Egypt
Realm of Hungry Ghosts (from The Six Realms of Rebirth)School of/Style of Hirotaka, Japan Coffin of HenettawyUnknown Artist, Deir el-Bahri, western Thebes, Egypt Ancestral Effigy (Rambaramp)Vanuatu artist(s), Tomman Island, Vatbuyang Village, Vanuatu Funeral Portrait of a WomanUnknown Artist, Egypt
La Calavera de la Catrina
» José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1852–1913)
Intended as social satire, José Guadalupe Posada’s calaveras (images of skulls or animated skeletons) commented on the social and political lives of Mexicans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Although originally conceived by Posada’s contemporary Manuel Manilla, the calavera was popularized by Posada, whose cartoons circulated widely in newspapers, street gazettes, broadsides, and commercial posters. Perhaps the most famous of Posada’s calaveras is La Calavera de la Catrina, the skeleton of a high-society lady wearing a large, fancy hat. This figure, in particular, has become an icon of the Mexican Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead.
Like the American practice of Halloween, the Day of the Dead is related to the Catholic celebration of All Saints’ and All Souls’ Days. Every year in early November, Mexican families gather to celebrate the souls of the dead. Overnight vigils are staged in cemeteries, where offerings of water, food, and flowers are left for the deceased. Home altars are also decorated and supplied with food and other objects meant to please the lost relative or loved one. But these more somber, religious rituals are just one side of the Day of the Dead. In secular spaces, the living enjoy festivities that include music, performance, and gift-giving. Colorful costumes and whimsical art featuring representations of calaveras are prominent in these celebrations.
Despite a widespread tendency to see the origins of the calavera in the art of ancient Mesoamerica, it differs markedly from the rigid sobriety of skulls carved by the Aztec or images of decomposing corpses depicted by the ancient Maya. In prints and various other art forms associated with the Day of the Dead—everything from papier-mâché to papel picado (perforated paper) to sugar and chocolate—images of the calavera are unmistakably humorous. The skeletons, often dressed in finery, move playfully and smile widely. In some ways, these animated figures are much closer visually to the European “Dance of Death” motif in which limber skeletons lead, lure, or drag unwitting mortals to their ends.
Like Day of the Dead imagery, Dance of Death scenes demonstrate that death will come to everyone—young and old, rich and poor. There is, however, a very significant divergence in these two iconographic traditions. The encounters in Dance of Death illustrations are between the living and the dead, who seem to mock their human targets. In Posada’s prints, no one lives; everyone is a skeleton. Nevertheless, the human experience full of joy, passion, tumult, and fallibility goes on. Death is the subject of mockery here. In similar fashion, the ephemeral nature of Day of the Dead art, whether it be a fragile piece of paper or a sugary candy, acts not as a warning of death’s inevitability so much as a reminder to enjoy the sweetness of life.
Can art uncover a lighter side of death?
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Week of July 25th
The U12-FitzGerald team completed a successful regular season and were poised to make a lot of noise in the playoffs. As a #5 seed, the Wildcats were set to face off against the #4 seed Norfolk - a team that had it's way with Milton a few weeks earlier. U12-FitzGerald knew it was a new day and came ready to play. With the rain ending minutes before game time, it was the perfect setting for playoff softball: night game under the lights, great field conditions in Plainville and lots of fans making the trip to cheer on Milton. Ace pitcher Shannon F. (7IP, 8R, 12K) set the tone early by striking out two in the first. In the top of the 2nd, Milton rallied for a run when Shannon F. (2 hits) singled and advanced home when Ashley V. attempted to take second base on a walk. Despite a single by Allyson B., Milton could not continue the rally. After Norfolk rallied for three runs, Milton entered the top of the 4th trailing 3-1. Sarah D. (2 hits) led off with a single, took second on a wild pitch and came home on a clutch base hit by Shannon F. to cut the deficit to 3-2. The scored remained 3-2 Norfolk through four innings and set the stage for a wild 5th inning. With one out, Kristin R. reach base with a single. After a ground out, Maggie W. (2 hits) had an infield hit on a great hustle play. After both runners advanced on a wild pitch, Jess O. (3 hits including two doubles) took a 3-2 pitch and crushed it over the centerfielder giving Milton the 4-3 lead. Sarah D. followed with a key single, scoring Jess O. and giving Milton a 5-3 lead. In the bottom half of the 5th, Norfolk rallied for four runs giving them a 7-5 lead. The score remained 7-5 and set the stage for a dramatic seventh inning. Milton needed two runs to keep their season alive. Kate M. started the rally with an infield hit down the third base line. Kristin R. crushed a ball to deep left that was caught for the first out of the inning. With two outs, Maggie W. got an infield hit to keep the season alive. With the tying runs on base and the count 0-2, Jess O. smacked a double to left-center field tying the game at 7. Sarah D. followed with a hard ground ball to short, but was out at first by a step. If Milton could keep Norfolk off the scoreboard, the game would go to extra innings. Norfolk rallied with a walk and two stolen bases. With the winning run on third base, Norfolk was able to get a sacrifice fly to score the winning run. Despite the loss, Milton battled all night long and gave Norfolk quite a scare. The game featured 5 lead changes and some great defensive plays by Kristin R. (two pop-fly catches and one sinking line drive catch at 2nd base), Jess O. (fielding two grounds balls at shortstop and firing to first for the outs), Allyson B. (great catch in right field), and Ashley V. (catching a foul popup behind the plate). U12-FitzGerald finished the season with a record of 7-4.
U12-Conroy traveled to Sharon to take on Norwood as the fourth seed versus five. It rained all game but the
rain seemed to fall harder on Milton as the Wildcats could not get their game going losing 18 to 3. Tough end to a good summer season. U12-Conroy finished the season with a record of 6-4-1.
U12-Carroll faced off against Rockland and won in exciting fashion by a score of 17-15. Jess B. tagged out a runner trying to score from third to end the game. Maggie C. doubled in the tying run and ended up scoring the winning run. Morgan C. hit everything that came her way and ran the bases like Jess Owens. It was a great game.
