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SHAREE is the acronym for Self-Help Association for Rural people through Education & Entrepreneurship, is registered in Bangladesh as a NGO with both the Directorate of Social Welfare and NGO Affairs Bureau. It runs lobby and advocacy campaigns for the marginalized and disadvantage community in Bangladesh, and for the Dalit community people so that their human rights can be promoted and/or protected.
SHAREE in a Nutshell: Self-Help Association for Rural people through Education & Entrepreneurship (SHAREE)
Formation: 1999
Founder: Ms. Preo Bala Biswas
Type: Non-profit Organization
Purpose: SHAREE’s purpose is to promoting & protecting Marginalized and disadvantage community human rights in Bangladesh
Headquarters: House-11 (1st Floor), Road-4, Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka-1205, Bangladesh
Key people: Ms. Preo Bala Biswas (General Secretary & Executive Director (ex-officio)
Website: www.sharee.org.bd
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHAREE_(NGO)
SHAREE works for local governance issues and with municipalities to facilitate empowerment of them and to help them get access to various government facilities and services. SHAREE also works for long on children’s education, cutting child slavery etc. Other important work it does includes promoting and protecting their human rights. SHAREE also works for promoting good governance, gender development, climate change adaptation and disaster management. However, its main focus is to help the minority and Dalit women to establish their human rights and live in dignity with the mainstream society being free from poverty, injustice, discrimination and violence.
SHAREE’s programme and project interventions are aimed at empowering minority communities, esp. Dalit women living in different pockets of Bangladesh, prepare their children for education, organising women and youth in clubs for safe-guarding their rights, educate them, as well as, community movers and/or leaders on different minority rights, help them receiving different development inputs and services for human development, leadership skills and self-reliance. SHAREE runs various action, advocacy and lobby activities at local, national and international levels for the promotion of minority rights. In this process, SHAREE helps formation of their institution building for self-reliance, power and sustainability.
SHAREE’s notable researches and publications are:
1. Cobbler living in the uncertainty (2002-2003 Research study by Priya Saha and Rathidra Nath Paul)
2. Evaluation of Untouchables living in the Urban Slums of Bangladesh
3. Evaluation on “Strengthening of the Panchayet of Dalit Community by making them gender sensitive and gender balance for empowering women’s legal and fundamental right”
4. Report on Dalit Community inclusion in the National Census 2011
5. Research study on Missing Minorities
6. Research study availability of Service Delivery Institution support to Dalit community
7. Cobbler living in the uncertainty (2002-2003 Research study by Priya Saha and Rathindra Nath Paul)
8. An Endeavour to identify Dalit Challenges in Bangladesh
9. People’s perception on Hindu women Rights in Bangladesh.
10. SHAREE Initiative & Media Focus on Dalit Mainstreaming in Bangladesh
11. Monthly news bulletin titled “Dalit Kantha” (Voices of the Dalits)
SHAREE’s current major activities are to tenaciously working in favour of reforming traditional Dalit Panchayet so that they can be more democratic, gender-sensitive, and sympathetic towards women or girls so that early marriage within Dalit community and widespread practice of violence against women and dowry can be reduced.
Second major activity of SHAREE is to raise awareness and capabilities of the Dalit women / youth (adolescent girls) so that they can be trained and nursed as future leaders. The idea is to organise them in groups/clubs and link them to local media, judiciary and government administration so that they can gather courage, at first, and then begin fight against injustice and discrimination against their community and help establish their Constitutional Rights in the society.
Third major activity of SHAREE is to create Human Rights Defenders-both women and men who can fight for their different rights in protecting/ preventing any ensuing human rights violations irrespective of its sources: state, intra or inter religious groups and so on. They also should work to help their community people get government services/input. Work for its constituents where they are victims of climate-change is another important activity of SHAREE.
SHAREE also has a well-built infrastructure for vocational and skills development. It has a well-equipped vocational training centre located at its head office. The centre was established in 2002. The centre has available facilities for development training for the women and adolescent. It has adequate equipments for 25 trainees. SHAREE also is running skill development training centres for the Dalit women at Gonoktuli City Colony, Dayagonj City Colony and Nazirabazar City Colony. SHAREE also has staff-training facilities at its head office and at four district level offices with all modern training facilities. At all these facilities, 20 trainees can participate in training at a time.
Last, but not the least, SHAREE works for children’s education since its inception, and it continued doing the same. But, it only serves the Dalit children, at present, because, they are the most neglected, most deprived, and often missed to enrol in the public schools because of untouchability.
Running rights based activities and activism/ movement for the promotion and protection of minority rights has been SHAREE’s main past activities. It worked to promote minority women’s issues in the local governments (esp. municipalities), ran a vigorous campaign for minority inclusion during the census (2011), and ran successful advocacy and lobby programmes to influence government policies in favour of minority people in Bangladesh.
Operating education programmes for different groups had been SHAREE’s other main past activities. Those programmes include: Pre-Primary School Project for underprivileged slum-dwelling children in Lalbag, Mohammadpur and Hazaribag of Dhaka city; Post-Literacy and Continuing Education for Human Development Project (PLCEHDP) for adult learners in Raghunathpur, Durgapur & Mazigati Union in Gopalgong Sadar; Reach Out of school Children programme for the children that missed the opportunity to attend school in different districts.
Apart from running education programme, SHAREE also worked for Integrated Char Development Project where it constructed ‘Perimeter Trenches’ outside the Flood Control Embankment in coastal areas of Barguna and patuakhali where two groups of about 20 families in each were organized, facilitated in obtaining lease of char land to make ‘Perimeter Trenches’. The trenches have helped reduce the salinity of land, and created opportunities for fish culture in the ‘gher’, vegetable production on the banks, and Boro rice cultivation in between trenches.
SHAREE also helped empower urban women entrepreneurs and helped them succeed in business; promoted birth registration, marriage registration, protect early marriage, protect women’s rights and campaigned for Violence Against Women (VAW); worked for eradication of hazardous child labour. It aimed to pull out child labour from hazardous sectors, such as, domestic work, lather industry, flour mill, prostitution, garbage collection, engineering workshop etc and offer them NFE, skill development training, microcredit support to their parents so that they aren’t sent back again to work.
SHAREE is committed to continue its services for the Bangladeshi Dalit and minority people and promote and protect their human rights for a peaceful Bangladesh where every citizen with no consideration of caste and creed will enjoy the declared constitutional rights. For this to happen, local community and international humanitarian support is necessary to bring happiness to the lives of the people SHAREE serves.
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River Ave. Blues » Sabathia, Solarte lead 10-2 attack against the Rays
Sabathia, Solarte lead 10-2 attack against the Rays
April 18, 2014 by Benjamin Kabak 112 Comments
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Mike had some dental work done earlier today, and the rest of my day was busier than expected. We dropped the ball on the game thread, but it seemed to be a good luck charm for CC and the Yanks. The erstwhile ace won in Tampa Bay for the first time since 2010, and the Bombers turned a triple play behind him while also knocking out three home runs. It was, all around, a Solarte Party for a team that’s won five in a row.
CC’s Big Day
As Yangervis Solarte, Brian Roberts and Scott Sizemore turned a triple play in the second inning, CC shot his arms up in the air in celebration. The Yanks held a 4-0 lead, and for a minute, it looked like CC would crack. Yet, for the third time in his Yankee tenure, the infield turned a triple play. (The first involved A-Rod, Cano and Nick Johnson while the second was one of the zaniest rundowns you’ll ever see.) For a guy not known for his hot corner defense, Solarte had the presence of mind to head to the bag and flip to second. From there, it was nothing more than a routine play, and CC escaped.
From then on, it was relatively smooth sailing. A passed ball led to an unearned run while CC’s nemesis Sean Rodriguez lofted a home run in the 7th. By then, though, the Yanks led 8-1, and the Rays’ run was harmless. Sabathia again didn’t have much velocity on his fastball, but he hit his spots and changed speeds effectively. He ended the night throwing 72 of 107 pitches for strikes with six Ks.
Big Bats vs. Price
Offensively, the Yanks made tonight’s game look easy. The Rays opted to hold David Price back a day to face the AL East leaders, and it backfired. Price gave up six runs in five innings, and of the ten hits he allowed, six went for extra bases. The Yanks hit two triples in one inning, and Soriano and McCann went back to back in the 5th. After missing three games with a back injury, Brian Roberts went 3 for 5 with a double and a triple, and in the 9th, April superstar Yangervis Solarte lofted a Grant Balfour offering into the right field seats for his first Major League home run. Solarte, who had doubled earlier, is now hitting .373/.448/.569. It’s hard to imagine it will last, but it’s been a fun ride.
Carlos Beltran took a nasty spill when he ran full speed over the wall in right field. He seemed OK, but it sure would be nice if the Rays could afford a real warning track…Dellin Betances had a tough time throwing strikes in the 8th inning, but he still struck out three of the eight batters he faced. He threw only 16 of 31 pitches for strikes, but his stuff, when over the plate, is nearly untouchable. He now has 11 strike outs in 6.1 innings but 4 walks too…Derek Jeter is very quietly hitting .295 with a .380 OBP. With a .364 slugging, the power isn’t quite there, but I’ll take the average and OBP with no complaints…These two teams face off again tomorrow as Hiroki takes on Erik Bedard, making his first start of the year.
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In Romania, bribery is a health problem
Alina Lungu, 30, says she did everything necessary to ensure a healthy pregnancy in Romania: She ate organic food, swam daily and bribed her gynecologist with an extra €200 in cash, paid in monthly increments of €25 handed over discreetly in white envelopes.
Another bribe of €25, or about $32, went to a nurse to guarantee an epidural. Even the orderly reaped an extra €10 to make sure he didn't drop her from the stretcher.
But on the day of her delivery, she says, her gynecologist never arrived. Twelve hours into labor, she was left alone in her room for an hour. When a doctor appeared, the umbilical cord was wrapped twice around her baby's head and had nearly suffocated him. He was blind and deaf and had suffered severe brain damage.
Now, Alina and her husband, Ionut, despair that if they had paid a larger bribe to the doctor, then Sebastian would perhaps be a healthy baby. "Doctors are so used to getting bribes in Romania that you now have to pay more in order to even get their attention," she said.
Romania, a poor Balkan country of 22 million that joined the European Union two years ago, is struggling to shed a culture of corruption honed during decades of communism - and stretching back beyond that. The European Commission, the EU's executive body, published a damning report Thursday criticizing Romania for backtracking on key judicial changes necessary to fight corruption. Sanctions could follow, including losing some of the €32 billion in EU aid it is due to receive between 2007 and 2013.
Transparency International, the Berlin-based anti-corruption watchdog, last year ranked Romania as the second most corrupt country in the 27-member bloc behind neighboring Bulgaria. Those who have faced corruption allegations have included a former prime minister, more than 1,100 doctors and teachers, 170 police officers and 3 generals, according to Romanian anti-corruption investigators.
While alarm grows in Brussels that the EU's newest entrants are undermining the bloc's rule of law, Romanians complain that everyday graft and bribery blight their lives. One patient here recently offered his doctor a free shopping trip to Dubai. The doctor politely declined.
Dr. Vasile Astarastoae, a biomedical ethicist who is president of the Romanian College of Physicians, representing 47,000 doctors, blamed the black healthcare economy on a pitifully low average monthly wage of €400 for doctors, which he said was forcing them to rely on supplementary income.
"Patients don't want to go to a doctor who is distracted thinking, 'How will I feed my kids or pay the rent?"' Astarastoae said. "So there is a conspiracy between the doctor and the patient to pay a bribe."
"If salaries were higher, then the practice would disappear," he said.
A study conducted by the World Bank for the Romanian Ministry of Health concluded that so-called informal payments amounted to $360 million annually. When an illness requires hospitalization, the Romanian patient typically pays three or four bribes equivalent to three-quarters of a family's monthly income, the study showed.
The Ministry of Health is trying to root out the practice, and recently set up a free phone line for patients to report abuses. Within an hour, it was jammed. Hospital here are plastered with anti-bribery posters. One shows a man hiding a gift behind his back, with the words "You Shouldn't Have" above his head.
The issue gained national attention last month when a 63-year-old man, Mihai Constantinescu, died of a massive heart attack in the waiting room of a hospital in Slatina, in southern Romania, after doctors refused to treat him. Mihaela Ionita, the nurse who wheeled him fruitlessly from room to room, said in an interview she believed he had been refused care "because he appeared poor and could not afford a bribe." The hospital said Constantinescu did not appear to have been an emergency case.
Victor Alistar, director of Transparency International's Romanian branch, said the culture of bribery was a hangover from communism, when Romanians endured long lines just to get basics like eggs and milk and used bribes to acquire scarce products and services.
Physicians lament that bribery is so endemic in the healthcare system that if a doctor refuses a bribe, patients typically become anxious and distraught, believing this to be a sign that their illness is incurable and death is imminent. Doctors then take the bribe to try to allay their anxiety.
Doctors and patients say bribery in the health-care system follows a set of unwritten rules. The cost of bribes depends on the treatment, ranging from €100 for a straightforward appendix-removal operation to up to €5,000 for brain surgery. The suggested bribery prices are passed on by word of mouth, and are publicized on blogs and Internet sites. Alistar said public hospitals routinely exchanged "supplementary payment" lists to ensure they had the same rates.
Dr. Adela Salceanu, a psychiatrist and anti-bribery advocate, said doctors used different and sometimes subtle methods to make it clear they expected a money-laden envelope.
She recalled that one friend, a 42-year-old lawyer, recently broke two legs in a basketball game and was taken to hospital for surgery. When he did not offer money to the orthopedic surgeon on duty, his procedure was postponed for a week; he was finally operated on, but only after paying the doctor an extra €400.
Salceanu lamented that young doctors who refused to accept bribes were routinely chastised or threatened with dismissal by senior colleagues for subverting the black market.
Mugur Ciumageanu, a psychiatrist who has practiced in public hospitals in Bucharest, recalled that when he was a young doctor, he was shocked when the senior physician on the ward took him aside and forbade him to talk with patients for three months. Her explanation, he recalled, was that he was spending more time with patients than she was and, by appearing more caring, was denting her bribery earnings.
Marilena Tiron, 26, a recent graduate of medical school in Bucharest, said the bribery culture among doctors started early because residents were also poorly paid - about €200 a month. She said the issue of bribery did not come up in her optional medical ethics class at the University of Bucharest's Medical School "since the teachers were taking bribes themselves."
Astarastoae, of the Romanian College of Physicians, acknowledged that bribery needed to be rooted out, but he argued that the media exaggerated the practice.
While doctors are god-like figures in most Western countries, respected and handsomely rewarded for years of hard study, Astarastoae said that in Romania, the medical profession was denigrated because workers in factories had been made heroes under communism, while doctors and intellectuals were treated as unproductive "parasites."
Astarastoae, who helped write Romania's code of medical ethics, said that under the code, it was considered unethical to take money or a gift before treatment; after treatment, however, it was at the discretion of the patient if he or she wanted to show appreciation.
He said the college had the power to sanction bribery by revoking the licenses of doctors implicated in a bribe. Few patients, however, are willing to name and shame their doctors for fear they could be shunned by other physicians.
Liviu Manaila, Romania's secretary of state for health, said in an interview that the system of informal payments was depriving doctors of their dignity and needed to be stamped out. While the government's budget is too strained to raise doctor's wages, he proposed revamping Romania's socialized medical system so that patients took on a greater burden of the costs, which could then be translated into higher fees for doctors.
But such proposals are cold comfort for Alina Lungu and 18-month-old Sebastian, who will probably spend his life in a vegetative state.
"The problem is that all this black money absolves doctors of their moral responsibility toward their patients," she said. "It has got to be stopped."
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PREDICTING PRECLINICAL THROMBOGENIC ABNORMALITIES IN PATIENTS WITH ESSENTIAL ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION
Bunova S. S., Firstova L. P., Nelidova A. V., Usacheva E. V.
Omsk State Medical Academy . Omsk, Russia
Aim. To identify early (preclinical) markers of thrombogenic abnormalities in patients with essential arterial hypertension (EAH).
Material and methods. The study included 137 EAH patients, aged 30–60 years. The parameters of both coagulation and platelet haemostasis were assessed.
Results. In patients with EAH and obesity (O), the following parameters were elevated: activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT); fibrinogen; and soluble fibrin monomer complex (SFMC). In EAH patients without O, the levels of spontaneous platelet aggregation were elevated. Among overweight patients, the levels of adreno-reactivity were associated with leptin levels (rs=0,8; р=0,007). In obese patients, there was a significant correlation between insulin and leptin levels (rs=0,7; р=0,0049). The correlation analysis of the neurohumoral and haemostatic parameters demonstrated an association between leptin and SFMC levels (rs=0,8; р=0,0007). In EAH patients, the changes in neurohumoral profile are linked to increased body mass, elevated levels of insulin (Н=9,6; р=0,0082), leptin (Н=12,1; р=0,0024), and adreno-reactivity (Н=8,8; р=0,0122).
Conclusion. In patients with EAH and O, the observed haemostatic abnormalities could be characterised as hypercoagulation syndrome. The findings obtained suggest that fibrinogen and SFMC could be regarded as early markers of thrombosis development in patients with EAH and O. Therefore, these parameters can be used in the screening programme, in order to identify the individuals with abnormalities of coagulation haemostasis and fibrinolysis.
Cardiovascular Therapy and Prevention, 2013; 12 (2): 4-9
Key words: essential arterial hypertension, obesity, leptin, haemostasis.
BENEFITS OF VOLUMETRIC COMPRESSION OSCILLOMETRY FOR THE ASSESSMENT OF HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS IN PATIENTS WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION
Shpak L. V., Galoshina E. S.
Tver State Medical Academy . Tver, Russia
Aim. To compare the parameters of central and peripheral hemodynamics in healthy people and patients with Stage 1–3 arterial hypertension (AH).
Material and methods. In total, 105 individuals were examined. The control group (CG) included 50 healthy people (25 women and 25 men; mean age 27,8±0,8 years) with optimal and normal levels of blood pressure (BP) (mean levels 118,5±1,6/71,82±1,2 mm Hg). The main group (MG) included 55 patients (41 women and 14 men; mean age 62,9±1,6 years) with systolo-diastolic AH: Stage 1 in 25 (mean BP levels 146,1±0,9/84,9±1,6 mm Hg), Stage 2 in 20 (164,4±1,8/95±2,1 mm Hg), and Stage 3 in 10 (189,6±10,6/92,6±6,3 mm Hg). The method of volumetric compression oscillometry (VCO) was used to assess a wide range of myocardial and hemodynamic parameters.
Results. In AH patients, all AH phenotypes, vascular and cardiac parameters were increasing, with a simultaneous reduction in vascular wall distensibility, in parallel with the AH progression from Stage 1 to Stage 3. This indicated an increase in myocardial contractility, tone strain of arterial wall, and peripheral vascular resistance. From Stage 1 to Stage 3, the prevalence of hyper- and eukinetic cardiac hemodynamic types was decreasing, while the prevalence of mixed and hypokinetic types was increasing. The mixed hemodynamic type (a combination of hyper-, eu-, and particularly hypokinetic type characteristics) was considered as an incompletely developed disadaptive hypokinetic type.
Conclusion. The VCO method is an effective, non-invasive way to simultaneously assess the status of multiple hemodynamic parameters in both healthy people and AH patients. A specific benefit of this method is the registration of lateral BP levels and identification of mixed (additional) hemodynamic type.
Cardiovascular Therapy and Prevention, 2013; 12 (2): 10-17
Key words: arterial hypertension, volumetric compression oscillometry.
FLUVASTATIN EFFECTS ON BLOOD CELL AGGREGATION IN PATIENTS WITH ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION AND DYSLIPIDEMIA
Medvedev I. N., Skoryatina I. A.
Kursk Institute of Social Education, Russian State Social University . Kursk, Russia
Aim. To investigate the effects of fluvastatin on the blood cell aggregation in patients with arterial hypertension (AH) and dyslipidemia (DLP).
Material and methods. The main group (MG) included 32 middle-aged patients with Stage 1–2 AH (Risk 3) and Type IIb DLP. The control group (CG) included 26 healthy middle-aged people. All patients received fluvastatin (40 mg/d in the evening) and enalapril (10 mg twice per day). The assessment of clinical and laboratory parameters was performed at baseline, and after 4, 12, and 52 weeks of the therapy.
Results. In MG patients, the disturbances of blood lipid profile and lipid component of blood cell membranes, together with activation of lipid peroxidation (LP) in blood cell membranes, was associated with an increased aggregation of erythrocytes, platelets, and leukocytes. The 52-week fluvastatin therapy somewhat improved blood lipid profile and reduced LP activity in both plasma and blood cells. However, these parameters failed to reach the levels observed in the CG. The one-year treatment with fluvastatin in the MG reduced, but not completely normalised the aggregation of erythrocytes, platelets, and leukocytes.
Conclusion. Treating patients with AH and DLP with fluvastatin for one year significantly reduces, but not normalises blood cell aggregation.
Key words: arterial hypertension, dyslipidemia, fluvastatin, aggregation activity, blood cells.
LEFT VENTRICULAR REMODELLING AND MITRAL VALVE REMODELLING IN CORONARY HEART DISEASE PATIENTS WITH POST-SURGERY PROGRESSION OF MITRAL REGURGITATION
Buziashvili Yu. I., Koksheneva I. V., Khuzurauli E. M., Arutyunova Ya. E., Makhmudov Sh. G.
A. N. Bakoulev Research Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Moscow, Russia
The progression of ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR) after coronary arty bypass graft (CABG) surgery remains one of the most complex and still unresolved problems in the treatment of coronary heart disease (CHD).
Aim. To study myocardial function, left ventricular ( LV) remodelling, and mitral valve (MV) remodelling in CHD patients with MR progression after isolated CABG or CABG combined with LV reconstructive surgery.
Material and methods. In total, 101 CHD patients after CABG were included in the analysis.
Results. The mechanisms of MR progression after isolated CABG differ from those after CABG and LV reconstructive surgery. After the former, LV remodelling progresses both locally and globally, while after the latter, the LV remodelling progression is predominantly global. The patients with post-surgery MR progression differ from their peers without MR in
terms of all key parameters of MV geometry.
Conclusion. The leading mechanism of MR progression is local and global LV remodelling, which leads to papillary muscle dislocation and MV leaflet tension and restricted motion. The categories of patients with a high risk of post-surgery MR progression are defined.
Key words: ischemic mitral regurgitation, progressing mitral insufficiency, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, left ventricular reconstructive surgery.
ECG DISPERSION MAPPING PARAMETERS DURING THE TREADMILL TEST IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE
Ivanov G. G.1,3, Agafoshina E. V.2, Pecherskikh A. A.2, Khalabi G.2
1Cardiology Department, Research Centre, I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University; 2Hospital Therapy Department, Russian University of People’s Friendship; 3Research Institute of Medico-Biological Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences. Moscow, Russia
Aim. The aim of the study was the complex analysis of the ECG-12 and ECG dispersion mapping (DM) parameters during the physical stress test in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD).
Material and methods. The main group included 143 CHD patients with Functional Class I–III angina (99 men and 44 women; mean age 50,6±4,6 years). The control group included 37 healthy individuals (mean age 44,3±4,8 years). Patients with heart failure signs and symptoms were excluded. All participants underwent the graduated physical stress test.
Results. Two variants of the ECG changes were observed, with normal and abnormal reaction of ECG DM parameters. The latter group was characterised by the following: ratio of heart rate and myocardial microalternation index (HRmax/MMImax) <3,5; ΔHRmax/ΔMMImax-min <2,0; and MMI >30% at the peak HR.
Conclusion. Using the ECG DM method during the treadmill test is a feasible and useful approach to gain additional diagnostic information on the myocardial electro-physiological status and, therefore, to select the patients who need further examination and treatment.
Key words: coronary heart disease, treadmill test, ECG dispersion mapping.
LIPID TRANSPORT GENETIC POLYMORPHISM AND ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME I/D GENETIC POLYMORPHISM IN UZBEK PATIENTS WITH UNSTABLE ANGINA AND CORONARY HEART DISEASE IN FAMILY HISTORY
Kurbanov R. D., Bekmetova F. M., Shek A. B., Kan L. E., Khashimov Sh.U.
Republican Specialised Centre of Cardiology. Tashkent, Uzbek Republic
Aim. To study the impact of coronary heart disease (CHD) in family history on the genetic polymorphisms of apolipoprotein (apo) A1, B, and E and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) in Uzbek patients with unstable angina (UA).
Material and methods. The study included 125 Uzbek patients with UA. Group I (n=63) had CHD in family history, Group II (n=62) had no CHD in family history, and the control group included 58 healthy individuals. The following genetic polymorphisms were investigated, using the Diatom TM DNA Prep 200 kit (IsoGen Laboratory Ltd.): apoA1 G-A polymorphism; apoB –516C/T polymorphism; apoE ε2/ε3/ε4 polymorphism, and ACE I/D polymorphism.
Results. In UA patients, compared to healthy controls, the prevalence of apoA1 A allele was significantly higher (odds ratio (OR) 3,63; 95% confidence interval (CI) 1,63–8,04; p=0,002). The distribution of the “damaging” alleles was similar in Group II and the control group, while Group I demonstrated a significantly higher prevalence of A alleles of the apoA1 G-A polymorphism (OR 5,99; 95% CI 2,52–14,24; p=0,001); ε4 allele of the apoE gene (OR 2,91; 95% CI 1,12–7,62; p=0,044); and D allele of the ACE I/D polymorphism (OR 2,88; 95% CI 1,33–6,27; p=0,024). At the same time, there was no marked difference in the distribution of the T allele of the apoB –516C/T polymorphism.
Conclusion. In Uzbek patients with UA, CHD in family history is associated with the higher prevalence of the following “damaging” alleles: A allele (M1-) of the apoA1 G-A polymorphism; ε4 allele of the ApoE gene; and D allele of the ACE I/D polymorphism. There was no significant difference in the distribution of T allele of the apoB –516C/T polymorphism.
Key words: unstable angina, angiotensin-converting enzyme genetic polymorphism, coronary heart disease in family history, intima-media thickness.
DEATH CAUSES AND THEIR PREDICTION IN PATIENTS WITH THE ST SEGMENT ELEVATION ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME AND PRE-HOSPITAL THROMBOLYSIS
Morozov S. N.1, Fedorov A. I.1, Loskutova K. S.3, Vertkin A. L.1
1A.I. Evdokimov Moscow State Medico-Stomatological University . Moscow, Russia; 2M.K. Amosov North-East Federal University . Yakutsk, Russia; 3Yakutsk Division, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Yakutsk, Russia
Aim. To assess effectiveness and safety of pre-hospital medical treatment in patients with acute coronary syndrome and ST segment elevation (ST-ACS) who are undergoing thrombolytic therapy (TLT); to identify TLT complications and the methods for their prediction.
Material and methods. In total, the pre-hospital TLT effectiveness was assessed in 237 patients. The comparison group included 274 patients who did not undergo TLT, due to various reasons. The causes of death by Day 7–10 were analysed.
Results. The leading cause of death was cardiogenic shock. In addition, in the main group, indirect myocardial rupture was a cause of death more often than in the comparison group (28% vs. 5,3%). Indirect myocardial rupture was associated with haemorrhagic complications of pre-hospital TLT. The proposed method for predicting TLT complications is based on the TIMI scale: 1–4 points suggest TLT safety; 4–5 points correspond to a higher risk of external myocardial rupture (11,6%), which implies the need to perform TLT under control of blood coagulation parameters; and ≥6 points denote the need to avoid pre-hospital TLT and use a mechanic reperfusion strategy.
Conclusion. Among ST-ACS patients, mortality levels were 20,9%, which was 2,4 times higher than in the comparison group. In the main group, the morphological data obtained at autopsy demonstrated hemorrhagic myocardial transformation, which was associated with the high risk of indirect myocardial rupture (28,1%). In patients with preexisting arterial hypertension and with the time from the ST-ACS onset of 2–3 hours, the risk of indirect myocardial rupture should be predicted, based on the TIMI scale. This will facilitate more effective assessment of the systemic TLT complication risk and selection of the optimal reperfusion strategy.
Key words: acute coronary syndrome, external myocardial rupture, coronary heart disease, emergency medical care, thrombolytic therapy.
Arrhythmias heart
COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH ATRIAL FIBRILLATION: ASSESSING THE ROLE OF VASCULAR FACTORS
Derevnina E. S., Akimova N. S., Persashvili D. G., Schwartz Yu.G.
V. I. Razumovskyi Saratov State Medical University . Saratov, Russia
Aim. To study the association between the presence and type of atrial fibrillation (AF), cognitive dysfunction, and brachiocephalic artery pathology.
Material and methods. In total, 54 patients with AF and 20 AF-free patients who had Functional Class I–III chronic heart failure (CHF) underwent cognitive assessment tests, echocardiography, cerebral nuclear magnetic resonance imaging, and duplex brachiocephalic ultrasound.
Results. In AF patients, deteriorated parameters of memory and attention were registered. Patients with persistent AF demonstrated worse cognitive function parameters. The characteristics of short-term memory and attention, attainment of visual and motoric skills, and attention shift and span were not associated with the intima-media thickness of common carotid artery and its bifurcation.
Conclusion. There is an association between the presence of AF, its type, and the severity of cognitive dysfunction, which is independent of the degree of brachiocephalic artery abnormalities.
Key words: atrial fibrillation, cognitive tests, cardiovascular pathology, brachiocephalic arteries.
PREVALENCE OF MULTI-FOCAL ATHEROSCLEROTIC PATHOLOGY ACROSS AGE GROUPS
Sumin A. N., Gaifullin R. A., Bezdenezhnykh A. V., Korok E. V., Karpovich A.V., Ivanov S.V., Barbarash O.L., Barbarash L. S.
Research Institute of Complex Cardiovascular Problems, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. Kemerovo, Russia
Aim. To compare the prevalence of multi-focal subclinical atherosclerotic pathology and its determinants in cardiovascular surgery patients.
Material and methods. The study included 1018 patients — 825 en and 193 women (mean age 59,0±12,0 years) — who were hospitalized for a planned intervention on coronary or other arteries. Group I (n=542) was aged under 60 years, Group II (n=215) — 60–64 years, Group III (n=141) — 65–69 years, and Group IV (n=120) — 70 years or older. All participants underwent coronary angiography and Doppler ultrasound; peripheral angiography was performed, if necessary. Multi-focal atherosclerosis (MFA) criteria were the presence of stenosis (≥30%) or revascularisation in two or more vascular territories.
Results. Subclinical atherosclerotic pathology of various localization was observed in 52,3% of the patients. Advanced age was linked to an increase in the MFA prevalence: from 45,8% in Group I to 58,6% in Group II, 58,2% in Group III, and 63,3% in Group IV (p=0,0001). In Group I, MFA was associated with the intermittent claudication syndrome (ICS), decreased body mass index (BMI), increased intima-media thickness (IMT), elevated total cholesterol (TCH). However, in Groups II–IV, the only association observed was between MFA and ICS.
Conclusion. Taking into account the subclinical (hemodynamically insignificant) arterial pathology had resulted in a high prevalence of MFA. Advanced age was associated with a higher MFA prevalence. Other factors linked to MFA were increased IMT, elevated TCH, decreased BMI, and ICS.
Key words: multi-focal atherosclerosis, prevalence across age groups.
CARDIOVASCULAR RISK FACTORS AND SELECTED PARAMETERS OF ECG DISPERSION MAPPING IN MEDICAL STUDENTS
Esina E. Yu., Zuykova A. A., Krasnorutskaya O. N.
N. N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical Academy . Voronezh, Russia
Aim. To investigate the association between the risk factors (RFs) of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and selected parameters of ECG dispersion mapping in medical students, in order to facilitate preclinical diagnostics and timely risk management.
Material and methods. The study included 72 students of the Internal Disease and Paediatrics Faculties of the N. N. Burdenko Voronezh State Medical Academy , aged 21–26 years (mean age 21,9±0,1 years; 18 men and 54 women). The examination included a questionnaire survey on CVD RFs, a clinical assessment, and the measurement of hemodynamic parameters. ECG parameters, including such integral characteristics as “Myocardium”, “Rhythm”, and “Detail Code”, were
assessed both at rest and during the physical stress test, using the Cardiovisor 6C device.
Results. All participants were divided into two groups. In the group with multiple CVD RFs, the distribution of these factors was as follows: 40% smoked (n=6), 53% consumed 2–3 drinks of alcohol per occasion (n=8), 40% had high normal blood pressure (BP) or Stage 1 elevation of BP, based on the office measurement data (n=6). Three (20%) and 4 (27%) students were overweight (OW) and obese (O; Stage I), respectively. Low physical activity (PA) was reported by 14 students (93%), and moderate to high levels of stress by 67% (n=10) and 33% (n=5), respectively. Immediately after the physical stress test and 2 minutes later, the “Myocardium” parameter was ≥17%, being significantly different from the values observed in students without multiple RFs. Abnormal values of the integral parameters of ventricular depolarisation and left ventricular repolarisation suggest the myocardial electrical heterogeneity among students with multiple CVD RFs.
Conclusion. Students with multiple CVD RFs, such as smoking, alcohol, elevated BP, OW, Stage I O, moderate to high stress levels, and low PA, also demonstrated the myocardial electrical heterogeneity during the physical stress test.
Key words: cardiovascular prevention, students, physical stress test.
SURVIVAL OF THE COHORTS OF CARDIAC PATIENTS AND HEALTHY MEN AGED 40–59 YEARS: THE 30-YEAR FOLLOW-UP DATA
Belov V. V.1, Menshchikov A. A.2
1Chelyabinsk State Medical Academy; 2South Ural State University (National Research Institute). Chelyabinsk, Russia
Aim. To assess and compare the survival in four cohorts of 40–59-yearold male residents of the South Ural Region, followed up for 30 years.
Material and methods. The four representative samples of 40–59-yearold men residing in the Metallurgichesky district, Chelyabinsk City , were defined: healthy people (H; n=174); patients with essential arterial hypertension (AH; n=149); patients with isolated myocardial infarction (MI; n=198); and patients with both MI and AH (MIAH; n=154). Over the 30-year period of prospective follow-up, the end-point was death from all causes.
Results. In H, AH, MI, and MIAH cohorts, aged at baseline 40–59 years, the cumulative 30-year survival was 24,4%, 28,2%, 7,8%, and 19,5%, respectively. There was no significant difference in the survival rates between H and AH, or MI and MIAH cohorts. At the same time, the survival rates were significantly different in the H vs. MI, H vs. MIAH, AH vs. MI, and AH vs. MIAH cohorts. The point estimates of mean and median survival time were significantly different between H and AH vs. MI
and MIAH cohorts, but not for H vs. AH, or MI vs. MIAH cohorts.
Conclusion. Among 40–59-year-old men, the 30-year survival rates were significantly and negatively affected by MI. However, the survival rates were similar in MIAH and MI cohorts. Essential AH did not markedly affect the cumulative 30-year survival, compared to the H cohort. The data obtained provide annual survival estimates for the 30-year followup
period among men aged 40–59 years, including healthy individuals and patients with AH and/or MI.
Key words: men, arterial hypertension, myocardial infarction, 30-year prospective study, survival.
DYNAMICS OF CARDIOVASCULAR STATUS AND SERUM MARKERS OF ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION IN PATIENTS WITH RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS, TREATED WITH INFLIXIMAB
Oranskyi S. P., Eliseeva L. N., Samorodskaya N. A., Malkhasyan I. G.
Kuban State Medical University . Krasnodar, Russia
Aim. To assess the complex dynamics of the main parameters of cardiovascular status and serum markers of endothelial dysfunction (ED) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), who were treated with infliximab.
Material and methods. The main group (MG) included 50 patients with seropositive RA, who received a combination of methotrexate and infliximab. The examination took place at baseline, as well as two, six, and 14 weeks after the treatment started. Comparison groups (CG) included healthy volunteers (n=25) and RA patients treated with methotrexate only (n=110). Serum levels of tumor necrosis factor-α (TNO-α), interleukin-10 (IL-10), tissue plasminogen activator (TPA), and von Willebrand factor (vWf) were measured, using ELISA. Left ventricular ( LV ) function and microvascular status were assessed with echocardiography and laser Doppler flowmetry (LDF), respectively.
Results. The E/A ratio was reduced in all subgroups, and at Week 14 of infliximab therapy, it slightly increased. At baseline, LDF parameters, such as neurogenic arteriole tone and intravascular resistance, were increased. Infliximab therapy was associated with a moderate decline of these parameters. Throughout the study, serum vWf concentration was higher in MG patients than in healthy controls. TPA activity was reduced at baseline (496±173 pg/ml), increasing at Week 14 up to 705±157
pg/ml. Baseline concentrations of TNF-α and UL-10 were substantially elevated (357,1±34 and 453±42 pg/ml, respectively). At Week 6, TNF-α concentration decreased significantly. At Week 14, not only TNF-α level decreased, reaching 94±28 pg/ml, but also the ratio TNF-α/IL-10 decreased (from 0,78±0,5 to 0,4±0,2).
Conclusion. In RA patients, infliximab was highly effective for the functional cytokine dysbalance correction, also demonstrating pleiotropic effects, such as correction of microvascular and endothelial dysfunction.
Key words: Rheumatoid arthritis, endothelial dysfunction, tumor necrosis factor-α, tissue plasminogen activator, microcirculation, interleukin-10.
Opinion upon problem
PATHOGENETIC TREATMENT OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION: THE PLACE OF CALCIUM ANTAGONISTS
Taratukhin E. O., Teplova N. N.
N. I. Pirogov National Medical Research University, Moscow
The paper describes the key aspects of arterial hypertension pathogenesis and the relevant therapeutic strategies. The authors
discuss the role of increased peripheral vascular resistance and hypervolemia as factors which can be targeted by calcium channel blockers. The new evidence on this medication class, including the thirdgeneration calcium antagonists, is presented.
Key words: vasospasm, hypervolemia, hypernatremia, cardiac output.
EARLY DISTURBANCES OF CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM — A TARGET FOR PRIMARY CARDIOVASCULAR PREVENTION
Kovrigina M. N., Mamedov M. N.
State Research Centre for Preventive Medicine. Moscow, Russia
The paper discusses the social and economic costs associated with diabetes mellitus (DM) and its complications. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of disability and complications in DM patients. The diagnostics and correction of the early disturbances of carbohydrate metabolism are important components of the primary prevention of Type 2 DM (DM-2). The DM-2 development is preceded by the abnormalities typically overlooked by the busy practitioners, such as impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance. The authors present the evidence from international clinical trials confirming that the early disturbances of carbohydrate metabolism are an independent risk factor of CVD. Therefore, recently, the importance of the combined primary prevention of DM-2 and diabetes-associated CVD has been extensively discussed.
Key words: early disturbances of carbohydrate metabolism, cardiovascular disease, diabetes mellitus.
MELDONIUM: EFFECTIVE ACTION POINTS
Vertkin A. L., Khovasova N. O., Pshenichnikova V. V., Alekseev M. A., Abdullaeva A. U.
A. I. Evdokimov Moscow State Medico-Stomatological University . Moscow, Russia
The paper is focused on hypoxia and cell ischemia as universal pathogenetic mechanisms of disease development, which can be addressed by both etiotropic and pathogenetic therapy. The latter is represented by the so-called metabolic correctors. At present, one of the most widely used metabolic correctors is mildronate. The authors discuss the effectiveness of mildronate in various clinical situations and also present the relevant original findings.
Key words: tissue hypoxia, metabolic disturbances, coronary heart disease, chronic heart failure, metabolic correctors, mildronate.
JUSTIFICATION OF A SYSTEMIC APPROACH IN THE SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH PREVENTION: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM OF EXCESSIVE MORTALITY IN RUSSIA (LITERATURE REVIEW) PART I. CARDIOVASCULAR ASPECTS OF EXCESSIVE MORALITY IN RUSSIA: THE STATE OF THE PROBLEM AND POTENTIAL FOR PREVENTION
Dimov A. S., Maksimov N. I.
Izhevsk State Medical Academy . Izhevsk, Russia
The review of the existing evidence on the problem of excessive mortality in Russia has demonstrated that the country is at the initial stage of the irreversible depopulation process. The current healthcare situation, in regard to cardiovascular disease (CVD), does not provide much hope for the effectiveness of existing measures for fatal CVD prevention. It is clear that a large-scale focussed analysis of the clinical and organizational limitations of the existing prevention systems is urgently needed. This discussion should be started in the nearest future.
Cardiovascular Therapy and Prevention, 2013; 12 (2): 98-104
Key words: depopulation, mortality, cardiovascular disease, prevention, prognosis, sudden cardiac death.
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CARDIOVASCULAR AND OTHER NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN THE COUNTRIES OF THE NORTHERN DIMENSION PARTNERSHIP IN PUBLIC HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING: PRIORITIES AND BETTER PREVENTION APPROACHES
Maslennikova G. Ya., Oganov R. G.
National medical research center for preventive medicine. Moscow, Russia
The issues on prevention of non-communicable diseases (NCD) with the goal of premature mortality decrease and, respectively, of people lives saving, is being discussed actively in the countries of Northern Dimension Partnership in Public Health and Social Well-being (NDPHS). Comparative analysis of NCD in the NDP countries showed serious, approximately 3
times, differences in the parameters of premature mortality from NCD within the countries, and direct relationship of premature mortality from NCD with smoking prevalence in men, as with alcohol consumption in both sexes. Negative correlation is found in premature NCD mortality indices and amount of money spent on public health per person per year; such difference is as high as 10-15 times among the countries. The discussion of priorities and effective methods of NCD prevention by the members of NDPHS is significant for experience exchange and facilitates implementation of three strategies on NCD prevention and their promotion in all political and strategic events in the countries.
Key words: non-communicable diseases, risk factors, prevention, premature mortality, public health expenses.
Cardiovascular Therapy and Prevention, 2017; 16(5): 4–10
http://dx.doi.org/10.15829/1728-8800-2017-5-4-10
THE SYSTEMIC ELEMENT OF INFLAMMATION IN ASTHMA COMORBID WITH HYPERTENSION DISEASE
Zaripova T. N., Antipova I. I., Smirnova I. N.
The Branch Tomsky Scientific-Research Institute of Kurortology and Physiotherapy of FSBI Siberia Federal Scientific and Clinical Center of FMBA. Tomsk, Russia
Aim. Evaluation of the severity of inflammation at systemic level and its relation with clinical picture, lipid parameters, lipid peroxidation and antioxidant system (LP-AS) in bronchial asthma (BA) patients with comorbid arterial hypertension (AH).
Material and methods. Totally, 77 BA and AH patients included. Comparison groups included 53 BA and 52 AH monovariants. Clinical state assessed, biochemical and immunological parameters characterizing the activeness of inflammation, lipid metabolism, LP-AS system.
Results. The severity of systemic inflammation is closely related to local bronchial inflammation, especially with comorbid AH. The relation of systemic inflammatory reaction is proved with the control ability of BA, as with lipid metabolism disorders and LP-AS system.
Conclusion. The assessed comorbid pathology is characterized by the existence of local and systemic inflammation forming a “vicious circle” of the antioxidation activity, lipid disorders and endothelial dysfunction.
Key words: bronchial asthma, comorbid arterial hypertension, systemic inflammation, lipid metabolism, system of lipid peroxidation and antioxidant defense, asthma control.
Cardiovascular Therapy and Prevention, 2017; 16(5): 11–15
http://dx.doi.org/10.15829/1728-8800-2017-5-11-15
Arterial hypotension
ISOLATED DIASTOLIC DYSFUNCTION AS A RESULT OF HYPERNITRICOXIDEMIA IN ARTERIAL HYPOTENSION
Baev V. M., Agafonova T. Yu., Samsonova O. A., Dusakova R. Sh.
E. A. Wagner Perm State Medical University of the Ministry of Health. Perm, Russia
Aim. The assessment of cardiac hemodynamics in the test with reactive hyperemia in young females with idiopathic arterial hypotension.
Material and methods. The comparative analysis was done, of echocardiography in the standard test with reactive hyperemia within brachial area among 72 women with idiopathic arterial hypotension — systolic blood pressure 94-98 mmHg, and in 37 females normotensive — systolic BP 120-123 mmHg. In both groups the age was 19 (18-22) y. o.
Results. Reactive hyperemia in hypotension is followed by a significant increase of maximum velocities relation of the early (peak E) and delayed (peak A) diastolic filling of the left ventricle by 18%. In normotensive women there was no such change of the relation.
Conclusion. In young females with idiopathic arterial hypotension the test with reactive hyperemia, as a model of acute hypoxia, is followed by isolated diastolic dysfunction of myocardium. Probably, it is related to the increase of the rate of already existing hypernitricoxidemia, which is a key factors for arterial hypotension pathogenesis.
Key words: arterial hypotension, hypernitricoxidemia, isolated diastolic dysfunction.
PSYCHOSOCIAL FACTORS AND LIFE QUALITY IN CORONARY HEART DISEASE PATIENTS: RESULTS OF THE RUSSIAN PART OF INTERNATIONAL MULTICENTER STUDY EUROASPIRE IV
Pogosova N. V., Oganov R. G., Boytsov S. A., Ausheva A. K., Sokolova O. Yu., Kursakov A. A., Pozdnyakov Yu. M., Salbieva A. O., Lelchuk I. N., Gusarova T. A., Gomyranova N. V., Karpova A. V., Eliseeva N. A., Akhmedova E. B., Bedeynikova K. K., Korneeva M. N.
National Research Center for Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health. Moscow, Russia
Aim. Analysis of psychosocial risk factors in coronary heart disease (CHD) patients among Russian centers of the EUROASPIRE IV study, comparing to overall study population.
Material and methods. In the cross-sectional study, 24 European countries participated, including Russian Federation (3 centers). In the study, patients were included of the age 18-80 y. o., who, during the period ≥6 months to <3 years before the inclusion, had been hospitalized with myocardial infarction (MI) or other acute coronary syndromes (ACS) or for myocardial revascularization. To the study protocol, the analysis of medical charts was included, with following visit and structured interview. During the study, long-term results were evaluated, presence and level of the risk factors, including psychosocial,
life quality parameters, adequacy of the acquired by patients recommendations and the grade of adherence. Prevalence of anxiety and depression symptoms was assessed with the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).
Results. Overall, in the Russian centers, 746 patients were included, of those to the interview visit 424 admitted (mean age 63,4±9,0 y. o., 25,2% females). Educational level of the Russian cohort was higher than of overall study population (higher education in 44,3% and 22,3%, respectively). Prevalence of the anxiety symptoms in Russian patients and in overall population almost matched: 8-10 points by HADS-A in Russia and overall had 15,7% and 15,0% of participants, respectively,
the ≥11 points — 12,4% and 11,3%, respectively. Contrary, the prevalence of depression symptoms in Russia was slightly higher: 8-10 by HADS had 16,4% and 14,6%, and ≥11 — 10,9% and 7,8%, respectively. Both anxiety and depression symptoms were more common among women; depression symptoms were more common for post-MI/ACS patients than in the re-vascularized.
Conclusion. By the data from European monitoring center of EUROASPIRE IV, in Russian cohort of CHD post MI/ACS, and revascularized patients there are specific differences in comparison with overall study population in psychosocial risk factors. Prevalence of clinically significant anxiety and depression symptoms in Russian cohort of EUROASPIRE IV was significantly lower than in earlier trials, including EUROASPIRE III, and was just slightly higher than in overall study population.
Key words: ischemic heart disease, psychosocial risk factors, anxiety, depression.
Сerebral circulation disruption
ASSESSMENT OF THE POLYMORPHIC GENES VARIANTS OF THE LIPID AND CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM, VASCULAR INFLAMMATION AND NEUROTRANSMITTER SYSTEM IN THE FIRST ISCHEMIC STROKE
Shishkova V. N.1, Remennik А. Yu.1, Valyaeva V. N.1, Shklovsky V. М.1, Adasheva T. V.2
1 SBHI Center for Speech Pathology and Neurorehabilitation. Moscow; 2A. I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry (MSUMD). Moscow, Russia
Aim. To study the relations of polymorphic variants of the genes:АРОЕ, MTHFR, IL8, IL6, TNF-а, VEGFA, ADIPOQ, ADIROR, APOB, APOА -V, APOC-IV, LPL, LP(a), BDNF, GRM1, GRM3 and development of the first ischemic stroke (IS).
Material and methods. The alleles frequencies and genotypes assessed for 20 mono-nucleotide polymorphic gene variants in 435 patients, who had first IS, and 229 persons with no stroke, comparable with age, gender, place of living and ethnicity. Genotyping of polymorphisms was done with the prepared TaqMan probes.
Results. For polymorphisms АРОВ (rs676210) and IL8 (rs1803205) there was significant difference between groups in the variety of minor alleles and genotypes.
Conclusion. There is significant relation of mononucleotide polymorphisms of the genes АРОВ (rs676210) and IL8 (rs1803205) with the development of first IS in the studied groups.
Key words: ischemic stroke, genetics of ischemic stroke, genes polymorphism.
BIOCHEMICAL MARKERS OF OBESITY IN THE 18-25-YEAR-OLD PATIENTS
Matosyan K. A., Oranskaya A. N., Gurevich K. G., Mkrtumyan A. M.
A. I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry (MSUMD). Moscow, Russia
Aim. To study the dynamics of metabolic syndrome markers: insulin, glucose, uric acid, triglycerides, low and high density lipoproteides; of food addiction (ghrelin-leptin) in both genders, of 18-25-year-old patients with normal and extensive body fat tissue amount.
Material and methods. Totally, 76 persons participated. At first stage, participants underwent survey on their food related behavior and physical activity. For the evaluation of fat tissue amount OMRON BF 506 devices were used, and the analizator of the balance of water-containing body sectors ABC-01 “Medass”. At the concluding stage of the study all participants underwent biochemical and hormonal blood tests.
Results. Excessive amount of body fat by bioimpedance is common in normal body mass index. Nevertheless, the correlation data on leptin, insulin, lipids and uric acid with gender and amount of fat tissue makes it to suspect subclinical metabolism disorder in the presence of minimal excess of fat tissue.
Conclusion. For the on time more effective prevention of obesity and its consequences as type 2 diabetes, arterial hypertension, etc., it is aimful to use the results of body fat tissue amount measurements, but not empirical calculations.
Key words: leptin, ghrelin, food-related behavior, obesity, purine metabolism disorder, insulin resistance.
Cardiovascular Therapy and Prevention, 2017; 16(5): 34-39
COMPOSITION OF DEATH RISK ACCORDING TO BEHAVIORAL FACTORS (SMOKING, ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION) BY THE RESULTS OF 27-YEAR PROSPECTIVE STUDY
Ivanova А. Yu., Dolgalev I. V.
Siberian State Medical University (SSMU). Tomsk, Russia
Aim. To assess the all-cause and cardiovascular mortality by the results from prospective cohort study of non-organized inhabitants of Tomsk city depending on behavioral risk factors — smoking, alcohol consumption, in 25 years observation.
Material and methods. The study was done on the model of nonorganized Tomsk city population. Totally, 1546 persons studied, of the age 20-59 y. o., 630 males, 916 females. The parameters of all-cause and cardiovascular mortality studied, as the prognostic significance of behavioral risk factors — smoking, alcohol consumption, in the all-cause mortality origin, as the mortality from cardiovascular diseases.
Results. The data acquired, on the increase of all-cause mortality risk in smokers 2,34 times, 1,93 times in men and 1,99 in women. Among those having quit smoking, mortality risk was also higher comparing to nonsmokers — 1,86 in general population; 1,83 in men. Cardiovascular mortality risk is also significantly higher in those influenced by tobacco smoking: relative mortality risk 1,58, females — 1,93; no significant data for males. Relative risk increases in those consuming alcohol frequently, 2,55 times comparing to those non-drinking, especially in younger age strata. Gender analysis showed remaining of all relations for whole population in men, and in women there were significant results only for frequent alcohol intake.
Conclusion. It was shown that smoking significantly increases the risk of all-cause mortality among persons of both ages; among those quit smoking risk of death is still higher as in current smokers, comparing to non-smokers. Frequent alcohol consumption increases the risk of alcohol intake 2.6 times comparing to non-drinkers. Moderate and rare alcohol intake also increases the risk of all-cause mortality.
Key words: risk factors, smoking, alcohol consumption, mortality.
THE ROLE OF MODERN TECHNOLOGIES IN DISPENSARY FOLLOW-UP OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION PATIENTS IN TYUMEN REGION, INCLUDED INTO THE CHRONIC NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASE REGISTRY
Efanov А. Yu.1,2, Kremneva L. V.2, Safiullina Z. М.1, Abaturova О. V.1, Shalaev S. V.1
1 Tyumen State Medical University of the Ministry of Health. Tyumen; 2SAHI TO Scientific-Practical Medical Center. Tyumen, Russia
Aim. To assess the influence of sex, type of settlement on the dynamics of risk factors (RF) and treatment adherence in arterial hypertension (AH).
Material and methods. Randomly, 1704 AH patients selected and investigated in 3 outpatient institutions of Tyumenskaya oblast. Mean patients age 62±7,5 y. o., 31,5% — males, 18,7% — rural inhabitants. The prevalence of RF evaluated for cardiovascular diseases, as treatment adherence to antihypertension therapy (AHT). Patients were selected to the groups of active observation and control. Active observation group received SMS and e-mail with preventional kind content. General
practitioners were educated on the specifics of dispensary follow-up of AH patients. In 12±3,2 months patients were assessed second time. The efficacy of RF correction was evaluated, as AHT adherence, according to sex and settlement type.
Results. At the baseline, the prevalence of RF was as following: current smokers 24,1%, hypodynamic 64,0%, salt overconsuming 47,0%, insufficient vegetables and fruits intake 38,0%, elevated total cholesterol (TC) and low density lipoproteides (LDL) in 89,0% and 90,7%, respectively, body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2 in 49,5%, visceral obesity in 39,0%. Regularly received treatment 39,9%, of those effectively — 39,0%. In one year of follow-up, patients were investigated second time. In the active follow-up group there was 6% decrease of smoking rate (p<0,01); by 20,2% and 15,9% increased the number of those achieved target TC level (p<0,01) and LDL (p<0,01). There was significant number of BMI decrease and target waist circumference — 7,4% (p<0,01) and 6,1% (p<0,05), resp. By 14,3% the number of adherent to AHT increased (p<0,01) and by 10,9% — of those with effective treatment (p<0,01). Males quit smoking more frequently, and females reached target LDL levels, regularly took therapy and were more effective. Citizens more commonly reached target levels of TC, LDL, BMI, and took AHT more frequently.
Conclusion. The proposed model of active follow-up of AH patients makes it to improve the control of dyslipidemia, obesity, smoking, and to increase treatment adherence.
Key words: arterial hypertension, risk factors, treatment adherence, modern technologies.
SPECIFICS OF DEVELOPMENT AND COURSE OF ACUTE CORONARY INSUFFICIENCY DURING EXTREME HEAT WEATHER CONDITIONS
Garganeeva А. А.1, Kuzheleva Е. А.1, Gorbatenko V. P.2, Okrugin S. А.1, Kuzhevskaya I. V. 2
1 RI Cardiology. Tomsk, Russia; 2FSAEI HE National Research Tomsk State University. Tomsk, Russia
Aim. To evaluate the specifics and dynamics of acute coronary pathology in the period of the year with anomaly hot weather.
Material and methods. The study is based upon integration of clinical and epidemiological data from the “Registry of acute myocardial infarction” with meteorological data by Tomsk city for last 25 years. Taken the weather report data, summer months of 2012 were taken for further assessment on myocardial infarction (MI) course in extreme weather heat. Into the study, all patients included that had MI in summer of 2012 and registered in the “Acute MI Registry” (n=241). Comparison group consisted of MI patients in the 2010 summer (n=198).
Results. The part of females increased, as of senile and older age persons, among the cohort of MI patients during the heat. The increase of the number found, of atypical acute coronary pathology course at extreme weather conditions. In 2012, MI developed more frequently in those drunk or at the next day, comparing to 2010. All-cause mortality among all MI patients was registered in several days of the heat wave beginning. During anomaly hot period mortality rate was comparable with the time frames of similar mean temperatures, and after the end of the heat wave, mortality tended to decline, mostly by reduction of sudden cardiac deaths.
Conclusion. Adverse tendencies in mortality and morbidity of MI are being registered in several days before the onset of anomalous heat. Taken that on-time healthcare influence is depended on the correctness of weather forecast, it is impossible to perform situational prevention events in response to the onset of extreme weather conditions, which demands for the long-term type organizational activities. Development of MI in alcohol intoxication or after this, as the high number of atypical
clinical forms of MI demands for the improvement of information in general population.
Key words: myocardial infarction, registry, extreme weather condition.
GENDER SPECIFICS OF THE ATTITUDES TOWARD TOBACCO SMOKING IN VARIOUS EDUCATIONAL LEVELS AND FAMILY STATUS AMONG ECONOMICALLY ACTIVE MEN AND WOMEN IN TYUMEN CITY
Gakova Е. I.1, Akimov М. Yu.2, Kayumova М. М. 1, Kuznetsov V. А.1
1 Tyumen Cardiological Scientific Center — branch of FSBSI Tyumen National Research Center of RAS. Tomsk; 2FSBEI HE Tyumen Industrial University. Tyumen, Russia
Aim. To assess the attitudes toward smoking in economically active men and women in Tyumen city within various education and family status.
Material and methods. A single-point epidemiological study conducted, under the cardiological screening of open city population aged 25-64 y. o., males 850 (respond 85,0%), females 704 (respond 70,4%). The attitudes toward smoking were assessed by the coverage method of self-completion of the WHO questionnaire “Knowledge and attitude of the one’s health” with the pre-formulated points. Social status was assessed by educational level — elementary, general, graduate, and family status — with or none partner. Statistics was done with the software SPSS (11.5), Statistica 7.0 and Microsoft Excel. Values of p<0,05 were taken as significant.
Results. The prevalence of smoking was higher in women having partner — 17,0%, and in men with no partner — 63,4%. Men with general education and partner significantly more frequently quit smoking than single men — 23,7% and 13,6% (p<0,05; χ2=4,28, df=1, p=0,04). Same tendency was found in graduate women (p=0,07). Men with partner and general education significantly more commonly did not smoke during the year (p<0,05), and such tendency was found in graduate men. In women with general education and partner, during the year, less number smoked (p=0,08), χ2 =2,91, df=1), but the intensity of smoking decreased (p=0,02, χ2 =4,93, df=1) compared to single females.
Conclusion. By the data from open city population, there are significant differences in attitudes of men and women toward tobacco smoking; there are different vectors of smoking tendency in relation with family status and education level.
Key words: smoking, population, education level, family status.
THIRTY-TWO-YEAR DYNAMICS AND PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF BASELINE LEVELS OF SYSTEMIC PRESSURE IN TEENAGE BOYS
Aleksandrov A. A., Zvolinskaya E. Yu., Pugoeva Kh. S., Ivanova E. I.
Aim. To evaluate the 32-year dynamics and prognostic significance of the baseline levels of arterial pressure (BP) in teenage boys.
Material and methods. Thirty-two-year prospective cohort follow-up of males, beginning from the age 11-12 y. o. In 32 years, among 1005 participants, 303 (30,1%) assessed, and the cohort consisted of 290. The investigation included: standard questionnaires; three-time BP measurement; pulse rate; anthropometry; triceps, scapula and abdominal skin folds measurement, waist and hip circumference; total cholesterol measurement, as high density lipoproteides and triglycerides.
Results. The prevalence of arterial hypertension slightly declines in 12 to 15 years, and then increases at 17-22 years with high increase at 33 years, with further stabilization. All tracking coefficients (Pearson correlation) for systolic BP (sBP) were statistically significant, but decreased from the age 33 to 43 (from 0,35 to 0,17). For the diastolic BP-5 (dBP5) statistic significance was found only by 22 years, dBP4 — by 33 years. There was significant correlation of sBP and dBP with body
mass index and anthropometry. In 30 years, the stabilized increase (fifth quintile) remains by sBP and dBP for every fifth. From the first to the fifth, every tenth switched by sBP and every fifth by dBP.
Conclusion. Measurement of BP in childhood and teenage is worthful, as there is significant relation of sBP and dBP in teenage with its adult level. Every fifth teenager with increased BP at childhood remain it in 30 years. Also, every tenth with low BP shows its increase in 30 years. The special attention should be paid for primary prevention of arterial hypertension in
obese children and those with raised BP. It is important to search for new markers of prognosis.
Key words: arterial hypertension, prospective study, males, cardiovascular diseases, overweight.
DO ALL TRADITIONAL RISK FACTORS ASSOCIATE SAME WITH MORTALITY IN SENIOR POPULATION?
Imaeva A. E.1, Shalnova S. А.1, Balanova Yu. А. 1, Kapustina А. V.1, Muromtseva G. А.1 , Evstifeeva S. Е.1, Deev А. D.1, Shkolnikov V. М.2
1 National Research Center for Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health. Moscow, Russia; 2Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research. Rostock, Germany
Aim. To evaluate the impact of traditional risk factors (RF) to overall and cardiovascular mortality of the population ≥75 year old.
Material and methods. The results are acquired in the prospective cohort study “Stress, ageing and health”. Totally, 455 Moscovites assessed, age ≥75 y. o. The traditional RF were evaluated: arterial hypertension, smoking, obesity and dyslipidemia. The follow up on mortality lasted for 8 years. Totally, 239 deaths registered, of those 169 cardiovascular. Statistics was done with STATA 14.1.
Results. After stratification by sex and age, with the mortality from all cases in the 75-79 y. o. cohort, only current smoking status associated significantly (p=0,0001), and with cardiovascular mortality — current smoking and abdominal obesity, with relative risks 2,91 and 1,92, respectively. Also, in the ≥80 y. o. group, there were no RF influencing significantly the mortality.
Conclusion. Among all traditional RF, in the age strata 75-79 y. o., only current smoking associated significantly with the all-cause mortality, and with cardiovascular — also abdominal obesity. Among the persons of ≥80 y. o., traditional RF lose their impact for both all-cause and cardiovascular mortality.
Key words: traditional risk factors, senior population, elderly, all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality.
Opinion on a problem
COMORBID PATIENT IN THE INTERNAL MEDICINE: CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES AND ANXIETY
Selivanova G. B.
N. I. Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (RNRMU). Moscow, Russia
High prevalence of anxiety and depression disorders, as the increase of cardiovascular pathology prevalence make the problem of on time diagnostics and correction actual and important, as of the differential pharmacotherapy in internal disease practice. The article points on the data of relations in psychoemotional disorders and cardiovascular risks, as on the issues of pharmacotherapy. Based on the data presented, the conclusion done on the necessity of a specific tactics of such patients management.
Key words: anxiety, depression, arterial hypertension, ischemic heart disease.
BODY COMPOSITION AND ITS ROLE IN DEVELOPMENT OF METABOLIC DISORDERS AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES
Drapkina О. М .1, Kupreyshvili L. V.2, Fomin V. V.2
1 National Research Center for Preventive Medicine of the Ministry of Health. Moscow; 2I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University of the Ministry of Health. Moscow, Russia
There are many methods of the body composition assessment, but the most relevant are computed tomography and magnete-resonance tomography. Composition of the body shows the rate of fat amount and distribution in metabolic syndrome (MS) patients. It is known that MS increases the risk of atherosclerosis, arterial hypertension, type 2 diabetes, with further significant increase of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. MS is associated with subclinical damage of internal organs; and the role of abdominal obesity is high. However, till recently there is no unified understanding of the role of visceral and subcutaneous fat.
Key words: body composition, metabolic syndrome, visceral fat, subcutaneous fat.
SLEEP DISORDERS AND THE RISK OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION AND STROKE IN OPEN FEMALE POPULATION 25-64 YEAR OLD IN RUSSIA/SIBERIA (POPULATIONAL STUDY — WHO PROGRAM “MONICA-PSYCHOSOCIAL”)
Gafarov V. V.1,2, Panov D. О.1,2, Gromova Е. А.1,2, Gagulin I. V.1,2, Gafarova А. V.1,2
1 Scientific-Research Institute of Therapy and Prevention Medicine. Novosibirsk; 2Interdepartment Laboratory of Epidemiology of Cardiovascular Diseases. Novosibirsk, Russia
Aim. To assess the influence of sleep disorders (SD) on the risk of arterial hypertension (AH) and stroke during 16 years follow-up in open population of females 25-64 y. o.
Material and methods. Under the framework of WHO program “MONICA-psychosocial” (Multinational Monitoring of Trends in cardiovascular disease — psychosocial study) in 1994, the random representative cohort was assessed, of women (n=870) at the age 25-64 y. o., living in the district of Novosibirsk city. SD were studied by Jenkins C. D. test. During 16-year follow-up (1994-2010) in the cohort, all new cases of AH/stroke were assessed. Cox-proportional regression was implemented for the development risk of AH/stroke.
Results. The prevalence of SD in open female population of 25-64 y. o. was 5,3%. Risk of development of AH was 4,3 times and 2,7 times higher for the first 5 and 10 years of follow-up, respectively, in females with SD, comparing to normal sleep. Stroke development risk was 1,95 times in SD women comparing to normal sleep, for 16 years follow-up.
Conclusion. Prevalence of SD in open female population 25-64 y. o. is significant, and impact the risk of AH/stroke onset in 16 years.
Key words: sleep disorders, females, arterial hypertension, stroke, risk of development.
POSITIVE EXPERIENCE OF ETHYLMETHYLHYDROXYPYRIDINE SUCCINATE USAGE IN CARDIOLOGICAL PATIENTS
Oganov R. G.
METHODS FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR COMPOUND OF ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUES ASSESSMENT: LITERARY REVIEW
Saranchina Yu. V., Kilina O. Yu., Dutova S. V., Polshcha N. G., Khanarin N. V., Kulakova T. S.
FSBEI HE N. F. Katanov Khakassky State University. Abakan, Russia
Recently, high prevalence of atherosclerotic lesion of the vascular walls and further development of cardiovascular pathology attracts the specialists from different fields. The main attention is paid to the risk factors of atherosclerosis and its clinical complications with the aim of prevention and treatment methods development. New knowledge from fundamental research of atherosclerosis at cellular and molecular levels facilitates the development of novel methods for prevention and treatment of the pathology. The article points on the review of the main modern laboratory tests for atherosclerotic plaques assessment. The
opportunities discussed for the study of cellular contents of the plaques, as functional evaluation of the cells in plaques.
Key words: atherosclerotic plaque, cultivation, cytokines, lymphocytes.
Cardiovascular Therapy and Prevention, 2017; 16(5): 95–101
http://dx.doi.org/10.15829/1728-8800-2017-5-95-101
David M. Aronov
Jan L. Gabinskiy
Cardiovascular Therapy and Prevention, 2017; 16(5): 103-104
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Damage History. How important is it these days?
As time goes by, we are dealing more and more with damage history. The older a plane is the more time it has been exposed to the potentail of damage history. The more "Utility" a plane is the more likely it has been damaged due to here it lives and what it does for a living. Some planes are not damaged because of the inherent instability of the type, it is more based on where the type has lived abnd what it has ben doing. Cessna 180's and 185's and Supercubs are more likely to have damage history than a Bonanza A36 or a Mooney Bravo simply because the former are back-country planes that land and take off in the mountains, and deserts and can be used on floats and skis.
They land off-airport on river-bars and take-off a bit too heavy with Alaskan hunters in them from windswept mountain ridges with deadlines to meet. So how bad for a planes pedigree is Damage History? Well, it depends on the degree and age of the damage and how it was repaired. With a Bonanza for example, there is a value for an undamaged one and a deduction in value if it has Damage History. You can buy it cheaper if it has had a gear-up in it's past, even if it was 45 years ago. With a 185 or a 180 and especially a Supercub, the Norm' is Damage History and so there is actually a psychological ADD in value if it does not have it.
Damaged/repaired planes are the normal condition in 180's and 185's because it is so rare that one has not had something happen. The joke in the business is that 90% of 180's and 185's have damage history and the other 10%, they have Damage History as well, maybe it is not in the logs. Once a plane is a certain age it is almost a good thing for a shop to have to do major and professional work on it's airframe. After 50 years and say 5000 hours if a 1965 Cessna 185 is groundlooped, the repair will be a benefit to it's pedigree. It will get new wing skins and hardware, new conrol cables, overhauled engine and prop, new paint etc etc. It is not a plus to damage them, but it creates an opportunity where work that would never be done is done. I know of a 195 that was very badly damaged, very badly. In it's repair it became a show winner with thicker belly skins, better brakes, new paint and upgraded radios. Not many people will do this level of repairs in a restoration. A repair makes it necessary.
The actual damaged parts are removed and new, better parts are replaced, so although it has "damage history", it went from a tired old beater to a pristine show winner that will last another 65 yeatrs at least, (if we still have internal combustion engines then!) Then there is "parts replacement" damage history. If a plane has a prop strike and gets a new engine and prop, is that damage history? A 182 RG landed on partially extended trailing main gear with the nosewheel down. It scrubbed the sides off the main wheels and tires and the prop was protected by the nosewheel being down. When it came to a stop, it leaned over slowly until a wingtip touched the ground and in doing so, the horizontal Stabilizer on that side bent upwards about 6 inches. It got a new Horizontal and new elevators and the wheels and tires were replaced.
Does that plane have damage history? Everything that was damaged has been replaced and it has a new tail and new brakes. It could be argued that itis better that it was before the event. What should be avoided is a plane that was damaged and repaired badly with old or used parts with splices and pop rivets. This is a serious problem that has to be re-repaired years later and is unsafe. A well repaired plane that has been damaged should not effect the decision of a buyer to see and inspect that plane.
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After the 370Z, Nissan is preparing a new sports car
Avto 20 March, 2018
Frédéric Mercier
Monday, march 19, 2018 13:29
The Nissan 370Z has not changed for nearly a decade, and rumors about a version of a replacement seem to be more and more serious.
Rest assured-you, Nissan does not seem to have the intention of giving up his coupe two-seater. According to the English site Autocar, the japanese manufacturer would have even given the green light to the development of a new generation.
