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Fall 2015 Ready-to-WearCharlotte Ronson
NEW YORK,February 14, 2015
by Emily Farra
As a seasoned designer and girl-about-town, Charlotte Ronson has built up a fan base of celebrities, bloggers, and models that makes for buzzy Lincoln Center presentations. But she also appeals to a more humble market via her long-standing partnership with JC Penney. Straddling both worlds can be tricky, but in Ronson's case it's helped her to develop the labels independently. Designing for JC Penney "puts a lot in perspective, being able to do really great products at an affordable price," she said. "The contemporary market is a lot smaller, and we're producing everything in New York now. It makes it more expensive, so you really have to think about what you're putting out there."
For Fall, Ronson was inspired by nature balanced with clean, '60s-inspired sportswear. Dark, moody florals and olive culottes fit the bill, but it was hard to suss out the thought process behind many of the looks. A ribbed khaki sweaterdress with matching tights would be difficult to pull off in real life, and a pair of sheer trousers had a strange fit. The collection did feel a little more grown-up, devoid of the Teva sandals and flower appliqués the designer has shown in the past. But aren't playful prints and silhouettes Ronson's special sauce? Her customers will snap up the glittering hunter green sequin dress and pastel coats, but otherwise they may feel a little let down.
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Last champ Villeneuve says the Williams F1 team is 'dead'
Image: AFP / Andrej Isakovic
Claire Williams contemplating 'difficult decisions'
Williams slow at every race - Stroll
Poor management and unsuited drivers are at the core of Williams' problems.
That is the claim of Jacques Villeneuve, who in 1997 became the once-great British team's last world champion.
'The team is dead'
But now, Williams is struggling with Formula 1's slowest car.
READ: McLaren, Williams, admit need for change
"The team is dead. There is no management. They had the chance to make a good choice, but they put Claire Williams in charge rather than (brother) Jonathan. It was a big mistake," Villeneuve told Russia's Sport-Express.
Williams #F1 driver Lance Stroll has been linked with a move to Force India for 2019:https://t.co/WsQ176eUJ4
— Autosport (@autosport) July 19, 2018
"When things are like this, you need to look at the top of the pyramid. And they simply don't understand what to do. I just don't see how they will get out of it," Villeneuve added.
And he said the problem is compounded by Williams' drivers, 19-year-old Lance Stroll and rookie Sergey Sirotkin.
"Sergey should be glad he is in F1, because if you look at what he did before, there is no reason he should be here.
So if he drives for the worst team, he should be pleased. The problem is that his teammate also has no experience, so he has no one to learn from.
If Felipe Massa was still there, he may have learned something, but with Lance and his family in the team? All that political mess? There is not much that is positive," said the French Canadian.
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Best-selling passenger cars, bakkies and SUVs for April 2018
WORST YET TO COME: Britain's exit from the EU will have far reaching effects on SA's motor industry. Image: Motorpress
2018 Q1 bakkie sales in SA provinces
Here's the colour you chose for your bakkie in SA April sales
According to aggregated data from the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of South Africa (Naamsa), April’s sales of 36 346 units reflect a 3.6% year on year growth, while at the same time showing a dramatic month on month decline of 26.2%.
Naamsa said: "The domestic sales total would probably increase by about 350 units once the delayed sales report by Fiat Chrysler Automobiles South Africa was received by around mid-May 2018."
READ: This South African province sold the most cars in April…
Export sales at 24 422 vehicles reflect an improvement of 193 units (0.8%) compared to the 24 229 vehicles exported in April 2017.
The Volkswagen Polo Vivo continues to be the best-selling passenger car in South Africa; during April 2018, the popular hatchback accumulated a total sales figure of 2143 units. It was followed by the Polo, which managed 1907 units in second place. Hyundai's Grand i10 sold 1013 units placing it in third place.
The Toyota Hilux ended April 2018 as the top selling bakkie in South Africa; not only does the automaker's flagship lead the bakkie top 10, but it was also the best-selling vehicle in South Africa with 2679 units. The Hilux beat its closest rival, the Ford Ranger, by more than 300 units to secure the top spot.
The BMW X3 was the best-selling luxury SUV in April 2018 after securing a sales figure of 244 units, reports Naamsa. In second place, the Toyota Land Cruiser 200 managed to secure a sales figure of 96 units, followed by the Toyota Prado (82 units) in third place.
Read more on: toyota | ford | nissan | volkswagen | janine van der post | south afirca | vw
Other Stories in SA vehicle sales...
'Numbers have slowly started to pick up and month by month Opel has seen in excess of 100 units of its new vehicles, a sign that South Africans still loves the brand' writes Janine Van der Post.
VW Polo versus Polo Vivo: which has the better resale value?
Each month there’s a ding-dong battle between South Africa’s two favourite cars: the Volkswagen Polo Vivo and the Volkswagen Polo. For the full 2018 calendar year, the Polo ruled the roost, outselling the Polo Vivo by some 2 471 units.
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Ask the Expert: Top Places to Visit in Gramercy/Flatiron District
By Mackenzie Allison
Ask the Expert: Top Places to Visit in Gramercy/Flatiron District By Mackenzie Allison
Sure, Midtown’s Times Square has Broadway, downtown boasts plenty of trendy spots, and uptown is full of cultural offerings—but there’s a lot to be said for Gramercy and the Flatiron District.
Museum of Sex (Courtesy Museum of Sex)
Sure, Midtown’s Times Square beckons travelers with the bright lights of Broadway, while downtown districts boast plenty of trendy boutiques and restaurants, and uptown enclaves are chock-full of cultural offerings—but there’s a lot to be said for spending time in NYC’s other neighborhoods, namely Gramercy and the Flatiron District. Not quite downtown, and not necessarily in the thick of Midtown, Gramercy and the Flatiron District, which cover 14th St. to 34th St. and the East River to Broadway, are packed with bars, restaurants, attractions and retailers. Sanam Skelly, concierge at Gansevoort Park Avenue NYC (420 Park Ave South, 212.317.2900) should know; she’s worked as a concierge at the hotel, which is nestled in the thriving area, since 2011. Here, she recommends things to see, do and experience in her ‘hood.
“One of the neighborhood's hidden gems, Dover Street Market, offers multiple levels of designer shopping, an elevator that seems inspired by Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, and a great little spot downstairs for lunch/brunch,” Skelly says. While there, fashionistas can shop cutting-edge apparel by the likes of Alexander Wang, Prada, Simone Rocha and more.
After your shopping excursion, enjoy a tranquil respite (and possibly a bite to eat) at Madison Square Park, which is the perfect place to relax and enjoy views of the nearby Flatiron Building. “It's small and charming, there are almost always events or art exhibits, and it holds the crown jewel of NYC burger society: Shake Shack,” Skelly says.
Not far from Madison Square Park is the Museum of Sex, which Skelly describes as “the crack in the mold of a fairly business-oriented neighborhood, and a welcome one at that.” She adds that once you get past the gift shop, “you'll find that it's actually quite educational in terms of wildlife habits (and fetishes). I'll tip my hat off to any museum that teaches me something and makes me giggle at the same time.” The museum is currently showing several exhibits, including FUNLAND: Pleasures & Perils of the Erotic Fairground, an art installation by London-based conceptual artist duo Bompas & Parr, which features a selection of “carnival attractions” for audiences to experience while they contemplate the sexual subtext of carnivals.
For a casual drink, Skelly suggests the unassuming sports bar Tavern 29, which she says boasts one of her favorite rooftops in the area. “Picnic bench-style seating and pitchers of beer go a long way on a warm summer’s eve,” she says. “It's cool and casual, and a great place to wind down after you've put in your 8-10 hours. Cheers!”
On the food front, café, wine bar and bakery Penelope “is one of my favorite breakfast/brunch places, and it's only a stone’s throw away from Gansevoort Park,” Skelly says—adding that the Nutella French Toast, coupled with the eatery’s charming atmosphere, is sure to please. “Wait times on the weekends tend to surpass a couple of hours...so put your name down and go for a walk,” she advises.
For fancy fare, the Italian food emporium Eataly offers everything from prepared foods and fresh truffles to gift boxes, housewares and cookbooks. “If you're a lover of cheese, wine and the finer food things in life, this is the Mecca of quality goods,” Skelly says. “Not to mention a plethora of dining options, and a great rooftop bar!”
Mackenzie Allison
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A witty romp through English history
A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
The Comic History of England...
London: The Punch Office, 1847, 1848. First edition. Finely bound in full straight-grain morocco with gilt and red morocco spine labels. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Lacking publisher's advertisements... (Item #2821)
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One of Adams' most powerful collections, in excellent condition.
Adams, Ansel
Sierra Nevada: The John Muir...
Berkeley, CA: The Archetype Press, 1938. First edition. The famous early collection of Ansel Adams photographs taken along the John Muir Trail in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California. Limited... (Item #2837)
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The novel that launched Jane Austen's literary career
London: George Allen, 1899. First Thus. Illustrated by Chris Hammond. Bound in the original publisher's green cloth with elaborate gilt stamping on the front board and spine. A Near Fine... (Item #2881)
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One of the masterpieces of 20th century theatre
En attendant Godot [Waiting for...
Paris: Les Editions de Minuit, 1952. First edition. A Near Fine copy of the first trade edition, following the 35 signed copies. A fragile softcover book, uncommon in this condition... (Item #2261)
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A horror sensation that has inspired countless films and television shows
Blatty, William Peter
The Exorcist (Signed)
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. First Edition. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Hinges tender but holding firmly. Dust jacket with only slight wear at the spine... (Item #2793)
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An important narrative based in years of intimate friendship and professional association
Bourrienne, M. de.
Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte
London: Richard Bentley, 1836. First edition. Finely bound by Morrell in three-quarter polished calf over cloth boards, all edges gilt, red and brown morocco spine labels, raised bands with gilt... (Item #2877)
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Poetry reflecting on wartime experience, by one of the first government-employed Civil War nurses
Brainard, Mary
Memorial Pictures of War and...
Rockford: Gazette Steam Book & Job Printing House, 1873. First edition. Original publisher's cloth binding with gilt to spine and front board. Spine lightly sunned and corners bumped, front hinge... (Item #2775)
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A beautifully bound set of of the Brontes' most influential works, including Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights
[Bronte Sisters]
The Life and Works of...
London: Smith Elder, 1899-1902. Haworth Edition. Contemporary half calf with top edges gilt, finely bound by Hatchards Piccadilly. Spines a bit faded, but in all a lovely, square set that... (Item #2777)
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A beautiful example of her early devotional poetry and her commitment to abolition and equality
The Seraphim
London: Saunders and Otley, 1838. First edition. Finely bound by "Randeynes" in Paris in three-quarter purple calf over marbled boards, top edge gilt. Internally an excellent, clean copy. An early... (Item #2868)
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"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways..."
Sonnets from the Portuguese
London and Edinburgh: TC & EC Jack, [c. 1900]. Finely bound in full morocco with gilt to spine and boards. All edges brightly gilt. Blue endpapers. With the exception of... (Item #2856)
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A bright copy signed by the author
Cain, James M.
Serenade (Inscribed)
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. 2nd Printing. Inscribed by the author in the year after publication: "To Miriam Geiger / In memory of pleasant times / James M. Cain... (Item #1917)
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One of the best-selling children's books of all time, delighting young readers for over thirty years
New York and Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, [1969]. First Edition. First printing with the correct numberline (printed in Japan). Lacking the scarce dust jacket. Previous owner's gift inscription on... (Item #2450)
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The first "published" edition of Alice, after the impossibly scarce 1865 edition.
London: Macmillan & Co., 1866. Second (first published) edition. The book that forever changed the face of children’s literature. In the original publisher's red, gilt-stamped cloth, gilt edges, light blue..... (Item #2689)
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Carroll's most memorable poem, in the lovely deluxe binding
The Hunting of the Snark...
London: Macmillan and Co., 1876. First edition. One of approximately 100 copies in the publisher's deluxe binding of red cloth. Full gilt illustration on the front cover, all page edges... (Item #2584)
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An attractive copy of the sequel to "Alice in Wonderland."
Through the Looking Glass and...
London: Macmillan & Co., 1872. First edition. A Very Good copy with the cloth worn at the corners and the spine ends. All edges brightly gilt. Internally quite nice, with... (Item #2518)
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Cather's exceptional American novels, finely bound and signed
The Novels and Stories of...
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1937, 1938, 1941. First edition. A Fine set. One of 950 copies (of which this No. 61) signed by the author at the front of volume one... (Item #1918)
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Works that influenced every major luminary of English literature to come after them
Chaucer, Geoffrey [ed. Thomas Speght].
The Workes of our Ancient...
London: Adam Islip, 1602. First Thus. Second appearance of the Thomas Speght edition of Chaucer, and the seventh edition of Chaucer's works overall. Folio (pages 315 x 209 mm) collating... (Item #2611)
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"Almost nothing else in children’s literature equals Pinocchio for wildness of invention”
Collodi, C.
The Story of a Puppet...
New York: Cassell Publishing Co., 1892. First American edition. Published simultaneously with the British Unwin edition, using the same sheets, but with a canceled title page. Part of the Children's... (Item #1567)
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The autobiography of a conservative president who saw it as his duty to preserve the nation's traditional economic frugality
Coolidge, Calvin
The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge...
New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp. 1929. First edition. A Fine copy, lacking the publisher's slipcase. One of a thousand copies signed by Coolidge on the limitation page. "As America's 30th president... (Item #2654)
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One of the greatest works of American literature from the 19th century
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. First edition. A Fine copy of the book with the spine very slightly toned and a pea-sized rub mark on the coated front... (Item #1520)
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The first authorized edition of Darwin's most influential works
The Selected Works (15 vols.)
New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1896-1897. First Thus. The first authorized collected edition of Darwin's works, in 15 volumes.Original red half morocco over marbled boards with gilt to spine... (Item #2786)
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A beautifully bound copy of this classic maritime adventure story
[Defoe, Daniel]
The Life and Strange Surprizing...
London: John Stockdale, 1790. First Thus. Bound in full polished calf with elaborate gilt to spines, boards, and dentelles; red morocco spine labels. All edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Later... (Item #2819)
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A rare copy of Nickelby in the original publisher's cloth.
The Life and Adventures of...
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. First edition. A rare copy of Nickelby in the original publisher's cloth. This copy without some of the earliest issue points: pg. 123 and pg... (Item #2491)
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Dickens' beloved first novel in a lovely fine binding
The Posthumous Papers of the...
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A lovely extra-illustrated copy of Dickens' final novel
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood...
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Iceland celebrates several holidays and events throughout the year. Most arts and culture events are held in Reykjavik, though no matter where you go in Iceland, you’ll find the major holidays being celebrated in towns large and small. Here’s a round up of the most popular holidays and annual events in Iceland.
Christmas Season (December)
Christmas festivities start in Iceland around December 12. That’s when the 13 Yule-Lads, with names like Window Peeper, Bowl Licker, Pot Scraper, and Door Slammer – come down from the mountains to essentially terrorize (all in good fun) the people of Iceland. Children leave their shoes out on the windowsill and, if they’ve been good, the Yule-Lads will leave a gift. Christmas is also a time of much celebration, and a festive atmosphere is found all over the country as people put up thousands of Christmas lights. On Christmas Eve, families celebrate with dinner and then the opening of gifts.
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New Year’s Eve (December 31)
Like elsewhere around the world, New Year’s Eve in Iceland is celebrated with a countdown to midnight and tons of fireworks. Though unlike many other places, you won’t find the bars and clubs to be the most busy. People in Iceland have a family dinner on New Year’s Eve, and don’t begin the major partying until after midnight.
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Thorrablot (mid-January to mid-February)
The ancient Viking month of Thor, commemorating the Norse god of Thunder, falls between January and February each year. The Vikings celebrated with dancing, singing, drinking and eating lots o f their traditional food as possible. They ate slatur,the Icelandic version of haggis, boiled lamb’s heads, rotten shark, and ram’s testicles. During the month of Thor, modern Icelanders re-create this celebration by consuming these traditional foods. Many restaurants even offer special Thorrablot menus during this time.
Bolludagur or “Buns Day” (two days before Lent; usually in February or March)
On Bolludagur or “Buns Day”, people consume, with reckless abandon, cream puffs or “buns” that come in all different shapes and sizes and are filled with cream or jam. Children wake up early and try to catch their parents still in bed. If they do, they “beat” them out of bed with home-made “Bun Wands,” and then are rewarded with one cream puff for every blow dealt.
Sprengidagur or “Bursting Day” (Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent)
On Shrove Tuesday, the thing to eat is Saltkjot og baunir or salted-meat and peas, a traditional stew-like meal. The name “Sprengidagur” refers to the idea that people will indulge to the point of bursting.
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“Oskudagur” or Ash Wednesday
Ash Wednesday nearly resembles Halloween in American, though the children don’t dress up in costume. They do run around the town though, asking at businesses for special candy and treats. They also collect ashes into small bags called “Oskupokar” and attempt to secretly pin them onto people’s clothes.
Iceland Food & Fun Festival (late February or early March )
The week-long Food and Fun Festival is marked by special menus and promotions at Reykjavik restaurants. Chefs from around the world come to work at a local restaurant for the week, devising special menus using traditional Icelandic ingredients.
Beer Day (March 1)
Beer Day commemorates the repeal of the 75-year ban on beer, which took place on March 1st, 1989. In Reykjavik, the event is celebrated with lots of drinking, pub crawls, and parties at local bars.
First Day of Summer (third Thursday in April)
The Firs Day of Summer is one of the biggest celebrations in Iceland. Parades, sporting events and musical performances are held all around Iceland.
Reykjavik Arts Festival (late May)
The Reykjavik Arts Festival has been held since 1970 and offers exhibitions, concerts, dance, theater and opera performances. With a focus on Icelandic culture, both past and present, the festival also hosts many international artists and performers.
Sjomannadagur or Seamen’s Day (early June)
Mostly celebrated in small fishing villages, this holiday honors the contribution fisherman have made to the culture and economy of Iceland. The festivals generally include parades, rowing and swimming races, tugs of war, and sea rescue competitions, plus plenty of food and drink.
Icelandic Independence Day (June 17)
Iceland gained its independence from Denmark in 1944, a fact that is celebrated every year on Independence Day. The holiday is held on June 17 because it was the birthday of Jon Sigurdsson, who helped the country become independent. Parades and fireworks mark the occasion all over Iceland.
Verslunnarmannahelgi Weekend (first weekend in August)
The Icelandic version of Labor Day Weekend, most families celebrate the holiday by heading out to the countryside for a long weekend to play and relax. In Reykjavik, bars and restaurants are all but deserted during this time.
Fiskidagurinn Mikli (weekend after Verslunnarmannahelgi)
Held in the tiny village of Dalvik, north of Akureyri“Big Fish Day” is a celebration of sea creatures, which involves feasting on fish soup, and playing games. The small town, which is home to only 1500 people, welcomes thousands for the festival.
Reykjavik Gay Pride (August)
Over 80,000 people attend the family friendly Gay Pride event each year – and for a country of only 300,000 or so, that’s quite a bit. The weekend features lots of parties, musical performances, and a huge parade.
Reykjavik Marathon (August)
The Reykjavik Marathon is held every August on Culture Day and includes half and full marathons, and 3, 5, and 10K races.
Reykjavik Jazz Festival (August)
The Reykjavik Jazz Festival is held every August and features both Icelandic and international Jazz acts for over two weeks of performances.
Menningarnott “Reykjavik Culture Night” (August)
Culture Night is all about the museums, galleries, churches, cafes, restaurants, stores and other establishments in downtown Reykjavik, which stay open into the night and present a variety of exhibitions, concerts, performances, theater and other cultural events.
Rettir or Sheep and Horse Round-Up (September)
During September, farmers in Iceland must round up their free-roaming sheep and horses for the winter. This round up can take up to a week, and at many farms, guests are invited to participate. Even novice riders can be of help, working on the farm and helping to sort and care for the animals.
Reykjavik Film Festival (September)
The Reykjavik Film Festival is held every year at the end of September and features films from around the world.
Iceland Airwaves Music Festival (October)
Iceland Airwaves has been held annually in Reykjavik every October since 1999. Attracting thousands of music fans from around the world, the festival welcomes acts from Iceland and from the international music community.
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Pittsfield To Spray East Side Community For Mosquitoes Monday
By Josh Landes • Jul 12, 2019
City of Pittsfield
Pittsfield, Massachusetts will carry out mosquito-spraying Monday night.
City officials say a truck-mounted spraying will be conducted from 11 p.m. to midnight in the streets around Brattle Brook and Marchesio Parks on Pittsfield’s east side. Health Department Director Gina Armstrong says the treatment comes at the recommendation of the county’s Mosquito Control Program, which hopes to curb mosquitos carrying viruses later in the season.
“This is in response to a season emergent in this particular area that is very wet and has a high population of a specific type of bridge vector mosquito.”
While requests for exclusion from the spraying can still be made, it takes for 14 days for residents to be added to the no spray list.
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Foster aiming to play into his forties
Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster thinks he could play for a few more seasons
By Ryan Gray
Watford's Ben Foster wants to emulate Edwin Van der Sar. Picture: Action Images
Watford goalkeeper Ben Foster believes he could keep playing until he is 40 years of age.
The veteran keeper turns 36 in April, but has been in fine form so far this season and after yet another impressive performance against Brighton, the former England international said he has a few more seasons in him yet and has learnt how to keep himself fit from former Manchester United team-mate Edwin Van der Sar.
He said: "I can carry on for as long as I want. I feel brilliant.
"I have always said about my knees, but touch wood they have been brilliant lately and so two, three, four more years.
"I'm trying to get to that 40 year mark. I'm training most of the time and I'm enjoying it.
"I was with Van der Sar at United and when he actually signed for them I think he was 35 and he learnt how to look after himself properly and he knew how to make himself fit for the Saturday.
"I watched him go year after year after year and actually when he retired he could have gone for another two or three years, I think he just got bored in the end. He was too good and I learnt a lot from him."
Speaking about the match, Foster was delighted with his own display amid a team performance that was overall disappointing.
One save in particular stood out for the keeper, in which he improvised a smart save with his feet to deny Shane Duffy a spectacular finish from an overhead kick.
He said: "I don't even know how I did it, I was buzzing with that save more than anything cause it kind of bounced and bobbled around and I just stuck a foot out, I didn't even think about it to be honest. They're the saves you enjoy more cause they're a bit more off the cuff.
"We knew it would be tough, Brighton have kind of turned their season around.
"You come to the Amex, you know the two centre backs are going to cause you a lot of problems from set pieces and not only that they kind of nullified our attack as well cause every time we went long you knew it was going to fall on their heads, so we found it tough today and we will be a little bit disappointed with the performance but we're definitely happier than they are with the point."
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Has China turned the corner on IP?
UK-China IP relationship to be strengthened
China recommends trademark law overhaul
EU announces €1bn crackdown on IP infringement
With a new trademark law on the horizon and an increasingly robust record of tackling IP infringement, WIPR asks whether China has solved its IP problems.
In the West, there was once a widespread fear of protecting IP in China. The Chinese approach to innovation frustrated rights owners: its culture, Westerners said, showed an inherent lack of respect for supporting creation. Companies would toil to make the next ‘best thing’, only for it to be slavishly copied and sold cheaply to the burgeoning Chinese market.
Those views may still hold true today in some quarters, but the tide is turning in China and washing away many of the Western criticisms. Slowly but surely, the fear and frustration have been replaced by a greater trust in China’s IP system and a willingness to maximise the benefits it offers.
Testament to this change, Microsoft opened its first ‘innovation centre’ on the Chinese mainland this year. The World Intellectual Property Organization, eyeing the explosion of IP rights in China, is planning to open a new office there within two years.
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How time-inconsistent preferences affect investment timing for rail transit
Qian-Wen Guo
Shumin Chen
Paul Schonfeld
Zhongfei Li
mode - rail, place - asia, planning - methods
Rail transit investment, Time-inconsistent preferences, Real options, Population volatility
We address optimal rail transit investment issues considering time-inconsistent preferences and population uncertainty. Instead of adopting the typical real options approach which assumes that authorities possess a constant discount rate over time, we propose an extension of real options analysis by modeling authorities’ intertemporal choices with a quasi-hyperbolic discount function. Depending on the assumption about the strategies guiding the behaviors of future authorities, we consider three types of authorities, namely time-consistent authority, naïve authority and sophisticated authority, of which the latter two are time-inconsistent. First, an optimal transit investment timing model is proposed. Then, solutions for the above three types of authorities are derived and compared. We demonstrate the performance of the proposed model by conducting numerical tests and applying it to Dalian, China. Main findings include: (1) an authority with time-inconsistent preferences makes decisions earlier than a standard, time-consistent authority; (2) the sophisticated authority invests earlier than the naïve authority. Other implications of considering time-inconsistent preferences are also identified.
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Elsevier, copyright remains with them.
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Guo, Q.-W., Chen, S., Schonfeld, P., & Li, Z. (2018). How time-inconsistent preferences affect investment timing for rail transit. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Vol. 118, pp. 172-192.
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Pastor of church second on Dylann Roof’s alleged ‘hit list’ opens up
by: Shanay J. Campbell
Posted: Dec 29, 2016 / 02:30 AM EST / Updated: Dec 29, 2016 / 02:30 AM EST
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Morris Brown AME is among the most historic black churches in Charleston. So when a handwritten list of churches by the Charleston church shooter surfaced during the trial, it wasn’t a total shock to Morris Brown’s pastor.
“I was not surprised because of thing he was looking for in identifying churches” said Reverend James A. Keeton Jr, “but I was disappointed because you never want to see a church that you serve and people you love on a list like that.”
Keeton addressed the alleged ‘hit list’ with his congregation when the article of evidence was made public earlier this month. “It didn’t take long for it to get around the congregation that Morris Brown was one of the churches on the list,” said Keeton.
The reverend says some anxiety within the AME churches was triggered again by the list being released, but his faith calls him and others to be fearless. “We have to be faithful and be non-anxious presences and try to re-ensure people that in the midst of things happening like this we can’t lose sight of what the lord is calling us to do,” said Keeton, “we have to continue to love.”
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WATCH: Daughter signs song lyrics to deaf father at Three Days Grace concert
By: Michelle Ewing, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Updated: Jun 16, 2019 - 7:13 AM
EDMONTON, Alberta - A heartwarming viral video filmed late last year is making the rounds again – just in time for Father's Day.
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According to ABC News, Julianne Cragg of Edmonton, Alberta, was at a Three Days Grace concert in December when she spotted a teen signing song lyrics to a deaf man.
"At last night's concert, we witnessed something absolutely beautiful," Cragg wrote in a Dec. 13 Facebook post, which included a video of the pair.
"We saw this girl and a man who seemed to require a lot of dancing room, irritating at first until we realized what was happening," Cragg continued. "Her father is deaf, she was signing the lyrics to him. We couldn't care less about what was happening on stage, watching them was absolutely mesmerizing. They were both very sweet and her father was very proud of his daughter."
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At last night's concert, we witnessed something absolutely beautiful. Keep In mind this was a rock concert (Three Days Grace in Edmonton). We saw this girl and a man who seemed to require a lot of dancing room, irritating at first until we realized what was happening. Her father is deaf, she was signing the lyrics to him. We couldn't care less about what was happening on stage, watching them was absolutely mesmerizing. They were both very sweet and her father was very proud of his daughter. So here's one of the songs, sorry just a crappy snippet of what happened.
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The father and daughter were identified as Karri Carberry, 19, and Darrin Carberry, who also are from Edmonton, ABC News reported.
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Ambulance ramping has been a major issue at a number of Australian hospitals. (Image: Julian Smith)
The SA Health campaign ‘Is It Really an Emergency?’ is aimed at 18–34-year-olds seeking medical help for less urgent issues in hospital emergency departments (EDs).
Around 40% of emergency visits in the state are triaged as category 4 or 5, which are semi-urgent or non-urgent issues. Young people make up a disproportionate number of these cases.
The state is grappling with emergency department overcrowding, with the flagship Royal Adelaide Hospital rated the least timely emergency department in Australia in the 2017–18 financial year, while the problem of ambulance ramping has been dubbed ‘disastrous’ by the Ambulance Employees Association.
The issue last year forced the South Australian Government to seek 20 beds in private hospitals to deal with persistent overcrowding in Adelaide’s seven hospitals.
This year’s horror flu season, which has killed at least 40 people in South Australia, is further stressing the hospital network, according to State Health Minister Stephen Wade.
‘We know demand on public hospitals is increasing each year and what used to be seasonal demand is now year-round,’ he said.
Minister Wade called on younger South Australians to go to their GP or local pharmacy for minor ailments.
‘Patient data shows that about 70% of people who present to EDs in South Australia do not need to be admitted to hospital; however, the number of people presenting to EDs continues to grow,’ he said.
‘The campaign will help ease pressure on our busy [EDs].
‘We are very fortunate to have a strong network of high-quality GPs and pharmacists that are able to provide effective care for many ailments and illnesses and keep you out of hospital.’
The South Australian Government has also brought in three home-hospital pilot programs in Adelaide ahead of an expected state-wide program.
July will also see the state roll out four new priority care centres co-designed by GPs, Primary Health Networks and SA Health to offer another alternative to hospital emergency departments.
The new campaign follows a campaign targeting all South Australians between 2015 and 2018, which newsGP understands helped curb preventable admissions by 5–9% every year it ran.
Lyell McEwin Hospital Emergency Department nurse consultant Amy Jacobs said the new campaign targets teenagers and young adults as some of the groups most likely to attend an ED unnecessarily.
‘This campaign really drives home the message that some health issues can be resolved without coming to hospital and some ailments, such as coughs and colds, can be easily treated within the community without a visit to ED,’ she said.
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In the news: Tanzania-based WIT Architecture startup
East Africa-based WIT graduate Alexis Cronin
A furniture design and manufacturing company based in Tanzania which has a strong WIT pedigree has received a glowing write-up in the Irish Times
Dunia Designs, which was founded by WIT architecture graduate Alexis Cronin and his Irish partner Evanna Lyons, makes finely crafted tables, chairs, sofas and bean bags from waste materials, mostly plastic bottles.
‘Tanzania is a stunning part of the world,’ says Alexis who was one of the first to graduate from the WIT architecture course in 2009. ‘Unfortunately, because the costs involved in recycling can be prohibitive for a community trying to move up the economic ladder, litter is a real problem, especially when it comes to non bio-degradable plastics. Plastic waste is a serious visual blight in this part of the world.’
Cronin and Lyons based their business on the concept that using plastics in novel ways to create attractive furniture (shredded plastic makes a great filling for a luxurious chaise long, apparently) was an obvious way to tackle an unsightly problem. One year later, they’re working flat out to fill orders in both the public and domestic markets.
What makes Dunia different from the typical ‘Irish startup makes good abroad’ story is its business model: half of all the profits Dunia makes are used to send young Tanzanians to schools and colleges. It’s more than an aspiration – Dunia are already supporting local students attending education institutions at the primary, secondary and third levels.
‘We knew we were on to a good idea, but we’re both really amazed at how quickly it took off,’ says Alexis who spent the first two years after his graduation honing his architectural skills on high end residential projects in London. ‘It’s an incredibly rewarding project. For a start we’re making products that we really believe in which is something most people don’t get a chance to do. But it’s the education element which makes it all worthwhile: the more successful we are at what we do, the more we can contribute to the community. We find that aspect of the work really, really satisfying.’
Cronin is based full time in Tanzania, but still manages to maintain contacts with WIT staff and alumni. He’s planning a visit to Ireland in June and intends to take the opportunity to discuss his work with current WIT architecture students. ‘It would be great if we could find innovative ways for current students to work with us in Dunia, But, failing that, it would be an achievement if we could inspire young architects to have a go at an innovative project of their own.’
See the Dunia Designs website.
The below has been reproduced with permission and was first published in The Irish Times.
A fantastic use for plastic in Tanzania: Irish expats are employing locals to upcycle plastic into everything from pouffes to pool tables, while also tackling pollution and sending Tanzanians to school writes Darragh Murphy
In the savannahs of east Africa, somewhere between the Serengeti plains and the foothills of Kilimanjaro, the future is happening.
Two Irish expats have begun making furniture using plastic bottles and bags, in the unlikely setting of the sprawling Tanzanian city of Arusha.
Dunia Designs pays teams of workers to clean discarded plastic bottles and bags they collect in the thronged city’s townships and incorporate them into hard and soft furnishings. And then they give away their profits.
It sounds good, if aesthetically problematic. Walking into the Dunia Designs workshop in Arusha’s Ilboru quarter (after a death-defying ride on a “picky picky” motorcycle), I expect to find uninviting objects of austere minimalism.
Not so. The company’s founders, Evanna Lyons and Alexis Cronin, wanted to make furniture they would buy themselves. “That was our whole aim all along,” says Lyons, a psychotherapist from Meath who also works in the local hospital. “It had to be impossible to tell it from any other furniture. And nobody believes it until you sit on it.”
I ask to see some samples – and am informed they are all around me, and indeed under my backside. Most of the furniture is made using upcycled plastic, local fabrics and frames made of “greenwood” (processed street waste made into planks as durable as any wood).
Inside every seat, sofa, footstool table and desk, meanwhile, they pack as many cleaned bottles and plastic bags as possible without compromising the aesthetic.
An unlikely start-up
Sub-Saharan Africa seems an unlikely place for a funky recycling start-up, but Dunia Designs is thriving. Parts of the eastern city are wealthy by African standards, due to a combination of safari tourism and a coterie of expats drawn to its superb climate of equatorial sunshine tempered by altitude.
The company supplies local IT firms, libraries, offices, restaurants, international schools and tourist lodges eager to showcase their green credentials. In turn businesses give them their used bottles and bags.
Which is all well and good, you might think – two more Wild Geese making a few bob abroad, albeit in a particularly exotic location. Except Dunia Designs isn’t just about making its owners a few bob.
In the teeming, chaotic, rutted streets around Ilboru, there are several schools, but they don’t come free. Lyons and Cronin want to spend half of their Dunia profits sending as many children to school as they can afford – currently three in primary, five in secondary and five in tertiary education.
Less than a year ago, Lyons went around asking the neighbourhood’s many underemployed teenagers and adults if they wanted a job. One of those who put their hands up, Maasai Lazero Lepajaro, became a star employee and asked to be sponsored so he could go back to school. Lazero is now head boy of a highly rated secondary school of 1,300 pupils. Lyons takes delight in the fact.
“It makes all of the hard work this year worth it. We could have just educated the next president of Tanzania. He still comes and works on his holiday, and we go ‘the Laz for president’. He loves the idea.”
Aside from 10 locals helping to make furniture, they have local teenagers and a team of women collecting plastic bottles and bags from streets, homes and businesses.
“We want to grow our team of women,” Lyons says. “After they collect, they sit out washing and drying the bags throughout the day. It’s great to see.
“They’ve already cleaned up Ilboru [district]. They’ve moved to another borough where plastic is strewn across rivers and roadsides. There are plastic bags everywhere here.
“I wanted a business model that wasn’t just about personal gain. If we do make a lot of money, great, and we can put it back in to educating people about the environment, and ultimately replanting forests, which is really what the world needs.”
Aside from the social good it is doing, Dunia’s progress in helping to remove rubbish from the rocky, muddy thoroughfares that count as streets in some of Arusha’s most crowded townships is a visible reminder of the work being done.
Tidying up the mess
To the northwest of Arusha district, between the city and the Serengeti, lies Olduvai gorge. There, remains were found of Homo habilis, probably the earliest known ancestor of today’s humans at 1.9 million years old. The work Dunia is carrying out 100km away might prove crucial in ameliorating the mess their descendants have made of the past 100 years.
Think that’s an exaggeration? Outside of perennial poverty and armed conflict (the latter long absent from Tanzania), there are few problems in the developing world more visually striking than rubbish strewn across pristine landscapes.
Plastic is the most insidious, the most lasting and the most poisonous to man and beast. The only thing stopping swathes of Africa from becoming casual landfill is relatively low disposable income. We in the global north have no such restraint.
Since the second World War, humans have made enough plastic to coat the Earth entirely in cling film. Last year about 1 per cent of plastic produced worldwide was recycled. More than 6.4 million tons of plastic debris, meanwhile, ends up in the sea. Nine out of every 10 seabirds have plastic in their guts. One sperm whale that washed up on the coast of Spain had swallowed 17kg of the toxic stuff.
“It’s really serious,” Lyons says. “By 2050 there’ll be more plastic in the sea than fish. Here, especially, it can be a real hotbed of diseases, because rats and mosquitoes breed in bottles near water.”
With 32 per cent of adults illiterate and 12 million living in dire poverty, binning rubbish isn’t high on the list of concerns in Tanzania, and there is scant social taboo in throwing rubbish down.
Dunia Designs has been able to remove a lot of plastic from the streets, thereby preventing it from being washed into the waterways or being openly burned, which is the most common form of disposal in many areas.
“It’s bad for the ozone, water and marine life and the soil, which in turn affects food sources,” Lyons says. “Single-use plastic is an issue, so we’re trying to hide it away for the time being in furniture.”
A man beckons me over to the other side of the workshop. Despite his Greek name, he is a thoroughbred Cork man and, like many of his kind, he is handsome: a cross between Lionel Messi and Chris O’Dowd.
It is Alexis Cronin, and he gives me a peek at a selection of the furniture, with plastic bottles and shredded plastic bags inside. Cronin, a graduate of Waterford IT, worked as an architect in London before moving to Arusha in 2012 to help build the huge Pallotti community project in the slums of Esso, home to several Irish expats.
The Dunia Designs idea started off as “a challenge from Evanna to make something recycled that looked decent”, he says. “We found a few young, willing workmen and made a footstool with plastic, and it rapidly mushroomed to a seat, a pouffe, table and couch.”
Eleven months on, and they are making pool tables, looking into making bricks out of shredded plastic and are about to supply furniture to Fumba Town, a new eco-city in Zanzibar.
Once completed, Fumba Town eco-city will comprise 1,500 houses, plus apartment blocks, hotels and restaurants on the semi-autonomous archipelago, which is particularly plagued by plastic refuse.
“Fumba Town alone would keep us in business for five years, easily,” Cronin says. “Phase one has already been sold. Being pitched against Ikea feels great.
“If we get 10 houses in the first month, that’d be amazing. The developer is very keen to support the Dunia Designs ethos.
“As well as ‘hiding away’ the plastic, we’re also trying to show an alternative use. Imagine if everyone in Arusha and other places were able to bring their bottles to a drop-off centre to give it an immediate second use?”
In the medium-term, they want to establish local satellite companies in cities in Tanzania and other developing countries and, eventually, bring their business model to rich countries, where most of the world’s plastic is consumed (and then often recycled into landfill in the developing world).
Often in the environmental debate people feel powerless. Beyond throwing our 7 Up bottles in the green bin, what can we do as individuals?
Given Arusha’s huge inequality, dire infrastructure and administrative difficulties, it’s impossible not to be impressed that two Irish people have, from a standing start, carved out a business here that would be considered forward-thinking in the most advanced of western cities, and yet seems necessary in so many ways for the developing world.
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Conner Industries customer killed in sawdust accident
By Robert Dalheim March 12, 2019 | 12:06 pm EDT
VALLEY CENTER, Ks. - A man was killed at a Kansas lumber yard while buying sawdust.
62-year-old Stephen Gray was reportedly buying sawdust for agricultural use when he was trapped at the bottom of a sawdust hopper. Employees dug through the sawdust that collapsed on him, but it was too late.
The accident occurred at Conner Industries, a wood crate and lumber products manufacturer. The company stored sawdust for purchase left over from its operations in the hopper.
Gray was alone at the time of the accident. He had reportedly parked his farm truck beneath the hopper with the intention to fill his trailer. Police say he was trying to knock some sawdust loose with a pitchfork, triggering the collapse. The death has been ruled an accident.
Conner Industries is a provider of industrial wood and packaging solutions. It specializes in supplying cut lumber (softwoods, hardwoods, and panel products) needed for pallets, crates, and skid parts, as well as fully assembled custom pallets, crates, and industrial containers. It currently operates ten U.S. plants in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Tennessee, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida.
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A group of three college friends struggle with the stress of being overachievers in a seemingly perfect town, but in the aftermath of the town's first murder, each Perfectionist hides behind a secret.
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Greg Holden at The Basement in Nashville, TN 05-MAY-2019
May 12, 2019 Michael Deinlein Concert Reviews 0
Singer/Songwriter Greg Holden gives Nashville fans an intimate performance at The Basement
Greg Holden and Nashville share a mutual appreciation for each other. Local radio station Lightning 100 was an early and ardent supporter making Music City a frequent tour stop. This time around, the venue is The Basement, a small intimate setting for this show which features Greg Holden, a guitar and a microphone. It’s possibly the next best thing to attending a house concert, making for a memorable night.
Touring in support of his latest release, the self-produced World War Me, Holden gives this crowd a sampling of his ample catalog including an impromptu request for “Bar on A” from 2012’s album I Don’t Believe You. “Nothing Changes,” “On the Run,” and “Something Beautiful,” all from the new album are intermingled with such familiar tunes as “Boys in the Street,” “Hold on Tight,” “The Lost Boy,” and of course “Home.”
Despite the obvious warm embrace he receives from the crowd, it’s apparent the self-deprecating Holden is much more at ease while the crowd is singing with him, and they do without needing encouragement. Without a band, there is really nothing between Greg Holden and the audience and it is clear from the very beginning that the songs and Greg himself resonate with this crowd. It is a satisfying experience all around.
Opening the show with a wonderful set of original songs was Nashville based singer-songwriter Rosi Golan along with Allie Moss. mid-way through her set, Rosi invited Davis Nash on stage to perform one of their newest, yet to be released songs “Right Now”.
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2018 Arizona Football Countdown
We have reached 98 days — or 14 weeks from today — until the Arizona Wildcats kick off their 2018 season under new coach Kevin Sumlin.
When Arizona hosts BYU on Sept. 1, it will mark the 40th anniversary since the Wildcats joined the Pac-12 (went from the Pac-8 to the Pac-10 then).
To get ready for the upcoming season, All Sports Tucson offers another countdown, which will include memories from former Wildcats, history notes and a look ahead to the season. Think of it as a way to keep Arizona football on the mind in the summer months leading up to fall camp in early August and then kickoff against the Cougars marking the start of the Sumlin Era.
— With it being the 98th day ’til kickoff, the best player to wear No. 98 for Arizona? That would be linebacker LaMonte Hunley, who starred for the Wildcats from 1981 to 1984, playing with his brother Ricky — the best Arizona player in history — during most of that time. LaMonte made a name for himself as a third-team All-American as a senior. He finished with 400 career tackles.
LaMonte Hunley had over 400 tackles in his illustrious Arizona career.
— Chuck Cecil’s school-record 100-yard interception return against ASU in 1986 is the longest in Arizona history. The second-longest is the 98-yard interception return against the Sun Devils made by Mikal Smith in 1996. The pick off Jake Plummer in Arizona’s 56-14 loss sparked controversy because while during the return, ASU lineman Glen Gable intentionally clipped Wildcat linebacker Daniel Greer from behind, causing severe damage to Greer’s knee. The incident led to a sideline-clearing brawl, including Arizona running back Kelvin Eafon attacking Gable on the field in retaliation after coach Dick Tomey was doing some tongue-lashing on the Sun Devil.
Former Arizona defensive lineman Joe Salave’a consoles Daniel Greer after Greer was injured on a personal foul (for a vicious clip) by ASU lineman Glen Gable (YouTube video capture)
How could it be that former Tucson High School standout Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles will already be a senior in 2018? Arizona’s bandit safety has played in all 38 games of his career, totaling six interceptions and 187 tackles. He has a chance to become one of only 24 Arizona players in history to reach at least 275 tackles in his career.
SB Nation college football analyst Bill Connelly had this to write about Arizona’s 2018 outlook in a recent season preview:
“You can talk yourself into Arizona doing some impressive things this year. And with this schedule, the opportunity will be there. … The Wildcats (are projected) as no worse than a 4.5-point underdog in any one game, and if the defense exceeds its No. 94 projection, a 10-win season is on the table. Of course, it doesn’t take much spin to see how things go wrong, either. An offensive coordinator change is always an opportunity for regression, and considering the Wildcats allowed 31.6 points per game in wins last year, any slip could bring about a ton of close losses. All of this makes UA a massive wildcard out west, and you should watch wildcards.”
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Apostle Suleman told me to make false confession against the Nigerian Government – Stephanie Otobo
A few days after Apostle Johnson Suleman released a video of Miss Stephanie Otobo apologising to him and saying she was hired by unnamed politicians to unhinge the preacher with a sex scandal, a newly released video by Sahara Reporters, has surfaced to show the confession was scripted by Apostle Suleman and his handlers.
The almost nine-minute video was recorded on June 21, 2017, by Canada-based Worship Media. Introducing Miss Otobo in the video were two people Chidi, and Erica.
They said the met Miss Otobo last year after the sex scandal broke between her and Apostle Suleiman had left her broken. She sought spiritual and moral support from them, which they offered.
Chidi and Erica said Miss Otobo told them that she was under pressure from Apostle Suleiman to apologize and lie that it was the Nigerian government that hired her to destroy him. In the video, Miss Otobo herself said she was phoned by Apostle Suleiman’s agents in Canada, US and Nigeria, urging her to return to Nigeria and tell the lies that had been scripted by the preacher.
When the pressure piled on unbearably and she decided to visit Nigeria follow up on her case slammed against her by the police working closely with Suleman, Miss Otobo met with Chidi and Erica and requested to have a video recorded, as she did not know what could happen to her in Nigeria. She urged them to release the video in case any untoward event happened on her visit to Nigeria.
Speaking, Miss Otobo thanked those who have supported her and stated that Apostle Suleman was pressuring her family and others to lie that the government was behind the scandal.
“This is what Suleman is asking me to do,” she said.
She stated that she didn’t know how far the preacher was ready to go to extract a confession from her. She wondered why Apostle Suleman didn’t see the scandal coming if he is a true man of God.
Chidi, who introduced the video, said he received a text from a source apparently working with Apostle Suleiman on Sunday, warning him against releasing any more video claiming that over time, Miss Otobo had confessed that he was also part of the plan to destroy the preacher. The “aide” also said the preacher’s camp is ready to release videos showing Miss Otobo saying how Chidi was part of the plot. Chidi, however, said he had passed on the message to his lawyers.
Last week, and days after she appeared in a court hearing in Lagos and also filed an affidavit asking a Lagos high court to demand to have the priest manhood examined and compared to those she took from phone sex session, Ms. Otobo suddenly disappeared after meeting with her lawyers in Lagos. On Saturday morning she was shown on video “apologizing” to the controversial priest to the consternation of church members who apparently didn’t know it was all scripted.
Since appearing in Apostle Suleman’s church for the confession, Ms. Otobo has not been heard of again, fuelling speculation that she might be in danger of being held against her will.
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Jeff Pannell April 2, 2016 24 views 0 likes
Developer: Spike Chunsoft
Publisher: NIS America
Platform: PC (Steam)
Danganronpa was reviewed due to a code received from the publisher, NIS America.
Danganronpa does something truly fascinating. It features such brutality mixed with utterly goofy antics spliced with various genres including social sims, murder mystery along with a bit of Phoenix Wright courtroom drama for good measure. If this is how good visual novels can be then it should come as no surprise that more titles are making their way across the ocean.
I’ll fully admit to being entirely new to Visual Novels. It is an oddity considering how many video games from Japanese developers I play in a given year or how much anime I plow through in any given month. It was a blind spot, for sure, but staff writer Nicole Seraphita’s guidance and, well, insistence to give Danganronpa a shot has resulted in my plunging in head-first into unknown waters. Mostly I am grateful for a game getting me back into the sort of intimate give and take that a genuinely compelling narrative in a video game can offer.
Brutality Meets Absurdity
The setup is simple. Makoto Naegi, the game’s main protagonist, is all set for his first day at Hope’s Peak Academy – a school for the absolute best and brightest in the country. It isn’t long, though, before the truth of the situation becomes apparent as Makoto and his other classmates are forced to participate in a game of life or death. The stakes are immediately raised and, at the helm of the insanity, a black-and-white bear by the name of Monokuma. Those involved can live within the confines of the school, but there’s only way out. A student can “graduate” from campus should they manage to not only murder a classmate but get away with it as well.
The social sim aspect becomes apparent quickly as Makoto navigates his way through a cast of characters that, while very much the typical archetypal anime sort, manage to provide surprises consistently thanks to superlative writing from Kazutaka Kodaka. Daily life within Hope’s Peak Academy consists of exploring the halls, visiting the dining hall and conversing with fellow students. The characters Makoto has to not only live with but hopefully make it out alive with are varied and consist of the “Ultimate” purveyors of their craft. Among the “dramatis personae” are Ultimate Martial Artist, Baseball Player, Fanfic Creator, Programmer, Gambler along with others. Eccentric characters all but they’re all well realized.
Days are spent learning more about classmates, spending time with them and gaining insight into their characters while also acquiring skill points that reward useful abilities for when things get grim. Daily Life gives way to Deadly Life as the baser instincts of humanity are put on display and, well, this is a killing game after all. People start to drop like flies fairly quickly, often in very abrupt and brutal ways. What sets this apart from bargain store murder mysteries? The motive, the emotion and the characterization present throughout sinks its hooks in and keeps on digging.
Bear Cross Philosophy
It is a strange thing to be hit with such a profound idea of considering despair and hope within the same breath, yet Danganronpa had me doing that for days as I worked my way through towards the ending which, I am so happy to report, absolutely sticks the landing. This game can easily draw comparisons to Capcom’s Ace Attorney series and, rightly so, as a series of locked room murders occur, and the player must take the guilty party to trial. Danganronpa is not shy about the mystery part, though, as each and every case had me walking into the Class Trial phase of each chapter with little to no idea of who had done the deed. The metaphorical gunfight, complete with Truth Bullets, which follows in these segments results in a dynamic experience that will likely make other visual novels look stale by comparison.
Monokuma, the school’s Headmaster, mascot and all-around convenient deus ex machina, is a walking contradiction. This strangely irresistible creature seeks to bring about despair in the students assembled and , thus, the Battle Royale setup looms large over the heads of those trapped within the walls of Hope’s Peak Academy. A cackle of “Puhuhuhuhuhu..” will often follow a slim nugget of hope being dished out only to be taken away mere minutes later. The two sides of the coin, hope, and despair, in varying measures are meted out by Monokuma brilliantly. It is so very “anime” but at the same time rather transcendent of its decidedly Japanese trappings. This is a story that could take place anywhere, really, and the setting is vague as each of the “Ultimates” come from all walks of life. It is, however, a tale of the extremes even the most rational of people will go to win their freedom, protect a secret, protect loved ones and then some that resides at the core. It is a fireball of a story that shows a surprising amount of restraint as it winds down, ends appropriately and doesn’t stumble like so many games often do in the homestretch.
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc for PC/Mac/Steam OS is not only a fantastic port of a great game but another entry point into a genre that is surprisingly lively these days. The writing is superb thanks to Kodaka and his team. The gameplay is engaging as Class Trials are a fusion of pop art and disparate styles of games that merge well while the investigation/point-and-click meets social link system ala Persona provides plenty of reason to explore and experience every conversation possible. This isn’t just a great visual novel but a tremendous game that is worth exploring by even the uninitiated in the ways of anime and the like. Do yourself a favor and play this now.
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ReeferMadness
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posted 07 August 2005 11:27 PM
The Boston Globe.
This could be the start of something that finally ends the occupation. This woman is very brave to say the things she's saying down there. I hope the protests finally get some traction in the court of public opinion.
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mary123
posted 08 August 2005 12:24 AM
I predict nothing will come of it (hope I'm wrong though.)
The band of thugs in office will never allow a dead soldiers mom to sway public opinion. The thugs are in office and no amount of wrongdoing or criminality on their part will clear them out of office. They are pretty much immoral and without shame or conscience.
Tom DeLay and Karl Rove will never be persecuted for their endless list of crimes and yet Bill Clinton almost got impeached over a blow job?
It's really scary that republicans are above the law and get away with murder. This is not freedom or democracy. Scary is what it is.
Who will invade America and rescue those poor America people?
From: ~~Canada - still God's greatest creation on the face of the earth~~ | Registered: Jun 2004 | IP: Logged
catje
I had a little dyslexic moment when I looked at this thread title on the TAT, and thought someone had found an article declaring:
Soldier's Dead Mother Protests Against Bush
Good Lord, sez I, even the zombies are anti-Dubya! Now I have visions of legions of the undead marching on Crawford.
From: lotusland | Registered: Jan 2005 | IP: Logged
Whatever gets results.
I predict nothing will come of it
Don't forget, it was the body count (American, of course; nobody bothers to count bodies of poor countries) that did in Vietnam. Admittedly, the numbers are much lower right now but I think there is less tolerance than there used to be for dead sons and husbands.
Grieving mothers and widows are powerful emotional symbols in the American psyche where war has such a prominent place.
Originally posted by ReeferMadness:
Oh I agree that's why the administration will do everything in its power to divert, redirect the public's attention elsewhere. The dead soldiers coffins weren't allowed to be shown on tv or in the news for this reason. That compassion deficient monkey Bush did not even go visit the war dead. Because he knew it is a public relations disaster to do so.
ReeferMadness, about those casualty figures. See www.tbrnews.org, scroll down to Bush's Butcher Bill. The author puts the real toll at 7,000. There are undeniable faults with the story, the website, and their sources; however, his assertion about Germany seems reasonable.
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Albion1
I pulled the following from
www.bushflash.com
Cindy Sheehan needs your help. Sheehan, a bereaved mother who lost her 24-year-old son, Casey, in Iraq, on April 4, 2004, is camped outside of Bush's Crawford Ranch, and ain't going away, until Bush meets with her, and explains himself.
On August 3rd, Bush emerged from his protective shell, forced to respond to two days of violence in Iraq which claimed 21 american lives. Bush's response? "We have to honor the sacrifices of the fallen by completing the mission." "The families of the fallen can be assured that they died for a noble cause."
This empty rehetoric didn't sit well with me, and it sure as hell didn't, with Cindy. She has two questions for Bush: "Why did my son have to die?", and "What's this 'Noble Cause' that you say he died for?"
Before I comment on this further, I urge you to go to Meetwithcindy.org, sign the petition, make a few phone calls to the media and white house, and spread Cindy's story far and wide. You can find further resources at: Gold Star Families for Peace, Military Families Speak out, and the Crawford Peace House.
Give her all you can.
Now, here's what gets me- the response to this one, lone woman, by both the right wing, and Crawford, Texas law enforcement has been predictably shameful. Matt Drudge (he doesn't deserve a link) has lambasted her, calling her a hypocrite and a "flip-flopper". Crawford Cops forced her peace march into a ditch, and then Bush sent out two junior-level functionaries out to try to intimidate her, And Free Republic offers up the usual idiocy:
"This woman needs to be freeped! Any freepers down Texas way, please go down there and give her the business."
"I for one am sick of this lying-self-pitying-wallowing-in-her-new-found-infamy-crying-for-attention-bitch."
"What We Are About To Do Here Is What The Good Lord Would Call A Cleansing of the Wicked. I Call It A Good Old Fashioned Texas Ass Kicking."
"May all these traitorous scum live a miserable life and die a slow death."
From: Toronto, ON. Canada | Registered: Jun 2005 | IP: Logged
Daily Kos reports on a possibility that Sheehan is to be arrested on Thursday; it's not clear how factual it is, but Sheehan appears to believe it.
From: pretty far west | Registered: Jul 2004 | IP: Logged
The Lone Star Iconoclast has daily updates about Sheehan and friends; including photos. Apparently it's been either very hot or raining very hard there, and she has laryngitis. This afternoon
...Cindy is just going from media to media, one after another. NBC representative, IFC (Independant film Channel), lots of signs out here: "Bush Lied, People Died, No ore war!" "No more Blood for Oil," "Jesus Wept," "Bring the Troops Home Now," "Why Is George Bush Afraid to Talk to Cindy," "100,000’s of Iraqi civilians dead," "Who lied? Who died? Who paid? Who profits?"