U12-Conroy entered their last two games of the season needing one win to secure a playoff spot and took care of business last night at Gile Field defeating Norwood 13-10. Kate F went the distance backstopped by the solid catching of Grace O and Hannah O. Offensively they were led by Jenna C, two bases loaded 2 out hits, Kate F , single and double, Emily L, Grace O . Amy T and Caitlin l. Great fielding plays by Alia S at second base, Emma K at shortstop and Grace O and Amy T at first stopped rallies by Norwood. Caitlin L fired a strike from right field to first to end the game and send Milton to the playoffs.
On Thursday, U12-Conroy traveled to Walpole. With a playoff spot in hand, Milton fell to Walpole by score of 13-2.
The U12-FitzGerald team hosted Franklin on a hot, summer night at Kelly Field. Franklin came into the contest a perfect 8-0 and in sole possession of first place. Milton was very much in the playoff hunt, but needed wins in each of their two games to guarantee themselves a spot in the playoffs. The pitching was lead by Shannon F. (7IP, 6R, 6K) who battled all night against a strong hitting team. Milton's ace was supported by some great defensive efforts including: Maggie W. fielding a tough groundball at second and stepping on 2nd base for the forceout; Elizabeth M. catching a hard hit ball in left; Elizabeth M. relaying a throw from left-center to Jess O., who fired to Shea R. at third to get the hitter trying to stretch a double into a triple; Ashley V. making a nice catch of a foul pop-up; Sarah D. doing the same at first base and Jess O. fielding a ground ball at short, faking the throw to first and throwing to third to get the runner trying to advance. Offensively, the team combined great bunting, solid baserunning and some clutch hits to keep Franklin on their toes. The effort was led by Jess O. (2 hits), Shannon F. (2 hits), Sarah D., Shea R., Ashley V., Kate M., Allyson B., and Sarah G. Milton edges Franklin by a score of 7-6.
On Thursday, the U12-FitzGerald team hosted Walpole on a humid night at Kelly Field. It was the last regular season game for both teams and with Milton needing a win to assure themselves a playoff spot, Walpole was intent to play the role of spoiler. Milton started off strong and jumped out to 11-0 lead after 3 innings. The team would never look back as Shannon F. (6IP, 2R, 10K) took a no-hitter into the 6th and kept the Walpole bats in-check throughout the game. Maggie W. (1IP, 0R) closed out the game with a 1-2-3 7th inning The pitching was supported by some solid defense: Shea R. fielding a groundball at shortstop and firing to first for the out; Kristin R. fielding two ground balls at 2B base and firing to first for the out; Sara G. showing range at 2B tracking down a hard ground ball up the middle and firing to first for the out; Jess O. fielding two grounders at shortstop (including one that deflected off the pitcher) and firing to first for outs as well as an over the shoulder pop-fly catch. The team combined aggressive baserunning and solid hitting to keep the offense going. The effort was led by Shannon F., Sarah D., Shea R. (2 hits), Ashley V. (2 hits), Kate M., Allyson B. (2 hits), Maggie W. and Sarah G. Milton cruised to a 13-2 win and a spot in the playoffs.
U12-Conroy hosted Canton at Cunningham Park Monday night. Milton squeaked by Canton 10-9 to raise their record to 5-1-1. Canton turned 3 double plays to keep the game close before the Wildcats defense clamped down for the victory.
U12-Conroy Wildcats made the long trek to Norton Tuesday and fell 20 -7 to the still unbeaten Norton team. Facing their toughest opponent to date, the Wildcats were not sharp enough defensively to stay in the game early. Milton made Norton earn their outs with nice hitting and pitch selection by Amy T., Caitlin L., Kate F., Grace O. and Jenna C. Hard base running by Reilly H., Emma K. and Hannah O. kept Norton on their toes all night.
U12-Fitzgerald traveled to Norfolk on a hot, summer night. It was all Norfolk as Milton lost by a score of 15-0. On Wednesday, The U12-FitzGerald team traveled south to take on Plainville in a game that seemed to be threatened by showers. The pitching was lead by Shannon F. (7IP, 2R, 7K) who kept Plainville off balance all night. Milton's ace was supported by some great defensive efforts including: Kristin R. catching a slap hit for an out; Jess O. going back to deep short to get a flyball; Ashley V. fielding a bunt and firing to first for the out (Sara D. covering); Kailey A. fielding a tricky ground ball and tossing to first for the out and Shea R. fielding a hard ground ball and firing to first for the out. Offensively, Milton jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the first and added to it with another run in the 2nd, two in the 3rd, one in the 4th and two in the 5th to win 7-2.
U12-Carroll fell to Hanover Monday night by a score of 12-11. Milton was down 11-3 before staging a huge comeback and tying the game at 11. Hanover won it by scoring one run in the last inning. Caroline M. pitched great in relief and Bella S. made some great plays in the field.
U14-Kelly traveled to Wrentham to play King Philip on a rain soaked, thunderstorm Wednesday afternoon when leaving Milton, only to arrive to a sunny Wrentham. The commute ended up being more of a challenge than the game, with only 6 players being able to make it in time before a potential forfeit, then Helene J.(U10) saved (along with some quick thinking by Mr Concannon) Milton Impact being the 8th player for the roster.
Milton got right down to business on offense, with Molly C.(3 for 3) leading off with a great bunt, followed by Mary A.2 for 4) with perfect execution of a bunt. Bringing up the hot bat of Krissy M. (2 for 3) keeping her hitting streak alive, setting the table for Julia M. for a couple of RBI's (1 for 2, with 2 walks). Timely hitting by Jacqueline L. Caroline J. Andrea J. and Julie H. all accounted for the rest of the RBI's for the night. The star of the game was Helene J. (U10 player) helping Milton at the plate and in the field. All 3 plate appearance making solid contact, with the last at bat being a RBI single.
