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Northwest Living
For garden sanctuaries like these, simple design is key
Originally published February 15, 2017 at 7:00 am Updated February 15, 2017 at 4:49 pm
Even more than plants, simple lines and forms make for inviting, satisfying spaces.
Valerie Easton
Special to The Seattle Times
NOT ONE OF the gardens in this issue relies on plants for its essence. Each is about lines, space, scale, materials, harmony, repetition, texture, contrast, color and lack of same. As is all good design, whether in fashion, interiors, architecture or landscapes.
For those of us who come to gardening because we love plants (and I’d guess that’s most of us), it can be bewildering to realize that it’s simplicity of line and form that makes for a beautiful and satisfying garden. Yes, even more than a stunning dogwood tree, or a fetching sweep of perennials.
Plants play a supporting role in all three of this issue’s featured gardens, even when the flora is as masterfully chosen for scent and scale as in the garden of Dale and Leslie Chihuly. Or forms the color palette, as in Vanessa and Peter Greaves’ green and white garden. Or, as in Connie Rodriguez’s garden, softens the hardscape while creating privacy for outdoor living.
Pacific NW Magazine: Outdoor Living 2017 edition
Pick up a hard copy on Sunday, Feb. 19 for a Great Plant Picks poster on the inside cover.
The “cityscape” at the dining-room end of the deck features year-round grasses, rushes, ferns and a small maple tree in a cluster of gray urns. The dining table is from Crate and Barrel. (Mike Siegel/The Seattle Times)
A magical, maintenance-free garden? It exists in Connie Rodriguez’s back yard
A look at Dale and Leslie Chihuly’s minimalist garden
There’s nothing polished or perfect in this Mount Baker garden
How to make your own pho at home
Get outside — and climb up high — for sledding, a fun-filled exercise
A peek up Pike Street pre-Interstate 5
How climate change is affecting Washington winemaking
Come visit The Seattle Times booth at the Northwest Flower & Garden Show at the WA State Convention Center, Feb. 22-26, 2017.
Whether you call it elegant simplicity, minimalism or modernism, pared-down gardens are as inviting and welcoming as plant-driven ones. Maybe even more so. They’re less needy, easier to care for, more satisfying to the eye (if not to the plant cravings) and gentler on the environment because they require fewer ongoing resources.
You won’t see any maintenance-intense roses — no roses at all — in any of the gardens in this issue, nor vast lawns or abundant perennials. But you will find wildlife-friendly and native plantings, spaces to relax in, herbs and edibles, art and the soothing sound of water. Also the personal touch of every garden owner, from a forest of Chihuly glass to a food writer’s raised herb and vegetable beds by the front porch.
How to turn a jumble, or perhaps a wilderness, of plants into a calm and serene sanctuary of a garden that best fits the needs of your family? Here are a few tips from local designers on how to design for simplicity, whether you’re renovating or starting from scratch.
Garden designer Stacie Crooks is known for her textural tapestry effects. “Think big brush strokes,” she advises. “Massing fewer varieties will create a calmer, more peaceful tone in the garden.” How to renovate a garden grown thick with plants? Crooks says to ask yourself hard questions about how often a plant needs pruning, and whether it contributes to the overall design. “Gardens need to breathe, like we do. Opening up your garden will create breeze corridors and views through the garden.”
Lauren Hall-Behrens is a much-published designer in Portland who loves plants and clean, modern lines. “Think of your garden as a whole, and create contrasting feelings or experiences,” she suggests. “Locate and prioritize the best views in your garden, and pay more attention to the big players, like large trees, the openness of the sky and surrounding views. Declutter; remove plants or garden elements that don’t really need to be there.”
Landscape architect Jason Morse of AHBL suggests focusing on a few key building materials and keeping your plant list relatively short. He emphasizes repetition: “Choose one hardscape material, and use it in different ways throughout the landscape for a sense of continuity,” he says. “Monochromatic color palettes can lend a feeling of serenity … Variety may be the spice of life, but it can make your garden feel downright chaotic.”
Morse, who takes his inspiration from nature, explains the power of horizontal lines in garden design. “The gravity that holds all of us down has caused our natural world to arrange itself in horizontal layers. These layers are powerful conveyors of comfort and serenity.”
Valerie Easton is a Seattle garden expert and freelance writer. Reach her at valeaston@comcast.net. Mike Siegel is a Seattle Times staff photographer. Benjamin Benschneider is a Pacific NW magazine photographer.
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Blog / Weekly Security Digest
Weekly Security Digest - July 7
Border Patrol video shows inside of migrant detention center to 'dispel' claims about poor conditions
U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Arizona posted a video showing the inside of a Border Patrol processing center in response to claims by activists and Democrats that migrants are being subjected to inhumane conditions.
Hispanic pastors tour border facility lambasted by AOC and say they are ‘shocked by misinformation’
Rev. Samuel Rodriguez was "full of indignation" when he saw the reports and heard from politicians about the deplorable and inhumane conditions for illegal immigrants at an El Paso County, Texas migrant detention center. But what he saw at the same facility toured by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. with a group of pastors was "drastically different."
Trump soars with July Fourth speech
Naysayers, critics, political opponents and Democrats and most mainstream media talking heads predicted President Donald Trump’s Fourth of July speech would go over like a campaign rally, filled with self-congratulatory platform-type talk and grandiose — well, grandstanding. They were wrong.
Tempe, Arizona, police officers asked to leave local Starbucks, prompting an apology
Six Tempe, Arizona, police officers were asked to leave a local Starbucks on the Fourth of July because a customer said the officers were making them feel uncomfortable, prompting an outcry on social media and an apology from Starbucks.
Iran ready for higher uranium enrichment
A top aide to Iran's supreme leader says the Islamic Republic is ready to enrich uranium beyond the level set by Tehran's 2015 nuclear deal.In a video, the aide says "Americans directly and Europeans indirectly violated the deal."
Ernest Andrus is the latest veteran to be featured in Secure America Now's veteran recognition program: Home of the Free - Because of the Brave.
"Ernest Andrus is traveling from St. Simons Island in Georgia to San Diego in an effort to raise enough money to take a restored World War II ship back to Normandy for a future D-Day memorial event. Moving only 13 miles per week, he says he'll finish his cross-country journey at the age of 100." | FULL STORY
Thank you, Ernest, for your service. Click the link to submit your own veteran to be featured! https://www.secureamericanow.org/submit_a_veteran
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MAS Reprimands Mr Tan Choon Wee for the Omission of Information in an Application to MAS, and Failing to Discharge his Duty and Function as Chief Executive Officer and Director
1 On 12 April 2019, MAS reprimanded Mr Tan Choon Wee, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and a director of a registered fund management company, Advance Capital Partners Asset Management Private Limited (ACPAM), under section 334 of the Securities and Futures Act (SFA), for the following misconduct:
(a) omitting information in a capital markets services (CMS) licence application to MAS, which made the application misleading in a material respect; and/or
(b) failing to discharge his duty and function as CEO and director.
2 In July 2018, MAS had reprimanded ACPAM1, among other things, for being repeatedly late in its regulatory submissions.
3 Despite the reprimand, ACPAM continued to be late in its submissions to MAS. As the CEO and a director of ACPAM, Mr Tan was primarily responsible for ensuring that ACPAM complied with the regulatory requirements. MAS had also engaged Mr Tan directly for ACPAM's earlier breaches, and conveyed our expectations with respect to the need to strengthen ACPAM's compliance record. In addition to the failure to institute processes to prevent a recurrence, Mr Tan had reviewed and signed off on ACPAM's application to MAS for a CMS licence, which contained various omissions. These omissions, which related to ACPAM's assessment of the fitness and propriety of its directors and shareholders, made the application misleading in a material respect.
4 MAS takes a serious view of Mr Tan's lapses. MAS expects CEOs and directors to carry out the duties and functions of their offices effectively, including ensuring that financial institutions comply with regulatory requirements and providing complete and accurate information to MAS. Where appropriate, MAS has taken2, and will continue to take, regulatory action against CEOs and directors of financial institutions that fail to comply with regulatory requirements.
1 MAS has the powers under the SFA to reprimand a financial institution regulated by MAS, as well as its key officers. For avoidance of doubt, the first reprimand was issued to the financial institution.
Source: Monetary Authority of Singapore
Singapore News Gazette April 12, 2019 Politics
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Divers attempt rescue despite tiger sharks
They retrieve several bodies from an overturned boat as 12-foot tiger sharks circle nearby
Capt. Rob MacDonald was ready to anchor the dive boat Gulf Stream Eagle for the night off Grand BahamaIsland’s West End. “The sun was setting, and we were finished [looking for] dolphins,” says MacDonald.
A Coast Guard helicopter searching for a missing sailboat had discovered an overturned vessel south of Memory Rock, a small island 15 miles north of West End, says MacDonald. The Coast Guard needed assistance, but a local rescue boat — operated by the Bahamas Air Sea Rescue Association — was low on fuel and needed to return to port. The Gulf Stream Eagle, a 100-foot aluminum boat with 21 guests and a crew of five on board, answered the Memorial Day weekend call.
“We asked BASRA if we could help,” says MacDonald, 41, who has been running the dive boat for 16 years. “They agreed, and the Coast Guard told us where the boat was.”
The Coast Guard chopper was already on site and had lowered a swimmer onto the boat when Gulf Stream Eagle arrived. The swimmer knocked on the overturned hull to check for survivors, but he dared not go into the water because of a pair of 12-foot tiger sharks patrolling the area. But one of the dive boat crewmembers, 26-year-old Jonathan Rose, also a captain, went in the water, anyway. “We knew there were sharks there,” says MacDonald. “If we didn’t do something and the Coast Guard wouldn’t go in the water, the boat would have drifted away. We wanted to see for ourselves if there were survivors.”
MacDonald motored up to the capsized vessel, a 27-foot walkaround with twin outboards. Clad in scuba gear, Rose dove under the boat and discovered two bodies in the cabin. There were two others — a man and a woman — floating just below the surface outside the boat. The man was wearing a life jacket and was floating away from the boat; the woman was caught in some fishing line alongside it. After Rose informed the dive boat crew he had seen bodies, MacDonald ordered the passengers off the deck and into the main saloon.
As Rose continued to investigate, a dorsal fin appeared, and a shark attacked the body wearing the life jacket. The water erupted, and the body soon was gone. So was the shark. Half of the PFD remained. “I saw all the thrashing and the body, and I knew it was time to get Jon out of there,” says MacDonald.
Scott Sansenbach, 45, one of the passengers and a freelance photographer, witnessed the entire episode. “We noticed a great thrashing and observed a large tiger shark attacking what we thought was a buoy,” says Sansenbach, of Huntington Beach, Calif. “I grabbed my camera and started shooting. I suddenly … came to the sickening realization that it was not a buoy.”
MacDonald quickly swung his vessel around and picked up Rose, though not before the diver had freed the body caught in the fishing line. “We grabbed her so the shark wouldn’t get her,” says MacDonald.
With one body recovered and Rose safely back aboard, it was time to regroup. MacDonald and crew devised a plan to recover the other bodies. “These people had families,” he says. “We went back in so the family members could get closure. I would hope that someone would get my body out of there if it were me. Besides, we were there, we could do it, and we were qualified to do it.”
Rose, a rock climber, jury-rigged a harness, and crewmember Scotty Gray lowered him onto the hull. Rose tied a line to the boat, and the crew pulled it to the stern of the Gulf Stream Eagle, now anchored. MacDonald suited up, and he and Rose entered the water. Rose retrieved the two other victims, both male, but it was tough work. MacDonald helped with the recovery when he could, but his primary task was to watch for sharks. The plan was to use a pole spear (with no tip) to push away sharks if they emerged. None did.
The four victims likely were Haitian nationals, and it is suspected they were being smuggled into the United States, according to Basil Rahming, chief superintendent of the Royal Bahamas Police. “The vessel overturned in rough seas, resulting in them drowning,” says Rahming. “Due to the large amount of sharks seen in the area, it is believed that more persons were aboard … when it overturned but were consumed by the sharks before officials arrived on the scene.”
MacDonald says the victims didn’t look like poor refugees fleeing their country. “They were dressed nicely, with jewelry,” he says. “One man had on a gold watch and ring. The woman’s toenails were painted.”
A few days after the boat was discovered, a Bahamian court charged three men and one woman — all residents of the Bahamas — with manslaughter by negligence in connection with the drowning deaths of the three unidentified people, according to Rahming. He says the suspects will remain in prison until the case continues in January 2009.
A calculated risk
Jonathan Rose’s father, Mark Rose, owns the dive boat. Built by Camcraft in Louisiana, the vessel was designed and used as a supply vessel for work in the Gulf of Mexico, ferrying personnel and materials to offshore oil rigs. Mark Rose bought the boat in 1989 and converted it to a liveaboard dive vessel for trips in the Bahamas. A pair of Detroit Diesel 1271s push Gulf Stream Eagle to a cruise speed of about 15 knots.
The crew was taking a group on a snorkeling trip to see dolphins when they found the capsized walkaround. They had left Riviera Beach, Fla., May 24, enduring nothing but rough weather. The following day, it was too choppy for snorkeling, so MacDonald spent the waning hours of daylight looking for schools of dolphin his passengers could see the next day. Meanwhile, the dive boat crew watched for the missing sailboat the Coast Guard was searching for.
“When I thought I had beat up my passengers enough, I decided to call it a day,” MacDonald says. It was about 7 p.m. when the captain charted a course for Sandy Cay, where they would drop the hook for the night. When the Coast Guard called for help 30 minutes later, the crew responded in routine fashion.
“Helping with search and rescue comes with the territory,” says McDonald. “The Coast Guard knows us quite well. We’ve made plenty of rescues, but nothing like this.”
However, MacDonald and Rose are qualified for the job. After all, they also run the Eagle’s trips that let guests swim with and feed sharks. “We hang a chum tube in the water and add juicy bait to encourage the sharks to come close to the boat,” says the company Web site (www.gseagle.com). “The photo ops are nearly endless. Hand-feeding is always another thrill-packed trip highlight.”
But shark trips have come under criticism after the death in February of a 49-year-old Austrian lawyer. Markus Groh, shark diving in the Bahamas, was bitten by a tiger shark on the leg and died a day later.
Diving in waters with tiger or bull sharks, especially when they are feeding, is dangerous, says Dr. Bob Hueter, director of Mote Marine Laboratory’s Center for Shark Research in Sarasota, Fla. “It’s like playing with fire,” he says.
“Tiger sharks are omnivorous types of sharks, and they feed on a wide range of prey — and large prey,” says Hueter. “They also feed on mammals if given the chance.”
Any kind of odor from a mammal or fish could stimulate the shark’s hunger and feeding motivation, causing it to “bite, attack and feed,” says Hueter.
Despite the imminent danger, he says, Rose and MacDonald probably made the right decision. “I think they were brave in that they took a calculated risk based on their experience,” he says. “It sounds like they knew what they were doing.”
Diver dies from shark bite
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Capsize, then a shark
Earthrace continues record attempt
Show-goers turn out despite postponment
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On This Day in Space
Private Rocket Price Check: SpaceX Chief Elon Musk Sets the Record Straight
By SPACE.com Staff 2011-05-05T16:02:03Z News
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on Dec. 8, 2010, with the company's first Dragon spacecraft. Three hours and 20 minutes later, the capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, marking a first for a non-governmental entity.
(Image: © collectSPACE/Robert Z. Pearlman Click here to view more photos.)
Low launch prices offered to NASA by U.S. spaceflight firm SpaceX led a puzzled Chinese official to admit that China could not beat them. Now SpaceX chief Elon Musk has laid out the reasons for his company's competitive edge and called it a triumph for American innovation over cheaper overseas labor costs.
SpaceX has a fixed price under its NASA contracts to ferry astronauts and supplies to the International Space Station over 12 missions. Musk expects his private rocket company's offered launch prices to only go down in the future as performance increases. [Photos: SpaceX's Falcon Rockets and Dragon Capsules]
"China has the fastest growing economy in the world," Musk said in a statement. "But the American free enterprise system, which allows anyone with a better mouse-trap to compete, is what will ensure that the United States remains the world’s greatest superpower of innovation."
SpaceX's Falcon 9 is being readied for its debut flight in 2010. PayPal co-founder turned rocketeer Elon Musk has backed the venture.
(Image credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX can control its costs well because it oversees most of the spaceflight operations, ranging from its Falcon 9 rockets to the Dragon space capsules that can carry seven astronauts to orbit. That's more than double the seating capacity of the Russian Soyuz that currently ferries astronauts and cosmonauts, and at less than a third of the price per seat. [Vote Now! The Best Spaceships of All Time]
Any cost overruns would be covered by SpaceX and not U.S. taxpayers, Musk said.
According to Musk, SpaceX's private rocket launch prices are based on the following:
The price of a standard flight on a Falcon 9 rocket is $54 million;
The average price of a full-up NASA Dragon cargo mission to the International Space Station is $133 million including inflation;
The total company expenditures since being founded in 2002 through the 2010 fiscal year were less than $800 million;
The Falcon 9 launch vehicle was developed from a blank sheet to first launch in four and half years for just over $300 million;
The Dragon spacecraft was developed from a blank sheet to the first demonstration flight in just over four years for about $300 million;
SpaceX has been profitable every year since 2007.
"Moreover, SpaceX intends to make far more dramatic reductions in price in the long term when full launch vehicle reusability is achieved," Musk said. "We will not be satisfied with our progress until we have achieved this long sought goal of the space industry."
This story was provided by InnovationNewsDaily, a sistersite to SPACE.com. Follow InnovationNewsDaily on twitter @News_Innovation, or on Facebook.
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AGL warned on fracking project risk
By Michael West
November 4, 2013 — 3.00am
Dr Philip Pells is no greenie. He consults to coal companies. But when it comes to AGL's controversial coal seam gas project at Gloucester, NSW, this engineer and water expert is strident in his criticism.
Pells says the risk of fracking to the local community and its river system is too high. The underground aquifers are ''intimately connected'' with the surface water and AGL lacks a half-decent plan for disposing of salty waste water from its mining.
These are our words, not his, but you don't need a white coat and a clipboard to work out dumping thousands of tonnes of salt a year onto the floodplains of the Avon River is probably going to kill it.
Legend has it when the Romans defeated Hannibal in the Third Punic War they ransacked Carthage and ploughed salt into the earth to ensure nothing grew there again. That was without fracking chemicals. ''Irrigating'' 2500 tonnes of salt a year over the Avon River floodplain will hardly have a ''neutral or beneficial effect on water quality'' as AGL claims.
Among these resoundingly dubious claims is that natural rainfall has a high salt content anyway. If Pells is correct, and there is plenty of evidence to suggest that he is, the consequences of the CSG drilling could be dire - not just for the Avon River but for AGL as well.
AGL is not a miner. It is principally a consumer company with 3.5 million customers and can ill afford to have an Ok Tedi on its hands.
''My biggest issue with Gloucester is we don't know. We just don't know [what the effects of the program will be],'' Pells says. He has no beef, incidentally, with AGL's gas operation at Camden in south-west Sydney.
''I strongly believe that the way forward is for an independent ranking to be done of the prospective CSG areas in NSW, so that scientifically obviously vulnerable areas such as Sutton Forest, Gloucester, Liverpool Plains are taken out [for now], and less vulnerable areas, such as Camden, parts of the Illawarra, parts of Lithgow-to-Kandos etc are made available for detailed assessment and probable CSG production.''
Unlike in Victoria, where the government sensibly put a moratorium on CSG until more work had been done on its effect on groundwater, in NSW the process has been a shambles.
Instead of opting for the release of exploration acreage in a considered fashion, the former government lumped 80 per cent of the prospective CSG land straight up for exploration. Zero planning. Just get on with it.
Now AGL is building a pipeline for its Gloucester gas although it is still in exploration and yet to get a production licence.
Last week Liberal stalwart Peter Reith completed his report to the Premier of Victoria (in his latest role as chairman of the state's taskforce on the eastern gas market).
In an impassioned plea against ''fracking scare campaigns'' and ''greenies'' impeding development, Reith told the ABC, ''Victoria is not a rust bucket, not yet'' but would be unless they sorted out the politics.
The irony of Reith's anti-scare campaign scare campaign was that Victoria's gas can be extracted without fracking.
''Reith went off his head about fracking,'' Pells says. ''But there is no need to use fracking. CSG in Victoria comes from very young brown coal.'' It is entirely different geology to NSW.
''Strangely, while I think Peter Reith is talking substantial nonsense I actually do agree with a conclusion, which is that CSG should not be stopped primarily because of fracking. On the basis of my technical knowledge, the matters in order of concern are: the impact on groundwater systems and associated base-flows to creeks and rivers; produced water and what to do with the salts; damage to private land [with landholders being disempowered]; and fracking.''
On the science of Reith's pro-fracking crusade, Pell points to the dearth of court cases against Big Tobacco where it had been established that smoking had actually caused lung cancer. Were we to ignore compelling statistical correlations, he says, we could find there was no proven case of smoking causing lung cancer, no proven case of DDT causing weakened egg shells, no proven case of Agent Orange causing deformed babies - and no proven case of fracking damaging the environment.
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Rail crisis: $2.4b train plan goes off track
By Sean Nicholls
September 27, 2010 — 3.00am
The future of the $2.4 billion Waratah train project has been thrown into doubt, with the state government indicating it is unwilling to cover a potential $357 million funding shortfall prompted by the threatened withdrawal of four banks.
The consortium building the trains, Reliance Rail, yesterday revealed it was in discussions over the funding crisis, but would not elaborate.
''Reliance Rail is engaged in an open and ongoing dialogue with its financial stakeholders with regard to its future funding position, including the bank debt facility which is not due to commence being drawn down until early 2012,'' a spokeswoman said.
''These discussions are of a commercially sensitive nature.''
Doubts ... Waratah stock at the factory in China. Credit:Sanghee Liu
The Reliance Rail consortium, led by the infrastructure company Downer EDI, is contracted to build 78 new Waratah trains by 2013 under a public-private partnership signed by the NSW government in 2006.
The first train is due for delivery in December, five months late, after delays linked to changes demanded by RailCorp.
It has now emerged that Treasury has been told that four banks providing $357 million in loans to the consortium - Westpac, National Australia Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui and Mizuho - are seeking legal advice about withdrawing because the viability of the project's insurers is in doubt.
According to a Sun-Herald report, a briefing to Treasury suggests the government may have to act as guarantor or take over the project.
The Premier, Kristina Keneally, has said the government was ''very aware of the situation''. But the Treasurer, Eric Roozendaal, has indicated the government would not step in.
Mr Roozendaal declined to comment yesterday, but a spokeswoman directed the Herald to a statement he made in the Legislative Council last week.
''I have made arrangements to meet with Reliance Rail, which has obligations under its contract and the government expects these to be met without any financial implications to NSW taxpayers,'' he said.
The question of who will fund the potential shortfall has reached a stalemate as Downer EDI has also stressed it is not responsible for funding any shortfall in financing the project.
The shadow treasurer, Mike Baird, accused Mr Roozendaal of trying to hide the shortfall until after next year's state election.
''The Treasurer needs to tell us exactly what is going on,'' Mr Baird said. ''He needs to explain what the potential impacts are on the state balance sheet and finances. And if he is trying to hide hundreds of millions of dollars in liabilities, what else is he hiding?''
The Reliance Rail spokeswoman said the company was unaware of the Treasury briefing.
The insurers - FGIC UK and Syncora Guarantee - who were devastated by the global financial crisis, were examined by the New York Insurance Regulator in April.
In response, the banks issued a reservation of rights notice to Reliance Rail in July. This triggered a downgrading of the debt by the ratings agency Moody's to ''junk'' status in September.
At the time, Reliance issued a statement saying it was ''firmly of the view that both of its financial guarantors need to default before the $357 million undrawn facility could be cancelled by the banking syndicate''.
It is understood this is being questioned by the banks, who argue a technical default occurred when the insurers were examined by the insurance regulator.
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The Dog Days of Free Speech
https://www.steynonline.com/8544/the-dog-days-of-free-speech
As a follow-up to last week's Clubland Q&A, Mark answers more questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet on the politicization of everything, the straitjackets of identity politics, and whether John Lennon ever wrote a song with Paul McCartney. Click below to watch:
Mark's Mailbox, SteynPosts and The Mark Steyn Show are made possible through the support of members of The Mark Steyn Club, for which we are profoundly grateful. Among the pleasures of membership is that you can enjoy our TV content in any medium you desire: video, audio or text. So, if you'd rather sample the above in non-visual form, please log-in here. We're excited to announce that our entire run of SteynPosts and video Mailboxes, starting with the very first edition, are now available in audio. You can find all those, plus some of the more memorable editions of The Mark Steyn Show, over in our Audio & Transcripts department.
Speaking of audio, if you prefer Steyn without pictures, he'll be back with some pure aural delight for this Easter weekend later today. Also on the audio front, he'll be here on Tuesday at 4pm US Eastern with another Clubland Q&A live around the planet.
If you missed our last Tale for Our Time, John Buchan's The Thirty-Nine Steps, it's still available from Episode One starting here - and makes perfect binge-listening. We'll have a new audio adventure starting this coming Friday. You won't want to miss it!
On the non-video non-audio front, Mark's Easter movie pick is Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, which he writes about here.
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PK33 • Apr 2, 2018 at 11:30
Great Mailbox segment Mark.
Regarding the overworked government staff in Rotherham or Telford. I am always disgusted how the Left will take any human crisis and make it ALL ABOUT ME! This is exactly what ANTIFA, feminists, etc. do on a regular basis. There is no recognition for the real victims, it is all about how the Left can gain some political capital, or deflect blame. It is disgusting.
George Pereira • Apr 1, 2018 at 17:27
Did you do this mailbox in front of a blue screen with a background of the XXXX set mixed in
Are you back in the XXXX set
or are you just messing with us?
Sol Cranfill • Mar 31, 2018 at 23:56
For awhile now, elected Republicans have had the reputation of being poor communicators, with the unfortunate idea that if you walk the walk, you don't have to talk the talk. The last effectual nationally elected communicator was Newt Gingrich for a few years, beginning in 1994. In the campaign, The Donald was fond of saying "Politicians are all talk," and he was so right, that once he became one, he slowed his pace from a run, to a walk, to frequent beelines for golf courses in golf carts. We have gotten AWOL from him, but no wall. He negotiated it down from $25 billion to almost nothing.
His appearances on "The Apprentice" made him seem somewhat capable of sorting through competing ideas, listening carefully to people and making sound decisions. In the White House, with his erratic, attention-getting statements and frequent firings of staff to show he's in power, he seems to be basing his presidency on "The Apprentice" and mainly focusing on keeping ratings up. For us though, the show feels like "The Big Loser", and we're losing by forfeit.
Patricia Gillis • Mar 31, 2018 at 21:24
I was excited to see the background on the video and hoped it meant things had been resolved...congratulations and Happy Easter!
chickensoup • Mar 31, 2018 at 17:00
I really enjoy this feature. I can never make the live shows.
Michael Ainslie • Mar 31, 2018 at 14:14
Many of us left CRTV because of your firing. The Mann suit is now entering its second millennium and will be carried on in the 10th level of hell with Mephistopheles as the judge. I don't like your chances there as he was the original advocate of "global warming". Or to put it another way- "Hell hath no fury than a Mann scorned"
Keep up the good work. Hope we can see new long form interviews and entertainment that you started on CRTV.
If you are under a gag order, I'd recommend you declare yourself a porn star then you can get on 60 minutes and trash all your enemies.
Fran Lavery • Mar 31, 2018 at 12:48
It sure is great when a long anticipated event finally arrives! It's hard not to share the joy! Happy Easter and Passover to all the members who celebrate.
Natalie Olson • Mar 31, 2018 at 12:45
What disgusts me the most about these so called "social justice warriors' is that they are hypocrites. They say they are for females but when 20 girls get groomed they are to worried about whether Trump is eating chicken with a fork to care about those girls. Furthermore, The warriors need the girls to get raped in order to keep their jargon. If they really cared and stopped rape and grooming so their was no more, they would not have anything to pretend to care about.
Thomas Ryan • Mar 31, 2018 at 11:17
Mark, were you referencing the Mann v Steyn litigation ending? I would have thought this would be front page news everywhere.
Mark replies:
No. The case referenced here (scroll down) - a battle I did not seek and which has consumed a great deal of my time and resources this last year.
Kate Smyth • Mar 31, 2018 at 10:30
I'd read about the (Sir Edmund) "Hillary" falsehood in an article by Christopher Hitchens years ago; having reread it just now (Slate- 2008), this gem seemed worthy of a cut-and-paste, in view of your excellent "Glass Ceiling" analysis:
"What do you have to forget or overlook in order to desire that this dysfunctional clan once more occupies the White House and is again in a position to rent the Lincoln Bedroom to campaign donors and to employ the Oval Office as a massage parlor?"
And, in conclusion: "The case against Hillary Clinton for president is open-and-shut. Of course, against all these considerations you might prefer the newly fashionable and more media-weighty notion that if you don't show her enough appreciation, and after all she's done for us, she may cry." Prescient!
Hitchens really, really despised the Clintons .... like nobody else!!
Kate Smyth Kate Smyth • Mar 31, 2018 at 10:48
Mark- please, please devote a song and/or movie review (preferably both) to the Seig Heil dog: Mel Brooks' "Hitler Rap— To Be Or Not To Be" has to be the most hilarious music video ever made— especially the guys in leathers!— and the lyrics are just brilliant!!
"So I said to Martin Bormann, I said 'Hey Marty
Why don't we throw a little Nazi party?'"
(Can't post the YouTube link, but for club members it is highly recommended viewing. Watch it and enjoy— before it's deemed "hate speech"!)
Tom Korte • Mar 31, 2018 at 09:59
Mr. Steyn,
Any chance you might get Lauren Southern on the show for an interview? Lots to discuss; her recent South Africa trip and upcoming video, being banned from the UK, and what it's like being on the forefront of the new independent reporting movement. I think there would be a lot of interest in it from Club members and many other people, some of who might become Club members. As far as I know she's not banned from the US at this point, but that might change if the leftist deep state has its way. Get it while you can!
On an unrelated note; to me Lennon, Lenin, not much difference in the end game. The world is better off with both of them gone but their legacy continues its destructiveness. Paul McCartney was alright though; I recall listening to 'Band on the Run' a fair bit back in the day. McCartney was a songwriter and Lennon was a drug addled far left ideologue.
Matthew Wilson Tom Korte • Mar 31, 2018 at 12:01
The extent to which Beatlemania monomania has infected the modern world gives me pause and makes me wonder if Charlie Manson had it right all along. Maybe the Beatles really are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, heralding the coming battle between Good and Evil. I believe the Beatles have more of a foot in the latter camp than the former..
Al Man from CA Tom Korte • Mar 31, 2018 at 12:26
I agree with having Lauren interviewed, also Katie Hopkins who in addition to her trip to South Africa, was recently here in California exploring the "homeless" slums in southern CA, and the LA area.
Nicola Timmerman • Mar 31, 2018 at 09:16
Happy Easter Mark. You Pamela and Milo still keep your sense of humour despite all the craziness out there. I sure hope you are vindicated in court and some one gets a hockey stick shoved up their bank account.
Chris Hall • Mar 31, 2018 at 09:12
Mark's comments about the change in how the UK police operate reminded me of an old Bob Hope joke quoted at NR:
"I've just flown in from California, where they've made homosexuality legal. I thought I'd get out before they make it compulsory."
I suppose that now, the burly guy in the neighboring pissoir will arrest you if you DON'T make eyes at him.
It was I who quoted that joke at National Review - and it had consequences.
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Area Information for Marleyer Rise, Romiley, Stockport, SK6 3JE
Marleyer Rise in Romiley is in the North West region of England. The postcode is within the Bredbury Green and Romiley ward/electoral division, which is in the constituency of Hazel Grove. This page combines information for the address Marleyer Rise, Romiley, Stockport, SK6 3JE, and the neighbourhood in which it resides. If you wish, you can also view information for the whole of SK6 here. For more details on the exact area these statistics cover, please see the map below and click "Show Census Area Covered" immediately below the map.
For information about recent house sales in this postcode, please view our property sales page for SK6 3JE.
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We have found 9 property sales in Marleyer Rise since the beginning of 1995.
The area containing Marleyer Rise, Romiley, Stockport consists predominantly of semi-detached housing, which can be an indicator of an affluent neighbourhood. Please note that the figures may include adjacent streets - see the Summary tab for an explanation and map of the area that these figures cover.
This area consists predominantly of housing where the property is being repayed through a mortgage arrangement. The national average is just under 33%, while in this area it represents 53% of housing spaces.
DE - Semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers; those on state benefit/unemployed, & lowest grade workers 7
The postcode SK6 3JE does not show a significant deviation from the average figures for the UK. In the UK as a whole, the average figures are approximately as follows for relationship statuses: 34% single, 47% married, 3% separated, 9% divorced, 7% widowed, and 0.2% same sex.
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Marleyer Rise, Romiley, Stockport can be considered less ethnically diverse than the UK average. As whole, the UK population claims itself as approximately 86% white, with residents of this area being exclusively so.
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Marleyer Rise, Romiley, Stockport, SK6 3JE is within the Werneth (Stockport) policing neighbourhood, under the Greater Manchester Police force area. For non-urgent queries, contact 101. For emergency assistance, please contact 999.
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Listed here are the 20 closest railway stations to Marleyer Rise, Romiley, Stockport, SK6 3JE. The nearest railway station is Romiley, approximately 0.7 miles away.
Romiley 0.7 miles
Bredbury 1.2 miles
Reddish South 3.1 miles
Strines 3.5 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest primary schools to Marleyer Rise, Romiley, Stockport, SK6 3JE. The nearest is Bredbury Green Primary School, approximately 660 yards away.
St Christopher's Catholic Primary School 0.6 miles
St Philip's Catholic Primary School 1 mile
Dial Park Primary School 1 mile
Rose Hill Primary School 1.3 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest secondary schools to Marleyer Rise, Romiley, Stockport, SK6 3JE. The nearest is Werneth School, approximately 850 yards away.
Harrytown Catholic High School half a mile
Marple Hall School 0.8 miles
St Anne's Roman Catholic High School, Stockport 3 miles
Reddish Vale High School 3 miles
Stockport Academy 3.4 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest GPs (General Practitioners) to Marleyer Rise, Romiley, Stockport, SK6 3JE. The nearest is Chadsfield Medical Practice, approximately 0.8 miles away. Please consult the NHS Choices website to check if the facility is currently accepting new NHS patients.
Chadsfield Medical Practice 0.8 miles
Dr Raina Patel 0.8 miles
Bredbury Medical Centre 1.3 miles
Woodley Village Surgery 1.4 miles
Alvanley Family Practice 1.4 miles
Archwood Medical Practice 1.4 miles
BL Medical Practice 1.4 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest dentists to Marleyer Rise, Romiley, Stockport, SK6 3JE. The nearest is Bredbury Dental Practice, approximately 0.7 miles away. Please consult the NHS Choices website to check if the facility is currently accepting new NHS patients.
Bredbury Dental Practice 0.7 miles
Holly House Dental Practice 1.4 miles
128 Dental Care 1.6 miles
32Whites 1.8 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest hospitals to Marleyer Rise, Romiley, Stockport, SK6 3JE. The nearest is Park Lodge, approximately 1.1 miles away.
Stepping Hill Hospital 2 miles
BMI The Alexandra Hospital 4.8 miles
Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust 6 miles
Royal Manchester Children's Hospital 6.3 miles
Listed here are the 10 closest opticians to Marleyer Rise, Romiley, Stockport, SK6 3JE. The nearest is Garlands Opticians, approximately 0.7 miles away.
Garlands Opticians 0.7 miles
Taylor & Dewhurst (Romiley) Ltd 0.8 miles
The Spectacle Studio 2 miles
G B Optical Ltd 2 miles
Broadband in SK6 3JE
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Samsung Galaxy A2 Core (Go Edition) surfaces with photo and specs
By Pawan Lokhandwala On Mar 28, 2019 68 0
Samsung is soon expected to unveil its new Android Go Edition smartphone called Galaxy A2 Core (SM-A260). Ahead of its official announcement, Photo and specifications of the mobile has surfaced.
Judging from the looks, it is a traditional old school looking android phone with budget specifications. It has standard 16:9 screen with huge bezels at top and bottom. Power button and Volume rockers are at the right side while the back houses a single shooter with LED Flash.
One can easily notice presence of speaker grill just under the rear camera module. At the bottom is a 3.5mm audio jack for music buffs. Samsung logo is present at the front and back.
Samsung Galaxy A2 Core Specifications (Rumored)
Dimensions: 141.6 x 71 x 9.1 mm
SIM: Dual SIM slots
Operating System: Android 8.1 Oreo (Go Edition)
Display: 5-inch PLST TFT LCD display with 960 x 540 pixels resolution, multi-touch support
Chipset: 1.6Ghz octa-core Exynos 7870 processor with Mali-T830 GPU
Storage: 8GB built-in, expandable up to 256GB using MicroSD card
Front Camera: Yes (unknown Mega Pixels)
Rear camera: 5MP with LED flash, Auto Focus, 1/5.0-inch sensor size, F/1.9 Aperture, 1.12µm pixel size, 4X digital zoom
Battery: 2600 mAh
Connectivity: 4G VoLTE, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Bluetooth V4.2 LE, MicroUSB V2.0, GPS, FM Radio, 3.5mm Audio Jack
The Samsung Galaxy A2 Core (SM-A260) is expected to go official soon.
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Less than four years ago, a Juniper Research study estimated that cybercrime would cost businesses $2.1 trillion globally by 2019. By 2017, they had increased their predictions to a whopping...
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Recent years have fundamentally changed the public perception of cybersecurity and future trends have been an important topic of discussion in the months leading to the new year. As 2019...
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How To!?! — Some Answers.
Ziad Fadel / May 14th, 2012
FIRST POST – MAY 14, 2012 – SYRIAN SECURITY FORCES REASSERT POWER IN AL-RASTAN DESPITE RAVINGS AND FABRICATIONS BY EXILE-DISSIDENT-TRAITORS.
We are delighted to report that the useless town of Al-Rastan in Homs Province is finally getting what it deserves: a good drubbing. Units from the 4th Armored Division have surrounded the town from all sides and have begun softening it up for infantry, militia and security units. Two civilians have been killed with over 5 deserters dispatched to the nether regions. As we write today’s post, the fighting continues.
PRINCE MUQRIN WILL BE CHARGED WITH WAR CRIMES BY THE RUSSIAN U.N. DELEGATION
Prince Muqrin Bin Abdel-Aziz will be charged with crimes against humanity for this involvement in last weeks horrific double-bombing in Damascus. SyrPer has it from authoritative sources that the Russian Federation is awaiting the results of forensic testing in both Damascus and Moscow to buttress the charge against the Saudi Arabian regime for its complicity in the murder of over 55 innocent Syrian civilians and officers. The Saudis have already begun preparing for the worst by hiring a New York law firm to coordinate a response to the Russian charges against Riyadh. The United States has given the Saudis assurances that any resolution condemning Saudi Arabia’s involvement would be “vetoed without hesitation” by the U.S.’s knee-jerk team of sycophants led by Susan Rice, universally recognized diplomatic dunderhead and “scream-queen”.
In this mini-photo, readers can detect the in-bred ignorance that is the hallmark of the Saudi “royal family”
Fighting has erupted in my hometown of Tripoli, Lebanon, with pro-Assad heroes fighting the lowest of the low produced by the Bab Tabbaneh quarter of the Lebanese Second City. Since most of you have not visited Tripoli, let me tell you that the city is an ancient Mediterranean port which has enjoyed greater significance historically than today’s laureled Beirut- what with all the hoopla about its nightlife, vitality and whore-mongering. Tripoli is, actually, a more interesting city. It’s cafes and salons are more authentic; its atmosphere curiously redolent with Ottoman ghosts; brick roadways and hawkers everywhere.
Yet, there remains the Bab Tabbaneh quarter. The name means “Milky Way”, if you can believe that. The quarter and its sister, Al-Tal, represent everything that is reprehensible in thuggish, mindless Islamism for the sake of being Muslim. The educational level of the average “Tabbanite” is fourth grade with an ineluctable drift toward the menial vocations.
These denizens of the Bab Tabbaneh quarter are brought together by their mutual hatred of minorities and strong belief in Allah’s preference for the Sunni ignorantii.
In any case, when I was a little boy in Tripoli, my grandfather, Abu Fouad, used to refer to Bab Tabbaneh as “Bab Dubbaneh”, or “Gate of the Fly”.
We are rooting for the pro-Assad forces which are much more numerous than the pesky, inept and brutish Tripolitan “brownshirts”. The media, especially Time Magazine with its hilariously “linkisch” (German for “clumsy”) Bassam Mroue, who can hardly conceal his delight at being employed by an American zionist propaganda factory that looks aside at his receipt of “good boy wages” from the pedophile Prince of Catarrh, is insisting that the fighting is between anti-Assad Sunnis and Alawites of the Jabal Muhsin suburb of Tripoli. This is false. The fighting involves Saad Hariri-financed Sunni bigots and a whole spectrum of pro-Assad and progressive forces running the gamut from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party to the Lebanese Communist Party. Hizbollah has not taken any position on this matter,….. yet.
It is clear that General Qassem Solaymani, Irans’s chief of the Islamic Republican Guard – Qods Force- is opposed to any up-tick in the level of violence in Lebanon – fearing, rightly – that a civil war in Lebanon would only make matters worse for security units in Syria. The Russians are on board here, also, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov promoting a U.N.-sponsored “Observer Force” to provide the kind of rebuttal to those who are clamouring for some international military intervention to “stop Assad’s killing machine”. The Russians hope to show that the “killing machine” is the terrorist element sponsored by the reactionary regimes of Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The coordination between Iran and Russia/China, here, is quite impressive.
General Solaymani, seen here, spends much time in Damascus overseeing the training of Quds Forces outside the town of Zabadani. He also participates in consultatory meetings with Dr. Assad. They have not yet joined the fighting for obvious reasons.
There is a sense of satisfaction today in Damascus, Teheran and Moscow with the way the military effort is going. The opposition cannot succeed. But there is much more to come. We, at SyrPer, believe that it is only a matter of a short time before the Saudis and Qataris begin to deal with their own “Arab Spring”. It will be a bloody mess in the Arabian Peninsula.
May 14th, 2012 in News. Tags: CHARGED, CRIMES, MUQRIN, RUSSIAN
Ziad Fadel
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Talari Networks Scales to Support Larger Enterprises with the Introduction of APN 4.0
Work apparel leader UniFirst is first to deploy APN 4.0 to support its 200+ facilities in N. America
SAN JOSE, CALIF. — May 1, 2014 — Talari Networks Inc., a leading innovator in network reliability and business continuity solutions, today announced APN (Adaptive Private Networking) 4.0, the latest version of the operating software that supports Talari´s WAN solutions. APN 4.0 can now support 256 sites (up from 128) with a single instance of the Talari solution.
UniFirst, a national leader in the supply and servicing of business uniforms and work apparel, is the first to deploy APN 4.0 in support of its 200+ facilities throughout N. America. Additionally, UniFirst has deployed Talari´s new network performance monitoring and reporting software, APN Aware (launched in March 2014).
“Talari´s APN is impressive in its ability to combine broadband bandwidth sources with traditional WAN links to create a reliable and affordable WAN,” said UniFirst´s Brian Doiron, Director of IT – Infrastructure and Security. “And combined with APN Aware, we not only have the ability to deploy and configure our network from a single location, but we also have valuable visibility into the network’s performance at a granular level across the entire WAN. This allows us to better monitor and understand the behavior and quality of the links we´re paying for.”
“The introduction of APN 4.0 represents a strategic move for us to expand up market as we continue to grow and attract larger enterprises that recognize the quality and cost saving benefits of using Talari´s APN-driven WAN technology and network performance management software,” said Talari´s CMO Kevin Gavin.
Talari´s patented WAN solution builds a detailed map of all paths through the WAN including a real-time understanding of packet loss, latency and jitter on each path. The APN solution then uses this information to direct WAN traffic down the optimal path based on network conditions and organization policies.
APN Aware is a software-based network performance monitoring and reporting application that gathers the WAN´s performance data from every APN appliances in the network and stores it in a single central database. Aware allows IT teams to analyze current and historical network and application performance via interactive graphical maps, graphs and tables that can be displayed from different perspectives. This lets IT teams take action for the purpose of troubleshooting, capacity planning, ROI analysis, and vendor management and SLA enforcement.
APN 4.0 operating software is generally available today and accessible via the Talari Customer Support Portal as a free upgrade for existing customers and APN Aware network performance management software is sold as an optional add-on product.
About Talari Networks, Inc.
Talari Networks is improving WAN reliability, capacity and affordability to enable a network that supports the growing demands of mission-critical applications. By aggregating multiple diverse networks into a virtual WAN and continuously adapting traffic based on the availability and real-time quality of the network paths, Talari ensures applications that rely on a WAN are not affected by underlying network issues. Talari’s patented technology delivers significant cost savings over single-provider networks while also increasing reliability and quality. Talari has received numerous industry awards, including Best of Interop–Performance Optimization, Techworld Awards–Networking Application Product of the Year; and named Gartner Cool Vendor, CRN 2013 Emerging Vendors and CRN Data Center 100 List. For more information, visit www.talari.com.
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Did you know that David Beckham designed a special line of sneakers to support the LGBTQ community?
by Karan Sen December 10, 2018
written by Karan Sen December 10, 2018
David Beckham designed a special line of sneakers.
David Beckham with his legendary career as a player for Manchester United, Real Madrid and AC Milan has become one of the biggest icons in the game. Now happily retired, Beckham is still heavily involved with the game. He has now turned into a successful entrepreneur with his own team, Inter Miami soon set to debut in the MLS. He is also involved in various other ventures, especially collaborating with Adidas, with whom he has had a long partnership.
With his standing in the game, Beckham has also been actively involved in promoting various social issues. He is an ambassador of the UNICEF and is a very keen advocate in promoting the welfare of children.
Beckham also has taken a very active role in advocating the welfare and equal rights for the LGBTQ+ community. For that, a few months ago, Beckham with a host of other celebrities collaborated with Adidas to help the homeless of the LGBTQ community.
Beckham joined the ‘Prouder’ movement initiated by Adidas and designed a special range of sneakers called the ‘Samba’
The Samba sneakers designed by David Beckham for Adidas. (Source: Soccer Bible)
The apparel giants had launched the range in support of the Albert Kennedy Trust who help in providing safe homes for the LGBTQ+ community, as well as the youth.
Beckham was not the only one in helping Adidas out in their initiative. Other A-listers such as Pharrell Williams, Edward Enninful, Blondey McCoy, Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Liam Payne were also a part of it.
These sneakers were auctioned off on eBay and all the amount raised were handed out to charities supporting the noble cause.
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Fancred Raises $3 Million in Funding for Further Growth
By Freddy Lopez / August 21, 2014
Freddy Lopez, 5 years ago 4 min read
From the start, Fancred entered the sports social networking sphere with a lot to prove.
Any startup vying to be an upstart amidst the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram would be in for a rude awakening. The uphill battle to compete and break through the major players in this space could easily diminish its claimed value proposition. The level of concentration to build the requisite traction within a specific niche is daunting of a task, in it by itself.
Today, though, Fancred announces their completion of a $3 million financing round, which comes from pre-enlisted shareholders, Atlas Ventures and Militello Capital, and a new one in Breakaway Innovation Group.
As a product out of Boston’s Techstars accelerator, Fancred has gradually risen through the ranks and its own personal development since its launch less than two years ago. Be it as a form of Klout or web-based platform, there’s been a constant evolution through its iterations. The path towards their mission to be the globe’s largest home of sports fans, though, has derived largely from the premise of providing them a medium to house and share their respective moments.
Hossein Kash Razzaghi, Fancred’s Chief Executive Officer, describes to SportTechie the company’s journey as “awe-inspiring”, with transforming the product and the community involved. Of particular importance, he points to their steadfast belief that the most passionate communities, indeed, constitute from the litany of sports franchises as his proudest, foundational characteristic. These teams’ fan bases serve as the pulse to foster worthwhile engagement opportunities.
“We needed to test our hypothesis and put the product in people’s hands,” says Razzaghi.
Accordingly, the initial investment raised was allocated primarily towards building out the app and introducing it to the market. They focused on constructing these communities based on the domestic regions that they’re familiar with, specifically the south and the northeast. Razzaghi claims that the platform’s overall usage has grown month-to-month from its inception. Fanced believes–through its own experience, to boot–it’s quite clear mobile devices preside as a prime destination where fans establish sports-focused hubs for interaction. These original territories have matured “exponentially not only in size, but other communities around the country began to form on their own.”
The confluence of deep product focus, skills, team, and culture all came together to comprise the interest garnered from Fancred’s latest investor, Breakaway Innovation Group, dating back to their Techstars’ days mentorship.
“At Breakaway, we help build consumer brands fueled by passion, with exceptional products, rabid user communities, and awesome founders. Fancred checks all these boxes for us,” David Kneis, Breakaway Innovation Group’s Chief Strategy Officer, tells SportTechie.
Kneis made sure to firmly emphasize the “a lot” time being spent by Fancred’s users coupled with its activity levels and rapid scalability as reasons why they are attracted to them as well. He projects that “even more amazing things” bound to happen from this team going forward.
In spite of another successful fiscal round, Razzaghi acknowledges that the biggest challenge for Fancred–as could be said to virtually any other startup, regardless of industry–delves into providing a “differentiated product, value proposition, and messaging to your audience.” These factors don’t escape from what transpires on a daily basis. He asserts that “90 percent” of his time is devoted digesting these areas and trying improve each one, both individually and as a team.
This past Father’s Day, for example, proved to be a key juncture for the company, when a plethora of users decided to post photos of their dads and favorite times of going to games throughout childhood. The high degree of emotional and personal user-generated content as a virtually never-ending stream within the app was a poignant moment for Razzaghi to reflect and realize it’s more than just sports. Thus, adjusting or somewhat pivoting the product’s development direction have to be considered, from then on.
“The reality is that when you first launch product, you have no clue how people will accept it or interact with it. People use the product in ways we never would have imagined,” says Razzaghi.
Conversely, these new funds will be targeted for further product expansion and growth. Fancred will soon be available on other platforms besides iOS and online. On the team-side, they will look to add more marketing, business development, and product personnel. Their users can expect additional partnerships with teams and leagues down the line, beyond the Boston Red Sox, Liverpool Football Club, and Mississippi State University already on it.
While sports has, of course, created a strong vertical for itself among any other kind of media enterprise, competition can come from any direction, not just the current incumbents that control the landscape. Sportlobster, a European-based startup, has registered nearly two million users on a comparable medium and plans to expand to the United States shortly. Such a dynamic lurks just over the horizon, across the pond, but Fancred, rest assured, can count on its communal effect and monetary influx to prove their credentials is worth being any fan’s digital keepsake.
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Thriving IgniteAbility entrepreneur and business award finalist is ready to scale up business
Carly Bishop was first introduced to IgniteAbility through Ability Links NSW, and ever since, has seen her business idea not only come to fruition from concept to start-up but was also recently recognised as an Illawarra Women in Business (IWIB) awards finalist.
Small business owner Carly Bishop is a thriving program participant of SSI IgniteAbility. Photograph: Damon Amb.
Ms Bishop officially launched her business – Carly’s Coffee Couriers – in April, and it’s been such a success in her South-Sydney locale that she’s ready to enter her next phase of growth and scale up business, offering services in multiple locations.
When asked about her experience working alongside IgniteAbility, Ms Bishop says that IgniteAbility has been invaluable in providing business support in a range of areas from general business planning to the setting up of social media pages.
“Ignite provided me with the opportunity to start my business, I had no idea about the process and where to begin,” Ms Bishop said.
“Ignite has supported me by helping draw up the business plan, being with me in initial meetings with shopping centre management, organising flyers and business cards, setting up of social media accounts, and insurance.”
Ms Bishop is Australian-born and says one of the most rewarding and interesting aspects of the IgniteAbility program is becoming more aware of refugee and CALD communities.
“Ignite has shed light on refugee and CALD communities that I have previously never known about,” Ms Bishop said.
When asked what she finds most rewarding in her business, Ms Bishop says it’s connecting with her regular customers and the community.
“Most of my job satisfaction comes from the community of customers and vendors that I have developed relationships with.”
Ms Bishop’s advice to other budding entrepreneurs is around starting something from a place of pure passion.
“Think of an idea that you want to do and enjoy; something that you’re passionate about, and then get the right support.”
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Yearly, all the music schools in Sweden organize their own interpretation of a Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) called SMASK stands for Sveriges Musikakademiker's Song Kåntest - it's an annual music competition organized by Sweden's six music Colleges from Stockholm, Gothenburg, Malmö, Örebro, Piteå and Ingesund.
Like the original ESC, the audience have the power to vote for their most liked performance. In previous productions, the audience needed to pay in order to submit a vote, and for the show 2018 the SMASK team were looking for a way to allow the audience of 500 people to vote for free. By using the Voting Moment on the platform, Stagecast helped them do exactly that!
Nine days before the show was happening, the SMASK event was published on the Stagecast platform and also sent an email to the people who bought tickets where they encouraged them to download the Stagecast application. From that day on, one artist at the time was presented by a picture Moment. When the show day finally arrived and the show kicked off, participants were encouraged to download the application both from the moderators on stage but also through the big screen in the venue.
Throughout the evening, a SMASK filter was pushed through the app to let people take pictures to build up a common gallery in the app. When all the performances were done, the first voting was launched from the web platform once the moderator announced the voting to be officially open!
Part of the struggle with previous solutions was to not being able to see the result of the votes live. With the Voting Moment, the production could see the result coming in real-time by simply pressing the “View” on the Moment. In total, 440 people (88% of the total audience) voted for their favorite performance!
Thank you SMASK for letting us be part of your production, we’re looking forward being part of the next show!
"Through Stagecast we could offer our audience a free voting. In that way more people were involved and the competition felt more fair. We could also generate a common gallery of photos during the evening evening and through that involve our audience more. Stagecast must be part of our next competition again!"
Anna Martinsson, Producer - Smask
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Pay TV penetration in Asia Pacific 2014-2023
Pay TV penetration rate in the Asia Pacific region in 2014 and 2023
The statistic presents data on pay TV penetration rate in the Asia Pacific region in 2014, as well as a forecast for 2023. In 2014, the rate amounted to 54 percent and is expected to grow to 61 percent by 2023. The number of pay TV subscribers is therefore also on the rise, with almost 200 million consumers expected to take up the technology in the Asia Pacific between 2016 and 2025. Pay TV revenue in the region is also forecast to rise from 54 billion U.S. dollars in 2016 to 81 billion U.S. dollars in 2025.
* Forecast.