A ton of flowers are everywhere. Cindy Sheehan is wearing a blue overcoat and carrying two yellow roses. At the bottom of the stem, it says “Texas Democrat”...
I think the Lone Star Iconoclast is the paper that wrote an excellent editorial opposing Bush's re-election last fall.
This event may have legs; it reminds me of the end of the TV series "Taken" where all the alien abductees come to the farm in Texas so the army can't just disappear the main characters.
brookmere
It has recently occurred to me that if it continues at the present rate, the US death toll in Iraq will surpass that of 9/11 some time during the US mid-term election campaign next year. Nice milestone.
From: BC (sort of) | Registered: Jun 2005 | IP: Logged
Originally posted by brookmere:
Something else to consider: From 1961-1965 in Vietnam, there were 1,864 troops killed in action, 7,337 wounded in action, and 18 missing in action (a four year period).
In a two year and six month period in the Iraq theatre (this is 18 months less than the same period of time on the Vietnam war timeline) 1,821
U.S. troops have been killed in action (2,015 killed in action if you add in non-U.S. coalition casualties).
[ 10 August 2005: Message edited by: Boom Boom ]
From: Make the rich pay! | Registered: Dec 2004 | IP: Logged
Address to Veterans For Peace Convention
Cindy Sheehan t r u t h o u t | Transcript
http://www.truthout.org/cindy.shtml
(scroll 1/3 of the way down the page)
Then we have this lying bastard, George Bush, taking a 5-week vacation in a time of war. You know what? I'm never going to get to enjoy another vacation, because of him.
My vacation probably ... this is really sad because I have a really cute dress I was going to wear to the banquet tomorrow night, but I'm either gonna be in jail or in a tent in Crawford, waiting until that jerk comes out and tells me why my son died.
- snip -
You tell me the truth. You tell me that my son died for oil. You tell me that my son died to make your friends rich. You tell me my son died to spread the cancer of Pax Americana, imperialism in the Middle East. You tell me that, you don't tell me my son died for freedom and democracy.
Cuz, we're not freer. You're taking away our freedoms. The Iraqi people aren't freer, they're much worse off than before you meddled in their country.
Américain Égalitaire
"it started in low. . . and then it started to grow. . . "
Grieving Mother's War Protest Draws Notice
The mother of a fallen U.S. soldier who started a quiet roadside peace vigil near President Bush's ranch last weekend is drawing supporters from across the nation.
Dozens of people have joined her and others have sent flowers and food. One activist called her "the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement."
Cindy Sheehan, 48, of Vacaville, Calif., says she was surprised at the response.
"Before my son was killed, I used to think that one person could not make a difference," she said Wednesday under a tent where she has slept since Saturday. "But one person that is surrounded and supported by millions of people can be heard."
"Cindy Sheehan has become the Rosa Parks of the anti-war movement," said Rev. Lennox Yearwood, leader of the Hip Hop Caucus, an activist group. "She's tired, fed up and she's not going to take it anymore, and so now we stand with her."
Some veterans and relatives of those killed have called Sheehan's vigil a distraction and continue to support the U.S. military action in Iraq.
At her makeshift camp in muddy ditches off the two-lane, winding road leading to Bush's ranch, Sheehan has spent the past several days talking to reporters, hugging fellow protesters and taking brief breaks to eat sandwiches and fruit brought by supporters. Her vigil has also become a hot topic on the Internet and blogs.
Although she doesn't expect Bush to meet with her in Crawford, she says if he did she would ask him whether he has encouraged his twin daughters to enlist.
"I want him to quit using my son's death to justify more killing," she said. "The only way he can honor my son's death is to bring the troops home."
From: Chardon, Ohio USA | Registered: Jan 2005 | IP: Logged
It's interesting to watch US documentaries and special news programs that proudly proclaim that American troops have much better military technology and protective gear than they had forty years ago, and better battlefield intelligence via satellites and digital technology as opposed to the analog
field equipment in Vietnam. Yet they are dying at a higher casualty rate than in Vietnam and are being taken out by crude improvised explosive devices made using mechanical washing machine timers, cordite, ballistite or gunpowder, and scrap metal and nails. No superpowers are supporting insurgents in Iraq with conventional military aid. North Vietnam benefited from Soviet, Chinese, and Warsaw Pact conventional military materiel assistance and intelligence. Yet the casaulty rate, including US and coalition forces, in Iraq is running higher.
Webgear
It is a different style of warfare. You can not compare Vietnam to Iraq, the tactics being used in Iraq are not the same type used in Vietnam.
From: Montgomery's Tavern | Registered: May 2005 | IP: Logged
Yeah. Overwhelming, modern military force on the invader's side is producing more casaulties at a faster rate from an enemy much less sophisicated than faced in Viet Nam.
Actually the weapons being used the insurgents are quiet similar to those used by the NVA and Viet Cong such the AK-47 and RPG-7.
The major difference between Iraq and Vietnam is that most of the fighting in taking part in urban areas.
I think the NVA and Viet Cong are equally sophisticated enemy as the insurgent forces in Iraq.
American soldiers are dropping like flies and the 'French' president is getting 5 weeks vacation hey just like the French do!!.
Mind you George Bush is on a constant vacation when he isn't exercising daily (1-2) hours or taking his noon time nap. Take out an hour for breakfast, lunch and dinner and the baby is in bed by 9:00pm when the FUCK does this guy do any work at all. Factor in all the other times he gets to take more time off at the Crawford Ranch and Bush is really just a spokeperson for the real powers that be. This man never works. He just has time to look pretty, get friendly with the teleprompter and 'look presidential'.
American soldiers are dropping like flies and the president is on his official vacation. Not counting his 'unofficial' ones that we dare not hear about. Neocons are such hypocritical pices of shit who deserve to be the ones dying like dogs in Iraq.
A faulty analogy. The US did not begin to engage in direct combat in Vietnam until early 1965 (after the 1964 election). Although US military casualties in Vietnam had dated back to 1945, those were advisors.
During the 8-year period that US troops engaged in direct combat (1965-1973), it lost 58,000 dead, or about 7,000/year.
Something to think about however - for each death, there are many more US troops maimed or seriously injured in Iraq than in Vietnam, because they are better today at keeping casualties from dying.
[ 11 August 2005: Message edited by: brookmere ]
Variants of both the RPG and AK-47 were used in Viet Nam. Both are technology of 40 years ago. Effective and deadly, yes, even used against the modern and advanced technology of the US and coalition forces.
My argument is that the most advanced technology still can't defeat a determined enemy - either in Viet Nam or Iraq. RPG's especially are low-tech weapons, are not very accurate, and have a short range.
Quote: "In addition, the high-tech equipment aboard helicopters is not effective against shoulder-fired grenades, which don't rely on electronic tracking or a heating seeking system, military experts said. "To the extent that they work, our jammers work better against more sophisticated equipment than what the Iraqis have," said Hellman.
from: http://tinyurl.com/8rpou
And the coalition with their modern sophisicated, state-of-the-art equipment continues to be taken out in attacks by often simple and sometimes improvised weapons in Iraq.
Lone Star Iconoclast update today; they are getting ready for Bush's motorcade to pass by in an hour and a quarter; he's going to a fundraiser a mile doen the road.
Interesting ; the Globe and Mail has a rumour that he helicoptered out to avoid Sheehan.
Whatever, he's such a coward.
On this subject, there is this Gary Hart article. Cindy Sheehan reminds me of what our own Arar is doing here to hold to account the truly barbaric Bush administration.
From: Babylon | Registered: Dec 2004 | IP: Logged
lagatta
This bbc article discusses the impact of bereaved mothers' protests in many parts of the world, from Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo standing up to the Argentine dictatorship - at least one Madre was "disappeared", by the way, through Russian and Israeli mothers' protests for peace, to Cindy Shehan's vigil.
From: Se non ora, quando? | Registered: Apr 2002 | IP: Logged
AP report on Bush motorcade driving by with details on his fundraiser, etc.
...Cindy Sheehan, a California mother leading the protesters, held a sign that read: "Why do you make time for donors and not for me?"
It's unclear whether Bush, riding in a black Suburban with tinted windows, looked at the demonstrators as his caravan passed. He arrived before noon, local time, at a neighbor's ranch for a barbecue where he was expected to raise at least $2 million for the Republican National Committee, said RNC spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt...
...Sheehan began her standoff on Saturday, declaring she would stay for the entire month that Bush plans to stay in Texas if he won't meet with her. Since then, dozens of other activists have joined her, including at least three other parents who have lost children in the war, although the protesters began facing increased antagonism Thursday from locals and opposition from other military families...
Today a neighbour near the camp shot into the air several times. He says he is not political, but he is fed up with all the people there. Read the conversation.
... Another reporter walked up and asked, “Are you Mr. Mattlage?”
“I sure as hell am,” he answered. “Well, I want to get on the Letterman Show. I want to get on Jay Leno. This is a joke out here. You done your right and I believe in ??. This ain’t about Democrats and this ain’t about Republicans. This is about my rights and these people’s rights as American citizens who live here. You done your deal. You done your show. Now move on. I’m asking that as an American citizen and a taxpaying citizen, becuse I pay taxes to the middle of this road, and I mow it, and I keep it clean, and all I got now is trespassers. If that ain’t right, it ain’t right, but I want the whole world to know what they’ve done. They started out doing right and now they are doing wrong. When they first got here, I understood their cause and I appreciate it. I don’t like the war no more than anybody else, but right here we got war . . right on my front yard. Everybody here is sick of it. If everybody will leave now, everybody will go home a winner. Then the president can enjoy his vacation like everybody else and these farmers and ranchers can go check their cattle without having to go through a campsite.”
Deborah: Are any of them prevented from getting to their cattle now?
Mr. Mattlage: Ma’am, who wants to wade through all these people walking around there. What this is a war of porta-potties and the one with the most porta-potties is gonna’ win and you know who that is don’t you. You all got started out going to the bathroom in a five gallon bucket. Now, I see three porta-potties. How many more porta-potties are we going to have to put up with? Now, George Bush has more porta-potties than you all, so if I was a bettin’ man, I’d say he’s gonna win. So let’s don’t make this a little more ridiculous than it is now. Everybody go back a winner. You’ve made your point. I’m proud of you. God bless all of you...
Crippled_Newsie
Originally posted by Contrarian:
Today a neighbour near the camp shot into the air several times. He says he is not political, but he is fed up with all the people there.
And where exactly was the Secret Service?
From: It's all about the thumpa thumpa. | Registered: Oct 2004 | IP: Logged
Read the whole thing; they talked to him, also the Sheriff.
I find it strangely comforting that Bush has such calm and stable neighbours. Maybe they will get fed up with him and take direct action.
They were there:
— Mr. Mattlage turned and walked back in the direction of his house. Both Secret Service Police and McLennan County Sheriff’s showed up to talk with Mr. Mattlage. The men went into his gate and they spoke together for a few minutes. Mr. Mattlage then turned and walked back in the direction of the media waiting at his gate.
Mr. Mattlage: What we have here is we got the Secret Service here and the Sheriff. The Secret Service has got all the power, but they don’t have any rights to get rid of this stuff. The Sheriff’s department has got the law which means, they said that we have no rights because they can’t stop this. So we’ve got two law enforcement agencies and all these helicopters up here and none of them can do nothing and will do nothing.
Reporter: Larry, why did you shoot the gun?
Mr. Mattlage: Well, I’m getting ready for dove season and you all are still gonna’ be here, I’m practicin’.
Reporter: Was there another message involved in the gunshot?
Mr. Mattlage: You figure it out for yourself.
Reporter: Are there any laws . . .
Mr. Mattlage: No, in Texas, you can shoot . . I ain’t threating nobody. I ain’t pointing a gun at nobody. This is Texas.
Typical Texas asshole. It's all about his guns, his property and his taxpayin'
Guess I should have read closer. D'oh!
His outrage over the porta-potties seemed heartfelt and genuine to me. I wonder if it really is impinging on his life, or if he is just obsessing over having people camping near his home.
I wonder if Bush is chuckling over this; I think it is more likely to hurt him in the media than help him.
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Jacob Two-Two
He probably doesn't even know about it. He doesn't read newspapers, remember?
"Say, who are all these people out there?"
"Um, well-wishers Sir. They're thanking you for staying the course in Iraq."
"Well that's jim-dandy!".
From: There is but one Gord and Moolah is his profit | Registered: Jan 2002 | IP: Logged
"I need to go on with my life." Because he's sacrificed and struggled so much, I'm sure. And after all, as he said during the debates, "being president is hard work."
"I think it's also important for me to go on with my life, to keep a balanced life."
The comments came prior to a bike ride on the ranch with journalists and aides. It also came as the crowd of protesters grew in support of Sheehan, the California mother who came here Aug. 6 demanding to talk to Bush about the death of her son Casey. Sheehan arrived earlier in the week with about a half dozen supporters. As of yesterday (Saturday) there were about 300 anti-war protesters and approximately 100 people supporting the Bush Administration. In addition to the two-hour bike ride, Bush's Saturday schedule included an evening Little League Baseball playoff game, a lunch meeting with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a nap, some fishing and some reading. "I think the people want the president to be in a position to make good, crisp decisions and to stay healthy," he said when asked about bike riding while a grieving mom wanted to speak with him. "And part of my being is to be outside exercising."
On Friday, Bush's motorcade drove by the protest site en route to a Republican fund-raising event at a nearby ranch.
As Bush rolled by, Sheehan held a sign that said, "Why do you make time for donors and not for me?"
http://www.al.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news/1124011285247770.xml&coll=2
From: the twilight zone between the U.S. and Canada | Registered: Aug 2002 | IP: Logged
skdadl
Babbler # 478
What this is a war of porta-potties and the one with the most porta-potties is gonna’ win and you know who that is don’t you. You all got started out going to the bathroom in a five gallon bucket. Now, I see three porta-potties. How many more porta-potties are we going to have to put up with? Now, George Bush has more porta-potties than you all, so if I was a bettin’ man, I’d say he’s gonna win. So let’s don’t make this a little more ridiculous than it is now.
This is priceless, right up there with Rumsfeld's known unknowns and Cheney's last throes. We must keep this Bush-era classic alive; we must.
I agree with you, Contrarian: that is more damaging than helpful to Bush. It is, in fact, ridiggulous, and yet somehow very apt.
From: gone | Registered: May 2001 | IP: Logged
i hope more parents, and other people, who have lost their children, and family members, in the war join sheehan.
From: under a bridge with a laptop | Registered: Apr 2005 | IP: Logged
HeywoodFloyd
token right-wing mascot
Some of them could just keep their gobs shut.
David Duke wrote a strong letter of support for her.
From: Edmonton: This place sucks | Registered: Jun 2003 | IP: Logged
sorry i sound ignorant, but who's david duke?
Hmmmn. ephemeral, David Duke is an American neo-Nazi.
Where did you read/see that, Heywood?
David Duke: Wikipedia
oohhh yes, i know who he is now. thanks skdadl. the name didn't ring a bell at first - i have a hard time remembering names. i should have done a google search myself to save you the trouble.
heywood floyd, do you have a link to the letter he wrote?
Joel_Goldenberg
Here's a link
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From: Montreal | Registered: May 2004 | IP: Logged
Well, Cindy Sheehan is not responsible for David Duke's opportunism, but since that foul message of his is now up on his blog, it would be good to hear her disavow any sympathy for him.
I had not read her letter to "Nightline" before, which Duke is quoting in his blogpost. I don't see any problem with her references to PNAC or the neo-con agenda, all of which are pretty much on the record. I think that she is wrong, as well as clumsy, to be attaching the invasion of Iraq specifically to the neo-cons' commitment to Israel, although they undoubtedly are so committed.
Oh sure, because David Duke is supposedly supporting her for a bigoted reason of his own creation, that nullifies her effort.
Next smear?
josh, what did you think of her letter to "Nightline"? (At least, what Duke is quoting of it.)
The only thing I read that she wrote or said was that Israel should get out of Palestine. A sentiment I wholeheartedly share. But the Drudges, etc. of the world are using that to smear her as some kind of anti-Semite.
In any event, it is a fact that powerful elements in Israel were egging on Washington for the invasion, as they are now doing with Iran.
This is what she's quoted as writing to Nightline
Am I emotional? Yes, my first born was murdered. Am I angry? Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel. Am I stupid? No, I know full-well that my son, my family, this nation, and this world were betrayed by George [W.] Bush who was influenced by the neo-con PNAC agenda after 9/11. We were told that we were attacked on 9/11 because the terrorists hate our freedoms and democracy…not for the real reason, because the Arab-Muslims who attacked us hate our middle-eastern foreign policy. That hasn’t changed since America invaded and occupied Iraq…in fact it has gotten worse.
Mr. Magoo
guilty-pleasure
Well, Cindy Sheehan is not responsible for David Duke's opportunism
No, her belief that the occupation of Iraq is part of some Israeli agenda is, most likely.
What the hell was she thinking? Now it's not about Iraq, and withdrawing the troops, it's about Israel, and whether they are or aren't the puppetmasters.
From: ø¤°`°¤ø,¸_¸,ø¤°`°¤ø,¸_¸,ø¤°°¤ø,¸_¸,ø¤°°¤ø, | Registered: Dec 2002 | IP: Logged
She also said it's about PNAC, right? Gosh, what was she thinking? How opportunistic! Where does this grieving mother get off having an opinion about America's abysmal policies in the ME?
From: Québec/Ontario | Registered: Apr 2003 | IP: Logged
Yes, he was killed for lies and for a PNAC Neo-Con agenda to benefit Israel. My son joined the Army to protect America, not Israel.
That's a totally proper interpretation of events. As I said above, Israel was eager to see Hussein removed, and PNAC had adopted Netanyahu's 1996 memo about "democratizing" the Arab states.
That Iraq is well on its way to becoming an Islamic state, a la Iran, apparently was not part of their brilliant foresight.
To me, Cheney's agenda was broader than PNAC's, majorly amoral, and that is why the invasion was carried out.
She may not be wrong, but she has oversimplified clumsily, which is never helpful.
Nothing expressed as part of public discourse in the States these days seems to be helpful. No matter what you say, you can find spin-meisters on every side engaging in astonishing tactics designed to make whatever is being said into whatever you want it to say.
It's a nightmare. A freakin' Orwellian nightmare.
[ 15 August 2005: Message edited by: Hinterland ]
anne cameron
My problem with this crusade is that until her own son died she seems to have had no problem with the fact thousands of Iraqi mothers had lost their children.
Her kid wasn't drafted. It's not as if she dug in her heels at the get-go and resisted the illegal slaughter.
I guess it's another case of It all depends on whose ox is being gored.
Makes me feel if her son was still alive she'd still be gnawing the graaaaaaaaaaas with the other baa baa baaa sheep.
It's a sin and a shame anyone's kid has to die in war.
From: tahsis, british columbia | Registered: Jan 2005 | IP: Logged
Originally posted by josh:
Are you refering to me "smearing" her? Cause if you are you need to read for context.
If not, then I apologize up front for being bitchy.
anne, she tried to persuade her son not to join the army in the first place. I think she said somewhere that she offered to help him get to Canada rather than go to Iraq [or she wishes she had, I'm not sure]. Some smearers have used that statement against her; "unpatriotic" etc.
I think many people become activists only after their ox has been gored; why condemn someone for having such a human reaction? At least these people have shown they are capable of learning from experience.
The heck with David Duke; Viggo Mortenson visited Cindy on Aug 12 I think; it's mentioned in one or two of the Lone Star updates. Here is a hilarious blog on a not unrelated topic.
I think many people become activists only after their ox has been gored; why condemn someone for having such a human reaction?
Because it's like wanting your lottery winnings when you win, but your money back when you don't?
No it's not, as long as you stay progressive after your incentive for doing so is no longer as acute. That's a completely bad analogy. Most people who are progressive come to their opinion through some kind of experience that radicalizes them.
If someone is pro-war until a family member is killed and then it dawns on them while they're grieving that their family member died for no good reason, it's not the least bit inconsistent or hypocritical for them to embrace and anti-war or pacifist point of view from that point forward.
People change their minds about politics and it's usually because something has happened that has convinced them they were wrong about their past convictions.
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001 | IP: Logged
Too bad it has to take the death of a family member to make them see the value of life.
Some useful background with links by Tom Engelhart.
...Casey Sheehan died on April 4, 2004, soon after he arrived for his tour of duty in Iraq. His mother had never wanted him to go to a war that was "wrong," a place where he might have to "kill innocent people" and where he might die. ("I begged him not to go. I said, 'I'll take you to Canada'... but he said, 'Mom, I have to go. It's my duty. My buddies are going.'")...
rockerbiff
I'm doing my bit
http://amputee-online.com
From: Republic of East Van | Registered: May 2005 | IP: Logged
Bush is really just a spokeperson for the real powers
Bingo.
From: Out There | Registered: Aug 2001 | IP: Logged
This is kinda what I was afraid of -- that this gesture on her part would, in typical USian fashion, start spinning completely out of control and become a contest as to which side can hype the event better.
I sense that the velvet revolution, this ain't.
Interesting bit of information about the guy who fired off his gun:
...The Lone Star State too has been contributing an extra dash of color - most notably on Sunday when Larry Mattlage, a local farmer who rents his land to networks for a view of the President's 1,600 acre spread, fired his shotgun twice into the air, sending reporters into a frenzy and an ever-nervous Presidential secret service into apoplexy...
So are the campers blocking his source of income?
And that would be the Freemasons? Or Israel?
Which do you think it is?
Rufus Polson
Well, based on who profits from every decision he makes, I'd have to say oil companies and defense contractors. And nearly every major person in his administration, including Bush himself, is either an oil person or a once and future defense contractor person.
Bush & family - oil. Well, both oil and defense, really.
Cheney - contractors.
Rice - oil.
Everyone associated with defense - contractors.
Perle & Wolfowitz style hangers on - mostly both.
So, how wrongheaded is it that a group of corporations that nearly everyone in the administration has very strong connections with, and which is a major mucho source of campaign funding, should be described as "controlling" the administration? Your knee-jerk sarcasm gets tired, Magoo.
Israel has a couple fingers in, too, but if their interests weren't generally dovetailing with the oil companies' they'd be out faster than you can make a snide remark. Which in Mr. Magoo's case is pretty darned fast.
From: Caithnard College | Registered: Nov 2002 | IP: Logged
Well, based on who profits from every decision he makes, I'd have to say oil companies and defense contractors.
They may benefit from his decisions, but I don't see how that makes them the string-pullers.
Someone would have benefitted if Nader had won, too. Again, I doubt that would confer any specific power on them, whoever they be.
Neither. I don't believe that the United States is controlled by Israel, nor that it's controlled by any "secret societies", including the Masons, but also the Skull and Bones, the Illuminati, etc., etc., etc.
The real "power"? The electorate. If only as many voters had voted Bush as voted Nader, Bush would be at home right now watching The Price Is Right and choking on those dry little donuts.
jeff house
And then there was the "Iraqi woman" who appeared in Texas to tell Sheehan that she was wrong, that Casey died for "my freedom".
Then she did all the right-wing talk shows, but none of them pointed out that her husband is a government propagandist.
Oh, I mean, he is a journalist for Voice of America,
The Voice of America (VOA) is an international multimedia broadcasting service funded by the U.S. government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
This Iraqi woman lives in the US, of course.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/15/221353/668
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From: toronto | Registered: May 2001 | IP: Logged
The electorate? Really? You mean the electorate that placed Bush second in 2000?
Yes, that would be them.
Right. The freedom to pick her size of chador before going out in public.
Originally posted by Mr. Magoo:
Then, obviously, they are not the "real power."
So you think, Magoo, all those oil industy mandarins who surround Bush including Cheney don't have any pull? You think Bush makes all the decisions himself between his naps and meals and photo ops? You think that Bush who didn't even know where Iraq is, masterminded and pushed through the policy that now has America bogged down in war? You think Bush is the brains and leadership behind PNAC and its implementation in US policy?
And what do Free Masons or Israelis have to do with any of this (although I am sure they are grateful you don't hold them responsible)?
Then I guess the president is. Although I continue to maintain, as I wrote, that if only as many voters had voted Bush as voted Nader, Bush would be at home right now watching The Price Is Right and choking on those dry little donuts.
Similarly, if the electorate had wanted Nader in power, it could have given him 80% of the popular vote and that would have been that.
Anyway, Grieving Mom seems to feel the real power is The Jews. Can we at least agree that that's a bunch of horse dookie? Or is the jury still out on that one?
Grieving Mom seems to feel the real power is The Jews.
Really? Where did she say that?
Nice smear, Magoo.
In her assertion that the "real" reason for the war in Iraq is for the benefit of Israel.
Oh I'm at best the assist on this play. As soon as you go near the whole "Jews run the world" theory, you smear yourself.
Ask Kalle Lasn.
I think the only person to bring up the "Jews run the world" crap was you Magoo. So you're the one smearing yourself. And, as I said above, saying that the war was fought in part at behest of the Israeli government is by no means an outlandish assertion.
This mother is protesting Bush's criminal war. She lost her son, and he can't be bothered to look out the window at her.
Too bad she didn't contribute to his election campaign; he ALWAYS has time to see those that make THAT sacrifice.
Anyway, it matters very little to me that she may overemphasize Israel's contribution to the war, and underestimate that of Haliburton.
Parsing her thoughts is just a way to try to discredit her. I don't believe she is a Nazi or an anti-semite; and I think her question: "What did my son die for?" is one that Bush has yet to answer.
ronb
Classic. Campaign finance reform - who needs it? Money obviously has no effect whatsoever on the political process.
Sometimes you really live up to your moniker.
From: gone | Registered: Jan 2002 | IP: Logged
As the cartoon character who's too nearsighted to see conspiracies? Mea culpa.
I think the only person to bring up the "Jews run the world" crap was you Magoo.
True, technically. She only insisted that her son "died for Israel", and that the war in Iraq is for Israel's benefit. Reading between the lines, I took that to mean that the U.S. is at war in Iraq at Israel's behest. I suppose it's possible that she believes the U.S. is just doing it so Israel will owe them one or something.
Magoo, see this thread about AIPAC, a pro-Israeli lobby group and the Bushies, etc.
It's not a conspiracy if it's done out in the open.
The latest news is that some pickup truck driver drove over the memorial they'd set up. The punchline is that one of the crosses he ran over lodged in his tire and burst his tube, stopping him in his tracks and leading to his subsequent arrest.
From: State of Genderfuck | Registered: Jun 2005 | IP: Logged
Iconoclast daily update. One of Bush's neighbours offered to let Sheehan and friends stay on his land:
..."A kind gentleman from down the road offered us the use of his property. It's right by the barricade. He offered it because he heard about the shots fired. He didn't think that was right. He happens to be the third cousin of the person that fired the shots and so he came down and he said he supports us 100 percent. He offered us his land. We are in the middle of making that happen. We will be moving within the next few days and we are not being forced to move...
Also various photos, showing some of the crosses that were run over; and a great poster:
Why does the media scrutinize the grieving mother and ignore the President's lies?
Interestingly, the "letter" now appears to be fraudulent. Apparently, someone posted it on a right-wing website, and it was repeated everywhere.
Cindy Sheehan says she never wrote it, and would never say it.
Cooper: you were also quoted as saying, "my son joined the army to protect america, not israel. you get america out of iraq and israel out of palestine and you'll stop the terrorism." how responsible do you believe israel is for the amount of terrorism in the world?
sheehan: i didn't say that.
cooper: you didn't say that? ok
sheehan: i didn't -- i didn't say -- i didn't say that my son died for israel. i've never said that. i saw somebody wrote that and it wasn't my words. those aren't even words that i would say.
Maritimesea
Wow, it's amazing how fast we all accepted as fact that she had said that. That slug david duke even came to her defense after his slug ears heard the words Israel and Not in the same sentence, based on those lies. Oh, these rightys are getting desperate, what next. I'm afraid to think of the possibilities.
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Hey, Magoo--anything to say about that? You were happy enough to say unpleasant things about her--any plans to retract? Possibly even to say something a tiny bit sarcastic about fraud artists who spread libel about their political opponents?
You were happy enough to say unpleasant things about her--any plans to retract?
Not specifically. I'll happily make them conditional though. If she said her son died for Israel, or something functionally the same, then my comments stand, and if she didn't then I politely stand corrected.
But I'm not about to go into damage control mode simply because someone denies saying something. I actually thought about this last night when I read:
"Wow, it's amazing how fast we all accepted as fact that she had said that."
I don't want it to be just as amazing how fast we accept that she didn't just because she denies it. Don't people ever deny embarrassing things?
That's all fine and dandy. But tell me something, Magoo, do you associate all Jews with Israel? So, if I said, for example, "I believe Israel is wrong to occupy the West Bank", you would interpret that to mean "I believe Jews are wrong to occupy the West Bank"?
So we have her saying "I never said that, and I don't believe it" on TV. But that's not good enough for you because Christopher Hitchens says he has a fax of an email from a third party saying "I sent this for you Cindy" to prove it?
No wonder Rove keeps pulling this shit. It still works like a charm.
But tell me something, Magoo, do you associate all Jews with Israel?
Not formally. But the two are often interchanged, and I do believe that many people say "Israel" when they really mean "Jews". Maybe not all Jews, but Jews.
I didn't say a thing about Christopher Hitchens, nor the rest. All I did was note that people sometimes deny things when those things are embarrassing or inconvenient to them.
It may be possbile that she said no such thing and it's all a smear job.
It may be possible that she said it, or something close enough to it, and now that it's caused a flap she wants to distance herself from it.
I don't really have the necessary info at my fingertips to say which is the case.
MyNameisLeo
Babbler # 10172
[QUOTE]Originally posted by Joel_Goldenberg:
[QB]Here's a link
Reading the comments posted on this link make me profoundly depressed. That's not a reason not to read them I know but OMG is the world really as ugly as it seems sometimes?
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VanLuke
I think this is an interesting piece.
Someone Tell the President the War Is Over
By Frank Rich
LIKE the Japanese soldier marooned on an island for years after V-J Day, President Bush may be the last person in the country to learn that for Americans, if not Iraqis, the war in Iraq is over. "We will stay the course," he insistently tells us from his Texas ranch. What do you mean we, white man?
A president can't stay the course when his own citizens (let alone his own allies) won't stay with him. The approval rate for Mr. Bush's handling of Iraq plunged to 34 percent in last weekend's Newsweek poll - a match for the 32 percent that approved L.B.J.'s handling of Vietnam in early March 1968. (The two presidents' overall approval ratings have also converged: 41 percent for Johnson then, 42 percent for Bush now.) On March 31, 1968, as L.B.J.'s ratings plummeted further, he announced he wouldn't seek re-election, commencing our long extrication from that quagmire.
But our current Texas president has even outdone his predecessor; Mr. Bush has lost not only the country but also his army. Neither bonuses nor fudged standards nor the faking of high school diplomas has solved the recruitment shortfall....
A Bush loyalist, Senator George Allen of Virginia, instructed the president to meet with Cindy Sheehan, the mother camping out in Crawford, as "a matter of courtesy and decency." Or, to translate his Washingtonese, as a matter of politics. Only someone as adrift from reality as Mr. Bush would need to be told that a vacationing president can't win a standoff with a grief-stricken parent commandeering TV cameras and the blogosphere 24/7....
WHAT lies ahead now in Iraq instead is not victory, which Mr. Bush has never clearly defined anyway, but an exit (or triage) strategy that may echo Johnson's March 1968 plan for retreat from Vietnam: some kind of negotiations (in this case, with Sunni elements of the insurgency), followed by more inflated claims about the readiness of the local troops-in-training, whom we'll then throw to the wolves. ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/14/opinion/14rich.html?incamp=article_popular&pagewanted=all
Subscription. You can use:
User: babblers8
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Vigils to support Sheehan protest.
More than 1,000 anti-war vigils have been held around the United States in support of a bereaved mother protesting outside President Bush's Texas ranch. ....
In Crawford, several hundred people lit candles and gathered around a wooden flag-draped coffin at the camp, situated about a mile from Mr Bush's ranch, to remember the dead.....
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dramaman
VanLuke -
The comments about the similarities to Vietnam would be dismissed on Con sites....
But it IS getting clearer all the time.
I'm old enough to remember the chants from the 60's - like
"LBJ, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"
Soon will come one about Bush, IMO.
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John_D
I heard somewhere that Mr. Magoo believes kittens should all be put to death. I've never heard him deny this. Even if he did, however, that doesn't mean he didn't say that, or doesn't believe it. Of course he would deny that, publicly at least. I simply don't have the information to prove whether or not Magoo advocates the mass murder of kittens. Either option, that he does or doesn't, is equally likely.
So how about it, Magoo. Why do you hate cute furry kittens so much?
From: Workin' 9 to 2 in the 902. | Registered: May 2004 | IP: Logged
While Bush has been on vacation, so far 60 US soldiers have died in Iraq.
1862 US soldiers have now died there since the invasion, 1725 of those since President Bush stood on an aircraft carrier and announced that "the mission is accomplished".
The US refuses to count Iraqs who died during the war. That way, they can claim that any other count is speculative.
But independent bodies estimate 25,000 or more.
That's too depressing for a chant.
http://www.antiwar.com/casualties/
Originally posted by dramaman:
The very first demo I went to was an anti Vietnam war demo a fellow student took me to. It was 1968 and I was already 26 years old. (Some got started a bit later than others)
It changed me.
The slogan I remember most is:
One two three four
We don't want your fu**ing war
Five six seven eight
Nothing to negotiate.
Actually it was 1973 and I was almost 31. Just looked at an old student newspaper about it. (I'm a high school dropout who started his studies at the age of 26)
[ 18 August 2005: Message edited by: VanLuke ]
M. Spector
Originally posted by VanLuke:
[quoting]Vigils to support Sheehan protest.
A vigil in solidarity with Sheehan will be held this Saturday in Toronto at the US Consulate, 5:00pm to 6:00pm, 360 University Avenue, organized by the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War and the War Resisters Support Campaign.
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Do you know if there is one in Vancouver?
Silly me I could have just googled it instead of asking you and did after posting. It doesn't seem there is.
http://tinyurl.com/c8u6z
Protester Sheehan to leave Texas
A bereaved mother who has been protesting outside President Bush's Texas ranch has said she is leaving because her mother has had a stroke. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4164744.stm
al-Qa'bong
This is vintage Magoo.
Take someone's statement, twist it into a meaning unintended by that person, extrapolate the twist into something ludicrously hyperbolic, and then convince yourself you've made an argument.
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I'm very sorry to hear about Cindy Sheehan's mother.
And maybe we need a moderator here to say explicitly that equating criticism of Israel or of U.S. relations with Israel with anti-semitism is an offence on babble.
Originally posted by al-Qa'bong:
Readers of The Statesman Journal share their views in an online poll Aug 18 on Cindy Sheehan’s vigil. Here's a small selection starting at the beginning of a very long thread, of which I read about half. (Warning: Some are real redneck; oh the joys of 'balanced reporting'. I read only about half the comments; it gets too repetetive):
...Cindy Sheehan is finally saying what gutless Democratic Senators and Congressmen (and, indeed, all Americans) should be saying--this war is wrong! This administration is still telling us the war is "noble and just". Every American should join Cindy Sheehan in protest against this unjust war.
David F., 68, retired teacher, Salem
...How is the Iraq war necessary? Freedom for the them? The facts were never there to support the war. The war was mismanaged. The government only hoped that the Iraqui people would welcome us. No plan for the peace has been proven. Support our troops, bring them home!
Jim, 58, CPA, Scottsdale, AZ
Of course it's an appropriate form of protest. I don't even understand the "pawn of liberal groups" reference--sounds like the red-baiting tactics from the 1950s, although now "liberal" substitutes for "communist." She went to Texas to ask for an answer that we all deserve and that has not been forthcoming from this administration. If Bush had had the courage to answer her question honestly, this might have died down. Well, maybe not--it would have been replaced by public outrage that our young men and women are dying for some neocon agenda that has nothing to do with fighting terrorism....
Cathy, 55, Teacher, Canby
I respect her courage and stamina. She has every right to request a second meeting because she, and the rest of us were led unto false pretenses into this war and she didn't know it in when she met with him the first time. One very important thing to remember, however, she has the power on her side and she knows it. President Bush is not known for his courage and his cowardly side is beginning to show. ...
Devin Forbes, 45, Attorney, Lake Oswego
... We'll be paying for this, in dollars and in blood, for a long, long time to come. Not to mention the pangs of conscience that our citizens must face, at allowing ourselves to be bamboozled into this by the likes of Dubyah.
Ernest, 62, Retired, Salem
I was at the vigel in Salem last night, and was surprised to be talking to a soldier, who was in perfect agreement with what Cindy was doing.....
Lyle V Sansom, 68, retired, independence
The lies that made this war would have made Goebbles, Himmler, Goering and Hitler proud of their lasting legacy.At some point, one has to look at the long string of the facts behind this war. Enough is enough! I'll be there, with Cindy and half the country, as long as it takes.
Chuck Wynns, 49, educator, Salem
I agree with Cindy Sheehan 100% percent and more. In fact, I was there at the Capitol last night. I'll be there again and again. This war is about empire and who can get the most oil. I don't believe in empire building.
Joan, 55, Office Worker, Salem
... The Irag war certainly does suit the Neo-Conservatives, manifesto of world domintation.
Ralph Jull, 68, Retired, Salem
The war in Iraq is tragically wrong. Lost lives, whomever, can never be replaced. It is enflaming the winds of terrorism around the world. Its financial cost will be a burden for our future generations. The political situation in in Iraq is only getting worse. Our military presence around the world and its flexibility is dangerously strained. ... We must now work harder with other countries to prevent poverty and to abolish the resources that individuals use to build terror networks any where in the world. Specific individuals involved in terrorism should be stopped through international economic and police enforcement, not war. The exercise of debate through free speech is our right and responsibility. It’s time to ask the hard questions Cindy has brought to our national attention.
Bill MacMorris-Adix, 50, Social Worker, Salem
I think Cindy Sheehan's vigil is Great, because I think the same way. If this is a holy war then Bush should send his kids to the war and then I think he would be in the same vote. I don't agree with the war one bit I think they are done and should be looking for the people that bomb the world trade center first. In Iraq they already have their man and need to let them fight for them selfs. And let our troops live their lives at home while they have a chance.
Christina Miller, 29, Stay at home mom, keizer
I can't believe everyone on here is referencing 9/11. To do so is to spit in the face of those who lost friends and family there. Our mission in Iraq has nothing to do with 9/11. The independent 9/11 commission found no link between Iraq and 9/11. ...
Jeff, 25, Marketing, Portland
Maybe the end is in sight after all this killing and suffering of Iraqis, Americans (and other soldiers and their loved ones) as well as the terrible destruction "the brave ones" have wreaked on a defenseless country. But GWB can't run again anyway and the neocons had it their way (at least a good part of it). For A New American Century was written years before 9/11 and includes Cheney's signature.
Troops out of Iraq now!
P.S. The woman who did Le Point on Radio Canada last night did a long interview with a lady present near Crawford and she asked a question, which I found disgusting. She asked if the protesters weren't playing into the hands of "the left", or something to this extent.
I don't know your name lady (not that she reads this but I have to get it out) , but last time I looked North America was still (falsely) considered a democracy (false in the sense of 'demos', i.e. 'the people' ruling). You made it sound odious the way you used 'the left'. I guess you would have been an admirer of McCarthy but remember Quebec and the ROC is not part of the American empire and your salary is paid for by Canadians.
Sorry I forgot to copy the url. I had found it on Google News and now it's gone and the site is a subscription site.
But you can be sure I didn't write all these though I admit of quoting only those I agrre with.
The spot I saw where ms sheehan spoke about israel is her email to the NBC show she appeared on asking for a apology.
Is she now saying that was faked and never came from her?
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She's saying that someone doctored her e-mail and sent it to further their own agenda.
I do believe that many people say "Israel" when they really mean "Jews". Maybe not all Jews, but Jews.
Which people? You took Israeli to mean "Jews", didn't you? Would you be one of those people?
I think she's saying she never wrote that email at all ... also from the CNN interview, at the end of the interview Anderson Cooper said that they asked the supposed original recepient of the EMail rumour (NBC I believe) if they could forward a copy of the original email to them or otherwise confirm the email ... NBC (or whomever it was) at least at the time of the airing of the interview said they were unable to find the email in question.
From: Defending traditional marriage since June 28, 2005 | Registered: Jun 2003 | IP: Logged
I'm not sure of the hair you're splitting.
If you could just take the camouflage off the trap, I'll either be a sport and put my leg in it for you or I won't.
You are a good sport and my attention span is really short so to hell with it. It's Friday. What kind of shooter is a Hair Splitter, anyway?
Well, for sure it would be something fussy, like a Pousse Cafe.
chubbybear
When I worked as a bartender, this was our favourite drink to make - it's fun to do, and loooks soo cool - for added effect, dribble a little brandy on top, and flame it (but let it go out and cool down before sipping). We also did things with using straws to get little blobs of creme liquors hanging suspended in clear liquors ... silly excuses to inebriate people.
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gopi
I can think of several anti-Bush chants that date back to the protest that greeted his inaugeration, and have surfaced at every protest march I have attended since then, my favorite being:
George Bush we know you
Your father was a killer too.
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Draft your daugthers
Jen and Barbie
Send them to Iraq to Party
I made that one up.
From: At the Delta of the Alpha and the Omega | Registered: Nov 2002 | IP: Logged
...Those opposed to President Bush's policy in Iraq have been painted as unpatriotic, and criticised for "letting our boys down". But the protestors here say they are the true patriots - it's an issue that's starting to polarise American opinion. ... whatever happens, she's already helped the anti-war voice to be heard louder than it was before.
Yeah, it's funny, it's always seemed to me the best reasons for opposition to the War in Iraq, from an American perspective, were really quite selfish ones. That is to say, even if the destruction of Hussein's regime and the democratisation of Iraq is ultimately beneficial to Iraq, it will have been almost indisputably detrimental to American interests, serving as the basis for a new generation of anti-American rhetoric and anti-American militarisation abroad, costing the American government vast sums of money and costing the American military a great number of lives, and leading (or so most pundits now predict) to a resurgence in Khomeinist theocratic thought in a formerly secular region of the middle east.
From an Anti-American point of view, I can see arguments for the war being good or bad. Shia fundamentalists and Sunni radicals both gain something in the larger Machiavellian picture, over the last couple years.
But inward-looking patriotic Americans? I think they're the only ones who gain absolutely nothing in this equation.
On the other hand Chomsky wrote (contrary to what most people believe) that the USA *won* the Vietnam war because no other south eastern Asian country has risen agaisnt the Yankees.
I always find Chomsky very interesting but I don't know if I agree with this.
It's food for thought though but getting back to Iraq and the neo-cons' vision of the Middle East I'm not so sure if the Yankees really are losing, Even if they have to withdraw. Iraq is a lot less powerful (for better or worse) than it was under Saddam and if the Yankees really pull out soon (I doubt it) full scale civil war could easily break out. Lots of people warned about this before the war and sometimes I wonder if to provoke such a horrible scenario wasn't Plan 2 (or 3, or 4) of the Pentagon planners, Plan 1 being a permanent military base in Iraq thus possibly being able to pull their troops out of Saudi Arabia and other Arab Gulf states.
From an opinion piece in The People's Daily:
...American organizations, governmental, non-governmental or the media, had all been flinching from mentioning the Iraqi War and the Vietnam War in the same breath. But now, more and more people begin to put the two together. In a CNN interview, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said he feels "very uneasy", because factors which once ruined public support during the Vietnam War now have appeared in the Iraqi War. ...In his article, retired lieutenant colonel George Wallace criticized by saying that the top mission of the wide spread US military power is global projection, instead of protecting their country and people. Despite our ability to create giant wealth and our possession of unprecedented military power, he said, it is impossible for us to keep a global empire....
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200508/18/eng20050818_203316.html
Ms Sheehan's blog is here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cindy-sheehan/memo-to-drudge-et-al-it_b_5868.html
"George Bush we know you
Your father was a killer too."
Mmmm hmmm.
How many deaths will it take, until people start buying into the truth?
There are so many parallels.....
A view from a Texas newspaper:
... After the nearly hour-long prayer vigil, about 30 ordained and lay clergy took a letter to state troopers and U.S. Secret Service agents manning a blockade down the road from President Bush's Central Texas ranch.
The group was informed that no one was available to accept the letter, which called on the president to bring the troops home from Iraq. The clergy members then placed the letter and sprigs of carnations on the ground at the feet of a state trooper.
“I think if we wrote a letter (that said), ‘We support Bush,' 100 percent, we would be inside,” said Juan Torres, whose son, Army Spc. John Torres, was killed on a U.S. base in Afghanistan under questionable circumstances. “I don't think the president really cares about my life and the other families who are losing their kids in this war.” ....
Ann Wright, a U.S. diplomat who resigned her post in 2003 to protest the Iraq war... said the demonstrators will spend the weekend in internal meetings to determine strategy in the waning days of the vigil. Sheehan had vowed to stay until Aug. 31, or until the president agreed to meet with her. Other people who have lost family members to the Iraq war will continue the vigil, camp organizers have said...
The vigil has continued to draw people to Crawford, even with Sheehan's absence....
Earlier in the day, about 50 people from Oklahoma and Georgia arrived near the gates of Bush's ranch and dropped off 32 white bed sheets signed with names and messages of support for the president. A White House staffer accepted the sheets, which were tied with yellow ribbons....
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/08/20/20050820wacsheehan.html
I know most of the facts, if not all, in the snippets about the Vietnam War are known to Babblers but thought it useful to include them in part for the links the BBC has on those pages. (Just where was Google when I wrote my thesis? What a machine! It never ceases to amaze me.)
..."I want to know what the noble cause is that my son died for like (Bush) always says," Mrs Sheehan said. "Because I don’t believe dying in a war of aggression on a country that’s no threat to the United States of America is a noble cause."...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1742071,00.html
... President Bush has not [yet?] experienced the kind of massive anti-war demonstrations that contributed to the political demise of Presidents Johnson and Nixon....Sheehan told reporters: "He said my son died in a noble cause, and I want to ask him what that noble cause is."
I remember first hearing the phrase "noble cause" in the 1980s when President Reagan referred to the Vietnam War in those terms, apparently trying to erase the bad memories of that unpopular conflict that divided the country....
Sheehan's subdued protest has been is in dramatic contrast with the massive demonstrations against the Vietnam War. President Johnson and his family could not avoid hearing the devastating chant of protesters: "Hey, hey, LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?"...
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/237161_hthomas17.html
... Teach-ins and student organizations like the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) held rallies and marches, the first of which happened in Washington in April of 1965. Over the next 2 years the anti-war movement snow balled....
By 1967 America was mired in its own urban problems. As the bombings and body count in Vietnam continued to escalate so did civil unrest. 100,000 Anti-war protesters gathered in New York and thousands more in San Francisco. There were urban riots in Detroit. Johnson’s support was falling drastically on all fronts. Anti-war rallies, speeches, demonstrations and concerts continued being organized all over the country....the Anti-war movement left an everlasting mark on an entire generation and its country.
http://ohoh.essortment.com/vietnamwarprot_rlcz.htm
This site includes a pretty good, concise history of Vietnam.
...The period that Americans refer to as the "Vietnam War" and the Vietnamese call the "American War" was the US military intervention from 1965 to 1973....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/asia_pac/05/vietnam_war/html/introduction.stm
...By 1965, as the US began to escalate its military presence in Vietnam, the folk protest movement began to shift its focus [from the struggle for civil and human rights for African Americans], with singers like Joan Baez joining in the protest. And within a few years the protest movement was gathering steam on US campuses, with the March on Washington (in conscious imitation of the 1963 civil rights march) and the Pentagon in 1967....
...Political support for President Johnson waned. In March he halted bombing, called for peace talks and said he would not run for a second term in elections in November 1968....
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/asia_pac/05/vietnam_war/html/turning_point.stm
...Protests against the draft began on October 15, 1965 when the student-run National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam staged the first public burning of a draft card in the United States....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war#Opposition_to_the_war
It took 8 years but it was a different time with substantially different attitudes in 'mainstream' society and no internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_war
... By early 1971 surveys of American opinion indicated that voter support for Nixon and his presidency was soft and that his continuance of the war was a factor. .... His credibility score was down, and the public's assessment of his handling of the war was at its lowest level since the beginning of his presidency. The citizenry was also becoming more dovish, or, if not that, exhausted by the war. ....
Public opinion polls in the United States indicate that in early 1968 the citizenry was uneasy about the war and growing more weary of it, with a majority turning against its continued prosecution and favoring gradual withdrawal, Vietnamization, negotiations with the enemy, and a bombing pause....
Nixon and Kissinger blamed the antiwar movement, liberal intellectuals, the press [Republican arguments haven't changed much, have they?], and Congress for opposing their policies, encouraging the enemy, prolonging the war, and ultimately causing the collapse of South Vietnam. Their public defense of their policies rested on the argument that additional military force would have turned things around. But this argument conveniently omitted consideration of those analyses within the Johnson and Nixon administrations at the time that the use of even greater force than what was already being applied would have triggered Soviet and/or Chinese entry into the war, probably would have failed, and would have overtaxed America's military and economic resources, further damaging the economy, undermining America's global military posture, and provoking political rebellion among mainstream, fence-sitting voters....
http://hnn.us/articles/4610.html
Do we hear echos of this today? Certainly cracks have begun to show even among Republicans, some of whom might worry about their chances for re-election. I think we're seeing the beginning of the end of this murderous enterprise but on the other hand the situation in the Iraq of today is substantially different and as I wrote above the neo-cons vision expressed in
A New American Centuryhas already been realised in part.
For a neo-con view concerning bringing home the troops see:
... Although the Pentagon is surely accurate in saying that no final determination to reduce troop levels has been made, it is almost certainly the case that Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has been pressuring the military to do precisely that. Indeed, we have also heard that the secretary has told his new Afghan commander, Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, to try to get U.S. forces substantially out of Afghanistan within two years.
The reason is obvious. As the British memo goes on to say, the U.S. military wants reductions “to bring relief to overall U.S. commitment levels.” And there is no question that American forces are stretched thin.* Having rejected any idea of significantly expanding the size of American ground forces, the Rumsfeld-led Pentagon is on the verge of breaking the backs of the National Guard and the active duty Army. Moreover, there is no question that the U.S. is ill prepared for another serious crisis that might require the use of American military forces....
http://www.newamericancentury.org/troops-20050713.htm
Some of them want to increase US troop levels. Do they not read the papers and get all their news from Fox? They don't seem to have noticed that the US military forces can't find enough people willing to put their lives on the line in spite of all the fiddling with minimum requirements like a high school leaving certificate and the propaganda the war mongers are pouring out. They surely aren't dreaming of bringing back the draft but, as Paul Krugman pointed out quite some time ago, that's the only way they could realise their goals.
... There is abundant evidence that the demands of the ongoing missions in the greater Middle East, along with our continuing defense and alliance commitments elsewhere in the world, are close to exhausting current U.S. ground forces. For example, just late last month, Lieutenant General James Helmly, chief of the Army Reserve, reported that "overuse" in Iraq and Afghanistan could be leading to a "broken force." Yet after almost two years in Iraq and almost three years in Afghanistan, it should be evident that our engagement in the greater Middle East is truly, in Condoleezza Rice's term, a "generational commitment." The only way to fulfill the military aspect of this commitment is by increasing the size of the force available to our civilian leadership....
http://www.newamericancentury.org/defense-20050128.htm
Troops Out Now!
Dubya must start to feel a bit despearate since he's peddling the same old, discredited lies.
Bush invokes Sept 11 to defend Iraq war
... "Our troops know that they're fighting in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere to protect their fellow Americans from a savage enemy," Bush said in his weekly radio address.
"They know that if we do not confront these evil men abroad, we will have to face them one day in our own cities and streets, and they know that the safety and security of every American is at stake in this war," he said."We're fighting the terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq, and around the world, striking them in foreign lands before they can attack us here at home," he said...
http://tinyurl.com/97mjh
If so, it's the terrorists the invasion created. In any case almost everyvbody knows that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.
It seems they are also instrumental in creating yet another Islamic republic. They don't learn anything, do they?
U.S. concedes ground to Islamists on Iraqi law
.."We understand the Americans have sided with the Shi'ites," he said. "It's shocking. It doesn't fit American values. They have spent so much blood and money here, only to back the creation of an Islamist state ... I can't believe that's what the Americans really want or what the American people want."
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Publication: Business Day Issued: Date: 2000-11-07 Reporter: Sapa Editor:
MPs Plan Arms Deal Probe
Publication Business Day
Reporter Sapa
Web Link www.bday.co.za
CAPE TOWN Parliament's watchdog public accounts committee will meet representatives of five investigative units next week to map out a strategy for an investigation into SA's controversial R30bn arms deal signed last year.
Gavin Woods, the committee's chairman, said yesterday that the closed meeting was scheduled for next Monday in Pretoria. It was expected to include the head of the Heath special investigating unit, Judge Willem Heath, Auditor-General Shauket Fakie, the investigating directorate for serious economic offences, Public Protector Selby Baqwa and national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka.
The group would discuss, among other things, the scope of the investigation and which units would take part. "We will pass on a lot of information to the investigative units for that reason we will want to keep it (the meeting) closed," Woods said.
The committee released last week a report calling for a super investigation into all aspects of the procurement deal. The committee took the cabinet to task for failing to disclose that costs could escalate, and said it believed there might have been "undue influence" in awarding the prime contracts.
The cabinet said in September last year the cost would total R29,9bn, which was adjusted to R30,3bn two months later and which including exchange rate and inflation costs rose in September this year to R43,8bn. The committee said it was clear that the cabinet had omitted to mention certain cost implications that would significantly add to the state's commitments.
The deal has been the subject of repeated corruption claims. Committee members grilled defence officials last month for seven hours after Fakie's report to Parliament that generally accepted procurement practices were not followed. He proposed a forensic audit into subcontracts. Sapa.
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You are here: Home News Penalty rates decision an attack on hard working shift workers
Penalty rates decision an attack on hard working shift workers
Fair Work Commission’s decision to reduce Sunday penalty rates for retail, fast food and hospitality workers is a bitter blow to household budgets, and the working rights of thousands of Australians.
Hospitality, restaurant, fast food, retail and pharmacy workers will have their Sunday penalty rates cut between 25% and 50%. Public holiday pay was also slashed by up to 25%. This is a loss of up to $6,000 per year for some workers. No worker will be better off as a result of this decision.
Like you, we’re angry about this decision. Banks are announcing half year profits in the billions while wage growth is at record lows. Meanwhile, thousands of our members rely on penalty rates to put food on the table each week and the PM is talking about corporate tax cuts.
It’s just not right. We’re going to redouble our efforts to protect penalty rates.
When workers sign on to do these jobs, they know they will make significant sacrifices to work irregular hours. Penalty rates are deserved compensation for working long, unsocial and often extreme shifts.
The ASU represents thousands of members working in customer service, airlines, transport and logistics, racing and other essential industries where penalty rates form a significant proportion of take home pay. How long will it be before employers in industries outside retail, fast food and hospitality start demanding the same cuts? How long before all penalty rates are at risk?
The ASU will never accept cuts to penalty rates for hard working ASU members, we will continue to fight to protect penalty rates and the take home pay of Australian workers. So will the entire union movement.
We will demand that employers commit to Sunday penalty rates and we will take the fight to Canberra to protect penalty rates in law. Government’s make laws and unless the government acts now to legislate to protect penalty rates, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull will be forever remembered as the prime minister who oversaw the cutting of the take home pay of almost one million of Australia’s lowest paid workers.
We need ASU members by our side in this fight. You can help us today by signing this petition https://www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/weekend-workers-don-t-deserve-a-pay-cut-1
Let’s ramp up the fight to protect hard won penalty rates now.