Milton's defense was tight from the beginning. Molly C. had another putout at second catching King Philip stealing. Julie H. (4I, 4H, 5W) was on the mound for her 6th straight appearance, holding KP to 4 hits, and making 3 great plays of the mound for outs. The defensive play of the game was by Olivia F. with bases loaded, two outs, and KP clean up hitter at the plate, drove a deep fly to center field, and Olivia F. tracked it down for the rally killer! Milton wins 12-5!, looking forward to traveling to Mansfield next.
U14-Kelly noticed early if they played their type of game, they could win the 8th game of the season, and bring the teams record to 5-3. Out on top early gave way to experimenting with the Defense, as Krissy M. gave Julie H. a couple of innings relief. Krissy M. threw mostly strikes, as the defense fell into that type of inning you need to not have, allowing Mansfield back into the game in the 5th, now trailing only 11-9. Julie (Papelbon)H. came in the last two innings to close the door for the win, 12-9.
Week of July 4th
U10-Rundlett pulled out another win - this time against Easton. Bridget had a great double to drive in two runs, and all the girls were hitting and fielding like super stars.
The U12-Conroy team faced of against a strong Sharon team Tuesday at Cunningham and never could get anything going against Sharon's strong pitching, falling 20-2. Too many mental errors after the holiday layoff gave Sharon too much momentum for Milton to overcome. Emma K. scored both Milton runs.
U12-Conroy returned to action Wednesday for the second of three straight games by traveling down 95 to North Attleboro. Timely hitting, strong pitching and solid defense gave U12-Conroy a 20-16 win.
The U12-Conroy Wildcats wrapped up a week of 3 straight games with a 19-8 win at Easton. The bats came alive with Amy T, Emma K, Hannah O and Grace O leading the way. Kate F, one out short of pitching 3 strong innings, had a ball lined back to the mound that forced her out of the game. One pitch by Caitlin L was all that was needed to end the inning and preserve an 11-2 lead. Caitlin L and Jenna C took over the pitching duties before handing the ball to Grace O to close out the game. A great snare of a hard line drive by Thalia B, and solid play all around by Reilly H and Emily L added up to a total team effort to end a good week for the Wildcats.
U12-Carroll supplied lots of offense in a 30-11 win over Weymouth.
U12-Carroll were back on the diamond on Thursday night facing off against a strong Marshfield team. Jess B. pitched well but U12-Carroll's solid hitting could not overcome their mental mistakes. As a result, U12-Carroll lost by a score of 22-13.
U12-FitzGerald hosted Foxboro at Kelly Field on a hot, humid night. In a game that saw several lead changes over the first 3 innings, U12-FitzGerald broke it open and rallied for the 12-4 win. The temperature wasn't the only thing that was hot as Milton came ready to play and continued with the hot bats. The pitching was lead by Shannon F. (6IP, 4R, 8K) and Sarah G. (1IP, 0R). Shannon F. took a no-hitter into the 7th before giving up 2 hits. Behind the Milton aces, several strong defensive plays were made by Allyson B. catching a flyball down the right field line; Kristin R. snagging a tough ground ball at second and throwing to first for the out; Shea R. making a nice catch at third; Jess O. fielding a hard ground ball deflected by the pitcher and firing to first for the out; Sarah G. moving on the crack of the bat and tracking down a flyball in right; Elizabeth M. running into foul territory and making a nice catch at first and Jess O. never giving up on the play by tagging out a runner who walked off the base thinking she was out. The offense was led by Sarah D., Shannon F. (double), Jess O., Elizabeth M., Ashley V., Kristin R., Kate M. (single, double), and Sarah G. who had a clutch 2-out, two-run single to give Milton the lead for good.
The U12-FitzGerald team hosted undefeated Stoughton in a rare night game at Gile Field. Milton entered the game riding a three game winning streak while Stoughton was looking to remain perfect on the season by going 5-0 on the season. The pitching was lead by Shannon F. (7IP, 4R, 11K). Milton's ace was supported by some great defensive efforts including: Allyson B. catching a flyball down the right field line; Kristin R. snagging a ground ball at second and tossing to first for the out; Sarah D. going back to catch a flyball behind first base; Ashley V. fielding a bunt and firing to first for the out (Kristin R. covering) and Shea R. fielding a hard hit ball at third and firing to first for the out. Offensively, Milton jumped out early by exploding for 5 runs in the first. The hit brigade was led by Jess O. (3 hits), Sarah D. (single, double),Shannon F., Elizabeth M. (single, double), and Ashley V. (triple). With Stoughton chipping away at the lead, Pitcher Shannon F. buckled down and finished strong striking out the last 4 batters to seal the deal for Milton.
U14-Kelly got into the win column on a muggy Tuesday night after the long holiday weekend. Stoughton did not know Milton was coming into the game very determined after the start of the season the prior week did not go as planned. Julie H. dominated her first 4 innings, with 5 K's, allowing only one run, and only one hit through 4!! Anne N. took the mound in the 5th, to give an inning relief because of the hot weather, and blasted a 1,2,3 inning on 9 pitches!! Julie H. finished strong to capture the 16-5 WIN! The Coaches were very proud of how the girls played their type of game, instead of looking to the other team for the tempo. From the start, it was all business with Molly C. throwing out 2 runners in one inning, assisted by Krissy M. with outstanding tags both at 3rd base! It was Milton's defense setting the tone, Caroline J. stayed with a tough fly in Left to make a great catch, along with catching an inning to give Molly C. a break from the heat. The outfielders Meg K. and Jacqueline L. tracking down fly balls, with Jacqueline L. gunning a deep fly from right to home for a strike to keep the runner at bay at 3rd, and receiving the game ball. The versatile Julia M. played 4 different positions on the field leading by example. The offense was led by the hot bat of Olivia F. with 6 RBI's, getting clutch hits with runners in scoring position 4 out of the 7 innings! Mary A. was on base for Olivia most of the time, with good bunting and making hard contact at the plate. Anne N. had the eagle eye and patience to get a critical walk in top of the last with bases loaded.
Week of June 27th
U12-Conroy hosted Attleboro at Cunningham Park in their home opener. After getting down early, Conroy-U12 dug deep and capped a great comeback win by scoring 9 runs in the bottom of the last inning to beat a surprised Attleboro team by a score of 15-14. Everyone on the team contributed including Alia S. who ended the game with a walk-off triple to steal the victory.