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Pay TV operators ranked by number of subscribers in the United Kingdom (UK) as of December 2017 (in 1,000)Leading pay TV operators in the United Kingdom (UK) 2017, ranked by subscribers
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Number of pay TV household subscriptions in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2007 to 2017 (in millions)Number of pay TV households in the United Kingdom (UK) 2007-2017
Number of people who lived in a household with a pay-TV-subscription in Germany from 2014 to 2018 (in millions)Number of people owning a pay-TV-subscription in Germany 2014-2018
Number of pay TV household subscriptions in France from 2007 to 2016 (in millions)Number of pay TV households in France 2007-2016
Number of pay TV subscribers in Spain from 2011 to 2016, by platform (in 1,000)Number of pay TV subscriptions in Spain 2011-2016, by platform
Consumer revenues for on-demand audiovisual services in the European Union (EU 28) from 2011 to 2017 (in million euros)Consumer revenues for on-demand audiovisual services in the European Union 2011-2017
European countries ranked by consumer revenues for on-demand audiovisual services in 2017 (in million euros)Consumer revenues for on-demand audiovisual services in European countries 2017
Estimated number of unique subscribers to OTT SVOD services in Europe from 2011 to 2017 (in millions)Number of subscribers to OTT SVOD services in Europe 2011-2017
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Peru: pay TV penetration rate 2012-2017
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Peru: pay TV penetration rate in Lima 2012-2016
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Pay TV revenue in Western Europe from 2010 to 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Pay TV revenue in Western Europe in 2017, 2018 and 2023, by platform (in million U.S. dollars)
Pay TV revenue in Eastern Europe from 2010 to 2023 (in million U.S. dollars)
Countries with the highest pay TV revenue in Europe in 2017 and 2023 (in billion U.S. dollars)
European pay TV operators with the largest number of subscribers in 2023 (in millions)*
Pay TV operators ranked by number of subscribers in the United Kingdom (UK) as of December 2017 (in 1,000)
Number of pay TV and IPTV subscribers in Germany from 2006 to 2016, by provider (in 1,000)
Pay TV operators ranked by number of subscribers in France as of December 2016 (in 1,000)
Pay TV operators ranked by number of subscribers in Spain in 2016 (in 1,000)
Number of pay TV subscriptions in Western Europe from 2016 to 2022, by platform (in millions)
Number of pay TV households in Eastern Europe from 2010 to 2023, by platform (in 1,000)
Share of digital pay TV subscriptions in Western Europe from 2016 to 2022*
Number of pay TV household subscriptions in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2007 to 2017 (in millions)
Number of people who lived in a household with a pay-TV-subscription in Germany from 2014 to 2018 (in millions)
Number of pay TV household subscriptions in France from 2007 to 2016 (in millions)
Number of pay TV subscribers in Spain from 2011 to 2016, by platform (in 1,000)
Consumer revenues for on-demand audiovisual services in the European Union (EU 28) from 2011 to 2017 (in million euros)
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Estimated number of unique subscribers to OTT SVOD services in Europe in 2017, by country (in millions)
Number of Netflix subscribers in Europe from 2015 to 2023 (in millions)
Number of Amazon Video subscribers in Western Europe from 2015 to 2021 (in millions)
Number of Amazon Video subscribers in Eastern Europe from 2016 to 2022 (in 1,000)
Number of online pay TV subscribers in the Asia Pacific region from 2014 to 2017 (in millions)
Number of satellite pay TV subscribers in the Asia Pacific region from 2012 to 2017 (in millions)
Pay TV penetration rate in Indonesia in 2012, 2017 and 2020
Number of HOT Television subscribers in Israel from 2013 to 1st quarter 2018 (in 1,000s)*
Number of YES Television subscribers in Israel from 2013 to 1st quarter 2018 (in 1,000s)*
Number of Cellcom Television subscribers in Israel from 2015 to 1st quarter 2018 (in 1,000s)
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Number of pay TV subscribers worldwide in 2010, 2017 and 2023 (in millions)
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Pay TV penetration rate in Peru from 2012 to 2017
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Italy: length of bicycle paths 2010-2015
Bicycle paths length in Italy from 2010 to 2015 (in kilometers*)
by Statista Research Department, last edited Aug 14, 2017
This statistic illustrates the growth in the length of the bike network in the main Italian urban centers from 2010 to 2015. According to the study, the national bike network length increased from around 3.3 thousand kilometers in 2010 to over 4.1 kilometers in 2015. This growth can be correlated to the increasing popularity of bikes as a means of transport in urban areas, especially among commuters.
Length in kilometers
*In the main municipalities.
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Number of bicycles sold in the Netherlands from 2000 to 2016 (in 1,000 units)Bicycle sales in the Netherlands 2000-2016
Number of bicycles sold in Belgium from 2013 to 2018Number of bikes sold in Belgium 2013-2018
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Number of bicycles sold in Italy from 2000 to 2016 (in 1,000 units)Bicycle sales in Italy 2000-2016
Value of bicycles sold in Italy from 2000 to 2016, (in million euros)Bicycle sales value in Italy 2000-2016
Value of bicycle parts and accessories produced in Italy from 2000 to 2016 (in million euros)*Bicycle parts production value in Italy 2000-2016
Number of people working in the bicycle and parts and accessories industry in Italy from 2000 to 2015Bicycle industry employment in Italy 2000-2015
Number of electric bicycles exported from Italy between 2015 and 2017Italy: E-Bicycle exports 2015-2017
Number of electric bicycles imported in Italy from 2015 to 2017Italy: E-Bicycle imports 2015-2017
Revenue generated by the cycling sector in Italy in 2015, by category (in thousand euros)Italy: revenue generated by the cycling sector in 2015, by category
Distribution of bike sharing services in Italy in 2015, by macro area Italy: distribution of bike sharing services 2015, by macro area
Distribution of bike sharing services in Italy in 2015, by municipality size Italy: distribution of bike sharing services 2015, by municipality size
Number of bicycles for Bike sharing in Italy in 2016, by regionItaly: number of bicycles for Bike sharing 2016, by region
Number* of bike-sharing bicycles per 10 thousand people in Italy between 2011 and 2014Italy: spread of bike-sharing 2011-2014
For which reasons would you use a bike sharing service? Italy: reasons for using bike sharing services 2016
Which infrastructure would you rather have at disposal?Italy: preferences about the cycle paths 2016
Do you think is it useful providing bike sharing services in your city? Italy: opinions on bike sharing services 2016
During the day, how do you move in town?*Survey: transportation choices within a city in Italy in 2015
Bicycle paths length in Italy from 2010 to 2015 (in kilometers*)Italy: length of bicycle paths 2010-2015
Italy: share of trips by bike in urban areas 2010-2015
Italy: top ten cities for bike usage in 2016
Italy: top ten cities for bike network length per capita in 2015
Italy: opinion on conditions to encourage bicycle use 2014
England: number of cycling participants 2017-2018, by purpose
Italy: top ten cities for number of bike sharing subscriptions in 2016
Cycling participation over last week Australia 2017 by city
Cycling participation over last month Australia 2017 by city
Cycling participation over last year Australia 2017 by city
Cycling participation over last month Australia 2017 by age
Italy: urban journeys made by motorized transport by means of transport 2015-2016
Cycling participation over last week Australia 2017 by age
Cycling participation over last month Australia 2017 by state
Italy: spread of bike-sharing stations 2011-2014
Cycling participation over last week Australia 2017 by state
Taxi operation revenue in Slovakia 2010-2022
Taxi operation revenue in Estonia 2010-2022
Forecast: revenue taxi operation Turkey 2009-2020
Industry revenue of »taxi operation« in Romania 2011-2023
Industry revenue of “taxi operation“ in Germany 2011-2023
Bicycle Industry in the U.S.
Cycling in the United Kingdom (UK)
Bicycle industry in the United Kingdom
Cykeltrendrapport 2016
European Bicycle Market - 2017 edition
Traffic Safety Fact Sheet. Bicyclists and Other Cyclists 2014
Number of bicycles sold in France from 2000 to 2016 (in 1,000 units)
Number of bicycles sold in Spain from 2009 to 2016 (in 1,000 units)
Number of bicycles sold in the Netherlands from 2000 to 2016 (in 1,000 units)
Number of bicycles sold in Belgium from 2013 to 2018
Number of bicycles produced in Italy from 2000 to 2016, (in 1,000 units)
Number of bicycles sold in Italy from 2000 to 2016 (in 1,000 units)
Value of bicycles sold in Italy from 2000 to 2016, (in million euros)
Value of bicycle parts and accessories produced in Italy from 2000 to 2016 (in million euros)*
Number of people working in the bicycle and parts and accessories industry in Italy from 2000 to 2015
Number of electric bicycles exported from Italy between 2015 and 2017
Number of electric bicycles imported in Italy from 2015 to 2017
Revenue generated by the cycling sector in Italy in 2015, by category (in thousand euros)
Distribution of bike sharing services in Italy in 2015, by macro area
Distribution of bike sharing services in Italy in 2015, by municipality size
Number of bicycles for Bike sharing in Italy in 2016, by region
Number* of bike-sharing bicycles per 10 thousand people in Italy between 2011 and 2014
For which reasons would you use a bike sharing service?
Which infrastructure would you rather have at disposal?
Do you think is it useful providing bike sharing services in your city?
During the day, how do you move in town?*
Share of trips taken by bike in urban areas in Italy from 2010 to 2015
Top ten cities for share of trips taken by bike in Italy in 2016
Top ten cities for bike network length per capita in Italy in 2015 (in equivalent meters per capita)
What is the most important condition that would lead you to use the bike at least two to three times a week?
Number of people who participated in cycling for more than 150 minutes a week in England from 2017 to 2018, by purpose (in millions)
Top ten cities for number of bike sharing subscriptions in Italy in 2016 (per 1000 people)
Cycling participation rate over the last week in Australia in 2017, by capital city
Cycling participation rate over the last month in Australia in 2017, by capital city
Cycling participation rate over the last year in Australia in 2017, by capital city
Cycling participation rate over the last month in Australia in 2017, by age
Distribution of urban journeys made by motorized transport in Italy in 2015 and 2016, by means of transport
Cycling participation rate over the last week in Australia in 2017, by age
Cycling participation rate over the last month in Australia in 2017, by state
Number* of bike-sharing stations per 100 square kilometers in Italy between 2011 and 2014
Cycling participation rate over the last week in Australia in 2017, by state
Taxi operation revenue in Slovakia from 2010 to 2022 (in million U.S. dollars)
Taxi operation revenue in Estonia from 2010 to 2022 (in million U.S. dollars)
Revenue of taxi operation (EFIS (NACE) 4932) in Turkey from 2009 to 2020 (in million U.S. dollars)
Industry revenue of »taxi operation« in Romania from 2011 to 2023 (in million U.S. Dollars)
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Corrosion of Steel Strand
Corrosion of high carbon steel strand can be a serious problem in long term civil engineering applications. In mining, however, the incidences of cablebolt corrosion causing serious problems are rare. This is due primarily to the short time frame involved in open stope support in underground mining.
Corrosion problems observed by the authors in mining environments were typically in long term support in open pits where the groundwater was acidic or saline and in long term support in underground sulphide deposits. Cut and fill applications in wet conditions where fractured stope backs could remain (supported) for up to a year were notably susceptible to corrosion. Serious failure, due to corrosion and rupture of the strand, can occur in such applications.
The nature of corrosion is extremely complex and a fundamental discussion is beyond the scope of this book. It is the intent here to discuss some of the important factors involved in corrosion so that the engineer may assess the potential for problematic corrosion and take steps to prevent it or make the appropriate design allowances for it.
Most common refined metals are inherently unstable ionic materials composed of arrays of single atoms which possess a full compliment of electrons. Metals such as iron normally tend to give up electrons at room temperature (gold is a notable exception) and become involved in reactions leading to the formation of more stable compounds such as iron oxide or iron hydroxide (rust). The release of electrons is termed an anodic reaction and the acceptance of electrons a cathodic reaction. Both reactions must occur for corrosion to take place. Since metals such as the iron found in steel cable are normally willing to give up their electrons, it is normally the presence of a cathode which determines the corrosion potential.
The cathodic reaction (involving the consumption of electrons released anodically from the iron) can be made possible by the presence of an acid, sulphate, water and/or oxygen.
Corrosion of steel (iron) can be divided into four basic categories (Illston et al., 1979; Pohlman, 1987):
- Dry corrosion
- Wet corrosion
- Corrosion of immersed metals and alloys Induced or accelerated corrosion (includes influence of stress)
The following discussion is confined to corrosion of cablebolts and as such is incomplete as a comprehensive examination of general corrosion.
Dry Corrosion
Dry corrosion is an inevitable consequence of medium- to long-term storage of cablebolts in even the most ideal conditions. It involves the formation of iron oxide (Fe0) as iron atoms combine with atmospheric oxygen. Once the process initiates on a clean surface, it spreads fairly rapidly to involve most of the exposed surface. While Fe0 forms an adherent film on steel surfaces and can actually form an impervious layer, it can be vulnerable to cracking and as such fresh iron is constantly being exposed and the process continues. In the perspective of cablebolting in mining, however, dry oxidation is a relatively slow chemical process and is of only minor consequence. Light surface (dry) corrosion has been shown (Goris, 1990) to improve bond performance of cablebolts by up to 20% in ideal conditions, although deliberate rusting of cablebolts is not advocated by the authors. The process is accelerated by higher surface temperatures (e.g. if the cables are exposed daily, over long periods, to direct and intense sunlight).
Heavy surface rust on newly shipped cables is usually the result of exposure to moisture and subsequent atmospheric corrosion which can be very detrimental to the performance of the cablebolts.
Wet or Atmospheric Corrosion
In a wet or humid environment, the corrosion process is accelerated and can involve a wider variety of cathodic reactions. Water and oxygen become jointly involved in the cathodic reaction and result in other compounds such as 2Fe(OH) ,3Fe O (magnetite), or Fe O (hema 3 4 2 3 tite). These compounds are much less adhesive then FeO and less likely to form a self-arresting film.
Corrosion products formed on cablebolts by wet corrosion are more likely to have a greasy feel as compared to the dry, rough texture of FeO film and are more likely to be associated with other film substances such as oils and additional moisture. These products are likely to have a detrimental effect on bond capacity of cablebolts. Clearly, unchecked corrosion reduces the cross-sectional area of steel in the cable and ultimately reduces the tensile capacity of the steel to unacceptable levels. Ductility and displacement capacity is also reduced (embrittlement).
The presence of water on the surface of the cablebolt also increases the potential for galvanic corrosion. The same wet corrosion cathodic reactions occur, accelerated by the presence of an electrolyte such as chloride, sulphate or hydroxide. Without electrolytes in a static solution, the corrosion process is self-limiting. Iron ions (e.g. Fe ) move into solution adjacent to the steel surface 2+ leaving behind free electrons (2e ) in the steel solid. The concentration of iron ions -in solution and free electrons in the steel creates an electrical potential difference which resists further dissolution of iron ions.
The effects of electrolytes in the surface water is best illustrated in the above example. A drop of water on the surface of the steel contains a dissolved electrolyte such as sodium chloride (which forms a solution of free sodium, Na ,+ and chloride, Cl , ions). The presence of electrolytes permits the transport of iron - ions as FeCl away from the corrosion (anode) site at the centre of the drop. At the same time, water and oxygen combine at the perimeter of the drop with the free electrons from the steel to form hydroxide ions (OH ) balanced by Na in solution. - + These move in the opposite direction to the FeCl generating a current (electron flow) in the steel supplying electrons to the drop perimeter as more iron ions go into the solution at the drop centre. Between the active centre (anode) and the drop perimeter (cathode) the iron ions combine with the hydroxide to form ferrous hydroxide.
This in turn becomes a relatively stable and complex hydrated oxide known as rust. The sodium and chloride transport ions are freed to carry on the process. The cyclic nature of the process combined with the fact that the corrosion product (rust) is not deposited at the anode (as it is with dry corrosion) means that this form of galvanic corrosion is not self-limiting and can be very aggressive. This is particularly true in mining environments given the high concentration of chloride and sulphate ions in mine waters (Minick and Olson, 1987).
Moist corrosion is particularly enhanced by crevices such as those formed by the flutes of a cable. Crevices are particularly good at retaining moisture and the conditions are perfect for differential aeration with low oxygen supply at the tip of the crevice compared with the rest of the cable. If a weak electrolyte is present, an aggressive corrosion cell is thus generated. This corrosion is particularly detrimental as the corrosion product (rust) readily fills the flutes of the cable preventing the penetration of grout and seriously reducing the cable/grout interlock essential for cable bond strength.
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Two CCS finalists grappled their way to the top in Athlete of the Week
A pair of local wrestlers earned Athlete of the Week honors after standout performances on the mat at the CCS championships.
Two CCS finalists grappled their way to the top in Athlete of the Week A pair of local wrestlers earned Athlete of the Week honors after standout performances on the mat at the CCS championships. Check out this story on thecalifornian.com: https://www.thecalifornian.com/story/sports/2019/02/18/ccs-wrestling-finalists-win-athlete-week-honors/2906504002/
Ayrton Ostly, Salinas Californian Published 12:07 p.m. PT Feb. 18, 2019 | Updated 3:40 p.m. PT Feb. 19, 2019
The high school sports schedule is in the midst of Central Coast Section (CCS) playoffs, with basketball and soccer games continuing through this week.
But two players stood out on the mat in the CCS championships: Palma wrestler Saul Gonzalez and Everett Alvarez wrestler Kaelyn Siason. Each made the CCS finals in their weight class at the tournament last weekend and both will be headed to the state tournament starting Thursday.
Salinas is home to six high schools chock full of talented athletes who put on highlight-level performances every week.
To put a spotlight on these athletes and their accomplishments, The Salinas Californian runs weekly online polls throughout the season for a boys' and girls' athlete of the week.
Here are the winners this week:
Kaelyn Siason, Everett Alvarez
Wrestling's in the family for the junior. Her brother, Riley, was a took multiple CCS medals in his career and is on the mat for Menlo College as a freshman this year.
She's also a member of one of the best youth wrestling squads in the area — the Amateur Wrestling Academy in Gilroy — and finished fourth in her weight class at the 2018 Flo Reno Worlds.
This week, she added a new title to her resume: CCS champion.
Siason was seeded second in the 116-pound category going into the championships following a prolific season and had a chance to improve on her fourth-place finish from 2018.
She powered through the first three rounds with a pair of pins and a major decision. That set her up with a spot in the championship round against powerhouse Menlo Atherton's Paolo Ramirez and she delivered.
The junior took home her first CCS title with a 4-2 decision and will head south to Bakersfield for the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF) state championships.
CCS CHAMP 🥇 pic.twitter.com/TaRfTbHE1S
— Kat (@kaelynsiason) February 17, 2019
Saul Gonzalez, Palma wrestling
Palma's Saul Gonzalez (far right) finished second in the CCS wrestling championships and earned enough votes for the Californian's Boys' Athlete of the Week. (Photo: Palma Wrestling/Via Twitter)
On the boys' side, another local wrestler was owning the mat. Palma's Gonzalez finished the season on a high with a Pacific Coast Athletic League (PCAL) title in the 145-pound weight class.
That earned him a no. 2 seed as well in the CCS championships. Gonzalez had finished second last year at a lower weight class (138) and had a chance to perform well at a higher weight as a senior.
He was on a tear on his way to the finals. The four matches leading up to the final against perennial CCS champion Gilroy's John Fox lasted just over five minutes in total. Four pins within the opening minutes of each bout earned him a spot in the finals against Fox.
Though Fox won the bout, Gonzalez is headed to the CIF State tournament on Thursday as well. He's one of two wrestlers (sophomore Zak Thompson) who are representing the Chieftains in Bakersfield this weekend on the mat.
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Dundee carer accused of groping colleagues in front of residents
by Nadia Vidinova
July 11 2019, 8.28am Updated: July 11 2019, 9.05am
Dundee Sheriff Court.
A pair of women wept as they described how a colleague sexually assaulted them in the presence of elderly residents at a Dundee care home.
The women were giving evidence in the trial of Washington Manenji, who is accused of a series of sex attacks during nights shifts at the facility.
One of the alleged victims told the court how Manenji turned the light off in a resident’s bedroom and groped her while she was trying to turn on a radiator.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said: “I went to close the window and I heard the light switch go off.
“I could hear the resident muttering. I asked Washington to put the light on, but nothing happened.
“I couldn’t see anything but I knew he was there. I felt a big hand grope my bum and between my legs.”
The woman added that she panicked and begged the accused to put the light back on, which he eventually did and said “I’m sorry.”
She said she then went to fill in some paperwork and was followed by Manenji, who allegedly rubbed her shoulders and slid his hands into her top.
Earlier that evening, he was said to have rubbed her arm and clasped her hand after making a “joke” about breaking her arm.
The woman added: “I felt intimidated and scared.”
The alleged incidents were said to have happened on December 2 and 3 2017 during one overnight shift at the home, which can’t be named in order to protect the anonymity of the women.
Another worker claimed that less than a month earlier, on November 9, Manenji had put his arm around her and touched her breast in the smoking area.
She told the court: “He said I had pretty eyes.
“I moved his hand and said ‘no’.”
The woman added that later on in the shift, Manenji tried to pull her to him and rubbed her shoulders in front of residents in the lounge.
Manenji has denied all of the charges against him and claimed the woman had falsely accused him as she wanted to work with another colleague instead.
His position was that he had not groped the other woman in the dark and that it was the resident who had done so, to which the woman replied “no, he’s not that way inclined.”
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The Excellent Eight -- Badlands Big Sticks to send eight to All Star game
Written By: Jake Wright | Jul 11th 2019 - 7pm.
Tyler Chipman is one of eight Big Sticks players who'll be going to the upcoming All Star game. (file photo)
The Badlands Big Sticks will send eight players to the Expedition League All Star game next week. The game will be played at Corbett Field in Minot, North Dakota on July 16th.
Outfielders Nathan Sanders, Mason Schwellenbach, and Kaimana Souza-Paaluhi were selected for the game along with infielders Bryson Ford and Conner VanCleave and pitchers Malik Barrington, Tyler Chipman and Dallas Bryan.
“This just goes to show you that we have a pretty good team we have put together,” said Big Sticks General Manager Jason Watson.”We are doing good things as a league and the Big Sticks. The community treats the players well. The players are enjoying their time in Dickinson.”
VanCleave, a player at the University of Kansas, has been wreaking terror on opposing pitchers lately. He leads the league in RBI’s by a wide margin with 62, and also has nine home runs.
“Conner is a big kid and produces big hits. He is a good player and clutch with runners in scoring position,” Watson said.
Ford has been on a roll at the plate lately too as he hit grand slams on consecutive nights this past weekend against the Wheat City Whiskey Jacks. He leads the league in batting with a .410 average.
Schwellenbach, who attends Central Methodist University in Fayette, Missouri, is tied for the league lead in home runs with VanCleave.
“Mason started hot, but cooled a little toward the middle of the year,” said Watson. “The last 10 games he has been seeing the ball well. He has stepped up for us.”
Sanders has been a force behind the plate as well. He has eight home runs with 36 RBI’s and 24 stolen bases.
Souza-Paaluhi is teammates with VanCleave in college. He is batting .338 and has 21 RBI’s for the summer.
On the mound, Barrington leads the Expedition League in strikeouts with 58. He has a 4-1 record with an ERA of 3.17.
Chipman has 31 strikeouts in 31 innings of work. His record is 5-1 with a 4.26 ERA. He attends Gonzaga University.
Rounding out the Big Sticks All Stars is Bryan who is a relief pitcher. Bryan has an ERA of 3.95 with 14 strikeouts and only four walks in 13.2 innings pitched.
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Rafael Nadal ruthless in beating Roger Federer at Australian Open
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Fri 24 Jan 2014 06.31 EST First published on Fri 24 Jan 2014 06.31 EST
Rafael Nadal will have to beat Swiss players back to back to win his second Australian Open on Sunday, and may have a slightly tougher time of it against Stanislas Wawrinka than he did in a curiously uneven semi-final against Roger Federer on Friday.
The world No1 took two hours and 23 minutes to win 7-6, 6-3, 6-3 – his 23rd victory over the Swiss, in 33 matches, moving him to within a win of drawing alongside Pete Sampras on 14 slam titles – and three behind Federer. Sampras was in the audience at the Rod Laver Arena, the first time he saw them play each other live.
"I never thought about 13 grand slams, or 14 either," Nadal said. "I need to keep playing great to win this title. Stan's serve is huge, and he is hitting the ball very hard. I will try to play the same as I did tonight. When I play with Roger, it's a very special feeling. We play a lot of times for important things in our career. He's a really great champion, and it's an honour to play him. We played some tough rallies in the first set, he was playing some very aggressive tennis. I think tonight I played my best tennis of the tournament. After missing last year, it is very emotional for me to be back on this court."
Nadal tried to downplay the effect of a blister on his left hand and it did not seem to inconvenience him unduly – at least not as much as in his quarter-final win over Grigor Dimitrov. "Too much talk about the blister," he said. "It is OK. It is the position of the blister, it is difficult to cover. Normal life, it is OK, but to play the best players in the world it is a challenge. I have a very tough opponent in Wawrinka. He's played some amazing tennis. He will come to the final with a lot of confidence."
At the beginning, this semi-final had the feel of a major prizefight, Nadal's Joe Frazier to Federer's Muhammad Ali. And the crowd might have been divided down those lines, too, leaning towards Roger, as ever, perhaps 75-25, craving artistry and style over strength and doggedness. In the early exchanges, Federer's sharper ground strokes, with subtle changes in direction and weight, as well as his new-found eagerness to kill the point at the net at the earliest opportunity, kept Nadal on the back foot. Going into the match, Federer had won 135 of 178 net approaches, and Nadal was sometimes three metres behind the baseline when receiving, and not much further forward after serving, so wary was he of his opponent's aggression.
Nadal was the first to get into a spot of trouble, having to fight through deuce to hold in eight minutes for 2-2 after a quarter of an hour. Then a stinging cross-court return and a passing shot down the left flank that only Nadal could conjure gave him two break points in the seventh game. But he failed to handle the tricky wind inside the open-roofed arena and his last shot of the game was a shanked forehand that skewed into the seats.
It was Federer's turn to suffer in the breeze in the ninth game, as he double-faulted and netted to give Nadal his third break point, but hung on, and the Spaniard had to serve to stay in the set at 4-5 after 36 minutes. He held with an ace – as did Federer for a 6-5 lead. The pressure was back on Nadal – who held to force the tie-break, then won it, Federer's final forehand floating long.
However, after holding to 30 in the first game of the second set, Nadal needed his blister tended to – not a good sign. It did not matter. When Federer slapped a forehand wide in the sixth game, Nadal led 4-2 and comfort flooded his tennis, the pain of his wound forgotten. He closed out the set and his confidence rose appreciably.
It was Federer's turn to struggle, and he did not handle the challenge so well. The fightback never really took off, from an unpromising deficit, and, when he netted another backhand volley, he fell 2-1 behind in the third, with the end beckoning more quickly be the shot. He delayed the fall to break back at 2-2, but Nadal forced him wider and deeper, and Federer faced a mountain when serving to stay in the match at 3-5.
He went down in flames, of course, belting an ace and making one final charge at the net, only to be passed again for deuce. There was absolutely nothing he could do about Nadal's arrowed passing shot for a second match point and he was resigned, maybe even a little relieved, when the agony ended on the end of his concluding forehand, which sailed harmlessly over the baseline.
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Swede arrested over shooting of teenager in Denmark
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People at the scene of the shooting of Servet Abdija in October last year. Photo: Sofie Mathiassen/Ritzau Scanpix
A 34-year-old Swedish citizen has been arrested on suspicion of shooting 16-year-old Servet Abdija in Copenhagen in October last year.
The suspect was arrested in Zealand on suspicion of the teenager's murder and was remanded in custody for 25 days on Friday afternoon, broadcaster DR reports.
The man was assisted by a Swedish-speaking interpreter at the preliminary hearing, DR writes. He is reported to be a Swedish citizen with heritage in the former Yugoslavia.
Part of the preliminary hearing was conducted behind closed doors, but the 34-year-old is reported to be under suspicion of killing Abdija as well as possessing weapons.
The arrest in Zealand has been planned by police for some time, DR writes, with the man having been placed under arrest in absentia in July this year.
A number of police raids in southern Sweden have also been carried out as part of the investigation, in which both Danish and Swedish investigators have participated.
Last month, weapons connected to the crime came into police possession.
Teenager Abidja died after being shot six times at close range on October 16th last year near his family's home on the border of Copenhagen's Nørrebro and Østerbro districts. His mother is reported to have heard the shots being fired from inside the family apartment.
Three masked men, who were dressed in black, were subsequently seen fleeing the scene on foot. They are thought to have waited for the victim for around 45 minutes before the attack.
The day before the shooting, three masked men were seen in the same area, where they were in contact with a fourth man in a dark car.
The victim was not known to have any connections to criminal networks in the Danish capital, police previously told DR.
Lead investigator Hans Erik Raben told news agency Ritzau on Friday that further arrests in the case were possible.
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Rita 'The Drunk' (8 Episodes)
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The Hutch perfectly plays his role as the asshole, irritating everyone, but winning "immunity" in a game called "Hands on a High-Priced Hooker." Matt forms an alliance with Gina, the schemer, but doesn't know what to do when he's caught in a setup in which the other players find her secret notebook where she's been writing mean things about them. In the first ridiculous "Riches to Rags" eviction ceremony, Gina is booted from the game and Matt ends up all too happy with it, after he deduces that she cast her vote for him.
Kip takes the opportunity to share some of the photos he's collected in his creature comfort item - his photo album. Molly is relieved when she learns that her suspicions that Matt has caught on to the fakeness of the show are misplaced. A "Pampering Competition" features the supposed dirty laundry of the various cast members and makes them dress up in funny outfits. The guys lose this competition, allowing Hutch to pull a prank in which he replaces the photos in Kip's album with ones of his own ass. At dinner, Ralph gives all the players autographed headshots of themselves. Later, everyone says nice things to each other in the hot-tub.
Ashleigh reveals to Matt that she has a secret crush on Ralph, the host and also that she thinks that Molly may not be as innocent as she seems. Matt is not impressed and begins scheming to try and vote her off the show. The Immunity Challenge showcases the various castmembers displaying special talents, such as Kip doing bad magic and Matt beatboxing. Hutch "wins" this competition, judged by Ralph and Survivor 2's Jerri Manthey, by performing a moving rendition of "America the Beautiful." Emotions run high at the "Riches to Rags" eviction ceremony. Matt's plan does not go as he had hoped and it is Earl who is evicted from the show. Matt takes his ejection hard, along with the rest of the cast and everyone involved with the project is left wondering if it's right to continue it.
The game continues, despite the tension caused by the previous week's evention of Earl. Matt is shocked to learn of an apparent one-night stand between Dr. Pat and Hutch. The immunity competition causes real trauma for Dr. Pat - she's knocked down and hurt by Matt in a sumo uniform and has to be taken to the hospital. Matt later gives her his prize for winning the sumo competition before the start of the immunity game, Master Debater, which Matt wins. The "Riches to Rags" ceremony features a special offer - a $25,000 reward if she will leave the game voluntarily.
The drama between Molly and Ashleigh continues when Ralph pulls aside Molly for a private conference. The Pampering Competition forces Ralph to dress up in a bee custome, something with which he is not at all happy about. Matt and Molly are paired up in the competition and lose and they face the penalty, being handcuffed to each other for the rest of the day. Molly's fake boyfriend comes by to play the guitar for and sing a song, but goes ballistic when he sees her chained to Matt and wearing a bikini. Ralph makes an "executive decision" to remove the handcuffs and then the two of them go off for a little private time, while Matt laments that the show is "starting to f'in drive him crazy." Ashleigh wins an immunity challenge that's Matt's worst nightmare - models covered with chocolate, which he finds gross. Her immunity turns out not to matter because at "Riches to Rags," the Hutch is tossed out of the game for making threats towards Kip, but not before grabbing his collector's plate out of Ralph's hands and thrusting it into the fireplace.
The Hutch returns to the show, along with a legal-sounding document aimed at Matt, who had spent some time at law-school. With his return, Ralph announces that it's "Double Trouble Day" - two people will win immunity, but two will be sent packing. Matt balks at a gross food challenge that would supposedly require him to eat dog feces - leading to a meeting with a Spike TV executive. The over-the-top executive convinces Matt to get Molly and Ashleigh to kiss, so that they can all win the prize for the competition - a 42 inch television. Later, both Matt and Hutch win immunity in a rigged Lord of the Manor Immunity Showdown which didn't go quite as planned. At the "Riches to Rags" ceremony, Molly and Kip are ejected and Ashleigh gets another opportunity to whine about Molly's supposed flirting, when Ralph lets her keep her ceremonial collector's plate and then the two of them kiss.
At the top of the episode, host Ralph reveals a surprise Sudden Death eviction. Matt goes through the motions of plotting to vote out his friend Brian, but in the Sudden Death ceremony, with Ralph wearing the immunity robe, Matt, Brian and Hutch all vote out Ashleigh. After an appropriately snotty speech, she leaves and then the entire cast returns, as the final ceremony will be coming shortly, to determine the winner of $100,000. A final dinner causes a minor panic in Brian and Hutch when Matt reveals that he thought that maybe the fake network executive from the previous episode could be an actor. At the final ceremony, Brian, Hutch and Matt answer questions posed to them by the evicted cast and then a vote is held to determine the "winner of $100,000." Five out of six votes are revaled, but the sixth is left a mystery, to be shown in the season finale.
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An altercation between four men, who knew each other, started outside the Los Pinos restaurant about 7:30 p.m. The restaurant is at 228 Washington Ave. SE, Drake said.
He declined to say what might have prompted the fight. The group does not appear to have been inside Los Pinos before, he said.
At one point, the 22-year-old man pulled out a knife and attacked. He was booked into the Pierce County Jail for investigation of two counts of first-degree assault, records show.
The News Tribune does not generally name suspects before they have been charged with a crime.
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Bad Karma Leads to DUI Arrest
As Labor Day weekend kicks off, this fellows fate should serve as a reminder to all of us that stiffing your bartender is never a good thing:
Police: Unpaid bar tab leads to arrest on DWI charge
PORTSMOUTH — A Rye man was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated after a restaurant worker phoned police to say he and another man left without paying their drink tab, according to police.
Just before 9 p.m. Monday, police were called by an employee of Kim Lai at 559 Lafayette Road, who said, “two intoxicated males didn't pay for their drinks and now they are leaving the parking lot drunk,” according to the city's public police log. Based on a witness description, the suspects' car was stopped by an officer on Sagamore Road, police said. The driver, Griffin York, 32, of 1359 Ocean Blvd., is charged with DWI, according to police.
Meanwhile, the passenger was released to a third party and a friend paid the bar tab at the restaurant, police said.
After he was booked, York was released on personal recognizance bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Oct. 15 in the Portsmouth Circuit Court.
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Gratitude Week's Appreciation Wall 16th - 20th May
"Expressing gratitude puts you in control. Able to shift your perception and improve at least one thing about your day. Not sure? It will take you less than 1 minute to test. The data says it will help you. Worst case you help someone else. When we express kindness to others we find it easier to be kind to ourselves."
Sam Thorogood - Tiny Pause & Gratitude Week Founder
Mandy Meldreth to Ellie Harris
Thank you for being a fantastic daughter.
← Cathy Pauley at CRUK to Jackie CoulsonK Barden at Cambridge Assessment to Sam & Susan @tinypause.co.uk →
What key people are saying + Gratitude Facts:
"Expressing gratitude is a profound sign of a relationship, and is often far more deeply appreciated than we can ever realise. It’s a positive, even a healing thing. So Gratitude Week is a wonderful opportunity to make it clear that care and service do indeed make important relationships, and that they work both ways, for giver and receiver. "
Dr Rowan Williams, Master Magdalene College Cambridge University
"My gratitude goes to Cambridge in a wide sense, because of the breadth of transition we are experiencing.In particular, I would like to recognise Dr Jane Osbourn, VP for Research & Development at MedImmune for the remarkable role she has played in making our vision for Cambridge a reality.With our talented team and the support of the Cambridge community, I am convinced we will together make a tremendous and real difference to the lives of patients in Cambridge, in the UK and around the world.”
Gratitude Week quote - Pascal Soriot, Chief Executive Officer, AstraZeneca
"I would like to thank teachers and all those involved in education everywhere for their work in helping children today so that tomorrow can be better. Societies progress by developing the values, skills, knowledge and aspirations of their young people. Schools and colleges are central to this essential task and in bringing the best out of children they enhance the future."
Ed Wiseman, Headmaster, Perse School
"I would like to express my gratitude for the hard work of city council staff whose contributions can often pass by unappreciated. They are all committed to doing their best for the city and our residents and Cambridge is a much better place as a result of their efforts."
Antoinette Jackson, Chief Executive, Cambridge City Council
“In my world of continual performance measures, it is all-too-easy to concentrate on those that require improvement rather than recognise those that continue to excel: So I would like to take this opportunity to offer my personal thanks to our employees for every time that they have “gone the extra mile” and not just delivered satisfaction but delight; thank you.”
Jamie Vindis - Vindis Group
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Skyscanner launches on Microsoft Cortana as one of the first third party skills
By Akshay Sharma on May 13, 2017 | News
Skyscanner was recently announced as one of the first ever third party skills on Cortana. With this, users will be able to ask a range of questions to gather information through the personal assistant. Almost all the major tech companies have their versions of assistants, not only limited to mobile but taking a more central spot in our everyday lives as stand-alone devices.
Amazon has got Alexa accessible through its Echo devices, Google has got its assistant accessible through mobile devices and Google Home devices, Microsoft has Cortana available for mobile devices and its own Edge desktop browser and Apple has got Siri which is rumoured to be soon accessible via hardware Apple will launch. Industry experts have often claimed that we will continue to increase dependance on voice to interect with our devices and the tech companies are racing each other to find a prominent spot for themselves.
Skyscanner search was added as an Amazon Alexa skill near the end of last year. The skill could be used to find and compare flights. The recently launched Cortana skill also offers functionality related to flights only. One can ask about indicative pricing on any route, find suitable time to book flights and also check flight status.
Filip Filipov, Product Director at Skyscanner said of the news: “This is our first Artificial Intelligence skill using short interactions which is uniquely capable of conducting conversations and handling queries over voice and via text on screen. Once again, Skyscanner has taken a trail-blazing approach when it comes to building the most innovative conversational search tools for travel search. We believe that having the ability to ask simple, direct questions relating to flight information on any device enabled with the Cortana personal assistant is another step in offering a truly dynamic and informed eco-system of information to travellers on an unrivalled range of devices and contexts.”
Skyscanner has always been agile when it comes to experimenting with new solutions. The metasearch brand was among the first ones to launch a Facebook Messenger chat bots to search flights and also was among the initial brands onboard Google Assistant when it was first announced at Google I/O.
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SpiceJet weighing the option to enter long haul market with widebody aircrafts
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Google Glass goes off the market
Thu., Jan. 15, 2015
SAN FRANCISCO—Google will stop selling its Internet-connected eyewear to consumers until the company can develop a more polished and affordable version that’s less likely to be viewed as a freakish device.
The sales moratorium on the nearly two-year-old “Explorer” edition of Google Glass goes into effect Jan. 19. The decision announced Thursday coincides with Glass’ spin-off from the secretive Google X lab, where it was invented.
Prince Charles in Google Glass. Google took the device off the consumer market Thursday. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press)
Glass will now operate in a division run by veteran marketing executive Ivy Ross. “I think the move today reflects its maturity, moving Glass out of skunkworks into product development,” said Jon Fisher of CrowdOptic, one of five certified developers that have worked with Glass.
Glass is a hands-free device featuring a thumbnail-sized screen above the wearer’s right eye. It arrived on the consumer market less than a year ago but seemed to appeal to a very small demographic of early adopters. It cost $1,500 (U.S.) and also raised privacy concerns for its potential to secretly take pictures and videos.
The wearable device championed by Google cofounder Sergey Brin struggled to gain traction as a consumer item last year and was frequently lampooned for its social awkwardness.
Even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg seemed to pan the devices this week during a visit to South America.
“I think it’s pretty easy to imagine that in the future we will have something that we can wear,” Zuckerberg said during a question-and-answer session he held in Colombia. “It will look just like normal glasses — it won’t look weird like some of the stuff that exists today.”
With files from the Star’s wire services
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On the Bachelor finale, drama means exposing a woman’s pain for a TV audience
By Debra Yeo Toronto Star
Tues., March 13, 2018
The most dramatic ending in Bachelor history is what viewers were promised.
If by dramatic ABC meant the most voyeuristically exploitative, then yes, promise fulfilled.
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Contestant Becca Kufrin on her way to learn her fate in the season finale of The Bachelor. (PAUL HEBERT / ABC)
Contestant Lauren Burnham on her way to learn her fate in the season finale of The Bachelor. (PAUL HEBERT / ABC)
On Monday, we watched Arie Luyendyk Jr. waffle between Becca Kufrin and Lauren Burnham before finally proposing to Becca. And then, over a third hour, we watched Arie break up with Becca — in unedited, split-screen video — to try to reunite with Lauren.
That a Bachelor would change his mind is not unprecedented; Jason Mesnick did it in 2009.
In Arie’s case it wasn’t even unexpected. Rumours had been floating around for weeks that he would renege on his engagement (rumours even I couldn’t avoid despite my best efforts to stay away from spoilers).
But what was unprecedented was that ABC and Warner Bros. gave us more than 20 minutes of raw footage of a woman having her heart ripped out.
“What you’re about to watch is so real and raw we thought it would be best if we showed it to you unedited in real time,” said host Chris Harrison, who was presiding over the whole three-ring circus live from a studio in Los Angeles.
Best for who? Not for Becca.
We got to study the stunned expression on her face when she realized Arie was dumping her for Lauren, note the moment when she took the engagement ring off her finger and listen to her sobs through a bathroom door. There was no relief from the cameras and microphones for her, nor from Arie, who refused to leave despite being asked to do so several times, just sitting on a couch watching in mopey silence as Becca cried into her shirt.
She deserved better than to have what should have been private pain exploited for the sake of revving up the drama in an otherwise tedious season. And given that she’ll have to face Arie — and Lauren — again in a live After the Final Rose on Tuesday night, ABC will squeeze a little more dubious entertainment out of Becca’s pain.
In the meantime, here’s what led up that sorry conclusion.
Meet the parents: This part of the episode was pure Bachelor boilerplate: nervous final two meet their suitor’s parents and other family members, who are expected to pass judgment on the women and help him decide which one is wife material. The visits varied from the routine in two particulars: Arie’s family members would not shut up about their visit with Lauren, who met them first, in their conversations with Becca (which in hindsight seems an awful lot like foreshadowing); and they actually gave Arie advice, eschewing the usual “it’s all up to you, son” fence-sitting. At first, mom Mieke thought Lauren was “the one,” but after meeting Becca she told Arie, “I just love Lauren, but I think Becca would be better for your future … because I think you have to reassure Lauren all the time about your love and Becca stands on her own.”
Final dates: Arie seemed to be leaning toward taking his mom’s advice, but he had one more date with Lauren to get through. And lo and behold, his doubts about Lauren seemed to wash away with the rain over Machu Picchu. It may have seemed like the same old Lauren to everybody watching but, to Arie, Lauren had changed: she was being open and vulnerable and relaxed and confident. “I thought I really had my feelings sorted out, but today Lauren’s found her way into my heart,” he said.
Later, in Lauren’s hotel suite, Lauren and Arie professed their love (for the umpteenth time) and they daydreamed about a life together that sounded bland as hell, all morning coffee and weekends at the dog park and making dinner at home. I bet Arie was picturing them snuggling in matching cardigans before (early) bedtime.
When he left with more “I love you’s” he claimed he could have proposed right then and there.
Except he had one more date with Becca.
They walked through Cusco in the rain, trying on sweaters, petting alpaca and battling their nerves over what lay ahead, and then spent an evening in Becca’s hotel suite. And just as he had with Lauren, Arie veered from doubt to — well, not certainty exactly — but a reluctance to part with her, laced with kisses and “I love you’s.”
“I’m in love with Becca. Tonight I could really feel how much she loved me and I could really feel how much she wanted us,” Arie said.
Decision day: It took him until that very morning, but Arie claimed he finally knew who was getting the Neil Lane ring — and it wasn’t Lauren.
Lauren was so confident of a proposal that she didn’t even seem to notice how sad Arie looked as she gave her customary finale day speech (a bit of ritual humiliation for the loser that persists from season to season).
“Looking back at all the signs now, I know that I loved you all along. You have what I’ve been looking for my whole life,” Lauren said. But she finally clued in that the fairy tale was over when Arie began shaking his head.
Something was holding him back, he said, “and I can’t go through with it,” even though he had fallen in love with her.
“I don’t even know what to say,” Lauren responded.
Except she knew exactly what to say as the SUV carried her away crying: “How can you get down on one knee if you weren’t sure till three hours ago?”
The answer is you shouldn’t, as previous contestant Bekah so sagely noted during the live part of the finale. But Arie went ahead and did it anyway after he and Becca exchanged speeches about how much they loved each other.
“I choose you today and I choose you every day from here on out,” said Arie before popping the question. Cue the jubilation, the laughing, the kissing, the cheering. It looked like any other Bachelor finale, not that those have generally led to happily ever afters either.
The breakup: At first we saw post-proposal footage of Arie and Becca looking happy together, and then Arie started talking in confessional about how he couldn’t stop thinking about Lauren. “Just thinking about the possibility of something with Lauren is making me want to risk it all. I feel I made a mistake,” he said.
Becca was oblivious to this, having arrived in L.A. expecting to spend a “happy couple weekend” with Arie. Then Arie walked into the house with a couple of camera crews in tow and Becca started getting nervous.
Arie said he was struggling and trying to sort out his feelings, and “the more I hung out with you the more I felt like I was losing the possibility of maybe reconciling things with Lauren.”
“So what, you want back with her?” Becca said.
“I want to see if there’s that possibility,” said Arie.
“Are you f--king kidding me?” replied Becca.
No, he wasn’t. He continued to talk about how conflicted he had been in Peru and how he had been thinking about Lauren lately when he woke up and before he went to bed, and all sorts of things that were hard for Becca to hear, and she interjected with “Oh my god” and “Oh my f-king god.” And finally she had enough and walked away from him.
Arie followed her into the bedroom, where she was packing, claiming they should talk some more. “I want you to go,” she said. And he did, but then he came back in and knocked on the bathroom door where Becca had gone to cry.
“Hey, are you OK?” asked Arie.
Uh, well, you just told her you were leaving her for another woman, so probably not.
“Just leave. What are you still doing here?” responded Becca, asking what all of us were thinking.
But Arie didn’t leave. He followed Becca around and even tried to rub her neck. And then he sat on the couch next to her as she cried into her T-shirt, which is when he finally said he was sorry. And he also said he wanted Becca to know how he was feeling — like, who cares? — which still didn’t adequately explain why he kept hanging around after Becca asked him to leave three more times. Finally he did go while Becca bent over double with her crying.
The next thing we saw was Becca in the studio with Harrison, getting such hearty cheers from the audience that Harrison had to pause before he could continue the show.
Becca told him she still loves Arie, but she feels betrayed “just because I feel like I was lied to for so long.” Becca also said she has a ton of questions for Arie, whom she hasn’t talked to since the breakup. She’ll get to ask some of them as the finale continues with a two-hour After the Final Rose on Tuesday night.
It airs at 8 p.m. on ABC.
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Top Ten Strongest Cartoon Characters from Cartoon Network
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1 Raven Raven is a fictional superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character first appeared in a special insert in DC Comics Presents #26, and was created by writer Marv Wolfman and artist George Pérez.
Well I don't really think she is the most powerful hero but she's still okay enough
Buttercup is cool but raven is the best
Raven could destroy the world if she wanted to who does Not call that power she is way stronger than the power puff girls and any other cartoon network caricature in a fight
Not only is she the most powerful CN character she's also my favorite of the titans tied with Robin. And while the extremely infamous reboot (which is decent in my opinion) turned her into a brony the same goes for that show too. - GGGofluckyourself
2 Nicole Watterson
Humiliates all other characters here
The toughest mom in all cartoons and better than all mom in other cartoons
She can move faster than sound burn and melt things by looking at them she can steel souls she can grow muscles at will a master in h2h combat and even make radiations than can vibrate a whole city with only 2 fingers and she could even make radiations able to move richard just by looking at him
3 Buttercup She is the one of the three main characters in the show The Powerpuff Girls. She was first created by Craig McCracken in 1992. She has short raven hair and green eyes with a green dress. She is known as the "toughest fighter" for her tomboyish attitude, being aggressive, and her love for fighting crime. ...read more.
Buttercup should be number 1, I mean she killed a giant gorilla with one punch only, no weapons, no one to help her, just herself, as shown in the movie. She can make people and monsters bleed easily, in only like a few punches or maybe even one, she makes villians bleed, just watch the intro. She lifted up Him as a giant and slammed him from side to side and beated up a whole tons of giant spiders in a few seconds, as shown in Power Noia.
Without her I wouldn't like powerpuff girls
4 Garnet
She can swim in lava
The eader of crystal gems. AAAH...! I love her. tough outside, sweet inside. she's perfect. despite the fact that she is a fusion, but seriously how awesome she is. the crystal gems never ever be complete without the "muscle" of the team
5 Blossom Blossom is the leader of The Powerpuff Girls and one of the three main protaganists of the show. She was created in 1992 by Craig McCracken. She has long, red hair up in a ponytail with a giant red bow, pink eyes, pink dress with black belt, and white socks with Mary Jane shoes. She is intelligent, ...read more.
The strongest powerpuff girl ever!
Shes a badass
6 Starfire Starfire is the name of several fictional comic book characters appearing in books published by DC Comics.
7 Johnny Bravo
He's hilarious but come on, he gets his ass handed to him by everyone in the whole show! (Excluding Carl) - GGGofluckyourself
8 Skips
He is deathless
9 Blackfire
10 Bismuth
? Finn Finn 'the Human' Mertens is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the American animated television series Adventure Time created by Pendleton Ward.
? The Lich The Lich (formerly named the Lich King in the original pitch and "His Hero," and referred to as Sweet Pig Trunks in his baby form, or just Sweet P for short) is a powerful undead being and a major antagonist in the American animated series Adventure Time.
11 Cyborg
12 Ben Tennyson
Why the heck is ben13th. I'm well vexed with all the abilities of the characters above, and they are nothing to Ben. Besides Alien X, Ben has done other things too such as re writing the timeline of his whole multiverse with clockwork. Ben has contained the Big Bang. Ben has also been punched light years from one planet to another. He can also destroy moons so easily n dish out punches with planet busters such as Vilgax, Albedo etc etc. Ben has gone so fast he slowed down time and contained devices hotter than a star/sun with upchuck. Ben can also go faster than the speed of light with aliens such as jet ray and chromastone. Ben has threw 100 tons villains like vilgax when a giant light years away with way big. Ben has also gone super nova with heat blast. Besides he has so many powers such as intangibility, mind control, time manipulation, possession etc etc. Ben cannot be mind controlled by Raven considering he survived a planetary mind control attack. He can't die for the omnitrix ...more
When his universe was destroyed he basically made an exact copy,except for his favorite drinks from a food chain on earth, he later on went back in time to make sure the big bang was not stopped by a villain, and used another alien known as feedback to hold and contain the big bang instead of using alien x on acident,but it worked he easily handled it and let it be properly released to create his universe by returning it to the 5th dimensional creatures, who were about to create the universe. Plus Ben 10 can just copy the dna of any living thing, and when he does the watch perfects the dna creating the most perfect and healthy form of the species or what ever evolved form the species can achieve, if your body becomes 20x more durable and you can rip apart mountains it's a mutation and will relfect in the dna when scanned. Ben could just rescan if the species mutates again with more useful stuff. Alien X can do anything, then there's over 1 million species of great use in the watch and ...more
Ben has an alien whom is omnipotent, an alien that can control time, and the omnitrix doesn't allow him to die. For these reasons I feel that he needs to be the top on this list by far.
One more thing, he can scan any alien and their DNA gets transferred to the omnitrix so he can turn into that species. I can say much more but I think that Alien X speaks for itself.
Full of creative and powerful alien in a single 'watch' i. e., omnitrix! Thanks for voting.
13 Samurai Jack "Jack" (also known as Samurai Jack or simply The Samurai) is the alias taken by a Japanese warrior (with an unknown birth name) who acts as the titular protagonist of the cartoon Samurai Jack. Throughout the series, he is voiced by Phil LaMarr.
Must I mention his feats before you realise he is the strongest character in the cartoon network brand? He has taken out enemies more powerful than everybody on this list. I recall him beating elemental Gods. Not enough? How about the titan of time? Still not enough? He killed the source of all evil within a matter of ten seconds! Did anybody else on this list do anything like that. No. I don't think so.
What on earth? He needs to be number 1! On the top ten strongest cartoon characters list he's number 1! This is the same...
Samurai jack is the strongest cartoon network for a multitude of reasons being one he is trained in multiple fighting styles,having the will to travel back to the past to fight aku a demon shapeshifter. Samurai jack once traveled to the same place the powerpuff girls lived and it was in ruins so aku killed the powerpuff girls.Ice bear is no match for a samurai. Samurai jack just has to chop bismuths gem and defeat her.Blackfire is evil so one hit with his katana would defeat her.Skips is an ape I mean come on.Cyborg and raven may be the only threats but seeing as cyborg is a machine like samurai jack has dealt with his whole samurai life that's just another day in fighting for him,Raven is good but posseses evil so again one hit with his katana raven has trouble fighting people jack could wreck.Nicole waterson is a cat who is no match for a samurai and the rest jack could destroy
14 Rex Salazar
15 Superman Superman is a comic character. And probably the first powerful superhero in the fictional world. The character was created by writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, high school students living in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1933. It was published by DC comics. The first animated superhero movie was superman. ...read more.
16 Ice Bear (We Bare Bears)
Ice Bear does not suck, it's just your silly own messed up opinion that says it.
Ice bear sucks, there I said it. He's the poor man's Ferb Fletcher and also the most overrated character of the whole show. - GGGofluckyourself
Ice bear than icole watterson
17 Trigon Trigon is a demon, a comic book character published by DC Comics. He is one of the most powerful beings in the DC Universe, having enslaved many worlds.
18 Bubbles Bubbles is the deuteragonist in the animated television series The Powerpuff Girls, along with her sisters Blossom and Buttercup. She was created in 1992 by Craig McCraken for Cartoon Network's The Powerpuff Girls . She has blonde hair in two pigtails, blue eyes, blue dress with a black belt, and white ...read more.
BOO BUBBLES
19 SpongeBob SquarePants SpongeBob SquarePants is a fictional character and the titular character and protagonist of the American animated television series of the same name.
I think he is the funniest one but actually I never seen this show even I see him in google had a funny acts
He's good. But he's dam nick
He is the strongest.
20 Lapis Lazuli Lapis Lazuli is a character from the 2013 Cartoon Network series Steven Universe. She is a homeworld gem who got trapped in a magical mirror on Earth for thousands of years who was then freed and healed by Steven Universe. She has hydrokinesis abilities which include manipulating water, forming clones ...read more.
It's a joke that's she's 20 she beat garnet and can crush the powerpuffs
Send her to moon, bam, she's weaker than peridot - GGGofluckyourself
21 Pearl (Steven Universe) Pearl is a fictional character from the 2013 animated series Steven Universe, created by Rebecca Sugar. She is a "Gem", a fictional alien being that exists as a magical gemstone projecting a holographic body. ...read more.
GREAT AT SWORDFIGHTING - bluediamondisthebest
22 Bill Cipher
He gan rip the teeth out of an animal just by clicking his fingers! That is both disturbing and awesome
23 Slade Slade is a fictional incarnation of the character Deathstroke in the American animated series Teen Titans and is the archenemy of the Teen Titans, who wants them destroyed for his own unknown reasons, and is the main antagonist of Season 1 and Season 2; He appears as a vision in Season 3, returned only ...read more.
24 Aku - Samurai Jack Aku is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Samurai Jack, an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky for Cartoon Network.
He's a cosmic horror with a super specific weakness, and even with his weakness in hand, Jack spent over fifty years trying to take him down, being evaded time and time again. - jatboy
25 Mysto (Mixels)
I think it should be sonic the hedgehog for number one he fights multiversal destroyers and wins he is the fastest thing alive!
27 Beast Boy Beast Boy is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, usually as a member of the teams Teen Titans and Doom Patrol. Created by writer Arnold Drake and artist Bob Brown, he first appeared in The Doom Patrol #99.