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Nothing has been confirmed at the moment, but if Nissan decides to go ahead with this project, it would not be surprising to see the biturbo V6 engine of 3.0 liter Infiniti get under the hood of this new Z. that is Already offered with the sedan Q50 and the coupe Q60, this V6 turbocharged engine can develop up to 400 horsepower in its current form.
In comparison, the V6 3.7-liter that currently hosts the 370Z offers a power that can range from 332 to 350 horsepower, depending on the version chosen.
In Coach, it is argued that the new Nissan Z could develop up to 475 horsepower and incorporate a cog full. This could be interesting.
For 2018, the Nissan 370Z is offered at a base price very aggressive 29 998$. It would not be surprising that the next generation seeks a more exclusive, thus more expensive. Nissan will certainly want to play the elbow with Toyota, which has recently confirmed the return of the iconic Supra.
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Home Adventure The Assassin’s Choice Part I
The night sky was enveloped in a thick layer of foggy clouds that had almost descended on the dirt-kissed narrow streets of the Lalvaya town. The snaking pattern of these streets was known more for its street killers that killed without second thought. It formed the part of downtown, which was notorious for murders of rich brats that inhibited the upper state of the town; all but forgetting about the needs of the slum-dwellers.
Noelle stared took a deep breath and started deep ahead. As though the intensity of her gaze could break through the cloud of fogs. The night’s cold wove a graveyard’s silence over the streets that the slender girl had come to view as her home. A slow shiver creeped down her spine, snapping her from her pained stupor.
For most of her life, Noelle comprehended the meaning of family as sacrifice. It was only when the water had crossed over the bridge that she broke the deceiving spell of family. Because although she compromised and placed herself the last for her entire family, they never seemed eager to reciprocate. In fact, on a single sniff of a good deal, her family was ever-willing to trade her away.
This meant shifting her dedication and years of her training on the back burner. Only when Noelle’s family needed her for some dirty work did they acknowledge her skills. In fact, that acknowledgment came time and again, as Noelle’s brother Nicolas often meddled in quarrels. But that was in the nature of a drug lord. He had to win the streets, claim the area as his, both of which required a show of power.
The family business ran deeper than Nicolas at the helm of the trade and distribution affairs. However, what bothered Noelle the most was the lack of recognition that she was attributed with. Just because she was the ‘girl’ in the family, she had to remain prepared to be sold out to a good dealer to strengthen the roots of the business that was in dire need of extension.
One good deal and Noelle would have been erased from the dynamics of the fight. Her art of sword fighting would go down the tubes. Instead, she’d be handed with tiny blades that could cut only through vegetables and meat loaves, never at par with the mighty sword that could slice through skin and tear flesh in one strike.
For most of her life, Noelle saw her long silver blade as her one true accomplice that knew her well. It flew from her hands at one command, twisted with her practiced wrists in unison, and both the young girl and her blade danced in full rhythm when a fight called. For a long time, this was all that mattered to Noelle.
Until she started to trace a pattern that her family followed. Nicolas called the shots and swung the red rug to the angry bulls. But it was Noelle who cut the bulls in half, murdered in cold blood and wiped clean the foe’s blood from her sword. Still, Nicolas’s protection and name as the lord was important but for Noelle, marriage was all-important.
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Charles Dickens at The Eagle
Only last week, I was day-dreaming about taking a trip to the Eagle Theatre in the City Rd, so it was my great delight to come across this fictional account of a visit to the Eagle by Charles Dickens in a story entitled “Miss Evans and the Eagle,” written under his penname “Boz.” It sent me back to the Bishopsgate Institute to examine the precious scrapbook of playbills from the Eagle that are contemporary with Dickens’ story, first published as one of his “Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Everyday Life and Everyday People” in “Bell’s Life in London,” 4th October 1835.
Old playbills have a charisma all their own, combining bravura typography with hyperbolic promises designed to send your imagination racing. Once you start envisaging the reality of these extraordinary shows you are spellbound. Yet Dickens was a visitor to the Eagle Theatre and the characters in his story are not especially impressed by the performance, so maybe the enigmatic hype of these posters surpassed the reality of what actually happened at the Eagle.
I take this as my consolation for never being able to visit the Eagle in person, that I can enjoy the sublime poetry of these magnificent posters without ever taking the risk of having my illusions shattered – unlike Charles Dickens’ characters Mr Samuel Wilkins and Miss J’mima Ivins in his account of their night out at the Eagle on a disastrous double date.
“How ev’nly!” said Miss J’mima Ivins, and Miss J’mima Ivins’s friend, both at once, when they had passed the gate and were fairly inside the gardens. There were the walks, beautifully gravelled and planted – and the refreshment-boxes, painted and ornamented like so many snuff-boxes – and the variegated lamps shedding their rich light upon the company’s feet – and a Moorish band playing at one end of the gardens – and an opposition military band playing away at the other. Then, the waiters were rushing to and fro with glasses of negus, and glasses of shrub, and bottles of ale, and people were crowding to the door of the Rotunda, and in short the whole scene was, as Miss J’mima Ivins, inspired by the novelty, or the shrub, or both, observed, ”one of dazzling excitement.”
As to the concert room, never was anything half so splendid. There was an orchestra for the singers, all paint, gilding, and plate-glass, and such an organ! Miss J’mima Ivins’s friend’s young man whispered it had cost “four hundred pound,” which Mr. Samuel Wilkins said was “not dear neither,” an opinion in which the ladies perfectly coincided. The audience were seated on elevated benches round the room and crowded into every part of it, and everybody was eating and drinking as comfortably as possible.
Just before the concert commenced, Mr. Samuel Wilkins ordered two glasses of rum-and-water and two slices of lemon for himself and the other young man, together with “a pint o’ sherry wine for the ladies, and some sweet carraway-seed biscuits,” and they would have been quite comfortable and happy, only a strange gentleman with large whiskers WOULD stare at Miss J’mima Ivins, and another gentleman in a plaid waistcoat WOULD wink at Miss J’mima Ivins’s friend. On which Miss J’mima Ivins’s friend’s young man exhibited symptoms of boiling over and began to mutter about “swells out o’luck,” and to intimate, in oblique terms, a vague intention of knocking somebody’s head off, which he was only prevented from announcing more emphatically, by both Miss J’mima Ivins and her friend threatening to faint away on the spot if he said another word.
The concert commenced – overture on the organ, “How solemn!” exclaimed Miss J’mima Ivins, glancing, perhaps unconsciously, at the gentleman with the whiskers. Mr. Samuel Wilkins, who had been muttering apart for some time past, as if he were holding a confidential conversation with the gilt knob of his dress cane, breathed hard – breathing vengeance perhaps – but said nothing. “The soldier tired,” performed by Miss Somebody in white satin. “Ancore!” cried Miss J’mima Ivins’s friend. “Ancore!” shouted the gentleman in the plaid waistcoat immediately, hammering the table with a stout-bottle. Comic song, accompanied on the organ. Miss J’mima Ivins was convulsed with laughter – so was the man with the whiskers. Everything the ladies did, the plaid waistcoat and whiskers did, by way of expressing unity of sentiment and congeniality of soul, and Miss J’mima Ivins, and Miss J’mima Ivins’s friend, grew lively and talkative, as Mr. Samuel Wilkins, and Miss J’mima Ivins’s friend’s young man, grew morose and surly in inverse proportion.
Now, if the matter had ended here, the little party might soon have recovered their former equanimity, but Mr. Samuel Wilkins and his friend began to throw looks of defiance upon the waistcoat and whiskers. And the waistcoat and whiskers, by way of intimating the slight degree in which they were affected by the looks aforesaid, bestowed glances of increased admiration upon Miss J’mima Ivins and friend. The concert and vaudeville concluded, they promenaded the gardens. The waistcoat and whiskers did the same, and made divers remarks complimentary to the ankles of Miss J’mima Ivins and friend in an audible tone.
At length, not satisfied with these numerous atrocities, they actually came up and asked Miss J’mima Ivins, and Miss J’mima Ivins’s friend, to dance, without taking no more notice of Mr. Samuel Wilkins, and Miss J’mima Ivins’s friend’s young man than if they was nobody!
“What do you mean by that, scoundrel?” exclaimed Mr. Samuel Wilkins, grasping his gilt-knobbed dress-cane firmly in his right hand. “What’s the matter with you, you little humbug?” replied the whiskers. “How dare you insult me and my friend?” inquired the friend’s young man. “You and your friend be hanged!” responded the waistcoat. “Take that,” exclaimed Mr. Samuel Wilkins. The gilt-knob of his dress cane was visible for an instant, and then the light of the variegated lamps shone brightly upon it as it whirled into the air. “Give it to him,” said the waistcoat.“Horficer!” screamed the ladies. Miss J’mima Ivins’s beau and the friend’s young man lay gasping on the gravel, and the waistcoat and whiskers were seen no more.
Miss J’mima Ivins and friend being conscious that the affray was in no slight degree attributable to themselves, of course went into hysterics forthwith, declared themselves the most injured of women, exclaimed, in incoherent ravings, that they had been suspected – wrongly suspected – Oh! that they should ever have lived to see the day – and so forth, suffered a relapse every time they opened their eyes and saw their unfortunate little admirers, and were carried to their respective abodes in a hackney-coach, and a state of insensibility compounded of shrub, sherry, and excitement.
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Anne permalink
Depuis que je me suis abonnée à votre site, je me régale de chaque article et conseille votre site à tous mes amis anglophones. Merci pour votre superbe travail.
Herry Lawford permalink
Heroic use of typefaces and design on the playbills!; wonderful that you have persuaded the Bishopsgate Institute to allow them to be shown here.
And a good reminder of how Dickens can conjure up a scene!
A great pleasure, as usual!
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Wonderful collection. I am particularly interested in printers of playbills and see that Balne features regularly in these. Recently saw a Feb 1850 playbill from the Britannia on the ELTA Project website with contemporary legible annotations reading ‘This bill is not half so powerful as the big blue poster that tempted us to go’
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As somebody else is writing as ‘Anne’ I shall now use my surname!
Couldn’t believe the dates on these bills, another glimpse into a far off world.
Don McNulty permalink
I would of loved to see Mr. Williams leaping. I like leaping, I do.
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I should like to see the grand action between two Ships of War, exchanging Red Hot Balls in a tremendous attack of cannonading and firing! Ah, this all looks like so much fun. I want to go out in 1828, too.
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Wonderful posters
Up and down the City road,
In and out The Eagle
That’s the way the money goes
One explanation of ‘Pop goes the weasel’ refers to pawning your coat. ‘Pop’ = ‘pawn’ and ‘Weasel’ is cockney rhyming slang ‘weasel and stoat’ = ‘coat’.
For further info, maps and a picture of the present day Eagle listen/watch this video and read the explanation of the nursery rhyme underneath it. It’s very good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opr_7f0Z0os&feature=player_embedded
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Starting life as the 'Australian Road Research Board' in 1960, the ARRB Group Ltd has provided trusted advice, technical expertise and solutions to transport and road agencies across the world. ARRB is a not-for-profit entity, whose members include federal, state and local government agencies across Australia. Established as a means of undertaking research of national importance that individual parties could not justify carrying out on their own, all members recognise the critical role they play in supporting one another to improve productivity, safety, sustainability and amenity outcomes for the public.
Today, ARRB applies research outcomes to develop equipment that collects road and traffic information and software that assists with decision making across road networks. With its headquarters in Melbourne, the ARRB Group is the leading provider of road research and best practice workshops in Australia, with offices in Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide, and representatives in Darwin, Canberra and Hobart.
Back in 2007, ARRB's four branch offices all had their own, separate, disparate, telephone systems. ARRB had purchased a Cisco Call Manager IP PBX and were running trials, comprising some 50 IP handsets, in the Melbourne headquarters and Sydney branch office, with long standing NEC PBXs in use at the three other sites. With no network linking the offices all calls between branches had to be made via the public network, meaning every call cost money. The lack of a network also meant there was no visibility of staff availability across sites and no easy or cost effective way of transferring calls. Finally, because of the disparity of equipment in use, support was proving both difficult and expensive.
Because of their primary focus on the delivery of specialised expertise and solutions ARRB have always prided themselves on being a technically knowledgeable organisation. They recruited Matt Tennant as their IT Manager and gave him the single task of raising the standards across all aspects of the IT infrastructure, including communications. Their aim was to increase the overall effectiveness and efficiency of the organisation by giving members access to the tools that would make their working lives easier, allowing them to reduce the time it takes to complete their projects and tasks. At the same time, there was also a need to reduce costs.
From a telephony perspective, NEC and Cisco were both incumbent suppliers, with the latter managing a significant IP Telephony trial within the organisation. In addition, Matt had a good working knowledge of SpliceCom and their systems from his previous company. Avaya were also on the shortlist of ARRB's potential suppliers.
Further technical evaluation reduced the candidates to just two: Cisco and SpliceCom. Technically, ARRB knew all about the former because of the long-term trial. However, financially, the cost for just upgrading the existing Cisco trial system at Melbourne was going to cost as much as the total SpliceCom proposal for an Australia wide solution for ARRB. 'From my previous experience I knew that SpliceCom would provide a technically superior IP PBX on robust hardware and deliver extensive features and functionality,' stated Matt Tennant. 'We were also encouraged by the fact that SpliceCom systems were in use by both Brisbane Airport and Queensland Airport Corporations, environments where communications are considered as 'mission critical'. We knew that despite not being as well known as Cisco, Avaya or NEC, it had proved itself to be a bullet-proof system.'
The SpliceCom proposal met all of ARRB's feature and functionality requirements. 'It fitted our technical landscape at that particular time and more importantly there would be no limitations imposed on us moving forward, either in terms of scalability or the applications that we could integrate with the system,' continued Tennant. 'And the cherry on the cake was the fact that we could use all of our existing Cisco handsets on the SpliceCom system until such time that our budget allowed for them to be replaced. In the end, the final choice was virtually made for us.'
The Deployment
The system was to be installed and maintained by SpliceCom partner Variant Technology. Matt had worked with Variant and his last company. 'They'd previously provided me with what I can only describe as superior support. The fact that they'd be selling and supporting the system we were to purchase was yet another factor in favour of the SpliceCom bid. As was SpliceCom Australia's support of Variant during the implementation stage, as and when required.'
The SpliceCom solution for ARRB, based around Hard IP PBXs running Maximiser OS, has now been running for just under seven years. The single system encompasses close to 300 extensions spread across the headquarters and four branch offices - 180 of these extensions are in Melbourne. Although all five locations are linked via ARRB's IP network, each of the Branch offices also utilises eight ISDN trunks for local breakout and business continuity in the event of problems on the primary IP network. Handsets currently in use are a mix of SpliceCom's PCS 560 colour screen and PCS 100 monochrome IP Phones.
'The SpliceCom system allowed us to make significant cost savings on the initial purchase and continues to deliver substantial reductions in our ongoing expenditure,' said Tennant. 'Because it's a single company-wide system all calls between headquarters and branch, and branch to branch, are made across the IP network and not via ISDN trunks as before. In addition to the obvious savings we've made in call costs, we've also been able to reduce the number of ISDN trunks required in Melbourne by a third, from thirty to twenty, resulting in further cost savings.'
The initial plan was to have Variant and SpliceCom Australia to assist technical support with the ongoing changes and day-to-day management of the telephone system, as had been the case with previous PBXs at ARRB. 'We quickly found out that the SpliceCom system 'just works', - said Tennant. 'This allowed our IT department to get on with all the other changes required by the business, safe in the knowledge that the IP PBX would not need any undue attention and would assist and complement other IT changes that we had planned.'
Even after all this time ARRB still find that their SpliceCom system leads, rather than inhibits business innovation. 'Such is the level of investment protection offered by SpliceCom, our seven year old system runs the very latest Maximiser OS release and supports all of their embedded and standalone apps,' continues Matt Tennant. 'Mobility is a case in point. During 2012 we introduced SpliceCom's iPCS IP Softphone app for SmartPhones and Tablets for our mobile employees. This allows their mobile phone to be used as a fully featured system extension so they can make and take their business calls wherever they are, over WiFi or 4G/3G services. Again, adding this facility has improved our overall communications and reduced our call costs significantly, in particular the Global Roaming fees incurred when travelling overseas. The initial system implementation drastically improved communications and visibility between our all our offices, now the same can be said for our mobile employees.'
Matt Tennant was specifically recruited to improve ARRB's technical landscape. Renewing the telephone system was his first major task. Seven years down the line it has not missed a beat. ARRB have, in Matt's words, enjoyed exemplary support from Variant and SpliceCom and their system continues to move forward, leading and complementing other technical advances in the organisation. The support and software maintenance systems deployed by SpliceCom not only gives peace of mind, but also means that ARRB's original system investment, far from moving towards its end of life, continues to be at the forefront of telephony and communications. The current ongoing implementation of SIP trunks, which will deliver both diversification and further cost savings, in addition to further enhancing ARRB's Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity contingency plans, is a further case in point.
The final word goes to Matt Tennant. 'I couldn't be happier with SpliceCom, Variant and our seven year old IP PBX system that continues to stay ahead of anything else on the market!'
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Finding more time for rest after graduation is key in stepping up her game. “Because I’ve decided to train full-time, I am able to rest a lot more, which is crucial for me to be able to push myself at training every day,” said Dipna. “I am much fresher when it comes to training sessions and I recover quicker. This means that I can either do the same workout much more effectively or handle a heavier workload.”
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UTStarcom and Aksh to Power BSNL's New iControl IPTV Service
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UTStarcom (News - Alert) has entered into a contract with Aksh Optifibre to deploy UTStarcom's end-to-end RollingStream Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) solution in 20 cities on Bharat Sanchar Nigam’s ADSL 2+ network.
To be available to over 250,000 BSNL (News - Alert) broadband subscribers in 20 cities throughout India with Aksh's iControl service, the IPTV solution will give both large cities and small towns the opportunity to experience interactive entertainment such as time-shifting, video-on-demand (VOD), interactive gaming, live television voting and distance learning programs.
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"UTStarcom's understanding of the market and ability to produce cutting-edge technology allows Aksh to easily advance its IPTV strategy in India and improve the viewing experience for our customers, while also meeting internal operational goals,” added Choudhari.
New Delhi-based Aksh Optifibre, Ltd. is an optical fibre cable manufacturer in India. The company produces a variety of cables, including singlemode and multimode cables; duct cables; armored and aerial cables; indoor and outdoor cables; and ribbon fiber optic cables.
Aksh is the first company to provide IPTV Services in India with the largest subscriber base.
BSNL currently delivers the most comprehensive portfolio of communications services and maintains the greatest reach of all broadband and wireline operators in India. As a result, both Aksh and UTStarcom's IPTV footprint within India are expected to increase significantly in terms of scope of deployments and total commercially-deployed customer base upon completion of this BSNL IPTV network.
BSNL, a Government of India owned corporation, has a network of over 60 million subscribers covering 5000 towns with over 35 million fixed line telephone connections.
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"India is moving toward becoming a top IPTV market and companies such as Aksh and BSNL are making inroads to turn those aspirations into reality," said Vijay Yadav, vice president and managing director, South Asia operations, UTStarcom.
"RollingStream's unique end-to-end architecture allows it to be both flexible and long-reaching in scope to support deployments in a small populated town or an entire country or region. Through BSNL's network and UTStarcom technology, Aksh will build an iControl IPTV base that will change the way most of India utilizes television in their daily lives,” explained Yadav.
UTStarcom is a global player in IP-based, end-to-end networking solutions and international service and support. The company sells its solutions to operators in both emerging and established telecommunications markets around the world.
UTStarcom enables its customers to rapidly deploy revenue-generating access services using their existing infrastructure, while providing a migration path to cost-efficient, end-to-end IP networks.
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It’s Silicon Valley 2, Ellen Pao 0: Fighter of Sexism Is Out
Gathered together in one place, for easy access, an agglomeration of writings and images relevant to the Rapeutation phenomenon.
Re: It’s Silicon Valley 2, Ellen Pao 0: Fighter of Sexism Is
by admin » Sun Jul 12, 2015 2:48 am
Reddit users rebel over banning of fat-shaming subforums
by Jessica Elgot
Chief executive Ellen Pao is target of derogatory posts after she leads campaign to clean up harassment on the site
Ellen Pao, interim chief executive of Reddit. Users have begun a petition calling on her to resign for what they say is an attack on the free speech they previously enjoyed. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP
Rebellious Reddit users have swamped the site with derogatory comments about staff and images of overweight people after its decision to ban several subforums.
On Reddit’s r/all page there was an overnight deluge of derogatory postings about Ellen Pao, the interim chief executive, who has led a campaign to clean up harassment on the site.
Five subreddits were banned in total: two which made fat-shaming comments, one racist, one transphobic and one which targeted gamers. One of the subreddits, r/fatpeoplehate, had more than 150,000 subscribers; the others all had under 4,000.
Since the announcement, many alternative obesity-related subreddits have been created, and users have begun a petition calling on Pao to resign for what they claim is an attack on the unfettered free speech they had previously enjoyed on the site.
Crude photoshopped images of Pao on an obese body were appearing, and the popular photography subreddit r/pics was briefly flooded with images of overweight people.
Wednesday’s announcement made it clear that direct attacks on identifiable individuals were the issue, and implied that the site would still notionally allow racism and other kinds of hate speech, if an individual was not the target. Users have argued that subreddits are their own, insular communities, with active policies not to link to other forums, and it would be unusual for anyone unsuspecting to come across them.
In recent years, Reddit has made small inroads into the free-for-all atmosphere that had existed on the site, closing down forums dedicated to suggestive images of children and young teens, “creep shots” of unaware women, as well as a subreddit that had distributed pictures of hacked celebrity nudes.
Reddit bosses have, however, allowed many pages critical of them to exist, including r/chairmanpao and r/paoyongyang.
Wednesday’s announcement about the subreddit closures said staff wanted “as little involvement as possible but will be involved when needed to protect privacy and free expression, and to prevent harassment”.
“We’re banning behaviour, not ideas,” the statement continued. “We want to be open about our involvement: we will ban subreddits that allow their communities to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators don’t take action.” The statement was posted by Pao, as well as Jessica Moreno, head of community and support, and founder Alexis Ohanian.
by admin » Sun Jul 12, 2015 9:13 pm
How Ellen Pao lost her job but survived Reddit's swamp of trolls
by Beth Winegarner
Silicon Valley’s most controversial executive has personified the discrimination and harassment directed at women in technology and on the internet. A look back at her landmark gender lawsuit and her ouster at Reddit reveals how much – and how little – has changed
Ellen Pao leaves the California superior court civic center courthouse during a lunch break from her trial in March. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Beth Winegarner in San Francisco
When Ellen Pao took the witness stand four months ago, accusing the most powerful venture-capital firm in the most powerful new industry of pervasive sexism against her and powerful women like her, she talked about the “right path”.
Pao’s own attorney asked the 46-year-old executive why she continued to fight Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, the firm that accused her of being a bad employee, even as she had become the top executive at Reddit, the influential social-media website that is infamous for nothing if not its trolls. The site’s former contributors – Pao now among them – describe it as a kind of misogynist fire swamp where “harassment swarms”, even and especially for an accidental feminist champion like its suddenly former CEO.
“I think there should be equal opportunities for women and men to be venture capitalists,” Pao said calmly that March morning as reporters, technology observers and a jury listened closely to the woman her co-workers said lacked “thought leadership”.
“I wanted to make sure my story was told.”
Now that Pao has suddenly resigned from Reddit, amid both user revolt and increasing recrimination from the landmark workplace-discrimination suit she lost this year, that story has only become more intriguing. Both the international profile of her trial and her ensuing decision to curb Reddit’s trolls made Pao a champion for women and minorities in 2015, and those who have followed her from the courtroom to the subreddit comments remained assured that such a bold legacy would continue.
Reddit board member Sam Altman said after Pao’s apparently mutually agreed exit on Friday that Reddit would not reverse its crackdown on subreddits devoted to harassment – and at least one moderator who participated in recent protests against Pao said those changes were among her best decisions during eight transformative, tumultuous months at the helm.
“Ellen specifically stated: ‘We’re banning behavior, not ideas,’” Jared Shenefield, who moderates Reddit’s cooking forum, told the Guardian on Saturday. “I think that was a good move – probably the best move since she became the interim CEO.”
Pao stepped down amid massive protests from moderators like Shenefield, upset by the sudden firing of talent director Victoria Taylor, who coordinated Reddit’s popular “Ask Me Anything” feature, and from users angered by the shuttering of five hate-filled forums, including r/fatpeoplehate and r/transfags. A petition calling for Pao’s ouster snowballed, gathering more than 213,000 signatures.
Pao denied that the unrest drove her out: “Ultimately, the board asked me to demonstrate higher user growth in the next six months than I believe I can deliver while maintaining reddit’s core principles,” she wrote in a Reddit post.
Pao’s two-plus years deep in the business world’s ultimate battle of modern sexism and out in front of corporate reform is a lesson for the victims of that bias.
The “terrorists” of the internet have their first scalp, lending credibility to what one industry insider called “the Pao-haters”.
Pao’s escape from “hell” – as more than one Silicon Valley watcher put it – has also left an industry reckoning with the all-too-familiar reality of gender and racial bias.
REDDIT SHITSHOW CONTINUES UNABATED
Mike Isaac, reporting for the NYT:
Ellen Pao, the interim chief executive of Reddit, resigned from the online message board on Friday after a week of ceaseless criticism from scores of angry users over the handling of an employee departure.
Reddit: a terrible, childish community posting on a site owned by a terrible, dumbass company. Good luck to the next CEO.
-- Daring Fireball, by John Gruber
Even in defeat, it appears, Pao still serves as an emblem of the tech world’s backward treatment of women and minorities – and an example of how to fight back.
Through a spokeswoman, Pao declined to comment specifically on her resignation or future plans, and her attorneys did not respond to a request for an update on her pending court appeal. Still, a look back at her journey through legal battles and unpopular reforms at Reddit reveals just how galvanizing and transformative this high-tech heroine has become.
The trial that shook Silicon Valley – and shocked the world
Ellen Pao speaks on ABC.
Improbable as it may have seemed for the most famous fighter in the war against workplace discrimination, Pao began consulting for Reddit, of all places, soon after she was fired from Kleiner Perkins in late 2012.
Even as the social media site was confronting conspiracy theories around the Boston marathon bombing and corporate branded posts, Pao took a full-time position in business development and strategic partnerships for the site in April 2013.
When Reddit CEO Yishan Wong resigned suddenly last November, Pao stepped in. Wong later wrote on the Q&A site Quora that the top job at Reddit was “incredibly stressful and draining”, and after two and a half years, the work was having “significantly detrimental” effects on his personal life.
Altman, the Reddit board member who also serves as president of seed funder Y Combinator, said in an “Ask Me Anything” chat on Friday that when Wong quit, Pao stepped in. “She walked into an incredibly difficult situation and [moved] the ball a good bit down the field for reddit,” he said.
Pao, a self-described introvert, has said that she never set out to become a feminist figurehead. She was hired at Kleiner Perkins in 2005 as senior partner John Doerr’s chief of staff, but Doerr later helped her transition into a junior investment role, where she bumped up against the numerous slights that formed the basis for her sex-bias lawsuit.
Another of Kleiner Perkins’ junior partners, Ajit Nazre, allegedly pressured Pao into having an affair. After she broke it off, he began retaliating against her, leaving her out of crucial email discussions and in-person meetings with potential clients that could have led to important deals, she testified.
Although Pao reported Nazre’s behavior to higher-ups, he stayed on at Kleiner Perkins; his only reprimand was receiving a smaller-than-expected bonus. Nazre was later fired after coming on to another junior partner – but not before he was promoted to a highly lucrative senior-partner position.
Pao portrayed her experience with Nazre as representative of the sexist culture at Kleiner Perkins and, to some extent, in Silicon Valley as a whole. She and a former partner at the firm testified about key networking events that excluded women, including a ski trip with potential business partners and a dinner party at the home of former vice-president Al Gore. She and another female partner were asked to play secretary at a Kleiner Perkins event; when they complained, at least one higher-up failed to understand why the request was offensive.
Meanwhile, Pao’s superiors testified that she was repeatedly criticized in performance reviews and ultimately fired for her behavior – behavior that is often lauded in men but criticized in women. She was accused of being too pushy and aggressive, and for elbowing in on other partners’ business deals. Paradoxically, her Kleiner Perkins colleagues also accused her of being too quiet, saying that she failed to “own the room”.
But the death-by-a-thousand-cuts sexism Pao described in court, and which many women report experiencing in the office daily, often isn’t enough to prove discrimination. The jury found that Pao’s gender wasn’t a factor in Kleiner Perkins’ decision not to make her a senior partner, and that her complaints were not a substantial reason for her termination.
Immediately following that verdict in March, Pao insisted that her loss in the landmark case, however devastating, did not mean that she had failed. To be sure, her story was being told – not just in the live blogs of technology websites read by insiders and discussed on Twitter at-replies, but across the world.
“If I’ve helped to level the playing field for women and minorities in venture capital, then the battle was worth it,” she said after the verdict. “The problem of gender discrimination in venture capital has received attention around the globe. While today’s outcome is a disappointment, I take consolation in knowing that people really listened.”
On Twitter, women were already showing that they had listened. The #ThanksEllen hashtag was lofted by users who were grateful Pao had taken on on Silicon Valley’s entrenched sexism.
“We don’t question the verdict; we appreciate the risk she took by telling her story,” Lori Hobson, a business developer at Function Engineering, said on Twitter. Another group took out a full-page newspaper ad that said, simply, “Thanks Ellen.”
As it turned out, Pao was just getting started.
The fall of ‘Chairman Pao’ – and Reddit’s unfinished business
By the time Pao’s trial began in February, pervasive discrimination and harassment directed at women in technology and on the internet had already metasticized from the stuff of at-replies to an international conversation – if not an all-out confrontation.
A video went viral last October illustrating more than 100 catcalls and come-ons a woman encountered during an eight-hour walk through New York City. The trolls came out for the maelstrom known as GamerGate to shine a spotlight on the violent harassment and threats lobbed at outspoken women in video-game culture.
That Pao challenged discriminatory patterns at Kleiner Perkins and, by virtue of that extended conversation, the rest of Silicon Valley, raised unspoken questions about her leadership at Reddit. Forums there served as a hive-mind for GamerGate, hosted leaked naked celebrity photos and fostered attacks on women, overweight people and minorities.
“Reddit can be seen as a swamp of standing water that’s been allowed to breed pestilent mosquitoes,” said Katherine Cross, a former Reddit moderator and PhD student in sociology at the City University of New York, where she studies online abuse. “Even if one ignores the site, it has become increasingly difficult to ignore its effluence. Harassment swarms are ginned up by the website’s more toxic users and communities.”
Although Pao, who had taken over as Reddit’s interim leader four months earlier, was in the courtroom every day of her month-long trial, her thoughts clearly hadn’t strayed far from Reddit. Within days of the Kleiner Perkins verdict, Pao ended salary negotiations at Reddit, a tradition which studies have shown often put women at an economic disadvantage.
Pao had sought roughly $16m in past and future lost wages at trial, arguing that without Kleiner Perkins’ bias, she would have made a lot more money. The topic of pay inequity was fresh in Pao’s mind.
Two months later, Reddit announced a ban on any forums, or subreddits, “that allow their communities to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators don’t take action,” Pao wrote.
Cross, the former moderator and sometimes a target of GamerGate’s vitriol, called Pao’s reforms inspirational. “It was the first time someone at the site had publicly suggested the site had a responsibility to both its non-toxic users and the wider internet,” she told the Guardian.
Not everyone agreed. Angry Reddit users called her “Chairman Pao” and compared her to Adolf Hitler.
Mark VerHill, a longtime Reddit member, launched a petition under a pseudonym, calling for Pao to step down as CEO. He said users accused her of “suing her way to the top” and that her policies – championed by the women and minorities those policies were protecting – would run Reddit into the ground.
Other users and moderators felt similarly, insisting that communication channels between the site’s leaders, its paid forum administrators and its unpaid volunteers was nothing short of abysmal.
When the popular moderator Taylor was fired this month, the Pao reckoning began in earnest, and a number of moderators closed more than 300 subreddits for 24 hours.
Shenefield, the moderator who took /r/Cooking dark, said the revolt was meant to be pacifistic, not the beginning of an ouster: “Doing a blackout was the way to have our voices heard without being so hateful,” he told the Guardian. “It worked.”
Shut out of their favorite forums, Reddit users flocked to the petition, bringing more media attention to the tumult.
On Monday, Pao publicly acknowledged the communication gaps and apologized for Reddit’s “long history of mistakes”, but said it would take time for Reddit to deliver concrete results.
Less than five days later, she was out the door.
The accidental success of a user revolt against the accidental feminist hero of the Valley came as a surprise to many, especially considering that Reddit board members had expressed interest in hiring her as the site’s permanent CEO, as Kleiner Perkins attorneys told a San Francisco judge in February.
Already, concerns have blossomed that Reddit reforms initiated in Pao’s abrupt eight-month tenure would quickly become abandoned.
But Altman said in his AMA that wouldn’t happen. He urged Reddit’s community to learn to balance authenticity and compassion, saying that co-founder and new CEO Steve Huffman’s biggest challenge “will be continuing the work Ellen started to drive this forward”.
Altman denied that the petition or the hateful words aimed at Pao had anything to do with Pao’s resignation, saying he was surprised by how cruel Reddit users had been to her.
“While she wasn’t the CEO Reddit needed, she was not deserving of all the hate she received,” said Shenefield, the current Reddit moderator.
Journalist Susan Antilla, who broke the story of sexual harassment at Smith Barney and other Wall Street titans in the 1990s and later wrote Tales from the Boom-Boom Room about those scandals, noted that anyone hoping to change the tenor on Reddit – whose millions of users trend toward 18- to 29-year-old men – will face an uphill battle.
“The assumption by Pao-haters is that Taylor did nothing wrong and that Pao and management were wrong to fire her,” she said. “This is the tech world, folks, where firings and other disruptions are worn like a badge. Suck it up.”
Alexis Ohanion, who co-founded Reddit with Huffman in 2005, revealed in a Reddit post on Friday that firing Taylor was his decision, adding that Pao’s story is far from over: “I have admired her fearlessness and calm throughout our time together and look forward to following her impact on Silicon Valley and beyond.”
Cross, the former moderator turned target of the trolls, agreed, saying that Pao became a target herself – precisely because she made gender a topic of discussion and acknowledged that prejudice and harassment were as much of an unsolved problem as she left them.
“I think she’ll continue to be seen, for good and for ill, as someone who refused to be compliant about sexism,” she said of Pao, “both in the workplace and on social media.”
Reddit’s Terrorists Have Won: Ellen Pao and the Failure to Rebrand Web 2.0
by Arthur Chu
Photo Illustration by Alex Williams/The Daily Beast
Internet communities like Reddit have always been toxic environments that survive on the backs of unpaid labor, and attempts to corporatize them fail because of it.
Some of the worst trolls on the Internet are celebrating victory, as embattled interim CEO of Reddit Ellen Pao stepped down yesterday after what can charitably be described as a month or so of pure hell.
Let’s review the story briefly, since there’s a gushing torrent of BS that’s accompanying the joyful celebrating of Pao’s departure among Reddit’s userbase. Yes, there was a petition calling for Pao’s removal among Reddit’s users that crested 200,000 signatures before she stepped down.
The stated reason for this petition was the firing of Victoria Taylor, the Reddit administrator responsible for coordinating Reddit’s celebrated “AMA” or Ask Me Anything sessions where celebrities fielded unscripted questions from the users.
The narrative goes that after the loss of a beloved figure responsible for much of Reddit’s success—when you hear about Reddit in the media in a positive light, it’s usually because of a celebrity AMA—many subreddits were blacked out by the moderators in protest.
Now, the evil corporate interloper Ellen Pao, who was responsible for kicking out one of the few Reddit employees who really understood the subculture, has finally resigned due to the righteous blowback from her actions. One of Reddit’s founders, Steve Huffman, is coming back to lead Reddit again alongside his co-founder Alex Ohanian (who goes by u/kn0thing on Reddit), and all is well with the world again.
Sound good? Well, not so fast.
First of all, Ellen Pao didn’t fire Victoria Taylor. It turns out that was a decision Ohanian made in his capacity as “executive chairman,” as he appears to admit in a Reddit comment in the wake of Pao’s departure. For people whose primary motivation to hate on Reddit really was that they fired Victoria, it seems like an apology to Pao and a redirection of hate toward Ohanian is in order—one which has not been forthcoming.
The problem is that Reddit has been trying to sell a false bill of goods to investors all this time—something that Ohanian and Huffman and other true believers still cling to against all evidence.
Okay, some might argue, but the job of a CEO is to take the heat on behalf of her subordinates; no matter how unfair it might seem, the buck stops at the chief executive’s desk, not the executive chairman’s.
But it’s not just that Pao is resigning over a bad decision Ohanian made and Ohanian himself is staying. It’s that Pao was targeted by constant, vitriolic abuse during her tenure as CEO, abuse that even Reddit’s board—which normally tends to shamelessly flatter Reddit’s userbase when they talk about them at all—had to call out as “sickening.”
A lot of the personal attacks on Pao were racial—google “Chairman Pao” if you want to see how nasty redditors can be, and how they think repetitive name-calling on the level of a sixth grade bully is the pinnacle of online wit. Even more common than the racial remarks, though, were the ones digging at Pao because of her gender. In the interest of common decency I won’t tell you how to find those on Google, though you can probably figure it out.
Lots of these people are using Victoria Taylor as a fig leaf, claiming that because their anger is in response to a woman’s firing, the hate mob they’ve joined can’t possibly be misogynistic in its origins or its approach. But of course the hashtag #RedditRevolt didn’t start a week ago with the firing of Victoria Taylor, it started a month ago with the closure of the popular subreddit r/fatpeoplehate—a community based on, well, sending hateful messages to fat people (mostly women) who had the temerity to leave their photos on Facebook where redditors could find them instead of shunning all human contact and killing themselves.
We don’t know whether Pao was responsible for that decision, either, but that’s when the “Chairman Pao” meme and others started. Giving those people the cover of legitimacy by giving them a casus belli that doesn’t involve having to say the phrase “Fat People Hate” to major media outlets was Reddit’s biggest own goal here.
And, surprise surprise, it was an own goal scored by Ohanian, who wasn’t the one being blasted with death threats, rape threats, and images of himself being photoshopped into porn; who was, in fact, so clueless about the seething hate mob on Reddit that he—not Pao—made a callous joke about “popcorn” when the backlash against Victoria’s firing started. (And lo and behold, he was not fired.)
Internet communities like Reddit have always been toxic environments that survive on the backs of unpaid labor, and attempts to corporatize them because of it.
The real irony is that the legitimate anger behind the Reddit blackout, the reason the moderators of “respectable” subreddits like r/Books and r/Science found themselves throwing in with refugees from r/FatPeopleHate and r/ShitNiggersSay, was about bad behavior that mostly originated from subreddits like r/FatPeopleHate and r/ShitNiggersSay.
The open letter sent to Reddit about the blackout calls Victoria’s firing “the straw that broke the camel’s back,” stating that moderators were frustrated over Reddit failing to provide either administrative tools to let them do their job or put them in touch with Reddit employees who could. The specific problems called out are “brigading” and “alternative accounts”—that is, the fact that Reddit is known for people on nasty troll subreddits organizing to troll other subreddits or other websites en masse, and that banning individual accounts that do this is nearly pointless considering how easy it is to instantly come back under an alternate username.
Victoria was a beloved Reddit staff member precisely because she did a lot of work to shield VIPs from this side of Reddit when AMA time rolled around—and even then she wasn’t able to keep the racists of Reddit from damaging Reddit’s brand by flinging shit at Jesse Jackson’s AMA.
This is the idea that you can build a functional community without having to spend any money or effort to manage it—that it just happens spontaneously through the “wisdom of crowds.” The Web 2.0 dream has always been to outsource all of the hard jobs to your users—that unpaid enthusiasts will do all the work of creating your content, curating your content, and promoting your content out of love, and all you have to do is pay some techies to keep the lights on.
Reddit is built on this premise. Anyone can create a subreddit and be its absolute, iron-fisted (but unpaid) dictator on the theory that if they do a bad job of it someone will just create another subreddit and everyone will vote with their feet.
Reddit’s core feature, the upvoting/downvoting system, is rooted in the hope that democracy can replace curation—that if everyone who sees a comment is allowed to throw a thumbs-up or thumbs-down on it, the cream will rise to the top and the shit will sink out of sight without anyone having to do anything.
As a result, Reddit, with a userbase of millions and ambitions to be the “front page of the Internet,” is managed almost entirely by thousands of unpaid, sometimes anonymous volunteers and has an actual staff of less than a hundred people, all of whom are required to live in San Francisco in the name of efficiency (which may be the real reason Victoria was fired).
We can see how well that’s worked out. In practice, the ability of anyone to spawn their own subreddit plus the upvoting/downvoting mechanism leads to each subreddit being an angry little fiefdom fiercely dedicated to its own idea of consensus where dissenting opinions get downvoted into oblivion. A community that’s seen to have a particularly obnoxious bias, say, r/Android supposedly being in the tank for Google Nexus devices, will develop a community focused on attacking the first community for being a “circlejerk” (r/Androidcirclejerk) that has the exact opposite bias and exists to post memes mocking Google Nexus devices for how they’re overrated trash. Eventually one community will lose its patience and “brigade” another community, flooding it with hostile posts in order to show the other side how wrong they are, and mods are forced to stay up all night banning people until everything settles down again (and several users, usually female, have quit Reddit for good after being blasted with death threats).
This is exactly as petty and stupid as it sounds. It’s also as alienating to ordinary, non-basement-dwelling troll users as it sounds. It’s the reason Reddit has gotten a reputation for being attractive to creepy, obsessive people for whom the inherently toxic environment is a reasonable price to pay to be around people like them. These are often people who have very strong opinions that polite society, for obvious reasons, disapproves of—for being a haven for pedophiles, white supremacists, conspiracy theorists, and unrepentant sex criminals.
This is not good for Reddit’s brand. This probably has to do with why Reddit has apparently, for all the hype about the size of its userbase, never been profitable. This is why I personally stay the hell away from Reddit and advise my friends, especially my female friends, to do so as well.
Yes, Reddit does have content that is, as Pao put it in her resignation letter, “off-the-wall inspiring” alongside the stuff that makes one “doubt humanity.”
But that comes at a cost. The frustrated mods of the Reddit blackout lost their temper because they’ve been asked to do thousands of hours of unpaid, grueling, emotionally draining labor fighting against the trolls in order to keep the “respectable” side of Reddit usable. Out of the 70 or 80 paid employees at Reddit, Victoria Taylor was one of the only ones who ever participated in that side of the work it takes to keep Reddit alive, and Reddit apparently valued that so little that they let her go.
Specifically, Alexis Ohanian let her go. The same guy who founded Reddit on the principle that unregulated “free speech” will police itself, apparently failing to understand that it was people’s ability to trust Victoria to manage trolls and haters and keep the worst side of Reddit suppressed that allowed AMAs to happen at all.
This is a consistent problem not just for Reddit but for the whole Web 2.0 ethos. This denial that managing a community is hard work, this culture that makes millionaires of the “makers” who write the code for social media platforms but pays the “maintainers” who spend every day keeping them usable minimum wage or nothing at all.
It’s baked into the libertarian free speech absolutism of Silicon Valley culture. People like the founders of Reddit treat being “content-neutral” as almost a religious edict. Reddit won’t take even the smallest proactive steps to “restrict speech” unless forced—hence the long, controversial process it took to get rid of subreddits as openly awful as r/jailbait and r/beatingwomen. Thus we get the ridiculous spectacle of Reddit moderators staying up all night “playing whack-a-mole” to laboriously take down links to illegal content as they popped up while then-CEO Yishan Wong piously intoned “Every man is responsible for his own soul” as the reasoning for not taking down the subreddit specifically created to host those links.
That’s why, even as the racists of Reddit melt down over the closure of r/ShitNiggersSay, its sister subreddit r/CoonTown remains proudly open for business, because unlike r/ShitNiggersSay, r/CoonTown hasn’t been proven to “brigade” other sites—and Ohanian (again, not the supposed iron-fisted left-wing enforcer Ellen Pao) said, “We’re banning behavior, not ideas.”
And yet even this extremely weak response to bad behavior has launched a “revolt,” spreading hundreds of clones of r/FatPeopleHate all over the site in protest. Moderators of big subreddits complaining that Reddit leaves them alone and unequipped against hordes of trolls filling up their content with sludge get co-opted into a “movement” of those selfsame trolls defending their right to throw sludge. When Ellen Pao finally resigns after enduring weeks of this garbage, the top-voted commenter celebrating her departure is a troll with an account named for the Charleston shooter.
What can we learn from this, aside from what we already knew: that boards of directors tend to put female CEOs in charge in times of crisis because they predictably serve as useful lightning rods for backlash and hate?
That Reddit has to be dragged kicking and screaming to even be slightly more of a safe, decent place for ordinary people to hang out and to be slightly less of a massive lawsuit-waiting-to-happen stuffed with terrifying harassing trolls. That what good reputation Reddit enjoys, it enjoys due to the uncompensated labor of people whom Reddit has been abandoning to fight the trolls alone for years. And that top brass at Reddit like Alexis Ohanian are so deeply in denial about this that they’ll fire one of the women keeping Reddit from fully sinking into the mire and let another one of them be hounded out of her job without ever suggesting the site has a fundamental problem that needs to be fixed.
This is the face of Web 2.0, folks. This is the boondoggle they’ve been selling to all the Web 2.0 investors—that the “social web” is an untapped oil well when in reality it’s a seething underground pool of excrement and bile.
Pao tells us that upon her resignation she bluntly told the board that it was impossible for her to meet their six-month growth goals—either in terms of attracting new users to Reddit from among the normal, decent portion of the human race, or in terms of attracting revenue from advertisers who want to reach said new users without wading through a sea of racist memes and semen-stained photographs.
Some say that the “failure to meet growth goals” is a lie to cover that she’s actually leaving because of incessant harassment. I would argue that those are the same thing—that the reaction to Pao neatly demonstrates why Reddit’s attempt to monetize its social web have failed, why all attempts to monetize the social web have been extremely rough going—because the social web itself is poisoned.
Either way, Reddit is fucked.
Reddit revolt continues as user petition calls for resignation of CEO Ellen Pao
by Jana Kasperkevic
Petition surpasses 150,000 users upset after firing of talent director
Pao has apologized for handling of transition, but users unsatisfied
Pao posted a statement on Reddit on Friday: ‘We are going to figure this out and fix it.’ Photograph: Beck Diefenbach/Reuters
More than 150,000 Reddit users have signed an online petition calling for Ellen Pao, the site’s interim chief executive, to step down. The petition arose after Victoria Taylor, the director of talent who managed the site’s popular Ask Me Anything (AMA) subreddit, was fired.
“Action must be taken to prevent Reddit from being further run into the ground,” the petition said. “Stop Ellen Pao from destroying the Reddit.com community by making her step down as CEO of Reddit Inc.”
After Taylor left the company last Thursday, around 300 subreddits, or discussion areas, on topics including gaming, science, history and cinema were shut down by their moderators as a form of protest.
By Sunday, most of the subreddits were back up and the petition was on its way to reaching 150,000 signatures.
In answer to a request for comment, Reddit provided a statement that Pao first released to the press on Friday.
“I want to apologize for how we handled the transition yesterday,” the statement said. “We should have informed the moderators earlier and provided more detail on the transition plan. We are working to make improvements and create the best experience for our users and we aren’t always perfect. Our community is what makes Reddit, Reddit and we let you down.”
In interviews on Friday, Pao apologized , but her remarks did not satisfy Reddit users because they were not made on the site, where such users felt Pao would have been communicating directly with them. Pao did post a statement on Reddit on Friday, in which she said: “We are going to figure this out and fix it.”
In March, Pao lost a landmark sex discrimination lawsuit against the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Pao and her lawyer argued that Kleiner was a boys’ club and that Pao was fired because she was a woman. The jury found in favor of the company, which claimed that Pao was fired because she was bad at her job, was divisive and not a team player.
According to the New York Times, which spoke to Pao when the petition had about 13,000 signatures, the call for her resignation did not faze her.
“It’s an exciting job. We’re doing a lot behind the scenes that people have not seen yet,” Pao said. “Most of the community is made up of thoughtful people, and they can appreciate what we all do, even if we don’t always agree.”
Pao was hired by Reddit in April 2013. “Being part of a community of people who care is inspiring and energizing,” she said then, in a statement. “Reddit has so much to offer so many people, and I’m excited to find partners to help make Reddit even more awesome.”
In November 2014, she was appointed interim chief executive after the resignation of Yishan Wong.
In September 2011, when Reddit looked to hire a CEO, a company statement said: “Make no mistake, Reddit owes its past, present, and future success to the community. We wouldn’t seriously consider any individuals for the CEO position unless they understood the community and were passionate about serving its needs.”
That is what users signing the petition say Pao – who has offended some by cracking down on trolling – does not do.
“A vast majority of the Reddit community believes that Pao … has overstepped her boundaries and fears that she will run Reddit into the ground. Alternative sites to Reddit.com have sprung up and have received vast amounts of traffic within the recent months,” the petition says.
“The communication between the Reddit administration team to its subreddit moderators is very lacking and rather unsettling after years of empty promises to the moderators to improve and provide tools to help run subreddits, and ultimately Reddit as a whole, smoothly.”
When the petition surpassed 100,000 signatures on Sunday, its creators posted an update noting that Pao and chairman and site co-founder Alexis Ohanian had issued apologies via comments and interviews via news outlets.
“Along with their apologies were, again, empty promises to improve their communication with the community and provide tools for the moderators as they have promised to do so years ago,” the users behind the petition said.
“As of right now they have not issued an apology in a site-wide announcement or blogpost. It is sad that they have resorted to the news rather than addressing us, their consumers.”
Those behind the petition urged those who signed it to keep “keep spreading, promoting, and supporting.
“We will not stop until we see action taken,” they said.
Advance Publications, which owns Reddit, is under no obligation to respond to the petition.
by admin » Sun Jul 12, 2015 10:11 pm
Sex in Silicon Valley: Ellen Pao & the Kleiner Perkins Scandal
by Vixely
Yesterday, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, the prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm, filed its official legal response to the sex discrimination charges made last month by partner Ellen Pao, vigorously denying all claims. Pao’s sexual discrimination allegations primarily focus on her exclusion from business opportunities based on non-performance related issues.
The lawsuit has revealed a side to the outside world of the very unique social dynamics at play in the male dominated Silicon Valley, where resentment, risk-mitigation, denial and insecurities lie carefully at balance in one of the most discreet places in the world.
There is no question that men dominate the power in the Valley, creating a tightly-knit and closely-guarded community of deep-pocketed investors and visionary entrepreneurs where billions of dollars rest in the hands of few. The individuals that run this world are, by and large, extremely well-educated and hard-working, including engineers, scientists, and all other geeks at heart.
Ellen Pao is the quintessential reflection of how the values of conservative respect, self-restraint and denial manifest as Ellen still remains working at Kleiner Perkins as the scandolous details of her public lawsuit unfold revealing accusations of her collegues. The founder of the firm, John Doerr, publicly denies and refutes her statements, and to date Pao has not quit (nor does she plan to).
Regardless of the outcome, Ellen Pao is bold for confronting one of the most powerful firms in this country. The public filing of the case, the firms handling of it and the Valley’s reaction to it demonstrates that an ostensibly exclusionary culture will face tough questions if it continues to defend (or quietly deny) its actions, particularly when there is so much money and power on the line.
On May 10, 2012, Ellen Pao filed a lawsuit against Kleiner claiming she faced sexual harassment and discrimination there over a six-year period. Pao contends that beginning in 2006, she was sexually harassed by Ajit Nazre, an investment partner who left the firm last year. When she complained to senior partners and others at the firm, the suit says, they retaliated against her, limiting her career advancement and income. On June 13, 2012, Kleiner Perkins released a statement (the final day the firm could do so) denying all claims made by Pao. Pao remains employed by the firm.
THE ALLEGATIONS
Ms. Pao’s suit says Kleiner Perkins investment partner Ajit Nazre began making unwanted sexual advances toward her in 2006, and that when she rebuffed him, he “engaged in offensive, obstructionist and difficult behavior” toward her. It says Ms. Pao “succumbed to Mr. Nazre’s insistence on sexual relations on two or three occasions,” but informed him in October 2006 that she did not want a personal relationship with him.
Pao’s suit contends that although she discussed Nazre’s behavior with Kleiner Perkins’s human resources staff and senior partners — including John Doerr, Ray Lane and Ted Schlein — they did not follow up on her complaints. Instead, it says, the firm punished her for speaking out by removing her from the board of a start-up, asking her to transfer to the firm’s offices in China and giving her less of the firm’s profits. Pao’s suit also contends that Randy Komisar, another investment partner with the firm, also made unwanted sexual advances toward her.
More broadly, her suit claims that there was a pattern of sexual harassment at the firm, citing at least one other investment partner and three administrative assistants, all women, complained about Mr. Nazre’s behavior. That prompted an independent investigation, and Nazre left the firm, though Kleiner declined to say whether the two were related. The suit says that on several occasions the firm’s partners held events for other partners and entrepreneurs that purposely excluded women, including one dinner organized by another partner, Chi-Hua Chien. In response to a complaint about the dinner, the suit says, Mr. Chien said women were not invited because they would “kill the buzz.” Ms. Pao’s digital investments with the firm include Flipboard and Jive Software, a business software maker that went public last December. Her suit says that she led Kleiner’s investment in a start-up called RPX, but that Kleiner gave its seat on the company’s board to Mr. Komisar, not Ms. Pao, in retaliation for her harassment claims.
• The start of Ellen Pao’s alleged 6 year sexual harrassment by by Ajit Nazre, an investment partner at the firm
• Nazre starts to make unwanted sexual advances towards Pao.
• Pao rejects Nazre’s advances resulting in him engaging in, what she describes as, ”offensive, obstructionist and difficult behavior” toward her
• Pao “succumbs”, and the pair allegedly have sex a few times (Ms. Pao “succumbed to Mr. Nazre’s insistence on sexual relations on two or three occasions”)
• October: she ends the affair
• Nazre retaliates against her by cutting her out of meetings and email threads
• Pao complains to senior partners at Kleiner Perkins
• Pao gets married to Alphonse Fletcher Jr., a prominent Wall Street investor who has filed discrimination suits in the past
• December: Nazre gets promoted to the head of the firm’s green technology unit, making him Pao’s direct boss, and he is moved to an office directly across from hers
• Pao allegedly asks to be switched to the digital investments group
• Fletcher files a racial discrimination suit against the Dakota, the well-known Manhattan apartment building, after its co-op board denied his request to buy an apartment next to his to accommodate Pao and their then-2-year-old daughter
• April: a judge ordered one of Fletcher’s hedge funds liquidated, saying it was insolvent
• May 10: Pao files her case alleging sexual harassment against Kleiner Perkins in California Superior Court in San Francisco
• May 30: John Doerr issues a strongly worded statement, saying the firm had conducted an internal investigation and found her charges “false”
• June 5: Ellen Pao posts on Quora she is not going to quit, with the support of commentators such as Dave McClure, a of the darling of the Valley
The Harvard/ Goldman Sachs/ Chanel of Venture Capital if you will. Kleiner Perkins has been known to highlight the fact that nine of its 38 investment partners are women. But Pao’s suit said that behind the scenes, women were passed over for promotions and given a smaller share of the firm’s profits.
Pao, a graduate of Princeton University with a degree in electrical engineering, Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, worked at Microsoft, Tellme Networks, Danger Research, and BEA. Before joining Kleiner, Ms. Pao served in various roles at BEA Systems, a software maker that Oracle acquired in 2008.
Pao joined Kleiner Perkins in 2005 as John Doerr’s chief of staff and a junior partner with the firm.
John Doerr
Kleiner Perkins’ most famed investor, backed Netscape, Amazon.com, and Google. But his push into cleantech hasn’t gone nearly as well.
Nor, according to Pao’s lawsuit, has his handling of her complaints. Pao, who started at Kleiner as Doerr’s chief of staff, said she told Doerr about male partners’ behavior on several occasions between 2007 and 2011.
After Pao’s lawsuit became public, Doerr issued a strongly worded statement, saying the firm had conducted an internal investigation and found her charges “false.”
Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher, Jr.
Pao’s controversial husband and hedge-fund manager whose own legal history has fascinated followers of the case. In 1991, he sued his then-employer, Kidder, Peabody & Company, saying it was severely underpaying him because he was black. An arbitration panel awarded him $1.3 million in that suit.
Last year he filed a racial discrimination suit against the Dakota, the well-known Manhattan apartment building, after its co-op board denied his request to buy an apartment next to his to accommodate Ms. Pao and their then-2-year-old daughter.
To make things even more juicy, two men previously working for Fletcher as contractors sued Fletcher for sexual harassment. Both reached confidential settlements. Before marrying Pao, Fletcher lived with a man and has received an award from the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus in 2005 for his efforts in philanthropy and civil rights.
Fletcher and Pao are both members of the Aspen Institute’s 2007 class of Crown Fellows, a prestigious business leadership award where they met. Crown Fellows spend 24 days together in seminars which stretch over two years. Pao and Fletcher married in 2007.
Ajit Nazre
A former SAP executive, Nazre joined Kleiner Perkins in 2003 as part of the firm’s push into cleantech investing.
Pao alleged that Nazre pressured her to have sex with him beginning with a business trip they took together to Germany in February 2006. Later that year, she had a brief sexual relationship with him, then broke things off.
She alleged that Nazre subsequently retaliated by cutting her out of meetings and email discussions.
In April, VentureWire and other outlets reported Nazre’s departure from Kleiner Perkins. That came after Kleiner had launched an internal investigation of Pao’s complaints.
Nothing’s been heard from Nazre since.
Ray Lane
Allegedly told Pao to solve her problem by marrying Nazre. Lane, the former COO of Oracle, joined Kleiner in 2000 as one of the architects of its push into green technology investing. That hasn’t gone well—notable investments include Fisker, which has proven to be an also-ran to Tesla Motors in the electric-car race.
Pao said that she took her complaints about Nazre to Lane and said that Lane didn’t act on them because he was Nazre’s “mentor.” Lane allegedly suggested to Pao that she resolve the issue by marrying Nazre.
Lane is not involved in the $525 million fund that Kleiner Perkins raised earlier this year, and—besides dealing with this lawsuit—he has his hands full as executive chairman of Hewlett-Packard, the ailing tech giant which recently announced it would lay off 27,000 employees.
By the way, Lane married Stephanie Herle, then one of his administrative assistants at Oracle, in 1995, after divorcing his first wife.
Randy Komisar
Pao says this Kleiner partner gave her a book of “playful and provocative” drawings. A cofounder of Claris and former lawyer for Apple, joined Kleiner Perkins in 2005, the same year as Pao. On Valentine’s Day in 2007, Pao alleged that Komisar gave her a copy of The Book of Longing and asked her out to dinner. According to the book’s front-flap description, it features “playful and provocative” drawings. Pao’s complaint says they’re sexually explicit.
Here’s Komisar talking about the lack of women in venture capital from a 2010 interview posted on YouTube:
There are not enough women in venture capital today. Venture capital tends to be clubby in the sense that you tend to have confidence and trust and perhaps better communication with people that you feel more like than people you feel less like. And that applies across gender as well.
Komisar went on to note that a younger generation of venture capitalists seemed more comfortable with diversity—including gender diversity.
In 2011, Pao alleged that Komisar told her that women weren’t successful at Kleiner Perkins because they were “quiet.”
Ted Schlein
Pao says her boss, Ted Schlein, didn’t bring her out to meetings on business trips.
Schlein runs Kleiner’s digital investing efforts. Pao started reporting to Schlein in December 2009 after repeatedly asking to be transferred out of Kleiner’s cleantech group where she worked with Nazre, according to her complaint.
In October 2011, according to Pao, Schlein and another male partner flew with Pao in Schlein’s private jet to an event for CIOs in New York. On two nights, Pao said, Schlein and the other partner attended evening business events and didn’t include Pao.
At a Kleiner Perkins party in Palo Alto, Calif. last month, according to Reuters reporter Sarah McBride, Schlein and other partners avoided Pao:
There, Pao held court on one side of the room, greeted with hugs and hearty handshakes by a number of start-up entrepreneurs she has worked with. Meanwhile, other Kleiner partners at the bash– including Matt Murphy and Ted Schlein– clutched their drinks and steered clear of their suddenly famous colleague.
All is as usually in Silicon Valley, awkwardness.
The Smutty Poems And Pictures That Helped Get Kleiner Perkins Sued
by OWEN THOMAS
Venture capitalist Ellen Pao is suing her employer, Kleiner Perkins, for gender discrimination and retaliation following alleged incidents of sexual harassment stretching back five years.
So you can imagine there's not much they agree on.
Save for this: In early 2007, a Kleiner partner, Randy Komisar, gave Pao a copy of the Book of Longing, a collection of poems and drawings by Leonard Cohen. This came shortly after the breakoff of an affair Pao had with another colleague, Ajit Nazre.
In her complaint, Pao portrays it as an erotic Valentine's Day present, accompanied by an invitation to a Saturday-night dinner. Kleiner says it was a late holiday gift.
We went online and ordered a copy sent to our local library branch and picked it up.
We read the Book of Longing. We could not believe our eyes.
Cohen's work is challenging and provocative. It is also, as they say, not safe for work. We bookmarked pages with words or pictures that a reasonable adult might find racy. That ended up being about 40 percent of the book.
In any normal workplace, a coworker giving such a gift would probably have been marched out by HR.
If Pao's lawsuit tells us anything, it is that Kleiner is not a normal workplace.
Ellen Pao lawsuit loss will not slow fight for gender equality in Silicon Valley
by Susan Cagle
Regardless of result, Pao’s effort will have ‘huge impact’ on tech industry, supporters say, as more legal battles are on the horizon
Ellen Pao, center, walks with attorneys Alan Exelrod, left, and Therese Lawless outside of Civic Center Courthouse in San Francisco on 27 March. Photograph: Jeff Chiu/AP
On Friday, a jury found that the venerable venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins had not discriminated against a former junior partner, Ellen Pao, because she is a woman.
Despite the verdict, Pao and other women in the tech industry remained defiant, hinting at more fights to come in their efforts to level the playing field. While Pao’s trial was under way, former employees at Twitter and Facebook filed gender discrimination suits.
“I have told my story, and thousands of people have heard it,” Pao told reporters outside the courtroom. “If I’ve helped level the playing field for women and minorities in venture capital, then the battle was worth it.”
The trial captivated Silicon Valley for five weeks, as some of the tech industry’s most elite investors were called to testify about matters as seemingly trivial and salacious as all-male ski trips and steamy Valentine’s Day gifts between colleagues. Pao said she had been denied promotions in Kleiner Perkins’ “boys’ club” culture – where employees chatted about porn and claimed “women kill the buzz” – and was fired in retaliation after she filed suit in 2012.
A judgment in Pao’s favor, along with punitive damages, could have topped $100m. But the jurors – six men and six women – delivered a four-part verdict, siding with Kleiner Perkins on all of Pao’s allegations. In interviews, jurors said their decision was based on the testimony and evidence presented.
Kleiner Perkins’ attorneys homed in on Pao’s perceived personal shortcomings, painting a cartoonish picture of a greedy and incompetent ex-employee out only for revenge and a big pay day.
“There is no question gender diversity in the workplace is an important issue,” the firm said in a statement. “KPCB remains committed to supporting women in venture capital and technology both inside our firm and within our industry.”
Pao’s trial was a watershed moment for women in Silicon Valley, who have always been a minority in the technology industry. Only 4% of senior investing partners at venture capital firms are women, and new reports show the gender gap in tech is growing.
Over the last year, the issue has come to light in a series of disturbing incidents and allegations.
Whitney Wolfe, a former vice-president of marketing at Tinder, filed suit against the company she helped found, alleging she had quit after sustained abuse, harassment and discrimination. The case was settled quickly.
Engineer Julie Ann Horvath left her position at GitHub, claiming she had been the victim of sexual harassment and discrimination. Horvath did not file suit, but made her allegations public in interviews and on Twitter. GitHub conducted an internal investigation, which resulted in the resignation of its chief executive.
“When you have a voice, it’s your responsibility to use it,” said Horvath. “After coming out with my experience, I’ve seen a lot more of the same. I think women are becoming less afraid and more empowered to speak their truth.”
Like Pao’s suit, the suits against Twitter and Facebook will face significant challenges in presenting clear evidence of discrimination in an industry shaped by implicit bias and stereotypes that often come in the form of vague proclamations of “culture fit”.
US employment discrimination law is rooted in Title VII, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which was passed in a time of open and obvious racial and gender bias and harassment. Successful gender discrimination lawsuits have drawn upon clear expressions of such bigotry: in Price Waterhouse vs Hopkins, in 1989, an employer told an “aggressive” woman she needed to be “more feminine” in order to earn a promotion. But stereotypes and implicit bias can be tricky in trial situations that privilege such conspicuous evidence.
“If a jury’s only focused on a single smoking gun – the memo from the bad guy who said some horrible language about the plaintiff – then juries miss the reality of the average workplace,” said Kelly Dermody, managing partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein’s San Francisco employment practice group.
“There’s usually not just one event that explains it all. It’s a host of decisions that are complicated and nuanced. Until we catch up culturally, the law is only as good as the people who are interpreting it.”
But women in Silicon Valley won’t be waiting for juries to catch up to them.
“We’re witnessing a generation of women coming forward who have felt that their attempts to work within the system didn’t ultimately change the culture, and they need outside assistance to actually require employers to act fairly,” said Dermody.
Horvath said: “I’m positive [the Pao] trial will have a huge impact on the way Silicon Valley operates. It becomes more risky for companies to foster or allow misogynistic behavior to be pervasive in their company culture and their leadership.”
The Pao verdict creates no new legal precedent, only a socio-cultural one. As the dust settled and attorneys were still making statements to the press, many supporters tweeted to express their gratitude for Pao’s courage and leadership – with the hashtag #ThankYouEllenPao.
“I’m very encouraged that there are women like Ellen Pao who will file lawsuits and say, this is too much,” said Dermody. “If there aren’t people like that, we won’t fix it.”
by Encyclopedia Dramatica
You'll have to tear this position from my cold dead hands.
—Pao, shortly before getting fired.
Ellen Pao, Alias: April J Butler, aka "Chairwoman Pao", was the hip and happenin' new azn CEO of reddit until she "resigned" due to mutual agreement. Instead of doing something lulzy and deleting subreddits populated by atheist circlejerkers and various other subhumans, she deleted a fat shaming subreddit in addition to others containing harassment. It's been revealed that she has a long history of combating harassment herself as she was "harassed" by a former boss to the point where she absolutely had to fuck him. Being a cheating whore is not her fault. How else is a liberated azn businesswoman supposed to make her way in the white man's world anyways?
Allen's criminal gay nigger husband
"Buddy"—getting ready to drop his mixtape
Buddy Fletcher and his (Butt) Buddy
Alphonse "Buddy" Fletcher Jr. is a gay nigger, but not the kind of gay nigger from outer space that we here at ED like.
Fletcher is known for filing frivolous discrimination lawsuits, accusing companies he worked for and buildings he lived in of being racists and demanding money. His case against the company may have been thrown out, and the building he lives in is racist because they wouldn't let him add a fourth apartment to the three he already owns using money he stole, but none of that stopped tech reporters from pretending he's the victim. After spending 10 years being in a relationship with a man, in 2007 "Buddy" decided he needs some tax breaks or something and married the manliest woman he could find, Ellen Pao. But their relationship soon faced its first obstacle when Buddy's hedge fund turned out to be a massive Ponzi scheme. Making Fletcher simultaneously a faggot, a nigger and a jew.
Ellen cheats on her gay husband, sues company for discrimination
Reddit traffic takes a heavy hit following the news of Ellen Pao.
One can only stay in a sexless, sham marriage with a gay negro that you only married for his money for so long without getting horny.
Eventually, knowing that "Buddy" wouldn't care anyway since she's only his beard and doesn't have a dick, Ellen started slutting it up at the office. She started sleeping around with a married man at her firm who was one of the partners, probably hoping to get a promotion. When that didn't work, she broke off the affair and started telling everyone at the office about it, in an attempt to blackmail the guy into giving her that promotion. However, eventually word got out to the news and Ellen tried to cover it up by saying he's harassing her and she only slept with him because she thought he and his wife broke up, forgetting that refusing to sleep with a married man doesn't give you any moral high-ground when you yourself are still married.
After the realization came when she was eventually fired that she will never get that promotion now no matter how many cocks she sucks, taking a page from her "husband's" playbook of fallacious discrimination suits, Pao filed a lawsuit against "Kleiner Perkins" to the tune of about $150 million. Ellen claimed that the firm denied her a promotion and eventually fired her because she is a woman. While this is half-true (she was fired for being a cunt), a jury of six men and six women dismissed the case in less than 48 hoursArchive today-ico.png(archive) after, in the process of the trial, it was revealed that Pao was looked over for promotions and shitcanned not because she was a woman and a slut, but because she was incompetent and hated by everyone who worked there. According to testimonies, Pao threatened to fire her assistant for helping an immigrant who got injured in a car accident, bragged about making a female employee cry, and kept a grudge chart of people she needs to get revenge on.
With this glowing recommendation, reddit jumped at the opportunity to make her their new CEO, perhaps assuming she would be cheaper in her current position.
Oh, and what was the exact amount she was suing for? 144 million. Exactly as much as her husband owed the people he defrauded.
Her loving husband didn't even bother to show up to the trail.