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Google Announces Google CDN
Posted by News Fetcher on July 28 '11 at 05:00 AM
By CmdrTaco from Slashdot's well-isn't-that-interesting department:
leetrout writes "Google has introduced their Page Speed Service which 'is the latest tool in Google's arsenal to help speed up the web. When you sign up and point your site's DNS entry to Google, they'll enable the tool which will fetch your content from your servers, rewrite your webpages, and serve them up from Google's own servers around the world.'"
Solar Energy Is the Fastest Growing Industry In the US
By Soulskill from Slashdot's exploiting-the-sun's-hard-labor department:
Hugh Pickens writes "According to Rhone Resch, the last three years have seen the U.S. solar industry go from a start-up to a major industry that is creating well-paying jobs and growing the economy in all 50 states, employing 93,000 Americans in 2010, a number that is expected to grow between 25,000 to 50,000 this year (PDF). In the first quarter of 2011, the solar industry installed 252 megawatts of new solar electric capacity, a 66 percent growth from the same time frame in 2010. Solar energy is creating more jobs per megawatt than any other energy source (PDF) with the capability, according to one study, of generating over 4 million jobs by 2030 with aggressive energy efficiency measures. There are now almost 3,000 megawatts of solar electric energy installed in the U.S., enough to power 600,000 homes. In the manufacturing sector, solar panel production jumped 31 percent. 'The U.S. market is expected to more than double yet again in 2011, installing enough solar for more than 400,000 homes,' writes Resch. 'Last year, the industry set the ambitious yet achievable goal of installing 10 gigawatts annually by 2015 (PDF) – enough to power 2 million more homes each and every year.'"
Ubisoft Brings Back Always-Connected DRM For Driver: San Francisco
By Soulskill from Slashdot's back-by-popular-demand department:
Last year Ubisoft introduced DRM for their PC games that required a constant internet connection, going so far as to terminate single-player games if the connection was interrupted. After facing outrage, boycotts, and DDoS attacks, Ubisoft seemed to have softened their stance, issuing a patch for two games that allowed offline play. Unfortunately, it seems the change wasn't permanent; Ubisoft's upcoming racing game Driver: San Francisco marks the return of the contentious DRM.
South Korean Scientists Create Glowing Dog
By samzenpus from Slashdot's how-much-is-that-glowing-dog-in-the-window department:
cultiv8 writes "A research team from Seoul National University (SNU) said the genetically modified female beagle has been found to glow fluorescent green under ultraviolet light if given a doxycycline antibiotic. The researchers, who completed a two-year test, said the ability to glow can be turned on or off by adding a drug to the dog's food. 'The creation of Tegon opens new horizons since the gene injected to make the dog glow can be substituted with genes that trigger fatal human diseases,' the news agency quoted lead researcher Lee Byeong-chun as saying. He said the dog was created using the somatic cell nuclear transfer technology that the university team used to make the world's first cloned dog, Snuppy, in 2005."
Study: 5% of Mobile Gamers Willing To Spend $50+
By Soulskill from Slashdot's fool-and-his-money department:
derGoldstein tips a story at AllThingsD about a study into mobile gamers' spending habits:
"[The study] provides a fairly compelling argument as to why a developer should continue to give away his or her games for free ... After evaluating the spending habits of 3.5 million consumers across both iOS and Android, Flurry found that among those who pay for in-app transactions, greater than five percent will spend more than $50, which rivals the amount paid at retail for top console and PC games."
How Do You Keep Up With Science Developments?
Posted by News Fetcher on July 27 '11 at 11:00 PM
By samzenpus from Slashdot's update-please department:
malraid writes "As a nerd who used to love science back in high school (specially physics), I now find myself completely disconnected from any and all scientific developments and news. How do you try to stay up to date with scientific developments? Science journals? Whatever makes it into Slashdot's front page? Books? Magazines? I'm looking for something engaging and informative, for not something that will require me to go and get a PhD just to be able to comprehend."
Better Copyright Through Fair Use and Ponies
By samzenpus from Slashdot's omg-fair-use department:
Balinares writes "With even harmless parody sites like Peanutweeter now getting shut down by twitchy lawyers in the name of brand dilution concerns, the situation with fair use has become bleak. Yet some companies are learning at last. Variery reports that when parodies of their latest production started popping up online, Hasbro not only allowed it to happen, but started contributing some of their own. Now their My Little Pony reboot has gained a huge following and reached cult status. Fair use does make everything better. That, or it's the ponies."
KDE 4.7.0 Released
By samzenpus from Slashdot's get-it-while-it's-hot department:
jrepin writes "KDE 4.7 releases provide many new features and improved stability and performance. Lots of visual polishing took place with an update to the Oxygen icons, and improved consistency between panel items such as clock and notification areas. The window manager KWin brings a new shadow system and can now run on OpenGL ES supporting hardware, making it better suited for mobile devices. Network management widget is much improved. Navigating through applications and recent files is easier with the addition of breadcrumbs to the Kickoff application launcher. Kontact groupware solution rejoins the rest of the KDE software, with increased stability, better connection to new services and sharing of communication information between more applications. Dolphin file manager has a cleaner default appearance. The menu bar is hidden, but easy to reach and restore. The file searching interface has been improved. Marble the virtual globe now has voice navigation support and a map creation wizard. Gwenview image viewer now offers the ability to compare two or more pictures side by side. Digikam photo management app brings face detection and recognition."
Most Enterprises Plan To Be On IPv6 By 2013
By samzenpus from Slashdot's get-on-the-wagon department:
Julie188 writes "More than 70% of IT departments plan to upgrade their websites to support IPv6 within the next 24 months, according to a recent survey of more than 200 IT professionals conducted by Network World. Plus, 65% say they will have IPv6 running on their internal networks by then, too. One survey respondent, John Mann, a network architect at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, said his organization has been making steady IPv6 progress since 2008. 'Mostly IPv6 has just worked,' he said. 'The biggest problem is maintaining forward progress with IPv6 while it is still possible to take the easy option and fall back to IPv4.'"
Climate Unit Releases Virtually All Remaining Data
By samzenpus from Slashdot's here's-the-rest-of-it department:
mutube writes "The BBC is reporting that the University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, target of 'ClimateGate,' has released nearly all its remaining data on temperature measurements following a freedom of information bid. Most temperature data was already available, but critics of climate science want everything public. Following the latest release, raw data from virtually all of the world's 5,000-plus weather stations is freely available. Release of this dataset required The Met Office to secure approval from more than 1,500 weather stations around the world. The article notes that while Trinidad and Tobago refused permission but the Information Commissioner ruled that public interest in disclosure outweighed those considerations."
Researchers Say Dark Winters Led To Bigger Human Brains
By samzenpus from Slashdot's head-in-the-clouds department:
Brad1138 writes "Humans living at high latitude have bigger eyes and bigger brains to cope with poor light during long winters and cloudy days, UK scientists have said. from the article: 'The scientists measured the eye sockets and brain volumes of 55 skulls from 12 populations across the world, and plotted the results against latitude. Lead author Eiluned Pearce told BBC News: "We found a positive relationship between absolute latitude and both eye socket size and cranial capacity."'"
Fighting Crime With Facebook
By samzenpus from Slashdot's playing-policeville department:
Hugh Pickens writes writes "Demond Fernandez writes that Facebook has become a hot, new crime fighting tool for police in Conroe, Texas. Sergeant Joe Smart says Conroe police have been using its Facebook page to profile suspects and criminals since May — like a woman accused of stealing credit cards, masked gunmen caught on tape burglarizing a local store and a suspected computer thief, who the department's Facebook friends just helped police catch. 'It works. The witnesses are looking at it and they are giving us information,' says Smart. Police say Facebook friends in Conroe already helped them catch two wanted suspects and gather leads on several other open cases. Apparently the idea of using facebook to catch criminals is getting picked up in other places as the Toronto Police Service announced their goal is to have about 175 officers with online profiles by early November. 'We've prevented some pretty serious incidents simply because people reached out to the few police officers that were using social media,' says Constable Scott Mills, the force's social media officer. 'This is going to lead to a lot more trust and a lot more transparency.'"
HBGary Federal Forces Aaron Barr Out of DEFCON
By samzenpus from Slashdot's we'd-rather-you-not-say-anything department:
Trailrunner7 writes "Former HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr says he will withdraw from a planned appearance at the DEFCON conference in the face of threatened legal action over his plans to take part in a panel discussion there. Barr notified DEFCON organizers on Wednesday that he was withdrawing from the Aug. 6 panel discussion after attorneys representing HBGary Federal threatened to file an injunction against him if he did not withdraw from the panel immediately. The incident is just the latest in a series of conflicts between Barr and HBGary Federal following attacks by the anarchic hacking group Anonymous on February 5."
New Type Of Artificial Lung Created
By samzenpus from Slashdot's breath-differently department:
cylonlover writes "Researchers have created an artificial lung that uses air as a ventilating gas instead of pure oxygen — as is the case with current man-made lungs, which require heavy tanks of oxygen that limit their portability. The prototype device was built following the natural lung's design and tiny dimensions and the researchers say it has reached efficiencies akin to the genuine organ. With a volume roughly the same as a human lung, the device could be implanted into a person and even be driven by the heart."
Android Market Upgraded, Buy eBooks and Rent Movies
By samzenpus from Slashdot's growing-google department:
hypnosec writes "Search engine giant Google has quietly dished out an update for its Android Market mobile application store. The update, which bumps the Android Market version to 3.0.27, brings a new user interface and new content for Android powered Smartphones and Tablet devices. Users will now be able to purchase and download eBooks and rent movies."
Transparent Lithium-Ion Battery Created
By samzenpus from Slashdot's hard-to-see department:
Med-trump writes "Stanford researchers say they have developed a transparent battery. Transparent futuristic gadgets have been a topic of science fiction and dream of engineers. The paper "Transparent lithium-ion batteries" was published in the July 25 edition of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They used a grid-structured electrode, which is fabricated by a microfluidics-assisted method, such that the feature dimension in the electrode is below the resolution limit of human eyes, and, thus, the electrode appears transparent."
First Earth Trojan Asteroid Discovered
By samzenpus from Slashdot's little-brother department:
The Bad Astronomer writes "Astronomers have found the very first Earth Trojan asteroid, a rock that more-or-less shares Earth's orbit around the Sun. Seen in data by NASA's WISE mission, 2010 TK7 is about 300 meters across and leads the Earth by 60 degrees around the Sun. Trojans have been seen for Jupiter, Neptune, and Mars, but this is the first for our planet."
OK Go Goes HTML5
By samzenpus from Slashdot's can-you-feel-the-music? department:
edumacator writes "The YouTube sensation OK Go has just released their latest video using HTML5. The video is pretty cool itself, but the interactive feature is great." It looks like the interactive stuff only works in Chrome.
Car Window Touchscreens
By samzenpus from Slashdot's expensive-chips department:
An anonymous reader writes "As if we need more proof that touchscreens are all the rage, designers are dreaming up ways to put them in cars. In the video, a child gazes wistfully out the window at a dreary countryside. Fields roll by, a lake, cyclists, trees that have lost their leaves. The car stops, and the child starts "drawing" on the window. The article includes fascinating videos showing how touchscreens might infiltrate our lives in the future."
Lawsuit Against Sony Highlights Cyber Insurance Shortcomings
By samzenpus from Slashdot's am-I-covered? department:
CWmike writes "A brewing legal dispute between Sony and one of its insurers over data breach liability claims highlights the challenges that companies can sometimes face in getting insurance providers to cover expenses arising from cybersecurity incidents. Zurich American Insurance Co. asked the court last week to absolve it of any responsibility for defending or indemnifying Sony against claims arising from the recent data breaches at the company. The data breaches at Sony's PlayStation Network, Sony Entertainment Online and Sony Pictures resulted in account data on close to 100 million individuals becoming exposed and over 12 million credit and debit cards being compromised. The breaches have so far resulted in at least 55 putative class-action lawsuits being filed against Sony in the U.S and another three lawsuits filed against it in Canada. Sony expects to spend close to $180 million in the next year alone on breach-related costs. But analysts say insurance might not have even been worth it in Sony's case: 'There aren't many success stories where cyber insurance [has played] a significant role in reducing the cost of incidents,' said Gartner analyst John Pescatore. Um, better security as an insurance policy maybe?"
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Holsters Empty No More! From Jeffrey Gitomer's Sales Caffeine
"'Stay in touch' is the most powerful, least used sales tool." Jeffrey Gitomer tweeted, referencing his new online service Ace of Sales. You'd think the most powerful weapon we have as salespeople would be the one we wield the most! At Jeffrey’s public seminar last month in Atlanta, I did some investigating with hard-working, in-the-trenches salespeople. I asked the question, "How would you rate how well you 'follow up' and 'stay in touch?' 1 is terrible. 5 is excellent." I even added: "Be honest. It's OK to brag." Of the dozens of salespeople I asked, not a single person rated themselves above "terrible." A few declined with the answer, "I'm embarrassed to say." Now that's honest. How would you rate yourself?
When I asked "Why?" most people answered, "I just don't have the time." What would Jeffrey say to that? Probably something about how much TV we watch and a few other truths that make us all cringe and nod.
Well, there's good news and bad news...and then more good news.
The good news is that most of the salespeople I met that day are now using Ace of Sales to follow up and stay in touch. I've heard back from many of them who are now benefiting from Jeffrey's Ace of Sales video tips and strategies. They're also sending emails, postcard mailings, greeting cards, and gift cards in seconds; all designed with the salesperson's vibrant branding, messages, and images. They're even publishing customized ezines!
In reading their stories, I was reminded why we do such a poor job staying in touch with customers. It's because our holsters have been empty. But when you give salespeople a weapon that works, they will wield it and conquer their customers' hearts.
One of the salespeople I met that day was the gregarious James Maher, Director of Sales and Marketing for DoubleTree Hotel in Atlanta. He even recorded a video about Ace of Sales. He says, "Ace of Sales is hands down the most useful sales tool I've seen to date." He described Ace of Sales it's not overly complex yet not too limited – perfect for salespeople.
Watch James' video testimonial for Ace of Sales.
The bad news is that even though Jeffrey has advised us all to build loyal relationships and publicize our personal brand, you may still be rating yourself a one. Is it because you just can't give up your American Idol, Survivor, and Dancing with the Stars? I hope not. Chances are, you're just like the phenomenal people in Atlanta who have busy lives, limited time, and an empty holster when it comes to 'stay in touch.'
So here's the "more good news" part. Jeffrey and our team created Ace of Sales so you can be EXCELLENT at staying in touch! It's fast, easy...and actually fun to use! The interface is straight-forward. Technology and design are automated. All the tools you need are there. Everything is secure and accessible. It's affordable – only $20 a month. Trust me – it's loaded! All you have to do is pull the trigger.
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XRCO Awards Wraps Up XXX Award Season In Style
Sexy adult contract starlets Kayden Kross (Digital Playground) and Dylan Ryder (Bluebird Films) graced the stage last month at the 2012 XRCO Awards where Kross and Ryder played hostess to the annual industry-only party and helped pay tribute to the best and brightest in_XXX for the year 2011 (releases from Jan 1 through Dec 31, 2011).
The 28th Annual XRCO Awards Show was held on Thursday April 12th at The Hollywood Highlands and featured a number of memorable moments. The beautiful hostesses kept the evening hopping and hot from the very beginning. Mixing in plenty of fun along the way Kross did an impressive job in return to hostess duties.
"XRCO was a blast as always," says Kayden. "Dylan Ryder was a great co-host and the night was relaxed and fun. I always look forward to it."
In a change from past tradition, the XRCO Hall of Fame inductions kicked off the evening.
"Mike Moz suggested that we change things up a bit and do the Hall of Fame at the beginning of the show rather than midstream during the evening, and this worked quite well," revealed XRCO Chairman Dirty Bob when asked about the slight rescheduling of the order of presentation. "I was quite pleased that most of the 'Hall of Fame' inductees were able to attend in person and accept their award. Just seeing their heartfelt gratitude and happiness when they were inducted makes the entire evening, and all of the year-long work involved making it happen, worthwhile."
Big individual winners this year included India Summer, who won two awards including "MILF of the Year", and stunning superstar Asa Akira who was named both_"Superslut" and "Female Performer of the Year." Her star vehicle "Asa Akira is Insatiable 2" from Elegant Angel was named "Best Gonzo Movie of the Year" as well.
It was an equally big night for Elegant Angel. In addition to the win for "Asa Akira is Insatiable 2" the powerhouse production company also scored wins for their huge hit "Portrait of a Call Girl." The movie was named "Best Epic" and scored hardware for its lead actress Jessie Andrews and director, Graham Travis for "Best Actress" and "Best Director, Feature" respectively.
"I'm very honored to receive the awards from XRCO for 'Portrait Of A Call Girl'," says Travis. "To receive this recognition from such a historic organization of critics means so much to me and the whole team who did such an amazing job on this movie. Thank you XRCO."
To find the show photos and winners and noms, go to www.xrco.com and under RECENT ANNOUNCEMENTS on the main page click on:
Memorable 2012 Award Show photos!
The 2012 WINNERS & NOMINATIONS LIST
We would like to thank all of the media who covered the event. On our web site, www.xrco.com, we will be highlighting photos of some of the photographers from that evening. Contact the XRCO if you would like your work featured.
XRCO offers congratulations to the nominees, the winners and gives thanks to all of those involved with making the evening a huge success. Special thanks to our beautiful hostesses Kayden Kross and Dylan Ryder and the "Heart-On Girls" Cherry DeVille and Allie James, and the many people behind the scenes including, but certainly not limited to, Mike Moz, Monstar, Steve Nelson, Dr. X, Brad Thomas, Jared Rutter, everyone working the Red Carpet, and the fine folks at Highlands Hollywood who put up with our antics every year.
"Of course we want to thank our great and loyal sponsors - especially Wicked Pictures who has been a strong supporter and sponsor of the show every year for over 15 years," added Dirty Bob. "Without Wicked's help it would be difficult giving such a great night back to the industry by helping with this annual industry-only party and awards show. We are also very grateful to our new 2012 sponsors as well: Smash Pictures, Jules Jordan Productions, Axel Braun Productions, X-Play, our fine publicity group Pipeline Multimedia, and others - and, of course, I.A.F.D. and_Deep Throat Energy Drink which has been with us for the last few years."
ABOUT XRCO:
Founded in 1984, the XRCO was formed to give writers and editors from the adult entertainment industry a voice in selecting the best in and brightest in the world of adult cinema. Original members included a small group of writers from Los Angeles, New York and Philadelphia. Over the years, select and qualified membership has expanded to include some of the best adult reviewers from both print and internet. In 2005, the XRCO welcomed its first European members. 2009 marked a quarter century of excellence with the XRCO's Silver Anniversary.
Visit www.XRCO.com for more information or follow them on Twitter @XRCOAwards
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Category: Church Issues
This is the future capital of the world, but right now it's full of holy hypocrites. By Alan Franklin
24/12/2011 In Jerusalem this week, an Arab taxi driver wanted to take us to Bethlehem. We refused. He was even more surprised that, not only would we never go there, but we don't celebrate the pagan festival called "Christmas" , which might as well be called "Christless." We were also surprised to find that the Lord wasn't really a Jew, as we had always supposed.....Read more ...
A Quick Reference Guide To Witness Lee And The Local Church
"Local Church" teachings go astray on many major points, placing them in the class of cults or false prophets. A non-biblical cult is a group claiming to have the truth, but who teach Biblical error and erroneous personal revelations. Four general ways to recognize a cult are:
A/G Pastors Ousted For Opposing Transformation Of The Church
Dear Brother Presbyter,
Berean Behavior: Naughty Or Noble?
"These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so." Acts 17:11
Billy Graham and Robert Schuller Exposed
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Brian McLaren Wants End Time Believing Christians Robustly Confronted
Christians Say They Do Best at Relationships, Worst in Bible Knowledge
Nine out of ten adults contend that their faith is very important in their life, and three out of every four adults who consider themselves to be Christian say there are aspects of their faith life they would like to improve. A new national survey by The Barna Group discovered that there are two faith dimensions in which people are most likely to desire such improvement, but that few people believe that they are immature in any of seven aspects of faith practice. Read more ...
Christians Who Hate the Jews
By Melanie Phillips - March 22, 2002
Church Of England To Allow Women Bishops
Devilish Debate On End For Church Of England
Thursday, January 10 12:57 pm LONDON (AFP) - Eyebrows were raised in the House of Commons on Thursday when a motion calling for the Church of England to be disestablished was listed with the number 666, symbol of the AntiChrist.Read more ...
House of Lords vote to allow Civil Partnerships to take place in Church
Article Published: 3rd March 2010
Christian Concern for our Nation Last night (2nd March 2010) the House of Lords voted to change the law on Civil Partnerships, allowing them to be performed in Churches and/or with religious language.Read more ...
Idolatry In The UK
Last year I visit Thailand and during my visit I felt uneasy the whole time because of the idolatry that was everywhere. Everywhere you turned there was an idol. I felt a spiritual oppression and a real demonic work there with temples on every street corner. When I visit Rome I get the same sense as I see Roman mythology in the form of Roman Catholicsm. But now, I am sad to say, I have the same uneasiness, the same gut wrenching feeling now in my own country! Read more ...
IRAN: Christian Women Held In Solitary Confinement
May 6,, 2009
Iranian Christians Rounded up in Sweep of Arrests Across the Country
As Christ at Checkpoint hypocrites diddle and lie, persecution of Middle East Christians by Islam escalates.
Israeli Occupation a 'Sin Against God' Says Global Churches' Leader
Geneva (ENI). The general secretary of the World Council of Churches has said that Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories should be declared a "sin against God". "Occupation along with the concomitant humiliation of a whole people for over six decades constitutes not just economic and political crimes but, like anti-Semitism, it is a sin against God," said WCC general secretary the Rev. Samuel Kobia, in a report to a meeting of the church grouping's main governing body, its central committee. [718 words, ENI-09-0677]
Megachurch Association Of America Satire
by Frank Chase
Dear Saints
NEW ZEALAND: Auckland synod sees no bar to ordination of gays, lesbians in committed relationships
By Taonga staff, September 06, 2011
[Anglican Taonga] The Auckland Diocesan Synod in New Zealand has decided that people in same-sex relationships should not be excluded from ordination.
No Favors For Muslim Students
by The Washington DC Examiner Newspaper An automatic wudu washer,
shown here on a promotional
brochure manufactured by
Australia-based AACE
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Now Whose Side is God On?
By Jan Markell
www.olivetreeviews.org
September 22, 2011 In April of 2010 I wrote my e-newsletter on the new film titled, Whose Side Is God On? In its own promotion, it aimed at changing the end-time views of evangelicals and the theology that says the Jews are God's chosen people and that they have a Divine right to the land of Israel. The movie's spokesman, Porter Speakman, explains that there is a biblical alternative for Christians who want to love and support the people of Israel. He says that there is a theology that doesn't favor one people group over another. Instead, it promotes peace and reconciliation for both Jews and Palestinians unlike "Christian Zionism" that is outspoken in its favoritism toward all things Jewish, based on biblical verses.Read more ...
Pastor Fails To Repay Loans From Church Members
SEATTLE - Pastor Tony Morris is known as a man of God.
Patricia King Exposed!!!
First Plumbline Apologetics
People Get Ready!
by Ron Prentice, CEO
Reply to "Sound Doctrine" and Timothy Williams
Predictably, this seemly cultic sect failed to address the specific issues raised by Mr. Lister in his article, but sought to attack Moriel, David Lister, and Jacob Prasch as a means of circumventing the issues. Read more ...
Same-Sex Relationships "Comparable to Marriage": Anglican Head
US and Canadian reports say Anglican leadership "tearing the fabric of the Communion to shreds"
Stephen Sizer Cites (Another) Holocaust Denier
On a talk show for Press TV, in an interview with Alan Hart, Reverend Stephen Sizer cites American evangelical Dale Crowley after about four minutes. Click here to view interview.
Taking Your Kids Out Of Public School Is Not Enough!
by Paul Proctor
NewsWithViews.com One of the real hot topics among evangelicals today is the James Dobson led movement calling for Christians to remove their children from the government's humanist school system. Read more ...
The Church Has Become A Circus . . . Literally
by Todd Friel
Is this how the church of Jesus Christ proclaims his death until he comes?
The Gentile Problem
The phrase The Jewish Problem has been used both in an openly antisemitic manner as well as in a somewhat naive manner, by those ignorant of its grave implications.
The Moses Code Movie Blasphemy and The Big Shift
By Ingrid Schlueter
Christian Worldview Network A movie will be unveiled on April 5 that should get a prize for honesty in blasphemy. Unlike the emerging church celebrity authors and speakers who shuck and jive when asked direct questions about God, salvation, and truth, The Moses Code is produced by those who will tell you right out what they believe. What they do believe is breathtaking in its Satanic audacity. In the movie trailer, promoters of The Moses Code cheerfully announce that I AM is something all of us can say. Towards the end of the clip, one young man looks up and into the camera and tells viewers, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." The website says the following:Read more ...
The New Testament: A Pro-Jewish Book
by Maurice Bowler M.A., B.D., M.Phil.
The Reality and Demography of Christians in Israel and the Middle East
Stephen Sizer, Colin Chapman & Gary Burge - the trio of hypocrisy whose bogus theology is eclipsed only by their astounding hypocrisy.
The Resume of Jesus Christ
The Unpromised Land
This Must Be How Real "Christians" Pray These Days
I thought he said during his campaign that he was a christian?
Travesty at Greenbelt
Submitted by saltysteve
Mon, 08/30/2010 - 14:04 Yesterday Monica and I spent a day at the Greenbelt Christian Arts festival, our first visit for some 20 years. It was interesting and challenging, but all for the wrong reasons. For me it vindicated my choice of subjects to write about, but for the 20,000 or so Christians - particularly the young and vulnerable - I fear for them, for the teaching and propaganda they received over the 4 day event. Firstly, propaganda. Greenbelt has decided to target Israel, a decision made around 3 years ago, and to highlight the plight of the Palestinians living in Gaza. That's fair enough, if a balanced view is given and their views are presented sensitively in Christian love. They decided instead to go all-out, all-guns-blazing, with a sustained attack on Israel through every way possible - talks, exhibition displays, visual aids even drama. The following little drama greeted everyone entering the field on Sunday morning for a communion service ...Read more ...
Turkish Church Given Deadline of 14 October
Further to our previous Rapid Lobbying Action we have now heard that the Ephesus Protestant Church at Seljuk has now been given the deadline of 14 October to remove not only the superstructure (providing shade and shelter) which contravenes building regulations, but also the parapet around the roof, the solar power panel and the air-conditioning unit. Thus, not only will the roof (a valuable extra room) be too hot and unsafe to use, but the whole building will be rendered unusable without power and air-conditioning. In view of these developments we have taken the unusual step of contacting you a second time to ask if you can write to your MP, MEP and the Turkish Ambassador. We were very grateful for your letters to the mayor. If you are able to write again please act as soon as you can in order in order to prevent the council taking its threatened action against the church.Read more ...
Two Kinds Of Christians
A March 31 open letter issued by the World Council of Churches denounced "repeated declarations by the (Israeli) government's top leaders" that "all of Jerusalem will belong to Israel". This organization, which represents a large portion of institutional Christendom, has for years stood in solidarity with the Muslim Arabs against what they call Israel's "illegal occupation of Palestine".
We were in Israel for Hanukka, the festival of lights, but the country is in deepest spiritual darkness
by Pat Franklin
02/01/2012 Our family visit to Israel coincided with Hanukka, the eight day 'festival of lights' celebrated by Jewish people., So for the first time ever, we celebrated Hanukka., We knew nothing about Hanukka, but in John's gospel we see the Lord Jesus, the Light of the World, in Jerusalem at the time of the festival, and the history is fascinating.Read more ...
AFRICA: Anti-Christian Gaddafi Takes Over As AU Chair
Category: Aberrational Theology
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Megachurch Prepares to Shut Down Retreat Center
By DEEPA BHARATH
updated 1:15 p.m. PT, Sun., Feb. 7, 2010 SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO -- Crystal Cathedral administrators have started shutting down all operations at their 20-acre campus in Rancho Capistrano, closing a church, preschool, retreat area, soccer fields, camping grounds and a conference and wedding center.Read more ...
We are all Seismic Shock or Rev Sizer and Big Brother
http://simplyjews.blogspot.com/2010/01/we-are-all-seismic-shock-or-rev-sizer.html
January 24, 2010 This time the term Seismic Shock doesn't have anything to do with the tragedy of Haiti. It is about less shocking (but still amazing) story of a blogger being muzzled by a strange synergy between a religious cleric and the gendarmes of the state where both the blogger and the cleric reside. Read more ...
A Brief Assessment of Two House Theology
by Perry Trotter
A Pioneer of Christian Happy-Talk
By Brannon S. Howse
‚ © ‚ 2005 ‚ WorldNetDaily.com To attract the largest followings possible and because they have bought the lie of the new tolerance, many of America's churches, Christian publishers and Christian radio stations " “ whether they know it or not " “ have rejected biblical Christianity and adopted the more popular but bogus gospel of Christian happy-talk. As a result, churches brim with converts committed only to their personal self-actualization, publishers lavish feel-good pabulum on their readers, and the airwaves ring with an emotive rendering of Christianity that would fit nicely alongside the corruptions of faith Jesus chides in the second and third chapters of Revelation. More than 30 years ago, Vance Havner, in his book "Playing Marbles with Diamonds," offered the following insightful: Read more ...
A Warning Concerning YWAM"s 'The Friend"s Network': 'With Friends Like These" ¦'
By Steve Mitchell
PowerToStand Ministries Misguided Missiology Several years ago YWAM proposed a new kind of pseudo-mission endeavor in which YWAM missionaries would allegedly preach Muslims the "gospel" and a supposed great harvest would result. The idea was that a Muslim who was persuaded to believe the gospel would be encouraged to make a profession, albeit privately to avoid persecution. This new "convert" was then informed that they could continue regular mosque attendance, bowing in prayer to Allah, and Quranic reading and still be considered born again. They would then be referred to as "Messianic Muslims" . Make no mistake, they were still Muslims but had claimed some level of "belief" in Jesus Christ. As long as when they continued their "cultural" expressions of worship to Allah but inside actually prayed to Jesus Christ, they were considered saved. Read more ...
Archbishop Of Canterbury Admits: This Makes Me Doubt The Existence Of God
By Chris Hastings, Patrick Hennessy and Sean Rayment
The Asian tsunami disaster should make all Christians question the existence of God, Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, writes in The Telegraph today. Read more ...
Believer Bitter Over 'Prosperity' Preachings
Breaking News! Mr Jabez's Dream Turns to Nightmare
by Discernment Research Group
www.discernment-ministries.org
The front page of the Wall Street Journal today carried a story about Bruce Wilkinson's failed venture into Swaziland on the continent of Africa. This is a very significant story. "In Swaziland, U.S. Preacher Sees His Dream Vanish: Mr. Wilkinson Hits Wall Trying To Push 'Orphan Village'; Rodeo Stars, Safari Guides: Feeling Snubbed by the King," by Michael M. Phillips, staff reporter for the WSJ details the failure of Wilkinson's operations. http://tinyurl.com/bmw2q This article is a "must read."Read more ...
Can You Be An Evangelical Christian And Deny God?
by Ken Silva
Disorder In The Pulpit: The Ordination Of Women
by Jackie Alnor (A Lady)
www.apostasyalert.org How has the position of women in the church gone from the virtuous Victorian doormat to the liberated female suffragette? Has the church simply followed the secular spirit of this age? Where is the scriptural balance? Read more ...
Franklin Graham Vs The Book Of Acts
As China continues its persecution of Christians, systematic abuse of human rights, and support for the genocidal regime in Burma, Franklin Graham has declared we should not offend these persecutors of our brethren ‚ by preaching the Gospel. Read more ...
Fraud, Embezzlement, Illegal Tax Free Benefits By The Executives of Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship John Arnott and Steve Long
Federal tax law prohibits religious leaders, as the heads of tax-exempt nonprofit institutions, from earning "unreasonable compensation." It also prohibits tax-exempt organizations from providing "substantial benefit" to individuals " “ Kent Garber ‚ Read more ...
Group Censured For Using Newsom's Image In Pro-Scientology Booklet
by Cecilia M. Vega, Chronicle Staff Writer
Saturday, October 13, 2007 The smiling photo of Gavin Newsom and the city seal emblazoned on a booklet called "The Way to Happiness" sure make it seem as though San Francisco's mayor is heartily endorsing Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard's writings. Read more ...
Hank Hanegraaff's Conference On Preterism And Replacement Theology
Essay written by C.C. (LTW Research Team)
Thursday, June 07, 2007 Hank Hanegraaff is often heard quoting the phrase "In essentials, unity; in nonessentials, liberty; in all things charity." I wonder, though, where is the charity and liberty of which he speaks in his own testimony and teaching? Read more ...
Happy New Year From The New Age 'Christ'!
John Owen And Double Payment In The Atonement
Michael J. Penfold
Male Priests Marry In Anglican Church's First Gay 'Wedding'
An Anglican church has held a homosexual "wedding" for the first time in a move that will deepen the rift between liberals and traditionalists, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose.
Otis, Wagner, And The Transformations Revival
By prof. J. S. Malan, University of the North, South Africa, and Ms. Louisa Coetzee, Cape Town, South Africa
Religious And Non-Religious Spirituality In The Western World 'New Age'
Gospel Message via Tarot Cards A provocative way of presenting the gospel in New Spirituality festivals is via tarot cards. ‚ John Drane, Ross Clifford and Philip Johnson have developed this approach. ‚ Understandably, most Christians will baulk at the idea because tarot cards have occult connections. ‚ To properly argue why tarot cards could be used as a device for communicating the gospel would require a lengthy paper. ‚ A few basic points may be summarised, but readers should consult the literature listed below for more details. ‚ Many popular books by New Spirituality seekers and by Christian apologists on the subject of tarot present false historical data about their origins and purpose. Read more ...
Scientology Exposed from Within
This is probably the first of what may be a number of follow-up articles, this one appearing on the New Yorker website titled, "Apostate: Paul Haggis vs. the Church of Scientology". Paul Haggis was not merely a member of this organization for 34 years but held prominent positions of leadership and recruiting (particularly in Hollywood). The article is quite long (26 pages in the print edition) but well worth the time, especially if you have friends or family involved with what Moriel Ministries considers to be nothing less than a cult.
The Bride Has Her "Boots" On
4/03/2007 10:46:00 AM Today's HERESCOPE on the Warrior Bride is quite significant. ‚ ‚ If you have been aware of what has been happening in the Apostolic movement - you are aware that there is a militancy that has been developed now for some years. Read more ...
The Growing Church Calls for Divestment from Israel
By Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
The Shack And Its New Age Leaven
By Warren Smith
The Teachings of Witness Lee And The Local Church
Statement No.: DL-075
Third Wave Legacy - An Eye-Witness Account
by Ethel McLenachan
Transformation Africa 2007: The Deception Continues
By Prof Johan Malan
Middelburg , South Africa (May 2007) A South African prayer ministry, Jericho Walls, organised an African Prayer Summit near Pretoria from 19 to 23 February 2007. The main speakers on this event were George Otis of the Sentinel Group in the USA and Graham Power, director of Transformation Africa in Cape Town. The event was staged as preparation for the Global Day of Prayer on Pentecost Sunday, 27 th May 2007. Read more ...
Trying To Save The World Through The Power Of Laughter And Yoga
Moriel notes the article below as further evidence that the failed counterfeit laughing revival pioneered at Penscola and Torono and ‚ championed by The Elim Movement, ‚ The Assemblies of God, The Restorationists, and by Rodney Howard Brown is a Hinduistic deception in spiritual origin ‚ that ‚ demonically infiltrated the church ‚ assisted by deluded leasers who were and are at best biblically ignorant ‚ deceivers of God's people who misled co equally ignorant and undisacerning carnal Christians. Read more ...
Tsunami: God's Anger Revealed
By Martyn S. Carless
What Is Transformation?
By Lynn & Sarah Leslie
A Critique by Jim Harmon
If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free " ” Jesus Christ (John 8:31, 32).
Williams Warns Of Risks For Conservative Anglicans
By Paul Majendie
Monday, June 30 07:08 pm LONDON (Reuters) - Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, battling to avoid an Anglican schism over the issue of gay clergy, warned conservatives on Monday of the risks in setting up an alternative council of bishops. "How is effective discipline to be maintained in a situation of overlapping and competing jurisdictions?" asked the spiritual leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans. Read more ...
Willow Creek Hegelian Dialectic And The New World Order
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Know Anyone Chronically Pro-Alpha?
Category: Alpha Course
"¦at last there's an effective cure Alpha devotees are often so spiritually ill that they will angrily reject ANY criticism of the Course., This means normal attempts to help such people invariably prove fruitless (as well as detrimental to your relationship with them and thus harmful to your scope for nursing them through other spiritual sicknesses in the future). Read more ...
ADL: Religious Groups' Plan to Break Bread with Ahmadinejad is a "Betrayal"
Category: Ecumenism
Five American religious organizations have announced plans to host a dinner to break the Ramadan fast with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad during his upcoming visit to the United States.
Anglican Bishops In Secret Vatican Summit
Senior Church of England bishops have held secret talks with Vatican officials to discuss the crisis in the Anglican communion over gays and women bishops.
Anglican Priest Disgraces Authentic Christianity
The following piece, written by CAMERA analyst Dexter Van Zile, appeared in The Jewish World Review on July 27.
Australian Anglican group 'first' to sign up to Pope's call
A group of "traditional Anglicans" in Australia has voted to accept the recent invitation of Pope Benedict XVI to convert to full communion with the Roman Catholic Church, whilst retaining their membership of the Anglican Church.
Bishop Urges Christians to Call God "Allah"
Catholic churches in the Netherlands should use the name Allah for God to ease tensions between Muslims and Christians, says a Dutch bishop.
Blair Courts Controversial US Pastor Rick Warren in Bid to Unite Faiths
Former prime minister builds network of Christian allies as he prepares to launch a religious 'offensive' in North America Jamie Doward and Paul Harris
Sunday 14 March 2010 Tony Blair is preparing to launch a "faith offensive" across the United States over the next year, after building up relationships with a network of influential religious leaders and faith organisations. Read more ...
Britain Thrilled by Offer to Submit or Die
by Melanie Phillips
Campolo's Campus Appearance Called Into Question Christian College Ignoring 'False Teacher,' Says Pennsylvania Group
Catholic Church Collects Money for Mosque
Cologne, Germany (dpa) - When the Rev. Franz Meurer stands at the altar this Sunday in his priestly vestments, he'll say to the congregation: "Today's collection is for the construction of the big new mosque in Ehrenfeld."
Christian Leaders Invite Muslims to Love God, Neighbors Together
Christian leaders across denominational lines responded to the unprecedented open letter signed last month by 138 representative Muslim leaders with their own letter, calling on the two Abrahamic faiths to love God and neighbors together.
Christian School Teaches How to Lead a Mosque
Hartford Seminary, Islamic Institute launch graduate certificate Posted: February 22, 2010
11:19 pm Eastern
WorldNetDaily Muslims who want to become an imam in the U.S. can now train at an institution founded in the 18th century by members of the Congregationalist denomination to prepare pastors and other Christian ministers for service.Read more ...
Church of England Bishops Convert to Catholicism
LONDON (AP) "” Five Church of England bishops announced Monday they are converting to Catholicism following an invitation to disaffected Anglicans from Pope Benedict XVI "” the highest-profile defectors among conservatives opposed to gay bishops and female clergy.
Churches Back Plan To Unite Under Pope
Radical proposals to reunite Anglicans with the Roman Catholic Church under the leadership of the Pope are to be published this year, The Times has learnt.
Does Cardinal O"Connor, The Head Of The Catholic Church In England, Really Want More Mosques To Be Built?
By ibn Misr on December 26, 2007 7:26 AM
Ecumenical Meeting Marks First Time Mormons Join In Papal Gathering
NEW YORK (CNS) -- For the first time, representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints participated in a papal prayer service -- and it all started over coffee.
English Paper Announces President Bush May Be Considering Catholicism
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Eucharistic Unification
Beneath this article there will be a radio commentary that Roger Oakland recently prepared on the subject of the ecumenical unity that Bishop Hanson (Head of Evangelical Lutheran Association of America) is proposing by 2017 - 500th anniversary of Lutheran Reformation.
Evangelical Churches Growing Closer to Catholicism
I come from italian parents. My dad was a WW 2 prisoner of war in Kenya. After the war he married and ‚ I was born there. Spent my youth in Kenya and then went to South Africa in 1971 . I lived in Cape Town for 26 years and then returned with my wife and two sons to Italy 8 yrs ago to look after my 92 yr old father.
In Looking Back, Pope Says He Hopes Future Leads to Christian Unity
By Cindy Wooden
Vatican City -- As Pope John Paul II looked back at 2004, important ecumenical events seemed not to satisfy him but to sharpen his desire to lead the way to unity among Christians.
Jordan's King Urges Moderates to Unite
By Julia Duin
National Prayer Breakfast or Spiritual Tower of Babel?
Slide of Laodicea When the Muslim King of Jordan rose to give the benediction at the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on February 2, thousands of evangelical Christians rose with him to pray as he petitioned ‚ Allah for his blessings on the assembled crowd. When the breakfast was opened in prayer by an Orthodox Jew who has rejected Jesus Christ as the Messiah, the crowd of evangelicals bowed duly and prayed to a God that did not include their Saviour. The name of Jesus Christ was, in fact, barely mentioned at the event, according to the Washington Times. Evangelical leaders of the annual breakfast had been criticized for having too much of Jesus at past events. They made up for it this year by all but ignoring Jesus Christ and giving the benediction prayer to a Muslim for the first time.Read more ...
New Archbishop of Canterbury Faces Gathering Storm
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Not Gay, Just Friends: Anglican Leader
by Peter Shadbolt
With his church in danger of fracturing over same-sex unions, the head of the Anglican Church in Australia, Peter Carnley, is urging followers to adjust their attitudes to homosexuality and think of gay relationships as merely "friendship".
Pope Calls on People Who Believe in the One God to Unite and Cooperate to Restore Peace
Pope Benedict XVI expressed his hope that "all people who believe in the one God will unite to deplore all forms of violence and cooperate to restore peace in the troubled land of Iraq," as he presented his condolences following the deaths of hundreds of people during a stampede on a Baghdad bridge.
Pope Meets A Saudi King For First Time
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Benedict XVI raised concerns about restrictions on Christian worship in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday in the first meeting ever between a pope and a reigning Saudi king.
Religious Leaders Defend Moon's Capitol Hill Coronation As 'King of Peace'
By Sarah Junk - CNSNews.com
(CNSNews.com) - When the Rev. Sun Myung Moon and his wife were crowned the "King and Queen of Peace" on March 23rd -- inside the Dirksen Senate Office Building with Members of Congress looking on -- few news outlets took notice.
Response To Stephen Sizer's Open Letter
by James Jacob Prasch
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Is the era of the fence-sitting corporation over?
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Corporate CEOs have historically remained silent on politically divisive issues to avoid a potential backlash from consumers and their own employees. Last week, this rule was turned on its head.
Three high-profile advisory councils were disbanded by U.S. President Donald Trump last week after a cascade of CEO resignations over his response to the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally.
Mr Trump dissolved the American Manufacturing Council and the Strategic and Policy Forum after it was leaked that the remaining members of the two councils were planning a press announcement on Wednesday 16th August about disbanding the groups. High-profile resignations up to that point included Kenneth Frazier (Merck CEO), Under Armour CEO Kevin Plank, Intel Chief Executive Brian Krzanich, ADL-CIO’s Richard Trumka and Thea Lee, the Alliance for American Manufacturing president Scott Paul, Campbell Soup’s Denise Morrison and 3M’s Inge Thulin.
A similar revolt in the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities took place two days later, with 16 out of the 17 members quitting, leading to the White House stating that the committee’s executive order would not be renewed.
Is the line between politics and business dissolving?
Michael Maslansky, the head of a language strategy firm that advises major companies, told the BBC last week that “the era of the fence-sitting corporation is over”.
In an unprecedented situation, the moral compass has now been placed in the hands of business leaders, who are coming under increasing pressure to comment on political events. Donald Trump’s tweet about “pressure on the businesspeople of the [councils]” gets this absolutely correct.
Many of the CEOs who resigned from the advisory councils made statements along the lines of having “no choice” about the matter. In other words, Trump’s response to Charlottesville put them in a situation where their connection with the president contradicted their company’s corporate positions on race, diversity and equality.
Even CEOs without a formal position on an advisory board, including Apple’s Tim Cook, spoke out in condemnation last week. In the past, it was seen as safer to remain silent, or risk the wrath of customers (and employees) from the other side of the political spectrum.
Why is this happening? “If you’re silent about an issue, then each side will assume you’re on the wrong side. You end up really having to choose”, says Maslansky. Another sentiment that was frequently expressed after Charlottesville was the idea that silence in the face of injustice (including racism) is tantamount to complicity.
Ideally, every company would have a Values Statement which would dictate the CEO’s response to any relevant issue. This means the “choice” doesn’t come down to the personal whim or leaning of any individual business leader.
Where will this end? With political divisions only increasing, will we see consumers do business only with companies that reflect their political views? This is already happening on the fringes, with regular calls going out from both sides to boycott various companies (think #DeleteUber, or #AnywherebutTarget). Terms for this include “dollar voting”, “ethical consumerism” and “moral boycotting”.
For procurement and supply managers, daily buying decisions could become so fraught with larger implications that it will become hard to keep track. But if the end customer expects organisations to make purchasing decisions that are in line with their own values, this is certainly a space to watch.
As for CEOs, the era of carefully-worded, politically-neutral statements may be over. When a new CEO steps into a role, their customers, their employees and the Board will want to know where they stand politically and how this will influence the corporate culture.
To quote a meme that’s currently doing the rounds on social media: sitting on the fence only gets you one thing: splinters.
The vanishing line between business and politics will be one of the topics under discussion at the Chicago Big Ideas Summit on Thursday 28th September. If you’re a CPO and located in or near the Chicago area, there are still some seats available (limited to 50 attendees). If you’re not quite CPO-level (yet) or based on the other side of the globe, don’t worry – we’ve got you covered. Simply register for free as a digital delegate on Procurious, and we’ll bring all the Big Ideas from Chicago to you! Click here to find out more.
In other news this week:
Australia to develop anti-slavery legislation
Australia’s Turnbull government will soon require companies with an annual turnover of at least $100 million to publish “Modern Slavery Statements” on a publicly accessible central repository.
The statements will include measures companies are taking in their supply chains to combat modern slavery, including human trafficking, debt bondage and forced labour.
The government is also considering drafting a Modern Slavery Act and an independent anti-slavery watchdog to investigate complaints and educate businesses.
Read more in The Age.
The City of Los Angeles is looking for a CPO
The city of LA is seeking a CPO to fill a newly-created position created as part of a wider local government remodelling.
The new CPO “will be responsible for the development of a plan to strategically leverage the city’s spend, identify cost savings, employ long-range operational policies and procedures that align with industry best practices, increase transparency, and reduce time to contract with the city”.
Read more at Supply Chain Digital.
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30 Years of Rockabilly (feat. ...
30 Years of Rockabilly (feat. Hillbilly Hellcats & Mustang Lightning)
by Lance Romance Bakemeyer
Rockin Cat Records
Rockabilly in the style of the Stray Cats, Reverend Horton Heat and Headcat from the Upright Bass Player/Singer/Songwriter of the Hillbilly Hellcats.
Bullet for My Head
Bad, Bad, Bad Tattoo
Mudflap Baby
Rockinest Cat in Town
She's Red Hot
Drag Racin'
Slappin' My Baby Around
I'm Seein Trouble
Roadkill Cafe
Beer & A Girl
Hillbilly Cat
Heaven Don't Want Me
My Baby Drives Me Crazy
My Baby Don't Love Me (Live)
Long Lonesome Highway
Harder Faster
Ol' Bobcat
Mad Dog Twist
My Baby's Rockabilly
Kiss Of Death
King of the Highway
Los Borrachos
Surfin' Cowboy
Drinkin' Buddies
Drinkin' Buddies Swing
Drinkin' Buddies Review
30 tracks of all original Rockabilly from Lance "Romance" Bakemeyer of the Hillbilly Hellcats. The two disc set includes 11 tracks of remastered Hillbilly Hellcats songs that Lance wrote, including one previously unreleased track by the Hillbilly Hellcats featuring Lance on Banjo. The song Dead Man's Party kicks off the album. This song has had over 500,000 downloads and is featured in 2 different movies - Dead and Breakfast (2005) and Dead Man's party (2010). Many of the other Hillbilly Hellcats tracks included are also used in Movies and TV. The Roadkill Cafe - HGTV, ABC's Wife Swap, and many Cooking TV programs. My Baby Drives Me Crazy is used in the Discovery Channel, VH1 and MTV's Trick My Truck.
"Taz" Bentley is the featured drummer on all the Hillbilly Hellcats tracks. Taz was the drummer for the Reverend Horton Heat on the 1st 3 albums by the Rev. He has also played with Izzy Stradlin of Gun's and Rose's fame, the Burden Brothers, Sawyer Brown and Tenderloin.
Besides the Hillbilly Hellcats, the 2 disc set includes guest artists (guitarists) such as Danny B Harvey, Jinx Jones, Jonny Barber, and Phil Deville. - Danny B Harvey has played with groups such as Headcat, (including Lemmy from Motorhead on Bass and Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray cats on Drums), The Rockats, Levi Dexter, 13 Cats and the Swing Cats among others. Jinx Jones has played with En Vogue, Roy Buchanan, Chuck Berry and many others. Jonny Barber has played with Spiv, The Velvet Elvis, Jonny Barber and the Living Deads and Jonny Barber and the Rhythm Razors. Phil Deville has played with Alex Chilton, Mustang Lightning and Cowboy Mouth.
The remaining 18 tracks on the disc's have also had heavy usage in TV programming. Bad, Bad, Bad Tattoo is used in A&E's program about Bad Tattoo's. Drag Racin' was used for a time by the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) at race tracks around the USA, and King of the Highway has been used in a VH1 reality show.
Lance "Romance" Bakemeyer has been playing "Rockabilly" "Blues" "Honky Tonk" "Bluegrass" "Rock" and "Country" on the stand-up slap bass for 30 years. He has played with the Hillbilly Hellcats, the Railbenders, the Calf Branders, Mustang Lightning, the Velvet Elvis, Junior Brown, John Denver, Danny B Harvey, Jinx Jones and many others. The 2 disc set is a good representation of "Rockabilly" in all of the "Billy" forms including Psychobilly. Neo-Billy, and "Hillbilly".
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Burying Ground resurrects old songs with new spirit
Monday 22nd, June 2015 / 11:45
in • AB - Features, • Alberta, • BC - Features, • British Columbia, • Roots, CITY, FEATURED, MUSIC
By Tiina Liimu
Dev and Woody are digging up the past with their new album as Burying Ground.
Photo: Alexis Hogan
VANCOUVER — Sweaty persistence, game-changing road trips, and a bold leap of faith turned the soil for Burying Ground, the result emerged as the full-length album Big City Blues.
For fixtures in Vancouver’s DIY music community, circumstances seeded a collection of real life stories told as country blues, folk and ragtime songs. Originally with The Dire Wolves, Dev and Woody found themselves without a guitarist and vocalist when Blake Bamford moved out of the big city. This prompted both to work on their vocal chops and Woody to pick up a guitar and step into a different style of playing.
Collaborations include artists: Joseph Lubinsky-Mast, Jack Garton, Kathleen Nisbet Candice Roberts and Josh Doherty. In the studio, Woody and Dev credit Mark Lawrence of Big in Japan Recordings, as a huge creative inspiration.
They take their cues from another era with Woody studying pre war and acoustic blues. “I listen to so much old blues and was inspired by all these great artists and bands to pick up the guitar and try to capture some of that in our own music,” he says.
Big City Blues by The Burying Ground
“Dev has been listening to more than a few washboard players from my record collection and has picked up the different beats and rhythms that drive the music we love.”
Travelling south where their influences came from, the spirit has left an undeniable impression on the two. “I visited the Mississippi John Hurt Museum, which is in Avalon,” says Dev. A meeting with caretaker Floyd Bailey resulted in the Brass King washboard she plays now.
A 2011 trip to the historically rich New Orleans lit the fire for older styles. “I came back with a new appreciation for music and decided to take it more seriously than I had before,” says Woody.
While standards dust their live set, the lyrics focus on subject matter that compel them. “One of the greatest parts of performing and getting our music out there, is you get to write a ‘sort of soundtrack,’ to inspire people or bring awareness to social issues,” she says. Their musical arrangements are a partnership with Woody writing songs and Dev handling further elements. “I write melodies, lyrics and I sing them to Woody and he figures them out on guitar,” she explains.
Like a needle to the record of reverence, Burying Ground’s namesake not only comes from a Blind Lemon Jefferson song. “It’s a place where people put those that they have lost, to rest. This is how I feel [about] the old songs of the past; people have almost forgotten where all the popular music of today came from,” says Woody. “We feel that we are a part of a growing number of musicians resurrecting old songs and giving them another chance to live again.”
You too can visit these at upcoming Vancouver and Alberta dates! When you catch Burying Ground remember to ask for a copy of Big City Blues!
Burying Ground perform in Vancouver at Ouisi Bistro June 30th & July 1st and at the Union St Block Party on July 4th. In Calgary, catch them at Broken City August 12th.
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As our parting gift to Pataki, re-elect Alan Hevesi for NY State Comptroller
by : Mary MacElveen
Sunday November 5, 2006 - 09:13
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By Mary MacElveen
I want everyone living in New York State to think back to last winter especially if they heat their homes with oil. As the tank gage inched lower, your anxiety of how you were going to pay for another delivery sky rocketed. I know mine did. You would have thought that Governor George Pataki could have demanded assistance on behalf of all of us for some relief from his friend in Washington, D.C. who is George W. Bush.
As we all know, Bush is a former oil man who just loves profits. Do you see him actually helping out consumers? I do not think so. But, we all know what George W. Bush told the citizens of California when it came to their energy crisis which brought about the recall of Gray Davis said, “There will be no help coming from Washington, D.C.” Nice huh?
I want all Long Islanders to think back when LIPA (Long Island Power Authority) was implemented since LILCO (Long Island Lighting Company) was charging Long Islanders an arm and a leg for electricity. Do you remember when Governor Pataki stated that through the implementation of LIPA it would cut our electric bills in half? Get out your bills and see for yourself that it did not occur. In fact, our electric rates went up.
Many were ready to blow our circuits (pun intended) when Governor Pataki refused to let this go to a voter referendum in which ‘We the people’ of Long Island would have a say whether or not this plan would go through.
In an executive summary of this deal you will read where top-level executives of LILCO received a $67 million dollar golden parachute. While Pataki denounced this deal as being “disgraceful”, maybe with a voter referendum in which we the rate payers had our say, thing might have been different. As a result of this deal, William Catacosinos the former CEO of LILCO received a $42 million dollar golden parachute. What did we as Long Islander get? Oh yeah, higher electric rates.
As of this date, many of us on Long Island are paying over $200 dollars a month for electricity and some even higher rates and there has been no help coming from George E. Pataki.
This past summer all Americans were paying higher prices at the pump and there was absolutely no help coming from the Republicans. As I wrote in another piece: "Making a trip to Nashville, Tennessee...while defending huge profits made by Exxon/Mobil, Bush said: "consumers socked with soaring energy costs should not expect price breaks." I can just hear some expletives being said out there.
I have always said to voters in each and every campaign to gather up their bills, take them into the voting booth, and vote accordingly. While Pataki is not running for re-election, he singled out Comptroller, Alan Hevesi. Yes, Hevesi did as he has stated in a commercial “a dumb thing”, but he has made restitution to the tax payers. That should count for something in my book.
So, gather up your LIPA bills, your oil bills, and receipts for gasoline purchases and take them into the voting booth on Tuesday.