On Wednesday, U12-Conroy traveled to Mansfield. The game was a wild one with the lead going back and forth. The teams ended the game with a 17-17 tie.
U12-Carroll hosted Kingston at Gile Field on Wednesday. The game was tight throughout and Milton played will but Kingston made a few extra plays and pulled away with the 11-7 victory.
The U12-FitzGerald team traveled to Norwood. Norwood was coming off a season opening win where they blew out their opponent. The team was led on the mound by Shannon F. (5IP, 9R, 4K) and Maggie W. (1IP, 3R). Both battled a pesky lineup all night long. Defensively, Sarah G. made a nice over the head catch at second. Allyson B. made a nice catch of a flyball in right and Jess O. and Kristin R. fielded some hard ground balls at shortstop and second base respectively and threw out runners at first (Sarah D. covering). Jess O. and Kristin R. teamed up to throw out a runner at 3rd trying to steal. The offense got the bats working with hits from Elizabeth M., Jess O., Shea R., and Kailey A. but it was not enough as Norwood beat Milton by a final score of 12-4.
On Tuesday, U12-FitzGerald traveled down Route 24 to take on Easton. Milton was hungry and came ready to play. The pitching and the defense keep the game scoreless through two innings of play. Over the next three innings, Milton erupted for 13 runs. The offensive attack was led by Sarah D.,Shannon F. (3 hits), Elizabeth M. (single, double), Ashley V., Kristin R., Shea R., Kate M., Sara G., and Kailey A. On the mound, Shannon F. (5IP, 4R, 8K) and Maggie W. (2IP, 4R) held the Easton bats in check. And defensively, Kate M. made a nice flyball catch in centerfield, Ashley V. caught a pop-up behind the plate, Sarah D.called off everyone and caught a flyball at first, Shea R. made a nice catch at 3rd and Sarah G. followed with a great catch at shortstop. Shea R.fielded a tough grounder at short and threw to first for the out (Sarah D. covering) and Kristin R. ended the game by charging a ground ball at third and firing to first to end the game. Milton 18, Mansfield 8.
On Wednesday, the U12-FitzGerald team hosted Mansfield at Kelly Field for their first home page of the summer season. With their third game in three days, Milton was hungry and eager to get back to .500. After scoring a first inning run, Milton shut down the Mansfield offense for the next 5 innings and hung on to a 1-0 lead. Milton scored an insurance run in the bottom half of the 5th and entered the 6th clinging to a 2-0 lead. The pitching was lead by Shannon F. (7IP, 3R, 10K) and strong defensive plays were made by: Ashley V. catching a foul pop-up behind the plate,Jess O. starting a double play at shortstop and firing to Elizabeth M. for the forced out, Kristin R. catching a pop fly at 2nd base, Ashley V. andJess O. teaming up to throw out a runner at 3rd trying to steal. and Elizabeth M. making a great catch in left ending a rally. With the game entering the top of the 6th, Mansfield rallied for 2 runs to tie the game and added the go-ahead run in the top of the 7th. But Milton did not give up. After fouling off two bunt attempts, Jess O. hit a base hit into right field. Jess O. immediately stole second. Sarah D. tied the game by crushing a ball to left-center for a double. With Shannon F. at the plate, the pitch bounced away from the catcher and Sarah D. took off for third. The throw to third was wide sending the ball into left field. Sarah D. stood up and raced home for the winning run and Milton's first walk-off win of the season. Milton 4, Mansfield 3.
The 2011 summer travel season kicked off this week with all seven teams in action.
U12-FitzGerald kicked off the 2011 Summer Season with a road game in Wrentham. The team was coming into the game with a single practice under their belt but felt ready to compete. The team was led on the mound by Maggie W. (5IP, 4R, 1BB) who pitched fantastic - only allowing 4 runs over 5 innings. The defense supported her with plenty of leather: Jess O. (4 grounders at short and one pop fly catch), Shea R. (2 grounders at 3B, 2 flyball catches and one tag out from a throw from Kate M. in center field). Elizabeth M., Kailey A., Sarah D. and Sarah G. all made nice fielding plays on ground balls for outs. But the Milton pitching and defense could only do so much as the offense could not get it going. Milton managed only six baserunners as they fell to Wrentham by a score of 4-0.
U12-Conroy beat a tough Franklin team 11-10 behind the solid pitching of Kate F. and timely hitting by Amy T, Jenna C. and Emily L. Great defense by Hannah O. and Catlin L. along with great base running by Grace O., Emma K., Reilly H., and Alia S. Milton jumped out to early leads of 5-1 and 11-3 before holding off Franklin in the 6th for the victory. Great start of the summer season.
U10-Rundlett hosted the North Attleboro Rockets at Kelly Field on Tuesday and after several lead changes, Milton was able to close the door and hold on for the 11-10 win.
U10-Kinsella faced off against Dedham and came away with the 12-2 win. The game featured great defense by the entire team and superb pitching from Samantha J. who pitched a no-hitter.
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Home Biafra News. Controversy over Lagos home EFCC discovered N15bn
Controversy over Lagos home EFCC discovered N15bn
Controversial has continued to trail the large sums of foreign and local currencies amounting to about N15 billion recovered by the Economic and Financial crimes Commission (EFCC) in an apartment in Ikoy, Lagos.
A former governor of Bauchi State and ex-national chairman of People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Ahmadu Adamu Mu’azu ‘disowned’ the house at No. 16 Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, where the money was discovered even as sacked Managing Director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mrs. Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue and Chief Godwin Obla have washed their hands off the large sum.
An online medium had valleged that the house belonged to the former Bauchi State governor.But Muazu denied ownership of the property. He, however, did not explain why his name was listed as the owner on the website of the construction firm that built it.
Etco Nigeria Limited, a construction firm partly owned by an Israeli company, Electral Limited, prides itself as having built several residential and corporate complexes in Abuja, Port Harcourt, and Lagos, including the property in Ikoyi, Lagos, where EFCC recovered the sums of $43 million, N23 million and £27,000, stashed away in fire-resistant cabinets behind a false wall, on Wednesday afternoon.