28 Patrick Star Patrick Star is a fictional character in the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. He is voiced by actor Bill Fagerbakke, who also voices numerous other characters on the show . Created and designed by marine biologist and cartoonist Stephen Hillenburg, the series creator, Patrick ...read more.
He doesn't even belong here! Patrick Star is owned by Stephen Hillenburg and Nickelodeon, not Cartoon Network.
Patrick has destroyed multiverses during his free time.
Patrick can destroy everyone with the power of fum. - jatboy
29 Blue Diamond
She Is The Best Can Kill The PowerPuff Girls But She Is Not Enough To Kill Raven :/ - bluediamondisthebest
Ok why is garnet in 4 but blue is not even in the top 10
WATCH REUNITED - bluediamondisthebest
30 White Diamond
We literally know nothing about her. - jatboy
31 Steven Universe
Best And strong
32 Robin (Teen Titans Go!) Robin, also known as Tim Drake, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman.
33 Steven Universe (Steven Universe)
AND STEVEN
34 Gwen Tennyson Gwendolyn "Gwen" Tennyson is a deuteragonist of the Ben 10 franchise. She is the human/anodite hybrid Plumber, the paternal first-cousin of Ben Tennyson, and (along with Kevin Levin) a frontline member of his team.
35 Robin (Teen Titans) Robin, also known as Tim Drake, is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, commonly in association with the superhero Batman.
36 Stevonnie Stevonnie is a fictional character from the 2013 animated series Steven Universe. They are a human/gem hybrid fusion of Steven Universe and Connie Maheswaran.
37 Lars
Pink lars vs robonizi
38 Yellow Diamond
YOU CLOD
39 Muscle Man (Regular Show) Mitchell (Mitch) "Muscle Man" Sorrenstein is the sixth main character of Regular Show. He is one of the groundskeepers of the Park. He is a middle-aged, green, strong, and obese human, who is often seen with his best friend, Hi Five Ghost. Muscle Man made his first debut as a cameo character in the ...read more.
40 Cobrax (Mixels)
41 Spinza (Mixels)
42 Coop with Megas XLR
Coop with megas can destroy entire planets and systems with ease. Megas literally has a button for everything. It can fire endless amounts of missiles, cannons and nukes. It has so many different weapons including a giant energy sword, a blaster that vaporizes everything, a giant flamethrower and much more... Megas XLR is powered by toon-force so it has no limits other than plot. At the end of one of the episodes Coop presses "5 minutes until the end of episode" button which causes Megas' hands to ignite and throw fiery fists.
43 Uncle Grandpa
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Senate Confirms Acosta as Labor Secretary
Groups press Acosta to further delay fiduciary rule.
By Melanie Waddell | April 27, 2017 at 05:45 PM
R. Alexander Acosta will serve as Labor Secretary. (Photo: AP)
The full Senate Thursday night confirmed, by a 60-38 vote, R. Alexander Acosta to serve as Labor Secretary.
Industry groups urged Acosta to take quick action to further delay Labor’s fiduciary rule.
“We are pleased the Senate has confirmed Alexander Acosta as Secretary of the Department of Labor,” said the Financial Services Institute in a statement. “We urge Secretary Acosta to make addressing the fiduciary rule a top priority.
With the June 9 compliance deadline looming, FSI said, “there is no time to waste in protecting retirement savers’ access to quality, affordable advice and services. We look forward to meeting with Secretary Acosta to address the concerns of our members and the retirement savers they serve.”
The American Council of Life Insurers echoed FSI’s view, stating that ACLI believes “an objective analysis of the regulation will conclude the need to rescind or revise the regulation.”
ACLI urged Secretary Acosta “to delay the fiduciary regulation until the department has completed its examination. The department’s plan to implement key aspects of the fiduciary regulation on June 9 is illogical, since it is not clear the examination will be finished by then.”
ACLI argued that the June 9 applicability date also “is confusing and harmful to consumers and the businesses providing services to them.”
The Insured Retirement Institute also urged Acosta to “complete the examination of the fiduciary rule as directed by the president, and welcome the opportunity to work with the Secretary to put in place a consistent and workable best interest standard which will allow Americans to achieve a financially secure retirement.”
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Cetera BD to Drop FINRA Registration
Summit Brokerage, with about 450 advisors and $17.5 billion in assets, should soon become part of Cetera Advisor Networks.
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Trump’s Treasury Proposes ‘Too Big to Fail’ Changes
The list of insurers officials consulted includes AIG, John Hancock, MetLife and Prudential Financial.
By Allison Bell | November 20, 2017 at 06:01 AM
U.S. Treasury Department officials agree with U.S. life insurers that the Financial Stability Oversight Council should communicate better, and show more of its work when it’s deciding whether to classify a nonbank financial company as “too big to fail.”
Treasury officials offer recommendations for changing the FSOC process for designating “systemically important financial institutions,” or SIFIs, in a new report.
Treasury officials prepared the report in response to an executive memorandum President Donald Trump put out in April
(Related: Insurers Get 180 Days of SIFI Designation Relief)
If the Trump administration changes the SIFI rules, that could help agents and brokers, by keeping the biggest issuers in the market, industry groups say. MetLife Inc., put its historic individual life and annuity operations in a separate company, Brighthouse Financial, and made other major changes in its corporate structure, after FSOC designed it as a SIFI.
Supporters of the current system, including Better Markets, have argued that the kinds of changes Treasury is proposing could eventually hurt agents and brokers, by leaving federal regulators without the information and tools they need to prevent, or handle, a future financial crisis.
Children of Dodd-Frank
Members of Congress created FSOC, and the SIFI designation program, in the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010. The drafters were responding to the Great Recession that started in 2007. In 2007, many homeowners began having trouble with making their mortgage payments. Mortgage defaults hurt the performance of mortgage-backed securities. The problems in the mortgage-backed securities hurt the performance of the credit default swaps that were supposed to protect the mortgage-backed securities holders against default risk.
Economists had taught students for years that homeowners would do everything possible to keep making mortgage payments. The increase in the default rate in 2007 shocked the lenders and the holders of the mortgage-backed securities. Managers at the credit default swap issuers, who once thought they were writing instruments comparable to alien abduction insurance, suddenly found themselves facing demands for cash collateral.
Some of the companies that wrote the credit default swaps were insurance companies and other companies outside the banking and securities sectors.
(Image: Thinkstock)
Dodd-Frank drafters tried to protect the U.S. economy from a repeat of the Great Recession, and problems erupting in markets outside of federal regulators’ field of vision, by creating FSOC.
Federal regulators were already hearing about bank industry problems from federal bank regulators, and about securities problems from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
FSOC is supposed to supplement the reports of the bank regulators and the SEC, by scanning the U.S. economy as a whole, for trends or entities that could wreck the economic system. FSOC is also supposed to designate any entities critical to economic stability as SIFIs, and to give federal regulators tools they can use to address potential systemic risk problems.
Supporters of FSOC and the current SIFI designation system say the federal government needs something like FSOC program to keep track of any problems building up outside the banking and securities sectors.
FSOC supporters also say that federal regulators need to have the flexibility to cope with new sorts of problems, and to deal with any important companies that use legal tricks to try to stay out of federal and state regulators’ reach.
Critics say the SIFI system has been too complicated and too expensive; was created by officials who showed too little understanding of how nonbank financial companies operate; and is appears to give some types of companies an unfair advantage over other types of companies.
Today, FSOC SIFI designations “result in increased regulatory costs for firms, which may be passed on to customers in the form of increased prices,” Treasury officials write in the new report. “Higher prices could lead customers to switch to more competitively priced products offered by less-regulated companies, causing a migration of activities outside the regulatory perimeter that could eliminate the financial stability that the council’s action is intended to achieve.”
In the new Treasury report, Treasury officials call for four changes to the current FSOC SIFI designation system.
The four changes proposed are:
Look at how likely an entity really is to run into financial problems.
Analyze the costs and benefits of designating an entity as a SIFI.
Improving communication with SIFI candidates and their main regulators.
Creating a clear way for a SIFI to stop being a SIFI.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin included a matter-of-fact statement about the proposed changes in the press release announcing the availability of the report.
“We identify several ways to improve FSOC’s processes for designating nonbanks and financial market utilities,” Mnuchin said in the statement. “Our recommendations include enhancing FSOC’s analytical process, implementing cost-benefit analysis, and increasing transparency.”
In the report, Treasury officials say they consulted several insurers, including American International Group Inc., John Hancock Financial, MetLife Inc. and Prudential Financial Inc.
The official also consulted with the American Council of Life Insurers, the Financial Services Roundtable, and some individuals and groups that support the current FSOC SIFI designation process, such as Better Markets and Daniel Schwarcz.
The ACLI praised the Treasury Department.
“While ACLI is reviewing the entirety of the report, we are strongly encouraged by the emphasis on improved engagement and transparency in the designation process,” Dirk Kempthorne, the ACLI’s chief executive officer, said in a statement.
At press time, the groups that back the current FSOC SIFI designation process were still digesting the report and had not yet come out with detailed reactions.
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LPL, BlackRock, BofA Look Ahead With Caution
Jeff Berman | July 15, 2019
After a strong first half of 2019, all eyes are on the Fed and trade tensions, according to the firms' midyear outlooks.
CFP Board Extends Compliance Date for New Ethics Standards
Melanie Waddell | July 16, 2019
Aligning the enforcement date with that of the SEC’s Regulation Best Interest is "helpful" to CFP professionals given the "significant overlap in the two sets of standards," said CFP Board Chair Susan John.
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The University of Queensland Hockey Club
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Welcome to UQ Hockey Club
Vale Meg Brodie
Meg was the President of the University of Qld Women's Hockey Club for 21 years from 1993 - 2014. She was also a vital lynchpin on Saturday afternoons because she chose to be a goalkeeper. She is a Life Member of UQHC, and also a Life Member of the Brisbane Women's Hockey Association for extraordinary lengthy service and an amazing level of volunteering in the sport.
Meg first joined the club in 1962 whilst studying physiotherapy at UQ. She was selected for Intervarsity as a field player in 1963 and in 1964 was awarded a Half Blue by the University for her summer passion of sailing.
Life’s adventures took Meg away from Brisbane, and away from Australia. She returned to the club in 1991 when her daughter Di joined as a university student. Meg quickly put up her hand to assist the committee of the club and within 2 years of involvement, the members elected her to be President. Meg held the role of President for 21 years until she chose to step down to work with junior club development to help create a stronger hockey club at UQ and in preparation for the turf at UQ which UQHC members now enjoy.
Meg's passion was for ensuring there were opportunities for participation for women in sport and especially in hockey which she loved. Meg was also passionate about providing competitive opportunities no matter what level of ability a player possessed. Meg had a competitive spirit for the sport so cries of “Go Uni” could frequently be heard across Downey Park where UQ was in possession and transitioning into attack. Her favourite teams (not that she would express she had a favourite) were the lowest grade Downey park team and Div1. However, if you asked her, she would also say "Oh and DP 4, 5, 3, 2,1, and the other divisions on turf, plus Masters but let's not forget the juniors because they are absolutely vital to the club and to the sport".
In addition to being President, Meg took on other hands-on roles, including uniform purchasing officer, umpiring allocations manager and team coach. Meg coached a team virtually every year she was member and she filled the gaps when teams were short a goalkeeper sometimes playing 3 games in a row on a Saturday afternoon during university exams and holidays. Meg was the person who filled gaps coaching any grass team that didn’t have a coach at training and filled gaps generally where another volunteer could not be found.
Meg was also very active in the wider hockey community. She was on the Board of UQ Sport for a time, and for a substantially longer time on the Board of Management at BWHA. She could be found on a Friday night doing technical bench duties at junior girls’ fixtures for BWHA, and also doing tech at Kedron or Redcliffe on a Sunday for turf divisions or State Hockey Centre. She managed representative BWHA teams on occasion and played Masters.
In more recent years until illness prevented, she was also responsible for managing the buildings and grounds at Downey Park, which included a very large amount of mowing and for which she conscripted her husband Andrew to assist.
Meg played hockey till she was 73 retiring around May 2017 and only stopping because of the symptoms of the illness for which medicine has no cure and ultimately took her life.
Outside of hockey, Meg worked part-time conducting drug testing of elite athletes for ASADA. This involved many athletes and teams of other sports and was a necessary job for ensuring a level playing field for all elite athletes in amateur and professional sports. It was not the kind of job which engendered enquiry about what she had gotten up to at work that day. However, it gave her opportunities to meet high profile athletes and to have a little insight into how and where others were training and what their facilities were like.
Tens of thousands of women have had the opportunity to turn up on a weekend and play a game of hockey thanks to Meg's contribution of her time to the sport over the last 28 years. She would, however, be the first to acknowledge that it takes a team of people to run a team, run a club or manage an association conducting the competition.
She expressed genuine surprise when made a life member at UQ and again when made a life member of BWHA. Her focus was on what needed to be done next not personal reward. She was however very honoured to receive both life memberships.
Meg's club highlights were the time Nikki Hudson played for the club whilst Captaining Australia, the Division 1 team's 2018 Minor Premiership and Premiership victories, the 2019 pre-season div 1 Tiger Turf win and whatever DP5 was doing any weekend.
I am most thankful for all her efforts in making the game we love fun, competitive and accessible for all. When I stand at the UQ turf or the grass fields at Downey Park I will always remember Meg because without her efforts the facilities that exist today would not exist at all or exist in a less satisfactory form. We are all richer people for the opportunity to play and enjoy the game of hockey and Meg has played a big part in enabling this experience.
I have known Meg for 28 years and observed her contributions to the club and to the sport. I am profoundly saddened by her passing as are others who have worked with Meg in delivering hockey at UQ, played hockey with her or had her as a coach. She was a fighter for better outcomes for the club, hockey generally and the hockey community. In the most recent of times and despite the inevitability of her condition she demonstrated she was still a fighter and even stronger when up against the ropes. Guy Sebastian’s lyrics in his song “Before I go” very much describes the conversation Meg had with motor neuron disease in her last days:
“ You thought you had me
You thought that I was done, but
I’m stronger up against the ropes
I am a, a fighter....
Before this fight is over
You’ll know my name before I go”
Please support the Brodie family by sending only texts or emails at this time. They have been very busy supporting Meg and especially this last week. All are very tired and need a short opportunity to recharge.
Meg's family has advised that her funeral is being held this Friday, 12th April 2019 commencing at 1:30 pm at The Little Flower Church, Kedron (80 Turner Rd, Kedron). All are welcome to attend.
Should you require any further information, it can be found in the notice appearing in Wednesday's edition of the Courier Mail.
Sue Andersen
UQHC Life Member
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Want to know what's happening at UQ Hockey, Check out the home page for all the latest events, on and off the field!
Calling all Volunteers
Do you have a talent you can share with the club?
We are a club built on the work and dedication of passionate volunteers, and we are always looking to improve the way the club functions. If you have a skill you are happy to share, or if you will try your hand at anything, drop us a line and let us know.
We would specifically love to hear from:
Anyone who is interested in helping plan the social events the club runs during the year;
Someone who has a flair for digital media; and
Anyone who loves sports writing;
Anyone who would like to learn to umpire or who can help out with umpiring 'rookey' games.
Anyone who is interested in coaching one of our junior teams.
There are plenty of new club events to be organised that need graphics designed and publicised, and we would love to get match reports from as many matches as possible each week.
If you would like to offer your time and skills please contact us!
Volunteers make our club!
For General Club enquiries please email secretary@unihockey.org.au
For information about Junior Hockey please email juniors@unihockey.org.au
For Complaints or concerns please contact: UQHC MPIO (Member Protection Information Officer)
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Introducing Rovaniemi
With Santa Claus Village, known as the home of Santa Claus, its small towns and nature, Rovaniemi is one of the most favorite winter destinations. With tours on sleds pulled by wolves or deer, ice hotels, trekking tours on the frozen lakes and the zoo where you can see arctic animals, Rovaniemi is a destination of different experiences. Do not forget to put your thickest and warmest clothes in your suitcase before leaving for Rovaniemi where you will feel chilled to the bone. Furthermore, do not return without visiting igloos and ice hotels.
Rovaniemi is known for:
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Rovaniemi airport information
Although Rovaniemi is a small city, it has its own airport. With the direct Rovaniemi Airport (RVN) flight, you can reach the city center which is located 10 km away from the Airport, in around 15 minutes.
You can also take a taxi to the city center from Rovaniemi Airport (RVN). You will need to pay an average of EUR 12 for this ride, which will take approximately 3-5 minutes.
Average taxi price: EUR 12
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Florida's new governor said today his office is filing a stay of decision in an appeal by the state Legislature which wants to make it illegal to smoke medical marijuana.
"I want people to have their suffering relieved," said Gov. DeSantis. "This law isn't up to snuff."
Last May, a judge ruled that approved patients can smoke medical marijuana. The state Legislature then appealed that decision.
On Thursday, Gov. DeSantis said he's filing a stay of decision until mid-March, to give state lawmakers more time to reform or rewrite Florida's law on medical marijuana.
He said if the Legislature doesn't reach a decision by then, his office will dismiss the state's appeal, which will effectively open the door for smokable medical marijuana.
"This thing should have been implemented, we should have moved on," said Gov. DeSantis. "For people with tough conditions, I want to do whatever I can to give these folks relief."
Gov. DeSantis has been very busy since taking office on Jan. 7 and laying out his plan for our state's future.
Earlier this week, he took issue with Airbnb for refusing to list Jewish homes in the West Bank. He also said he supports at least $2 million in funding for security at Jewish day schools.
On Monday, he appointed appellate court judge Robert Luck to Florida's Supreme Court, filling the second of three vacancies on the high court.
Last Friday, Gov. DeSantis suspended Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel over his agency's handling of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland last February.
He also called for governing board members of the South Florida Water Management District to resign during a stop in Stuart last week.
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Fox Renews New Girl for Sixth Season
Jeff Pfeiffer April 12, 2016 4:19 pm
"Every network comedy should aspire to what Liz Meriwether is achieving in New Girl," David Madden, president of entertainment for Fox Broadcasting Company, said today as the network announced that the hit series, which celebrated its 100th episode last month, is being renewed for Season 6.
And certainly every network comedy does want to last at least six seasons. But what is New Girl's—and creator/executive producer/showrunner Meriwether's—secret? According to Madden—in an explanation that plenty of fans would agree with—"[New Girl's] bravura dialogue, inventive and witty performances by the talented cast and emotionally engaging storytelling" are some keys to the show's success.
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This season has seen a critical uptick, especially when it weathered star Zooey Deschanel's maternity leave; the episodes with Megan Fox as temporary loftmate Reagan proved that the show is truly an ensemble at this point. And despite audiences that hover around 3 million per week (sometimes closer to 2 million), Fox sees the value of having New Girl continue to anchor their Tuesday night comedy block.
RELATED: New Girl: What Happens When Megan Fox Replaces Zooey Deschanel?
The keys to the show's success are on display as New Girl heads toward its Season 5 finale (a two-parter airing May 10), and the wedding of Schmidt (Max Greenfield) and Cece (Hannah Simone). Upcoming guest stars include David Walton (who appears in Tuesday's episode as Jess' former boyfriend); Megan Fox, who returns as Reagan; Damon Wayans Jr., reprising his role as Coach; Kal Penn; Nora Dunn and Rob Riggle.
"We can't wait for the next subversive and hilarious chapter of these characters' lives," Madden added.
New Girl, Tuesdays, 8/7c, Fox.
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The synovium, also referred to as the synovial membrane, is the soft tissue that lines the spaces of diarthrodial joints, tendon sheaths, and bursae. The synovium lines the entire inner surface of the joint, except where the joint is lined with cartilage. The synovium has an outer layer (subintima) and an inner layer (intima). The cells of the intima are called synoviocytes. There are two types of synoviocytes, type A (macrophage-derived) and type B (fibroblast-derived). The subintima consists of intra-articular (within the joint) vessels, such as blood vessels and lymphatic vessels, and nerves. Underneath the layer of synoviocytes, there is either adipose tissue or fibrous tissue. The synovium is where synovial fluid is produced, the substance that lubricates and nourishes the cartilage and bones inside the joint capsule.
The Synovium in Rheumatoid Arthritis
Like many other rheumatic diseases, rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease. In an autoimmune disease or condition, a person's immune system, which normally helps protect the body from infection and disease, attacks their own joint tissues for unknown reasons. In rheumatoid arthritis, immune system cells travel to the synovium and initiate inflammation (synovitis). The inflammatory process is characterized by the proliferation of synovial cells, increased vascularization, and the infiltration of tissue by inflammatory cells, including lymphocytes, plasma cells, and activated macrophages. This manifests itself as typical symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis—warmth, redness, swelling, and pain.
As rheumatoid arthritis progresses, the inflamed synovium invades and destroys the cartilage and bone of the joint. The surrounding muscles, ligaments, and tendons that support and stabilize the joint become weak and unable to work normally. These effects lead to the joint pain and joint damage typically seen in people with rheumatoid arthritis. Understanding what happens to synovium in rheumatoid arthritis helps you to understand symptoms and disease severity.
Treatments to Target Inflamed Synovium - Is It Coming?
There has been interest among researchers regarding the development of tissue-specific treatments for rheumatoid arthritis. Potentially, drugs could target the synovium with increased efficacy while having decreased systemic toxicity. If this were indeed do-able, imaging agents could theoretically be delivered to the synovium, allowing for an assessment of active synovitis in multiple joints. While there have been advancements in this area, a specific synovial receptor has yet to be discovered.
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Erdoğan’s Perpetual War
Beyond Europe, Turkey
Turkey has always been a worrisome country with less freedom that you could demand, but now, things have come to an explosive point. Since Turkey is still regarded as a, let’s say, European civilized country, it’s all the more worrying. But now… it’s no longer a European civilized country. There is of course a section of intellectuals, academics, people who read and think, people who are really the bridge towards Europe which we think much about and worry about.”
These were the words by Per Wästberg, President Emeritus of PEN International, and Chairman of the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Committee for Literature. Some weeks ago, during a visit to Turkey, along with the members of what was known as the largest PEN International delegation to ever visit a country in its history, he pointed – in an an exclusive interview for Turkey’s much admired book review website, K24 – to a person he apparently sees as solely responsible:
”Freedom has always been so precarious in this country. But of course I think the maneuvours of President Erdoğan now means a breaking point. Because he concentrates power in his own hands, and the judiciary and the parliament do not have much to say. That is a breaking point.”
Hard to disagree with Wästberg. If he sees the powerful president of Turkey as the culprit for the journey into the ‘pitch dark’, any dissident in Turkey would nod. The depiction falls upon a leader at war with most of the world.
If, as the new slogan of Washington Post says, ‘Democracy Dies in Darkness’, he is the one whose war targets it these days.
In many ways, what was once coined by the famous Time magazine cover as ‘Erdoğan’s Way’, has evolved into ‘Erdoğan’s War’ – a political warfare especially targeting the weak, the defenceless, the underdogs who choose to disagree with his way. As I keep underlining in this chronicle, Erdoğan’s War set its prime objective as darkening journalism. Although Erdoğan’s War spread to a much wider front over the past three years – since Gezi Park protests, as a milestone – the focus target remains unchanged. Why? Because journalists – particularly those in Turkey, are tough nuts, they won’t go without a fight. If the recent detention of my brave colleague, Deniz Yücel, came as the sharpest wake-up call in Germany and beyond, better see it in the context: Erdoğan’s War chooses the most unguarded, yet the most efficient and democratically conscientious professional group – journalists as priority. It’s a one-sided warfare, self-evident in its cowardice.
Further more, it is a war against all perceived enemies, driven by profound paranoia; a warfare based on the assumption that the success and political survival is only possible by blackmail, hostage taking and archaic form of negotiations. Others would see this from a different angle: Erdoğan’s War as ‘Permanent Populist Revolution’.
War, resulting as a victory against the norms of civility, as Wastberg says.
Rule # 1 is: Criminalize journalism.
Many protest Turkish government across Germany to release arrested journalist Deniz Yücel.
Figures tell exactly how ‘successful’ Erdoğan’s Perpetual War has been so far: According to the figures of Platform for Independent Journalism (P24) – an Istanbul based NGO – Yücel is 155th journalist put in Turkish prison.
This figure corresponds to more than 60 % of the total of jailed journalists worldwide, compared to the latest cumulative data issued by Reporters Without Borders (189) and Committee to Protect Journalists (259). (There are also claims that this is the highest ever number noted in a single country since the global monitoring of press freedom began.) But this only part of Erdoğan’s War; the rest spreads all around. The case of Yücel came, perhaps inevitably, like a big drop which spilled over to the already sensitive relations between Turkey and Germany.
While pressure over Chancellor Merkel rises to tell ‘enough is enough’ to Erdoğan, most recent remarks by high-rank government officials in Berlin mean that a diplomatic rift is brewing, and Turkish ambassador in Berlin was summoned to the Foreign Ministry to be handed over a protest.
The question is whether or not Erdoğan will change his mind about how he regards media and dissent at home. Bets are, that he will not blink in the least: He is at war and will remain so.
Turkişsh daily Hürriyet kicked off headline story reporting the ‘unease’ within the Turkish military on a new regulation allowing the female officers to wear headscarf.
Earlier this week, he lashed out at large-circulation daily Hürriyet for a headline story which reported the ‘unease’ within the Turkish military on a new regulation allowing the female officers to wear headscarf. The background was of stuff worthy of a political earthquake, yet had passed by silently, due to an agenda overload. Ministry of Defence had bypassing customary behaviour, without consulting at least ‘in courtesy’ with the General Chief of Staff, issued a directive allowing female officers and other military staff to wear headscarf.
This was a historic break away from the genetics of an army, formed in 1923. It meant potential divisions in the military, because many Alevi officers are known to serve in it. In a nutshell, it was huge step towards ‘Pakistanisation’, a move to enhance Sunni patterns in a supposedly secular structure. It was obvious Hürriyet’s story, albeit bleakly, tried to shed light on the discontent.
Erdoğan’s rage was focused on the newspaper. ‘They will pay a heavy price for this impertinence’ he said. Hours later, Doğan Media Group that owns Hürriyet announced that its editor-in-chief was fired. No wonder many observers see this as the end of the remnant, semi- independent portion of Turkish media, a sector after the fall of Doğan now almost entirely under the control of the President.
It is now with Europe, Erdoğan is at war with. Emboldened by the State of Emergency as part of his Permanent Revolution, it is his norms against those of democracies – Germany and others.
Tension therefore is bound to rise further. Nothing will not change the already established fact that Erdoğan sees politics at home and abroad as a battlefield where no holds are barred.
He prefers to keep Turkey’s relations with allies and partners on razor’s edge, in the hope of hard-bargaining. Turkish journalists rightfully insist that their imprisoned colleagues and opposition figures are held as hostages for blackmailing the EU. That the number of jailed dissidents rise – as raising hands – constantly point at the brutal diplomatic gamble Erdoğan is engaged in.
Rifts are spreading into a large geography in the EU now: Erdoğan is not in very friendly terms with İtaly, following the ‘forced leave’ of his son, Bilal, then accused of money laundering. Relations with Greece went sour over an artificial crisis with the tiny Aegean islet, Kardak/Imia. Cyprus talks came to a halt due to his indirect interferences. High number of Turkish officers seeking asylum in Greece, Belgium and Germany placed Turkey now as a partner not fully reliable in NATO, as Ankara was unable to produce hard evidence to those allies about the coup attempt.
An equally biting headache emerged between Turkey and Germany, Austria and Netherlands about Turkish imams on Ankara’s payroll being accused as part of an informant and spying network over oppositional Turkish citizens in those countries. Same suspicion began to spread into Belgium, and Scandinavian countries as well.
If the world is his battlefield, European soil is definitely at its center. To reach his overarching goal to autocratic rule, Erdoğan feels he must also organize rallies in Germany and Austria, where more than 1.5 million Turks with voting rights in the referendum live. But, as it seems, the liberal stand of the EU has come to its limits: politicians as well as media in those countries say that a politician with immense oppressive credentials should not be allowed to export the acrimony and polarisation into their territory.
The challenge for Germany and the ‘West – North European’ flank of the EU, in general, is:
How should one approach a leader, who relentlessly continues to grab power, by demolishing the rule of law into a ruin; a leader whose party and well-controlled judiciary jailed the co-chairman of the third largest party, HDP, as well as 12 of its elected deputies, and imprisoned thousands of opposition figures from across the board, when he and his government seeks to expand the propaganda machinery into foreign soil, using its liberal laws?
Thus, rises an enormous dilemma, which will define our times to come:
What should be the mechanisms that democracies will deal with the leaderships swamped by authoritarianist methods?
How would democracies respond to autocrats waging war against their norms?
Who will win, who will lose?
Who will pay the price?
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Ten tips for retail success from Third Drawer Down's Abigail Crompton
Annemarie Kiely
The entrepreneur shares the lessons she's learned ahead of the 10th anniversary of her Melbourne store.
It’s hard to believe that a decade has passed since Abigail Crompton first took out a lease on a tiny Fitzroy space (one car wide) and fashioned it into the successful art souvenir shop and creative agency Third Drawer Down. As she prepares to blow out 10 candles on the birthday cake this weekend (see details below of the all-welcome birthday bash), we ask the always-enthusiastic entrepreneur to impart her ten secrets to retail success in the internet-age.
1. You don't need a business degree to have a successful business.
The best education is afforded by just doing it! It has really been about going out there and having the confidence to do what you want to do.
2. Time is more important than money.
When, ten years ago, I was faced with the option of going overseas for three months or starting a business, I picked the latter and started Third Drawer Down with the money I had saved. By building the business slowly, staying small, yet diversifying within the art/design industry, we have grown organically.
3. Go abroad.
When you are ready, draw a map of the places you want to see, pack your samples and head overseas and meet retail buyers face-to-face, as the value of meeting people gives lasting impressions. Eight years ago I packed Third Drawer Down into a metallic gold tote bag and I went to eight major cities in the world and knocked on doors, took orders and started exporting to art museums and design stores around the world.
4. Collaborate.
Third Drawer Down relies upon collaboration to exist. We have worked with over 150 artists all around the world, including but not limited to Miranda July, David Shrigley, Lawrence Weiner, Louise Bourgeois, Mike Mills, Kiki Smith and recently Ai Weiwei. Local Artists and designers include Beci Orphin, Lucas Grogan, Jenny Watson, Rose Nolan and Jon Campbell.
5. Find like-minded souls to work with.
I feel so fortunate finding my team who ultimately believe in the same journey. We have worked together for many years now and they still let me dream. Recently we had the privilege to collaborate with Shantanu Starick from Pixel Trade, a project he developed two years ago to reintroduce the bartering system into day-to-day life.
6. Always have integrity.
...in everything that you do in life, including business. I know there are people in the world who perceive success to be about monetary accumulation, yet they often suffer insomnia. For me, success has always been based on challenging myself to try new things. The reward comes in succeeding, in sleeping well and living a life without regrets.
7. Give to the community.
I am big believer in philanthropy. Over the years Third Drawer Down has worked with many charities – either through time, collaborations or social outreach.
8. Have some fun!
I never started Third Drawer Down with the pressure of being a business in the first years. I always saw what I was developing as a project that allowed me to be somewhat playful, and I never gave the financial side the upper hand.
9. Be diverse and open-minded.
I often use the analogy of business being like riding a push bike: sometimes it's easy, other times it's hard. It is about being able to shift gears while putting your head down and peddling into the wind, knowing that following every mountain top there's a downward slope on which you can catch your breath.
10. Make a decision whether you want your brand be a trend or a tradition.
I wanted to become an old brand with family values, memorable, one that makes you feel good and survives what life throws its way. So here we are, 10 years old already. Getting here has given me even more reason and courage to stretch our arms out even further in 2014 as we establish offices internationally, build greater collaborations with international artists and offer more rewards for our loyal customers, both in-store and online.
The Third Drawer Down 10th Birthday Party is happening on Saturday 16 November from 12pm–4pm at 93 George Street, Fitzroy, Melbourne.
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3 out of 3 for our Europa League teams
It was a great night for Belgium’s three representatives in the group stage of this season's Europa League. Club Brugge, Standard de Liège and Sporting Anderlecht all enjoyed victories in their Europa League matches. All three Belgian teams now top their respective groups. Most impressive of all was Club Brugge’s 2-1 victory away at last season’s finalists, the Portuguese club SC Braga.
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Braga dominated the first half, but was unable to score. The second half got off to a furious start and SC Braga took the lead 8 minutes through Helder Barbosa.
However, this failed to dampen the West Flemings' spirits and Club Brugge drew level through their Nigerian striker Joseph Akapala on 71 minutes.
The match seemed to be heading for a draw when the Dutchman Ryan Donk made it 2-1 to Club Brugge in the first minute of injury time. Club Brugge now tops Group H with 6 points from 2 games.
Anderlecht derails Lokomotiv
Sporting Anderlecht was also able to deliver the goods away from home. In what was on paper their most difficult match of the group stage, Sporting enjoyed a 2-0 victory away at the Russian Club Lokomotiv Moscow.
It was clear from the outset that the Russians were made of sterner stuff than Anderlecht’s first group stage opponents AEK Athens.
Only a good save from Proto prevented Maicon from putting them one up five minutes in. However, it was Anderlecht that took the lead through Suarez on eleven minutes.
Lokamotiv didn’t lose heart and the Russians had several excellent chances to draw level through the rest of the first and early part of the second half.
However, their failure to score was punished when Dieumerci Mbokani (photo) put Anderlecht 2-0 up on 71 minutes with a header from a Biglia free kick.
Sporting Anderlecht now leads Group L with 6 points from 2 games.
Second half goals seal it for Standard
After a first half that saw little in the way of chances, Standard knew they had to do better in the second half if they were to win their second group stage match.
Last season’s league runners-up looked a different team as they forged ahead.
Luis Manuel Seijas (photo) opened the scoring for Standard on 56 minutes with Jorge Felipe making it 2-0 quarter of an hour later.
Kanu put the final nail into the Danes’ coffin on 79 minutes and the final score was 3-0 to Standard.
Standard now leads Group B with 4 points from 2 games.
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Eight years for solicitor 'too busy dancing to steal £1m'
A SOLICITOR who claimed he was too busy Cossack dancing to have stolen £1m from dead and injured clients was yesterday jailed for eight years.
Dymtryo Torkoniak, a 36-year-old Ukrainian, said other staff at his legal firm had carried out the embezzlements as he concentrated on securing appearances with Kylie Minogue and Ali G for his international dance troupe.
The former solicitor, of Huntingdon Drive, Nottingham, claimed his devotion to the pursuit had begun at the age of four and that he had combined his daily legal duties with nightly appearances on stage.
Lincoln Crown Court heard that during his four-year campaign of dishonesty, Torkoniak siphoned off funds from personal injury claims, the estates of the deceased and overcharged for Legal Aid, ploughing the money into offshore bond and bank accounts and two impressive homes.
Judge Jonathan Teare said the father-of-three had even stolen from his godfather and the priest who christened his children.
Torkoniak was yesterday convicted of 14 counts of theft totalling about £333,421, four charges of obtaining property by deception, one count of false accounting, one of forgery and one of perjury.
He had claimed during a seven-week trial that he was an entertainment impresario and said he was occupied with negotiating appearances for his group the Mazeppas and could not have carried out the frauds between 1996 and 2001.
Police are now seeking to recover about £1m from his accounts after calculating actual profits from the scams ran into seven figures.
Judge Teare told him, "You have been convicted by a jury on clear evidence of serious dishonesty at a time when you were a solicitor of the supreme court.
"You abused that position to line your own pockets to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds. You deceived the vulnerable, the injured, the disadvantaged, two people with little command of English and, in three cases, the estates of the dead."
Timothy Spencer QC, prosecuting, said Torkoniak alone was responsible for the embezzlement and had also claimed double his legitimate costs from the Legal Services Commission, formerly the Legal Aid Board.
He said one client, Steven Buckley, had been awarded £100,000 compensation after an accident but received just £18,000 from the solicitor.
Mr Buckley had suffered multiple injuries when he fell from a girder and was suspended almost 30ft in the air at a construction site in Derby.
His ankle then snapped, causing him to plummet to the ground and fracture several more bones in various parts of his body.
"You negotiated a settlement of £100,000 but proceeded to keep about £75,000 for yourself," said Judge Teare.
"This was an act of unparalleled wickedness. You stole from a physical and mental cripple - it is tantamount to stealing the clothes off a beggar's back."
Judge Teare said Mark Lucas, a cyclist who could not read or write and was badly injured when he was knocked down by a taxi in Derby, was deprived of £10,000 by Torkoniak's scam.
Jurors also heard evidence from Maria Borsova, who made a 24-hour non-stop journey from Omsk in Siberia to Lincoln to recount Torkoniak's theft of £4,200 from her grandfather's estate in December 1999.
"People who went to Mr Torkoniak relied on him to get them their just compensation and they trusted him," said Mr Spencer.
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Monkey Cage Analysis
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New Afrobarometer data shows Africans want elections — especially if they bring change at the top
That’s what Sudan’s protesters are risking their lives for. They’re not alone in their demands.
Sudanese lawyer Abdelazim al-Hassan, who filed a case against a blockade imposed on mobile internet services in the wake of a brutal crackdown on protesters in June, gave a news conference in Khartoum, Sudan on Tuesday. (ASHRAF SHAZLY/AFP/Getty Images)
By Michael Bratton and
Sadhiska Bhoojedhur
Sudan’s protesters are risking their lives for fair elections — not the “snap election” that military rulers have tried to force on them as a way to perpetuate the entrenched political regime.
Their dramatic insistence on time to create the necessary conditions for free and fair elections embodies the desires of their fellow Africans, who want high-quality elections — and nothing less.
Across Africa’s 54 countries, almost two dozen will choose presidents and legislators in national elections in 2019. Judging by election quantity, multiparty competition appears firmly established in African politics.
Yet all too often, headlines point to leaders who manipulate electoral rules or outcomes to maintain power. Recent examples: Togo’s passage of term limits that could extend President Faure Gnassingbé’s rule until 2030, and Congo’s widely disputed election victory by ex-President Joseph Kabila’s handpicked successor.
How good are Africa’s elections? Do citizens care?
They do care, according to recent Afrobarometer public-opinion survey findings from 34 African countries. In fact, to a significant extent, the quality of their elections determines whether they even want elections.
Even more intriguing: Who wins their elections — the incumbent or the challenger — is a major factor in whether they think their elections are free and fair — and thus whether they support having elections in the first place.
Are elections the best way to choose leaders?
On average, three-fourths (75 percent) of the Africans interviewed in 2016-2018 say they want to choose their leaders through “regular, open and honest elections.” More than half (54 percent) feel “very strongly” that elections are better than “some other method.” Popular support for elections was a bit higher in the recent past (83 percent in 2011-2013) and is weaker in some Southern African countries, such as Mozambique (61 percent), South Africa (61 percent), Malawi (57 percent), eSwatini (54 percent) and Lesotho (48 percent). In some West African countries, on the other hand, it approaches nine out of 10 citizens (such as 88 percent in the Gambia and 87 percent in Sierra Leone).
Popular support for elections in 34 countries in Africa. (Afrobarometer/Afrobarometer)
Are elections free and fair?
Almost two-thirds (63 percent) of all Africans say their country’s most recent national election was generally free and fair (either “completely” or “with minor problems”). Only 15 percent say it was “not free and fair.” Popular perceptions of a high-quality election vary widely by country, from 87 percent in Ghana to 17 percent in Gabon, but on average these assessments have remained almost unchanged since 2005.
One surprise is that supporters of the opposition party are just about as likely as ruling-party supporters to see their last election as free and fair — an encouraging finding for those working to consolidate democracy on the continent.
Perceived quality of elections in 18 countries in Africa. (Afrobarometer/Afrobarometer)
Why quality matters
It seems obvious that “free and fair” elections are better than “unfree and unfair” elections. But one specific reason they’re better is that citizens use assessments of election quality as a benchmark for deciding whether they even want elections. In other words, they support elections if they are cleanly run; they do not support elections if they think electoral procedures are manipulated.
According to the latest Afrobarometer data, this is especially true in countries that have undergone recent transitions from autocratic to democratic rule — such as the Gambia, Sierra Leone and Liberia — as well as countries whose democracies have developed deeper roots — such as Ghana, Botswana and Namibia.
[Four in ten Africans are deeply committed to democracy. That's the good news.]
Why leadership change matters
Many factors can affect how free and fair an election is, such as whether the opposition was given an equal chance to participate, whether media coverage was fair, whether votes were counted accurately, and so on.
One important discovery is that a victory by the opposition party makes people more likely to see the election as free and fair. After an election that produced a change in ruling party, 71 percent of Africans say the election was free and fair; just 56 percent say the same for elections that confirmed the incumbent party in power. In other words, leadership alternation is seen as the strongest possible evidence for what constitutes a high-quality election.
Clearly, Africans do care about elections. They want them — if the elections are well conducted. They judge that these contests have been well conducted if the election leads to a change of top political leadership. Simply stated, Africans support elections to the extent that they bring about desired political change.
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Michael Bratton is a senior adviser to Afrobarometer.
Sadhiska Bhoojedhur is a research analyst at StraConsult Ltd, the Afrobarometer national partner in Mauritius.
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Scientists discover the origin of Stonehenge stones – quarries 180 miles away
The Stonehenge quarry, Carn Goedog. (University College London)
By Ben Guarino
Ben Guarino
Reporter covering the practice and culture of science
A team of archaeologists in the United Kingdom says it has traced dozens of Stonehenge’s massive rocks to two quarries in western Wales. The rocks, called bluestones after their bluish-gray hue, were transported 180 miles — dragged on wooden sleds by teams of strong men, the scientists believe — to form the inner circle of the monument that towers over the Salisbury Plain.
Two bluestone quarries, named Carn Goedog and Craig Rhos-y-felin, were excavated about 3,000 B.C., according to the authors of a study published this week in the journal Antiquity. Expeditions at the quarries from 2014 to 2016 recovered ancient charcoal and stone tools. In some places, the charcoal was mixed with dirt and stones to form flat platforms, which may have been used like loading bays to distribute the massive pillars, said Michael Parker Pearson, an archaeologist at University College London and an author of the new study.
Among the Welsh hills, bluestones erupted from the ground. Here, millions of years ago, sheets of magma slowly cooled into columns. Eons passed, and softer rock around the magma eroded. Only the jagged bluestones remained.
Prehistoric workers probably exploited natural weaknesses in these structures, Parker Pearson said. “They’re nearly vertical,” he said. “All you’ve got to do is get a lasso around each one and pull.”
Stonehenge in southwestern Britain on Feb. 2. (Toby Melville/Reuters)
With ropes and simple tools, such as sandstone wedges shoved into the outcrop’s joints, excavators may have plucked out a pillar as cleanly as a loose tooth. Those on top of the outcrop could have carefully slackened their ropes to control the pillar’s descent to a platform below, the authors wrote. From there, workers may have lowered a stone, six feet long and weighing two to four tons, onto a wooden sled to haul it away.
Bluestones are big, but not so big that a “burly group of Stone Age men” couldn’t drag them across the countryside, said Nicholas Pearce, a geochemist at Aberystwyth University in Wales, who was not involved with the current study.
These pillars are “the Ikea version of Neolithic megaliths,” Parker Pearson joked — the stones peeled off the outcrop as though from ready-to-use kits. Unlike the people who crafted Egypt’s obelisks from much larger rocks, Stonehenge’s builders did not need to rework the bluestone pillars.
The bluestones, which are speckled with fingernail-size deposits of white minerals, form an inner horseshoe and ring at Stonehenge. These rocks, though impressive, are not Stonehenge’s biggest. The imposing sandstone trilithons, the three-part structures made of two vertical stones and a horizontal top, are larger and more locally sourced, though their exact origins are unknown.
Previous chemical studies linked the bluestones to the Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, Wales. “That’s the only place you get that particular rock type,” Pearce said.
Humans buried at Stonehenge probably came from this region of Wales, too. Remains at the site contain isotopes consistent with life near the quarries. Just a few miles separate the two outcrops — standing on one quarry, it’s possible to see the other, Pearce said.
Radiocarbon dating indicates that the quarry charcoal is about 5,000 years old. The Welsh charcoal and Stonehenge remains suggest a connection in time as well as space. “We’ve got dates for both quarries that link nicely with the first dates at Stonehenge,” Parker Pearson said. The bluestones and early Welsh travelers could have arrived at the Salisbury Plain together. There’s about 100 years of fuzziness in the radiocarbon dating, though. “It could be immediate, it could be 100 years from getting from A to B,” Parker Pearson said.
Unexpectedly, the quarries are on the northern side of the hills. The south side is closer to the ocean, where, according to one hypothesis, prehistoric travelers floated bluestones along the coast. An attempt to replicate a bluestone float failed spectacularly in 2000, however, when a raft carrying a stone sank close to shore. Parker Pearson and his colleagues suspect that the stones were transported over land instead, on sledges.
The existence of the quarries “conclusively invalidates” the misconception that Ice Age glaciers pushed the bluestones into the region, the authors of the new study said.
Bournemouth University archaeologist Timothy Darvill, who was not involved with this study, said that geological evidence points to “several other sources” of stone, including a site called Carn Menyn. Routes between Wales and Stonehenge remain speculative, Darvill said, though he agreed stones probably moved over land rather than by sea.
Among Europe’s megalithic structures, Stonehenge is an oddity. Most other prehistoric builders did not stray more than 10 miles to collect stones for their monuments. Why craft Stonehenge from such far-flung pieces? Parker Pearson offered one idea. He suggested that Stonehenge was a unifying symbol for British tribes, constructed during what may have been a period of economic and population decline.
“A major event like this,” he said, “would have brought together disparate communities that were growing apart.”
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Alberta’s Agrium Redwater
Agrium Redwater Fertilizer Operations (RFO), located 45 kilometers - nearly 28 miles - northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, is the largest fertilizer complex in Canada...
Agrium Redwater Fertilizer Operations (RFO), located 45 kilometers - nearly 28 miles - northeast of Edmonton, Alberta, is the largest fertilizer complex in Canada and one of the largest in North America, with an annual ammonia production capacity of 960,000 tonnes, or 1,058,219 U.S. short tons, and a total nitrogen product capacity of 1,400,000 tonnes [1,543,236 U.S. short tons].
The Ammonia I unit at the RFO site was experiencing low production efficiency due to suspected calcium carbonate scale in the cooling system, resulting in poor heat transfer in the cooling exchangers.
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The cooling system circulates water in an open loop between the process stream and the cooling exchangers. The heat from the process is released to the atmosphere in the form of water vapor at the cooling tower.
The efficiency of the cooling system is critical in anhydrous ammonia production because the process involves heating gasses to 1,400°F and then cooling the product down to -27°F.
Scale buildup in the cooling exchangers dramatically increases the cost of production in three ways. First, diminished efficiency of the cooling system reduces the ammonia production rate. Second, more energy is required to produce ammonia due to inefficient cooling in the unit. Third, manually removing of scale in the cooling exchangers (through pressure washing or acid cleaning) is a difficult and expensive process that requires a shutdown of the entire production process.
Jean Sabourin, the chief steam engineer at the RFO complex, turned to GE Infrastructure Water & Process Technologies (W&PT) to analyze the reduced efficiency of the cooling system and to recommend a solution.
“We contract with W&PT as our treatment consultant and chemical supplier for water treatment,” Sabourin said. “We work closely with them, and we expect innovation and improvement not only in the efficiencies of chemical usage, but also in other ways, such as reducing our energy consumption.”
An analysis confirmed that the diminished performance of the heat exchangers was caused by buildup of calcium carbonate scale, a type of precipitation that makes heat transfer less efficient.
After evaluating the possibility of localized chemical cleaning of specific exchanger components, W&PT recommended the application of Ferroquest LP-7202 to the entire cooling circuit. This is a proprietary blend of three organic acids, specifically formulated to remove calcium carbonate scale from cooling systems.
“Ferroquest LP-7202 has proven very successful in removing scale from the heat exchanger surfaces,” Sabourin said. “In a production run from July through October 2004, we increased our unit production and reduced our natural gas consumption by 114 million cubic feet of natural gas due to increased efficiency of the cooling system. This was equivalent to a reduction of our energy coefficient by 1.3 gigajoules per tonne of ammonia produced.”
During the production run after the introduction of the anti-scale formulation, the efficiency of the cooling system has remained constant, eliminating any production downtime for scale removal.
“We are very pleased with the results,” Sabourin said. “The decreased energy consumption has not only produced a significant cost savings, but it also means that we require less natural gas, a limited natural resource, and we are therefore emitting less carbon dioxide, and nitrogen oxide, which is good for the environment.” [1 tonne = 1.102 U.S. short tons]
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Warren Gerds/Critic at Large: Review: ‘America Sings XIV’ covers a musical landscape in De Pere
by: Warren Gerds
Posted: May 4, 2019 / 01:56 PM CDT / Updated: May 4, 2019 / 01:56 PM CDT
When an “Under New Management” sign is tacked up, of course things are going to be different… at least somewhat.
So it is with the first “America Sings” program by the region’s notable choral group fully without its namesake – The Dudley Birder Chorale of St. Norbert College.
The hundredsomething-voice chorale’s 14th such concert will be repeated today.
Here are thoughts on Friday’s concert in Walter Theatre in Abbot Pennings Hall of Fine Arts on campus.
The concept remains the same: Familiar music by American creators is sung, and members of the chorale have the opportunity to solo. In the formal parts of its seasons, the chorale performs serious sacred or secular works, often masterworks of a large scale.
The artistic director/conductor has changed. Dudley Birder, 92, conducted two selections in last year’s “America Sings” as his farewell to performing. His chosen successor, Kent Paulsen, conducted the rest of that program. Friday, the reins were fully in Paulsen’s hands. So things were different.
Different includes arrangements – usually with piano and drums – of songs by stellar creators in the rock/popular music realm. Toto is more than the name of a dog trotting a yellow brick road. Queen is something other than the ruler of England. Songs by the groups Toto and Queen are opportunities for soloists from the chorale to step out and try whole new paths of singing for the chorale. Toto’s “Africa” opens with the use of the chorale as an instrument in special ways. With singers in growing waves rubbing hands together, patting their bodies and snapping fingers, an aural illusion of falling rain is created. And then the singing starts, “drawing” images of the African landscape. Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” (revived by the motion picture biography of showman Freddie Mercury) is a handsome soundscape of extreme sadness. Listeners are caught up in the beauty. (Shhh, don’t say Queen is not American; think that Americans sing Queen’s songs).
Also new to the “America Sings” scene was “Seasons of Love,” a song from the edgy Broadway musical “Rent.”
When speaking to the audience, Paulsen called the program “a buffet” that is meant to “exemplify all the varieties of American music.”
The program covers traditional, spiritual/gospel/hymn, Broadway, movie and popular/rock genres with settings for a large chorus. Generally, the material is not as tricky as the multi-layered works the chorale digs into in the serious parts of its season (roll over Beethoven). Snapshot: In “Singin’ in the Rain,” many singers smile and bob heads with the music, and the conductor dances on the podium.
The songs are familiar and in, to use film imagery, Cinemascope and SurroundSound, with singing by lifelong lovers of singing.
The concert features 17 soloists. Most have occupations other than music, music, music. So one of the attractions of this concert is seeing regular folks have a go at what they love in front of a lot of people. Generally, they deliver.
Friday, there was an 18th soloist. Isaiah Schmitz, a junior at St. Francis Xavier High School in Appleton, is this year’s awardee of The Robert and Carol Bush Award. The award (the Bushes presented it Friday) encourages excellence in high school choral music. Schmitz is the first recipient to have sung with the chorale all season. He soloed in “The Impossible Dream” from “Man of LaMancha,” launching it with color and gusto. His solo was designed to be sung only on Friday as part of the award presentation. By rights, and the fact that the audience response was one of the most enthusiastic of the night, Schmitz should be tapped to repeat his solo.
Friday, Paulsen mentioned that he was dedicating his performance to the memory of the high school choral teacher who inspired him, Jeff Krause. From the obituary of Jeffrey Robert Krause, who taught for 36 years at Wausau East High School and died Jan. 4, 2019, this:
“His impact on literally thousands was profound and lasting! Jeffrey was a gifted musician playing the organ and piano at numerous churches and for community musical events over the years. Jeff was more than a teacher to his students; many of his students became dear and life-long friends. Jeff’s passion, talent, and the integrity with which he taught inspired many.”
Remaining performance: 2 p.m. May 4
Running time: Two hours, 10 minutes
Info: snc.edu/tickets
Kent Paulsen, artistic director and conductor
Elaine Moss, piano and assistant director
Additional musicians: Cody Borley, drums; keyboard Emily Sculliuffo, Craig Sampo, Jr., Elissa Ribbens
Soloists’ names include program description in parentheses
+ “Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor,” Irving Berlin, arranged by Roy Ringwald
+ “How Great Thou Art,” adapted by Stuart Hine, arranged by Dan Forrest
+ “Seasons of Love” from “Rent,” Jonathan Larson, arranged by Roger Emerson – soloists: Laura Nehlsen (French teacher), Nick Selinsky (medical records specialist, Green Bay Oncology), Cassidy Heim-Dittmer (real estate professional)
+ “Eternal Father, Strong to Save” (aka “Navy Hymn”), John Dykes and William Whiting, arranged by Dan Forrest
+ “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There is a Season),” Pete Seeger, arranged by Roger Emerson – soloist: Sarah Doyle (customer account management, TreeHouse Foods)
+ “Africa,” David Paich and Jeff Porcaro of the band Toto, arranged by Roger Emerson – soloists: Robert Tuszyinski (SVP Financial Services Bank of Luxemburg), Jon Weiss (physical therapist, Bellin Health), Chris Zimmermann (retired assistant professor physical therapy, Concordia University Wisconsin)
+ “Feel the Spirit” (traditional spirituals), arranged by John Rutter
“I’ve got a robe” – soloist: April Strom-Johnson (trainer/teacher)
“Ev’ry time I feel the spirit” – soloist: Linda Feldmann (St. Norbert College faculty)
“Deep River” – soloist: Tasha Fischer (mother and student)
“When the saints go marching in” – including audience sing-along
+ “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Freddy Mercury, arranged by Mark Brymer – soloist: Justin Noffsinger (fabricator, Thermal Technologies)
+ “Amazing grace!” John Newton, arranged by Mack Wilberg
+ “Fiddler on the Roof” medley, Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, arrange by Ed Lojeski – soloists: Amy Van De Hey (piano teacher, Heid Music), Craig Sampo, Jr. (Heid Music. St. Norbert College student), Pam MacMullen (retired), Tom Hamilton (retired)
+ “Shenandoah,” traditional, arranged by Mack Wilberg
+ “Singin’ in the Rain,” Arthur Freed and Nacio Herb Brown, arranged by Mac Huff
+ “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” Paul Simon, arranged by Kirby Shaw – soloists: Marsan M. Day (in-home recovery professional, Lutheran Social Services), Emily Terrell Paulsen (wife of the Maestro)
+ “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” to the tune of “John Brown’s Body,” lyrics by Julia W. Howe, arranged by Peter J. Wilhousky – including audience sing-along
NEXT SEASON (so far): “All Saints and Veterans Day Concert,” Oct. 25, St. Norbert College Walter Theatre; “Holiday Pops,” Dec. 20-21, Weidner Center for the Performing Arts.
THE VENUE: The 725-seat Byron L. Walter Theatre features a proscenium stage (flat front). Its walls are textured concrete blocks laid in a wave pattern. The ceiling includes white acoustical clouds. Seat material and carpeting are the traditional theater red. The theater is located in Abbot Pennings Hall of Fine Arts at St. Norbert College in De Pere. It is the larger of two theaters in the building, the core of which was built in 1955. In 1989, the Walter Theatre was renovated to improve the lobby and interior aesthetic, adding seating and improving the acoustics.