One has to wonder why. As I was thinking today, it all boils down to who controls the money. As we all know, comptrollers do control pension funds and as a person who is relying pension fund remaining safe, I just do not trust a Republican put in charge of overseeing these funds and neither should you.
In the past six years since a Republican president took the oath of office with a Republican controlled congress to help him out, our money is being spent big time. They used to say that Democrats were big spenders; I would like to debate that as we are in debt up to our eye balls and then some. No bid contracts for Halliburton, no problem which cost you and I billions of dollars. The Republican led government has involved us in an illegal war against the wrong people, no problem. It is now costing you and me as of this date over $300 billion dollars and rising by the second. Oh and do not forget that bran spanking new embassy in Iraq the size of the Vatican that is costing all of us over $500 million dollars.
You have not heard a peep coming from Pataki on the way our federal government spends our money, now have you? But, he will target a man that has successfully secured our state employees pension funds. He will target a man who has successfully overseen many school systems fraught with fraud. We cannot lose a man in, Alan Hevesi who is looking over our money. We cannot take that chance.
As some have distanced themselves from Alan Hevesi, if I were a gambling person although I am not, I would bet you that once inside the voting booth, they will be voting for Alan Hevesi instead of Callahan.
So as our parting gift to George E. Pataki and our collective angst against George W. Bush, cast your vote for Alan Hevesi. In a recent stump speech the DNC Chair, Governor Howard Dean even stated, "You cannot trust Republicans with your money"
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> As our parting gift to Pataki, re-elect Alan Hevesi for NY State Comptroller
Sunday November 5 - 14:49 - Posted by 376016e935154bcb...
Are you kidding? If the voters of New York State elect a crook, just to prove a point, allowing our next comptroller to be hand picked..... I’m moving!
Who cares if the comptroller is a republican. He doesn’t make policy. He watches and invests the money.
Callaghan has already saved us $170,000 by catching Hevesi’s theft. Let’s elect him and let him save us more money.
Sunday November 5 - 18:41 - Posted by a764cdc92358d0f3...
electing Callaghan means giving control over the $145 billion pension fund to Al D’Amato and Mike Long of the Conservative party, both of whom are backing Callaghan. Yes, Hevesi made a bad mistake, but not to line his own pockets, to take care of his sick wife. The alternative is much much worse.
Sunday November 5 - 23:09 - Posted by ee1a7063350cb642...
"Yes, Hevesi made a bad mistake, but not to line his own pockets, to take care of his sick wife. The alternative is much much worse."
"Poor" Alan Hevesi and his "sick" wife reported income for 2005 totaling over $335,000. The creep is a two-bit crook and should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
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Monday November 6 - 03:14 - Posted by 376016e935154bcb...
Callaghan was not "picked" by the Republicans. He had to go from county to county and make his case to each county chair. Scott Vaderhoff was in the running early on too. Everyone thought that republicans would back Vanderhoff hands down. But Callaghan won everyone over with his experience and sincerity, not his bank account and high power friends (he has much of neither). This is an honest guy that has beat the odds with a grass roots campaign and you want to write him off just because he is a republican.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/st...
Were the first class trips to Vegas due to his wife’s health too?
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Life changing. How else do you describe the inaugural NAB AFL Women’s Competition? Especially for women and girls Australia wide. What once started out as a pipe dream became a long-awaited reality when Carlton and Collingwood took to a packed Princes Park on Friday February 3, 2017.
From there the first women’s season continued to smash all expectations, before culminating in a thrilling grand final finish on the Gold Coast. Since then we’ve seen a Best & Fairest crowned and the first women’s State of Origin match.
I was closely involved in covering AFLW’s inception through my social media role at the AFL. Below I’ve documented some of my favourite photos and detailed a wonderful journey that was.
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St.Mira's Inclusive Convent was started in 2009 by Anveshana Foundation as part of its "Social Inclusion" by its CEO Mr.Chandrashekar.S to provide Quality English Education and Agricultural Sustenance to the rural farming community in a village called Sujjlur. The school is recognised by the Government of Karnataka and accredited to NIOS. It has classes from Playgroup- X and intends to start a composite pre-university course and vocational courses by 2015. The school not only inculcates academics it also has blended the agricultural concepts and worth in its educational program to provide basic scientific agricultural knowledge and sustenance for the farmer's children. The school also provides for scholarships, sponsorships and support given by philanthropists to its children. It also has implemented the play way technology and research based learning processes in the classrooms along with computer aided instruction. The school is also supported by other like minded NGOs - Akshara Foundation and Future India; and Educational giants like CMR Group of Institutions, who have donated Teaching-learning material for the children.
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The Geography Department offers transfer courses to four-year colleges in diverse academic disciplines such as Geography, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Earth Science, Environmental Science, Meteorology, Climatology, Natural Resource Management, Tourism and Recreation, Urban Planning, International Studies, Anthropology and related social sciences. Emphasis in advancing geographic literacy, global awareness and sustainability in the fields of physical and human geography; field study classes provide experiential and interpretive training. Additional technical courses provide expertise in the exciting and fast-growing field of GIS and GeoSpatial technologies. A skills certificate is offered in GIS.
Sean A. Booth
Professor, Geography
B.S., University of Oregon
M.A., California State University, Chico
Carol Jean Cox
B.A., California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Advisory Committee
Daniel Armstrong, GIS Specialist, Open Spatial, Rocklin
Marc Ball, IT Specialist, City of Roseville
Diana Carolan, GIS Specialist, Nevada County
Michael Farrauto, Surveyor and GIS Specialist, Andregg Geomatics, Auburn
Matt Freemont, Environmental Planner and GIS Specialist, HELIX, Folsom
Dave Hansen, GIS Specialist, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Sacramento
Kermit Hellem, GIS Manager, Sacramento Municipal Utility District
Abe Hendricks, CAD and GIS Specialist, Placer County Water Agency, Auburn
Scott Herbert, GIS Sales, California Surveying and Drafting Supply, Inc., Sacramento
Colin Hobson, GIS Specialist, Open Spatial, Rocklin
Hugh Howard, Geography and GIS Professor, American River College, Sacramento
Brian Johnson, GIS Specialist, City of Roseville
Dave Krolick, GIS Specialist, ECORP Consulting, Rocklin
Justin Narkter, Public Works Specialist, City of Rocklin
Steve Rhyne, GIS Specialist, Fehr and Peers, Roseville
Sabastian Roberts, GIS Specialist, Nevada County
Jeff Swager, GIS Specialist, ECORP Consulting, Rocklin
Justin Wages, Land Manager, Placer Land Trust, Auburn
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The Associate in Arts in Geography for Transfer degree (AA-T) program provides students with a strong foundation in Geography. Upon completion of the program, students will demonstrate knowledge of global physical and environmental processes; formulate an appreciation of world cultural diversity, including demographics, ethnic studies, agricultural practices, economic development and resource consumption; generate solutions for a sustainable future; holistically assess integrative environmental and cultural phenomena based on location and maps; assemble and analyze spatial information (such as maps, data, surveys, qualitative observations), using traditional and modern mapping technology methods; and integrate cultural, environmental and geographic technology methods.
The Associate in Arts in Geography for Transfer degree (AA-T) prepares students to transfer into the CSU system to complete a bachelor’s degree in Geography or a major deemed similar by a CSU campus. Students earning an associate degree for transfer and meeting the CSU minimum transfer admission requirements are guaranteed admission with junior standing to the CSU system, but not to a particular campus or major. Upon transfer, students will be required to complete no more than 60 additional prescribed units to earn a bachelor’s degree.
To earn the Associate in Arts in Geography for Transfer degree, students must complete 60 CSU-transferable semester units with a minimum grade point average of 2.0, including both of the following:
completion of all courses required for the major with grades of “C” or better; and
completion of the California State University General Education Breadth (CSU GE) pattern or the Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC) pattern. (Students transferring to a CSU campus using IGETC must complete Area 1C Oral Communication to be eligible for admission.)
The exact wording of the law pertaining to associate degrees for transfer may be found in Education Code Section 66746.
It is highly recommended that, prior to transferring, students complete courses that satisfy the CSU United States History, Constitution and American Ideals graduation requirement. In all cases, students should consult with a counselor for more information on university admission and transfer requirements.
RESTRICTION: International coursework from non-United States regionally accredited institutions cannot be applied to associate degrees for transfer.
GEOG 0001 Physical Geography 3
GEOG 0001L Physical Geography Laboratory 1
GEOG 0002 Cultural Geography 3
Select 6-8 units from the following: 6-8
GEOG 0003
Geography of California
World Regional Geography
Urban Geography of San Francisco 1
or GEOG 0012
Historical Geography of Northern California Communities
Field Geography of Yosemite and the Eastern Sierra
Field Geography
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Select 6-7 units from the following or unused courses from the preceding area: 1 6-7
ANTH 0002
ESCI 0001
Physical Geology
Total Units 19-22
A maximum of 2 units may be taken from GEOG 0011, 0012, 0014, and 0016.
Designed for students to gain a solid foundation in GIS theory and related technologies, such as GPS and remote sensing. Sequence of courses build upon each other to provide hands-on technical skills demanded of the professional workforce, culminating with a professional map portfolio and repertoire of spatial analysis skills. Opportunities for interns and entry-level positions are abundant, provided students learn industry-standard software, GPS skills, database management and mapping design. Students must choose from additional courses, such as computer-aided design (CAD), database management, computer programming, surveying, spatial analysis and are encouraged to participate in an internship. A skills certificate is designed to provide career technical skills; it is not equivalent to an associate degree.
GEOG 0086 Global Positioning System (GPS) for GIS 1
GEOG 0090 Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) 4
GEOG 0093 Advanced GIS 4
Select 6 units from the following: 6
CIS 0090
CSCI 0012
Programming Concepts and Methodology I
Introduction to SQL
ENGR 0010
Engineering Survey Measurements
Application of Geospatial Technologies
GEOG 0091B
Intermediate Arc GIS
Internship in Geography (up to 3 units)
Total Units 15
Understanding course descriptions
GEOG 0001. Physical Geography
Advisory: Eligibility for ENGL 1A
Hours: 54 lecture
A spatial study of the Earth's dynamic physical systems and processes, including the earth's atmosphere, weather, climate regions, hydrosphere; oceans, clouds, rivers; biosphere, and the solid earth including its landforms. Emphasis on the holistic understanding of environmental systems, as they relate to location. Human influence on the natural world examined in an integrative manner using spatial inquiry. Geographic tools used may include maps and visual imagery, remote sensing and computer technologies of modeling, Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). (C-ID GEOG 110) (combined with GEOG 1L, C-ID GEOG 115) (CSU, UC)
GEOG 0001L. Physical Geography Laboratory
Prerequisite: Completion with grade of "C" or better or concurrent enrollment in GEOG 1
Hours: 54 laboratory
Earth's physical systems, atmosphere, weather and climate, landforms and fluvial systems; includes map reading and investigating remote sensing, GPS, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). (C-ID GEOG 111) (combined with GEOG 1, C-ID GEOG 115) (CSU, UC)
GEOG 0002. Cultural Geography
Diverse patterns of cultural development including population, religion, languages, political systems and other societal characteristics. Analysis of spatial differences of cultures including housing types, city planning, agricultural techniques, and popular and folk customs. Investigation of humans as the primary modifier of the physical landscape within the limits of the earth's resources. (C-ID GEOG 120) (CSU, UC)
GEOG 0003. Geography of California
An introduction to California's diversified geography including climate, landforms, natural vegetation, and water resources, the cultural landscapes of ethnic diversity, our Native American past, urban and agricultural regions, and the economic challenges of the future. Emphasis on cultural diversity, human alteration of the landscape, contemporary problems and resource competition. (C-ID GEOG 140) (CSU, UC)
GEOG 0004. Weather and Climate
The elements and controls of weather and climate - atmospheric heating, the heat budget, air circulation and winds, moisture, clouds, and precipitation; world climates, their elements and classifications; climate variations and changes. (C-ID GEOG 130) (CSU, UC)
GEOG 0005. World Regional Geography
An introduction to the world's major geographic regions; their cultural practices, politics, economics, religions, history and environmental characteristics. Location and analysis of important geographic features including mountains, rivers, countries and major cities of Asia, Australia, Africa, North America, Europe and South America. (C-ID GEOG 125) (CSU, UC)
GEOG 0011. Urban Geography of San Francisco
Hours: 30 (12 lecture, 18 laboratory)
Exploration of the cultural, economic and urban geography of San Francisco. This field course provides an introduction to the area's diversified geography including its location, ethnic diversity, urban settlement patterns and an overview of historical and economic regions. Students may be required to walk moderate distances. Additional fees may be required. (C-ID GEOG 160) (CSU)
GEOG 0012. Historical Geography of Northern California Communities
This field course explores cultural and historical geography of Northern California communities. Introduction to Northern California's diversified geography including physical landforms, economic diversity, settlement patterns and history of the Northern California communities. (C-ID GEOG 160) (CSU)
GEOG 0014. Field Geography of Yosemite and the Eastern Sierra
Examination of physical and cultural geography of Yosemite Valley/the Eastern Sierra. This field course emphasizes fluvial and glacial landforms, geological patterns, weather, and climate regions, and the distribution of water resources. Cultural geographies include patterns of Native American and early pioneer settlements, current land use and economic activities. May involve light hiking. Additional fees may be required. (C-ID GEOG 160) (CSU)
GEOG 0015. Field Geography of Northern California
Units: 0.5
Hours: 13 (7 lecture, 6 laboratory)
Investigation of cultural and physical geography of a region in Northern California. This field course provides an introduction to the area's diversified geography including its location, physical landforms, economic diversity, urban settlement patterns and an overview of historical and cultural regions. May involve light hiking. Additional fees may be required. (CSU)
GEOG 0016. Field Geography
Units: 1-2
Hours: 30 (12 lecture, 18 laboratory) per unit
Field lecture courses to regions of geographic interest to include physical, cultural, urban and/or historical elements. (C-ID GEOG 160) (CSU)
GEOG 0028. Independent Study
Designed for students interested in furthering their knowledge at an independent study level in an area where no specific curriculum offering is currently available. Independent study might include, but is not limited to, research papers, special subject area projects, and research projects. See Independent Study page in catalog. (CSU, UC-with unit limitation)
GEOG 0085. Application of Geospatial Technologies
Investigation of GIS case studies used in industry and government; explores how industry uses GIS with emphasis on natural resource management and watershed analysis. Additional focus on remote sensing, aerial photography, GPS technology. (CSU)
GEOG 0086. Global Positioning System (GPS) for GIS
Global Positioning System (GPS) theory, techniques, and case studies, GPS set-up, spatial database organization, field collection, editing, and integration into the GIS. Culminates with final GPS mapping project. (CSU)
GEOG 0090. Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
Study of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and its applications to spatial data management. Project design, data acquisition, database management, geographic analysis, and map design. Explores how GIS solves spatial problems, such as those in natural resources, earth and life sciences, environmental planning, local government, business, transportation, and other fields. (C-ID GEOG 155) (CSU, UC)
GEOG 0091A. Beginning Arc GIS
Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping software used to manage, analyze and display spatial information. Create reports and map layouts, query geographic databases, and solve spatial problems. Emphasis on using GIS software for practical applications in the fields of natural resource management, disaster mapping, cartographic design, urban planning, business and other related fields. (CSU)
GEOG 0091B. Intermediate Arc GIS
Prerequisite: Completion with a grade of "C" or better or concurrent enrollment in GEOG 90 or 91A
Builds on basic principles of ArcGIS, focusing on queries, managing and preparing data for analysis, creating and editing GIS data, Geodatabases, spatial analysis and producing map layouts. (CSU)
GEOG 0093. Advanced GIS
Prerequisite: Completion of GEOG 90 with grade of "C" or better
Builds on Intermediate GIS focusing on advanced technical skills and mapping, such as working with spatial databases, GIS models, vector and raster analysis, cartographic presentation and various outputs. Student completes a research project and assembles a map portfolio. (CSU)
GEOG 0094. Geospatial Analysis
Prerequisite: Completion with grade of "C" or better or concurrent enrollment in GEOG 90 or 91B
Geospatial analysis reveals patterns, relationships, and trends that solve real-world challenges. With GIS tools, students create surface contours, derive slopes, calculate flow direction, draw watersheds, determine line of sight and identify hotspots. GIS modeling and extensions are used. (CSU)
GEOG 0095. Internship in Geography
Units: 0.5-4
Designed for advanced students to work in an area related to their educational or occupational goal. Provides new on-the-job technical training under the direction of a worksite supervisor, allowing students to expand knowledge and skills in the chosen field. Mandatory orientation session and faculty approval to determine eligibility. Students may earn up to a total of 16 units in internship courses (any course numbered 95 and PDEV 94). (CSU-with unit limitation)
Program Student Learning Outcomes (PSLOs)
Demonstrate knowledge of global physical and environmental processes, locations and develop an appreciation of landscapes.
Formulate an appreciation of world cultural diversity, including demographics, ethnic studies, agricultural practices, economic development, resource consumption and generate solutions for a sustainable future.
Utilizing the concept of a region as a geographic unit of study, holistically assess integrative environmental and cultural phenomenon based on location and maps.
Assemble and analyze spatial information (maps, data, surveys, qualitative observations, etc.), using traditional and modern mapping technology methods.
Applying experiential learning and real-world applications, field studies integrate cultural, environmental and geographic technology methods.
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DB News: 03/07/2019 - 10:41
A Commons Select Committee has warned that the Ministry of Defence is missing its military housing target.
Poor military accommodation puts a strain on working and family life and is detrimental to morale. It also undermines efforts to recruit and retain armed forces personnel, many of whom have specialist skills which are in short supply.
A significant proportion of personnel, in some surveys almost half, remain dissatisfied with their accommodation. Planned reforms of the system designed to improve the accommodation options available are unlikely to start to be implemented nationally until 2022 at the earliest, while the existing system has created a mismatch between the traditional model of military housing and the ways in which UK citizens now live.
At a time of such financial strain, MPs argue that the Ministry of Defence cannot afford to lose experienced and skilled personnel simply because their homes are not up to standard.
A committee member said: “Too many military service personnel find themselves in living quarters where the standard is simply not good enough. Poor accommodation puts a strain on working and family life and hits morale and retention rates. The nation cannot afford to lose experienced and skilled personnel simply because their homes are not up to standard.
“Satisfaction amongst service families with accommodation is far too low - around half, according to some surveys. Unfortunately plans to improve choice in the accommodation system are unlikely to begin until 2022 or later. MoD must act to keep up with changes in social attitudes and the needs of personnel. Entitlement to accommodation remains limited to couples who are married or in civil partnerships. MoD hold far too many empty properties, some 10,000, while there are thousands of people across the country on housing waiting lists. MoD need to urgently reduce these levels.”
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Stealth fighter jets to join fight against ISIS
The UK's new F-35B Lightning II stealth fighter jets joined the fight against the ISIS in their first operational missions.
Jeremy Hunt has said he would boost defence spending by £15 billion over the next five years.
British troops arrive in Croatia for airborne exercises
UK Armed Forces personnel will take part in Exercise Swift Response in Croatia this month.
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Newly designated Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi (second from left) walks out of the Iraqi parliament with newly-elected President Barham Saleh in Baghdad on October 2nd. [Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP]
Veteran Iraqi politician and Prime Minister designate Adel Abdel Mahdi on Wednesday (October 3rd) began the tough task of forming the next government, seeking to overcome sharp differences and unite political parties.
In a surprise move Tuesday, just hours after being elected, new President Barham Saleh handed Abdel Mahdi the difficult task of navigating Iraq's tangled politics to form a government within 30 days.
Saleh, 58, swept to the post of president of Iraq on Tuesday evening in a parliamentary vote, routing his main rival Fuad Hussein with 219 votes to 22.
He is a moderate who has served as Iraqi deputy prime minister under Nuri al-Maliki and as head of the Kurdish regional government.
A Shia and native of Baghdad, the 76-year-old Abdel Mahdi is regarded as an independent. An economist by training who has served as oil minister, he will be able to call on years of experience as a regular on Iraq's diplomatic scene.
Several different blocs in the Iraqi parliament have been jostling for power following the May 12th parliamentary elections, which has stymied the formation of a new government.
Power-sharing system
Iraq has a proportional system designed to prevent a slide into dictatorship.
The largely ceremonial role of president, now taken by Saleh, has been reserved for the Kurds since Iraq's first multi-party elections in 2005.
Under the power-sharing deal, the post of prime minister is held by a Shia, while the speaker of parliament is Sunni Arab -- a post filled last month by Mohammed al-Halbusi.
Abdel Mahdi, a former Iraqi vice president, has proven political credentials and is regarded as a rare figure of consensus. He is credited with having good relations with a number of Kurdish leaders.
An economist by training, he has won the backing of US and European leaders. In 2014, he took up the post of oil minister under al-Abadi, before resigning two years later.
Now he has just 30 days to navigate tangled Iraqi politics and form a government. If he fails, then another candidate will have to be chosen.
Responding to a message of congratulations from outgoing Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, Abdel Mahdi showed he was wary of the task ahead, referring to it as "a heavy responsibility".
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Not a good decision.
America has destroyed Iraq and stolen its wealth. It has assigned the destruction of the rest of Iraq to others who are robbing the country’s wealth. Iraq is moving from bad to worse. The United States has destroyed Iraq and the world, and has starved peoples, and stolen their wealth. When it occupies any country, it hands power over to people and thieves who serve it and who have no sense of patriotism and who don’t care about the country.
What government? What do America and Arab countries have to do with Iraq? What do America, the Middle East, Netanyahu have to do with this? Everyone works for America and Netanyahu. Everyone is taking part in this play. Let those who are wise understand. I congratulate you.
Only God will relieve us! God suffices me and He is the best disposer of affairs! Until when will Iraq to move from bad to worse? The government is corrupt and a failure.
The problem is that there is no one person who governs Iraq; rather, it's governed by several people and each one governs in his own way.
We want to hear and see what academic certificates he has got, what his qualifications are, and where he got them, before we hear his programme for the future of Iraq. We must know how he got them, what his positive role is, and what he did for Iraq all these years while prime minister. We must bear in mind that he didn’t run for elections. Aren’t there competent people in Iraq other than those people? Who are you deceiving? When they want a government of independents, you run for the elections, and when they want a government of turbans, you all put on turbans. How can he run Iraq when he can’t control or choose a small group of body guards? You said his body guards have robbed Azawya bank. How can he protect this country? Just read! Peace be to a country which was great in the past, called Iraq.
Abdul Mahdi won’t add anything new in the coming period. The reason was that he was chosen by fiascoes.
We hope there won’t be any parties. If there are many political parties in Iraq, the country will be destroyed. This is because parties are behind the destruction of Iraq, especially poor Iraqis. They have stolen everything. God damn them! I bring you the good news that God’s victory will come. Let them wait for God’s ability against them. God will remain to be the strongest. They will see strong fire because they’re unjust. God will humiliate them because of their own acts.
O, Diyaruna, it’s not Baathist. You’ve tried al-Baath Party and destroyed Iraq. Why do you incite against the parties? [Gibberish].
Sayyid Adel, the icon of the media, deserves this. He's an honest man.
We hope brother Adel will choose his cabinet from outside the parties.
We pray to God almighty to strengthen Iraq’s politicians and leaders, and to have a prosperous Iraq where there is no unemployment, poverty or need. We also pray to God to keep away all evils from us and to enable us to live in peace and security, and to open up appointments. Thanks.
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Iraqi parliament appoints 3 new ministers
UN chief hopes for 'swift' formation of Iraqi government
PM-designate asks Iraqis to apply online for cabinet
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Iran exaggerates its defence system capabilities, experts say
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Yemenis demand repeal of Houthi-imposed death sentences
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Iraq kicks off youth job initiative in liberated areas Iraqi PM designate gets challenge of forming government Iran-backed militias undermine Iraq's sovereignty: analysts
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NEW YORK -- Baseball players and owners had a deal to expand active rosters from 25 to 26 players for most of the season, but the union backed away in the final stages of collective bargaining.As part of the deal, the limit from Sept. 1 on would have been lowered from 40 players to 28.We thought we were going to make an agreement, had a tentative agreement, baseball commissioner Rob Manfred told The Associated Press on Friday, but nothings done until its done.Union head Tony Clark characterized the talks differently and said the parties could revisit the topic during the five-year contract they agreed to Wednesday.I dont know that there was an agreement to do it and that it came apart. There was a lot of dialogue over the course of this round where we were moving in a direction that we inevitably werent able to agree to, he said. It simply got to the point with all of the moving pieces that were part of the conversation during the course of the year that we lived to talk about it another day.Rosters have long expanded for the seasons final full month as minor league affiliates end their campaigns. The roster expansion gives managers the ability to make more frequent pitching changes in an attempt to gain favorable matchups.Some managers and general managers have complained it doesnt make sense to play most of the season under one set of rules and then switch as pennant races heat up. While some teams add many players and a few reach the 40-man limit, others make relatively few call-ups.There were very mixed opinions on the club side, as well, Manfred said. Maybe we were going too far, too fast.Many players make their big league debuts in September, and the union has long been concerned about the loss of service time if the limit were to be lowered from 40.To reduce the roster to 28 people would jeopardize the ability for people to get their feet wet in the big leagues, Oakland catcher Stephen Vogt said in a text. September is a great time for teams to teach the young guys how to act and be in the big leagues and get their feet wet in a comfortable environment.Given the increasing importance of bullpens, some believe a 26th player likely would be an additional relief pitcher.I know there have been a lot of concerns from the other side related to just how it would work and how it might affect the games or the length of games, Clark said. Trying to appreciate that extra player and who it may be is hard to predict based on whatever the organization philosophy is of any one team.Management and the union released details of the deal Friday, an agreement that will extend the sports labor peace to 26 years since the 1994-95 strike -- baseballs eighth work stoppage since 1972.We kept the game on the field, Manfred said. We made an agreement within our current structure which I think shows that we have a durable structure. We moved some things our direction, and we moved some other things their direction.The threshold for the luxury tax, known formally as the competitive balance tax, rises from $189 million this year to $195 million in 2017 to $210 million in the deals final season. There are some rate increases and new surtaxes.The premise of the CBT altogether was a drag at the top to keep teams from running away from the group, Clark said.Manfred added: Theres two dynamics around the threshold: stopping people from running away but also having them low enough that people can aspire to spend a little more to be a little more competitive.Among the new details that emerged:? The penalty for a second stimulant violation goes up from 25 to 50 games and for a third rises from 80 to 100. The penalty for a first violation remains follow-up testing.??Random urine tests will increase from 3,200 to 4,800 in-season and from 350 to 1,550 in the offseason, ensuring at least one offseason test for all 40-man roster players. Random blood testing rises from 260 to 500 in-season and from 140 to 400 in the offseason.? The number of teams disqualified from revenue sharing drops from 15 to 13. A person familiar with the details, speaking on condition of anonymity because no announcement was made, said Atlanta and Houston were the teams that became eligible.? Major league players may not be traded during the final week of the regular season.??The new All-Star bonus pool for the winning team is $640,000, which calculates to $20,000 per player.??After fan and player voting, the final roster selections in each league (seven in NL and five in AL) will be made by the commissioners office rather than the All-Star managers.??While a team with a payroll $40 million or more above the luxury tax threshold would have its highest draft pick dropped 10 places, the top six selections are protected, and those teams, if penalized, would have their second pick dropped 10 slots.??The commissioner may schedule regular-season games at ballparks other than the regular sites, and players would receive additional compensation.??Players would receive $15,000 to $100,000 each for special events such as games in Mexico, Asia, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and London.??Signing bonuses of $10,000 or less do not count against a teams international signing bonus pool.??Teams will increase their annual pension and medical benefits contribution to about $200 million. 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Air Max Shoes Online Usa . -- Yogi Ferrell orchestrates pretty much everything in Indianas offence.Lynsey Armitage proudly represents Team Northumbria as the oldest player in the Superleague and hopes to make her experience count against Surrey Storm. The 40-year-old former England player is expected to feature on the court when Team Northumbria take on reigning champions Surrey on Monday night, live on Sky Sports 2 from 7.30pm.Armitage admits she could not resist a call to compete in the Vitality Superleague again and the seasoned shooter believes she offers a different attacking option to Team Northumbria. It was too good of an opportunity to say no, said Armitage. I still captain a Premier League side, but to get asked to come back and play Superleague, why would you say no to it?Its a fantastic opportunity, not only to play netball, but also introduce a different style of play to a team that hasnt got a tall shooter. Its a little bit of a learning curve for the Northumbria girls as well, because they are all quite young. With the experience that Ive got, I stay quite calm and bring a different dynamic to the team. Surrey claimed victory over Team Northumbria earlier this season Armitage enjoys her status as the most senior player in the league, but admits the rapidly developing sport is becoming increasingly physical.She said: I was 40 in January, which was the week I got asked to play actually. I did answer: you do know how old I am?There shouldnt be an age limit on what you can do, if youve got a decent enough ability. It should be about that, more than the age.Reflecting on changes in Netball, Armitage added: Its amazing. Its not just to do with the sponsorshipp and the money.dddddddddddd Just the physical ability of the players now. All the girls are in the gym and the sheer strength of the girls, I think you have to be more of athlete. Team Northumbria will line-up against Surrey Storm on Monday night Team Northumbria have picked up confidence boosting wins over Loughborough Lightning and Yorkshire Jets this season.Armitage admits the team is a work in progress, but believes they can emerge as genuine title rivals in the coming years.I dont think anyone would have had us down to turn over Loughborough like we did and it was a great day, she said.It just shows the depth in the squad and the mental strength of the team. It was a shame we lost to Celtic Dragons the other week.But this a young squad and they are looking to progress this team, so that in the next few years they are competing with the likes of Storm and Manchester Thunder.Watch Team Northumbria take on Surrey Storm, live on Sky Sports 2 from 7.30pm on Monday. Or watch for £6.99 without a contract, on NOW TV. 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Jevon Carter’s Possible Destinations
Michael Gresko
Everybody knows Jevon Carter is going to hear his name called in this year’s NBA Draft, but nobody knows what round or what team will choose him. However, you can narrow it down to about three teams that Carter would fit in perfectly with.
After bettering his draft stock at the 2018 NBA Combine, Carter has been contacted by several teams for another workout. These teams include Minnesota, Sacramento, Los Angeles Lakers, Utah, Phoenix, and Memphis. Carter also has a workout scheduled in the near future with the Dallas Mavericks.
When Carter was asked what he could bring to the NBA, he responded with, “Defense, winning mentality, leadership, and just playing hard every possession.”
Jevon Carter’s mom is from Memphis, and he has spent a lot of time there growing up. He attended a few Grizzlies games when he was younger, and they seem to be a pretty good fit for Carter.
They currently have an aging Mike Conley at the point guard position, and they play a style of basketball where Carter can come in and play a good amount of minutes right away.
Memphis plays with the slowest pace in the NBA, not scoring a lot of points and winning games with a stingy defense. They currently hold the 4th and 32nd overall picks in the draft. If Carter is still on the board early in the second round, then Memphis wouldn’t hesitate to pull the trigger on him.
Next up, the Minnesota Timberwolves. Carter has spent a lot of time around their facility, also while attending games in the first round of the playoffs against Houston.
The T-Wolves have two picks in this years draft at 20th and 48th overall, so Carter could easily go to them with either of their selections. With a good core group of Jimmy Butler, Andrew Wiggins, and Karl-Anthony Towns, Carter could go their and not have the pressure of having to lead a team immediately.
He would also be able to learn from Jeff Teague, who has been a reliable guard in the league for several years now.
Finally, the Utah Jazz. Fresh off of a Western Conference Semi-Finals run, where they fell to the Houston Rockets, the Jazz are looking to take the next step in the upcoming year.
The Jazz also play with a style that would be perfect for Jevon Carter. They play that grit and grind style of defense and score when they have too.
Unanimous All-Rookie 1st-Team selection, Donovan Mitchell, will be expected to do most of their scoring next year, while defensive big man, Rudy Gobert, will be the anchor on the other end of the floor.
Carter could come in and immediately create a positive impact for the Jazz. He would play behind Ricky Rubio, where I believe he will develop a better play-making ability over the years.
Utah holds onto the 21st and 52nd picks in the draft. With a great fanbase, coach, and a good young core group, this is a place that I would love to see Carter end up going to.
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South Korean girl group TWICE makes bolder comeback with ‘Fancy’
April 23, 2019 6:45 PM by Christhel Cuazon
South Korean girl group from JYP Entertainment, TWICE shocked their fans with a bolder and fiercer comeback with their 7th mini album title track ‘Fancy.’
On Monday, the nine-member-group showed their glamorous outfits and difficult choreography with flashing retro-like lights. In an interview, the group said that the song gives out a of slight EDM and contains lots of CG.
“Fancy” is a bouncing electro-pop track that keeps the group’s quintessentially retro-inspired, addicting sound while turning to a bit of a bolder styling that revels in dynamic synths and playful digital quirks, as per Billboard. Also, the group’s vocals take on a bit more of a mature, sultry tone during the verses, but TWICE maintains their exuberant, upbeat energy for the song’s chorus.
“Fancy” was co-written by Black Eyed Pilseung, who has written many of TWICE’s past hits including 2015 debut single “Like Ooh-Ahh” and 2016’s “TT.” The songwriting duo, which consists of Rado and Choi Kyu-sung, is credited alongside Jeon Goon.
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The 10 Worst Bob Dylan Songs
Oh, Bobby D. As great as you can be, you've sure had some epic stinkers. And no, they weren't all from the '80s
‘All the Tired Horses’
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It’s one of rock criticism’s most famous lines: “What is this s—?” So began Greil Marcus’ review of Bob Dylan’s 1970 album Self Portrait. The same could be asked of the record’s opening track, which consists of two lines — “All the tired horses in the sun/ How’m I supposed to get any ridin’ done? Hmm” — repeated over and over again by a group of female singers for just about three minutes. The singing is hypnotic enough to lure sailors to their deaths, and the instrumentation is pleasant enough. But Dylan’s nowhere to be seen, obviously. So forget this song.
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Singer and Songwriter Chantaul Williams is back on the scene with her self-directed motivational visual to “Dreaming,” produced by Tim “Kfigz” Walls and shot by Buck TV. The BET Music Matters artist is definitely not a stranger to the EGL family and has been gaining major momentum in her music career since we last spoke. An effervescent Chantaul was featured last year on the site with an introduction to her hit single“Dreaming,” which appears on her project entitled All In. In the midst of her career growth, Chantaul was able to release “Dreaming” on Radio One’s 92.7 The Block (Charlotte, NC), open up for acts such as Ro James, R. Kelly, Monica, as well as lend her talents to of Rap Caviar’s “Creating A Song Without Speaking” under Spotify with Ibeatz (the producer behind Drake’s “Gyalchester”).
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Chantaul: When creating the video “Dreaming” I told myself wanted it to be about how I got into music and dabbing past the haters, lol. A lot of the times haters can stop us but only if we let them. The video was shot in 3 days. It was so crazy because I created every look with a creative mind and the spirit of my grandmother. She was the inspiration behind creating this video. While she was fighting for cancer she would always tell me to keep dreaming and go for my dreams.
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C: Here’s how the video plays out: The little girl (Samantha) with the pigtails is a young Chantaul; she plays the 5-7 year old version of me. I was so excited at that age when my dad put me in the booth and that’s what portrays the “excitement” in the booth. The guy (Damiacci) plays my father. When I was young he taught me about mixing records; it was more so because I always wanted to be in the studio with him, which made him put me into the booth. I was always amazed by anything dealing with music seeing that I grew up in a family full of soul singers.
The other girl plays the middle school version of me. When I was young I would go to this park by myself and walk around looking to the sky, seeing bigger dreams for myself. My momma told me “You was ready to come out into the world.” I just always saw myself flourishing in life but fear held me back. The skateboarders were guys I randomly found in the park and told them I wanted to use them for the shot. They inspired me so much by how they would continue practicing the same tricks. I asked why and they responded saying, “because the fear is not being able to do it, so if I keep doing it eventually I’ll perfect it and become great at it.”
The video basically goes through the different ages of me , my love for music, and how it was introduced to me. The scenes on the parking deck describes the dreamer, the fearless Chantaul. The Chantaul who’s ready to take over but still inspire.
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Suriname, officially called Republic of Suriname is the smallest Country belonging to the South American Continent on the northeastern Atlantic coast, bordered by Brazil in the south, Guyana in the west and French Guiana in the east. It is a member of CARICOM and considered to be a culturally Caribbean country that also has extensive trade and cultural exchanges with the Caribbean nations, but rather unexplored by tourists. Our Funny and Interesting facts about Suriname will
Top 10 Fun And Interesting Facts About Suriname
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Capital And Largest City: Paramaribo (In 2002, the historic inner city of Paramaribo was declared as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.)
Currency: Surinamese Dollar (SRD)
Official Languages: Dutch, Religious Languages: Sranan Tongo, Surinamese Hindi/Sarnami and Ameri-Indian languages.
Independence Day: November 25, 1975
Type Of Government: Constitutional Democracy
Main Exports: The main exports of Suriname is bauxite, kind of aluminium ore (source)
1. Tropical rainforests make up about 80% of Suriname´s total Landscape. The highest point in Suriname is Juliana Top at 1,230m (4035ft). It is a country very rich in flora and fauna.
2. Almost 50% of Suriname´s population lives in the Capital City Paramaribo. Paramaribo is one of the few capital cities world wide where it is possible to see a mosque located adjacent to a synagogu. That´s tolerance
3. Suriname is the smallest country in South America not only in geographical size but also in population.
4. Suriname has a famous Toad “the Surinam Toad” or also known as “Pica Pica” and has some seemingly unique reproductive practices. The female Pica Pica raises tadpoles to mini toad size in the spongy skin of her back and doesn’t have a tongue or teeth.
5. Adults under the age of 30 are not allowed to get married in Suriname without a written permission from their parents.
6. The 2nd grade science book approved by the MINOV (Ministry of Education and the People’s Development) contains an illustrated lesson about “junkies”. In Suriname kids are taught early on what junkies are and how to avoid to become one
7. Would you believe that a south american country´s official language is “Dutch”? Well, Dutch is Suriname´s official language, it is not spanish contrary to most believes.
8. Suriname was also known as “Dutch Guiana”, when the territory was taken over by the Dutch.
9. Suriname´s national and favourite sport is Soccer (football), they never won a major soccer event though.
10. Spaniards came to Suriname in the 16th century, because they´ve been in search of gold, however they did not stay long since they did not found any. The Dutch visited Suriname a century later.
That´s a wrap on those interesting facts, hopefully you liked it and know a bit more about this very small and rather unknown country.
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Niels says:
Wow, thank you for being degrading about my language, it makes me so happy to see somebody do that. (Dutch.) Thank you really mature of a site like this.
Eugen Dinj says:
goede dag Niels, which part do you find “degrading”?
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Twin PKK attacks martyr 8 in SE Turkey
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Eight people, including police officers, were martyred and several others injured on Wednesday in two separate PKK bomb attacks in southeastern Turkey, according to the country’s transport minister.
At least three people, including one police officer, were martyred and 30 others, including five police officers, were injured when a handmade roadside explosive was detonated by terrorist organization PKK as a police vehicle was passing by in the Kiziltepe district of the southeastern Mardin province, said Transport Minister Ahmet Arslan.
The terrorist organization PKK also carried out a separate attack in the Sur district of the southeastern Diyarbakir province on Wednesday, targeting another police vehicle.
In Diyarbakir, five civilians were martyred and 12 people, including five police officers, were injured during the bomb attack, according to a statement of provincial governorship. A bomb-laden car was used in the attack, the statement added.
The U.S. “strongly” denounced the attacks with Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter calling them “despicable” in a statement.
“With these attacks, we are reminded of the remarkable bravery and self-sacrifice that allied security personnel demonstrate every day in the fight against terrorism,” he said. “The United States remains committed to cooperating closely with Turkey – bilaterally, within the counter-ISIL coalition, and within NATO – in order to defend our nations against common threats.”
The PKK — listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S. and the EU — resumed its 30-year armed campaign against the Turkish state in July 2015.
Since then, over 600 security personnel, including troops, police officers and village guards have been martyred and more than 7,000 PKK terrorists killed or neutralized in operations across Turkey and northern Iraq.
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When The Glow Matters
Today’s fall/winter season is nothing of what you could ever imagine it would be. It seems like it took an absolutely brand new meaning. All of those gorgeous colors got even brighter than they were in spring and certainly remind a total objection toward the upcoming cold days. Oh, though it might be taken also as a huge celebration of an approaching winter period. We say that spring is surely beautiful but autumn is really dramatic!
Among of all the new trends color takes the first place and it leaks through the whole itemization of trends. Whether it is a 60’s or 70’s dress – it should be ultra-turquoise or scarlet tone. It has an explicit trace on every element of your wardrobe. Whatever fur you wear: sable, mink, yak, or fox; it all should have a bold tint. It is a time to express your inner world by the transmission of it into the flush. Add some more glitter and gold to fabrics. The jewels’ admirers may turn into precious stones themselves instead of wearing it as an accessory. Emerald, sapphire and ruby are the new names of your dress’s color. Shimmer becomes girl’s best friend so rise and shine, mon bijou!
It’s certainly all about the blooming and redolence. Feels like you can almost smell the grace of the streamy lines that the dress moves in. It makes an illusion like a girl wears burgeon bud of some flower, doesn’t it?
Speaking about the fur, ladies, it is time to adopt the guise of an actress from the old glamorous Hollywood. You can wear it as a major item or you can add it as an element of your general look. Clip a little piece of a bright fur to the side of your purse or wrap it around your shoulders like Frida Giannini did on her Gucci show. It won’t be superfluous if you decide to envelop your tiny waist into a fur as models did it on Miu Miu show. Carolina Herrera turned even sleeves of the coat into fur too. They just can’t get enough of fluffy details. This season it is all according to your own taste! Stay in warm and still be beautiful!
The male suit has never been as much important as it appeared to be this season. Female attire has gotten such an androgynous look and a tuxedo acquired such a key role. Upon trend’s quote it definitely looks much more elegant. It looks like a genuine triumph of a woman’s masculine spirit. It’s clearly that Dolce & Gabbana, Isabel Marant and Chanel may be considered as the legislators of such a sophisticated twist. Paul Smith seems to think a woman does not need her own clothes as long as she may use her man’s wardrobe. In turn we should pay tribute to Jason Wu, Emilio Pucci and Moschino collections for making the same suit look so chic and classy. So, the options are still available.
Everything is changing
The most customary thing at the first sight as a coat gained absolutely bizarre mold. This is the case when you can easily apply to the can ever imagine in your mind. Do not hesitate to experiment; this is a chance to bring the fantasy into reality as Victor & Rolf, Louise Gray, Mary Katrantzou and Balenciaga did. Substitution of concepts takes place wherever you look at. The podiums are saturated with different variation on a “coat” theme. Cape-like coat, blanket wools, ponchos are the highlights of all the fashion tendencies. It never hurts to retouch a little. No matter how hard the designers would not try to implement the metamorphosis into the woman’s life, you can’t hide your true significance. An alluring lace and transparent fabrics become the most favorite items. You can always add some spicy note and make it your own fetish! Stripes of leather, seductive décolleté and rubber boots make you look like a mistress which is one of your million roles because this season you’re an actress! From the times of Diane von Furstenberg’s worship of a woman’s worth and Brigitte Bardot’s sexuality toward the nowadays where you play your own role of being a woman! It’s a lifetime supply! Show your true colors! It’s a new YOU!
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Only marble factory in Kunar at standstill
Mar 17, 2017 - 17:46
ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Owner of the only marble factory in eastern Kunar province says his $250,000 investment was wasted after the government denied him contract.
The factory started functioning three years ago but its operations came to a halt after the government ordered closed marble mines.
The factory’s owner, Malak Lotfullah Zaheer, said his factory which was established three years ago had to be closed a month after its inauguration.
He said the government had awarded him a contract for extraction of marbles, but the contract was cancelled after a month.
He said he had invested $250,000 in the factory and had employed dozens of workers.
Zaheer told Pajhwok Afghan News they would bring marble stones from mines to the factory but now they had been told by the ministry that the president had blocked contracts.
He said 70 percent of deposits in Kunar contained marbles and if the government did not grant him the contract, his factory would collapse.
He said the marble in Kunar enjoyed good reputation for its colours on regional and international level. The government should encourage the industry instead of creating problems for it, he said.
A resident of Asadabad, the provincial capital, Amirullah, said closure of the only marble factory in Kunar had rendered dozens of workers jobless who were now in economic constrains.
He said the government should once again award the contract to the factory in order to encourage the sector in Kunar province.
Amir Muhibullah, whose contract has also been withheld, said he had completed all legal requirements two years ago and had bought equipment from Iran and Turkey.
He said the Ministry of Mines had told them the government had suspended contracts.
He said if the government was not giving them contract, it should buy equipment they had bought for marble extractions.
Kunar Mines and Petroleum director Eng. Haroon Rashid said those lacking permits were not allowed to extract marble stone under the relevant law.
He said they had sent successful bidders to the Ministry of Mines and Petroleum for approving their contracts, but the bidders were told the law on mines had been amended.
Under the new law, all contracts are approved by the National Procurement Commission.
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Transport ministry’s revenue up by 36pc in 3 months
KABUL (Pajhwok): The revenue of the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) has increased by 36 percent in the last three months, compared to the corresponding period of last year, an official said on Tuesday. Acting transport and civil... read more
Administrative procedure draft law finalized: Naderi
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Services Commission (IARCSC) on Sunday announced finalizing “the administrative procedure draft law”, saying government services would become fast and transparent once the law is... read more
Ahmadzai terms his removal as unconstitutional
KABUL (Pajhwok): The ousted head of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) has accused President Ashraf Ghani of violating the Constitution and termed his removal as illegal and based on wrong suggestions. Addressing a press conference here,... read more
No preparations for upcoming polls irks TEFA
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Transparent Election Foundation of Afghanistan (TEFA) on Sunday expressed its concern about “the lack of preparations” for holding upcoming elections. The electoral watchdog alleged elements in the camps of the president and... read more
MoD dispatches team to probe ‘misguided’ Helmand airstrike
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Defense (MoD) on Monday notified about dispatching a team for scrutiny of the mistaken airstrike in southern Helmand province that killed nine Afghan security personnel. Gen. Dawlat Waziri, the MoD spokesman,... read more
Khalili, Mohaqiq stress transparent conduct of Wolesi Jirga election
KABUL (Pajhwok): Some politicians on Sunday demanded the next year Wolesi Jirga and district council elections to be free, fair and transparent. Mohammad Karim Khalili, former vice president and incumbent head of the High Peace Council (HPC),... read more
Rabbani paid rich tribute on 6th death anniversary
KABUL (Pajhwok): The sixth death anniversary of former president and High Peace Council (HPC) chief Burhanuddin Rabbani was observed in Kabul on Thursday, with participants demanding security, peace and unity in Afghanistan. The ceremony was... read more
Sayyaf blasts govt for ignoring Islamic teachings
KABUL (Pajhwok): Jihadi leader Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayyaf on Thursday claimed the government had failed to protect Islamic values by allowing corruption, thefts, vulgarity and immorality. Addressing a gathering marking the sixth anniversary of... read more
National Assembly fares weakly in representing people: survey
KABUL (Pajhwok): A recent survey released on Monday said the Wolesi Jirga performed well in terms of monitoring government’s work and doing legislation during the current legislative year than the previous one, but fared ‘poorly’ in representing the... read more
500 volunteers to help maintain Muharram security
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Kabul Garrison says as many as 500 youngsters are ready to keep security for religious places during Muharram mourning days alongside security forces. Lt. Gen. Afzal Aman Aman, acting director general of the Kabul Garrison,... read more
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Alabama Crimson Tide at Tennessee Volunteers Betting Odds – Free PIck
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Opening Line: Alabama -13 Over/Under: 58 Time: 3:30 PM EST Saturday October 15, 2016 on CBS Alabama Crimson Tide (6-0) vs. Tennessee Volunteers (5-1) This is a game that has been circled on the college football calendar since the beginning of the season, but this HUGE SEC match up lost a little luster with Tennessee losing their first game of the season this last Saturday. They are … [Read more...]
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Ben Hill Griffin Stadium Opening Line: LSU -3 Over/Under: 41 Time: 12 PM EST Saturday October 8, 2016 on ESPN LSU Tigers (3-2) vs. Florida Gators (4-1) LSU won their first game without the fired Les Miles on the sidelines in their last game and they are a three-point road favorite in this big rivalry game. Florida got over their first loss of the season with a win over Vanderbilt in … [Read more...]
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Date/Time: 3:30 PM EST Saturday October 1, 2016 Location: Sanford Stadium Athens, G TV: CBS Betting Odds Point Spread: Tennessee -3 Total Line: 54 Tennessee Volunteers vs. Georgia Bulldogs on 10//1/15 at 3:30 PM at Sanford Stadium Athens, GA. The linesmaker has Tennessee as the 3-point road favorite with a total of 54. Tennessee is 4-0 with an ATS record of 2-2 and an O/U … [Read more...]
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Belize it or not: A paranormal paradise
There are certain places on this planet where the restless spirits of the dark linger. They manifest as curious voices and sinister smells; they move things about; they dart out of the shadows as ghostly apparitions. These are the places considered the most haunted in the world.You’d be forgiven if you assumed Belize was not of them. But you’d be wrong. Dead wrong.
Known for its unspoiled beauty, its extreme biodiversity and distinctive ecosystems, Belize does not immediately come to mind as a hot bed for the paranormal; however, considering its small size, the country’s overflowing with fearsome and persistent legends — stories so terrifying they are passed down from generation to generation as part of the region’s folklore.
Belize’s legends include amazing tales of ghostly apparitions whose eyes glow red, jungle gnomes with backward feet who’ll rip your thumbs off and beautiful but deadly women who’ll steal your heart and then your soul.
1. Goblins: Tata Duende
As one of the most heavily forested and lightly populated countries in the world, there’s no better place than Belize to escape the hustle and bustle with a long walk in the woods. However, if you come across an ugly little man wearing a big red hat, don’t show him your hands — especially if you value your thumbs.
The Tata Duende (also referred to as El Sisimito) is a mythical goblin of Belizean folklore, a powerful spirit that protects animals and the jungle. He’s one of the region’s best-known legends, appearing on a Belizean postage stamp as part of a series on the folklore. He’s like a paranormal Elvis.
Tata Duende carved into a stump. Wanna meet him? Carve a message to him in pine. Photo courtesy of Gionni Scaduto.
He’s often described as a short man, a little over a metre in height, with a pinched up sour face, wearing a wide-brimmed red hat and animal skins, missing both thumbs, and with feet facing backwards to throw people off his trail. Oh, another thing — he doesn’t have thumbs, which has stoked a strong desire to rip off anyone’s thumbs he encounters. Prevent his thumblust by tucking your opposable digits into the palms of your hands as soon as you see him. If you’re quick enough, he’ll take an immediate liking to you, believing you to be a compatriot. And if he likes you, he’ll be more than happy to teach you to play his silver guitar.
So, the next time you hear a whistle in the jungles of Belize — hide your thumbs.
2. Ghosts: The Stone Lady
The ancient Mayan ruin of Xunantunich (pronounced Shoo-nahn-too-neech) lies about 128kms (80 miles) west of Belize City. Whether you’re a curious traveler or paranormal enthusiast, Xunantunich should top your list of places to visit, as it’s one of Belize's most easily accessible and impressive archaeological sites — and it’s cursed, too! Local legend holds that the ruins are haunted by a woman dressed completely in white with eyes that glow red like campfire embers.
Xunantunich's largest pyramid, El Castillo, rises 130 feet above the main plaza.
Dubbed the Stone Woman, she generally appears in front of the ruin’s El Castillo, ascends the stone stairs, and disappears into a stone frieze. If this ghostly victim were indeed a Mayan from nearly two thousand years ago, it’s appropriate that she would haunt the temple stairs — a procession up El Castillo would have figured prominently in ritual human sacrifice. The Stone Woman’s appearance is so strongly associated with the area that the site itself is now named after the ghost — Xunantunich means Stone Woman in the Maya language.
3. Shapeshifters: Xtabai
According to legend, the Xtabai (pronouced Shta-bye) is an evil spirit who appears as a beautiful woman. She’s said to hide in the thorny trunk of Belize’s ceiba tree. If, while passing this tree at night, you catch a fleeting glimpse of an enchanting woman combing her long hair — or if you hear a soft whispered phrase or a sweet song of love, do not look up. Repeat: Do not look up.
The unmistakable thick conical thorns on the trunk of the ceiba tree. Photo courtesy of Gionni Scaduto.
She’ll beckon you to come closer and you’ll be unable to resist her passionate embrace, which will cause you to fall into a deep and hypnotic sleep. When you wake up — provided that you do wake up — you’ll find that you’ve been in the passionate embrace of a spiny cactus all night long. What’s more? The wounds that you receive will likely result in a fever that is very often fatal. It’s a thorny predicament.
Of course, The Xtabai can be very tricky and can take on many shapes. When not in the form of a beautiful woman, some locals contend she takes on the form of a snake, while others claim they have seen her without any flesh. But the scariest form the Xtabai takes on? Someone you know.
4. Scared? You better Belize it!
Belize offers some of the most breathtaking scenery anywhere in Central America — thick tropical forests envelop much of the country, while just offshore, dazzling turquoise shallows and cobalt depths prove enchanting. For these treasures it is well known, of course — but its jungles and ruins hold a wealth of more… unearthly treasures. So, does the region deserve to be counted as a hot bed of the paranormal? You better Belize it!
G Adventures runs a number of departures in Belize encompassing a wide range of departure dates and activities to cater for different tastes. We’re thrilled at the prospect of showing you this big blue planet of ours — check out our small group trips here.
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Funko POP! Games: Five Nights at Freddy's 3.75 inch Vinyl Figure - Freddy. Collect your favorite characters from the hit survival-horror game, Five Nights at Freddy's! Freddy has been reimagined with the Pop! Vinyl stylization. This Five Nights at Freddy's Freddy Pop! Vinyl Figure measures approximately 3.75 inches tall and comes packaged in a window display box. The Funko POP! Games: Five Nights at Freddy's 3.75 inch Vinyl Figure - Freddy Features: 3.75 inches tall Window display box Funko is a pop culture licensed-focused toy company located in Everett, WA. Funko currently holds more than 150 licenses including, but not limited to; Lucas Films, Marvel, Hasbro, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, DC Comics, NBA, Sanrio, and Disney. Funko's Pop! Vinyl is the number one stylized vinyl collectible in the world with over 10 million units sold in the last three years. Toys > Category > Action Figures & Hero Play, NERF Blasters > Action Figures & Hero Play > Action Figures & Play Sets - Shop by Category > Minifigures & Vinyl. Toys & Games > Toys > Dolls, Playsets & Toy Figures > Action & Toy Figures.
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AMD shares have risen 800% in the past five years, and Su Zifeng has been selected as the best CEO in the world.
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Other well-known names on the list are Amazon CEO Bezos and Disney CEO Robert Iger.MicrosoftCEO Nadella et al.
Barron believes that since he became CEO in 2014,AMDThe market position has obviously recovered and improved, and has become more and more important.IntelIt poses a strong threat. During this period, AMD released Zen CPU architecture, Polaris GPU, and the new promotion also brought Zen 2 and Navi products based on 7nm.
At the same time, Su Zifeng's engineering background is also considered to be an important factor leading AMD to move forward correctly. As Dr. Su himself said, "I love staying with engineers, going to the lab and feeling the real challenges, because it will help me make better business decisions."
According to financial data, AMD's revenue has increased by more than 20% in the past two years, reaching $337 million in 2018.AMD's share price rose 800% during Su's tenure as CEO, and last year it was No. 1 on the S& P 500 index.。 In addition, as of June 10 this year, the stock price has climbed 80% from the beginning of the year.
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Kill. It. With. FIRE.