According to SaharaReporters, one Akin Oyegoke, who identified himself as the “Media and ICT Personal Assistant” to Mr. Mu’azu called from London to deny that the former PDP chair owns the building.
“Mr. Muazu does not own any house in Ikoyi except his house at Walter Carrington Street, Victoria Island Lagos,” Oyegoke was quoted to have said.
He also denied that his boss ever lived in the apartment where he is alleged to maintain a Penthouse.
Oyegoke was said to have claimed that Muazu was unhappy about the story linking him with the building.
But when asked to explain why the construction company listed Mu’azu’s name as the client on the property profile, Oyegoke was reported to have promised to “reach out to Mr. Muazu and get back to us but never did as at the time of publishing this story,” the online media said.
BVI Channel 1 gathered that the house was originally owned by Mu’azu, but he had since sold it.
Mu’azu, former governor of Bauchi between 1999 and 2007 had previously been declared wanted by the EFCC for engaging in massive corruption.
Meanwhile, a statement issued by the law firm of Ferdinand Orbih (SAN) has also distanced Chief Godwin Obla from ownership of the building where the money was discovered.
The law firm said it client did not own a single building in Lagos let alone being a resident or part house owner of the said building.
The lawyer said it was unfair to suggest that Obla “is the network of affairs involving illicit financial dealings and money laundering…or to be linked with underhand criminal dealings.
“Except to confirm Sahara Reporters role of carrying out the bidding of faces behind the mask, it is befuddling how you could have come by unfounded allegation that Chief Obla, is equally a resident/owner of the building where over $50,000,000 was allegedly found. Having allegedly discovered the owner of the building by whatever means you did and all that should have been done remained to be done was a little prodding,” the statement said.
It stated that the allegation of Obla’s residency was a cooked up tale to create a mischievous foundation for planned future character assassination.
“To further lend credence to the above, is the additional narrative of the recent marriage between the son of Chief Godwin Obla, and Obgue’s daughter. Obviously, an insertion to create a subliminal innuendo in the minds of innocent and undiscerning reading public that there is a pattern of network of affairs among the names mentioned.”
The law firm demanded a full retraction of the statement within seven days or face a lawsuit of N10 billion “for the monumental injury to the reputation of the person of Obla and his interests.”
Meanwhile, Justice Muslim Hassan of the Federal High Court, Lagos has ordered that the funds be temporary forfeited to the Federal Government.
Justice Hassan gave the verdict yesterday while ruling on application filed by EFCC seeking for forfeiture of the fund.
The judge, however, adjourned till May 5, for anyone interested in the funds to show up before him to show cause why the money should not be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government.
EFCC’s prosecutor, Rotimi Oyedepo while moving the ex parte application for the interim forfeiture of the funds, told the court that no one had come forward to claim it, adding that the staff of one AM Facilities managing the apartment where the huge sums were found could not provide the anti-graft agency with information on the possible owner of the money.
He urged the judge to exercise the power conferred on him by Section 17 of the Advance Fee Fraud and other related Offence Act to order the interim forfeiture of the money to the Federal Government.
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Human Behavior Magazine – Getting Tough About Rape
(First publication on Model Mugging)
Getting Tough About Rape
By Carol Foote
Photographs by News Service/Stanford University
You are in bed at night and awaken to see a figure by your dresser. You are walking down a dark street and are grabbed from the rear, a knife pressed to your throat. You are at home and hear someone breaking into your back door; you run to the phone and don’t hear a dial tone. You are being raped by six youths.
But Thomas’s students are not only asked to imagine that they are being assaulted, they are asked to experience it. Thomas, who has black-belt degrees in karate and judo, personally attacks each student in a series of model muggings designed to let the women try out their techniques and come to grips with their fears.
Women who take this course in self-defense don’t pass until they kick their teacher in the head.
Someone has experienced each of these situations. Now students in a unique women’s self-defense course at Stanford University are being asked to envision themselves in these instances and decide what they would do. It’s all part of an effort by instructor Matthew Thomas to help his students face the reality of assault and think out the possibilities while their lives are not at stake.
The idea is to put as much emphasis on the psychological aspects of self-defense as on the physical. To accomplish this, Thomas combines the simulated attacks and mental exercises with discussions, reading assignments and physical training. The result is a course that’s teaching women not only to knock out attackers but to take more control in other areas of their lives, as well.
Thomas first began to realize that physical training alone was insufficient when one of his female karate students with a black-belt degree was attacked and raped by an unarmed man in Los Angeles seven years ago. The woman believed she had disgraced the martial arts, but Thomas felt the martial arts had failed her.
To find out how, Thomas turned to police files and rape studies, investigating 2,700 assaults on women. The martial arts, he concluded, don’t prepare a woman for a real-life attack. Prompted by the rape and beating of his own lover at Stanford several years ago, Thomas used the data he had collected to design his course. Since then he has taught more than a thousand women at Harvard, Radcliffe, Wellesley and Stanford.
An international investment banker by day, at night the 27-year-old Thomas becomes an “assailant” for the class. He pads himself thoroughly for the attacks with pillows, knee guards and a bulky, custom-made helmet that surrounds his head like a giant black pumpkin. The outfit turns him from a lean, amiable businessperson into a dark and sinister-looking figure of grotesque proportions.
The lights go out, and Thomas and a student meet on the mat. The woman is slender and is wearing a plaid shirt, jeans and heavy shoes. Thomas veers toward her. She tries to fend off his hands and pass by, but his arms encircle her and in an instant the couple are on the floor struggling. There is no sound but the heavy thud of blows. It is over in less than 30 seconds, and they are both up discussing it.
Each bout is an intense learning session, the lesson driven home by fear. ‘You want to avoid that fear,” says Ellen Brigham, 25, who has completed the course. “You want to avoid that terror, so you learn quickly.”