THE PERSON: Byron L. Walter (1877-1954) was a businessman. He operated Green Bay Hardware, Inc. until his retirement in 1953. Walter was co-founder of Paper Converting Machine Co. and for a time served as president. After his death, the Byron L. Walter Family Trust was established, and it made possible the theater. The trust continues to make widespread contributions to community projects and institutions.
Contact me at warren.gerds@wearegreenbay.com. Watch for my on-air Critic at Large editions on WFRV-TV at 6:20 a.m. Sundays. My seven books are available in Green Bay at Neville Public Museum and Bosse’s.
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Australia a step closer to WiMAX
Wireless broadband users could enjoy maximum surfing speeds of 75 megabits per second by mid-2006, analysts say.WiMax, the common name for the 802.
By Steven Deare | July 11, 2005 -- 01:41 GMT (18:41 PDT) | Topic: Networking
Wireless broadband users could enjoy maximum surfing speeds of 75 megabits per second by mid-2006, analysts say.
WiMax, the common name for the 802.16 wireless broadband standard, is an alternative to cable and DSL (digital subscriber line). Compared with the popular Wi-Fi protocol that works in short distances, WiMax is said to be able to operate up to 50km.
According to the WiMAX Forum, 802.16 will provide fixed , nomadic, portable and, eventually, mobile wireless broadband connectivity without the need for direct line-of-sight with a base station.
To start the ball rolling in Australia, regional pay TV provider Austar and wireless Internet supplier Unwired have signed a spectrum agreement -- which is seen as a wise step by analysts.
Austrar traded a portion of its 2.3GHz licenses in return for some of Unwired's 3.5GHz licenses. The latter will also make a supplementary cash payment of $15 million to the pay TV company.
"It's a good deal. The lack of easy access to spectrum is one of the main issues we have with the takeup of WiMAX," said Ovum research director Neale Anderson.
Gartner research director Robin Simpson agreed.
"It's a smart move for Unwired because I think [it's] important spectrum for WiMAX.
"2.3 is better for urban areas. It has better building penetration than 3.5," Simpson said, adding Austrar has a business model and recognised brand in regional areas through its pay TV business.
In terms of availability, Ovum's Anderson believes fixed WiMAX could be a reality -- from Unwired -- by mid-next year.
As for pricing, it's still to early to tell. At the moment, Unwired's wireless Internet plans start from $16 for 32kbps.
The impact on Telstra will not be evident in the near term, Anderson said. "Telstra's EV-DO has been very popular with the business community. Further out though, the implications will be greater."
Going far and wide
The partnership between Austar and Unwired is seen as a boon for regional Australia but the latter has its eye firmly set on metropolitan rollout.
"We can sell in regional areas if we want but we will concentrate on building metropolitan area infrastructure," said Unwired chairman Peter Shore.
Unwired claims to have 25,000 subscribers in Sydney. Next year, the ISP will install the first base stations based on the 802.16e standard.
On the surface the deal is set to create a roaming network where Internet users -- especially those who travel -- will have constant, wireless nationwide coverage.
Although, Ovum's Anderson believes mobile WiMAX is going to take some time, he feels Unwired is in pole position. "Only at the end of 2007 will we see notebook chips with WiMAX compatibility.
"In all [world] markets there are limited spectrum opportunities for mobile WiMAX. But now, Unwired has access to both," Anderson said.
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High Court granted permission to bring a claim under the Inheritance Act despite it being issued some 25 years after the deadline
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High Court granted permission to…
In Bhusate v Patel & Ors the High Court granted permission to the claimant bring a claim under the Inheritance Act despite it being issued some 25 years after the deadline for doing so, after the Claimant demonstrated ‘compelling reasons’ why it was right and proper that the court should exercise its discretion in her favour.
The Inheritance Act limits parties to six months for bringing claims.
The judgment also disputes the reasoning of a High Court judge who considered another out-of-time application under section 4 of the Act last month in the case of Cowan v Foreman. In Cowan the Judge said ‘robust’ application of the power to extend deadline was consistent with the overriding objective and Civil Procedure Rules requiring compliance and for the court to consider the time and resources allocated to late applications.
Chief Master Marsh said that he had read the Cowan judgment and he did not consider it was right to regard the overriding objective when considering the exercise of discretion under section 4.
In Bhusate, the court ruled the claimant, whose husband died intestate in 1990, was ‘effectively powerless’ to do anything sooner in the absence of agreement or engagement by her stepchildren.
The step-children obstructed the sale of her residential property then ‘did nothing’ to break the impasse for a further 23 years and were hostile.
Chief Master Marsh noted that if the application was not granted, the claimant would be left with no remedy at all and no benefit from her husband’s estate, and would effectively be left homeless. He acknowledged the long period of delay for making a claim to the estate, but it was not correct to say this made it inevitable that the application should be dismissed.
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Board index ‹ Weird Al Yankovic ‹ Touring & Live Appearances ‹ The Ridiculously Self-Indulgent, Ill-Advised Vanity Tour
Highlights & Anomalies thread
2018 - Now with opening act Emo Philips!
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by ergalthema » Mon Jun 25, 2018 6:45 am
I just saw this post:
viewtopic.php?f=76&t=12729&start=10#p856709
richegreen wrote: Holy cow, listening to this show and that version of Craigslist went waaaaay off script! Was that something Al started doing later in this tour, or did someone slip some LSD into his tofu that night?
..... And oh God, that midsong explanation during YDLMA....
Since some of us might not get a chance to listen to all 77 shows anytime soon, I was wondering if people might want to help us out and post about unique moments in this thread?
I'd say anything goes - funny banter, song alterations, mistakes, particularly good performances, etc.
For the Craiglist example above, I thought it was significant enough to add a note in the spreadsheet.
ergalthema
Re: Highlights & Anomalies thread
by OneWAY » Mon Jun 25, 2018 7:33 am
I can only think of a few things off the top of my head:
- Al accidentally missed his first cue to sing Don't Download This Song at the 3/22 NYC show, so he kinda rushed to catch up, which was kinda funny.
- During the Portsmouth 3/3 show, Al and Steve had a small running joke that a "bass lick" would preface every "world premiere" song that night. It was always just a single note.
- Also during Portsmouth, Al mentioned your spreadsheet after the first drum solo (or as he called it, the second drum solo of the tour)
8/26/08, 7/15/10, 7/16/10, 7/17/10, 11/5/10, 9/22/11, 9/24/11, 9/25/11, 4/30/12, 10/19/13, 5/19/15, 8/19/15, 8/21/15, 7/16/16, 3/3/18, 3/22/18, 4/20/18, 4/27/18, 6/14/19, 6/15/19, 6/21/19
by richegreen » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:24 am
Well the Green Bay show is one of the most insane Weird Al concerts I've ever heard. Aside from what was mentioned in the thread above, it featured Jim playing some classic porn music while Ruben was modeling on stage (I can only imagine what that LOOKED like) which I don't think is listed on the spreadsheet..... And a nearly 20 minute version of Albuquerque!
NYC2 features Al actually playing guitar on Cinammon Girl, and 37 minutes in is the Steve and Dave Grohl story which was one of the funniest moments I've ever seen in a live show (just imagine Steve's face getting redder and redder as it goes on)
I really enjoyed the story Al told about OMM in NYC1, as well as the audience reaction to it.
Tarrytown is a good listen if you want to hear how the show was before they worked out the kinks. There was a lot of technical banter in that one, and a recurring "first time ever played live" fanfare that Bermuda kept messing up on.
I don't know if this was a recurring thing, but in I Was Only Kidding in the Augusta GA show, there's a surprise in the middle of it similar to the one in Green Bay YDLMA.
8/23/94 5/28/96 8/3/99 2/3/00 5/11/00 5/12/00 7/7/00 10/29/00x2 11/2/00 11/3/00 11/4/00 7/25/02 7/10/03 7/18/03 9/20/07 9/3/10 5/14/15 3/1/18 3/22/18 3/23/18
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by AiYume » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:16 pm
ergalthema wrote: Since some of us might not get a chance to listen to all 77 shows anytime soon, I was wondering if people might want to help us out and post about unique moments in this thread?
He told a very funny story in Oakland, CA leading up to One More Minute about a station that wanted to bleep a certain word. It still makes me laugh thinking about it.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
--Jerome K. Jerome
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by Big Spoon » Mon Jun 25, 2018 9:31 pm
He told that in the May 10th Los Angeles show, too. I love that story.
And Peggy
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by Muppetboy09 » Mon Jun 25, 2018 11:04 pm
I'll update my list as I remember/find more:
-Poughkepsee, Rubén started playing Don't Download This Song in the wrong key, and Al stops him, saying "Let's try it in the right key this time"
-Tarrytown (along with the ongoing "first time played" banter), Bermuda starts into Traffic Jam too early, causing Al to scream "WAIT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?".
-Toronto March 9th, Bob is played in the completely wrong key
-April 14th show has the fire alarm going off right before Truck Driving song, as well as an early mis-cue from Rubén before "I Was Only Kidding".
"Be the climate, not the weather." -Al Yankovic
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by TMBJon » Mon Jun 25, 2018 11:32 pm
In Connecticut (episode 3), Al sings "the kids were jumping up and down yelling arna darnda."
I couldn't tell a dirt clod from a plate of caviar.
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by RunningWithScissors » Mon Jun 25, 2018 11:37 pm
Listing to green bay now.... .... the whole cregslist thing actually creeped me out o.o dunno why.
So did the "My character eats snakes!"
I dunno, maybe it's because I'm sick so I don't get the humor right now? But both really creeped me out.
RunningWithScissors
by Killingsworth » Tue Jun 26, 2018 12:52 am
AiYume wrote: He told a very funny story in Oakland, CA leading up to One More Minute about a station that wanted to bleep a certain word. It still makes me laugh thinking about it!
He also told this story in Denver.
Also in Denver, there was a bit of banter between Al and Ruben in the introduction to WDTAHTM. He said some people may actually recognize Ruben from his days as a child actor and stated his most famous role was "Little Cousin Jorge" on the fifth season of Chico & The Man. Al asled Ruben to repeat his famous catchphrase and he said something like "Si, Muchas Gracis Senor Yankovic" to which Al replied "that was borderline racist." Al asked him what Freddie Prinze Sr. was like to work with and Ruben said "very edgy". Al then asked Ruben if he still gets residuals for this and Ruben joked that he made about as much from that show as he does going on tour with this band.
He introduced NTTH by saying "this may look like an accordion but its' actually a pipe organ" before going right into the song. He introduced GOD by saying that he had actually written this song about his own life/childhood but had taken massive creative liberties with it (the girls name wasn't "Michelle"). By this point in the tour his introduction to Twine Ball included the name of the real life man who "built" the Twine Ball (Francis A. Johnson).
He had also started introducing UHF by talking about a 1989 film that "changed the world" and naming Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade as that film ("a film that critics everywhere agree is one of the top two Indiana Jones sequels,of all time). He said they would like to play a selection from THAT soundtrack (John Williams' haunting score "Nazis? I Did Nazi That Coming!") but since they don'the know that one, they would be playing UHF instead. Between Albuquerque & One More Minute, Al talked about how they just now started to get a nice mellow vibe going and wanted to just keep fading out to the end of the show when Bermuda suddenly kicked in with the drums to Albuquerque.
In Grand Junction, Jim forgot to sing the line "oh please don't you do it" during DDTS. Also, Al introduced BMAC by saying he was going to play a country song ("not this country, one from Jamaica") and that this would be the "cultural appropriation" portion of the show. Al introduced When I Was Your Age by saying that it was inspired by an obscure Rolling Stone Reader poll from the late '80s that determined Don Henley to be the member of the Eagles most likely to yell at kids to get off his lawn.
Al introduced Airline Amy & She Never Told Me She Was A Mime by saying how the former is consistently ranked in the bottom three in online lists of his songs ranked from best to worst and that the latter is always consistently at the bottom when the former is second from the bottom. He & Jim teased a special extended version of My Own Eyes where Jim was going to hold his opening note for 30-45 minutes until Al just decided to do the "regular" version.
Finally, he introduced One Of Those Days by mentioning it being a deep cut from Polka Party and saying how that is such a redundant phrase since Polka Party was such a flop if an album that all of its songs were deep cuts and that he was wasting his own and everyone's time and lives by saying way more words than he needed to.
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Off The Deep End
by crazygurl14 » Tue Jun 26, 2018 3:28 am
Fargo show 74 Al called for a drum solo reprieve and Jon did my dum solo to my bologna. I laughed so hard
Currently listening to #73 now. I was very pleasantly surprised that they opened with young, dumb and ugly
Yoda in winnepeg- he stopped to saybhe called it that they'll be making the star wars movies this their old and grey in 1980- then he called some girl out for looking at her phone and not singing Yoda
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Fecal bacteria closes Jupiter beach
By Rachel Leigh | January 29, 2014 at 4:42 PM EST - Updated July 21 at 9:57 AM
By Jeff Skrzypek
JUPITER, FL (WFLX) - The beach of Dubois Park in Jupiter was closed Tuesday night after scientists with the Florida Department of Health found unsafe levels of a fecal bacteria in the water.
Health workers issued a "no swimming advisory" for the beach park when traces of Enterocicci were discovered in the latest round of water tests.
The advisory meant seasonal residents, like Crystal Sage and her two kids, could not cool off in the water. "That is kind of a shock because the water is usually really clean around here," said Sage.
The Sage family escaped the frigid temperatures of their home in Virginia only to get to warm South Florida and find out they could not swim at one of their favorite spots. "The kids want to be in the water as much as possible. So I can see where it will be an issue," said Sage.
Tim O'Connor with the Florida Department of Health said with it being cold for the last few weeks, animals like birds flock to Dubois where they then do their business. "Obviously, you can't see bacteria, except through a microscope, and nobody is going to take a microscope swimming, I hope. But it'll look very appealing," said O'Connor.
Enterococci generally is not deadly said O'Connor. But, he said, anyone with open wounds, a compromised immune system and children are at risk.
Sage said she will be listening and following the latest warning. "I'll just find a new spot until everything gets straightened out," said Sage.
The state health department said it will continue to test over the next few days, and hopes it will clear up in that time.
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The Favourite to be screened at Hatfield House open-air cinema
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PUBLISHED: 21:13 06 March 2019 | UPDATED: 12:02 08 March 2019
How The Favourite might look at The Luna Cinema at Hatfield House. Picture: The Luna Cinema.
The Luna Cinema
An Oscar-winning movie filmed at Hatfield House will be screened at the stately home as part of this summer's open-air cinema season.
The Favourite is one of this year’s The Luna Cinema 2019 offerings at the Hertfordshire estate in August.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ acerbic period comedy drama was largely shot on location at Hatfield House in the spring of 2017.
• READ MORE: Behind the scenes of filming The Favourite at Hatfield House
The Favourite was filmed at Hatfield House and you can see the movie at the stately home at this summer's Luna Cinema. Picture: Hatfield House.
Starring Academy Award winner Olivia Colman as Queen Anne, The Favourite (15) can be seen on the big outdoor screen in Hatfield Park on Thursday, August 22 – just yards from where the movie was filmed.
As well as the award-winning Colman, who won an Oscar, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for her performance in the bawdy royal romp, the movie also stars Oscar nominees Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone.
• READ MORE: The true story behind the Duchess of Marlborough, the Queen and the ‘Dirty Parlour Maid’
Hatfield House and its gardens figure prominently in the film, with the Oscar-nominated cinematography capturing rooms such as the Long Gallery and Marble Hall in all their glory.
The movie is set in early 18th century. England is at war with the French. Nevertheless, duck racing and pineapple eating are thriving.
Rachel Weisz in The Favourite, which was filmed at Hatfield House. Here Rachel's character Lady Sarah Churchill is sitting in the Library at Hatfield House. Picture: courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox.
A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne and her close friend, and clandestine lover, Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country in her stead while tending to Anne’s ill health and mercurial temper.
When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives, her charm endears her to Sarah.
Sarah Churchill, the Duchess of Marlborough, takes her cousin under her wing and Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots.
As the politics of war become quite time consuming for Sarah, Abigail steps into the breach to fill in as the Queen’s companion, her ‘favourite’.
Their burgeoning friendship gives ambitious Abigail a chance to fulfil her ambitions and she will not let woman, man, politics or rabbit stand in her way.
Doors for the screening will open at 6.45pm with the movie starting at 8.15pm.
An exclusive 48-hour pre-sale for Luna Cinema newsletter subscribers opened today (Wednesday).
Tickets will go on general sale at 10am on Friday, March 8.
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REDHEAD, an album written by William J Locker. Recorded at Sonic Factory Studios in Des Moines, IA.
Released in 2015.
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“Redhead” shows transparency. The songs are both personal and gripping. A track like the opening number, “Rock ‘n’ Roll Man,” sends the listener into a noisy expulsion of nostalgic rock; while a track like “Go Make Friends With the Crows” harnesses an unforgettable pop rock hook with the same rock ‘n’ roll grit.
The record shows two sides: One is the gnarly mettle on display from Locker’s lyricism; the other oozes through in the music, in the form of distorted decadence.
“It is very much a kind of bluesy, breakup record, also a ‘beginning of a relationship’ record,” Locker said. “You’ve got [both] ends of a relationship throughout the record — ‘she loves me, she loves me not’ type-of thing. That’s what’s so fun about how it came together. It tells a story.”
“It seemed like everything was crashing down at once and I had no creative outlet at all,” he continued. “And I had this free, acoustic guitar a friend gave me and I just started messing around with it. And I wrote some songs on it.”
Locker said it took a bit of courage to show the new songs to his brother, Jon. Despite that initial struggle, it worked out.
“[You’re] very insecure when you’re first starting out,” he said. “You just gotta do it. I showed him the tunes and he thought it sounded pretty rock ‘n’ roll. I definitely wanted to go for that old sound.”
Being a solo record, Locker leaned on other musicians to help create the sound for “Redhead.” His brother played bass; Neil Stoffregen played keys and lead guitar parts; Lucas Welchans also provided lead guitar riffs; Heath Pattschull played saxophone; Erik Brown played trumpet; Nella Thomas and Jerry Lorenson sang backing vocals. Matt Sepanic at the Sonic Factory helped finish the production of the record via mixing and mastering.
He said he wouldn’t be able to of make “Redhead” without the support of the other musicians.
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Bordeaux 2005: A Special Report, 4/5/06
By Roger Voss
Bordeaux 2005 – Cos d’Estournel, Mouton, Lafite, Léoville Las Cases, and other greats from Saint-Julien, Pauillac, Saint-Estephe
At the tasting table
This is the year in which Merlot in the Médoc became new world. With alcohols approaching 15 and even 16 percent and low acidity, the Merlot became hard to use in the blend, at least for the top estates. It was relegated to second wines, where it produced simple, juicy wines. For the great wines of the Médoc, this is a Cabernet year.
“If we have more years like 2005,” said Philippe Dhalluin, technical director of Château Mouton Rothschild, “there will be little place for Merlot in many of the Médoc wines.”
The corollary of ripe Merlot is that the Cabernet Sauvignon is also ripe. That’s what makes this vintage potentially so interesting and important. In some cases, the Cabernet is so ripe, it has produced wines that are black currant juice worthy of the south of France. But in other wines, especially in Saint-Julien, it has provided superbly ripe wines,
packed with warm flavors.
The tannins, given the ripeness of the fruit are much softer than is classic in Bordeaux, dusty, warm and very ripe. That could have meant wines that lack structure and were like 2003, which were always too heavy. What has saved 2005 is the acidity, which powers through most of the wines, giving all that richness a lift and a freshness.
As with Margaux, reported yesterday, the northern Médoc wines – Saint-Julien, Pauillac and Saint-Estèphe – are astonishingly easy to taste even at this early stage in their lives. But Charles Chevalier, at Château Lafite-Rothschild, believes the extreme fruitiness of the wines is just a very early stage. “After that the wines will just close up. I’m sure this is a long-term vintage”, he said.
While Chevalier describes the 2005 Bordeaux as a “classic vintage, nothing out of the ordinary”, others see it as more extraordinary. And one of the extraordinary things about it is that the lesser wines are so good, all the way down the line. It makes the difference between the great wines much less in 2005 than in any year in the past.
That small difference is reflected in the scores. Many wines have been marked in the 90s, only a few points behind the top wines, while few of even the more obscure classed growths fall below the upper 80s. That makes it a great year to buy across the board to drink, even if only the top 30-50 wines will be the wines for investment and speculation.
On the wine road
Quality goes deep in the 2005 vintage say the people are tasting to buy. During an end-of-they-day coffee stop in Margaux, Sherlock’s wine stores in Atlanta’s buyers were effusive about the vintage, worried about the price at the top and eager to buy at all levels. Sherlock’s president Douglas Bryant said while “prices at the top may be astronomical, the cru bourgeois and Bordeaux wines will be good.” And the weather had everything to do with it. “It’s a textbook life cycle for a vintage. Beautiful, rich, dense and fresh,” said Craig Maske, general manager of the Atlanta stores.
So what’s to worry about? If you are a collector, it’s price.
“The chateaux will set the price at whatever they want to set it at,” said Don Hackett, the firm’s money man. The consensus was that they believe the chateaux think the market is ready to accept whatever the prices are, including higher than 2000 and 2003. “Exponentially higher,” added Bryant. “And for Latour, Cheval Blanc and such, people will pay anything,” said Hackett.
Yet the first growth owners seem to be playing for calm. According to Charles Chevalier of Lafite Rothschild, Eric de Rothschild, the owner, is “likely to want to calm the market.” While at Château Margaux, owner Corinne Mentzelopoulos said, “everybody is speculating about a price increase. It’s likely because the wine is better than 2004 but other than that I have no precise idea.” At Mouton Rothschild, Philippine de Rothschild entertained journalists in grand style but price didn’t cross her lips.
Meanwhile, Sherlock’s Bryant, summed it up: “We’re in unchartered territory for Bordeaux.”
Tomorrow: Saint-Emilion, Pomerol
Note: All wines were tasted blind, except for the following: Château Lafite-Rothschild, Cos d’Estournel, Château Léoville Las Cases, Château Mouton-Rothschild, Château Potensac, Château Duhart-Milon..
96-98 Château Lafite-Rothschild 2005 Pauillac Underneath the velvet veneer of deceptively soft, dusty tannins, the wine is a powerhouse of dry firmness. It’s a powerful expression of great Cabernet Sauvignon: great ripeness and cassis flavors, but always with a punch just hidden. -R.V.
95-97 Château Léoville Las Cases 2005 Saint-Julien A big wine with dense tannins, but so elegant. Dark, intense with layers of acidity underneath, only showing through at the end. Unusually, Cabernet Sauvignon dominates this wine, a sign of the ripeness of the Cabernet fruit. -R.V.
95-97 Château Léoville-Barton 2005 Saint-Julien A solid, hard, very firm wine that initially lacks much charm. But then it’s apparent that this wine just needs to knit together its huge, dry tannins that completely hide the fruit, just giving hints of greatness to come. -R.V.
95-97 Cos d’Estournel 2005 Saint-Estèphe A hugely dense wine packed with fruit tannins, with only a hint of wood showing through. There’s a touch of peppermint, but the wine remains immensely firm and solid. A real blockbuster. -R.V.
94-96 Château Beychevelle 2005 Saint-Julien A dense, powerful wine, packed with very dry, very dark tannins. There is great fruit as well, a range from black currant to black plums to black cherries. A very fine wine. -R.V.
94-96 Château Gruaud-Larose 2005 Saint-Julien Acidity, black currant fruits, dry tannins: all the hallmarks of young Cabernet Sauvignon in a ripe, layered complex wine that will develop into something extraordinary. A great wine. -R.V.
94-96 Château Lagrange 2005 Saint-Julien Big tannins here, but balanced and equaled by the very ripe, immensely black fruit. There’s acidity, but this is the counterpoint to the sweetness of the fruit. -R.V.
94-96 >Château Lynch-Bages 2005 Pauillac A wine that seems to revel in richness. The tannins are certainly structured, but the fruit is just bursting out. The dryness and the acidity, though, promise that the fruit will be tamed and the wine will age well. -R.V.
94-96 Château Mouton-Rothschild 2005 Pauillac With its packed, spicy wood and very ripe fruit, this is almost sweet. There are certainly fruit tannins there, but they are dominated by new wood, leaving a structure that is relatively simple. -R.V.
93-95 Château Branaire-Ducru 2005 Saint-Julien A huge, generous, opulent wine with cedar aromas, a touch of toast, immense black fruits. And it still keeps a delicacy and elegance: very Saint-Julien. -R.V.
93-95 Château Talbot 2005 Saint-Julien Huge black currant flavors, very ripe fruit, but also a great sense of proportion that give this wine both charm and impressiveness. It’s going to age seriously, and well. -R.V.
92-94 Château Citran 2005 Haut-Médoc This is full of intensely ripe fruit, but seductively balanced with the fresh acidity. The wine is solid, but also lively, with dusty tannins layered with some new wood flavors. -R.V.
92-94 Château Haut-Bages Libéral 2005 Pauillac Very opulent, very generous and rich. It shows all the glories of the year, with the huge, but just sufficiently restrained fruit and exuberant tannins. -R.V.
92-94 Château la Lagune 2005 Haut-Médoc Homemade blackberry jelly fruits are the beauty of this powerful, but elegant wine. The acidity frames the fruit like an aura, giving a very complete picture. -R.V.
92-94 Château la Tour Carnet 2005 Haut-Médoc Mint and herbs set the scene for a ripe, black-fruited, relatively soft wine, where the tannins are charming rather than firm. But it’s easy to imagine this wine broadening and developing a more structured character later. -R.V.
92-94 Château Léoville-Poyferré 2005 Saint-Julien A beautiful, fruity wine with great black flavors, rich acidity, the tannins playing the essential bass counterpoint. The dryness from the structure only comes through right at the end. -R.V.
92-94 Château Pichon Longueville 2005 Pauillac Big black currant fruits, good balancing tannins with herbs, dark, brooding fruits, a touch of mint: this wine has a whole panoply of flavors that are already blending together well. The acidity sets the seal. -R.V.
92-94 Château Pontet-Canet 2005 Pauillac A beautiful, aromatic, minty wine that has dusty, warm tannins, still within the Bordeaux structure. It’s very dry, but the fruit is already enjoyable. This is going to be a delicious wine. -R.V.
91-93 Château Camensac 2005 Haut-Médoc Big, firm and hard, with solid fruits, layers of dry tannin and great power. There’s an intensity to this wine, the acidity adding to the complexity and the structure. -R.V.
91-93 Château Coufran 2005 Haut-Médoc If you’re looking for great, ripe black currant fruits, packed with Cabernet Sauvignon, this is where to come. The wine is full, hugely fruity, but still keeps a good Bordeaux sense of proportion. -R.V.
91-93 Château d’Armailhac 2005 Pauillac Very pure black currant fruits pour out of the glass with this wine. Yes, there are tannins, but the fruit is uplifting, fresh and very vibrant. Delicious, and likely to remain so. -R.V.
91-93 Château Marbuzet 2005 Saint-Estèphe A fine, smooth wine showing great tannins over big solid fruit and very dark, chocolate flavors. There is acidity, but this is dominated by wood tannins. -R.V.
91-93 Château Ormes de Pez 2005 Saint-Estèphe Rich, packed with super-ripe fruit, huge tannins. This wine still manages to keep elegance, power tempered with velvet: an impressive combination. -R.V.
91-93 Château Phélan-Ségur 2005 Saint-Estèphe A finely balanced wine, with the steel and tannins of Saint-Estéphe tempered with hugely ripe, concentrated black plum and dark fig flavors. This is elegant while also being powerful. -R.V.
91-93 Château Potensac 2005 Médoc This wine has fine tannins, relatively soft, with good acidity and dryness. It’s not powerful, but its fine black currant flavors and ripe fruit give it great style. -R.V.
90-92 Château Clerc Milon 2005 Pauillac This is a finely crafted wine, packed with all the right tannins that blend easily into the wood and blackberry flavors. The fruit is very pure, intense and nicely layered. -R.V.
90-92 Château de Lamarque 2005 Haut-Médoc Very dry, intense tannins dominate this wine. The fruit is going to come through later, but together the two will give a very powerful, heavily structured wine. -R.V.
89-91 Château Lafon-Rochet 2005 Saint-Estèphe While there are super-ripe fruit aromas, the structure of this wine is totally all-present. Somewhere under there is the black fruit. This is hugely dark and very dry. -R.V.
89-91 Château Lynch-Moussas 2005 Pauillac Very firm, dry, perhaps missing the exuberant fruit of other Pauillacs, but with its restraint showing serious tannins and firm, solid character. -R.V.
88-90 Château Batailley 2005 Pauillac While there is plenty of good, structured, dry tannins here, the fruit is more of a question. It seems to need greater ripeness, unusual for 2005. All the right flavors are there, but not quite the richness. -R.V.
88-90 Château Belgrave 2005 Haut-Médoc Attractive peppermint aromas, almost eucalyptus, give this wine an almost Australian character. To taste, it is soft, very rich, very black, very new world. -R.V.
88-90 Château Croizet-Bages 2005 Pauillac Dense layers of fruit go right through this wine, almost leaving no room for the equally impressive tannins. There is just a hint of old wood that spoils an otherwise serious wine. -R.V.
88-90 Château Duhart-Milon 2005 Pauillac A ripe, fruity, very juicy wine, with delicious blackberry fruits and freshness. An attractive, relatively simple wine. -R.V.
88-90 Château Langoa-Barton 2005 Saint-Julien Almost southern in its ripeness, this has super-mature fruit, jelly flavors very exotic. Whether the tannins are sufficient to give structure to this open fruit character is a question. -R.V.
87-89 Château Beaumont 2005 Haut-Médoc Very ripe, almost sweet fruit gives this wine a delicious, open, generous feel. Red fruits are the dominant character, layered with some spicy new wood that develops only at the end. -R.V.
87-89 Château Cantemerle 2005 Haut-Médoc With its rather earthy, rustic aromas, this wine is old-fashioned, rather hard and charmless at this stage. We need to wait and see for the fruit to improve. -R.V.
86-88 Château Cos Labory 2005 Saint-Estèphe Hugely tannic, and somewhat rustic, this is dark, dense and very tough. Its tannins are totally dominant, very hard. -R.V.
86-88 Château Malescasse 2005 Haut-Médoc The wine is delicate, with dusty tannins and only easy fruit flavors. It could just be rather closed up, but it hasn’t much depth at the moment. -R.V.
85-87 Château Grand-Puy-Ducasse 2005 Pauillac Rather simple, juicy fruits and green flavors spoil this wine. It needs more richness to reflect the vintage. -R.V.
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Wisconsin Holstein Association awards scholarships to members
The Wisconsin Holstein Association awarded nearly $14,000 in scholarships to 15 youth in 2017.
Wisconsin Holstein Association awards scholarships to members The Wisconsin Holstein Association awarded nearly $14,000 in scholarships to 15 youth in 2017. Check out this story on wisfarmer.com: https://www.wisfarmer.com/story/news/state/2017/05/30/wisconsin-holstein-association-awards-scholarships-members/356218001/
Wisconsin State Farmer Published 3:19 p.m. CT May 30, 2017
Wisconsin Holstein Association(Photo: WHA)
BARABOO - The Wisconsin Holstein Association awarded nearly $14,000 in scholarships to 15 youth in 2017.
Scholarships were awarded to members studying in agriculture or related fields at a two-year or four-year University. These outstanding members will receive their scholarships at the 2018 Wisconsin Junior Holstein Convention, to be held in Stevens Point.
Amanda Gehrke of Arpin, will receive the $1,000 Gordon Berg Memorial Scholarship. Gordon was a long-time Wisconsin Holstein member and breeder from Brownsville. This scholarship is given to a student enrolled in a technical college, two-year, or short course agriculture program.
Gehrke is the 18-year-old daughter of Gary Gerhke and Kerry Peterson. She has attended one year of Farm and Industry Short Course at UW-Madison and plans to return this fall to continue her education. Gerhke's goal is to continue growing her herd of Registered Holsteins and to some day own an art studio where she sells her dairy related artwork.
Receiving the $1,000 Doris Morris Memorial Scholarship is Meikah Dado of Amery. This scholarship is in honor of Doris, who was a longtime Wisconsin Holstein member. Doris and her husband Arden, along with Arden's brother, Maldwyn, and his wife, Inez, owned and operated Arwyn Farms in Waukesha County for over 40 years.
Dado is the 18-year-old daughter of Rick and Gwen Dado. She is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin-Madison studying life sciences communications and dairy science. Upon graduation Dado hopes to be an advocate for the dairy industry with either a dairy company or a state dairy promotions organization.
Kalista Hodorff of Eden will receive the $1,000 Bradley Fust Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship is given in memory of Brad, who was an enthusiastic member of the Junior Holstein Association from Wausau. The scholarship was established by Brad's parents, Brian and Wendy Fust, with the sale of one of Brad's heifers.
Hodorff is the 17-year-old daughter of Corey and Tammy Hodorff. She is a senior at Campbellsport High School with plans to attend the University of Wisconsin - Madison in the fall and major in dairy science with a minor in Spanish.
Hannah Nelson of Ellsworth will receive the $1,000 John Klossner Memorial Scholarship. This scholarship honors John - an active member of the Green County Junior Holstein Association and the Wisconsin Junior Holstein Junior Activities Committee. This scholarship was established by John's parents, Richard and Roxanne Klossner, and is given to a student furthering their education at a four-year University.
Nelson is the 17-year-old daughter of Marc Nelson and Tracy Mitchell. She is a senior at Ellsworth High School with plans to study agricultural business and marketing and dairy science at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls.
Receiving the $1,000 John Selz Memorial Scholarship is Paige Nelson of Ellsworth. This scholarship fund was established in honor of John Selz of Humbird - an active Wisconsin and National Holstein Association member in various capacities for numerous years.
Paige is the 19-year-old daughter of Marc Nelson and Tracy Mitchell and is a freshman at the University of Wisconsin - River Falls, where she is studying agricultural business and dairy science. Nelson hopes to work as a pharmaceutical sales representative within the dairy industry after graduation.
Courtney Moser of Westby will receive the $1000 Marlowe Nelson Memorial Scholarship. The scholarship is given in honor of Marlowe whose passion was to teach and mentor young enthusiastic breeders to become more involved in the Registered Holstein business. Throughout his lifetime, Marlowe paved the way in many aspects of the Registered Holstein breed and its impact on the United States, Japan, Germany and Holland dairy industries.
Moser is the 18-year-old daughter of Cary and Joy Moser. She is a senior at Westby Area High School and plans to attend Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, to study journalism and communications with a focus on agriculture.
Nine additional well-deserving Wisconsin Holstein Junior members will receive four-year or two-year scholarships. Recipients include Summer Henschel of Chilton; Jenna Broege of Janesville; Mikayla Endres of Lodi; Lindsey Sarbacker of Edgerton; Mitchell Schroepfer of Birnamwood; Paige Hoesly of Whitewater; Paul Grulke of Mayville; Amber Dammen of Argyle; Logan Voigts of Platteville.
The National Distinguished Junior Member representatives will be announced at the 2018 Junior Holstein Convention banquet in January, where they will receive a scholastic achievement scholarship for the 2017-2018 year as well.
Receiving scholastic achievement scholarships during the 2016-2017 year for being recognized as National Distinguished Junior Member representatives in 2017 are Logan Voigts of Platteville; Kristen Broege of Janesville; Austin Nauman of Sparta; Carley Krull of Lake Mills; Brooke Trustem of Evansville.
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Posted on March 15, 2019 by Wilmington News Journal
Ohio budget plan targets funding for kids, workforce, water
By Kantele Franko - Associated Press
COLUMBUS (AP) — Efforts to support Ohio’s vulnerable children and adults, prepare more skilled workers, and address water-quality concerns would get targeted funding increases under Republican Gov. Mike DeWine’s first state operating budget proposal, unveiled Friday.
Officials said the plan for spending $69 billion in state revenue over two years wouldn’t raise taxes or affect the state’s rainy day fund, instead relying on anticipated slow, steady economic growth from existing revenue sources.
DeWine said Ohio for too long has “tinkered at the margins” rather than investing in “transformational changes” and must take a longer view to benefit future generations.
“Now is the time to tackle our unfinished business,” he said.
He proposed nearly doubling state funding for family and children services to $151 million a year and giving schools $550 million over the biennium to support and encourage students through mental health counseling, mentoring, after-school programs and other efforts.
DeWine also wants to triple state funding for defending criminal suspects who can’t afford lawyers and allot $900 million now for water-quality projects over the next decade, including addressing toxic algae in Lake Erie.
The governor’s proposal would preserve Medicaid expansion in Ohio but eliminate the Office of Health Transformation, which was created by DeWine’s predecessor, GOP Gov. John Kasich, to overhaul the Medicaid program and recommend reorganization of state health and human-service agencies.
That office has completed its work, said Kim Murnieks, DeWine’s budget director.
The budget covers the two-year period starting July 1. The GOP-led Legislature must debate changes and send it back for DeWine to approve before then.
Democratic lawmakers said they were encouraged by the governor’s support for investing in children and families, cleaning up Lake Erie and maintaining access to affordable health care, but questioned how the proposed spending increase of more than $1 billion annually would be funded.
“We can’t build a budget on broken economic assumptions or wishful thinking,” House Minority Leader Emilia Sykes, of Akron, said in a statement.
Murnieks insisted the proposal was realistic and not based on padded estimates about revenue or expenditures.
DeWine noted that his plan doesn’t count on any money from sports wagering, though a U.S. Supreme Court ruling opened that option for states, and lawmakers are considering a bill to legalize it in Ohio.
The operating budget is separate from the transportation budget, in which DeWine sought an 18-cent gas-tax increase to fund needed road repairs and construction. The Ohio House approved a lesser increase of 10.7 cents per gallon . The Senate will consider it next.
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Andrew Leese, whose shaved head seems to project a fetal glow, hovers dotingly over the long, gangly carrots, peeler clenched in hand to strip them down to their naked essence.
Along with the carrots, giant heads of lettuce and cans of tomatoes and peaches clutter the counter space in Leese’s upscale home in Greensboro’s far northeastern exurbs off of Horse Pen Creek Road. Some of the cooking ingredients and utensils are also shoved in with bills and newsletters on the narrow divider between kitchen and living room. Relaxing new age vocal music plays from a portable CD player.
The carrots will be processed through a mechanical shredder and mixed with chopped lettuce to be served as a salad in two aluminum trays. A thick, tangy vegetarian chili is burbling in a pot on the stovetop. The pungent smell of whole wheat bread wafts from the oven as the yeast works its alchemy.
Leese, a 40-year-old Englishman, will throw together a quick peach cobbler before the afternoon is over. He’ll also whip up two homemade salad dressings ‘— creamy almond and avocado ‘— in his blender. To top it off, the meal will be served with cold wildberry zinger tea.
Once a cook at the now-closed Govinda’s restaurant on Tate Street, Leese is now the sole practitioner of Hare Krishna cuisine in Greensboro. Once a week, every Tuesday evening, he lays out a feast for anyone who wants to partake at St. Mary’s House, an Episcopal church on Walker Avenue that serves the UNCG college community and its surrounding neighborhoods.
Food plays a vital role in Hare Krishna, a religious movement founded in the United States by AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1966.
‘“All the food that is prepared is going to be offered to the deity Krishna,’” Leese says. ‘“Just as you would cook very special food for a loved one, this food is prepared with love and devotion. That’s what’s behind the whole philosophy of why we do food distribution: by eating this food, unknowingly their heart changes.’”
Hare Krishnas never taste food before it’s offered to Krishna, he says. He will literally make up a plate of food and set it out for the deity before he carts the feast down to Walker Avenue.
‘“It’s not like we’re trying to convert people to be Hare Krishnas,’” Leese adds. ‘“We would like people to become more spiritually minded. Becoming a vegetarian would be a good first step.’”
The fact that Hare Krishnas seek to distribute their food beyond the traditional social outreach target of street people and wayward youth has led some recipients to suspect a sinister hidden agenda advanced perhaps by the injection of a secret mind-control agent in the food.
Leese tackles the issue head-on without prompting.
‘“There was this lady one time who asked: ‘Do you put something special in your food? Because I feel so peaceful afterwards,”” he says. ‘“She thought it was saltpeter.’”
Saltpeter, a substance used to make gunpowder, is known to suppress the male sex drive if ingested. Soldiers, convicts and other inmates of all-male institutional settings have long alleged that the stuff was put in their food to keep them under control.
There are a few cooking practices particular to Hare Krishna, but it’s really the cook and not the cooking that matters in the equation.
The food is all vegetarian because Hare Krishnas don’t believe in killing animals. Hare Krishna cooking is often Indian, by virtue of the founder of the religion being born there and the fact that the Indian diet has a strong vegetarian base. But Leese’s standard fare of chili, salad and whole wheat bread also qualifies as Hare Krishna cooking.
One rule is no onions and garlic.
‘“Onions and garlic increase the passions,’” Leese says. ‘“If you notice, in countries where people eat a lot of onions and garlic, like the Latin countries, people are very passionate.’”
Passion and desire are to be avoided because they lead to suffering, he explains in a somewhat dour but friendly voice. Hare Krishna emphasizes detachment from material reality to allow one to become closer to God.
As a substitute to onions and garlic, Leese sprinkles a little asoefetida powder in the chili. Asoefetida, or hing, comes from a the sap of a tropical tree in India, according to my friend Vimala, an excellent cook of Keralan cuisine in Chapel Hill.
Leese also uses textured vegetable protein, which gives the chili a little heft.
‘“This is karma-free food,’” he says. ‘“Karma is what’s keeping us in the world. Even if it’s good karma. There are people who do a lot of charity work so in the next life they come back very beautiful or very wealthy. If you have no karma you go to the spiritual realm. The only real suffering is to be separated from God.’”
At 6 p.m. he’s beaming behind a table of food at St. Mary’s House as he loads up plates for a motley collection of street people, college students and punk rockers who accept the food with gratitude.
Merritt Basey, 51, a friend of Leese’s, expresses effusive praise.
‘“With Andrew’s food, because it’s been blessed and it’s been made with love and devotion, it’s had a profound effect on my health,’” she says. ‘“He would like to see a resurgence in cooking at home. Your emotional take on life while you’re cooking goes into the food.’”
Around the tables of this chow hall there’s no squabbling or tension, no grumbling about the quality of the fare, just contented eating and light conversation.
The meal gives one a satisfied feeling of moderation. The food is pleasing, but not heavy. The chili is savory, but not spicy. The peach cobbler ‘— a mixture of margarine, flour, oats, sugar and date syrup poured over canned peaches ‘— has a dry kind of granola taste that is sweet without being extravagant. The food settles evenly in the stomach.
After the meal, Eugene Teague, a 39-year-old dishwasher by trade, nods off sitting upright on a couch. College students and thrift-store fashionistas flirt on the church’s porch or lay on the grassy slope of its front yard. Leese, his wife and two friends chat quietly at a table in the back of the sanctuary.
A pacific scene prevails, but the spiritual effects of the meal are difficult to ascertain.
‘“I like it. I always donate money,’” says John Sanford, a UNCG student. ‘“I feel bad because I suppose they want people to become more spiritual. It’s missionary work, but they don’t push it on you.’”
His friend Samantha Murphy, also a student at UNCG, adds: ‘“Which is appreciated.’”
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Posted by Stephen H. Smith February 24, 2015 August 6, 2018 All Posts, Buildings, Businesses, Lancaster County, Manufacturing, Maps, Pennsylvania, Top 50 York County Factories in 1899, York County4 Comment
#5 American Caramel Company in York, with links to Hershey’s Chocolate & Graybill’s
York Plant of American Caramel Company (From 1904 Ad in Collections of S. H. Smith; Street names added by S. H. Smith, 2015)
An American Caramel Company ad included photos of their three plants in 1904. This photo shows their York Plant, located on the northwest corner of Broad and Walnut Streets in York. In 1904, American Caramel’s other plants were located in Lancaster and Philadelphia.
The ad noted the Home Office was located in York, PA. The company officers in 1904 were: William L. Blair, President; Joseph H. Fisher, Vice-President; and Daniel F. Lafean, Secretary and Treasurer.
The American Caramel Company in York has direct links to Hershey’s Chocolate and to Graybill’s; the wholesale electrical distributor, located on Broad Street in York. The earliest origins of this confectionery company go back to 1867, when Peter C. Wiest started making caramels in York.
By 1899, the York Plant of the American Caramel Company had grown to become the fifth largest factory employer in all of York County. The 10th Factory Inspection Report notes that on March 13th 1899, the American Caramel Company has 250 employees; 50 male and 200 female. Of these 250 employees, 120 employees are under 21-years-old, of which 2 male employees and 16 female employees were between 13 and 16 years old. The goods manufactured are recorded as “Confectionery.”
George Prowell’s 1907 History of York County, PA, notes in Volume I, Page 767:
The American Caramel Company grew out of an industry established by Peter C. Wiest in 1867. He was a pioneer in the manufacture of caramels and was successful in his efforts and soon developed a large business. In 1878, Daniel F. Lafean became a partner and the firm of P. C. Wiest & Company was organized. The original proprietor retired from the business and in 1895 The P. C. Wiest Company was incorporated with Daniel F. Lafean as president.
Directories of York, have the early confectionery business of P. C. Wiest & Company being conducted at 14 North George Street in York. Business was good; because an 1887 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of York, shows P. C. Wiest & Company is in the course of completing a four-story confectionery factory on the northwest corner of Broad and Walnut Streets in York; with their two-story offices on the southwest corner of these same streets. This Sanborn map section is from Penn State Libraries on-line digital collection of older Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.
A few years later, Milton Hershey built a four-story factory to house his expanding Lancaster Caramel Company at 335-347 Church Street in Lancaster; similarities to the Wiest factory suggest Hershey may have used the same architect. Milton Hershey had established the Lancaster Caramel Company as his first successful business within a small room at 335 Church Street during 1886, and expanded down Church Street as the business grew.
The 1898 York City Directory lists officers of The P. C. Wiest & Company as: Daniel F. Lafean, President & Treasurer, and George W. Williams, Secretary. Lafean was instrumental in establishing the American Caramel Company; which was created March 28, 1898 when the Breisch-Hine Company in Philadelphia merged with The P. C. Wiest & Company in York. The 1899 York City Directory lists officers of the American Caramel Company as: Daniel F. Lafean, President; George F. Breisch, Vice-President; George W. Williams, Secretary; and Walter S. Hine, Treasurer. The home office of the American Caramel Company was located in York, PA.
Links to related posts include:
Lafean and York Fair of 100-Years-Ago
On August 10, 1900, the American Caramel Company acquired the Lancaster Caramel Company with the payment of $1,000,000 in cash. Milton Hershey retained the Hershey Chocolate Company, established in 1894 as a subsidiary of the Lancaster Caramel Company. Hershey also continued to lease space in the Lancaster Plant of the American Caramel Company for several years to conduct business of his chocolate company, until a dedicated chocolate factory was opened in Dauphin County during June 1905. Depending upon the various newspaper accounts of this acquisition, the three plants of the American Caramel Company produced between 90 and 95% of all the caramels sold in the United States.
The following Sanborn Fire Insurance Map, from 1908, shows the York Plant of the American Caramel Company, which was the company’s largest plant. This Sanborn map section is from Penn State Libraries on-line digital collection of older Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps.
1908 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of York, York County, PA, (Map sections from Penn State Libraries on-line digital collection of older Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps)
Single Order for 100 Tons of Caramels
The June 14, 1905 issue of The York Daily reported on a single order for 100-tons of caramels:
R. G. Weston, of London, England, a representative of Powell Brothers & Company, of London and Liverpool, a corporation having 150 stores in England and other parts of Europe, was in this city for several hours yesterday during which time he placed an order for 100 tons of caramel and other candy with the York Plant of the American Caramel Company.
June of 1905 was the same month that Milton Hershey opened his Chocolate Factory in Dauphin County. One can only imagine Mr. Hershey thinking, after hearing about the 100-ton order, if he made the right move, in getting out of the caramel business in favor of chocolate making. History proves Hershey made the right choice.
Continue reading for the further history of the York Plant of the American Caramel Company; from Baseball Cards to Graybill’s.
In my post Late 1800s Factory Inspection Reports Assist in Identification of an East Prospect Photo I wrote about finding these reports in the State Library of Pennsylvania. For this series on the Top 50 York County Factories at the end of 19th Century, I’m using data from the 10th Report of the Pennsylvania Department of Factory Inspection.
The 10th Factory Inspection Report is for the Department’s year ending October 31st 1899. I ranked the 479 York County factories by numbers of employees; #50 has 47 employees, on up to #1 with 510 employees. In the coming weeks, I’m counting down to the top employer in York County at the end of 19th Century. At #5 in the countdown is the American Caramel Company in York; i.e. in 1899, only four factories in all of York County provided jobs to more employees.
The American Caramel Company was one of the early issuers of Baseball Cards with their product. As noted on the back of a 1915 card: “This card is one of a set of forty-eight leading Baseball Players in the National, American and Federal Leagues. One card is given with every piece of Baseball Caramel manufactured by the American Caramel Co., York, PA.” The front of each card contained a photo of a baseball player; with their name, position and team noted in the lower margin. The size of the 1915 cards were 1.5-inches by 2.75-inches.
The American Caramel Company shut down the York Plant in December 1928; with the candy making machinery moving to a more modern facility. It was reported that peak employment at the plant had reached 400 workers in the early 1920s.
The plant on the northwest corner of Broad and Walnut Streets in York remained vacant for a number of years. In 1933, with the repeal of Prohibition, it was announced that The Yorktown Breweries planned to open a beer brewery in the building, however such a listing never shows up in City Directories; therefore the brewery likely never materialized.
The plant housed the R. B. Lloyd Tobacco Company from the late 1930s to late 1940s. In the early 1950s, the F. A. Burrows Manufacturing Company operated out of the plant; they made steam heating equipment.
Most Yorkers remember this plant housing Graybill’s; the wholesale electrical distributor. Prior to moving to 200 North Broad Street, during 1954, Graybill’s conducted business at 135-137 East Philadelphia Street in York. The following photo of Graybill’s is from the 1960s; it is from the same viewpoint as the 1904 American Caramel Company photo, at the beginning of this post.
Graybill’s on corner of Broad and Walnut Streets in York, PA (Greater York in Action, by The York Area Chamber of Commerce, 1968. Page 76)
The central part of Graybill’s goes back to the four-story caramel factory built in 1887. The building sat vacant for years until a heavy snowstorm in February 2007 partially collapsed the roof. The 120-year old building was demolished soon afterwards.
A review of my count down, thus far, of the 50 top factories in York County at the end of 19th Century follows. As a group, these 46 factories provided employment for 4,660 people in York County during 1899.
#5 American Caramel Company in York; 250 employees
#6 York Haven Paper Company in York Haven; 250 employees
#7 York Rolling Mill in Spring Garden Township; 200 employees
#8 York Carriage Company in York; 197 employees
#9 Jacob A. Mayer & Brothers in North York; 170 employees
#10 S. Morgan Smith Company in York; 166 employees
#11 York Card & Paper Company in York; 163 employees
#12 The Hench & Dromgold Company in York; 145 employees
#13 Hanover Match Company in Hanover; 143 employees
#14 Baugher, Kurtz & Stewart in York; 140 employees
#15 Wrightsville Hardware Company in Wrightsville; 130 employees
#16 John C. Schmidt & Company in York; 120 employees
#17 Celestino, Costello & Company in York; 114 employees
#18 Holtzman Manufacturing Company in York; 114 employees
#19 York Wall Paper Company in York; 101 employees
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Overview: Modelling genomic BRIDGEs
Unlike the modelling of genetic regulation networks or metabolic pathways, modelling a laboratory protocol does not necessarily achieve much in light of the ultimate goal of being able to understand and answer questions regarding biological processes. On the other hand, we did wish to construct a model corresponding to the BRIDGE protocol, and such a model would be useful to demonstrate an ability of Kappa that has not been touched upon yet: perturbations. These are described in further detail below, but in short allow for certain effects (such as activation or inhibition of rules) to be enacted at certain times within simulation of the model.
The following sections describe, in turn: the agents and rules that are present in the genomic BRIDGEs model, the perturbations that govern time-dependent behaviour, the results obtained by running the simulation, and finally the analysis of the results obtained.
The genomic BRIDGEs model, focused as it is on the interactions of the BRIDGE protocol, requires only one basic agent - the DNA agent presented previously in the introduction to Kappa. Each DNA agent has two lateral sites to bind other DNA agents both upstream and downstream, one to hold the type of the agent (usually materialised either as a descriptive acronym or as a reference number from the BioBrick Registry), and one to bind proteins interacting with the DNA agent (typically transcription factors or RNA polymerase, omitted in this model ). This basic agent, chained together as shown in Figure 1, can then be used to construct larger composite agents that represent different sequences in the BRIDGE protocol - for example, the cat-sacB construct or the desired insert.
Figure 1: A composite agent with four DNA agents joined together at their upstream and downstream sites, representing the cat-sacB construct and surrounding DNA.
The rules involved in the BRIDGE protocol can be roughly divided into three distinct groups, or chapters. The first chapter involves the introduction of fresh agents to the protocol, and consists of a single rule in which the desired insert (i.e., the DNA that we wish to insert into the target vector during the second stage of BRIDGE recombination) is created. This rule has an unmodified rate of 0, since we do not want this to occur without our express permission.
The second chapter involves the degradation of various composite agents under the influence of antibiotics or growth on sucrose, as per the selection methods employed by the BRIDGE protocol. For example, applying antibiotic selection will result in all composite agents not containing a DNA agent with type cat to degrade; similarly, applying growth on sucrose will cause all composite agents containing a DNA agent with type sacB to degrade. Although this is not quite an accurate model of what actually occurs during the selection process, it does allow for the modelling of the protocol to be contained within a single system. Again, these rules will only occur at certain time-points within the model, and thus the rate of the rules are set at zero.
The third and final chapter of rules describe the two stages of recombination as previously outlined in Figure 1 on the introduction to the BRIDGE protocol here. They involve the exchange of the relevant DNA agents between their respective composites, an example of which is shown in Figure 2 below.
The initial conditions of the simulation are set such that it contains both the cat-sacB construct and the vector into which the final insert needs to be placed. The remaining DNA required for the protocol - the insert itself - will be added to the simulation at a predetermined point in time, as described by the perturbations to follow.
For details of the rules themselves, readers are directed to browse the actual Kappa model.
Figure 2: A Kappa rule describing the first stage of recombination in the BRIDGE protocol. The cat-sacB construct is exchanged between the two composite agents.
Perturbations in the Kappa modelling language are simply timed alterations to the rates of particular rules, simulating the effect of external influences upon the modelled environment. In the context of modelling genomic BRIDGEs, the perturbations describe the effect caused by various stages of the protocol - selection over antibiotic resistance, introduction of the insert, and selection over sucrose. Hence, there are again three sets of perturbations included in the model.
The first set of perturbations deal with antibiotic selection, regulating at predetermined time points within the simulation the two relevant rules described previously. Four separate perturbations are required in total - two to activate the rules (i.e. set their reaction rate to a value greater than 0), and two more to deactivate them again (i.e. reset their reaction rate to 0). Similarly the second set of two perturbations activate and deactivate the introduction of the insert, and the third set of six perturbations do the same thing regarding selection over sucrose.
Again, for the perturbations themselves, readers are directed to browse the actual Kappa model.
As the model itself was relatively straightforward, there were very few complications in designing the rules and perturbations to achieve the desired results. These can be summarised as depicted in Figure 3 below.