Who the FUCK do these people think they're joking. Really?
Hidden stuff:
In the futuristic action-thriller 'Repo Men,' humans have extended and improved our lives through highly sophisticated and expensive mechanical organs created by a company called The Union. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is that if you dont pay your bill, The Union sends its highly skilled repo men to take back its property...with no concern for your comfort or survival.
Jude Law plays Remy, one of the best organ repo men in the business. When he suffers a cardiac failure on the job, he awakens to find himself fitted with the company's top-of-the-line heart-replacement...as well as a hefty debt. But a side effect of the procedure is that his heart's no longer in the job. When he can't make the payments, The Union sends its toughest enforcer, Remy's former partner Jake (Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker), to track him down.
Now that the hunter has become the hunted, Remy joins Beth (Alice Braga), another debtor who teaches him how to vanish from the system. And as he and Jake embark on a chase across a landscape populated by maniacal friends and foes, one man will become a reluctant champion for thousands on the run.
Saw series mainstay Darren Lynn Bousman reunites with Twisted Pictures producers Oren Koules and Mark Burg for this futuristic shocker detailing a terrifying epidemic of organ failures. The denizens of planet Earth have been devastated by inexplicable and widespread organ failures, and as a result scientists begin planning a substantial organ harvest. Though an innovative biotech conglomerate subsequently offers the fearful public a means of maintaining their health by enacting a series of hassle-free organ payment plans, things begin to get messy when it's revealed that the financed body parts are subjected to legal default, and that failure to maintain proper payment will result in forceful repossession of the organs. Paul Sorvino and Spy Kids' Alexa Vega star alongside celebrity socialite Paris Hilton in the Lionsgate film. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
Fucking REALLY?
Terrence went to Universal, where they said they liked the whole idea, just not the musical aspect. So, what do they do? They make a mainstream version behind Terrence and Darren's backs! Fucking bastards.
Whatever. Repo! is a million times better.
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The Thread To Remind Me We're Living In The Future
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Re: The Thread To Remind Me We're Living In The Future
Postby addams » Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:36 pm UTC
A heater without a Thermostat?
ech.
Most have some sort of thermostat.
Sometimes the thermostats break or malfunction.
At the moment I live with non-functional thermostats.
It's no big deal. It is not a Space Heater.
It is either On or Off.
None of that weird only so Hot; Cool off; Repeat.
In the Future?
Here in the Future are Ear Buds.
I knew about Ear Buds.
Loads of people have them.
I tried a pair.
!Holy Shit!
I think I want to try it, again.
Ear Buds.
Ear Buds are a Future Technology.
How are we handling Ear Buds?
Like all Technology.
Some of us are handling it better than others.
It is possible for me to have a conversation with another person.
It's Possible! I didn't write, 'Likely.'
I can have a Symphony playing in my head.
The other person can have Rap with a Rugged Tempo playing in their head.
That was always True.
I can have some song running through my head, because I like it and have heard it many, many times and -(do-do-do; hum-dee-dee-dum)-
The very next person inside their own skin may have a very different song running through their head. (do--waop--Ramma-Ramma *ding/dong*)
Today it is a little different.
The songs in the Ear Buds are Good.
So much better to hear Music than to Remember Music.
Ear Buds are a Blessing!
I think This is Music.
You think That is Music.
We stand beside one another and exist in different Universes?
That may not be a Good Thing. What do you think?
I want to try the Ear Buds, again.
Life is, just, an exchange of electrons; It is up to us to give it meaning.
We are all in The Gutter.
Some of us see The Gutter.
Some of us see The Stars.
by mr. Oscar Wilde.
Those that want to Know; Know.
Those that do not Know; Don't tell them.
They do terrible things to people that Tell Them.
Postby elasto » Thu Apr 10, 2014 9:57 am UTC
"3 years away from a phone battery that can charge from flat to full in 30 seconds"
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Postby Arancaytar » Thu Apr 10, 2014 2:02 pm UTC
elasto wrote: "3 years away from a phone battery that can charge from flat to full in 30 seconds"
"I've solved the interesting research problems. The rest is just business, which is easy, right?"
"You cannot dual-wield the sharks. One is enough." -Our DM.
I'm more interested in a car battery that can be charged in minutes. Would make electric cars much more viable.
Honestly, the electric car market and renewables are marketed to Americans all wrong. Buy Tesla because you love America! When you buy electric cars, you support Americans. When you use electricity instead of oil, you support American families (insert picture of rugged coal miners looking at waving flags) instead of obese oversexed Saudi and Venezuelan autocrats. Electric cars, even if powered by the dirtiest coal, in the end price less than half the pollution of gasoline cars. So electric cars keep America beautiful (insert bald eagle screech)!
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Postby Diadem » Thu Apr 10, 2014 2:53 pm UTC
Electric cars are awesome in every possible way, except range and top speed. They are better for the environment, produce less noise, require much less maintenance, have a longer lifetime (except for the batteries), and they accelerate like a bat out of hell. A lack of top speed is something that most people can live with (and I'm sure faster electric cars can be produced, in time). The lack or range is what has been blocking electric cars so far. Being able to charge them in seconds would help a lot - you'd need more stops at the 'gas' station, but if they are sufficiently fast that is not a major issue in well developed areas.
I'm not saying better marketing can't help in getting more people to buy them. But better batteries would be the Big Thing.
It's one of those irregular verbs, isn't it? I have an independent mind, you are an eccentric, he is round the twist
- Bernard Woolley in Yes, Prime Minister
Postby addams » Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:05 pm UTC
CorruptUser wrote: I'm more interested in a car battery that can be charged in minutes. Would make electric cars much more viable.
You may be only interested in the end product that will make your Dreams Come True.
I think you should be grateful that someone else is interested in the Little Things along the way.
It is nice for you and me to make the Intellectual Leap from a tiny battery that charges in 30 seconds to a large battery that charges in 30 seconds.
I am pleased someone is doing that kind of work.
Those Bucky Balls may Save Us All.
I am Ranty, today.
And; For good reason.
I am foe to most.
The rest are protected by a Spoiler.
Bucky was an American.
Are you so proud?
He had no idea.
Bucky Balls like most Science Shit were here before man.
Bucky Balls like most Science Shit were right there the Whole Time.
Look what Humanity at its best can do!
Sand and Gold become the minds of computers.
Bucky Balls harvest the power of the sun.
Norwegians get Good Coffee and your Prius charges in 5 mins.
Will you quit bitching.
THEY. The mysterious, They, are constrained by the Laws Of Nature, too.
If the story is true. I'm guessing, they are doing their best.
That is good. 30 second charge.
Imagine what they could do if we were on their side?
Give them Half a Break. huh?
Even if it is only Lip Service.
Give your intellectual superiors Half a Break.
Postby speising » Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:07 pm UTC
Arancaytar wrote:
operative statement:
"But the startup [...] is planning to do all that."
Addams, if they can create a small battery that can recharge instantly, they can create a large one that does the same. Having a phone recharge instantly is nice but not so critical, as I can leave my phone plugged in while I'm at work or home or driving. I can't leave my car plugged in anywhere but home.
Postby Tyndmyr » Thu Apr 10, 2014 3:38 pm UTC
Well, yeah, the Tesla has done the image thing a lot better. Not in exactly this way, but they've gone with an image of awesome, rather than the budget car approach. So, people tend to think of Tesla despite Tesla not actually being that huge in term of automakers.
And yeah, I'd *love* improvements in car batteries. I keep looking eagerly at hybrids/full electrics, but my non-hybrid civic remains sufficiently cost-effective that I can't justify switching. Yet.
Electric cars keep getting better, though.
Postby Thesh » Thu Apr 10, 2014 11:35 pm UTC
Vaginas successfully grown in a lab:
http://www.livescience.com/44756-lab-gr ... lants.html
One step closer to building sex bots with living tissue.
Postby CorruptUser » Fri Apr 11, 2014 3:51 am UTC
So... can it be used for trans women?
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Postby PhoenixEnigma » Fri Apr 11, 2014 4:32 am UTC
addams wrote: Give them Half a Break. huh?
I'd rather give them more of my tax dollars, to be honest. The future is basically built on science and ingenuity, and giving money to people with the ingenuity to work on science seems like a good way to get there.
CorruptUser wrote: Addams, if they can create a small battery that can recharge instantly, they can create a large one that does the same. Having a phone recharge instantly is nice but not so critical, as I can leave my phone plugged in while I'm at work or home or driving. I can't leave my car plugged in anywhere but home.
The battery might be able to take it, but delivering enough power to charge a phone in half a minute is much easier than doing the same for a car. A fuel pump at a gas station delivers (potential) energy at a pretty fantastic rate (~20MW), and I'm not sure how we'll match that with an electric connection in the near future. Even accounting for increased efficiency with electric vehicles, power delivery is a pretty substantial issue - to charge a base model Tesla S from flat in 5 minutes would require ~700kW. That's an engineering problem that extends past the battery pack.
"Optimism, pessimism, fuck that; we're going to make it happen. As God is my bloody witness, I'm hell-bent on making it work." -Elon Musk
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Postby addams » Fri Apr 11, 2014 6:47 am UTC
Home, Work, While Shopping, While Watching a Film.
"Where there is a will, there is a way."
The whole No Battery Memory is helpful.
The new batteries can be partially filled without ill effects.
The battery will fill completely next time.
That is such a huge improvement.
Don't worry. You will get the car of your dreams.
And; When you do, bitching about the seat covers will be expected.
I sure hope you don't get a short. It could be shocking.
Don't call her Delphine.
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Postby Angua » Sun Apr 13, 2014 8:51 am UTC
Goggles help surgeon see cancer.
It's just being trialled (so news is probably a bit premature), but the components of the tech put together are still cool. You create a protein that binds to your cancer, but not other cells, label it with a nano-particle that emits light at a wavelength we can't see, inject it into the patient, use the goggles to see the light, and cut it out!
Crabtree's bludgeon: “no set of mutually inconsistent observations can exist for which some human intellect cannot conceive a coherent explanation, however complicated”
err.... and some other kinds of technology might struggle to take off:
We've heard a lot lately about the bursting of the tech bubble, but scientists at Bristol University believe their bubble technology could have a profitable future.
Their system for producing bubbles onto which images can be projected and which release a scent when burst will be unveiled at a major conference on human-computer interfaces this weekend.
The video demonstration of what is described as a "chrono-sensory mid-air display system" shows how bubbles of varying sizes can be created, then tracked so that images can be projected on them.
The technology has already attracted interest from shopping malls. The professor imagines a future where a bakery chain releases bubbles containing the scent of sausage rolls to entice people into their stores - although it sounds to me as though that could turn into an olfactory nightmare, with different scents competing for shoppers' attention.
He also sketches out ideas for what he calls an ambient notification system - for instance, a bubble that would float around your office every now and then with a number showing how many unread emails are in your inbox. "You could go even further. If we encode each category of email with a different scent, the smell would tell you vaguely how many emails you had from family as opposed to work-related ones."
Rofl at the absurdity of that one!
Postby elasto » Fri Apr 25, 2014 2:52 pm UTC
This one's cool though:
A company in China has used giant 3D printers to make 10 full-sized, detached, single-storey houses in a day, it appears.
A private firm, WinSun, used four 10m x 6.6m printers to spray a mixture of cement and construction waste to build the walls, layer by layer, official Xinhua news agency reported.
The cheap materials used during the printing process and the lack of manual labour means that each house can be printed for under $5,000, the 3dprinterplans website says.
"We can print buildings to any digital design our customers bring us. It's fast and cheap," says WinSun chief executive Ma Yihe.
He also hopes his printers can be used to build skyscrapers in the future. At the moment, however, Chinese construction regulations do not allow multi-storey 3D-printed houses, Xinhua says.
Postby addams » Sat Apr 26, 2014 4:41 am UTC
That is amazing.
I don't understand how it works.
How did a 3D printer do that?
3D printers were for tools.
It is a cute little house, anyway.
It is so cute.
It looks like a Vacation Cottage.
How Great would it be to have one of those?
A person would need a Garden to put it in.
What is it like, inside?
If that is True.
Then Woosh!
There goes China!
Woosh! She takes the Lead!
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Postby Adacore » Tue Apr 29, 2014 5:19 am UTC
elasto wrote: This one's cool though:
This makes me immediately worry about the structural soundness of the printed buildings. There are/were big problems in China with buildings not being structurally sound in the case of earthquakes, for example. Can a 3D printed house automatically incorporate rebar for structural support?
Postby elasto » Tue Apr 29, 2014 6:58 am UTC
Don't know. Perhaps that's why regulations do not allow more than single-story houses.
How earthquake-proof is the average single-story house in China anyhow? Wonder if the regulations require them to be reinforced to begin with.
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Postby Djehutynakht » Tue Apr 29, 2014 7:09 am UTC
Swiss scientists studying possibility, dangers of Lake Tsunamis.
Apparently, the risk is small.
Still, it's a cool phrase: Swiss Lake Tsunamis.
Postby johnny_7713 » Tue Apr 29, 2014 7:39 am UTC
Adacore wrote:
You can't print the rebar itself (or at least not with the same machine that prints the cement) so you'd have to put up the rebar first and then print the cement around it. That sounds like a tricky problem to solve, but it's probably not impossible.
Postby Thirty-one » Tue Apr 29, 2014 7:52 am UTC
johnny_7713 wrote: You can't print the rebar itself (or at least not with the same machine that prints the cement) so you'd have to put up the rebar first and then print the cement around it. That sounds like a tricky problem to solve, but it's probably not impossible.
Shouldn't be impossible to mount something like this on the same rails as the cement printer, to move about to print the rebar as you went. Those are likely not that cheap though, plus with a laser that melts steel, you'd have to shield it properly, I suppose.
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Postby elasto » Tue Apr 29, 2014 10:43 am UTC
There are Youtube videos and such of their process. eg. this
They don't seem to use any metal rods; They seem to print just using a mixture of cement and recycled construction/mining waste.
Postby Tyndmyr » Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:49 pm UTC
johnny_7713 wrote:
Horizontal rebars should be relatively easy to add, you could include some sort of dispenser that drops one onto the wet cement every so often. Now, this doesn't entirely fix the issue, as you definitely want vertical support as well, but it might make an intermediate improvement.
Sintered steel on that scale would be cost prohibative, I imagine.
Still, some sort of automated house-creating machine sounds nifty.
Postby johnny_7713 » Tue Apr 29, 2014 4:40 pm UTC
Thirty-one wrote:
It can make wide thin-walled cylinders, but can it also make thin solid cylinders? Can it produce metal with the desired properties? Is the speed anywhere close to being competitive with traditional manufacturing processes? Does the cement remain unaffected by the heat?
Sorry if I'm coming across as too negative, for all I know the answers to the above questions are all yes. 3D-printing touches upon my area of expertise though and I get a bit annoyed by some of the hype on occasion. Yes, you can do lots of cool stuff with 3D-printing, but no, it's not a magic replicator.
[quote=''Tyndmyr'']
Horizontal rebars should be relatively easy to add, you could include some sort of dispenser that drops one onto the wet cement every so often. Now, this doesn't entirely fix the issue, as you definitely want vertical support as well, but it might make an intermediate improvement. [/quote]
I'm not a civil engineer, but I'm pretty sure the largest loads in buildings are vertical (at least in the walls), in which case horizontal rebar isn't going to do much for you. For floors that would work though.
Agreed. My guess is that the speed/quality/cost tradeoff isn't there yet. Cool, tech, to be sure, but going from a prototype to commercial use is often less simple than people believe. Metal 3d printing exists, housing size 3d printing exists, multi-material 3d printing exists, but combining all of those in a manner sufficient to make entire homes is a major acheivement.
Still exciting, though, =)
I'm not a civil engineer, but I'm pretty sure the largest loads in buildings are vertical (at least in the walls), in which case horizontal rebar isn't going to do much for you. For floors that would work though.[/quote]
I believe a portion of earthquake proofing is lateral stresses...but yes, you also definitely want vertical. Would be vastly better. Placing and printing around vertically placed rebar is...I guess mildly better than just placing and pouring, but it seems to me that there'd be some practical problems(notably, positioning), and you're getting away from the presumable goal of an automated house-creator. Easier than printing the supports in place, though.
Postby addams » Sun May 04, 2014 10:56 pm UTC
Djehutynakht wrote: Swiss scientists studying possibility, dangers of Lake Tsunamis.
Swiss Lake Tsunamis.
That's fun.
A good name for a Drink? maybe?
Something strong and cold with a blue color?
I have thought about lake events, a little.
The principles are the same.
Why not have a wave show up unexpectedly to mess up a perfectly good day?
Seismographs set up at intervals will show landslides and other deformations of the bowl.
Making a picture of that should be fairly straight forward.
How do they test the system?
Like a bunch of Americans?
Set the seismographs up and Thump the ground?
Thump-Thump! With a pile driver. That's ok.
It's when we start setting off charges that ya' have to watch us.
We are none too smart. We are smarter than that, today.
Cross your fingers, wish upon a star and pray.
We have been powerfully stupid. We might still be.
At one time the US considered hitting the San Andreas Fault with atomic blasts.
That's funny stuff. It was not considered very seriously.
Well. It didn't make it out of committee.
What a funny idea. It seemed ok at first blush.
We were hitting near. Why not do a direct hit?
That was so NOT what the guy that explained the thing wanted.
He said, "Atomic blast activity, might, cause movement on the San Andres Fault System."
If you squint your eyes, just right, and look again that might start to make sense.
Movement on that fault system relieves pressure that has built up.
If we release the pressure on our time schedule not the schedule of Nature, then Good Things.
That is not exactly the way that system works.
It is not Possible to blow the shit out of it in one spot and expect all other spots to respond predictably.
Do you know how long that system is?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Andreas_Fault
810 miles from tip to tip.
It is a strange thing.
https://www.google.com/search?q=san+and ... 80&bih=593
To study the earth is only right.
The Swiss have movement, too.
Darned dramatic movement.
The earth is rising straight up under their feet.
And; Fast.
Those upthrust mountains are some of the highest in the world.
Will we have international laws setting a limit on elevation of Swiss Mountains?
International Law Encroaching upon Swiss Freedom from all sides!
*excuse* American Conspiracy theories repeating on me.
Like an intellectual cucumber.
Postby elasto » Fri May 09, 2014 10:32 am UTC
BBC wrote: A new plastic that "heals itself" has been designed, meaning your cracked phone screen or broken tennis racquet could one day mend its own wounds.
The polymer automatically patches holes 3cm wide, 100 times bigger than before. Inspired by the human blood system, it contains a network of capillaries that deliver healing chemicals to damaged areas.
For decades scientists have dreamed of structures that heal like a plant or an animal heals a wound. Cracks in water pipes and car bonnets would seal up. Satellites could repair their own damage. Broken electronic chips in laptops and mobile phones would spontaneously sort out their own problems.
One of the first big breakthroughs came in 2001 at the University of Illinois. Prof Scott White and colleagues infused a polymer with microscopic capsules containing a liquid healing agent. When the material cracked, the chemicals were released and bridged the gaps.
More recently, concrete, water-resistant coatings, and even electrical circuits have been engineered with self-healing properties.
But even the best self-healing plastics and polymers can only repair small-scale damage, the Science magazine authors note: "Although self-healing of microscopic defects has been demonstrated, the re-growth of material lost through catastrophic damage requires a regenerative-like approach," said Prof White.
To fix larger breakages, he and his team have designed a new, vascular system - inspired by the arteries and veins of the human body. A network of channels delivers a healing agent to the site of damage.
The chemicals arrive via two separate streams. They combine to seal the gap in a two-stage reaction. Initially, they form a gel scaffold across the hole. The gel then slowly hardens into a robust, solid structure.
"We filled regions exceeding 35mm within 20 minutes, and restored mechanical function within three hours," the researchers wrote in Science.
Tests showed the material recovered about 62% of its original strength.
Postby speising » Fri May 09, 2014 12:00 pm UTC
that's pretty nice to repair micrometeorite damage in space, for example.
Postby addams » Fri May 09, 2014 2:21 pm UTC
speising wrote: that's pretty nice to repair micrometeorite damage in space, for example.
This sort of thing is how Hal and Dave happened!
Our fairy tails are warnings! Don't do it!!
jeeze. We have rebuilt the Tower of Babel.
Now, you want to teach them to create Themselves.
Like all Gods, our creations will be a reflection of ourselves.
I am, currently, so disappointed in humans, as to worry.
It could Go either way.
It could become a fucking dystopian nightmare.
We sabotage you. You sabotage us.
Then we both make mistakes and we Go Down Hard.
Or; We could be silly.
Our creations may become a silly and creative extension of our uniquely human desire to live at Peace with God and EachOther.
Deep inside, hiding in Fear, is the Child of God, Brothers and Sisters all. We are an Unhappy Family. We need guidance.
It could be ok.
What way are we going to run?
What way are we going to walk?
Do you remember Mr. Obama's first term?
Do you remember Mr. Obama using the words, "Stumble Foreword" ?
While I was looking for a pep talk from the first term I found an advertisement for the second term.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GOwfCSiuGg
Well...That was Upbeat.
Forward. Forward to where?
It must be a fucking loop.
Not everything is about Sex, Politics or Religion.
Plastic that heals its self. That's just fine.
Plastic Keloid Tissue for one thing.
That would not be so bad, I suppose.
The wages of being clumsy are belongings with texture.
EDIT: We are There! TRIGGER: Naked EyeBall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83LuPGpYVBI
The color of a person's eyes is a Choice.
There are a limited number of choices for The Masses.
Nearly AnyOne can pick a Color and have that Color.
The procedure has risks. EveryThing has risks.
I think Purple Eyes are Great!
Blue Eyed people wearing Blue Contacts often end up with Purple Eyes.
(shrug) I don't know why.
They, just, do.
Postby elasto » Sat May 24, 2014 4:28 am UTC
A company in Alabama is using 3-D printing technology to devise prosthetics for children at just $5 a pop.
Prosthetic limbs are an option for children as young as Kate, but they run anywhere from about $10,000 to $50,000, and insurance companies typically don’t cover the cost because young patients will outgrow the devices so quickly. Kate’s family’s insurance would have paid the bulk of the fee, her mother says, leaving the family to come up with the remainder — $3,000 to $5,000 — but the “expense was still a little ridiculous,” Berkholtz says.
Enter Zero Point Frontiers, a space engineering company in Huntsville that heard about baby Kate’s predicament and volunteered to help. Jason Hundley, the company’s president and CEO, was introduced to Kate’s family through his wife, who runs a local children’s gym that the family attends. Serendipitously, Zero Point Frontiers had recently acquired a 3-D printer, which the company’s engineers quickly set about using to devise and build a low-cost, kid-size prosthetic hand. The engineers uploaded the hand design into the printer via a memory card, which the jet printer then used as a blueprint to guide its spray, back and forth, layer by layer, depositing tiny particles of plastic gradually to produce the 3-D object.
Made out of a biodegradable polymer, the hard contraption fits onto Kate’s forearm with Velcro straps and is powered by her wrist movements. When Kate bends her wrist, the wires that act as tendons tighten, curling the little plastic fingers and allowing her to grip and pick things up.
Hundley plans to make a variety of attachments for Kate’s hand — a separate one for bike riding, for swimming, for holding the bow of a violin. While adult prosthetics are designed to accomplish a broad range of functions and to last for many years (and to be flesh-toned, of course), Hundley says that the low cost of producing each of the 3-D-printed devices — about $5 for the hand, mostly to cover the cost of the straps and wires, and $1 for each attachment — means that you can make as many as you want and keep swapping them out as the child grows. “This technology brings something that was the price of a car down to the price of a latte,” Hundley recently told the magazine Orthopedic Design & Technology.
Going forward, Hundley hopes to make Kate’s printed hand modular, scalable and open source. That way, anyone can modify it to fit their particular needs, print the hand’s plastic structure and assemble it from anywhere in the world.
For now, he’s made a remarkable difference in the life of one towheaded toddler. Kate is “wanting to do things that her big brother is doing, like ride a bike or ride a trike, hold onto monkey bars, that kind of thing,” says her mom. “And this technology is going to let us do that like any other kid, for, like, five or ten bucks.”
Postby johnny_7713 » Sat May 24, 2014 9:34 am UTC
Assuming the healing agents don't just boil off if they're exposed to vacuum; but it would be cool indeed.
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Postby freezeblade » Mon Jun 02, 2014 7:39 pm UTC
Stolen from another thread, but I think it belongs here: The Moon is now a wifi hotspot, at faster speeds than the typical consumer can get here.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2014/05/28/the-moon-is-now-a-wi-fi-hotspot/#.U4h-t61dX9b
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Postby PolakoVoador » Mon Jun 02, 2014 9:34 pm UTC
freezeblade wrote: Stolen from another thread, but I think it belongs here: The Moon is now a wifi hotspot, at faster speeds than the typical consumer can get here.
That's really neat. But they failed to mention the latency, that would be around a couple of seconds
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Postby elasto » Thu Jun 12, 2014 2:18 am UTC
Our 3D fruit printer will open up new possibilities not only to professional chefs but also to our home kitchens – allowing us to enhance and expand our dining experiences. We have re-invented the concept of fresh fruit on demand.”
Chief Inventor at Dovetailed, Gabriel Villar, adds: “With our novel printing technique, you can not only recreate existing fruits, but also invent your own creations. The taste, texture, size and shape of the fruit can all be customized.”
Print your own fruit
Postby ChronosDragon » Thu Jun 12, 2014 7:23 am UTC
We can send high speed messages around the world instantly, effectively negating all barriers of distance and time in communication between individuals, in formats uncountable, diversifying from simple text to images to moving images to simulations of reality to constructions that have meaning only to humans; all without noticing that the people closest to us are having a rough time.
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Postby jseah » Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:05 am UTC
Hrm, what do we have here, Mr Sam Deadwyler?
You have managed to record and play back a memory using a hippocampus implant. (monkey)
You further managed to transfer the memory from a donor to a recipient, effectively transferring the method to solve a task from rats that learnt it to rats that haven't.
=O
Time is Like a River - consistent time travel to the hilt
A Hero's War
Tensei Simulator build 18 - A python RPG
Postby Chen » Thu Jun 12, 2014 11:35 am UTC
jseah wrote: Hrm, what do we have here, Mr Sam Deadwyler?
Total Recall here we come!
Postby Angua » Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:38 pm UTC
I helped out at the booth at the Royal Society's summer exhibition when we were just starting out with the proto-prototype of these glasses. Cool to see how well it's working now
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-27768890
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Postby Whizbang » Tue Jun 17, 2014 5:47 pm UTC
Super cool.
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VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) Buffalo Bills owner Terry Pegula says he won't ask fans to break the bank when it comes to deciding whether to renovate the team's current stadium in the suburbs or build a new one downtown.
"Whatever we're going to do stadium-wise is going to be in the best interest of our fans," Pegula told The Associated Press during a wide-ranging interview before the start of the NHL draft in Vancouver. "We have the interest of our fans at heart, and what we do will be heavily weighted - whatever the plan is - toward the benefit of our fans."
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Why Spend More Than Five Minutes on a GUI?
This item was originally posted on the Wolfram Research blog at http://blog.wolfram.com/2007/05/17/why-spend-more-than-five-minutes-on-a-gui/
I've been a "professional" user-interface programmer for 20 years. In that time I've written a grand total of three little apps just for the fun of it. Two of them I snuck in as hidden buttons in the Mathematica About Box, because it was just too difficult to start a new application from scratch. All of them can be replicated in a few minutes using Version 6. In my experience, writing GUI (graphical user interface) applications in C or Java or Visual Basic--or whatever--is fine if you plan to spend weeks or months on a program, but prohibitively horrible if you really only have a few minutes to dedicate to the task.
You have to allocate windows, store pointers to them, then allocate controls or read them from some kind of resource file, store pointers to them, blah, blah, blah. It might be two or three pages of code before you can even start thinking about what this program is actually supposed to do.
Cocoa and other such frameworks make it marginally easier. I enjoyed programming in NeXTSTEP (which is what Cocoa was called before Apple took over NeXT). It's the environment in which I wrote RealTimeAlgebra in 1989, the one just-for-fun app I wrote not as an About Box button. (RealTimeAlgebra was basically what we now call Manipulate.)
But it is still a pain. Instead of starting by writing pages of code to deal with windows, you start by using an annoying graphical tool to lay out controls and define who is connected to whom. Then you get to write pages of code defining the actions of all these controls before you can start working on the actual content.
When I'm working on a fun little app, I'm like most other people who are not professional user-interface programmers. I want to think about the subject matter, the content of my program, first. I don't have hours to spend worrying about window pointers or event handlers.
If I want an interactive graphical tree to play with, I want to worry about the algorithm for defining the tree, not about how I'm going to read mouse coordinates. That is the great beauty of Mathematica: you get to start on the content right now.
Here's a little bit of Mathematica code that draws a pretty tree:
Graphics[Map[Line, NestList[Flatten[Map[ {{#[[2]], #[[2]] + .7 RotationMatrix[.3].(#[[2]] - #[[1]])}, {#[[2]], #[[2]] + .7 RotationMatrix[-.3].(#[[2]] - #[[1]])}} &, #], 1] &, {{{0, -1}, {0, 0}}}, 7]]]
I first wrote a version of this code in 1989. That version still works, but this is shorter because I've gotten smarter in the meantime. (The old version was pretty short too, by the way.)
Back in 1989 I had an idea that this would make a neat museum display. Imagine a metal post with two arms forming a Y shape, like the trunk and first two branches of this tree. Imagine that you can grab handles on the ends of the two branches and move them up and down, in and out, with some kind of telescoping mechanism. Now imagine a huge video screen behind the stand with a tree like this waving back and forth based on the position you move the arms to (recursively replicated in each successive generation of branches). Kids would love it.
I really, really wanted to make an interactive version of this tree--one where you could drag the first branch point around and have all the other branches recursively follow. This ended up as a secret button in the Mac version of Mathematica's About Box, involving hundreds of lines of C code.
Here is the same code for the tree made interactive using the Manipulate function. In Mathematica or the free Mathematica Player, you can use those two Locator objects to manipulate the tree. Notice that it's only a few lines longer than the non-interactive version:
Manipulate[ Module[{m1 = {Reverse[pt1], {-1, 1} pt1}, m2 = {Reverse[pt2], {-1, 1} pt2}}, Graphics[Map[Line, NestList[Flatten[Map[ {{#[[2]], #[[2]] + m1.(#[[2]] - #[[1]])}, {#[[2]], #[[2]] + m2.(#[[2]] - #[[1]])}} &, #], 1] &, {{{0, -1}, {0, 0}}}, 8]], PlotRange -> {{-3, 3}, {-1, 5}}]], {{pt1, {-0.25, 0.75}}, {-3, 0}, {3, 6}, Locator}, {{pt2, {0.25, 0.75}}, {-3, 0}, {3, 6}, Locator}]
alt="Instant dynamic interactivity" title="Instant dynamic interactivity" border="0">
Now in fairness, the C-code version I wrote supported three features this version does not: it had lines that got thinner the farther out they went, it had seasonal colors, and it had wind. Without those features the C code might have been only 300 lines (plus a few hundred more if I hadn't borrowed the framework of Mathematica's About Box to put it in). Adding them to the Mathematica version doesn't make it a whole lot longer. For example, here's a version with thinning and a Slider for the number of recursions:
Manipulate[ Module[{m1 = {Reverse[pt1], {-1, 1} pt1}, m2 = {Reverse[pt2], {-1, 1} pt2}}, Graphics[MapIndexed[{Thickness[0.01 th^#2[[1]]], Line[#]} &, NestList[Flatten[Map[ {{#[[2]], #[[2]] + m1.(#[[2]] - #[[1]])}, {#[[2]], #[[2]] + m2.(#[[2]] - #[[1]])}} &, #], 1] &, {{{0, -1}, {0, 0}}}, gen]], PlotRange -> {{-3, 3}, {-1, 5}}]], {{gen, 7, "generations"}, 3, 10, 1}, {{th, 0.7, "thickness ratio"}, 0.01, 1.2}, {{pt1, {-0.25, 0.75}}, {-3, 0}, {3, 6}, Locator}, {{pt2, {0.25, 0.75}}, {-3, 0}, {3, 6}, Locator}]
alt="Add more interactive features with minimal code" title="Add more interactive features with minimal code" border="0">
Unfortunately these versions, and my C-code version, suffer from one big problem: the mouse has only two degrees of freedom, while this example has four.
In the museum installation I imagined you would be able to move all four degrees of freedom simultaneously.
But guess what? With the Mathematica version of this code, I can plug in a dual-joystick gamepad, select the output, and the two joysticks automatically grab onto the two control points and let me control all four degrees of freedom simultaneously. Totally automatic--not a single line of new code needed.
I don't even want to think about how hard it would be to write in gamepad support in the C-code version of my tree toy. Don't even want to go there. (And I deny any rumors that we added gamepad support to Mathematica just so that I'd finally be able to see what this example feels like when you can control it properly.)
Sadly, no museum has yet built this exhibit, but since Mathematica started to become able to create this sort of interactive content, I've written dozens and dozens of similar live interactive interfaces. I would have done that years ago, but there was no tool in existence that made it possible.
"Possible?" you say. "Surely it's possible in C code, or Java, or Visual Basic, or Squeak, or something."
Well, no, it's not possible for me in C or any other such serious environment, because I'm busy and these are just fun little things. If it's going to take hours or days to do, it's not possible for me to do. And it's not possible in any of the cute visual programming environments because they are just not flexible or powerful enough. They're great for making the kind of thing, whatever it is, that they happen to be good at, but what if that's not what I want to make?
The beauty of Mathematica is that it's a good language first and foremost: it's a language in which you can write just about anything that can be written. And once you've worked out a little program that does something interesting, it's a very slippery slope (this being a good thing here) to start adding interactive elements to it.
Two minutes--not two days--to go from a neat program to a neat program with sliders.
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Kelsea Ballerini Tearfully Telling Her Mom About Grammy Nomination Will Give You All the Feels
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Kelsea Ballerini couldn’t be where she is in her music career without her mother.
The singer, who earned a Grammy nomination for best country album on Friday, revealed the happy news to her mom Carla on FaceTime and shared the emotional mother-daughter moment with fans on Instagram and Twitter.
“This woman moved me to Nashville to pursue music when I was 15 years old. Today I got to call her and tell her about my 2nd Grammy nom for an album that she watched me live. Her face says it all. I love you mom,” Ballerini captioned the silent footage that showed both Kelsea and Carla overwhelmed with emotion and tears.
The star, who released her second studio album, Unapologetically, in November 2017, earned her first Grammy nomination in 2016 for best new artist. Mom Carla accompanied Kelsea as her date to the awards show that winter.
Friday’s FaceTime call was especially poignant for Ballerini because for over a year she had “accepted” that Unapologetically had not been critically received as well as she had hoped.
In a message shared on social media, the star thanked her fans for their overwhelming support. “In tears over this I put every bit of vulnerability, truth, strength, self discovery, and love I had into this record,” she wrote. “I’ll never forget when it hit me to make it a chronological story of the journey I had been on the few years prior, and losing sleep over the details and nuances of how to make it flow and feel like I had felt while living out and writing it.”
Ballerini added, “It’s been out for over a year, and it’s never been nominated, but the bond it gave you and I was something I hadn’t felt before. To me, that was the award and I had accepted that critically, it didn’t land like it did between us.”
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“The pinnacle of music lovers and listeners just nominated Unapologetically for a damn GRAMMY. Beaming with gratitude and pride on this,” Ballerini said. “Never ever expected this. I love y’all. What a year. Thank you.”
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Opening Ceremony thoughts
I’ve worried openly about the chances of London putting on a good Opening Ceremony, so I guess I should post a reaction: it’s a thumbs up (phew!).
I thought the whole opening movement from bucolic hobbitshire through the Industrial Revolution to the forging of the Olympic Rings was superb: genuine spectacle and theatre. I loved the pouring of the iron sequence: you can imagine so many opening ceremonies where the commentator intones ‘and this represents the pouring of the iron from the furnace’ while dancers in orange jumpsuits run along in a line, but Danny Boyle managed to come up with a theatrical effect that genuinely looked like molten metal, without any need for interpretation.
The other stand out moment was the lighting of the flame, which was a really striking image.
In between there were inevitably a few lulls, but probably less than most of these events. There were some bits that were maybe a bit too parochial, but I guess if they play well at home and help whip up enthusiasm for the Games, that’s no bad thing.
I liked the fact that it felt quite personal and quirky: the content clearly hadn’t been handed down from on high by a government with a point to prove. And I liked that it was sometimes quite dark, as these things go: so the opening section was on one level a celebration of the Industrial Revolution, but it was harsh, grimy, smoky, and the image of the British countryside being torn apart was intentionally brutal. And when it came to celebrate children’s literature, it wasn’t Winnie the Pooh and Mrs Tiggywinkle, it was Voldemort and the Child Catcher. There can’t be many times that night terrors have featured in an opening ceremony.
Some moments of real theatre, some humour, some touching moments, very few boring or cringeworthy bits: wahey, let the Games begin.
» The photo (of the rehearsal, as it happens, not the actual ceremony), is © Hannah Webb and used under a CC by-nd licence.
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I thought it was great, and that was a pleasant surprise. We watched it with a (very savvy and worldly wise) German-American couple who enjoyed it well enough, but I liked that there were lots of references which only we really recognised; it felt like it was as much for the British themselves as to make a big impression on the rest of the world – though it was outwardly impressive too. And that includes a good measure of irony, darkness, self-doubt and self-questioning. My only real gripe, I think, was the anti-climax of wheeling out McCartney at the end!
In fact I’d really quite like to see it all again, as there was a lot of detail and quickly passed stuff that I think I missed or would like to have another look at.
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Well, if you can find some technical way of fooling the BBC into thinking you are in the UK [i.e. tunnelbear or similar] you can stream the whole thing on iPlayer (that’s the version without commentary, a version with commentary also available).
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Ladakh based Drukpa Nuns bike across Nepal and India in 2500 km Cycle Yatra; reach Chandigarh
Posted on August 3, 2016 by Aditi Malhotra
Chandigarh: Led by His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa, of the Ladakh based Drukpa Order, 500 monks and nuns cycled into India and reached Chandigarh as a part of their 2500 km journey to Hemis Monastery in Ladakh.
The Drukpa Order, which has come to be known for its insistence on gender equality and celebration of diversity regularly organises such events to highlight issues of global significance. The Cycle Yatra, which commenced in Kathmandu (Nepal) on 3rd July 2016 from one of the monasteries of the Drukpa lineage, has become an annual feature of Order’s efforts to promote awareness about the Environmental Crises in the region and inspire collaborative action to resolve it.
The two month long Yatra traverses through some of the most arduous routes in the Himalayan region amidst adverse conditions. From the quake-hit regions in Nepal, to the monsoon hit towns in Uttarakhand, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Pathankot, Srinagar, Sonmargand Kargil (J&K) – The Yatra will culminate at Hemis Monastery, 45 kilometres from Leh. Where it is scheduled to arrive, prior to Naropa 2016 – a grand spiritual festival that is held once in every 12 years, celebrating the 1000th birth anniversary of the Indian Saint Naropa, patron of the Drukpa Lineage.
“The Himalayas have been the home of the Drukpa Lineage for over 1000 years now. Recently, the region has faced several environmental disasters that caused unwanted &unprecedented loss of life and upset the natural ecosystem. Our aim through this journey is to inspire people to be one with nature instead of being in a constant state of war with it. The Himalayas and the earth were formed millions of years before we were and it is our duty to respect them,” said His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa – the 12threincarnation of the head of the Drukpa Order.
His Holinesshas personally led the Cycle Yatra from Kathmandu and plans to complete 2500 kilometres all the way to Hemis Monastery in Ladakh – shattering the conventional concept of the role of the spiritual Guru.It is through his vision that the number of women being inducted into the Order has increased manifold since his accession. The nuns of the Drukpa Order are instrumental in the activities of the Lineage across the Himalayan Region and are fondly known as the ‘Kung Fu Nuns’ for the role they have played in resolving on ground issues.
For his tireless efforts, His Holiness has been conferred the title of ‘Keeper of the Himalayas’ by the United Nations.
About Drukpa Lineage:
The Drukpa Lineage (the “Dragon Lineage”) is an integral part of Himalayan and Central Asian legacy and culture. Dating back to the Indian scholar-saint Naropa, the Drukpa Lineage is woven into the history of Buddhism the geographic locales of India and Central Asia. It is strategically located along some of the world’s most significant historical trading routes and has over 1000 monasteries in the region. The state of Bhutan, honours the Drukpa Lineage as its state religion.
The present Gyalwang Drukpa is the twelfth reincarnation of the founder of the Drukpa Lineage, whose tenant of “service before self” and their zeal to convert compassion into action to tackle international challenges has earned the lineage a robust global following.
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Organizational ethics; Organizational misconduct
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Jo-Ellen Pozner, Aharon Cohen Mohliver, and Celia Moore. Forthcoming. Shine a Light: How Firm Responses to Announcing Earnings Restatements Changed After Sarbanes-Oxley. Journal of Business Ethics.
Jo-Ellen Pozner and Jared D. Harris. 2016. Who Bears the Brunt? A Review and Research Agenda for the Consequences of Organizational Wrongdoing for Individuals. In D. Palmer, R. Greenwood, & K. Smith-Crowe (Eds.), Organizational Wrongdoing. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Paul M. Hirsch, Jo-Ellen Pozner and Mary Katherine Stimmler. 2016. Shattering Glass-Steagall: The Power of Financial Industries to Overcome Restraints. In I. Ertürk and D. Gabor (Editors). The Routledge Companion To Banking Regulation And Reform. London: Routledge.
Jo-Ellen Pozner and Katarina Sikavica. 2013. Paradise Sold: Resource Partitioning, Identity and Strategy in the Organic Farming Industry. In Special Issue on Social Movements, Civil Society and Corporations. Organization Studies, 34 (5-6): 623-651.
Jo-Ellen Pozner. 2012. Departure Status: The Effect of Dissolving Ties with a Misconduct Firm on Director Labor Market Outcomes. Best Paper Proceedings, Academy of Management.
Jo-Ellen Pozner, Mary Kate Stimmler and Paul M. Hirsch. 2010. Terminal Isomorphism and the Self-Destructive Potential of Success: Lessons from Subprime Mortgage Origination and Securitization. In Markets on Trial: The Economic Sociology of the U.S. Financial Crisis. Lounsbury, M. & Hirsch, P.M. (Editors). Research in the Sociology of Organizations, 30A: 183–215.
Henrich Greve, Donald Palmer, and Jo-Ellen Pozner. 2010. Organizations Gone Wild: The Causes, Processes, and Consequences of Organizational Misconduct. The Academy of Management Annals, 4(1): 53-107.
Jo-Ellen Pozner. 2009. The Privacy Advocates (Book Review). Administrative Science Quarterly, 54(2): 334-337.
Jo-Ellen Pozner. 2008. Stigma and Settling Up: An Integrated Approach to the Consequences of Organizational Misconduct for Organizational Elites. Journal of Business Ethics, 80(1): 141-150.
Michaela DeSoucey, Jo-Ellen Pozner, Corey Fields, Kerry Dobransky, and Gary Alan Fine. 2008. Memory and Sacrifice: An Embodied Theory of Martyrdom. Cultural Sociology, 2(1): 97-119.
Leigh Thompson and Jo-Ellen Pozner. 2007. Organizational Behavior. In Social psychology: A handbook of basic principles (2nd ed.) Higgins, E. T., & Kruglanski, A. W. (Editors). New York: Guilford Press: 913-939.
Henrich Greve, Jo-Ellen Pozner and Hayagreeva Rao. 2006. Vox Populi: Resource Partitioning, Organizational Proliferation and the Cultural Impact of the Insurgent Micro-Radio Movement. American Journal of Sociology, 112(3): 802-837.
Henrich Greve, Jo-Ellen Pozner and Hayagreeva Rao. 2010. Vox Veritatis: Reply to Brinson. American Journal of Sociology, 116(2): 656-662.
Jo-Ellen Pozner and Hayagreeva Rao. 2006. Fighting a Common Foe: Enmity, Identity and Cooperative Strategy. In Ecology and Strategy. Baum, Joel A.C., Dobrev Stanislav D., & van Witteloostuijn, Arjen (Editors). Advances in Strategic Management, 23: 445-479.
Paul Hirsch and Jo-Ellen Pozner. 2005. To Avoid Surprises, Acknowledge the Dark Side: Illustrations from Securities Analysts. Strategic Organization, 3 (2): 229-238.
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JWilliam Ocasio, Jo-Ellen Pozner, and Daniel Milner. Varieties of Political Capital and Power in Organizations. (Under review at Academy of Management Annals)
Jennifer Woolley, Jo-Ellen Pozner, and Michaela DeSoucey. The Rejection of Socially Conscious Labels in the Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Market. (Winner, Best Paper Award, Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship Conference 2018. Under review.)
Jo-Ellen Pozner, Michaela DeSoucey, Cameron Verhaal, and Katarina Sikavica. Watered Down: Movement Growth, Authenticity, and Evaluation in Craft Beer
Jo-Ellen Pozner and Kelly Patterson. Status Spillovers and Director Labor Market Outcomes Following Misconduct.
Karen Patterson and Jo-Ellen Pozner. The discredited and the discreditable: Why stigmatizing behavior does not always result in stigmatization.
Aharon Cohen Mohliver, Jo-Ellen Pozner, and Celia Moore. The Usual Suspect: Post-Misconduct CEO Replacement as a Substitute for Sarbanes-Oxley Certification (Finalist, Best Empirical Paper on Environmental and Social Practice Award, OMT Division, Academy of Management, 2015; Finalist, Best Paper Award, Sustainability, Ethics and Entrepreneurship Conference, 2016. Target: Journal of Management Studies, Fall 2019)
Jo-Ellen Pozner and Jennifer Woolley. Juggling Hats: How Female Entrepreneurs Navigate Role Incongruity in Nascent Craft Ventures.
Jo-Ellen Pozner and Tim Hannigan. Individuals’ Reputation Repair in the Wake of Scandal.
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Scandal and Role Conflict. Academy of Management, Chicago, IL
Social Evaluation, Academy of Management, Chicago, IL
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Talking Ethics in the Classroom. Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA
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Organizational Misconduct: Who Cheats More and How Do They Respond When Discovered? Academy of Management, San Antonio, TX (Presenter and symposium organizer).
Paradise Sold: Resource Partitioning, Identity and Strategy in the Organic Farming Industry. Academy of Management, Chicago, IL.
Stigmatization, Pollution, Signaling and Symbolism: Restatements and the Market for Directors. Academy of Management, Anaheim, CA.
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Board Power and Perception Management following Earnings Restatements. Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA.
Organizational Size, Performance, and Frequency-Based Imitation: A Test of Competing Hypotheses. Academy of Management, Philadelphia, PA.
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Settling Up, Scapegoating and Stigma: Earnings Restatements and the Symbolic Contest for Corporate Control. Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA.
Sense-Giving as Corporate Strategy: Antecedents and Consequences of the Use of Symbolic Language in Corporate Quarterly Earnings Announcements. Academy of Management, Atlanta, GA (Best Symposium Award Winner).
Explaining Firm Performance. 6th Annual London Business School Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference on Business Research, London, UK.
Explaining Firm Performance. Strategic Management Society Meetings, Orlando, FL. (Booz Allen Hamilton/SMS PhD Fellowship Winner).
Beyond Dependence: A Political Capital Perspective on Power in Organizations. American Sociological Association Meetings, Philadelphia, PA.
Vox Populi: Resource Partitioning and the Birth of Insurgent Low Power Radio Stations. Academy of Management, New Orleans, LA.
Power and Political Capital in Organizations: An Integrative Perspective. Academy of Management, Seattle, WA.
The Contingent Value of Political Capital in Organizations. 3rd Annual London Business School Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference on Business Research, London, UK.
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Home Business News Economy and Trade
Promised 6-7%-growth in Indonesia looks distant
by Arno Maierbrugger - Aug 5, 2014
Investors should be careful assessing the GDP growth rates in Southeast Asia’s largest economy, analysts say, as it is likely to underperform for some time to come despite promises by president-elect Joko Widodo to return to 6-7 per cent growth figures soon.
August 5 data show Indonesia’s economy was expanding 5.12 per cent on an annual basis in the second quarter, weaker than the first quarter’s 5.21 per cent and still markedly below the 6-7 per cent growth rates enjoyed in recent years.
“Last quarter’s result was especially bad because of fairly poor trade numbers, including a large trade deficit,” said Wellian Wiranto, economist at Singapore’s OCBC bank.
He added that investors shouldn’t expect a sharp uptick in Indonesian growth anytime soon.
“The continued lack of investment is one of the reasons Indonesia continues to perform below its potential GDP rate of between 6 and 7 per cent. The numbers we are seeing at the moment are still way below what Indonesia can achieve,” he said.
The central bank has been forced to hike rates five times over the past year to prop up its flailing currency. A controversial mineral exports ban introduced in January has also proven a headwind to investment and growth.
“We’re not talking about a recession but the performance will remain sub-par,” said OCBC’s Wiranto.
“I think the earliest we will see growth recover to full potential will be in the second half of 2015, as we start to see sentiment improve after the elections, and a steady rise in consumption growth,” he added.
Still, many analysts expect sentiment in Indonesia’s economy – which was badly hit during the Fed tapering fallout in mid-2013 – to improve following the election of a fresh government last month.
The more ‘business friendly’ candidate Widodo was declared the winner of the July 9 Indonesian presidential elections. When he takes office for his five year term in October, he is expected to tackle some of the country’s ongoing structural issues, such as poor infrastructure and deeply ingrained corruption.
Markets have responded positively to the news of his win, and stocks are up 4.4 per cent since the start of the election month on July 1.
But Daniel Martin, economist at Capital Economics, said it would be years before the economy sees growth levels of between 6-7 per cent, as the dual headwinds of high interest rates and low commodity prices continue to weigh on the economy.
“The only thing that might be positive is Widodo’s election, and we’re not overly positive on his presidency. There’s a lot of enthusiasm for him and a lot of people expect reforms, but until we see positive steps, we don’t see growth levels returning to those higher levels over the next few years,” he added.
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Celebrate the image
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Nowhere to go but everywhere
February 27, 2017 March 7, 2017 | Daniel
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac
Two unforgettable weeks adventuring through Switzerland with the Pasche family. The ‘Travel Portrait’ explores and documents the colour, movement and emotion that only ‘rolling under the stars’ can bring.
“What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?” – Jack Kerouac
We arrived in Venice a little weary after three days and two nights taking in Rome on foot. Rose purchased a selection of Venetian masks for herself and bunny, and wasn’t seen without a mask on, until arriving back in her bedroom where she proceeded to hand them out to her special teddy’s.
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine
Where love rules
“Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
-C.G.Jung
Family Portraits from Love and Colour.
Group Zero (Gruppo Origine)
February 1, 2017 February 4, 2017 | Daniel
The group was founded in Rome in 1951 by Alberto Burri, Ettore Colla, Giuseppe Capogrossi and Mario Ballocco. Critical of what they saw as the increasingly decorative quality of abstract art at the time.
…By openly renouncing three-dimensional forms, by reducing colour to it’s simplest, peremptory and incisive expressive function, by evoking…pure and elemental images, the Group’s artists express the necessity of a rigorous, coherent, energetic vision (which is) primarily antidecorative.’
You may be asking yourself what this has to do with Love and Colour portraits…Ok, after completing the series of portraits featured on the previous post, I felt compelled to dismantle the images, to reduce them further, explore, and see where I, or they arrived. Love and Colour was never intended as a creative service that would attempt to recreate photographs through highly detailed illustrations, Love and Colour is a creative service that offers to express a version of your photograph that you have not previously seen.
So back to the group of Italian artisits who attempted to dismantle the trends of the time and explore new territory by reducing colour to it’s simplest form and set about creating pure and elemental images.
The Group Zero portraits as featured below, are a response to my own work, an exploration into simplicity and expression. A new and exciting chapter for Love and Colour as I tear down constraints that I may have placed on myself.
The perfect traveling companion
Please give a warm welcome to the three Goddesses of the Moon; Luna, Diana and Juno
Find your groove!
Ready for launch!
Sally and Mike
Instagram – @loveandcolour
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Interviews, Music - posted on January 14, 2016 by lunasopor
Luna Sopor featured in Fireworks Magazine UK
Luna Sopor has a featured track and an interview in issue #73 of Fireworks Magazine from the UK.
Purchase direct from Rocktopia in the Fireworks Magazine Mini Shop. Subscriptions available there also.
Purchase a digital copy of the magazine for your mobile device in the Rocktopia Download Store (each digital copy sells for only £3 and comes with all bonus CD tracks in MP3 format)
Copies/subscriptions can be ordered direct by emailing fireworks.mag@ntlworld.com, paying via Paypal. Send £6 (Inc P&P) for UK, £7.95 (inc P&P) for Europe, and £9.95 (inc P&P) for USA/Rest of World.
2015-01-12 Entertwine Interview – Featured Rising Artist: Luna Sopor by Jacqueline Cassell
Luna Sopor is from San Francisco Ca, and was formed in 2008 by Jeff Janow, Troy Szabo, and Marie Szabo. The Rock heavy sound of Luna Sopor was forged right from the start, characterized by driving guitars and backed by a frenzied yet accessible rhythm section. The music continued to develop going forward, and with the addition of a new vocalist -Jayne D., whom brings a drive, attitude, and Rock and Roll signature presence to the vocals and the chorus harmonies. Luna Sopor’s music is often described as crunchy hard rock with powerful female lead vocals. Luna Sopor has just completed the release of their second full length studio album entitled Cobaltí and the band is excited to share their new music with rock fans globally
Hi Luna, Thanks for taking the time to answer a few questions! We’ll start with the basics from the beginning – What led to the formation of Luna Sopor? How did the members of the band meet and begin writing and playing music together?
Jeff Janow and Troy Szabo formed Luna Sopor in 2008 while working together at a Chip Manufacturer in Silicon Valley. Marie Szabo had previously played with Troy in a touring professional worship band, so she seemed the logical choice and was shoulder tapped by Troy and Jeff to be the band’s drummer. Luna Sopor released its first album in 2011, and that album was primarily classic rock sounding. However, for the Cobalt Album, we wanted to go a bit heavier on the music and the vocals, so we enlisted Jayne D, a San Francisco Native.
What is it like living in and making music in San Francisco?
San Francisco is a melting pot of cultures, visitors, and activities. There are great live music venues to play shows at, such as “Neck of the Woods” (formerly the famous “Rockit Room”) and “The Connecticut Yankee”. There are also plenty of fun outdoor events, such as the annual “Beer Week Festival”. In short, there is plenty of fun stuff to do and it is typically never boring…
Do you have any upcoming shows in your hometown?
We are currently working on our show schedule for spring and the summer months of 2015. The best way to stay in touch with us regarding news and concert dates is to connect with us on our Social Networks.
What experiences and events inspired the writing and recording of your latest record “Cobalt”?
Much of the writing for our Cobalt Album was done out of creative obsession. I say that jokingly, however, we are always writing and playing new stuff and much of that would come in the form of collaborative effort. Typically, Jeff would write a new piece of music, and then the rest of the band would fight over who gets to write the lyric. Ultimately, everyone would end up contributing to some part of the song in their own way.
Could you walk us through each of the featured tracks?
I would say there are at least 4 Tracks on the Cobalt Album which we would call featured tracks. We think Future, Cake, City of Lights, and Undertow are the tracks that are the most representative of our playing style and musical sound.
Future: Future is a fast hard rock song about struggling relationships and also overcoming difficult personal challenges. It features powerful female lead vocals and technical sounding rock guitars.
Cake: Cake is a mid tempo chunky sounding rock song that is about greed and salvation in relationships.
City of Lights: City of Lights is a rock ballad that features acoustic and electric sounds, and it is about abandonment, survival, hope, and personal growth. This one is a bit dark feeling but it also has an upside, I guess that is why people like it.