The women are told to aim for the vital areas — particularly the knees, the temples and the groin — and to strike as hard as they can. It is up to Thomas, with the help of his padding and his martial arts training, to protect himself from being hurt. When an “effective” blow is landed, he reacts accordingly so that the students learn what works.
Thomas enacts his muggings keeping in mind the loopholes he feels are left by the martial arts. While 90 percent of karate is taught standing up, for instance, 40 percent of the time a woman is knocked to the ground before she even realizes she is being attacked. Karate students are also trained to avoid impact with their punches and to steer clear of vital areas during practice in classes.
Essentially, the martial arts do not give a woman experience fighting in the type of situations she’s apt to encounter in an attack—in dim light, in street clothes and shoes and without a warm-up. Thomas tries to introduce these variations and a wide variety of other situations — even on occasion asking the women to have a few drinks first.
The physical training part of the course includes techniques from a number of martial arts styles — Aikido, Judo, Karate, Jujitsu, Tai Chi, Ninjutsu and Kung Fu. Some pointers on mobility are even taken from Western boxing.
The model muggings are introduced halfway into the 10 week course, after the students have had a chance to learn some of these techniques and develop their strength. Even so, many of the women don’t do well in their first “assault.” Faced with an attack, they forget what they have learned and hit Thomas in the arm or the side or miss him altogether.
Once Thomas used the muggings only as a final exam, but too many students failed. Now each of the 20 or so women in the course is mugged some 50 times. “As I see it,” Thomas says, “you make your mistakes in class; you don’t make them on the street.”
The simulated attacks teach the women not only what they can do, but what they aren’t able to do. They learn their limitations; yet, at the same time, they lose their fear of combat. While men often are accustomed to physical struggle because of their involvement in contact sports since boyhood, women generally are not, says Thomas. Attacked, women are likely to feel bewildered and defeated.
“Women,” he says, “must be reconditioned to struggle, fight and continue fighting until they win.”
To help his students gain confidence and become so used to winning that they won’t accept defeat, Thomas begins the model muggings slowly, gradually making them more difficult. By the end of the quarter, he estimates, 90 percent of his students have the capability of knocking out an attacker in the first five seconds of an assault.
The women are taught to continue the fight until they have kicked Thomas in the head. A reluctance to kick someone when he’s down is one of the hardest psychological barriers for women to overcome, says Thomas. But he feels it’s important for a woman to knock out an attacker rather than just hurt him and flee. “You can hit a person and run, and they can get up and chase you and you’re in a worse situation,” he says. “How many men can run faster than a woman? Hit and run is foolish.”
While this may seem a rather militant approach to self-defense, it is balanced by the fact that Thomas spends a lot of time teaching his students how to avoid conflict entirely. The model muggings involve not only physical attacks, but verbal approaches that give the students opportunities to stop an assault before it starts.
Most rapes do not begin with surprise attacks but with periods of conversations where the man tests his victim. The proper response can make fighting unnecessary.
It is surprisingly difficult, however, to think of a verbal deterrent under pressure – even in class, say Thomas’ students. By practicing over and over again, their reactions become automatic. Responses range from the humorous (“I gave at the office.”) to the disgusting, (snorting and nose picking), from the clever (“Will you help me find my German Shepherd?”) to the bizarre (breathing in the attacker’s face).
One problem many women have in an initial encounter, says Thomas, is that they have been taught to be polite. When a vehement “Get Lost!” might work, they’ll tend to be pleasant, hoping their suspicions are wrong. Yet most rape victims report they might have avoided attack if they had heeded a gut-level warning that something was amiss.
In discussions occupying approximately half the class time, the students talk about the reasons for rape: society’s attitudes towards women; rape fantasies; ways of using an assailant’s sexism against him and myriad other social, spiritual, physical and psychological topics.
Reading assignments range from feminist literature, such as Susan Brownmiller’s Against Our Will, to a guerrilla warfare manual by Mao Tse Tung. There are 10 books in all and excerpts from several other works, including On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and The Buddhist Tradition by William De Bary. The course receives full academic credit at Stanford.
The discussions and readings are designed, in part, to deal with mental blocks against self-defense and the psychological changes that come with learning to disable an assailant. “To take a woman who has never hit anyone in her life and teach her how to knock someone out in a few seconds, requires some radical adjustments,” says Thomas.
In making these adjustments and learning to overcome their blocks against self-defense, many of Thomas’ students are find they’re also gaining confidence in other areas of their lives.
Cindy Miller, 19, says, “It’s made me a lot more aware that you can still be a woman and have power. I feel much more like I can speak up in situations and be more assertive.”
April Nielson, 23, who helped teach the course after taking it herself, notes, “I refuse to be in a lot of situations that I used to accept before. Now I feel I have more choices, because I know I don’t have to be quiet. I don’t have to take it.”
The students’ confidence in their new abilities is apparently not just wishful thinking, either. Of the more than a thousand women taught by Thomas since he began his course six years ago, there are quite a number with success stories and none who have reported failures.
One woman was walking home from a party at Harvard when she was grabbed from the rear and slammed against a wall. She struck the man’s throat with her hand, knocking him unconscious long enough for the police to come.
Another graduate of the course was attacked in an icy parking lot at Harvard and knocked to the ground. She kicked her assailant in the groin and he was still disabled when the police arrived 10 minutes later.
Four women graduates of Thomas’ class have used psychological ploys to avoid rape. One was followed home, but instead of going to her own door, where assaults often occur, she broke the window of her most belligerent neighbor just as her assailant started to rush her. When the neighbor emerged yelling, the assailant fled.
Still other graduates used their wits to keep them out of potentially dangerous situations. One was dining in a pizza parlor when a suspicious-looking man entered. Remembering Thomas’ warning that women should heed their instincts, she abandoned her pizza and left. Her intuition proved right: the man produced a sawed off shotgun and shot up the restaurant, injuring two persons.
Such stories must provide a lot of encouragement to Thomas’ students, but they say the confidence instilled by the course grows slowly.
According to Ellen Brigham, there is a stage of intense paranoia after the first few model muggings, when the reality of rape has struck home, but so has a student’s awareness of her helplessness.