Ellen loses again
Feeling sorry for the sad whore, the company offered to wave the legal fees and end it at that. But Pao, not knowing when to quit, decided to instead try and blackmail them. She told them she would not appeal if they pay her 2.7 million (which was like begging for change after her initial demand for 144). "Kleiner Perkins" instead took her to court for the extensive fees of their overpriced lawyer and won. So not only did Pao not win and have to pay thousands of dollar to her own lawyer, due to her own sheer stupidity, she ended up not only not making money, but losing it when she was forced to pay "Kleiner Perkins" $275,000 instead.
The subreddit ban heard 'round the world
As soon as she was made CEO, Pao got right into the thick of things with the same set of skills that made her so well liked at her previous workplace and declares war on the last few subreddits which don't have anything to do with crying about social injustice. Pao ordered her team to go on a deletion rampage and remove anyone who might oppose her. Reddit then released this statement:
Today we are announcing a change in community management on reddit. Our goal is to enable as many people as possible to have authentic conversations and share ideas and content on an open platform. We want as little involvement as possible in managing these interactions but will be involved when needed to protect privacy and free expression, and to prevent harassment.
It is not easy to balance these values, especially as the Internet evolves. We are learning and hopefully improving as we move forward. We want to be open about our involvement: We will ban subreddits that allow their communities to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators don’t take action. We’re banning behavior, not ideas.
Today we are removing five subreddits that break our reddit rules based on their harassment of individuals. If a subreddit has been banned for harassment, you will see that in the ban notice. The only banned subreddit with more than 5,000 subscribers is r/fatpeoplehate.
To report a subreddit for harassment, please email us at contact@reddit.com or send a modmail.
We are continuing to add to our team to manage community issues, and we are making incremental changes over time. We want to make sure that the changes are working as intended and that we are incorporating your feedback when possible. Ultimately, we hope to have less involvement, but right now, we know we need to do better and to do more.
While we do not always agree with the content and views expressed on the site, we do protect the right of people to express their views and encourage actual conversations according to the rules of reddit.
Thanks for working with us. Please keep the feedback coming.
– Jessica (/u/5days), Ellen (/u/ekjp), Alexis (/u/kn0thing) & the rest of team reddit
edit to include some faq's
The list of subreddits that were banned.
Harassment vs. brigading.
What about other subreddits?
RIP Fat People Hate
She contended that they will only be removing subreddits that are guilty of "harassment", but is actually just banning people she doesn't like while ignoring places like the feminazi shithole that is SRS, even though sending people death threats is literally the only thing they do there. The subreddits that were banned were r/FatPeopleHate, some reddits about making fun of niggers and trannys, and the fucking reddit that made fun of NeoGAF.
Other shenanigans
Pao bans talking about her fraudulent lawsuit
When the fact that Pao is a rabid feminazi became apparent to the actual users of plebbit, they began discussing it on the site and voicing their concerns that she might practice favoritism and ban lulzy reddits while protecting crybaby whores. Pao put all those concerns to rest when she began deleting any mention of her lawsuit or herself from the site and banning anyone who dares talk about it Archive today-ico.png(archive).
Ellen's new hiring policy
Pao began her restructuring of the communist republic of reddit by making a "no salary negotiation" policy. Why? because, according to her own words, women are too weak and insecure to negotiate aggressively like men and need a crutch. She continued by asking all new job applicants what they think of "diversity" in their job interviews so that she could avoid hiring anyone who isn't enough of a radfem. This way, with her salary offer being the only thing that dictates how much people get paid, and with all new employees being screened for anyone who might oppose her, she could safely overpay female employees without fear of dissent.
Ellen proves she never used reddit before
As an encore, Pao proved to everyone that (despite being the CEO of the site), she has never once used Reddit in her entire life.
Pao actually tried to link to a PM in her inbox, like your grandma trying to email you a photo of her computer screen (because she doesn't know what a screencap is) but the link she sends is to "C:\Users\Grandma\Pictures\IMG.jpg". And when everyone on the internet immediately started flooding Reddit to make fun of her for being such a noob, Pao tried to hide the evidence by deleting all of the comments anyone posted pointing out her mistake and then subsequently banning their accounts. Thus proving how much of a noob she is a second time for not knowing that the Internet never forgets.
Pao bans literal whale watching
In a followup to her brilliant FPH move, Pao then went on to show everyone her mastery of reddit by banning r/WhaleWatching, mistaking it for a reddit about making fun of fatties. However, it wasn't. It was literally just a subreddit about whale watching.
Their response
As many folks attempting to post inappropriate links and comments have noticed, and some of you here for legit business, this sub is currently heavily moderated.
Normally, we stand against such things. We were recently banned, and unbanned. A few folks decided to raid our sub and use it for something it wasn't intended for. We got caught in a crossfire, and these things happen.
Problem solved, right? We can now go on about our business as usual, right?
Sadly, wrong.
Currently, we are under fire by members who belong to the /r/shitredditsays, /r/againstmensrights, and /r/gamerghazi collective clique.
They are duty-bent on posting obscene things here in an attempt to harass the moderators of this subreddit and see it banned again. As such, for the time being all submissions (self and link) and comments require a moderator to approve before they are visible.
I do apologize that it has come to this, and we are hoping we can eventually move beyond this nonsense.
We all know how pretentious, privileged, SJWarriors on the internet are. It's the ADD Generation, they'll be on to something else.
I appreciate your time.
Edit: For Fuck's sake, learn to read, SRD. Jesus fuckin' Christ. Post is up nine minutes before getting linked.
Edit 2: And post is now removed. Thank you, SRD mods.
RedditRevolt
Being a soulless, chink businesswoman, you'd think Ellen would be driven by the bottom line, site traffic and jewgolds, making her deletion of one of the most popular subreddits plain retarded. Unsurprisingly, page views to reddit plummeted all most as fast as your sexdrive after seeing Ellen's ugly man-face. Reddit responds to this censorship by doing what Reddit does best: Copying 4chan. Users packed their bags and moved shop to a reddit clone called Voat. The result? Reddit takes a 70% hit to their traffic and Voat's $30 rent-a-server can't handle the load. Ellen has succeeded in making reddit a safe space by getting rid of all the users. However, at the same time, this means 70% of redditors are now refugees and will be spreading their cancer to all corners of the internet, particularly on 8chan, where they're making shitty copies of their deleted boards that are even overtaking the GamerGate faggots. For the next few months it is being advised to wear a hazmat suit when surfing.
TheDarkenning/AMAgeddon
Proving the ride never ends, a few weeks later Pao made her next catastrophic mistake.
In a brilliantly retarded move, Pao fired (with no prior notice) one of Reddit's favorite admins who ran r/IAMA and was one of the only ones still remaining from the era when the reddit staff was actual tech people who interacted with the community (she also fired the admin of r/RedditGifts or r/SecretSanta or something but no one gave a fuck). There was no formal reason, but the various speculations are each worse than the other. The first theory is that she was simply the last person on staff who didn't live in San Fagcisco, which is the capitol of SJW faggots.
The second possible reason is hilariously worse. It is believed she got fired because of a disastrous AMA with Jesse Jackson!!! Apparently, Jackson did an AMA that week and utterly tanked when he was asked some hard questions and went on a rambling triad. Since Jesse is Pao and Fletcher's idol for race-bating and frivolous lawsuits (what you wanna bet he was asked to do an AMA at Pao's personal request?), the admin was blamed for not sock-puppeting enough softballs for him to answer and not being fast enough to ban people who asked hard questions and delete their posts to make Jackson look good. When everyone complained they literally can not do their jobs without this chicks running the AMAs and asked who would replace her and how will they insure reddit isn't giving/collecting bribes for AMAs, they were ignored. In response, over 100 300 1,400 (??? reports are conflicting) 1,800 subreddits made themselves privet in protest and leading to another massive drop in traffic. Even the SJW mecca r/GamerGhazi joined in for a while. Since some of the subs were some of reddit's biggest money makers, Pao went so far as to assume direct control over one of them and ban all the mods so she could re-open it. The situation got so bad that anyone could get his shit on the front page, which was soon flooded with insults to Pao, threads about how it's about to fail as bad as Digg and (for some reason) spam of pictures of cake. One of the site's old power mods even chimed in share some info from his admin friends:
Sup qg... Several of our old mutual friends have been keeping me in the loop and from what they have been saying things are not looking good at reddit HQ. The higher ups (executives and board members) at reddit are totally out of touch with the community, kn0thing included sadly. Ellen Pao barely even knows how to use reddit, let alone truly understand what makes it tick and what it needs to survive and the vast majority of the new hires rarely (if ever) interact with the community like the admins of old. And to top it off most of the current admins aren't even webdevs, software engineers or community team members hired from within the community anymore... they are outside hires, mostly marketers and middle management. Does all this sound familiar? This sort of non-core site functions staff bloat and loss of touch with the community is literally the exact same thing that happened at digg before v4. Apparently this all started with Yishan's retarded plan to close the NYC office (which may be why Victoria was fired, since she was the last remaining admin in NYC) and force all the remote working admins (other than those outside the US) to relocate to SF or be fired, which caused an exodus of talent and generated a lot of resentment even by the staff that were willing/able to move. The mood in the SF office has supposedly gotten steadily worse since then too thanks to some of Pao's bizarre decisions regarding hiring (she refused to honor several of Yishan's hires despite the fact they had already quit their jobs to join reddit), restructuring (can't say much other than she seriously fucked several long-term employees over.. don't want anyone to get in trouble) and salary negotiations (according to her, women can't negotiate as well as men so nobody is allowed to negotiate their salaries anymore). Damnit... I really wish spez would come back and sort this shit out. ...sigh...
p.s. ƃıdɹǝpıds ƃıdɹǝpıds
Soon after r/IAMA was re-opened, possibly by force, but to the detriment of our dear Ellen, more ex-employees came out against her and one of the first new AMA's to be made as soon as the subreddit was pried open was by one of them. The AMA was soon deleted by the admins, but not before the person doing it revealed that ELLEN PAO FIRED HIM FOR HAVING CANCER!!!
Less than a month later, in February of 2014, I received a call from Ellen stating that I was to be terminated in less than a week. When I asked what the specific reason was, she had roughly stated that "because of our discussion, you are too sick to properly fulfill your duties as Community Manager." (At no point during our meeting was this stated - I had raised concerns about the stress levels of Community Management, but had ultimately decided that it was something I could easily manage.)
You're FIRED!
Everything quickly devolved into a downward spiral for Pao as people fled reddit and exposed the fact she committed disability discrimination (the leukemia guy). At first she tried to pun on a brave front by saying the people criticizing her are a "vocal minority" and that she doesn't care, but two days later she posted a formal apology and two days after that she was fired.
It seems Reddit's investors and senior management finally decided that they have had enough of the hug box whoring fascist feminist radical and rightly put the proverbial boot to the fat whaley ass Asian. Pao was very quick to start spinning the news and is already desperately running around like a cat trying to cover up shit on a marble floor, attempting to convince everyone that it was a "mutual decision" and that she willingly stepped down from her position of power that she so routinely abused. However no one believes her and are laughing their collective asses off at her expense.
They had a more aggressive view than I did.
—Mein Führer Pao, on why she got canned from her attempted dictatorship
Chairman Pao the musical
by admin » Tue Jul 14, 2015 10:42 pm
How Ellen Pao, who oversaw the effort to rid Reddit of harassment, became its latest victim
By Sarah Kaplan
Ellen Pao arrives at San Francisco Superior Court on March 24. (Robert Galbraith/Reuters)
For weeks, the Change.org petition demanding the ouster of interim Reddit CEO Ellen Pao had been rapidly gaining momentum: 10,000 signatures, 100,000 signatures, 213,451 signatures.
On Friday, the meter measuring the petition’s progress morphed into a triumphant little red flag, accompanied by the word “Victory” in thin, blunt lettering.
The petition was launched last month in response to the banning of five hate-filled subreddits and other anti-harassment changes overseen by Pao during her brief tenure, and invigorated by the unpopular removal of a well-liked Reddit employee. Its creator lauded Pao’s resignation in his victory post this weekend, as did thousands of Reddit users who have been clamoring for her resignation, many of whom crowed their approval in much less polite (and less printable) terms.
[Ellen Pao resigns as Reddit chief executive]
Pao’s post on the site announcing her resignation is terse about the terms of her departure, saying only that she felt she could not meet the board’s user growth goals “while maintaining Reddit’s core principles.”
Although she doesn’t tie it to her resignation, Pao was much more expansive when writing about the vitriol she endured during her eight months at the helm of the site that is alternately called the Internet’s “front page” and its “most hateful space.” The vast majority of her post was devoted to examining the way she and others were treated on the site.
“I’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly on reddit. The good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity,” she wrote. “I just want to remind everyone that I am just another human; I have a family, and I have feelings.”
Pao is one of the most recognizable faces in the debate over discrimination in Silicon Valley. She made headlines earlier this year during a bruising and ultimately unsuccessful gender bias lawsuit against her former employer, the venture capitalist firm Kleiner Perkins. And she oversaw a fundamental shift in Reddit policy away from free-wheeling free speech and toward tighter restrictions on harassment.
[Censorship, fat-shaming and the ‘Reddit revolt': How Reddit became the Alamo of the Internet’s ongoing culture war]
It’s not clear how much of this shift has been specifically spearheaded by Pao, but she’s been widely credited — or blamed, depending on your perspective — for the changes. Last September, in the midst of a controversy over leaked nude photos of celebrities that had been posted to the site, Pao’s predecessor Yishan Wong wrote in a blog post that Reddit would not ban “questionable” subreddits.
“You choose what to post. You choose what to read. You choose what kind of subreddit to create and what kind of rules you will enforce. We will try not to interfere — not because we don’t care, but because we care that you make your choices between right and wrong,” he said.
Sixth months later, with Pao as chief executive, the site rolled out a new policy against involuntary pornography. A few months after that, it banned five of the site’s most hate-filled subreddits as well as all “systematic and/or continued actions to torment or demean someone in a way that would make a reasonable person (1) conclude that reddit is not a safe platform to express their ideas or participate in the conversation, or (2) fear for their safety or the safety of those around them.”
Those changes made Pao a target of the same kind of harassment that the new policies attempted to curb. A (now private) subreddit called r/paomustresign featured memes comparing her to feces, racist references to “Chairman Pao,” and countless other offensive posts. She also reportedly received death threats from Reddit users.
[Move over, Reddit: Tumblr is the new front page of the Internet.]
Pao’s changes became a major front in the culture war that is currently roiling Reddit and the Internet at large. To her admirers, she was an advocate for inclusion and a pioneering woman in a male-dominated field (only 11 percent of Silicon Valley executives are female and men are twice as likely to be Reddit users than women). To her detractors, she was shill for the “social justice warriors” who wanted to censor the site and a corporate outsider who was changing their community without bothering to understand it.
That belief was solidified early this month, during the mishandled dismissal of Victoria Taylor, the company’s beloved director of talent who oversaw the popular “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) chats. Though founder and chairman Alex Ohnihan wrote in a post that the AMA change was his decision, Pao was blamed for Taylor’s firing. Dozens of Reddit pages were blacked out in a user protest against the way Reddit treats its moderators. Meanwhile, signatures on the petition for Pao’s resignation snowballed, as did use of the hashtag #RedditRevolt, which was first popularized in the wake of the harassment policy changes last month.
Now, maybe not because of the way she was treated online but certainly not in spite of it, Pao is leaving the site amid the same kind of vitriol she worked to reduce. Those who wanted her gone are applauding the change — as are a few who never had a problem with Pao, like New York Magazine writer and occasional Reddit critic Kevin Roose:
Kevin Roose@kevinroose
Congratulations to Ellen Pao for getting out of hell
These are the 5 subreddits Reddit banned under its game-changing anti-harassment policy — and why it banned them
By Caitlin Dewey
1. No identifying information
2. No dissent / No being fat
3. Keep the peace
4. No links to other parts of Reddit
5. Absolutely NO FAT SYMPATHY
The posted rules for “Fat People Hate,” the largest forum Reddit banned today. (Internet Archive)
Reddit, the so-called “front page” of the Internet that 172 million people use monthly, has developed a reputation for allowing pretty much anything.
Creepshots of little kids? Check.
Even at a national memorial, no one is safe from ‘creepshots’
A man who photographed women sitting on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial recently got away with it. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
Creepshots, one of the Internet’s many bizarre sexual scourges, are “repellent and disturbing,” a D.C. judge ruled Thursday — but they are not technically illegal.
In case you aren’t familiar with the term (and you might not want to be, FYI), creepshots are essentially just what they sound like: sneaky, surreptitious photos of a person’s, usually a woman’s, private areas, taken without her consent — and often, without her knowledge that the parts in question are even visible. They’re widely considered a genre of so-called “nonconsensual porn” — explicit images or videos traded without permission from the people they depict.
Online, these images enjoy a thriving trade on sites like Reddit, 4chan, AnonIB and even Twitter, where handles like @CreepBK, @SexySights and @Creep_daddy keep up a steady stream of skin-crawling photos. Both Reddit and AnonIB have forums dedicated to these types of photos, specifically; on AnonIB’s creepshot forum, users are currently salivating over a photo of a high-school student bending over to push a Wal-Mart cart as she shops. It’s obvious, from the number and location of the photos, that someone followed her around the store to take them.
“There were some pics of a similar looking girl kicking around the interweb a few years back,” one user wrote. “She was leaning over a barrier at her swimming pool talking to her swim coach … Anyone know the whereabouts?”
Someone else in the forum promptly supplied the photo: It is indeed of a (very young) girl at a swim meet, wearing what look to be swim shorts, watching people in the pool swim.
To many a reasonable observer, the existence of such a photo, and the intentions with which it was taken, seem self-evidently wrong. These are private people, going about their private lives. Why should a quick breeze or a bathing suit expose them to this kind of sustained, humiliating attention?
In the D.C. case, at least, the answer lay in a legal technicality. Voyeurism, a misdemeanor, has a very specific definition: You can’t secretly record someone using the bathroom, changing, having sex, or doing anything else where she has “a reasonable expectation of privacy.”
That reasonable expectation is what many cases hinge on. In this one, the creepshot-er in question, Christopher Hunt Cleveland, took his photos at the Lincoln Memorial as women sat on the steps. He didn’t sneak up under them, or use a peephole, or deploy any other similarly sneaky tricks. Instead, like the photographer who followed the woman in Wal-Mart, or the one who took pictures of the girl at the swim meet, he took pictures of public things, in a public place.
Never mind that leaning over for a moment, or wearing short shorts, does not in any way constitute a consent to be photographed. Never mind that, as U.S. Attorney Akhi Johnson argued, women have a reasonable expectation of privacy just by virtue of wearing clothes.
In purely legal terms, Cleveland’s creepshots don’t meet that standard. And so all charges were dropped against him, even as the stakes for women who visit the memorial were raised. Consider the implications of this for a second: If you were to visit the National Mall this weekend, and someone began taking photos of you or your children, there is nothing you can do about it.
It is “repellent and disturbing,” but it is his right.
There are attempts to change that, of course. In March, after a Massachusetts court ruled that upskirt photos were legal in the state, the legislature quickly pushed through a bill to criminalize it. Creepshots in the Bay State are now punishable by as many as five years in jail or fines up to $5,000. Texas also recently passed a law against photographs taken “with the intent to arouse or gratify” sexual desire, though that was later struck down on First Amendment grounds.
Which means that — in Texas, as in D.C., as in much of the country — women can be photographed, objectified, and have the photos passed around the Web simply for the crime of leaving their houses. Repellent and disturbing, indeed.
Caitlin Dewey is The Post’s digital culture critic. Follow her on Twitter @caitlindewey or subscribe to her daily newsletter on all things Internet. (tinyletter.com/cdewey)
The “most violently racist content” on the Internet? Sure!
by Keegan Hankes
The most violently racist internet content isn't found on sites like Stormfront and VNN any more.
One section of the Web forum is dedicated to watching black men die, while another is called “CoonTown” and features users wondering if there are any states left that are “nigger free.” One conversation focuses on the state of being “Negro Free,” while another is about how best to bring attention to the assertion that black people are more prone to commit sexual assaults than whites.
But these discussions aren’t happening on Stormfront, which since its founding in 1995 by a former Alabama Klan leader has been the largest hate forum on the Web. They’re taking place on Reddit, a huge online bulletin board recently spun off into its own independent entity from Advance Publications, the parent company of Condé Nast. Reddit has been hailed as the last bastion of free speech on the Internet, an unregulated and vibrant community of users who post whatever they want and rely on the community around them to police their content.
The world of online hate, long dominated by website forums like Stormfront and its smaller neo-Nazi rival Vanguard News Network (VNN), has found a new — and wildly popular — home on the Internet. Reddit boasts the 9th highest Alexa Internet traffic ranking in the United States and the 36th worldwide. Many of Reddit’s racist subreddits are among its most popular.
Reddit is a news site that hosts user-submitted links and discussion, organized into specific communities of interest comprised of “subreddits,” which are ranked by votes from users. If a reader believes content is a constructive contribution, he or she can “upvote” it, pushing the content further up the page. Conversely, if a user thinks that content is either off-topic or is not constructive, it can be “downvoted,” causing it to sink further down the page.
Content on Reddit is “moderated based on quality, not opinion,” according to the working document that dictates community guidelines, called “Reddiquette.” This idea of user-policed communities that contain high-quality, diverse content is part of the ethos Reddit has worked hard to project. “We power awesome communities,” reads the graphic atop its “about” page.
But awesome communities for whom?
The ‘Chimpire’
Along with countless others with entirely different interests, Reddit increasingly is providing a home for anti-black racists — and some of the most virulent and violent propaganda around. In November 2013, a hyper-racist subreddit called “GreatApes” was formed. Users posted epithet-strewn links to “news” stories of dubious origin that riffed on long established stereotypes about the black community. GreatApes was wildly popular and grew quickly, expanding into a much larger Reddit network called “the Chimpire,” which was organized by a user known only by his or her posting name of “Jewish_NeoCon2.”
“We feel it’s time to expand our sphere of influence and lebensraum [the Nazi term for “living space”] on reddit. Thus we have decided to create ‘the Chimpire,’ a network of nigger related subreddits,” Jewish_NeoCon2 wrote at the time. “Want to read people’s experiences with niggers? There now is an affiliated subreddit for it. Want to watch chimp nature documentaries? We got it. Nigger hate facts? IT’S THERE. … Oh yes you bet we got videos of ghetto niggers fighting each other. Nigger drama on reddit? There’s a sub. Sheboons? Gibsmedat.”
Within a year, the Chimpire network had grown to include 46 active subreddits spanning an alarming range of racist topics, including “Teenapers,” “ApeWrangling,” “Detoilet,” and “Chicongo,” along with subreddits for both “TrayvonMartin” and “ferguson,” each of them dealing with the controversial and highly publicized shooting deaths of unarmed black teenagers.
Then, last November, Reddit’s most racist community evolved once again, adding the subreddit called CoonTown in the aftermath of a dispute between several top moderators at GreatApes. In just four days, CoonTown had reached 1,000 subscribers. And its popularity continues to grow.
According to Reddit Metrics, as of Jan. 6, there were 552,829 subreddits. CoonTown, with its 3,287 subscribers, ranked 6,279th, placing it in the top 2% of subreddits. It is the 680th fastest-growing subreddit on the site despite — or because of — violently racist material including a large number of threads dedicated to videos of black-on-black violence.
These gruesome videos show black men being hit in the head repeatedly with a hammer, burned alive, and killed in a variety of other ways. The subreddit’s banner features a cartoon of a black man hanging, complete with a Klansman in the background. One fairly typical user, “Bustatruggalo” applauded the graphic violence as “[v]ery educational and entertaining.” He or she continued on a separate thread: “I almost feel bad for letting an image like this fill me with an overwhelming amount of joy. Almost….”
Others, like user “natchil,” were looking for still more. “Where is watchjewsdie?” this user wondered.
'Remember the Human'
There are some limits. “No calls for violence,” the CoonTown subreddit’s description reads. “It’s prohibited by Reddit’s site-wide rules.”
Everything up to violence, however, is very much there, including the horrific content found on other Chimpire subreddits like “WatchNiggersDie” — content which is rarely, if ever, matched on forums like Stormfront and VNN, which worry about being shut down or driving off potential allies.
That’s despite the Reddiquette section’s first rule, which implores Reddit users to “Remember the human.” “When you communicate online, all you see is a computer screen,” it says. “When talking to someone you might want to ask yourself ‘Would I say it to the person’s face?’ or ‘Would I get jumped if I said this to a buddy?’”
If Reddit’s rules seem relaxed, that’s because they are meant to be. Still, although users are asked to “remember the human,” there is little humanity in the way the subjects of subreddits like CoonTown are treated.
In June 2013, however, after an extended, public controversy, Reddit did ban the subreddit “Niggers” when large numbers of its denizens began overrunning another subreddit, “BlackGirls,” with racist posts that were apparently not being policed by its moderators. “Brigading” — when large groups of people from one subreddit gang up to downvote comments on another subreddit that they don’t normally visit — is prohibited by Reddit. Users of the Niggers subreddit also engaged in “vote manipulation,” which falsely raises the popularity of a post by soliciting like-minded users to blindly upvote it. After repeated warnings and “shadow-banning,” or making a user’s posts invisible to everyone but the author, the subreddit was finally banned. According to Jewish_NeoCon2, more than a few former members of the Niggers subreddit have now taken up residence at CoonTown.
A Reluctance to Intervene
Reddit was recently spun off into its own independent entity from Advance Publications, the parent company of mass media giant Condé Nast, which also owns Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and 20 other print and online publications that reach an estimated 95 million consumers (Advance Publications is still a majority shareholder in Reddit). The site’s goal, according to Wong, is to pay its own way and its primary engine for accomplishing that is through ads, a premium subscription option, and the Reddit gift exchange.
Racist websites and organizations do sometimes benefit from racist subreddits like the Chimpire. That’s because subreddit users often post links to other racist sites, and those links drive traffic to those other sites, which in turn typically sell merchandise in addition to pushing racist ideology and recruiting.
It’s hard to dispute that Reddit does offer a venue for remarkably lively and unbridled conversation, and that dissident commentary that might not be tolerated elsewhere finds a welcome home there. Richard Spencer, a racist ideologue who heads the National Policy Institute, held an “AMA” (Ask Me Anything) session on Reddit last November, and although his views are widely regarded as loathsome, he was calm and understated in his discussion of far-right European politics. Unlike in WatchNiggersDie, there were no links to videos of brutal killings or other visual images meant to degrade the humanity of minorities.
Reddit is often hailed as one of the last bastions of truly free speech, and its owners’ hesitance to jeopardize that status is understandable given the loyal following it has inspired. Reddit has removed content that has been illegally appropriated from commercial interests, such as the revelations that emerged from the November hack of Sony Pictures Entertainment.
The Internet is awash in racist, anti-Semitic, misogynistic and other hateful content, but much of it is relatively tame. Subreddits such the Chimpire offer a window on to just how awful some of the darkest corners of the Web really are.
“We will not ban questionable subreddits,” Reddit’s then-CEO, Yishan Wong, wrote mere months ago. “You choose what to post. You choose what to read. You choose what kind of subreddit to create.”
[48 hours inside the Internet’s “most toxic” community]
48 hours inside the Internet’s ‘most toxic’ community
A screenshot from a Reddit 404 page. (Reddit)
Reddit, the front-page of the Internet, hasn’t exactly had a banner year.
In August, it served as an early incubator for the Gamergate movement, which would go on wreck the lives of several innocent women and baffle America’s non-gaming populace. Not long after, it became the main distribution center for a trove of controversial stolen celebrity nude photos, including at least one of the gymnast McKayla Maroney when she was underage. To further salt the site’s wounds, a widely-publicized report released earlier this month accused the site of hosting hate groups. Reddit is, the Southern Poverty Law Center claimed, “the most hateful space on the Internet.”
… and the Internet can be a pretty hateful place.
As hardcore Redditors (and the site’s corporate owners) have pointed out, this criticism isn’t always entirely fair. Reddit is like a microcosm of the Internet itself: It’s so vast and labyrinthine and lawless that pretty much anything, good or bad, can make its home there. (“Reddit is the Mos Eisley spaceport of the Internet,” Slate’s Jacob Brogan wrote Wednesday. “A hive of scum and villainy that can carry you to the stars, if you ask around in the right places.”)
[Move over, Reddit: Tumblr is the new front page of the Internet]
So two weeks ago, Ben Bell — a data scientist at the language-processing firm Idibon — set out to quantify exactly which Reddit communities were the proverbial worst. Using both language-processing software and a team of human annotators, whom you can read about in more depth here, he identified the forums where personal attacks and bigoted language were the most frequent.
At the top of the pack, ranked No. 1 for toxicity, was /r/S***RedditSays: a forum with some 64,000 members, devoted, counter-intuitively, to shaming racism, misogyny, homophobia and “toxic privilege” in the larger Reddit community.
“Take a second to think about how unwelcoming this site is for some groups,” the community’s moderators explain in its FAQ. “SRS lets those groups know that there is in fact a faction of vocal dissenters and that they aren’t alone.”
Determined to see how dark the so-called “darkest depth of the Interwebs” could possibly be, I spent 48 hours lurking in SRS and logging every conversation that bubbled up in it. The community is pretty strictly regulated: You can only post literal quotes from other Redditors, and only for the purpose of making fun of them. So the average SRS thread consists of an unsavory quote from elsewhere on Reddit, and then a long string of negative responses. Like:
Reddit: Rape victims lie frequently for “monetary gain.”
SRS: “How stupid do you have to be?”
Reddit: drops a casual racial slur while talking about ISIS.
SRS: “Terrorism is meant to polarize groups, and Reddit happily helps out with that.”
Reddit: “Grad school made me racist … There’s a reason [racial] stereotypes exist.”
SRS: “If you self-identify as racist, you must have a sad existence.”
As should be fairly clear, SRS isn’t the actual source of bigotry or vitriol on Reddit: It’s just a mirror of it, a concentrated reaction to the casual bias and stereotyping that play out in other corners of the site. In fact, when SRS began, it was intended more lightheartedly: a place to gather silly or stupid comments, the same way other variants of the “s*** people say” meme do. But over time, the Guardian reported earlier this month, it became an “enclave within the site for people who have deep concerns about the main community.”
Those concerns, judging by the comments SRS has flagged in the past week, most frequently relate to sexism, racism and religious bias. And SRS has not hesitated to voice its concerns forcefully: “we have found that fighting fire with fire is substantially more gratifying” than discussion, they wrote. (Bell says his report did control for context, so SRS was rated toxic for the tone of its discussion, and not the controversial topics.) A common refrain, in response to virtually any kind of post, is “f*** Reddit” or “f*** Redditors.”
Bigotry on Reddit
The more time I spent in SRS, however, the more I realized that this is not Reddit’s fight — a fact that one moderator acknowledged explicitly in a recent interview. SRS is the most toxic place on the Internet only insofar as this debate over inclusion, diversity and “social justice” remains the most toxic debate in our culture; a debate that has, in the past year, winded around #YesAllWomen, erupted into the inferno that was Gamergate, and has reared its head with every new police shooting and rape allegation.
SRS may as well change its name to “s*** society says,” because that’s essentially what it documents: “the casual racism and sexism that is so popular,” and so insurmountable, even in mainstream, offline venues.
By the end of my allotted 48 hours, I was more than ready to log out of SRS permanently. Not because of the combativeness, necessarily, or the shaming or the “toxicity.” But I got worn down by the parade of human nastiness — and the futility of even trying to fight it.
“We are not here to ‘change reddit,'” the forum’s moderators write. “We don’t expect reddit to change. We know most redditors don’t really [care].”
They aren’t just talking about Reddit, though. And that’s a toxic problem, right there.
But in an apparent reversal of that policy, and in an unprecedented effort to clean up its long-suffering image, Reddit has just banned five “questionable subreddits.”
The site permanently removed the forums Wednesday afternoon for harassing specific, named individuals, a spokesperson said. Of the five, two were dedicated to fat-shaming, one to transphobia, one to racism and one to harassing members of a progressive video game site.
[The battle for the soul of Reddit]
Inside the battle for the soul of Reddit
Think of Reddit, the Internet’s self-proclaimed front page, as the plankton of the digital information ecosystem. The vast, labyrinthine network of forums, founded in 2005, is the site where all other sites go to feed: on memes, on news stories, on ideas or whiffs of them.
But contrary the view from 10,000 feet, Reddit does not surface stories on the force of the crowd alone. Behind the Internet’s great trend-machine sits a complex, faceless hierarchy of volunteer moderators, called “mods.” Casual users never see them, and even avid Redditors — as the site’s denizens call themselves — have limited power to challenge them.
That has provoked something of an existential struggle in the Internet’s largest news forum, though few have articulated it that way. Is “the front page of the Internet” a democracy that is crowdsourced by virtual millions? Or is it a series of allied feudal kingdoms, steeped in abstract politics?
“The system has its flaws,” admitted Erik Martin, Reddit’s general manager. “But it’s a powerful system that for the vast majority of [the Web site] works great.”
“Works great” is, of course, a relative assessment. While a whopping 110 million people visited Reddit last month — by comparison, the mammoth CNN.com averaged 67 million monthly visitors in 2013 — segments of the site are rife with accusations of moderator censorship, neglect or abuse.
Never has that been clearer than in the past four months, when two of the site’s most popular forums, r/news and r/worldnews, repeatedly deleted a major scoop about British intelligence by Glenn Greenwald. Less than three weeks later, a user in another major forum, r/technology, reported that mods systematically blocked terms like “NSA” and “net neutrality.”
“This is real bad news,” concluded a Redditor codenamed “creq” in his post uncovering r/technology’s blocked terms. “This place is heavily censored.”
In reality, the forum wasn’t so much censored as poorly moderated. But in either case, the incident exposed a more troubling and more systemic drawback of the site: When you hand such profound power to anonymous moderators, the Internet is essentially at their whim.
A screenshot of the Reddit frontpage, as of this writing. (Reddit)
Inside Reddit
That’s particularly true on a site like Reddit, where the politics and power dynamics are opaque obtuse, even to people on the inside. Essentially, Reddit consists of a series of forums, called “subreddits,” which anyone can create. Within each subreddit, users can submit posts (links, photos, questions, etc.) and either up- or down-vote the posts other users have submitted. Unlike Twitter and Facebook, with their ever-evolving, user-friendly interfaces, Reddit’s bare-bones design — sky-blue header, white background, plain Verdana text — has hardly changed since 2005. Each subreddit is a list of links. Each post includes a series of nested comments.
Posts that have been up-voted by large numbers of Redditors move up the subreddit’s “hot” list, thereby gaining visibility. Enough votes can push a post to Reddit’s front page, where it’s exposed to millions of people.
That up- and down-voting system would appear to signal a certain degree of democracy — and it does. As Martin explains, the great benefit of Reddit’s infrastructure is that it allows communities to create spaces entirely of their choosing.
But neither the Reddit front page, nor the network of subreddits behind it, operates without controls. Each subreddit is operated by a moderator, who can make and enforce any editorial decision he wants (including whether or not to appoint other mods). Most of the time, those decisions make sense and help the community run in a smooth manner: deleting spam, blocking disruptive members, that kind of thing. But mods also have the power to delete posts they don’t like or whose politics they disagree with. Alternately, they can slack off their moderation duties to the point the forum fills with junk or spam.
In either case, corporate Reddit tries not to intervene. “We don’t want to be referees,” Martin said. If the company’s three community managers must show their disapproval, they do it subtly — rearranging the highly visible default subreddits to which all users automatically belong.
In Reddit’s nine-year history, overseers have only had to demote default subreddits a handful of times. Last year, they bumped r/politics and r/atheism in favor of more active communities, like r/television and /gifs. Then, just last month, another long-time default fell from grace: the embattled r/technology, which — with its 5 million members — is one of the largest forums on the site.
The battle for r/technology
A screenshot from creq's post. (Reddit) A screenshot from creq’s post of filtered words in r/technology. (Reddit)
By comparison, the user who brought down r/technology was a small fish in the vast Reddit waters. Creq, a Redditor of only seven months, didn’t moderate any big-time forums or hoard any considerable store of karma — Reddit shorthand for street cred — when he noticed that certain topical words seemed to appear in the forum much less than one would expect. On April 13, he posted a list of “banned” keywords to r/technology, alleging that mods censored posts that contained those terms. The list included everything from “NSA,” “Snowden” and “spying” to “Dogecoin” and “Flappy.”
“Can we create a … spinoff, to get away from the anal mods?” one user commented.
“They’re not anal,” another fired back. “They’re corrupt.”
In point of fact, it seems, the r/technology mods were just complacent: with too many users, and too few active mods, they created a bot to automatically torpedo links on potentially spammy or politicized subjects. But that means that, for a window of several months, stories on those subjects — net neutrality, the NSA scandal, cryptocurrencies — disappeared from one of the Internet’s most important technology forums.
To further complicate things, many of r/technology’s mods were so-called “super-users” — senior Redditors who had accumulated massive amounts of karma and who often ran several major forums on the site. One of them also moderated r/bestof, r/food and r/history, all default subreddits. Another oversaw more than 360 other subreddits, including the wildly popular r/EarthPorn. (None of the moderators contacted by the Post responded to requests for comment.)
Critics wanted the top mods to resign, explain their policies, or some combination of the two. The ensuing back-and-forth, which lasted days, essentially brought the forum to a standstill. On April 17, Reddit pulled r/technology from the default subreddits banner, citing rampant dysfunction there.
“They had no critical mass to moderate the community,” Martin said. “We saw this as an opportunity to kind of say — hey, let’s see what happens. Maybe other subreddits will attract that audience.”
The war for Reddit
That principle, what Martin and others at Reddit HQ like to call “market fluidity,” is actually one of the fundamental underpinnings of the laissez-faire Reddit system. If moderators act out, the logic goes, Redditors can just take their business elsewhere — maybe to r/tech, which has grown markedly in recent weeks, or r/futurology, upon which Reddit recently bestowed default status. Market fluidity is, in theory, a check on moderators’ influence: If they become too powerful, or too irresponsible, users can simply leave.
Unfortunately, Martin admits, the system often doesn’t work that way in practice. A subreddit with a critical mass is not easily toppled, particularly when it’s held by a powerful mod with control of multiple subreddits on the site. Spin-off forums with odd names can be hard to find by search. Plus those super-mods, some users have complained, belong to expansive political networks that can stifle dissent across subreddits or punish users who act out.
One particularly melodramatic Redditor, bemoaning the inequity during the battle for r/technology, compared the situation to the French Revolution: “When French peasant stormed the Bastille, pretty much every royal in Europe started hand-wringing and condemning popular dissent … see if you can apply the analogy to these facts.”
That metaphor’s a little dramatic, of course, but it expresses the essential, existential question of Reddit as it grows up. Can there be such a thing as pure democracy online? Or does the web require something else?
In the weeks since the great r/technology coup, Reddit has failed to answer that question. While the community has new moderators and a new transparency policy, it still suffers from intermittent in-fighting. Creq, the r/technology user who first spotted the censorship, is now a mod of the forum, himself. The majority of his last thousand posts are retorts to Redditors accusing him of abuse.
The mods come and go, it seems; the system stays. And still, behind a curtain many Internet-users don’t even acknowledge, a cabal of faceless, nameless wizards work controls that we can’t see.
All five subreddits were warned previously, the company said. And administrators will watch the site carefully to make sure those five subreddits don’t pop up again.
“We want to be open about our involvement: We will ban subreddits that allow their communities to use the subreddit as a platform to harass individuals when moderators don’t take action,” the company said in a statement. “We’re banning behavior, not ideas.”
What kind of behavior, you ask? These are the five subreddits that were banned.
r/FatPeopleHate
(Via Internet Archive)
In their own words: “Absolutely NO FAT SYMPATHY.”
Chief offense: A clearinghouse for lifted photos of overweight people from around the Web. The only rules for stealing and posting these photos — beside the aforementioned ban on “sympathy” — was that submissions include no identifying information.
r/HamPlanetHatred
(Internet Archive)
Founded: October 2013
In their own words: “We are a Pro-Health sub! No ifs, buts, or coconuts. With that being said, if you’re a delusional lardmuffin this sub may be a bit offensive.”
Chief offense: Posting pictures of overweight people, frequently from Facebook, Flickr and similar photo-sharing sites, and relentlessly making fun of them in vicious comment threads. One recent photo showed a smiling couple standing outside with the caption “what a happy little hamily.”
r/Transf**s
In their own words: “Tired of transgender people and their degeneracy? Disgusted by trans things? Hate the intolerant and whiny transgender community always playing the oppression card? This sub is for you. We aim to ridicule and mock the transgender community because they deserve to be laughed at.”
Chief offense: A running “tranny of the day” feature that pulled photos of individuals from Reddit’s pro-trans subs for the purpose of harassing them. “Mocking photos of [trans people] is okay,” the subreddit’s rules said, “but use imgur instead of linking to their submission if its on Reddit.” The purpose of that work-around, of course, is to avoid anyone discovering it. r/Transf–s also hosted threads on topics like “the best way to tell a [trans person] to kill themselves.”
r/Neof**
Founded: December 2013
In their own words: “We generally allow anything. Anyone is welcome to post here and talk s—, or have a serious discussion. Here freedom of expression is sacred — not a lousy principle worked around to protect untenable ideologies and crybabies.”
Chief offense: Unlike the other banned subreddits, which targeted broad groups of people, r/Neof– had a narrower purpose: Harassing members of NeoGAF, a “civil, inclusive” gaming site, and its founder, Tyler Malka. Among other things, members posted pictures of GAF moderators and mocked their appearance.
r/S***N*****sSay
In their own words: “Listen to stuff n—–s say, both on Reddit and anywhere else on the web.”
Chief offense: SNS was a member of “The Chimpire,” a disgusting and wide-ranging network of racist subreddits that the Southern Poverty Law Center named the Web’s worst earlier this year. While the others are regrettably still around, SNS seems to have been banned for copy/pasting things black Redditors said in other forums and then going after them.
Notably, none of these forums were in violation of the Reddit rules even three or four weeks ago: The ban on “attacks and harassment of individuals” was just instituted by CEO Ellen Pao in mid-May. These five subreddits were the first to be axed, a spokesman said, because of the volume of user complaints.
Unsurprisingly, a vocal contingent of Redditors aren’t taking the changes well: “Reddit increases censorship,” read one post on r/freespeech, while forums like r/mensrights and r/opieandanthony theorized they would be next.
But as I wrote in February when the Reddit-knockoff Voat began flying the “anything goes” flag, that attitude — and this crackdown — is actually pretty indicative of the state of “free speech” on the Web. A number of sites that started out as absolutists have realized — particularly as they grow more mainstream — that they also have other corporate and moral responsibilities. If you restrict absolutely nothing, you get child porn. If you define “abuse” too broadly, you watch users leave in droves. Even Christopher Poole, the founder of 4chan, cracked down on his cesspool towards the end (before leaving the site in January, totally exhausted).
This is what happens when you create an online community without any rules
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If you have any question, please send an email to: info@support.internet.bs
(8chan)
8chan, the more-lawless, more-libertarian, more “free” follow-up to 4chan, disappeared from the Internet under predictable circumstances Monday: Multiple people complained to 8chan’s registrar that the message board hosted child porn.
8chan has since resurfaced at a new URL, 8ch.net, and purportedly recovered its original domain. But that doesn’t erase the inevitable lesson of the matter: When you create an Internet community with virtually no rules, things are bound to go down the drain.
That is not, needless to say, the philosophy of 8chan’s members — nor its polarizing, lionized overseer, Fredrick Brennan. Brennan, a 4chan user since age 12, started 8chan in October 2013 after taking mushrooms and dreaming up a “free speech friendly 4chan alternative.” Like 4chan, Brennan’s forums would be anonymous communities where users could post text and images in nested, themed comment threads. But unlike 4chan, Brennan promised, his Internet utopia would allow anything and everything — provided only that it didn’t violate U.S. law.
Hacking Thread Anonymous 01/13/15 (Tue)
We need to develop beyond ddos and learn how to be a true terror to the SJW menace
I'll upload a few of my hacking ebooks here, simply beginner guides anyone can learn from.
Here is a good set of sites to use:
https://ssd.eff.org/en/playlist/activist-or-protester
A guide for activists and protesters created by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
https://ssd.eff.org/en/playlist/online- ... hy-and-pgp
An EFF guide to PGP
https://techtoolsforactivism.org/
Site containing a wealth of resources. Very useful. The list of software and media is especially helpful.
8channers discuss the best way to terrorize “social justice warriors,” or SJWs. (8chan)
To advocates of free speech and a free Internet, Brennan’s vision was refreshing — liberating, even. 8chan gained a small, loyal following on its launch in 2013 and blew up a year later when 4chan clamped down on Gamergate-related threads. Thousands of angry users fled to 8chan, quickly making it the second-most popular imageboard site on the Web.
“Imageboards are the most important medium for free speech on the Internet,” Brennan told Know Your Meme in the midst of that exodus. “Imageboards are a haven for [terrible things] … and that’s exactly what makes them such wonderful places. I wouldn’t change a thing.”
The problem with terrible things, of course, is that they tend to take on lives of their own. From the principled safety of 8chan, Gamergate supporters launched a number of campaigns against female journalists and videogame makers — some of which the FBI is purportedly investigating.
Welcome to Baphomet
THIS BOARD IS WELL WITHIN THE CONFINES OF US LAW YOU [DELETE] STOP WHINING!
Contact admin @BenjaminBiddix on Twitter for any concerns, questions or just for [DELETE]
What is "baphomet"? - The last stand for old anon, a cancer free heavily moderated random conversation board with a secondary concentration on raids, doxing and old anon luls.
All forms of cancer, unfunny [DELETE] posts and autism are not tolerated here.
Raid took kit and etc. can be found here:
The rules for a popular doxing board. (8chan)
Meanwhile, Brennan has welcomed forums dedicated to pedophilia, suicide and concerted harassment or trolling. He does not personally police those forums for illegal content, per 8chan rules; instead, he trusts the creators of those forums and a “team of volunteers” to do it themselves.
It is no wonder that 8chan hosts, in the words of Gizmodo’s Chris Mills, “some of the nastiest s*** on the Internet.” Not explicitly illegal stuff, mind you, but stuff in the gray area, nonetheless: think threatening “dox” files on unsuspecting victims and softcore photos of children wearing thongs.
Brennan and his supporters — of whom there are many — point out that this is, legally, their right. Under the Communications Decency Act, a ’90s law that basically paved the way for free speech online, Web site administrators are not legally responsible for what their users post, no matter how gross their posts get.
Suika 11/26/14 (Wed)
>>>/hebe/ "is great place of image dumps, including images that violate this board's rule #2."
A pedophile is defined as someone who is sexually attracted to prepubescent children.
Sexual attraction to pubescent children is hebephilia, while sexual attraction to adolescents is ephebophilia.
Being a pedophile does not mean someone is, or ever will be, a child molester or rapist. Both molestation and rape are an action which involve a victim while pedophilia is a passive attraction.
Having a sexual attraction to children isn't illegal, acting on such desires can be however.
A post on a popular pedophilia board. (8chan)
There are only two exceptions — copyrighted content and child porn — and 8chan claims to police those things closely. It’s worth noting, however, that when a number of people reported 8chan’s active pedophilia boards to Cloudflare, a company that protects the site from malicious traffic, Brennan took screenshots of their names and e-mail addresses … and tweeted them publicly.
Previously, asked what he thought about the pedophilia boards on his site, Brennan called them “simply the cost of free speech.”
Of course, free speech has another cost, as 8chan is learning. Sure, you can preach your absolutism from the rooftops, and promise a principled haven for even the most destructive of things. But maybe don’t be super-surprised when your domain gets seized.
Racist and hateful and harassing speech won’t disappear with these subreddits, of course. Already, a number of them have made the leap to Voat.
What they don’t realize, however, is that if Voat grows more popular, it will also need to begin cleaning house. And then, in the same tired cycle, someone else will deservedly kick them out.
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Petrochemical blaze near Houston extinguished, company says
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Firefighters on Wednesday extinguished a fire at a Mitsui & Co petrochemical storage site outside Houston that has been billowing acrid smoke for days, the company said.
The blaze at Mitsui unit Intercontinental Terminals Co in Deer Park, Texas, was put out by 3 a.m., but fire crews continued to spray foam and water on the tanks to help keep them cool and prevent the fires from starting again, the company said in a statement.
No serious injuries were reported, it said. Fire officials were not immediately available for comment.
The fire began on Sunday when a leaking tank containing volatile naphtha, a fuel used in the production of gasoline, ignited and flames quickly spread to other tanks, ITC said. By Tuesday morning, the fire had ignited 12 of 15 tanks.
The tanks each hold up to 80,000 barrels, or 3.3 million gallons, of volatile liquid fuels, making the fire difficult to extinguish. There were no employees or firefighters injured since the blaze began, an ITC spokesman said on Tuesday.
State and federal monitors said air quality was safe, but environmental groups disagreed and said they would conduct their own monitoring.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality reported an increase in soot and other contaminants at ground levels around the site but said levels remained below those considered unhealthy. Monitoring by an Environmental Protection Agency aircraft also found “no significant detections,” the EPA said.
“All the monitors are indicating no risk right now and they are looking at particulates,” said Ryan Sitton, a commissioner with the state’s energy regulator, adding there were no toxins released by the fire. Soot particles “are not at a level that causes risk to people,” he said.
But Neil Carmen, a director at the Texas chapter of the Sierra Club environmental group, said the airborne plume likely contained tens of thousands of milligrams of particles, well above levels considered safe.
The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), a nongovernmental organization, was deploying 10 air-quality monitors to check for nitrogen oxides and soot around Houston and adding another 10 monitors in the near future, said Matt Tresaugue, an EDF spokesman. He said the city had requested the EDF monitors.
As the company had struggled to contain the blaze earlier this week, it has changed its explanation for the fire’s spread and the number of tanks involved.
On Monday, it said eight tanks were burning then revised the figure to seven. On Tuesday morning it blamed a failure of two water pumps for the fire’s expansion to more tanks, and by the afternoon said there were no pump failures.
Gasoline prices on the Colonial pipeline, which sends fuel to the U.S. East Coast from Houston, were up on Tuesday between 1 and 2 cents a gallon over levels prior to the fire.
Some of the water and chemicals have washed into the adjacent Houston Ship Channel that links the Gulf of Mexico to Houston, the nation’s busiest petrochemical port, ITC spokesman Dale Samuelsen said.
Reporting by Erwin Seba and Gary McWilliams; Additional reporting by Collin Eaton and Rich McKay; Editing by Jeffrey Benkoe, David Gregorio, James Dalgleish and Alison Williams
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Jane Elliot
F, #33876, b. 22 June 1576, d. 16 December 1667
Relationship 10th great-grandmother of Ted Earl Cash
Born in United Kingdom
Immigration Status Immigrated
Birth* 22 June 1576� Jane Elliot was born on 22 June 1576 at Newlandhall, Essex, England, United KingdomG.�
Married Name 27 December 1599� As of 27 December 1599,her married name was Butler.�
Marriage* 27 December 1599� She married Sir John (Boteler) Butler II, son of Sir John Boteler Butler Esq and Cressida St John, on 27 December 1599 at Roxwell, Essex, England, United KingdomG.�
Death* 16 December 1667� Jane Elliot died on 16 December 1667 at New Kent Co, VAG, at age 91.�
Sir John (Boteler) Butler II b. 12 Oct 1568, d. 22 Nov 1632
Thomas Butler I+ b. 7 Dec 1600, d. 22 Jan 1646
Nancy C Elliot
F, #35279, b. 8 February 1819, d. 25 March 1905
Birth* 8 February 1819� Nancy C Elliot was born on 8 February 1819 at TN.�
Married Name 1840� As of 1840,her married name was Rushing.�
Marriage* 1840� She married Abraham D Rushing, son of Peter Peyton Rushing and Hester Frizzell, in 1840.�
Death* 25 March 1905� Nancy C Elliot died on 25 March 1905 at Calloway Co, KY, at age 86.�
Abraham D Rushing b. 24 Aug 1818, d. 29 May 1862
Almire (Myra) Marzee Rushing+ b. 23 Sep 1847, d. 16 Feb 1942
C B Elliott
Last Edited 8 Oct 2005
Marriage* � C B Elliott married Bertha Frances Miller, daughter of Fletcher Miller and Rachael Cornelius.�
Bertha Frances Miller b. 1 Sep 1879
Lawrence Ray Elliott
M, #30281, b. 13 March 1934, d. 2 December 1992
Birth* 13 March 1934� Lawrence Ray Elliott was born on 13 March 1934 at Granite City, Madison Co, IL.�
Death* 2 December 1992� He died on 2 December 1992 at Belleville, St Clair Co, IL, at age 58.�
Michael Ray Elliott b. 7 May 1963, d. 8 Feb 1967
Lucinda Elenor Elliott
Birth* 1813� Lucinda Elenor Elliott was born in 1813 at KY.�
Married Name 3 January 1834� As of 3 January 1834,her married name was Blackford.�
Marriage* 3 January 1834� She married John D Blackford, son of Nathaniel Blackford and Mary Mackneal, on 3 January 1834 at White Co, IL.�
Death* 1872� Lucinda Elenor Elliott died in 1872 at White Co, IL.�
John D Blackford b. 1811, d. 20 Oct 1867
Byram Elliott Blackford+ b. Sep 1837, d. 1910
Luther Coleman Elliott
M, #35269, b. 3 October 1890, d. 19 July 1948
Birth* 3 October 1890� Luther Coleman Elliott was born on 3 October 1890 at Daviess Co, KY.�
Marriage* 7 January 1913� He married Carrie Beatrice Meadows, daughter of David Nelson Meadows and Alice Belle Roby, on 7 January 1913 at Daviess Co, KY.�
Death* 19 July 1948� Luther Coleman Elliott died on 19 July 1948 at Daviess Co, KY, at age 57.�
Carrie Beatrice Meadows b. 22 Nov 1893, d. 4 Feb 1970
Thruman Coleman Elliott+ b. 20 Nov 1913, d. 22 Sep 1983
Michael Ray Elliott
M, #30282, b. 7 May 1963, d. 8 February 1967
Father Lawrence Ray Elliott b. 13 Mar 1934, d. 2 Dec 1992
Birth* 7 May 1963� Michael Ray Elliott was born on 7 May 1963 at Fairfield, Wayne Co, IL.�
� He was the son of Lawrence Ray Elliott.�
Death* 8 February 1967� Michael Ray Elliott died on 8 February 1967 at Wayne City, Wayne Co, IL, at age 3.�
Thelma Darlene Elliott
F, #40345, b. 9 August 1922, d. 14 November 1990
Birth* 9 August 1922� Thelma Darlene Elliott was born on 9 August 1922 at St Joseph, Buchanan Co, MO.�
Married Name 6 April 1944� As of 6 April 1944,her married name was Kummell.�
Death* 14 November 1990� She died on 14 November 1990 at Bentonville, Benton Co, ARG, at age 68.�
Thruman Coleman Elliott
M, #35270, b. 20 November 1913, d. 22 September 1983
Father Luther Coleman Elliott b. 3 Oct 1890, d. 19 Jul 1948
Mother Carrie Beatrice Meadows b. 22 Nov 1893, d. 4 Feb 1970
Birth* 20 November 1913� Thruman Coleman Elliott was born on 20 November 1913 at Daviess Co, KY.�
� He was the son of Luther Coleman Elliott and Carrie Beatrice Meadows.�
Marriage* 25 January 1936� Thruman Coleman Elliott married Daisy Riley Graves on 25 January 1936 at Daviess Co, KY.�
Death* 22 September 1983� Thruman Coleman Elliott died on 22 September 1983 at Owensboro, Daviess Co, KY, at age 69.�
Daisy Riley Graves b. 20 Sep 1914, d. 2 Oct 2000
Anne Victoria Ellis
Born in Ireland
Last Edited 8 Jun 2018
Birth* 1655� Anne Victoria Ellis was born in 1655 at County Tipperary, Munster, IrelandG.�
Married Name � Her married name was Shepherd.�
Marriage* 1674� She married Thomas Charles Shepherd, son of William Thomas Shepherd and Mary Clark, in 1674 at MD.�
Death* 1703� Anne Victoria Ellis died in 1703 at MD.�
Thomas Charles Shepherd b. 1650, d. 1698
William Shepherd+ b. 24 Oct 1675, d. 1741
John Shepherd b. 1681, d. 1765
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Ellis
F, #30530, b. November 1861, d. 10 June 1944
Birth* November 1861� Elizabeth (Lizzie) Ellis was born in November 1861 at ILG.�
Married Name 1883� As of 1883,her married name was Anderson.�
Marriage* 1883� She married Joseph T Anderson, son of James Anderson and Mary Austin, in 1883.�
Death* 10 June 1944� Elizabeth (Lizzie) Ellis died on 10 June 1944 at Wayne City, Wayne Co, IL, at age 82.�
Joseph T Anderson b. 21 Nov 1859, d. 3 Dec 1958
Halleck Anderson b. 19 May 1884, d. May 1967
Stella May Anderson+ b. 19 Sep 1889, d. Aug 1983
Nellie M Anderson b. Oct 1894
Russell Anderson+ b. 1 Mar 1903, d. 31 Dec 1982
Floyd Ray Ellis
M, #25557, b. 4 July 1938, d. 15 January 1996
Birth* 4 July 1938� Floyd Ray Ellis was born on 4 July 1938 at Pomona, Jackson Co, IL.�
Marriage* 19 February 1957� He married Evelyn Jane Wilkins, daughter of Edgar Receil Wilkins and Meta Catherine Hormann, on 19 February 1957.�
Death* 15 January 1996� Floyd Ray Ellis died on 15 January 1996 at Belleville, St Clair Co, IL, at age 57.�
Evelyn Jane Wilkins b. 2 Sep 1939, d. 17 Apr 2003
Lieutenant John Ellis
M, #36970, b. circa 1615, d. before 5 June 1677
Birth* circa 1615� Lieutenant John Ellis was born circa 1615 at England, United Kingdom.�
Marriage* 1643/44� He married Elizabeth Freeman, daughter of Lt Governor Edmond Coles Freeman II and Bennet Hodsoll, in 1643/44 at Sandwich, Barnstable Co, MAG.�
Death* before 5 June 1677� Lieutenant John Ellis died before 5 June 1677 at Sandwich, Barnstable Co, MAG.�
Elizabeth Freeman b. 11 Jan 1624, d. 24 Jun 1692
Lottie S Ellis
F, #29795, d. 1910
Married Name � Her married name was Marshall.�
Marriage* � Lottie S Ellis married Roy McClanahan Marshall, son of William Ramsey Marshall and Sarah McClanahan.�
Death* 1910� Lottie S Ellis died in 1910.�
Roy McClanahan Marshall b. 3 May 1876, d. 19 Oct 1943
William R Marshall b. c 1905
Irma R Marshall b. c 1907
Lila J Marshall b. c 1908
Mary Evelyne Ellis
F, #34423, b. 14 February 1858, d. 13 April 1901
Birth* 14 February 1858� Mary Evelyne Ellis was born on 14 February 1858 at Petersburg, Monroe Co, MI.�
Married Name 17 March 1871� As of 17 March 1871,her married name was Besemer.�
Marriage* 17 March 1871� She married Andrew Avery Besemer, son of Moses Cantine Besemer and Catherine Slate, on 17 March 1871.�
Death* 13 April 1901� Mary Evelyne Ellis died on 13 April 1901 at Harvey, Cook Co, IL, at age 43.�
Andrew Avery Besemer b. 17 Sep 1851, d. 22 Apr 1919
Guy Ellis Besemer+ b. 3 Mar 1883, d. 6 Mar 1966
William Claude Ellis
M, #36582, b. 12 July 1937, d. 16 June 2001
Birth* 12 July 1937� William Claude Ellis was born on 12 July 1937 at Phoenix, Maricopa Co, AZG.�
Death* 16 June 2001� He died on 16 June 2001 at Salem, Marion Co, OR, at age 63.�
Nancy Jane Ellison
F, #33219, b. 11 October 1875, d. 5 March 1965
Birth* 11 October 1875� Nancy Jane Ellison was born on 11 October 1875 at TX.�
Married Name 19 January 1892� As of 19 January 1892,her married name was Bailey.�
Marriage* 19 January 1892� She married James Franklin Bailey, son of James Newton Bailey and Susan Francis Blackburn, on 19 January 1892 at Sabine Co, TX.�
Death* 5 March 1965� Nancy Jane Ellison died on 5 March 1965 at Bronson, Sabine Co, TX, at age 89.�
James Franklin Bailey b. 23 Nov 1870, d. 27 Jan 1945
Sedonia Bailey+ b. 26 Apr 1905, d. 12 Apr 1947
Amelia Ellmaker
F, #34777, b. 27 March 1785, d. 10 March 1859
Father John Leonard Ellmaker b. 12 Apr 1741, d. 14 Jan 1829
Mother Elizabeth Baker b. 1742, d. 26 Dec 1825
Birth* 27 March 1785� Amelia Ellmaker was born on 27 March 1785 at Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA.�
� She was the daughter of John Leonard Ellmaker and Elizabeth Baker.�
Married Name 29 August 1802� As of 29 August 1802,her married name was Swartzwelder.�
Marriage* 29 August 1802� Amelia Ellmaker married Philip S Swartzwelder on 29 August 1802.�
Death* 10 March 1859� Amelia Ellmaker died on 10 March 1859 at Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PAG, at age 73.�
Philip S Swartzwelder b. 22 Jan 1785, d. 15 Oct 1856
Joseph H Swartzwelder+ b. 29 Mar 1803, d. 1849
John Leonard Ellmaker
M, #34776, b. 12 April 1741, d. 14 January 1829
Born in British Colonial America
Birth* 12 April 1741� John Leonard Ellmaker was born on 12 April 1741 at Earl Twsp, Lancaster Co, PA, British Colonial America.�
Marriage* 1784� He married Elizabeth Baker, daughter of George Peter Baker and Leah DuBois Ferree, in 1784 at Lancaster, Lancaster Co, PA.�
Death* 14 January 1829� John Leonard Ellmaker died on 14 January 1829 at Salisbury Twsp, Lancaster Co, PA, at age 87.�
Elizabeth Baker b. 1742, d. 26 Dec 1825
Amelia Ellmaker+ b. 27 Mar 1785, d. 10 Mar 1859
Margrietje Elmendorf
F, #34455, b. 20 June 1708, d. 10 August 1759
Birth* 20 June 1708� Margrietje Elmendorf was born on 20 June 1708 at Kingston, Ulster Co, NY, British Colonial America.�
Married Name 18 July 1731� As of 18 July 1731,her married name was DuBois.�
Marriage* 18 July 1731� She married Gerrit DuBois, son of Jacob DuBois and Gerretje Gerritsen Van Nieuwkirk, on 18 July 1731 at Kingston, Ulster Co, NY, British Colonial America.�
Death* 10 August 1759� Margrietje Elmendorf died on 10 August 1759 at Hurley, Ulster Co, NY, British Colonial America, at age 51.�
Gerrit DuBois b. 13 Feb 1704, d. 16 Sep 1773
Conrad DuBois+ b. 22 Jun 1735
Catrina DuBois+ b. 14 Apr 1745
Alonzo Elting
M, #34543, b. 21 February 1844, d. 15 May 1917
Father John I Elting b. 1 Aug 1809, d. 1 Mar 1882
Mother Susan Ann Van Kleeck b. 1812, d. 2 Jul 1902
Birth* 21 February 1844� Alonzo Elting was born on 21 February 1844 at Rochester, Ulster Co, NY.�
� He was the son of John I Elting and Susan Ann Van Kleeck.�
Marriage* 1 January 1872� Alonzo Elting married Susan Hester Taylor on 1 January 1872 at Carthage, Jasper Co, MO.�
Death* 15 May 1917� Alonzo Elting died on 15 May 1917 at Carthage, Jasper Co, MO, at age 73.�
Susan Hester Taylor b. 27 Apr 1850, d. 4 Nov 1917
Daisy Hester Elting+ b. 6 May 1881, d. 22 Dec 1951
Daisy Hester Elting
F, #34545, b. 6 May 1881, d. 22 December 1951
Father Alonzo Elting b. 21 Feb 1844, d. 15 May 1917
Mother Susan Hester Taylor b. 27 Apr 1850, d. 4 Nov 1917
Birth* 6 May 1881� Daisy Hester Elting was born on 6 May 1881 at Jasper Co, MO.�
� She was the daughter of Alonzo Elting and Susan Hester Taylor.�
Married Name 25 December 1901� As of 25 December 1901,her married name was LeMasters.�
Marriage* 25 December 1901� Daisy Hester Elting married Jacob Lee LeMasters on 25 December 1901 at Jasper Co, MO.�
Death* 22 December 1951� Daisy Hester Elting died on 22 December 1951 at Jasper Co, MO, at age 70.�
Jacob Lee LeMasters b. 28 Jul 1876, d. 8 Dec 1961
Alonzo Lee LeMasters+ b. 13 Sep 1908, d. 28 Feb 1976
John I Elting
M, #34542, b. 1 August 1809, d. 1 March 1882
Birth* 1 August 1809� John I Elting was born on 1 August 1809 at Poughkeepsi, Dutchess Co, NY.�
Marriage* 13 September 1832� He married Susan Ann Van Kleeck, daughter of Peter Barent Van Kleeck and Antoinette Van Kleeck, on 13 September 1832 at Rochester, Ulster Co, NY.�
Death* 1 March 1882� John I Elting died on 1 March 1882 at Jasper, Jasper Co, MO, at age 72.�
Susan Ann Van Kleeck b. 1812, d. 2 Jul 1902
Alonzo Elting+ b. 21 Feb 1844, d. 15 May 1917
Sarah Elizabeth Eltinge
F, #34436, b. 30 August 1719, d. 1812
Birth* 30 August 1719� Sarah Elizabeth Eltinge was born on 30 August 1719 at Kingston, Ulster Co, NY, British Colonial America.�
Married Name 1736� As of 1736,her married name was Ferree.�
Marriage* 1736� She married Abraham Dubois Ferree, son of Philip Ferree and Leah Corlea DuBois, in 1736 at Strasburg, Lancaster Co, PA, British Colonial America.�
Death* 1812� Sarah Elizabeth Eltinge died in 1812 at Frederick, Frederick Co, MD.�
Abraham Dubois Ferree b. 22 Aug 1715, d. 7 Mar 1775
Mary Ferree+ b. 12 Jul 1744, d. 1831
Cornelius Ferree+ b. 13 Sep 1753, d. 27 Mar 1792
Homer F Ely
M, #39051, b. 31 December 1911, d. July 1987
Father Arthur Leroy Eli b. 22 May 1877, d. 26 Jan 1967
Mother Mable Madge Cornelius b. 18 Dec 1885, d. 13 May 1979
Birth* 31 December 1911� Homer F Ely was born on 31 December 1911 at Fidelity, Jersey Co, IL.�
� He was the son of Arthur Leroy Eli and Mable Madge Cornelius.�
Death* July 1987� Homer F Ely died in July 1987 at Tazewell Co, IL, at age 75.�
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The Bleeding Clippers
November 24, 2017 November 23, 2017 Valerie Morales
Word that Pat Beverley was out for the year because of microfracture surgery would have been major news, despite the hit in the gut, had it not been overshadowed by something far greater and more specific. It was the revelation that the Clippers waived the physical of Beverley before trading for him, a physical that may have shed some clues on the status of Beverley’s knee. Add one more layer of depression to a team very familiar with peeling back scar tissue only to reveal more scars. Suddenly, the personnel looks fragile without Chris Paul to orchestrate them into exceptionalism. And the front office looks lazy.
What is left of Lob City is a city but no lobs. DeAndre Jordan looks like what he always was if no one tossed him easy dunks: one dimensional, a rebounder and nothing much else. You can say the same thing about Blake Griffin, as far as the Chris Paul effect. Paul made him an All-Star.
Love or hate Chris and all his dribbling and maniacal maneuvering and tough love and anger at losing. He does what only star players can do. He makes his teammates better than they are. When he leaves, those players revert to form. And he continues on, the star that he is.
Before Wednesday night, the Clippers had lost 9 in a row. The won a game against 3 win Atlanta. In the 9 games they lost, they gave up 120 points twice, 118 points once, 113 points and 111 points. 6 out of the 9 losses, they had 20 assists or less. Twice, against OKC and Philly, fouling became an addiction and the Thunder and 76ers went to the free throw line 75 times.
Last season. the Clippers were 14-3.
This year, they are 6-11. It’s been a month since they won back to back games.
Here’s more evidence if you are still not a believer in the greatness of Chris Paul. Blake Griffin is having his worst shooting year of his career because Chris Paul isn’t giving him shots where he is the most effective. Griffin is 6-10 and shooting like a guard. In fact, rookie De’Aaron Fox and Griffin have the same percentage, 41%. Griffin has decided he is a three point shooter and is posting his second best average of his career, 35%. But for the first time since he donned a pro jersey, he isn’t making more than 50% of his two point shots. His offensive rebounds are a career low. This is only the second year he is under 8 rebounds a game. No Chris Paul means he has to be a point forward and his assists are up but not career high up. He is scoring what he normally scores but it doesn’t matter when his defense is the worst it has ever been and his offensive rating is the worst it has ever been.
How is Chris Paul gone and Blake Griffin’s usage rate the same as when Chris Paul was here?
Blake’s midrange shots and long twos are a career low. His Real Plus-Minus has devolved.
The Chris Effect long two point shots Real Plus-Minus Rank (F)
Blake Griffin 2016-17 43.6% 8th
Blake Griffin 2017-18 17.4% 20th
DeAndre Jordan is shooting a five year low but the shots still go in a lot of the time because his launchpad is near the basket. His scoring is a four year low and he’s playing the worst defense he’s played since his second year in the league. His streak of three straight 20+ PER is out the window, and without Chris throwing him lob after lob after lob, his usage rate has plummeted to pre-Chris Paul numbers. He is the 36th ranked center (Real Plus-Minus.) Last year he was 3rd.