Undertow: Undertow is a quirky & progressive instrumental tune that was inspired by the dark and suspicious nature of current global events.
How does this new album differ from or expand on your previous release?
Our first Album was very classic rock or AOR sounding. Our music continued to develop going forward, and the latest album entitled Cobalt has more of a crunchy hard rock feel coupled with driving female rock present vocals.
Could you tell us about the recording process behind “Cobalt”?
The process is pretty straight-forward. Jeff writes the music and also works out the initial pre-production in his home studio. Then the other band members contribute in areas such as lyrics, and we rehearse the songs. When we get to the actual studio, the tracking and mixing goes pretty quick, because we already have most of the important parts figured out.
What was it like working with Zack Phillips at Freq Lab Recording?
It is always a joy to work with Zack, because he genuinely wants to help the Artist get the best performances captured. He is also very knowledgeable, which has helped us to solve whatever minor problems that would crop up along the way.
What does 2015 hold in store for Luna Sopor?
Luna Sopor is going to be busy in 2015. In Q2, we hope to have some new Luna Sopor music recorded and ready to share with everyone. And, we are also currently working on a side project with a Singer/Songwriter type recording artist. Towards the end of Q2, we hope to have some interesting and diverse music and news to share with you.
Connect With Luna Sopor:
Web www.lunasopor.com
Facebook http://facebook.com/lunasopor
Twitter http://twitter.com/lunasopor
Cobalt Album http://music.lunasopor.com/album/cobalt
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Home » Food & Drink » Eddie Hall weight loss: World’s Strongest Man reveals secret to shedding 6st
07/14/2019 Food & Drink
Before his weight loss journey, Eddie Hall scooped the World’s Strongest Man title back in 2017.
The 31-year-old described his frame as “torture” and as a result decided to slim down.
His previous weight was 30.9st and now the strongman, from Stoke-on-Trent tips the scales at 25.8st.
Eddie unveiled his dramatic transformation on Instagram, so how did he do it?
“It was the year I first joined the gym”
Eddie Hall
Writing in his book “Strongman: My Story”, Eddie said: “The one positive thing to come out of 2002 was that it was the year I first joined the gym.
“There are no prizes for guessing who my inspiration was. Step right up, Mr Arnold Schwarzenegger.
“You remember the scene in the Terminator sequel when he walks up to those idiots and says: ‘I need your clothes, your boots and your motorcycle’.
“Well, I was watching that one day when all of a sudden I thought ‘I could look like that if I put my mind to it’.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpU0K3CgqIZ/
Eddie joined the gym and lost a tonne of weight while getting ripped in the process.
“This was a defining moment for me and once again I gathered my parents around me so I could announce my intentions,” Eddie said.
He added: “I said: ‘Mum, Dad, I’m going to have a body like Arnold Schwarzenegger’.
“The gym I joined was Total Fitness and even thought I was 14 and you weren’t supposed to lift weights until you were 19. I still managed to blag my way in.
“Everything was in place: I had a super-strong heart, a massive lung capacity and there wasn’t an ounce of fat of me.”
Previously, he revealed how he completed five cardio sessions a week, which included boxing, cycling, swimming and HIIT training.
He told Express.co.uk: “Diet wise, all I’ve done is basically cut out carbs nearly completely.
“I’m basically on an all-protein, all-diet diet.”
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MacDonald, J. F.
Published by Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 4 Little Essex Street, London First edition 1955. 1955.
First edition hard back publisher's original finely grained dark grey cloth covers, gilt and scarlet ribbons to spine. 8vo 8¾" x 5¾" viii, 240 pp. Twelve monochrome photographic illustrations on glossy paper, fold-out map to rear. Fine in Fine dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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Flora Zambesiaca | Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Rhodesia, Botswana | Supplement Vegetation Map of the Flora Zambesiaca Area (File Copy)
H. Wild and A. Fernandes [The Flora Zambesiaca project was set in motion in 1950 by Arthur Wallis Exell when he returned to the British Museum from his wartime activities with the Government Communications Headquarters at Bletchley Park - he was co-editor of Flora Zambesiaca from 1962 onwards].
Published by M. O. Collins Ltd., Salisbury, Rhodesia 1968. 1968.
File copy in publisher's original light green portfolio card wrap covers [soft back]. 4to 11'' x 9½''. Contains two large folded colour maps North Sheet and South Sheet each measuring 35'' x 20'' + 70 page stapled booklet. Flora Zambesiaca is an ongoing botanical project aimed at achieving a full account of the flowering plants and ferns of the Zambezi River basin covering Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana and the Caprivi Strip, and is published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Light browning and foxing to the card covers, contents in Very Good clean condition. File Copy stamps to the cover and map edges. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Zambia Organization and Management of the Adaptive Research Planning Team, Research Branch, Ministry of Agriculture and Water Development
Kean, Stuart A. and Lingston P. Singogo
Published by International Service for National Agricultural Research May 1988. 1988.
Publisher's original laminated card covers. Folio 12½'' x 10¼'' 302 pp. In Very Good condition with small crease line to the lower front corner, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa: Studies Presented and Discussed at the Twelfth International African Seminar, Lusaka, September 1972
Parkin, David
Published by International African Institute 1975. 1975.
Hard back binding in publisher's original peach cloth covers, gilt lettering to the spine. 8vo 9'' x 6'' x, 362 [pages.] ISBN 0853020442. Ex-library with stamps to end papers and title page. Not issued and in Very Good clean condition book, in Very Good condition dust wrapper with sun fading to the spine. Dust wrapper without any tears or chips and supplied in archive acetate film protection, this is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper and can easily be removed should you so wish. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Humanism in Zambia and a Guide to its Implementation
Kaunda, Dr. K. D. [President of the Republic of Zambia]
Published by Zambia Information Services, Lusaka 1968. Lusaka 1968.
Publisher's original stapled card wrap covers. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 50 printed pages of text. Without any ownership markings and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A.
More Zambezi Trails; True Animal Stories
U. G. de Woronin [Illustrated by Carol Templeton]
Published by J. & D. Enterprises First Edition 1977. 1977.
Publisher's original colour photographic card wrap covers. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. ISBN 079740287X. Contains 91 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. In very near Fine condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Tropical Africa
Drummond, Henry [1851-1897]
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 27, Paternoster Row, London Second Edition, completing Fifteenth Thousand 1889. 1889.
Second edition hard back binding in publisher's original crimson cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine with gilt tropical insect to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 228 printed pages of text with 6 folding colour maps, as called for. Fraying of the cloth to the spine ends, age darkened spine, shallow rubs to the corners, and in near Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Zambia [Signed]
Vaughan, Richard [Editor] Photography by Ian Murphy
Published by Grindlays Bank, The Corporate Brochure Company, 36 Finborough Road, London First Edition 1990. London 1990.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, gilt title and author lettering to the brown leatherette spine and front panel, colour end paper maps. Folio 12'' x 10''. Contains 176 printed pages of colour photographs with text. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with small chips and rubs to the spine ends and corners. SIGNED by the photographer 'With best wishes Ian Murphy'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0951520903
Kariba Studies | Human Problems of Kariba Volume I (1): The Social Organization of the Gwembe Tonga (Kariba Study)
Colson, Elizabeth [Elizabeth Florence Colson (June 15, 1917 - August 3, 2016) was an American social anthropologist and professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley].
Published on Behalf of The Institute for Social Research University of Zambia by Manchester University Press Reprinted with Minor Corrections 1967. 1967.
Hard back binding in publisher's original Wedgwood blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Elizabeth Colson was best known for this classic long-term study of the Tonga people of the Gwembe Valley in Zambia and Zimbabwe, which she began in 1956 with Thayer Scudder, 11 years after she obtained her doctorate and while Scudder was a second-year graduate student. Dr. Colson focused her research on the consequences of forced resettlement on culture and social organization, the effects of economic pressure on familial relationships, rituals, religious life, and even drinking patterns. Contains [xxii] 234 printed pages of text with 4 diagrams, genealogy table, large folding map to the rear, 11 tables, 7 plates. Name and circular stamp 'Bureau Directeur Abidjan' to the half-title page. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with sun fading down the spine, closed tear to the front gutter, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.
Humanism or Technocracy?; Zambia's Farming Co-Operatives 1965-1972 [University of Zambia Institute for African Studies] Zambian Papers No. 12
Quick, Stephen A.
Published by Manchester University Press, Oxford Road, Manchester First Edition 1978. Manchester 1978.
First edition in publisher's original colour illustrated card wrap covers [softback]. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains 127 printed pages of text. Marking and surface scratches to the cover, rubs to all cover edges and corners, dust marking to the closed page edges, old water stain with a little rippling to the cover, crease to the back cover lower corner, red ink message to the half title page. In Good condition, no dust wrapper as published. Member of the P.B.F.A.
A Guide to the National Parks of Zambia
John Clarke and Ian Loe
Published by Anglo American Corporation Ltd., Lusaka First Edition 1974. Lusaka 1974.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated glazed boards, end paper maps. Landscape 8'' x 10''. Contains 50 printed pages of text with monochrome and colour illustrations and photographs throughout. In Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0903841010
A Guide to the Insects of Zambia
Elliot Pinhey and Ian Loe
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original colour illustrated glazed boards, end paper maps. Landscape 8'' x 10''. Contains 38 printed pages of text with splendid full-page colour illustrations throughout. In Very Good clean condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0903841002
Ndeteleniko Umutanto [Bring Me A Ladder]; An Update of the CINDI (Kansenshi) Story as told in Nkuleniko
Published by Mission Press, Ndola, Zambia First Edition September 2002. 2002.
First edition in publisher's original illustrated card wrap covers [soft back]. 8vo. 8'' x 6''. Contains 40 printed pages of text with photographs throughout. In Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9982071459
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Bobcats cruise past Shock, 3-0
GAFFNEY, S.C. --- The Lees-McRae College men's volleyball team cruised to a straight-set victory over Washington Adventist University on Sunday morning behind a pair of nine-kill performances from Edmund Walkley (Glenbrook, Australia) and Sam Sheers (Centerville, Ohio), sweeping the season series with the Shock with a 25-5, 25-1, 25-7 win on the campus of Limestone College.
Lees-McRae (9-7) recorded its fourth victory in its last five matches, including its second straight sweep of Washington Adventist (1-7), while posting a blistering .518 hitting percentage and 15 service aces.
The Bobcats held the Shock to a negative hitting percentage in each set, as Dylan Kembre (West Chester, Ohio) notched match-highs of 24 assists and seven service aces, while Justin Sandoval (Secaucus, N.J.) and Josh Cothron (Bradenton, Fla.) each tallied a trio of aces. Walkley and Sheers each posted a match-high nine kills as no Bobcat tallied a hitting percentage below .333. Efrain Negron (Orlando, Fla.) also notched a contest-best 12 digs for the Bobcats.
Lees-McRae took control early, opening the first set with a 7-0 spurt, which included a trio of aces from Kembre, before stretching the margin to 19-4 on a kill from Kembre. The Bobcats then closed out the set with a 6-0 spurt following a kill from the Shocks' Evan Hall.
The Bobcats nearly came away with a 25-0 victory in the second set, opening the frame with 24 straight points before the Shock tallied their first marker of the frame on a Lees-McRae hitting error. Lees-McRae then closed out the 25-1 second-set win on a Shock hitting error.
Walkley started the third set for Lees-McRae with back-to-back kills, propelling the Bobcats on a 14-3 run to open the frame. Lees-McRae then closed out the sweep with an 11-4 run, tallying the deciding point of the match on a solo block by Eric Jackson (Daytona Beach, Fla.).
Lees-McRae returns to the court on Friday, Mar. 4 when the Bobcats host Eastern Mennonite University at 3 p.m. in Williams Gymnasium.
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1 Mewbourne v. Cheytac LLC et al Doc. 30 FILED 2013 Mar-29 PM 04:01 U.S. DISTRICT COURT N.D. OF ALABAMA UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF ALABAMA SOUTHERN DIVISION CHRIS MEWBOURNE, v. Plaintiff, CHEYTAC, USA, LLC, JAMISON INTERNATIONAL V, LLC, and MARC JAMISON, Defendants. } } } } } } } } } } } CASE NO. 2:12-cv-0661-SLB MEMORANDUM OPINION This case is presently before the court on defendant Jamison International V, LLC s 1 ( Jamison International ) Motion to Dismiss and/or Transfer, (doc. 10), defendants Cheytac, LLC; Cheytac USA, LLC (collectively the Cheytac entities ); Greenwich Ballistics, LLC ( Greenwich ); and Corey Kupersmith s ( Kupersmith ) Joinder of Motion to Dismiss 2 and/or Transfer, (doc. 12), and plaintiff s Motion for Leave to File Amended Complaint, (doc. 17). Upon consideration of the Motions, the relevant law, and arguments of counsel, the court is of the opinion that the Motions to Dismiss on the basis of lack of personal 1 Reference to a document number, ( Doc. ), refers to the number assigned to each document as it is filed in the court s record. 2 As discussed later, Cheytac, LLC, Greenwich Ballistics, LLC, and Corey Kupersmith all filed for bankruptcy on December 29, 2012, (see doc. 28), which resulted in their dismissal from this action, (see doc. 29). Accordingly, only Cheytac USA, LLC shall be considered under the arguments made in the Cheytac entities and Kupersmith s Joinder of Motion to Dismiss and/or Transfer. (Doc. 12.) 1 Dockets.Justia.com
2 3 jurisdiction are due to be granted ; and plaintiff s Motion for Leave to File Amended Complaint is due to be denied. I. FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY This case arises out of the alleged employment of Chris Mewbourne ( plaintiff ) by the defendants as a salesperson for products made by the Cheytac entities and Jamison International. Although the Complaint does not make this allegation, Jamison International s Brief states that the Cheytac entities are in the business of designing and selling long range rifles. (Doc at 6.) Jamison International, which is now defunct and in receivership was in the business of manufacturing ammunition cases and ammunition of various calibers. (Id. at 7.) The individual defendants were involved in various capacities as owners and stakeholders of the incorporated defendants. (See id. at 6-10.) Plaintiff claims that in 2007, defendants, acting collectively through certain agents, promised plaintiff employment in exchange for a salary plus commissions for the sale of defendants products. (Doc ) According to the Complaint, plaintiff was promised a wage increase, but was never fully paid for the work performed, including commissions totaling nearly half a million dollars. (Id ) This case was originally filed in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, Case Number 01-CV , on January 27, (Doc. 5-1 at 2.) The Complaint 3 Because the court concludes that it does not have jurisdiction over defendants Jamison International and Cheytac USA, LLC, it will not address Jamison International s argument that the Complaint fails to state a claim against it. (See doc at 25.) 2
3 includes claims of unjust enrichment, breach of contract, unpaid commissions, and a combined claim of negligent, wanton, and willful misrepresentation. (Doc ) 4 On February 27, 2012, some of the defendants removed the case to this court. (Doc. 1 at 1.) The remaining defendants consented to and joined in removal of this action on March 7, (See doc. 6 at 1, 4; doc. 7.) Then, on March 13, 2012, pro se defendant Marc Jamison filed an Answer to the Complaint. (Doc. 9.) Subsequently, on April 2, 2012, Jamison International filed the Motion to Dismiss and/or Transfer currently before the court. (Doc. 10.) The Motion primarily seeks dismissal for lack of personal jurisdiction over Jamison International or to transfer the case in the alternative, but it also argues that plaintiff fails to adequately plead and state claims for relief. (Id. at 4-5.) On April 3, 2012, the remaining defendants, with the exception of Marc Jamison, joined Jamison International s Motion to Dismiss and/or Transfer. (Doc. 12.) In response to the Motion, the court entered an Order, which provided a briefing schedule and set the Motion for oral argument. (Doc. 14.) Later, on April 12, 2012, plaintiff filed an Amended and Restated Complaint ( Amended Complaint ) against all defendants in this action. (Doc. 15.) In addition to filing the Amended Complaint, plaintiff also filed a Motion to Remove Briefing Schedule and Oral Argument regarding the date set for defendants Motion to Dismiss. (Doc. 16.) Plaintiff claimed that the Amended Complaint was timely filed as a matter of course pursuant to Rule 4 On March 5, 2012, defendants filed their Corrected Notice of Removal, which affirmed that the removing defendants received service of process of this action on February 3, 2012 and not January 25, 2012 as the original Notice of Removal stated. (Doc. 5 6.) 3
4 15 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. (Id. 4.) Thus, according to plaintiff, the Amended Complaint superseded the original Complaint and rendered the Motion to Dismiss and the court s briefing Order moot. (Id. 5.) While plaintiff s Motion to Remove the briefing schedule was pending, plaintiff filed a Motion for Leave to File Amended Complaint pursuant to Rule 15(a)(2) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. (Doc. 17.) Plaintiff states in the Motion that prior to his filing the Amended Complaint, Marc Jamison filed a pleading titled as Answer. (Id. 2.) However, because plaintiff was able to e-file his Amended Complaint more than 21 days after Marc Jamison answered the original Complaint, plaintiff is unsure if the court deems the filing as an answer such that the Plaintiff s Amended Complaint... may have been 5 untimely under FRCP Rule 15(a). (Id.) Accordingly, plaintiff filed his Motion for Leave to File Amended Complaint [i]n the event that [plaintiff s] filing is deemed by the [c]ourt to be an answer such that leave is required... to file an Amended Complaint. (Id. 3.) Finally, as noted earlier, Cheytac, LLC, Greenwich Ballistics, LLC, and Corey Kupersmith all filed a Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Petition in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut on December 29, 2012, (see doc. 28), which resulted in their dismissal from this action, (see doc. 29). Accordingly, Cheytac USA, LLC is the only 5 The confusion appears to stem from the fact that Marc Jamison s Answer is handwritten and very brief; it lists only affirmative defenses and generally denies all allegations in the original Complaint. (See doc. 9.) On its face, the pleading s general denial meets the minimum requirements as an answer under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(b)(3) ( A party that intends in good faith to deny all the allegations of a pleading including the jurisdictional grounds may do so by a general denial. ) 4
5 remaining Cheytac entity whose arguments, (see doc. 12; doc. 10), will be considered in this Opinion. A. PRELIMINARY MATTERS 1. Plaintiff s Amended Complaint II. DISCUSSION The Amended Complaint, (doc. 15), filed by plaintiff on April 12, 2012, was not timely as a matter of course. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 15(a)(1) grants plaintiff leave to amend his Complaint once as a matter of course within days after service of a responsive pleading or 21 days after service of a motion under Rule 12(b)... whichever is earlier. Marc Jamison filed his Answer on March 13, (See doc. 9.) Thus, the purported Amended Complaint was filed more than 21 days after a responsive pleading and was untimely under Rule 15(a)(1). Accordingly, the court only considers the facts as alleged in the original Complaint and the parties affidavits in support of their briefs on the Motion and Joinder currently before the court. Further, the additional facts in plaintiff s proposed Amended Complaint, (see doc. 15), are substantially the same as the facts stated in plaintiff s Affidavit, (see doc. 23), submitted 6 in support of his Opposition to the Motion to Dismiss, (see doc. 18). Allowing amendment at this point would be futile because the material facts bearing on the personal jurisdiction issues have been submitted by both parties. Thus, the court agrees with defendants that the 6 No facts or allegations in the proposed Amended Complaint would change the court s analysis of the jurisdictional issues addressed in this Opinion. 5
6 issue of personal jurisdiction is ripe for adjudication under the current state of the pleadings and there is no need to allow an amended complaint until the issue of personal jurisdiction has been decided. (Doc. 19 at 3.) 2. Motion to Dismiss Versus Motion for Summary Judgment Plaintiff argues that Jamison International s Motion to Dismiss should be treated as a motion for summary judgment pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(d) because the Motion addresses matters outside the pleadings by way of affidavits submitted in support of the Motion. (Doc. 18 at 1-2.) However, as Jamison International correctly points out, Rule 12(d) only applies to motions made pursuant to Rules 12(b)(6) and 12(c): If, on a motion under Rule 12(b)(6) or 12(c), matters outside the pleadings are presented to and not excluded by the court, the motion must be treated as one for summary judgment under Rule 56. Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(d). Although Jamison International s Motion argues in the alternative that plaintiff fails to state a claim, the affidavits submitted by defendants only concern their arguments under Rules 12(b)(2) and 12(b)(3) personal jurisdiction and venue respectively. Further, the court does not address defendants arguments pursuant to Rule 12(b)(6). Accordingly, the court may consider the affidavits without converting the Motion and Joinder into a motion for summary judgment. B. PERSONAL JURISDICTION At the outset, [t]he plaintiff has the burden of establishing a prima facie case of personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant. Meier ex. rel. Meier v. Sun Int l Hotels, Ltd., 288 F.3d 1264, (11th Cir. 2002); see also United Techs. Corp. v. Mazer, 556 6
7 F.3d 1260, 1274 (11th Cir. 2009) ( A plaintiff seeking the exercise of personal jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant bears the initial burden of alleging in the complaint sufficient facts to make out a prima facie case of jurisdiction. ). In order to meet this burden and show that a prima facie case is established, the plaintiff [must] present[] enough evidence to withstand a motion for directed verdict. Meier, 288 F.3d at Then, [w]here, as here, the defendant submits affidavits to the contrary, the burden traditionally shifts back to the plaintiff to produce evidence supporting jurisdiction unless those affidavits contain only conclusory assertions that the defendant is not subject to jurisdiction. Id. Finally, all reasonable inferences are drawn in favor of plaintiff where his complaint and supporting evidence conflict with the defendant s affidavits. Id. (citing Madara v. Hall, 916 F.2d 1510, 1514 (11th Cir. 1990)). In diversity actions, the federal district court may exercise jurisdiction over a nonresident defendant to the same extent as a court of that state. Ruiz de Molina v. Merritt & Furman Ins. Agency, Inc., 207 F.3d 1351, 1355 (11th Cir. 2000) (citing Prejean v. Sonatrach, Inc., 652 F.2d 1260 (5th Cir. Unit A Aug. 1981)). Ala. R. Civ. P. 4.2(b) effectively serves as Alabama s long-arm statute and authorizes personal jurisdiction to the extent allowed under the United States Constitution. Sloss Indus. Corp. v. Eurisol, 488 F.3d 922, 925 (11th Cir. 2007) (citing Ala. R. Civ. P. 4.2(b); Sieber v. Campbell, 810 So. 2d 641, 644 (Ala. 2001)). Because Alabama authorizes personal jurisdiction to the extent allowed under the Constitution, the court s inquiry is whether personal jurisdiction over the defendants in this case would violate the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, 7
8 which requires that the defendant have minimum contacts with the forum state and that the exercise of jurisdiction not offend traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice. Id. at 925 (quoting Int l Shoe Co. v. Washington, 326 U.S. 310, 316 (1945)). Further, personal jurisdiction can be broken down into two types general and specific and the nature and quality of a defendant s contacts as required by the Due Process clause vary with each. See Consol. Dev. Corp. v. Sherritt, Inc., 216 F.3d 1286, 1291 (11th Cir. 2000). The court will now examine each of these to determine if plaintiff has pled sufficient facts to establish personal jurisdiction over the remaining defendants. 1. General Jurisdiction General jurisdiction is said to exist when the suit does not arise out of or relate to the [defendant s] activities in the forum State.... Helicopteros Nacionales de Colombia, S.A. v. Hall, 466 U.S. 408, 414 (1984) (citations omitted). To establish general personal jurisdiction, there must be a showing of continuous and systematic general... contacts between the defendant and the forum state. Sherritt, 216 F.3d at 1292 (citations omitted). Moreover, [t]he due process requirements for general personal jurisdiction are more stringent than for specific personal jurisdiction.... Meier, 288 F.3d at 1274 (internal quotations and citations omitted). However, due process is not offended by a State s subjecting the [defendant] to its in personam jurisdiction when there are sufficient contacts between the State and the [defendant]. Helicopteros, 466 U.S. at 414. Jamison International The Complaint fails to allege sufficient facts to establish that the court has general 8
9 personal jurisdiction over Jamison International. Jamison International is a limited liability company organized under the laws of South Dakota. (Doc ) The company is owned by Marc Jamison, a resident of South Dakota, and Greenwich Ballistics, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, (doc , 5), and its principal place of business is located in Sturgis, South Dakota, (id. 4). According to the Complaint, Jamison International transacts business and supplies goods and services in Jefferson County, Alabama. (Doc ) But as defendant Jamison International correctly argues, these conclusory allegations are not facts. (Doc at 13.) Further, the Complaint states no additional allegations describing exactly how Jamison International conducts such business in Alabama. Rather, plaintiff summarily asserts that Jamison International is an alter ego of Cheytac and all other Defendants named in this lawsuit and is thereby liable jointly and severally for all claims asserted against the Defendants.... (Id.) The remaining allegations in the Complaint merely refer to the defendants collectively and do not specifically name Jamison International or state that the company routinely conducts business in Alabama. (See generally doc. 1-1.) To counteract the allegations of the Complaint, the Affidavit of Marc Jamison, which contains many specific statements regarding Jamison International s business activities, is attached as an exhibit to Jamison International s Motion to Dismiss. (See doc ) In the Affidavit, Jamison testified that the company has no presence in Alabama and did not employ plaintiff, (doc ), and that plaintiff did not sell or market any products on Jamison s behalf, (id. 12). He further states that Jamison International did not participate 9
10 in plaintiff s hiring, the negotiation of his contract, or the terms of his work for the Cheytac entities. Id. In addition, Jamison International does not have any employees in Alabama and is not licensed or registered to do business in the State of Alabama, (id. 20), nor does the company have any agents in Alabama or regularly conduct business in the State of Alabama. (Id.) On top of this, Jamison adds that Jamison International does not have any suppliers in Alabama, and none of its five distributers in the United States are located in Alabama. (Id. 23.) He states that though he may have traveled through Alabama in the 1970 s before Jamison International was formed, he has never visited the State otherwise or on behalf of Jamison International. (Id. 24.) Plaintiff counters Jamison International s Brief and Affidavits with his own Affidavit submitted in conjunction with his Opposition, where he states that he was the only dedicated... Jamison salesman between November 2007 and December (Doc ) According to plaintiff, his main focus was on selling a kit that contained a Cheytac sniper rifle and a 198 round can of ammunition that was manufactured by Jamison for exclusive use in Cheytac weapons. (Id. 5.) Assuming this is true, plaintiff s testimony is undercut by the Affidavit of Marc Jamison, which explains that the Cheytac entities purchased specialized ammunition and other products from Jamison International for use in Cheytac products. (Doc ) Further, Jamison states that plaintiff occasionally placed orders for CheyTac products from Jamison International but that the orders were billed to, and paid by, CheyTac who in turn sold them to its customers. (Id. 13.) And, according to Marc Jamison, Plaintiff did not sell or market any products on behalf of Jamison 10
11 International. (Id. 12.) Plaintiff s conclusory statements that he was employed by Jamison International and sold their products from Alabama do not constitute evidence supporting jurisdiction, Meier, 288 F.3d at 1269, and therefore, he has failed to carry the burden that shifted to him once defendants offered specific evidence to the contrary. And in any event, the remaining paragraphs in plaintiff s Affidavit implicate Jamison International in isolated and sporadic contacts with Alabama and not continuous and systematic general business contacts so that the court could assert jurisdiction over Jamison International without upsetting traditional notions of fair play and substantial justice. Plaintiff s alter ego argument as to Jamison International is equally unavailing and unsupported in his Opposition and accompanying Affidavit. At its most basic level, a corporation is a distinct and separate entity from the individuals who compose it as stockholders or who manage it as directors or officers. Nimbus Techs., Inc. v. SunnData Prods., Inc., 484 F.3d 1305, 1308 (11th Cir. 2007) (citation omitted). The corporate form may be set aside, however, as a means of preventing injustice or inequitable consequences. Id. (citation omitted). The concept of piercing the corporate veil recognizes that the corporate form may be disregarded when a corporation is so organized and controlled and its business so conducted as to make it a mere instrumentality of another or the alter ego of the person owning and controlling it. Id. Such a finding would subject the controlling individual or entity to liability for the acts of the alter ego corporation. Plaintiff argues, however, that Jamison International as an alter ego of the other defendants is subject to personal jurisdiction based on the contacts of defendants as controlling entities of Jamison 11
12 International the reverse of the traditional alter ego theory of liability. (Doc. 18 at 7.) The court is unaware of a decision by the Eleventh Circuit addressing this precise scenario; however, the Tenth Circuit explains that the argument advanced by plaintiff is illogical and inequitable in the context of personal jurisdiction. Home-Stake Prod. v. Talon Petroleum, 907 F.2d 1012, 1021 (10th Cir. 1990). In Home-Stake, the Tenth Circuit held that a parent s contacts with the forum could not be imputed to its subsidiaries based solely on an alter ego analysis: When one defendant completely controls another, the latter s contacts with the forum may fairly be imputed or attributed to the former.... In such situations, attribution of contacts to the [controlling] individual defendant merely reflects the reality that, although the contacts were ostensibly those of the corporation, the true actor was the individual. The same situation obtains in those cases holding a corporate parent to answer for conduct within the forum carried out by an alter ego subsidiary. But the rationale of these cases does not support the proposition that, because the court has jurisdiction over a parent corporation or dominating individual, without more, it has jurisdiction over the alter ego corporation. The dominated corporation does not direct and control its dominating corporate or individual alter ego. Accordingly, it is unfair to impute to the dominated corporation the forum contacts of its alter ego.... [The alter ego defendants] have, as much as any other defendant, a constitutionally protected liberty interest in not being subject to the binding judgments of a forum with which [they have] established no meaningful contacts, ties, or relations. Home-Stake, 907 F.2d at (internal quotation marks and citations omitted) (quoting Burger King Corp. v. Rudzewicz, 471 U.S. at (1985)); see also Vacation Travel Int l, Inc. v. Sunchase Beachfront Condo. Owners Ass n, CIVA 06CV02195 LTBCB, 2007 WL 12
13 757580, *5 (D. Colo. Mar. 8, 2007) ( While under some circumstances a subsidiary corporation s contacts may be imputed to a parent for the purposes of jurisdiction, the reverse is not true. ). The court finds the reasoning in Home-Stake persuasive. Even assuming the court would have personal jurisdiction over any of the other defendants and that Jamison International is merely the alter ego of any or all the other defendants as plaintiff posits, Jamison International should not reasonably expect to be haled into court based solely on the actions of its parent in the forum state. Such a result comports with the constitutional limitations on the court s exercise of personal jurisdiction, especially since it appears that Jamison International conducts no business in Alabama and otherwise maintained no continuous or systematic contacts within the state. Cf. Helicopteros, 466 U.S. at 417. ( [U]nilateral activity of another party or a third person is not an appropriate consideration when determining whether a defendant has sufficient contacts with a forum State to justify an assertion of jurisdiction. ). However, it is worth noting that the reasoning in Home-Stake was not followed in Sanford v. National Association for the Self-Employed, Inc., CIV P-H, 2009 WL (D. Me. May 21, 2009), which addressed a similar issue. In Sanford, one of the defendants, a wholly owned subsidiary of a co-defendant, moved to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction, based on the argument that it could not as a matter of law be subject to personal jurisdiction based solely on the forum contacts of its dominating parent. Id. at *8. The defendant relied, in part, on the holding in Home-Stake. Id. While it acknowledged 13
14 that the holding in Home-Stake squarely addressed and supported the defendant s position, the Sanford court cited several cases reaching an opposite conclusion, which were based on the rationale that the parent misused the subsidiary or dominated it such that there was no distinction between the two, rendering the subsidiary a mere department of the parent. Id. at *9 (citing Dainippon Screen Mfg. Co. v. CFMT, Inc., 142 F.3d 1266, 1271 (Fed. Cir. 1998); Oceanic Exploration Co. v. ConocoPhillips, Inc., Civil Action No (EGS), 2006 WL , at *13 (D.D.C. Sept. 21, 2006); Holme v. Global Minerals & Metals Corp., No /08, 2009 WL , at *2 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Jan. 12, 2009)). The Sanford court then reasoned that a subsidiary may be subject to personal jurisdiction for its parent s contacts if plaintiff can show abuse of the corporate form and an unjust result as a consequence of recognizing the separate corporate existence of the subsidiary. Id. at *10 (citations omitted). Although the court follows the reasoning in Home-Stake, it finds that plaintiff s Affidavit as cited in his Opposition provides only argumentative and conclusory statements, which do not persuade the court to impute the contacts of all other defendants to Jamison International. Aside from Greenwich s majority ownership of Jamison International, plaintiff contends that Jamison International has operated under the common control and ownership of Kupersmith, Tom Randel ( Randel ), or Paul Jannuzzo ( Jannuzzo ). (Doc. 18 at 9 (citing doc ).) And it is plaintiff s belief that Greenwich has no purpose other than to add another layer to Kupersmith s ownership of Jamison [International]. (Id. at 11 (citing doc ).) Plaintiff further alleges that Jamison International was thinly 14
15 capitalized and that Marc Jamison and Kupersmith frequently co-mingled assets of Jamison International with their own. (Id. at 10 (citing doc ).) The contention that Greenwich is nothing more than a buffer entity to shield and separate Jamison International and Kupersmith from each other s acts is based only on plaintiff s belief and not his personal knowledge. Without more, such summary arguments and legal conclusions are unconvincing and are contested by the Affidavit of Marc Jamison, which provides that Jamison International was a separate business and that the Cheytac entities were merely customers of Jamison International. (Doc ) Accordingly, plaintiff has failed to carry his burden. Because the Affidavit of Marc Jamison refutes any basis for general personal jurisdiction in the Complaint, and plaintiff s Affidavit does not sufficiently overcome the testimony of Marc Jamison, the court finds that plaintiff fails to establish that the court has general personal jurisdiction over Jamison International. Cheytac USA, LLC Plaintiff also fails to establish that Cheytac USA, LLC is subject to general personal jurisdiction in Alabama. Cheytac USA is a limited liability company organized under the laws of Georgia. (Doc ) According to the Complaint, Cheytac USA transacts business, supplies goods and services, and otherwise does business in Jefferson County, Alabama. (Doc ) However, the Complaint states no further allegations supporting exactly how Cheytac USA conducts such business in Alabama. Rather, plaintiff summarily asserts that the company is an alter ego of Cheytac [LLC] and all other Defendants named 15
16 in this lawsuit and is thereby liable jointly and severally for all claims asserted against the Defendants.... (Id.) Cheytac USA allegedly employed plaintiff from November 2007 through December 2011 as a Sales Director, Vice President of Marketing and Customer Service and as HAZMAT Officer but failed to pay plaintiff certain compensation and benefits for said services rendered. (Id.) The remaining substantive allegations in the Complaint refer to Defendants collectively and discuss the salary and sales commissions defendants promised and failed to pay plaintiff. (Id ) Notwithstanding these allegations, the court concludes that plaintiff has not pled facts establishing Cheytac USA is subject to personal jurisdiction in Alabama. The Affidavit of David McCutcheon ( McCutcheon ) submitted in conjunction with the Joinder of Motion to Dismiss explains that Cheytac USA was organized in Georgia in 2011 after Cheytac, LLC was unable to continue to operate. (Doc. 21 4, 7.) The new company was formed for the sole purpose of obtaining the patent rights from Greenwich Ballistics and to further attract investment capital to manufacture and exploit the Cheytac brand goods. (Id. 8.) Cheytac USA s sole place of business is in the state of Georgia. (Id. 5.) According to McCutcheon, few if any products have been sold or shipped by Cheytac USA. (Id. 10.) Further, plaintiff has never performed any services on behalf of the company nor was he paid by the company for any such services. (Id ) Also, Cheytac USA never maintained an office or bank account in Alabama nor paid taxes or owned property in the State. (Id. 16.) Plaintiff s Affidavit submitted in conjunction with his Opposition fails to show that Cheytac USA maintained general business contacts with Alabama. (See doc. 23.) Neither 16
17 the allegations in the Complaint nor the allegations in plaintiff s Affidavit are sufficient to show that Cheytac USA maintained any significant and continuous contacts with the State. Thus, the court finds McCutcheon s Affidavit refutes the conclusory allegations in the Complaint purporting to show Cheytac USA maintained continuous and systematic contacts with Alabama. The court also rejects plaintiff s argument that Cheytac USA is subject to general personal jurisdiction as an alter ego of all other defendants. The Complaint does not specifically allege the relationship between Cheytac USA and the other defendants. According to McCutcheon, however, he is the sole manager of the company. (Doc ) He further testified that the company was formed to exploit the Cheytac brand goods and that he is exploiting th[e] opportunity on [his] own behalf with [his] own funding. (Id. 8). However, he also stated that Kupersmith retains a minority interest in the company. (Id. 14.) McCutcheon affirmatively stated from personal knowledge that Cheytac USA did not co-mingle funds with Cheytac, LLC; there is no successor liability or unity of interest between the Cheytac entities; and Kupersmith has no control over Cheytac USA. (Id. 9, ) Plaintiff s Affidavit asserts that all the corporate defendants were under the common control and ownership of Kupersmith (either individually or by and through Greenwich... of which he owns 100%), Tom Randel... or Paul Jannuzzo. (Doc ) Plaintiff s Opposition brief also provides a graphic table indicating that Kupersmith owns 50 percent or more of Cheytac USA. (Doc. 18 at 8.) These assertions are directly contradicted by McCutcheon s Affidavit, which states that Kupersmith is a minority owner 17
18 and does not direct or control the operations of Cheytac USA. (See doc ) Even assuming that Cheytac USA is the mere alter ego of Kupersmith, it is illogical to impute to a subsidiary the alleged contacts of its parent, especially when, as in this case, it appears that Kupersmith maintained no control over Cheytac USA. See Home-Stake, 907 F.2d at Id. The conclusory statements suggesting that Kupersmith improperly co-mingled personal assets with Cheytac USA, (see doc , 18), are insufficient to establish that Kupersmith abused the corporate form through his minority stake in the company. 2. Specific Jurisdiction Specific jurisdiction exists when a party s activities in the forum state... are related to the cause of action alleged in the complaint. Eurisol, 488 F.3d at 925 (emphasis added) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). The Eleventh Circuit has stated that to satisfy specific jurisdiction, there are at least three criteria that a defendant s minimum contacts with the forum state must satisfy: they must be related to the plaintiff s cause of action or have given rise to it; they must involve some act by which the defendant purposefully avails itself of the privilege of conducting activities within the forum; and they must be such that the defendant should reasonably anticipate being haled into court there. Id. (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). The Supreme Court has explained that the purposeful availment requirement guards against a defendant being haled into a jurisdiction solely as a result of random, fortuitous, or attenuated contacts. Burger King Corp. v. Rudzewicz, 471 U.S. 462, 475 (1985) (citations omitted). However, 18
19 [j]urisdiction is proper... where the contacts proximately result from actions by the defendant himself that create a substantial connection with the forum State. Id. (citations omitted). Jamison International Plaintiff s Complaint does not allege sufficient facts to establish that Jamison International maintained sufficient minimum contacts with the forum such that it would reasonably expect to be haled into court in Alabama. The Complaint states that Jamison International is a South Dakota limited liability company transacting business, supplying goods and services and otherwise doing business in Jefferson County, Alabama. (Doc ) The remaining substantive allegations in the Complaint refer only to Defendants collectively but do not refer specifically to Jamison International. (Id. at 9-14.) Plaintiff alleges that defendants employed him in exchange for a monthly salary plus commissions from sales of their products, that plaintiff sold over $3 million worth of the products, and that he was not paid all of the salary or commissions owed to him. (Id. 9-10, ) However, the Complaint also specifically states that plaintiff was actually employed by the Cheytac entities as Sales Director, Vice President of Marketing and Customer Service and as HAZMAT Officer. (Id. 2-3.) Jamison International s Brief in Support of its Motion cites to the Affidavit of Marc Jamison, which provides specific facts sufficient to shift the burden back to plaintiff to provide contradictory evidence supporting his allegations as to Jamison International: namely, that Jamison International employed him or promised to pay him for selling its 19
20 products. (Doc at 16-17; see also doc ) As discussed above, Marc Jamison states that Jamison International manufactured products which the Cheytac entities then purchased from it as customers. (Doc ) Jamison also states that plaintiff did not market or sell any products on behalf of Jamison International. (Id. 12.) He further testified that neither he nor Jamison International have entered into any contracts or agreements with plaintiff. (Id. 22.) And none of the individuals who may have negotiated details of plaintiff s alleged employment, (see doc ; doc ), were ever on the payroll of Jamison International, (id. 18). Finally, although plaintiff ordered products for Cheytac from Jamison International, Jamison states that plaintiff placed the orders on behalf of Cheytac, which was then billed and paid for the goods. (Id. 13.) On the other hand, plaintiff s Affidavit submitted in conjunction with his Opposition brief recounts several instances regarding employment arrangements with Jamison International in Alabama. First, plaintiff says he negotiated his employment from his home in Alabama with Paul Jannuzzo, agent of Cheytac, LLC... and Jamison International. (Doc ) Sometime in 2009, plaintiff met with Kupersmith at a country club in Alabama for the specific purpose of discussing business opportunities for Cheytac, Cheytac USA and Jamison [International]. (Id. 7.) Additionally, plaintiff states that Jannuzzo was the CEO of Jamison International during the company s infancy and that Jannuzzo directed the manner of [plaintiff s] employment. (Id. 12.) Sometime later, Tom Randel acted as plaintiff s direct supervisor and directed the manner and means of [his] employment through daily telephone conversations. (Id. 11.) He asserts that Randel was the Chief 20
21 Financial Officer of each business controlled by Kupersmith. (Id. 10.) Thus, Jamison International appears to be implicated in each of these instances of alleged contact with plaintiff in Alabama under the generalized statement that the Cheytac entities and Jamison International were under the common control and ownership of Kupersmith (either individually or by and through Greenwich...), Tom Randel..., or Paul Jannuzzo. (Id.) In his Affidavit, plaintiff discusses his duties as a sales representative of Jamison International and states that he was the only dedicated... salesman for Jamison International and the Cheytac entities for approximately four years. (Id. 6.) However, most of the leads for sales of Jamison International products came via the Cheytac website and trade shows. (Id.) Plaintiff alleges that he placed sales calls to several businesses and governmental entities within the state of Alabama, including... the City of Birmingham Police Department, among others. (Id. 8.) Further, plaintiff s main focus involved selling a Cheytac sniper rifle that included ammunition that was manufactured by Jamison for exclusive use in Cheytac weapons. (Id. 5.) Jamison International s and plaintiff s Affidavits in support of their jurisdictional arguments state fundamentally conflicting facts. Because Jamison International contested plaintiff s jurisdictional allegations in the Complaint by of way of the factual statements contained in Marc Jamison s Affidavit, the burden then shifted to plaintiff to establish the court s jurisdiction over Jamison International. Meier, 288 F.3d at 1269; see also United Techs. Corp. v. Mazer, 556 F.3d 1260, 1277 (11th Cir. 2009) ( [S]pecific factual declarations within the affiant s personal knowledge,... are sufficient to shift to the Plaintiff the burden 21
22 of producing evidence supporting jurisdiction. (internal quotation marks and citation omitted)). If the plaintiff s Affidavit conflicts with defendant s, the court must construe all reasonable inferences in favor of the plaintiff. Meier, 288 F.3d at However, the court is not obligated to accept mere legal conclusions posited as facts in an affidavit. See Mazer, 556 F.3d at Here, the conclusory statements in plaintiff s Affidavit regarding the contacts of Jamison International with Alabama are insufficient to carry his burden to contest the specific statements that Jamison International has provided. For the most part, plaintiff merely lumps Jamison International together with the Cheytac entities when describing employment negotiations or duties. Although plaintiff says he was supervised by or received directions from agents or employees of Jamison International who were also agents of the Cheytac entities or were employed by all the entities controlled by Kupersmith, he does nothing more than conclusively assert that such relationships existed. The court does not accept these conclusions and mere legal assertions as facts: [m]ere averments of jurisdiction are not enough nor may conclusory, unsupported statements contained in accompanying affidavits be relied upon to demonstrate jurisdiction. Melech v. Life Ins. Co. of N. Am., CIV.A KD-M, 2011 WL , *3 (S.D. Ala. Mar. 1, 2011), report and recommendation adopted, CIV.A KD-M, 2011 WL (S.D. Ala. Mar. 18, 2011) (quoting Gen. Elec. Credit Corp. v. Scott s Furniture Warehouse Showroom, Inc., 699 F. Supp. 907, 910 (N.D. Ga. 1988)) (internal quotation marks omitted). Because the court does not accept the conclusory statements in plaintiff s Affidavit, 22
23 it finds that Jamison International sufficiently refuted the jurisdictional allegations in the Complaint. Therefore, the Complaint fails to allege the existence of sufficient minimum contacts between Jamison International and Alabama such that Jamison International would reasonably expected to be haled into court in the state. Cheytac USA, LLC Plaintiff s Complaint also fails to establish that Cheytac USA maintained sufficient minimum contacts with the forum such that it would reasonably expect to be haled into court in Alabama. As discussed when analyzing general jurisdiction, the Complaint alleges generally that Cheytac USA transacted business in Alabama and employed plaintiff in various capacities, including as a salesperson. (Doc ) It is further alleged that defendants, including Cheytac USA, made certain employment promises to plaintiff through various agents, such as the payment of salary, sales commissions, and other benefits. (Id ) Plaintiff claims that he sold a substantial amount of Defendants products, (id. 12), and should have been paid wages and commissions accordingly, (id ). In direct contradiction to the allegations in the Complaint, McCutcheon s Affidavit states that no material amount of good, [sic] firearms or ammunition have been sold or shipped by Cheytac USA, LLC. (Doc ) Further, plaintiff was neither employed nor paid by Cheytac USA. (Doc ) McCutcheon adds that at the company s inception [p]laintiff was offered to participate in the business, but refused to sign the required paperwork... and therefore was never included in any business dealings of Cheytac USA, LLC. (Id. 13.) 23
24 Rather than squarely address McCutcheon s statements that plaintiff never performed any work on behalf of Cheytac USA and was in fact excluded from all dealings with the company after being given the chance to participate in the business, plaintiff merely lumps Cheytac USA in with Cheytac, LLC and Jamison International by claiming that he performed work for all three. (Doc. 23 6, 8, 17.) Without more, plaintiff s generalizations that he was employed by, performed work for, and was paid by Cheytac USA, are insufficient to carry his burden of establishing specific jurisdiction over Cheytac USA when Cheytac USA submitted direct evidence specifically disputing such claims. Because plaintiff has failed to establish the existence of sufficient minimum contacts between Cheytac USA and Alabama such that the company would reasonably expect to be haled into court in the State, Cheytac USA s Motion to Dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction is due to be granted. C. MOTION TO TRANSFER Because the court finds it does not have personal jurisdiction over Jamison International or Cheytac USA and that the Motion to Dismiss on that basis is due to be granted, the court will not address the Motion to Transfer as to either party. See Posner v. Essex Ins. Co., 178 F.3d 1209, 1214 n.6 (11th Cir. 1999) ( A court without personal jurisdiction is powerless to take further action. (citation omitted)). The Motion to Transfer is deemed moot as to both Jamison International and Cheytac USA. III. CONCLUSION Based on the foregoing and as directed by the court s Order entered contemporaneously with this Opinion, Jamison International s Motion to Dismiss, (doc. 10), 24
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Shooting at night…
It has been a long time since we talked last, so I thought of having a chat with you all. The latest news around these days is about internal conflicts in parties and Salman Khan buying an IPL team; and I am sufficiently bored of watching news on T.V now. So, I sleep. You may think that I’m out of work or something of that sort.
Actually, these days I am shooting in Ramoji Film City, Hyderabad, which is an hour and a half away from the city and there’s nothing in the vicinity except the studio. The studio has two good hotels where one stays when not shooting. So, there’s nothing else to do. I am waiting for my shooting call and in the meanwhile watching T.V also. I also am waiting for the Acid Factory’s promos to air on TV.
I just spoke to the director of Acid Factory and he told me about a song being aired on a channel. In the next three-four days it’s probable that other promos are telecast. I am excited. My excitement is also because we shot the film in the same Ramoji Rao Studios for around a month and enjoyed it a lot.
Squandering here reminded me of those days. I have seen the film myself and think that it gives a full dose of entertainment. It’s a fast entertainer and I liked the film. Now it’s for you to decide how the film is. I won’t say anything further else I’ll be accused of promoting my film on this blog.
I’ll have to go to Bhopal in a few days time for Rajneeti’s shooting and I am so eagerly waiting for this. Also, I am waiting to meet Vijay, my friend of old times. Bhopal is a small but a very beautiful city. I have done some shooting there before and it’ll be exciting to go back again.
These days I am shooting at night and I extremely dislike shooting at night, whatsoever. No matter how much I try to get my director to wind up my work by 12-1 AM, I get no success. The directors somehow fail to understand that I can’t continue to be efficient and energetic at night. This has been a problem with me since I can remember but a commitment is a commitment after all. So be it.
Today I’ll have to stay awake at night again and this is already giving me shivers. I am now waiting for my director’s call.
Manoj Bajpayee.
Swine flu…..Oh!...swine flu.
Swine Flu is a panic word that these days can be heard almost everywhere. All around a wave of tension has filled in the air and there are no more masks even after the whole panic attack. People are sending ayurvedic and homeopathic treatments to their loved ones and everyone is fairly concerned about everyone else.
Newspapers, news channels and other sources of information are adding to the apprehensions of people and all of a sudden everyone is so paranoid about getting infection themselves. A mere headache or pains in the leg have become ‘symptoms’ for the flu. People are too anxious and it’s very visible. I think, if the Govt. permits private hospitals to conduct swine flu tests, under supervision, many apprehensions would be solved. Long queues of people waiting for the check-up, aired on TV channels not only scared me but many others too.
Well, this is what I think. I was shooting for a Telugu film and its schedule has been cancelled. As a result I may have to stay at home for almost ten days now; dates of other actors are a problem. This is so common in our profession. Preparations for shooting ‘Rajneeti’ have been started and I have met Prakash Jha for the same. I’ll go there tomorrow too. Also, I just completed dubbing for my animated ‘Ramayan’ but the moment I reached home I saw swine flu laden channels.
My friend Vishal Bharadwaj’s film ‘Kaminey’ is releasing and I’ll definitely go to watch it in the theatre. Though I am worried about contacting various people; the fear is the flu and not the people. And like a conscious citizen I know I should take precautions. But I’ll definitely go watch Kaminey because I love Vishal’s films.
With this…
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Adding the Interrobang to your iPhone keyboard
Recently, I shared this video about some little-known punctuation marks:
It seemed to get a great reaction from teachers so I decided to put together a little video to show how you can add some of these punctation marks to your iPhone or iPad keyboard. The following video explains how to do it:
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Completely innocent but dodgy children's drawings Vol. 1
Over a week ago, I was sent a message on Instagram from a teacher who had a pupil create a rather amusing card for the local librarian who had been stung by a wasp. I shared the post:
Thank you Gemma for sending this, it made me crease 😂😂😂 #teach #teacher #teachersfollowteachers #education #teachersofinstagram #teacherlife #school A post shared by Lee Parkinson (@ict_mrp) on Oct 20, 2018 at 9:36am PDT
Once published, I was then inundated with other messages from teachers who wanted to share pictures their pupils had drawn that were completely innocent but looked rather dodgy. Here are a selection of some of the favourites I have shared:
Exploring the New Nike Advert
I've just seen the new Nike advert and was blown away. It has such a powerful message.
The advert has been in the news and faced a backlash because of the narrator - Colin Kaepernick. The NFL star was the first athlete to kneel during pre-game anthems to protest against social and racial inequality in the US. I was, however, impressed with the advert as I believe it has a very powerful message. See what you think:
Here is the text from the ad:
If people say your dreams are crazy If they laugh at what you think you can do Good Stay that way Because what non-believers fail to understand is that calling a dream crazy is not an insult It's a compliment Don't try to be the fastest runner in your school Or the fastest in the world Be the fastest ever Don't picture yourself wearing OBJ's jersey Picture OBJ wearing yours Don't settle for homecoming queen or linebacker Do both Lose 120 pounds and become an Ironman after beating a brain tumor
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Over the weekend, I finally managed to watch the film - The Greatest Showman. One of the songs stood out to me and straight away I thought, this is a must for the classroom. If you have followed my blog, you know I am a fan of using music for reading comprehension and you can read some of my other posts here.
The film tells the story of PT Barnum and his circus.
"This Is Me" is a fight song for people who are not accepted by society. It is sung by Lettie Lutz after she and the rest of the circus troupe are barred by Barnum from an after party following Jenny Lind's performance. The bearded lady refuses to be cut down by the fact that the showman is embarrassed by them. According to the song's writer, "It was really inspired by the group of oddities in the film, and what they came to represent and what [director] Michael [Gracey] talked about them representing," Pasek told Billboard. "People who had lived in the shadows their whole lives and for the fi…
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Tag Archives: Applied linguistics
Education, Extended writing, Language, Linguistics
January 1, 2014 Dominik Lukeš 5 Comments
This was written in some haste and needs further refinement. Maybe one day that will come. For now, it will be left as it stands.
This post outlines what I think are the key learnings from the output of the research of the field of linguistics that should be reflected in the general curriculum (in as much as any should be). This is in reaction to the recent posts by Mark Liberman suggesting the role and form of grammar analysis in general education. I argue that he is almost entirely wrong in his assumptions as well as in his emphasis. I will outline my arguments against his position at the end of the post. At the beginning I will outline key easily digestible lessons of modern linguistics that should be incorporated into language education at all levels.
I should note that despite my vociferous disagreement, Mark Liberman is one of my heros. His ‘Breakfast Experiments(tm)’ have brought me much joy and his and his fellow contributors to the Language Log make me better informed about developments in linguistics outside my own specialty that I would otherwise not know about. Thanks Mark for all your great work.
I have addressed some of these issues in previous posts here, here and here.
What should linguistics teach us
In my post on what proponents of simple language should know about linguistics, I made a list of findings that I propose are far more important than specific grammatical and lexicographic knowledge. Here I take a slightly more high-level approach – but in part, this is a repetition of that post.
Simply, I propose that any school-level curriculum of language education should 1. expose students (starting at primary level) to the following 5 principles through reflection on relevant examples, and 2. these principles should be reflected in the practical instruction students receive toward the acquisition of skills and general facility in the standards of that language.
Summary of key principles
Language is a dialect with an army and a navy
Standard English is just one of the many dialects of English
We are all multilingual in many different ways
A dictionary is just another text written in the language, not a law of the language
Language is more than words and rules
Principle 1: Language is a dialect with an army and a navy
This famous dictum (see Wikipedia on origins ) encapsulates the fact that language does not have clear boundaries and that there is no formula for distinguishing where one language ends and another begins. Often, this disctinction depends on the political interests of different groups. In different political contexts, the different Englishes around the world today, could easily qualify for separate language status and many of them have achieved this.
But exploring the examples that help us make sense of this pithy phrase also teaches us the importance of language in the negotiation of our identity and its embeddedness in the wider social sphere. There are piles and piles of evidence to support this claim and learning about the evidence has the potential of making us all better human beings less prone to disenfranchise others based on the way they speak (in as much any form of schooling is capable of such a thing). Certainly more worthy than knowing how to tell the passive voice.
Principle 2: Standard English is just one of the many dialects of English
Not only are there no clear boundaries between languages, there are no clear principles of what constitutes an individual language. A language is identified by its context of use as much as by the forms it uses. So if kayak and a propos can be a part of English so can ain’t and he don’t. It is only a combination of subconscious convention and conscious politics that decides which is which.