Initially, a thousand composite agents for each of the BRIDGE construct and the vector exist within the simulation. Over the first few time units, these interact with one another via the rule governing first-step recombination, diminishing in number as the integrant is formed instead.
At t=5, the perturbations for selection over antibiotic resistance are activated, and over the next five time units the amount of the vector in the system declines, leaving only those agents containing the cat BioBrick (non-recombinant construct and the integrant) in the system.
At t=10, the insert is introduced into the system, and interactions with the integrant as governed by the second-step recombination rules begin to occur. This results in the amount of integrant in the system decreasing, and the amount of product increasing in turn.
At t=20, the second stage of selection perturbations are activated, targeting those agents still containing the sacB BioBrick (including non-recombinant construct and the integrant). This leaves a final system containing large amounts of the desired product, as well as any insert that has yet to interact with the integrant.
Repeated simulations of the stochastic model resulted in graphs very similar to the one shown.
Figure 3: Results of running a simulation of the BRIDGE protocol. Units (time and concentration) are arbitrary.
In the above simulation results, the final state of the simulation contained both the desired product and remaining insert. As this is obviously undesirable in the finalised protocol, it thus highlights the need to carefully control the amount of insert added to the integrant before second-step recombination.
In addition, in some runs of the simulation the selection perturbations failed to completely eradicate the waste DNA from the system. Although this is a side-effect of modelling the selection mechanisms as has been done (i.e., as degradation of previously existing DNA), it also emphasises the necessity of allowing them to run their course before continuing to the next stage of the process.
On the other hand, it can be argued that this is less of a concern in real life, as if even a small amount of the correct DNA can be isolated, it is relatively easy to amplify this via other means such as PCR.
Once again, the finalised model can be found here.
Throughout this wiki there are words in bold that indicate a relevance to human aspects. It will become obvious that human aspects are a part of almost everything in iGEM.
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#1 First New Coal Mine of Trump Era Opens in Pennsylvania by algernonpj 11.06.2017 14:20
First New Coal Mine of Trump Era Opens in Pennsylvania
President Trump lauded the opening of the nation's first new coal mine in recent memory.
Corsa Coal Company will operate the mine in Somerset County, Pa. - outside of Pittsburgh.
Corsa CEO George Dethlefsen said the mine will be a boon to the struggling local economy.
He praised Trump's easing of regulations and encouragement for fossil fuel exploration.
Dethlefsen told Leland Vittert that for the 70 positions available in the mine, 400 people applied.
"It's a hard day's work every day, but it's worth it," one miner said.
Vittert said the news contrasts with Hillary Clinton's message that she would "put a lot of coal miners out of work."
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D), who endorsed Clinton, joined the mine company in watching a video message from Trump commemorating the occasion.
R.J. Harris, a longtime host on Harrisburg's 580-WHP, said the mine opening is a "shot in the arm" for the Keystone economy.
Pennsylvania was once home to the world's largest coal breaker, the St. Nicholas Breaker in Mahanoy City.
In its heyday, the breaker could process 12,000 tons of anthracite coal each day, according to the Allentown Morning Call.
Demolition began on the Schuylkill County behemoth in 2015 - a sign of the times in the coal region.
Though, Harris said he is optimistic that Corsa's mine opening is evidence that Trump can help turn the region's economy around.
The mine will reportedly be producing metallurgical or bituminous coal - which is used in steel-making - while anthracite is the type often used in energy production.
http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/06/10/ne...els-regulations
#2 RE: First New Coal Mine of Trump Era Opens in Pennsylvania by Cincinnatus 11.06.2017 15:24
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GENERAL BACKGROUND
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is enjoying strong economic growth as a result of the rise in oil prices which began with OPEC production cuts in March 1999. While the UAE has a relatively diversified economy for a Persian Gulf oil exporter, the collapse in oil prices from late 1997 to early 1999 resulted in a decline in real gross domestic product (GDP) of 5.0%. Real GDP growth for 1999 was 9.5%, and it is projected at 10.5% for 2000.
The UAE is a federation of seven emirates - Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, and Umm al-Qaiwain. Political power is concentrated in Abu Dhabi, which controls the vast majority of the UAE's economic and resource wealth. The two largest emirates -- Abu Dhabi and Dubai -- provide over 80% of the UAE's income. In June 1996, the UAE�s Federal National Council approved a permanent constitution for the country. This replaced a provisional document which had been renewed every five years since the country�s creation in 1971. The establishment of Abu Dhabi as the UAE�s permanent capital was one of the new framework�s main provisions.
In recent years, the UAE has undertaken several projects to diversify its economy and to reduce its dependence on oil and gas revenues. The non-oil sectors of the UAE's economy presently contribute more than two-thirds of the UAE's total GDP, and about 30% of its total exports. The federal government has invested heavily in sectors such as aluminum production, tourism, aviation, re-export commerce, and telecommunications. As part of its strategy to further expand its tourism industry, the UAE is building new hotels, restaurants and shopping centers, and expanding airports and duty-free zones. Agriculture also makes up a significant portion of the UAE's economy. Dubai has become a central Middle East hub for trade and finance, accounting for about 70% of the Emirates� non-oil trade.
The UAE and Iran continue to dispute the ownership of three islands, Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunb Islands, which are strategically located in the Strait of Hormuz. All three islands were effectively occupied by Iranian troops in 1992. The Mubarak field, which is located six miles off Abu Musa, has been producing gas-rich oil since 1974. In 1995, the Iranian Foreign Ministry claimed that the islands are "an inseparable part of Iran." Iran rejected a 1996 proposal by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) for the dispute to be resolved by the International Court of Justice, an option supported by the UAE. In early 1996, Iran took further moves to strengthen its hold on the disputed islands. These actions included starting up a power plant on Greater Tunb, opening an airport on Abu Musa, and announcing plans for construction of a new port on Abu Musa. In the dispute, the UAE has received strong support from the GCC, the United Nations, and the United States. Although Iran remains a continuing concern for officials in Abu Dhabi, they have chosen not to escalate the territorial dispute. Iran is one of Dubai�s major trading partners, accounting for 20% to 30% of Dubai�s business. In September 2000, Iran stated its willingness to resume talks with the UAE on the dispute.
Relations between Saudi Arabia and the UAE also have shown some signs of strain during the last two years, due to Saudi development of the Shaybah oilfield, with estimated reserves of 14 billion barrels of crude oil. The UAE and Saudi Arabia do not have a precisely defined border in the sparsely populated desert separating them, and the Shaybah field straddles territory claimed by both governments. Saudi Arabia began production from the Shaybah field in late 1998. The UAE has demanded an agreement to share production from Shaybah.
The UAE contains proven crude oil reserves of 97.8 billion barrels, or slightly less than 10% of the world total. Abu Dhabi holds 94% of this amount, or about 92.2 billion barrels. Dubai contains an estimated 4.0 billion barrels, followed by Sharjah and Ras al-Khaimah, with 1.5 billion and 100 million barrels of oil, respectively.
The majority of the UAE�s crude oil is considered light, with gravities in the 32o to 44o API range. Abu Dhabi's Murban 39o and Dubai's Fateh 32o blends are the UAE's primary export crudes. Most of the UAE�s oil fields have been producing since the 1960s or early 1970s. Proven oil reserves in Abu Dhabi have doubled in the last decade, mainly due to significant increases in rates of recovery. Abu Dhabi has continued to identify new finds, especially offshore, and to discover new oil-rich structures in existing fields.
Under the UAE's constitution, each emirate controls its own oil production and resource development. Although Abu Dhabi joined OPEC in 1967 (four years before the UAE was formed), Dubai does not consider itself part of OPEC or bound by its quotas.
In response to the period of low oil prices in 1998 and early 1999, OPEC agreed in March 1999 to reduce output in an effort to shore up the price of crude. The UAE�s production quota was lowered to 2.00 million bbl/d. Actual production fell from a 1999 high of 2.25 million bbl/d in February 1999 to 2.05 million bbl/d in May 1999. After three rounds of OPEC quota increases in 2000, the UAE quota rose to 2.29 million bbl/d on October 1, 2000. Production in the third quarter of 2000 was 2.27 million bbl/d, and may climb to 2.35 million bbl/d in the fourth quarter of 2000. The UAE's total capacity is 2.60 million bbl/d, making it second only to Saudi Arabia for excess production capacity among OPEC member states.
On October 12, 1998, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) announced a major plan to restructure its management. The plan consolidated ADNOC�s operations under five new directorates: Exploration and Production, Gas Processing, Chemicals, Marketing and Refining, and Shared Services (Administration).
The UAE has two refineries operated by ADNOC. The Ruwais refinery underwent a $100-million upgrade in 1995 to a capacity of 145,000 bbl/d. It produces light products mainly for export to Japan and India. Fuel oil from Ruwais is sold as bunkers by ADNOC and also used for domestic power generation. A $1.2-billion second-phase Ruwais expansion is to include a new 135,000-bbl/d crude distillation unit, a 130,000-bbl/d fractionation plant, and expansion of residual oil conversion facilities with a 40,000-bbl/d hydrocracker and a 36,000-bbl/d visbreaker. ADNOC bagan processing condensate from the Bab and Asab fields at the fractionation unit in May 2000. When the rest of the project is completed by 2003, Ruwais� total capacity will be around 415,000 bbl/d.
UAE has four smaller refineries. Umm al-Nar, in Abu Dhabi, with a capacity of 88,500 bbl/d. Since its construction in 1976, the Umm al-Nar plant has undergone debottlenecking as well as a recent expansion. The refinery primarily supplies the domestic market. Metro Oil has a 75,000-bbl/d refinery in Fujairah. The Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) Jebal Ali condensate refinery, with a capacity of 140,000 bbl/d, began operation in Dubai in May 1999. A 40,000 bbl/d second-hand gasoline unit, owned by the private firm ISO Octane, opened near Jebal Ali in May 2000.
Foreign Downstream Operations
In October 1998, the International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC), the UAE�s downstream investment outfit, agreed to purchase 50% of the Hyundai Oil Refinery Company of South Korea for $500 million. The UAE is the second-largest crude oil supplier to South Korea after Saudi Arabia. IPIC�s overseas holdings also include a 10% stake in Spain�s CEPSA and a 19.6% share of Austria�s OMV.
The UAE�s natural gas reserves of 212 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) are the world's fourth largest after Russia, Iran, and Qatar. The largest reserves of 196.1 Tcf are located in Abu Dhabi. Sharjah, Dubai, and Ras al-Khaimah contain smaller reserves of 10.7 Tcf, 4.1 Tcf, and 1.1 Tcf, respectively. In Abu Dhabi, the non-associated Khuff gas reservoirs beneath the Umm Shaif and Abu al-Bukhush oil fields rank among the world's largest. Current gas reserves are projected to last for about 150-170 years.
Increased domestic consumption of electricity and growing demand from the petrochemical industry have provided incentives for the UAE to increase its use of natural gas. Over the last decade, gas consumption in Abu Dhabi has doubled, and is projected to reach 4 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/d) by 2005. The development of gas fields also increases exports of condensates, which are not subject to OPEC quotas.
The past few years have seen the UAE embark on a massive multi-billion dollar program of investment in its gas sector including a shift toward gas-fired power plants and the transformation of the Taweelah commercial district into a gas-based industrial zone. An ambitious plan, the Dolphin Project, to interconnect the gas grids of Qatar, the UAE, and Oman, also is planned.
The second phase of the UAE's $1-billion onshore gas development program (OGD-2) at the Habshan natural gas complex located directly over the huge Bab oil and gas field is currently underway. This second phase includes the construction of three or four gas processing trains to process 1 bcf/d of gas, 300-500 tons per day (t/d) of natural gas liquids, 35,000-55,000 t/d of condensate and up to 2,100 t/d of sulphur. The construction contract was awarded to Italy�s Snamprogetti in October 1998. Construction is scheduled to be completed in early 2001.
Another project closely linked with OGD-2 is the Asab gas development project, which was completed in 1999. The Asab development processes around 830 million cubic feet per day (Mmcf/d) of associated wet gas from the Thamama F and G reservoirs and produces up to 100,000 bbl/d of condensate for processing at the Ruwais refinery. The gas will also support other industries in Ruwais and be re-injected into Asab reservoirs to maintain field pressure. The $700-million project was awarded to Snamprogetti in June 1997 by UAE�s Supreme Petroleum Council.
Supplying Dubai
Dubai�s gas consumption is expected to grow by nearly 7% annually through 2005, due to expansion of the emirate's industrial sector, a switch to gas by its power stations, and the need for an enhanced oil recovery (EOR) system based on gas injections for its dwindling oil formations. Dubai projects future demand will average 810 Mmcf/d in 2005, with major swings between summer and winter consumption patterns. Currently, Dubai�s entire gas supply comes from fellow UAE member Sharjah, which transports about 430 Mmcf/d at approximately $1.25/million Btu. Amoco operates three fields and the 800-Mmcf/d Sajaa processing facility in conjunction with the Sharjah government.
A project to pipe gas from the offshore Khuff field to Dubai and the Taweelah industrial complex was abandoned in May 1999. Instead, Dubai will be connected to the main Abu Dhabi gas receiving station by a pipeline.
The Dolphin Project
The Dolphin Project aims to develop links between the gas infrastructures of Qatar, the UAE, and Oman, with a possible future link to Pakistan. It will allow the export of non-associated gas from Qatar's massive offshore North Dome field. A Statement of Principles for the project was signed in March 1999 between the UAE Offsets Group (UOG) and the Qatar General Petroleum Corporation (QGPC). Mobil Oil Qatar signed a memorandum of understanding covering its participation in the project's upstream component in July 1999. Estimated to cost $8-10 billion over the next 6-7 years, the project will begin as a subsea pipeline from Ras Laffan in Qatar to a landfall in Abu Dhabi, which will then be extended to Dubai and northern Oman. It will start at 48 inches in diameter, narrowing to 30 inches by the time it reaches Oman. In its initial phase, the pipeline is to carry 3 Bcf/d of Qatari gas to the UAE and Oman, accounting for nearly 10% of total world gas supplies shipped by pipeline.
In October 1999, UOG and ADNOC issued a joint declaration dividing up gas distribution between them. Gas from the Dolphin Project will be the exclusive supply for gas-fired power plants, except in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi, and will also supply gas for ADNOC contracts with Dubai. Gas from the Dolphin Project will use the ADNOC distribution network until the project develops its own network. In March 2000, UOG signed a contract with two foreign firms, TotalFinaElf and Enron, after securing purchase agreements with Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Oman. UOG will hold 51% of the equity in the Dolphin Energy consortium, with the remaining portion equally split between Enron and TotalFinaElf. TotalFinaElf will concentrate on the upstream, developing gas production from a block in the Qatari offshore North Field. Enron will build the pipelines connecting the North Field with the UAE and Oman. Negotiations with the Qatar General Petroleum Corporation (QGPC) on pricing for the gas are continuing, and the project cannot reach financial closure until the pricing issues have been resolved.
The planned extension from Oman to Pakistan may be built in 2005 or later, and would carry 1.5 Bcf/d onward to Pakistan. This phase of the project is dependent on Pakistan's ability to pay for the gas, which is questionable given the current weakness of its economy, but UAE officials involved in the planning of the project have said Pakistan is being included because they take a "long term view" of Pakistan's potential for economic development, including possible UAE investments in enterprises such as independent power plants (IPP's) in Pakistan which would consume the gas.
The UAE�s soaring demand for electric power, coupled with volatile swings in peak loads, led the Emirates in 1997 to form a Privatization Committee for the Water and Electricity Sector. In early 1998, the committee called for a comprehensive restructuring, including the elimination of the state-owned Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Department (ADWED) in favor of sweeping privatization. ADWED will be tranformed into a regulatory body, the Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA). The government plans to take a majority holding in the new ventures with minority interests held by foreign firms. Gradually, the government will privatize its shares through initial public offerings (IPOs), allowing UAE nationals to become shareholders.
TotalFinaElf and Tractebel were awarded a contract by ADWEA in August 2000 for an upgrade to the Taweelah A-1 plant, which will also give a 20% ownership stake to each of the foreign partners, with the rest remaining with ADWEA. The upgrade will bring the capacity of the plant to 1,350 megawatts (MW).
Another step in the reorganization is the expansion of the Taweelah cogeneration facility. The expansion, known as Taweelah A-2, is the UAE�s first independent water and power project (IWPP), and reached financial close in April 1999. It is the second independent power project in the Gulf after Oman�s al-Manah facility. With a price tag of some $800 million, the expansion is to add about 763 megawatts (MW) of power and 50 million gallons of desalinated water to the UAE�s supplies. The first 370-MW came online in July 2000. The rest of the project is scheduled for completion by August 2001. The Taweelah A-2 project is to be run by Emirates CMS Power, a joint venture between CMS Energy (40% ownership interest) and the newly-formed Emirates Power Company (EPC) (60%).
The al-Taweelah Power Company will manage the Taweelah B facility. The plant, which currently has six 122-MW steam turbines and six 13 million gallon-per-day (g/d) multi-stage flash units, is now undergoing a $360 million expansion. The addition of two new gas-turbine units will bring the plant�s capacity to 1,220 MW and 103 million g/d of water. The Umm al-Nar Power Company will operate the plant by the same name with a 1,215-MW, 97-million-g/d facility, which will be upgraded with two new 3.5 million g/d desalination units. The new units will run on steam already available at the site. The company will also operate the 120-MW Baniyas station.
The Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) currently is soliciting bids, due in January 2001, for the Shuweihat IPP project. The first phase of the project would have a capacity of 1,500 MW, with later additions possibly bringing capacity to 5,000 MW by 2009.
The UAE also is taking part in a $1 billion plan to build a regional power grid throughout the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The first phase of the plan would link Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar; the UAE and Oman would join the grid in the second phase of the plan. GCC electricity ministers signed a final agreement on the project in June 1999. The plan is based on the assumption that each country will have its own unified power grid, and the UAE is doing its part by connecting all the power stations along its western coast with the central region.
Sources for this report include: CIA World Factbook 2000; Dow Jones News Wire service; Economist Intelligence Unit ViewsWire; Oil and Gas Journal; Petroleum Economist; Petroleum Intelligence Weekly; International Market Insight Reports; U.S. Energy Information Administration; WEFA Middle East Economic Outlook.
President: Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan
Prime Minister: Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid al-Maktoum
Independence: December 2, 1971 (from United Kingdom)
Population (2000E): 2.4 million
Location/Size: Persian Gulf between Oman and Saudi Arabia/30,000 square miles
Major Cities: Abu Dhabi (capital), Dubai, Sharjah, al-Ain
Languages: Arabic (official), Persian, English, Hindi, Urdu
Ethnic Groups: Arab (42%), South Asian (50%), other expatriate (Western and East Asian) 8%. Less than 20% of the population are UAE citizens.
Religion: Muslim 96% (Shi�a 16%), Christian, Hindu, Other 4%
Defense (1998): Total manpower 64,500 (Army 59,000; Air Force 4,000; Navy 1,500)
Currency: Dirham (AED)
Market Exchange Rate (10/17/00): US$1 = 3.67 Dirhams
Gross Domestic Product (2000E): $63.2 billion
Real GDP Growth Rate (2000E): 10.5%
Inflation Rate (consumer prices)(2000E): 3.6%
Current Account Balance (2000E): $9.5 billion
Major Trading Partners: Japan, United Kingdom, United States, Singapore, Germany, South Korea, Iran, India
Merchandise Exports (2000E): $56.6 billion
Merchandise Imports (2000E): $43.0 billion
Merchandise Trade Balance (2000E): $13.7 billion
Major Export Products: Crude oil, natural gas, re-exports, aluminum, dried fish, dates
Major Import Products: Manufactured goods, machinery, and transportation equipment, food
Oil Export Revenues (2000E): $20.7 billion
International Reserves (2000E): $9.5 billion
Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources: Obeid bin Saif al-Nasiri
Proven Oil Reserves (1/1/00E): 97.8 billion barrels
Crude Oil Production (3rd Quarter of 2000E): 2.27 million bbl/d
OPEC Crude Oil Production Quota (10/1/00): 2.29 million bbl/d (for whole UAE)
Oil Consumption (2000E): 321,000 bbl/d
Net Oil Exports (2000E): 2.0 million bbl/d
Major Crude Oil Customers (2000E): Japan (60%), other Far East (20%)
Crude Oil Refining Capacity (1/1/00E): 428,500 bbl/d
Natural Gas Reserves (1/1/00E): 212 trillion cubic feet (Tcf)
Natural Gas Production (1998E): 1.31 Tcf
Natural Gas Consumption (1998E): 1.07 Tcf
Natural Gas Exports (1998E): 0.25 Tcf
Natural Gas Imports (1998E): 0.02 Tcf
Electric Generation Capacity (1/1/98E): 5.5 gigawatts
Electricity Production (1998E): 20.1 billion kilowatthours
Minister of Electricity & Water: Humayd bin Nasir al-Uways
Total Energy Consumption (1999E): 1.9 quadrillion Btu* (0.5% of world total energy consumption)
Energy-Related Carbon Emissions (1999E): 32.2 million metric tons of carbon (0.5% of world total carbon emissions)
Per Capita Energy Consumption (1999E): 652.7 million Btu (vs. U.S. value of 355.8 million Btu)
Per Capita Carbon Emissions (1999E): 11.2 metric tons of carbon (vs. U.S. value of 5.5 metric tons of carbon)
Energy Intensity (1999E): 43,616 Btu/$1990 (vs U.S. value of 12,638 Btu/$1990)**
Carbon Intensity (1999E): 0.7 metric tons of carbon/thousand $1990 (vs U.S. value of 0.19 metric tons/thousand $1990)**
Sectoral Share of Energy Consumption (1998E): Transportation (10.3%), Industrial (58.4%), Residential (16.2%), Commercial (15.1%)
Sectoral Share of Carbon Emissions (1998E): Industrial (56.7%), Transportation (13.2%), Residential (15.6%), Commercial (14.5%)
Fuel Share of Energy Consumption (1999E): Oil (38.2%), Natural Gas (61.8%), Coal (0.0%)
Fuel Share of Carbon Emissions (1999E): Natural Gas (54.2%), Oil (45.8%), Coal (0.0%)
Renewable Energy Consumption (1998E): 0.71 trillion Btu* (0% increase from 1997)
Number of People per Motor Vehicle (1998): 71.4 (vs. U.S. value of 1.3)
Status in Climate Change Negotiations: Non-Annex I country under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (ratified December 29th, 1995). Not a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol.
Major Environmental Issues: Lack of natural freshwater resources being overcome by desalination plants; desertification; beach pollution from oil spills.
Major International Environmental Agreements: A party to Conventions on Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Marine Dumping and Ozone Layer Protection. Has signed, but not ratified, Biodiversity and Law of the Sea.
* The total energy consumption statistic includes petroleum, dry natural gas, coal, net hydro, nuclear, geothermal, solar, wind, wood and waste electric power. The renewable energy consumption statistic is based on International Energy Agency (IEA) data and includes hydropower, solar, wind, tide, geothermal, solid biomass and animal products, biomass gas and liquids, industrial and municipal wastes. Sectoral shares of energy consumption and carbon emissions are also based on IEA data.
**GDP based on EIA International Energy Annual 1999
Organizations: Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC); Operates three main oil and gas operating companies, five Service companies, three joint ventures to fully utilize the produced gas, two maritime transport companies for crude oil, refined product and LNG and one refined product distribution company.
Major Refineries: Ruwais (145,000 bbl/d), Emirates National Oil Company (ENOC) - Dubai (120,000), Umm al-Nar (88,500 bbl/d), Metro Oil (Fujairah)(75,000 bbl/d)
Major Gas Processing Plants: Bab, Bu Hasa, Das Island, Habshan (2), Jebel Ali, Ruwais
Major Oil Fields: Abu Dhabi: �Asab, Bab, Bu Hasa, Al-Zakum Dubai: Fallah, Fateh, Southwest Fateh, Margham, Rashid Sharjah: Mubarak (near Abu Musa Island)
Major Associated Gas Fields: Abu Dhabi: Abu al-Bukhush, Bab, Bu Hasa, Umm Shaif, Zakum
Ports: Abu Dhabi: Das Island, Delma Island, Jebel as Dhanna, Ruwais, Abu al Bukhush, Al Mubarraz, Zirku Island, Port Zayed, Umm al Nar Dubai: Jebel Ali, Fateh, Port Rashid Sharjah: Mubarak
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Overview & Approach
What about the monitoring during stimulation phase of treatment?
Monitoring normally takes place during the stimulation phase of the treatment (e.g. Blood tests for oestrogen, progesterone and ultrasound scans). Follicle measurements and hormone levels in the blood will indicate the time for oocyte aspiration.
Under what conditions would you freeze any 'spare' embryos?
If spare embryos are good in shape and minister of blastomers is appropriate it means that they are worth to freeze.
Is there anything we can do to improve the quality of the eggs or the sperm?
At this moment you cannot do anything to increase the quality of egg and sperm. Stop smoking if you do.
Fertility Questions
What are the risks that we need to be aware of? What is ovarian hyperstimulation?
Every patient responds on the ovarian stimulation differently. Approximately 15% of the cases may be cancelled due to poor ovarian response or ovarian hyper stimulation. Sometimes ovaries respond to ovulation induction agents more than expected and get severely enlarged. Fluid may accumulate in the abdomen and disturb woman. This is so called ovarian hyperstimulation. These problems resolve in 2 weeks. However, 1% of hyperstimulated women may need to be hospitalized to follow breathing and urine output. Another main reason for canceling treatment is the non-presence of sperm in the azospermic patient after the testicular biopsy procedure (TESE).
What is the success rate of the treatment?
The success rate of in vitro fertilization and microinjection is obtained by dividing the number of couples who have children with these methods by the number of couples who begin the treatment process. The global success rate of such procedures is approximately 35%. This percentage reflects the average of every age group. However, if patients are divided into groups by age, success rate becomes 60-70% for young women between 20-30 years of age, declines to 50% after age of 35 and finally drops to 25% after age of 40. The most important cause of this decline is the advanced age and bad quality eggs obtained in these women. In general, 30 of every 100 couples who begin treatment end up with a child. However, it would be misleading for every patient to use this percentage when evaluating their own condition because the causes of infertility, source of sperm, the number of previous attempt or pregnancy also affect pregnancy rate.
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Getting a gun in Japan
In Japan, you cannot buy a handgun, much less an assault rifle. In fact, even off-duty police officers are banned from carrying guns.
You can buy a shotgun or an air rifle, but it is not easy:
First, you have to take a class and a written exam.
Then there's a skill test at a shooting range
Next is a drug test
Then a mental evaluation.
Assuming you pass all those tests, you file with the police, who then run a background check.
No wonder Japan has one of the lowest gun ownership rates in the world.
But does it work?
In 2008, the U.S. had 12,000 gun-related murders. Japan had 11. More than double that number were killed in the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
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terryjr91
Looks simple enough to me.
jaime4186
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Just so all the gun nuts understand... The 2nd Amendment does not give individuals the right to bear arms unless they are part of a WELL-REGULATED MILITIA. The gun nuts ignore that part of the 2nd Amendment. I bet 90% of the gun nuts don't even know the wording of the 2nd Amendment or where it comes from.
jweeder123
Mike apparently can't read the 2nd ammendment either. It says that because a well regulated militia is necessary, the right of the people to keep and bear arms will not be infringed. It doesn't say I need to be a member of said militia. I would note that the US Supreme Court agrees with me.
Fnordz
Sorry, Mike. You lose.
Sorry Mike, not according to District of Columbia v. Heller.
Sagebrush Shorty
Perhaps Mike should read the amendment again. Or else have Pelosi explain it to him.
tacc2
The Supreme Court of The United States of America disagrees with you. They have found the second amendment right to be an individual right not requiring membership in a militia. The people who wrote the second amendment also disagree with you. Please read what they had to say about it in their writings.
You just got lawyered!!
Mike: Just so all the gun-banning idiots understand, the word "MILITIA" means all citizens who are able to fight. Also, the phrase "WELL-REGULATED" means trained and ready.
It does not say you have to be a member. It says that a militia is NECESSARY.
All citizens who are able to fight need to be trained and ready to do so, and the government can not make any laws restricting that IN ANY WAY.
No BS
Mike, have you read this?
In 2008 and 2010, the Supreme Court issued two landmark decisions concerning the Second Amendment. In District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), the Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm, unconnected to service in a militia[1][2] and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
So what was that about gun nuts????? Yeah did not think so, go back to your hole and stay there.
The 2nd Amendment makes zero reference to bullets/ammunition. Ban bullets/ammo then the "gun nuts" can not scream about the 2nd Amendment.
JW: "Well-Regulated" means ready to fight. If you have no bullets, you aren't ready. The 2nd amendment says the government can NOT do that.
In the DC vs Heller case that keeps getting referenced Scalia conjured a rule that said DC could not ban handguns b/c "handguns are the most popular weapon chosen by Americans for self-defense in the home, and a complete prohibition of their use is invalid." They said government could not ban handguns, but it can ban other weapons...
But go back before Scalia and before the NRA started their lobbying (1970's) – the Supreme Court, and lower courts also, said the 2nd amendment conferred on state militias a right to bear arms – but did not give individuals a right to own or carry a weapon. Chief Justice Warren Burger mocked the individual-rights theory of the amendment as "a fraud."
The more you know....
I agree, if little boys can't part with their guns then control the ammo.
But Mike's comment raises some pertinent questions. What is a militia for? Is it necessary now that the USA has the most powerful army and weaponry in the world? Is it also necessary now that every state has its own National Guard? Does it make sense to have a citizen army made up of self-appointed soldiers who may or may not have a sound mind and who often buy into the NRA's delusional anti-government rhetoric that is so reminiscent of Timothy McVeigh's lunacy?
Dude: Go back to muzzle loading. Sorry but ammo isn't protected by the 2nd Amendment. Doesn't matter how you try to spin it, it just isn't protected. You are more than welcome to go back to packing...
"Well regulated" means a governmental department that oversees and regulates the formation of militias.
It also says the right shall not be "infringed", which is much broader than only saying that pistol frames can't be banned directly.
First off, what part of "....shall not be infringed" are the opponents of guns not getting?? These last five words are the biggest point of argument for gun advocates. Actually, I'm a gun owner AND I'm all for control, but tearing the guns out of American hands isn't the answer. All of us could write doctorate-level dissertations on mental illness, screening processes, what to do about already-owned guns. The answer is this.....nothing will happen. The politicians will talk up a storm about it, the news agencies will report it, the people will exchange ideologies about it and in the end, it will fade away as it always does. This is not the first time this argument has come up and it won't be the last.
Daniel: The historical context is different than what you would mean if you said the phrase currently. Law ALWAYS looks at the precedent. The precedent is READINESS to use the arms. It does not mean interference.
As authenticated by Thomas Jefferson "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
I pray for the day that the Supreme Court overturns its decision.
The second amendment was written over 200 years ago with the purpose of defending our freedom. If our founding fathers thought that everyone should have right to bear arms they would have simply written "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." and leave it at that. but they didn't, they purposely including the first part, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state."
Yeah you guys are all right, geez i am stupid.
ok ban guns but what about the mental illness that cause him to do this, i guess we need to lock them all up to. i guess that will go for the depressed as well. Do not for get all the stabbings we have in this country. i guess everyone will get sporks when they eat out..just in case. Oh yeah mexico has a zero gun tolerance. How did that work for them?
December 19, 2012 at 1:01 pm |
They said that about healthcare reform too, that it would never happen. But it did. This argument may have been brought up in the past and fizzled out, and it may do so again, but it's one step closer.
was blind, but now I see
That's ok, Mike. You'll grow out of it.
"If you're 20 and not a liberal, you have no heart.
If you're 40 and not a conservative, you have no brain."
-W. Churchill
So what if the 2nd amendment says something... it was written by men. Men could also write something different NOW and regulate the use of guns more effectively. Stop talking about these amendments as of they had been brought from space or sent by gods or something..
In 2008 and 2010, the Supreme Court issued two landmark decisions concerning the Second Amendment. In District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), the Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm, unconnected to service in a militia[1][2] and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home. In dicta, the Court listed many longstanding prohibitions and restrictions on firearms possession as being consistent with the Second Amendment.[3] In McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U.S. 3025 (2010), the Court ruled that the Second Amendment limits state and local governments to the same extent that it limits the federal government
Get the facts straight!
Jweeder123 what ever your name better read the 2nd amendment as the following appears "shall not be infringed". You people are a trip. Get the fact before you speak or just keep quite.
kinggargantuan
all of you should take a closer look at the Bill of Rights.
Even WITHOUT the Second Amendment, the rights of gun owners are protected by the Fourth and Ninth Amendments.
Sorry to disappoint you weapon savvys, but the minutemen are the true meaning of the 2nd amendment. Do you have what it takes to be a minuteman?
lol @ Mike. He was so sure too. Too funny.
The New Mike
Just so the gun nuts know... no matter what, you will have restrictions put on the guns that are available today. I own several firearms. So don't call me a liberal leftist though I am far from the right. The types of "modern sporting rifles" that are avaialble today are sickening. If you can't see that then there is something wrong with you. High capacity clips, tactical foregrips, etc etc... gone... good. you want to shoot an AR? Do your country a favor, join the army, the national gaurd whatever. Do the country some good. If you need to protect your home with something more than a shotgun then you're either a drug dealer or paranoid. Either way you should not own any weapon.
Jiji: Thanks for the backup. Minutemen were supposed to be "ready on a minute's notice." No need to run down to the guberment controlled ammo depot to get your bullets – just get your gun and be ready to fight!
Mike, if you want to insult people and their intelligence it's best to know what you're talking about. If you don't, and insist on demonstrating your ignorance anyway, it tends to make you appear to be very foolish.
lol @ "New Mike"
Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
@ DUDE, one of my favorite quotes. Fox Mulder I believe.
Schaweet
For all the people referencing DC vs Heller, you need to read the post by JW. He/She is exactly right. Scalia said specifically Handguns. Maybe you all should actually read the opinions of the court for the cases your reference. JW is also spot on on the pre Reagan era rullings of the court. That said, there is information to suggest the founding fathers meant militia to mean all people. The Senate however removed language that made that clear and instead made it fairly ambiguous.
For Mike and his "gun nut" comment. you need to read ~explisive~ because it does give the right for citizens to bear arms without being part of any military organization. Supreme Court case Columbia vs. Heller 554 US 570 ( 2008). Look it up and quit spewing garbage....
sxwalsh55
Actually, Mike does have a point. “A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” For a long time the supreme court agreed with Mike, but that interpretation has changed over the years, in large part due to special interests and lobbies. And even that didn't happen until the 80's. This out of control gun culture is actually a new thing, and it's starting to look more and more like the experiment has failed.
Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/12/jeffrey-toobin-second-amendment.html#ixzz2FWo8cDPM
Stevelb1
The problem is, the SCOTUS has had activist right wing majority for a long time. Anyone with any common sense would realize they were talking about guns as part of state militias as that's how the US military used to work back then. It was always a conglomeration of State Militias. That's how we fought the British in the Revolutionary war. They were the defacto military of the time instead of a full time Federal army. Also, the founding fathers could NEVER have envisioned the advances in firearm technology to come less than 100 year of creating the 2nd amendments. Considering the single shot muzzle loaded gun was the standard for over 300 years prior. If you were good you could load 3 shots in a minute and maybe hit the broad side of a barn from 50 yards. The killing efficiency of the modern firearm could never have been a consideration.
I can’t believe lot of people in America still live in Dark-age . 2nd Amend was written over 100 years ago when there was no 911. And lets get beck to this story. Amanpour did not clarify that out of 11k people got killed by gun violence were school kids or Gang Bangers. She should make this clear 1st
I think if you are living in populated city you do not need gun in USA and if you think you need one for safety then you are caverd.
Guillermo
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WIthoutQuestion
I have a question for those opposed to any additional legislation that might restrict access to specific gun types. If we agree that the supreme court's ruling in 2010 re-enforced the idea that individuals should have the right to 'bear arms' but in the same ruling allowed for regulation of the sale of arms to the public, what type of 'arms' do you believe the public should have access to? Should this access be totally unrestricted or should there be a limit on what type of arms anyone from the general population should be able to attain. Not many would propose that anyone should be able to purchase a bazooka or surface to air missile, but these are arms that can be wielded by an individual. I know this seems like a sarcastic comment, but the point is that once we agree that some type of regulation on the sale of weaponry to the public is not only in accordance with the latest ruling by the supreme court on the second amendment, but a real discussion as to what type of laws and regulation may be needed to protect the general public from members of its own population can begin in earnest.
You ask a good question. I see too many people make emotional comments when it comes to guns. I personally, do not want the local police department to have a stronger fire power then the general population they have been hired or elected to protect. That being said, if the Assualt rifles come out of the public hands they need to come out of the police hands. People sometimes rationalize that normal citizens don't need that type of power. so if the people no longer have it, why should the police force need it?
Also, so much of the debate comes from the type of weapons used and it becomes difficult to define the difference between a .22 rifle that can hold a hgh capacity magazine versus a much more powerful rifle that hold a high capacity magazine. Banning both is what the government would say needs to happen but they are not the same type of tool.
So then the ballasitcs test comes to be. Any rifle round can be lethal. But some guns are used for hunting and some for target practice, yet the power of each bullet can be different. So how do you restrict one caliber over another.
Sadly i still feel that our problemm lies in the pyche of man and not the tool in their hand. Stricter gun laws would not have changed this recent tragedy. Both the school shooting and the mall shooting occurred from mentally derranged individuals who acquired their guns illegally. If the school shooter was the son of a law enforcement official he would have still killed that parent in their sleep and used their "Service Weapon". Restricted guns, not the answer...I just wish those children could come back.
Non "Gun Nut" defensive firearm owning citizen
To Greg, Why would you not want law enforcement to have stronger firepower then the average citizen or criminal? Assuming that the firearms most criminals possess were stolen from citizens that had legally purchased them. How are they supposed to protect you if they are outgunned?
Scubus
Non "Gun Nut" defensive firearm owning citizen, I thought disarming law abiding citizens was going to solve all that? You mean criminals will still have guns?
I am not interested in having a police force that is armed far beyond the citizens. The police are the good guys by and large but there are some bad apples, and more importantly, there is no guarantee they will always be the good guys.
south border
How they are educated and what they think es another story, they do not have a fire guns history but it does have history for another type of weapons and different behavior. In other Countries they have very tough laws and the number of victims is very very high. Education and peace behavior would make a difference, as long USA is getting in war after war many without any proper reason the people will believe that the way to express themselves is with guns. You prohibited gun sales then the people will buy anyway, and if you think the punishment for people who buy anyway, then better start building hundreds of new prisons, and still not space will be available
is this argument based on a speculation or a fact????
– other countries have tough laws but the number of victim is high because they use other means for hurting people????
– the us goes to war after war without proper reasons?????
– and the consequence of the former proposition is: people express themselves with guns????
show me the monkey!
Actually, in other countries with tough gun laws the numbers of victims are LOW compared to the US. Look it up.
StriderV
Actually check Switzerland. It has the 4th highest gun ownership rate (US is #1), and it has one of the lowest intentional homicide rates (0.7 per 100,000) . Gun ownership is only marginally connected to homicide rates, at best.
Kyle K
Trying to compare Swizerland to the US is apples an oranges. You have to keep in mind that all males in Swizerland is either active military or reserve, and they are issued guns by the government. Have all the citizens in the United States been trained to the level of the military and examed to the level of enlisted soldiers? Not by a long shot.
okkebas
@strider V, actually homicide rates in Switserland are much higher than in other european countries. Which is weird since Switserland is not as densely populated as most other countries and has a relative high economi standing. Besides, gun control laws In Switserland are much tougher than in the USA. Yes, it's allowed to buy guns, however, it's very difficult to get a permit to carry a gun (once you get it it's only valid for 5 years and only for the gun you applied it for). Even transporting guns has strict rules, e.g. only direct transport from home to shooting range. Gun cannot be loaded, etc. I think using Switserland is a case against gun control is not the smartest thing to do.
aceryder
Okkebas what do you think he transportation laws for firearms in this country are?
Third Eagle of the Apocalypse
@ WDS
GUN violence is down, but violence is not. Blunt force and bladed attacks skyrocket. Do a little better search next time.
massis
You CANNOT argue with the numbers!
Yes, of course you can argue with numbers, culture, economics and all kind of other stuff are involved in any meaningful interpretation of statistics. In Sweden and Switzerland you can own a gun or even in Israel, how many get killed there?
All being said I believe that in an advanced civil society you should not need gun for your protection, or the society you are living in is not really civilized.
You can own an automatic weapon?
Just stop ignorantly throwing up countires whose entire entire eligible male population are reservists or active military with military training and government weapons.
their societies are much different. they are civilized, polite, and respectful of one another. go to east l.a., brooklyn, etc. nothing but a bunch of animals. they'd take advantage in 2 seconds and are why we cant have nice things
So Kyle, are you in favor of mandatory military service for all Americans? I certainly am! It seems that perhaps that is the solution to our problem.
Seansa
OK. Let's use Jamaica as the only example of gun control then. They have extremely restrictive firearms laws, yet they typically have the highest murder rate in the world. Can't argue with numbers!!
In Jamaica, civilians are not allowed to possess automatic firearms32
In 2005, Jamaica had 1,674 murders for a murder rate of 58 per 100,000 people.[4] That year, Jamaica had the highest murder rate in the world.[2
To kohl, I never realized, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, Dom DeLuise, Tony Danza, Neil Diamond & Richard Dryefuss, to name a few animals. Just to name a few decent people from Brooklyn. To answer your next question, no I am not from either LA or Brooklyn. Am just a person that does not like such generalizing derogatory statements. There are good people from everywhere, making such generalized statements is next to racism.
Well these numbers are quite deceptive, they only account for gun violence. What about knives? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre The hate and social ills are still there, it is just they don't have a gun, so they use a knife. Personally, it is clear that banning guns only made violent crimes take another face. But how do you easily stop a man with a violent knife? A gun.
At 10:15 that morning, 37-year-old former janitor Mamoru Takuma entered the school armed with a kitchen knife and began stabbing numerous school children and teachers. He killed eight children, mostly between the ages of seven and eight, and seriously wounded thirteen other children and two teachers.
Eight sounds better than 26
8 better than 26? How illogical.
I could say the same thing. 22 is better than 44 isn't it. Look up the Bath House school massacre. No guns and 3 bombs, including a 4th on himself.
So is it logical for me to say, it's better 22 kids got riddled with bullets than 44 getting blown to bits?
I don't agree with that mentality.
Ricky Bobby
If only the teachers had been armed with kitchen knives. Shake and bake!
Stu: NOT if one of your children were among the eight. Then it wouldn't matter if it were 8, or 800.
And no child died. What does that tell you?
iWillNotLose
well, idk about you but 8 does sound better than 26 to me too. yes, 26 sounds better than 44.
but 11 sounds WAY better than 12,000.
i'd rather deal with a knife wielding nut than a gun wielding nut anyday.
What was supposed to be another day of learning at an elementary school in central China instead turned to one of terror, as a man slashed 22 children and one adult with a knife.
The injuries were gruesome, and reportedly include cut-off fingers and ears, but this story had a different outcome from the massacre 8,000 miles away in Newtown, Conn. Everyone survived.
I don't know where you got that 8 children were killed. That is not accurate
I don't really understand your argument. Are you saying it's a good thing crazy people have easy access to guns otherwise they will use bombs? Nobody is denying that people can also be killed without guns, it just makes it much easier with a gun. How many attacks did you see using knives in the US lately? Bombs are only used by terrorists (so far), not by crazy people who want to commit suicide and take as many people as possible with them (and get a lot of media attention at the same time). Every way to limit the possibility to kill other people is a win-win situation
so you need a story from 2001 ( 11 and a half years ago) to show that massacres using knives also happen?
I'm sure it would be much easier to find massacres using guns in the US just the last year.
for gods sake, why do you Americans even bother debating this, nothing will ever change. This is just another fad for you. Just because in 1772 when America was at war defending them selves everywhere it went does not mean its relevant now, its not like you hang people anymore, have slaves or drive carriages to work. Its called "to EVOLVE' unfortunately none of you can. I hope you all blow yourselves up.
David: Are you seriously saying that 8 or 26 doesn't matter? What the hell...YES OF COURSE IT MATTERS! With that logic who cares if it's 3 or 3,000,000. Let's just give everyone including the children miniguns and rocket launchers, because apparently it doesn't matter to some if it's just a small group or two entire classrooms worth of children. Don't even try and use that "Well what if it's your kid" tactic on me, how STUPID. One family in the massacre lost one child while the sister of that child survived. How about you go up to that family and tell them that it doesn't matter that they only lost one child because the second wouldn't of mattered either! HOW DUMB can you be? Don't even answer that, don't even speak, you and your ilk are what is wrong with the world today. What a dumb warped sense of reality. Please exchange every "dumb" to a proper profanity, because dumb doesn't even begin to describe you. I literally felt brain cells die when I read that idiotic comment of yours, you should be in jail!
Your right to possess a weapon has severely interfered with these children's right to life, liberty and their pursuit of happiness...
Tell that to the people in the Clackamas mall shooting that were not SHOT because someone else exercising his 2nd Amendment right stopped the shooter. Thanks to Nick Meli, many people in Oregon will get to celebrate Christmas with their families.. CNN won't report that because it goes against their liberal agenda.
Since when did liberals start caring about a child's "right to life"? You murder millions of children in the name of convenience.
Keiljt01
With over 300 million guns in America, this pshyco could have gotten his hands on a gun on any street corner he wanted. People sell guns illegally on craigslist.... I mean, they are everywhere. Banning guns will not prevent mass killings. The government would literally have to round up every gun, which would be impossible since over 50% are unregistered. Plus we all know how that turned out for Australia, crime there has sky rocketed since they banned guns.
Crime has "skyrocketed" in Australia? No, it has not. For a detailed analysis of these kinds of claims about Australia, see the fact-check site Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/crime/statistics/ausguns.asp
The bottom line: In the long term, since we banned automatic weapons in 1996 and melted them down, gun-related crimes are down.
Mecha, explain how a security guard (Nick Meli) saved the day by pointing his handgun but not firing? "He told The Oregonian early Monday outside his two-story home in Clackamas that he trained his weapon on Roberts.
But he said he didn’t shoot."
As for CCN and their liberal biases, what other MAJOR news outlet has reported this? ABC? NBC? FOX? The only articles I could find were for local Oregon news and wiki! It's not reported because he didn't do anything.
BigD
Now you Lefturds care about kids. Aren't you about aborting them?
Please list the number of mothers and babies you have saved and taken into your home because the mother didn't want to keep the child. Also, please list the number of children you have adopted and taken into your home because their parents abondoned them while high on drugs. Otherwise, drop you rhetoric. We're talking about kids lives put at risk by weapons that are unecessarily in the hands of people that don't need them.
@Mecha, kind of a stretch. So the crazed gunman who is shooting wildly sees a guy (CCW holder) with a gun pointing at him so he got scared to get shot, just to retreat and kill himself? Sounds pretty weird right?
The CCW holder was there but not able to stop anything. Actually he made the right decision by not shooting and running the risk of hurting/killing an innocent bystander.
FYI, you forgot to mention the crazed gunman was wearing a bullet proof vest making it a lot more difficult to stop him. The reason not more people were injured was that his gun was not working properly.
YesItIs
Agreed. It is simple.
Just so all the gun nuts understand... the 2nd Amendment does not give individuals the right to bear arms unless they are part of a WELL-REGULATED MILITIA. The gun nuts ignore that part of the 2nd Amendment.
Also Mike
That would make the 2nd admendment the ONLY admendment that does not apply to individuals and only applies to a group which makes it unlikely that it was not intended to apply to individuals. Also the Supreme Court must be full of "Gun Nuts" because they ruled it does apply to individuals so I guess you fall into the category of people that are demonstratebly WRONG.
You are an idiot who obviously does not know how to read.
1) The 2a does not say we must belong to a militia.
George Washington: “A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”
2) The supreme court has already ruled that the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right.
wouldbekane
Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia vs. Heller that "well-regulated" means to be "trained" rather than part of some government recognized militia. Before saying we "gun nuts" ignore the wording, perhaps you should read the interpretations of the amendment... we have, and need to maintain, the right to arm ourselves.
Actually, in 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the individual right to keep and bear arms, reinforcing their decision from 2008. I'm not a gun nut, but I can actually read and comprehend what is written. It did not say there could be no limits on gun ownership, but that States and the Federal government could not outright ban individual ownership of guns. Nor did it say that individuals must belong to a militia.
Judge D
As originally passed by the Congress: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
As ratified by the States and authenticated by Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State: A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
That is not how it is written right now.
I interpret the second amendment to mean that we the people have a right to bear arms to protect us from government persecution. Likewise, if the government gets big fancy guns... should we not also have the ability to purchase big fancy guns to protect ourselves?
In addition to banning guns it looks like we should also ban cars and trucks. Has nobody noticed that between 30,000 and 50,000 people die yearly in America due to car wrecks? It is insane.
coolhead
kacey, that Washington quote is bogus. You should check your sources. Unfortunately a lot of gun advocates put out misquotes to try and win their argument. If you want to debate a point please use truths.
Dear Mike, why do you keep repeating the same nonsense? I suggest you read the Supreme Court decisions in DC v Heller 554 U.S. 570 (2008) and McDonald v. Chicago, 561 US 3025 (2010).
Lefturd
TonyZ
So, we are now going to compare an ISLAND with a country that has 1) One of the highest immigration rates in the world, 2) One fo the highest ILELGAL immigration rates in the world, 3) Has a very violence prone country (Mexico) to the South, 4) Has streets overrun with gangs and criminals from multiple ethnic backgrounds in the world.
What a stupid comparison. If you really want to learn then compare to Colombia which as one of the most restrictive gun laws inSouth America. Yet, there were 12,539 firearm related homicides in Colombia in 2010. Why? Because only criminals own guns in Colombia. It is utterly idiotic to remove guns from the hands of law-abiding citizens. The case in CT was an exception and not the rules. Hundreds of lives are saved evry day when law-abiding citizens use guns to protect themselves and their loved-ones and friends. We need to concentrate on the mental-health aspects of the CT shooter and why his mother was stupid enough to train him in guns and give him access to guns when she knew he was a social socio-path and had other mental heatlh related issues.
So, your argument is that Americans are inherently gun crazy, and unable to think logically, while folks in other nations have no such trouble? Doesn't say much for us, does it?
The guns in Columbia, Mexico, the Middle East and Africa all come from America!!! Not only is America allowing it's own civilians to be killed it is contributing to instability all over the world providing drug cartels, mafias, gangs, militias & corrupt governments with firearms. There is a sign on the border of Mexico facing the USA that says 'NO MORE WEAPONS'.
Lea T
The mass murders in this country were not committed by immigrants (legal or illegal), or by gang members. Most, including the last horrific one were committed by educated white males using legally bought weapons. So how does your argument make sense?
"Hundreds of lives are saved evry day when law-abiding citizens use guns to protect themselves and their loved-ones and friends." is that an opinion? Where is your proof of that statement?
"The guns in Columbia, Mexico, the Middle East and Africa all come from America!!!" This statement is laughable because the the Middle East and Africa definitely don't get their guns from us. Where did you come up with this? Please cite where you got that bogus information.
you are wrong. hundreds of lives are not saved in the US everyday. the US Census Bureau states that last year alone there were over 1,000,000 instances where a gun was used in self-defense across the country. And over 400,000 people who used the gun believed that the gun saved their lives.
http://rockrivertimes.com/2012/12/19/guest-column-guns-are-not-the-problem/
The Mayor of Medinah
Lea.... the shooter in the mall stole the gun from someone who purchased it legally. Adam stole the gun from his mother and then shot her with it. The Psychopath in Arizona who shot Gabby Gilford's did purchase the gun but Arizona does not have any gun laws only age restrictions. The Columbine shooter forcibly stole the weapons from one of their grandfathers. So there is nothing legal or lawful about any of this, and for Arizona and the other states that have extremely lax gun laws they need to get with a program that protects it citizens from the mentally ill and still takes care of law abiding mentally sane citizens.
OK TonyZ..... lets see.... The mother is mentally healthy. She buys the guns…. If there were restrictions because mentally ill, where would the government see that on the mother? Even with those restrictions, the mother bought the weapons not the son. Now, if that was a handgun that helps you protect yourself, maybe the death toll would had been lesser, however, would we be okay with 10 instead of 26? Of course not.
My opinion is that rifles with that capacity shouldn’t be on the streets period. And schools need to have better security. I have seen in other states and countries where you can not enter the school. There is a security guard at the entrance, and a metal detector so they can get the place more secured. Would that take the problem away, probably not, but it would be not as bad as it is right now.
Mecha. self defense you mean, Tryvon and Zimmerman case? Tryvon felt stalked, and defended himself, with bare hands, but Z had a gun, and defeded himself from Trayvons defense..... exactly! it doesnt make sense. We have those cases every single day, when you feel in danger because someone looked at you, if i had a gun, i would have used it a thousand times because feeling insecured. Again, IT IS OUT OF CONTROL!!! someone needs to do something to keep it under control.
NOT SURE WHATS SO HARD HERE
and because of everything you said is the reason why GUN LAWS need to be looked at.. who can get it.. why should you have it... which ones can be given... guns should be given to people that are fully trainied and qualified, not everyone that meets the minimun requierment.. I'm sure must people agree on that, I don't get why everyone gets all bent out of shape when they talk about a reform
Yup, gotta protect me 'gainst them niggras and messicuns.
Wholeheartedly agree
Failwhale
@Mike you obviously can't read or understand either. Educate yourself before you go off spewing your hate about "gun nuts".
In 2008 and 2010, the Supreme Court issued two landmark decisions concerning the Second Amendment. In District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570 (2008), the Court ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to possess a firearm, unconnected to service in a militia and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home.
And they were wrong. That decision went against many decades of precedent and introduced a new reading of the amendment unsupported by any previous high court decision. One among a number of cases (Citizens United being another) where a majority of the current Supreme Court saw fit to follow an extremist ideology rather than the law and previous precedent.
cineski
Mike: You, me, every able bodied citizen of the US of A is considered the militia to provide safety to those who need it. So in essence, every able bodied person in this country should be proficient with guns and own them. Of course the liberal marxist communists of this country have done everything in their power to paint guns as bad over the past several decades. How? You get rid of gun safety for children in schools. You plaster the media with bad things about guns. You make guns appear uncool (see Eric Holder's comments in 1995). You create gun free zones. All of these actions from the anti-gunners, time and time again, have harmed law abiding citizens and have made it appear guns are the problems. Well, it BECOMES a problem at that point because you create a country that is armed but disarmed. You allow criminals (who don't abide by laws) easy access to doing harm because you DISALLOW law abiding citizens the means to actually protect themselves. However, all this can be undone: You allow a gun owning public to actually carry them where they need (states with lax gun laws have lower gun crime rates than states that don't allow it...case in point Chicago). You make gun safety a mandatory class in our schools just like drivers ed. You stop the social engineering war on guns and start a war to teach children responsibility. Basically, you do everything opposite of what our government has done over the last 40 years and things would be much better off in our country.
Your point of view is obsolete your out to lunch about 100 years!
Sounds good, but what about murder rate in relation to % of population. Again guns are only a means to kill, is it about lowering murder rates or getting rid of guns? A lot of ways to kill, guns are a tool and many tools exist. Will just eliminating the use of one tool just increase the use of another?
It sure will! What about that guy in China who just killed 22 school kids last week with standard knife. We better ban kitchen knives too. Just to be safe. And rocks... people used to kill people with those too.
Alesha456
Read the story about those 22 kids again. NONE of them were killed, just injured. Guns are a lot more powerful than a knife.