The Chris Effect Usage Rate Real Plus-Minus Rank (C)
DeAndre Jordan 2016-17 15.3% 3rd
DeAndre Jordan 2017-18 12.5% 36th
It has almost been six years since Chris Paul came west and stood on Clippers soil and rescued their franchise. His presence in Los Angeles for the second favorite team was like an eclipse. It blocked out the sun because all the light in the room was Chris Paul. Nothing was the same for Donald Sterling’s team, nor was it the same for Chris Paul. He benefited in riches and in wins in a glamour market that attached themselves to his peculiar combination of boyishness and toughness. He was infinitely likeable in a town of plastic faces and fake hair. His addition here changed everything the Clippers had been before, all the Donald Sterling racist shade and cheap paychecks and injury tragedy that made many think the Sports Arena was built on an Indian burial ground. Sterling, who had disinterest in his own team other than schmoozing courtside with celebrities, began paying real attention now that Chris Paul was in residence.
Chris Paul gave the Clippers relevancy and stature. He didn’t care about the past, only the present, the right now, and winning his way, through leadership and clutch shot making. His presence oozed respect, talent, commitment, willfulness and a winning culture. He was the leader from day one, coached by Vinny del Negro, and he was the leader on the last day, telling the Clippers no thank you, I am not going to come back, and oh, by the way, Austin Rivers was annoying, you wouldn’t trade for Carmelo, and Doc got on my last nerve. So Clips bye.
A few hours later, Paul stunned the NBA, not with a move to San Antonio, who can actually compete offensively and defensively with the Warriors, but a quick bolt to the Rockets and their defense-less three point shooting love fest.
In the wake of his defection everyone put on a happy face and tried to make nice and there was even some Blake Griffin is going to lead the team to the Promised Land wishful thinking.
The Clippers are not very good without Chris Paul. Even in his absence, he still looms over the franchise in a Kobe Bryant way but worse. The Clippers have no young talent to mold and develop and turn the page. Blake is a good player but not a superstar. There is a lack of creators and versatility on the ball club.
Lou Williams plays zero defense. Wesley Johnson plays zero offense. Gallinari has been injured. Patrick Beverley is done. Chatter extraordinaire about a Kevin Love-Blake Griffin swap holds your interest while watching a third quarter from Clippers hell. Love is a stats whore who will go after numbers hard. He knows how to play on a bad team and make them look respectable. But it is still the same thing Doc tried to avoid in Boston. The team’s best player cannot elevate the average. The Clippers without a talent infusion are headed for the lottery.
In Los Angeles, you can take on a multiplicity of identities but you can’t be boring. The Clippers are boring. They don’t do anything memorable. They are average shooters and three point makers, horrible at the line even though DeAndre has improved. They are 25th in defensive rebounding, 26th in assists, 22nd in blocks. Their scoring makes you want to yawn, most of their games are unwatchable. Defense is forgettable, posting a 24th defensive rating. Fast break points are not what they were last year because their point guard is in Houston.
The Clippers lost their best player. They lost their leader and face of the franchise. They lost their competitor. They lost their critic. They lost their clutch player. They lost their toughest player. They lost their only perimeter defender. Nothing good is happening in Los Angeles anymore now that Chris Paul is gone, despite the inclusion of Jerry West into the organization to advise the helpless.
The Clippers are rebuilding. But they won’t call it that. They will desperately hang on to the last of the tribe, the always injured Blake Griffin. It is their last Hail Mary pass while standing on the 30 yard line with the wind in their face and their fans headed for the exits.
Los Angeles is hosting the All-Star game and it may be the first All-Star game in history without a participant from the host city. The Lakers are expected to go through rebuilding changes but the Clippers? It’s is tough in Staples Center this season.
Doc Rivers has done this before though. A long time ago, he took a team no one thought much of and they had a 41-41 record and he was Coach of the Year. But so much has changed since then, not to mention the Western Conference is tougher than it has ever been with Paul in Houston and Jimmy Butler in Minneapolis. You cannot get worse. You cannot lose your best player and pulse of your team. You cannot absorb a sucker punch, a blow to the face that leaves you reeling. And think you will be in the playoffs.
A rich owner, a billionaire, couldn’t keep Paul in L.A., an indictment on the fragile NBA system. Stars don’t think twice about leaving. They bear up even as tragic fans are moaning.
If there is any irony at all it is that Donald Sterling is a hazy figure and the Clippers still got stabbed in the heart. And by their savior no less. The one they stole from the Lakers. So, perhaps there is karma after all.
The Clippers are going backwards faster than you can say Clippers Curse and never been to a Conference Final. But no one who has been on this Chris Paul ride is surprised it happened to them by one of their own.
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181. WORK No 1197 by MARTIN CREED
On the left is the man who got tens of thousands of us up early on July 27 so that at 8.12am precisely we would stand on street corners or in parks or in our own homes to ring any bell we could lay our hands on. Why? To signal the start of the London Olympics and welcome the 209 competing nations. We used hand bells and church bells and bicycle bells; triangles; castanets; drums; tambourines... For a solid 3 minutes we made as much noise as possible. Passing cars, including police vehicles, blared their horns, pedestrians waved. The crowd above, in Kennington, were near enough to hear Big Ben, the clock of the Palace of Westminster, break all the rules and chime more than 40 times during those precious minutes.
.. It was all the idea of Martin Creed, the artist who caused such consternation when he won the Turner Prize in 2001 with The Lights Going On and Off - a empty room with the lights doing just that every few seconds. Perhaps it's his Quaker background which leads him to apply simple rules, sometimes only using paint brushes in a multi pack or making one mark a day with the same felt-tip pen until the surface is covered. He's one of a number of artists commissioned to design an Olympic poster, seen here. This is Work No 1273, made from 5 single brush strokes derived from the Olympic colours. It represents an extended podium with steps offering places beyond first, second and third, paying tribute to the excellence of all the competing Olympic sportswomen and sportsmen.
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180 HOLLOW/STUFFED, MARKET LAW by DAMIAN ORTEGA
c Damian Ortego;Photo Todd-White Art; courtesy White Cube
On the lower ground floor of the White Cube Gallery in Mason's Yard a submarine (198 x 87 x 874cm) floats from the ceiling. It's based on a plastic model of a WW2 GermanType XXI submarine and is made of biodegradable plastic sacks, metal - and salt. So instead of seeing something aggressive and agile like a real submarine, all you get is a rather sad, flaccid, immobile vessel, incontinent too in that it can't even protect its own contents.A thin white line of salt is the only moving part and it drools onto the floor below, piling up in a heap. Look long enough and you spot minute folds and hollows in the mould's geometrical perfection. The grains do not move individually over the surface but slide down like slow tears.
Salt is usually our ally, a preservative and flavouring agent which can be used as currency in exchange for other desirable goods. The notes you can ask for at the reception desk tell me Ortego is using it as a metaphor for exploring human intervention.This piece refers to the illicit use of submarines carrying another white substance, cocaine, along the South American coast to Mexico.
The notes also tell me that the title refers to T.S.Eliot's poem The Hollow Men, which, we are told, is a reference to Joseph Conrad's novel The Heart of Darkness.
'We are the hollow men
We are the stuffed men'
is how the poem begins but it is probably better known for its final lines:
'This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.'
On the ground floor a thin line of salt is etched onto car tyres piled in a heap on the gallery floor. The title Congo River relates again to Conrad's novel and to the epic film Apocalypse Now, both of which use a river journey to examine the unknown.
I confess I have difficulty in relating to art works which need so much explanatory text. No, that's not true. I think of times when the text is part of the artwork, as in Michael Craig-Martin's famous Oak Tree 1973, when he exhibited a glass of water on a glass shelf announcing that it was in fact an oak tree - and gave cogent reasons why we should believe him. But to have the artist's intentions not even in the same gallery room is hard. I know there are substantial arguments against heavy labelling which might prejudice what the viewer sees, but I think the present arrangement does little to enhace the viewing experience. Indeed I felt infantalised, asking for a crib sheet.
However, Ortego is an artist who playfully and artfully makes you look again. He uses surprising objects - from golf balls to pick axes to bricks, rubbish bins and torilla - to create inspirational art, all subject to what has been described as Ortego's 'characteristically mischievous process of transformation and dysfunction'. Here is Cosmic Thing, a 1989 Volkswagen Beetle car as you have never seen it, shown at the Venice Biennale in 2003. The Boston Globe called it 'a car manual brought to life'.
White Cube is the London gallery which continues to show this innovative Mexican artist.
http://whitecube.com/artists/damin_ortega
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts4CO79Y-ls this is a link with a very good commentary on Cosmic Thing when shown at ICA Boston
179. POND by GEOFF ROUTH
Long and Ryle Gallery, 4 Islip Street, SW1P 4PX
None of the images I put in the screen in my blog do justice to the work, but this time in particular it's hard to capture Routh's crisp, sensitive painting, and so feel the squelchy, blurred water-edges where nature takes over the man-made architectural features of the garden. The Annie McCall Hospital was built at Stockwell, South London in 1915, as one of the first specialised maternity units in Europe. Its life came to an end in the 1970s and the handsome building and grounds fell into decay until 1987 when artists and musicians transformed the wards into studios.
For the past 25 years Geoff Routh has been painting a visual biography of the building and its grounds: weeds edging through cracks in the windows, ivy fighting to get to the light; moss on the brick walls by the drain pipe. They are paintings of fact, observation and record. Their dense surfaces are alive with passionate description. It's hard to put into words. But look at the water in the picture above. Joss Muir, from Class 2 in Stromness Primary School in the Orkneys was looking at a painting by Margaret Mellis. I like the way he describes what he saw: 'the blue bit is like water hanging down'.
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The Guardian 13 February 2012 has an article by Peter Walker on the controversial future of the site which is likely to be developed for housing
If you search for Geoff Routh, you'll find a number of snatches of video and text about his work.
178. LITTLE SUN by OLAFUR ELIASSON
LITTLE SUN at TATE MODERN
It's a solar-powered lamp, the latest work of Olafur Eliasson, the artist whose work The Weather Project 2003 attracted 2 million of us to Tate Modern. There his huge blowsy sun, with mist and mirrors on the ceiling, transformed the massive Turbine Hall into an unlikely playground.
Little Sun is his latest work. Again he uses light and again engages the viewer, but this time for a serious purpose. Little Sun was developed with Frederik Ottesen. It works like this: expose the solar panel at the back to the sun for 5 hours, turn it over and you have stored 5 hours of strong light for the evening. It could replace kerosene lamps: it's estimated that over 3 years a family can save over 90% of what it usually spends on energy for lighting, at the same time getting ten times more and better light. And kerosene is a health hazard: did you know that a ten year old girl doing her homework in the light of a wick-based lamp breathes in pollution the equivalent of 40 cigarettes a day? Then add the constant risk of kerosene spills in homes made of flammable materials.
So Little Sun could change people's lives. Quite a lot of people, if you consider that one person in five on this planet (1.6 billion) lives without access to mains electricity.
But is it art? Can art have an instrumental value? Why not market it through Ikea, rather than the London Cultural Olympiad and Tate Modern? Eliasson is an artist who invites us to look again at our world and our taken-for-granted assumptions, and to question what it means to live on our planet today. In Eliasson's words, 'Little Sun transforms the light that is for all of us into light that is for each of us'.
In 2010 Neil McGregor, the Director of the British Museum, produced a book and a hugely successful series of broadcasts on The History of the World in 100 Objects. What did he choose for his one hundredth significant object? A solar power lamp and charger.
Four Tate Blackouts are taking place on Saturday nights between 10pm and midnight, starting on July 28th. The lights will go out but visitors can view the Surrealist works in a suite of galleries. Entry is free but you will need to buy a Little Sun (£16.50 or 22 Euros). It's an echo of a 1938 Surrealist Exhibition in Paris where Man Ray supplied visitors with torches to explore the galleries.
Charlotte Higgins gives a full account in:
guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jul/12/olafur-eliasson
177. LAVENDER LEAF by ANNIE CAVANAGH & DAVID MCCARTHY
Wellcome Image Awards Pictures copyright: Annie Cavanagh and David Mccarthy
. At first glance could these be abstract paintings? The one on the right is perhaps slightly unsettling: those golden globes are neither completely embedded in the green spikes, nor are they nestling on the top. And the spikes themselves look like barbed wire covered in Fuzzy Felt
In fact what the Wellcome is showing us is work done by medical researchers. 'Scientific images often reveal a world hidden to our normal sense of vision. They are not merely tools for research but are capable of inspiring people and sparking their curiosity', writes Dr Mark Petronczki of Cancer Research UK. Could it also be said that this is the latest, the very latest, expression of an art genre beloved for centuries in this country and in Europe: detailed, technically accurate, exquisite drawings and paintings, especially watercolours, of flowers and living plants.
This false-coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) shows on the right the surface of a lavender leaf, imaged at 200 microns, covered with fine hair-like outgrowths made from specialised cells. These outgrowths keep frost at bay, make sure that pests are unwelcome, and break up the air flow to reduce evaporation. From the orange globes, lavender yields a sweet oil widely used in balms, salves, perfumes, and cosmetics. It's also believed to aid relaxation and sleep, and to calm the anxious.
The beautiful explosion on the left is nothing less than a loperamide crystal. Loperamide is an antimotility drug, well known as a very good friend to anyone stricken with diarrhoea. Among other properties it also acts like blessed morphia, lessening the pain by decreasing muscle tone. The crystal group - seen as never before - measures approximately 250 microns across.
The light boxes displaying the images are in a small black gallery at the Wellcome, quiet as a chapel (if you are alone). If you can't get there, I suggest you browse the gallery on
wellcomeimageawards.org/
176. WISH TREES by YOKO ONO
TO THE LIGHT
Serpentine Gallery until 9 September
As well as being famously married to John Lennon, Ono is known for her unswerving belief in art's power to change society. This exhibition is a testament to that, but not everyone is happy about what she does or h ow she does it. 'Childish and brainless, Ono lives down to her name', says Michael Glover of the Independent; ' a fine, fun show' says Alastair Smart of the Telegraph; Richard Dorment's verdict is 'elusive, uneven, but by no means negligible'.
Before you get inside the Gallery, you are invited to write a wish on a label and tie it to one of the Wish Trees. When I was there the trees were white with labels (in many languages). Most were wishing health and peace and goodwill to family/ friends/nations/ the whole universe. Others were more specific:
I wish people would smile all the time and bake more cakes.
I wish I made sense.
I wish I was more popular.
I wish to meet a millionaire man who is caring and God fearing and will become my husband.
Please grant me patience and allow me to express joy and love for my husband that's being hindered by premenstrual hormones. Thank you and love to you.
I wish Yoko's exhibition was better.
Inside the gallery Ono's smiling face on video presents #smilesfilm. She aims to make a film which 'includes a smiling face snap of every single human being in the world'. Viewers are invited to join in by uploading and sending images of their smiles there and then, creating 'a global string of smiles covering the planet'. After giving the technical details, Ono ends with 'Big Kiss. I love you'. Is this twee - or simply un-British?
Laura McLean-Ferris of the Independent is one of several reviewers who have the space to give an overview of this many-faceted show. It's hard to know where to start. For example there's the sound of a regular heartbeat in one corner with the label Heartbeat Syria 2012 on the wall. Footsteps We Made consists of paper copies of John and Oko's footprints, shown walking up the wall 'to the sky' with an Oko poem beside them.
Installation view, Yoko Ono: TO THE LIGHT
Serpentine Gallery, London
(19 June - 9 September 2012)
© 2012 Jerry Hardman-Jones
Pointedness 1964 consists of a crystal globe, 4-5cm in diameter, balanced at eye-level on one of these transparent Perspex stands. Beside it is the text: This globe will be a sharp point when it gets to the far corners of the room in your mind. Now I happen to have seen this just after reading an essay on 'Why do we have a brain?' by Professor Daniel Wolpert. Apparently it's not to think or perceive. Movement is the most impotant function of the brain. You generate beliefs (and actions) from data (what we sense from the world), and from memory. (Which is presumably what Murray and Federer relied on last weekend when they saw a ball coming their way). Is Ono reminding us that we may walk away from the installation with a new configuration tucked away inside our brain...?
Back to the Wish Trees. In the Guardian the critic Michael Bracewell accused anyone who happens to find the whimsy of the Wish Tree less powerful than he does, of being both sexist and racist. Would you tie a label on the tree? What might it say?
www.serpentinegallery.org/2011/03/yoko_ono_to_the_light.html
dailymail.co.uk/.../Yoko-Ono-launches-latest-London-art-exhib...
independent.co.uk/.../yoko-ono-to-the-light-serpentine-gallery
175. ALL DRESSED UP FOR MAM AND DAD by PETER GOODFELLOW
c the artist
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY BP Portrait Award
Oil and collage on canvas 1480 x 1180 mm
This self-portrait is witty, warm and intriguing. Inside his coat are a variety of collaged portraits of his parents, recording their lives before and up to his birth. He writes 'I owe them so much and this way I carry them with me always.’
Yet of all the postures he could have chosen as a tribute, why this one? Does it remind you of the man-in-the-pub offering you fake watches or jewellery? Or is he an old-fashioned stand up music hall comedian (flourishing at the time when his parents were young), who swishes his coat open like a curtain to reveal something unexpected to a delighted and surprised audience? Or is it a moving piece of self disclosure - most of us keep our history tightly buttoned up inside us.
Peter Goodfellow has been described as one of Europe's leading illustrators, but since moving to Scotland has become a well known landscape painter as well. He describes how, after working so long to tightly prescribed briefs, he wants the paint surface 'to have a life of its own'. I would call this a narrative painting, a genre I love because you have to co operate with the artist to unpick the puzzle.
npg.org.uk
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murals-portraits.co.uk to see more of Beauvillain Scott's work
174. BRUISED by NATHALIE BEAUVILLAIN SCOTT
B.P.PORTRAIT AWARD
Here's the only other example of 'narrative painting' I found in the B P Portrait Award exhibition.
copyright the artist
Nathalie Beauvillain Scott is an award-winning portrait artist and the subject's mother. The label tells us that her teenage son, Olivier, had recently been involved in a car accident, and was also the subject of a violent attack.
The background gives us more clues as to why he is looking at us with such sad, knowing - and bruised - eyes. Behind him is his image as a child, too young to imagine perils to come. (Nathalie's portrait of the young Olivier was selected for the BP Portrait Award in 2004). There's paperwork too, headed Hopitaux de Paris, Assistance Publique dated Christmas Day 2010, which is an added poignancy. An image of the car involved and a clock recording the time of the crash completes this detailed, specific exploration of a young person's experience of something we all wish had never happened. The young Olivier from the innocent past , the clock with its split second record of a critical present moment, each reminds us of a future unknown to anyone.
173. ROSIE AND PUMPKIN by VANESSA LUBACH
NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY until 23 September
The portrait is of the artist’s daughter, Rosie, holding the family’s bantam, Pumpkin. It's an action painting. Not in the art theory sense of action painting i.e. how the artist makes art - by dripping, dabbing, smearing, and even flinging paint on to the surface of the canvas. More about the action taking place before our eyes. Most portraits are of someone or something capable of sitting or standing or lying still for some considerable time, for oil painting is a slow process. Alas, chickens are not known for their willingness to pose for camera or easel. I have watched my two small grandaughters handle their beloved chickens - Ivy, Betty, Nettle, Fern, Lily - with a confidence and skill which escapes me.
Initial sketches and longer sittings were made with Rosie holding a toy helmet. Rapid sketches and photographs of Pumpkin were used later. The artist has done well to capture what can only last for a very short time.
The eye is drawn to an alert Pumpkin painted in warm colours set against the blues and greys. Lubach says her aim was ‘to convey the moment of quiet astonishment that followed the battle of wits necessary to catch the agile and evasive bantam.’ I think Rosie's expression is remarkable: a shy pleasure in her success combined with her understanding of the importance of the task in hand. And a young person's endearing reticence as she co operates with her mother/artist's project.
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Rima Das: Young Assamese filmmaker
9th October 2018 9th October 2018 Santosh Mehta Assam, children's film, Rima Das, Village Rockstars
Rima Das is a self-taught film producer and director. She is a native of Assam and shuttles between her home state and Mumbai. She not only writes and directs features and documentaries but also runs a film-production company named Flying River Films that she uses to support local independent filmmakers. Her films have travelled to multiple film-festivals and have bagged numerous awards in renowned film circles.
Her debut film, Village Rockstars, which bagged a National Award from the President of India this year, has shot the young, self-taught Assamese filmmaker into prominence.
Rima was fascinated by Bollywood films while doing her Masters in Sociology at Pune University. After a brief stint in acting projects Rima embarked on the path of making her first Assamese film Antardrishti (Man with the Binoculars, 2016). The film was screened at the Cannes Film Festival the same year and also the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival and Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Recently, the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting organized the screening of National Award winning films for the public and Rima Das’ debut film Village Rockstars was also screened in Siri-Fort Auditorium, New Delhi. The festival was organized in collaboration with the Directorate of Film Festival (DIFF).
What is Village Rockstars about?
My film is set in a tiny village in Assam. 10-year-old Dhunu dreams of setting up her own rock band. A self-assured girl, Dhunu’s vibrant spirit and imagination sets her apart in a world where girls are often expected to be shy and submissive. With the support from her widowed mother, Dhunu joins hands with a group of boys to face the daily struggles of life and realize her dreams.
How did you select your film’s cast and crew?
I never select professional actors and had a small but dedicated crew. Ratnajit Roy has done cinematography; he understood my script very well to reach my vision. Suresh Pai, Amrit Pritaman and Anurag Saikia are all experts in their own fields. Sid Meer is an outstanding actor who has acted in Bollywood films.
Tell us about Village Rockstars shoot.
Village Rockstars is my second film. Three years back, while shooting for my first film in my old village Kalahari, I met many kids and began shooting this film. I had completed shooting entirely on my own from camera to direction and production. My cousin Mallika Das and the children who acted in the film helped me throughout.
How did you shortlist the kids for the film?
I was impressed by those small kids as they showed love for acting, craft of cinema and they know the perfect frame of the film, lighting and mood. These little stars take notes for the next day shooting. It almost changed my life.
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Santosh Mehta
Santosh Mehta has over 20 years experience as a journalist and art critic. An executive member of the Indian Women’s Press Corps, she has written for leading publications such as Deccan Herald, The Tribune, The Statesman, The Asian Age (New Delhi) and Press Trust of India (PTI) among others. She has directed and scripted a TV programme for NRIs and has written scripts for AIR and Doordarshan.
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How To Run & Make Friends | The LDN Edit Photo Shoot with Nike
OK so picture the scene, I wake up at 5:45am to get picked up and driven to Putney Bridge for breakfast, hair and make-up, to ready myself for a photoshoot with a team of photographers and creatives that I’ve wanted to work with for yonks.
Even though it’s a legit photoshoot with Nike, I’ve brought my own Cannon camera and my GoPro on a selfie stick. I’m loud, energetic and am currently pouring myself a bowl of granola, dried fruits and milk purely for Instagram purposes on my fully charged phone. I’m not hungry at this point, I’ve just devoured a full English breakfast but after the Instagram snap, I eat the bowl of granola too. I’m ready.
I posed and the photographers snapped away before we all packed up and headed to our next shoot location in Shoreditch, East London. There, we had a room at The Ace Hotel where we would get changed into different outfits, stay warm and...eat scones. We took lots of action shots and still images on and around Boundary St before devouring the fattest lunch ever at Pizza East where I continued to bug everyone with my 2 metre long selfie stick. I wanted to capture as many magical moments of the day as possible and this is why.
On June 21st, London will be one of 20 cities across the globe to host a race as part of the Nike Women’s Race Series. This is a 10KM race that I have signed up to do in Victoria Park, not because I enjoy leading an active lifestyle and am quite good at running but because this is part of a race series that comes with a clear message; To unite us women and enable us to experience and celebrate the power of sport together.
It’s this ‘togetherness’ that made me sign up with my squad of fit friends (pictured below), Natasha, Zanna and Tashi. For the purpose of the 10KM run we go by the name of Crew Run LDN Ladies and it is together that we posed for an exclusive shoot with Nike to flaunt our fitness fashion picks, ensuring that we’re all geared up for race day and to remind ourselves that it’s together that we will start the race and it is together that we will finish.
It sounds soppy but that message really strikes an emotional chord with me. Looking back, sport/fitness/exercise has always enabled me to make friends and build greater bonds with people, even within my own family. I remember vividly that my mum used to get my siblings and I to join her to do Mr Motivator’s workout VHS in the living room back in my home town, Blackburn. Even though VHS is long gone, my mother and I still talk fondly about our fitness dates in our tiny living room and it is that (amongst other things of course) that have helped me to maintain a great bond between my mother and I.
Outside of my home town Blackburn and away from my mum and childhood mates, I have found a new community of friends through sport. One of the first things I did when I moved to London was partake in a 5KM run along The River Thames with my work colleagues from the BBC. Those colleagues have now become lifelong friends. And it’s not stopped there.
I’ve also made mates with my Crew Run LDN Ladies. These girls are charming, hard working, witty and share my passion for an active lifestyle. I can’t wait to run with them and thousands of other women on June 21st because in the words of Beyonce, Who Runs The World?! Yeah...you know it!
Sign up to join our crew here: gonike.me/JoinUs_RunLDNLadies
Massive thanks to the awesome people I worked with on the shoot: Make up artist, Gia Mills | Photographer Ollie Adegboye | Photographer's Assistant, Bilal Mustapha | Creative Director, Niran Vinod | Producer, Sarah Tuxford | Producer, Charlotte Davis | Lulu Skinner | Sam Bloch
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My Photo Shoot with Nike
Having spent a fantastic Easter weekend (I know it was a few weeks ago but I still have chocolate eggs so...still relevant) with my enormous family and eaten my weight in chocolate I headed back from my place of birth, Lancashire to my new home, London. I succumbed to the allure of at least ten Easter eggs eating far more than I wish to admit so it’s a good job that my photo shoot with Nike was just before the bank holiday.
Yep, I spent the day behaving like an AJ-shaped poser as I flexed my muscles for an exclusive Nike Running campaign in East London. I had such a laugh modelling their new summer running range and apart from fooling around, flicking my hair and striking every pose in the book, there were other perks too!
I got to hang out with a team of strong, inspiring women all day, work with photographers I’ve wanted to collaborate with for yonks and wear some of the best activewear, most of which has not even hit the shops yet. Naturally, for a fitness shoot it was all, “Lights, camera annnd run” which is right up my street. I’m excited to see the final images. Here’s a sneak peek from behind the scenes
Tagged: Model, Photographers, London, Fitness Blogger, Streetstyle, OOTD
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Super-Kamiokande
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Super-Kamiokande has restarted the observation
2019/Jan/30
In the middle of December 2018, the water level of Super-Kamiokande reached 37.5 meters— nearly full. After final work at the top of the detector, filling resumed. On January 29, 2019, when the water level was full and the covers of the tank were closed, Super-Kamiokande data taking restarted.
Professor Masayuki Nakahata, the spokesperson of Super-Kamiokande says “I am relieved that the upgrade work finished successfully and that observation has restarted with pure water. We plan to dissolve gadolinium in the tank around the end of this year or the beginning of next year in order to enter a new phase of observation”.
Researchers congratulate the restart of Super-Kamiokande
An event display after the restart
Outline of the start of refurbishment work for Super-Kamiokande
Progress of the Super-Kamiokande refurbishment work
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Pictures of the Super-Kamiokande refurbishment work and videos
In the middle of December 2018, the water level of Super-Kamiokande reached 37.5 meters— nearly full...
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Work to refurbish Super-Kamiokande has started
2018/June/1
Inauguration Ceremony of Next-Generation Neutrino Science Organization for the Hyper-Kamiokande Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Experiment
T2K presents hint of CP violation by neutrinos
2017/Aug/4
Hida Space Science Museum KamiokaLab will open on March 27th, 2019
Call for Project Assistant Professors at Kamioka Observatory
Pictures of refurbishment work are updated on Super-K website.
Super-K and XMASS VR is open!
The website of XMASS experiment has been renewed.
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CHRIS UHLMANN: Police in Victoria are investigating the unexpected deaths of two women who killed themselves in March this year. Both were members of the euthanasia group Exit International and over a year ago had obtained equipment which would help them end their lives.
One of the women was healthy but her friend had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease and together they decided to end their lives at a time of their choosing. They wrote a letter about their decision and gave it to euthanasia advocate Dr Philip Nitschke. He has been questioned by police.
Alison Caldwell reports.
ALISON CALDWELL: Close friends and housemates, 75 year old Val Seeger and 66 year old Claire Parsons, died together at home in March this year. Police are investigating the deaths on behalf of the coroner.
They'd known each other for nearly a quarter of a century but when Val Seegar, an award-winning registered nurse, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease last year, they began discussing their options.
They were members of the euthanasia group Exit International. Founder Dr Philip Nitschke:
PHILIP NITSCHKE: Val, being a director of nursing at a major, major Melbourne hospital and Claire, a doctorate and post-doctorate qualifications from Harvard University in the United States and long term members of Exit International too. They'd been members for many years.
So they've always been people that believed that a person should have the option of being able to have a peaceful and reliable death at the time of their choosing. But it is a little unusual to have two people making their decision to in a sense go together like they chose.
ALISON CALDWELL: Claire Parsons was, she was only 66 and she was quite healthy.
PHILIP NITSCHKE: Yes, that's true, that's true. And I mean there is obviously a couple of factors here. I mean she makes it clear that they are very close friends. And we sometimes see that, people that are extremely close find the idea of another person taking the step so unbearable that they wish to join them.
But I think the larger component of this issue is the one that's detailed in the letter and that is the fact that it is difficult to help someone if a person does need any help without the possible serious criminal charges that can follow - in the state of Victoria a jail term of five years, in some states of Australia, life imprisonment for possibly helping someone out of compassion and love to achieve a peaceful death that they want.
EXTRACT FROM CLAIRE PARSONS' LETTER: We met 24 years ago, more by design than by chance�
ALISON CALDWELL: An academic and published author, Claire Parsons wrote a three page letter detailing her close friendship with Val Seeger and their decision to die together. She sent it on to Dr Nitschke and asked him to release it after their deaths.
PHILIP NITSCHKE: I had the letter. I was sitting on it wondering how best to carry out their wishes when I was contacted by the police a few days ago saying they were investigating this death and asking me a number of questions about my knowledge of the death and the manner in which it was, the equipment that they used and how it was obtained and how long they'd been members of Exit International. And I'm hope that will be, that will be the end of it. We'll see I guess.
EXTRACT FROM CLAIRE PARSONS' LETTER: For us this has been an entirely rational decision taken in full knowledge of contemporary research in the field and experience of working with people who have Alzheimer's.
ALISON CALDWELL: Dr Philip Nitschke says the women used a suicide kit which they obtained last year.
PHILIP NITSCHKE: They had chose to acquire Max Dog Brewing equipment which we market and we know that if that's used in a certain way and if they acquire a couple of extra bits and pieces they can take this step.
ALISON CALDWELL: It's understood the coroner is also investigating the deaths.
CHRIS UHLMANN: Alison Caldwell.
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Malaysia Travel Guide
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Pahang ~ Tasik Bera
Covering an area of 24,000 hectares, it is one of the two major natural bodies of fresh water in Malaysia. Located in Southwest Pahang, Tasek Bera is situated in the saddle of the main and eastern mountain ranges of Peninsula Malaysia. This natural freshwater lake system is the largest freshwater swamp in Peninsula Malaysia. Extending 35 km long and 20 km wide it drains into the Pahang River via the Bera River, the main artery to the north.
Tasek Bera is characterised by a watery landscape dominated by large grass-like blades of pandunas leaves which line the narrow channels. A variety of ferns, orchids and epiphytes can be seen attached to tree trunks while thorny rattan weave through the undergrowth. Among the fields of metre high reeds and rows of dense foliage found in the open water, dozens of pitcher plants hang in shades of green and red, In the drier areas, lowland rainforest trees and palms add to the diversity of the wetland reserve.
Tasek Bera is an ecosystem which supports not only a diversity of animal and plant life, but sustains the livelihood of the Semelai – the aboriginal people inhabiting the wetlands.
Tasek Bera has distinct wet and dry seasons which may determine the best time to visit. The wet months are from April to May and from September to January; while the dry periods are from February to April and June to August. Note however that some sections of the forest trails may not be accessible during the wet months.
Tasek Bera is a sanctuary for more than 200 bird species, 50 mammals and 90 fish species. It is also a habitat providing food and shelter for bird life, including kingfishes, hawks , herons, but overall, water-birds are strangely scarce. Though very difficult to see in the wild, the extended wetland area and its surrounding forests still support tigers, tapirs and elephants, all endangered species. Other wildlife known to exist here include the clouded leopard, wild boars, monkeys, mouse-deer, flying squirrels and flying lemur though the endangered crocodile called the Malayan False Gharial is a rear sight these days.
As an important biodiversity reservoir for freshwater fishes, Tasek Bera contains a large number of the country’s species, including popular aquarium fish such as harlequins and tiger barbs as well as large predatory catfish and other sport fish.
Boating and Kayaking
The relative isolation and tranquil surroundings of open water offer opportunities for boating and kayaking. Visitors will enjoy spending a few hours cruising the myriad of river channels and inlets to explore the vegetation and search for wildlife.
Jungle Trekking
Biologically rich in flora and fauna, the lowland rainforests offer ample opportunities
for jungle trekking excursions.
With over 15 types of sport fish in the rivers and lake it is a perfect hideout for a bit of fishing. According to the local aborigines, good fishing occurs after heavy rains.
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S: (n) Saprolegnia, genus Saprolegnia (aquatic fungi growing chiefly on plant debris and animal remains)
member holonym
S: (n) fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
S: (n) Erysiphe, genus Erysiphe (genus of powdery mildews)
S: (n) Neurospora, genus Neurospora (genus of fungi with black perithecia used extensively in genetic research; includes some forms with orange spore masses that cause severe damage in bakeries)
S: (n) Ceratostomella, genus Ceratostomella (genus of fungi forming continuous hyaline spores)
S: (n) Claviceps, genus Claviceps (fungi parasitic upon the ovaries of various grasses)
S: (n) Xylaria, genus Xylaria (type genus of Xylariaceae; fungi with perithecia in the upper part of erect black woody stromata)
S: (n) Rosellinia, genus Rosellinia (fungi having smooth perithecia with dark one-celled ascospores)
S: (n) Helotium, genus Helotium (type genus of the Helotiaceae)
S: (n) genus Sclerotinia (large genus of ascomycetous fungi including various destructive plant pathogens)
S: (n) Scleroderma, genus Scleroderma (genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles)
S: (n) Tulostoma, genus Tulostoma, Tulestoma, genus Tulestoma (type genus of the Tulostomaceae)
S: (n) Rhizopogon, genus Rhizopogon (a genus of fungi having subterranean sporophores resembling tubers)
S: (n) Truncocolumella, genus Truncocolumella (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Rhizopogonaceae)
S: (n) genus Mucor (type genus of the Mucoraceae; genus of molds having cylindrical or pear-shaped sporangia not limited in location to points where rhizoids develop)
S: (n) genus Rhizopus (a genus of rot-causing fungi having columnar hemispherical aerial sporangia anchored to the substrate by rhizoids)
S: (n) Entomophthora, genus Entomophthora (type genus of the Entomophthoraceae; fungi parasitic on insects)
S: (n) genus Dictostylium (genus of slime molds that grow on dung and decaying vegetation)
S: (n) Blastocladia, genus Blastocladia (a genus of fungi of the family Blastodiaceae)
S: (n) Synchytrium, genus Synchytrium (simple parasitic fungi including pond scum parasites)
S: (n) Peronospora, genus Peronospora (genus of destructive downy mildews)
S: (n) Albugo, genus Albugo (type genus of the Albuginaceae; fungi causing white rusts)
S: (n) genus Pythium (destructive root-parasitic fungi)
S: (n) Phytophthora, genus Phytophthora (destructive parasitic fungi causing brown rot in plants)
S: (n) Plasmodiophora, genus Plasmodiophora (type genus of Plasmodiophoraceae comprising minute plant parasitic fungi similar to and sometimes included among the slime molds)
S: (n) Tuber, genus Tuber (type genus of the Tuberaceae: fungi whose fruiting bodies are typically truffles)
S: (n) Hydnum, genus Hydnum (type genus of Hydnaceae)
S: (n) genus Lecanora (type genus of Lecanoraceae; crustaceous lichens)
S: (n) genus Roccella (chiefly fruticose maritime rock-inhabiting lichens)
S: (n) Pertusaria, genus Pertusaria (crustose lichens that are a source of the dye archil and of litmus)
S: (n) Usnea, genus Usnea (widely distributed lichens usually having a greyish or yellow pendulous freely branched thallus)
S: (n) Evernia, genus Evernia (lichens of the family Usneaceae having a pendulous or shrubby thallus)
S: (n) Ramalina, genus Ramalina (shrubby lichens of the family Usneaceae having a flattened thallus)
S: (n) Alectoria, genus Alectoria (lichens having dark brown erect or pendulous much-branched cylindrical thallus)
S: (n) Cladonia, genus Cladonia (type genus of Cladoniaceae; lichens characterized by a crustose thallus and capitate fruiting bodies borne on simple or branched podetia)
S: (n) Parmelia, genus Parmelia (type genus of the Parmeliaceae; a large genus of chiefly alpine foliaceous lichens)
S: (n) Cetraria, genus Cetraria (foliose lichens chiefly of northern latitudes)
S: (n) Agaricus, genus Agaricus (type genus of Agaricaceae; gill fungi having brown spores and including several edible species)
S: (n) Lentinus, genus Lentinus (a genus of fungus belonging to the family Tricholomataceae)
S: (n) Amanita, genus Amanita (genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions)
S: (n) Cantharellus, genus Cantharellus (a well-known genus of fungus; has funnel-shaped fruiting body; includes the chanterelles)
S: (n) Omphalotus, genus Omphalotus (a genus of fungi with a depressed disc in the cap)
S: (n) Coprinus, genus Coprinus (genus of black-spotted agarics in which the cap breaks down at maturity into an inky fluid; sometimes placed in its own family Coprinaceae)
S: (n) Lactarius, genus Lactarius (large genus of agarics that have white spore and contain a white or milky juice when cut or broken; includes both edible and poisonous species)
S: (n) Marasmius, genus Marasmius (chiefly small mushrooms with white spores)
S: (n) Pleurotus, genus Pleurotus (agarics with white spores and caps having an eccentric stem; an important mushroom of Japan)
S: (n) Pholiota, genus Pholiota (genus of gilled agarics of Europe and North America having brown spores and an annulus; grows on open ground or decaying wood)
S: (n) Russula, genus Russula (large genus of fungi with stout stems and white spores and neither annulus nor volva; brittle caps of red or purple or yellow or green or blue; differs from genus Lactarius in lacking milky juice)
S: (n) Stropharia, genus Stropharia, ring-stalked fungus (genus of gill fungi with brown spores that is closely related to Agaricus; here placed in its own family Strophariaceae)
S: (n) Entoloma, genus Entoloma (agarics with pink spores but lacking both volva and annulus (includes some that are poisonous))
S: (n) genus Chlorophyllum (a genus of fungus belonging to the family Lepiotaceae)
S: (n) genus Lepiota (agarics with white spores that includes several edible and poisonous mushrooms: parasol mushrooms)
S: (n) Corticium, genus Corticium (genus of fungi having simple smooth sporophores; some are parasitic on wood or economic crops; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia)
S: (n) Pellicularia, genus Pellicularia (genus of fungi having the hymenium in the form of a crust; some species formerly placed in form genus Rhizoctinia)
S: (n) Tricholoma, genus Tricholoma (agarics with white spores and a fleshy stalk and notched gills; of various colors both edible and inedible)
S: (n) Volvaria, genus Volvaria (agarics having pink spores and a distinct volva)
S: (n) Pluteus, genus Pluteus, roof mushroom (a large genus of fungi belonging to the family Pluteaceae; the shape of the cap resembles a roof; often abundant early in the summer)
S: (n) Volvariella, genus Volvariella (an important genus of mushrooms in the Orient)
S: (n) Clitocybe, genus Clitocybe (a genus of agarics with white to pale yellow spore deposits and fleshy stalks centrally attached to the cap and closely attached gills)
S: (n) Flammulina, genus Flammulina (a genus of agarics)
S: (n) Saccharomyces, genus Saccharomyces (single-celled yeasts that reproduce asexually by budding; used to ferment carbohydrates)
S: (n) Schizosaccharomyces, genus Schizosaccharomyces (type and only genus of Schizosaccharomycetaceae; comprises the fission yeasts)
S: (n) Eurotium, genus Eurotium (a genus of fungi belonging to the order Eurotiales)
S: (n) Aspergillus, genus Aspergillus (genus of common molds causing food spoilage and some pathogenic to plants and animals)
S: (n) Thielavia, genus Thielavia (genus of fungi having spherical brown perithecia and some conidia borne in chains; cause root rot)
S: (n) Peziza, genus Peziza (type genus of the Pezizaceae: a variety of cup fungus)
S: (n) Plectania, genus Plectania (genus of fungi in the family Pezizaceae closely related to and often included in genus Peziza)
S: (n) Morchella, genus Morchella (genus of edible fungi: morel)
S: (n) Wynnea, genus Wynnea (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Sarcoscyphaceae)
S: (n) genus Helvella (type genus of the Helvellaceae)
S: (n) genus Discina (a genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a cup-shaped or saucer-shaped fruiting body and ornamented spores)
S: (n) genus Gyromitra (a genus of fungi of the family Helvellaceae with a fertile portion that is tan to brown)
S: (n) Phallales, order Phallales (order of fungi comprising the stinkhorns and related forms whose mature hymenium is slimy and fetid; sometimes placed in subclass Homobasidiomycetes)
S: (n) Phallus, genus Phallus (genus of fungi having the cap or pileus hanging free around the stem)
S: (n) Dictyophera, genus Dictyophera (closely related to genus Phallus distinguished by an indusium hanging like a skirt from below the pileus)
S: (n) Mutinus, genus Mutinus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Phallaceae)
S: (n) Clathrus, genus Clathrus (type genus of the Clathraceae)
S: (n) Pseudocolus, genus Pseudocolus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Clathraceae)
S: (n) Lycoperdon, genus Lycoperdon (genus of fungi whose fruiting body tapers toward a base consisting of spongy mycelium)
S: (n) Calvatia, genus Calvatia (genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores)
S: (n) Geastrum, genus Geastrum (type genus of Geastraceae; fungi whose outer peridium when dry splits into starlike segments)
S: (n) Radiigera, genus Radiigera (a genus of fungus belonging to the family Geastraceae)
S: (n) Astreus, genus Astreus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Geastraceae)
S: (n) Nidularia, genus Nidularia (type genus of the Nidulariaceae)
S: (n) Gastrocybe, genus Gastrocybe (a genus of fungi of the family Secotiaceae)
S: (n) Macowanites, genus Macowanites (a stout-stemmed genus of fungus belonging to the family Secotiaceae having fruiting bodies that never expand completely)
S: (n) Gastroboletus, genus Gastroboletus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Secotiaceae; they resemble boletes but the spores are not discharged from the basidium)
S: (n) Albatrellus, genus Albatrellus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)
S: (n) Neolentinus, genus Neolentinus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)
S: (n) Nigroporus, genus Nigroporus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)
S: (n) Oligoporus, genus Oligoporus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Polyporaceae)
S: (n) Polyporus, genus Polyporus (type genus of the Polyporaceae; includes important pathogens of e.g. birches and conifers)
S: (n) Fistulina, genus Fistulina (fungi having each pore separate though crowded)
S: (n) Fomes, genus Fomes (genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees)
S: (n) Boletus, genus Boletus (type genus of Boletaceae; genus of soft early-decaying pore fungi; some poisonous and some edible)
S: (n) Fuscoboletinus, genus Fuscoboletinus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Leccinum, genus Leccinum (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Phylloporus, genus Phylloporus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Suillus, genus Suillus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Strobilomyces, genus Strobilomyces (fungi similar to Boletus but with a shaggy scaly cap)
S: (n) Boletellus, genus Boletellus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Boletaceae)
S: (n) Tremella, genus Tremella (fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain)
S: (n) Auricularia, genus Auricularia (type genus of the Auriculariaceae)
S: (n) Dacrymyces, genus Dacrymyces (type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae: fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa)
S: (n) Melampsora, genus Melampsora (rusts having sessile one-celled teliospores in a single layer)
S: (n) Cronartium, genus Cronartium (rust fungi having aecia produced in raised or swollen sori and teliospores borne in waxy columns)
S: (n) Puccinia, genus Puccinia (type genus of the Pucciniaceae; a large genus of parasitic fungi including many that are destructive to various economic plants)
S: (n) Gymnosporangium, genus Gymnosporangium (genus of fungi that produce galls on cedars and other conifers of genera Juniperus and Libocedrus and causes rust spots on apples and pears and other plants of family Rosaceae)
S: (n) Ustilago, genus Ustilago (type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts)
S: (n) Tilletia, genus Tilletia (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)
S: (n) Urocystis, genus Urocystis (a genus of smut fungi belonging to the family Tilletiaceae)
S: (n) Septobasidium, genus Septobasidium (type genus of Septobasidiaceae: smooth shelf fungi usually having a well-developed sometimes thick-walled hypobasidium)
S: (n) Hygrocybe, genus Hygrocybe (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae)
S: (n) Hygrophorus, genus Hygrophorus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae)
S: (n) Hygrotrama, genus Hygrotrama (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae)
S: (n) Neohygrophorus, genus Neohygrophorus (a genus of fungi belonging to the family Hygrophoraceae)
S: (n) Cortinarius, genus Cortinarius (the largest genus in the Agaricales; agarics having rusty spores and prominent cortinae (cobwebby partial veils))
S: (n) Gymnopilus, genus Gymnopilus (a genus of fungus characterized by the orange color of the spore deposit)
S: (n) genus Verticillium (genus of imperfect fungi having conidia borne singly at the apex of whorled branchlets; cause wilt diseases)
S: (n) Trichophyton, genus Trichophyton (a genus of fungus of the family Moniliaceae; causes ringworm and favus)
S: (n) Microsporum, genus Microsporum (a genus of fungus of the family Moniliaceae; causes ringworm)
S: (n) genus Monilia (genus of parasitic yeastlike imperfect fungi having spherical or oval conidia in branched chains; some species usually placed in other genera especially genus Candida)
S: (n) genus Candida (a genus of yeastlike imperfect fungi; sometimes included in genus Monilia of the family Moniliaceae)
S: (n) Cercosporella, genus Cercosporella (form genus of imperfect fungi lacking pigment in the spores and conidiophores)
S: (n) Penicillium, genus Penicillium (genus of fungi commonly growing as green or blue molds on decaying food; used in making cheese and as a source of penicillin)
S: (n) Blastomyces, genus Blastomyces (genus of pathogenic yeastlike fungi)
S: (n) Cercospora, genus Cercospora (form genus of imperfect fungi that are leaf parasites with long slender spores)
S: (n) Ustilaginoidea, genus Ustilaginoidea (genus of imperfect fungi causing plant diseases like smut)
S: (n) Tubercularia, genus Tubercularia (type genus of the Tuberculariaceae; fungi with nodules of red or pink conidia; some cause diebacks of woody plants)
S: (n) genus Fusarium (a form genus of mostly plant parasites some of which cause dry rot; in humans a species can cause inflammation of cornea leading to blindness)
S: (n) genus Rhizoctinia, form genus Rhizoctinia (form genus of imperfect fungi some species of which are now placed in genera Pellicularia and Corticium because their perfect stages have been found)
S: (n) Ozonium, genus Ozonium (form genus of imperfect fungi)
S: (n) Sclerotium, genus Sclerotium (form genus of sterile imperfect fungi; many form sclerotia; some cause sclerotium disease in plants)
S: (n) Geoglossum, genus Geoglossum (type genus of the Geoglossaceae comprising the earthtongues)
S: (n) Armillaria, genus Armillaria (genus of edible mushrooms having white spores an annulus and blue juice; some are edible; some cause root rot)
S: (n) Armillariella, genus Armillariella (a honey-colored diminutive form of genus Armillaria; grows in clusters; edible (when cooked) but most attention has been on how to get rid of it)
S: (n) genus ((biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species)
S: (n) form genus (an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms)
S: (n) bacteria genus (a genus of bacteria)
S: (n) protoctist genus (any genus of Protoctista)
S: (n) fish genus (any of various genus of fish)
S: (n) chordate genus (any genus in the phylum Chordata)
S: (n) bird genus (a genus of birds)
S: (n) amphibian genus (any genus of amphibians)
S: (n) reptile genus (a genus of reptiles)
S: (n) arthropod genus (a genus of arthropods)
S: (n) mammal genus (a genus of mammals)
S: (n) sponge genus (a genus of Porifera)
S: (n) coelenterate genus (a genus of coelenterates)
S: (n) ctenophore genus (a genus of ctenophores)
S: (n) worm genus (a genus of worms)
S: (n) mollusk genus (a genus of mollusks)
S: (n) echinoderm genus (a genus of echinoderms)
S: (n) type genus ((biology) genus from which the name of a family or subfamily is formed; it is not necessarily the most representative genus but often the largest or best known or earliest described)
S: (n) form genus ((biology) an artificial taxonomic category for organisms of which the true relationships are obscure)
S: (n) moss genus (a genus of mosses)
S: (n) gymnosperm genus (a genus of gymnosperms)
S: (n) monocot genus, liliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
S: (n) dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
S: (n) plant genus (a genus of plants)
S: (n) fern genus (genera of ferns and fern allies)
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Books Featuring, Quoting or Mentioning Kerr
The books listed immediately below feature me in varying degrees of detail. Below that is a list of books that quote and/or otherwise mention me.
Featuring Kerr
Chase, Alston. 1995. In A Dark Wood. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Cone, Joseph. 1994. A Common Fate: Endangered Salmon and the People of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Henry Hold and Company.
Dietrich, William. 1992. The Final Forest: The Battle for the Last Great Trees of the Pacific Northwest. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Durbin, Kathie. 1996. Tree Huggers: Victory, Defeat and Renewal in the Northwest Ancient Forest Campaign. Seattle: The Mountaineers Books.
Egan, Timothy. 1998. Lasso the Wind: Away to the New West. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Marsh, Kevin R. 2007. Drawing Lines in the Forest: Creating Wilderness Areas in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Seideman, David. 1993. Showdown At Opal Creek: The Battle for America's Last Wilderness. New York: Carrol and Graf.
Zakin, Susan. 1993. Coyotes and Town Dogs: Earth First! and the Environmental Movement. New York: Viking.
Quoting or Mentioning Kerr
Allen, Leslie. 2002. Wildlands of the West: The Story of the Bureau of Land Management. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society.
Arnold, Ron and Alan Gottlieb. 1994. Trashing the Economy: How Runaway Environmentalism is Wrecking America. Bellevue, Washington: Free Enterprise Press.
Arnold, Ron. 1997. EcoTerror: The Violent Agenda to Save Nature. Bellevue, Washington: Free Enterprise Press.
Arnold, Ron. 1999. Undue Influence: Wealthy Foundations, Grant-Driven Environmental Groups, and Zealous Bureaucrats That Control Your Future: Bellevue, WA: Free Enterprise Press.
Buchal, James L. 1998. The Great Salmon Hoax: An Eyewitness Account of the Collapse of Science and Law and the Triumph of Politics in Salmon Recovery. Aurora, Oregon: Iconoclast Publishing Company.
Cannavò, Peter F. 2007. The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press.
Connelly, Mike. 2001. ONRC, Go Home: A Rancher Speaks Out to Environmentalists about Community and the Land in Brick, Philip, Donald Snow and Sarah van De Wetering. Across the Great Divide: Explorations in Collaborative Conservation and the American West. Washington, DC: Island Press.
Crane, Jeff and Michael Egan. 2009. Natural Protest: Essays on the History of American Environmentalism. New York: Routledge (Taylor and Francis).
Davis. Charles E. 1997. Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
DeLuca, Kevin Michael. 1999. Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism. New York: Guilford Press.
Duffy, Robert J. 2003. The Green Agenda in American Politics: New Strategies for the 21st Century. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
Findley, Rowe, Robert Madden (also photographer), Mark Miller, Cynthia Russ Ramsay and Bill Richards. 1982. America's Spectacular Northwest. Washington, DC: National Geographic Society.
Foreman, Dave. 1991. Confessions of an Eco-Warrior. New York: Crown Publishers.
Foreman, Dave. 2004. Rewilding North America: A Vision for Conservation in the 21st Century. Washington, DC: Island Press
Gay, Kathlyn and Martin Gay. 1996. Heroes of Conscience: A Biographical Dictionary. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO
Gay, Kathlyn. 1993. Rainforests of the World: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO
Gay, Kathyn and Martin Gay. 1996. Hroes of Conscience: A Biographical Dictionary. Santa Barbara: CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc
Goodman, Jordan and Vivien Walsh. 2001. The Story of Taxol: Nature and Politics in the Pursuit of an Anti-Cancer Drug. Cambridge, United Kingom: Cambridge University Press.
Harden, Blaine. 1996. A River Lost: The Life and Death of the Columbia. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.
Helvarg, David. 1994. The War Against the Greens: The "Wise Use" Movement, The New Right and Anti-Environmental Violence. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books.
Herman, Steven G. 2012. Sage-Grouse and the Disconnect Between Research and Management on Public Lands in the American West in Sands, Joseph, et al. (editors). 2012. Wildlife Science: Connecting Research and Management. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis Group CRC Press.
Hoberg, George. 2001. The Emerging Triumph of Ecosystem Management: The Transformation of Federal Forest Policy in Davis, Charles (editor). Western Public Lands and Environmental Politics. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
McCloskey, Michael. 2013. Conserving Oregon's Environment: Breakthroughs that Made History. Portland, OR: Inkwater Press.
McCormick, Ronald J. 2009. Plain Green Wrapper: A Forester's Story. (Self-Published: ISBN 978-0-578-02601-5).
Merrow, Susan D. and Wanda A. Rickerby. 1992. On for the Earth: Journal of Sierra Club President. Sagamore Press.
Miller, Char. 2000. Water in the West: A High Country News Reader. Corvallis, OR: Oregon State University Press.
Miller, Joseph S. Miller. 2008 The Wicked Wine of Democracy: A Memoir of a Political Junkie. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Mowrey, Marc and Tim Redmond. 1993. Not in Your Backyard: The People and Events That Shaped America's Modern Environmental Movement. New York: William Morrow and Company.
Noss, Reed and Allen Y. Cooperrider. 1994. Saving Nature's Legacy: Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity. Washington, DC: Defenders of Wildlife. (not in index, page 220).
Palmer, Tim. 1994. Lifelines: The Case for River Conservation. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
Pendley, William Perry. Washington, DC. 1995. War on the West: Government Tyranny on America's Great Frontier. Washington, DC: Regnery Publishing.
Pendley, William. 1995. War on the West: Government Tyranny on America's Great Frontier. Washington, DC: Regency Publishing.
Pyle, Robert Michael. 1995. Where Bigfoot Walks: Crossing the Dark Divide. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Reisbsame, William (editor). 1997. Atlas of the New West: A Portrait of a Changing Region. Boulder: University of Colorado.
Robinson, Rowan. 1996. The Great Book of Hemp: The Complete Guide to the Environmental, Commercial, and Medicinal Uses of the World's Most Extraordinary Plant.
Ronald, Ann. 2006. Oh, Give Me a Home: Western Contemplations. Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press.
Roselle, Mike. (with Josh Mahan). 2009. Tree Spiker: FromEarth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action. New York. St. Martin's Press.
Roth, Dennis. 1995. The Wilderness Movement and the National Forests. College Station, Texas: Intaglio Press.
Rowell, Andrew. 1996. Green Backlash: Global Subversion of the Environmental Movement. London and New York: Routledge.
Safina, Carl. 1997. Song for the Blue Ocean: Encounters Along the World's Coasts and Beneath the Seas. New York: Henry Holt and Company.
Sagoff, Mark. 2004. Price, Principle and the Environment. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press.
Salazar, Debra J. and Donald K. Alper. 2000. Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast: Forging Truces in the War in the Woods. Toronto, ON: UBC Press.
Silverstein, Alvin and Virginia B. Silverstein. 1994. The Spotted Owl. Minneapolis, MN: Milbrook Press.
Sinha, P.C. 1998. Green Philosophy. New Delhi: Anmol Pulications.
St. Clair, Jeffry. 2004. Been Brown So Long It Looked Green to Me: The politics of Nature. Monroe, ME: Common Courage Press.
Stennett, Edwin. 2002. In Growth We Trust: Sprawl, Smart Growth, and Rapid Population Growth. Gaithersburg, Maryland: Growth Education Movement.
Stern, Kenneth. 1996. A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Poltics of Hate. New York: Simon and Schuster.
Stout, Benjamin B. 2003. The Northern Spotted Owl: An Oregon View—1975–2002. Victoria, British Columbia: Trafford Publishing.
Switzer, Jacqueline Vaughn. 197. Green Backlash: The History and Politics of Environmental Opposition in the U.S. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers.
Taylor III, Joseph E. 1999. Making Salmon: An Environmental History of the Northwest Fisheries Crisis. Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Tokar, Brian. 1997. Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in an Age of Corporate Greenwash. Cambridge, MA: South End Press
Tokar, Brian. 1997. Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash. Boston: South End Press.
Vaughn, Jacqueline. 2007. Conflicts over Natural Resoures: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara: CA: ABC-CLIO, Inc.
Vaughn, Jacqueline. 2009. Conflicts of Natural Resources: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara: CA: ABC-CLIO,Inc.
Watkins, Tom H. and Patricia Byrnes. The World of Wilderness: Essays on the Power and Purpose of Wild Country. Lanham, MD: Roberts Rinehart Publishers.
White, Richard. 1996. Are You and Environmentalist or Do You Work for a Living? In Cronon, William (editor). Uncommon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.
Williams, Ted. 2007. Something's Fishy: An Angler's Look at How We've Distressed Gamefish and Their Waters, and How We Can Protect and Preserve Both. New York: Skyhorse Publishing.
Williams, Ted. 2007. Something's Fishy: An Angler's Look at Our Distressed Gamefish and Their Waters&mdashand How We Can Preserve Both. New York: Skyhorse Publishing.
Wittbecker, Alan. 2006. Good Forestry From Good Theories and Good Practices: Essays on Ecological Forestry & Ecological Design. Sarasota, Florida: Cambridge Books and Uranaia Science Press.
Wittbecker, Alan. 2006. Reviewing, Rethinking, Returning: Essays on Live, Ecology and Design. Sarasota, Florida: Cambridge Books and Uranaia Science Press.
Yaffe, Steven Lewis. 1994. The Wisdom of the Spotted Owl: Policy Lessons for a New Century. Washington, DC: Island Press.
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The Business End of Being a Doctor: Telephone Technology
As I do periodically, I reviewed the costs of the practice this spring, and was, frankly, appalled at how much I was spending for a second phone line -- a line which was used primarily for faxes, incoming call rollover, and for me to return patient calls or to call the kids and remind them to clean their rooms. I felt there was probably a better way to spend this money, particularly as there are easier and cheaper ways to provide the same services.
So, step 1 was to move to an internet fax service. For pennies per month, this service provides a dedicated fax number. Incoming faxes such as lab reports are mailed to us as a PDF file, which we can then immediately transfer to the patient's electronic file. No paper, no printing, no muss, no fuss.
Outgoing faxes are simply PDF files emailed to the service which then sends them to the receiving party's fax machine. So, for example, when I make a referral to another physician or to the local lab, I no longer have to print it out and have Teresa schlep it through the fax. Instead, I make the referral through the electronic medical records system, save it as a PDF file, and email it to the service. Takes maybe 15 seconds.
With the need for a fax line obviated, we dumped it. But then another problem became apparent, because I ended up using the single line for making outgoing calls, such as returning calls from patients and the periodic calls to home that are routine in any working parent's day, to make sure the hermit crab got fed and that nobody was doing anything that would result in concussions or uncontrollable bleeding, and to say, yes, I will spend my lunchtime going to the school to drop off the homework you forgot.
Clearly I needed a second line, so I started using Skype for calls to landline and mobile phones. But I've never really been a big fan for several reasons, among them being that Skype uses proprietary protocols. Last year, I converted the entire office from Windows to the Ubuntu (Linux-based) operating system, which I found to be far more effective for our needs. With the most recent upgrade to the Ubuntu 10.04 operating system, my Skype broke completely, insofar as being able to call landlines and mobiles on it. I could still make Skype-to-Skype calls with no problem, but forget calling the kids or returning patient calls. Skype's tech support was only mildly interested in the problem, and eventually told me to purge the software and reinstall it, and if that didn't work they were washing their hands of the problem.
Needless to say, it didn't work. So I went in search of an alternative, and found Nomado. For a paltry 5 euros per month, I got my own incoming phone number, 500 minutes/month of talk time to almost any phone in the civilized world, automatic call forwarding to my cellphone and voicemail that is emailed to me as .wav files. And all at a price that is almost 50% less than what I had to pay Skype for same.
The voice quality is perfect, better than Skype, and far better coverage for calling Europe, the UK and South American countries. Plus, it uses the SIP protocol -- an open source protocol -- which means I have my choice of PC-based softphones as well as hardware phones to pick from, and I wasn't stuck with the Skype non-functional software and hardware lineup.
I *highly* recommend this service over Skype. Better value, by far.
The Nomado website is a wee bit hinky, especially if you're using Firefox on Linux -- for the signup process, I had to boot up Chrome on a virtual XP machine to get the job done -- but they have online chat tech support that is superb.
So I now have a direct incoming line, with all of the bells and whistles, for about $6 per month.
With the grossly inappropriate reimbursements the insurance companies are dishing out these days, it pays a doctor to stay on top of the technology curve. That way you can reduce costs while maintaining high levels of service.
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December 7, 2018 January 26, 2019 Claude West
Gone are the days when Nokia 1100 used to be our only savior but things have changed massively today, in the era of Smartphones, people always look out for the best devices in the market these days. And for a Smartphone to great sport features, it needs to be equipped with a greater operating system. OS are the heart of all the gadgets as the functionality of it totally depends upon the operating system.
It starts getting into use after the user turns on their respective device, and soon after that they get the access to all the applications which are downloaded on the device. Whenever we talk about operating systems, we tend to speak about iOS, Windows and of course, Android as these there OS have been ruling it since their inception.
Several users have different opinions about these operating systems; some say that iOS is the best one among the entire lot and nothing can beat it at all. Some users state that Windows has its own charm and stands out and according to some Android will always top the list.
So there has always been a competition among these three operating systems. But talking about iOS, it was launched only for the iPhones initially, but the developers soon started equipping the iOS with iPod Touch and other devices developed by Apple.
It’s only because of the iOS that the devices get to sport so many innovative features which make them stand out in all rights. The last one was the iOS 10 which once again wooed away from the users by bearing great features. The best part was the photo stories which can be made through the pictures by just clicking on memories in the photo section. The fascinating features made every user satisfied and they are expecting the iOS 11 to be even bigger.
There could be a possibility of Apple launching the next OS in the series along with the much anticipated iPhone 8 and such rumors have only emerged because the release date of the operating system has not been out until now. But that does not restrain the users who are waiting for its release to mull over the features which can be expected.
The users are in dire need of a major Siri upgrade due to which the developers should actually think of coming something big regarding Siri when the iOS 11 launches. Therefore, a major upgrade in Siri might be expected from the developers this time.
iOS 10 did feature the 3D Touch, and now even the upcoming operating system by the American multinational company is predicted to sport the same feature. Apart from that the users also have urged to witness iOS 11 sporting a Dark Mode feature which is expected to be an extremely convenient feature for every user.
However, there are a lot of discussions going regarding the iOS 11 which indicates that people have already started becoming hyped with it. Therefore, the upcoming operating system is awaited to a larger extent.
Is your device compatible with iOS 13? Check out the list of devices which support latest iOS.
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The bust, known as Operation Cancun, led approximately 300 officers through searches of 15 locations in Greater Montreal and the aboriginal communities of Kahnawake, Akwesasne and Kanesetake.
"For us, our priority is drugs. Drug trafficking causes the biggest social problem in our communities."
conference yesterday afternoon that the leader of the crime ring lived in the Kahnawake area, and all the drugs were grown in Quebec.
They were then smuggled across the border through Akwasasne Mohawk territory, and sold throughout New York state.
Aboriginal law enforcement representatives said the arrests provided a major boost to the communities involved, as the flood of drugs and money have caused serious harm on area reserves.
"They took the lead in these arrests and searches, and we were certainly there to work with them to make sure that the organized crime groups faced the proper prosecution."
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Harvey also said part of the reason for the success of this particular raid was the fact that police aimed high, and caught the organization by surprise.
"The Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service and the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Police really are the front line police on the international border, where all of this commodity is either coming north or going south," he said.
"The Kahnawake Mohawk Peacekeepers, Akwesasne Mohawk Police Service and the St. Regis Mohawk Tribal Police played a pivotal role in the arrests today, and in this investigation," RCMP Sgt. Michael Harvey told the Standard Freeholder.
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The rise of Vainglory: Release The Kraken!
Mobile gaming, the two words that’ll make any serious gamer scoff in disgust and drive the phrase “Mobile Gaming isn’t real gaming” from their guts. While this may have been true 5 even 4 years ago, the technology and power inside our phones has developed rapidly to the point of being on the same graphical level as mobile gaming devices.
Vainglory Is probably the first incarnation of a true competitive mobile game, in the MOBA genre anyway. Players who are familiar with League of Legends, DOTA 2 or Heroes of the Storm will find peace in the layout and mechanics of Vainglory as they are distinctly similar and play to the stereotypes of what a MOBA game is, but brilliantly adapted to a handheld device.
Competitive play is often ruined by toxic players, this is true in League of Legends where players largely go unpunished and In ranked situations where players leave matches, it effects both quality of play, but also the rate In which a player can rank up. Vainglory has a brilliant system in place for game AFK / leavers. If you find a team member has left the battle, the two remaining players can instantly surrender the match. This loss does not impact the rank of the losing players and gives the leaving player a deserter queue time increase to each match, increasing if they continue to leave games.
What we are actually seeing with Vainglory is a bit more of a divide in terms of ages and this carries across to competitive play where some of the team members are 16 rather than the average of 20. This is because of the gaming background of each generation, with younger gamers being more mobile native and less bias towards mobile gaming in general. Kristian Segerstrale who is the COO of Super Evil Megacorp (developers and publisher behind Vainglory) has mentioned that some of the games pro’s are only 14 years of age.
The main map for Vainglory is known as the “Halcyon Fold” and is played left to right or right to left depending on what team you’re on, with minion waves leading out and other monsters appearing around the 45 second mark. Early game is all about farming but as players approach mid – late game the focus shifts onto the Kraken, a boss type creature that lurks in the centre of the map, making his first appearance around the 15 minute mark. For a mobile game, it’s surprisingly beautiful and the content rich area of play certainly gives the game an authentic feel.
Compared to games like Overwatch, there are actually a sizable amount of characters to choose from in Vainglory, although avid MOBA fans may spot some questionable rip offs of LoL champions. With assassin types characters like Taka and Kosha that are great at isolating the enemy, inflicting massive burst damage or Protector type characters like Lance or Phinn who “tank” the incoming damage and set up kills for the other two players.
With your character chosen it’s up to you and the rest of your team to decide who will be playing what positions. In vainglory there are 3 positions.
Each position requires a specific build / item choices to match creating a diverse team.
So, what do we think?
Competitively Vainglory is gaining attention and well known teams such as Team SoloMid and SK Gaming have trained up pro teams. To have these successful teams attached to the game, it really goes to show how relevant Vainglory is as a MOBA and an Esports.
Vainglory is paving the way for a more diversity in Esports, it’s about time we saw a mobile friendly competitive game. However, one of the things that may be Vainglory’s undoing is audience. The reason League of Legends is so fully fleshed out is because they have a massive audience size, meaning the demand for new champions, new skins is a lot higher and the developers can fit the need because of the income generated for the game.
Because the game is limited to IOS and Android devices, there is a massive market being missed out on, but in hindsight, it’s the fact that the game is exclusively mobile that it can compete with the big names who are unable to spread across platforms because of the way the games have been built. Overall a very well crafted game to twiddle your thumbs at until your heart’s content.
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New ways of experiencing nature at the Brandywine
06/22/2018 10:12AM ● By J. Chambless
Diana Thater's video wall, 'Road to Hana Two.'
Natural Wonders at Brandywine [7 Images] Click Any Image To Expand
'Brandywine River' (2018), by Kathleen Vance, stretches outside the gallery.
Glowing windows showing shifting clouds, by T.J. Wilcox.
'Cambodian Grass Cave' by Dustin Yellin.
One of Kathleen Vance's 'Traveling Landscape' sculptures.
Suzanne Anker's 'Remote Sensing: Micro-Landscapes' (detail).
'Weed Study' by Patrick Jacobs.
Jennifer Trask's 'Landscape' (detail). Photo courtesy of the artist and Gallery Loupe.
By John Chambless
Nature has been a constant source of inspiration for artists, and some of the finest landscape artists in the world are represented in the collection of the Brandywine River Museum of Art. For the exhibition that's opening this weekend, however, the Brandywine looks at nature in a whole new way. “Natural Wonders: The Sublime in Contemporary Art” is a sleek, dazzling, fascinating show that unites works by 13 American artists.
You notice that something's different about this show before you even enter the third-floor gallery. Spanning the museum's atrium is Kathleen Vance's “Brandywine River,” a commissioned work that miniaturizes a five-mile stretch of the river, complete with flowing water. Viewed against the real Brandywine River that's just outside the museum, it's a compelling inside-outside experience.
Stepping into the gallery, you find Suzanne Anker's “Remote Sensing: Micro-Landscapes,” a grouping of 24 Petri dishes containing miniature landscapes of varying pastel hues, each one suggesting a mountain range or coral reef, but confined for scientific study or preservation.
Jennifer Trask's bone and antler sculptures have a thousand variations of white and ivory. Her “Landscape” is a tangle of bone fragments and resin. Her “Queen Anne's Lace” is as delicate as a breeze, with blooms made of python and rattlesnake ribs, and stems made of curled sewing needles.