Anybody exploring the truth of this statement (and, yes, I’m perfectly willing to say the word truth in this context) will learn about the many features of English and all human languages such as:
stratification of language through registers
regional and social variation in language
processes of change in language over time
what we call good grammar are more or less fixed conventions of expression in certain contexts
the ubiquity of multiple codes and constant switching between codes (in fact, I think this is so important that it gets a top billing in this list as number 3)
Again, althoguh I’m highly skeptical of claims to causality from education to social change, I can’t see why instruction in this reality of our lives could not contribute to an international conversation about language politics. Perhaps, an awareness of this ‘mantra’ could reduce the frequency of statements such as:
I know I don’t speak very good English
Word/expression X is bad English
Non-native speaker X speaks better English than native speaker Y
And just maybe, teachers of English will stop abusing their students with ‘this is bad grammar’ and instead guide them towards understanding that in different contexts, different uses are appropriate. Even at the most elementary levels, children can have fun learning to speak like a newscaster or a local farm hand, without the violent intrusion into their identity that comes from the misguided and evil labeling of the first as proper and the second as ‘not good English’. Or how about giving the general public enough information to have judged the abominable behavior of the the journalist pseudo elites during the ‘Ebonics controversy’ as the disgraceful display of shameful ignorance it was.
Only and only when they have learned all that, should we mention something about the direct object.
Principle 3: We are all multilingual in many different ways
One of the things linguistics has gathered huge amounts of evidence about is the fact that we are all constantly dealing with multiple quite distinct codes. This is generally not expressed in quite as stark terms as I do here, but I take my cue from bilingualism studies where it has been suggested (either by Chaika or Romaine – I can’t track down the reference to save my life) that we should treat all our study of language as if bilingualism was the default state rather than some exception. This would make good sense even if we went by the educated guess that just over half of the world’s population speaks regularly two or more languages. But I want to go further.
First, we know from principle 1 that there is no definition of language that allows us draw clear boundaries between individual languages. Second, we know from principle 2 that each language consists of many different ‘sub-languages’ or ‘codes’. Because language is so vast and complex, it follows that knowing a language is not an either/or proposition. People are constantly straddling boundaries between different ways of speaking and understanding. Speaking in different ways for different purposes, to different people in different codes. And we know that people switch between the codes constantly for different reasons, even in the same sentence or just one word (very common in languages with rich morphologies like Czech – less common in English but possible with ‘un-fucking-convinving’). Some examples that should illustrate this: “Ladies and gentlemen, we’re screwed” and “And then Jeff said unto Karen”
We also know from all the wailing and gnashing of teeth derriving from the ignorance of principle 2, that acquiring these different codes is not easy. The linguist Jim Miller has suggested to me that children entering school are in a way required to learn a foreign language. In Czech schools, they are instructed in a new lexicon and new morphology (e.g. say ‘malý’ instead of ‘malej’). in English schools they are taught a strange syntax with among other things a focus on nominal structures (cf. ‘he went and’ vs. ‘his going was’) as well as an alien lexicon (cf. ‘leave’ vs. ‘depart’). This is compounded with a spelling system whose principles are often explained on the basis of a phonology they don’t understand (e.g. much of England pronuncing ‘bus’ and ‘booss’ but using teaching materials that rhyme ‘bus’ with ‘us’).
It is not therefore a huge leap to say that for all intents and purposes, we are all multilingual even if we only officially speak one language with its own army and a navy. Or at least, we enagage all the social, cognitive and linguistic processes that are involved in speaking multiple languages. (There is some counter evidence from brain imaging but in my view it is still too early to interpret this either way.)
But no matter whether we accept the strong or the weak version of my proposition, learning about the different pros and cons would make students’ lives much easier at all levels. Instead of feeling like failures over their grammar, they could be encouraged to practice switching between codes. They could also take comfort in the knowledge that there are many different ways of knowing a language and no one person can know it all.
If any time is left over, let’s have a look at constituent structures.
Principle 4: A dictionary is just another text written in the language, not a law of the language
The defference shown to ‘official’ reference materials is at the heart of a myth that the presense of a word in a dictionary in some way validates the word as being a ‘real’ word in the language. But the absolute truth about language that everyone should know and repeat as a mantra every time they ask ‘is X a word’ is that dictionaries are just another text. In fact, they are their own genre of a type that Michael Hoey calls text colonies. This makes them cousins of the venerable shopping list. Dictionaries have their own conventions, their own syntax and their own lexicon. They have ‘heads’ and ‘definitions’ that are both presented in particular ways.
What they most emphatically do not do is confirm or disconfirm the existence of a word or its meaning. It’s not just that they are always behind current usage, it’s that they only reflect a fraction of the knowledge involved in knowing and using words (or as the philosopher John Austin would say ‘doing things with words’). Dictionaries fullfil two roles at once. They are useful tools for gathering information to enable us to deal with the consequences of principle 3 (i.e. to function in a complex multi-codal linguistic environment both as passive and active participants). And they help us express many beliefs about our world such as:
The world is composed of entities with meanings
Our knowledge is composed of discrete items
Some things are proper and others are improper
Perhaps this can become more transparent when we look at entries for words like ‘the’ or ‘cat’. No dictionary definition can help us with ‘the’ unless we can already use it. In this case, the dictionary serves no useful role other than as a catalog of our reality. Performatively assuring us of its own relevance by its irrelevance. How about the entry for ‘cat’. Here, the dictionary can play a very useful role in a bilingual situation. A German will see ‘cat = Katze’ and all will be clear in an instant. A picture can be helpful to those who have no language yet (little children). But the definition of ‘cat’ as “a small domesticated carnivorous mammal with soft fur, a short snout, and retractile claws” is of no use to anybody who doesn’t already know what ‘cat’ means. Or at the very least, if you don’t know ‘cat’, your chances of understanding any definition in the dictionary are very low. A dictionary can be helpful in reminding us that ‘cat’ is also used to refer to ‘man’ among jazz musicians (as in “he’s a cool cat”) but again, all that requires existing knowledge of cat. A dictionary definition that would say ‘a cat is that thing you know as a cat but jazz musicians sometimes use cat to refer to men’ would be just as useful.
In this way, a dictionary is like an audience in the theatre, who are simultaneously watching a performance, and performing themselves the roles of theatre audiences (dress, behavior, speech).
It is also worthwhile to think about what is required of the dictionary author. While the basic part of the lexicographer’s craft is the collection of usage examples (on index cards in the past and in corpora today) and their interpretation, all this requires a prior facility with the language and much introspection about the dictionary makers own linguistic intuitions. So lexicographers make mistakes. Furthermore, in the last hundred years or so, they also almost never start from scratch. Most dictionaries are based on some older dictionaries and the order of definitions is often as much a reflection of a tradition (e.g. in the case of the word ‘literally’ or the word ‘brandish’) as analysis of actual usage.
Why should this be taught as part of the language education curriculum? Simple! Educated people should know how the basic tools surrounding their daily lives work. But even more importantly, they should never use the presence of a word in a dictionary, and as importantly the definition of a word in a dictionary, as the definitive argument for their preferred meaning of a word. (Outside some contexts such as playing SCRABBLE or confirming an uncertainty over archaic or specialist words).
An educated person should be able to go and confirm any guidance found in a dictionary by searching a corpus and evaluate the evidence. It’s not nearly as hard as as identifying parts of speech in a sentence and about a million times more useful for the individual and beneficial for society.
Principle 5: Language is more than words and rules
Steven Pinker immortalised the traditional structuralist vision of what language consists of in the title of his book “Words and rules”. This vision is almost certainly wrong. It is based on an old articulation of language as being the product of a relatively small number of rules applied to a really large number of words (Chomsky expressed this quite starkly but the roots of this model go much deeper).
That is not to say that words and rules are not useful heuristic shortcuts to talking about language. I use this metaphor myself every day. And I certainly am not proposing that language should not be taught with reference to this metaphor.
However, this is a very impoverished view of language and rather than spend time on learning the ‘relatively few’ rules for no good reason other than to please Mark Liberman, why not learn some facts we know about the vastness and complexity of language. That way instead of having a completely misguided view of language as something finite that can be captured in a few simple precepts (often expressed in one of those moronic ‘Top X grammatical errors lists’), one could actually have a basic understanding of all the ways language expresses our minds and impresses itself on our life. Perhaps, we could even get to a generation of psycholinguists and NLP specialists who try to deal with language as it actually is rather than in its bastardised form that can be captured by rules and words.
Ok, so I’m hoisting my theoretical flag here, flying the colors of the ‘usage-based’, ‘construction grammar’, ‘cognitive semantics’ crowd. But the actual curricular proposal is theory free (other than in the ‘ought’ portion of it) and based on well-known and oft-described facts – many of them by the Language Log itself.
To illustrate the argument, let’s open the dictionary and have a look at the entry ‘get’. It will go on for several pages even if we decide to hide all its phrasal friends under separate entries. Wiktionary lists 26 definitions as a verb and 4 as a noun which is fairly conservative. But each of these definitions also comes with usage examples and usage exceptions. For instance, in ‘get behind him’, it is intransitive but in ‘get Jim to come’, it is transitive. This is combined with general rules that apply across all uses such ‘got’ as the past tense and ‘gets’ as the third person singular. Things can be even more complex as with the word ‘bad’ which has the irregular superlative ‘worst’ when it is used in a negative sense as in ‘teaching grammar in schools is the worst idea’ and ‘baddest’ in the positive sense as in ‘Mark Liberman is the baddest linguist on the internet’. ‘Baddest’ is also only appropriate in certain contexts (so my example is at the same time an illustration of code mixing). When we look at any single word in the dictionary, the amount of conscious and unconscious knowledge required to use the word in our daily speech is staggering. This is made even trickier by the fact that not everyone in any one speech community has exactly the same grasp of the word leading to a lot of negotiation and conversation repair.
It is also the sort of stuff that makes understanding of novel expressions like ‘she sneezed the napking off the table’ possible. If we must, let’s do some sentence diagramming now.
Some other things to know
I could go on, some of my other candidate principles that didn’t make this list either because they could be subsumed by one of the items, or they are too theory laden, or because I wanter a list of 5, or because this blog post is over 3,000 words already, are:
All lexical knowledge is encyclopedic knowledge
Rules of the road like conversation repair, turn taking or text cohesion are just as much part of language as things like passives, etc.
Metaphors (and other types of figurative language) are normal, ubiquitous and necessary for language
Pretty much every prejudice about gender and language is wrong (like who is more conservative, etc.)
No language is more beatiful or amazing than any other, saying this is most likely part of a nationalistic discourse
Children are not very good language learners when you put them in the same learning context as adults (e.g. two hours of instruction a week as opposed to living in a culture with no other obligation but to learn)
Learning a language is hard and it takes time
The etymology of a word does not reflect some deeper meaning of the word
Outside some very specific contexts (e.g. language death), languages don’t decline, they change
Why we should not teach grammar in schools
So, that was my outline of what linguistic expertise should be part of the language education curriculum – and as importantly should inform teachers across all subjects. Now, let’s have a look, as promised, at why Mark Liberman is wrong to call for the teaching of grammar in schools in the first place.
To his credit, he does not trot out any of the usual utilitarian arguments for the teaching of grammar:
It will make learning of foreign languages easier
It will make today’s graduates better able to express themselves
It will contribute to higher quality of discourse
It will stop the decline of English
It will improve critical thinking of all students
These are all bogus, not supported by evidence and with some evidence against them (see this report for a summary of a part of them).
My argument is with his interpretation of his claim that
a basic understanding of how language works should be part of what every educated person knows
I have a fundamental problem with the very notion of ‘educated person’ because of its pernicious political baggage. But in this post I’ve used it to accept the basic premise that if we’re going to teaching lots of stuff to children in schools, we might as well teach them the good stuff. Perhaps, not always the most immediately useful stuff but definitely the stuff that reflects the best in what we have to offer to ourselves as the humanity we want to be.
But if that is the case, then I don’t think his offer of
a modern version of the old-fashioned idea that grammar (and logic and rhetoric :-)) should be for everyone
is that sort of stuff. Let’s look at what that kind of education did for the likes of Orwell, and Stunk and White who have had the benefit of all the grammar education a school master’s cane can beat into a man and yet committed such outrageous, embarrassing and damaging transgressions against linguistic knowledge (not infrequently decried on the Language Log).
The point is that ‘grammar’ (and ‘logic’ and ‘rhetoric’) do not represent even a fraction of the principles involved in how language works. The only reason why we would privilege their teaching over the teaching of the things I propose (which cover a much larger area of how language works) is because they have been taught in the past. But why? Basing it on something as arbitrary as the hodgepodge that is the treebank terminology proposed by Mark Liberman only exposes the weakness of the argument – sure, it’s well known and universally understood by professional linguists but it hides as much about language as it reveals. And as Mark acknowledges, the aim is not to educate future linguists. There are alternatives such as Dickson’s excellent Basic Linguistic Theory that take into account much more subtly the variation across languages. But even then, we avoid all the really interesting things about language. I’m not against some very basic metalinguistic terminology to assist students in dealing with language but parsing sentences for no other reason than to do it seems pointless.
The problem with basing a curriculum on old-fashioned values is that we are catering to the nostalgia of old men (and sorry Mark, despite my profound appreciation for your work, you are an old man). (By the way, I use ‘men’ to evoke a particular image rather than to make any assertions about the gender of the person in question.) But it’s not just nostalgia. It’s also their disorientation in a changing world and discomfort with encountering people who are not like them – and, oh horror, can’t tell the passive voice from the past tense. Yes, it would be more convenient for me, if everyone I spoke to had the same appreciation for what an adverb is (particularly when I was teaching foreign languages). But is that really the best we have to offer when we want to show what should be known? How much of this is just the maintenance of the status of academics who want to see their discipline reflected in the cauldron of power and respectability that is the school curriculum? If the chemists get to waste everyone’s time with polymers, why not us with trees and sentence diagrams? In a follow up post, Dick Hudson claims that at present “we struggle to cope with the effects of [the disaster of no grammar teaching]”. But I don’t see any disaster going on at the moment. Why is teaching no grammar more disasterous than the teaching of grammar based on Latin and Greek with little connection to the nature of English? Whose rules are we after?
The curriculum is already full to bursting with too much stuff that someone threw up as a shibboleth for being educated and thus eligible for certain privileges. But perhaps our curriculum has now become the kind of stable that needs the janitorial attention of a modern Heracles.
Post script: Minimalist metalinguistic curriculum
I once analysed the Czech primary curriculum and found over 240 metalinguistic terms. I know, riddiculous. The curriculum was based on the work of eminent Czech structuralists (whose theorizing influenced much of the rest of the world). It didn’t make the Czechs any more educated, eloquent, or better at learning foreign languages – although it did make it easier for me to study linguistics. But as I said above, there is certainly some place for metalanguage in general education. Much of it comes from stylistics but when it comes to grammar, I’d stick to about 15. This is not a definitive list:
Past form of verb
Future form of verbs
Present form of verbs
Languages with rich morphology might need a few others to cover things like case but overall in my career as a language educator, I’ve never felt the need for any more, and nor have I felt in the presence of uneducated people of people who couldn’t tell me what the infinitive was. In fact, I’d rather take some items away (like adverb, prefix, suffix, or clause) than add new ones.
Sentence diagramming is often proposed as a way of instilling some metalinguistic awareness. I don’t see any harm in that (and a lot of potential benefit). But only with the enormous proviso that students use it to learn the relationship between parts of their language in use and NOT as a gateway to a cancerous taxonomy pretending to the absolute existence of things that could easily be just artifacts of our metacognition.
Things are different when it comes to the linguistic education of language teachers. On the one hand, I’m all for language teachers having a comprehensive education in how language works. On the other hand, I have perpetrated a lot of such teacher training over the years and have watch others struggle with it, as well. And the effects are dispiriting. I’ve seen teachers who can diagram a sentence with the best of them and are still quite clueless when it comes to understanding how speech acts work. Very often language teachers find any such lessons painful and something to get through. This means that the key thing they remember about the subject is that linguistics is hard or boring or both.
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Education, Extended writing, Knowledge, Language, Linguistics
August 9, 2012 Dominik Lukeš 5 Comments
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Most of us are all too happy to repeat clichés about education to motivate ourselves and others to engage in this liminal ritual of mass socialization. One such phrase is “knowledge is power”. It is used to refer not just to education, of course, but to all sorts of intelligence gathering from business to politics. We tell many stories of how knowing something made the difference, from knowing a way of making something to work to knowing a secret only the hero or villain is privy to. But in education, in particular, it is not just knowing that matters to our tribe but also the display of knowing.
The more I look at education, the more I wonder how much of what is in the curriculum is about signaling rather than true need of knowledge. Signaling has been used in economics of education to indicate the complex value of a university degree but I think it goes much deeper. We make displays of knowledge through the curriculum to make the knowledge itself more valuable. Curriculum designers in all areas engage in complex dances to show how the content maps onto the real world. I have called this education voodoo, other people have spoken of cargo cult education, and yet others have talked about pseudo teaching. I wrote about pseudo teaching when I looked at Niall Ferguson‘s amusing, I think I called it cute, lesson plan of his own greatness. But pseudo teaching only describes the activities performed by teachers in the mistaken belief that they have real educational value. When pseudo teaching relies on pseudo content, I think we can talk more generally about “pseudo education”.
We were all pseudo-educated on a number of subjects. History, science, philosophy, etc. In history lessons, the most cherished “truths” of our past are distorted on a daily basis (see Lies My Teacher told me). From biology, we get to remember misinformation about the theory of evolution starting from attributing the very concept of evolution to Darwin or reducing natural selection to the nonsense of survival of the fittest. We may remember the names of a few philosophers but it rarely takes us any further than knowing winks at a Monty Python sketch or mouthing of unexamined platitudes like “the unexamined life is not worth living.”
That in itself is not a problem. Society, despite the omnipresent alarmist tropes, is coping quite well with pseudo-education. Perhaps, it even requires it to function because “it can’t handle the truth”. The problem is that we then judge people on how well they are able to replicate or respond to these pseudo-educated signals. Sometimes, these judgments are just a matter of petty prejudice but sometimes they could have an impact on somebody’s livelihood (and perhaps the former inevitably leads to the latter in aggregate).
Note: I have looked at some history and biology textbooks and they often offer a less distorted portrayal of their subject than what seems to be the outcome in public consciousness. Having the right curriculum and associated materials, then, doesn’t seem to be sufficient to avoid pseudo-education (if indeed avoiding it is desirable).
The one area where pseudo-education has received a lot of attention is language. Since time immemorial, our ways of speaking have served to identify us with one group or layer of society or another. And from its very beginning, education sought to play a role in slotting its charges into the linguistic groups with as high a prestige, as possible (or rather as appropriate). And even today, in academic literature we see references to the educated speaker as an analytic category. This is not a bad thing. Education correlates with exposure to certain types of language and engagement with certain kinds of speech communities. It is not the only way to achieve linguistic competence in those areas but it is the main way for the majority. But becoming “educated speaker” in this sense is mostly a by-product of education. Sufficient amount of the curriculum and classroom instruction is aimed in this direction to count for something but most students acquire the in-group ways of speaking without explicit instruction (disadvantaging those who would benefit from it). But probably a more salient output of language education is supposed knowledge about language (as opposed to knowledge of language).
Here students are expected not only to speak appropriately but also to know how this “appropriate language” works. And here is where most of what happens in schools can be called pseudo-education. Most teachers don’t really have any grasp of how language works (even those who took intro to linguistics classes). They are certainly not aware of the more complex issues around the social variability of language or its pragmatic dimension. But even in simple matters like grammar and usage, they are utterly clueless. This is often blamed on past deficiencies of the educational system where “grammar was not taught” to an entire generation. But judging by the behavior of previous generations who received ample instruction in grammar, that is not the problem. Their teachers were just as inept at teaching about language as they are today. They might have been better at labeling parts of speech and their tenses but that’s about it. It is possible that in the days of yore, people complaining about the use of the passive were actually more able to identify passive constructions in the text but it didn’t make that complaint any less inaccurate (Orwell made a right fool of himself when it turned out that he uses more passives than is the norm in English despite kvetching about their evil).
No matter what the content of school curriculum and method of instruction, “educated” people go about spouting nonsense when it comes to language. This nonsense seems to have its origins in half-remembered injunctions of their grade school teacher. And because the prime complainers are likely to either have been “good at language” or envied the teacher’s approbation of those who were described as being “good at language”, what we end up with in the typical language maven is a mishmash of linguistic prejudice and unjustified feeling smug superiority. Every little linguistic label that a person can remember, is then trotted out as a badge of honor regardless of how good that person is at deploying it.
And those who spout the loudest, get a reputation of being the “grammar experts” and everybody else who preemptively admits that they are “not good at grammar” defers to them and lets themselves be bullied by them. The most recent case of such bullying was a screed by an otherwise intelligent person in a position of power who decided that he will no longer hire people with bad grammar.
This prompted me to issue a rant on Google Plus, repeated below:
The trouble with pseudo educated blowhards complaining about grammar, like +Kyle Wien, is that they have no idea what grammar is. 90% of the things they complain about are spelling problems. The rest is a mishmash of half-remembered objections from their grade school teacher who got them from some other grammar bigot who doesn’t know their tense from their time.
I’ve got news for you Kyle! People who spell they’re, there and their interchangeably know the grammar of their use. They just don’t differentiate their spelling. It’s called homophony, dude, and English is chock full of it. Look it up. If your desire rose as you smelled a rose, you encountered homophony. Homophony is a ubiquitous feature of all languages. And equally all languages have some high profile homophones that cause trouble for spelling Nazis but almost never for actual understanding. Why? Because when you speak, there is no spelling.
Kyle thinks that what he calls “good grammar” is indicative of attention to detail. Hard to say since he, presumably always perfectly “grammatical”, failed to pay attention to the little detail of the difference between spelling and grammar. The other problem is, that I’m sure that Kyle and his ilk would be hard pressed to list more than a dozen or so of these “problems”. So his “attention to detail” should really be read as “attention to the few details of language use that annoy Kyle Wien”. He claims to have noticed a correlation in his practice but forgive me if I don’t take his word for it. Once you have developed a prejudice, no matter how outlandish, it is dead easy to find plenty of evidence in its support (not paying attention to any of the details that disconfirm it).
Sure there’s something to the argument that spelling mistakes in a news item, a blog post or a business newsletter will have an impact on its credibility. But hardly enough to worry about. Not that many people will notice and those who do will have plenty of other cues to make a better informed judgment. If a misplaced apostrophe is enough to sway them, then either they’re not convinced of the credibility of the source in the first place, or they’re not worth keeping as a customer. Journalists and bloggers engage in so many more significant pursuits that damage their credibility, like fatuous and unresearched claims about grammar, so that the odd it’s/its slip up can hardly make much more than (or is it then) a dent.
Note: I replaced ‘half-wit’ in the original with ‘blowhard’ because I don’t actually believe that Kyle Wien is a half-wit. He may not even be a blowhard. But, you can be a perfectly intelligent person, nice to kittens and beloved by co-workers, and be a blowhard when it comes to grammar. I also fixed a few typos, because I pay attention to detail.
My issue is not that I believe that linguistic purism and prescriptivism are in some way anomalous. In fact, I believe the exact opposite. I think, following a brilliant insight by my linguistics teacher, that we need to think of these phenomena as integral to our linguistic competence. I doubt that there is a linguistic community of any size above 3 that doesn’t enact some form of explicit linguistic normativity.
But when pseudo-knowledge about language is used as a n instrument of power, I think it is right to call out the perpetrators and try to shame them. Sure, linguists laugh at them, but I think we all need to follow the example of the Language Log and expose all such examples to public ridicule. Countermand the power.
Post Script: I have been similarly critical of the field of Critical Discourse Analysis which while based on an accurate insight about language and power, in my view, goes on to abuse the power that stems from the knowledge about language to clobber their opponents. My conclusion has been that if you want to study how people speak, study it for its own sake, and if you want to engage with the politics of what they say, do that on political terms not on linguistic ones. That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t point out if you feel somebody is using language in a manipulative or misleading ways, but if you don’t need the apparatus of a whole academic discipline to do it, you’re doing something wrong.
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Extended writing, Language, Metaphor
June 1, 2011 Dominik Lukeš Leave a comment
In my thinking about things human, I often like to draw on the domain of second language learning as the source of analogies. The problem is that relatively few people in the English speaking world have experience with language learning to such an extent that they can actually map things onto it. In fact, in my experience, even people who have a lot of experience with language learning are actually not aware of all the things that were happening while they were learning. And of course awareness of research or language learning theories is not to be expected. This is not helped by the language teaching profession’s propaganda that language learning is “fun” and “rewarding” (whatever that is). In fact my mantra of language learning (I learned from my friend Bill Perry) is that “language learning is hard and takes time” – at least if you expect to achieve a level of competence above that of “impressing the natives” with your “please” and “thank you”. In that, language learning is like any other human endeavor but because of its relatively bounded nature — when compared to, for instance, culture — it can be particularly illuminating.
But how can not just the fact of language learning but also its visceral experience be communicated to those who don’t have that kind of experience? I would suggest engrossing literature.
For my money, one of the most “realistic” depictions of language learning with all its emotional and cognitive peaks and troughs can be found in James Clavell‘s “Shogun“. There we follow the Englishman Blackthorne as he goes from learning how to say “yes” to conversing in halting Japanese. Clavell makes the frustrating experience of not knowing what’s going on and not being able to express even one’s simplest needs real for the reader who identifies with Blackthorne’s plight. He demonstrates how language and cultural learning go hand in hand and how easy it is to cause a real life problem through a little linguistic misstep.
Shogun stands in stark contrast to most other literature where knowledge of language and its acquisition is viewed as mostly a binary thing: you either know it or you don’t. One of the worst offenders here is Karl May (virtually unknown in the English speaking world) whose main hero Old Shatterhand/Kara Ben Nemsi acquires effortlessly not only languages but dialects and local accents which allow him to impersonate locals in May’s favorite plot twists. Language acquisition in May just happens. There’s never any struggle or miscommunication by the main protagonist. But similar linguistic effortlessness in the face of plot requirements is common in literature and film. Far more than magic or the existence of Vampires, the thing that used to stretch my credulity the most in Buffy the Vampire Slayer was ease with which linguistic facility was disposed of.
To be fair, even in Clavell’s book, there are characters whose linguistic competence is largely binary. Samurai either speak Portugese or Latin or they don’t – and if the plot demands, they can catch even whispered colloquial conversation. Blackthorne’s own knowledge of Dutch, Spanish, Portugese and Latin is treated equally as if identical competence would be expected in all four (which would be completely unrealistic given his background and which resembles May’s Kara Ben Nemsi in many respects).
Nevertheless, when it comes to Japanese, even a superficially empathetic reader will feel they are learning Japanese along with the main character. Largely through Clavell’s clever use of limited translation.
This is all the more remarkable given that Clavell obviously did not speak Japanese and relied on informants. This, as the “Learning from Shogun” book pointed out, led to many inaccuracies in the actual Japanese, advising readers not to rely on the language of Shogun too much.
Clavell (in all his books – not just Shogun) is even more illuminating in his depiction of intercultural learning and communication – the novelist often getting closer to the human truth of the process than the specialist researcher. But that is a blog post for another time.
Another novel I remember being an accurate representation of language learning is John Grisham‘s “The Broker” in which the main character Joel Backman is landed in a foreign country by the CIA and is expected to pick up Italian in 6 months. Unlike Shogun, language and culture do not permeate the entire plot but language learning is a part of about 40% of the book. “The Broker” underscores another dimension which is also present in the Shogun namely teaching, teachers and teaching methods.
Blackthorne in Shogun orders an entire village (literally on the pain of death) to correct him every time he makes a mistake. And then he’s excited by a dictionary and a grammarbook. Backman spends a lot of time with a teacher who makes him repeat every sentence multiple times until he knows it “perfectly”. These are today recognized as bad strategies. Insisting on perfection in language learning is often a recipe for forming mental blocks (Krashen’s cognitive and affective filters). But on the other hand, it is quite likely that in totally immersive situations like Blackthorne’s or even partly immersive situations like Backman’s (who has English speakers around him to help), pretty much any approach to learning will lead to success.
Another common misconception reflected in both works is the demand language learning places on rote memory. Both Blackthorne and Backman are described as having exceptional memories to make their progress more plausible but the sort of learning successes and travails described in the books would accurately reflect the experiences of anybody learning a foreign language even without a memory. As both books show without explicit reference, it is their strategies in the face of incomprehension that help their learning rather than a straight memorization of words (although that is by no means unnecessary).
So what are the things that knowing about the experience of second language learning can help us ellucidate? I think that any progress from incompetence to competence can be compared to learning a second language. Particularly when we can enhance the purely cognitive view of learning with an affective component. Strategies as well as simple brain changes are important in any learning which is why none of the brain-based approaches have produced unadulterated success. In fact, linguists studying language as such would do well to pay attention to the process of second language learning to more fully realize the deep interdependence between language and our being.
But I suspect we can be more successful at learning anything (from history or maths to computers or double entery book keeping) if we approach it as a foreign language. Acknowledge the emotional difficulties alongside cognitive ones.
Also, if we looked at expertise more as linguistic fluency than a collection of knowledge and skills, we could devise a program of learning that would take better into account not only the humanity of the learner but also the humanity of the whole community of experts which he or she is joining.
Applied linguisticsBill PerryBuffy the Vampire SlayerEducationEducational psychologyIntercultural learningJames ClavellKara ben NemsiKarl MayLanguage acquisitionLanguage educationOld Shatterhand/ Kara Ben NemsiSecond language learningShōgun
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Father's Side
Mother's Side
History of the Metcalfe Family
Elizabeth UDALL
Personal Information | Media | Notes | Sources | All | PDF
Name Elizabeth UDALL [1, 2, 3]
Born 10 Mar 1853 Gorsey Bank, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England [4]
1881 Census Return
1861 Y
Census Y
Occupation 1861 Scholar, 1881 Dressmaker, 1901 Boarding House Keeper [2, 4, 5, 6]
_UID 2BBDCCABD06B453EBBB6204C833308752D0B
Died Dec 1932 [4, 7]
Buried 17 Dec 1932 Wilford Hill Cemetery, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England [7]
Grave M 14-4
Person ID I78 Metcalfe Genealogy
Father William UDALL, b. 1822, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England
Mother Mary LOWE, b. 1824, Taddington, Derbyshire, England
Family Robert OGDON, b. 1857, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England , d. Oct 1897, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England (Age 40 years)
Married 27 Oct 1879 St Mary The Virgin Parish Church, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England [2, 3]
_UID 2A6B1C95F3614F86A286B6F8180BB16B847D
Witnesses: Benjamin TOMLINSON, Susannah OGDON [3]
1. Harold Udall OGDON, b. 2 May 1880, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England , d. 27 Feb 1963 (Age 82 years)
2. Arthur William OGDON, b. 4 Mar 1882, St John Street, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England , d. 16 May 1963 (Age 81 years)
3. Lawrence Anthony OGDON, b. 23 Oct 1885, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England , d. 28 Sep 1941, Merthyr Tydfil, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales (Age 55 years)
5. Edith Mary OGDON, b. c1888, Wirksworth, Derbyshire, England , d. 19 Aug 1965, West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England (Age ~ 77 years)
Elizabeth Udale
Lived in St John Street, Wirksworth at time of 1861 census return
Lived at Bank Terrace, Wirksworth at time of 1881 census return
Lived at St. Marys Gate (4 rooms), Wirksworth at time of 1891 census return
Lived in St John Street, Wirksworth at time of 1901 census return [2, 4, 5, 8, 9]
[S3] Mormon International Genealogical Index.
[S204] Descendants of Francis OGDEN*(OAKEDEN), Tom Ogdon.
[S208] Wirksworth Parish Registers.
[S16] 1881 Wirksworth District Census Return.
[S314] 1901 Wirksworth District Census Return.
[S42] Joyce Agnes Ogdon (nee Hayter).
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Disney Cruise Line / News
5 Crucial Things to Know about Disney Cruises
Are you interested in cruise life? Do you want to board a ship and travel the world? Disney’s got you covered. Their Disney Cruise Line is one of the best-reviewed and most beloved cruise lines on the planet. You should want to take a Disney cruise one day, but there are a few things you might want to know first. Here are five things to know about Disney cruises.
Packages Are All-Inclusive!
I used to work in the hospitality industry. One of the recurring jokes involved all-inclusive resorts and cruises. People NEVER believed that packages included food and entertainment options. There’s a natural skepticism that’s difficult to overcome.
With Disney cruises, the one thing I can say for sure if that each package is all-inclusive. You’d expect the entertainment to be free. That’s part of the Disney culture, after all. What will surprise you is the level of detail in the cruise shows.
Disney recreates some of their most beloved movies. Blockbusters like Tangled, Frozen, and Beauty & the Beast are nighttime shows on Disney cruises. In fact, they’re all musicals, and some of them include music specially created for cruise performances. No less than Alan Menken wrote three new songs for Tangled! It’s like a night on Broadway, only you’re out at sea.
Photo Credit: www.cruiseline.com
The food system in place on Disney cruises is brilliant. Disney refers to it as a rotational dining plan. In layperson’s terms, you switch restaurants each night. This way, you never get tired of the food you eat or the theming of the restaurant and, yes, all Disney cruise restaurants are themed!
One of the particularly clever aspects is that your wait staff follows you from restaurant to restaurant, meaning that you’ll have the same people during your trip. You’ll get to know them and, more importantly, they’ll learn your party’s dining tendencies. It streamlines the process and guarantees the highest quality service.
I don’t want you to get mad at me, so let me clarify one point that should be kind of obvious. You CAN do things during the cruise that cost more money. Disney has some special restaurants and bars that aren’t part of the all-inclusive package.
They’re clearly marked as such, and you specifically must choose to frequent these places. Your regular meals are 100 percent included in the package. It’s an upsell, something Disney fans are familiar with. There’s also the matter of tipping, but Disney’s put together a thoughtful chart for this topic.
Every Room Has a View on Disney Cruises!
Cruise fanatics know that not all rooms are created equal. The blueprint of a giant sailing vessel dictates that some rooms will have terrible views. The pricing reflects this necessary fact of the industry.
On Disney cruises, you’ll see several price tiers. They generally start with Standard Inside Stateroom and go all the way up to Concierge suites. You would expect the inside staterooms to have no view. It’s impossible, right?
You’re underselling Disney Imagineering! Some geniuses in the company created a technology called the Magical Porthole. Located in the center of room’s wall above the bed, this porthole is an LED display.
It shows the view that your room would have if there weren’t any walls. A high-definition camera outside captures the images and relays them in real-time to your Magical Porthole. You’re seeing what’s actually going on outside!
Of course, guests willing to pay more will get the real thing instead. Oceanview rooms have one or two portholes (real ones) while Verandahs provide exterior seating areas. From these spots, you’ll appreciate the ocean like you never have before.
Port Canaveral Cruises Have a Kind of Magical Express!
Okay, there’s a bus that will take you from Orlando International Airport (MCO) to Port Canaveral, but please don’t get your hopes up too high. It’s not free. Disney has infrastructure in place to solve your luggage and transportation issues all at once.
Since Port Canaveral is an hour away from the airport, however, they can’t give this service away. Instead, it costs $70 per person. Critics note that this gets pricey for larger families, which is fair. You may want to investigate other options.
For example, Disney’s adding Minnie Van service to Port Canaveral in a few weeks. Depending on the size of your party, it may be a better option. At a minimum, it’s a more stylish one.
Assuming that $70 per person is okay with you, the Disney Cruise Line transfer system is terrific. You’ll get luggage tags, the same as with Magical Express. You’ll attach them to your luggage prior to your trip. When you drop off your bags at the airport, Disney will take responsibility for your bags from that point forward.
Once you reach MCO, you’ll head to the Magical Express section of the main terminal, same as you would for a Walt Disney World trip. The difference is that your bus will take you to Port Canaveral instead.
Photo Credit: DVDRentalStore.com
I should note that Disney has other transfer system options in place at other cruise drop-off locations beyond Port Canaveral. The information is available here.
Disney Owns a Freakin’ Island!
You’ve dreamt of owning an exotic island, right? You fantasize about getting away from it all and living in a place where you’ve trained monkey butlers to cater to your every whim. Alas, this dream has a couple of conceptual problems. First of all, islands are super-expensive.
Second, monkeys aren’t easy to train in butler skills. Finally and most importantly, even if you could work out all of the other details, you’d be in the middle of nowhere without food, drink, or internet access. You can’t and shouldn’t own an island.
The story is different for a multi-national conglomerate. Disney’s got deep pockets and can buy or build basically anything. They could even make some monkey butlers, although the lil dudes would be audio-animatronics.
With so many available resources, Disney decided to put some oomph into their cruises. In 1997, they purchased a 99-year land lease for an island in the Bahamas. Yes, they will own an island until 2096! When they made the purchase, they were the first cruise line EVER to do something so bold as to lease an island.
The land in question is Castaway Cay, an island in the Bahamas, and it’s kind of an oddity. Virtually all of its daily guests aren’t residents. They show up at port, spend the day at this themed area, and then leave for the next destination.
Since Disney has daily operations here, however, they need permanent residents. There are roughly 60 residents of Castaway Cay at a given time. Each of them is a Disney employee. Their sole purpose is to ensure that you have the best possible island getaway on the day that you’re at Disney’s private island.
The Characters Are on Vacation, Too!
When you travel the world, you pack your outfits for the trip. Disney believes that their lovable cast of characters does the same thing.
That’s why your character interactions will have some variation during the trip. One day, you might see Mickey Mouse in a fisherman’s outfit. Later that week, he might be in sailor gear or a captain’s outfit.
Part of the fun on a Disney cruise is scouting your best Insta-worthy moments on your vacation. Attentive guests will become social media darlings, because they’ll capture those special moments in photographs.
The key is to be attentive about the when and where of Disney character greetings. Then, look and see whether your favorite is in an outfit you’ve already seen or not.
Are you sold on a Disney cruise? Well, Disney cruises are cheaper than you may realize. Speak to a MickeyTravels agent to learn how you can turn your dream vacation into an affordable reality!
Thanks for visiting MickeyBlog.com! For a FREE quote on your next Disney vacation, please fill out the form below!
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Love Disney cruises, hope someday to do another. One thing is to remember to pack your passports, an you can even go by yourself.
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Eunice Elizabeth Olsen, Miss Singapore 2000; Kulthida Yenprasert, Miss Thailand 2000; Lynette Mei-Ling Ludi, Miss Malaysia 2000; Lei-Ann Chang, Miss Chinese Taipei 2000; and Nina Ricci Alagao, Miss Philippines 2000, pre-tape their National Cosutme segment at the Theater of Kourian last April 26, 2000.
Nina Ricci Alagao, Miss Philippines 2000, pre-tapes her National Costume segment at the Theater of Kourian Wednesday, April 26, 2000.
Nina Ricci Alagao, Miss Philippines 2000; poses for photographers in her Oscar de la Renta swimwear while at the Le Meridien Hotel in Lymassol, Cyprus for the swimsuit poster shoot last April 26, 2000.
Nina Ricci Alagao, Miss Philippines 2000, and Tonia Peachey, Miss New Zealand 2000 pose in Oscar de la Renta swimwear during a break in the videotaping of a segment at the Rock of Aphrodite last April 25, 2000 for the 49th Annual Miss Universe Pageant.
(From left) Miss Taiwan 2000, Lei-Ann Chang, and her counterparts from Philippines: Nina Ricci Alagao, Thailand: Kulthida Yenprasert, and Korea: Kim Youn-Joo, serve themselves Middle Eastern food at the Lebanese restaurant.
Nina Ricci Alagao, Miss Philippines 2000, poses in her Oscar de la Renta swimwear during a break in the videotaping of a segment at the Rock of Aphrodite last April 25, 2000 for the 49th Annual Miss Universe Pageant.
Carolina Ramirez Franco, Miss Paraguay 2000, Veronica Rueckner, Miss Peru 2000, Svetlana Goreva, Miss Russia 2000, and Nina Ricci Alagao, Miss Philippines 2000, model their evening gowns for the 49TH Annual Miss Universe Pageant while taping on location at the Sanctuary of Apollo last April 25, 2000 in Cyprus.
Nina Ricci Alagao, Miss Philippines 2000, models the Roberto Cavalli dress she wore during the opening number of the 49th Annual Miss Universe Pageant which was broadcast LIVE from Nicosia, Cyprus last May 12, 2000. Cavalli has provided 6 different styles for the 79 international delegates.
Sinbad, host of the 49th Annual Miss Universe Pageant, pose for a photo with Lei-Ann Chang, Miss Chinese Taipei 2000; Nina Ricci Alagao, Miss Philippines 2000; Eleni Skafida, Miss Greece 2000; Jolene Arpa, Miss Malta 2000 and Christy Groutidou, Miss Cyprus 2000, last May 10, 2000.
Photos courtesy of Miss Universe Organization.
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What is the process when I find the right premises?
1. Contact Nixon Industrial on (03) 9570 1300;
2. Confirm the address of premises, your interest and request a Heads of
Agreement (HOA);
3. Provide your contact details (name, phone number and email);
4. A HOA will be provided and you need to fill in the gaps (tenant’s details)
and check all other information;
5. If satisfied with the content please return and a fully typed version will
be provided for your approval and signature;
6. We therefore require:
Signed HOA returned to our office
Deposit paid as per HOA
Credit references provided as per HOA
7. This HOA, if accepted by the owner and signed, we then arrange
the Lease (and Disclosure Statement) to be prepared by the
owners’ solicitor;
8. Once the Lease is prepared in triplicate you are required to review
and sign and return all copies to our office as soon as possible with
the security bond;
9. The owner then signs;
10. Access to the premises will only occur if:
Lease documentation is signed by both parties
First months’ rent and GST is paid
Security bond is paid
When do I get a key?
You will receive your set of keys and/or swipe cards on the lease commencement date that is stated in the Lease and when everything is signed by both the owner and tenant.
When can I start trading from the premises?
As the tenant, you can start trading on the Lease Commencement date stated in the HOA and lease documents.
Who do I ring when there is a repair required?
You can ring our property management department or the property manager of the building (if appropriate) to discuss the issue and they will be able to assist you with the correct procedure.
When do I pay my rent?
The rent is normally due to be paid on the first day of each month. The first month's rent is paid in advance to Nixon Industrial at time of signing the Heads of Agreement (HOA).
You will receive a tax invoice from Nixon Industrial which will state the amount payable, the due date and the period for which the charge relates.
What does "re-instatement" mean?
This refers to the tenant removing all of the fixtures and fittings that they installed from the property and restoring it back to the initial condition as at the original lease date. However some aspects, like fair wear of a carpet is considered reasonable except in cases where leases specify replacement at certain times eg: exercising an option to extend the lease for a further term.
What is the security bond?
This is a monetary amount which is held to secure the performance of the lease obligations by the tenant. This will usually be one to three month’s rent inclusive of GST or subject to the level of security provided. The money is held in an interest bearing account as required under the Retail Leases Act.
What is a bank guarantee?
The Retail Leases Act requires landlords to offer tenants the opportunity to pay a security deposit in cash or by bank guarantee. A bank guarantee is an irrevocable undertaking by an Australian Bank to pay upon demand.
A bank guarantee can be provided as an alternative to a security deposit but only if it is unconditional (Nil Expiry Date). Your bank can provide an unconditional bank guarantee. If a bank guarantee is provided with an expiry date, Nixon Industrial will require it to be returned to the bank to provide a nil expiry date bank guarantee.
What is an Owners Corporation fee and what does it include?
Owners Corporation is the new term for Body Corporate.
An Owners Corporation is a company appointed to manage the shared areas of a building or a number of adjoining premises. The owners corporation will collect charges for utilities, cleaning etc. for the common areas and will charge a portion to each premises as defined by the deed of incorporation. The Owners Corporation charges will in most cases be
chargeable to the tenant as part of the lease obligations.
Refer to the Owners Corporation Act 2006 www.legislation.vic.gov.au
What legal costs are involved in leasing a property?
The owner will have a lease prepared by their solicitor. There are no legal costs related to the preparation of the lease for the tenant unless they hire a solicitor to review the lease document to verify the agreement being put in place between both parties is appropriate.
Why do I need to provide credit / business references?
Credit references provide some indication to the owner and Nixon Industrial that a potential tenant is reliable, timely, honest and trustworthy with regards to the payment of invoices and bills. The references could include, past landlord(s), regular business suppliers, audited financials and estate agents who you have leased premises from previously.
Once I have moved in who do I contact if I need to talk to someone?
Your property manager (the name and details will be provided in the welcome letter) is always available to assist.
If your query relates to any common property matters then it is best to contact the owners corporation (the company name and details will be provided in the welcome letter) directly.
When do I pay my first rent payment if I have paid my initial deposit?
The first tax invoice will be sent midway through the first month of the tenancy. Rent is payable in advance (not arrears). Late fees may apply so setting up a direct deposit system is advisable.
When do I get a tax invoice ?
You receive a tax invoice for your rent, outgoings and the GST before the coming months bills are due. If at any time you are unsure about the detail, please do not hesitate to contact your Property Manager as soon as possible.
What is an outgoing?
Outgoings are the expenses attributable to and necessary to maintain a functional property. Most commercial leases require the tenant to reimburse the owner's outgoings. These are paid by the tenant in addition to the agreed rental.
For a 'gross lease', outgoings are included within the rental as a single payment. There are no further outgoings for the tenant to pay as they are settled by the owner of the property other than such things as phone, electricity and water consumption.
What do outgoings consist of?
Property charges such as:
Statutory charges (council rates, water rates, drainage charges);
Building operating costs;
Insurance costs;
Owners corporation fees if a strata title property.
Why do I pay outgoings?
Most commercial and industrial leases are based on the tenant paying a net rental plus outgoings and GST. The outgoings are paid for by the tenant as they are essentially the "running costs" of the premises.
Do tenants pay land tax?
Under the Retail Leases Act some properties as defined, are not required to pay land tax. Nixon Industrial or your solicitor can provide more professional advice on land tax based on a single holding basis.
What is included under the term 'insurance'?
This includes the lessor's building insurance, public liability and plate glass insurances.
Additionally, the tenant is required to take out public liability and contents insurance as provided in the lease agreement. For more specific information regarding insurance, contact your insurance provider.
What is maintenance?
The aspects of the premises that will fall under the category of maintenance will include:
Fire services (Fire extinguisher)
Gardens & Courtyard
Amenities (Kitchenettes & Toilets)
'General' maintenance - Gutter cleaning, rubbish removal, window cleaning
Refer to the lease or to the Owners Corporation for maintenance responsibilities regarding individual properties.
Goods and Services Tax (GST)
Goods and Services Tax is added to charges relating to all commercial property. Once registered, GST can be claimed back as part of the quarterly BAS Statement, depending on the business ownership and reporting structure. If you need specific information regarding GST on leased premises, speak to your accountant.
Where does GST come into it?
Nixon Industrial issues Tax Invoices and collects "consideration plus GST" from tenants on the behalf of owners. Monthly statements are provided with the information necessary to complete BAS statements. Monthly statements also serve as a Tax Invoice and set out the management fees and GST levied and collected/deducted from the income collected.
What about GST on Outgoings?
Current tax law has a special interpretation of leases and considers that any amount which becomes payable according to the terms of an agreement (lease) is to be considered "consideration for supply".
If under a lease a tenant is required to reimburse or pay an amount eg: council rates, then as soon as that payment is made by the tenant, that amount paid is deemed to be "consideration for supply".
As soon as payment becomes due by the tenant, under a lease it changes its nature under tax law interpretation. Accordingly technically, reimbursement of rates becomes "consideration of supply" and is legally indistinguishable from rent.
The tax law deems that the payment has been received by the landlord and 1/11th of the amount received is payable by the landlord as GST.
Essential Safety Measures & Fire Safety
Under the Building Regulations 2006, owners are required to provide a premises that complies with the Essential Safety Measures Legislation. Premises are required to be inspected annually (some bi-annually) to ensure the premises remains compliant.
Should the premises be found to be non-compliant then significant fines may be imposed.
When and why do I have to provide directors guarantees?
Director's guarantees are there to provide additional security to the owner. In the event that the lease of a premises is under a company name and these are in place, then the directors who signed the lease are personally liable for all payments that are outstanding.
Do all directors need to sign the Heads of Agreement (HOA) and Lease?
In a technical sense, yes they have to. If the lease in under a company name then the directors of that company must sign the lease agreement. This will depend upon the company's articles of association (does one director have the right to sign on behalf of the other directors?)
What is the Retail Leases Act?
The Retail Leases Act was put into legislation in 2003, it is designed to enhance;
a) the certainty and fairness of retail leasing arrangements between landlords and tenants; and
b) the mechanisms available to resolve disputes concerning leases of retail premises.
In the Act, retail premises means premises, not including any area intended for use as a residence, that under the terms of the lease relating to the premises are used, or are to be used, wholly or predominantly for;
(a) the sale or hire of goods by retail or the retail provision of services.
Retail leases legislation applies to a retail premises lease used for the sale or hire of goods by retail or the retail provision of services and where the occupancy cost is less than $1 million per year.
Do I need a solicitor?
As a tenant, you legally do not a need a solicitor to lease a property. However for the purposes of understanding the legal documentation contained within the lease, we highly recommend you do have a solicitor review the documentation involved.
What is the minimum lease term allowed?
This will be determined by the owner, however under the Retail Leases Act, the minimum lease term allowed is five years. This can come in the form of a 2 x 2 x 1 year lease or a 3 x 2 year lease as examples. Short term leases (eg. 12 month lease) are acceptable but a waiver needs to be obtained and accepted by the Small Business Commissioner. For further information visit
www.sbc.vic.gov.au.
What is a Disclosure Statement?
The disclosure statement forms part of the lease and is a statement that is required to be completed by the landlord under the Retail Leases Act 2003. The disclosure statement outlines aspects such as:
The landlords details
The tenants details
The details of the premises
The retail shopping centre (if applicable)
The terms of the lease
The permitted use of the premises
The occupancy costs
The rent payable
The outgoings and what they are
Tenants fit out and/or refurbishment works
Relocation/Demolition clause (if applicable)
Additional Representatives (if applicable)
The declaration by the landlord or landlords agent
How is the rent determined?
The rent is based on the comparable rents of other properties within the area that are of the similar size and structure. The rent is ultimately set by the owner on the basis of these facts and on the advice of the agent.
How do rent reviews work?
Normally there is a fixed, CPI annual increase or market review at the end of the term. However upon lease renewal (if any) the rent is determined at market levels.
Can I request the owners to carry out works during my lease term?
Yes you can but the details of the actual works including what needs to be done, time period, costs etc. needs to be correctly stipulated via a written request to the landlord which can then either be accepted or denied by them.
What are the steps involved if I want to renew my lease?
The lease will define if there is any option to renew at the end of the initial term. The tenant must advise in writing their intention to exercise the option at least three months, but no more than six months before the date of expiry.
Once notice of exercise is reassured a new lease will be prepared and once again both owner and tenant will be required to show their acceptance by signing off as appropriate. At renewal any variation to additional option terms can be included in the new lease. Generally the new rental will be determined by a market review.
Disclaimer: Particulars herein are for information only and do not constitute any representation by Nichols Crowder. Interested parties should make their own enquiries.
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Beyoncé To Collaborate w/ Adidas
Beyonce has always been one to pop up with some surprises. Including, surprises us with a Netflix documentary about her 2018 Coachella performance.
But now, she’s collaborating with Adidas. Earlier this month collaboration between her and Adidas was announced. Based on the photos she posted to her Instagram; you’ll get a glimpse of what to expect.
Her fans were also excited to find out that she was gearing up to relaunch her Ivy Park athleisure line through a new partnership with Adidas, a partnership that is also reported to include a signature sneaker.
Be sure to take a quick view of the video clip to accompany the photos, you can see that she also has the Adidas name and logo painted on her nails as she gets glammed up. The photos are likely a peek into an upcoming photo shoot for the brand relaunch, which at press time does not yet have an official release date.
#musicxclusives
JAY-Z Brings Out Nas & Pays Tribute To Nipsey Hussle At ‘B-SIDES 2’ Concert
New Music: @GromoMusic – “Find Me (Marco Polo)”
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muso japan
a Japanese indie music blog
Tag: shoegaze
[Japan] Ether Feels – “Twilight Dreams”
Osaka shoegazers Ether Feels have released their new 3-track EP “Twilight Dreams” this week. The EP, which features re-recorded versions of some of their earlier material, includes the fan favorite “Raindrop Sparkle” sandwiched between two other songs which feature regularly at the trio’s gigs – “Morning Star” and “Paddy”. The improved recording quality does well to really capture the band’s light, somewhat melancholy brand of shoegaze capped by the dreamy vocal lines of frontman and principal songwriter TOMO which really carry well on this new EP. Having released a bunch of material previously, “Twilight Dreams” is the most mature of their works thus far and with a new lineup in place it will be cool to see a new full length in the future.
Here’s a preview of “Raindrop Sparkle” from the album which is available on Amazon (JP).
Author Matthew BedfordPosted on July 26, 2014 Categories Bands, Muso Japan, ReviewsTags EP, ether, feels, Japan, japan shoegazer festival, Japanese, osaka, shoegaze, shoegazer, twilight dreams
Kiiro Records’ New Compilation “FOREVER SHOEGAZE”
Japanese net-label Kiiro Records has released a new compilation titled FOREVER SHOEGAZE. The label, which has released a lot of great comps in the first half-year or so of its existence usually focuses on “listenable pop music”, but this time around (as the title would entail) it is all shoegaze. The comp features 11 Japanese bands and 4 foreign artists.
As with all of Kiiro Records’ releases, FOREVER SHOEGAZE is 100% free to download via their Bandcamp site. It’s been a highly anticipated release and the allotted free downloads have gone quite quickly, so if you see the “700 yen” tag, don’t panic. Just scroll to the bottom of the Bandcamp page and click on the mirror to the free download.
While you’re at it check out some of the other releases they have thrown together.
http://kiirorecords.bandcamp.com/album/forever-shoegaze
Author Matthew BedfordPosted on July 2, 2014 Categories Bands, LabelsTags compilation, free, Japan, Japanese, kiiro records, shoegaze
Muso Planet volume 6 Now Available! 第６号配布中！！
Here it is! Muso Planet volume 6 is now available for download. We had a slight content change at the last minute but are pleased with the way the issue turned out. Thank you to everyone involved! The issue can be downloaded here.
★Sounds Better With Reverb☆
★Barcelona Indie Label Siete Senoritas Gritando☆
★A Review of 2014 In Latin America☆
And the tracklist:
1. Flying Vaginas (Italy) – “Happiness and Flour”
2. Loomer (Brazil) – “Road to Japan”
3. the.city (Japan) – “Fall”
4. Ummagma (Ukraine) – “Risky”
5. Surfer Rosa (France) – “dead in your life”
6. AERO_fALL (Russia) – “Off The Beam My Dreams”
7. Sounds of Sputnik (Russia) – “Astronomical Summer”
8. Luna Ghost (Australia) – “Future End”
9. Miners (Australia) – “Soft Focus”
10. Sexores (Spain) – “Shinigami”
Author Matthew BedfordPosted on June 30, 2014 Categories FeaturedTags aerofall, australia, brazil, compilation, ecuador, flying vaginas, france, free, italy, Japan, loomer, luna ghost, miners, muso, muso planet, noise, planet, psych, Russia, sexores, shoegaze, sounds of sputnik, spain, surfer rosa, the city, ukraine, ummagma, volume 6
Muso Planet Volume 6 Coming 6/30! 第６号は６月３０日に発行予定！
Muso Planet volume 6 will be released on the June 30th! We discuss shoegaze music in Australia with Jimmy from Sounds Better With Reverb and take a look at Spanish Indie Label Siete Señoritas Gritando. Jairo takes a look back at Latinoamerica Shoegaze in the first half of 2014, while looking at releases in the region during the Internet era.
With features on and free music from:
★Ummagma (Ukraine)
★AERO_fALL (Russia)
★Sounds of Sputnik (Russia)
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Author Matthew BedfordPosted on June 24, 2014 Categories FeaturedTags aerofall, australia, bilingual, brazil, compilation, dream pop, ecuador, english, flying vaginas, france, free, global, internationa, italy, Japan, Japanese, latinoamerica, loomer, luna ghost, miners, music, muso, noise, planet, Russia, sexores, shoegaze, sounds of sputnik, spain, surfer rosa, the city, ukraine, ummagma, webzine
[Russia] New Music from Pinkshinyultrablast!