Jewelsy
I do not agree. This statement seems to be written so as to be taken out of context. What are the stats for all violent crimes compared to the US? Violent acts happen regardless of having access to guns or not.
Good info but, How can you teach an American this?
so youre saying its better to get killed with a knife then a gun?
This story is so increadibly lopsided.
Here's what happened in England when they banned all guns, and then only criminals had them:
http://www.sightm1911.com/lib/rkba/violence_increase_with_British_gun_ban.htm
Here we go again. Some will chime in with "then only the criminals will have guns" other with "2nd amendment" then some are "get rid of all"...The CT shootings were very bad. His mother should have had the guns stored in a more secure fashion. If I run over twenty people with my big honking pickup...should pickups be banned? Or what about fire? Lets ban fire...it kills women and children too...
2little2late
The liberals in this country will never allow gun control to happen. It takes away peoples "rights"
Nuggs
I thought the liberals were for gun control, not against it. It 's funny how "liberal" is used as a term for a group of people you may not agree with. When in fact, they are calling you the exact same thing for disagreeing with them.
These facts have led many people to conclude that America's high rate of gun ownership must be at least partially responsible for the nation's high rates of violence, or at least its high homicide rate, says Kleck, adding that this belief in a causal effect of gun levels on violent crime rates has, in turn, led many to conclude that limiting the availability of guns would substantially reduce violent crime, especially the murder rate.
"What's not so widely known, though, is that large numbers of crime victims in America also use guns in the course of crimes (but) in self-defense," says Kleck.
Based on 16 national surveys of samples of the U.S. population, he continues, the evidence indicates that guns are used by victims in self-protection more often than crimes are committed by offenders using guns. Victims used guns defensively two to two-and-a-half million times in 1993, for example, compared to about 850,000 crimes in which offenders possessed guns.
http://rinr.fsu.edu/issues/2009winter/cover01_b.asp
JonfromLI
That may be the case, but they don't play violent video games......scratch that.
They don't watch violent movies......wrong
They don't listen to hard rock music........not that either
Well it's obvious that throughout their history they've had a peaceful, civilized culture.....yeah right.
Um, how many died by samurai sword? People kill not guns, if no guns are available, the will use knives, rocks, swords, sticks and even poison!!
pbernasc
oh so .. yo want them to have guns to make it easier for them to kill that's thoughtful thinking
Banning bullets will just lead to black market for bullets. Also bullets can be made yourself, my cousin makes all his own bullets at home
reaperfearer
Time to amend the amendment. It's that simple. Get ready for regulation. Whether you are for or against it, we have to at least try it and see if it works.
reaperfearer said "Time to amend the amendment. It's that simple. Get ready for regulation. Whether you are for or against it, we have to at least try it and see if it works."
It HAS been tried. England banned guns, and their gun crime rate sky rocketed. The only ones with guns were the criminals!
WE should NOT try the same thing here!
Similarly tough gun laws also looked simple to Mexico. Have they succeeded? Gun homcides in Mexico 2011: 11,309
The problem is we have way too many rights in this country and people are not willing to give up these rights.
I'd rather give up some of these rights for the safety of everyone.
You are truly Lefturded
Please stop using my name. You make the rest of us Seans look bad. Seriously..are you this st0opid?
Just A Dude
This is very disturbing.
Maybe we should change the first amendment so you have freedom of speech, but no more than 10 words at a time.
Lets not forget that when the 2nd amendment was written there were no firearms that had anywhere near the capacity of today's weapons. When things change the rules sometimes have to change to
I find it funny that people seem to forget that the Government CAN infringe upon your rights. If they can determine that your rights endanger someone else, then they can outlaw it.
Exmaples:
Freedom of Speech. You actually DO NOT have complete freedom of speech in this country. You can not go into a crowded place and yell "Fire".
Free of Religion: You can't force people to drink the Koolaid...
Freedom of Assembly: You can not assemble in just anywhere. Zoning Laws, Fire Codes, etc...
So, it would not be hard for the government to come in and limit the type of Guns that are legal under the definition of "Arms" in the BoR based on public safety. They would have a long list of recent shootings to back up their position on this arguement...
guesswhat
Since when a piece of paper (2nd amendment) has become more imortant than lives of little children or anybody for that matter. It was written bloody 200 years ago. Its time to AMEND the second amendment. Enough of these gun loving fools hiding behind the second amendment. And why in the world would somebody need an assault rifles to protect yourself or your family. And all those morons who are comparing cars deaths to guns, cars is to drive and accident happens. Nobody goes out thinking 'oh I m gonna kill 10 people with my car today'.Guns are to kill people, plane and simple.Nobody accidently kills 4-5-10-20 people with a gun.
you sir are stupid. many would say a gun is a tool and the person holding it determines what the tool is for.
Marty P
No debate at all, but a choice..Be ruled by fear and own a gun. Be ruled by Love and you have true human evolution... Guns are fear based while Love is protection...
Politicians prefer unarmed peasants
pyrboy
Get your head out of the sand, many countries have tough gun laws and the perps use poison, bombs, knives. Read worldwide mass murders not all with guns. Enough laws, treat the sick, and parents should parent
RMK_18
How come no one compares the US gun laws with the very strict gun laws of Mexico? I'm sure the Mexican gun violence rate is also very low compared to the US, right?
Simple as in disingenuous and misleading by cherry picking data? Yep..simple.
Simple... except you forget the larger difference. Respect.
It's also what keeps their crime rate leagues below the USA's.
If there was a smidgeon of respect, temperance, and productive driving goal within the States, gun policies wouldn't be an issue. After all, it is not the means that is the issue, but the motive. After all, explosives, poison, vehicular slaughter... these are the next steps, and do you REALLY wish to see that?
Kirk Turner
Yes, on the surface it looks that simple, but it isn't. After their Tsunami how much looting did they have? How much looting was there in New Orleans after hurricaine Katrina? It's a cultural difference. Our societies are very different; it is unfair to make the comparision. Fix our societal issues and you will fix the killing problem.
Reading all these replies, posts, comments, attacks on each other, I gather just one point: not being a citizen of the US, it does not really matter to me, one way or the other. What I mean, whether I would be able to buy a gun or not.
The problem in the US is that you now live in the 21st century and not in the "wild west days" of yore, where I understand defending yourself was necessary, as there were wild "indians" running around with spears. Now you live in a civilized society (....not...) where that should not be necessary, looking at the gun death in your country? The number of innocent children killed, by chance, accident or purpose should be unacceptable to anyone, even the NRA.
Jazzforever
I wonder how many baseball bat killings they have every year?
ForFreedomOfChoice
Completely different places and cultures, what works in one place might not work in another. People in America choose have the ability to choose if a weapon works for them or not, government cannot be trusted enough to make these sort of decisions.
Yes, In the United States we have the choice to purchase guns and by making that choice we accept the cost of 12,000 gun related deaths per year. From my point of view that cost is too high. You say the "government cannot be trusted enough to make these sort of decisions." I say individuals cannot be trusted to make sound decisions regarding gun use.
Then we need to deal with the people.....
susubesarbundar
very well said, best comment in 1 month i read.....
And Who should deal with those People? is it the gov that cant be trusted
Very well said! Very well...
sounds like Americans cant be trusted to vote because you keep electing untrustworthy border line dictators and tyrannts into government positions.
FINALLY...someone with the balls to tell it like it is. Yes, Americans want their guns. The effect of this? Thousands of people being murdered every year. Firearm enthusiasts refuse to accept this as fact. They say "guns don't kill people, people kill people". That's true but own up to the fact that guns make it a lot easier to do instead of crying "2nd Amendment" every time someone provides a valid, FACTUAL argument. Seriously!!
30,000-40,000 vehicle related deaths every year... something seriously needs to be done about this! Maybe replace the freeways and interstates with a government run rail system? background check before you can get a driver's license? create a system where the vehicle won't start if there is a cell phone in the car?
Michael Hunt, Esq.
Fortunately you alone do not get to make the choice for everyone else.
So basically 12,000 is enough for you to remove the rights of everyone else in the country. Let me put this in perspective. I live in a small Texas town of about 20,000. I think that when you consider the size of the population and that it's not localized...it's not a big deal. That's right. I said it. 12,000 people dying each year from guns...IS NOT a big deal.
32,310 people died in 2011 in automobile accidents. We should ban all automobiles.
Lavanhill
I love how we use the numbers to justified our agenda the numbers said 12k death from guns in the USA and now everyone wants to take guns away, but if we look at other this that kill people in america in large numbers and no one is going after the companies that make them, this is from the CDC website: The unprecedented rise in overdose deaths in the US parallels a 300% increase since 1999 in the sale of these strong painkillers.4 These drugs were involved in 14,800 overdose deaths in 2008, more than cocaine and heroin combined.4 and the drug companies keep making the drugs no one is trying to ban the drugs.
Were cars put here with the intention of murder? If someone is run over or hit by a car or drunk driver, it is classified as manslaughter, not murder or homicide. 32,000 accidents, versus 12,000 murders with weapons designed to kill will never be a fair comparison. How ignorant and foolish can you be. Your logic pretty much says we need to ban everything that causes death, which is not what anyone is saying. We're saying ban objects that are designed for death, there's a huge distinction and get that through your head. And someone with a kitchen knife? Fine, I sure as hell would prefer my odds in a fight against someone with a knife and myself being unarmed versus someone with a rifle or handgun or shotgun. At least you have a fighting chance in the situation to do something about it.
Michot
Here's the problem with your 'logic'. 32,367 Automobile related deaths aren't homicides. Drug overdoses, cigarettes, alcohol are killing the users. Yes, there is second hand smoke, which has been addressed for years and there are alcohol related deaths that kill innocents in accidents. The issue is that with a gun, a person has the intent to kill other.
Also, with most of the other comparisons, diesel fuel, fertilizer, box cutters, etc. there are positive uses for them. If we tried to spin what IS a weapon into what COULD BE a weapon, you could refer to any inanimate object. When they design guns, they design them to kill.
It's 12,000 gun related murders. Gun related deaths are more like 31,000 annually when you factor in suicides, accidents etc. And by the way, guns are to cars as apples are to oranges. What a stupid, NRA brainwashed knee-jerk response that is. "they should outlaw cars!" Grow up.
Ban guns? How about we ban murder; problem solved.
Keurig, if 12,000 deaths is too high. Then why are we not focusing on banning cars and trucks? Those claim between 30,000 and 50,000 US lives PER year. That number seems a lot worse to me. Especially considering if guns were gone, which they will never be considering there are more guns in the USA than there are people..... people would just use bow and arrows, rocks, knives, spear guns... or bombs like the Oklahoma city bomber who took claimed hundreds of casualties. Killing others is stupid, but when people have the will to do it, they do it by any means possible. Maybe we should implement extreme psychological testing of students as they grow through school to keep a sharp eye on certain individuals.
Well lets call a spade a spade then if we are going to get serious about senseless killing
http://www.madd.org/statistics/
In 2010, 211 children were killed in drunk driving crashes. Out of those 211 deaths, 131 (62 percent) were riding with the drunk driver.
Adults drank too much and got behind the wheel about 112 million times in 2010 – that is almost 300,000 incidents of drinking and driving each day.
Every day in America, another 27 people die as a result of drunk driving crashes.
Drunk driving costs the United States $132 billion a year.
If all 17 million people who admitted to driving drunk in 2010 had their own state, it would be the fifth largest in the U.S.
Car crashes are the leading cause of death for teens, and about one-third of those are alcohol related.
Teen alcohol use kills about 6000 people each year, more than all illegal drugs combined.
50 to 75 percent of convicted drunk drivers continue to drive on a suspended license.
On average, one in three people will be involved in a drunk driving crash in their lifetime.
In 2011, 9,878 people died in drunk driving crashes – one every 53 minutes
Almost every 90 seconds, a person is injured in a drunk driving crash.
An average drunk driver has driven drunk 80 times before first arrest.
You make it sound like it's 12000 innocent babies. Majority of these murders is criminals involved anyway.
Your response is exactly the difference between a Lefturd & a Conservative. Lefturds believe trust the Government. Conservatives believe in the people. That's why Lefturds are pathetic.
People should decide whether or not a lethal weapon "works" for them? What do you mean by "works" for them? I don't understand why anyone who's not in the military, police or those who need to hunt for food should have an assault rifle, let alone a gun of any kind. The statistics of gun-related deaths between 1st world countries with and without gun laws speak for themselves.
Luke,
It is extremely difficult to buy an 'Assault Rifle'. That term is erroneously and negligently tossed around by the media. If we want to talk about 'Military Style semi-automatic rilfes' then we have a discussion but 'Assault Rifles' aren't part of the problem.
Typical Lefturded comment. Thanks for coming out
pcfresh
I am so tired of hearing these dumb arguments like "weapons don´t kill people, people kill people" or "only the bad guys will have weapons."
Fact is only armed people kill people!
It is one thing to go mad with a baseball bat , a complete different one to go mad with an AK47 !
if every one is armed , you simply exponentially multiply the risk of creating more armed bad guys, it is just simple arithmetic!
what´s next ? we should all be armed to defend ourselves against other people who might go crazy one day because they just lost their dog or had a bad grade at school?
Are we so paranoid?
Let´s arm all kids at school , all teachers so that they can defend themselves against each other! that sounds so logical to the gun lobby! and let´s enjoy the next headline Freshmen bob gets kicked out of school soccer team, shoots 20 teammates to then get shot by another pupil armed with an M16....what a world!
They talk now a lot about "mental health"…. The motivations many people have to own guns are already prove that they have severe personality, character, and mental problems just listening to their arguments...
Except that, in China, madmen have managed to kill in large numbers with things as primitive as knives, cleavers, and boxcutters. 21 KILLED in 2010-11 alone (90 injured), Google "School attacks in China (2010–2012)" in wiki pedia. Evil intent is not constrained by the tool.
@BB – " Evil intent is not constrained by the tool."
No, but as Aurora, Virginia Tech, NewTown, Columbine, all show, evil intent can certainly be MAGNIFIED by it. I'll take the Chinese total of 21 killed in an entire year that you cite over the 26 killed in just the one incident any day.
That Other Guy
I think it's an absolute distortion to believe that only armed people kill people. Categorically, that is false. Making claims like "people don't kill people, guns kill people" is a nice one liner you can feed to ignorant mouth-breathers, but the truth is that those who seek out to do harm to others will find a way, regardless of what laws you have on the books or what safeguards you have in place. A gun, like a hammer, is a tool (and I said this yesterday elsewhere). You can use a hammer to build a house and provide shelter and safety for someone. You can use the same hammer to cave in the skull of a random passer-by on the street. Do we then ban hammers, because there's one person out of untold millions who own one, and used it for something destructive?
Granted, guns are more of their own category, but the premise is the same.
An example of armed school officials would be the Pearl High School shooting in Mississippi in 1997. 2 died, 7 injured. That toll would have absolutely climbed even higher if not for the assistant principle having a firearm locked inside of his personal vehicle. The armed assistant principle saved lives by intervening and preventing the rampage from going on even further. This example would seem to deflate your assertion that having armed school officials would increase fatalities.
No one wants things like this to occur, including and especially those who are for the rights of gun owners. Coming across as overly emotional, or irrational, and making increasing erratic claims about something you are clearly not seeing with an open mind doesn't serve your cause.
hebdo27
It is so over crowded in China that if you swing a chair the wrong way, you're bound to kill a few innocent bystanders... hence high death number due to hand weapon attacks.
cwrighta70
That Other Guy – You simply cannot compare a hammer with a gun. I will concede that, if a person wants to inflict harm on someone, finding an alternate weapon is relatively easy. However, you're talking about hand-to-hand combat compared to standing at a distance with a gun. With a gun, you simply point and shoot until the magazine is empty, then you reload and keep going.
Also, I feel as if you talk of the Pearl High assistant principal as if that kind of reaction is commonplace. The fact is that, in those kinds of situations, rarely anyone steps forward with a gun to stop the shooter. Increasing the number of carrying civilians is incredibly dangerous. Imagine another mall or theater incident, but this time with multiple carrying bystanders. How easy would it be for someone to be mistaken for the criminal? An innocent person runs around the corner carrying a gun, and another civilian shoots them thinking they've just saved the day! There are just WAY too many things to go wrong when we increase the number of guns in a situation like this. How about the effect on law enforcement? How much harder will it be for them to do their job when they arrive if they have to sift through all the people with guns to figure out who the real bad guy is??
America is at a stand-off with itself. Time to put down the guns and make some GOOD choices for once.
Hey,..pcfresh,...ever heard of martial arts? I could rest my case here in your ignorance of the world but just consider specialized training, hand to hand,...would ten unsuspecting people killed by one highly trained martial artist be acceptable losses to you? How about a well planned drive through a playground or public park with a car? you cannot stop someone with intent to hurt others in their own personal pain. It's not the gun, it's the person with the gun and usually these people couldn't get a gun on their own. they steal them from irresponsible gun owners. I am in favor of clips being limited to 10 rounds as there is no need for more than that on the range, hunting or self defense.
johncosar
It's not a stupid decision or choice it's just money and its power and how sick the American society is.
Letsbuildanewcountry
Great offer for all those who do not trust the Government !!!
Please move to the great country of Somalia where there is no functioning government, betcha you would like it there wink wink !!! Also even better if you want to sail there the Pirates are waiting to welcome you....
this is why we can't have nice things
Why are you white folks so paranoid about things?!
I agree with ForFreedomOfchoice, however, assault rifles and other semi to fully automatic weapons should not be in civilian hands. A civilian does not need a semi-automatic weapon for self defense - unless you are defending yourself against Zombies of course.
Aven
PC, do you realize semi-automatic means that, when the trigger is pulled the weapon cycles one time, fires one bullet?
Yes, and automatically loads the next round in the chamber so that instead of a fire rate measured in milliseconds of a fully automatic weapon it is measured in thousands of a second. This argument about 'semi' versus 'fully' automatic is ridiculous.
PC...I know people that should not be allowed to hold a knife but there's no ban on that.
comparing Assault Rifles with kitchen knifes is completely ridicules it seems that you have no knowledge about how bullets work the notion that someone how you could run after ALL 77 teenagers in the Norway Massacre and stab them (ALL) is completely ridicules
In the future , If you are comparing items make sure they resemble just as you wouldn't compare Bicycles with Bugatti's is not wise to Compare kitchen knifes with fully automated assault rifles
OK Russ, would you rather confront an deranged person with a knife or a deranged person with an assault weapon and hundreds of rounds at his disposal?
Me, I'll take the knife. There's a reason why knives are not regulated like guns that you don't have to twist your 'logic' into a pretzel to see.
My point is a killer is going to kill, regardless of the method. 22 students in China stabbed, slashed and killed...in less than 10 minutes. And I am comparing the same items...murdered students. It makes no difference how they were killed. I've had a loaded gun in my night stand for a number of years. It hasn't gone off once without a finger on the trigger. Deal with the people, make them responsible for their actions. Look up FBI crime stats. Guns are not the top weapon reported used in the nations homicides.
RickInPA
and I'll bet that a knife is not at the top of the FBI list of weapons used to mow down 10s of 100s of people at malls, schools, theaters, and public forums.
I know people who are allowed to hold rocks too. Those can cause major damage. Lets ban them.
I'm sorry but you cannot kill zombies with guns. Except, perhaps, with a shotgun blast to the head.
How could you possibly know that?
SJL
Where are you getting your information on a fictional topic anyways? Every zombie flick ever only requires you to hit the brain to take a zombie down, you don't have to blow its head off. (this has nothing to do with the article, I do apologize)
Andy in Oz
Not sure that an automatic or semi automatic firearm will work against the zombies, if that is what fate has in store we are all screwed.
SloppyMagic
its the bullets.....gotta be silver bullets right?
I want to share an amazing short film called "A Perfect Day" about a potential mass shooter on the morning of, and an unsuspecting stranger who opens the shooter's eyes to the implications of what he's about to do. Powerful stuff!
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfUEONoVoA0&w=640&h=360]
THoffman
I'd like to see guns of every kind banned in the US. Is it really worth if for one person let alone a child die for a hobby
Absolutely clueless.
Funny, I was thinking the same thing . . .
Our neighbor to the south, Mexico, has one of the strictest gun control laws in the world. A former U.S. Marine and veteran of both the Iraq war and Afghanistan war is currently in prison there for trying to take his grandfathers 410 gauge single barrel shotgun through Mexico on a trip to some country south of Mexico. He asked the customs people on the American side of the border and they told him it was ok just check with the Mexican authorities when hbe crossed the bridge. He declared it to the Mexican customs officials and was immediately arrested and has been held in prison ever since, about 5 monbths now.You cannot legally own a gun in Mexico, yet they have one of the highest gun related murder rates in the world. You see, strict gun laws prevent honest people from owning a gun but the dishonest criminal types do not obey the law, who would have guesswed that, and they do own guns and the law abiding citizens are unarmed and defenseless. When every second counts the police are minutes away. The national average for 911 call response is 13 minutes. That is 2 or 3 minutes in podunk Indiana and 45 minutes in larger cities like those unarmed cities like NYC, DC and Chicago that has very strictg gun control laws and very high gun related murder rates. Our elewcted officials know that gun control laws don't keep you safe, they aren't intended to keep you safe, they are intended to control. The police cannot and will not protect you, ask them, they will only arrest the person who does you bodily harm or takes your life after the fact.
PJT
Wow, all those strict gun laws in Mexico and criminals still get hold of them easily? I wonder where they could possibly be importing them from....
Mexico gets their guns from the US Government...
Well that's correct. The criminals (Drug lords, dealers, etc.) get guns.
Not the psychos. Yes, in Mexico there is way too much violence about the "drug war".
But there are no such thing as massacres of 6 year old kids like in the US.
Don't get confused with the real criminals and mental psychos.
Now these days the psychos starts a shooting because their girlfriend cheated on them, they did not get admitted in a school and stuff like that.
Don't mix two different criminal topics.
Jsun
Cute Story. Prove it?
D Hayden
I agree with you 100% everyone is quick to give up their freedoms for the perception of being safe. My opinion I would much rather keep my freedom of decision to employ whatever means of defence I choose. When I lived in Massuchusetts, the gun laws in that state did NOT stop gun related violence or make me feel safe.
According the REAL numbers from the GAO ( http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09709.pdf ) the number of US guns recovered from crime scenes in Mexico in 2008 is 12% of the total. According to this report, of over 30,000 guns seized by Mexican authorites in 2008, only 7200 were submitted to ATF and of those just under 3600 were traced to the US. Thus, only HALF of submitted guns came from US, and they only submitted 1/4 of what they seized (knowing the other 75% most likely didn't come from the US. Thus, only 12% of guns recovered in Mexico in 2008 were shown to come from the US. Most came from other central American countries (like Guatemala and Nicaragua – left over from wars in the 80s, and deserting army and police officers joining the cartels). Another link: http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110209-mexicos-gun-supply-and-90-percent-myth?utm_source=SWeekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=110210&utm_content=readmore&elq=2a8f3e70acc74adc97ff51985d295ad4
@ Chuck – "Mexico gets their guns from the US Government..." where did you get your facts, I mean speculation, from? '05 mexican gov starts project to produce "their" own rifles. '08 mexican gov comes out with the fx-05 rifle, the same design from the hk g36 model. now before that, what do you think they used? sling shots, maybe the M16? no, they used the #1 selling rifle in the world. when I say #1, I mean by sheer volume throughout military history. that is right, it is the kalashnikov ak 47 rifle. where do you get your facts from? CNN? 87% of mexico's rifle from the US? your not to smart to belive that and if you don't like what the US provides, then move to canada or even mexico. let me know how that turns out?
I agree, we need to ban vehicles. While we at it - JV Hockey and Skateboarding.
Comments like these are not worthy of a response - but since there are so many of these idiotic statements being made, I'll give you one. GUNS HAVE ONE PURPOSE - TO KILL. Cars are intended to transport. Kitchen knives are intent to slice foods. Baseball bats are intended to hit baseballs. There are distinctions, and they are obvious to any REASONABLE-minded person. NOBODY in this country, other than military and law enforcement (and arguably those who actually hunt for food) NEEDS a gun. Everyone else who has them, simply WANT them. There is a distinction between a NEED and WANT to any REASONABLE-minded person. Having said that, I am not advocating the elimination of all guns since I realize the logistical impossibility of that task. However, NOTHING in the text of 2nd Amendment gives civilians the RIGHT to own a gun without regulations in place to do so. To the contrary, the 2nd Amendment expressly states that ones right shall be "well regulated." ANYONE who argues that someone applying to own a gun must go through several steps (including taking an exam on safety, a MENTAL HEALTH evaluation, extensive background check etc.) is NOT being reasonable. Its time for gun "enthusiasts" to start acting like adults. If 20 CHILDREN being slaughtered will not change minds in this country, sadly, nothing will.
We already have a law agaisnt murder...and it seems people some people murder anyways.... So because people kill people with guns we should make them harder to own or band them? So why are we no banding cars or prescription drugs... prescription drugs kill about 290 people daily in usa......what about GMO foods and livestook humans eat that eat the GMO foods? How many people die from cancer and heart disease because of GMO foods.......wake up...I don't need a gun to kill...also a law will not stop anyone from haviing a gun if they want one.... People can make their own guns... Maybe we should band corn ethanol in our fuel because Every year 15 million children die of hunger...or maybe we should band having children unless on has a masters degree....why whywhy
yes they should be made harder to own, in australia we need a licence to own one, i know only 3 people who own guns. there are not as many murders committed with cars or prescription drugs. If people can make their own guns then why do you care if they are banned...
The crime rate in Australia has soared since all the guns were confiscated. Why didn't you mention that? The people living in the rural areas are at the mercy of the criminals who did not turn in their guns. They are unarmed and the police are miles away. In a place where there are no guns a man with a gun can do as he pleases. There will always be those who have guns just like the Mexican drug cartels that Obama and Holder sold guns to.
Jack is not being honest. Since passing the strictest gun control laws in its history in 1996, there have been no more mass killings in Australia–not one. Further, all gun related crime has decreased significantly for the past 18 years. To be fair in some countries the passage of gun control has not been as successful as Australia has been. That is not a good enough reason to conclude that gun control will not work in America, however.
Turn off Fox and read empirical studies on this issue.
"So because people kill people with guns we should make them harder to own or ban them" YES!!!!!!!! Your other examples are so irrelevant it is difficult to even reply with logic. The PURPOSE of a gun is to kill. Car, medicines, fuel when use improperly can cause death, when a gun is used properly it causes death.....that is the difference This was a great article, but some of these comments are very disappointing. Tell me why someone needs to own the weapons that killed those 20 kids. Why?
To stop the guy that killed those kids!!!
I played in a "band" once
chiwheels
That's a similar argument to
"Well we won't bother to vaccinate children against polio because they could always be the victim of tuberculosis instead".
Gun homicides in the US is a massive problem and the answer is clear as demonstrated in the gun laws of Europe. Whether the US has gone past the point of no return I don't know – I hope not.
tarncheel311
No one gets cancer or heart disease from GMO foods...you do realize you're comparing shooting people to feeding people...?
A better comparison would be:Would you be willing to give an Atomic bomb for every country in the world, including the rogue states?
I am disgusted after hearing the guy tell Peirs Morgan that guns are fun. What a idiot, he should have asked how he'd feel if it was one of his children or a member of a family. Guns should be totally destroyed by every human being other than the police, army and etc. I live in Canada, we don't have any guns in our house for protection, alarm system yes. I couldn't imagine even having a gun in our house it would scare the heck of every one. Come now you Amercians get together on this huge major issue. If the people that want to have guns it's time you hand them in destroy them. The goverment should have every gun in the USA handed in and destroyed, I don't care about the Rich, you are the same as us. No guns in Canada and life is great. If you are caught with one....you are in serious trouble. What is wrong with our system??? I can't even watch TV becaus of the shootings, it is so heart breaking...
I also come from a country with gun control. Because we have been conditioned that guns are bad, we wont even go near it even if they are available. It will take at least 2 generations of americans to get to where we are.
gunga dinn
two generations? more like two CENTURYS
That makes me wonder what else you've been "conditioned" to believe.
World without Gun is an imagination in which America can't comprehend.
Well Susan, I live in Canada too. I DO own guns, more than one. And nobody that knows about it is afraid of that. Personally I think Canada's gun laws are ridiculous. No, fully automatic rifles aren't necessary, but to just jump on the bandwagon and say guns are bad because some nob job that was clearly insane went on a spree is just plain illogical and ignorant.
ridiculous in what sense? not enough gun murders for you to comprehend?
liqwidzero
Actually, guns are fun. Go and shoot off a few rounds at a designated gun range. It's a really good stress relief.
Don't mistake that for "Oh, shoot in the sky and be stupidly unsafe."
Safety is always the #1 priority in all cases. Follow the rules at a range. Keep at attention at all times. And always keep the barrel pointed away from anyone or anything that you could be posing a danger to.
Clueless sheep people. Intellectually lazy emotional over reaction.
True goal of the radical anti gun movement-
"Our main agenda is to have all guns banned. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort the facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed."
Sara Brady
Chairman, Handgun Control Inc, to Senator Howard Metzenbaum
The National Educator, January 1994, Page 3.
Don't let the leftists fool ya.
If you believe that that quote is genuine, then your view of reality is severely distorted. Even IF Sarah Brady, and all gun control supporters were secretly working some sort of socialist agenda, do you really think they would be so stupid as to utter such a line, straight from the ultra-conservative's wet dreams, and worthy of a B-movie script?
There is no shred of evidence that this claimed statement was ever made, and every indication that it's a complete fabrication. And a very poor one at that, it is THAT obvious.
There's even a web site dealing with the various versions of this fabricated quote– http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcbogus_brady.html
Clearly the controls currently in place are not sufficient to keep deadly weapons out of the hands of nuts and cowards. I'd like to think that the vast majority of gun owners are responsible. How can we make it just a little more difficult for the others to obtain them? It wouldn't prevent every crime but one child's life seems ample justification.
JeffinIL
China has no gun violence. We should become communist like them.
Just want to point out that China has a problem that disturbed people go to childrens daycare centers and kill kids with a knife. It has been reported from time to time here in Sweden about it. But the Chinese try not to mention it too often. Whenever there is an evil will there is a way....
Who to said that if he went into the school with a assault gun instead of a knife, there wouldn't have more dead children. Yes, if you want to commit evil, you will. But don't make it easier for them.
Way to cherry pick the data. Can we please have the data for Mexico, which bans handgun ownership?
gun ownership is banned in Mexico, true. but do you know how many gangs and people get to own them? because they smuggle them from our great country you idiot. gun violence in Mexico is a direct result of our system here.
James, that has to be the most ignorant statement made here. The mexican gangs have more money than the US government. They can and do buy from international arms dealers. Do you think they get their RPGs from the US? These gangs have a variety of weapons that can't be attained in this cou ntry plus they have the Mexican military that they can get weapons from. Do you care whether you have any credibility or not? Most people with chafracter will not make rash ridiculous statements trying to make some point. I think you are probably a young person that doesn't have any idea about most things you post about.
Dennis White
James, your the idiot. Gun violence in Mexico is NOT a direct result of the U.S. system. There is much, much more to the problem of guns in Mexico. You poor miss-guided billy goat.
That is true James, 87% of guns confiscated in Mexico are from the USA. They come in through Texas & Arizona. Jack doesn't know Jack.
And I am from Australia Jack, can you tell me where you heard crime rates have gone up here since the buyback scheme? I need some evidence because that is a load of crap.
Agreed. Do you know people that our government sending troops to Afghanistan and they have to fight "bad people" who carries the better weapon than us made in USA. How stupid is that!!! As long as money speaks we have to witness such tragedies as one in Conn. And we called oureselves civilized country??? How ironic!!!! We are not better than ancient Romans and we called them barbarians!!!!!
nwesterink
To all the people here, in favor of guns and gun use in the US.
Why, do you need a semi-automatic weapon, if you can come up with a possible viable reason, let me hear it. Furthermore why do families in the US have more than 6-8 shotguns, huntingrifles etc at all. If you really want to "protect" yourself from burgelars in rural areas etc, 1 handgun is more than enough.
The process of banning all guns, right at this moment is way to rigorous and won't work. But the abolishment of certain rifles and shotguns and the addition of rules and regulations is more than a right step in the direction.
If read most of the comments here and what strikes me most is that some people have no trust in their governments officials, like policeofficers. These people go out on the street everyday risking their live so you and your children can live a safer life. I certainly hope this never happens to anyone, but what if its a friend of family member next?
Two days ago a former classmate of mine was shot and killed in an incident which could have been resolved if there wasn't a gun in play.
Jon R
It is clear to everyone that the rule of law in Mexico is broken and in the hands of drug cartels. It's not just gun laws that are ignored, but also murder in general beheading – hard to do with a gun – is a common revenge tactic, are you suggesting that laws against it are pointless because it happens in Mexico?
It's convenient to pick on a country where the rule of law is absent to serve your purpose. There are plenty of countries which have strict gun laws, where the population respect the laws and have almost no gun related murders (in comparison). If you do not believe in the rule of law and you don't respect your government's enforcement of it, it does not matter what the law is.
Yes...exceot with the yakusa that is !
One must look at the overall murder rate [per 100,000 people] rather than the means used to determine if there's a vast difference in murders, and then you look at the various things that can affect this.
This article is misleading.
12.000 people dead (every year) is catastrophic what ever way you look at it
considering (10 years of U.S wars) in 2 country's caused 4000 American soldiers deaths
Of course. Anything that reduces murders that has been proven to work is a sensible approach.
However, the US has about 5 murders per 100,000 people yearly from all causes. There are countries of all levels of firearm legislation that are higher and lower regarding this figure; "odd" countries like Switzerland where genuine Assault Rifle ownership is commonplace having less murders than the US per 100,000 at 1, whereas others with low firearm ownership and greater restrictions such as South Africa are at 30 per 100,000. Obviously, something else is at work that affects the actual rate of murders than simply firearms (if they do affect it at all).
I'm impartial and of no "side".
云飞
一个没有人性的人，有没有枪都可以杀人。不在于禁不禁枪。而是要能从小到大在家庭到学校教育出一个身心思想上健全的正常人。希望社会个个部门能尽职做好自己的工作结果。
dougaussie
translation: you smell old sushi
I don't know what you posted but it looks impressive. I'll bet some of the shallow minds who post here expect you had words of wisdom about gun control.
ccw holder
from google translate and the help of a chinese friend:
without humanity, no guns can kill. Not that the gun ban can not help. But small to large homes to school education to a physical and mental ideologically sound people. I hope society all departments to do their work the results of due diligence.
he is agreeing that guns are not the problem.
We see some people try to use twisted-logic to justify the owning of guns, this only shows they don't even have a basic common sense. Nothing in this world is perfect, we may never eliminate a problem completely by banning this or that but it sure will lower the chance of letting it happen. Like seat-belt and helmet, people will still get killed during an accident but it sure has lowered the death rate, saved a lot of lives. According to their argument if it cannot work 100% then it is useless, what a bunch simple-mind persons!
It doesn't mean they lack common sense. You have to realize that people manipulate statistics to make their argument look better than someone elses, and when those statistics don't prove their point they reduce themselves to ad hom attacks.
very well said keurig
Chikusho
They sure do as long as you`re not part of organized crime. I was living in Akihabara when a Yakuza member gunned down man in the middle of the day in Ameyoko in Ueno. So even if there are strict gun laws there will always be someone who will be able to obtain one. Making more stricter laws is not the solution, the American social system is the problem.
It is true strict gun control law cannot stop all crimes but many killings (like the last one) are spontaneous, carried out by people who just happened to lose control at that moment. If guns are not that easily available he cannot carry out so many killings in a short time, so it still helps. If we can eliminate 20% of the total number of killings in a year, it is already a good result, and I think it is not unachievable.
Don't believe it. I live in a Gun restricted country. Many countries cover up the amount of violence that goes on their country and report fictious stats so it does not hurt the tourist trade. One only needs to follow the local news i.e. TV Papers to get the "real" stats. Or better yet talk to the police throughtout the country.
Name*Heather
I wonder what kind of mental exams you need to take to slaughter whales.
I wonder what kind of mentality you need to sit in front of a TV watching reality TV shows.
Americans loves death.
I think all of the peoples who try to protect possibility have guns will change their opinion in case if the gun violence to touch their own children (God guard them). Very easy to decide any case to be not involved into the.
benzone
Hm, what about death by shuriken? Bet they didn't count those.
nonredneck
I wonder how many of the 12,000 US murders are gang or crime related? Seems to me that CNN is fudging the numbers a bit.
LhandRbrain
What are you talking about? All 12,000 murders were crime related! THEY WERE MURDERS!!!
now that's hilarious.
2700 people lost there lives in 911 the all world was completely outraged
are you saying because 12.000 people might be gang related it should be ignored ?
12.000 Dead is (CATASTROPHIC) what ever way you look at it
75Ranger
So airplanes should be banned too then??
Passingby...
Man hundred of thousands have died in Iraq/Afghanistan. US Military says they were all terrorists. http://www.businessinsider.com/did-we-just-kill-a-kid-nicola-abe-der-spiegel-brandon-bryant-2012-12
World is becoming a f***d-up place
Jetranger
GUNS : In the Event of a Home Invasion, / Robbery, which is happening more frequently these days, I prefer to have the Ability to DEFEND myself against the INTRUDERS/ Robbers – who may bring Harm to me, and their most likely going to have Guns / Weapons !
I would much rather be able to use my TAURUS 608 .357 Magnum / 8 Shot , or my .12 Gauge to Defend myself, against those who invaded my home to Rob me, bring harm to me.
To those of you who think Gun Ownership is badd, in the Event of a Home Invasion / Robbery – just try whipping out the "WINE & CHEESE" , or the "COOKIES & MILK" to defend yourself – see where that gets ya ~ !!!
Do you have kids? Do they have access to your loaded "TAURUS 608 .357 Magnum / 8 Shot , or your .12 Gauge" shot gun that you would necessarily need to have under your pillow so that you could outdraw "those who invaded my home to Rob me, bring harm to me." When you're not home, do you unload your weapons and store them in a gun safe like responsible gun owners claim?
scootr71
Amen! For those with families: what will you choose to do when an uninvited person enters your house with the intention of stealing and or harming those you love. Bat, Kitchen knife? Hide? If you choose to defend yourself and or family you might find the closest WEAPON available. People choose different weapons for self defense. Please don't take that choice away. We are losing enough choices as it is.
Trigger Happy RED NECKS!!
Oh, I meant DUMB Trigger Happy RED NECKS!!
Redneck is one word genius.
Matt2
In 2010 1,210 children died as result of drunk drivers. Let's ban alcohol!!! I'm a beer lover, but guns serve a better purpose than beer.
ReasonableGuy
There are laws that sanction serving intoxicated patrons so what is wrong with gun laws that aim at preventing guns getting into the hands of high risk individuals or households?
There are laws in place.
Do the laws for alcohol stop people from driving drunk? No, so let's make it next to impossible for you to have a beer or glass of wine to save the 10,000 people who die in alcohol related crashes every year.
I see these kinds of responses all the time. You are justifying the murder of children because drink driving laws are not strict enough? Its pathetic. Why not address both issues and save 22,000 lives? These 2 stats are not related to one another in any way ans can be dealt with independently.
No. I am trying to point out peoples hypocrisy. Most the proponents of a firearms ban say we need to do it to save lives. But ask them to save (more) lives by banning alcohol and they will say no because it impacts them personally. Everyone wants to save lives as long as it doesn't effect something they want to do.
America is a violent country that is why they are still trying to find the reason why people die from guns. If s mentally ill person does not have gun can he kills 20 people in a second?
You should be ashamed pros gun americans
If you're able kill twenty people in a second, you're not using a gun. More like an explosive.
stedyek
@Karl...very typical ignorant comments from a gun hater. States some facts!
One things is for sure:
You can have 1000 rifles or guns in your room, but a heart attack, cancer, diabetes will come and take your life. These guns will not protect you. You can have bombs in your room but an earthquake, tornado, hurricane ect.... will come and take your life. So what is the purpose of having a guns? do you think you are safe?
Pro guns american think about it and change before it is too late for you.
So why do cops carry guns if it is not going to help them? If a mad man comes into my room with a gun, I sure wish I had one to protect myself instead of hoping he has a heart attack.
OtherDave
Would the west have been so wild if no one had guns?
Thank providence that the people who have been stabbed to death were not shot. That way they would not only be dead, but they would have been victims of gun crime.
The focus on gun crime by the media is pretty ridiculous.
Any guess why CNN chose the 2008 murder by firearm statistics to quote here? Because 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 numbers are considerably lower. Anything to push their agenda. Also I think she meant gun related deaths, not murders. US statistics state a little over 9,000 murders by firearm. I'm sure it was an "innocent" mistake. Look for yourself at http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/law_enforcement_courts_prisons/crimes_and_crime_rates.html
9000 murders by firearms (Every year) still looks (Catastrophic) for a country which lost 4000 american soldiers in (10 years of U.S wars ) attempting to stabilize far safer Arab country's
Some say Americans are Safer in Kabul & Baghdad rather than being at home duo to there catastrophic gun crime
Paul L.
So you are saying that in order to lower the murder rate the American public should be like the US Army and carry around 9mm pistols and/or M4/16 fully automatic weapons. Clearly it works as you have so clearly stated! I'm with you. 😉
Irrelevant comparison. Soldiers are much better at using firearms, and use very different firearms, than your average citizen, and are in much greater danger. The numbers are not comparable.
Yes Matt, 9,000 murders is MUCH better. Much better than 11.
So you don't care that CNN is blatantly misstating facts? I didn't say 9,000 is better than 11,000. I'm just asking why CNN chose to go with statistics from almost 5 years ago when there are statistics for more current years. People talk about FoxNews pushing an agenda, CNN is just as bad.....
I wonder why USA always talks about regulations as a nation, the problem is not in the country, but in a few selected states.
The problematic states are mostly in the eastern parts such as DC and NY, those states also have a pretty low legal ownership of guns while some states in the north western parts of USA have a lot of guns but few gun related murders. Which points at the main problem not being lack of gun regulations, but probably more cultural things as gang violence etc.
Don't live in USA personally, but I would not like the fact of someone adding regulations that affects Sweden in order to try to fix a problem in Portugal.
you are raising ridicules and Irrelevant points
12000 Americans are shot dead every year and this issue has to be addressed (REGARDLESS)
You don't understand what I mean, if we move the example to Europe the UK have a lot of gun related murders while Sweden don't.
Should we put in regulations that prevent swedish hunters from having guns because europeans gets killed by guns in the UK?
UK does not have much different gun murder rate per 100k than other European countries.
Sweden pretty much only allows bolt action rifles (for hunting), that have to be locked up in a metal safe
and a government person will come and make visits so you can show this safe and its hunting riffle locked up.
And I'm pretty sure Sweden will now look in to eliminate the gun club handguns clause too.
DJones
I'm just trying to get my head around America and guns. I am an Australian and we are possibly one of the safest countries in the world. We have the highest living standards in the developed world and 5 of the world's top 10 cities to live in including Melbourne, the best city in the world. (UN Index)
After the 1996 massacre in the state of Tasmania where a mentally deranged gunman took 35 lives, we banned all assault weapons. 700,000 guns were bought back by our Federal Government and destroyed. No BS 2nd amendment, No NRA, No Christian Coalition, No Gun lobby, none of that. Why can't you Americans think like us and make life less violent for your own citizens? Come on mate, you don't need a Bushmaster to kill deer? Your guns are not a need, its an obsession.
Right....so your line of thinking is that the good AND the bad guys will hand in their guns? Right....get your head out of the sand. The good law abiding americans are not the ones commiting the crimes. Its the one's that wouldnt hand in their guns if the government were to seize them that are the ones commiting crimes. Furthermore, Australia still has gun related deaths every year....how do you protect yourself if an armed gunman comes into your house? Because when he shoots your family because you couldn't protect yourself.....well...you'll take the opposite side.
Never come to Australia. Your kind isn't welcome here. We only want decent human beings. Stay in the South and get fat and die fast.
Australia's knee-jerk reaction to everything is an embarrassment. Your government coddles you.
Other than the occasional liquor store clerk (world's most dangerous job) that foils a robbery, how many civilians stop a crime by using their own weapon? I don't have an exact number, but I'm sure it's extremely rare and would not stand up as an argument for owning a high capacity or military style weapon. Changes need to be made and now. I'm not saying ban all weapons for civilians, just the high capacity weapons.
What you're "sure" of, based on your intuition (worthless) and lack of evidence, is irrelevant. Actual gun violence is a minority compared to the number of times a civilian with a firearm has used it (rarely firing) to prevent a crime. This is to say nothing of all the crimes that may not be committed at all for fear that the victim is armed.
Americans who feel the 'need' to own a gun dont realise the psychological price they pay for creating a world where they feel vulnerable without there guns. Because owning guns creates this, not the other way around.
A point of contrast: I grew up and spend most of my adult life in Cape Town, South Africa, which in 2010 had the dubious honour of being the second most deadly city in the world, behind only Caracas if I recall. Yet I have only ever heard of one person (a friend I went to school withs father, who was a target shooter) who owned a gun. It simply doesnt occur to us, and we'd think very askance of anyone wanting to own gun. It's not so much the paranoia that of Americans that fascinates me, its more the mentality of actually enjoying guns that I find perverse.
I think americans should be allowed by the US government to carry explosives as well as guns. I mean, if carrying assault rifles is okay, then why not grenades and Semtex sticks? I can defend myself with an assault rifle, but I can defend myself so much better with a nice little bit of dynamite! Bring it on!
Leave the law enforcement to police. In this day and age, there is no need for vigilante justice. America is quick to try banning violent video games and tv/movies, but heaven forbid, don't try to ban the guns! Also, for a country that like to thump and quote the bible at every nation around the world, you sure don't have an issue killing people – criminal or not.
The attack in China just the day before is a perfect example: 20 school kids attacked by a man with a knife. All went to hospital with wounds. All survived! It's a lot more work killing that many people with a knife. They can run away, defend themselves even without a weapon, it's tiring work just to grab hold of that many people and do the stabbing. But with a gun, sooooo simple.
Well if the idiot knew how to use a knife he could have killed all 20....but he didn't sooo....your arguement is invalid. Because I know lots of knife experts who can kill with a knife very easily.
Penta Lift
And how many people do you think a gun expert could kill?
is it coming?
dicy
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Repeal the Second Amendment!
Paul R.
Why not repeal the First? How about the Thirteenth? Pick and choose, really?
Jim in Charlotte
Looks like this would have worked about a 100 years ago in the US. Now a majority of current gun owners would not pass the exams or even bother to take them. We are in too deep now. There are already over 300 million firearms in the hands of US citizens.
This article, if it had sought to be balanced, could have easily asked if Mexico's total ban works. Oops.
How can anyone argue with theses facts. As a gun owner with a concealed weapons permit I think it's time to make drastic changes in our gun laws. I'm all for giving up any right to carry or own a gun.
Sure only criminals will have guns but there would fewer on the streets.
So you would gladly give up the means to defend yourself and your family knowing that criminals will still have guns?
In a perfect world where even the criminals turned in their guns I would too (except for hunting and sporting guns, which to many include those evil assault weapons). But unless the government can guaranty the security and safety of me and my family I'd just as soon have the means to do it myself. I live in a rural area where police response is typically 10-20 minutes (per my sheriff deputy friend). All my police friends say 'When seconds count the police are only minutes away'. I'll keep mine as long as I can thank you very much.
timman
how many murders by other means?
300 to 1, far worse than any other nation.
Im curious what the same gun law policy comparison would look like comparing the US with Mexico. I believe they (Mexico) have some pretty restirictive gun laws for Mexican civilians. What exactly is Mexico's Gun law policy and how so the statistics stack up?
Seriously the U.S is like a small child. Grow up kids, much of the first world already has. You don't need guns, deal with it.
You don't NEED freedom either, but you get it anyway in this country.
What a load of BS is that? Your freedom is the freedom to shoot and kill. That is barbaric freedom. We have much more freedom here in Australia including the Freedom to live and elect politicians who are not slaves of a gun lobby. Freedom is in the US? My foot!!
This is a common sense argument. Not a political one. Less guns, less people get shot and killed. It is not fair to say that we need more people with guns to protect ourselves from others who decide to start shooting randomly in a mall or school. The guns should not be there in the first place. Let everyone start carrying Tasers. That's a protection device. Guns are for killing people and again – do the math – less guns equals less dead people, less murdered children...PERIOD.
Banning guns does not reduce the number of criminals in possession of them.
ThomasMcCracken
Things were a little different in 1791.
Secondment Amendment look it up and get lost
..and in Switzerland, they issue guns to everyone and have the lowest gun crime rate in the world. So which one is better...and which one restricts freedoms more? It's not ALL about gun crime. Most of it is about "being able to defend yourself against the possibility of a tyrannical government OR to prevent a tyrannical government from gaining power."
I agree with you Bill.
In Isreal the teachers are armed, too. And look what happened in Germany in the 1930's. A certain individual came to power and confiscated all guns from its population. The same trends are starting to appear here...
Al Smith
Yea, Ban guns all together. We all know how well that worked with Alcohol. Blaming the deaths in America on guns is like blaming the drink driving ticket on the car you drive or the bar for selling you the booze. It's like blaming your pencil on your mispelled words. People in this country need to start taking responsibility for their own actions and quit letting the government make new laws to protect us from ourselves. Before you know it we're going to end up in a society like George Orwell's book 1984.
Savemillions
Outlaw abortions, then maybe I'll give up my guns
Why not band video games that shows a armed man with a M16 or a AK47 shooting every thing in sight as he rounds a corner in a building. These hand held devises are given to every 10 year old that puts it down on his or her Christmas list. These things condition a young persons mind so that a few years later he is ready for the big time. I also believe Hollywood has a lot to do with it. If we get back to the root of the problem an quit blaming guns we wood be better off and yes arm teachers.
Archie Bunker once said , to stop high Jacking ,"arm all the passengers."
Comparing gun related murders between a country with legal guns and a country that has a history of weapons being illegal for hundreds of years is not a very realistic comparison. Of course there will be less gun involvement in a country where they were never legal and not widespread because of this. However that does not mean making guns illegal in a country saturated with them will magically make them disappear.
If you actually want to learn something a better comparison would be to calculate murder rate per 1000 or 10,000 people.
Then actually figure out what sociological differences exist that could contribute to any difference found.
The war on drugs if a failure so why not a war on guns too
Stupid comparison. The United States is much more diverse in its population and geographically larger in size. Try living out in Alaska, Texas, the plains, or any small town rural area where police are literally miles away.
Police cannot be relied upon to protect us at all times. Majority of the time they are there to clean up the mess after you've been victimized. Women and children are beaten, raped, and murdered everyday in this country and I can guarantee you changing gun laws will not fix that
Would the mental evaluation ever fly in the US or would it be considered discrimination?
It always amuses me that when shootings like this happen people talk about stricter gun laws, like some criminal is all of a sudden going to start following the laws "OMG What have I been thinking?!?!?!?!?"
I'd like to see that 12,000 broken down into two catagories 1. legal gun owners who commited the crime and 2. illegal gun owners...
..and leaving our borders open with illegal immigrants coming across will continue the trend of illegal weapons coming in. Banning guns won't stop the criminals from getting them.
Frankly, I would rather die from a gunshot than to be bludgeoned by a bat or stabbed to death with a knife. Just sayin.....
jonathangroover
Reblogged this on You can take everything I have.. and commented:
I think gun control works...
Good god, is this what passes for a "report" nowaday? How about information on overall homicide rates?
JTORO
So let me get this straight- Because we have 12,000 gun related deaths each year, this means that the costs of allowing gun ownership are too high and we should ban them? Ok, then to be fair, we also have to ban Alcohol because there are 15,000 alcohol related deaths each year. Who is willing to go there? Thats what I thought.
Diraphe
How about a comparison to Mexico's strict gun laws next?
TstTst
How about a report on how easily people buy guns here and transport them to Mexico?
What happened in Newtown is a tragedy of epic proportions, to be sure. My heart goes out to the victims and everyone involved. But let's have a little perspective - 12,000 killed by guns in 2008 vs 37,000 killed in car crashes that same year. Where is the public outcry to ban automobiles which are a far greater threat to public health and safety than guns? Let's not overlook that the vast majority of those killed by guns involved criminals killing criminals. Remove the criminal on criminal element, and the number of innocent people killed by guns is quite low, a small fraction of the number who die in car crashes annually. Gun control may be part of the solution, but mass murder/suicide incidents are a social problem that goes far beyond firearms.
satoridream
I'm just amazed at all the people the making rediculous straw man arguements that if you ban guns what about cars etc.. that kill people every year.... I even talked tto someone saying that millions of people in third world poor countries die each year should we stop eating food... Do any of you idiots comprehentd that analogys like these are not even close to being equivalent or logical. We are talking about deaths by a device that is designed to kill many people quickly and effeciently....All these other comparisons are just fricken stupid....It is no wonder we have so many issues with guns...most of the retards that are pro gun to hte point of no regulations at all don't even comprehend simple logical comparisons. BTW I think you should be able to own a gun to protect yourself and home but Assault Rifles and large clip magazines have no place in our society.
FreeTheRepublic
And if they outlaw the ownership of guns, then the honest will return theirs (no doubt without being compensated a single penny) and the dishonest criminals will be left with the only guns in the nation. This is hardly a resolution, but a means to be sure the innocent will never be able to protect themselves. It is our RIGHT to own a gun, but stricter laws should certainly be put in place on who can obtain one and what kinds.
I am NOT willing to give up my gun. As an American, this is my right and i fully intend to stand up for that right. You cannot simply ask millions of people to turn in their guns and expect to rid of the problem.
The 2nd Amendment doesn't give individuals a right to bear arms unless they are part of a WELL-REGULATED MILITIA. Somehow the gun nuts ignore that part.
Dear Mike, why do you keep repeating the same nonsense? I suggest you read the Supreme Court decisions in DC vs Heller 554 U.S. 570 (2008) and McDonald v. Chicago, 561 US 3025 (2010).
Sounds really reductive to me. What other factors are involved? If we look at Tonnies concepts of Gemeinshaft and Gesellschaft, it may be that they are more communally oriented than the United States. Also, what kind of difficulties are associated with each of those tasks listed? Is there a fee keeping certain economic classes from attaining the requirements?
Ban video games; ban violent movies and television; ban rap; ban guns; lock up anyone you think is odd.
Well said NB
Here's the problem with gun violence statistics – the fact fewer guns leads to fewer gun-related deaths is obvious but misses the point. The issue is *viololence*. Before guns does anyone think people were not killed?
The question needs to be looked at in a wholistic fashion. In countires with more/less guns per capita what do ALL of the violence-related statistics look like? Are there more rapes, robberies, home invasions, etc?
Another point – I simply cannot see how we get rid of all guns already out there. Even if we did, we cannot prevent drigs from crossing the border. What makes anyone think we will be able to prevent criminals from importing guns?
Guns are illegal in Mexico. Anyone here clamoring to go there in order to be safe from gun violence? Yes, they get most from the US, but don't fool youselfs into thinking they wouldn't simply get them from South America. AK's are cheap and fairly easy to acquire anywhere in the world...and they are not made in the USA.
Thomas Markum
In 2011, the US had 32,367 Automobile related deaths, and over 2 million die worldwide each year due to alcohol. So lets put a ban on alcohol and automobiles. Sounds reasonable. Why not also ban diesel fuel and fertilizer(Timothy Mcveigh), and Boxcutters(Sept 11,2001) too…
jusayin
I agree. Also diabetes, aids, and cancer cause a lot of deaths every year, let's ban those too!
make sure alcohol is a tested drug!!!