Maya Lin's “Bay, Pond and Harbor (Long Island Triptych)” is a three-piece rendering of bodies of water made of recycled silver. The empty space of the gallery wall serves as the land mass. Lin's nearby “Pin River-Hudson” renders the shape of the Hudson River with thousands of pins placed into the wall as a delicate symphony of shadows.
Kathleen Vance's “Traveling Landscape” sculptures are miniature vistas contained in old suitcases. They are propped open and lighted, and pumps move water through the riverbeds. You can bend down and peer into the magical spaces, which hint at both the preservation and the ownership of the land.
Sit for a moment and share the quiet wonder of Mark Tribe's 4K digital video, “Balsam Lake Mountain Wild Forest, Ulster County, NY.” It shows a small stream flowing through the woods, with ambient sounds of the trickling water and surrounding forest playing on speakers. The video is 24 hours long and captures just what happens at that spot in the unspoiled forest. Water trickles, butterflies come and go, a bird darts here and there. It is synchronized to the minute, so whatever time of day or night you come upon it, the time is the same in the video.
Elsewhere, Diana Thater's video, “Road to Hana Two,” is shown on nine aligned monitors. It shows a spot on Maui with vibrant rainbow eucalyptus blooms, but each monitor's video feed is subtly altered by Thater, alternately scratchy, overlapped, seemingly 3-D or otherwise altering our perception of the static scene.
While Thater's piece wraps around you, the four tiny, round windows that open onto Patrick Jacobs' miniature worlds ask you to come up and peek inside the portholes, some only a couple of inches wide. Inside are startlingly realistic vistas that suggest acres of landscape. Each twig and leaf has been sculpted by Jacobs, putting weeds and molds front and center in starring roles. They are mesmerizing and magical.
But that magic is also echoed in Dustin Yellin's glass sculptures. The glass blocks contain three-dimensional scenes that are made, layer by tiny layer, by painting on glass and overlapping. You need to get very close to see the brush strokes that make up these otherworldly places. But if you view them from the side, they disappear. “Cambodian Grass Cave” looks like it's six feet thick, and “Black Mirror” has two waterfalls mirroring each other, with tiny human figures tucked into the cliffs on either side.
Elsewhere, the six seemingly straightforward black-and-white photos of plant life are, in fact, fanciful creations that are vaguely otherworldly and constructed from computer-generated models which are then photographed.
Other highlights include Lauren Fensterstock's “Kiku,” a regimented forest of Japanese mums that have been bred to stand straight up and produce a single, large bloom. Done in black, the flowers are stripped of what makes them “useful” to human beings, who have bred them to bloom in unnatural ways in the first place.
And you'll want to spend some time walking back and forth in front of the four views of clouds in blue skies by T.J. Wilcox. The clouds shift and move as you walk past them, bringing a corner of sunny reverie into the gallery space.
“Natural Wonders” is a big step into art that doesn't hang in a frame, and the museum deserves applause for breaking out of its borders. Each of these works makes subtle points about open space and our strained relationship with the natural world, while also celebrating its beauty and magic. Don't miss your chance to see this cutting-edge artwork.
“Natural Wonders: The Sublime in Contemporary Art” continues through Oct. 21 at the Brandywine River Museum of Art (Route 1, Chadds Ford). Visit www.brandywinemuseum.org or call 610-388-2700.
To contact Staff Writer John Chambless, email jchambless@chestercounty.com.
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China Eyes Land Shopping Around Panama Canal
By Prei Dy | Mar 27, 2017 11:41 PM EDT
A cargo ship makes its way through the Miraflores locks as it crosses the Panama Canal on April 7, 2016 in Panama City, Panama. (Photo : Getty Images)
Chinese firms want to develop land around the Panama Canal, as Panama plans to open and build infrastructures on the currently unused locations.
"We have been talking to people here in China," Chief Executive Jorge Quijano told Reuters on Monday, adding that China Communications Construction Corp subsidiary China Harbour Engineering Company and China Railway Group have shown interest on the project.
The Panama Canal Authority plans to turn about 1,200 hectares of land around the waterway into logistics park within the year. Quijano said the canal authority plans to parcel out the land and give concession agreements of up to 40 years. It also plans to grant operating deal for a roll-on, roll-off terminal near the canal; tendering will be put out mid-2017.
Quijano estimated that after the first five years of operation, the land and terminal would magnet an annual revenue of between $100 and $125 million. Overall, the Panama Canal is anticipated to bring in $2.8 billion in revenue this year.
Meanwhile, the move follows as China encourages its firms to invest more in infrastructure overseas as part of its plan to improve global trade links through the "One Belt, One Road" initiative, Asia Times reported.
"There are opportunities there, definitely for some of these Chinese companies to participate as a concessionaire, not just as a contractor to build something, but they can actually bid for the concession and then build," Quijano said.
Chinese firms have been highly investing in key logistics nodes like Piraeues in Greece and Bandar Malaysia. China's COSCO Shipping Corp. has also in the past expressed interest on the Panama Canal.
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Philippine Supreme Court Jurisprudence > Year 2006 > April 2006 Decisions > G.R. No. 122880 - FELIX AZUELA v. COURT OF APPEALS, ET AL.:
THIRD DIVISION
[G.R. NO. 122880 : April 12, 2006]
FELIX AZUELA, Petitioner, v. COURT OF APPEALS, GERALDA AIDA CASTILLO substituted by ERNESTO G. CASTILLO, Respondents.
D E C I S I O N
TINGA, J.:
The core of this petition is a highly defective notarial will, purportedly executed by Eugenia E. Igsolo (decedent), who died on 16 December 1982 at the age of 80. In refusing to give legal recognition to the due execution of this document, the Court is provided the opportunity to assert a few important doctrinal rules in the execution of notarial wills, all self-evident in view of Articles 805 and 806 of the Civil Code.
A will whose attestation clause does not contain the number of pages on which the will is written is fatally defective. A will whose attestation clause is not signed by the instrumental witnesses is fatally defective. And perhaps most importantly, a will which does not contain an acknowledgment, but a mere jurat, is fatally defective. Any one of these defects is sufficient to deny probate. A notarial will with all three defects is just aching for judicial rejection.
There is a distinct and consequential reason the Civil Code provides a comprehensive catalog of imperatives for the proper execution of a notarial will. Full and faithful compliance with all the detailed requisites under Article 805 of the Code leave little room for doubt as to the validity in the due execution of the notarial will. Article 806 likewise imposes another safeguard to the validity of notarial wills - that they be acknowledged before a notary public by the testator and the witnesses. A notarial will executed with indifference to these two codal provisions opens itself to nagging questions as to its legitimacy.
The case stems from a petition for probate filed on 10 April 1984 with the Regional Trial Court (RTC) of Manila. The petition filed by petitioner Felix Azuela sought to admit to probate the notarial will of Eugenia E. Igsolo, which was notarized on 10 June 1981. Petitioner is the son of the cousin of the decedent.
The will, consisting of two (2) pages and written in the vernacular Pilipino, read in full:
HULING HABILIN NI EUGENIA E. IGSOLO
SA NGALAN NG MAYKAPAL, AMEN:
AKO, si EUGENIA E. IGSOLO, nakatira sa 500 San Diego St., Sampaloc, Manila, pitongput siyam (79) na gulang, nasa hustong pagi-isip, pag-unawa at memoria ay nag-hahayag na ito na ang aking huling habilin at testamento, at binabali wala ko lahat ang naunang ginawang habilin o testamento:
Una-Hinihiling ko na ako ay mailibing sa Sementerio del Norte, La Loma sang-ayong sa kaugalian at patakaran ng simbahang katoliko at ang taga-pag-ingat (Executor) ng habiling ito ay magtatayo ng bantayog upang silbing ala-ala sa akin ng aking pamilya at kaibigan;
Pangalawa-Aking ipinagkakaloob at isinasalin ang lahat ng karapatan sa aking pamangkin na si Felix Azuela, na siyang nag-alaga sa akin sa mahabang panahon, yaong mga bahay na nakatirik sa lote numero 28, Block 24 at nakapangalan sa Pechaten Korporasyon, ganoon din ibinibigay ko ang lahat ng karapatan sa bahay na nakatirik sa inoopahan kong lote, numero 43, Block 24 na pag-aari ng Pechaten Corporation. Ipinagkakaloob kong buong buo ang lahat ng karapatan sa bahay at lupa na nasa 500 San Diego St., Lot 42, Block 24, Sampaloc, Manila kay Felix Azuela at ang pagkakaloob kong ito ay walang pasubali't at kondiciones;
Pangatlo - Na ninunumbrahan ko si VART PAGUE na siyang nagpapatupad ng huling habiling ito at kagustuhan ko rin na hindi na kailanman siyang mag-lagak ng piyansiya.
Aking nilagdaan ang Huling Habilin na ito dito sa Maynila ika 10 ng Hunyo, 1981.
(Sgd.)
EUGENIA E. IGSOLO
(Tagapagmana)
PATUNAY NG MGA SAKSI
Ang kasulatang ito, na binubuo ng ____ dahon pati ang huling dahong ito, na ipinahayag sa amin ni Eugenia E. Igsolo, tagapagmana na siya niyang Huling Habilin, ngayon ika-10 ng Hunyo 1981, ay nilagdaan ng nasabing tagapagmana sa ilalim ng kasulatang nabanggit at sa kaliwang panig ng lahat at bawa't dahon, sa harap ng lahat at bawa't sa amin, at kami namang mga saksi ay lumagda sa harap ng nasabing tagapagmana at sa harap ng lahat at bawa't isa sa amin, sa ilalim ng nasabing kasulatan at sa kaliwang panig ng lahat at bawa't dahon ng kasulatan ito.
address: 500 San Diego St.
Sampaloc, Manila Res. Cert. No. A-7717-37
Issued at Manila on March 10, 1981.
QUIRINO AGRAVA
address: 1228-Int. 3, Kahilum
Pandacan, Manila Res. Cert. No. A-458365
Issued at Manila on Jan. 21, 1981
LAMBERTO C. LEAÑO
address: Avenue 2, Blcok 7,
Lot 61, San Gabriel, G.MA., Cavite Res.
Cert. No. A-768277 issued at Carmona, Cavite on Feb. 7, 1981
JUANITO ESTRERA
address: City Court Compound,
City of Manila Res. Cert. No. A574829
Issued at Manila on March 2, 1981.
Nilagdaan ko at ninotario ko ngayong 10 ng Hunyo 10, 1981 dito sa Lungsod ng Maynila.
PETRONIO Y. BAUTISTA
Doc. No. 1232 ; NOTARIO PUBLIKO
Page No. 86 ; Until Dec. 31, 1981
Book No. 43 ; PTR-152041-1/2/81-Manila
Series of 1981 TAN # 1437-977-81
The three named witnesses to the will affixed their signatures on the left-hand margin of both pages of the will, but not at the bottom of the attestation clause.
The probate petition adverted to only two (2) heirs, legatees and devisees of the decedent, namely: petitioner himself, and one Irene Lynn Igsolo, who was alleged to have resided abroad. Petitioner prayed that the will be allowed, and that letters testamentary be issued to the designated executor, Vart Prague.
The petition was opposed by Geralda Aida Castillo (Geralda Castillo), who represented herself as the attorney-in-fact of "the 12 legitimate heirs" of the decedent.2 Geralda Castillo claimed that the will is a forgery, and that the true purpose of its emergence was so it could be utilized as a defense in several court cases filed by oppositor against petitioner, particularly for forcible entry and usurpation of real property, all centering on petitioner's right to occupy the properties of the decedent.3 It also asserted that contrary to the representations of petitioner, the decedent was actually survived by 12 legitimate heirs, namely her grandchildren, who were then residing abroad. Per records, it was subsequently alleged that decedent was the widow of Bonifacio Igsolo, who died in 1965,4 and the mother of a legitimate child, Asuncion E. Igsolo, who predeceased her mother by three (3) months.5
Oppositor Geralda Castillo also argued that the will was not executed and attested to in accordance with law. She pointed out that decedent's signature did not appear on the second page of the will, and the will was not properly acknowledged. These twin arguments are among the central matters to this petition.
After due trial, the RTC admitted the will to probate, in an Order dated 10 August 1992.6 The RTC favorably took into account the testimony of the three (3) witnesses to the will, Quirino Agrava, Lamberto Leano, and Juanito Estrada. The RTC also called to fore "the modern tendency in respect to the formalities in the execution of a will x x x with the end in view of giving the testator more freedom in expressing his last wishes;"7 and from this perspective, rebutted oppositor's arguments that the will was not properly executed and attested to in accordance with law.
After a careful examination of the will and consideration of the testimonies of the subscribing and attesting witnesses, and having in mind the modern tendency in respect to the formalities in the execution of a will, i.e., the liberalization of the interpretation of the law on the formal requirements of a will with the end in view of giving the testator more freedom in expressing his last wishes, this Court is persuaded to rule that the will in question is authentic and had been executed by the testatrix in accordance with law.
On the issue of lack of acknowledgement, this Court has noted that at the end of the will after the signature of the testatrix, the following statement is made under the sub-title, "Patunay Ng Mga Saksi":
"Ang kasulatang ito, na binubuo ng _____ dahon pati ang huling dahong ito, na ipinahayag sa amin ni Eugenia N. Igsolo, tagapagmana na siya niyang Huling Habilin, ngayong ika-10 ng Hunyo 1981, ay nilagdaan ng nasabing tagapagmana sa ilalim ng kasulatang nabanggit at sa kaliwang panig ng lahat at bawa't dahon, sa harap ng lahat at bawa't sa amin, at kami namang mga saksi ay lumagda sa harap ng nasabing tagapagmana at sa harap ng lahat at bawa't isa sa amin, sa ilalim ng nasabing kasulatan at sa kaliwang panig ng lahat at bawa't dahon ng kasulatan ito."
The aforequoted declaration comprises the attestation clause and the acknowledgement and is considered by this Court as a substantial compliance with the requirements of the law.
On the oppositor's contention that the attestation clause was not signed by the subscribing witnesses at the bottom thereof, this Court is of the view that the signing by the subscribing witnesses on the left margin of the second page of the will containing the attestation clause and acknowledgment, instead of at the bottom thereof, substantially satisfies the purpose of identification and attestation of the will.
With regard to the oppositor's argument that the will was not numbered correlatively in letters placed on upper part of each page and that the attestation did not state the number of pages thereof, it is worthy to note that the will is composed of only two pages. The first page contains the entire text of the testamentary dispositions, and the second page contains the last portion of the attestation clause and acknowledgement. Such being so, the defects are not of a serious nature as to invalidate the will. For the same reason, the failure of the testatrix to affix her signature on the left margin of the second page, which contains only the last portion of the attestation clause and acknowledgment is not a fatal defect.
As regards the oppositor's assertion that the signature of the testatrix on the will is a forgery, the testimonies of the three subscribing witnesses to the will are convincing enough to establish the genuineness of the signature of the testatrix and the due execution of the will.8
The Order was appealed to the Court of Appeals by Ernesto Castillo, who had substituted his since deceased mother-in-law, Geralda Castillo. In a Decision dated 17 August 1995, the Court of Appeals reversed the trial court and ordered the dismissal of the petition for probate.9 The Court of Appeals noted that the attestation clause failed to state the number of pages used in the will, thus rendering the will void and undeserving of probate.10
Hence, the present petition.
Petitioner argues that the requirement under Article 805 of the Civil Code that "the number of pages used in a notarial will be stated in the attestation clause" is merely directory, rather than mandatory, and thus susceptible to what he termed as "the substantial compliance rule."11
The solution to this case calls for the application of Articles 805 and 806 of the Civil Code, which we replicate in full.
Art. 805. Every will, other than a holographic will, must be subscribed at the end thereof by the testator himself or by the testator's name written by some other person in his presence, and by his express direction, and attested and subscribed by three or more credible witnesses in the presence of the testator and of one another.
The testator or the person requested by him to write his name and the instrumental witnesses of the will, shall also sign, as aforesaid, each and every page thereof, except the last, on the left margin, and all the pages shall be numbered correlatively in letters placed on the upper part of each page.
The attestation shall state the number of pages used upon which the will is written, and the fact that the testator signed the will and every page thereof, or caused some other person to write his name, under his express direction, in the presence of the instrumental witnesses, and that the latter witnessed and signed the will and all the pages thereof in the presence of the testator and of one another.
If the attestation clause is in a language not known to the witnesses, it shall be interpreted to them.
Art. 806. Every will must be acknowledged before a notary public by the testator and the witnesses. The notary public shall not be required to retain a copy of the will, or file another with the office of the Clerk of Court.
The appellate court, in its Decision, considered only one defect, the failure of the attestation clause to state the number of pages of the will. But an examination of the will itself reveals several more deficiencies.
As admitted by petitioner himself, the attestation clause fails to state the number of pages of the will.12 There was an incomplete attempt to comply with this requisite, a space having been allotted for the insertion of the number of pages in the attestation clause. Yet the blank was never filled in; hence, the requisite was left uncomplied with.
The Court of Appeals pounced on this defect in reversing the trial court, citing in the process Uy Coque v. Navas L. Sioca13 and In re: Will of Andrada.14 In Uy Coque, the Court noted that among the defects of the will in question was the failure of the attestation clause to state the number of pages contained in the will.15 In ruling that the will could not be admitted to probate, the Court made the following consideration which remains highly relevant to this day: "The purpose of requiring the number of sheets to be stated in the attestation clause is obvious; the document might easily be so prepared that the removal of a sheet would completely change the testamentary dispositions of the will and in the absence of a statement of the total number of sheets such removal might be effected by taking out the sheet and changing the numbers at the top of the following sheets or pages. If, on the other hand, the total number of sheets is stated in the attestation clause the falsification of the document will involve the inserting of new pages and the forging of the signatures of the testator and witnesses in the margin, a matter attended with much greater difficulty."16
The case of In re Will of Andrada concerned a will the attestation clause of which failed to state the number of sheets or pages used. This consideration alone was sufficient for the Court to declare "unanim[ity] upon the point that the defect pointed out in the attesting clause is fatal."17 It was further observed that "it cannot be denied that the x x x requirement affords additional security against the danger that the will may be tampered with; and as the Legislature has seen fit to prescribe this requirement, it must be considered material."18
Against these cited cases, petitioner cites Singson v. Florentino19 and Taboada v. Hon. Rosal,20 wherein the Court allowed probate to the wills concerned therein despite the fact that the attestation clause did not state the number of pages of the will. Yet the appellate court itself considered the import of these two cases, and made the following distinction which petitioner is unable to rebut, and which we adopt with approval:
Even a cursory examination of the Will (Exhibit "D"), will readily show that the attestation does not state the number of pages used upon which the will is written. Hence, the Will is void and undeserving of probate.
We are not impervious of the Decisions of the Supreme Court in "Manuel Singson v. Emilia Florentino, et al., 92 Phil. 161 and Apolonio [Taboada] v. Hon. Avelino Rosal, et al., 118 SCRA 195," to the effect that a will may still be valid even if the attestation does not contain the number of pages used upon which the Will is written. However, the Decisions of the Supreme Court are not applicable in the aforementioned appeal at bench. This is so because, in the case of "Manuel Singson v. Emilia Florentino, et al., supra," although the attestation in the subject Will did not state the number of pages used in the will, however, the same was found in the last part of the body of the Will:
"x x x
The law referred to is article 618 of the Code of Civil Procedure, as amended by Act No. 2645, which requires that the attestation clause shall state the number of pages or sheets upon which the will is written, which requirement has been held to be mandatory as an effective safeguard against the possibility of interpolation or omission of some of the pages of the will to the prejudice of the heirs to whom the property is intended to be bequeathed (In re Will of Andrada, 42 Phil. 180; Uy Coque v. Navas L. Sioca, 43 Phil., 405; Gumban v. Gorcho, 50 Phil. 30; Quinto v. Morata, 54 Phil. 481; Echevarria v. Sarmiento, 66 Phil. 611). The ratio decidendi of these cases seems to be that the attestation clause must contain a statement of the number of sheets or pages composing the will and that if this is missing or is omitted, it will have the effect of invalidating the will if the deficiency cannot be supplied, not by evidence aliunde, but by a consideration or examination of the will itself. But here the situation is different. While the attestation clause does not state the number of sheets or pages upon which the will is written, however, the last part of the body of the will contains a statement that it is composed of eight pages, which circumstance in our opinion takes this case out of the rigid rule of construction and places it within the realm of similar cases where a broad and more liberal view has been adopted to prevent the will of the testator from being defeated by purely technical considerations." (page 165-165, supra) (Underscoring supplied)
In "Apolonio Tabaoda v. Hon. Avelino Rosal, et al." supra, the notarial acknowledgement in the Will states the number of pages used in the:
We have examined the will in question and noticed that the attestation clause failed to state the number of pages used in writing the will. This would have been a fatal defect were it not for the fact that, in this case, it is discernible from the entire will that it is really and actually composed of only two pages duly signed by the testatrix and her instrumental witnesses. As earlier stated, the first page which contains the entirety of the testamentary dispositions is signed by the testatrix at the end or at the bottom while the instrumental witnesses signed at the left margin. The other page which is marked as "Pagina dos" comprises the attestation clause and the acknowledgment. The acknowledgment itself states that "this Last Will and Testament consists of two pages including this page" (pages 200-201, supra) (Underscoring supplied).
However, in the appeal at bench, the number of pages used in the will is not stated in any part of the Will. The will does not even contain any notarial acknowledgment wherein the number of pages of the will should be stated.21
Both Uy Coque and Andrada were decided prior to the enactment of the Civil Code in 1950, at a time when the statutory provision governing the formal requirement of wills was Section
618 of the Code of Civil Procedure.22 Reliance on these cases remains apropos, considering that the requirement that the attestation state the number of pages of the will is extant from Section 618.23 However, the enactment of the Civil Code in 1950 did put in force a rule of interpretation of the requirements of wills, at least insofar as the attestation clause is concerned, that may vary from the philosophy that governed these two cases. Article 809 of the Civil Code states: "In the absence of bad faith, forgery, or fraud, or undue and improper pressure and influence, defects and imperfections in the form of attestation or in the language used therein shall not render the will invalid if it is proved that the will was in fact executed and attested in substantial compliance with all the requirements of article 805."
In the same vein, petitioner cites the report of the Civil Code Commission, which stated that "the underlying and fundamental objective permeating the provisions on the [law] on [wills] in this project consists in the [liberalization] of the manner of their execution with the end in view of giving the testator more [freedom] in [expressing] his last wishes. This objective is in accord with the [modern tendency] in respect to the formalities in the execution of wills."24 However, petitioner conveniently omits the qualification offered by the Code Commission in the very same paragraph he cites from their report, that such liberalization be "but with sufficient safeguards and restrictions to prevent the commission of fraud and the exercise of undue and improper pressure and influence upon the testator."25
Caneda v. Court of Appeals26 features an extensive discussion made by Justice Regalado, speaking for the Court on the conflicting views on the manner of interpretation of the legal formalities required in the execution of the attestation clause in wills.27 Uy Coque and Andrada are cited therein, along with several other cases, as examples of the application of the rule of strict construction.28 However, the Code Commission opted to recommend a more liberal construction through the "substantial compliance rule" under Article 809. A cautionary note was struck though by Justice J.B.L. Reyes as to how Article 809 should be applied:
x x x The rule must be limited to disregarding those defects that can be supplied by an examination of the will itself: whether all the pages are consecutively numbered; whether the signatures appear in each and every page; whether the subscribing witnesses are three or the will was notarized. All these are facts that the will itself can reveal, and defects or even omissions concerning them in the attestation clause can be safely disregarded. But the total number of pages, and whether all persons required to sign did so in the presence of each other must substantially appear in the attestation clause, being the only check against perjury in the probate proceedings.29 (Emphasis supplied.)
The Court of Appeals did cite these comments by Justice J.B.L. Reyes in its assailed decision, considering that the failure to state the number of pages of the will in the attestation clause is one of the defects which cannot be simply disregarded. In Caneda itself, the Court refused to allow the probate of a will whose attestation clause failed to state that the witnesses subscribed their respective signatures to the will in the presence of the testator and of each other,30 the other omission cited by Justice J.B.L. Reyes which to his estimation cannot be lightly disregarded.
Caneda suggested: "[I]t may thus be stated that the rule, as it now stands, is that omission which can be supplied by an examination of the will itself, without the need of resorting to extrinsic evidence, will not be fatal and, correspondingly, would not obstruct the allowance to probate of the will being assailed. However, those omissions which cannot be supplied except by evidence aliunde would result in the invalidation of the attestation clause and ultimately, of the will itself."31 Thus, a failure by the attestation clause to state that the testator signed every page can be liberally construed, since that fact can be checked by a visual examination; while a failure by the attestation clause to state that the witnesses signed in one another's presence should be considered a fatal flaw since the attestation is the only textual guarantee of compliance.32
The failure of the attestation clause to state the number of pages on which the will was written remains a fatal flaw, despite Article 809. The purpose of the law in requiring the clause to state the number of pages on which the will is written is to safeguard against possible interpolation or omission of one or some of its pages and to prevent any increase or decrease in the pages.33 The failure to state the number of pages equates with the absence of an averment on the part of the instrumental witnesses as to how many pages consisted the will, the execution of which they had ostensibly just witnessed and subscribed to. Following Caneda, there is substantial compliance with this requirement if the will states elsewhere in it how many pages it is comprised of, as was the situation in Singson and Taboada. However, in this case, there could have been no substantial compliance with the requirements under Article 805 since there is no statement in the attestation clause or anywhere in the will itself as to the number of pages which comprise the will.
At the same time, Article 809 should not deviate from the need to comply with the formal requirements as enumerated under Article 805. Whatever the inclinations of the members of the Code Commission in incorporating Article 805, the fact remains that they saw fit to prescribe substantially the same formal requisites as enumerated in Section 618 of the Code of Civil Procedure, convinced that these remained effective safeguards against the forgery or intercalation of notarial wills.34 Compliance with these requirements, however picayune in impression, affords the public a high degree of comfort that the testator himself or herself had decided to convey property post mortem in the manner established in the will.35 The transcendent legislative intent, even as expressed in the cited comments of the Code Commission, is for the fruition of the testator's incontestable desires, and not for the indulgent admission of wills to probate.
The Court could thus end here and affirm the Court of Appeals. However, an examination of the will itself reveals a couple of even more critical defects that should necessarily lead to its rejection.
For one, the attestation clause was not signed by the instrumental witnesses. While the signatures of the instrumental witnesses appear on the left-hand margin of the will, they do not appear at the bottom of the attestation clause which after all consists of their averments before the notary public.
Cagro v. Cagro36 is material on this point. As in this case, "the signatures of the three witnesses to the will do not appear at the bottom of the attestation clause, although the page containing the same is signed by the witnesses on the left-hand margin."37 While three (3) Justices38 considered the signature requirement had been substantially complied with, a majority of six (6), speaking through Chief Justice Paras, ruled that the attestation clause had not been duly signed, rendering the will fatally defective.
There is no question that the signatures of the three witnesses to the will do not appear at the bottom of the attestation clause, although the page containing the same is signed by the witnesses on the left-hand margin.
We are of the opinion that the position taken by the appellant is correct. The attestation clause is "a memorandum of the facts attending the execution of the will" required by law to be made by the attesting witnesses, and it must necessarily bear their signatures. An unsigned attestation clause cannot be considered as an act of the witnesses, since the omission of their signatures at the bottom thereof negatives their participation.
The petitioner and appellee contends that signatures of the three witnesses on the left-hand margin conform substantially to the law and may be deemed as their signatures to the attestation clause. This is untenable, because said signatures are in compliance with the legal mandate that the will be signed on the left-hand margin of all its pages. If an attestation clause not signed by the three witnesses at the bottom thereof, be admitted as sufficient, it would be easy to add such clause to a will on a subsequent occasion and in the absence of the testator and any or all of the witnesses.39
The Court today reiterates the continued efficacy of Cagro. Article 805 particularly segregates the requirement that the instrumental witnesses sign each page of the will, from the requisite that the will be "attested and subscribed by [the instrumental witnesses]." The respective intents behind these two classes of signature are distinct from each other. The signatures on the left-hand corner of every page signify, among others, that the witnesses are aware that the page they are signing forms part of the will. On the other hand, the signatures to the attestation clause establish that the witnesses are referring to the statements contained in the attestation clause itself. Indeed, the attestation clause is separate and apart from the disposition of the will. An unsigned attestation clause results in an unattested will. Even if the instrumental witnesses signed the left-hand margin of the page containing the unsigned attestation clause, such signatures cannot demonstrate these witnesses' undertakings in the clause, since the signatures that do appear on the page were directed towards a wholly different avowal.
The Court may be more charitably disposed had the witnesses in this case signed the attestation clause itself, but not the left-hand margin of the page containing such clause. Without diminishing the value of the instrumental witnesses' signatures on each and every page, the fact must be noted that it is the attestation clause which contains the utterances reduced into writing of the testamentary witnesses themselves. It is the witnesses, and not the testator, who are required under Article 805 to state the number of pages used upon which the will is written; the fact that the testator had signed the will and every page thereof; and that they witnessed and signed the will and all the pages thereof in the presence of the testator and of one another. The only proof in the will that the witnesses have stated these elemental facts would be their signatures on the attestation clause.
Thus, the subject will cannot be considered to have been validly attested to by the instrumental witnesses, as they failed to sign the attestation clause.
Yet, there is another fatal defect to the will on which the denial of this petition should also hinge. The requirement under Article 806 that "every will must be acknowledged before a notary public by the testator and the witnesses" has also not been complied with. The importance of this requirement is highlighted by the fact that it had been segregated from the other requirements under Article 805 and entrusted into a separate provision, Article 806. The non-observance of Article 806 in this case is equally as critical as the other cited flaws in compliance with Article 805, and should be treated as of equivalent import.
In lieu of an acknowledgment, the notary public, Petronio Y. Bautista, wrote "Nilagdaan ko at ninotario ko ngayong 10 ng Hunyo 10 (sic), 1981 dito sa Lungsod ng Maynila."40 By no manner of contemplation can those words be construed as an acknowledgment. An acknowledgment is the act of one who has executed a deed in going before some competent officer or court and declaring it to be his act or deed.41 It involves an extra step undertaken whereby the signor actually declares to the notary that the executor of a document has attested to the notary that the same is his/her own free act and deed.
It might be possible to construe the averment as a jurat, even though it does not hew to the usual language thereof. A jurat is that part of an affidavit where the notary certifies that before him/her, the document was subscribed and sworn to by the executor.42 Ordinarily, the language of the jurat should avow that the document was subscribed and sworn before the notary public, while in this case, the notary public averred that he himself "signed and notarized" the document. Possibly though, the word "ninotario" or "notarized" encompasses the signing of and swearing in of the executors of the document, which in this case would involve the decedent and the instrumental witnesses.
Yet even if we consider what was affixed by the notary public as a jurat, the will would nonetheless remain invalid, as the express requirement of Article 806 is that the will be "acknowledged", and not merely subscribed and sworn to. The will does not present any textual proof, much less one under oath, that the decedent and the instrumental witnesses executed or signed the will as their own free act or deed. The acknowledgment made in a will provides for another all-important legal safeguard against spurious wills or those made beyond the free consent of the testator. An acknowledgement is not an empty meaningless act.43 The acknowledgment coerces the testator and the instrumental witnesses to declare before an officer of the law that they had executed and subscribed to the will as their own free act or deed. Such declaration is under oath and under pain of perjury, thus allowing for the criminal prosecution of persons who participate in the execution of spurious wills, or those executed without the free consent of the testator. It also provides a further degree of assurance that the testator is of certain mindset in making the testamentary dispositions to those persons he/she had designated in the will.
It may not have been said before, but we can assert the rule, self-evident as it is under Article 806. A notarial will that is not acknowledged before a notary public by the testator and the witnesses is fatally defective, even if it is subscribed and sworn to before a notary public.
There are two other requirements under Article 805 which were not fully satisfied by the will in question. We need not discuss them at length, as they are no longer material to the
disposition of this case. The provision requires that the testator and the instrumental witnesses sign each and every page of the will on the left margin, except the last; and that all the pages shall be numbered correlatively in letters placed on the upper part of each page. In this case, the decedent, unlike the witnesses, failed to sign both pages of the will on the left margin, her only signature appearing at the so-called "logical end"44 of the will on its first page. Also, the will itself is not numbered correlatively in letters on each page, but instead numbered with Arabic numerals. There is a line of thought that has disabused the notion that these two requirements be construed as mandatory.45 Taken in isolation, these omissions, by themselves, may not be sufficient to deny probate to a will. Yet even as these omissions are not decisive to the adjudication of this case, they need not be dwelt on, though indicative as they may be of a general lack of due regard for the requirements under Article 805 by whoever executed the will.
All told, the string of mortal defects which the will in question suffers from makes the probate denial inexorable.
WHEREFORE, the petition is DENIED. Costs against petitioner.
1 Rollo, pp. 21-22.
2 Id. at 35.
4 Records, p. 505.
6 Penned by Judge Perfecto Laguio, Jr.
7 Rollo, p. 41.
8 Id. at 41-42.
9 Decision penned by Associate Justice (now Supreme Court Associate Justice) Romeo J. Callejo, Sr., and concurred in by Associate Justices Jorge S. Imperial and Pacita Cañizares-Nye.
10 See rollo, pp. 46-50.
11 Id. at 24.
12 See rollo, p. 26.
13 43 Phil. 405 (1922).
15 Uy Coque v. Navas L. Sioca, supra note 13, at 409.
16 Id.
17 In re: Will of Andrada, supra note 14 at 181.
18 Id. at 182.
20 No. L-36033, 5 November 1982, 118 SCRA 195.
21 Rollo, pp. 47-49. Underscoring not ours.
22 Section 618 of the Code of Civil Procedure as amended by Act No. 2645 reads:
"No will, except as provided in the preceding section, shall be valid to pass any estate, real or personal, nor charge or effect the same, unless it be written in the language or dialect known by the testator and signed by him, or by the testator's name written by some other person in his presence, and by his express direction, and attested and subscribed by three or more credible witnesses in the presence of the testator and of each other. The testator or the person requested by him to write his name and the instrumental witnesses of the will, shall also sign, as aforesaid, each and every page thereof, on the left margin, and said pages shall be numbered correlatively in letters placed on the upper part of each sheet. The attestation shall state the number of sheets or pages used, upon which the will is written, and the fact that the testator signed the will and every page thereof, or caused some other person to write his name, under his express direction, in the presence of three witnesses, and the latter witnessed and signed the will and all pages thereof in the presence of the testator and each other."
24 Rollo, pp. 23-25.
25 See Report of the Code Commission, p. 103. The full citation reads:
"The underlying and fundamental objectives permeating the provisions of the law on wills in this Project consists in the liberalization of the manner of their execution with the end in view of giving the testator more freedom in expressing his last wishes, but with sufficient safeguards and restrictions to prevent the commission of fraud and the exercise of undue and improper pressure and influence upon the testator.
This objective is in accord with the modern tendency with respect to the formalities in the execution of wills. The proposed Code provides for two forms of will, namely, (1) the holographic, and (2) the ordinary will."
26 G.R. No. 103554, 28 May 1993, 222 SCRA 781.
27 Id. at 795-800.
29 Id. at 794; citing Lawyer's Journal, November 30, 1950, 566. In the same article, Justice J.B.L. Reyes suggested that Article 809 be reworded in such a manner that the will would not be rendered invalid if the defects and imperfections in the attestation "can be supplied by an examination of the will itself and it is proved that the will was in fact executed and attested in substantial compliance with all the requirements of Article 805." See R. Balane, Jottings and Jurisprudence in Civil Law (1998 ed.) at 87, citing Lawyers Journal, November 30, 1950.
32 See Balane, supra note 29, at 87.
33 Caneda v. Court of Appeals, supra note 26 at 790; citing Andrada, supra note 14.
34 The Code Commission did qualify in its Report that the thrust towards liberalization be qualified "with sufficient safeguards and restrictions to prevent the commission of fraud and the exercise of undue and improper pressure and influence upon the testator" Supra note 25.
35 "The object of the solemnities surrounding the execution of wills is to close the door against bad faith and fraud, to avoid substitution of wills and testaments and to guaranty their truth and authenticity. Therefore the laws on this subject should be interpreted in such a way as to attain these primordial ends. But, on the other hand, one must not lose sight of the fact that it is not the object of the law to restrain and curtail the exercise of the right to make a will." A. Tolentino, III Civil Code of the Philippines (1992 ed.), at 67.
36 92 Phil. 1032 (1953)
37 Id. at 1033.
38 Justices Felix Bautista Angelo, Pedro Tuason and Felicisimo R. Feria.
39 Cagro v. Cagro, supra note 36, at 1033-1034.
40 Rollo, p. 22.
41 Tigno v. Aquino, G.R. No. 129416, 25 November 2004, 444 SCRA 61, 72.
42 See Gamido v. New Bilibid Prisons Officials, 312 Phil. 100, 104; citing Theobald v. Chicago Ry. Co., 75 Ill. App. 208.
43 Protacio v. Mendoza, Adm. Case No. 5764, 13 January 2003, 395 SCRA 10, 15; citing Coronado v. Felongco, 344 SCRA 565 (2000); Nunga v. Viray, 306 SCRA 487 (1999); Arrieta v. Llosa, 282 SCRA 248 (1997); Dinoy v. Rosal, 235 SCRA 419 (1994).
44 To use the term adopted by eminent civilists Prof. Balane and Dr. Tolentino, who distinguish "the physical end - where the writing stops" from "the logical end - where the last testamentary disposition ends." See Balane, supra note 29 at 60; Tolentino, supra note 35, at 70.
45 See e.g., Balane, supra note 28 at 63, 67; Tolentino, supra note 34, at 104.
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Elantris and the Tsundoku Condition
November 4, 2018 bookthump
I first heard Brandon Sanderson’s name when he was hired to complete Robert Jordan’s mammoth The Wheel of Time fantasy series after Mr. Jordan passed away in 2007 — gee, has it been 11 years already? The Wheel of Time was a favorite series of a few friends of mine, but I never tackled it and so I missed my first potential exposure to Sanderson’s talent. I then started seeing Sanderson’s name mentioned in discussion forums like Shelfari and Goodreads and hearing about him on bookcentric podcasts like Sword & Laser. Then some commentators I trust began shouting his name from the mountaintops after Sanderson’s The Way of Kings was released. I started doing something weird. I bought The Way of Kings, the first book of a series called The Stormlight Archive, but I was not able to read it yet. Then book two of The Stormlight Archive, Words of Radiance — what a beautiful title — was released and I bought that, still having not read The Way of Kings. Then the third title, Oathbreaker, hit store shelves and I exchanged my paycheck for it. Here is the truly bizarre aspect of this entire situation: I still have not read any of them. Is it not madness to buy the second and third volumes of a series when one has not yet read the first? There is a Japanese term for this practice of continuing to buy books but not reading them: 積ん読 or tsundoku. Here is an applicable quote attributed to American author Alfred Edward Newton:
Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity … we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access reassurance.
Right? If you are reading this, you are probably an avid reader like me and nodded in agreement while reading that quote. Welcome, brethren. So here I was with this condition I now know is called tsundoku and a heap of unread Brandon Sanderson novels. Three beautiful hardcover volumes comprised of three thousand three hundred forty two pages. It is intimidating. Then a colleague gave me a copy of Elantris, Brandon Sanderson’s debut novel. Unlike much of Sanderson’s later work, Elantris is a single story encased in a single volume. Being the man’s debut novel, I decided this was the best place to begin exploring his work and so on a warm, midsummer night, I entered the gates of Elantris. Holy cow, smoke, and Toledo, y’all. I enjoyed this story so much!
When the beloved Prince Raoden of Arelon wakes up one morning to discover he has been afflicted with a magical disease, his father the king secretly exiles him to the nearby walled city of Elantris. Once a majestic and beautiful city inhabited by people with godlike powers, Elantris is now a festering prison populated by the rotting unfortunates slung low by the disease known as the Shaod. Raoden must now fight the debilitating effects of his disease as he attempts to investigate the cause of the fall of Elantris with the hope of restoring the city to its former glory and healing himself and the hundreds of others with his condition. The Shaod brings madness quickly though so Raoden has little time before he is lost forever. Outside the walls, Teoish princess Sarene arrives in the kingdom to discover the man she was to marry has mysteriously died. She suspects foul play and conspiracy and begins an investigation to discover what really happened to her betrothed. As she works, he allies herself with a group of nobles with designs to overthrow the corrupt king of Arelon and becomes embroiled in a dangerous political coup just as the external forces of neighboring Fjordell threaten to assault Arelon. High Priest Hrathen of Fjordell has seen what war does to a kingdom his nation means to subjugate and so has just ninety days to peacefully convert the people of Arelon to his nation’s religion before the powerful armies of Fjordell arrive to bring destruction and death to the unfaithful.
All three primary characters are so enjoyable that I found myself conflicted when a chapter switched perspective from one character to another. I wanted to remain with each of them and continue exploring their story and their world, but I was also excited to learn more about the other two characters. This inspired me to read deeply and quickly as I thirsted for more information about each character. Even Hrathen, who is supposed to be villain, is so deserving of empathy that I found myself struggling to hate him as he executed his plans to bring about the conquest of the kingdom of Arelon. Prince Raoden is exactly the kind of leader I wish to be: decisive, intelligent, earnest, clever, empathetic. I loved his chapters and rooted so strongly for him. Sarene is a wonderful character, a strong female protagonist in a patriarchal society, fighting for truth and for civil rights in a kingdom foreign to her.
If you enjoy fantasy novels that are not just all about sword fights, stories that include intrigue and clever magic systems, read Elantris. If you have not read a Brandon Sanderson novel yet, this one will make you a fan and is an excellent example of his talent as a storyteller. I have a lot of Sanderson still on my shelf and the tsundoku still rages, but reading Elantris is a positive first step toward controlling it. One page at a time.
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Tamaulipas the invisible war front on the border of Mexico and United States
Translated by Otis B Fly-Wheel from a ValorporTamaulipas article
Subject Matter: Mexican Army, Tamaulipas
Recommendation: No prior subject matter knowledge required
Tamaulipas, on the border between the United States and Mexico that runs along the Rio Grande, the rivalry between drug gangs and the clashes with the Army turn this State into a war zone that traps the population and the thousands of immigrants who try to cross to the north. This is the day to day story of a patrol of Mexican military in the invisible trenches that cross this area of the country.
Suddenly, silence. You can not hear screams anymore, or the sound of dozens of boots against the road, just the river water, the wind whistling through the leaves of the trees. Lieutenant Casas approaches and rehearses a sort of relieved, ironic smile, a winner's smile, from someone who believes he controls the situation: "My blood went cold, brother," he says, referring to what has just happened. the seconds of uncertainty after the bullets. "I saw the leaky glass and then the two women and the girl, and I said 'we went to hell.'
A few meters away, the two women and the girl wait to leave, or to go to prison, or who knows what. One of the soldiers presses them: "Do you want me to help you? Where you come from? How much did the polleros charge you? " And so the minutes go by.
It's been a while since dark. Some soldiers smoke, trying to contain their nerves. Others spin around, rifle in hand. Others register the van in which the women were traveling and question the pollero, which is, in the border slang, the name given to people who help others to cross to the other side of the river. They are also called coyotes.
An aura of unreality permeates the environment. To the point that it is risky to assure that five minutes ago, 15 soldiers were pointing their rifles at a truck, there, on a dirt road next to the river; that the possibility of a shootout seemed real, very real. And yet now all that is so distant.
It is the border of Tamaulipas with Texas, in northern Mexico, in the southern United States. A convoy of Mexican soldiers has gone out to patrol the banks of the Rio Grande. They arrived in the afternoon, shortly before nightfall. Lieutenant Casas says that "they", the drug traffickers, like to traffic on Fridays and Saturdays at night, as if talking about a group of friends going out to party. In 10 years of war on drug trafficking, soldiers and traffickers have not hit another part of Mexico as much as here. That's why, there are incidents like tonight's. A confusion. They were migrants, but they could have been hit men.
Lieutenant Casas says that a few days ago there were party people with new cars and expensive whiskey. On the right, a patrol officer. All of them wear a helmet, waistcoat and a 5.56 mm caliber FX rifle.
Everything has been very fast. The polleros were looking for one of the river's beaches to cross. Seeing them coming, Casas and his men have thought that they were probably drug lords and could come armed. So they have spread out on both sides of the road, some lying down, their chest on the ground, others barricaded behind trees and bushes. They have made ready and waited. Two minutes later, with the car level with him, Casas has taken two jumps and is in the middle of the road with a flashlight, demanding the driver to stop.
The truck has stopped, although not quite, and the co-pilot has opened the door to run away, and in one of those, without knowing who they were, or what they intended, prisoners of total darkness, one of the soldiers has fired. The copilot has fled and everyone has started screaming to turn off the lights, because the spotlights of the truck dazzled them. In the end there are no narcos, no assassins, no weapons, only two women, a girl and two polleros. When Casas has approached and seen the windscreen shattered, the worst was feared. "We opened up on them." But luckily it has not been like that, the glass was broken from before and the bullets, he deduces, have been lost in the dark.
The moon looks huge tonight on the banks of the Rio Grande. It seems wrapped in a scarlet, clayey haze. In a little while, the soldiers will lie down on the ground to rest and they will take photos with their mobile phones. Some will put military marches on YouTube, videos of soldiers making maneuvers with the sound of the background horns. Others will light more cigarettes. But at the moment they are still there, with their right forefinger stroking the trigger of their FX 5.56 caliber rifle, a caliber that, they say, does not even put down the hit men. Or as sergeant Ermitaño will later say: "Opens a wound but does not knock them down".
Events like this are relatively common in this part of the border. The military calls them that, events, example of a vocabulary subscribed to the euphemism. When they participate in a confrontation, they "repel aggression"; when they give two blows to a pollero to give information, they squeeze him; when Lieutenant Casas theorizes about the causes that have motivated the unnecessary shooting of his soldiers - stress, nervousness, inexperience -, he concludes: "This is the frontier".
It is common the movement of migrants along the river and also the shootings, confrontations with the assassins, kind ways to describe chases to shots between armored trucks that turn entire cities upside down. Or in other words, the clash with the migrants and their coyotes is an anecdote, a joke, compared to what they have to deal with.
To the women and the girl, the bullets have left them speechless, especially the first two, who have handed over their documentation to the soldiers and wait until they finish registering the truck. One of them comes from El Salvador. The other from Guatemala, with the little girl, who plays around in the dark. They have spent their savings and traveled as they could - on the roof of a train, walking, crowded in vans - to the last border, where they have been mistaken for hit men. And they have been lucky: at least they have come this far. The attacks and abuses against immigrants by the mafias are constant. Here in Tamaulipas, eight years ago, authorities found the bodies of 72 migrants lying on a ranch, 150 kilometers from the border. Los Zetas drug dealers killed them.
For the military, the worst is not situations like tonight's. The worst thing is when they run into trucks full of armed people, the stakes. Lieutenant Casas and his three sergeants say that when there is an event there are always bullets. Of the 15 soldiers who patrol the border tonight, most have been shot at by narco at least once. Lieutenant Casas says more than thirty.
THE MEXICAN ARMY has been since 2006 the spearhead of the Mexican war against drug trafficking. In December of that year, President Felipe Calderón inaugurated his mandate ordering the deployment of thousands of soldiers throughout the country, replacing police corroded corps by drug cartels. The new president assumed that the only way to face the Knights Templar, the Zetas or the Sinaloa cartel was the jurisdiction of the Armed Forces. The State of Michoacán, in the west of the country, was Calderón's first major operation. Over the months, the northeastern city of Tamaulipas arrived. The change of Government in 2012, with the arrival of President Enrique Peña Nieto, has not meant modification of this security strategy.
The offensive against drug trafficking shook the structures of organized crime, which began to fragment. The Zetas were strengthened and organizations such as La Familia Michoacana appeared, which raised the level of cruelty to levels never seen before. In addition, they changed the business. The transnational traffic in narcotics ceased to be its only activity. Extortion, kidnapping and drug retail turned whole regions of the country into huge trenches of a war for control of the territory. The dead already exceed 200,000.
If this war has a clear front it is about this, the hundreds of kilometers of river that Mexico and the United States share, Tamaulipas and the State of Texas. The streets of cities like Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Matamoros and smaller municipalities, such as Ciudad Mier, Ciudad Alemán or San Fernando. The hundreds of dirt roads that truffle their surroundings, the famous gaps, trails that end up in the river, dusty highways at the service of the mafias that carry drugs, weapons and people from one side of the border to the other. If Donald Trump were given the task of describing the biggest of his nightmares, the result would probably look like this.
Between January 1, 2007 and December 1, 2016, soldiers and ships faced gunshots across the country in 3,919 occasions, according to data from the Ministry of Defense. Almost half, 1,706, occurred in Tamaulipas, a state whose population, just over three million people, is only a third of that of Mexico City.
In the cities of the border of Tamaulipas there are clashes with bullets all the time. Between January 23 and 24, for example, at least 12 people died in Reynosa as a result of shootings between opposing criminal organizations and of these with military convoys. Shooting in the middle of the city. One soldier died and another was left quadriplegic. The next day, his companions stationed in Ciudad Mier, halfway between Reynosa and Nuevo Laredo, killed six alleged assassins in another of these topones. In August of last year, in just one day, a group of soldiers killed 18 alleged criminals in Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, the majority between Matamoros, Reynosa and Río Bravo. In front they had an armed band almost like another army: the authorities seized 28 firearms, 58 hand grenades, 10 rifle grenades,
And in the middle, the people who have become accustomed to living like this, pending Twitter accounts that report on shootings in real time, about blockades of avenues and bodies that break down. A somewhat macabre service page that serves, for example, to choose the best way to school, the supermarket or the shopping center. People who have adopted the jargon that the military uses to refer to the narcos and vice versa, as if they were the alignments of football teams -sicario, hawk (a vigilante of narcos to see if the police come), security house (zulo) - and that they know that there is no other option but to wait for this to happen, which is almost commonplace, words that have lost their meaning.
The worst thing is that all this is known and not known. It is known why one types Nuevo Laredo, Reynosa, Ciudad Mier or Matamoros in a search engine and videos of shootings, notes about the finding of corpses and bullet chases in commercial boulevards appear. It is not known because what happens is not explained. It is hardly collected.
"The local press is almost forbidden to talk about all this. The narco acts as chief editor of most of the regional media."
The requirement goes beyond the information approach. Many times, their spokespersons ask directly that something does not come out, a confrontation between them, several dead, things like that.
On the border another euphemism is handled: line up. It is used in the underworld to indicate who obeys the criminal group that commands or wants to control and who does not. And that goes for everyone: their rivals, local authorities, the press. In The War of the Zetas (Debate), an exhaustive investigative work by Mexican reporter Diego Osorno, the author profiles one of the most bloodthirsty Cartels that Mexico has seen and suffered. Osorno refers to freedom of the press in the region: "In this situation (...) feigning ignorance is a way to survive. And in this war, the warring parties demand silence in their favor. "
The last victim of the state of censorship and lead that reigns in the region is Carlos Dominguez, journalist murdered in Nuevo Laredo last January. And as often happens, it is not known what exactly happened. Two assassins stabbed him to death.
THE MILITARY REST under a tree, next to the dirt road, illuminated only by the screens of their cell phones and the earthy reflection of the moon. Lieutenant Casas has decided that the women, the girl, the van and the polleros are not his problem and he has let them go. "They are not going to denounce [the traffickers]. Why are we going to present them to the Public Ministry if they are going to let them go? ", He explains.
A few meters from Casas, soldier Arturo seems calmer than a few minutes ago. He is the one who has fired before. Asked about the moment of the bullets, he says: "It is that the other time, in the event, it was like that, they opened the passenger door and started to shoot."
It refers to a confrontation two weeks earlier, three kilometers from here, on a dirt road that connects one of the city's avenues with the river. That day, as today, about 15 were between the lieutenant, Sergeant Ermitaño, another sergeant and 10 to 12 soldiers. It was a rainy, foggy afternoon. They were on foot. They were walking towards the river when they saw a stake in the middle of the road, a truck full of armed people. Casas and Arturo tell that the co-pilot opened the door and started firing at them "with a goat's horn", an AK-47 rifle. Arturo fell to the ground and in seconds was answering with the machine gun, a situation he remembers with an expression of satisfaction in his eyes: the soldier who does his duty.
The passenger door opened and Arturo thought ...
Half an hour later, Casas ordered that the march be resumed. Arturo and the others get up, adjust the bulletproof vest, the helmet, the rifle on the chest. They start to walk. A few meters later the truck of the pollero appears again, without the women. The vehicle approaches. Inside is the trafficker and another person, perhaps his colleague, who has previously fled. They reach their height and the military moves away to make it happen. They both nod at each other. Like nothing.
Already back in the barracks, in the kitchen, Lieutenant Casas and his sergeants, three in total, comment on the events of the afternoon while sharing some tacos. Casas manages a peculiar theory about the violent context that surrounds them: "If you walk like a duck, you hear like a duck and it looks like a duck, what is it? A duck! "He argues, meaning that, normally, a truck, at night, by the river, carries armed assassins. Insurance. Or almost.
The nights in the barracks are similar, boring. Those who are not on duty are thrown on their cots, they sleep, they pretend to sleep or look at their mobile. They take turns for dinner. The unofficial time to go to bed is 1.30. The one to get up, 5.30.
Instead of sleeping four hours from the pull, Sergeant Ermitaño usually gets up in the middle of the night, leaving the cellar as a bedroom and taking a look. He usually approaches the soldiers on duty, asks them how the night is going and most of the time the answer is the same: no news.
Since that time they wounded him, he says, he is always on alert, always suspicious. It was almost three years ago. Four military vehicles patrolled together. The commander then received a radio call, other military needed support in a confrontation with gunmen. They were told to take one of the boulevards of the city to get to them.
Ermitaño was on board a Chevrolet Cheyenne, sitting in the back, next to the one that handled the machine gun. When they were shot, they began to repel. Hermit rose to do the same, but then he realized that one of his companions had been blocked. "I said: 'Hey, what's up? Wake up, they're shooting us! ' And he said: 'I can not move.' Another companion finally managed to sit down and Ermitaño, while firing, directed the bullets of the machine gun. "Then, in one of those moments, I felt the incoming round hit me. I felt a pull and then like water that slipped away. After five minutes it started to hurt. "
Hermit spent a month and a half in the hospital. The projectile had pierced his leg, although he could recover and today walks normally.
The sergeant explains that he never told his wife what had happened. He says he did not want to worry her. Ermitaño lived in the barracks, and his wife, with her children, lived in a house not far away. The day he was wounded, he was taken to a hospital several hours from the base, in another city. Accustomed to using the telephone, when they spoke, he made excuses. He told him they could not see each other because he was patrolling in that place or doing anything else.
But in the end she knew. A comrade from the barracks told his wife, who told another, that he told her, and one day, two weeks later, when they spoke on the phone, she confronted him: "Well, but where are you?"
"It's hard here," he says, "for the family." In addition to handling the constant mistrust and suspicion, the military must deal with fear. For them and their families.
Just for that, out of fear, Ermitaño's family does not live with him anymore. A year ago they returned to the center of Mexico. "It was because of a situation like that. My oldest son came back from school and there was a confrontation and ... Well, they do not respect. You live thinking: 'If we go to that side, there can be shootings; if we go to such another, the same. No, you better not be here anymore. " Ermitaño is silent, as if there is not much more to say.
Silence seizes the barracks at midnight. Only one car is heard from time to time, some distant cry. Casas, Ermitaño and the other sergeants go to their cots. In the bedroom, the soldiers sleep, they pretend to sleep. Nobody talks to anyone. Some face is illuminated by the light of the cell phone. You can see the rifles placed next to each other on the shelf. You feel a fatigue beyond your own fatigue, the fatigue of those who know that tomorrow awaits you like today. Or worse.
Borderland Beat Reporter Otis B Fly-Wheel Posted at 9:01 AM
Piece of shit people like the Zetas and Golfas are and have been just as bad to people in those regions of Tamaulipas like Hitler was to Jews during WWII. They seriously wanted to form a parallel Mexican state that rules with violence and their was no rule of law but theirs. They deserved to be dismantled into the remnants yet still pieces of shit they are today.
It amazes me how everyone is a WW2 & Hitler wizard.
5:31 ...and now like before, it all belongs to those in state government, including crime.
--The more they drag that bitch in the mud,
the more it stays the same bitch...
When there is no conflict with real criminals, the military is just carrying on with "the agreements" until they don't,
without warning.
You dont know what you talking about willis... there is no comparison jews..hitler.. and tamaulipas.. please I frequent matamoros and its surroundings... every weekend.. as of matter of fact i am typing from an ejido in matamoros tamaulipas.. look dont ver involved and you will be fine... dont drive a super expensive vehicle and not expect to get stopped or quesrioned.. and if you do you better know someone... keep to your self... look i am a law abiding American and have been harassed by the Mexican army, not to mention the marines.. I can see the fear on the Mexican community when it comes to the marines or army... and I ask them why the fear we are not doing anything wrong or committing crimes... their response is they are assholes and believe every one works with la Maña... by the way i frequent Mexico every weekend and yes things do happen not naive but it's not nothing compared to the holocaust dont be an idiot.
@8:50, but it’s different for you. You are the Pack Man. They protect you a little better than most.
JamesBrown June 2, 2018 at 3:21 PM
@10:00am. How about some tolerance? This is an open forum. Available to the crazy-smart as well as the oxen-dumb. There are millions of internet forums, perhaps you can find one to interact with others blessed with your scintillating intellect.
I believe hes talking about the butchery going on.
Yeah nothing like the holocaust... just Mexicans burned alive, dismembered, blown up, tortured, entire families and villages exterminated then bodies incinerated, multiple people gone missing, and mass graves...
it’s probably more like the drug wars of Colombia back in the eighties and nineties but damn hitler was a piece of shit too...and high...
@ 10:00 am . It amazes me that you would say that . Not really but you really weren't amazed either . Same thing as you were referring to . Exaggeration when doing a comparison . Everybody exaggerates it seems these days . They were referring to cold blooded killers though so it was more in the right direction than most Hitler comparisons .
Great article ... Life of soldiers, working near the border.
All borders will always have problems especially a drug war problem. As long as theres consumers there will be providers at any cost...OJO...
Drugs are dangerous for the user, but not diretly to the people around the user.
Guns are not dangerous for the user, but clearly dangerous to those around the user.
Yet guns are legal and drugs are not.
Lets get over the fucking hyporisy and either legalize both or outlaw both.
The current situtation with guns legal and drugs outlawed is the worst possible combination.
Unknown June 1, 2018 at 10:02 AM
Guns are illegal in mexico, what other solutions do you have.
goldcup June 1, 2018 at 1:11 PM
@8:57 Are you on drugs?! Or just stupid. How are you going to say that drug use is not dangerous To the people around the user. that's the most stupidest thing I've read on here.
Warrior June 1, 2018 at 2:25 PM
Bien dicho
Nobody is forced to take a street drug, we have the right to choose. Likewise nobody is forced to fire a gun. Personal choice is the Paramount factor here. Anything can be potentially dangerous, even crossing the road. Its only when these things are forced on somebody detrimentally, against their will, with no choice in the matter, that the danger factor becomes unreasonably deadly. Sort out the choices, give people the right to choose, don't force situations on people, and the dangers then become manageable. Harm reduction as opposed to tyrannical madness. There is nothing we Can't do, as long as we put our minds to it, with 100% commitment.
Once addiction settles in it is no longer a choice but a disease.
Good point, there. .. I would be inclined to agree - Im rereading my reply with your comment in mind, E42 you know your stuff.
Lol... he did say street drugs... he gets a pass...
Great argument for the wall...
I have a bridge to sell you.
USA should support Mexican military fight war on drugs and central American countries fight Ms13 which is why people leave because of them, but it remains to be seen with trump in office democrats should take over house in Sept to make life miserable for him and help Daca move forward.
US of A supported if not started the war against drugs in all Central America. And MS13 are one of The results of us politics. Short handed as always.
Support mexican military? You must be smoking rock. Usa shldnt send any help nor train their military so they go to mexico and quit the army and wotk for the cartels. The war on this cartels and smaller criminal groups shld be fought by their goverment and their military on theit own.
11:59 the corrupt Mexican government and its military are suffering from their own cancerous corruption, there is no known cure but by burning, and the US financed that corruption because todo lo que tocan lo hacen cagada.
the Zetas and Golfos are two permanent solutions in Tamaulipas...
if Z didnt split from CDG, atleast today we would have only one parasite
So whatever happened with grupo escorpion ridding Reynosa of los Metros??
11:01 grupo escorpion got made into escupideras, (cuspidors)
Grupo escorpion still killing metros under the comand of el flaco sierra. El flaco sierra has a pact with el primito and the camargo faction. So the grupo escorpion is at war with both of them.
What’s the Camargo faction called??
Este compa primito de camargo/cmdt sanchez was one of cmdt toros disciple.
It’s the same ol shit de siempre.
Saludos para la raza de roma tx
So who is gonna write the corridos to glorify and inmortalize the soldiers?
Nobody because they are just as bad but don't make enough money to be glorified
Los exterminador
Los tucanes de tijuana
I only know those band. Los tigres del norte did a song about the soldiers. Los exterminador also did make a song but it was about the cops in mexico. Los tucanes de tijuan I don't know if they did a song for police or soldiers. Their is a song about la policia federal.
@11:28 AM
Those who risk their lives to fight the monsters who are ravaging Mexico are just as bad as them? Can you tell me what kind of crack have you been smoking, please?
Sorry poncho drugs will never be legal.They create problems for the user.
11:08 drugs promise of money and delivery of political contributions by lobbyists are getting grifa decriminalized, turned into a medicine, helped by pain medicines like the OXY famity of addictives that made billions of dollars for the Sackler Family, for example...
Drugs that do not harm those around turned CHINA into an impoverished drug addicted country for hundreds of years...
China still depends on foreign offshored corporations to keep selling their impoverished captive communist slave labour while still suffering accusations of piracy and currency manipulations that only quiet down if they invest 500 million dollars in Singapore on some "brand hotels and parks and shit".
--China is proof that drugs affect everybody around drug addicts
--HSBC is proof that foreigners thrive off their drug business, take profits out and leave behind the mine shaft as the only property of the mined countries that can never prove the "collushun or the obstrucshun abstracshun"
Personal choice here, is the issue. If someone wants problems then they have the right to choose to use drugs, if that's what the addict wants. Like abortion for instance it can cause serious harm but its the persons right to choose which is the issue at stake. And social acceptability. Nobody wants a junkie around them. Nobody sane conceives a child just to deliberately abort them. Same with guns, rational sane people don't buy them just to mindlessly shoot others. The dangers lie in restricting peoples choices and awareness of the facts at hand. ? Informed choice is best, with 100% honest facts to back up the arguments, no spin or holding back information to benefit one outcome over the other. Think about it. If somebody wants to ruin their life on crack, then informing them fully and honestly of the facts and choices they will face will reduce their urge to ignorantly cause problems for themselves and others. Which paths do people wish to follow? Harmful or not, the choice to take that path should be in the hands of the individual, not a 3rd party or government agency.
Personal choice is not the issue here once addiction has taken hold. Your reasoning is confused, study the different models like moral and medical ones.
Now this is journalism!
No self respecting lieutenant is going to stand on the middle of the road with a lamp to stop traffic he doesn't know who they are or what they are up to, unless they know the drill, and are up to no good.
and no self respecting coyotes drive at night with a helper to deliver two women and a daughter, unless they are high value pollas.
Having the wife and children nearby is another incredible situation, as is allowing 3 pieces of ass go on their way without raping them.
Sitcom looks staged, but San Ferandom stopped some central American immigrants from coming into Tejas to steal the American land and jobs from the "bueros tejanos" I am sure that hit came from the US contracted to private contractors in Mexico to stop the influx of undesirable once and for all, blaming the zetas is so opportune, and believing anything the mexican army the marinas or the police say is impertinent, we call it in Mexico cebollazos or to put too much cream on the tacos
Obvious guy June 1, 2018 at 4:08 PM
right on 11:45. all the mass butcherings have been on the north close to border and Veracruz which is where migrants pass through. Cadereyta,San Fernando,Boca del Rio, Coahuila... and dont forget two Ice agents.. all "Z". Propaganda.
The San Fernando massacre was part of Los Z they fked with metro3 $$$ plus they taught some of those individuals we’re future sicaros for los golfos.
El SR Mencho gave the order to clean Tamaulipas .We the CJNG especial forces are on our way with HK mp5 P90 and Barrett 50 cal
Jajaj cjng should clean Jalisco first before they waste their time in other states
No mames LOL y El SR Trump dijo que ay va la migra por ti y tu perrito.
REDRUM REDRUM June 3, 2018 at 7:28 PM
Bro get off the nuts this is a site where we hate all cartels stop posting dumb crap
7:28 you need to know that the government, its achichincles and the melitary and police collective are waaay worse than the Mexican or any other cartels, it has been on the news since Kiki Camarena was murdered...
@CHIVIS
Hey Chivis when you have time I would really like for you to watch this video on youtube its called : "Fernandez Noroña VS Garcia Luna[2009][COMPLETO][Primer Comparencia]"-donde Noroña acusa a Garcia Luna de asesino y corrupto. Genaro Garcia Luna served as the secretary of public security in the federal cabinet . I feel like corrupt politician like genaro garcia luna should be exposed and its amazing how this video /event didnt get much media attention if it got any at all. Thank you Chivis.
Chivis June 3, 2018 at 3:31 PM
Thank you for this and I believe Norona is right. EPN was pissed at the revelation. I wish someone had the time to translate the two vids.
Thanks for the article. Some incorrect translations, but overall good. D
Give thanks to Oisel Cardenas. He started tis Zeta B.S. Juan never would approve of tis. Miss old Don Juan. CTM
Osiel will be out soon Don Juan will never be free
5:31 Juan Garcia Abrego, childhood friend of polesia federal Guillermo Gonzalez Calderóni who helped get Pablo Acosta in cahoots with FBI in Ojinaga. DFS commander Rafael Aguilar Guajardo took over the cartel de Juarez until his murder in cancun or sompim' left Amado Carrillo fuentes to lord it all.
Why doesn’t the journalist mention the corrupt of the Mexican military?
La gente piensa que los pinches marinos son todos buenos.
Mexican soldiers are good,
en pozole, or carnitas or carniasadas,
but they'd rather cook you.
La gente piensa que los pinches marinos son todos buenos. ”
Nobody ever said such a thing, but their corruption rate is much lower than the police and the pinches federales.
TIJUANA JOE June 2, 2018 at 9:39 AM
I feel sorry for the regular citizens that must live daily in a war zone!
Its horrible
Alexander De paul June 2, 2018 at 10:03 AM
no to addictive drugs.
Senior Havelka has struck a deal with Mencho.
I’ve been trying to strike a deal since December. They don’t want to go under 28 tho, I wanted to be around 25. I was even willing to drive.
11:56 andas quebrado perro,
Compra más y paga menos,
nomás la chota regatea tanto.
A la primera, No Hay, nada.
Any word of current bars/clubs in Reynosa if their still operating.
From last I heard years back the CDG would kidnap individuals who would spend heavy money in their clubs; is this still going on?
What about el viejo Carlitos whiskeys is he still supplying that bootleg liquor to Reynosa bars/clubs???
What about los R’s de Tampico ? Some capture and killed? Or join cdg matamoros?
Sierra is working under direct orders of Havelka. Puppies think otherwise
Then that havelka that people mention here but in the border i never heard of, he will be getting his ass kicked next by the matamoros faction. The real cdg.
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General Instrument (GI) is the company that produced most of the electronics that go into the Intellivision. At the time, GI was based out of Hicksville, New York. GI was also the home of the PIC microcontroller. GI developed the PIC1640 and PIC1650 as an I/O coprocessors for the CP1610. (In a perhaps fitting twist, the Intellicart uses a Scenix SX52, which is a decendant of the original PIC.) GI spun off much of its microprocessor-related work (especially the PIC and speech-related products) as Arizona Microchip around 1985.
The Intellivision was based on GI's GIMINI 8900 game system that the company had developed. Mattel requested some extensions to the design, and thus the Intellivision was born. The two main extensions were:
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Other than that, the initial Master Component was very, very similar to the original proposed GIMINI 8900 game system.
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4659 JP - Ajis Co Ltd
Author Topic: 4659 JP - Ajis Co Ltd (Read 7921 times)
Contribution to celebrate the new board. Actually its more like a small token payback for all the lurking over the years!!
Apologies for the formatting.
Company: Ajis Co Ltd (4659 JP)
Expected Timeframe: Two years and beyond
Asset Class: Common Equity Country: Japan
Recommendation: Long Situation: Deep Value
Return: Not available
Ajis (All Japan Inventory Services) Co Ltd is the largest inventory services company in Japan and also claims to be the largest in Asia. The company derives the majority of its business from Japan, but has been expanding across Asia and have offices in Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and China.
In Japan Ajis customers include 70 of the top 100 retailers, total over 2,000 and include companies like Seiyu (Japanese Wal-Mart subsidiary), Seven Eleven, Adidas, Giorgio Armani, Gap, Coach, Zara, etc. Sales are generated pretty evenly across a broad range of industries, namely supermarkets, general merchandise stores, book stores, hardware stores, convenience stores and drug stores.
It has 76.6% market share in Japan and is the market leader in Korea. Ajis has 95 sales offices in Japan, which are spread pretty evenly across the whole country. In China it has an office in both Dalian and Shanghai, in Korea it has offices in Seoul, Busan and Daejeon. Lastly it has one office each in Malaysia and Taiwan. In Japan the potential market is estimated to be 5 times current company sales (based on US sales, adjusted for the comparative size of the economies).