By the end of the course, however, Thomas’ students are able to confront the possibilities of assault and realize it could happen to them.
As April Neilson says, “There’s still the same reality of being raped. It is a reality. I don’t want it to be my reality, so I’ll take responsibility and do something about it.”
Original article in Human Behavior Magazine, December 1978 – pages 24 to 26; download file size is 2.03 MB.
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Nico Evaluates
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Mega Man: Rock Force
Developer: GoldWaterDLS
Rock Force is a morose, dark and grim experience, like no other Mega Man game. The whole time you play the game, there is this sad undertone to the experience and it feels like you’re in one of Mega Man’s nightmares. All that being said, Rock Force is a fair title that deserves at least one playthrough. Strange sprite artwork and the dark tone can be off-putting. Keep in mind that certain questionable decisions and gimmicks set this game further away from your usual Mega Man experience.
Some research will prove beneficial before playing to fully enjoy this title. Based on your progression, the game will either throw puzzle stages or just classic normal stages your way and there is a convoluted way to affect the outcome which will potentially change your mind on how you liked the game at the end.
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If there’s one word that describes Mega Man Rock Force, it’s “unique”. Right from the intro cutscene alone, it’s extremely obvious that Rock Force is not a traditional Mega Man experience, nor is it really trying to be. If you want a traditional experience, I’d quickly suggest you look elsewhere.
In Rock Force, the plot is dark and a bit dreary, with no Wily in sight and one of the most unusually pragmatic Mega Mans we’ve seen in a fangame. Not quite Mega Man X levels of angsty, but definitely not Classic levels of sunshine. The villain of the game (who is extremely obvious, despite the game’s attempts to hide it) is best described as a dogmatic lunatic, and the game honestly attempts to tackle some of the issues Mega Man 9 touched upon in a lot more detail, for better or for worse. Even a few of the levels are downright morose, particularly the first of the final stages.
Beyond the plot, you’ll find that the gameplay is very solid. Mega Man controls very solidly, the enemies are generally well-balanced, the stages generally avoid trying to surprise you with random bullcrud, every single weapon in the game is useful (itself a rarity), the difficulty stays consistent, the graphics are solidly done for the most part, and the soundtrack (while a bit odd in places) sounds pretty nice. The only constant weakpoint is the boss design, while most of them are well-telegraphed, every boss in the game still operates on RNG, which can get dull after a while.
However, the game has a metric ton of assets that encourage replayability in a more natural manner. Going into the options menu, there are a LOT of ways to tweak the game to suit your tastes. From mechanical details like your slide strength and whether the game pauses while refilling your bars or not, to details like checkpoints, weapon strength, invincibility time, and separate counters for boss and stage difficulties. If you want to have an absolute cakewalk of a game? Max invincibility, Max weapon strength, Cut enemy strength, Set everything to easy mode, and laugh. If you want to play a rage game? No invincibility, Half weapon strength, No checkpoints, Instant Death hard mode, and weep.
Additionally, the game itself has two different ways to create a radically different experience. For starters, whenever you rescue a member of your Rock Force team, you unlock the ability to play as them. With 8 different Rock Force members to rescue, that’s a total of 9 playable characters, each with their own unique abilities, and even unique dialogue in the cutscenes. Some of the character’s reactions to the villain are downright hilarious, or awesome, depending on your tastes. It’s not every day you see naive little Cut Man (MM Powered Up) get in a dig on someone, after all.
Beyond that, the game also has a set of Not-Doc Robots, which most everyone refers to as the “Fusion Masters” that also add an element of replayability. Depending on which robot master you kill last, it completely alters the next 4 stages you’re going to playing. One set still provides a fairly traditional experience, the other set throws tradition out the window and uses concepts that most fangames wouldn’t dare utilize again. Personally, I enjoy both sets equally, and have a lot of fun playing either of them. But the two sets of Fusions are as different as night and day, meaning you’re far more likely to enjoy one or the other.
For reference: Defeating Pulse, Fuse, Photon, or Circuit last gives you the traditional set. Defeating Crypt, Virus, Shock, or Charade last gives you the crazy set. This way you don’t have to look it up, which is good because fangames don’t usually come with things like GameFAQs guides.
However, each of these unique replayability aspects is a double-edged sword that hurt the game’s quality.
-On the options end, the alternate difficulties feel like an afterthought, meaning the design of the game will drop considerably on those modes. Additionally, the enforced checkpoint amount is not something every stage is designed around, and the ones that don’t really account for it (particularly ones where you’d want more than 4 checkpoints) suffer drastically.
-On the Rock Force end, the characters in the Rock Force feel hilariously unbalanced with each other. Some of them, like Elec Man and Fire Man, are incredibly powerful and can demolish the game with some practice. Others, like Knight Man or (in some cases) Nitro Man, struggle a lot with the game’s various challenges. In particular, if you’re playing as Knight Man you MUST use the stronger slide, otherwise one of the final stages is practically impossible.
-For the Fusion Masters? There’s no explanation of how to choose your fusion set AT ALL. This means, unless someone like me outright tells you how they work, which set you get might as well be random. Considering one set is mostly traditional and the other set murders tradition? Yeah, this perceived random hampers the quality of both sets and can easily destroy your entire experience. It also doesn’t help that each set has a dud stage. Plague Man is basically Virus Man 2.0, making his stage feel very dull compared to the others (and Virus Man’s gimmick is extremely aggravating). Port Man’s stage is lacking a metric ton of Quality of Life elements, causing the stage to quickly become a drag if you aren’t some superhuman puzzle solver.
However, despite those flaws, I still consider Rock Force a very solid game. It’s far from perfect, and it won’t ever be a perfect game, but it’s probably one of the best fangames out there if you’re willing to stretch your disbelief a little further than normal. I just hope the glaring flaws with its unique aspects can be fixed at some point.
Roiler
Mega Man: Rock Force is a unique fan game. It’s unusual in terms of characters and story. You’ll never find a darkish story like RF in any other fan games. But it’s acceptable.