Ah the liberal media – so selective in their numbers when pushing their ideology. Notice none of them are talking about Switzerland. Switzerland has no standing army, instead they have a citizen militia. They EXPECT every male citizen to undergo military training between the ages of 20 and 30. They ISSUE an assault rifle and a pistol to each of those trained citizens. Yes the Swiss gov't actually put guns in the hands of their citizens – imagine that. Most Swiss homes where a male ages 20 to 30 lives has both a pistol and an assault rifle. They train those individuals and expect them to maintain proficiency with those firearms. And the entire country has fewer gun-related murders than our nation's capital by itself. How does the liberal media explain that? Could it actually be that responsible gun ownership isn't the problem and it's a far more complex issue? Could it be a bigger societal issue? No, the liberals are once again manipulating the truth. The truth is they don't want you to have a gun. They think it's okay for their bodyguards to carry guns and it's okay for their buildings to have armed guards to protect them, but they don't think you have a right to defend yourself. A man in China attacked a school with a knife recently. The worst school massacre in US history happened in 1927 in Bath Township, Mich. The killer used bombs to kill 45 people including 38 children. Over 1,200 children are killed each year in the US by drunk drivers. We have huge societal issues in the US right now and taking guns out of the hands of responsible gun owners won't solve them.
Scrappyike
Of course gun related crime is down but that does not mean killings using other types of weapons did not take place. What are the statistics on that? Duh
How many times in a week do you hear on radio while driving to work about someone shot to death with a gun? How many times is that an act of violence as opposed to shooting in defense? Its very clear guns kill more people in acts of violence then it saves people.
Are you really going on your perception of violent acts as facts? The truth is there are over 800,000 violent crimes stopped every year due to law-abiding citizens carrying guns. Look it up.
I do agree with you, but do we really need an automatic weapon to protect ourselves.
Yes Nick. We do. A semi auto pistol isn't going to help me protect my self or my rights against a tyrannical government.
donniebb23
@Bill – can you show support for that number? It seems kind of outrageous to me.
Gosokuryu
Yes the shooting was a massive tragedy and i grieved and even cried for them. but the simple fact is, people have been killing people since before recorded history. They will continue to kill long into the future. it's a fact of life (and death) I would much rather take my chances as a legally armed citizen. At least that way i have the option of defending myself. Talking and begging with a gun to your head really doesn't do that much good. However meeting fire with fire, i stand a better chance and so will my kids. Lets spend our time and money on something that might actually make a difference. identifying mental issues. Giveing parents the help they need to controll an out of controll child. Holding parents responsibl for the actions of their child because they failed to propelry secure guns knowing their child was derainged or mental. Don't attack/blame an inanimate object for something a living breating person chose to do. New stations (both fox and cnn) are quick to post about all the bad things that guns can do. But i never seen anything posted about the countless times a gun has saved a family or a co-worker. Pick up some gun magazines sometime. several of them post articles about average joes saving thier family/loved one or a co-worker by meeting fire with fire. if you are so proud to be an anit-gun person, post it in your front yard that your house is anti gun. i'll post in my yard that inruders will be shot on sight with no warning. See whos house someone will choose to invade. I'll sit back and enjoy my cold beverage as i watch you fill out your police report.
Very well said. I live in St. Louis where the murder rate is and has been in the top 3 in the country for far too long. I hate the fact that people are spoiling one of the most liberating laws in this country. What sickens me the most is the lack of the appreciation of life and respect for family. People dont care about all of the other lives that are changed when one is killed, they dont care about your wife, daughter, son, mother, father, etc. On the other hand I do. So in todays world I do what is necessary to protect myself so that I will be here for my wife and daughter. I own 2 guns one for the house and one for me. Believe me, I hope i never have to use either of them but I WILL! I just cannot see myself there in front of my family gun to our heads and being helpless F*** that. Im gonna be sitting there right next to you Gosokuryu with a cold one reflecting on what just happened wondering why this dead guy in my living room chose my house to come into as they carry his A** out
Take a look at chicago. It has very high crime rates despite the fact they have some of the strictest gun laws in the USA. Their crime rate is 4x the rate of new york, and 2x the rate of los angeles. Banning guns is not the answer. We need to look deeper into mental issues and the ways that are open for people to get their hands on guns.
How about showing how difficult it is for citizens to obtain firearms in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Brazil, and about 50 other countries where homicide by gun are many folds higher than the US? You don't get to pick and choose a country for the convenient of your argument, you need to look at all different countries. Don't tell me you need to look at a country "similar" to the US because that is intellectually lazy. If you are blaming guns for higher rate of homicides and think stricter gun control will lead to less homicide, then you need to look at multiple countries on the merit of stricter gun control and the results. That is the only honest statistical and scientific way to compare, not some hack 1-country comparison. Ridiculous!
Yeah, you put out an intellectually active argument about broader consideration. You vision is being obstructed by your love for guns. We are becoming one of those countries you mentioned in your post. Just because you are not happy with yourself or someone you draw a gun and shoot that person. How many times in your lifetime do you think you will be in a extremely desperate situation and you will have to shoot a person in defense. Its like winning a lottery! you know the odds.
We could learn from them wouldn't you say ?? I'm not up on there schooling but don't there kids spend like 6 days a week and 10 hour days in school ? not a bad idea
Right, so if making guns illegal helps – we should also make heroin, crack and cocaine illegal as well.
God you guys are so smart!
I love how people still try to refute the facts in this article, and facts regarding gun murders in other nations like England with OPINIONS. I'm sorry, opinion does not trump the facts, no matter how hard you choose to ignore them.
The fact that more people die every year from traffic accidents than guns is a weak argument. People use cars everyday and it is a necessity. Guns as used for hunting is for entertainment. Guns actually used for protection is rare. Guns are ubiquitous in America, but the fact that you rarely see them carried around in public even where it is legal just shows how unnecessary they are for everyday life, unlike cars. Assault weapons are absolutely unnecessary in modern civilized society.
you don't see them because most are concealed.
basadeed
How many kids were killed by abortion last year? Where is the outrage about that?
PaulaMcGregor
Zero kids were killed by abortion. Some fetuses were but no kids.
These stats are more showing of the differences in cultures, not the differences in gun laws. You take that same program and put it in any other country and it is going to have different results. There are also plenty of examples of countries with high gun control and that has more gun related deaths than the United States. Connecticut is also one of the most gun regulated states in the United States.
That being said, taking classes, mental evaluations, and criminal background checks are not bad ideas. But I do believe background checks are already done.
Maybe American parents need to show there kids just a little more Love instead of letting there brains stew in front of the TV or the WEB... If I spent my childhood in a small room staring at a Monitor of sorts 27/7 I'd go nuts also. Kinda like the animals at the Zoo that walk the same path all day in there cages..
SoSad
I don't think they like to hear that other countries are better. Period.
Thanks basadeed for saying that. So true
That one scientist guy
I would love to see what these numbers look like per capita intead of the skewed numbers that they are now...
Shekhar
Here is an answer to guns don't kil....argument as proposed by author Mayank Chhaya. "Empty hands don't fire bullets."
True, but they have always hunted with throwing stars...
I am neither for or against owing personal weapons. However, upon thinking about it from all sides, I have something to ask of you. Say you want to die and you know your neighbor has a gun, and you do also, would you attack him to have him kill you? Say you do not want to die and you have a gun to rob a store, but you know the store owner has a weapon, do you rob that store or move on to the one down the block that you know does not have a weapon? Unstable people will find a way for their actions. If a gun is handy, they will use it. If not, they will use a knife, automobile, fertilizer concoction to make a bomb and really maximize their destruction or another item that is handy to them. There is not any way to know that Joe Blow walking down the street is stable and just out for a walk or on a mission of destruction until that action happens. The how it happens is not important to the situation, just the intent and follow through. If you were confronted by a rapist with a knife, would pulling a gun out of your purse help you? Maybe or maybe not, but pepper spray would. But if you were close to a mass murderer that had just opened fire on a group of people on the street, and you had a weapon and a clear shot to stop him and possibly save tens of lives, would that be of help? Each situation is different. I can not see any reason that common person(s) would need a fully automatic weapon. I also do not agree with untrained individuals owing a weapon just for protection. Part of procurement should be full training of the destructive power of the weapon, and how to fire, load and store such weapon so others could not get to it. Without that, an untrained person could cause more harm than the protection he provided to himself and others. Banning of all weapons is not the answer, but allowing fully automatic weapons is not either. Just thinking on the criminal side of this argument, if I were a criminal, I would choose to attack, steal, etc. the place/person that was unarmed instead of the one that I thought was armed. After all, as a criminal, I would not wish to die, but live to rob again another day. But if I were mentally unbalanced, I really would not care whom I attacked. Having a weapon of any kind would not deter me from accomplishing what my mind told me to do at the time. This is not about the right to bear arms, survive an armed attack, ban all weapons, or any other true issue that will help in this matter. This is about human nature and the ability to know what or how someone is going to do a very grave deed or if they are going to do it. Since I do not own a weapon, banning them would not hurt me except for the fact that my protection due to the fact that I may be carrying one may deter someone from doing me harm would go away. I would not like that. But in the same instance, banning fully automatic weapons should happen at the earliest time as possible. Semi automatic weapons I am not so sure. Thoughts?
Ken, contrary to what you see on CNN whenever they talk about guns (some guys shooting a machine gun), fully automatic weapons have been banned since 1934. It is possible to get one if you pay a $200 tax, do the paperwork (with extensive background check), and fork over $20K+ for one of the few legally transferrable guns (made before 1984).
Semi-automatic firearms have been around (and readily available) since the early 20th century. Even though they were available (Browning HiPower 9mm with 13 round magazine, and M1 Carbine, .30 semi-auto military rifle with 30 round magazine) in the 1950s (without any real restrictions – not even a questionaire to buy one), why didn't we see all this violence then? Could it possibly be just a LITTLE more complicated than 'guns'?
The reality is that there are already too many guns in your country, too many people with mental health issues, too many illegal drugs, too many people who are pro-rights even at the expense of their children. Look at the responses in these forums. People care more about keeping their rights to own guns and have already made up their minds that decreasing the number isn't going to change anything. Statistics from other countries don't matter to them. Their culture of violence is different, which is very true. I think the price of freedom to bear any type of weapon you want for self defense, as the gun lobbyists call it – comes at a very high price. But you have chosen to allow it and continue to see it as acceptable.
Timothy McVeigh didn't need a gun.
The simple numbers tell the story, and all the rest is denial coupled with flawed reasoning for allowing the population in general to hang on to their guns until someone pries them from their dead hands. The automobile death comparisons and the "other lethal instruments" arguments are particularly foolish. I've yet to hear of anyone using a car to kill multiple innocent people, and as for knives and other potentially lethal weapons, come on people – you cannot with a straight face honestly ignore the ease with which guns make killing in general easy, and mass killings a whole lot easier than trying to accomplish the same with a knife. But logic and facts never seem to bother those intent on justifying their right to own a gun, and at the same time minimizing the fact that 12,000 people a year are killed by guns in the U.S.
And let's get real when it comes to the "protection against as tyranical government" argument. To begin with, those weapons you guys hold so dear are no match for the weopons available to the "tyranincal government". But more importantly, I highly doubt more than a few would even try to respond to a "tyranical government" by challenging it through force. Sure there are some, but for the most part those people are part of the lunatic fringe and in the U.S. are largely confined to white racist extremists. And therein lies another problem – those most likely to use guns to oppose that mythical "tyrannical govenmernt" in the U.S. are among the people that most of us think should not have easy access to guns in the first place.
The sad truth is humanity just loves violence. Kids get off on violent games... people love action movies with shoot outs and violence. And for some odd reason... guns just look so cool don't they?
Ted Kaczynski didn't even own a gun.
Right, you don't NEED a gun to kill people. There are other ways...but Ted didn't kill 12000 people a year.
Bomb and knife attacks cannot be compared to guns. It takes knowledge and expertise to build a bomb and use it successfully – most people cannot do it easily. It is hard to kill large numbers with a knife because once one person is stabbed everyone else runs and scatters making it hard for the attacker to strike again. It is also much more survivable and can be defended against. It takes also takes more courage and conviction to blow oneself up with a bomb or stab someone from close up than to shoot them down from a distance like a coward.
you can learn to build a bomb from youtube if you wanted
A hunk of dry ice in a 3 inch PVC pipe sealed in with rubber cement will take an arm off. Metal pipe and gun powder can kill a few people. Fertilizer known as Amonium Nitrate is highly explosive and available at local retailers available in "ice packs" as it reacts with salt in an endothermic reaction. Just drain the ice pack into a pipe, add some aluminum and boom. Hillbillies are not experts and they do can and do accomplish this for fun. As far as "survivability" and "Courage" needed to execute crimes with other weapons, pish posh. These people are mentally ill. They were going to kill someone. Guns made it more expedient. Let's address the issue (mental illness) and not the unfortunate indicator (mass murder). Let's talk about why these people were not detected or treated until they were beyond help. What if he would have driven a car through the school wall and killed a few kids? Are we going to outlaw Honda Civics? What if he just walked down the hall and tossed crudely made pipe bombs into each classroom and killed a few kids? Are we going to outlaw plumbing supplies and fertilizer? I agree that guns are the most expedient way to accomplish these atrocities, but it's not WHY they occur.
Here's another thing to consider. The general public have a hard enough time these days stopping to help someone on the street who is in need. A woman getting abused... a man just hit by a car and lying in the middle of the road... someone getting beat up on a bus... a group of punks taking out their frustrations on a guy in the park.... What do most people do? Look... and walk on by. If the passerbys had a gun on them, what do you think they would do? Would they take it out and shoot the people? Is that right? Or what if they actually were faced with a gunman at a mall... how many, even with a gun, would actually pull it out and start blasting away? It's one thing to say you would, but totally another thing to actually do it.
I would and actually have...twice and would again. I was at a gas station in a particularly rough area of my town. A man approached and as he got closer to me, he pulled a knife. He was going to rob me. But as he got closer, I simply showed him my revolver and he stopped dead in his tracks and ran away. Another time, I stopped a man from beating on his wife in a mall parking lot by brandishing my revolver and calling the cops. I didn't have to USE my weapon in either circustance, but it proved to be an adequate deterent...to crime...imagine that.
johnbrownraider
Kind of hard to compare an tiny country surrounded by water to a huge nation with water ports, and land entrances on 2 sides. I don't see this compares a better comparison would be Mexico or Estonia.
Good 'ol liberals. Never miss an chance to exploit a tragedy for political gain.
Good'ol rednecks.
Funny how bigoted liberals are!
Ramana7
What political gain would there be? What drives people to want to limit or get rid of guns is for peace and to avoid such tremendous tragedy. That's not about political gain, but just moved by the tragedy and injustice of these kinds of crimes.
You may not agree, but stereo-typing "liberals" according to your own bent is just childish.
why dont we compare the murder rate between the two countries. All i am getting from this article is its better to get murdered than get murdered with a gun... what an incredibly biased bs article
Let me first say that I don't own a gun, of any kind. With that being said, that is probably the worse comparison known to man. It doesn't show if it works or not. If they don't have guns, they have other weapons. Show some real relevant statistic like deaths by guns/knives/machetes. Flawed logic.
I think everyone just needs to cut through the fluff and get to the point. American culture is what it is. The good and the bad. You can't compare any other country to it and it to any other country. Like one politician said, there are already too many guns available in the country, it would be impossible to change that. Plus there are too many of its people that don't trust or support their own government. Guns and violence are ingrained in the history and people died to fight for their rights and freedoms – you think anyone is going to want to give any of that up? Not a chance. So I'm not sure what anyone is expecting to happen. You can debate it all to death (which it has been already). I enjoyed reading opinions expressed on these forums the past week, but now it's all starting to repeat itself and it's getting tiresome. I really hope your leaders come up with something special and I pray this type of thing doesn't happen again...although with the current state of affairs, we all know it will 😦
People are just trying to find an "easy" way out of it, but they don't understand that there isn't one.
Basically the US is an uncivilized nation of ignorants rukled by an elite of criminals descendents of criminals and rejects from around the wold, failures, desperados and of those whom the a tions opf the criminals has made them
leave their own country.They all live in the illusion of living in a good country.
We're uncivilized? If you're going to lob insults at an entire nation, please use correct punctuation and spell check. Otherwise, you just like foolish.
I remember when I was serving in the USMC, Marines living in the barracks on base were not allowed to carry their own firearms on base or store them in their own rooms. They had to be checked into the armory. I do not know what married officers and enlisted Marines living in family housing were allowed to do with firearms.
We went to the armory once a month as a unit to clean our assigned weapons and we fired our M-16 rifles or M-9 service pistols under strict control and monitoring at least once a year for mandatory qualification.
Here's my point: If U.S. Marines, who receive specialized training on handling firearms, were not allowed to carry firearms where ever they wanted to, then why should the average civilian who is no where near as specially trained should be? be allowed own and carrt these weapons wherever they wish?
Coflyboy
The problem does not simply lie with our 2nd amendment or a mental case. Turn on the TV on a Saturday morning and you will see that kids are being taught at a young age that it is OK to shoot anything in sight. Power Rangers, Transformers, etc, all are continuously shooting in a quest for power. This violence replaces what was deemed as 'violent' when they took the Roadrunner and Tom & Jerry off the air. Then, we have parents who allow their 7 year old kids to watch this crap.
This moral education continues throughout our teenage and adult years. Every movie, TV show is rife with gun violence. Our minds begin to learn that this violent behavior is normal and expected. It is not just the kooks, it is a consequence of our acceptance towards violence being the norm.
itdontmatter
Sounds like a a great process. I think of what I had to go thru to try to adopt an dog from a shelter, it was more intense than what you have to do for a gun. The process for when I went to become a Big Brother was in-depth also. Background, criminal, credit(i think), contacted references and even random neighbors who I didn't include on my references. Sounds fair to me.
Landru
The truth is that both sides of this argument are valid. I firmly believe in freedom and the right to bear arms. That will not waver. However, the other side of the discussion is not without merit. There are justifiable reasons to put some kind of regulations in place too reduce the possibility of some nut job perpetrating a crime against humanity. There are justifiable reasons for the people of the world to be totally shaken by this event. Knee jerk reactions are not baseless. History though, confirms the need for the right to keep and bear a weapon. Freedom and libert cannot be maintained if the people cannot protect themselves from tyranny. To quote Ben Franklin "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety"
I read these articles to ban guns and figures from counries with bans in place and I understand why people want it. In the long run though we cannot give up our freedom. We just have to fight harder to for another answer.
Irrelevant question...Ever since Hiroshima the US has restricted the country from having guns or military....Its not their law its us telling them what to do.
HIll Billy Robert
Their gun killing rates are low, but look at their homicide rates.. What they use to kill consist of knives and weapons of that nature..
We need guns in USA because of violent blacks who commit most of the crime; notice I said most.
Just a Thought –
If you are registering yourself for a gun, you have to go through many exams such as a mental evaluation. If you have multiple people in the home, shouldn't everyone in the home get a mental evaluation as well? You're not the only one who will have access to it.
Again – just a thought.
11! So this just proves gun control does not work. Not to mention they don't even address the real question, does removing guns reduce the murder rate? (For those with poor vision, the stat is for "GUN RELATED murders") I assume if the over all murder rate went down they'd be all over that.
Must every tragic mass shooting bring out the shrill ignorance of “gun control” advocates?
The key fallacy of so-called gun-control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available.
If gun-control zealots had any respect for facts, they would have discovered this long ago, because there have been too many factual studies over the years to leave any serious doubt about gun-control laws being not merely futile but counterproductive.
Places and times with the strongest gun-control laws have often been places and times with high murder rates. Washington, D.C., is a classic example, but just one among many.
The rate of gun ownership is higher in rural areas than in urban areas, but the murder rate is higher in urban areas. The rate of gun ownership is higher among whites than among blacks, but the murder rate is higher among blacks. For the country as a whole, hand-gun ownership doubled in the late 20th century, while the murder rate went down.
The few counter-examples offered by gun-control zealots do not stand up under scrutiny. Perhaps their strongest talking point is that Britain has stronger gun-control laws than the United States and lower murder rates.
But, if you look back through history, you will find that Britain has had a lower murder rate than the United States for more than two centuries — and, for most of that time, the British had no more stringent gun-control laws than the United States. Indeed, neither country had stringent gun control for most of that time.
In the middle of the 20th century, you could buy a shotgun in London with no questions asked. New York, which at that time had had the stringent Sullivan Law restricting gun ownership since 1911, still had several times the gun-murder rate of London, as well as several times the London murder rate with other weapons.
Neither guns nor gun control were the reason for the difference in murder rates. People were the difference.
Yet many of the most zealous advocates of gun-control laws on both sides of the Atlantic have also been advocates of leniency toward criminals.
In Britain, such people have been so successful that legal gun ownership has been reduced almost to the vanishing point, while even most convicted felons are not put behind bars. The crime rate, including the rate of crimes committed with guns, is far higher in Britain now than it was back in the days when there were few restrictions on Britons buying firearms.
In 1954, there were only a dozen armed robberies in London but, by the 1990s — after decades of ever tightening gun-ownership restrictions — there were more than a hundred times as many armed robberies.
Gun-control zealots’ choice of Britain for comparison with the United States has been wholly tendentious, not only because it ignored the history of the two countries, but also because it ignored other countries with stronger gun-control laws than the United States, such as Russia, Brazil, and Mexico. All of these countries have higher murder rates than the United States.
You could compare other sets of countries and get similar results. Gun ownership has been three times as high in Switzerland as in Germany, but the Swiss have had lower murder rates. Other countries with high rates of gun ownership and low murder rates include Israel, New Zealand, and Finland.
Guns are not the problem. People are the problem — including people who are determined to push gun-control laws, either in ignorance of the facts or in defiance of the facts.
But how many murders were by samurai sword?
Wow.. very clever. Are you a redneck?
Ahh yes the old Gun Control arguement.
Guns dont just jump up out of the box and shoot people its a fact. Guns dont all of a sudden decide they want to fire at people or animals or anything. Guns take a human element to work. They need to be loaded, aimed, and fired by a human. Guns are not bad, people are.
OMG guns were designed to kill, really, i think we all know that. Criminals and mentally ill people are the ones who run into crowds of people and fire weapons at people and cops. Those of us who have grown up with guns, have a great understanding of guns and DO NOT FEAR guns, are not the ones running around shooting public crowds or even individual people. We take our guns to areas they are allowed, they are called shooting ranges, and we fire our weapons for enjoyment and practice.
Distracted driving, aka using a cell phone in a car including texting while driving, has been proven to be worse than drunk driving.
http://www.stoptextsstopwrecks.org/#facts
Texting and driving is something that we all should be focusing on. I say that about 95% of people lobbying for gun control regularly participate in texting and driving while 99% of legal lawbiding gun owners do not participate in criminal activitives using firearms. yes i made this stat up but im sure i am pretty spot on though
Emotions should not get in the way of politics. This talk should not happen while we are stealing dealing in the aftermath of what happened in Newtown. Moarning and healing should take place first then if gun control wants to be brought up then please do so. But once the next media explosion of a topic comes along those cattle will be on to the next thing thats popular and gun control will not happen.
Also to those that toss the word assualt weapon around, please google the term assualt weapon because you all are misinformed on what an assualt rifle is. An assualt rifle is a rifle that can be switched from automatic firing to burst firing to semi auto firing. Those weapons are already illegal in the USA.
Here here!!
Texting & Driving is illegal in California.
How about murders with the use of other weapons or common objects? How many of those deaths in the United States are due to gang violence and civil altercations? Of the numbers not related to gang violence, etc. how many are from cases involving mental illness? Break down the figures into categories and show the real facts. Its like saying 12,000 people were killed by cars. How many were used in murders or how many were due to car accidents and of those numbers how many were due to driving under the influence? Lets also note these figures are from 2008, almost five years ago, when violent crimes were probably on the rise.
stulle
It's not there gun laws it's there culture, they aslo don't have looting during natural disasters.
The 12000 vs 11 murder statistic is meaningless without the guns owned vs guns owned statistics to go with them. It's also meaningless to just compare the number of murders committed with firearms without comparing the total number of murders per-capita.
Guns are not the issue. A society that has no way to suitably care for and help the mentally ill, and that so easily falls to violence, is the problem.
NRALOVER
Murder is a way to express feelings. Don't take that away from people. Everyone should be able to kill with the most efficient weapons. 2ND AMENDMENT!!! IF WE ALL HAD GUNS THEN IT'S EVEN FOR EVERYONE.
ROTLMAO!
I think the point is being missed. As a gun owner and hunter, I believe in the right to own a gun. However, I think the distinction lies in what type of weapon – handguns and assault rifles are designed to kill people, hence their use by every military in the world. The significant majority of publicized, senseless crimes involve these classifications of weapons including the murders at Columbine HS, Thurston HS, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech etc etc indicate that our current gun control measures have failed to prevent these incidents. With 40% of gun purchases made without a background check last year and with the US having the highest homicide rate in the first world per capita, something needs to change. Any measure of control of guns is seen as an attack on our liberty and freedom, however, the second amendment was passed at a time when we needed an armed population to prevent our government from being taken over by a foreign nation. Laws are essentially regulation upon perceived freedoms to provide safety, rules, and organization in a society. At some point we need to realize that handguns and assault rifles should not be made available to any citizen, that this is no longer the wild west. At a macro level, political scientists have a term for nations that engage is massive nuclear armament – Mutual Assured Destruction; you can make the correlation that a heavily armed society can follow a similar path, while not destruction, an unnecessarily high homicide rate. As a citizen, I would feel more safe knowing their are less guns around me everyday than strangers ready to 'protect' themselves with guns.
The US is going down the tubes and all these people care about is guns.
No wonder it will soon be a third world country.
Hahaha... Do you know the definition of a 'third world country'?? Idiots.
The first worlkd was the developed western world, with freedom, rights and prosperity. The second world was the communist bloc. The third world was the weak, undeveloped world that niether The West nor the East were really interested in.
When China stops funding American dedevelopment, then you will be third world and the new dark age of a world without supoerpowers will be obvious.
January 3, 2013 at 10:14 pm |
So there are 314,968,621 people in the U.S. according to (http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html). Lets say those 12,000 people that were murdered by a NUT with a gun in 2008 were all done by a singular individual. That means 12,000 NUTS. So that would be 0.003810% of our population that. So the other 99.99619% of the law abiding population should be banned from having a gun because of a percentage isn't even 1 basis point? Come on... how about banning cigarettes that are costing second hand smoke deaths of around 43,000 a year.
Look at the bright side: keeping America violent and gun-crazed helps with over-population.
fras6
OK gun nuts. Lets take your position to the ultimate dream – school teachers are armed; librarians armed; hospital emergency staff armed; sports teams armed; hell we may as well give kids guns too...!!
Welcome to a new America – welcome to the Wild West show!!! What a joke. Thank God I Iive in Canada.
...and before you know it, the country will be renamed to OK Corral
OK, show me the proof. Where has that happened? I'm not suggesting everyone be armed, but that's just nonsense.
Florida (stats on their state website) has issued over 2 million CCW permits in the last 25 years. Of those, 168 people have been arrested for gun crimes – in 25 years! – about 7 a year. Given there are about 2 million adults in Chicago, do you think Chicago has 7 gun crimes a year? They have at least 7 a day, maybe 7 per hour on weekends. So, if the average person in Chicago were as law-abiding and safe as the average Florida CCW holder, Chicago would be a much better and safer place. CCW holders are not the problem (they are, as a whole, probably about 1000 times more law-abiding and safe than the people of Chicago). The problem is criminals, who will always have guns, and the occasional nut who will probably find a way to kill people anyway, and will probably even find a gun when they are banned.
caseyj1107
There is no doubt that Guns are weapons and I would love to never have to worry about someone attacking me or anyone near me with a gun for the rest of my life. The sad truth is that there are millions of guns in the US right now. I own a pistol and have a ccw permit that i use for protection against that kind of scenario. If the goverment bans the sell of guns today How many millions of guns are going to be floating around for years and years to come. If they could come up with a plan that would convince me of their abilty to remove all the guns that are out there in a timely manner then i would gladly vote for that. Until they do come up with that sort of plan i don't plan to rely on others to protect me 24/7 when only the criminals have guns.
Never less it is a horrible tragedy that has happened in conn. and my heart goes out to everyone affected by it.
Alcohol abuse kills some 75,000 Americans each year and shortens the lives of these people by an average of 30 years, a U.S.
Excessive alcohol consumption is the third leading cause of preventable death in the United States after tobacco use and poor eating and exercise habits.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which published the study, estimated that 34,833 people in 2001 died from cirrhosis of the liver, cancer and other diseases linked to drinking too much beer, wine and spirits.
Another 40,933 died from car crashes and other mishaps caused by excessive alcohol use.
Hey, you're making sense and stating the truth and because of that, no one cares! *sarcasm*
http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/rxbrief/
Nearly three out of four prescription drug overdoses are caused by prescription painkillers—also called opioid pain relievers. The unprecedented rise in overdose deaths in the US parallels a 300% increase since 1999 in the sale of these strong painkillers.4 These drugs were involved in 14,800 overdose deaths in 2008, more than cocaine and heroin combined
More than 12 million people reported using prescription painkillers nonmedically in 2010, that is, using them without a prescription or for the feeling they cause.
America – Home of the Free (well.... except this really long list of things you can't have or do)
What a well-written piece of articulate information. CNN needs new "journalists."
Gun laws only hurt those who are willing to follow them.
We ban illegal drugs, but bad people still get their hands on them. If we ban guns, bad people will still get their hands on them and the good guys won't be able to defend themselves. If guns are banned here, the drug cartels will just add guns to the items they smuggle over the border. I will not be brainwashed by these twisted statistics that CNN is posting.
PaulC
That fuzzy logic is getting old.
Using this logic we should have no laws because people will break them anyway.
PaulC,
Do you think we should ban guns? If so, do you think criminals would still get their hands on them?
Qballelder
Guns are made to KILL things – nothing else. No matter what your rationalization, that is the intended outcome for the user/owner.
Say liberals, how has the war on drugs worked for you? How about learning a lesson from your own book?
Most liberals do not support this "War on drugs", since it is expensive and counter-productive. BTW, the War on Drugs was started by Richard "Watergate" Nixon, a Republican. Understand the facts before your writing proves your ignorance.
This is an odd set of numbers to throw out as reasoning to practically remove guns. 12000/304500000 vs 11/127700000 is hardly a significant difference. Car accidents caused over twice the number of deaths in the U.S. and i'm sure we can find a country with little to no car related deaths. Would this mean we should ban cars? In fact given the number and variety of weapons sold, 12000 in such a large population is really very small. I don't own guns and likely never will but if all it takes is one deranged person to take away peoples rights to something, we might want to get ready for a ban of anything sharp. I read an article a few months back which showed a bigger difference in side effects of those smoking marijuana and why it should never be legalized (still non-significant however) but many of the same people try to get rid of guns now were stating that we should ignore those numbers. Apples and Oranges yes, but my point is that it's a band wagon. Yesterday kids are killed and guns are bad, tomorrow a guy with a gun stops a terrorist attack and guns are good.
well said, its a hot topic, the government throws some paperwork around, and in a month we will be talking about something else
Yep. see ya at the next shooting!
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. –Albert Einstein
But they use very sharp knives!!
FreddieMac
I would welcome banning all guns, IF the government could guarantee that ALL guns would be gone from this country and that they could guarantee our safety. They can't, so I won't. I will keep my guns so I can protect myself and my family from harm.
jharry3
If guns are banned then the bad guys will carry swords. I don't know about you but that would mean the young and strong would rule. With hand guns we are all equal. "God made man. Samuel Colt made them equal".
Almost every day you hear of an off duty cop or security guard stopping a crime
Mr_Toad
SCENARIO: Since each victim had three to seven .223 rifle wounds, Mr. Lanza was forced to reload his LEGALLY acquired 30 cartridge magazine at least THREE times to murder all 26 people.
QUESTION: How many school children would NOT have been murdered if Mr. Lanza had been forced to reload at least TWELVE TIMES, if his legally acquired magazines were restricted to 10 cartridges each.
FACT: The NRA will refuse to answer this question.
pointless1
If one trained office worker was able to carry a weapon at work, Mr. Lanza might not have been able to cause the damage he did. There are many people, from many walks of life that are capable of handling themselves and a weapon.
Enough is enough. I am willing to give up my Second Amendment rights to save a child's life.
The 2nd Amendment was written in a time where the world looked very different, and they didn't have (semi-)automatic firearms back then. The 2nd Amendment was never intended to create a self-proclaimed, unpredictable and dangerous civilian guerilla, which is exactly what the US has become today. Millions of people walking around like ticking bombs...
Give me a break. You never exercised that right in the first place did ya?
Bornaghenhard
I guess the part about having a strong moral ethic has nothing to do with it also...
Shouldn't we focus more on why these people are killing in the first place. Guns or no guns, if the impulse to kill people is gone then no one gets hurt.
guns don't kill people, neither do nukes, drones, atomic bombs, chemical weapons. In fact I'd rather someone come at me with a drone filled with chemical weaponheads than someone with a gun, because it's the same thing.
Obama will move to get the assault weapons out of circulation, the NRA will retaliate and an offshoot NRA militia will commence strikes against law enforcement, that will snowball, because they will convince all the poor uneducated people that their very liberty and freedoms are at stake, and then you will witness the uprising. Within 2 years, full blown civil war, no longer about guns, but inequality. This will be the catalyst and the beginning of the fall of the USA, the land of the Free...
I can hardly wait.
If you look up the biggest political contributors / lobbyists the NRA is no where near the top... so why all of the fear?
The west coast will fall to the rebel NRA militia first, DC and New York will stay under govt control, but there will be widespread death and destruction across the mid west as the government tries to retake seized instalations and cities. A militia of 4 million moving eastwards, US air force jets bombing rebel held cities, sounds like science fiction doesnt it, but an interesting assumption and not entirely impossible
Assault rifles are not available to the general public, only semi automatic guns that look like assault rifles. A true assault rifle able to fire fully automatic. So this is how the media portrays the boogieman and get the public to believe something other than the truth. We need to be very careful about factual journalism and watch out for propaganda, propaganda = politics facts = truth and the news media knows that many of us believe what is shoved down out pie holes.
That is total B___T and you know it!
I own a coupla dozen firearms, and have purchased lots of copies of gun magazines...to drool over those Barrett .50 calibers..
EVERY GUN MANUFACTURER THAT PRODUCES ASSAULT RIFLES CALLS THEM ASSAULT RIFLES BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT PEOPLE BUY.
Don't believe me? Go to YouTube and watch some videos by Mr. Nutnfancy. Even HE calls them assault rifles.
PS. I own a DPMS AR-15 in .308...and yes, it is an ASSAULT RIFLE....so don't throw out that NRA BS around here.
So,Mr. Mayor....how 'bout YOU answering my little question below:
Do Mexico's tough gun laws work?
Lisa k.
That and the people are scared to go to their prisons, or get the sentence handed down. The cost of their actions is to high!
The article says that in 2008, the U.S. had 12,000 gun-related murders. There were also 18000 drunk driving deaths and 275000 injured. Many of them children. Do people morn less when loved ones are killed by drunk drivers than by guns? Then why doesn't it get the same outrage from the media as what happenned in Connecticut?
Actually...they do.
MADD is an organization that is responsible for a lot of the tough drunk driving laws we have....with folks' licenses taken away, sent to jail, sent to prison, etc.
So are you ready for the same laws to apply to irresponsible gun ownership?
Yet you only need to be 21 to by booze, so the laws are made for law breakers, do we limit on how much booze we can buy? Should we only make pint bottles of hard liquor available? should we limit how much booze one can buy at one time or during the course of a year? I agree stiffer laws need to be in place for people that break the laws. But one does not need to be punished before the law is broken or only when we feel that it is convenient? So as Americans we need to be careful what we ask for because they will start to think for us. so I believe that in New York I can only buy a soda of a specific size but I can still buy as much booze as possible. If I am correct I don't believe that many over weight kids or people are responsible for over weight driving accidents but I am sure there are many cases of drunks driving in New York and killing many people.
great job comparing an island nation that never had a high gun volume to the US where there are 300 million guns in circulation. They fish and rape the oceans.. They don't hunt. if they do they go out of the country. You cannot compare a land where guns hardly ever existed to the US where there are 300 million guns and a country in Mexico who will send many more through cartels to the US even if you made guns 100% illegal. go look at Germany where they have super strict gun laws as well and they have 3 of the top 5 mass shootings in the world. Why not FOCUS on Mental health and get the people who cannot control there emotions and teach them how to control there emotions.. And NOT by doping them up with tranquilizers so they become zombies then don't take there medication and "Snap" and go kill someone or themselves. We have got to get mental health under control. The illgal gun laws in Chicago produce 7-20 people shot every night. With a mayor in Rahm Emanuel who was Obama's chief of staff wanting to close more than half the cities mental health facilities.. How stupid are our leader.. They too go to the tangible object which is guns.. because they can change that easily compared to restructuring the mental health system and figuring out more proven diagnostic methods. basically no one goes to get an mri when they have a mental health issue.. yet if you have a pain in your side and it might be a kidney stone they send you for a cat scan.. Well what is the difference.. a pain in your side or a depression or mental illness that is effecting your entire way of life? Why is this sooo difficult for people to understand? why is it soo difficult to put 90% of the focus on mental health and 10% on gun control? they do the opposite today.. The core root of the problem isn't gun control it is mental health. These guns were stolen.. same with the oaklahoma shootings.. they stole them from one of the guys grandpa who had them locked in an electronic safe where they cut the wires and stole the guns. You think all the thugs on the south and west sides of chicago got there hand guns legally which produce anywhere from 7-20 people shot every single night. We have to start today with implimenting a mental health program for children and parents at age 3.. Help the bums on the stereet by giving them work.. whether it be on farms or something in the city. Not just feed them and give them shelter at night and then let them roam the city begging for money to support there alcohol or drug habit. We need to show them they can come back and contribute to society. Like they did in the 60's and 70's where they had over an 85% rehab rate on a farm outside chicago. Then they cut the funding and it disappeared. leaving them hopeless once again. When you take people and show them they can contribute and help and life is not over for them You make a difference.. They change. We need to stop ignoring mental health in this country. It is destroying what so many have worked for.. Which is peace and happiness for ALL.
Widow.... Well said you seem like you a a very smart person who looks at the facts and the big picture, it is nice to hear a voice of reason. Unfortunately this country is full of Lemmings, followers and not leaders, mimics and not thinkers. And way to many of us many to point the finger at something other than the real truth.
Hey, Mayor!
I see you still haven't answered my question, below.
Or is it because you are just another ignorant NRA mouthpiece. (And yes, my .308 DPMS AR-15 is an ASSAULT RIFLE, so cut the semantic bull___.)
Mr. Toad, I am not a NRA member never have been never will be, so maybe you are the ignorant one who just makes blind accusations or assumptions without knowing the facts, a Lemming.
http://civilliberty.about.com/od/guncontrol/a/Assault-Weapons.htm
Most nations do not use the term “assault weapon” to classify civilian weaponry. In the United States, the term was rarely used before gun control political efforts emerged in the 1980s. In 1989, California became the first U.S. state to identify and outlaw assault weapons.
Also in 1989, the U.S. prohibited several types of semi-automatic rifles from being imported. Those rifles were among the weapons that would eventually be banned by the AWB in 1994. Many of them were a version of the Russian military’s AK-47. Several thousand of those semi-automatic rifles, which were manufactured in China, had been purchased by American gun owners.
The term “assault weapon” was a spin-off of the U.S. military’s definition of assault rifles. The U.S. Department of Defense has long defined assault rifles as fully automatic rifles used for military purposes.
Fully-automatic weapons have been prohibited in the U.S. since the National Firearms Act of 1934. Fully-automatic firearms can spray fire with a single pull of the trigger, while semi-automatic guns fire one shot with each pull of the trigger.
Seems to me they fail to mention in this article the vast difference in population size, nor do they mention the numbers of other crimes committed where other lethal force was used. Pretty one sided article.
They have like 100 million people we have like 300 million. By your logic, we should only have 33 gun murders a year in the US.
Why is it that anyone owning a firearm is referred to as a "gun nut" by a group of individuals who wouldn't know the difference between a revolver and a semi-automatic pistol?
Do you critics honestly believe that imposing even tougher gun restrictions will deture criminals from obtaining firearms or mentally ill people from killing others?
If you critics want a discussion about handgun violence in America you can start by stop with the name-calling.
I got my calculator out and did the math. 11 is less than 12,000
How did these assult weapons ever become legal in the first place? Then, our young kids are playing these vidio games all about killing and shooting instead of going to Sunday school and confirmation. They have taken God out of our schools, government and the public eye. What does this country expect? Years ago they took the Roadrunner cartoon off the air because it was too violent yet today killing, beatings and rape are on our everyday TV shows.
Our counrty seems to care more about a gay person getting rights than our own children and security.
These shooting are going to continue in the counrty because that's the way we've made it. No morals left.
kacklelackle
Take a look at the murder rates around the world. Many countries with stringent gun laws have high murder rates. If you fail to account for societal beliefs, effectiveness of the legal systems, and economic levels, then you make a pointless and valuless argument. The other issue, is that many low gun rate countries have never had a lot of guns to begin with, so it was easy to limit posession of them. We currently have 300 million or so floating around- millions of which are unregistered and unlocatable.
How s it my test gets through but my rationalization does not? Censored??
And of those 12,000 murders, how many were committed by law-abiding gun owners?? I would guess most were by law breakers that do not purchase guns legally. If you are going to report on a story, report the WHOLE story, not just the side of the story you want to hear! How to you intend to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, the majority of whom committed those 12,000 murders!!?? Criminals don't buy guns legally. Guns don't kill people, people kill people!
Eric V
Why are you liberals so dumb? Why do you continue to support the erosion of this country? You support the murder of unborn children, you support using "gentle tactics" when dealing with terrorists, you support 2 men getting married and raising children???
As long as you have McDonalds and Starbucks and reality TV, you are content to think that you are safe in your little world where everything is rainbows and unicorns and no one really gets hurt. You badmouth and shun everything that came before you to allow you to sleep soundly in your beds. Guns built this country, guns protect our homes, our workplaces, and deter those who would do you harm. Is it going to take another 911 to wake you up again?????
News flash - there is EVIL in this world - real people who want to hurt and maim and disfigure you and me. The police and military are not here to protect you the individual. The only one who can respond immediately to a sick, twisted psycho who is hell bent on hurting the innocent is an ARMED citizen who can react RIGHT NOW.
I have a concealed pistol permit and I carry every day to protect YOU thankless sheep. I own semi auto rifles to act as one more stop gap against the possible evils in this world. We dont have enough military to stop a full on invasion of this country. We don't have enough police to protect everyone in case of massive rioting and looting. And we certainly cannot lay down our rifles and hope that the US government will never turn oppressive. You all make me sick to my stomach when you spit on our freedoms. Enjoy that $5 latte.
Okay Eric, I will try my little question on you.....BTW, i have a CCW and own two dozen firearms, so cut the liberal crap.
Umm you don't protect me. The US military protects me as well does the Police and Fire departments. You don't do anything but provide an external worry factor that you won't go nuts or get angry enough to shoot me or get your guns stolen by someone else and used against me. I don't need your type of protection. Tell me, do you have a gun out on your desk right now so that if someone busted into your room you could turn around and shoot them? Right I'm sure everyone does...
ok so lets get rid of the 300 million+ guns we know we have- the other million+ that we dont know that are out there-stop selling any more guns in the future-not a problem-usa will live in peace and harmony
the big problem that i have is the lack of personal responsibility. its ridiculous. Someone steals someone's gun, shoots up a place and then blows his brains out. People are hurt, no one is punished. How about, if you own a gun, you are responsible for it. If someone steals your gun and uses it, your liable. Lock it into a safe. Buy a trigger lock. remove the firing pin when it isn't used. how about we use new technology to make it so that guns can only be fired if a special key is inserted into the back of a gun? it can be a microchip. it CAN BE ANYTHING! People go buy a gun for fun, shoot it at the range a bit, and then put it in the basement and forget about it. The laziness should not be tolerated! Every single gun owner buys it for protection or sport, but they are owning a tool of death. They don't give it the proper respect it deserves. Make people liable!
TonyH110
YOU are responsible – if your gun does get stolen you'd better report it to the police ASAP – if not you become an accomplis to any crime the thief commits with the gun. Even after reporting the police can charge negligence – even if not then a civil suite could empty your bank account. In this case if the mother had lived she'd be in jail now on VERY serious charges – her neglect is as haneous as the crime her son commited
Coming from a country – the UK (that completely banned guns then still had Dunblane) – I must admit that the background check is a little simple – they check you for any felons only its done in 15-20mins. So I'm all for a more intensive check on medical too – I have a CCW license – dont mind that extending as a full license to cover any weapon you wish to pocess. Dont mind either an annual check on my health and compulsory lecture attending on gun safety etc. Now how do we get the criminals and nutjobs on board. NRA members and gun owners in general are ready for some comprimise but we're drowned out by the media and anti-gun lobby whose mantra is purely 'ban guns' – small wonder we're reluctant participants
We are about 200 years too late to ban guns. It would take 200 years more just to get rid of the ones that are here now before we would see any benefit.
That is exactly how it should be! Plus there should be an expiration date at which point the whole process is repeated again. The costs of the application process should be paid by the individual who wants the gun.
Who said anything about banning guns? The question is do we need clips that hold 40 rounds, or AR-15s in the hands of anyone who wants them? I am all for a person owning a hand gun for protection, or a shotgun for hunting but what is the purpose of these other things? And this car analogy has got to stop! we realize that driving 100 mph would result in a lot more people dead so we regulate it by having speed limits. I realize that bad people are going to do bad things but with this rational we should not have any laws because people are going to break them anyway. I think there are major issues in the mental health arena that need to be dealt with as well as some issues with guns. Both need to be looked at.
jbone..... ok we have speed limits, almost all cars go faster than 25, 35, 45, 55, 65 75, or 80 in fact my car is governed to limit out at 151 mph. Do I drive at 151 no I never would I would never be that irresponsible, driving at 151 is insane I would not endanger myself or others doing so, why because I am a sane law abiding citizen who knows that if I drive at 151 mph and get caught there will be sever consequences for my actions.
Yet we have these wonderful T.V. programs like Worlds Dumbest and worlds wildest Police chases that show us every day that their are many many people who are completely irresponsible in their own actions that put the rest of us who would never intentional harm another soul for any reason what so ever, but these other fools do not have the mental capacity to think in that manor.
If you owned a fire arm would you shot your mother in the face four times while she slept? If you owned a firearm would you shout 26 other 3 to 11 times? I am hoping that that thought would not even cross your mind and why it is because you are of sound mind and body. Adam was not, Adam did not receive the proper care for his illness, someone dropped the ball with him and now we all have to pay the price. It is high time we stop turning a blind eye to this epidemic of mental illness.
Unfortunately this country is full of Lemmings, followers and not leaders, mimics and not thinkers. And way to many of us many to point the finger at something other than the real truth.
Responsible sane people do responsible sane things. How many of you text and drive?
Foresee
Citizens of Honduras and non-citizens who are legal residents of the country may own handguns, shotguns, or rifles under the types and calibers permitted by law. They told by the government what type of firearms are allowed!
As of 2012, Honduras holds the highest homicide rate in the world and San Pedro Sula holds the country's highest homicide rate with 137.5 murders per 100,000 inhabitants. Between 2005 and mid 2010, 79.38 percent of deaths were committed by firearm in the country.
The homicide rate in the USA is 5.22 per 100,000 inhabitants. Still way to high!
The thing I find funny about you pro gun people who say that its not the fault of the gun, its the person, is then what does that say about American people? Lets assume it's not the fault of the gun....then that tells me that you Americans are a more violent nation, full of agressive, psycho, cold, heartless, mentally disturbed people. Why are your gun related deaths so much higher than countries with gun control if its not the fault of the gun, or the lack of gun laws? And to those who say 'take away the gun, and you'll just get killed with a knife instead'. This is ridiculous. With any other weapon, at least I have a chance to defend myself. But when someone can stand hundreds of feet away and kill me, its hopeless.
Alesha456 So when a drunk plows into a mini van and kills an entire family I guess I it Jim Beam's fault and not the drunks who pounded a quart of wiskey and decided to go to the store to get some more. In America we blame the product and not the person is that how you think?
AL in West Palm Beach
I have a solution....the law says a WELL REGULATED... so I will not advocate banning anything HAND GUNS, but I will advocate this:
1. Full and complete background check on you (the buyer) and anyone who resides in your place. Since you might bring a friend into your home, if your friend will spend more than 15 days in your home...bring him / her in for fingerprints.
2. Full and complete psychological evaluation for you (the buyer) and anyone residing in your home, exceptiong for children under 12 years old. However, if you (the buyer) have plans to take your under 12 year old to learn to shoot, that exception doesn't apply. If anyone in the home fails said evaluation the gun permit request will be denied.
two birds one stone: 1 guns out of criminals (planning on buying it legally) 2 nut jobs who don't buy it but leave in the home can't get it.
I agree with almost all of what you said. However I will say that the 2 Am. does not stipulate the the right to keep and bear arms be "well regulated". That phrase is speaking to a "well regulated milita being necessary".
Other than that I am an owner of a shotgun for home protection and plan to get a handgun for the same purpose. I am not a "gun nut" as many dim witted people on here want to term anyone who owns a gun. I am all for the tighter regulations of those out to purchase a gun. I believe in very strict and thorough background checks that DQ the purchaser for things like a past domestic violence arrests, DUIs (cause if you can't make the right decision with alcohol and a car what makes you think you'll be better with a gun) and mental issues. I would even say that ammunition should be very heavily regulated. I believe that you should not be allowed to have more than 50-100 rounds kept in the home in a biometric safe. if you want more to train with purcchase it and use it at the gun range. If you live in a rural area where you should on your own property as training then you need to register and be vetted by the local law enforcement agency AND you need to store it is a locked biometric safe. I think you should also have a wait period for ammunition purchases as well as a wait period for all gun purchases not just handguns. Additionally, the process of having a permit to have a firearm should be repeated periodically.
Mike I could not agree more. People misinterpret things according to their advantage. That is exactly what is happening with the gun nuts,, as you said
The only way tough gun laws could ever prevent killings is if we abolished not only the 2nd Amendment but also the Fourth. Because all guns would need to be confiscated in violation of the Fourth;s protection against warrantless searches. Otheriwise only criminals would have guns.
Nonsense. A law banning ownership of firearms is all that's needed. People would be given a grace period to turn in their illegal weapons. If they don't turn it in and are caught with it, it then becomes a criminal offence, punishable by fines or imprisonment if demonstrated to be wilful. This will not completely get rid of guns, but it will make it less easy to obtain them. Certainly this Adam Lanza kid would not have been able to have just picked up assault guns from his mother's dining room table. Professional criminals would find a way around it, yes, but professional criminals mostly steal things, not go crazy and massacre a bunch of kids. The only criminals around here are NRA supporters.
F.L.May Sr
A well Regulated Militia, A well Regulated Militia, A well Regulated Militia. That says it all. How many gun owners belong to A well REGULATED Militia. Anybody can go out and buy a gun. Years ago I walked into a store and bought a shotgun and a box of shells. Paid for it and walked out. I could have loaded that gun and walked back into the store and robbed it. That should never be. Our gun rules are just useless. Gun security is so lax that it is a laugh. As a starter BAN the Sale of ammunition.
Then ban your right to freedom of speech!
chena
..the 'well-regulated militia' refered to in the 2nd Amendment refers to the common man, the Freeman, the John Q Public, who was NOT part of the standing Army.....ntil he was called up or volunteered to become part of the standing Army. Even then, they typically did not stand side by side in battle...the 'regular army' took one part of the battlefield and the 'militia' would usually be on another part of the battlefield....the militia had the right to come and go as they wished, but while they were there, they were under the command and orders of the commanding officer of the local regular Army. The militia came, and left, with their own weapons, ammo, supplies, and skills....Thus, the "well regulated militia" were freemen who possessed their own weapons, and they were considered VITAL to the future and the defense of the fledgling Republic known as the United States of America....
12000!!!! hmmmm.. Do we need Bin Laden? We are loaded with guns and drugs.
The only reason why this works is because if you don't follow their rules they cut your head off.
In 1995, a Sarin gas attack on a Tokyo subway killed 13 and injured over 1,000 (50 seriously). Bad people will always find a way to do harm. By the way, the U.S. has never experianced a major chemical weapons incident.
Had to dig back nearly 2 decades ago to find something huh? And 11 people were killed. Sorry, but stuff like this happens in the U.S. every year. Sounds like your facts are working against your argument.
Great Idea! Start with getting obama to get back the 2000+ weapons he sold to Mexican criminals...
Bocephus Moonshine
Do any of you remember what it was like to be six years old? I do. I remember losing my first tooth on my sixth birthday, and it is depressing the hell out of me right now that anyone could make a case that his right to own an assault rifle is more important than a six-year-old's right to live. It's even more depressing that someone could make the case that his right to own an assault rifle is more important than the lives of 20 first graders. Excuse me if I don't give a damn about the technical issues.
Before you make a case against gun regulation, I challenge you to look back at your life, and contemplate how different it would have been if it had ended at the age of six.
Agree with the the proponents of the second amendment – your right to bear arms should not be infringed. In its purest form however, the tenet affords you a single shot musket. Everyone wins. You get your guns, and an end to mass shootings.
Show me in the 2nd amendment where it says "muskets".
No one has elected you to represent anything!
NO, you are wrong and lie!
Gun ownership not allowed if you can't pass mental test or if mentally ill person lives in same household. This will be more effective that stricter gun laws, which did not work in Norway where WORST MASS SHOOTING IN HISTORY OCCURED. 77 DEAD.
More background checks, more mental tests.
How many mass shootings occurred when the Bill of Rights was written?
The Boston Massacre
Alex Wolf
You're comparing a drunk crowd attacking armed soldiers to kindergarten kids being gunned down in their classroom.
A massacre is a massacre it is sadder if it involves young people who have their whole life ahear of them.
And there was also Kent State
RotinomEtis
How do we reconcile the simplicity of this with countries like Switzerland, Norway and Iceland who all have ownership rates above 1 in 3 yet have gun homicide rates that are a fraction of ours. In fact, if you look at the data, almost all of the top 15 countries in per capita ownership have murder rates that are insignificant compaired to ours. It is easy to blame the tool a person uses to cause destruction. It is harder to accept that there may be a defect in our nature as a society, because that foces us to acknowledge that we are flawed.
R.L.
Let's look at if this has happened in China, shall we?
http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/14/world/asia/china-knife-attack/index.html
Think more gun regulations will work? How's that going with Mexico, where scores of people are executed, kidnapped, raped and hung from bridges for all to see. http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/bestoftv/2012/11/28/ac-mexico-drug-war-violence.cnn?iref=allsearch
Perhaps one of them would be alive today if they could defend themselves properly?
John Pendleton
In the right to bear arms debate, pro-gun Americans point to Switzerland, where almost every adult male is legally required to possess a gun. One of the few nations with a higher per capita rate of gun ownership than the United States, Switzerland has virtually no gun crime. Therefore, argue the pro-gunners, America doesn't need gun control.
I think that it would be a good idea to ban certain weapons, but that horse is already out of the barn. With the millions of guns already out in the wild, all of these articles talking about how other nations handle guns are pointless, it is too late to restrict gun ownership in the United States. The real conversation needs to be about the divisiveness in our society where we are no longer listening to one another, merely talking at each other. If the President wants to start real gun reform, then it might help that he start listening to what the Republicans want for fiscal reform and show that he is willing to listen. Otherwise, he is just flapping his gums once again.