The company's services consist mainly of physical stock take, but it also provides supplementary inventory services i.e. inventory replenishment and runs a temporary staffing business through which it runs mystery shopper programs, conducts customer surveys and supplies cashiers to the retail industry. The staffing business might strike you as a distraction, but is actually a creative and effective way to effeciently manage a highly variable work force; more on this later. Anyway, the focus should be on physical inventory services where 89% of sales are generated.
In 1978 Ajis acquired technology from Muscolino, which is an American company and is still in operation today under the ownership of Phyle Inventory Services (www.picsinv.com) Ajis listed on the OTC in 1996 and has been a steady grower as far back as I can see.
Ajis is mainly a stocktaking business and generates 99% of its stocktaking revenues from direct sales and 1% from royalty income from three franchises (Kyushu, Shikoku and Hokkaido). The temporary staffing business’ goal is to optimize use of the workforce and together with several other initiatives a ultimately focused on reducing SG&A (selling general and admin) expenses and increasing the share of variable costs. This makes more sense when you consider that Ajis has only 330 permanent employees compared to the more than 4,000 temporary workers at peak times and less than 1,000 during quiet periods. Also when you consider that more than 2/3 of Ajis’ costs are staffing costs then you appreciate that it is important to optimize this cost line. If a company can do it well then it naturally affords it a competitive advantage. One way of doing this is to deploy workers into other similarly skilled activities like mystery shopping, inventory replenishment, customer surveys, etc during quite times. On the side I wish to note that apparently the president and other senior executive management will help out with stock taking in extremely busy times.
Another initiative is proper systems and facilities to quickly train staff in order to deploy them effectively, which is mainly done at a purpose built facility (mockups of stores etc) at its head office, and for what it’s worth the company will tell you it is the largest such facility in Japan. I am much more excited by the company's claims of a well designed compensation system that runs from management, all the way down to the person counting the stock; in the last financial year a minimum of 30% of total compensation for the average employee was in the form of a bonus. The system seems to work for the permanent employees at least if one can rely on the 9.2 years of average length of employment as being a good indicator. So not only does Ajis have a highly variable workforce, it has a highly variable compensation structure to go with it and in my view that makes for a significant advantage. Also, let’s not forget that this has been achieved in the Japanese labor market, which is notoriously inflexible.
Furthermore, the company has been developing propriety technology over the years that it keeps on improving, but more importantly it is constantly working on reducing the threat of emerging technologies. The latter has slowly been improving over the years, especially in the smaller convenience store sector, where the competition has been increasing according to management.
Lastly, the company has been working for almost a decade on moving customers onto stock taking cycles throughout the year, rather than the traditional once or twice a year stock takes. The advantages of this in terms of the variable workforce are obvious.
The proof is in the pudding, so to speak, and management has been able to drive down SG&A expense gradually over the years; I wish I came across more management's that can produce numbers like these.
SGA/Revenues 25% 22% 20% 17% 15% 14% 14% 13% 7% 9% 8% 7% 7%
These initiatives by management are succeeding in driving down costs. This also reflects the company's economies of scale, which together with the fact that it’s the only national operator (important for large retail and other chains) make for the biggest crocodiles in its moat.
Gross margin has been weakening slightly over the last decade from about 28% to 26% and net margin has been flat due to several non cash charges that I feel are distorting the real story to some extent (cash is king).
The growth story has also been fairly robust with sales per share growing by 16% per annum over the last decade, although incremental growth has been slowing.
Ultimately it comes down to the cash and free cash flow has been steadily growing in step with operating earnings. I say operating earnings, because net earnings are distorted by several items e.g. allowance for doubtful accounts, exchange losses, etc. Free cash flow averaged ¥525m over the last decade and also shows up in the net cash balance (due to retained cash), which has increased from ¥208m in 2000 to ¥3,260m in 2010. Shareholders have been seeing more of this cash in the form of dividend payments that steadily increased from ¥50m ten years ago to ¥220m in 2010 for a current historical GROSS dividend yield of 3.7%; payout ratio roughly 20%. There has been virtually no stock buybacks over the years until 2006 from which time shares have been reduced by between 1% and 3% per annum. There are now 9.5% fewer shares outstanding compared to 2006. In terms of value returned to shareholders the dividend and buy backs over the last 5 years totaled ¥2,288m which just about equals the current enterprise value of Ajis and is nearly half the current market value.
ROE averaged 19% over the last decade despite a sizable net cash balance, which now makes up 44% of market value. 19% is admirable for any company, let alone a Japanese one and this is all before stripping out the sizeable net cash.
Management has a significant stake in the company and with insiders own 47% of the company. The Saito family controls almost all of the insiders' shares.
The valuation
When looking through the rear view mirror, we see this company has, over the last 10 years, grown sales by 12.5% per annum, sales per share by 16%, EPS by 17.6% and book value per share by 16%. Margins have for the most part been either flat or improving, ROE averaged 19% and net cash makes up 44% of market cap. Compared to 10 years ago sales are ¥12Bn more, net income ¥900m more while equity increased by ¥6Bn. So I think it is safe to say on economic value add the company is an above average company.
With a market share north of 70% and the only company operating nationally it has a superior moat.
Management is clearly more than competent, good capital allocators and in a country where the institutional imperative is markedly different to that in the West; especially when it comes to capital allocation. To boot, management has a significant stake in Ajis.
Currently Ajis' market value is ¥5,842m and it has net cash of ¥3,235 for an enterprise value of ¥2,607m and 2010 (March) net earnings were ¥1,147m and LTM net earnings ¥1,113m. I consider a historical PE of 5.2 and EV/NI of 2.3 to be adequate compensation for the risk of investing in Ajis. Current gross DY is 3.7%
Historical trading multiples
Ajis averaged a P/BV of 2.7 over the last decade and a P/S of 0.86 and this compares favorably with the current multiples of 0.84 and 0.32 respectively.
Relative value
No peer group to compare
Variant View (So what worries me about this company?)
a) It’s a Japanese company and the financial press will tell you, with that comes concerns about currency risk, economic risk and other macro factors.
Granted; the currency issue is tricky, but since the USD is my starting point and since I prefer working assets over dormant assets e.g. gold I feel more comfortable taking on the currency issue at the right price. Japan and therefore its currency face significant headwinds, but compared to the USD I cannot make a clear case for one currency being significantly sounder than the other.
In the case of Ajis there is significant and in my view sufficient risk, priced in, to compensate for this currency risk.
Economic risk is real and if you read the latest AR then you will note that Ajis' sales are materially impacted due to the extremely competitive nature of its customers’ business. For example, retail margins are thin and an economic downturn forces cost cutting and one of the first things convenience stores will do is it will cut back on stock take. Owners/employees will stay a bit later and do it themselves, but the situation will reverse itself when the economy picks up. Also, on the staffing side the lower skilled nature of the job means an immediate increase in the supply of say, cashiers in a weakening economy; the result is less demand for Ajis’ staffing business. This also begs the question whether Ajis’ business is cyclical? Possibly; maybe company sales versus the potential market was just small enough in previous downturns to grow straight through those downturns, but now it could be maturing and are therefore more effected by an economic downturn. I don’t think I can come to any reliable conclusion on this, so I want it priced in and I would argue that if it’s not priced in at an EV/NI of 2.3 then at what multiple is it priced in?
I consider other macro factors irrelevant to this discussion.
A factor that is very important, but is hardly ever discussed and a point missed by the majority of value investors in Japan are what I would simply sometimes refer to as “pocket risk”. As an investor I want to see money in my pocket over the long term. This comes in three forms; some kind of cash/value return, share price appreciation or both. Although, I have never made a proper study of this, I sense that I have come across more managements in Asia compared to other geographies that seem to accumulate cash, simply to sit on it. With these managements return on equity is a foreign concept and shareholder interests certainly not a watchword; a tonne of these have been Japanese company managements. Therefore I generally insist that a company has American style ROE’s and some talk or walk of realizing shareholder value. In this case the ROE is definitely not a problem and the share buybacks and dividend yield will ensure that the value in Ajis will be transferred over time to its shareholders’ pockets and not get trapped in the company. So if dividends were cut back and buy backs suspended then it will be red flags. This might already be happening, because whereas buybacks and dividends totaled ¥859m in 2009 it came to only ¥301m in 2010. An amber flag was certainly raised by the company’s recent actions to ward off any takeover attempts.
b) Management has been trying to make inroads into foreign markets, in particular Korea. My assessment is that the successes on this front have been nothing to write home about. However, one is not paying for potential foreign growth at this price.
c) Technological risk from things like RFID chips is real, but my assessment is that it will still take many years to play out and I don't see how it will render the services of Ajis obsolete overnight, because I am not convinced that some of the advantages that these technologies bring will not be a plus to companies like Ajis. Stock taking companies embraced bar code technology and is starting to adopt RFID technology too; it is not as if the technology is passing them by. Wall-Mart is a leader in the adoption of the technology and yet there it is, still using Ajis’ services. At the current valuation I do think one is properly rewarded for taking on this risk.
d) Competitive pressures. The main competitive pressures seem to be driven more by a combination of economic pressures, technological development and inventory practices at retailers rather than from other stock taking companies. Management is keeping a keen eye on low cost retailers, because that is the first point where new practices and technologies that are threatening Ajis’ competitive advantage can be identified. The most encouraging factor in this case is that management UNDERSTANDS that the way to stock taking nirvana is to be the lowest cost and most efficient provider to the retailer. It has to maintain the advantage and constantly communicate its advantages to its customers. It shows in management’s communication to shareholders and it clearly shows in the SGA line; this is pivotal.
f) 543k of treasury shares has not been cancelled; Non issue for me.
g) A recent 170% increase in long term liabilities to ¥363m is for the construction of a second office building…new offices are always a flag for me. However, in fairness it should be noted that on the previous round management chose to use an abandoned supermarket building as its HQ.
Please find the trading statistics and valuation multiples below.
Trading Statistics (millions except for per share values)
Stock Price ¥1,210.00 Debt ¥290
Price target ¥2,500.00 Minority Interest ¥0
% premium / (discount) to target -51.60% Enterprise value ¥2,633
Shares outstanding - diluted 4.8 Annual Dividend per Share ¥45.00
Market Cap ¥5,808 % yield 3.70%
Cash + short-term investments ¥3,465 Projected 2010 EPS growth % 0.00%
Valuation Multiples Data Multiple Valuation Multiples Data Multiple
P / EV /
EPS LTM ¥228.00 5.3x Sales LTM ¥18,212 0.1x
EPS 10E ¥233.00 5.2 Sales 10E ¥18,358 0.1
EV / P /
EBITDA LTM ¥2,760 1.0 Book value ¥6,628 0.9x
EBITDA 10E ¥2,752 1.0 Credit Statistics
EBITDA 11E ¥2,750 1.0 Net debt / EBITDA LTM (1.2x)
FCF LTM ¥693 3.8 Total debt / EBITDA LTM 0.1
FCF 10E ¥504 5.2 Cash / share 721.87
FCF 11E ¥900 2.9 Market cap / Debt 20.0x
rmitz
Re: 4659 JP - Ajis Co Ltd
Nice, thank you for the report. I'm wondering where you go for researching Japanese stocks? I haven't attempted any research in that area so far.
twacowfca
Thanks MrB. Have been thinking about Ajis since it was posted on VIC a few months ago. Thanks for your interesting additional details. This would be a steal were it not a Japanese Co. Recently, Jim Grant said in an interview that he had help set up a fund in about 1999 to invest in Japanese net nets. Their investments have gone nowhere for 11 years, except for dividends received because of the culture that discourages activism and returning value to shareholders. Are there good reasons why Ajis will be an exception to this?
Bloomberg, Capital IQ and Thomson Reuters are all good places to start and if you don't have access to those then I will start with people that have proven track records. Read Orbis' reports http://www.orbisfunds.com to get a feel and appreciate the fact that its a tough place to make money. Orbis compounded by 5% or so since 1998. Certainly take a look at what people like Kyle Bass have to say. Maybe do the latter first, which will save you the trouble of ever going near Japan
Anyway that's a start and feel free to ask more questions or for alternative ideas if you don't have access to the above.
I cannot speak for Grant, because I don't know the details of what he did and I say this because I know some investors who executed a net-net strategy in Japan very successfully around the same time.
You make a very good point though and that is why firstly, I want a company to be efficient by western standards (min 8% ROE incl cash) and secondly be shareholder friendly i.e. good DY, share buybacks etc. Ajis do both, but can be more aggressive in buying back shares. It's also the latter point, which get most foreign investors in Japan in trouble I believe. In Japan the odds are that the value will sit in the company and will never be transferred to your pocket (the "pocket risk" I referred to). So these net-net strategies are usually filled by a ton of low ROE, high cash holding companies that never pay a dividend and never buy back shares and why should they? There is no penalty, culturally or financially; its the Japanese way.
So I would say that is what sets Ajis apart, but a lack of a return of value to shareholders, together with the following are the main factors that will turn Ajis into a mistake;
-currency (assuming you are unhedged)
turar
Is there a way to look at insider trading for Ajis or other Japanese stocks?
Also, how are you reading their financial reports? Google translation doesn't quite pull the trick.
« Last Edit: October 19, 2010, 01:41:42 PM by turar »
Always start as close to the source as possible. So in this case I will try filings on the Jasdaq and the company's website. Look for a "proxy" statement.
For free translation try using Zoho viewer in Chrome.
Baoxiaodao
I like the idea. Thank you Mr.B.
It is remarkable that those Japanese can turn a good business into a mundane one by just hoarding cash. There are a lot more companies with excellent economics in Japan, but I never put a penny into them. Think about it this way. The whole system or culture is against investors. If it does not change, there is no way you can make money from those companies. If it does change, you can still make plenty of money even though the P/E has gone from 2 times to 4 times.
I'd rather to wait.
sr_ryan
Is anyone still following this thread?
I get notified of any postings, so let me know if you have any questions. Been out of the office a bit, but generally I will reply fairly quickly.
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OMAHA, NEB. – College of Saint Mary (CSM) has selected Cassandra VanOeveren, of Gretna, Neb., as a Marie Curie Scholar, starting in the fall. CSM presented VanOeveren with a surprise scholarship check for $80,000 at Gretna High School on Wednesday, April 10. She receives the scholarship after standing out in academic talent and showing outstanding leadership service.
“Cassandra is an excellent student who consistently delivers extremely high-quality work,” said Matthew Johnson, a secondary mathematics teacher at Gretna High School. “She displays an exceptional work ethic, a passion to understand how things work and a compassionate maturity. Cassandra will excel at college and any profession she pursues due to her impressive work ethic, contagious enthusiasm and unimpeachable character.”
College of Saint Mary’s prestigious Marie Curie Scholars Program, which is funded in part by the National Science Foundation, provides significant financial support and resources to outstanding young women pursuing study in STEM majors, such as biology, chemistry, or math.
Marie Curie Scholars receive up to $20,000 annually for four years in gift aid. In addition to having access to substantial financial resources and facilities, participants also receive free tutoring, have opportunities for undergraduate research, and have access to top programs like the National Institute of Health and NASA research fellowships. Marie Curie Scholars at CSM also often attend and present at national conferences.
VanOeveren earns the scholarship after achieving several honors at Gretna High School. Some of VanOeveren’s academic and extracurricular accomplishments include:
National Honors Society member (2017-19)
Academic Honor Roll (2016-19)
NMEA All-State band winner (2016-18)
Cornhusker Girls State participant (2018)
At CSM, she plans to major in biology, starting in the fall of 2019. Located in Omaha, in the heart of Aksarben Village, College of Saint Mary uses initiatives like the Marie Curie Scholar Program to provide women from all backgrounds with access to an affordable, excellent college experience, career-driven coursework, and lifelong leadership skills. She is one of five recipients of this year’s Marie Curie Scholarship.
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Limelight and Ericsson collaborate on content delivery and edge cloud services
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Limelight Networks and Ericsson to Accelerate Content Delivery and Edge Cloud Adoption
Limelight’s CDN technology to be deployed on the Ericsson UDN Edge Cloud Platform and the companies will collaborate on future edge cloud services
TEMPE, Ariz. — Limelight Networks (NASDAQ: LLNW) and Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC) have signed an agreement to collaborate on content delivery and edge cloud services.
As more traffic shifts to the public internet from private networks, the need for high performance networks and distributed infrastructure is required to maintain a high-quality user experience. A key solution to this is edge cloud computing. Providing computing capabilities close to the user or device gives a superior quality of service. For new low latency applications such as IoT, gaming, and virtual reality, robust computing capabilities at the edge of the network are needed. Communications service providers and technology companies will play a pivotal role in scaling the next wave of internet traffic.
Ericsson is partnering with service providers globally to build the Ericsson Unified Delivery Network (UDN) Edge Cloud Platform – a web-scale edge delivery network, driving performance benefits and cost efficiencies. Content delivery is the first application built on the UDN platform. Under the agreement, Limelight’s content delivery technology will be deployed on the Ericsson UDN Edge Cloud Platform to expand its global delivery capabilities and increase delivery capacities.
By providing computing capabilities close to the user or device, edge computing addresses rapidly increasing data demands and subscriber experience expectations through distributed infrastructure, while maintaining high quality and high performance. Low latency applications, such as IoT, gaming, and web acceleration are set to benefit.
Bob Lento, CEO of Limelight Networks, says: “We are always looking for ways to improve the performance and reach of our network. The strength of Ericsson’s partnerships with communications service providers through the UDN Network is a key component of this agreement that enable us to offer even better reach and performance for our customers. We are delighted to work with Ericsson on this initiative.”
Marcus Bergstrom, Head of Ericsson UDN, says: “Entering this agreement with Limelight Networks, a leader in content delivery networking and edge cloud services, opens a new chapter for the UDN Network in-line with our strategic plans for our Edge Cloud Platform.”
“Telstra has consistently demonstrated its commitment to improving content delivery for all forms of content on our network,” says Gary Traver, Network Engineering Executive, Telstra. “This agreement between Limelight and UDN is another example of how Telstra is working with technology leaders to drive a better user experience for its customers, and is another proof point of the value services providers can bring by aggregating their assets to provide an improved QoE to content providers, aggregators and technology companies.”
“Consumers are now expecting performance in milliseconds, not seconds,” says Dan Rayburn, Principal Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. “As applications evolve to offer more interactivity and the need to operate in real-time, quality and reliability determine the success or failure of the service. Combining content delivery technologies with an Edge Cloud Platform that’s distributed inside ISPs is one of the best ways to guarantee optimal performance and allow application providers to use edge services to improve the end-user experience.”
Links: Limelight Networks; Ericsson
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Home Indies Alternative Wrestling Show Top female wrestling promotion announces closure
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By Simon Hannig
Alternative Wrestling Show (AWS) announced Wednesday that they will be shutting down and ending all regular live event shows at the end of the year. AWS posted the announcement on Facebook by its promoter, Bart Kapitzke.
Kapitzke said AWS is shutting down due to “the amount of money the shows have been losing since March 2018. According to Kapitzke attendance is extremely down over the last year and he has gone into debt from running the promotion. Kapitzke stated that it “doesn’t make sense” to continue running the events past this year.”
Ladies Night #3 and all of its remaining shows this year will go on as scheduled. AWS has events scheduled for May 18, July 27, September 21 and November 30. AWS will take part in the Chi-Town Hot Sauce Expo in Chicago in June and California Hot Sauce Expo in August.
The company does have a history of shutting down in the past, then later returning on after a hiatus. Per Southern California Pro-Wrestling & MMA, “In September 2015 the promotion held an event called The End? and went on hiatus for nearly a year, returning in August 2016. They also had a long hiatus in 2011 and 2012 as well. Kapitzke even left the door open for another return in his announcement, stating “I have gone away before, so you never know what the future will hold for AWS.””
AWS’s next event is Ladies Night #3 on Saturday at American Legion #335 in South Gate. The event will feature Mercedes Martinez defending the AWS Heavyweight Championship against Nicole Savoy and Cheerleader Melissa defending the AWS Women’s Championship in a triple-threat against Ruby Raze and Shotzi Blackheart.
AWS has been a great showcase for female talent and will be missed by fans and wrestlers alike. You can watch AWS women’s matches online at ClickWrestle.com
Simon Hannig
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Contact: Stacey Welling
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Commissioner Jones to Host `Coffee With the Commissioner' on March 15 at Neighbors Cafe
Clark County Commissioner Justin Jones is hosting a "Coffee With the Commissioner" gathering at Neighbors Café on Friday, March 15, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Neighbors Café is located at 5910 S. Fort Apache Road, Suite 103, just south of Russell Road.
Commissioner Jones, who joined the Commission in January, represents Clark County Commission District F in the southwest valley. The informal gathering is an opportunity for residents to meet the newly-elected Commissioner and get to know each other.
"It's an honor to serve on the County Commission and I want to get to know as many of my constituents as possible so I can effectively represent their needs and concerns," Commissioner Jones said. "I will be out and about in the District at community events like this so that I can be available to the residents I serve."
District F includes portions of Spring Valley, Mountains Edge, and Southern Highlands, and stretches south along Interstate 15 to Primm, Nev.
Residents are encouraged to sign up to receive Commissioner Jones' free District F newsletter via Clark County's website at www.ClarkCountyNV.gov, and to contact his office by phone at (702) 455-5563 or email at ccdistf@Clarkcountynv.gov. Residents also are invited to follow him on Twitter at @JustinJonesNV
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The 4000m Peaks of the Alps Climbing Guidebook - 2012 Edition
This guidebook describes routes up to Difficile grade on all the 4,000m peaks and mountains in the Alps, which are spread over 6 regions in France, Switzerland and Italy. The routes described are concentrated on all of the great ridges and mixed climbs established on the 4,000m peaks during the Golden Age of alpine pioneering of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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The 4,000m mountains are grouped by region from the Bernina Alps in eastern Switzerland, covering the Valais Alps, Mont Blanc Massif through to the Ecrins massif in France. A general overview of each area is described including a summary of the valley bases, details of all the huts and hut approaches. For the huts contact information is provided including websites and email addresses.
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Religion: Laxidazian Hedonist
Name: Skunge
Classification: villain
First Appearance: The Avengers (vol. 1) #255 (May 1985): "The Legacy of Thanos!"
Creators: Roger Stern, John Buscema, Tom Palmer Sr.
Teams/Affiliations: The Freebooters
Planet: Laxidazia
Race: Laxidazian
This character is in the following 2 stories which have been indexed by this website:
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Burke Sweethearts Take the Long Road to the Altar
Chris Rowson, Kellie McDonald engaged.
Chris Rowson proposes to Kellie McDonald on Saturday, Jan. 17 on the grounds of Fairview Elementary School in Fairfax Station, where the couple first knew each other as students. Photos contributed
By Abigail Constantino/The Connection
Chris Rowson and Kellie McDonald, from Burke, got engaged on Saturday, Jan. 17 on the grounds of Fairview Elementary School in Fairfax Station, where the couple first knew each other as students.
Chris Rowson, 29, and Kellie McDonald, 27, from Burke, got engaged on Saturday, Jan. 17 at Fairview Elementary School in Fairfax Station, where the couple were both students. McDonald was in shock when Rowson proposed, as she had suspected that he would do it in February during a planned trip to Florida. But despite being “taken off guard,” she said that it could not have been a more perfect time and place. It was 17 years ago that McDonald moved with her family to Burke from Florida, and it was at Fairview Elementary where she and Rowson first got to know each other.
Though the couple went to Robinson Secondary School in Fairfax and Radford University in Radford, Va., they did not date each other until 2011, when both found themselves living in Arlington.
But Rowson has always noticed McDonald. “I used to peer at her and her dad at church,” he said.
“They definitely had instant chemistry,” said McDonald’s best friend Alexa Love. Love has known the couple since elementary school and also attended Robinson Secondary School and Radford University.
Love and the couple’s families were privy to the surprise proposal, and Rowson planned it to coincide with a family gathering. Rowson’s little nephew, Caleb, was even enlisted in the ruse to get McDonald to the park at Fairview Elementary School, under the pretext of launching a toy outside.
Rowson said that he knew McDonald was the one when she spent time with his family and beckoned his father to sit next to her instead of the recliner--she did it so naturally. “I had a feeling that she should be a part of it,” he said.
“She’s quiet at the perfect times and she is outspoken at the perfect times...she is not of so many words but they’re always the right words,” said Rowson about his fiance.
McDonald is the executive director of Regenerative Orthopedics and Sports Medicine in Capitol Hill and Rockville. Rowson is a sales director at DubLabs. McDonald said she is thinking of an October wedding. The couple plans to move Alexandria with their dog Huxley.
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Mike McHenry's Letter published in the San Mateo County Times
October 26, 2014 / John Ullom
Mike and Kim McHenry published this full page ad in the San Mateo County Times on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2014.
Please join with the McHenry family and vote for change.
tags / Mike McHenry, San Mateo County Times, San Jose Mercury News, Robert Bernardo, Will Holsinger, Jim Tucker, James Tucker, William Holsinger, Scott Grindy, Scott A. Grindy, Harbor, Harbormaster, General Manager, Jerry Hill, Don Horsley, Kevin Mullin, Karyl Matsumoto, Keet Nerhan, David Canepa
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"Harbor District officials need to shape up."
Dave Pine, President, SMC Board of Supervisors, July 10, 2014
"The Harbor District needs a sustainable financial plan, their audit reports are inadequate."
Don Horsley, SMC Board Supervisor, July 10, 2014
In 2012, the Harbor District began charging the highest fish buying fees in the state. The decision has been at the center of upheaval between the District and those in the commercial fishing industry.
Samantha Weigel, June 6, 2014
“There’s ongoing distrust and frankly, our commercial fishing association has not been happy with the way commissioners have been conducting District business,” Steve Fitz said. “We simply want to be considered because the decisions they make, impact our businesses directly. And we deserve to be at the table and we haven’t been.”
Samantha Weigel, May 29, 2014
"As one observer commented, the meeting could be summed up in one action, when Commissioner James Tucker asked a staff person, whose imminent maternity leave had just been approved, to waddle across a crowded room to fetch a glass of water."
Lee Engdahl, Aug. 12, 2013
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Samantha Weigel, March 21, 2014
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Scott Grindy's misuse of Homeland Security videocameras
Flying golf balls peeve WA officials
By DAVID CHIRCOP - Saturday, May 16, 2009 at 9:40am
EVERETT, Wash. —
Golf balls are bombarding the Port of Everett and anti-terrorism cameras are being trained on a residential neighborhood to hunt down the source.
Port officials believe someone on Rucker Hill is whacking golf balls down the hill onto port property, endangering dozens of workers and millions of dollars worth of equipment and cargo.
"We're trying to use any means possible to stop it, aside from posting somebody in the field of fire all day and night," said Ed Madura, a port security official.
The port says the flying golf balls constitute a threat to personal safety. Pointing video surveillance cameras toward the likely source is an appropriate use of the equipment, port officials say.
In the eyes of at least one resident in the Rucker Hill neighborhood southwest of downtown, swiveling the cameras from the fence line to the neighborhood is an invasion of privacy.
"Hitting golf balls is a problem, but if they turn their cameras up on the neighborhood and spy on us, that's a bigger problem," said David Mascarenas, a neighborhood watchdog who has for years fought the port to improve the community's access to public land.
The cameras were paid for, along with fencing and other security equipment, with $2.3 million in grants from the Department of Homeland Security following the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
Before the attacks, the Everett port had open terminals and only minimal security. People who live in the surrounding neighborhoods often would walk down and drop crab pots off piers that are now blocked by tall cyclone fences topped with razor wire.
Golf balls have been raining on the port's Pacific Terminal for several months. However, a police report wasn't filed until this week when 18 golf balls over the span of two days were found near stacks of shipping containers. One ball even bounced into a piece of equipment waiting to be shipped to Alaska.
"It's been going on for a while, but it's been getting a lot worse the last couple of days," port spokeswoman Lisa Lefeber said.
Dock superintendent Bob Porter has been shagging balls from the Rucker Hill golfer for months. He keeps a box of them in his office near Pier 1.
"We have to put a stop to it," Porter said.
No injuries have been reported, although an errant golf ball is believed to have broken the driver's-side window of a longshoreman's pickup truck, which was parked in a secure area.
Lefeber said as many as 100 people may be working at the port on any given day. And while most activity happens during the day, people work at the port all hours.
John Nostrom lives near a grassy overlook on Warren Avenue. On two instances, in recent years, he has seen young men pull up to the spot, haul out their drivers, then tee off. The spot is a little more than 200 yards from the place where balls are being found.
"They don't hang out too long," he said.
A good golfer could drive a ball at speeds of up to 165 mph, said Rex Fullerton, general manager at Legion Memorial Golf Course in north Everett.
At that speed, golf balls can seriously injure someone.
"It's obviously a dangerous thing for somebody to just hit a golf ball into an area where it flies over people," Fullerton said. "Of course, we'd encourage them to hit golf balls at our golf course."
If someone is caught, any criminal charges that might be filed would depend on the circumstances, said Sgt. Robert Goetz with the Everett Police Department.
It isn't clear who is driving golf balls onto port land or why. Is it someone practicing their chip shot or a person with a chip on their shoulder?
Steve Ritchie, a dispatcher with The International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 32, said he wouldn't be surprised if it was all a malicious act by a disgruntled Rucker Hill resident.
The neighborhood, named for the prominent Rucker family, which built a hilltop mansion there in the early 1900s, boasts some of the city's best views of Port Gardner, the Olympic Mountains and Cascade Range.
There have long been tensions between the neighborhood and the port over noise from container ships that are sometimes unloaded in the middle of the night, glare from floodlights and exhaust from idling vessels.
"There's a lot of people out on Rucker Hill that want the longshoremen more or less shut down," Ritchie said.
Information from: The Herald
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Scott Grindy's creepy video surveillance of hillside residences
El Granada residents should beware of inappropriate use of "Homeland Security" video surveillance by Harbormaster Scott Grindy.
Everett port ends golf ball surveillance
Friday, May 22, 2009 at 3:41pm
When golf balls began pelting the Port of Everett's shipping terminal, security officers trained their anti-terrorism cameras on the nearby hillside neighbors, hoping to catch the mystery duffers.
But after residents complained of being spied on, port officials turned the surveillance cameras around. Nevertheless, the barrage of balls has ended.
"In hindsight, we realize the golf balls are a public safety issue, not a threat to the terminals in terms of somebody breaking in," port security director Scott Grindy told The Herald of Everett. "Aiming at the hillside probably wasn't an appropriate use."
Police reports were filed and the video cameras were trained on Rucker Hill after dozens of golf balls landed on the port property in recent weeks, which Grindy said endangered workers and equipment.
The cameras, obtained with some of the more than $2.3 million in federal Homeland Security money for the port, never spotted any balls being hit, and the effort will not be resumed, Grindy told The Associated Press on Friday.
"We've decided to keep our cameras on our perimeter and security fence," he said.
Residents who learned about the surveillance from an article published by The Herald newspaper on May 16 were upset they were being watched.
"If they have the ability to tape my house, there should be a written policy to determine who can see these tapes and how they are used," Dave Miller, whose bedroom window faces the port, told the Everett paper.
Charlene Rawson, chairwoman of the Port Gardner Neighborhood Association, which includes Rucker Hill and the port's terminals, arranged a meeting with port Executive Director John Mohr.
"We had a nice conversation about it," said Rawson, who initially said she believed the port's actions violated people's privacy. "The port said they don't have the cameras pointed at any particular house."
There's no way for the public to determine exactly what the cameras recorded. Port officials said they cannot share video footage because of Homeland Security rules, not can they disclose the location of cameras or answer whether they can pan or zoom.
Grindy said port officials are now working on a surveillance policy.
The only reported damage from the wayward balls was a broken window in a vacant pickup truck two weeks ago. But Grindy said near misses were reported by crews on Amtrak passenger trains, Sounder commuter rail and Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight trains.
Golfers apparently were practicing at the top of the hill in an area where the port terminals, railroad tracks and a public footpath cannot be seen, he said.
"I think the whole issue is that an avid golfer is not realizing that there's all this stuff below," he said.
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Port Officials Use DHS Anti-Terror Cameras to Stop Golf Ball Bombardment
FoxNews.com published this article about Harbormaster Scott Grindy's overreaction to golf balls.
May 16, 2009 - Associated Press
EVERETT, Wash. – Golf balls are bombarding the Port of Everett and anti-terrorism cameras are being trained on a residential neighborhood to hunt down the source.
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REGISTRATION IN PORTUGAL OF MARRIAGES CELEBRATED ABROAD
Marriages celebrated abroad between Portuguese citizens or between a Portuguese and a foreign national, must be registered in Portugal with the Civil Registry Office (Conservatória do Registo Civil) where the spouse(s) is (are) registered. The process should be initiated before the marriage takes place in order to determine the nuptial regimen.
The registration is done through the nearest Portuguese Consulate. Once the process is completed by the Consulate a certification of registration is sent to the applicant.
Documents to be Submitted by Portuguese Spouses
Birth Certificate or Portuguese Identification Card (B.I.).
Marriage certificate (corresponding to the type of ceremony performed, i.e., civil or religious), legalized by apostille by the Government of the country where marriage was performed. The marriage certificate presented should be the long form.
A statement by the bride about the names she will be using after the marriage.
Filled out Declaration.
Documents to be Submitted by a Spouse who is a Citizen of Another Country:
Birth certificate of the foreign spouse legalized by Apostille in the country where the birth occurred, must accompany the above documents.
Note: Only original or certified copies of the documents must be submitted.
Documents cannot be returned to applicant.
If the official documents are American an apostille is not necessary; the original or certified copies of the certificates suffice.
Please complete the following consular registration and send together with your documentation.
Please provide your phone number and e-mail in case there is necessity to contact you.
Consular Fees: Please open the following link
Payable in cash, certified check or money order, to the order of Consulate of Portugal. Personal checks are not accepted.
Fees subject to change due to variations in the exchange rate Euro/Dollar.
REQUIREMENTS FOR AMERICAN CITIZENS TO MARRY IN PORTUGAL
Under Portuguese law, in a ceremony conducted by a Portuguese Civil Registrar or religious authority.
The parties must apply for a marriage license by submitting the documents listed below to the Civil Registry Office in the area where the marriage will take place.
The parties must decide at the time of application to the Registrar under which terms they intend to marry, as required by Portuguese law, whether the parties intend to sign a pre-nuptial agreement or whether they will marry under the following terms:
With full communion of property
With communion of property acquired after marriage
With full separation of property
This preliminary process may take from 2 to 3 months and requires the presence in Portugal of at least one of the parties.
Documents to be submitted:
Certified copy of the birth certificates of each of the parties, certified by an Apostille issued by the Office of the Secretary of State of the state where the person was born.
An affidavit, issued by a competent American authority (religious or judicial) stating that the parties are free to marry, and certified by Apostille.
The above documents must be accompanied by a Portuguese translation.
Instituto dos Registos e Notariado – Conservatória dos Registos Centrais:
http://www.irn.mj.pt/IRN/sections/irn/contactos
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The making of a Peace Dove
Empathy Action’s Innovation Manager Sandy Glanfield describes the up and coming Peace Dove product and it’s journey from Istanbul to Lahore to being the latest of the Gifts that Give Twice product.
“More than a dove” seemed the only way to squeeze the numerous strands of this project into a single ‘strap-line’. I designed the doves to nestle in their recipient’s hand, but I hadn’t planned on the broad shoulders they would need to carry so many messages; peace, upcycling, partnership, the role of business in creating peace, empowering women, the power of a gift, refugees and love.
We met the NRS International team two years ago at the United Nations World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, Turkey. We felt an immediate affinity with them, and a fantastic energy from their team to explore how they could use their resources to help others. They instantly offered a tent and other items for the then yet to be made refugee simulation. A second meetingat Aidex in Brussels, Belgium cemented the relationship with a plan to create a product together upcycling fabric offcuts from their factories in Lahore, Pakistan.
Our ‘Peace Dove’ is made from the offcuts left when the factory machinists sew together blankets, and tents. It was a creative challenge to find a way to turn the 15cm x 100cm strips of blanket fleece into a dove, but I loved the shared drive to upcycle factory waste and turn it into something that could bring joy. We all wanted to embed a story and a message in them; for them to carry a reminder of those in need of the blankets and tents, in refugee camps, and in disaster situations, left without homes or shelter.
Bringing together the teams and the factory women who would make the doves, is where love comes into this story.
I’ve always felt pride and energised by the joy that is generated by groups of women ‘making’ together.
It was no different in a factory in the baking heat of Lahore, Pakistan. The factory women embraced talking about creating peace, and sharing their embroidery skills, as we all chatted and laughed. They valued the recognition of their voices in working towards bringing peace to the world, and seized the opportunity to learn new sewing skills.
Each of the 650 Peace Doves made will be a gift to someone. 150 larger doves will be given to Rohingya refugee children in camps in Bangladesh. We send this gift with love, messages of hope for peace in their lives, and the wish that, as soft toys, the doves bring comfort and potential for imagination and play. 500 smaller doves will wing their way to NRS International customers and partners, children in UK schools (who will also share their messages of peace), and as Empathy Action ‘Gifts that Give Twice’ for those who wish to share these messages of peace and hope with those close to them.
I have spent many hours designing and sewing these little doves to get them ready for production. The repetition of stitching can be a kind of meditation, giving head space to reflect all the while on the purpose of this project, the makers, the project team, and the final recipients of the Peace Doves. It’s always been my hope that each dove, once nestled in it’s receiver’s hand, will give them a moment to pause – to think about their vital wishes for peace, to feel connected to the people that created this dove, and others around them to generate their own messages and actions.
It’s got me thinking… perhaps “Little Dove, Big Message” would have been a better strapline.
The Peace Doves will be launching on World Peace Day 21st September, 2018 as part of partnership with NRS International. If you are interested in buying these or using them for your ‘peace party’ please get in touch.
Sandy leading a Peace Dove making workshop in Lahore
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Siebel Acquires nQuire Software
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The e-business app company will integrate nQuire's real-time intelligent Web products into its new Siebel 7 offering.
Siebel Systems Inc. said Monday it will acquire privately-held nQuire Software Inc. and will integrate and ship nQuire's scaleable analytic server and intelligent Web products with Siebel 7, the next release of its e-business application suite.
San Mateo, Calif. and Minnesota-based nQuire launched its nQuire suite of products in late 1999 to monitor and deliver real-time intelligence based on any fact-based problem or opportunity by initiating an e-mail or page to any device, such as a laptop, pager, PDA, RIM, U.S. and European mobile phones.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Siebel, (NASDAQ:SEBL) also based in San Mateo, said that the deal will allow it to "introduce a new paradigm in business analytics by delivering real-time business and customer insight -- spanning data warehouses and operational sources -- to thousands of users..."
Siebel 7 is an integrated suite of applications for customer relationship management (CRM -- including applications for partner relationship management (PRM) and employee relationship management (ERM) -- all based on a common Web architecture.
"With the nQuire acquisition, we will fundamentally change organizations' understanding and deployment of customer intelligence and market intelligence," said Thomas M. Siebel, chairman and CEO.
"We share a common vision with Siebel Systems to advance 'Information Intelligence to Anyone, Anywhere' to optimize relationships with customers, partners and employees," said Larry Barbetta, CEO and President of nQuire Software.
nQuire's existing customers include CSX Transportation, McDonald's, Simon Property Group, and Union Pacific Railroad.
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Adding satnav to turn power grids into smart systems
An ESA-backed project is harnessing satnav to insert an intelligent sense of place and time to power grids, to provide early warning of potentially dangerous electricity network failures.
Four years ago an apparent fire from nowhere forced the evacuation of 5 000 people from central London. Thick black smoke and choking fumes emerged from manhole covers as power was cut off to the Holborn neighbourhood. The local London Underground station was shuttered, along with West End theatres and law courts.
This 36-hour blaze at the start of April 2015 was eventually traced to faulty electrical cables in an underground tunnel, which went on to damage an adjacent gas pipe. In the event, firefighters had to borrow a bomb disposal robot from Scotland Yard to pinpoint the fire’s source.
“Power grids are still operated in a very traditional way,” comments David Brain of UK company Powerline Technologies, participating in a new ESA project called Enersyn.
Underground fire in central London
“There is literally no instrumentation in most local low-voltage substations – the first time a distribution company knows about a power outage is when a customer rings them up. And there are more than a million of these substations across the UK alone.”
Making this lack of data an urgent issue is the fact that more is being asked of power grids than ever before. The traditional uni-directional electricity flow from power generating plant is no longer the case, in favour of a ‘smart grid’ model where consumers can also generate power with household solar panels or wind turbines – and unprecedented power flows are required for items such as electric vehicles.
“The power distribution system was never built to handle these technologies,” he adds. “It’s a big concern among electric companies that power is being taken in and out in ways that the grid was not designed to do.”
Source of the fire
The Enersyn project is developing a standardised monitoring platform for subsystems and power lines, designed to take snapshots of electricity current and voltage some hundred times per second when brief power surges occur – anomalies that might not cause problems in their own right but could be early clues of more serious issues.
This project is supported through ESA’s Navigation Innovation and Support Programme (NAVISP), applying ESA’s hard-won expertise from Galileo and Europe’s EGNOS satellite augmentation system to new satellite navigation and – more widely – positioning, navigation and timing challenges.
“We’re building on a previous project looking at the application of machine learning and signal processing techniques to power grid data, to provide electrical distribution companies with the fullest possible situational awareness,” explains David. “We want to provide a fine-grain picture that can then be analysed in various different ways, taking a multi-application platform model, equivalent to the way your smartphone works.”
Enersyn measuring platform
Key to making Enersyn work is a resilient timing source for monitoring, enabling accurate time stamping of the data the system gathers, to capture a truly accurate snapshot for follow-up data analysis.
The shoebox-sized sensors recording waveform data will therefore make use of multiple timing sources, combining satellite navigation signals – precise to a matter of a few billionths of a second thanks to atomic clocks in space and a world-spanning ground segment for error detection and correction – backed up by signals from the UK’s terrestrial eLoran (short for Low-frequency,enhanced Long-Range Navigation) longwave radio system which could also be relayed underground as required, plus additional sources including national broadcaster BBC Radio 4.
Having completed a prototype timing unit, the Enersyn consortium is now developing machine learning algorithms and designing monitoring sensors.
Powerline Technologies is working alongside timing specialist Chronos and the University of Strathclyde. Enersyn is a follow-on to an initial project funded by InnovateUK.
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Galileo: it’s all about the time
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Ignite Burlington 2013 | Speaker Spotlight – David Hill
Presentation: Overcoming Life’s Obstacles | “In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”- Albert Einstein
David Hill is a Keller Williams Realtor, CEO of The Hill Team, and Owner of PreferredAgent. David began his career in the Real Estate in 2002. In 2005 he started the Hill Team. The Hill Team has consistently averaged 90 sides per year since 2008, and in 2012 is currently the #1 Team in volume in all offices for Worcester MA.
David has been a member of Gary Keller’s (Chairman of the Board of Keller Williams Realty) private Masterminds since 2010, and was featured on stage with Gary at Mega Camp in 2010. David is one of about 60 Keller Williams Realty approved national trainers, and owns a national prospecting and referral company called PreferredAgent. David is passionate about personal growth, loves teaching, and lives by the philosophy from Zig Ziglar: “Help enough people get what they want and you end up with whatever you want.”
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Ignite Burlington 2013 Speaker Line-up Announcement!
COLCHESTER, VERMONT (September 23, 2013) – Adam Hergenrother and Hergenrother Foundation are hosting the 2nd Annual Ignite Burlington on Thursday October 10, 2013 at The Film House at Main Street Landing. The final speaker line-up has been confirmed and we are excited to announce the following speakers will be presenting at Ignite Burlington 2013:
Kevin Pearce | Kevin Pearce Holdings, LLC
Former professional snowboarder Kevin Pearce is now an inspirational survivor, sports commentator, motivational speaker and advocate for brain injury and Down syndrome. The Kevin Pearce Fund supports organizations that enrich and enhance the lives of families and individuals affected by brain injury, Down syndrome, and other challenges.
Tom Murphy | Co-Founder & President of Sweethearts & Heroes
Tom Murphy is a leading authority on anti-bullying in schools and specializes in speaking to students, teachers and parents. Murphy has given over 500 presentations and empowered over 125,000 students and teachers on what they can do to help stop bullying. Tom is also the Corporate Director at Genesee and Wyoming Railway Company. Tom was a former nationally competitive wrestler in college and is a current Professional Mixed Martial Arts Fighter who competed on Season 2 of The Ultimate Fighting Championships Ultimate Fighter Reality Show.
Ann Zuccardy | CEO of AZ Communications
Ann Zuccardy offers candid, witty conversation about life’s challenging moments and getting through them with creativity and humor. She provides insights gleaned from her personal struggle after a traumatic brain injury (TBI) changed her life. A professional writer for nearly three decades, Ann writes for technical publications, social media, and corporate communications departments. Her work appears in Press Pause Moments: Essays about Life Transitions by Women Writers and in magazines and corporate newsletters. She is writing a book about her TBI experience: A Brain Rebooted: Creating New Pathways for Life and Business. Ann shares her story about the trials and tribulations of reinventing her life after her injury and discovering hidden surprises about intelligence and creativity.
Hannah Kirkpatrick | Mrs. Vermont America 2013
Disregarding social expectations to “keep up appearances”, Mrs. Vermont America 2013 Hannah Kirkpatrick is a fearless and vulnerable storyteller, willing to expose her journey through the deepest caverns of depression and addictive substances & behaviors, and her close-call victory over some of the same struggles that haunt millions of Americans. Through her story of devastating loss and second chances, Hannah paints audiences a vivid picture of the light at the end of the long tunnel of addiction, affirming that immeasurable laughter, meaning, and hope await on the other side. She brings levity and humor to an often heavy subject, easily delighting audiences into recognizing and embracing their weaknesses, challenging them to support others through dark times, and above all, passionately supporting listeners to take the steps of courage required to ask for help in whatever area they may be struggling. Hannah is an acclaimed speaker and mentor, traversing New England and beyond to inspire students, parents, and general adult populations toward the promises of hope & joy in recovery. As a capstone to her year of service as Mrs. Vermont America 2013, she made history as the first Vermonter to ever place in the Top 15 at the Mrs. America competition! She credits the irony of telling an “ugly story in a beautiful dress” as her ticket to success. Hannah also coaches women in Africa to economic freedom through entrepreneurism, and offers a personal development & leadership curriculum to individuals and companies looking to incorporate vintage values into their personal lives, families and businesses in a new way. Hannah is incredibly grateful to have her husband, Chris Kirkpatrick, still by her side, and they are delighted to have a “very two” year old daughter named Knightley.
Janet Smith | Director of VT Transcendental Meditation Center and TM Teacher
Janet Smith is the Director of Vermont Transcendental Meditation Center. She has been practicing and teaching the TM technique for over 40 years and leading and participating in peace projects since 1979.
Ela Wojtowicz | Yoga Teacher
Elizabeth (Ela) Wojtowicz is a Yoga teacher, Yoga student, disability activist, humanitarian, lover of life and a member of the non-profit “Off the Mat, Into the World.” Ela is also a part of the Handel Group Life Coaching Teleseries “Life Coaching for Yoga Practioners. Ela was born premature and was given the gift and blessing of Cerebral Palsy. Ela believes in the power of Yoga. Yoga is art. Yoga is life. Through her journey of self-discovery and transformation, Ela is learning that she does not have a disability, just different ABILITIIES.
David Hill | Keller Williams Realtor, CEO of The Hill Team, and Owner of PreferredAgent
David began his career in the Real Estate in 2002. In 2005 he started the Hill Team. The Hill Team has consistently averaged 90 sides per year since 2008, and in 2012 is currently the #1 Team in volume in all offices for Worcester MA. David has been a member of Gary Keller’s private Masterminds since 2010, and was featured on stage with Gary at Mega Camp in 2010. David is one of about 60 KW approved national trainers, and own a national prospecting and referral company called PreferredAgent. David is passionate about personal growth, loves teaching and lives by the philosophy from Zig Ziglar: “Help enough people get what they want and you end up with whatever you want.”
Aaron Fastman | Owner of 1-800-GOT-JUNK? and The Fastman Group, Inc.
Aaron Fastman is a small business entrepreneur in Burlington. He received his under graduate degree from The University of New Mexico in 2002. Aaron owns and operate four businesses in Vermont and New York – 1-800-GOT-JUNK?, The Fastman Group, which invests in real estate, a law funding business in NY, and iLyte iPhone Case Co. Aaron is a single father and stays busy enjoying everything Vermont has to offer, including mountain biking and snowboarding.
Adam Hergenrother | CEO of Hergenrother Industries
Adam Hergenrother and Hergenrother Industries empower the leaders of today to develop the leaders of tomorrow. Defined by vision, inspiration, leadership, opportunities, and growth, Adam has built seven companies in under five years. Hergenrother Industries is a powerhouse connector – matching talent with opportunities, the community with resources, clients with realtors, investors with entrepreneurs, and goals with training and education. Through strategic business consulting, consistent accountability, and personal development, Adam is developing leaders and businesses worldwide.
Nathalie Kelly | Writer & Inspirational Speaker
As Vermont’s only Board Certified Hypnotherapist with a busy practice in a medical office, Nathalie Kelly knew a lot about the mind’s power to heal the body. Since 1996 she has helped nearly 1,000 clients heal trauma and anxiety, and to develop self-worth and self-confidence. When a sailing accident left her with a traumatic brain injury, her world was suddenly and tragically turned upside down, putting everything she knew to the ultimate test. This amazing journey has led her to discover a new way to navigate life, leading with her heart and not her head. She is a writer and speaker committed to helping others find the courage to live more authentic and compassionate lives. Her upcoming book is titled, Brainstormed: How I Lost My Mind & Found My Heart.
There will also be a special mystery guest at the event.
Ignite is an exciting, unconventional event, designed to inspire, educate, and entertain the greater Burlington community. Ignite events are held in over 100 cities worldwide and are similar to TED’s ”Ideas Worth Spreading.” Ignite events bring people together in an inspiring, mastermind-like forum, where speakers share their passion projects and inspirational success stories for compelling five minutes, respecting Ignite’s acclaimed mantra, ”Enlighten Us, But Make It Quick.” Click here for more information: www.hergenrotherfoundation.org/events.
Registration and networking from 4:45pm-6:00pm. Light appetizers and a cash bar will be available. Presentations begin promptly at 6:00pm.
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Home Box Office U.S. Box Office Love and Lost (Shi Gu)
Love and Lost (Shi Gu)
In Theaters: March 20th, 2015
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Welcome to World 2 Liner Notes
A few bands had a chance to write some notes detailing the making of the songs they contributed to this compilation, among other things. Please read it over, and learn more about some of the amazing songs on the album!
Fire Emblem performed by Entertainment System First off thanks for listening to our super secret surf version of "together we ride" or "together we surf" from Fire Emblem. When we were asked to contribute a track to GM4A's second year anniversary comp we knew this was the one. This song is actually a track off our freshmen release "the Computer always cheats" but over the years some of our songs have changed a bit. In the case of this song we happened to be noodling about during set up at our weekly Sunday practice, and while we can't say who started playing the song with a surf kinda rhythm, everyone just kinda jumped in. after playing with it for a while we decided doing the first half of the song surf style sounded pretty cool. We started playing the surf version at shows and over time it grew to be one of our favorites. The new version you have here is actually the last recorded track we have with our former drummer of 3 years Matt the Dong, when he decided to step away from ES we wanted to give him a bit of a send off, and since he had been playing this song with us for the better part of 2 years we felt it was a good way to say goodbye. Not only that, but this version also got slammed with a bunch of new harmony sections, compliments of our own Rex Anderson. Also, this version was recorded with our pals at nice package studios, so the over all quality and kick ass-ed-ness it boosted like ten fold so...enjoy! We would also like to thank the GM4A guys for all their hard work and dedication to helping and loving all that the VG music movement has to offer. you guys have been super cool and man you put together a lot of comps, keep up the good work! -Entertainment System
Bahamut Lagoon Suite performed by Matheus Manente "Bahamut Lagoon has an amazing soundtrack that surprises me since I have first heard about it. Noriko Matsueda did a great job with this music, and I'm very happy I had the chance of making an arrangement of this soundtrack.
When Anthony (from GM4All) called me to be part of it, it was hard work, I don't have a nice equipment, but the result is just as good as working on it has been.
This song includes four songs of the original soundtrack, "Fight 1", "Yoyo and the God Dragons", "The Last Battle" and "Main Theme of Bahamut Lagoon", managed to fit together in an epic way. It included composing for a whole orchestra playing together with the acoustic and eletric guitars, drums and bass. I try to put the music in front line, don't care so much about technical demonstrations, but I couldn't resist a small shred session. Also, I tried to show power within all the instruments, from the orchestra to the bass, not getting restricted to just one lead instrument.
Completed, it had some parts with more than 30 instruments playing together and ended up with over 7 minutes of music.
I'm happy I've made it. Now I can't wait to see how it fits with the rest of the compilation. Game music 4 all is growing everyday, the compilations are getting better everytime.
I hope that those who dare to listen it also like it as well as I did. I know it will be a nice track for a great compilation." -Matheus Manente
Solytari Flight performed by 8 Bit Instrumental All right Super R-Type it's a great shooting game, and there's a lot of people that don't remember it so well, so we decided to make an effort and try to make an version from the first stage of this game, because it's the most remembered one.
Anyways we don't have much to say about the track, just that it took time to have it done, and we hope that everyone enjoys it.
It is a pleasure for us to have been invited to the compilation, and gamemusic4all, it's great on helping the bands and artists promoting their music, and we hope be a part of the next compilation releases. -8 Bit Instrumental
Like Brambles in a Firestorm performed by Lucas Park Now you may be wondering, why did I do what I did with my track, "Like Brambles in a Firestorm?" Well I would go into a 2458697435 year discussion about how everything aligned at that very moment and thus made this supernatural burst of awesomeness that is this song, but really, I'll shorten that to one sentence. Because it was a fucking great idea! Whoops, sentence fragment! Poor grammar and not so witty jokes aside, I absolutely love the brambles theme from DKC2 otherwise known as the Stickerbush Symphony. I also noticed that the Lava Reef Zone music from Sonic and Knuckles had the exact same key signature! Amazing how being a music major can help when listening to and remixing songs, ja?
I loved the idea from start to finish and it was all a matter of putting it together, which took about a few days to really get the flow and idea of it all.
I admit, the track might sound spacey at first but trust me, there's enough air and fire and brimstone to go around for everyone's tastes! Guaranteed if you liked either of these songs, you will at least like part of this song, if not all of it! I would have liked to use samples of the SPC data and such for the song but I ran out of time really. I was frankly working on several other projects when Anthony of Game Music 4 All (May the great goddess Ishtar bless them.) asked me to contribute for the album, and just putting something from my back catalogue just wouldn't do it... I'd feel guilty really if I didn't make something special and exclusive to the album. With that being said, I hope you really enjoy my track, "Like Brambles in a Firestorm," and I would like to thank Anthony and www. gamemusic4all. com for letting me be a part of this effort! Here's to another 50 million years of GM4A! Cheers and Booze, Lucas Park
Warcraft 2 Human 1 performed by Random Encounter This song started out with a love for Warcraft 2. We'd been playing around with it for about a year, trying different arrangements, different instrumentations. We tried everything from a bass guitar to trumpet as the lead instrument until we finally settled on the James Bond-esque guitar and muted accordion that made the final cut.
At the time of the recording we only had three musicians in the band so we had to record Warcraft 2: Human 1 in layers. First we recorded the drums and bass guitar in a single perfect take at the University of South Florda, and later added the rythm guitar, bells, accordions (Yes, there are two seperate accordions used), keyboard, piano, vocals, and lead guitar in. The funny thing about the lead guitar is that we were kind of rushed to get the part recorded and I (Travis the bass/accordion player) was the only one who knew the main melody. I'd never played a (non-bass) guitar before and it was quite the experience having to work with both a time constraint and really thin guitar strings for a quality recording. 72 takes later, here it is.
Finally, the vocals from the WC2 'Disco' cheat were added as a joke, but somehow wound up staying in the finished product.
Game music for All is pretty cool. Eh, updates the website and isn't afraid of anything. -Random Encounter
Korobeiniki performed by Spheres of Chaos Most people should know Korobeiniki from Tetris - I guess it's become something of a video game cover staple. The tune itself was originally a 19th century Russian folk song.
Game Music 4 All is great! The site has helped Spheres of Chaos (and the Gamewave Podcast) out big time, and has really created a sense of community within the VGM scene. And of course, I write for the site too, so here's to many more years! -Joe.
Symphony No.1, Op.13 - "Of the Night" performed by 8-bit Philharmonic The song I created for this album is "Symphony No.1,Op.13 - "Of the Night", an orchestral medley based on the work of Michiru Yamane in one of the most legendary Castlevania games of all time. While most top-notch VG soundtracks have been remade to death, I've hardly heard anything attempted from Symphony of the Night. The music is dark, catchy, powerful, and begged to be converted to symphony. (There is a Castlevania 4 song quoted in there too!) Its place on this compilation is justified by the musical influence of the source material, and its ability to hook in even the least game-oriented listeners. The track title is a mock-classical label, the Opus numbered 13 because SOTN was the 13th game in the series.
This song and the rest of this compilation would never have existed had it not been for GameMusic4All and Anthony hounding me to get my song done! Their website and community has opened my eyes to the scope of the VG music scene, and the collaboration of the artists within has produced some amazing work. This album is a testament to that, and to the quality of VG music as a whole. I hope to be a part of more projects in the future. But enough talk, have at you! -Nick, 8-bit Philharmonic
DOUBLE DRAGON performed by The Adventures of Duane and BrandO "We were inspired to do Double Dragon because it just made sense. The two of us fight like brothers constantly! And with LEO from Push Start as the infamous ABOBO, the song really couldn't have turned out better, in my opinion. It could have been LONGER, however." -BrandO
"Game Music 4 All is a wonderful opportunity for video game inspired musicians and artists to form am alliance! It allows us to reach each other on the most familiar of levels (and stages, zones, worlds, etc...) and I think the people at GM4A are truly brilliant for putting this all together! HERE'S TO THE YEARS TO COME! GAME ON!" -BrandO, also!
"I'd wanted too do Double Dragon for a while now, it gave BrandO and I the opportunity to team up and battle at the same time; which we do... constantly. I don't think we've ever made it through a song without a little complaining, or pecking at eachother, In Duck hunt for example the beginning where we're arguing with eachother wasn't scripted. I also wanted to personally thank Leo for comtributing, and I look forward to working with him on other songs in the future." -Duane
"GM4A has really helped our band with promotion, without there help we would probably still be stuck at the beginning. They've also been very responsive to our band aswell. It's awesome to see people who are real fans of what we do giving us a leg up on the compition (Not that I feel like we're competing,but you get the point). Thank you all for everything." -Also Duane
Bring Forth My Enemies performed by This Arm Is Gun This Arm Is Gun started out very odd... in William's basement with a twelve pack of limited Edish Mountain Dew Game Fuel and a copy of the MegaMan Anniversary collection. Zac, Ryan and William decided it would be "totally sweet" to start a band dedicated to the epic awesomeness that is the Blue Bomber, and soon afterward This Arm Is Gun was born.
They recruited Austin, a fellow band mate from Ryan's past group Immaculate, to do keyboards, and the band took off. We quickly started writing, recording, and freaking out about our new project. Very soon we had pumped out a few songs we were proud of and posted them on MySpace.
... and Holy Shit. MySpace went nuts.
We all of a sudden started getting a lot of attention, especially from the guys over at GM4A, getting air time on internet radio, to being BEGGED to play shows along both the East and West coasts. It was wonderful to know that people appreciated that which we were so proud of.
Then, inspiration hit. Megaman was being played out, so we shot for Megaman X. The epic was underway, and both the band and its audience was getting super stoked as all shit for it. But, when college calls, bands can fall, and that was the bane for TAIG.
We entered hiatus, but we will not stay in this sorry state for long! A short year after the birth of this band, we remixed and mastered a few of our old songs with new drums and better sound. We remastered our original tracks to say two things: 1. We can grow, and 2. We will be back. -This Arm is Gun
Heart Pitches performed by Temp Sound Solutions "heart pitches" is a little piece of music that signifies the space inbetween where 'real; conventional; safe' music and abstract music is. Kind of like the semicolon. is that shit really dead; or is it sleeping? Anyways, this song has samples from the first .034 seconds of various candy commercials, The gull wing doors of the Delorean from "Back To The Future", and main synth samples that are made out of speaker feedback from sampling notes from a c64 computer. We at TSS hope this knowledge about the composition of this song gives you a little insight of what makes this song. Knowing that when you think outside the realm of conventional song structure if that is your norm, or even do the opposite; to cling very slightly to a typical verse/chorus/verse formula when you normally make abstract music in an effort to corner that tiny, defined space inside your song is where we believe a true artists creative spark lives. -Shawn Phase Temp Sound Solutions
Shinobi III - Japonesque ft. Girlz Melon and Dark Hero (VS Dual Core) performed by Videogame Orchestra Once again, Videogame Orchestra is much honored to participate in a GM4A compilation. We owe a lot to GM4A and especially Anthony, who is also credited for being the guy responsible for the tracks we submitted. GM4A's freshness and enthusiasm, apart from informing us constantly of all the quality vgm news, has also led us to musical collaborations and in the end, having lots of fun. The tracks we submitted are two of our favorites, mostly because of the talents involved.
Japonesque is our first collaboration with guitar extravaganza/ultra-sexy male model Girlz Melon, a remake of our favorite track from Shinobi III. Dark Hero is a remix from the Here Comes a New Challenger compilation track Champion Hero, a result of collaboration with THE most stylish and overall impressive nerdcore rappers on the planet, Dual Core.
Videogame Orchestra would like to thank GM4A for its endless friendship and for giving us the opportunity to expand our musical territories. Finally, we would like to give a huge shout to every vgm composer, rapper, listener, fan, promoter, whatever (duh), for being involved with this scene =] -Videogame Orchestra
End of the Beginning performed by Dual Core "The drive or the fire for my eternity", summing up the motivation and condemnation expressed in our newest song, End of the Beginning. As a team, we picked up where we left off at Lost Reality and continued in the same Dual Core direction. Interestingly enough, this is one of the few tracks we have completed together in person -- a feat which has not been accomplished since the culmination of the Super Powers album. Cheers from Westhoughton, England. - - - - Game Music 4 All has been a leading source of music for the Internet. The GM4A releases bring together unlikely, yet powerful collaborations from the far reaches of cyberspace. Truly, this is what makes the Internet great. cheers, -eighty
Reincarnated Soul and Aeris Theme performed by Girlz Melon First off, I want to wish the GM4A team a happy anniversary and for being such beautiful buggerz, they could cram more epic into one CD than a Tokyo train pusher.
I chose Aeris' Theme to cover for th reason that, I recorded Tifa'z Theme in 2004, and thought it woz time to update my FFVII cover collection!
The Castlevania track woz covered not just because th tune iz great, but also that th starting melody remindz me of th film 'A.W.O.L' with Jean-Claude Van Damme (awesome dancer, go watch 'Kickboxer').
And finally, I'm going to give you a little advice.
There'z a force in the universe that makez thingz happen. And all you have to do iz get in touch with it, stop thinking, let thingz happen, and be the ball. -Girlz Melon
Permutation performed by Nicole Adams feat. starla I was invited to join Game Music 4 All's second anniversary compilation after I linked the creators to my MySpace music profile in early 2008. I had started a remix of Donkey Kong Country's "Fear Factory" not long before being asked. GM4A and I agreed it would be great material for the album so I proceeded to come up with a rough arrangement. Once the ideas were in place, I contacted OverClocked ReMixer, starla (aka injury), for lyrics and vocals. She was excited to join and, using the lyrics I wrote for the chorus, got to work writing lyrics for the verses. As the remix was nearing completion, I contacted my internet friend, Entheogen, to perform a screaming electric guitar solo of one of the melodies from the original.
The lyrics center around conformity and the restricted thoughts one woman has about being stripped of her individuality by an oppressive government. People are taken to factories where they are essentially turned into machines in order to keep any sort of conflict from arising. Fortunately, human nature prevails and the power of the human mind enables our narrator to understand what it's like to think and feel with absolute freedom. The lyrics mean a lot to me since much of my life consisted of trying to be like everyone else and feeling embarrassed about things that helped define who I was.
Big thanks to starla and Entheogen for putting their all into this project. I also need to thank Ross B (rb2k1), SGX and Artificial Artisan for taking the time to critique my demos of the remix and teach me even more about music production. Finally, I'd like to thank the highly dedicated Game Music 4 All team for giving me the opportunity to be a part of the compilation. All of you are amazing!
-Nicole Adams I had wanted to collaborate on a song for some time when Nicole approached me through e-mail. From the moment I first heard her WIP, I was impressed by her talent and skill. I of course agreed to lend vocals to her remix. She had done the hard part, all that was left for me to do was write the remainder of the lyrics (she had already written the chorus), create harmonies and record. Working over the internet is much different than in person, since sometimes it can be more difficult to express certain ideas. After several takes, Nicole was pleased with what we had. It was very interesting seeing the mix grow and change over time into what it ended up as. This was absolutely a fun learning experience for me and I definitely hope to contribute to more remixes in the future. -starla (written for OverClocked ReMix)
Lyrics: Growing steady now, watching over me I cannot escape, I cannot be free Push it down inside, nothing's what it seems Heavy like the wind, traveling over me
Covering my mouth, covering up my eyes Freedom's what they claim, what they advertise Chain me down inside, secrets I can't hide I cannot feel, I cannot breathe freely
Reality is by this factory Prescribing what is not in need Personality, what does it mean to me? I cannot think, my mind can't breathe
Growing quiet now, falling back to sleep Herding us like cows, treating us like sheep I cannot describe the feelings that I hide Cut me like a knife, steady smooth and deep
Similarity, this conformity There's no place to hide in this factory When you close your eyes, what is it that you see? I cannot feel, I cannot breathe freely
Reality is by this factory Prescribing what is not in need Personality, what does it mean to me? Tell me what's beyond this eternity
Reality was by this factory It's products seen are a dying breed Personality consumes all of me The world will see I'm forever free
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Globular Cluster NGC 6934
Observations of globular clusters teach us how the first generation of stars in our Galaxy formed some 12 to 15 billion years ago and how they have evolved ever since. Globular clusters are extremely dense stellar environments that typically contain between one hundred thousand to one million stars. The density of these star cities presents us with a wealth of information on stars of all sizes but also presents a great challenge – how can we peer into the very heart of such a dense star cluster?
Gemini, with its excellent image quality, can provide extremely sharp pictures that deblur and deblend the star images and allow observations right into the very heart of these oldest stellar environments.
The optical picture on the left is sharp and clear because of the good atmospheric conditions on Mauna Kea and the excellent optical quality of the Gemini telescope. Yet NGC 6934 contains so many stars that even the thin atmosphere above Mauna Kea blurs the starlight enough that the stars overlap and can no longer be studied individually. The infrared picture on the right was made with Gemini and the University of Hawaii's Hokupa'a Adaptive Optics System. Hokupa'a, derived from the Hawaiian name for the north star, compensates for the remaining blurring of starlight by the atmosphere above Mauna Kea. The resulting picture is so sharp that individual stars can easily be seen and studied in detail even in the very heart of this globular cluster. The resolution of the image on the right is comparable to resolving the separation between two automobile headlights at 2000 miles!
Adaptive Optics systems use deformable mirrors to correct for the effects of atmospheric distortions to starlight, resulting in significantly sharper images. Adaptive Optics will allow Gemini to at times produce sharper images than is possible with the Hubble Space Telescope. The United States National Science Foundation has provided significant financial support to the University of Hawai'i Adaptive Optics Program to obtain these images.
Gemini Observatory, US National Science Foundation, and University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy
These images are of the central region of NGC 6934, a globular cluster located 50,000 light years from Earth. Although this star cluster is very distant, it is still well within our Galaxy, the Milky Way.
Download a 300dpi JPEG file of: the Optical image, the Infrared image or the the Combination image
Technical Information - Optical Image
Instrument: Gemini North Acquisition Camera. The CCD in the Acquisition Camera has 1024 x 1024 pixels.
Pixel scale: 0.12 arcsec per pixel (Detector pixels)
Field of view: 115 arcsec x 103 arcsec
Filter: V-band
Exposure time: 12 x 1 second
Resolution: 0.6 arcsec FWHM
Processing: The images were dark subtracted. No flat-field correction was done. The images were then registered and co-added.
Technical information - Infrared Image
Instrument: The observations were obtained with the University of Hawaii Adaptive Optics System (Hokupa'a) with the infrared camera QUIRC. Hokupa'a is a 36-element curvature-sensing AO system. The Insitute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, Adaptive Optics Group has more information about the AO system. The detector in QUIRC is a Rockwell 1024 x 1024 pixel HgCdTe "HAWAII" array sensitive to 2.5 microns. A description of QUIRC is available from the Insitute for Astronomy.
Pixel scale: 0.01974 arcsec per pixel (Detector pixels)
Field of view: 20.4 arcsec x 25.5 arcsec
Information about filters, exposure time and resolution:
Filter Exposure time Resolution (FWHM)
K-band (2.2 µm broad band) 23 min 35 sec 0.09 arcsec
The images were taken as individual exposures with exposure times of 10 seconds or 15 seconds. The limiting magnitude is approximately K=21.3 mag (5sigma detection).
Processing: The images were sky-subtracted using sky images obtained before and after the observations. Then the images were registered and co-added.
The images were then processed with a filtering method that suppresses the PSF halo characteristics of partially compensated AO images. This consists in a simple, linear filtering of the image in the Fourier space, based on an empirical analysis of the properties of AO compensated images. It does not affect the core of the PSF, the airy rings nor possible PSF artifacts. To first order, the resolution is therefore the same as in the unfiltered images.