As for the gameplay, it’s all good. Controls are fluent, enemies well balanced, a very few unfair moments (at the last parts of the game), weapons are all useful in each different situation (probably a few of them are kinda overpowered) mechanics are simple but challenging and the soundtrack is very well done! Basically what you would expect from a good Mega Man game. There are a few negative aspects, like the design of the bosses, a bland ending and “four puzzle stages” that might not be appealing for a Mega Man game that can ruin A LOT the game experience.
The most exciting thing about this game is the replay value. Everytime you defeat a Robot Master, you save one of the members of the Rock Force, one Robot Master from the original games, and you can decide if you want to play as Mega Man or as a member of the RF! This makes the game long enough for you to play in a lot of different ways! Little advice: you might find different bosses based on the last Robot Master you defeat, after the main eight stages 😉
Mega Man: Rock Force is a good fan game. It might not be the best one, but it’s enjoyable. The replay value makes the game worth to be played a lot of times. Give it a try! You won’t regret it!
Vucious Creed
Rock Force is a fan game that feels kind of hit or miss. When it hits, it hits hard. Of course, when it misses… well, at least the good things still shine on through.
The game seem to have pretty decent physics. Character control is stable and not too much more can be said on that. The music is a mixed bag. It’s to the point where you can distinctively tell which tracks would be good and which tracks are “meh”. Not to mention some of the tracks can sound same-y or just plain lack energy. The weapons are surprisingly strong though. A lot of weapons can tear through enemies in a few shots and a few can serve extra funtions (like the Crypt Cloak not setting off specific enemies nearby). However, while powerful, some of the weapons don’t really distinguish themselves from one another.
Level design is pretty decent in most cases. There are cases where enemies/obstacles could be better, but nothing too glaring… at least for the first 8 robot masters. The second part with the fused masters kinda drop the ball here. The first main set (Terror, Plague, Flare and Power) aren’t as bad, but it reuses assets from prior stages. It’s not all that bad, but a little more exposure of unique gimmicks could help. The second set of newer fused masters (War, Thrill, Thermo and Port), are a bit too gimmicky for their own good. Port Man with its contrived (yet admittingly unique) puzzles and Thrill Man and War Man with its “escort” aspects stand out. The final stages aren’t too complicated, either, all things considered. That said, the underwater segments of the first of the final stages can be a bit too tight for comfort. Also, the very final stage is nothing more than a re-tread of the gimmicks of the first 8 robos. It’s up to you to decide if this is a nice creative gauntlet or a lazy tack-on instead of something more original.
The bosses are rather simplistic and their designs are not very memorable and a bit out of place in comparison to your standard Robot Master designs. Keeping this in mind, these bosses don’t really have varying attack patterns (though that changes in higher difficulties). This makes some battles pretty dull and uninsnpired. That’s not to say that a few of them are not without some neat touches like Crypt Man being an honorable boss giving Megaman an L-Tank or the second half of Port Man’s fight (which while neat, can also drag due to how the gimmick in the second half of the fight works). Nothing really stands out among the bosses and can be described as “okay” at best.
The replay value is there in some fashion. The fact that you can have two different set of four fusion bosses after the first eight robos (depending on who you kill last) is pretty cool. Also, the amount of options you can do is pretty extensive. From being able to set lives, checkpoint amounts, and even spike damage, this may be the most detailed set of options in any Megaman game and can extend replayablility with them alone. The added inclusion of the Rock Force members being playable also help with this game’s overal experience as well.
Overall, Rock Force is a pretty decent game. Its value increasing with the amount of updating it gets. However, in comparison to other fan games out there, it’s somewhat lacking. Even so, it’s still a game that worth picking up and trying.
GamerFromTheWeb
Mega Man Rock Force is an absolutely fantastic fan game, even with its few quirks. There’s just so much to unpack with this game. You have the Rock Force, which lets you play as 8 robot masters from the original games with plenty different playstyles (my favorite is Nitro Man), an absurd amount of difficulty customization, an extra 8 robot masters after the initial 8 (which are divided up into sets of 2) and the pretty grim story compared to other Mega Man games.
The Rock Force is probably my favorite part of the game, the 8 robot masters really do add a lot of replay value to the game, and on a blind playthrough, is a very nice reward for beating the Robot Masters besides the weapons you can use as Mega Man, which are pretty decent in this game even though the game basically has the MM5 charge shot. But my biggest issue with the Rock Force is that they can either cheese the level/boss, or make the level/boss infuriating. For example, Elec Man can avoid any attack from almost any boss in the game with his insane wall jump, and can equally cheese the levels with his agility and jump height. And on the flipside, beating Crypt Man with Nitro Man is almost nearly impossible, especially on hard mode, as Nitro Man has a cathartic weapon with little effective range. But even with the slight imbalances, the Rock Force do add a lot to Mega Man Rock Force’s greatness.
The Fusion Masters, oh boy. Even though the two sets are completely different, there’s still a lot to love here. The first set, Terror Man, Power Man, Plague Man and Flare Man are fairly traditional, adding more to the themes of the established 8 robot masters, while the other set, Thrill Man, Port Man, War Man, and Thermo Man obliterate any form of tradition, which is a good thing in my opinion as they’re very memorable and unique. Not to talk trash about the original ones, they’re still very good, especially Terror Man and Power Man. I honestly love the Fusion Masters much more than the original 8 robot masters, and my only problem is that you don’t get any special weapons after defeating them. Also, it would be nice if I could have all 8 Fusion Masters in one save file rather than them being split up.
The level design of the game is pretty great, not once did I think it was unfair, and there were a lot of cool ideas like the Minecarts in Boom Man’s stage. However, sometimes the levels and the bosses can seem a bit dull. But most of the time, you have really neat segments like the final stretch of Charade Man and the water segment of Shock Man’s stage.
Overall, Rock Force is a fantastic fan game and is severely underrated in my opinion. Sure it isn’t completely traditional, but that’s not what makes a game good, and what Rock Force deviates in, it does it very well. Besides some lack of polish and unbalanced characters, Mega Man Rock Force is a fresh take on the Mega Man series.
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