Yes, it’s true: Pinkshinyultrablast have released new music! Well, at the moment it’s just one new song, but seeing how it’s been five years almost to the day since the release of Happy Songs for Happy Zombies, even a second of new music would be welcome. The band posted their new track, “Umi”, on Bandcamp today, making the announcement via their Facebook page. Perhaps bigger news is the mention of a new album somewhere in the (hopefully) near future. Definitely exciting news for shoegaze fans everywhere. The new track is as wonderful as could have been expected. Download it for free on Bandcamp.
Author Matthew BedfordPosted on June 4, 2014 Categories BandsTags blast, dream pop, happy songs for happy zombies, noise, pink, pinkshinyultrablast, Russia, shiny, shoegaze, St- Petersburg, ultra
[Spain] Sexores’ Debut Full Length “Historias de Frío”
Hailing from Quito, Ecuador, but currently based in Barcelona, Spain, Sexores have released their long-awaited debut full-length album Historias de Frio. Though the album has been finished for some time, it has finally made it to the Internet and can be purchased at Sexores’ Bandcamp page. It’s a gorgeous 8-track effort showcasing Sexores’ dreamy shoegaze sound with big noisy textures, warm synths, and stunning vocals. Give the title track a listen and prepare to get hooked:
Author Matthew BedfordPosted on June 2, 2014 Categories BandsTags barcelona, debut, dreampop, ecuador, quito, sexores, shoegaze, spain
[Japan] Cigarette in your Bed – “Darkness”
Cigarette in your Bed have been a part of the Japan Shoegaze scene as it has been growing over the last few years. The trio released their debut LP Darkness earlier this month via shoegaze label High Fader Records (Lemon’s Chair, sugardrop, Yellow Loveless). They’ve been gigging alongside Lemon’s Chair, who released an album of their own in April and who are getting ready to re-release their much sough after debut. Cigarette in your Bed released a video for their first single “Let Me Out” and today announced that they will be shooting another for the album’s title track. The EP version of “Let Me Out” is available for free download as part of Muso Planet volume 4.
Author Matthew BedfordPosted on May 29, 2014 Categories UncategorizedTags cigarette in your bed, high fader, Japan, japan shoegazer festival, Japanese, shoegaze, tokyo, video
[Japan] “Dark Entries” by The Florist
Tokyo’s The Florist were featured in the most recent issue of Muso Planet, having just released their debut full-length Dark Entries. One of many emerging shoegaze artists in Japan, the band made their name with the track “Middle of Winter” which originally appeared on their first release, a maxi-single of the same name. The band have announced a summer tour in support of the album and have released a video for new single “Sun Kills Moon”. Though the physical CD is currently available on a bunch of Japanese sites, the band has announced that it will be available via iTunes in June.
Author Matthew BedfordPosted on May 29, 2014 Categories BandsTags Dark Entries, Florist, Japan, Japanese, shoegaze, tokyo
Cigarette in your Bed Announce Debut Album
Tokyo’s Cigarette in your Bed have announced that their debut full-length album “Darkness” will be released this coming May via High Fader Records (Lemon’s Chair, Sugardrop, Yellow Loveless). The trio, who frequently feature at the Japan Shoegazer Festival have been gigging regularly since the new year in addition to working on their upcoming release. In March they will be taking the stage at Lemon’s Chair’s record release show at Tokyo’s Koenji High.
Cigarette in your Bed are a treat live, always putting on a powerful and entertaining show en route to establishing themselves as one of Japan’s more impressive shoegaze acts. To date they have released a handful of EPs which are made available at gigs. Until now, it’s been difficult to hear their music online outside of recorded live footage, so the upcoming album should be much anticipated for fans of Japanese shoegaze music.
Author Matthew BedfordPosted on March 3, 2014 Categories BandsTags cd, cigarette in your bed, debut, high fader, Japan, releases, shoegaze, tokyo
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (July 24, 2014) — The Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States concluded its 115th national convention yesterday with the election of the new VFW National Commander, John W. Stroud.
Stroud served in the U.S. Air Force from 1976-1997, including a tour in Korea in 1992-1993 with the 51st Fighter Wing at Osan Air Base as a Flight Operations Superintendent. His decorations include four Meritorious Service Medals, three Air Force Commendation Medals, three Air Force Achievement Medals, the Korea Defense Service Medal and the National Defense Service Medal.
He is a resident of Hawthorne, Nev., and a Gold Legacy Life Member of Post 2313, and has served the VFW in a number of leadership positions including Nevada Department Commander and Chairman of the National Veterans Service Committee.
During his acceptance speech, Stroud addressed the recent VA crisis stating, “the VA is a health care system worth saving that right now must identify and fix what’s broken … that needs to hold people appropriately accountable to the fullest extent of the law … and a system that must restore the faith of veterans in their VA. He added that he is confident Acting VA Secretary Sloan Gibson and nominee Bob McDonald—if confirmed—will not make the same mistake as the previous VA Secretary who simply trusted his employees to the point of his demise.
Stroud recounted his first experience with the VFW, stopping in Post 10047 in Las Vegas, Nev., after seeing a sign that read ‘Active Duty Military Welcome.’ Dressed in fatigues, he entered the Post and was immediately welcomed. Surrounded by his comrades, he learned of the organization’s many programs and services, and he knew he wanted in.
“Comrades, I share my story to encourage you to tell your own stories to others. A great part of the VFW story involves the relevance between different generations, and the ability to educate others about who we are, what we do, and who we do it for,” he said.
Stroud had high praise for members’ work and VFW programs, citing several outstanding instances of disaster relief, troop support and veterans resource efforts. He commended those who worked with the U.S. European Command to operate a Visitor’s Center for hundreds of American D-Day veterans and thousands of visitors who were in Normandy for the 70th anniversary of the landing, and praised the Ladies Auxiliary for its donations to cancer research which now total $30 million.
“One of the best things about being a National Officer is I get to brag about the VFW wherever I go … to the troops, to veterans, their families, nonveterans and politicians, too,” he said.
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Mt. Laurel, NJ – November 23, 2011 – (RealEstateRama) — Metro Commercial Real Estate, Inc. is thrilled to announce that Athleta has opened its first store in the Philadelphia area this month at 1722 Walnut Street in the heart of Center City. The 4,000 square foot store was identified and negotiated on behalf of Athleta by Steven Gartner, President of Metro Commercial Real Estate.
Athleta, a division of Gap, Inc., was founded in 1998 as a catalogue and on-line apparel retailer catering to active women for both athletic and everyday pursuits. Their first store opened earlier this year in Mill Valley, California, and is now on a select roll-out of markets nationwide. The Philadelphia store, which opened on November 9, 2011, marks its foray into the Eastern US, following a stellar roll-out of stores in New York City earlier this year. Its opening in the Georgetown section of Washington DC came shortly thereafter.
According to Gartner, “The Philadelphia market and Center City in general, was identified early-on as a target market for Athleta’s expansion because of its affluence and its highly desirable target market of fitness-oriented woman shoppers.”
Kaiserman Companies, Inc. is the landlord of 1722 Walnut Street, the longtime owner of this prized strip of first-class retail along Philadelphia’s “Rittenhouse Row.”
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Senate support phasing out live exports is bad news for animal welfare and rural communities
NSW Farmers is disappointed by the actions of the Senate in supporting a phase out of live exports.
A private members bill, co-sponsored by the Greens along with independents Derryn Hinch and Tim Storer, passed the upper house on Monday.
James Jackson, NSW Farmers’ President said that farmers have been let down by their elected representatives.
“Farmers will feel the brunt of this decision and yet we were not allowed at the decision-making table. This decision to ban a vital industry has not been informed by facts but has been driven by emotion and political point scoring.
“The Senate has shown an utter disregard for farmers and rural communities, and the decision will ultimately damage animal welfare.
“Australia is a world leader in animal health and welfare. Our involvement in the live export trade ensures that we also export our high welfare standards through out the globe. We are the only nation with a system that monitors and prioritises animal welfare from farm gate to destination.
“We recognise that there are areas for improvement and are committed to ensuring that these occur so that the trade meets the welfare expectations of Australian farmers and the broader community,” Mr Jackson said.
The live sheep exports industry is a vital part of the agricultural sector and it contributes $250 million to the Australian economy.
“A ban on the live export trade is a risk to the whole industry, not just that in Western Australia. All farmers will feel the negative impact and there will be a negative ripple effect right across the country with excess sheep on the market.
“We strongly support the continuation of the live sheep export trade to protect welfare throughout the world, and to support our farmers and regional communities.
“We call on members of the House of Representative to vote against this bill.
“Work with farmers to improve the trade and not ban it,” Mr Jackson concluded.
Date: Tuesday 11 September 2018
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India being a water scarce nation with rapidly increasing population requires innovative solutions to either cut down the water usage or reuse/recycle the wastewater generated by human activities. There is an urgent need to reduce the forever increasing gap of the supply and demand of potable water. Due to long distance transportation to water scarce localities, the billing charges of freshwater usage takes a heavy toll. Reduction of groundwater extraction will lead to the natural conservation of water resources.
Challenges Faced
Reusing Sewage water often leads to the risk of F.Coli contamination.
Although, due to the perception of the society wherein it is unacceptable to ‘consume’ sewage water as potable; some level of aesthetics needs to be maintained.
Problems of colour, odour, COD (Endocrine Disrupters in Medicines, Shampoos, etc) are often the kind of challenges faced when reusing sewage.
Remove pathogens thus reducing challenges at final disinfection especially Cryptosporidium which is highly resistant to chlorination
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A lot of STPs in India were designed just to comply with the pollution control norms.
Majority of factors were neglected while designing these STPs; hence we often come across STPs which are running over capacity and are unable to produce the desired results.
With the industrial revolution and advancement in every sector including household items , the household discharge these days are getting even more complex
Typical problems of biological systems failing to give any reduction in COD/BOD etc have become widespread.
Majority of the STPs that were built decades ago are not capable enough to comply with revised norms. Hence the delta COD which remains after tertiary treatment has to be treated in some way to meet the required standards.
Disadvantages of Excessive Chlorination
The chlorine residual, even at low concentrations, is toxic to aquatic life.
All forms of chlorine are highly corrosive and toxic. Thus, storage, shipping, and handling pose safety risks.
Chlorine oxidizes organic matter in wastewater, sometimes creating compounds that could be harmful to humans and the environment. (Example: Trihalomethanes (THMs))
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The chloride content of the wastewater is increased.
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Ozone is more effective than chlorine in destroying viruses and bacteria.
The ozonation process utilizes a short contact time (approximately 10 to 30 minutes).
There are no harmful residuals that need to be removed after ozonation because ozone decomposes rapidly.
After ozonation, there is no regrowth of microorganisms, except for those protected by the particulates in the wastewater stream.
Ozone is generated onsite, and thus, there are fewer safety problems associated with shipping and handling.
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Ozone can further reduce the COD due to its oxidizing property and help meet the new norms without much changes.
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It's the Cold War inside an American embassy behind the Iron Curtain. An American tourist, a caterer by trade, and his wife and daughter rush into the embassy two steps ahead of the police who suspect them of spying and picture taking. Nevertheless, they carefully and frantically plot their escape, and the ambassador's son and the caterer's daughter even have time to fall in love. A comedy that comes in from the cold.
Written by: Woody Allen
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Nostalgic stroll. Go to the Plaza, but "Don'tDrink the Water"
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AARON DAWN SCHULTZ
(Countess Bordoni)
is so excited to be back on the Plaza stage! You may remember seeing her in Plaza’s production of SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN and A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Aaron Dawn has always been passionate about theatre and is now pursuing it as a career. If she’s not on the stage, you can usually find her helping out in some way or another, or sitting in her favorite chair at home and reading anything from either Edgar Allen Poe or Gregory Maguire. “I’d like to thank my parents for always being there for me, it means more to me than my words can ever express; I love y’all so much!”
C. PAMELA VALLE
(Sultan’s wife)
This is Pamela’s fourth appearance at the Plaza, playing the part of the Sultan’s wife. She was previously seen in the ensemble as a Nubian slave in the recent production of AIDA; as Frau Schmidt/nun-ensemble in THE SOUND OF MUSIC; and as the Queen of Transylvania, as well as the ensemble, in MY FAIR LADY. Pamela is re-entering the world of theatre, having taken a hiatus from the stage at area community theatres in Grapevine and Irving, and also at North Lake College in Irving, TX, and Tarrant County College in Hurst. Pamela feels humbled and excited to be a part of the Plaza Theater Family. Pamela’s hubby, Mike, thinks this is the most difficult role she has auditioned for.
G. AARON SILER
(Father Drobney)
is a fixture here at PlazaCo. As one of the founding producers Aaron has been in all but 3 of the past 26 productions here. You may remember him as Norman in CASH ON DELIVERY, Horton the Elephant in SEUSSICAL, Ghost of Christmas Present in A CHRISTMAS CAROL, and many others. Aaron has 3 wonderful kids and his lovely wife who you may see on stage too!
JAY A. CORNILS
(Walter Hollander)
is appearing in his third show with the Plaza Theater Company after many performances with the Greater Cleburne Carnegie Players. In February he appeared as Harry Archer in Plaza’s wildly funny production of KISS AND TELL and this past holiday season he directed Carnegie’s critically acclaimed production of C. S. Lewis’ THE LION THE Witch AND THE WARDROBE. He is perhaps best remembered as Charlie in THE FOREIGNER and Al Lewis in THE SUNSHINE BOYS. A retired educator from Colorado, Jay lives in Cleburne with his wonderful bride, Corlis, who is terribly excited to see Jay in a show whose leading character’s name is Corliss. Besides acting, Jay is also an author having published two novels - The Cross of Lorraine and A Litany of Angels - which can be checked out at www.crossoflorraine.com. Jay would like to thank Tina, JaceSon, Aaron, and Milette as well as (of course) Millie for the opportunity to appear in another Plaza production.
JAY LEWIS
(Chef, Sultan)
is back again after being on the Plaza stage as Capt. Von Trapp in THE SOUND OF MUSIC, Rev. Shaw Moore in FOOTLOOSE, Doolittle in MY FAIR LADY, and Maurice in BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. With the Cleburne Carnegie Players, Jay has enjoyed playing various roles such as Fagin, Tevye, Daddy Warbucks and King Arthur. Jay just recently directed DISNEY’S BEAUTY and the BEAST for the Carnegie Players Jay is surrounded daily by 500 kiddos as the principal of Gerard Elementary.
JOANN GRACEY
(Marion Hollander)
JoAnn is the Theatre Arts teacher at Alvarado High School. She has a BFA in Theatre from University of Texas at Arlington and frequently works with both the Carnegie Players here in Cleburne and Hip Pocket Theatre in west Fort Worth. She is having a blast on stage here at Plaza for the first time. Thanks so very much, Kevin, for having me along for the ride. Thanks also to Bob – who was supposed to have a calm, relaxed wife this summer. I don’t know what her name would have been, but he stuck with me anyway.
JOY WHITE
(Krojack)
This Joy white’s second show at Plaza Theater and she is so excited to debut this fun character, Krojack! Working with Plaza and Carnegie has kept her very busy this year, not to mention working 2 jobs...But, it has been a blast! Hope you enjoy the show!
(Ambassador Magee, Director)
Kevin is excited to be in his third production at Plaza Theatre Company. He was last seen on the Plaza stage as the mysterious Uncle George in CASH ON DELIVERY and as the evil Chief Minister Zoser in the nationally acclaimed Plaza production of AIDA! He has been a regular on and off the Carnegie stage as well. Favorite roles include Max Detweiller in SOUND OF MUSIC and Fred Gayley in MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET. His favorite productions as director for Carnegie were THE FOREIGNER and ARSENIC AND OLD LACE. In his spare time, he is principal and owner of Poole Architects, a small architectural firm in Burleson. Special thanks go to his wife Vanessa and son, Elijah, who are the “best reason I know for being me.”
LANDON MIRISCIOTTI
(Axel Magee)
is making his Plaza Theatre debut but is not stranger to the theatre having been in several shows across the metroplex. including GUYS AND DOLLS with the Burleson Community Theatre URINETOWN with Tarrant County Community College and THROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE and Burleson High School. Landon had a lot more to say but I lost his bio (twice, actually) so I am just writting this from memory. I do know the answer to the most common question Landon is asked. The answer is 6 foot 7 inches.
LINDSEY LEHERMANN
(Susan Hollander)
is a 2008 graduate of ACU where she earned her BFA in Theatre. Some of her favorite roles include Stella in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Audrey in AS YOU LIKE IT, and Nora in BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS. She would especially like to thank the cast for making her Plaza debut such a blast, and her parents for letting her crash with them while she saves up money to move back to New York to pursue her passion.
LIZ LOVELESS
(Mrs. Burns)
is excited to be returning to the Plaza stage after performing in the 2008 performance of THE SOUND OF MUSIC. She was last seen as Miss Preen in Carnegie’s THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER. She is thrilled to be in this hilarious comedy and is having a blast with the cast and crew. She would like to thank Director Kevin Poole and the Barrus and Siler families for this wonderful opportunity to play this fun character. Love to all my family, for without them I would not be where I am today. xoxo
RUSS B. WALKER
(Mr. Kilroy)
A familiar face on the Plaza stage, Mr. Walker finally gets to embrace a Woody Allen comedy! Maybe embrace is not the right term...smack it around a little, perhaps, but not embrace. Mr. Walker was recently seen trotting the boards as Jenkins in CASH ON DELIVERY, Vlad in SEUSSICAL, Bob Cratchit in A CHRISTMAS CAROL, and many others! Kudos to Poole for meshing us all together, JTAM for the vision, and my sweet family for putting up with me! Oh, and QT for the 49 cent drinks that keep me awake enough to drive home! (Alpha Psi Omega)
THERESA BURTON
is thrilled to be making her debut at The Plaza Theatre! Some of her previous roles include Wendy in PETER PAN, Mylynn in STEEL MAGNOLIAS, and Lily in THE MEDICINE MAN. She will also be performing as Puck in Shakespeare’s A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM with the Carnegie Players later this season. She would like to thank Kevin and the fantastic cast and crew of DON’T DRINK THE WATER for making this such an enjoyable show. She would also like to thank her awesome family and friends for their endless love and encouragement. I love you guys! Enjoy the show!
CORLIS CORNILS
ANALAURA KEITH
(Sound Tech)
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Buckley leaves National Review after Obama endorsement
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Buckley has resigned his post from the National Review.
(CNN) - Christopher Buckley, the son of conservative icon William F. Buckley, said Tuesday he's resigned from the conservative National Review days after endorsing Barack Obama's White House bid, among the most powerful symbols yet of the conservative discontent expressed this election cycle.
In an online column, Buckley said he had decided to offer his resignation from the magazine his father founded after hundreds of readers and some National Review colleagues expressed outrage he was backing the Illinois senator.
"While I regret this development, I am not in mourning, for I no longer have any clear idea what, exactly, the modern conservative movement stands for," Buckley wrote.
"Eight years of 'conservative' government has brought us a doubled national debt, ruinous expansion of entitlement programs, bridges to nowhere, poster boy Jack Abramoff and an ill-premised, ill-waged war conducted by politicians of breathtaking arrogance. As a sideshow, it brought us a truly obscene attempt at federal intervention in the Terry Schiavo case," he also wrote.
The resignation comes four days after Buckley formally endorsed Obama on the Web site The Daily Beast, writing the presidential campaign had made John McCain "inauthentic," and Obama appeared to have a "first-class temperament and first-class intellect."
In a statement posted on the publication's Web site Tuesday, National Review editor Rich Lowry noted Buckley was writing for the magazine on a trial basis, and took his offer to resign with the "warmest regards and understanding" sincerely. Lowry also took issue with Buckley's contention the magazine had been flooded with angry mail over Buckley's endorsement, saying it had received a relatively small 100 e-mails expressing disapproval.
"It's an intense election season and emotions are running high," Lowry said.
Filed under: Candidate Barack Obama • Extra • John McCain
Palin on her political future: 'That's a good question'
CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania (CNN) - Though her cell phone service repeatedly dropped during her call-in, Sarah Palin made her first appearance on the Rush Limbaugh show on Tuesday, just minutes before taking the stage at a rally in Scranton.
Watch: Palin calls in to Limbaugh's show
In an unusual moment, Limbaugh asked Palin if she had thought about her "political future beyond this campaign." The vice presidential nominee told the conservative talker and his millions of listeners: “That’s a good question.” But she then quickly re-assured the radio host that her focus was on winning the White House with John McCain on November 4.
“No, because I am thinking about November 4, and I am just so absolutely passionate about the job that we have in front of us from now to November 4,” she said.
For the first time, Palin directly addressed the controversy surrounding ACORN’s voter registration operation, and suggested that the media is trying to cover up the story, despite the fact that dozens of national news outlets are investigating the community organization and Obama’s ties to the group.
“Let’s talk quickly about ACORN and the unconscionable situation that we are facing right now with voter fraud, given the ties between Obama and ACORN and the money his campaign has sent them,” Palin told Limbaugh. “Obama has a responsibility to reign in ACORN and prove that he is willing to fight voter fraud. For shame if the mainstream media were to cover this one up.”
Filed under: Battleground: Pennsylvania • Sarah Palin
Michelle Obama to host Hagel's wife at last debate
The Obama announced that Sen. Hagel's wife, Lilibet, will join Michelle Obama at the final presidential debate. The two men are pictured in this file photo during Obama's summer Mid East trip.
(CNN) – The Obama campaign announced that Lilibet Hagel, the wife of Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, will accompany Michelle Obama at Wednesday night’s final presidential debate.
“I am honored to join Michelle Obama at the debate tomorrow night and to strongly support Senator Obama as our country’s next president,” Lilibet Hagel said in a statement released by the Obama campaign.
“Elections have consequences, and this election may be the most important of my lifetime. We have a chance to throw out the disastrous policies of the last eight years and elect a leader who is smart, honest, steady and wise. I am convinced Barack Obama is the right leader to get us to a very bright future,” Mrs. Hagel added.
Filed under: Candidate Barack Obama • Chuck Hagel • John McCain • Michelle Obama
Biden disappointed McCain will raise Ayers in debate
CNN Political Producer Alexander Marquardt
Sen. Biden said Tuesday that he is disappointed with some of the tactics planned by his longtime friend Sen. John McCain.
LISBON, Ohio (CNN) – Joe Biden told reporters Tuesday afternoon he is disappointed John McCain is planning to bring up Barack Obama's acquaintance with 1960s radical Bill Ayers at Wednesday night’s debate, but said all Obama has to do to win is repeat his last two performances.
“I think what the debate has shown, the last two debates, is a guy who's confident and steady, and a guy who's not quite sure of where he wants to take the country,” said Biden, waiting for a cheeseburger and shake at Lisbon’s Steel Trolley Diner. “I think all Barack's got to do is repeat the performance he's had the last two times out. I feel good about it, I have total confidence in him.”
Asked how he feels about news that McCain said Ayers will come up, Biden seemed to hope his old friend the Arizona senator would change his mind.
“I'm disappointed, but we'll see. Let's see what, what he does.”
In every campaign speech, Biden makes sure to tell supporters that he and McCain have been friends for decades, and just disagree on policy. He likes to tell a story from the 2000 campaign when McCain and his family were being personally attacked by supporters of then-Texas Gov. George Bush, Biden called McCain and offered to hit the trail to vouch for his character.
So why doesn’t he call McCain now about the character attacks the Arizona senator is launching against Obama?
Filed under: Candidate Barack Obama • Joe Biden • John McCain • William Ayers
Obama: We don't need ACORN's help
Sen. Obama talked about ACORN with reporters in Ohio Tuesday.
(CNN) - Sen. Barack Obama responded Tuesday to the McCain campaign's efforts to link him to embattled community organizing group ACORN.
Watch: Obama on the economy, ACORN
"We've got the best voter registration, turnout, and volunteer operation in politics right and we don't need ACORN's help," Obama said Tuesday in Ohio.
The Illinois senator added that ACORN was not advising his campaign, and echoed campaign advisors who have increasingly accused the GOP of trying to suppress voter turnout as Election Day nears.
"What I want to make sure of, though, is that this is not used as an excuse for the kind of voter suppression tactics that we've seen in the past. Let's make sure everybody is voting, everybody is registered, everybody is doing this is a lawful way," he said.
The Democratic nominee's comments came the same day that his campaign held a conference call with reporters about the McCain campaign's recent focus on voter fraud.
Listen: Plouffe, Bauer on voting issues
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Obama campaign manager David Plouffe and general counsel Bob Bauer accused Republicans of trying to intimidate voters and sow the seeds of confusion as the historic presidential election approaches.
Filed under: ACORN • Candidate Barack Obama • John McCain • Voter Problems
Obama weighs in on McCain plan
From CNN Senior Political Producer Sasha Johnson
Sen. Obama campaigned in Ohio Tuesday.
DAYTON, Ohio (CNN) – Before heading to greet workers during a shift change at a local factory, Barack Obama told reporters the government’s plan to buy shares in the nation’s banks was “a good one.”
The plan “gives taxpayers a better chance of getting their money out,” he said. “It also gives the treasury some more direct mechanisms to monitor and apply some ground rules to participating banks.”
Watch: Obama lays out his plan to help the middle class and the economy
Obama said he was still “concerned” about “cracking down on excessive CEO pay” and wanted to make sure that was part of the Treasury Department’s plan going forward. He also said he wants the discussion about “guarantees to bank loans” to continue as that might help loosen credit for small business owners.
The Democratic nominee said he had yet to fully review the $52 billion economic plan John McCain put forward Tuesday, but said a heavy emphasis on a capital gains tax cut did not seem like a sound idea.
“I will tell you that nobody really has capital gains right now," said Obama. "So if the idea is to cut capital gains taxes - when I don’t know anybody, even the smartest investors who right now are going to be experiencing a lot of capital gains - that probably is not going to be particularly useful in solving the financial crisis.”
Filed under: Candidate Barack Obama • Economy • John McCain
McCain's last stand at final debate?
CNN's Ed Hornick
Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain sparred about domestic policy during their second presidential debate.
WASHINGTON (CNN) - The third and final presidential debate is shaping up to be a make-or-break appearance for both Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama, one of the last chances to get their message out to undecided voters.
The debate, taking place at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York, begins at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday and will be aired live on CNN and CNN.com.
The 90-minute face-off will undoubtedly focus on the economic crisis plaguing the country. And unlike at the other two debates, the candidates will sit at a table facing one another.
CBS News' Bob Schieffer, host of "Face the Nation," will moderate the debate and told The Associated Press on Sunday that he will be seeking more on what each will bring to the presidency.
Filed under: Candidate Barack Obama • John McCain • Presidential Debates
Clinton nixes idea of serving on Supreme Court
Clinton said she is happy being a senator from New York.
(CNN) - It’s a question that arose even before Hillary Clinton abandoned her presidential bid four months ago: What's next for the junior senator from New York?
Definitely not a spot on the Supreme Court, and likely not a bid to be Senate Majority Leader or President of the United States, she told Fox News Tuesday.
Asked directly about rumors she may have her eye on the bench, Clinton said there was “zero” chance of that happening: "I have no interest in doing that," she said, laughing.
Speculation mounted it may be a possibility after Lawrence Tribe, a constitutional law expert at the Harvard Law School who is advising Obama's campaign, said last spring he thought Clinton may be a good fit for the high court.
"I certainly think that Senator Obama's inclination to look for people of broad experience, people whose deepest values and whose empathy with others makes them wise human beings as well as expert lawyers, would mean he wouldn't rule out people such as Senator Clinton just because they don't have judicial experience," he told the National Journal.
Others in the chattering class have said a run for Senate Majority Leader, replacing Sen. Harry Reid, is much more likely, given Clinton's success in the chamber and the respect she has forged there. Many also speculate Clinton still harbors presidential ambitions, and could run in four or eight years depending on if Barack Obama is elected.
Watch: Clinton back on the trail
But speaking to Fox Tuesday, Clinton said the chances she pursues either of those options are "probably zero."
"There's an old saying: Bloom where you're planted. And I've always loved that," she said. "I love being in the Senate. I ran for president because I thought we had to make drastic changes given what I viewed as the damage that the Bush administration had done here at home and abroad. Now I'm going to work very hard with President Obama to repair that damage."
ON THE TRAIL: Palin in Scranton
Watch the event on CNN.com/live.
(CNN) - Sarah Palin held a campaign rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania earlier Tuesday, during which she got tough on Barack Obama over taxes.
“America just can’t afford another big spender in the White House, she said.
Filed under: Happening Now • Sarah Palin
Republicans consider loan to help Senate incumbents
Analysts say the November election could give Democrats a filibuster-proof majority.
(CNN) - Amid a string of polls that suggest Democrats could be in striking distance of reaching a filibuster-proof majority, the Republican National Committee is considering taking out a loan to help endangered senators in key battleground states, a GOP strategist told CNN Tuesday.
The news comes a week after the RNC announced it had raised $66 million in September, its best fundraising month ever. But in an effort to keep pace with Barack Obama's cash advantage over John McCain, those funds are going entirely toward the presidential race.
Related: Can Dems reach 60?
Meanwhile the National Republican Senatorial Committee has been largely outspent by its Democratic counterpart this cycle and the possibility of Democrats getting to the magic number of 60 seats in the Senate has become likely in the wake of the economic crisis.
It's unclear what the size of the loan might be, but Politico reported Monday the amount could be as high as $5 million.
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Life in Turkey today: Tough Talk, nevertheless Fears of Drug Shortages
August 18, 2018 World News No comments
Turkish banks are pulling back on credit to consumers as well as businesses. Power plants have shut down because of the soaring cost of imported fuel. Building projects in Istanbul stand half finished after their backers ran out of money.
as well as, in a shopping mall beneath Istanbul’s Trump Tower, Cenap Sarialioglu says he worries he will not be able to supply customers at his pharmacy with the prescription drugs they need to stay alive.
Mr. Sarialioglu, who is usually also president of the Istanbul chamber of pharmacists, said he has been getting calls by additional pharmacists concerned that will wholesalers will cut off supplies of crucial medications because they can no longer make a profit. Drug prices are set in Turkey, so the sharp drop inside lira has made This specific costly to import pharmaceuticals.
“Starting in September, we may have problems,” Mr. Sarialioglu said. “An urgent solution is usually needed.”
A sweets shop in Istanbul. Over the past decade, businesses gorged on cheap debt, which is usually harder to pay back as the lira falls.CreditDanielle Villasana for The brand-new York Times
The Turkish government regulates prices, as well as pharmacists worry they will not be able to supply customers with medicines.CreditDanielle Villasana for The brand-new York Times
This specific has never been easy doing business on the edge of the war zone, in a country with its own rough politics, eye-popping inflation as well as volatile currency.
nevertheless in recent weeks the challenges facing Turkish banks as well as businesses have acquired a brand-new level of intensity that will is usually visible by the streets of Istanbul to the global financial markets. After losing a quarter of its value in a matter of days This specific month, the currency had recovered some ground before falling again on Friday. Its latest decline came as additional emerging market currencies, like the South African rand as well as the Indian rupee, lost ground as well.
Turkey’s Currency crisis
The lira’s plunge in value, exacerbated by a dispute with the United States over a detained pastor, has exposed economic pressures that will have been gathering for years. as well as some economists say that will they could be reaching a breaking point. Over the past decade, businesses gorged on cheap debt, which is usually harder to pay back as the lira falls, while banks handed out credit cards like party favors.
“A recession is usually inevitable,” said Selva Demiralp, a professor of economics at Koc University in Istanbul. “The question is usually whether This specific’s going to be a soft landing or a hard landing.”
Turkey’s problems are so acute, Professor Demiralp said, that will only drastic measures might stabilize the lira as well as contain official inflation of almost 16 percent. She said that will the central bank might need to raise the official interest rate to around 28 percent, by 17.75 percent.
The challenges facing Turkish banks as well as businesses have acquired a brand-new level of intensity in recent weeks.CreditDanielle Villasana for The brand-new York Times
nevertheless the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is usually widely perceived as controlling the central bank, has shown no willingness to allow even a more modest rate increase or to curtail government spending on public works.
Government countermeasures so far have been regarded as tepid. Turkish bank regulators on Thursday announced limits on consumers’ purchases made with credit. The central bank relaxed rules on the amount of money commercial banks need to keep in reserve, to free up cash they can use to deal with currency market turmoil. The government has insisted This specific will not restrict how much money Turks can transfer out of the country.
In a conference call with investors Thursday, Berat Albayrak, the Turkish finance minister, insisted that will the banking system was healthy as well as promised measures that will might bring inflation down to single digits. Mr. Albayrak offered few specifics, according to reports in Turkish as well as international media. as well as he ruled out assistance by the International Monetary Fund — a step many analysts say will be essential to stabilize the economy.
The Colakoglu Metalurji steel factory in Istanbul. President Trump imposed a 50 percent tariff on Turkish steel after talks broke down to win the Discharge of a detained pastor, Andrew Brunson.CreditDanielle Villasana for The brand-new York Times
Yet there is usually no sign that will Mr. Erdogan is usually ready to allow measures that will might restore investor confidence. Nafez Zouk, chief emerging markets economist at Oxford Economics in London, said he did not think the lira’s recent rally might last.
“As soon as the next big thing hits the headlines,” Mr. Zouk said, “we are going to be back to square one.”
A recession might bring to an end nearly two decades of uninterrupted growth in Turkey. Most young people don’t remember the last serious downturn in 2001. Since then, the country has cut poverty in half, brought millions of people into the middle class as well as, until recently, been embraced as a darling of international investors.
“We will survive,” said Ugur Dalbeler, the chief executive of Colakoglu Metalurji. “We have gone through harder times.”CreditDanielle Villasana for The brand-new York Times
nevertheless the growth was built largely on a construction boom fueled by easy credit as well as government spending. The success story is usually looking increasingly unsustainable.
Even for Turks used to double-digit inflation as well as wild currency swings, the latest crisis has an ominous feel.
On a street called Nur-u Osmaniye, steps by Istanbul’s famous grand bazaar, Arthur Kosaryan nodded toward a large empty storefront opposite the jewelry shop where he works. The space once housed one of Istanbul’s finest antiques shops, Mr. Kosaryan said. nevertheless the landlord demanded the rent in dollars.
First a wave of terrorist bombings as well as an aborted coup in 2016 drove away tourists. Then, the lira began a slide early This specific year that will wiped out nearly half its value. The shop owner could no longer afford to pay the rent as well as went out of business.
“In This specific volatility people stopped buying things,” Mr. Kosaryan said. “They are waiting for prices to calm down.”
So far Turkish business leaders are putting on a brave face. “We will survive,” said Ugur Dalbeler, the chief executive of Colakoglu Metalurji, a steel maker. “We have gone through harder times.”
Mr. Dalbeler did not say, nevertheless some Turkish managers may also be wary that will expressions of pessimism might be perceived as unpatriotic in a country where the government has been known to seize assets of people considered disloyal.
Even by Turkish standards the steel industry is usually in a tough spot, as Mr. Dalbeler conceded. President Trump imposed a 50 percent tariff on Turkish steel after talks broke down to win the Discharge of the detained pastor, Andrew Brunson.
A recession might bring to an end nearly two decades of uninterrupted growth in Turkey. Most young people don’t remember the last serious downturn in 2001.CreditDanielle Villasana for The brand-new York Times
“There is usually no way inside steel business you can compete when you have such a disadvantage,” said Mr. Dalbeler, who is usually also the president of Turkish Steel, an industry group.
Mr. Dalbeler, who in his youth was an exchange student in Iowa as well as speaks American-accented English, attributed Turkey’s woes to a plot by the United States as well as Mr. Trump, rather than the policies of the Erdogan government. that will is usually a common view among Turks.
Years ago, Mr. Dalbeler said, Iraq was the Turkish steel industry’s biggest market. nevertheless the Arab Spring — seen here as the consequence of American policy — led to civil war in Syria as well as severely undercut the Middle East as a market for steel. Turkish steel producers, who specialize inside reinforcing bars used in construction as well as pipes used by the oil industry, adapted in part by increasing sales inside United States.
today they will adapt again, said Namik Kemal Ekinci, head of a separate industry group that will represents steel exporters. “We will be able to find brand-new markets,” he said. Mr. Trump as well as his advisers, he added, imposed tariffs because they were “jealous of our steel industry.”
“We will be able to find brand-new markets,” said Namik Kemal Ekinci, the head of an industry group that will represents steel exporters. Mr. Trump as well as his advisers, he said, imposed tariffs because they were “jealous of our steel industry.”CreditDanielle Villasana for The brand-new York Times
On Thursday Istanbul was noticeably calmer than late last week. The lira traded at 5.75 to the dollar, compared with 7 to the dollar at the beginning of the week.
In a narrow shop in Istanbul where he trades gold as well as silver, Gabriel Saglamoglu was defiant. “The Turkish economy is usually not going to be destroyed by just one tweet,” he said, referring to Mr. Trump’s announcement last week on Twitter that will he might impose higher steel tariffs.
Business was frenzied a few days earlier, Mr. Saglamoglu said, as Turks bought precious metals as a hedge against the turmoil. nevertheless things have calmed down in part because of a pledge by Qatar to invest $15 billion inside Turkish economy, he said.
nevertheless economists considered Qatar’s show of solidarity insignificant in proportion to Turkey’s problems. Loans taken out in dollars are the main source of concern, since a falling lira makes them more expensive.
The country’s companies will require $0 billion in financing by foreign banks as well as investors during 2018 to roll over existing debt, according to estimates by Oxford Economics. Lenders’ willingness to provide that will financing is usually in serious doubt.
A wave of terrorist bombings as well as an aborted coup in 2016 drove away tourists before the lira began to slide. Some shop owners could no longer afford to pay their rent as well as went out of business.CreditDanielle Villasana for The brand-new York Times
On paper the number of bad loans in Turkey has not reached alarming levels. nevertheless several large Turkish companies have already asked banks for help restructuring their debts in recent months. Economists worry that will others could run into trouble as well as banks may not be able to offer a lifeline.
The currency crisis has already begun to reveal the economic weaknesses that will had been concealed by breakneck growth.
Several Turkish power plants have shut down temporarily because of the soaring cost, in lira terms, of imported fuel, though there have not yet been any blackouts. Companies are finding This specific more difficult to afford factory machinery as well as hospitals have been forced to buy cheaper X-ray machines.
The pharmacist, Mr. Sarialioglu, who remembers when Ivanka Trump visited the Trump-branded complex in Istanbul several years ago, said he worried about shortages of cancer drugs. They are almost always imported. The Turkish government regulates the cost of drugs, leaving no room for suppliers to raise prices.
The currency crisis has already begun to reveal the economic weaknesses that will had been concealed by breakneck growth.CreditDanielle Villasana for The brand-new York Times
“In oncology there are no substitutes,” Mr. Sarialioglu said. “If the treatment does not happen very efficiently as well as right away, one may have irreversible consequences.”
Jack Ewing writes about business, banking, economics as well as monetary policy by Frankfurt, as well as contributes to breaking news coverage. Previously he worked for a decade at BusinessWeek magazine in Frankfurt, where he was European regional editor. @JackEwingNYT • Facebook
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RE in government schools 101
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The upcoming complaint to the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission is referenced today in The Age Education Resource Centre.
Colleen Ricci of The Age has summarised the major points surrounding the controversy of Religious Instruction, presented as Religious Education by ACCESS Ministries.
Areas covered include, © The Age:
What is the nature of the complaint?
Under current arrangements, if a school is approached by an accredited teacher of religious studies, it is obliged to allow 30 minutes a week of ‘‘special religious instruction’’ (SRI) to its pupils. Children automatically attend these classes unless parents formally ‘‘opt out’’.
The complainants say the Education Department segregates children on religious grounds and discriminates by making it incumbent upon families to ‘‘opt out’’ of a program, rather than ‘‘opt in’’, and by not providing a secular (non-religious) alternative for students.
They also challenge the prevailing interpretation of the legislation, which says special religious instruction ‘‘may be given’’. The department interprets this to mean ‘‘must be given’’. This, it says, is to conform to the ‘‘original intent’’ of the act.
Who teaches religion in Victorian state schools?
[…..] 96 per cent of all religious education is provided by Access Ministries, a Christian agency with 4000 volunteers that reaches two-thirds of state primary schools. Access Ministries is the only religious instruction provider to receive state government funding, with the state government recently announcing this funding would increase by $200,000 from July 1. Religious instruction teachers are forbidden to advocate or proselytise (try to convert pupils) for Christianity or any other religion. According to Access Ministries’ chief executive Evonne Paddison, volunteers are carefully trained to follow these requirements. […..]
What are some concerns?
Some parents, social commentators, academics and spiritual leaders worry that children are given a predominantly Christian perspective without reference to others. They also point to accounts of proselytising, and reports of children who have opted out of programs being inadequately supervised or given no ‘‘appropriate alternative’’. […..] Professor Gary Bouma, an Anglican priest and sociologist at Monash University, is highly critical of Access Ministries’ curriculum. He says all faiths should be offered equally. ‘‘So if there are three Baha’i people who want it in school X, then they should be able to get it,’’ he says. Other religions have complained of a ‘‘Christian bias’’ in Victorian religious education and funding.
Despite the controversy, Education Minister Martin Dixon says there are no plans to review the system. Supporters of the Access Ministries program say it has been unfairly criticised, and that for many pupils the program is the only introduction to Christianity and its values.
Some maintain that religious instruction has no place in a secular state school, while others argue that our multifaith community demands a broad religious literacy to encourage tolerance. […..]
Others suggest that ethics class, similar to those offered in New South Wales, should be offered as an alternative for pupils who opt out of religious instruction.
Recent Headlines. [……]
What The Age says.
‘‘Parents may withdraw their children from the classes, but this can be divisive and mark those children as ‘different’. The solution is not to abandon education about religion; events of the past decade illustrate the dangers of religious ignorance and intolerance. However, the government should not rely on faith-driven volunteers instead of trained educators who teach to the same professional standards as in any other subject. The goal must not be to convert children but to ensure they have the general religious literacy they need to make sense of the past, present and future.’’
What people say.
‘‘Every day of the school year, Access Ministries CRE teachers and chaplains are sharing God’s love with over 200,000 young Victorians. They are helping students explore their lives with meaning and purpose … Our vision is to reach every student in Victoria with the Gospel.’’ [ACCESS Ministries]
‘‘[Would] the providers of Christian education feel equally comfortable if the religious education spot were handed over instead to Jewish teachers, or Buddhist teachers or, shock horror, Muslim teachers? If they’re not comfortable in that, then it’s clear that there’s a bias in the teaching.’’
Social commentator Waleed Aly, The Age, April 10
‘‘Recent letters have offered evidence of strangely unorthodox opinions being presented to children, which are decidedly unacceptable to liberally minded parents who belong to mainstream Christian denominations or none at all. Parents need to be able to judge whether or not to permit their children to receive lessons after they are notified as to the qualifications and theological stance of the instructor who is timetabled for their child. To be able to opt into an RE program once these details have been advertised would seem to be a way forward.’’
The Reverend Dr Brian Porter, Camberwell, The Age, April 25
Your View.
Should religious instruction be provided to Victorian state primary schools? Why or why not? If so, how should it be taught? What are the alternatives?
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Aké Film Review
Review of Wole Soyinka's Aké Film
SOYINKA’S AKE FILM IN BRISTOL
Ake, the yet to go on sale film adaptation of Wole Soyinka’s famous childhood book, was screened recently in Bristol, England, with enthusiastic audience responses.
A viewer, Dammaris Le Grand commented that the film “was very true to the book and respectful of the book and Soyinka’s spirit.
“It was a wonderful depiction of a way of life at a particular moment in time and the cast seemed infused with joy for the project”.
He also said, “I found Ake a delightful and funny film. It captured the intensity of Wole’s childhood as it unfolded in one small drama after another. It took me into a delightful distant world that was gently framed by local and world political events.”
Two “ex-west Africans” who attended the screening, Barbara Ryder, a former instructor at the University of Ibadan International School and widow of Alan Ryder, formerly a professor at the History department, University of Ibadan, with Silu Pascoe of part Ghanaian heritage was highly elated especially about the second part of the film.
“We very much enjoyed the AGS and women’s revolt sections.
“We are sure that the film will have its home audiences raising the roof towards the end of the film. This is partly because of the subject-writer, but it is also a reflection of the crisper composition of episodes.”
James Gibbs, well known critic of African literature and a personal friend of Soyinka who retired from the University of the West of England as a Professor of English said,
“Several of the children in the cast act with commitment and conviction and the two youngest boys playing Soyinka, the brothers Oluwafunbi and Mofiyinfoluwa Oladele are quite outstanding. From them we get a sense of what an inquisitive and, at times, infuriating child, the future Green Card destroyer was.”
James Gibbs also said,
“Among the older actors, I would single out Olanike Onimisi Bennet (Eniola Soyinka), and Yinka Davies (Mrs Ransome-Kuti , a k a Beere). Bennet brought to the screen a combination of smiles, strength and severity that made her a credible mother for the remarkable writer, and Davies, who, when appropriately bespectacled, bears an uncanny resemblance to ‘Beere’, played her role with accomplished authority.
“As might be expected of an author whose first calling was to the theatre, some of the characters in Soyinka’s memoir wandered onto the pages of Aké while managing to keep one foot on the stage. I am thinking here of, for example, Pa Adatan and Madam Amelia who were brought alive in style by veteran actors Jimi Solanke and Taiwo Ajai-Lycett.”
FROM LITERATURE TO FILM
FROM LITERATURE TO FILM April 4, 2017
SOYINKA’S AKE FILM IN BRISTOL March 28, 2017
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A report summarising the findings of a public consultation over what powers a mayoral WMCA should have has been delivered to the Government. The consultation asked bodies and groups what they believed was needed for a West Midlands Mayor and the WMCA to deliver the devoluation agreement from last November. The consultation took place between 4th July to 21st August. More that 1,300 submissions were received in both online and hard copy formats. West Midlands Civil Society Forum gave a submission. To read a summary of the responses received click here.
WEST MIDLANDS COMBINED AUTHORITY MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION
The West Midlands Combined Authority has commissioned research in to mental health and its impact on the public sector. It is believed this commission is the first of its type in the country
The commission will consider evidence from around the West Midlands region and beyond and it will consider the experiences of real people with real mental health experiences, as well as the knowledge of professional mental health practitioners and mental health organisations.
The commission will be chaired by Norman Lamb MP, former minister of state for care and support.
The elected member sponsor is Cllr Darren Cooper, vice chair of the shadow WMCA.
The commission has identified the following key areas of enquiry:
Employment and housing
Early intervention principles
Criminal justice/troubled individuals
Role of employers
To find out more about the focus. scope and timetable for the research report please click here.
The deadline for registering your interest for these events has now passed, but the Commission would still like to hear from people who hace a broader interest in mental health. . People can still participate by completing an online submission for the Commission to consider which can be found here https://westmidlandscombinedauthority.org.uk/what-we-do/commissions/mental-health/mental-health-commission-submission-form/.
HEALTH AND WELLBEING: WHO'S WHO IN THE WEST MIDLANDS
Each of the regional networks that make up Regional Voices, including Regional Action West Midlands (RAWM), has produced a “Who’s Who” guide to key people working in health, wellbeing and care in each region. The guides include relevant people from NHS England area teams, clinical commissioning groups, health and wellbeing boards, CQC, commissioning support units and local Healthwatch.
You can access the Who’s Who guides for the other regions at www.regionalvoices.org/whoswho
Please help us keep this guide up to date by notifying us of any changes or corrections by emailing: rawm@rawm.org.uk
To download a copy of the West Midland's Who's Who guide - click here.
Celebrating Women’s Conference
Edgbaston Community Centre, Birmingham
This weekend Living Well Church bought over 40 women together to celebrate International Women’s Day, among the speakers was Sharon Palmer MBE, Chief Executive of Regional Action West Midlands. RAWM is the infrastructure organisation works to support the strategic development, engagement and sustainability of voluntary sector organisations in and across the West Midlands and she continued the theme of celebrating the contribution and successes of women by showcasing the many and varied roles she plays in the course of her work and personal life and setting the challenge to her all female audience to look at themselves and explore, own and be proud of their own identity.
The event provided an excellent environment to hear from exceptional women who have achieved success in the world of business, health and well being as well faith and empowerment, whilst exploring some of the ongoing challenges faced by women of all faiths, races and ages.
‘It is great that the conference left the delegates feeling inspired, not only about others but about their own achievements’ said Sharon ‘ confidence in oneself is often the start of many good things, all of the women present here today will definitely spread that message and how exciting is that?’
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You are here: Home / Forklift training centre celebrates 2000th customer!
Forklift training centre celebrates 2000th customer!
June 29, 2016 /1 Comment/in Uncategorized /by reaseheathblog
Reaseheath’s forklift truck and telescopic handler training centre welcomed its 2000th trainee to the college last week. The centre, managed by Chris Mann delivers a range of training courses in the operation of forklifts and material handling equipment (MHE).
Our newest recruit will follow in the footsteps of industry professionals, members of the public and over 600 Reaseheath students who have successfully completed their training, accredited by RTITB – the largest forklift truck training provider in the UK and Ireland.
Chris, who joined Reaseheath in 2009 launched the college’s first accredited forklift truck training centre after just 6 months as work based learning assessor. Initially funded through the European Social Fund and Learning and Skills Council (LSC), the centre was set up to help the local community gain a useful qualification to make them more employable. Chris is also qualified to deliver training at companies’ own premises.
Now in its seventh year of delivering the nationally recognised RTITB qualifications, our training offer continues to go from strength to strength. The college has seen notable organisations including John Deere and Telford International Centre pick Reaseheath as their chosen training provider. Also, three members of the set up team from the London 2012 Olympic Games gained their MEWP (cherry picker) licences with us.
RTITB accredited trainer Chris Mann said: “It makes me proud to see how the training has helped so many people gain access to employment in the industry. Gaining an accredited licence really does makes people more employable and I’m looking forward to continuing to develop our training offer with ever evolving technology.”
Find out more about our forklift and rough terrain telescopic handler training opportunities at: http://www.reaseheath.ac.uk/adult-learners/forklift-training/
RTITB forklift truck and telescopic handler training provides a nationally recognised qualification which also provides proof of training for the employer which is a legal necessity to operate any machine.
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B. Healey says:
Chris Mann is an asset to any learning environment, with his attention to detail and professionalism through-out his delivery all who study under him can be assured that they are receiving the highest quality of service from Mr Mann.
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Back to Programme accreditation
Programme accreditation
Our university geography programme accreditation scheme offers recognition of undergraduate and integrated Masters degree programmes.
Accreditation forms and guidance
A short overview of the application process, eligibility and deadlines is below. For more detailed information, departments are asked to read and follow the Programme Accreditation Handbook, which provides further guidance on the application/review process and advice on completing the Programme Accreditation Application Form.
Applications for programme accreditation are administered by the Society, working with an Accreditation Review Panel made up of academics and practitioners. The Panel will assess all applications and make recommendations for acceptance to the Society's Council, which meets three times each year. Application deadlines will be aligned with these meetings. Programmes will normally be accredited for a term of six years, with applications for renewal expected between five and six years of accreditation.
The next deadline for application is: Friday 30 March 2018
All questions and other correspondence regarding programme accreditation should be directed to the Project coordinator: Learning, teaching and accreditation:
Email: accreditation@rgs.org
A completed application for programme accreditation includes:
A completed Application Form, which will contain a written reflection on the programme's content and aims, and the development of professional practice (approx. 2,000 to 4,000 words)*
Mandatory supporting evidence, to include:
Programme specification/s
Module specifications
A module overview mapping/matrix that shows compulsory and optional modules at each level
Student handbook/s
External examiner reports for the past three years (or for as long as the course has been run), and the Department's responses to these
Most recent Periodic Review report (or, in the case of new programmes, initial approval)
Additional supporting evidence (optional - see Accreditation Handbook for more information)
Departments should complete one application form per programme. If accreditation is sought for multiple programmes, it may be possible to combine them into a single form/application in certain circumstances. Please contact accreditation@rgs.org for advice before starting a combined application.
To help with planning and to ensure application paperwork is safely received, it would be useful if departments intending to submit an application could signal their intention by email to accreditation@rgs.org. (A signal of intention may be made at any time. Applications will be considered without a signal of intention. Signalling intention does not bind you to making an application.)
Completed applications should be sent to accreditation@rgs.org. Applications will be checked for completeness and relevance before being assembled for assessment by the Accreditation Review Panel. Applicants will be kept informed of progress.
Programme Accreditation Handbook
Programme Accreditation Application Form
Accreditation Review Panel
The programme accreditation scheme is appropriate for those programmes which reference the QAA subject benchmark statement for geography. Applications are welcomed for:
Single honours geography programmes
Programmes where geography makes up at least 60% of a combined programme
Integrated Master's geography programmes, where a Master's degree is awarded upon completion of a specialist fourth year.
Applications are welcomed from both existing and new programmes that have completed the relevant institutional approval processes. In the case of new programmes that have not yet been offered or are in their first year of delivery, the Panel may recommend a shorter period of accreditation.
Please refer to the programme accreditation handbook, which contains detailed and important information about eligibility with reference to subject coverage and integration.
The next deadline for applications is Friday 30 March 2018. After that, the next deadlines are the last working day in September and March each year.
The Accreditation Review Panel will consider all complete applications received by this date, and make recommendations for acceptance to the Society's Council, for consideration at their next meeting.
To help with planning, it would be useful if Departments intending to submit an application could signal their intention by email to accreditation@rgs.org. (Applications will be considered without a signal of intention; signalling intention does not bind you to making an application.)
The one-off, up-front (and non-refundable) fee for making an application for accreditation is £500 +VAT per programme to be accredited. The application fee will be invoiced at the point of submission and must be paid before accreditation can be formally awarded by Council. Invoice/payment details must be included in your application form.
For departments that offer a range of awards resulting from different pathways through the same set of modules, these will be treated as one programme for the purposes of accreditation and only attract one application fee. Such pathways would normally share a set of core modules. Substantially different pathways or specialisms within a set of modules may be treated as separate programmes, at the discretion of the Society with advice from the Panel.
An annual registration fee of £150 +VAT will be levied to maintain accreditation. This is a flat fee per department, regardless of the number of programmes accredited. The annual registration fee will be invoiced on the anniversary of accreditation, but if Departments wish to be invoiced for the application fee and five years of annual registration fees in a single lump sum, that can be arranged.
Please note that these fees are subject to review and change from time to time.
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Welcome Our New Executive Director
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John Evans, a Rockford native who has more than 30 years of experience working with local churches both large and small, is the new Executive Director of Rockford Reachout Jail Ministry.
For more than 40 years, Rockford Reachout has been helping the community by ministering to the men, women, and youth at the Winnebago County Jail. For the past several years, Reachout has been expanding its ministry to working with inmates from jail and prison as they re-enter the community. “There are a number of people on our board who have worked with John in collaborative community projects, and we all felt he would be a good fit for our ministry. John's diversified experience of working with Weed and Seed, the Greater Rockford Re-Entry Coalition, and the Joyner Neighborhood Resource Center will help in those efforts,” said Laura Ortiz, Reachout board chairman.
“My experience has taught me that the most efficient way to work is collaboratively,” said Evans. “Funding sources for charitable organizations have been decreasing in recent years. Rather than trying to compete for the same funding, there are ways to collaborate strategically using monies that are available, especially when it comes to re-entry. One of my initial priorities is to personally connect with existing partners."
Evans lives in Rockford with his wife, Becky. The couple has five children and six grandchildren.
Rockford Reachout is a nonprofit organization based in the Winnebago County Jail. It has a staff of four and more than 100 volunteers. Almost all of Reachout's revenues come from donations and grants. If you’d like more information or to donate, visit rockfordreachout.org or call 815-319-6625.
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