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Surging Growth of QlikTech Defies Recession; Outpaces Business Intelligence Incumbents Oracle (Hyperion), IBM (Cognos), SAP (Business Objects) and Microsoft
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Radnor, PA (PRWEB) February 17, 2009
QlikTech, the world's fastest-growing Business Intelligence (BI) software vendor, today announced dramatic growth in 2008. Annual revenues increased 50% over 2007 to $ 120 million, while the company's customer base grew by 45% to 10,585 customers in 92 countries. The number of users of QlikTech's flagship product, QlikView, also grew by 45%, to approximately 500,000. In contrast to the software industry trend toward downsizing, QlikTech added 160 new employees in 2008, a 50% increase over 2007.
"The rules of the game have changed forever; the era of antiquated, hard-to-use software solutions with long, expensive deployments is coming to an end," said Lars Björk, CEO of QlikTech. "Today's macroeconomic challenges are driving customers to demand a solution where value is recognized in weeks - not months or years. Organizations need immediate answers to their pressing business questions, like how can I selectively cut costs, maximize my cash position, or more efficiently allocate working capital. They can no longer afford to wait for costly IT driven solutions that are slow or unable to respond to rapidly changing business conditions.
Our exceptionally strong results, especially when other software vendors are laying off people as their business declines, is a testament to our unique value proposition. QlikTech is advantageously positioned to continue growing at the expense of our competitors."
"Volume and Velocity" Strategy Fuels Broad-based Growth across Small, Midsize, and Large Global Organizations
QlikTech's "volume and velocity" sales strategy has made it possible for the company to dramatically grow its customer base through very short sales cycles. Throughout the downturn in 2008, QlikTech added an average of more than 270 new customers every month. While the company continued to derive the majority of its revenues from the mid-market segment (firms with 100 to 1,000 employees) where it is the established BI leader, sales to larger enterprises grew significantly as well. Enterprise customers in 2008 included many worldwide brands, such as Volvo, Deutsche Telekom, Novartis, Fujitsu, Campbell Soup, Shell, 3M, and ADP.
Unlike many B2B enterprise software firms, no single transaction accounted for more than 1% of total revenues in 2008. In a year when many large IT projects were scrubbed or deferred, QlikTech gained market share by delivering projects with exceptionally rapid payback - typically measured in days or weeks.
In-Memory Associative Technology Drives Unprecedented Customer Success
QlikTech's ground-breaking in-memory associative technology has enabled customers to realize unprecedented results and satisfaction with their QlikView deployments. QlikView has been adopted as the BI standard in many organizations globally, and is also deployed in conjunction with incumbent BI tools to enable analysis that is not otherwise possible.
"Some of our competitors have announced products with in-memory capabilities," said Anthony Deighton, senior vice president of products and strategy at QlikTech. "It's great they recognize the value we bring to the market, but they have fundamentally missed the mark because their offerings fail to meet basic usability requirements. They lack QlikView's unique associative capabilities that allow business users to interactively explore and analyze their data without the pre-defined limits of traditional BI. On the other hand, we deliver value to customers today, and we are so confident of our product that we provide our customers a 30-day money-back guarantee, an offer our competitors will have difficulty matching."
License Revenue Indicates Strength of Business
Software license revenues, which are a strong indicator of the health of a software company, constituted the majority of QlikTech's total revenues in 2008, accounting for 63% of the total. This is in stark contrast to the traditional vendors in the BI market, which derive the majority of their revenues from services. For example, software licenses comprised only 31% of SAP's total revenues according to its latest earnings report.
"The incumbents' heavy reliance on services - rather than license revenue - indicates their declining position in the industry," said William Sorenson, chief financial officer at QlikTech. "Our high growth, high velocity model is focused on selling software licenses to new and existing customers, to continue to gain share and disrupt the BI market."
Channel-focused Business Model Leverages Growing Partner Network
In 2008, QlikTech continued to increase the percentage of sales derived through its rapidly growing network of more than 700 channel partners. QlikTech is aggressively growing its partner network, and will hold its annual partner conference, Qonnections, in Barcelona, Spain, on April 5-8, 2009.
Sustained Growth, Profitability, and Geographic Expansion Expected in 2009
While others have downgraded projections, QlikTech maintains a highly positive outlook for 2009. The company expects to sustain a high growth rate, along with healthy levels of cash flow and profitability. Areas of emphasis include geographic expansion (including China and Japan), continued product innovation, ongoing penetration of the mid-market, and further traction in the enterprise market.
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The Buddha's own account of his search for enlightenment
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In the Ariyapariyesana Sutta, the Buddha tells of how he left his family in search of the Deathless, going to 2 teachers to learn how to reach the formless attainments but not satisfied with these and then continuing on himself:
"Monks, there are these two searches: ignoble search & noble search. And what is ignoble search? There is the case where a person, being subject himself to birth, seeks [happiness in] what is likewise subject to birth. Being subject himself to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, he seeks [happiness in] what is likewise subject to illness... death... sorrow... defilement.
"And what may be said to be subject to birth? Spouses & children are subject to birth. Men & women slaves... goats & sheep... fowl & pigs... elephants, cattle, horses, & mares... gold & silver are subject to birth. Subject to birth are these acquisitions, and one who is tied to them, infatuated with them, who has totally fallen for them, being subject to birth, seeks what is likewise subject to birth.
"And what may be said to be subject to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement? Spouses & children... men & women slaves... goats & sheep... fowl & pigs... elephants, cattle, horses, & mares... gold & silver [2] are subject to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement. Subject to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement are these acquisitions, and one who is tied to them, infatuated with them, who has totally fallen for them, being subject to birth, seeks what is likewise subject to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement. This is ignoble search.
"And what is the noble search? There is the case where a person, himself being subject to birth, seeing the drawbacks of birth, seeks the unborn, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding. Himself being subject to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, seeing the drawbacks of aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, seeks the aging-less, illness-less, deathless, sorrow-less, undefiled, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding. This is the noble search.
"I, too, monks, before my Awakening, when I was an unawakened bodhisatta, being subject myself to birth, sought what was likewise subject to birth. Being subject myself to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, I sought [happiness in] what was likewise subject to illness... death... sorrow... defilement. The thought occurred to me, 'Why do I, being subject myself to birth, seek what is likewise subject to birth? Being subject myself to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, why do I seek what is likewise subject to illness... death... sorrow... defilement? What if I, being subject myself to birth, seeing the drawbacks of birth, were to seek the unborn, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding? What if I, being subject myself to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, seeing the drawbacks of aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, were to seek the aging-less, illness-less, deathless, sorrow-less,, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding?'
"So, at a later time, while still young, a black-haired young man endowed with the blessings of youth in the first stage of life — and while my parents, unwilling, were crying with tears streaming down their faces — I shaved off my hair & beard, put on the ochre robe and went forth from the home life into homelessness.
"Having thus gone forth in search of what might be skillful, seeking the unexcelled state of sublime peace, I went to Alara Kalama and, on arrival, said to him: 'Friend Kalama, I want to practice in this doctrine & discipline.'
"When this was said, he replied to me, 'You may stay here, my friend. This doctrine is such that a wise person can soon enter & dwell in his own teacher's knowledge, having realized it for himself through direct knowledge.'
"It was not long before I quickly learned the doctrine. As far as mere lip-reciting & repetition, I could speak the words of knowledge, the words of the elders, and I could affirm that I knew & saw — I, along with others.
"I thought: 'It isn't through mere conviction alone that Alara Kalama declares, "I have entered & dwell in this Dhamma, having realized it for myself through direct knowledge." Certainly he dwells knowing & seeing this Dhamma.' So I went to him and said, 'To what extent do you declare that you have entered & dwell in this Dhamma?' When this was said, he declared the dimension of nothingness.
"I thought: 'Not only does Alara Kalama have conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, & discernment. I, too, have conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, & discernment. What if I were to endeavor to realize for myself the Dhamma that Alara Kalama declares he has entered & dwells in, having realized it for himself through direct knowledge.' So it was not long before I quickly entered & dwelled in that Dhamma, having realized it for myself through direct knowledge. I went to him and said, 'Friend Kalama, is this the extent to which you have entered & dwell in this Dhamma, having realized it for yourself through direct knowledge?'
"'Yes, my friend...'
"'This, friend, is the extent to which I, too, have entered & dwell in this Dhamma, having realized it for myself through direct knowledge.'
"'It is a gain for us, my friend, a great gain for us, that we have such a companion in the holy life. So the Dhamma I declare I have entered & dwell in, having realized it for myself through direct knowledge, is the Dhamma you declare you have entered & dwell in, having realized it for yourself through direct knowledge. And the Dhamma you declare you have entered & dwell in, having realized it for yourself through direct knowledge, is the Dhamma I declare I have entered & dwell in, having realized it for myself through direct knowledge. The Dhamma I know is the Dhamma you know; the Dhamma you know is the Dhamma I know. As I am, so are you; as you are, so am I. Come friend, let us now lead this community together.'
"In this way did Alara Kalama, my teacher, place me, his pupil, on the same level with himself and pay me great honor. But the thought occurred to me, 'This Dhamma leads not to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to stilling, to direct knowledge, to Awakening, nor to Unbinding, but only to reappearance in the dimension of nothingness.' So, dissatisfied with that Dhamma, I left.
"In search of what might be skillful, seeking the unexcelled state of sublime peace, I went to Uddaka Ramaputta and, on arrival, said to him: 'Friend Uddaka, I want to practice in this doctrine & discipline.'
"I thought: 'It wasn't through mere conviction alone that Rama declared, "I have entered & dwell in this Dhamma, having realized it for myself through direct knowledge." Certainly he dwelled knowing & seeing this Dhamma.' So I went to Uddaka and said, 'To what extent did Rama declare that he had entered & dwelled in this Dhamma?' When this was said, Uddaka declared the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.
"I thought: 'Not only did Rama have conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, & discernment. I, too, have conviction, persistence, mindfulness, concentration, & discernment. What if I were to endeavor to realize for myself the Dhamma that Rama declared he entered & dwelled in, having realized it for himself through direct knowledge.' So it was not long before I quickly entered & dwelled in that Dhamma, having realized it for myself through direct knowledge. I went to Uddaka and said, 'Friend Uddaka, is this the extent to which Rama entered & dwelled in this Dhamma, having realized it for himself through direct knowledge?'
"'It is a gain for us, my friend, a great gain for us, that we have such a companion in the holy life. So the Dhamma Rama declared he entered & dwelled in, having realized it for himself through direct knowledge, is the Dhamma you declare you have entered & dwell in, having realized it for yourself through direct knowledge. And the Dhamma you declare you have entered & dwell in, having realized it for yourself through direct knowledge, is the Dhamma Rama declared he entered & dwelled in, having realized it for himself through direct knowledge. The Dhamma he knew is the Dhamma you know; the Dhamma you know is the Dhamma he knew. As he was, so are you; as you are, so was he. Come friend, lead this community.'
"In this way did Uddaka Ramaputta, my companion in the holy life, place me in the position of teacher and pay me great honor. But the thought occurred to me, 'This Dhamma leads not to disenchantment, to dispassion, to cessation, to stilling, to direct knowledge, to Awakening, nor to Unbinding, but only to reappearance in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception.' So, dissatisfied with that Dhamma, I left.
"In search of what might be skillful, seeking the unexcelled state of sublime peace, I wandered by stages in the Magadhan country and came to the military town of Uruvela. There I saw some delightful countryside, with an inspiring forest grove, a clear-flowing river with fine, delightful banks, and villages for alms-going on all sides. The thought occurred to me: 'How delightful is this countryside, with its inspiring forest grove, clear-flowing river with fine, delightful banks, and villages for alms-going on all sides. This is just right for the exertion of a clansman intent on exertion.' So I sat down right there, thinking, 'This is just right for exertion.'
"Then, monks, being subject myself to birth, seeing the drawbacks of birth, seeking the unborn, unexcelled rest from the yoke, Unbinding, I reached the unborn, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding. Being subject myself to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, seeing the drawbacks of aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, seeking the aging-less, illness-less, deathless, sorrow-less, unexcelled rest from the yoke, Unbinding, I reached the aging-less, illness-less, deathless, sorrow-less, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding. Knowledge & vision arose in me: 'Unprovoked is my release. This is the last birth. There is now no further becoming.'
"Then the thought occurred to me, 'This Dhamma that I have attained is deep, hard to see, hard to realize, peaceful, refined, beyond the scope of conjecture, subtle, to-be-experienced by the wise. [3] But this generation delights in attachment, is excited by attachment, enjoys attachment. For a generation delighting in attachment, excited by attachment, enjoying attachment, this/that conditionality & dependent co-arising are hard to see. This state, too, is hard to see: the resolution of all fabrications, the relinquishment of all acquisitions, the ending of craving; dispassion; cessation; Unbinding. And if I were to teach the Dhamma and others would not understand me, that would be tiresome for me, troublesome for me.'
"Just then these verses, unspoken in the past, unheard before, occurred to me:
'Enough now with teaching what only with difficulty I reached. This Dhamma is not easily realized by those overcome with aversion & passion. What is abstruse, subtle, deep, hard to see, going against the flow — those delighting in passion, cloaked in the mass of darkness, won't see.'
"As I reflected thus, my mind inclined to dwelling at ease, not to teaching the Dhamma.
"Then Brahma Sahampati, having known with his own awareness the line of thinking in my awareness, thought: 'The world is lost! The world is destroyed! The mind of the Tathagata, the Arahant, the Rightly Self-awakened One inclines to dwelling at ease, not to teaching the Dhamma!' Then, just as a strong man might extend his flexed arm or flex his extended arm, Brahma Sahampati disappeared from the Brahma-world and reappeared in front of me. Arranging his upper robe over one shoulder, he knelt down with his right knee on the ground, saluted me with his hands before his heart, and said to me: 'Lord, let the Blessed One teach the Dhamma! Let the One-Well-Gone teach the Dhamma! There are beings with little dust in their eyes who are falling away because they do not hear the Dhamma. There will be those who will understand the Dhamma.'
"That is what Brahma Sahampati said. Having said that, he further said this:
'In the past there appeared among the Magadhans an impure Dhamma devised by the stained. Throw open the door to the Deathless! Let them hear the Dhamma realized by the Stainless One! Just as one standing on a rocky crag might see people all around below, So, O wise one, with all-around vision, ascend the palace fashioned of Dhamma. Free from sorrow, behold the people submerged in sorrow, oppressed by birth & aging. Rise up, hero, victor in battle! O Teacher, wander without debt in the world. Teach the Dhamma, O Blessed One: There will be those who will understand.'
"Then, having understood Brahma's invitation, out of compassion for beings, I surveyed the world with the eye of an Awakened One. As I did so, I saw beings with little dust in their eyes and those with much, those with keen faculties and those with dull, those with good attributes and those with bad, those easy to teach and those hard, some of them seeing disgrace & danger in the other world. Just as in a pond of blue or red or white lotuses, some lotuses — born & growing in the water — might flourish while immersed in the water, without rising up from the water; some might stand at an even level with the water; while some might rise up from the water and stand without being smeared by the water — so too, surveying the world with the eye of an Awakened One, I saw beings with little dust in their eyes and those with much, those with keen faculties and those with dull, those with good attributes and those with bad, those easy to teach and those hard, some of them seeing disgrace & danger in the other world.
"Having seen this, I answered Brahma Sahampati in verse:
'Open are the doors to the Deathless to those with ears. Let them show their conviction. Perceiving trouble, O Brahma, I did not tell people the refined, sublime Dhamma.'
"Then Brahma Sahampati, thinking, 'The Blessed One has given his consent to teach the Dhamma,' bowed down to me and, circling me on the right, disappeared right there.
"Then the thought occurred to me, 'To whom should I teach the Dhamma first? Who will quickly understand this Dhamma?' Then the thought occurred to me, 'This Alara Kalama is wise, competent, intelligent. He has long had little dust in his eyes. What if I were to teach him the Dhamma first? He will quickly understand this Dhamma.' Then devas came to me and said, 'Lord, Alara Kalama died seven days ago.' And knowledge & vision arose within me: 'Alara Kalama died seven days ago.' The thought occurred to me, 'A great loss has Alara Kalama suffered. If he had heard this Dhamma, he would have quickly understood it.'
"Then the thought occurred to me, 'To whom should I teach the Dhamma first? Who will quickly understand this Dhamma?' Then the thought occurred to me, 'This Uddaka Ramaputta is wise, competent, intelligent. He has long had little dust in his eyes. What if I were to teach him the Dhamma first? He will quickly understand this Dhamma.' Then devas came to me and said, 'Lord, Uddaka Ramaputta died last night.' And knowledge & vision arose within me: 'Uddaka Ramaputta died last night.' The thought occurred to me, 'A great loss has Uddaka Ramaputta suffered. If he had heard this Dhamma, he would have quickly understood it.'
"Then the thought occurred to me, 'To whom should I teach the Dhamma first? Who will quickly understand this Dhamma?' Then the thought occurred to me, 'They were very helpful to me, the group of five monks who attended to me when I was resolute in exertion. What if I were to teach them the Dhamma first?' Then the thought occurred to me, 'Where are the group of five monks staying now?' And with the divine eye, purified & surpassing the human, I saw that they were staying near Varanasi in the Deer Park at Isipatana.
"Then, having stayed at Uruvela as long as I liked, I set out to wander by stages to Varanasi. Upaka the Ajivaka saw me on the road between Gaya and the (place of) Awakening, and on seeing me said to me, 'Clear, my friend, are your faculties. Pure your complexion, and bright. On whose account have you gone forth? Who is your teacher? In whose Dhamma do you delight?'
"When this was said, I replied to Upaka the Ajivaka in verses:
'All-vanquishing, all-knowing am I, with regard to all things, unadhering. All-abandoning, released in the ending of craving: having fully known on my own, to whom should I point as my teacher? [4] I have no teacher, and one like me can't be found. In the world with its devas, I have no counterpart. For I am an arahant in the world; I, the unexcelled teacher. I, alone, am rightly self-awakened. Cooled am I, unbound. To set rolling the wheel of Dhamma I go to the city of Kasi. In a world become blind, I beat the drum of the Deathless.'
"'From your claims, my friend, you must be an infinite conqueror.'
'Conquerors are those like me who have reached fermentations' end. I've conquered evil qualities, and so, Upaka, I'm a conqueror.'
"When this was said, Upaka said, 'May it be so, my friend,' and — shaking his head, taking a side-road — he left.
"Then, wandering by stages, I arrived at Varanasi, at the Deer Park in Isipatana, to where the group of five monks were staying. From afar they saw me coming and, on seeing me, made a pact with one another, (saying,) 'Friends, here comes Gotama the contemplative: living luxuriously, straying from his exertion, backsliding into abundance. He doesn't deserve to be bowed down to, to be greeted by standing up, or to have his robe & bowl received. Still, a seat should be set out; if he wants to, he can sit down.' But as I approached, they were unable to keep to their pact. One, standing up to greet me, received my robe & bowl. Another spread out a seat. Another set out water for washing my feet. However, they addressed me by name and as 'friend.'
"So I said to them, 'Don't address the Tathagata by name and as "friend." The Tathagata, friends, is a worthy one, rightly self-awakened. Lend ear, friends: the Deathless has been attained. I will instruct you. I will teach you the Dhamma. Practicing as instructed, you will in no long time reach & remain in the supreme goal of the holy life for which clansmen rightly go forth from home into homelessness, knowing & realizing it for yourselves in the here & now.'
"When this was said, the group of five monks replied to me, 'By that practice, that conduct, that performance of austerities you did not attain any superior human states, any distinction in knowledge & vision worthy of a noble one. So how can you now — living luxuriously, straying from your exertion, backsliding into abundance — have attained any superior human states, any distinction in knowledge & vision worthy of a noble one?'
"When this was said, I replied to them, 'The Tathagata, monks, is not living luxuriously, has not strayed from his exertion, has not backslid into abundance. The Tathagata, friends, is a worthy one, rightly self-awakened. Lend ear, friends: the Deathless has been attained. I will instruct you. I will teach you the Dhamma. Practicing as instructed, you will in no long time reach & remain in the supreme goal of the holy life for which clansmen rightly go forth from home into homelessness, knowing & realizing it for yourselves in the here & now.'
A second time... A third time, the group of five monks said to me, 'By that practice, that conduct, that performance of austerities you did not attain any superior human states, any distinction in knowledge & vision worthy of a noble one. So how can you now — living luxuriously, straying from your exertion, backsliding into abundance — have attained any superior human states, any distinction in knowledge & vision worthy of a noble one?'
"When this was said, I replied to the group of five monks, 'Do you recall my ever having spoken in this way before?'
"'No, lord.'
"'The Tathagata, monks, is not living luxuriously, has not strayed from his exertion, has not backslid into abundance. The Tathagata, friends, is a worthy one, rightly self-awakened. Lend ear, friends: the Deathless has been attained. I will instruct you. I will teach you the Dhamma. Practicing as instructed, you will in no long time reach & remain in the supreme goal of the holy life for which clansmen rightly go forth from home into homelessness, knowing & realizing it for yourselves in the here & now.'
"And so I was able to convince them. I would teach two monks while three went for alms, and we six lived off what the three brought back from their alms round. Then I would teach three monks while two went for alms, and we six lived off what the two brought back from their alms round. Then the group of five monks — thus exhorted, thus instructed by me — being subject themselves to birth, seeing the drawbacks of birth, seeking the unborn, unexcelled rest from the yoke, Unbinding, reached the unborn, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding. Being subject themselves to aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, seeing the drawbacks of aging... illness... death... sorrow... defilement, seeking the aging-less, illness-less, deathless, sorrow-less, unexcelled rest from the yoke, Unbinding, they reached the aging-less, illness-less, deathless, sorrow-less, unexcelled rest from the yoke: Unbinding. Knowledge & vision arose in them: 'Unprovoked is our release. This is the last birth. There is now no further becoming.'
"Monks, there are these five strings of sensuality. Which five? Forms cognizable via the eye — agreeable, pleasing, charming, endearing, fostering desire, enticing. Sounds cognizable via the ear — agreeable, pleasing, charming, endearing, fostering desire, enticing. Aromas cognizable via the nose — agreeable, pleasing, charming, endearing, fostering desire, enticing. Tastes cognizable via the tongue — agreeable, pleasing, charming, endearing, fostering desire, enticing. Tactile sensations cognizable via the body — agreeable, pleasing, charming, endearing, fostering desire, enticing. These are the five strings of sensuality.
"And any priests or contemplatives tied to these five strings of sensuality — infatuated with them, having totally fallen for them, consuming them without seeing their drawbacks or discerning the escape from them — should be known as having met with misfortune, having met with ruin; Mara can do with them as he will. Just as if a wild deer were to lie bound on a heap of snares: it should be known as having met with misfortune, having met with ruin; the hunter can do with it as he will. When the hunter comes, it won't get away as it would like. In the same way, any priests or contemplatives tied to these five strings of sensuality — infatuated with them, having totally fallen for them, consuming them without seeing their drawbacks or discerning the escape from them — should be known as having met with misfortune, having met with ruin; Mara can do with them as he will.
"But any priests or contemplatives not tied to these five strings of sensuality — uninfatuated with them, having not totally fallen for them, consuming them seeing their drawbacks and discerning the escape from them — should be known as not having met with misfortune, not having met with ruin; Mara cannot do with them as he will. Just as if a wild deer were to lie unbound on a heap of snares: it should be known as not having met with misfortune, not having met with ruin; the hunter cannot do with it as he will. When the hunter comes, it will get away as it would like. In the same way, any priests or contemplatives not tied to these five strings of sensuality — uninfatuated with them, having not totally fallen for them, consuming them seeing their drawbacks and discerning the escape from them — should be known as not having met with misfortune, not having met with ruin; Mara cannot do with them as he will.
"Suppose that a wild deer is living in wilderness glen. Carefree it walks, carefree it stands, carefree it sits, carefree it lies down. Why is that? Because it has gone beyond the hunter's range. [5] In the same way, a monk — quite withdrawn from sensual pleasures, withdrawn from unskillful qualities — enters & remains in the first jhana: rapture & pleasure born from withdrawal, accompanied by directed thought & evaluation. This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One. [6]
"Then again the monk, with the stilling of directed thoughts & evaluations, enters & remains in the second jhana: rapture & pleasure born of composure, unification of awareness free from directed thought & evaluation — internal assurance. This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One.
"Then again the monk, with the fading of rapture, he remains equanimous, mindful, & alert, and senses pleasure with the body. He enters & remains in the third jhana, of which the Noble Ones declare, 'Equanimous & mindful, he has a pleasant abiding.' This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One.
"Then again the monk, with the abandoning of pleasure & stress — as with the earlier disappearance of elation & distress — enters & remains in the fourth jhana: purity of equanimity & mindfulness, neither-pleasure-nor-pain. This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One.
"Then again the monk, with the complete transcending of perceptions of [physical] form, with the disappearance of perceptions of resistance, and not heeding perceptions of diversity, [perceiving,] 'Infinite space,' enters & remains in the dimension of the infinitude of space. This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One.
"Then again the monk, with the complete transcending of the dimension of the infinitude of space, [perceiving,] 'Infinite consciousness,' enters & remains in the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness. This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One.
"Then again the monk, with the complete transcending of the dimension of the infinitude of consciousness, [perceiving,] 'There is nothing,' enters & remains in the dimension of nothingness. This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One.
"Then again the monk, with the complete transcending of the dimension of nothingness, enters & remains in the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception. This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One.
"Then again the monk, with the complete transcending of the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception, enters & remains in the cessation of perception & feeling. And, having seen [that] with discernment, his mental fermentations are completely ended. This monk is said to have blinded Mara. Trackless, he has destroyed Mara's vision and has become invisible to the Evil One. Having crossed over, he is unattached in the world. Carefree he walks, carefree he stands, carefree he sits, carefree he lies down. Why is that? Because he has gone beyond the Evil One's range."
That is what the Blessed One said. Gratified, the monks delighted in the Blessed One's words.
See Ud 2.2 and AN 10.69. Noble silence = the levels of jhana beginning with the second.
The Burmese, Sri Lankan, and PTS editions of the Canon exclude gold and silver from the list of objects subject to illness, death, and sorrow, apparently on the grounds that they themselves do not grow ill, die, or feel sorrow. The Thai edition of the Canon includes gold and silver in the list of objects subject to illness, death, and sorrow in the sense that any happiness based on them is subject to change because of one's own illness, death, and sorrow.
The section from here to Brahma Sahampati's disappearance is recounted in the third person at SN 6.1.
This verse = Dhp 353.
For another use of the wild deer as a symbol for a free mind, see Ud 2.10.
As the Commentary points out, simply attaining the states of concentration from the first jhana through the dimension of neither perception nor non-perception blinds Mara only temporarily. Only with the arising of discernment is Mara blinded for good. On Mara's blindness, see Sn 5.15 and SN 22.87 (the latter in The Mind Like Fire Unbound). For the meaning of "trackless," see Dhp 92-93, 179-180.
"Ariyapariyesana Sutta: The Noble Search"(MN 26), translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu. Access to Insight, May 26, 2010, http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.026.than.html.
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IFR Colombia Roundtable 2019: Part 3
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IFR held its first Colombia Capital Markets Roundtable on February 8 in Bogotá, bringing together high-profile issuers, borrowers and bankers to discuss the prospects for a country that looks set for renewed growth this year.
Topics ranged from the difficulties of deepening the country’s local debt markets to infrastructure financing to whether the new government can successfully attend to fiscal imbalances.
Investments had largely been on hold last year ahead of an uncertain election and amid concerns that Colombia, rated Baa2/BBB-/BBB, could eventually lose its coveted investment-grade rating as the government’s finances deteriorated.
But with the 42-year-old market favourite Iván Duque now president, companies are expected to feel more comfortable about moving forward with investment plans, prompting policymakers to predict a healthy growth rate of 3.5% in 2019.
Even so, challenges remain. Duque’s efforts at tax reform fell short last year. And while the watered-down version approved by Congress is seen helping the government meet its fiscal targets this year, more needs to be done to satisfy the ratings agencies.
The current account deficit is starting to grow again and the country’s fiscal hole is expected to expand failing further reforms. Plans to sell assets to fill the gap could do the trick, though ratings agencies say that is unsustainable.
New finance minister Alberto Carrasquilla is an old hand at dealing with government finances, having worked in the same role between 2003 and 2007. He was quick to announce a spending freeze following the disappointing tax bill, reaffirming the market’s faith in the country’s commitment to fiscal discipline.
The government has said that tax reform is a multi-stage process, as it is in most countries, and will eventually yield more revenues, and that Colombia is moving to a world of fiscal surpluses, not deficits. Oil prices also remain relatively buoyant, further bolstering revenues.
And while the crisis in Venezuela has had a negative impact as the Colombian government absorbs the cost of millions of migrants crossing its borders in search of a better life, that could change.
A change of regime across the border could benefit the Colombian economy as aid relief and investments pour into the neighbouring country.
Meanwhile, the country still suffers from a large infrastructure deficit, and the much-vaunted 4G infrastructure programme has hit road blocks after the bribery scandal centered around Brazilian construction firm Odebrecht reached Colombian shores.
The Ruta del Sol 2 toll road project – which was won by a consortium led by Odebrecht – burned several borrowers and has created a risk-averse attitude among local banks that had previously been open to financing such schemes.
The country’s infrastructure bank, FDN, has sensibly sought to diversify the funding base for 4G, while also keeping local banks on board. Mini-perm structures that appeal to international lenders, local bonds and more capital markets financing are likely.
Even so, regulators have much to do to deepen the country’s domestic bond markets. This government and the previous administration have made great strides in opening up the local Treasury or TES market to foreigners, who now make up about 26% of holders.
But equity and bond issues for corporates are still in their infancy with some laws arguably stifling growth. Still, efforts to deepen such markets are underway that could yield results.
All these factors and more were on the minds of some of the leading figures in Colombia’s capital markets, who sat down in the roundtable to discuss the future of financing in the country.
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They Fought for Their Country
(Oni srazhalis za Rodinu)
Sergei Bondarchuk
Mosfilm
RUSCICO
Piotr Lopakhin
Vasiliy Shukshin
Nikolay Strel'tsov
Vyacheslav Tikhonov
Ivan Zvyagintsev
Alexandr Kopytovskij
Georgiy Burkov
Pvt. Nekrasov
Yuri Nikulin
Natalya Stepanovna
Nonna Mordyukova
They Fought for Their Country (Russian Title: Oni srazhalis za Rodinu/Они сражались за Родину) is a 1975 World War II drama directed by Sergei Bondarchuk. The film tells about the heavy defensive battles on the approaches to Stalingrad in July 1942, about heroism and sacrifice of ordinary soldiers.
The following weapons are featured in the film They Fought for Their Country:
1 Pistol
1.1 Tokarev TT-33
2 Submachine Guns
2.1 PPSh-41
2.2 MP40
3 Rifles
3.1 Mosin Nagant Rifle
4.1 Sturmgewehr 44
5 Machine Guns
5.1 Degtyaryov DP-27
5.2 Maxim M1910/30
5.3 37-mm M1939 (61-K)
6 Hand Grenades
6.1 F-1 Hand Grenade
6.2 Undefined anti-tank grenade
7 Anti-tank rifles
7.1 PTRS-41
7.2 PTRD-41
8.1 45 mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K)
8.2 76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3)
8.3 122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30)
8.4 Fake German tanks
Tokarev TT-33
Tokarev TT-33 - 7.62x25mm Tokarev
Seriously wounded Russian officer tries to go on the attack with his Tokarev TT
PPSh-41
PPSh-41 Submachine Gun - 7.62x25mm Tokarev
Russian soldier with his PPSh-41 submachine gun
Confused Russian soldier fires at German troops
Closeup of PPSh-41 with the 71-rounds drum magazine
MP40 submachine gun - 9x19mm
German soldier tries to reload his MP40 submachine gun during the melee
Mosin Nagant Rifle
Full-length, Soviet Mosin Nagant M91/30 - 7.62x54R
Russian soldier with his Mosin Nagant rifle
Another Russian soldier.
Sturmgewehr 44
The few German soldiers can be seen with the Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifles. Those rifles were not in service in the German army in 1942.
Sturmgewehr 44 7.92x33mm
Degtyaryov DP-27
DP-27 machine gun, 7.62x54mm R
Russian soldier fires Degtyaryov DP-27 light machine gun at German troops
Maxim M1910/30
Maxim 1910/30 with wheel mount and shield - 7.62x54R
Russian soldier carries Maxim machine gun
Russian soldiers fire Maxim M1910/30 at enemies. This machine gun has the large filler cap on the top of the water jacket
37-mm M1939 (61-K)
37-mm M1939 (61-K) automatic air defense gun - 37×252SR
Russian soldiers fire 37-mm M1939 (61-K) at German bombers
F-1 Hand Grenade
F-1 High-Explosive Fragmentation hand grenade
F-1 hand grenade lying on the ground
Undefined anti-tank grenade
Russian soldier used anti-tank grenade to destroy a German tank
Anti-tank rifles
PTRS-41
The PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle is used by Russian forces. They are never shown being fired.
PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle 14.5x114mm
PTRD-41
PTRD-41 anti-tank rifle 14.5x114mm
Russian soldier takes aim his PTRD-41 AT rifle at German tanks
Russian soldier fires PTRD-41
The cartridge box with 14.5x114mm cartridges
45 mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K)
M1937 (53-K) Soviet anti-tank gun - 45 mm (1.77 in)
Russian gunners firing 45 mm anti-tank gun M1937 (53-K)
76 mm divisional gun M1942 (ZiS-3)
M1942 divisional gun (ZiS-3) - 76mm
Russian gunners firing ZiS-3 at the German tanks
122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30)
Closeup of Russian 122 mm howitzer M1938
Fake German tanks
The fake German tank was built on the Soviet T-34-85 tank chassis.
The fake German tank was built on the Soviet T-54/55 tank chassis
Soviet T-54/55 tank mocked-up to look like a German tank
Original cinema poster for They Fought for Their Country (Oni srazhalis za Rodinu) (1975).
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Zee TV looks at rehauling its content
27 Aug, 2004 - 08:00 PM IST | By indiantelevision.com Team
MUMBAI: Get ready for a slew of new shows on Zee TV. Subhash Chandra's flagship Hindi entertainment channel is all set to make some changes in its programming line up. And it is not just the prime time slot Zee is looking at buttressing .
While the channel has already launched Tumhari Disha to replace the non-starter Hum Sab Baraati in the evening slot, the channel is looking at building up the afternoon slot with Pancham.
In what looks like an attack of K serials, the channel is reportedly also set to debut new shows like Kareena Kareena, Kashish and Kabhie Haan Kabhi Naa within the next two months.
Pancham, the show that premieres on 30 August (Monday), is a tale of a young boy by the same name, who aims to set the world right, but he does not believe in preaching the right path to society. The show will air every Monday - Thursday at 1 pm.
Produced by Gulshan Sachdeva's Film & Shots production house, the daily is directed by Sachin Dev. According to the story line, Pancham amalgamates the virtues of yesteryears with today's way of living. The protagonist creates self-explanatory situations for the people to follow his verdict, without uttering a word. He is gifted with an art of solving problems in a unique way.
The protagonists role will be essayed by new comer Navnit Das, while Rohini Hattangady and Gufi Paintal play pivotal roles.
Says Zee TV head of programming Ashwini Yardi, "Pancham is a unique value driven show which offers a thoughtful message accompanied by complete entertainment to our audiences. With Pancham we will further strengthen our afternoon time slot. It is a story of a young selfless boy, of today's generation, who is a born with talent to control our five senses, which are the beginning and end of all that exists in this universe. The preaching of Pancham will leave an eye opening impact on our viewers to learn more and realize more of these powers which are beyond imagination."
With Pancham, the Zee Woman slot now also offers some food for soul as it deals with five elements, five senses, five virtues.
Although channel officials are tightlipped about Zee's primetime fare, according to industry sources, the channel will be debuting three new shows - one from Nimbus Communications titled Kareena Kareena and another one from K Sera Sera Productions on new age relations called Kashish. But the one that is sure to raise a few eyebrows is a desi version of Sex And the City - Kabhie Haan Kabhi Naa produced by Rose Movies.
The show is reportedly replacing the waning Kittie Party in the 10:30 pm slot. An urban show based on daily interactions between men and the women, something the Zee English viewer has been used to so far. It will star Vishal Singh, Kushal Punjabi, Dimple, Nigar Khan, and Gautami Gadgil.
While K Sera Sera is going into production in a few days time, Nimbus has already started shooting.
All in all quite an interesting line up that Zee has in the kitty for its loyal viewers.
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Sony Pictures Networks India inaugurates the 24th Community Water Centre in Maharashtra
MUMBAI: Taking a step further towards building a better society, Sony Pictures Networks India (SPN) inaugurated its 24thCommunity WaterCentre at Koliwali village in Bhiwandi Taluka. This initiative is in partnership with Naandi Foundation, under the environment pillar of SPN’s CSR programme.
Subscription drives Network18; TV18 revenues, EBITDA up
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Viacom18 Studios announces six films across Telugu, Tamil languages
MUMBAI: After establishing itself as a pioneer in exhibiting path-breaking films like Devadasa (Telugu)and Kodathi Samaksham Balan Vakeel (Malayalam) for audience across the southern landscape, Viacom18 Studios looks at further consolidating its position in the regional market with a slew of six...
Zee Kannada’s Dance Karnataka Dance family war returns with season 2
MUMBAI: After an exhilarating first season that garnered 7.5 TVR in urban and rural market of Karnataka, Zee Kannada’s most-popular Dance Karnataka Dance Family War is back with a heightened quotient of excitement with the new season. Family War Season 2 will witness new talented participants from...
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Shemaroo Comedy Premier League 2019 creates waves amongst bollywood lovers & connects with Indian masses
MUMBAI: Shemaroo Entertainment Limited, India’s leading content house, announces Shemaroo Comedy Premiere League (CPL) 2019 in association with Vigo App, the short video social network. The Shemaroo Comedy Premiere League 2019, an innovative digital campaign & contest started on 3rd of June...
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Games2win appoints Angelo Lobo as creative director
MUMBAI: Games2win India Pvt Ltd, a global publisher of casual mobile games with more than 250 million downloads, announced the appointment of Angelo Lobo as Creative Director. Angelo is a well-known veteran of gaming and was the Director of Game Design at Zynga India. At Zynga, he ran the design...
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Quick Hints
By James Turner
When developing JSP pages, try to keep business logic off the JSP page and in the back-end JavaBeans that the JSP page makes reference to. Nothing clutters up the source JSP more than a lot of complicated computation or complex flow control.
If you need to stop processing on a JSP page, so that none of the rest of the page is displayed or JSP directives processed, just use "return." Because the JSP page is actually turned into a class method, calling return terminates the entire page.
If you're going to do a redirect using the Response object on a JSP page, it needs to occur before any output has been sent to the browser, otherwise it won't work.
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When creating a JSP page, which will be included in a number of other pages (for example, a standard header or footer), you might not want variables used on that page to interfere with a variable of the same name used on the main page. You can avoid this problem by putting "<% { %>" at the top of the included page and "<% } %>" at the bottom.
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Choroidal neovascularization induces retinal edema and its treatment addresses this problem
Ramin Tadayoni MD, PhD
Department of Ophthalmology, Hopital Lariboisiere, AP HP, Universite Paris 7 Sorbonne Paris Cite, Paris, France
Ramin Tadayoni
Department of Ophthalmology, Hopital Lariboisiere, AP HP, Universite Paris 7 Sorbonne Paris Cite, Paris
Tadayoni R. Choroidal neovascularization induces retinal edema and its treatment addresses this problem. J Ophthalmic Vis Res 2014;9:405-6
Tadayoni R. Choroidal neovascularization induces retinal edema and its treatment addresses this problem. J Ophthalmic Vis Res [serial online] 2014 [cited 2019 Jul 17];9:405-6. Available from: http://www.jovr.org/text.asp?2014/9/4/405/150799
After some years of experience with treatment of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) with intravitreal injections, we now better understand how CNV alters vision and how treatments work. A clear-sighted observation will clarify that CNVs are able to alter the retina and its pigment epithelium, and at the same time induce an external blood retinal barrier breakdown. This breakdown is responsible for retinal edema further aggravating the retinal dysfunction.
Available treatments for CNV target to stop their growth but are not yet able to significantly reverse alterations related to CNV. There is one exception: external blood retinal barrier breakdown. Indeed anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) treatments have a powerful effect on this barrier with reduction of all components of retinal edema including intraretinal and subretinal fluids. By treating the edema, anti-VEGF treatments are able to improve vision in some patients. This effect is also used for monitoring the impact of treatment on CNV: leakage seems to precede CNV growth in most eyes treated with anti-VEGF treatments. Fluid recurrence or worsening is monitored and used as the main indicator for repeat injections.
Intravitreal injections of anti-VEGF agents are expected to stop the growth of CNV and dry up the retina. Anti-VEGF agents may be combined with another treatment in order to attain several objectives: to reduce the size of the CNV and further improve vision, to reduce the burden of treatment by decreasing the number of injections or to improve vision by treating the edema more effectively. When the two first objectives are the aim of clinical investigations, the third objective is rarely brought up. There may be a good reason for that: effects of such treatment would be difficult to predict in current practice. Adding a drug capable of restoring the external blood retinal barrier by reducing leakage from CNV may, for example, prevent the recurrence of retinal edema when anti-VEGFs are no more effective enough and CNVs are becoming active. This may prevent vision fluctuations but at the same time deprive the ophthalmologist from the precious signs of detecting CNV activity. Complex and unexpected interactions between several drugs acting on vessels should also be added to the equation. When a few years ago, many retina specialists predicted the opening of an area of combined therapy in retinal diseases, similarly to treatment of cancers for example, it became rapidly clear that the only thing granted with combination of available treatments was the addition of their side effects; the beneficial effect was not always obvious. In presence of complex phenomena which we understand insufficiently, the only way to explore such a benefit is conducting randomized clinical trials (RCT).
In the current issue of JOVR, Piri et al [1] report an RCT exploring the effect of adding 2 mg triamcinolone to a combination of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and intravitreal bevacizumab conducted on 84 eyes which were followed for 1-year. Achieving no beneficial effect from adding triamcinolone in such a well-designed study, they conclude that this combination is unlikely to be superior to dual therapy used as comparison. In addition to this evidence-based demonstration, the study is full of interesting information which is food for thought.
For example, in their study, triple therapy demonstrated a trend toward obviating the need for retreatment and lengthening the injection-free period (the difference between the two groups, however, did not reach a statistically significant level). This observation prompts one to think: may triamcinolone delay recurrence? One can recall that steroids have been shown to entail anti-angiogenic effects in several animal models of CNV including primates. [2],[3] However, such anti-angiogenic effect has never been demonstrated in age related macular degeneration (AMD) in human eyes. Looking to how the need for retreatment was evaluated (based on visual acuity, fluid accumulation on optical coherence tomography (OCT), dye leakage on fluorescein angiography) allows other speculations. If triamcinolone is able to decrease CNV vascular permeability, re-treatment may be unduly delayed because leakage, which is the main cause of all parameters (leak on fluorescein angiography, fluid in OCT and reduced vision) leading to a decision for re-injection, becomes masked and the underlying lesion may be allowed to grow irreversibly. Interestingly, it is not easy to find a publication on the effect of triamcinolone on permeability of choroidal vessels or new vessels as already shown for anti-VEGF agents. [4] However, there are publications showing the effect of triamcinolone on the choroid [5] and steroids are well known to be powerful anti-permeability agents. Although an anti-permeability effect of triamcinolone on CNV was not demonstrated, such an effect may be speculated. This could explain how triamcinolone has been reported to entail some short-term effect on vision in eyes with CNV [6] but does not appear to provide sustained benefit for treatment of CNV secondary to AMD. Conversely, anti-VEGF treatments restore the external blood retinal barrier allowing some degree of vision gain and at the same time, exert an additional and better known inhibitory effect on CNV growth or fibrosis thus preventing further decrease of vision. Taking all of these facts into account, an RCT on the possible beneficial effect of triamcinolone was nothing less than mandatory before considering its routine use.
Showing no real effect from the addition of triamcinolone, Piri et al [1] point indirectly to the already existing powerful effect of anti-VEGF agents on restoring external blood retinal barrier dysfunction due to CNV. Addressing this unfairly neglected fact may help an easier understanding of many phenomena concerning CNV or their treatment and more comprehensive envisioning of progress in this area.
Piri N, Ahmadieh H, Taei R, Soheilian M, Karkhaneh R, Lashay A, et al. Photodynamic therapy and intravitreal bevacizumab with versus without triamcinolone for neovascular age-related macular degeneration; a randomized clinical trial. J Ophthalmic Vis Res 2014;9:469-477.
Ciulla TA, Criswell MH, Danis RP, Hill TE. Intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide inhibits choroidal neovascularization in a laser-treated rat model. Arch Ophthalmol 2001;119:399-404.
Ishibashi T, Miki K, Sorgente N, Patterson R, Ryan SJ. Effects of intravitreal administration of steroids on experimental subretinal neovascularization in the subhuman primate. Arch Ophthalmol 1985;103:708-711.
Peters S, Heiduschka P, Julien S, Ziemssen F, Fietz H, Bartz-Schmidt KU, et al. Ultrastructural findings in the primate eye after intravitreal injection of bevacizumab. Am J Ophthalmol 2007;143:995-1002.
Sonoda S, Sakamoto T, Yamashita T, Otsuka H, Shirasawa M, Kakiuchi N, et al. Effect of intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide or bevacizumab on choroidal thickness in eyes with diabetic macular edema. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2014;55:3979-3985.
Jonas JB, Kreissig I, Hugger P, Sauder G, Panda-Jonas S, Degenring R. Intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide for exudative age related macular degeneration. Br J Ophthalmol 2003;87:462-468.
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Ralph Salmins - Drums
Running through Salmins’ working CV is akin to dropping in on a who’s who of contemporary music: Bacharach, Elton John, Madonna as well as a raft of jazz greats including Hank Crawford, Herb Ellis and James Moody – the list goes on. Salmins says: “I’ve always been into a wide variety of music and I thrive off a challenge.”
Salmins’ musical education started early. “I was playing the violin at school when I was five, which was great fun. Sadly, not long after I’d started my teacher left and I turned to learning the piano until I finally took up the drums when I was 12.”
Salmins laughs as he remembers his first drum kit. “My parents bought me a Maxwin snare drum with a little arm and a splash cymbal. It had a sort of red textured finish, reminiscent of the flock wall paper found in Indian restaurants. Then when they realised that I was enjoying the drums, they bought me a whole set – same make and finish. I had a 22”, a 16” and a 12”, one cymbal and a tiny set of Krut hi-hats. When I was 14 I joined the Ernest Read Youth Orchestra and played in a rehearsal big band which was when my parents bought me a new Rogers kit. It was the nicest looking and sounding kit we could afford and it seemed solid... which the Maxwin certainly wasn’t.”
“Who was I listening to? I started off listening to Count Basie and it was Sonny Payne who really influenced me in that style. Also Buddy Rich of course, who I saw many times at Ronnie’s. But it was Steve Gadd who really turned my world around, working on all those funky things with Quincy Jones and Grover Washington.”
It wasn’t long before Salmins was once again upgrading his kit. “Listening to Steve Gadd made me want to get a kit with a really contemporary sound. So I bought a Yamaha 9000 series Recording Kit just like Gadd’s, with hanging floor toms. Then when I was in my mid-twenties, I bought a beautiful Gretsch bop set from Brian Abrahams, a 16”, a 12”, a 13” and a 14” in Cherry Wood. As soon as I heard it, I immediately fell in love with it and that’s when my love affair with Gretsch began.”
Salmins subsequently sold this kit, but has since had various sets ranging from a 1938 Broadkaster set that he used in the show Crazy For You, to a number of 1960s round badge sets of various sizes and 1970s sets of all sizes. “And I’m now proud to be a Gretsch endorser,” he says.
“I’m playing the new USA Series drums and I love them. I have a studio set which comprises a 22”, a 10”, a 12”, a 13” and 15”. Then I have a gig set: a 20”,
a 10”, a 12”, a 15” and a 16” and I also have a bop set with an 18”, a 12” and a 14”. They are all in white marine pearl and sound absolutely stunning.”
For cymbals Salmins struck up a relationship with Sabian (he’s an endorsee of the brand) when he was working with Everything But The Girl circa 1989 and has been playing Sabian ever since. “I owned some wonderful old Sabians that had a hand-hammered texture and sounded retro and esoteric, which I loved, so to endorse these cymbals was a natural choice. I use a range of cymbals, depending on the musical situation. For studio work I use a 21” Groove Ride or a 21” Vintage Ride alongside a 22” Artisan Light Ride. I have 14” HHX Stage Hats or Vault Hats, and an 18” HHX Crash or an 18” Legacy Crash. For jazz and big band, I use either 14” Legacy Hats or 14” Artisan Hats, a 21” Legacy Ride, a 21” Fierce Ride and 20” plus 22” Artisan light and Medium Rides. I’m also using HHX Chinese cymbals, a crasher and Jack DeJohnette bells. I’m looking forward to trying one of Jack’s new 3 point rides, which I know is going to blow me away!”
When it comes to sticks and brushes, it’s Vic Firth all the way. “They are simply the best,” says Salmins. “I have been using some models that have changed my sound completely. The AJ6, which has a very small tip, is great for small group jazz. Also the AJ3 is a great all-round stick with a very clean stick definition. I also use the Steve Gadd model and the Weckl Evolutions, which are great for pop and studio. For brushes, I use the Heritage – they’re phenomenal – and I’m using the Steve Smith Tala Wands a lot, and they sound gorgeous.”
Salmins is quick to remind me that muffling and tuning are vital when it comes to head choice. “I use Remo Ambassador coated heads all round except on my floor toms, which have coated Emperors on top for fatness. Using muffling, I can get any sound from wide-open jazz to very dry 1970s funky. Underside I have clear Ambassadors. On the bass drums I have Powerstroke 3s either clear (studio) or coated. Snare drums are very important, and I’m using a variety of drums, generally with a coated Ambassador on top.”
Salmins uses Hardcase cases for the drums when he’s touring, because, as he says: “They’re incredibly rugged and will protect the drums in transit.” For one-off gigs he uses Protection Racket cases. “They protect the drums and the inside of my car. They are very practical and hardwearing and, most importantly, they’re funky.”
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Topic: Chatham Dockyard - Nuclear Era
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Re: Chatham Dockyard - Nuclear Era
Kyn, to add a small bit to your publication, the decontamination barge at Chatham was designated MAC 1012. I often did radiological surveys aboard it during the decontamination process of nuclear sub pressurised water reactors at Chatham. I read with interest the projected radiation dose rates given.
As stated the main decontamination agent was known as 'turco'; a very dangerous product, best avoided at all costs, the end product was known as 'crud' this was mixed with concrete and contained in steel drums.
I think most of them went to an area near Gillingham gate, known as the solid waste storage area then transported for dumping. As a health physics monitor I was well aware of the effects of ionising radiation, So I took good care to keep my dosage as low as possible .
APPENDIX III
Chemical Data on Effluent for Sea Disposal
1. Process Volumes
The process volumes differ between the two dockyards, Chatham and Rosyth, because of the different lengths of connecting pipework from the barge to the submarine in dry dock. Parameters given here are for Rosyth since these contain the larger process volumes.
1250 cu. Ft. of each decontaminant are mixed for each decontamination process. The mix strength of the decontaminants is 1,375 x the working strength in the plant to allow for the efficiency of the charging process and the dilution caused by purge water used to protect components susceptible to attack by Turco 4502 or Turco 4521.
After each stage the chemicals are flushed out with demineralised water until their concentration is sufficiently low to introduce an ion exchange stage.
If the two chemical rinses are kept separate the chemical parameters are as shown in Table 1.
The ion exchange used in each process is 30-60 cu. Ft. containing a total of 1-2 curies.
2. Effluent Tank
The tank is a simple rectangular tank and will be equipped with mixers to ensure complete precipitation. It has a facility for adding and mixing the chemicals necessary for the precipitation process. The tan has a sloping base and multiple drain connections for drawing off the effluent which is pumped to the bank of filters. Clean up of the tank will be achieved by a spray bat and the use of decontaminants if necessary.
3. Filters
The type of filter element chosen at this stage is a backwash filter with ceramic filter elements and a nylon sleeve. Tests are being conducted at RRA Derby to evaluate these filters using non active decontaminants. Harwell experience has shown that these filters are not suitable for the gelatinous precipitates they use, and the same limitations may apply to the arising in this case. Further work is anticipated therefore on optimising the filtration method. Whichever method is chosen; backwash filters, rotary vacuum filters or centrifuging, the waste arisings and activity levels should not differ greatly from those shown in Section 1.
4. Evaporator
The evaporator chosen will be of a simple design, either a steam jacket type of an internal steam coil type. In this way maintenance and control of the evaporator is minimised. A feed heater will be used to reduce heat transfer area within the vessel and the evaporator will operate at atmospheric pressure.
The overall decontamination factor of the evaporator will be determined following a fuller evaluation of the filtration methods and the decontamination factor of the precipitate.
The evaporator decontamination factor is defined as
specific activity of feed
Specific activity of distillate
Without the presence of radioactive gases or volatile products a decontamination factor of 105 should easily be obtained.
The evaporator feed may need to be neutralized to eliminate problems of evaporating concentrated potassium hydroxide solutions. The disposal of the evaporator concentrate, which will contain nearly all the chemicals used for decontamination, is one of the major problems and will form a large part of the development programme for this system.
At this stage an accurate assessment of the cost of a treatment system situated on the barge cannot be made. This cost estimate has been compiled using preliminary quotations for components, estimates of testing and chemical support work needed, commissioning and operating costs.
Effluent Tank
Mixers, Chemical Addition Vessel, Sampling, Pipework - £7,500
Effluent Treatment System
Pumps, Filters, Evaporator, Feed Heater, condenser, Tanks, Sampling System, Instrumentation, Shielding, Active waste Disposal Area, Pipework and Valves - £50,000
Installation - £20,000
Support Activity by RRA
Tests, Chemistry, Shielding, Design work - £40,000
Commissioning including non active chemical trial run - £19,500
Operating costs, Barrel cost, chemicals for effluent treatment, A.E.A. disposal charge - £14,400
Quote from: pr1uk on February 12, 2016, 06:18:21
I was told the USA had a couple the same class and they filled theirs with concrete and sunk them.
Slightly off-topic, but I'm afraid you were given incorrect information. The United States Navy and the Royal Navy have never had nuclear-powered submarines of the same design. The closest we had was the first British nuclear powered boat, HMS Dreadnought. She had exactly the same powerplant as the American 'Skipjack' class and this was done to save time. The British powerplant, based around the Rolls-Royce PWR reactor, wouldn't have been ready in time to be installed in HMS Dreadnought. That was first installed in HMS Valiant, the second British nuclear boat and the first one which was completely home-grown.
As far as disposal is concerned, the Americans have never filled any of their old boats with concrete and sunk them. What they have done is broken up their old boats (and nuclear powered ships for that matter) around the reactor compartment after removing all the fuel. The reactor compartments after being sealed were then taken to the US Department of Energy's Nuclear Reservation in Washington State where they are stored in the open air. The plan is to eventually bury them. The Americans did dump a nuclear reactor in the Atlantic Ocean in 1959. This had been taken from the USS Seawolf when the reactor was replaced with one of a different design. Subsequent treaties have banned the dumping of any kind of nuclear waste in the sea.
The British have yet to scrap a nuclear powered submarine.
The Proposal for Direct Sea Dumping of Decontaminant Effluent
The case outlined in the report is based on a requirement to dispose of some 300 curies of gross activity (nearly 100% Co60) arising from primary plant decontamination at an initial frequency of once every one to three years. Our preliminary enquiries indicate that infinite dilution of radioactive discharges into the sea occurs and that this will safeguard any return chains to man. Details of the major nuclide contributions are shown in Table 3.
The decontamination is carried out from a dumb barge which is towed to the dockyard used for dry docking the submarines (Chatham and Rosyth). The barge contains equipment necessary for mixing, circulating and flushing out the decontaminants.
It is possible to treat and concentrate the activity using additional equipment installed on the barge, for indirect sea dumping in shielded disposal drums. However the handling of the active waste arising from the use of these decontaminants raises problems (Section 4).
Sea disposal would avoid these problems and would involve considerable savings to the country by eliminating the need for an effluent treatment system.
2. Decontamination
The decontamination process chosen is the most effective consistent with acceptable standards of compatibility with plant materials. It functions on the following principles.
The major part of the plant activity (apart from fission products contained within the core) is associated with the tightly adherent oxide film on primary system surfaces. Decontamination in this context, therefore, is effected by dissolution of this film and the associated active nuclides.
To bring this about it is necessary to use a two step procedure consisting of:
(a) A pre-treatment stage with a hot (215°F) strongly alkaline permanganate formulation (designed Turco 4502), followed by interstage rinsing with demineralised water.
(b) A dissolution stage with a how (185°F) mildly acidic formulation (designated Turco 4521) of ammonium oxalate citrate, corrosion inhibiter, surface active agent and antifoam additives. This is followed by final rinsing with demineralised water.
The full quantitative details of the actual decontaminant formulations are commercially confidential and hence cannot be divulged. Some details of the nature of the effluent are included in the next section and in Appendix III.
3. Nature of the Effluent
If the effluent arising from both cycles of the process are mixed in a single effluent hold tank a partial reaction takes place between the oxalate and the permanganate from the two separate stages resulting in a copious volume of precipitated hydrous Manganese Dioxide, containing a large proportion of the activity. (95-99% based on limited evidence available, but expected to be highly dependent on conditions).
This forms the basis of the proposed Effluent Treatment System when additional chemicals are added to complete the precipitation, outlined in Appendix II, and where the active precipitate is separated by filtration.
If direct sea dumping is considered however, there may be a requirement to prevent precipitation and maintain the homogeneity of the activity as far as possible. Appendix III shows chemical parameters of the effluent where Turco 4502 and Turco4521 rinses are kept in two separate tanks. The small amount of activity present in the Turco 4502 tank is present as finely divided active crud and is not expected to exceed 10% of the total activity.
4. Comparison of Disposal Methods
As shown in the introduction the design philosophy for dealing with active effluent arising from any process must be to investigate the local treatment and concentration of activity. The existing effluent treatment plants at Chatham and Rosyth Dockyards are deigned to treat active primary circuit water from the primary plant warm ups and flushings. This water contains negligible soluble chemicals and very little suspended solids, and is treated by filtration and ion exchange. The quantity of precipitate and dissolved chemicals present in the decontamination effluent would prevent the use of this method of treatment.
The principle of pre-treatment before discharge lead to the design of the effluent treatment system show in appendix II. The system is viable in that it uses established principles but would require extensive development. It could be installed on the Primary Plant Decontamination Barge; however there are disadvantages, some more important than others involved in treating the effluent locally.
(a) The primary plant is decontaminated in the first place in order to enable routine maintenance, refit work, and refuelling to proceed without incurring excessive “radiation worker burn up”. Some of the advantages of decontamination the primary plant are therefore lost if the same workers have to operate, maintain and maybe even decontaminate an effluent treatment system on the barge. Admittedly the barge systems can be shielded to a greater extent than in the submarine primary circuit since shielding weight is not such a great disadvantage, but the activity will be more concentrated and the shielding cannot be unlimited.
(b) The decontaminants used are highly corrosive and toxic. However well designed the barge systems are, the incorporation of an effluent treatment system must increase the dangers to operating personnel.
(c) A considerable number of disposal drums will be needed to contain the active waste arising from an effluent treatment process. Based on conservative estimates of the waste arisings from the filtration and evaporation stages, 150 to 200 50 gallon drums will be needed for each decontamination process. This large number is caused by the limiting concentration that can be achieved in the evaporation stage before crystallization of the decontaminant chemicals occurs, and the need to solidify the contents of the drums with concrete or vermiculite to minimise the risk of activity release during transport. The three day setting time necessary for the concrete used in the barrels means that although the barrels will be filled on the barge, they will have to be lifted and capped on the dockside where storage space is available for setting. These barrels will have to be stored at the dockyard pending collection by the A.E.A. sea dumping vessel or pending transportation to Harwell.
(d) In the development of a treatment system, testing on the system components will need to be carried out in some depth. The filtration system will have to be optimised to give the maximum dewatering of the precipitate.
Tests on the evaporation stage will be mainly involved in methods of collecting, solidifying and disposing the active concentrate. The decontamination factor required will be easily attained without resorting to a sophisticated evaporator design. An estimate of the cost of these tests has been made in appendix II and the time penalty in Section 5. These are optimistic estimates and may well be increased once the testing is initiated and a full awareness of the problems occurs.
(e) Cost. This will be discussed in the section 5 of Appendix II.
5. Time Penalty
An extensive programme of testing and system design work has still to be carried out before the effluent treatment system is released for full procurement. For these tests to be representative, pilot scale work on the system will have to be set up, including tests (possibly active) on the precipitation process. This will mean most of the testing will need to be carried out at Harwell and will take several months to complete. It is unlikely that these tests will be completed before November/December 1969. The programme of procurement and installation of the effluent treatment system will therefore be 6-9 months behind that for the remainder of the barge equipment. (Circulating and Mixing System for the decontaminants). The present target completion fate for equipment installation on the barge of January 1971 could still be met however. The longest lead item is the evaporator. If the Harwell tests, and the permitted levels of active and chemical discharge to the Medway show that the evaporator can be of a simple design (i.e. of a low decontamination factor) the January 1971 date is still realistic.
6. Barge Design for Sea Dumping
If the barge is designed for sea dumping consideration has to be given to whether to dump the two decontaminants separately or to dump them together from a non sectioned tank. In the latter case some mixing will occur despite the baffling installed and the discharge will contain precipitate with adsorbing activity. In the former case assurance testing will have to be carried out to determine whether any “plating out” of activity will occur on the effluent tank walls from the Turco 4521 solution. (This plating out has been observed on coupons of mild and stainless steel suspended in the 4521 solution.) With stainless steel, the plating out occurs over several weeks, whereas with mild steel the process occurs within a day or two. Suitable tank linings may solve this problem.
Other work areas include the design of a suitable trailing arm for the sea discharge, a re-appraisal of the barge design (i.e. whether to have a towed ‘dumb’ barge design or a powered barge). The problems inherent in the navigation of the barge down a busy river like the Medway will be anticipated in suitable collision protection.
The choice to sea dump the decontaminant effluent would involve a considerable cost saving. It should also remove any doubts about the decontamination barge being completed in time for Warspite’s refuelling. The design of the effluent treatment system shows that it is feasible to treat the effluent locally as has been done in the past for active waste arisings from nuclear submarines at Faslane, Rosyth and Chatham. However, thea nature of the decontamination effluent is so unlike previous Dockyard active waste arisings that a departure from the previous philosophy of local treatment is worth considering seriously. Fortunately at this stage it can be considered without jeopardising the Overall Decontamination Programme, and initial work done on a local barge mounted treatment system provides information regarding the cost and disadvantages of a treatment system for comparison.
pr1uk
I remember the first nuclear submarine arriving at Chatham. I was a seaman on the tugs and we went down to meet her and escort her up river. There were special fenders made which were towed down and fitted alongside the sub before she came up to the base. It was overkill really with all the fenders and men with geiger counters that were clicking away. Can't remember the name of the first one but it was dirty as we had a couple of so called dirty subs. It was a design fault, I was told the USA had a couple the same class and they filled theirs with concrete and sunk them. Later I was running a fuel barge and had to go to the dock and run a pipe up the side of the dock to fuel one with diesel. When working within the compound you had to wear a badge that was green if the colour changed when there was a leak, of course that never happened.
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Additional Nuclear Submarine Refitting Facilities
On Friday, 26th February, I attended with Assistant Director of Dockyards 5 (Nuclear) a meeting held by the Treasury to discuss Minister (R.N.)’s minute of 19th February to the Chief Secretary. The Department of Economic Affairs, the Scottish Office and the Ministry of Labour were also represented.
2. The discussion produced a general acceptance of our case for a second nuclear dockyard and, I think, also of our need, against the approved programme for nuclear submarine construction, to have the second yard ready by 1968. The Treasury suggested it would have been more convenient to defer a decision until the Autumn, when the Defence Review would have been concluded and the national economic plan completed; but this point was not pressed.
3. On choice of location, the claim of Devonport and of the commercial yards (Vickers, Cammell Laird and Harland & Wolff) were not pressed, not were those of Portsmouth, which was said by the Department of Economic Affairs to be in the same category as Chatham as far as regional development considerations went. Discussion accordingly centred on the possible choice of Rosyth.
4. Here the Treasury, Ministry of Labour and Department of Economic Affairs came out against Rosyth and in favour of Chatham. For the Department of Economic Affairs the advantages of Rosyth from the standpoint of regional development were far outweighed by the additional £8m. which would be needed to develop a second nuclear yard there rather than at Chatham. The Scottish Office also accepted the force of these arguments but said that their Ministers would probably wish to have the arguments for and against Rosyth aired at a small meeting of those Ministers principally concerned.
5. The Department of Economic Affairs subsequently qualified their acceptance of Chatham with the provisos that, if the second nuclear yard were developed at Chatham, this should not be regarded as sufficient grounds for future expansion at Chatham at a later date and that the public announcement should make clear that the choice of Chatham was determined very largely by technical factors, particularly those affecting safety, and indicated no weakening of the Government’s policy of regional development.
6. If Ministers accept the briefs now being submitted to them by the officials present at this meeting, the next stage should be a reply from the Chief Secretary, generally accepting the proposals in the Minister (R.N.)’s minute of 19th February, and a minute from the Secretary of state for Scotland suggesting a meeting of those Ministers concerned to discuss the arguments for and against Rosyth. In anticipating of such a meeting, I am preparing a short brief on Rosyth which I shall submit separately. If I am needed for preliminary oral briefing of the Minister (R.N.) or to be in attendance at the Ministers’ meeting I am, of course, at your disposal.
Head of Material Division 2 (Naval)
1st March, 1965
Implications of Developing Rosyth to Handle a Second Nuclear Refitting Stream
Rosyth is being developed as the first nuclear Dockyard and by 1968 will be able to handle the refitting and refuelling of the POLARIS submarines. This development will entail expenditure of some £2.5m. on equipment and works services, and the recruitment of 500 workpeople, bringing the total employed at Rosyth to some 4,900.
2. If a second stream of nuclear submarines were to be refuelled and refitted at Rosyth, still further development would be needed. From many points of view, Rosyth would be ideally suited for this, being the safest yard in the country, possessing ample space for expansion, and lying in an area of low employment. But further expansion would, in fact, be impracticable, since:-
(a) it would cost up to £10-£20m. and require recruitment of 2,500 additional workpeople, compared with expenditure of £1 ½ - 2m. and minimal extra recruitment needed at Chatham; and
(b) it could not be completed in time to match the expansion of the nuclear submarine fleet.
3. The reasons for the high cost and big manpower bill involved in any further development of Rosyth for nuclear work may be summarised as follows:-
(i) At certain stages nuclear submarine refits require exceptionally large numbers of workers in certain trades, notably coppersmiths, shipfitters and electrical fitters.
(ii) Irradiation levels place stringent limits on the length of time men may be employed on certain nuclear work.
(iii) A very high degree of skill and reliability is called for in those working on nuclear submarine refits.
(iv) For those reasons, a reserve of manpower is needed in a nuclear Dockyard, first, to supply the varying demand for certain forms of labour (see (i) above), secondly, to provide reliefs for those being “rested” form nuclear work (see (ii) above), and, thirdly, to form a field of selection which will produce a work force of the high quality needed for nuclear submarine refits (see (iii) above). We calculate that this reserve should number not less than two-thirds of the total labour force engaged on ship work in the nuclear Yard.
4. Against this background, we estimate that the addition of a further stream of nuclear submarine refits at Rosyth would increase the force engaged on nuclear refits by 600, from 800 to 1,400, that is to very nearly two-thirds of the total planned ship labour force of 2,400. To redress the balance and supply a reserve of the size needed, another 1,900 men would have to be fed into Rosyth for ship work and supporting services. Thus the total labour force would rise by 2,500 from its present planned level of some 4,900 to some 7,400. (The figures are given in full in Annex A.)
5. We estimate that, to provide properly balanced employment at Rosyth for a labour force of this size, it would be necessary to build two new dry docks costing £6-8m. altogether (or one new dock with extensive modifications to another to increase its capacity), together with major additions to workshops and other support, facilities, costing perhaps another £3-4m.
6. To recruit and train, in addition to the 500 men required for the first stream, another 2,500 men for a second stream would be exceedingly difficult, even given the plans for “growth areas” in Central Fife and the Lothians, the construction of new towns at Glenthrothes and Livingston and the opening of the Forth road bridge. We are in some doubt whether we shall reach out target of 500 extra by 1969 for the single stream; a new target of 2,500 would be five times as great. A basic problem is housing. If men were made redundant in the Southern Yards, some might transfer voluntarily to Rosyth; but experience in 1964, when we tried to persuade redundant craftsmen at Devonport to go North, suggests that the response would be poor and that, unless something like 1,500 houses were provided for Dockyard workers, we should not get the men from any source.
7. Building up Rosyth would mean discharging men and draining off work from the Sothern Dockyards.
8. In short, to fit in a second stream of nuclear refits at Rosyth would mean increasing the capacity of Rosyth Dockyard by some 75%.
This would be a massive undertaking, whatever the time-scale; but, in our view, it would be virtually impossible of achievement by 1968, when facilities for the second stream of nuclear refits must be available.
It might be impossible to complete the necessary capital developments by 1968, given maximum pressure and good luck; but experience to date fives us no reason to believe that we could secure by 1968 the recruitment of 2,500 extra men, including in precisely the right proportion all the many trades and skills required in ship-repair work, together with a special housing programme of the size needed.
9. Even if such an expansion could be undertaken successfully at Rosyth, we should be left with a possible insoluble management problem, namely how to plan and execute concurrently with a major expansion programme,
(a) the first nuclear refit (DREADNOUGHT) ever carried our in this country;
(b) the refit of VALIANT, which will be very different from that of DREADNOUGHT;
(c) The refit of the POLARIS submarines, which will be different again from both DREADNOUGHT and VALIANT; and
(d) a continuing and increasing volume of conventional ship-repair.
Taken together, this would impose an immense burden on the management and would put to risk the performance and safety of the nuclear refitting programme.
3rd March, 1965
Am I reading this correctly or should 3. First para. read "NOW become much clearer", rather than" NOT"?
Having followed this theme since it first came on the forum, mainly because I was involved, along with many others, in the refit and refuel of 'nukes in the yard, HMS Dreadnought had a plate welded to the forward reactor tunnel bulkhead that stated "you are entering American country" or words to that effect. Everything aft of that point, reactor, steam turbine plus the hull was American built-and on lend lease to the RN. Could we not return it to the rightful owners with our gratitude ? Just a thought
Draft Letter for U.S. of S. (R.N.) to send to the M.P’s for Rochester & Chatham and Gillingham
(Portion in Square Brackets for M.P. Gillingham only)
I am writing to let you know that we will be announcing in the Navy Estimates Debate tomorrow that, with three nuclear submarines soon to be in commission, and with others to follow in due course, we shall need refitting facilities beyond those which are not being developed at Rosyth in order to support them; and that we have now decided that Chatham, which is our traditional submarine yard, should be adapted for nuclear work. Construction work will begin next year and should be completed by 1968. Chatham will become a normal refitting port for boats of the DREADNOUGHT and VALIANT Class.
2. [You will no doubt recall the statements which were made in 1963 in which it was explained why it was not then possible to select Chatham in preference to Rosyth as the first nuclear refitting yard. Since then several things have happened to make the development of Chatham both necessary and possible.
3. The first is that the implications of refitting and refuelling nuclear submarines have not become much clearer to us; and, with our growing nuclear submarine fleet, it is evident that we must have a second nuclear dockyard ready a good deal sooner that we previously thought. The second, of course, is that the development of Rosyth is now well under way. The significance of this is that we are no longer looking for a single yard which we would have to depend for the entire support, both emergency and routine, of all our nuclear submarines. Chatham will be used mainly for routine refitting and refuelling of the hunter/killers; this means that the times of entering and leaving the Dockyard through the Edinburgh Channel can be chosen with a fair amount of latitude to suit the weather and other conditions, so that the navigational risks will be very considerably reduced. Finally, we have now had some 18 months’ practical experience of navigating DREADNOUGHT in confined waters, which has shown us that the difficulty of getting these boats in and out of Chatham will be much less than we originally thought, while Chatham remains well below Rosyth in our order preference for this kind of work, we are satisfied that it is more suitable for development as a second nuclear dockyard than any other port at the present time. In reaching this conclusion we have given full weight to the technical skill and previous achievement of the staff at Chatham, which you have so rightly stressed in the past.]
4. As I said in the House on 15th February, we have no intention at present of using Chatham to construct nuclear submarines. There is already sufficient building capacity available in the country to meet our existing programme without calling on any of the Royal Dockyards for this. For te next two or three years, however, as you know, Chatham will have some new construction in the shape of the Canadian OBERON’s; and later on, as our fleet of nuclear submarines builds up, the Yard will have a substantial and continuing load of nuclear submarine repair work.
5. I am sure this news will be welcome to you. It will give Chatham some further and tangible assurance of the importance which is attached to the Dockyard in the future plans of the Royal Navy.
With the amount of information on the forum we can't remember all of it
Quote from: conan on February 05, 2016, 00:20:11
Very interesting Kyn, I'm wondering if the presence of the Richard Montgomery out in the estuary nipped this one in the bud?
Oh well, how wrong could a chap be
« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2016, 17:09:16 »
Development of Chatham Dockyard for Nuclear Submarine Refitting Work (Draft Announcement for Use in Navy Estimate debate, 1965)
“With three nuclear hunter/killer submarines soon to be in commission, to be followed by the four POLARIS boats and other hunter/killers in due course, it has become clear that refitting facilities additional to those now being developed at Rosyth will be needed on order to support our growing nuclear fleet. It has therefore been decided that facilities at Chatham, our traditional submarine yard, should be adapted for this task.
Construction work will begin next year and it is hoped to complete the adaption by 1968. Chatham will then become a normal refitting and refuelling port for submarines of DREADNOUGHT and VALIANT CLASS, leaving Rosyth to concentrate of the POLARIS boats.”
Development of Chatham Dockyard for Nuclear Submarine Refitting Work
Notes for Supplementaries
Q. Why has Chatham been selected in preference to other yards?
A. Chatham has been selected after careful consideration of all the economic and technical factors involved. Chatham has unrivalled experience of the construction and repair of conventional submarines, which is an essential requisite for the nuclear task. For this reason, it offered the best prospect of meeting our requirements within the time available, and in the most economical way.
Q. What about the navigational objections to Chatham which were mentioned when the selection of Rosyth to be the first nuclear refitting yard was announced in 1963?
A. The access to Chatham is more difficult than it is to some other ports, notably Rosyth, and that is one of the reasons why Rosyth was selected to be the first nuclear yard. However, there are navigational risks in all port approaches, and provided the times of entry and leaving are chosen to suit the weather and other conditions, (as they can be for normal refitting work), the risks in the Edinburgh Channel should be insignificant.
Q. But this is not what was said two years ago?
A. In 1963 it was a question of selecting a single nuclear refitting port with the needs of emergency work as well as of normal planned refits in mind. We are not choosing a second and alternative yard, which will not normally be required for emergency dockings. We have also had some practical experience in the last two years of navigating DREADNOUGHT in confined waters, and this has shown that the problem is not so great as previously thought.
Q. Isn’t nuclear refitting work dangerous to the public?
A. Not if proper precautions are taken, as they will be, of course.
Q. Even so, Chatham is surely very close to London?
A. No. London is over thirty miles away from Chatham. This is well beyond any possible risk of danger from nuclear refitting. We are only concerned in our precautions with an area in the immediate vicinity of the refitting berths, that is to say, within a distance measured in yards rather than miles; and as I have said, these precautions will be extremely thorough.
Q. Could this development not have been placed in an area of low employment, rather than in the prosperous South East?
A. We considered very carefully the use of Rosyth. Rosyth is, however, a comparatively small yard, which would have had to be expanded considerably to cope with the task. We decided that this expansion could not have been achieved economically, or within the time available and without upsetting the nuclear refitting program already planned. On the other hand, Chatham, which is nearly twice the size of Rosyth, needs very little development. It is very largely a matter of modernising and adapting facilities which exist there already and which would have to be modernised anyway sooner or later. Our decision will not add to the pressure on the South east; with some re-arrangement of the Dockyard program, the yard should be able to absorb the task with not much more than an adjustment of the balance of the present labour force.
Q. What about commercial firms?
A. Our choice of these was strictly limited by the absence, in most of them, of any basic submarine expertise, which cannot be acquired quickly. In any case, we would not reckon to establish warship repair facilities outside the Royal Dockyard, whose main function this is, unless they were incapable for some reason of doing the work. We also bore in mind the fact that the submarine firms, which are specially laid out for building, already have substantial submarine orders on hand.
Q. Will Chatham be used to build nuclear submarines?
A. As I have said in answer to the Hon. Member for Gillingham’s question on 15th February, we have no plans to build or base nuclear submarines at Chatham. At present we cannot foresee a need for any nuclear building capacity additional tot hat already available at Vickers (Barrow) and Cammell Laird.
Q. Will POLARIS submarines be refitted at Chatham?
A. As I have said, it is planned to refit the POLARIS boats at Rosyth; though they could use Chatham if the need arose, provided that their missiles were removed beforehand – as they will be before refitting commences.
Q. What will the adaption of Chatham cost?
A. This will depend on the working out of the details which is about to begin; but I would think between £1m and £2m.
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Man City 4-3 Wolverhampton- Match Report
Last updated : 15 January 2011 By DSG
Edin Dzeko made his #27million introduction for Manchester City, and he was immediately upstaged by strike partner Carlos Tevez as the Blues secured top spot in the Barclays Premier League by edging a seven-goal thriller with Wolves 4-3 at Eastlands.
The fiery South American joined Dimitar Berbatov at the head of the Premier League goalscoring charts with a second-half double to take his tally to 14, accompanying Kolo and Yaya Toure on the scoresheet as the brothers achieved the rare feat of finding the net in the same top-flight game.
It must have been quite an eye-opener for Dzeko, who produced an encouraging performance on his debut and appears willing to do the hard work in his partnership with Tevez in addition to the glamourous stuff.
The Bosnian was also given an instant lesson in the difficulty of securing points in England as City, having been totally outplayed for the first half-hour, then needed to resist a late Wolves surge after the plucky Black Country outfit had pulled themselves back into a contest that had already been turned on its head after their initial heroics.
Having flexed their mighty financial muscle to make Dzeko the sixth most expensive player the Premier League has ever known, City cannot have expected to be rolled over quite so easily as they were in that opening 30 minutes.
It should not have come as a total surprise.
After all, Wolves beat City at Molineux earlier this season and accounted for both Liverpool and Chelsea during the Christmas period, so they clearly cannot be taken for granted.
Still, the one-sided manner of the contest was a shock, the only consolation for Roberto Mancini coming from the knowledge his side remained in the game.
They were already wobbling when Kolo Toure blasted a clearance into Vincent Kompany, the rebound dropping kindly for Nenad Milijas, who finished at the second attempt despite Joe Hart's initial heroics.
Hart denied Milijas shortly afterwards when the Serbian powered a header towards goal, although there was nothing he could do to prevent Steven Fletcher picking out an unmarked Matt Jarvis at the far post.
Jarvis must have thought he had scored when he pulled the trigger on a shot from 12 yards. Instead, Aleksandar Kolarov flung himself in the way to preserve a fragile state of affairs.
The value of Kolarov's block was not immediately apparent as it took City some time to assert themselves.
But once Adam Johnson had forced Wayne Hennessy into an excellent feet-first save, Wolves began to assume the air of a side who could not wait for the interval to come.
Unfortunately for them, the clock did not speed round quickly enough.
Tevez was only just wide with a fizzing shot, then, after Dzeko had been denied by an excellent Ronald Zubar challenge, Kompany got his head to Johnson's corner and flicked it towards the far post.
Kolo Toure controlled, then went for goal, ignoring the crowd of bodies in his way. His decision proved correct as the shot beat Hennessy, bounced through David Jones' legs and eventually over the line.
It was the Ivorian's first goal of the season. More importantly, it created the platform for normal service to be resumed after half-time.
More than anyone, Tevez had been inconvenienced by Dzeko's arrival, shunted from his favoured central berth to a role wide on the left at kick-off.
The Argentinian is not one for keeping quiet, though.
And, as spectators were still taking their seats, he picked up possession on the angle of the area and exploded into life, bursting through the passive presence of Christophe Berra and Stephen Hunt, then skipping inside Richard Stearman.
The hard work done, the rest was easy as Tevez calmly slipped City in front.
Mancini's men were not done either.
Their third owed much to a neat one-two between Dzeko and Tevez just inside the Wolves half.
The Bosnian then sent Yaya Toure clean through with a perfect through ball, the midfielder following his brother onto the scoresheet with clinical efficiency.
Dzeko came close to a debut goal when his deflected shot flew narrowly wide, but Tevez was in no mood to offer reprieves and when countryman Zabaleta crossed from the right, the Argentina star's header bounced in via the underside of the crossbar.
Amazingly, within seconds Wolves had pulled one back, Doyle getting to his feet to score from the spot after he had been bundled over by substitute Joleon Lescott.
Zubar added another to set up a frantic ending, which would have been sickening for City had Geoffrey Mujangi Bia's stoppage-time shot deflected into the net off Kompany rather than just wide.
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Home 360 Modi’s war chest leaves India election rivals in the dust
Modi’s war chest leaves India election rivals in the dust
Alexandra Ulmer, Aftab Ahmed, Reuters
MUMBAI/DELHI (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is flush with cash, giving his Hindu nationalist bloc a massive advantage over the main opposition Congress party as he seeks to win a second term in India’s general election.
Total spending in Indian elections graph by Center for Media Studies via Reuters
Opaque campaign financing in the world’s largest democracy makes it tricky to get a full picture of money in politics here. But current and former BJP supporters, opposition politicians, businessmen and activists interviewed by Reuters say Modi has an unprecedented advantage, thanks to support from businesses and expectations he will be the winner.
Staggered voting in the general election is currently in progress across India, with results to be declared on May 23.
The BJP war chest has allowed it to unleash a massive amount of advertising on social media and send Modi and party officials crisscrossing India to campaign.
The ruling party has showered money on Facebook and Google advertisements, spending six times more than Congress since February, according to data from the two firms. Modi merchandise abounds, as do Modi marketing sites.
Percentage of total spending by Congress Party and BJP in Indian elections 2019 figures, Center for Media Studies via Reuters
The money puts the BJP in an extraordinarily powerful position, even over logistical issues like how to get its leaders to election rallies.
A Congress official said the BJP had the funds to reserve most of India’s fleet of helicopters for hire for 90 days, making it difficult for opponents to get hold of them.
“We have never ever seen an election with such disparity. Financially, we cannot compete with them,” said another veteran Congress politician, who asked to remain anonymous.
He and another high-ranking Congress official said they expected the BJP to outspend them by a factor of ten. A third Congress source estimated the disparity at twice that.
Two BJP officials declined to provide an estimate of spending, but one said the “BJP definitely has a big war chest and has more funds at its disposal than the Congress.”
Congress has received far fewer funds because of a perception it is unlikely to win the election, political strategists said. The opposition party has been hampered by its inability to forge a national alliance to take on Modi and has struggled to capitalise on discontent against the BJP over a lack of jobs and distressed farm incomes.
Modi has been topping polls as India’s most popular politician, well ahead of Congress President Rahul Gandhi.
LONG ELECTION
Money has become critical in elections given the country’s 1.3 billion population, its voting over 39 days and the sheer complexity of the electorate, in terms of region, religion, language, and caste.
Mugs featuring India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, BJP, are on display for sale outside the venue of an election rally addressed by PM Narendra Modi in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, March 28, 2019. (Photo: Reuters Adnan Abidi)
A tradition of doling out freebies to sway voters only adds to costs. Authorities say they have seized goods and cash worth about $456 million since March 26.
“This war chest gives the BJP significant advantages,” said Milan Vaishnav, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s South Asia programme. “Money is useful for wooing voters but also for keeping networks of party workers and influencers well lubricated.”
Parliamentary candidates’ expenditure is capped at up to 7 million Indian rupees (about $100,000), but the limit is widely flouted, and political parties are allowed to spend freely.
The New Delhi-based Centre for Media Studies (CMS) estimates almost $8.6 billion will be spent on this year’s vote, roughly twice the 2014 election.
The figure would surpass OpenSecrets.org’s estimate that $6.5 billion was spent in the 2016 U.S. presidential and congressional elections.
Recent reforms under Modi may have fueled the spending spree: Companies can fund parties anonymously through new ‘electoral bonds’ and they no longer face a donations cap. Activists say that gives corporations too much sway and obscures ties between politicians and businessmen.
About 95 percent of electoral bonds snapped up in a first tranche offering last year went to the BJP, according to data reviewed by Reuters through a Right To Information request and BJP filings.
When asked whether the BJP had a financial advantage, party spokesman Anil Baluni said “it is not an unfair advantage.”
“I guess maybe the BJP does believe in taking maximum donations by cheque or through bonds… We are the largest political party in the country,” Baluni added.
He said he did not have information on the provenance of funds or the uses. Pawan Khera, a Congress spokesman, said this was “turning out to be the most unequal election,” but did not provide specifics.
MODI RETAINS BACKERS
Modi was elected in 2014 as a darling of the business community.
His star has dimmed somewhat, in part due to fallout from a shock 2016 decision to scrap then circulating high-value bank notes, but with some businesses wary of a fragile opposition coalition coming to power, Modi retains backers.
“Modi has made business easier,” said businessman Sunil Alagh, who heads consulting firm SKA Advisors and sits on several boards.
Still, business titans tend to give to several parties to hedge their bets, politicians and executives say.
Mukesh Ambani, Asia’s richest man and the boss of the Reliance Industries conglomerate, hails from Modi’s home state of Gujarat and his family has praised the prime minister publicly. Ambani even splashed Modi’s face on advertisements for the Reliance Jio telecoms launch in 2016.
But last month, Mumbai-based Ambani endorsed Congress candidate Milind Deora, appearing in a video saying “Milind is the man for South Bombay.” Deora’s politician father was a close friend of the Ambanis.
BIND OVER BONDS
Under the electoral bond scheme announced by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley last year, individuals and companies can anonymously buy as many bonds as they wish to in denominations ranging from 1,000 rupees to 10 million rupees and deposit them in a party account at the State Bank of India (SBI).
“The electoral bond scheme …. envisages total clean money and substantial transparency,” Jaitley said in a Facebook post.
Activists say the opposite is true.
“If you do not know the donor and you do not know who the money is given to, where is the transparency? Dubious donations are now legitimised,” said Jagdeep Chhokar, a founder of the Delhi-based Association for Democratic Reforms.
When Reuters reporters visited SBI branches during bond sales in Delhi and Mumbai this year, a handful of men who described themselves as politicians or company representatives were waiting to open bank accounts or buy bonds.
SBI officials declined to provide details on the sales.
($1 = 69.8980 Indian rupees)
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Ice: an epidemic rages under our very noses
by Ross Colquhoun
News Weekly, May 23, 2015
Ice (methamphetamine, or crystal meth) is quite different from other drugs of dependence in three important ways.
Crystal methamphetamine, or ice.
For nicotine, alcohol and cannabis, the harm often manifests many years after initiation of use despite the inherent dangers. Not so with ice. The harm becomes severe and intolerable very early on. This is almost invariably the case as use quickly becomes compulsive due to the highly addictive nature of the drug.
The result is that the time using ice tends to be much shorter. Before too long consequences become so severe, both to the user and their immediate environment including family, that change is inevitable, either cycling in and out of use or cessation, either spontaneous or due to forced withdrawal in prison or hospitalisation.
This difference in patterns of use is likely to impact on the raw statistics in an unpredictable way and indicate much lower use of the drug than actually is the case. At any point in time the number of users will seem much lower, despite the consequences being more noticeable, compared with total numbers who have used the drug because of the shorter average time using.
The second point of difference is that ice stimulates compulsive sexual acting out. While other drugs stimulate sexual appetite, none does more so than ice: Not only enhanced desire and sexual performance but risky sexual behaviour.
The third difference is that conventional treatment is largely ineffective. Those who become dependent on the drug do not seek treatment until after an average of three years from initial use and not until symptoms become very severe, and they do not stay long in treatment.
Facts and figures disseminated by the National Drug Strategy Survey and the Australian Crime Commission inform us of the extent of the ice epidemic. Noticeably, Australia has one of the highest rates of use of methamphetamine in the world, particularly among developed countries, increasing 10 per cent since 2011; drug seizures are at record levels and the weight of amphetamine-type drugs detections has increased 230 per cent from 2010-11 to 2012-13.
Among those with experience working in the field and reviewing the research, it seems that the main strategies to reduce social harm from ice use involves supply-and-demand reduction, rather than about users’ rights or harm reduction. This is due to the associated high levels of mental illness, crime and violence, harm to family members and the community, the highly addictive nature of the drugs and the high-risk sexual behaviour.
Of great concern is the potential spread of HIV and STDs between drug users and into the non-drug-using community associated with methamphetamine use. Methamphetamine use has been found to be independently related to prostitution, sex with injecting drug users and having a sexually transmitted disease. The inherent dangers of this drug to users and the community have been apparent for some time and yet policy does not reflect the urgency to implement effective strategies needed to avert a looming social crisis.
Not only are no practical harm reduction measures available, including drug substitutes, but treatment is difficult as users are unlikely to seek or engage in treatment. However, particularly heavy or dependent users (some 73,000 in Australia) are more likely to come into contact with law enforcement and the courts and, as a result, the court system has an important role in responding to ice-related problems and dependence.
There exists an opportunity for the courts and health systems to take an integrated approach along the following lines. Mandatory detention is of vital importance in any treatment response as it takes some time to go through withdrawal (psychosis/depression) and it is virtually impossible to retain people in treatment during this phase. As crime is so closely linked to stimulant use, some period of detention (three months) is legitimate, justified and necessary for effective treatment.
Specifically designed ice prisons/detention centres need to be established, as happens in other jurisdictions (such as Canada).
Focus needs to be integrated with health/mental health services responding to withdrawal and other health problems (cardiovascular, dental, STDs, HIV and so on), drug and alcohol services focusing on education about the harm and psychological and social change required, and an out-reach service (like parole) to monitor progress and prevent relapse by intervening in other social risk factors, especially among indigenous communities.
In other words, instead of diversion into health or treatment services, which have failed, involuntary treatment including dedicated prisons need to be a part of those health and treatment services for treatment to be effective. Civil libertarians will be up in arms, but if we are to tackle this very serious and growing problem, an integrated and uncompromising approach as suggested is imperative.
As there is no evidence that the harm-minimisation policies have benefited users or the community and with the looming ice crisis, perhaps we can learn from the experience of Sweden. Sweden went from being one of the first European countries to experience a large-scale drug problem in the 1960s to now being a country with one of the lowest rates of drug use.
Dr Ross Colquhoun is an executive member of Drug Free Australia and research fellow and a member o the Drug Advisory Council of Australia.
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Microsoft has made available the final version of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) for Windows 7 users. IE11 is bundled as a part of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, but for Windows 7 users, it was available in developer preview and consumer preview and now it is released as final version. With this final release, IE11 brings the same leading standards support with improved performance, security, privacy, and reliability that consumers enjoy on Windows 8.1 to Windows 7 customers.
Internet Explorer 11 (IE11) is available worldwide in 95 languages for download today.
You can experience IE11’s leading performance first hand with demos on the IE Test Drive site where you’ll find examples of hardware accelerated rendering, interactivity, touch, and real world site patterns. Although IE11 is now available on Windows 7, not all features are available from the Windows 8 for the Windows 7 users.
Here is a list of changes to Windows 7 version of IE7 compared to Windows 8 version.
In the Windows 7 version of IE11, the URL bar remains at the top of the browser (like it is with IE10 on Windows 7). IE11 for Windows 8.1 puts the URL bar at the bottom.
The new tab view in Windows 8.1 isn’t part of the IE11 for Windows 7 release.
IE11 on Windows 7 won’t support for premium video extensions like the 8.1 version does. “There are many solutions available for Windows 7 customers to stream and view protected content online, those methods will continue to function for customers,” a spokesperson confirmed. (Read: Silverlight and Flash.)
No support for Google’s SPDY protocol (the precursor to HTTP 2.0) in IE11 on Windows 7. IE11 on Windows 8.1 does support SPDY.
IE11 on Windows 7 will not support Enhanced Protected Mode browser security enhancements.
Apart from this, there are tons of improvements to IE11 and is much faster than the previous versions.
Source [Via ZDNet]
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Howard Hill and Laquan Barrow in custody; suspected of murder involvement
By Ocala Post on November 15, 2013 2 Comments
Ocala, Florida — On September 13, 2013, Ocala Post broke the story about a trio of men terrorizing residents who lived in Silver Springs Shores.
On November 13, 2013, Ocala Post released a public warning about Howard Hill, a thug and career criminal who was released from jail on November 12, 2013, after the state attorney announced that they did not have sufficient information on the case due to the lack of witnesses coming forward.
Two of the men who were involved in a series of serious and dangerous crimes in Silver Springs Shores were released from jail on more than one occasion. Today, it seems as though both the recent release of Howard Hill and last month’s release of Laquan Barrow have cost someone their life during a shooting that took place at Parkside Apartments on November 14, 2013.
Howard Hill has been arrested five times. His criminal record has charges ranging from Torture and Mutilation of Animals to multiple Aggravated Assaults with a Deadly Weapon with Intent to Cause Bodily Harm. Laquan Barrow has been arrested 10 times and has multiple charges for Aggravated Assault with a Deadly Weapon and Firing into an Occupied Vehicle.
Tami Wyckoff wrote, “Parkside Apts. needs to be burned to the ground. That place is just a drug-infested nightmare. I feel bad for the good people that live there and have to deal with that mess. OPD needs to have a cop on duty that just sits there to monitor all the activity that goes on at that place.”
Jennifer Shamp wrote, “Parkside and Spring Manor both , all you ever here about is gun fights , gangs, and drugs out there. And that’s our low income and section 8 housing .Evidently someones not doing [their] job right to keep those kinds of people out of what should be a safe place for the elderly and parents with children who are on low incomes.”
Residents can only hope these two men stay behind bars this time.
Ocala Police say on 11-14-13, three victims along with victim Samuel Washington, 28, who is now deceased, left Cloud 9 Club after midnight, located in the 1900 block of South Pine Avenue in a 2007 Saturn. They proceeded to a block party located in the 1900 block of NW 1st Street.
According to reports, all three victims pulled over just east of 19th Avenue on SW 1st Street. They told police that within minutes, a black male, later identified by victim one as Laquan Barrow, 22, opened his driver’s door, punched him in the face several times, and attempted to pull him out of the vehicle. Victim one resisted by holding on to the steering wheel and pushing the suspect away, to no avail. Victim one stated that a second black male, later identified as Howard Lee Hill, 20, also punched him in the face several times and attempted to pull him out of the car. He stated that a third black male, later identified as Tydree Najee also 20, came to his vehicle with the other two suspects. Victim one stated that it was at that moment that he heard a gunshot.
Victim one stated he then drove off and fled the area while shots were fired at his vehicle. Victim one received a small cut on his lower lip and inflammation to his left side of his face due to the multiple punches he received.
Police say that victim three, who was the front passenger, described the first suspect as a dark black large heavy male. He stated to police that the suspect opened the driver’s door, punched several times, and attempted to pull victim one out of the vehicle. He stated that a second suspect, approximately 5’8” or 5’9” was next to the first suspect. The second suspect also threw several punches and attempted to pull victim one out of the vehicle.
He said that an unknown black male opened the back door and yelled, “What’s up Nigga.” The victim then heard a gunshot. He heard the victim, Samuel Washington, who was in the back seat behind the driver, state that he had been hit. They drove to the 400 block of Northwest 9th Avenue looking for help. At that time, a dark vehicle and a lighter color vehicle drove by and shot at them several times, striking their vehicle. They hit the ground and were unable to identify the shooters.
Victim two, who was sitting next to Samuel Washington, stated the same scenario and indicated that the third suspect opened the back door and shot Samuel Washington. He said Washington stated to the shooter that he had no part of it before he was shot. Victim two stated that the shooter was slender and tall.
Washington was pronounced dead at Munroe Regional Medical Center. Washington had only lived in Ocala for a year before his life was taken by criminals, who residents say belong behind bars.
During the investigation, one of the victims told police that he had “heard on the street that Tydree was the one that shot Samuel Washington.”
Although detectives are continuing the investigation into identifying the shooter who killed Washington, the two suspects, Hill and Barrow, have been arrested for charges unrelated to the case.
Detectives located Hill and Barrow and Detective Jorge Fernandez was able to charge them both.
Currently, the two are charged with Burglary of a Conveyance and Battery. Both Hill and Barrow are being held on a $500,000 bond.
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Code Name Tiger (1964)
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Genre: Thriller | Eurospy
Country: France | Italy | Director: Claude Chabrol
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A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Immediately he is the target of an assassin, and a special agent is assigned to protect him.
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King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen (2017)
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93-year-old Armenian DJ connects inmates and families on American radio
January 11, 2019 - 10:33 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - 93-year-old Armenian-American DJ Art Laboe has been on the air after 75 years, and he credits one group of listeners for this: family members who want to send messages to loved ones in prison.
Every Sunday on his syndicated show “The Art Laboe Connection Show,” his baritone voice calls on family members to speak directly to inmates in California, Arizona or Nevada. Sometimes, Laboe reads parts of letters written by inmates, The Associated Press says in an article about the DJ.
It’s a role Laboe says he feels honored to play.
Laboe was born Arthur Egnoian in Salt Lake City to an Armenian-American family.
It was when he worked as a DJ for KXLA in Los Angeles where he gained fame. Laboe was one of the first DJs to play R&B and rock ‘n’ roll in California and is credited by scholars for helping integrate dance halls among Latinos, blacks, Asian Americans and whites who were drawn to his multicultural musical line up.
Over the decades, Laboe maintained a fan base, especially among Mexican-Americans who followed him from station to station. He started getting calls from inmates’ family members in the 1990s on his syndicated oldies show. Current and former gang members were some of his most loyal fans.
Alex Nogales, president and CEO of the Los Angeles-based National Hispanic Media Coalition, said generations of Latino fans still attend Laboe-sponsored concerts to hear the likes of Smokey Robinson, The Spinners or Sunny & The Sunliners.
“I see these really tough looking guys in the crowd. I mean, they look scary,” Nogales said. “Then Art comes out and they just melt. They love him.”
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Far from the Madding Crowd - Movie Review by Monte Yazzie
Director: Thomas Vinterberg Starring: Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Tom Sturridge, Michael Sheen, Juno Temple, and Jessica Barden PG-13 119 Minutes
Thomas Hardy crafted the literary classic “Far From The Madding Crowd” in 1874. The first film version of the novel was brought to the screen by director John Schlesinger in 1967 and starred Julie Christie as the strong willed and passionate picture of feminine independence, Bathsheba Everdene. Updated again by director Thomas Vinterberg, who last helmed the exceptional film “The Hunt”, and Hardy’s story of a restricted world and the decisions and complications of life and love comes to adoring life behind the exceptionally skills of actress Carey Mulligan and a director who understands how to balance superficial romanticism, period charm, and melodrama into a film that is far more interesting than it might look.
Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) is a poised, proper, and determined woman who wants to live a life under on her own free willed guidance. Society in Victorian England however has other impressions of how a woman should be, which is basically living a life without much personal freedom while being forced into the established structures of societal expectation and formal customs. Bathsheba’s life begins to change after an inheritance comes her way, however not before she meets a farmer named Gabriel Oak (Matthias Schoenaerts) who has an unquestionable passion for her. Bathsheba comes to be the owner of her own farm. Mr. Oak comes to work for her, a wealthy farm owner is in want of a wife, and a soldier mourning lost love stumbles upon her property; these men further complicate the life Bathsheba is trying to forge for herself.
Bathsheba Everdene is a picture of confidence and power at a time when woman where restricted to lives established and influenced by the decisions of men. Bathsheba is a female character that admires love but not at the expense of the responsibilities and ambitions that drive her pursuit of personal control. Her direct and impatient nature is somewhat quieted by her kind and honorable character. She is unique and the men who meet her clearly find these attributes attractive. Vinterberg builds on these characteristics throughout, turning Bathsheba into an enigma of sorts when she is proposed with offers from the opposite sex. It’s surprisingly charming and comedic considering the source material. In many ways it becomes similar to the best-composed romantic comedies today, offering a laid-back and enjoyable quality. Whether in scenes where Bathsheba shrewdly thwarts the propositions of her male suitors, some directly asking for her hand in marriage, or in scenes where she struggles with the indecisions of which man she should choose. This prospect of choice is one the narrative utilizes cleverly, trudging Bathsheba through bad choices and restarting the spinning wheel of choice for another path. While this works for most of the film, there are moments when it undermines the keen sensibilities established to the character in the beginning.
The pleasing aesthetic, costumes and sets, and the beautiful photography, the glow of fading sunsets and vibrant landscapes, fill every frame. The cast is great, especially Carey Mulligan who makes Bathsheba strong, thoughtful, and enchanting. Matthias Schoenaerts established Mr. Oak as a deeply passionate character in the unwavering pursuit of love. Thomas Vinterberg and screenwriter David Nicholls turn what could have been a tedious period drama into a buoyant romantic comedy that will undeniably garner its fair share of final act swoons for Bathsheba and the choice in love she ultimately makes.
Monte’s Rating 4.00 out of 5.00
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The Weekly Grind: 51
A brief on industry news and announcements of the past week.
With China’s ambitious goal of 5 million EV’s on the road by 2020, the government has relaxed some of it’s protectionism laws which may result in an influx of foreign investment from companies like Tesla now that certain technologies may be kept from the domestic manufacturing partners.
BMW – Mini – Rolls-Royce
BMW announced it will also be using NAIAS to debut their 5 Series sedan. Details were also announced regarding additional variants of the 5 Series. The M550i xDrive which will feature M Performance tuned turbo V8, all-wheel drive, 8-speed automatic transmission, and a specifically tuned chassis setup will fit those who want a bit more performance from their 5 Series. At the other end of the spectrum is the 530e iPerformance which blends the 2.0L 4-cyl with a plug-in hybrid system that enables up to 31 miles on electric only. BMW will also display their new addition for the American compact SUV market, the BMW Concept X2. It is expected to “combine the fast-moving body language and low-slung proportions of a coupe with the robust construction of an X model.” as stated by BMW’s Head of Design, Karim Habib. Expect a very dynamic shape.
FCA – Alfa Romeo – Chrysler – Dodge – Ferrari – Fiat – Jeep – Maserati – Ram Truck
The 100 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid units scheduled for deployment with Waymo (Google’s recently separated self-driving division) have all been produced and are being fitted with the latest sensors and computers. They are expected to be ready for the roads in early 2017.
GM – Buick – Cadillac – Chevrolet – GMC
The next generation Chevrolet Traverse is touting best in class 3rd row legroom, will make its debut on January 9. A wireless charging company, WiTricity, has entered into a collaboration with GM, joining Toyota and others.
Honda – Acura
The Accord, Civic, CR-V, and Odyssey all captured the retail sales crowns in their respective markets. This comes as the next generation 2017 CR-V went on sale this week and expect to see the next generation Odyssey concept in Detroit (NAIAS) in January.
Honda and Waymo (Alphabet’s self driving technology company) announced plans to collaborate to advance self-driving technology and how to best integrate it into the initial design of the vehicle.
Hyundai/ Kia/ Genesis
U.S. CEO, Dave Zuchowski, has been let go after 3 years and Jerry Flannery will fill in temporarily while retaining his existing role as Chief Legal and Safety Officer. Flannery has been with Hyundai since 1987. The news follows similar announcements concerning the South Korean and Chinese sales heads as Hyundai is grappling with a car-heavy sales base in a market that has seen steady growth with SUV’s.
Ford – Lincoln
Acknowledging that people are holding on to their cars longer, Ford has revamped their Motorcraft parts division to increase their competitiveness in terms of cost and availability.
The F-250 is in it’s 4th month since it’s launch and it’s retail sales are up 33% compared to last year’s November. About 71% of the sales thus far are made up of the 4×4, crew cab diesels and are dressed in Lariat, King Ranch, and Platinum Trim levels. For reference, a Lariat 4×4 diesel crew cab starts at about $59k.
Lincoln brings out the big guns once again with its newest ad campaign for the Continental. Directed by Wally Pfister (Dark Knight, Inception) and featuring Matthew McConaughey, the emphasis is on high quality details and design.
VW – Audi – Bentley – Bugatti – Lamborghini – Porsche
The Dept. of Justice (on behalf of the EPA and CARB) has reached an agreement regarding civil claims related to the 3.0L TDI V6 for its emissions cheat code. Depending on the model year, a buy-back or have their Audi, VW, or Porsche updated. About 83,000 vehicles are affected and the settlement, which does not resolve claims from other Federal agencies or any criminal lawsuits.
Audi will display the Q8 large SUV concept at Naias.The level of luxury is expected to be on par with the A8. Also eager to demonstrate their environmental commitment, VW will display its two motor, all-wheel drive concept EV capable of over 300 miles of range.
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Piper Podcast series: Ajith Jayawickrema of Turtle Bay
Turtle Bay founder Ajith Jayawickrema, who moved to the UK from Sri Lanka at the age of 15, has revealed how singer Leona Lewis unknowingly inspired him to launch his highly successful Caribbean restaurant chain.
‘My girls were young and we were watching X Factor – and a girl called Leona Lewis won it,’ says Jayawickrema in the fourth of Piper’s ‘How I Grew My Brand’ podcast interviews with leading entrepreneurs. ‘As an immigrant, I thought it incredible. 22 million ordinary people had voted for her – her race, her colour, her ethnic background didn’t matter.’
Her victory gave Jayawickrema, who previously co-founded Latin American restaurant chain Las Iguanas, the confidence to bring the full Caribbean food and drink experience to the UK. He and co-founder Crispin Tweddell launched Turtle Bay in Milton Keynes in 2010. Today the company has 44 restaurants across the UK and two in Germany, employs 1500 staff and turns over nearly £70m. Piper invested growth capital in Turtle Bay in June 2013.
In an interview with broadcaster Mary Nightingale, Jayawickrema describes coming to Britain with his family in the late 1970s speaking no English, seeing snow and eating Corn Flakes for the first time. Until then, breakfast had been ‘roti and coconut fish curry’.
Jayawickrema also discusses the challenges of growing a business through the critical stages of development that Piper calls ‘7, 17, 70’. As Turtle Bay approaches £70m turnover, he says: ‘Almost all methods of working that were right when we were 20 restaurants are probably wrong now. In the past we only had to talk to 20 head chefs. Now there are nearly 50 across two countries… So almost everything is different.’
The ‘How I Grew My Brand’ podcast series follows on from two successful books Piper has published in recent years containing lessons from some of the UK’s best known entrepreneurs. The first three podcast interviewees were: Cassandra Stavrou, co-founder of Propercorn; Alex Reilley, co-founder of Loungers; and Nicola Elliott, co-founder of Neom Organics.
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Justice at its reach for Atio’s Family, 8 UST Civil Laws Students linked to Atio’s Death Expelled
A young law student Horacio “Atio” Castillo III, with a promising future lost his life in the hands of his frat brothers through a botched hazing, his family is now seeking for justice. Though the court has not made any final decision yet regarding the case, the University of San Tomas (UST)
where Atio and the frat members of Aegis Juris use to study, made the wise decision to expel those who are involved in Atio’s case.
UST has ordered the expulsion of eight law students for their alleged involvement in Atio’s death.
According to the Varsitarian, the university’s official publication, it reported last Sunday regarding eight civil law students have been found, “ guilty of violating the Code of Conduct and Discipline and imposing the supreme penalty of expulsion.”
The decision was made and a resolution was handed down by a fact-finding committee formed by UST Rector Fr. Herminio Dagohoy, O.P., date last September 19, 2017
UST released a statement to the public regarding the agenda for its resolution, ““The University reiterates its commitment to ferret out the truth, determine liability, and impose the appropriate sanctions. In the Eucharistic Celebrations held at the UST Faculty of Civil Law, at the Santuario de San Antonio during the wake and at the UST Chapel during the day of mourning for the death of Horacio, UST has always been one with the Castillo family in the steadfast call for everyone to pray and work together to achieve justice for Horacio and for truth to prevail,”
It added, “It recommended a comprehensive review of the Student Handbook and the accreditation process for organizations. It issued an indefinite moratorium on the recruitment and all other activities of all fraternities and sororities in the University,”
This decision also shows the active efforts of UST in working with Manila Police District and National Bureau of Investigation to identify the members of Aegis Juris Fraternity who are involved in the crime.
The resolution was released by the committee after Castillo’s mother, Carminian, condemned the university for supposedly abandoning her son while keeping some of the members of Aegis Juris still enrolled in UST.
“Mahal na mahal niya ang UST and parang at this point nararamdaman ko that UST has abandoned him,” Carminia said, adding that the administration has not taken any “action” as she believes that there are still Aegis Juris members who are currently enrolled in UST.
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How to Construct a Small Septic System
from wikiHow - The How to Manual That You Can Edit
Most private septic systems are made up of two parts: The holding and digesting tanks and the dispersal field. The system shown here is a small system, designed for limited use of by two people with no laundry and a small travel trailer. The concept is the same as a larger system, but the tank is much smaller. This system uses two 55 gallon drums, as opposed to the 1000 to 2000 gallon tanks used for a large home. The system we are creating here also has a dispersal field about one third that of a large home.
Dig a ditch 4 feet wide, 26 feet long, and 3 feet deep.
Assemble all the supplies, parts, and equipment. See the "Things You'll Need" list below.
Cut a hole in the top of each drum the size of the toilet flange pipe outside measurement. It should be near the edge. A saber saw is best for this task.
click to enlarge (3)
Attach a 4" toilet flange to each hole.
Cut two holes in the top side of the lower drum, as shown in the photo, 45 degrees away from a perpendicular line drawn from the hole on top to the far side.
Cut one hole in the upper drum opposite the hole in the top, as shown in the photo.
Place the drum with one hole in the side at the end of the trench. Level the drum. The top of the drum should be at least 4 inches below grade.
Dig a hole about one foot deeper for the placement of the second drum in front of the first.
Dig the hole mentioned in step 8 a little deeper and fill with gravel until the 90 ell fits perfectly from the hole in the side of the top drum to the toilet flange of the lower drum.
Cut a 3 1/2" piece of 4" ABS pipe (nipple) and glue it into one end of the 90 ell. Cut another nipple about 2 1/2" long and glue it in the other end.
Test the fit for alignment between the two drums. The end with the short nipple should go into the upper drum. It should look like the photo in Step 9.
When you are sure about the fit, glue the end of the 3 1/2" nipple into the toilet flange. We will deal with sealing the connection to the upper drum later.
Glue a "Y" to 3 1/2 nipples and add a 45 degree bend to the left side of the "Y". Align the "Y" to meet the incoming waste line, and glue it into the toilet flange.
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Cut and glue (2) 2 1/2" nipples to the remaining two 45 degree bends at one end only and insert into holes in the side of the lower drum, as shown in the photo in step 7. The face of the two 45 degree bends should be perpendicular to the trench.
See photo in Step 7
Pound a stake into the ground so that the top of the stake is level with the bottom of the 45 degree bend coming out of one side of the bottom drum.
Tape a 1" wide block to the end of a 4 foot level, as shown in the photo to the right.
Start the second stake a little less than 4 feet down the trench from the first.
Lay the end of the level without the block on the first state and the block on the second. Pound the stake down until the level shows level when the block is on the second stake. The second stake is now 1" lower than the first, or 1/4" per foot.
Repeat this process until you have stakes the length of the trench.
Place the gravel in the trench until the top of the gravel is equal with the top of the stakes.
The gravel should now slope away from the drums at 1/4" to the foot.
Place two pieces of 10 foot 4" perforated drain pipe connected with a slip coupler (holes down). Slide one end into the 45 degree bend of the lower drum. Repeat on the other side.
Check the drain pipes with the level and block to see if the 1/4" grade is consistent along the length of the pipe. Adjust by adding or removing gravel under the pipe.
Seal the 45 degree bends and the 90 degree bend to the lower and upper drums, respectively. I used a two part epoxy. You could also use silicon caulk. See the photo in step 6 for finished view of epoxy.
Bury the trench to the top of the bottom drum with the remaining gravel.
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Lay landscape fabric over the gravel. This will prevent the soil from seeping into the gravel.
Fill the remaining trench area with soil, compacting well to the original grade.
Fill the upper drum with water.
It is presumed that you know how to work with plastic ABS pipe. You must also have equipment to dig the trench (or be willing to get a lot of exercise).
The digestive tanks are made of two plastic 55 gallon drums. The waste fills the first tank, with the solids falling to the bottom. When the liquid reaches the level of the outfall to the second tank, it drains into it. If any solids are there, they fall to the bottom. When the liquid from the second tank reaches the two outfalls, it travels to the gravel leaching field for dispersal. Most of the solids will liquefy over time and be dispersed. After a couple of years, the solids may come to the top of the tank, and the tank will have to be pumped out.
The horizontal side of the "Y" connects to the waste source, and should be fitted with a connector that fits the source supply line.
The vertical side of the "Y" will be used to pump out the tank when it is completely fill with solids.
The depth of the trench is relative to the depth of the waste source line. If the line is deeper or higher than the one shown, you will have to dig the trench deeper or shallower to accommodate that depth. It's not that hard to figure. (Note: If you have too shallow of a trench, your septic system could be damaged easier.)
After a while, you may see settlement where the trench was. Fill with more soil and compact with wheel of your car. Don't drive over the area that contains the drums.
This is a very small capacity system. This is not designed to meet the needs of a large household. It is designed for a small travel trailer and two people.
Depending on use, you may have to pump the upper drum once a year. The system shown here has been pumped twice in five years.
Local Septic Regulations should be followed when constructing a septic system.
Don't locate your septic system too close to trees, as tree roots will grow into your line, and cause them to clog (with roots) and with time, cause harm to your system.
(9) cubic yards of 3/4 or 1 1/2 crushed rock
(80) square feet of landscape fabric
(2) 55 gallon plastic drums
(10) ft of 4" ABS plastic pipe
(1) 4" ABS 90 degree bend (sometimes called a street Ell)
(1) 4" ABS Y branch (sometimes called a Y bend)
(3) 4" ABS 45 degree bend
(4) 10 ft. length of 4" perforated drain pipe
(2) 4" drain pipe couplers
(2) 4" toilet flanges
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Alibi Information
Title: Changed in "Lies and Alibis"
Cast: Selma Blair, James Brolin, Steve Coogan, Sam Elliot, Debrorah Kara Unger, Jamie King, Sharon Lawrence, John Leguizamo, James Marsden, Debi Mazar, Henry Rollins, Rebecca Romijn
Directors: Matt Checkowski, Kurt Mattila
Executive Producers: Douglas E. Hansen, Julia Eisenman, David Garrett, Bob Hayward
Producers: Erik Feig, Paul Hellerman, James D. Stern, Patrick Wachsberger
Writer: Noah Hawley
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Are People Really Smoking Weed Spiked With Bug Spray?
It’s fairly common for people selling and using black market street drugs to lace them with a variety of other substances. This often creates dangerous scenarios, as it’s hard to predict exactly how people will react to different additives. Recently, reports from around the country show that people are now lacing drugs with bug spray. This new trend runs the gamut, from weed spiked with bug spray to injecting crystallized bug spray.
Lacing Drugs with Bug Spray
Over the past few months, it’s become increasingly common to hear about people lacing drugs with bug spray. For example, a man in Tennessee smoked a combination of meth and bug spray before breaking into a home and attempting to cut his throat in front of a mother and her children.
Similarly, sources in Mississippi reported that people were making “hotshots” by covering metal mesh screens with bug spray and then heating the metal until the spray crystallizes. Then, people melt it down and inject it.
Additionally, there are numerous stories of people spraying their weed with bug spray, letting it dry, then smoking it. Other times, people soak synthetic marijuana in bug spray, or sometimes even regular cigarettes.
Regardless of the method of consumption, smoking or injecting bug spray produces some really dangerous effects. According to the Indy Star, it gives users an intense high that typically lasts for as long as 45 minutes, leaving users in a zombie-like state of catatonia.
Often times, people end up experiencing something very close to a seizure and have severe difficulty breathing.
Making It Hard For Medics
Lacing drugs with other chemicals and substances is a fairly common practice. It gives users new highs and provides sellers a cheap way to stretch their product and make it more potent.
“You’re looking at people who will mix [a chemical] with a drug as a way to try to make more profit,” Indiana Poison Center doctor Daniel Rusyniak told the Indy Star.
“Cutting your drug with ingredients has been a longtime thing that drug dealers have done to increase profits.”
But it also makes it very hard for medics trying to treat negative side effects and overdoses. In many cases, when a person has a bad reaction, first responders don’t know what is causing the harm because it’s unclear what the person actually consumed.
Similarly, when people start adding new substances to drugs, as is the case with bug spray, nobody knows beforehand how it will end up affecting users.
Final Hit: Are People Really Smoking Weed Spiked With Bug Spray?
Clearly, there’s nothing new about lacing drugs with other ingredients. This is also true when it comes to cannabis. Bug spray isn’t the first chemical people have laced their weed with. For example, “wet” is essentially weed that’s soaked in PCP.
Similarly, people often lace synthetic marijuana with formaldehyde. This is especially dangerous since synthetic marijuana can do serious damage all on its own.
But it gets even worse when it’s laced with other chemicals, whether it’s formaldehyde, bug spray, or anything else.
The post Are People Really Smoking Weed Spiked With Bug Spray? appeared first on High Times.
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Finding Phebe
At East Providence Library on Monday, February 26th at 7 pm, Sarah Weed and Pat Mues from the Warren Middle Passage Project will be making a presentation and having a discussion. Please come if you would like to learn more about the enslaved of Warren in the 18th and early 19th century.
Gallery Night Exhibition: The Art of Race (Providence)
RISD Museum (map)
A temporary exhibition and dialogue hosted by the Center for Reconciliation (CFRRI) & the RISD Museum for Providence Gallery Night.
Join Center for Reconciliation Program Director and Curator, Elon Cook, and RISD Museum Chief Curator of Prints, Drawings, & Photographs, Jan Howard, for a special opportunity to explore and discuss art and artifacts in the RISD museum archive. Investigate historical artifacts documenting America's history of slavery, witness the protest and arrest of a black teen during the Civil Rights Movement and discuss how various artists explore, interpret and find healing through art.
Space is limited, so RSVP: goo.gl/zJRpLE
Walking Tour: College Hill & the International Slave Trade (Providence)
Brown Street and Power Street Providence, RI (map)
Organized by the Center for Reconciliation (CFRRI), this 2 hour, 1-mile walk will explore 200 years of history and lead you inside 4 local historic sites.
Meet at the intersection of Brown and Power Street in Providence (by the John Brown House).
Tickets are $20 per person, with a discount for groups.
RSVP: info@cfrri.org and https://goo.gl/BHzX31
For more information on the Center for Reconciliation, see CFRRI.org
RI MPCPMP State Meeting
State Meeting of Rhode Island MPCPMP (New Date! June 23)
Rogers Free Library (map)
Friday, June 23, 2017: 3:00pm 4:30pm (Rogers Free Library, Bristol, RI)
The Heimark Artist-in-Residence’s Black Spatial Relics Project presents, #DignityInProcess and Folkthought (Providence, RI)
George Houston Bass Performing Art Space, Churchill House (map)
This Event is Free and Open to the Public
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice
Brown University Commencement Activities
Rooted in their artistic research in Afro-Indigenous Liberatory Practice, Heimark Artist-in-Resident ChE Ware has developed a new art action about the Nightingale Brown House’s and Brown University’s relationship to slavery. Transforming the house into a social justice theatre and ring shout ceremony, this #DignityInProcess art action is an immersive, site-specific participatory performance ritual. Weaving between rooms, this multidisciplinary experience is articulated as feet pounding, percussive gestures of Afro-Contemporary choreography, storytelling, and procession. This performance makes the Afro-Indigenous medicine of the ring shout visible as a tool for activism, community dialogue, and healing. #DignityInProcess was made possible through the support of the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities & Cultural Heritage, the Heimark Artist-in-Residence Program, and the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice.
George Houston Bass Performing Art Space, Churchill House, 155 Angell Street.
Reception Open House at the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (Providence, RI)
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (map)
For centuries, the institution of slavery pervaded every aspect of life in American, and its reverberations are still keenly felt today. We invite you to the Center’s 19thcentury house for a special reception to meet our faculty, staff and students. While you are at the Center you can view the exhibit on display in our gallery, Maker Unknown? Material Objects & the Enslaved, a stunning glass wall art piece Rising to Freedom and a symbolic slave garden.
Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, 94 Waterman Street.
Commencement Forum: Rhode Island Middle Passage and Ceremonies Port Markers Project (Providence, RI)
85 Waterman Street Providence, RI, 02912 United States (map)
Convened through the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, the Rhode Island Middle Passage Ceremonies Port Marker Project (RI MPCPMP), seeks to acknowledge the history of the transatlantic slave trade in port cities by bringing Rhode Island communities together to acknowledge this past through educational commemorative markers and memorials. Made up of volunteers from the community, local organizations and universities, the project has helped to catalyze and connect people across the state to engage with the history and legacies of the slave trade locally. Learn more about this local Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (MPCPMP), and how CSSJ has worked to share its scholarly resources with a broad public.
85 Waterman Street, Room 130
Exhibit Opening Reception of Maker Unknown? Material Objects & the Enslaved (Providence, RI)
Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice (map)
A tobacco pipe, a ledger, a portrait, a table. What can the art, objects, and records left behind by history tell us about how enslaved and free communities in Rhode Island lived and interacted with each other? Join us for the opening reception of the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice’s new exhibition, Maker Unknown? Material Objects & the Enslaved.
Black Spatial Relics Project: Artist Talk
Churchill House (map)
Heimark Artists-in-Residence Jaymes Jorsling and ChE Ware discuss the development and intersections of their projects #DignityInProcess and Tripping Over Roots over the course of the Black Spatial Relics Project. This artist talk will be facilitated by CSSJ Graduate Fellow, Arielle Julia Brown ‘17.
Churchill House, 155 Angell Street, Lower Level
The Heimark Artist-in-Residence’s Black Spatial Relics Project presents, Tripping Over Roots (Providence, RI)
Thu, May 25, 2017 7:00 PM 19:00 Fri, May 26, 2017 8:00 PM 20:00
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space, Churchill House, (map)
Thursday and Friday
Tripping Over Roots is a new play by Heimark Artist-in-Resident, Jaymes Jorsling that follows three Black men from eras of enslavement, Jim Crow and the contemporary moment as they encounter each other in the woods. Confronting and seeking solace from the violences of their times, they clash, exchange and collaborate to find freedom. Tripping Over Roots is directed by Ken Matt-Martin MFA ‘19 and produced by the Department of Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre, with support of the Center for the Study of Slavery & Justice, and the Heimark Artist-in-Residence Program.
George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space, Churchill House, 155 Angell Street.
Finding Phebe: Uncovering the History of Slavery in Warren, Rhode Island
Warren Town Hall; Town Council Chambers (2nd floor) (map)
In colonial Warren, at least 98 men, women, and children were enslaved. They labored on farms large and small, in commercial business and within private homes, Using wills, inventories, government records, newspapers, and published works, the Warren Middle Passage Project team has researched Warren's earliest families, finding the people who lived with them, labored for them, and hoped one day to be free.
Hear their stories and learn more about Colonial times, the Revolutionary War, and the Tranatlantic Slave Trade.
The Heimark Artist-in-Residence’s Black Spatial Relics Project presents, #DignityInProcess (Providence RI
Wed, May 24, 2017 5:30 PM 17:30 Thu, May 25, 2017 6:30 PM 18:30
John Nicolas Brown Center for the Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage (map)
Wednesday & Thursday
John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities & Cultural Heritage, 357 Benefit Street.
Evening Talk with Wendy Warren, "New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America"
John Carter Brown Library (map)
John Carter Brown Library
New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America
Join us for a CSSJ Talk with Wendy Warren, entitled, “New England Bound: Slavery and Colonization in Early America.”
Wendy Warren reconfigures colonial history by sharing how New England’s economy derived its vitality from the profusion of slave-trading ships coursing through its ports. The growth of the northern colonies was dependent on the Atlantic slave trade. She reveals how indigenous people were systematically sold into slavery in the West Indies and how prominent colonial families were motivated by their slave-trading investments.
This event is cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, the John Carter Brown Library, the Swearer Center for Public Service, and the Department of History at Brown University.
Please RSVP here.
Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage
South Side Cultural Center (map)
Join us for a CSSJ Talk with Sowande' M. Mustakeem, entitled, "Slavery at Sea: Terror, Sex, and Sickness in the Middle Passage."
Sowande' M. Mustakeem's study explores the social conditions and human costs embedded in the world of maritime slavery, and how the Middle Passage was a violently regulated process foundational to the institution of bondage. Mustakeem teases out the social histories and dynamics of power between those on slave ships: captains, sailors, surgeons, and enslaved people. She offers provocative insight into how gender, health, age, illness, and medical treatment intersected with trauma and violence in the Atlantic Slave Trade.
State Meeting of Rhode Island MPCPMP
Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice (Brown University) (map)
State Meeting for the Rhode Island Port Sites (Providence, RI)
FMI Contact: rhodeislandmpcpmp@gmail.com
Lecture by Dr. Christy Clark-Pujara: “Dark Work: The Business of Slavery In Rhode Island”
University of Rhode Island/Swan Hall Auditorium (map)
This talk is part of on-going events related to the exhibit Invisible Bodies, Disposable cCoth: Rhode Island and Slavery, 1783-1850s
For more information: See the Talk’s Eventbrite Page
John Carter Brown Library, Brown University (map)
Join us for a JCB Evening Talk with Christy Clark Pujara, titled, "Dark Work: The Business of Slavery in Rhode Island."
This event, part of the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project, was made possible through the generous support of the John Carter Brown Library and the University of Rhode Island. Copies of Dr. Clark-Pujara's book will be available for purchase and signing at the events.
Context and Connection for Invisible Bodies Exhibit I: Rhode Island and Slavery, 1783-1850s
Sat, Feb 11, 2017 11:00 AM 11:00 Fri, Feb 17, 2017 9:00 PM 21:00
URI Multicultural Center, Hardge Forum (map)
Imago Gallery (map)
Meeting of the port sites and steering committee for the Rhode Island Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project.
FMI: Contact rhodeislandmpcpmp@gmail.com
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Hall of Fame: Mel Watt Lives His Dream
Posted Jul 12, 2011 5:26 AM
By Rollcall Staff
Rep. Mel Watt (D) didn’t get a chance to play baseball at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, which he attended at a time in the 1960s when few, if any, African-Americans played on Tar Heel teams.
So for Watt, who was the Democrats’ starting pitcher for 11 consecutive years, the Roll Call Congressional Baseball Game was a way to “live out that dream.”
He pitched at a time when the Republicans were ascendant on the field, racking up a 2-10 career record, but he was named most valuable player in 1995, 1996 and 2000.
Watt’s best outing might have come in one of the games that he didn’t win. He lost a 1998 pitchers’ duel to then-Rep. Steve Largent (R-Okla.) in which Watt gave up four runs on nine hits in six innings, while walking two and striking out seven.
Watt said the friendships that he made with Republicans such as Largent and former Rep. Zach Wamp (Tenn.) were one of the best parts of playing the game.
“You get to know guys you just don’t have that opportunity to get to know in our institution anymore,” Watt said.
His on-the-field friendship with Wamp survived the time in 2000 when he intentionally beaned his opponent. Watt admitted he was angry when Wamp purposely let a slow curveball hit him on the back.
Watt walked over to first base and warned Wamp that he was “going to have to pay” for that. Next time Wamp came up to bat, Watt threw straight at Wamp’s head.
“It was all in fun,” Watt said.
Less enjoyable, Watt said, were the early morning practices. “I tried to get them to play cold turkey,” which he thought would be better than getting sore while practicing. “I never could convince anybody else of that,” he said.
Watt said he knew it was time to make room for another starting pitcher as “my fastball got slower and slower,” but he hung on because the Democrats didn’t have a ready successor. “If we had a viable alternative, I would love to move to the outfield,” Watt told Roll Call in 2004.
He gave up 22 earned runs on 27 hits in his last two starts and recalled being “so sore for the next several weeks I could barely move.”
He finally stepped aside in 2006 at age 60, although he still pitched two-thirds of an inning in relief of Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.).
Watt is the first Democrat to be inducted into the Roll Call Congressional Baseball Hall of Fame since former Minnesota Rep. Martin Sabo in 2006. He is the first African-American member in the Hall of Fame.
Previous Hall of Fame Inductees
The Roll Call Congressional Baseball Hall of Fame was established in 1993, when seven veterans were inducted.
1993: John Tener (R-Pa.)
The founder of Congressional baseball, Tener played in the majors for four years and was president of the National League.
1993: Wilmer Mizell (R-N.C.)
“Vinegar Bend” played 11 years in the majors and served in Congress from 1969 to 1975. After one year of pitching, Democrats insisted he play another position.
1993: William M. Wheeler (D-Ga.)
“Cannonball” Wheeler, a pitcher, served four terms and helped his team win five straight games.
1993: Ron Mottl (D-Ohio)
Mottl helped Democrats win their first series in 1979. He struck out eight batters in 1976.
1993: Silvio Conte (R-Mass.)
Under Conte’s leadership, Republicans won an incredible 11 games in a row. In 1968, he hit a double while on crutches.
1993: Bob Michel (R-Ill.)
Michel’s pitching helped carry the Republicans during the glory years of the 1960s. He hurled a shutout in the first game of the Roll Call era.
1993: Marty Russo (D-Ill.)
The Democrats had eight wins and one tie in the 18 contests in which the two-time MVP appeared, beginning in 1975.
1995: Dave McCurdy (D-Okla.)
The Democratic pitching ace fanned 12 in a complete-game 1993 victory and was MVP in ’93 and ’94. McCurdy helped his team clinch the coveted Roll Call trophy before losing a Senate bid.
1996: Mike Synar (D-Okla.)
A repeat MVP for the Democrats and dugout legend, Synar was a perennial threat at the plate and on the base paths. He drove in the game-winning RBI in 1993. Synar died in 1996.
1997: Bill Richardson (D-N.M.)
A veteran of semi-pro baseball in the Cape Cod League, Richardson played strong defense at home plate. He went a combined 5-for-7 at the plate in 1992 and 1993.
1998: Sid Yudain
Capitol Hill’s very own Abner Doubleday, the founder of Roll Call revived Congressional baseball in 1962, turning the game into an annual summer slugfest that raises money for local charities.
1999: Dan Schaefer (R-Colo.)
As a catcher and second baseman for 10 years, he became manager in 1993. His team rebounded from back-to-back losses in 1993 and 1994 to win the next series in four games.
2000: Carl Pursell (R-Mich.)
Pursell faced a challenge in succeeding Conte as manager, but he came through to win the Series VI trophy. He won an MVP award for one of his many dominating performances at first base. Pursell died June 12 at age 76.
2002: Steve Largent (R-Okla.)
A three-time MVP, Largent went 5-1 as the GOP ace, finishing every game he started. The NFL Hall-of-Famer compiled a 2.44 ERA and held the Democrats to one run in each of his last three games.
2003: David Bonior (D-Mich.)
Known for his longevity and lasting excellence, Bonior won multiple MVP awards during his 23 years on the Democratic team. Since Roll Call began keeping track of statistics in 1991, Bonior hit .375.
2004: Charlie Brotman
Brotman worked side by side with Sid Yudain to revive Congressional baseball in the 1960s and brought prestige to the game by arranging for the first contests to be played prior to Washington Senators games.
2006: Martin Sabo (D-Minn.)
One of only two Democratic managers to win a trophy, Sabo played more than two decades as a player and manager. He was instrumental in increasing the game’s proceeds to more than $100,000 annually.
2007: Mike Oxley (R-Ohio)
In 2005, Oxley became just the second manager to retire two trophies. Following a 16-year playing career (manning every position except pitcher and catcher), Oxley led the team to a 7-1 record as manager.
2008: Lou Frey (R-Fla.)
Between 1968 and 1978, Frey was named the Grand Old Party’s most valuable player three times and was known for his speed on the bases and as a defensive force to be reckoned with at shortstop. During his years in Congress he was such an enthusiast for the game that his picture was included on a baseball card that celebrated the annual Congressional hardball battle and that card is now a part of the collection at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y.
2009: Kenny Hulshof (R-Mo.)
Former high school baseball star won two MVP awards in his 11 seasons, batting .444 and providing stellar defense at first base. Equally important, the Republicans were 10-1 during his career.
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Disney's Teen Beach Movie
DISNEY UNLEASHES CONTEMPORARY SURF-ROCK MUSICAL
"TEEN BEACH MOVIE" ON SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, AT 10 A.M. ON DISNEY CHANNEL
The movie stars Ross Lynch (Disney Channel's "Austin & Ally") as Brady, Maia Mitchell (ABC Family's "The Fosters") as McKenzie, Grace Phipps (ABC Family's "The Nine Lives of Chloe King") as Lela, Garrett Clayton as Tanner, John Deluca as Butchy, Chrissie Fit (ABC's "General Hospital") as Cheechee, Jordan Fisher as Seacat, Mollee Gray (Disney Channel's "High School Musical") as Giggles, Kent Boyd as Rascal, William T. Loftis as Lugnut, Jessica Lee Keller as Struts, Kevin Chamberlin (Disney Channel's "Jessie," Broadway's "The Addams Family") as Dr. Fusion and Steve Valentine (Disney Channel's "Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie," Disney XD's "I'm In The Band") as Les Camembert. Suzanne Cryer is Aunt Antoinette and Barry Bostwick makes a special appearance as Big Poppa.
Made for kids age 6-14 and their families, the summer splash - "Teen Beach Movie" introduces confident, resilient surfer McKenzie and her carefree boyfriend, Brady, a fan of the retro surf musical movie, "Wet Side Story." On the morning of McKenzie's planned departure for boarding school, she and Brady catch one last epic wave which mysteriously carries them right into "Wet Side Story," circa 1962, where they meet Seacat, Giggles, Rascal and Cheechee, among others. Amidst the spontaneous song and dance, there's trouble in paradise -- it's bikers versus surfers for control of the local hangout, but Mack and Brady unwittingly interfere with the movie's star-crossed plot, one that would pair a surfer (teen matinee idol Tanner) and a biker (Lela, the sister of Butchy, the biker gang's leader). Typical of the teen beach movie genre, a kooky subplot has mad scientists Les Camembert and Dr. Fusion scheming to alter weather patterns and take over the local hangout -- and then the world.
After creating a perfect ratings wave, amassing 8.4 million total viewers, with its US premiere, Disney Channel is primed to unleash Seacat, Giggles, Rascal, Lugnut, Struts, Butchy, Cheechee, Tanner, Lela, Brady and Mack, in the Philippine television premiere of "Teen Beach Movie," an exuberant song, sand and surf fest set inside a retro beach party movie. The storyline depicts how 1960s sensibilities motivate a modern girl to affirm her capability, strengths and goals. Kids and families can watch the fun and exuberant Disney Channel Original Movie as it premieres on SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 at 10 a.m. on Disney Channel.
By Shopgirl Jen at Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Tags: Bulletin Board, Disney
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Delaware Stores
Asics store locations in Delaware
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Husqvarna MV Agusta Ducati Massimo Tamburini designer motorcycle design Bimota Cagiva T12 Massimo Brutale Gran Canyon Ducati 916 Cagiva Mito MV Agusta F4
The long career of Massimo Tamburini retraced by his main motorcycle designs.
Bimota HB1 Prototype, 1973. Inline-Four, 736 cc, 67 HP / 49 kW (8000 rpm), 165 kg. A Honda CB 750 Four with new frame, tail, tank and others accessories.
Bimota SB2 750, 1977. Inline-Four, 748 cc, 75 HP / 55 kW (8750 rpm), 57 Nm (8200 rpm), 185 kg.
Bimota KB1 1000, 1977. Inline-Four, 1015 cc, 84 HP / 62 kW (7950 rpm), 79 Nm (6500 rpm), 193 kg.
Bimota SB3 1000, 1979. Inline-Four, 997 cc, 87 HP / 64 kW (8250 rpm), 84 Nm (7250 rpm), 202 kg.
Bimota KB2 500, 1980. Inline-Four, 497 cc, 48 HP / 35 kW (8500 rpm), 37 Nm (7800 rpm).
Bimota HB2 900, 1981. Inline-Four, 901 cc, 95 HP / 70 kW (9000 rpm), 76 Nm (8000 rpm), 208 kg.
Bimota KB3 1000, 1982. Inline-Four, 998 cc, 103 HP / 76 kW (9400 rpm), 85 Nm (7300 rpm).
Bimota HB3 1100, 1983. Inline-Four, 1062 cc, 110 HP / 81 kW (8500 rpm), 99 Nm (7500 rpm), 210 kg.
Bimota SB4 1000, 1983. Inline-Four, 998 cc, 112 HP / 82 kW (8750 rpm), 94 Nm (7000 rpm), 212 kg.
Cagiva Aletta Oro S1, 1985. Single two-stroke, 124,6 cc, 25 HP / 18 kW (9100 rpm), 123 kg.
Ducati Paso 750, 1986. L-twin, 996 cc, 73 HP / 54 kW (7900 rpm), 75 Nm (6350 rpm), 195 kg.
Cagiva Freccia C9, 1987. Single two-stroke, 124,6 cc, 24 HP / 18 kW (10500 rpm), 125 kg.
Cagiva Freccia C10R, 1988. Single two-stroke, 124,6 cc, 28 HP / 20 kW (10250 rpm), 128 kg.
Ducati 906 Paso, 1989. L-twin, 904 cc, 88 HP / 65 kW (8000 rpm), 205 kg.
Cagiva Mito 125, 1990. single two-stroke, 124,6 cc, 32 HP / 24 kW (11000 rpm), 21 Nm (10700 rpm), 121 kg.
Ducati 907 I.E., 1991. L-twin, 904 cc, 90 HP / 66 kW (8500 rpm), 215 kg.
Ducati 916, 1993. L-twin, 916 cc, 101 HP / 74 kW (9400 rpm), 81 Nm (7000 rpm), 200 kg.
Ducati 748, 1994. L-twin, 748 cc, 91 HP / 67 kW (10900 rpm), 69 Nm (8750 rpm), 202 kg.
Cagiva Mito EV 125, 1994. Single two-stroke, 124,6 cc, 31 HP / 23 kW (11200 rpm), 19 Nm (11000 rpm), 129 kg.
Cagiva Gran Canyon 900, 1996. L-twin, 904 cc, 75 HP / 56 kW (7500 rpm), 73 Nm (5000 rpm), 218 kg.
MV Agusta F4 750 Serie Oro, 1997. Inline-Four, 749 cc, 126 HP / 93 kW (10500 rpm), 74 Nm (10500 rpm), 184 kg.
MV Agusta Brutale Serie Oro, 2001. Inline-Four, 749 cc, 126 HP / 93 kW (10500 rpm), 74 Nm (10500 rpm), 179 kg.
Husqvarna STR 650 CRC, 2006, prototype. Single two-stroke, 650 cc, 132 kg.
T12 Massimo, 2016. BMW S1000RR SBK engine. Inline-Four, 999 cc, >230 HP / >169 kW, 155 kg. Frame with adjustable lateral stiffness.
Sources: Motociclismo magazine, Inmoto magazine, motoinfo.it, bimotaclassicparts.com, The Encyclopedia of Motorcycles, ducati.com, mvagusta.com.
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