KeLev
The ones who refer to the Second Amendment and the right to carry guns should carry weapons of 1791 edition, not AK or M, because if the Founding Fathers new about the XX th sentry arms, they would amend the Second
miamishield
This is a pointless argument no matter what the evidence shows. There will never be a gun ban in the US, not now, not ever. Even if some nut killed 100 kids, there would still be no gun ban. 2 weeks from now the recent shooting will be forgotten by the majority in this country. It's rinse and repeat on the gun argument the next time it happens. There are simply too many guns out there, too many people obsessed by them and the politicians are powerless to do anything about it even if they wanted to.
tim teboww
considering the amount of road rage i see on the streets and highways i can't imagine what would happen if everyone starts owning guns. lol!
Amend the 2nd to add that the right to bear arms is limited to the weapons available at the time of writing the ammendment. That way if you want to be prepared to fire 35 rounds you will have to haul around 35 muskets and manually load them one at a time...gives a human a fighting chance to get out of the way.
littleBearFN
I would like to see a study when the Clinton assault weapons ban was in affect Vs when it expired under GWB...
Too many American men have small penises so you will never have the kind of gun control this country needs.
OK CNN you are Officially stupid... Lets use our Brains now... Ok so they had only 11 deaths by guns BUT What is their death rate by things OTHER than Guns.
F*** your anti-gun liberal PROPAGANDA
lawdog1521
Gee, if the US was the size of Florida and a couple hundred miles offshore from it's nearest neighboring country, it may have a real chance at banning something too.
American Living in Canada
The fact that there are so many murders in the USA is a matter of concern. Yes, a lot of people are killed by guns every day. Yes, people will still be killed if there are no more guns. I see the arguments with statistics here (some true, some not, most skewed and involve a false attribution) that associate high rates of gun ownership with a high murder rates and the counter-argument that there is no correlation. You people can argue with statistics all day long. Resorting to personal insults is nothing but regression. Those of you who do...be ashamed.
More weapons don't make for a safer environment. I won't use any analogies or ask any rhetorical questions because it's been done. The high rate of murders in the USA is indicative of a social problems that are engrained in society on a much deeper level than that of arguments for or against gun legislation. It is evident that you have much bigger problems to worry about. I hear it is hard to read a textbook or shake someone's hand in a peaceful manner when you have a bible in one hand and a gun in the other.
BaddaBing
Pu$$ies own guns. NRA is nothing but a gang of w1mps.
Does it hurt when you think?
Cops, Soldiers... the pu$$ies of the world.
I think mental evaluation is a very critical step in possessing a gun. these seem to be sane rules which helps save lives from monsters like Adam Lanza.
Ask Jamaica how that is working out for them.
Why is it that people with guns are "gun nuts" and why doesn't anyone ever mention target shooting (pistol and rife) as a sport, which has been an Olympic event for over 100 years. I'm a responsible gun owner that TARGET practices weekly and enjoys it. I think laws should regulate who can own a gun but not laws that tell us which ones we can own. This country was based on FREEDOM and that freedom is slowly and methodically being taken away from us.
Note: I happen to like 20 once sodas.
tom witmann
The article forget to show that the nearly total absennce of gun murders is not due that the total murder rate per 1000 inhanitants is also about 19 times lower tan in the US, so that the NRA argument that an individual who has no gun kills othewise is not true. at least significately
VERY SIMPLE: GUN ADVOCATES ARE COMPLICES OF MURDERERS.
Tom Witmann, I hope you don't drink, smoke or take prescription medication or any in on your family as well because if you do then you to sir are a contributor to murder in your line of thinking.
brjsphila
put the guns down and fight hand to hand a good old fashion fair one. guns are for cowards who cant or do not know how to fight.........NRA a bunch of p$%^Ys
Teddy3indc
I hate the direction our country is going.
In a democracy someone will always hate the direction the majority is going.
And in life someone will always hate the direction life is going. Just don't start wanting to kill people. That's the key.
Lerxt
I'm sure that this comment will get lost in the shuffle, but how about the realization that the 2nd ammendment is obsolete in this day and age. A well regulated militia ready to defend the State shouldn't equate to every person having the right to carry a concealed weapon or military grade weaponry to defend themselves against their fellow countrymen.
Prohibition was repealled.
Slavery was abolished.
Women were given the vote.
Times have changed America – give up your guns.
Why are gun nuts so afraid of a mandatory class and a written exam, mandatory skill test at a shooting range, mandatory drug test, and mandatory mental evaluation? They claim because it infringes on their rights to own a gun which is a load of crap because they get the gun when they pass all the steps. But the reality is that they know they aren't sane enough to pass all the steps. They want it to be as easy as possible so all their wackjob friends can get a stockpile of firearms just like them.
While you all are arguing about the second amendment wording, people are being killed (children) at alarming rate in your country. From a Canadian looking in, your country has too many gun loving rednecks that should not control the politics and media. The rest of the world it watching and let me tell you it is embarrassing.
You're absolutely right...In Canada, they never have senseless violence to be ashamed of.....ahem (Vancouver riots) ahem....
Chris you're right. "J" you totally missed the mark in your response.
Chris, I agree 100%. I am getting tired of defending Americans in Canada and around the world when I travel. Americans, you used to set a good example for everyone around the world. The rest of the world is watching. Act accordingly.
Well Sir stop defending. There is no reason to defend the people of the country to anyone. Every country has its flaws and is wonders. For a pompous Canadian or any person of another nationality to chastise the law abiding citizens because of a sick person's actions is ludicrous. I have travelled very extensively around the world and most people do not judge me for being an American. And if they did they it is their problem not mine. As an example I was riding a train in France when a German woman tried to tell me about the warmongering of America. I simply laughed and replied with one word "Hitler". Her chastising went no further. In short no country is perfect nor is any society a utopia. I replied to Chris with Vancouver because he came of as casting the first stone when his own country has its own problems with mindless violence. I may have missed the mark to you but I hit what I was aiming at.
Let's review what you've said...
1) " For a pompous Canadian or any person of another nationality to chastise the law abiding citizens because of a sick person's actions is ludicrous"
and then, " As an example I was riding a train in France when a German woman tried to tell me about the warmongering of America. I simply laughed and replied with one word "Hitler"
2) You are really comparing Vancouver hockey riots with the pre-meditated, cold-blooded murder of defenceless children? I am not going to critically evaluate your mindless comparison. I will save that work for you.
Stop aiming, you just shot yourself in the foot while putting it in your mouth.
I agree with everyone. Obviously if you have an opinion on one side or the other, you are an idiot, ignorant, have a low sperm count, and need to live in another country. We all should just express your opinion, and accept that others do not agree with you. Stats are used by shepherds to control and manipulate the flock. For every stat that meets with your opinion, we can find another that meets with the opposite opinion. At the end of the day, removing the trigger (gun) is not always the answer – sometimes you need to remove the finger (criminal). Good luck with your debate, because it is not going to end any time soon.
Here's an idea...ban the bullets. Do not allow gun shops or internet re-sellers to sell any ammunition, the guns yes, the bullets no. Then set up ammo stores under highly resitricted conditions – limits on the number of rounds you can buy, national tracking system, background check etc. And yes I know that people can pack their own shells but if you can't come to an agreement on who should own guns and how many, start limiting the number of bullets they can possess. Want more bullets? Return the empty shells of the ones you bought last time.
davidlhu
Three things: 1. Strict background and mental health check 2. Put any automatic fire arms that are capable shooting continuously more than x bullets (6?) per load in the "assault fire arm" category and completely ban it from general public. 3. Arm the security force and personnel in the facilities where vulnerable dense population present such schools etc. In the reality it might be really hard, if all possible, to eliminate the possibility that the fire arms fall into the wrong hands, but with less offending firepower and proper counter-attack power, the Sandy Hook type of tragedies might have been less catastrophic.
Jorge A
I don´t understand why gun lovers keep insisting in their rights to have high power rifles and how the twist words on their own benefit. For me is simple I haven´t heard any assult or murdered been prevented by a normal citizen carrying a gun and come out as the hero, that just happen in the movies people!!!! when it really comes down to the moment I bet most of the pro gun nuts will actually sh.....their pants first before doing something. I also think it´s a ridiculous way for men specially to feel more "Macho" and more powerful, it´s like showing of you have big "cojones" and no one should mess with you....it is the more cowardless way to show frustration as these young trouble guys did, it amaze me how this skinny guy Adam was able to hold the gun and have the stamina to go in this crazy rampage...I can only say that Guns have the ability to turn cowards into brave people.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/mom-calls-9-1-1-asking-for-permission-to-shoot-intruders-before-killing-one-using-12-ga-shotgun/
there you go Jorge. Maybe if you went through life with your eyes open to the other side of issues you already have a granite opinion on you will be a more informed person.
I´m not saying you should not have a weapon to protect yourself and your love ones, it´s your right actually and good luck the young lady had 21 minutes to think about what to do while talking to the operator. On the other hand how come the cops never came during those 21 minutes?, really strange story in my opinion.
My point is why people should have high power rifles? I think a simple glock could do the work if you´re only looking for protection, as something to pounder J it took only 45 seconds for the killer to shoot more than 20 people with the high power rifle...I honestly think the outcome would have been different if he had use the other guns first but hey theres no If´s in this world.
Well on the front of certain kinds of rifles having no other purpose but to seemingly proactively kill people–we agree. HOwever i differ in that at least some high powered rifles are useful -the hunting time. the type with 10 or less bullet magazine. the 30 round war machine that the sick adam lanza used should be banned-in my opinion. i have a gun but am not gun nut. its a tool to defend my family. im not sitting here reading a gun magazine while polishing my guns watching a show about guns. I support tighter controls...much tighter, but i don't support a ban.
Great reporting, Pick a country where owing a weapon has been banned for the citizenary since fuedal times. Way to sway what message you want out there. Fair and Balanced Jounalism at its best.
When the 2nd amendment was written, a well trained militiaman could fire and reload his firearm in about 20 seconds. The AR used in Conn. can fire 45 rounds a minute. Our forefathers would have considered them weapons of mass destruction, not firearms. And WOMD are banned from personal ownership.
Well considering WMD wasn't even a term during the time of the founding fathers Im sure they would not have banned those weapons under a WMD label. Furthermore, just because the founding fathers did not have semi auto and automatic weapons during their time does not mean that semi autos should be categorically banned. The founding fathers most certainly could not have conceived of an internet much less internet discussion boards, but that doesn't mean that these forms of free speech should not be protected.
Unfortunately the criminal who is attacking you probably isn't going to have a gun that takes that long to reload.
Unless you are being attacked by an army, a simple handgun is all the protection one should need. Assault rifles are for killing dozens of people before someone can counterattack.
If we are going to speak about other countries lets talk about Switzerland. They have a low gun crime rate and most citizens own firearms. The population is educated about the tools they use. Knee jerk politics always creates flawed regulation. Our politicians are great at writing well named, poorly written laws that tap into the emotions and feel good nature of politics. To see some of this, take into consideration the No Child Left Behind Law. No one could possibly ever voted against that. Don't let our leaders exploit this terrible event to promote a personal agenda. Bans: no. Regulation and Education: yes.
I think the more appropriate statistic here would be number of gun related deaths per capita. (For instance, if one country has 10,000 citizens and 40 gun related deaths, that is a 0.4% rate. If a different country has 1000 citizens and only 20 gun related deaths, the raw numbers look better. However, when you boil it down, the smaller country has a worse gun related death rate at 2%). It is sad to see how many reporters jump on a mass hysteria band wagon and don't critically analyze their facts!
American citizens are given the right to own guns to protect themselves from the government. We may need to run our own "militia" eventually. What are you going to do if it comes to the citizens vs the govt and they all have high power weapons?
Kev, do not kill – re-elect the gov-t.
if you are buying guns based on the fact that you might need to fight back against a tyranny of a govt someday you might as well be buying snake oil.
they have more guns, tanks, helicopters, fighter jets, missiles and personnel than you do and i hate to break it to you but "a well regulated militia" has no power against a first world modern military or gov't, especially on home turf where all their equipment is stored.
the second amendment was written when there was little technology and what technology they did have was pretty much transparent, citizens actually had a fighting chance. you may think by owning some guns that you would have a chance but in reality you would have none. this isn't 1791, and never will be again.
Tell that to the Syrian rebels who are winnging against their regime's superior weapons, or any of the other regimes who have fallen recently. Tell that to the Iraqis who are keeping OUR forces at bay with their supposedly inferior weapons.
Don Dixon
It is very apparent that many people have lived some sort of charmed life and have never been the victim of crime,Good for you. You don't have a clue just how lucky you are. I'll try to make this short. 1 You cannot pass law that will extinguish evil. 2 evil follows no law. 3 the removal of defense makes us all defenseless. 4 You and all those you love could be dead and gutted by the time a 911 response is answered. 5 making gun's illegal would simply force their manufacturing underground,and doing so would only assure that the baddest of the bad would have them. 6 open your mind to the idea that there is no danger in a good citizen with a gun,only the sick and depraved are your concern. 7 the sick and depraved are exactly the reason you need a self defense weapon, your choice,gun,ball bat what ever.suit yourself.Don't count on the police to protect you every moment of every day.That would be most foolish.
Police and laws do not prevent crime. At best, they enable revenge.
JoePub
Great, Joe Biden will handling this gun fiasco. It's good to know that we have the apple dumpling gang heading things up.
Lefties, go ahead and ban the guns... take them all away, but start with the inner city gangs first. If you can take 100% of their guns from them, I'll give you mine. I dont have guns to protect myself from those gangs however. I have them because I enjoy the sport of shooting, the sport of hunting, and a family tradition of father/son time at the local range. I also enjoy securing my firearms in a combination safe when I return home. THATS RIGHT.. I lock mine up! Bad choice Conn. mother with problematic son.
Lets not focus so much on banning guns that kill, or forks that make people fat... lets fix the problem with violent humans. In the 50's you'd get your rear-end tanned by your dad for calling your teacher a name. Now days kids are killing without regret on simple video games. Hmm... there's the start to a good up bringing.
Can't stop this imaging in my head – if the teachers/principle/personnel at Sandy Hook who used their flesh body to shield the kids had a gun or any counter attack tool they would have had any hesitation to kill that evil before the rampage continued.
First of all, it's misleading to compare a tiny island nation with a nation the size of the United States. Second of all... after Pearl Harbor they shouldn't be able to have guns, bombs, or airplanes until at least 2 generations of ancestors have completely passed away. That country needed to be locked down. Can anyone disagree with that?
Ashrakay
@ Chris, There are 150 million people in J.apan compared to America's 300mil. All are contained on an island the size of California. 10% of the population lives in Tokyo. It's a fallacy to think that size has anything to do with violence.
"Pearl Harbor they shouldn't be able to have guns, bombs, or airplanes until at least 2 generations of ancestors have completely passed away. That country needed to be locked down. Can anyone disagree with that?"
This is complete uneducated absurdity. Get a passport and travel. Some people don't have guns, or bombs, not because they "can't" have them, but because they understand the wisdom of not owning them. I know that in America, people only do what they're commanded to do by law, but it doesn't mean it works like that in every country. As my father-in-law said to me before I moved here, "We pay a lot in taxes, but you can relax knowing those taxes are going to education and roads, not guns and tanks." A note here, he is extremely conservative and considered "right-wing."
Lastly, I'd trust a gun in the hands of a J.apanese person (people who have a strong middle-class income, a sense of honor, healthcare, and a good education) over an American's hands any day. Just look at the aftermath of the tsunami and compare it to the aftermath of Katrina. That's really all you need to know about the difference between J.apan and America.
I'm a US ex-patriot who has been living in Tokyo for the past 6 years. When my friends and family come to visit, they're shocked out how safe it is here. There is a level of reprogramming that they have to do to be accustomed to being in a safe environment where people don't want to hurt you or steal from you.
My father was a Marine and I grew up with guns. He promoted gun safety religiously and we practice at the shooting range weekly. When I became an adult, I got my concealed weapons permit and started my personal collection of guns. I say this because now that I live in a gun-free culture, I'd never go back. The thought of bringing my 2 daughters back to America fills me with fear and apprehension. The thought of my family and other loved ones being in a gun culture is shocking to me.
I think a fair question to ask is, who deserves a gun in America—not who has the right to own a gun? Really, who has earned that right to carry the power to kill groups of people in minutes? Is it policemen? Have they all earned that right? Clearly not. Perhaps there should be a test to see if they behave honorably with a taser for 5 years first.
When I look back at America, the country I was raised to love and think that it was the greatest country in the world, I can't help but see the childish selfish behavior of individuals. People who act like children, ARE children. Why would we be so cavalier about putting guns in the hands of children? This question confuses and saddens me.
They will have to pry it from my cold dead hands. We need the right to bear arms to keep government in check.
No doubt they will, after some 20 yo nut puts a bullet in your head.
For those of you that want stricter gun laws... Argue for what you believe in, but don't infringe on my rights. I'm willing to entertain Assault Weapons bans, High-Capacity Magazine Bans, more strict background check procedures for gun ownership, talk about the relationship between mental health issues in relation to mass shootings... I agree that something needs to be done to discourage these kind of horrific scenes. They truly are horrible, and that they happen here in the US hurts worse. What i won't agree on is that you should limit my ability to own a hand-gun for sport. I was a USMC qualified pistol expert, a USMC qualified rifle expert. I'm a good shot, i enjoy going to the range, and i take pride in my abilities. I own a rifle for fun(Would like to think ill be able to go hunting one of these days), and a handgun for self-defense and sport. Just be aware that there are people out there that enjoy gun ownership immensely. I think its one of the last things that make this country different, and make it great. 310,000,000 guns in this country, so think how crazy you would have to be to invade the U.S. Talking about 2nd Amendment, if our military were ever defeated or spread too thin, think of that HUGE FRICKEN MILITIA that we could muster with those guns. Those 310,000,000 guns, along with our brave men and women in the services, MAKES THIS COUNTRY UNBEATABLE.....
I guess, if you consider Vietnam and Afghanistan as not being beaten.
Were still a world power, quite unchanged in our daily lives when compared to them, so i definitely wouldnt count them as defeats. And as for Afghanistan? The war was against Terrorism, not the country...
@Parker, Then by your argument, America's longest war against an idea, is still not won, dispute the overwhelming superiority of weapons. And if we're talking war of ideas, what about the war on drugs? What about the war against communism? Seems like America has capitulated to both ideas. Drugs are being legalized all over America, and trade with China is commonplace.
There is no doubt that America is a world power. So are China and a dozen other countries. What the last 10 years have taught us is that America appears superior, as long as it stays out of war. Iraq was a nightmare. Afghanistan is ongoing and will result in troops exiting before stability is reached. Imagine the US going to war in Iran and N. Korea. This is old Art of War stuff which you should be familiar with. Anytime you flex your muscles, you expose your weaknesses. As I mentioned previously, my father was a marine, so I understand the blind compulsion to feelings of superiority that you have. Don't expect the rest of the world to be as blind as you though. From the outside, it's much easier to see the cracks in the empire.
I'm an American who has been fortunate to have lived all over the world and met many great people from every corner of the earth and every walk of life. After reading comments from many Americans after Friday's tragedy, in particular those who adamantly and unequivocally stand by the their right to bears arms, I can truly say I have never been more ashamed of my country than I am today.
I am a California gun owner and I used to be irritated at the gun laws over here. I used to complain about being restricted to a 10 round magazine. I find it very shameful, however, that many gun rights advocates still take an extreme stance and won't consider any type of gun control. The fact is that the children and teachers in Sandy Hook Elementary would have had a better chance if the killer did not have high capacity magazines. No matter how you look at it, it is very hard to justify the need to have military assault rifles that can kill dozens of people in seconds. You don't need 10 rounds to hunt deer. The founding fathers could never have imagined AR15's with 30 round magazines so please stop using the second ammendment excuse. The right to bear arms is an integral part of this country's heritage and this will never be taken away. We should, however, have reasonable limitations on the type of firearms people can have. We won't allow civilians to have bazookas or rocket launchers right? Why should civilians have military assault rifles? If you want to handle military weapons then join the military. Go Army!
GrandOldPatsy
This b1tc4 is a complete troll.
mlg4035
"We see that the need for a state militia was the predicate of the "right" guaranteed; in short, it was declared "necessary" in order to have a state military force to protect the security of the state. That Second Amendment clause must be read as though the word "because" was the opening word of the guarantee. Today, of course, the "state militia" serves a very different purpose. A huge national defense establishment has taken over the role of the militia of 200 years ago.
Some have exploited these ancient concerns, blurring sporting guns - rifles, shotguns and even machine pistols - with all firearms, including what are now called "Saturday night specials." There is, of course, a great difference between sporting guns and handguns. Some regulation of handguns has long been accepted as imperative; laws relating to "concealed weapons" are common. That we may be "over-regulated" in some areas of life has never held us back from more regulation of automobiles, airplanes, motorboats and "concealed weapons." - Former Chief Justice, Warren Burger
Key phrase: "A huge national defense establishment has taken over the role of the militia of 200 years ago."
So, all you militiaman-wannabes are full of hot air: Your argument is farcical!
>>•First, you have to take a class and a written exam.
Then, most of Americans will fail the test.
HailSatans
And it will include you as well, my dear friend. "most of Americans" is incorrect usage.
Sorry, I should say, "all Americas fail the exam."
showtime007
For all you second amendment crazies out there. When written, the second amendment only applied to white citizens. I bet if we went back and asked our founding fathers if slaves, immigrants and felons should be armed (they weren't considered citizens and therefore not protected), they'd sing a different tune. Guns are for morons and bullies. The only real reason anyone in america should have a gun is for home protection, and the only reason guns are needed for home protection is that its so easy for criminals to get one of their own.
It's good to know that you agree that average citizens have a need to defend themselves.
6079winstonsmith
If a "law" against guns were to be passed, would there be any exemptions to this "Law"?
Would there be members of "society" that would STILL be allowed to carry (and use) guns in order to protect themselves and others from the criminal elements that inevitably ignore such "Laws"...?
Who would these elite members of society be?
Can I be one...? Where do I enlist into this privileged – above "The Law" – section of our community?
Or should I rely on a stranger with a badge, a "legal" gun, and an order to follow?
If a law is passed, will the right to bear arms be apportioned and therefore monopolized by the power of state?
If the state should be allowed to continue the use of harmful weaponry – as a "legitimized" form of "defense" – against it's oppressive forces – within "The Law"... Why can't I?
Oh!... I see, there is a difference between mere legislation and actual law.
Yes ban firearms, 'cause we all now that prior to the invention of firearms, not a single innocent life was ever lost. Australia has banned/restricted firearms and seen an increase in violent crimes, home invasions and murder is up by 19%. Why? Because criminal are more brazzen and bold, knowing their victims are not armed. A firearm is an inanimate object, a tool. By itself it can do nothing. It requires a choice to be made by an operator to use that tool or not use it. Our efforts should be focused on people not lifeless objects. We are so quick to blame a gun, when there is a shooting. We don't blame a knife when there is a stabbibg. We don't blame the car when there is a fatal accident. We don't blame food for every person that dies of obesity. Think logically and see where the TRUE danger is.
using JR's logic we should abolish all rules concerning drugs or driving a car, etc. since we can just focus on the individual to make sure they do the right thing.
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Jr, how many guns are too many for you? We have 5% of the world'd population and 50% of the guns. This isn't about rights. This is about paranoia and the anti government loonie tunes who have bought into the lies of professional liar Wayne La Piierre and his NRA robots who have no common sense whatsoever. There are responsible gun owners who think semi automatic weapons have no place outside the military....and then there are the gun nuts.
Real Australian
Check your fugues, homicide is down by 27%from 1996 to 2010 in Australia. There has also NEVER been another mass shooting in Australia since the gun ban following the Port Arthur massacre.
But the real point is that our thoughts and prayers should be with the families of the horrible tragedy.
"Our efforts should be focused on people not lifeless objects." I couldn't agree more. So, why are you so against reasonable regulation of the "lifeless objects" that are most dangerous to people? Why in the world do so many Americans seem to value pieces of metal, and their "right" to own any piece of metal they choose, no matter how deadly, above human life?
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It is obvious that less guns means less opportunities for nut cases to carry out mass murder. I blame the NRA and the members of Congress who support the NRA and the gun lobby. They must also take the blame for what happened at Newtown. I would like to see all the gun enthusiasts assembled and then one of their kind opens fire on them all. They wouldn’t get any sympathy from me or most Americans as they would simply be getting back what they have given. To the NRA RIP.
Ban all types of semi-automatic weapons, pistols or rifles.
These types of guns are mainly used in shooting rampage.
Revolvers for self-protection and rifles and shotguns for sporting and hunting. isn't that enough
The 2nd amendment is due for review again before too long. It's been altered by previous decisions which benefited the gun Lobby, but that doesn't mean it will stand another test by the Supreme Court.
It is a fact that for a long time, the 2nd amendment meant only the militia or police and not every day citizens. It was a supreme court decision (interpretation) that opened it up to all.
But let's just have some of that rare common sense. If driving a car is a privilege, how much more should owning a gun be? Which is really more essential for survival today? For most of us by far, it's the car. A car is a privilege and a need. Is a gun ever a need? Perhaps if you have to hunt to survive, yes. And if anyone really needs to hunt to survive, they're living in a place where there's not many people and they're not likely to hurt anybody.
So we need to look hard at the second amendment, what context it was written in, who it really meant when it was first drafted, what has happened with case-law, and how it applies today. It's become something people are now hiding behind. It may not be serving our society well as it is currently interpreted.
Certainly, even if you have a right to bear arms, even under that interpretation, it's by no means a foregone conclusion as to which guns. Certainly the guns you have a right to need not be assault rifles.
If the second amendment really means all the pro-guns people think it does, okay, then let's amend the 2nd amendment. Problem solved.
More proof that GINS ARE THE PROBLEM, and along with that, the NRA.
History is full of examples of citizens being disarmed and then weeks, months or even years later a despotic government takes over and murders everyone they see as a threat to its existance. Its much rarer to find examples of armed peoples being murdered in mass by the government though it does happen when the disparity of weapons is so huge that fighint back is impossible. Take when Clinton burned down the Branch Davidian buildings. The Davidians had small arms and Clinton sent in full battle tanks and elite troops to kill everyone. They all died, including around 20 children – so by that score and using the current logic, it should be reason to disarm the government since it cannot be trusted with weapons.
Following some coverage of the recent tragedy it is clear that you have some tough choices to make going forward. To be safe in an armed society you need to out-gun all threats. In an unarmed society you don't need a gun to be safe since your "opponent" normally doesn't have one either.
Could a few brave and fearless (but unarmed) teachers take down an assailant that didn't have massive firepower or moved more children to safety? Possibly. Could armed teachers have saved more children's lives by returning fire? Possibly. We'll never know.
The world is not black or white, I hope that however you deal with this prevents something like this from happening again.
Adults are one thing, we can make choices, children can't. Our duty is to keep them safe.
My thoughts are with the families struck by this terrible act.
If guns are taken away from citizens, they will be entirely in the hands of the politicians… law abiding citizens must carry firearms to protect good people, criminals, loons and crazy should not be allowed.
The 2nd Amendment doesn't protect assault rifles.The government has the right to pass laws that require certain actions for gun ownership and reasonably regulate the availability of certain types of firearms, and has done so many times. All these people yelling about the 2nd Amendment to protect their right to own what are little more than killing machines don't know what they're talking about. The 2nd Amendment may give citizens the right to own a gun, but it does not give them the right to own ANY gun.
"Arms" means whatever "Arms" were deemed necessary for "Defense". The only timely Federal Restrictions were on Caliber to conserve Lead. If the threat increases, so do the ascribed Arms, right up to and including attack helicopters, if you can afford them. And those with the money will, while all you poor suckers live disarmed and disenfranchised, at the mercy of street gangs and cartels, cowering in your projects, locked in overnight and waiting by day in welfare lines. "The New America" will make China look Free by comparison.
You don't like the politicians you have? Vote in different ones. A whole lot easier, and less messy, than going on a shooting spree.
The way Switzerland handles it's gun laws, making "The People" be the militia and army is the exactly what the 2nd Amendment meant for. Check out Switzerland's gun laws... It's awesome!
Switzerland has many very good gun laws that are the same as what people are taught in the US. "Never keep a gun loaded" is a law in Switzerland, but in the US it is a GUIDELINE. I support that there be increased registration and education. Hell, I am even for a three-year military service/training for everyone following high-school with some free college to follow it up as a reward. It would do the nation some good.
the problem here isn't guns. It is the people.
There is an epidemic of mass murders in China. It's impossible to get a firearm of any type there. They have been using knives, swords and other more primitive weapons. Would you rather be shot or stabbed or beaten to death? I would rather be shot while shooting back trying to defend myself, my family, you or any innocent person. Guns and ammo will never go away so quit trying to disarm every lawful person. Just disarm yourself and hope you are never attacked by a criminal with a gun, knife, fork, baseball bat, car or anything else that can be used as a weapon. Anything else will be a practice in futility.
the bill of rights isn't to protect people from other people....its to protect the people from their government. To make sure that we werent trading one tyrant for another and so that in years to come it would never come to that again. You trade your rights for security and what do you get. You are a slave but they say you're safe so thats okay right? Your government doesn't have the right to restrict your rights. Restricting your right to own a firearm no matter the type is in direct violation of your other civil rights. Now I just put my perspective out there not for a fight and not to step on peoples toes. definitely not my intent . @john: your point is sound. It's not just guns that kill people. The right person can beat someone to death with their fists. Guns just make it easier. But so do other weapons. That person doesn't need a gun to do the damage.
Gun nuts..... Gotta love all you people's attemts to portray the law abiding masses as 'Nuts' just because they like to own a THING. There is nothing nuts about not letting someone like you folks strip others of their rights based on lies and fearmongering. Why don't you do something meaningful and combat the criminals that choose to use guns improperly instead of blaming things? It is the criminals doing the shootings not the rest of the citizens.
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The fact of the matter is that all of your rights will be revoked and you will be rounded up in to camps and exterminated. This was inevitable, the moment you forgot where your rights really came from.
WOW!! The politicians will win, with so many US citizens voting to be coddled with Welfare and food stamps what chance for this great country in the hands of liberal Socialists????
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Can the Second Amendment be repealed by a referendum during a national election?
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Mexico bans all civilians from owning a gun, how did that work look at all the gangs and drug dealers they have, oh yes letting the government ban guns will fix everything. how stupid can people be.
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Navy & Marine Corps Expeditionary Medals
The Marine Corps Expeditionary medal was authorized in May 1919 as a ribbon, then as a medal in July 1921.
The Navy Expeditionary medal was authorized in December 1934.
Awarded to Navy or Marine Corps personnel who have landed on foreign territory and engaged in operations against armed opposition or under circumstances which are deemed to merit special recognition and where no se4rvice or campaign medal exist.
The only clasp ever authorized to wear on the expeditionary medals was “WAKE ISLAND” for service on the island from 7-22 December 1941 against the Japanese invasion.
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Did 'big cat' eat domestic cat ?
Left, one of several photo's taken by Sara Hill of eaten domestic cat.
SYDENHAM: Panther could be to blame for 'savage' death of pet cat
3:50pm Monday 28th September 2009
By Dan Keel
A PANTHER is feared to be on the loose after a mother-of-three stumbled across a pet cat which had been "savaged" and eaten.
Sara Hill, 32, made the grim discovery on Saturday during her daily walk around Sydenham's Southend Park with her two dogs and eight-month-old son, Archie.
A cat, still wearing its collar, was lying in the middle of a footpath and had been stripped of its fur, skin and flesh. Only its head and feet remained untouched.
The horse groomer who lives in Bellingham, said: "As I walked up to it I thought it was an old jumper - but then as I got closer I suddenly realised what it was.
"It's one of the most horrific things I've seen. I am a country girl and have seen a lot of dead animals and have plucked chickens - but I wasn't prepared for this.
"The poor thing had been completely savaged. There is no way a dog did it, as it would have been ripped apart. And a fox would have taken it away."
Miss Hill sent News Shopper some photos of the body which can be seen by clicking on the link below.
We passed them to full-time big cat researcher Neil Arnold, who has been studying cat sightings in the area for more than 20 years.
He said: "It looks very much like a large cat would carry out this type of kill, especially when comparing it to other kills I've examined over the years.
"The main animal seen around Sydenham, Penge, Norwood and Bromley is a black leopard - or panther.
"I've seen a black leopard three times locally, and have evidence such as livestock kills, faeces and paw-prints. But kills of animals are the best evidence."
He added: "When a leopard kills, it kills only to eat, to survive, and will rasp away fur with a sandpaper like tongue leaving a very clean kill.
"Domestic cats are on the menu although preferred prey is pigeon, pheasant, rabbit, rats, mice, and also larger prey such as deer and sheep.
"A black leopard mainly hunts at night and a cat seen around Sydenham could also travel to Sidcup, Welling, Dartford, via Orpington, Sidcup, Crayford, Hayes - all areas where a black leopard has been seen."
Mr Arnold also said black leopards are no threat to humans unless cornered, provoked or injured.
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Is this a photo of the 'Palace' puma/panther ? (OF COURSE NOT!!)
Recently there has been more ludicrous coverage of the 'Palace puma', and things have taken a turn for the worse with this photo, taken by Leia Mazur, allegedly showing a 'big black cat'. Of course, the photo shows a domestic cat and nothing more. It's rather sad that the story made the local Streatham Guardian newspaper, read HERE for the full pointless story.
The 'Palace puma'...
Neil clears up the facts and fiction of the latest London 'big cat' sighting, at his latest episode of the SATURDAY STRANGENESS
Neil Arnold in the KENTISH TIMES
Neil discusses his full-time research into 'big cat' sightings and their evidence, with the KENTISH TIMES.
Humpback whale stranded on banks of River Thames
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Now they're saying Crystal Palace 'big cat' is just a dog!!
From the Croydon Guardian. Where do they get these people from !?
Red panda escapes enclosure at London zoo.
From the BBC
More London 'mermaids'...
Neil's latest SATURDAY STRANGENESS
Fortean Times comic strip
The latest issue of Fortean Times magazine features an excellent comic-strip by resident artist Hunt Emerson, in reference to the colourful characters who attended this years 'Weird Weekend' at Devon. Neil Arnold can be seen tight of centre next to Goth ringmaster Richard Freeman!
Now, it's the 'beast of Bromley'!!
With recent sightings of the so-called 'Palace Puma' on the rise, two teenagers have come forward to report on their recent encounter, but in the Bromley area. The story courtesy of the Newsshopper.
Is this the beast of Crystal Palace ?
Of course not, but it's a nice, comical edge to the mystery, courtesy of the Transmitter blog HERE
Beast of Ongar on prowl again ?
Story from the Epping Forest Guardian
Ruislip beast keeps witnesses on alert...
More from the June 2009 panic concerning a possible coyote sighting. HERE
More west-London weirdness...
What mysterious creature is roaming Ruislip ? Find out HERE
What lurks in Uxbridge ?
Sightings of coyote's, wolf-like creatures and dingo's ? Whatever next ? The Uxbridge Gazette goes on the trail HERE
Strange Bird-Like Creature Seen in Piccadilly.
Strange but true ? Another weird tale from The London Chronicle.
Circus noted photographer Lance McDurmont, who has been working on a photographic tour of London, when he was struck down violently by an animal of unknown origin. Just before passing out he was able to capture a photo of the creature, however damage to the camera has caused it to come out blurred and barely visible. While there have not been any official copies of the photograph released to the public, it is said to be of a "avian nature with hawk-like claws". Mr. McDurmont is currently hospitalized, but is in stable condition. Doctors believe he will be able to make a full recovery within a week.
Beast of the Depths Strikes Again.
From The London Chronicle this bizarre tale:
Beast of the Depths Strikes Again
Another sewer worker has disappeared leading to more reports of a deadly creature in the sewers of London. Paddy Patterson, an employee of Thames Water, was working on a pipe repair when he failed to report back in after his shift. A search party is underway. He is the third person to vanish after venturing into the sewers of London.
For some months now there has been rumours spreading over the 'Beast of the Depths' and it's possible involvement in the disappearances. No one has ever confirmed the existence of the creature however theories and sketches can be found all over the internet. Many of the pictures show the creature as having a long extended snake-like body, a huge gaping maw and long fangs.
Thames Water have denied the presence of any living creature in the sewers. A spokesman for the company stated 'We have carried out extensive surveys of the sewer tunnels in the vicinity of the reported incidents but have found no evidence that the so called Beast of the Depths exists.' However, no explanation has yet been provided for the disappearances. Until the mystery is resolved, the Beast of the Depths lives on.
The Croydon Guardian leap onto the beastly bandwagon!
More on the 'Palace Puma' HERE
The Newsshopper get their knickers in a twist over the 'Palace Puma'.
Despite sightings of large, exotic cats being reported to local press for many years, it's a tragedy that the facts are often waylaid in the need for sensationalism - even more bizarre when you consider that the facts are far stranger than the fiction created! Scott Mullins, reporter with the Newsshopper went on the track of the Palace puma, even though the animal in question isn't a puma, and it had nothing to do with Crystal Palace! The confusion can be read HERE
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Frankie breaks club and SAL league record
Southern Athletics League - Match 1 - Bedford, 13th April 2019
Frankie Johnson's jump of 5.15m was not just a club record and SAL League record but also the European u20 qualifying standard!
Photo courtesy of Brian Graves
The day saw plenty of A and B string wins, in addition to a number of returns and promising results.
We dominated the 800m and 1500m, finishing first and second in both. Jamie Webster and Aiden Killeen taking the A string wins, closely followed by Joe Strange and Ed Blythman (in a new PB of 4:20).
Richard Martin won the Hammer with a throw of 55.44m
Jamie Webster Albert Mikajo, Tom Powell and Joe Strange won the 4x400m by a considerable margin (03:42.93).
The high jump saw Scott Johnson take the A string win with 1.85m, Dan Steel (the ironman of the match, competing in 7 events) took the B string with 1.60m. Dan also won the B string long and triple Jump.
Other B string winners were: Javier Ferrer Ferrando in the pole vault (3.90m), Pete Benedickter in 400mh (62:80 sec), Tom Powell in the 110mh, Richard Martin in the discus (28. 25m) and Joe Strange in the 400m (53:49 sec)
Note we were the only team not to get full officials points - and we were the home team. If you or anyone you know is able to provide some officiating assistance in future matches it will be greatly appreciated, and does make a difference to the overall match score.
Overall we’ve had a good start to the season, which we can definitely build on!
Attention now turns to our opening BAL fixture on the 12th of May, at Bedford. Please let Craig or Graeme of your availability as soon as possible.
Full results for SAL - Bedford - 13 April 2019
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4 Stars.Four former friends converge on the town they grew up in New Canaan, Ohio Bound together for better or worse, each have their own reasons for returning and each person s story intertwines in a way that is dark, evocative and simply jaw dropping This town is desolate, depressed and ravaged by war They have nothing to give, except for their opinions and those are in abundance Alcohol and drugs run rampant with addiction on the rise People drive cars that are 20 years old, dealerships and factories are shut down and the only place to shop is Walmart It s Rock and Roll, it s anarchy, it s life Back in High School, there was nothing to do besides taking lots of drugs, talking sh t, getting laid and getting into trouble These former friends did their fair share Bill Ashcraft is high when he rolls into to The Cane, and I don t mean high on life He is a man on a mission and he is counting down the seconds Stacey Moore arrives in town hoping to find an old friend She gets than she bargained for Dan Eaton s short life haunts him If only forgetting his past was an option.Tina Ross comes to New Canaan with something on her mind Her High School experience was unlike the others When these four collide, there are fireworks.For most of us, High School still feels like yesterday The friendships, the rivalries, the memories This is true for Bill, Stacey, Dan and Tina, as well as for a few ot...
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Ohio by Stephen Markley is a 2018 Simon Schuster publication New Canaan, OhioThe Rust Belt By now the plight of those living in a what is commonly known as The Rust Belt , is etched into our consciousness A marginalized area simmering in hostility, hammered by a stubborn economic depression, and an unprecedented epidemic opiate crisis.This atmosphere is in the forefront than in the background as Stephen Markley captures the mentality of those born and raised in this environment Four high school friends, all of whom took a different path in life, all of them haunted by actions, decisions, and memories of the past, compounded by their current day realities, return home at the same time, with shocking results The novel begins in 2007 with the funeral of former football star Rick Brinklan, killed in Iraq This surreal parade sets the stage quite effectively as the author leads the reader quickly to 9 11 the event that cements a before and after time frame for our main characters.Separated into four segments, giving each character the power of the first person narrative to describe their youthful experiences, the angst of needing to belong, the compulsion to express individuality, or their forced conformity All four voices are connected by their upbringing, their history, and their knowledge of certain crimes, their mistakes and regrets Their shared memories, especially centered around rumors of and evidence of certain events tha...
Liz Liz says:
I picked this up because someone compared it to The Big Chill, one of my favorite movies of all time The book starts with a prelude, a stream of consciousness narrative during a parade in memory of Rick, who was killed Iraq The book then jumps 6 years to 2013 Then it divides into four parts, each told from the perspective of a different character returning home for their own reasons But each was a school mate of the others and have a history from those days The writing here is gorgeous I realized I was highlighting phrases almost every other page We begin with history s dogs howling, suffering in every last nerve and muscle I don t think I ve ever seen someone able to turn a phrase like Markley Which isn t to say this is an easy read When you re into Bill s brain, it can seem down right twisted And when Dan remembers his time in the army, it hit me like a fist to the gut And Tina s section will just make you cry This book delves into the issues of the rust belt Drugs abound The recession is still in existence here, years after the rest of the country has recovered Hope seems to be a forgotten concept New Canaan looked like the microcosm poster child of middle American angst This isn t an easy read by any stretch of the imagination At times, it s so dark, so brutal, I had to put it down It also needed a better editing job, as it...
Julie Ehlers Julie Ehlers says:
Where to begin At the beginning, I guess Ohio is a sprawling novel that s divided into four sections, each told from the point of view of one of four high school classmates all reappearing in their hometown of New Canaan, Ohio, on a night ten years after their graduation The first section, centering on an addict and left wing activist named Bill Ashcraft, is one of the most overwritten things I ve ever read I ll include some choice passages at the end of my review The vast array of adjectives, metaphors, and similes not only made this section a slog, they eventually made me downright hostile toward the book My patience wore thin and my eye rolling muscles became fatigued Fortunately, this section did finally end, and when the next sections were somewhat less overwritten, I came to understand that all of the weird imagery was I guess meant to be the product of Bill s drugged mind This was a relief.The second and third sections of the book, one from the point of view of a grad student who d recently come out as gay and the other from the point of view of a veteran of three tours of Iraq and Afghanistan, were moderately less infuriating than the first, but all three sections did share one flaw an overkill amount of reminiscing about high school I did appreciat...
Cheri Cheri says:
NOW AVAILABLE 4.5 Stars Everybody knows that the dice are loadedEverybody rolls with their fingers crossedEverybody knows the war is overEverybody knows the good guys lostEverybody knows the fight was fixedThe poor stay poor, the rich get richThat s how it goesEverybody knows Everybody knows that the boat is leakingEverybody knows that the captain liedEverybody got this broken feelingLike their father or their dog just diedEverybody talking to their pocketsEverybody wants a box of chocolatesAnd a long stem roseEverybody knows Everybody Knows, Leonard Cohen, Songwriters Leonard Cohen Sharon RobinsonUnrelenting pain, broken people, a country torn apart by recession and an act of violence against America, people everywhere hurting, the opiod crisis, wars, and the damage they invoke on those fighting in them, who carry that damage with them after they ve returned home to this small town in northeastern Ohio they refer to as The Cane There are four who return there the summer of 2013, each having lived all of their years with this country in a state of war, with recession destroying what was once the town they lived and loved in They have memories of those years, and they are not always particularly ...
Jenny Jenny says:
Everything in life depends on the decisions that you make, some important than others Sometimes the most innocuous decision has the greatest ramifications and effect on our lives.Ohio by Stephen Markley is a fictional account of a town that prosperity has forgotten New Canaan, Ohio is a town where the effects of war, drugs, suicide, unemployment and a host of other epidemic problems have left it without hope.New Canaan represents what has befallen Ohio and so many Midwestern rust belt towns Tragedy one is followed by tragedy two which is followed by tragedy three and so on.Prosperity did not stop in, it just passed by Compounding the external woes are the woes inflicted by friends, family, classmates and neighbors.Markley s book focuses on the stories of four high school friends ten years after graduation This dark and sad tale of four separate lives is the story of how life is really a game of inches The feeling that I got from all four stories is that while each story is unique and different, in life we face the consequences from one bad decision, one what if , one regret, one time we didn t listen to our conscience, the one time I should have said ...
Mackey Mackey says:
Stephen Markley s first fiction book, OHIO, is definitely not for the faint of heart Having written previous non fiction books, Markley undertakes an ambitious project writing about a rural, Northeaster, Ohio town suffering from the Great Recession, the opioid crisis and the after effects of 9 11.OHIO centers around the story of four high school friends who are reunited a decade after their graduation It also circles around the story of one of those friends who was killed in Iraq In fact, the entire beginning of the book is one long running commentary on the funeral parade for this man which occurs months after his actual burial, and which features an empty casket on loan from Wal Mart There were many part of this exegesis that reminded me of Garrison Keillor and his Tales of Lake Wobegon The writing flows with excess and verbiage that is both descriptive and, well, over the top To a certain extent, though not as talented, it also reminds of William Faulkner who could describe a scene to death.After this opening finally ends, Markley presents us with characters that are quite nearly a stereotype for small, Midwestern, rural towns I should know, I live in one and I ve known many from the area from which Markley is drawing his inspiration In fact, Markley was reared in such a small town very much like the one he is describing but he has been living in L.A for many years.OHIO is an examination of the fervor that occurred in many small towns after the attacks on the World Trad...
After chatting with a friend in great detail, I ve decided to cut my losses and DNF this one I totally respect what the author is trying to do here, but this one just isn t for me, and if I had pushed through, I w...
Tucker Tucker says:
Ohio is fiction that probes issues that have received a lot of news attention the past two years marginalization, loss of hope, disillusionment, economic decline, and drug addiction in middle America The personal fallout is seen through the eyes of four main characters in their twenties, with flashbacks to their high school years, who unexpectedly reunite one fateful night in New Canaan, Ohio By examining these issues through fiction, where individual experiences and emotions are at the forefront, it allows readers to gain a greater understanding of the reality of their impact on people s lives, hopes, and dreams These are hard times and there are no easy answers or simple solutions Markley has written literary fiction at it s finest, and it s also important fiction It shines a thought provoking spotlight on what life in currently like for many people in America, particularly in the Heartland Intensely realistic, epic in scope, and exceptionally written, this is a c...
Donna Donna says:
Riding backTo where the highway metDead end tracksThe ground is now cement and glassAnd far awayHeal her soul, carry her, my angel, OhioGreen green youthWhat about the sweetness we knewWhat about what s good what s trueFrom those daysCan t count toAll the lovers I ve burned throughSo why do I still burn for youI can t saySorry thatI could never love you backI could never care enough in these last daysHeal her soul, carry her, my angel, Ohio Carry Me Ohio Lyrics by Mark Kozelek I m not sure I can give this book the review it deserves Ostensibly, it is a novel about turmoil, the inner feelings and the outer experiences, that transpired in the years since 9 11, specifically for a group of small town high school friends who came of age during this time However, as I read it, I felt a pull back to my own youth and the observations and feelings we experienced during the Viet Nam war There are many differences, to be sure, but the same conflicted emotions and beliefs, the same struggles to make sense of it all in the midst of the exuberance and wild excesses of youth none of that has changed.This novel weaves in and out, backward and forward, among students in New Canaan, Ohio They are the jocks, both football heroes and the hero worshipping volleyball playing girlfriends or cheerleaders They are ...
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Joyride On The Net
The Paes Setter
Published by aniruddha_bahal at July 17, 1996
THE book’s about two computer commandos pitted against each other in real life. The lone keyboard freak solidly in the dark forces camp is Kevin Mitnick, arrested six times for computer-related crimes since the early ’80s in the US, and the hero tracking him down in cyberspace is computer security expert Tsutomu Shimomura whose computer database, at his home in San Diego, Mitnick ransacked on Christmas day in 1994.
Using an IP spoofing technique—where the intruder impersonates another computer by manipulating the handshake sequence numbers—Mitnick copied and stashed awayon another site at the Web a series of security software tools developed by Shimomura that could aid computer hackers in assaulting other networks. Of course, it took Shimomura some time to reconstruct how Mitnick carried through the assault, what exactly he was after and the damage he did. Incidentally, it was much later in the investigation that suspicion focused on Mitnick, especially after he got overconfident and started leaving clues while indulging in his Internet joyrides. An example: doing a search for ‘itni’ in New York Times technology correspondent John Markoff’s, e-mail.
Markoff had earlier written a book Cyber-punk, the first third of which was on Mitn-ick, and part of the cyber outlaw’s psyche loved the attention and mystique his growing notoriety was bringing. Earlier on, after seeing the movie Three Days of the Condor, Mitnick had adapted Condor as his nom de guerre. In the film Robert Redford plays the role of a hunted CIA researcher who uses his experience as an army signal corpsman to subvert the system and avoid capture.
Much of Mitnick’s computer conman status hinges on his ability to manipulate cellular phone networks with the help of a computer and modem. Computer aficiona-dos can eavesdrop, add calls to someone’s bills, make someone’s line appear permanently busy and alter or destroy data amongst other things. But Mitnick’s wizardry lay on a higher plane. He could mask his location electronically by tampering with the telephone company switching equipment so that tracing attempts would give false information. In ’88 when FBI officials were tracking Mitnick in California their attempts lead them badly astray. One number supposedly belonging to Mitnick ended in a police raid on an apartment where an immigrant cook was watching TV in his undergarments.
But aside from the obvious kick that Mitnick got from sending the FBI around in circles his skills gave him immense capacity for mischief. For instance, the time of his attack on Shimomura’s computers, Mitnick also raided Netcom, a nationwide Internet service provider, and the booty he got was a long list of 20,000 credit card numbers and also social security numbers. Though the passwords were encrypted, people who hadn’t thought well over their passwords were vulnerable.
The book moves on to the actual pursuit of Mitnick through cyberspace by a team headed by Shimomura with his student Andrew Gross and with the FBI providing legal and administrative backup. Something which isn’t easy in coming because of the FBI’s obsession with classifications and theory rather than direct action. And which leads Shimomura at one meeting to exclaim: “We are searching for a carbon based life form.”
But notwithstanding these hiccups the team finally traces Mitnick to a suburb of Raleigh, a town in North Carolina. The final pages are not without melodramatic moments. Mitnick, for instance, turning to Shimomura in court and saying: “Tsutomu, I respect your skills.”
While the dangers of such computer attacks is causing network users to put up strong electronic barriers, thus destroying the community spirit that has been the hallmark of the Net, Shimomura has certainly given us the first real life cyber thriller that apart from the joy of a good read brings to us first hand the issues that will shape the Web.
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5Oct/18
Disassembly Guide: CZ-75 Pre-B
This guide has been a long time coming, but rather than lament all the delays let's get to it!
The venerable CZ-75 has been a staple of combat pistols on the international and US markets for decades. A great many will call it one of, if not the finest semi-automatic pistol ever built and while we could spend all day arguing over that it's certainly earned a place alongside the greats. The proud history of Czech small arms design is long and storied, full of innovation and thumbing noses at the Soviet leadership during the reign of the USSR. It turns out the Czechs are strong, independent arms designers who don't need no Russians telling them how to make excellent guns. Who needs a Tokarev when you have roller locked breech CZ-52s that handle the hottest submachinegun loads? Maybe a hint toward the next guide...?
In the Cold War boom years designers across the globe raced to develop their own takes on modern combat pistols. The success of the Browning Hi Power rippled far and wide, and at the dawn of the 70's the first inklings of what would become one of the most vaunted of combat pistols started to form.
Glorious Czechnology!
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4Aug/17
Disassembly Guide: Polish P-64
Prior to the influx of inexpensive P-64 pistols onto the market, seeing one in the wild would usually end up with it being mistaken for a Makarov. Even today, local auction listings misidentify the diminutive Polish handgun with its more famous contemporaries to the ire of P-64 fans everywhere. Originally designed to replace the Tokarev as a service handgun and tested in two variants - the Military and Police versions, which differed in size and capacity - the P-64 would usurp the TT-33 in Poland and serve for decades as a standard sidearm. In recent years, the little P-64 has gained more of a reputation thanks to its dirt cheap price point, ungodly double action trigger pull and harsh recoil for a 9x18 Makarov chambered pistol. Despite its shortcomings the P-64 enjoys a bit of a cult following, clearly by people who have never had to disassemble one.
Thankfully swapping out a hammer spring to lighten the trigger isn't a huge job, but if you want to dig deeper or do a full strip for refinishing you better settle in for a long, frustrating evening.
The P-64 is an all-steel handful of pistol.
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Disassembly Guide: Glocks
I was going to make this a joke guide for April Fools originally, since let's be honest... who doesn't know how to take apart a Glock? Whether you think they're "Perfection™", a durable utilitarian tool that gets the job done, or an ugly brick of a plastic wonder-nine that will never live up to the hype, the Glock pistol is everywhere. What the Glock lacks in aesthetic appeal it makes up in simplicity, low part count, and ease of tuning. After all, there aren't many pistols out there that you can do a $10 trigger job on quite like the Glock. Instead of just making the shortest disassembly guide in history, let's discuss the history of the Glock and some tuning tips to spice things up!
This early 2000s blue label police sale Glock 21 is a throwback to the AWB years.
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Disassembly Guide: Springfield Armory XD-S
When the Springfield XDS hit the market a few years ago, it made a big splash for being a tiny gun with a lot of punch. Who was crazy enough to make a five-shot single stack micro-compact in .45ACP? The runaway success of the XDS, despite its teething pains with a prominent recall, led Springfield to branch out into the highly anticipated 9x19 and .40S&W cartridges, new SKUs, and new barrel lengths. Shrinking down the XD/M designs into a palm sized package no doubt took plenty of engineering effort, but the heart of the design remains reminiscent of its bigger brothers.
XDS .45 Two Tone
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Detail Strip Guide: Lionheart LH9/Daewoo DP-51 & Variants
A while back I wrote a very basic text only guide for detail stripping the Lionheart LH9, a variant of the Daewoo DP-51 and its family of unique "triple action" pistols, but I never had the opportunity to make a proper guide with photos to match. Today the LH9 gets a real guide as part of my ongoing series of detail strip posts to get caught back up!
The LH9 series of pistols is a premium version of the cult classic DP-51, which is itself a commercial variant of the South Korean service pistol, the K5. Originally designed in the early to mid 80's as part of Korea's push for a domestically produced service pistol, the K5 was trialed to death over several years before final adoption in 1989/1990. The history of Korean small arms and Daewoo/S&T Motiv is fascinating to read up on, I highly recommend the relevant chapters of Black Rifle which highlight US involvement in Korean small arms production during and after the Vietnam War.
On the homefront, the DP-51 was the victim of nebulous commercialization in the US, with numerous importers picking up batches of pistols including compact models and the relatively new .40S&W chambering christened the DH-40. Between the model confusion, attempts to re-brand the pistols, and the sheer number of importers trying to pitch the gun as a new wonder-nine during the rise of the Clinton ban era, it's amazing that the DP-51 remains a cult hit and saw reintroduction in the US at all. In 2011, the upstart Lionheart Industries turned the DP-51 into a premium hammer fired, alloy frame pistol with numerous features the US market demands in modern pistols. The LH9 series maintains almost complete parts compatibility with the DP-51, and Lionheart provides a retail channel for parts to maintain both their LH9 and the original guns.
A plain black LH9N - "N" for Novaks sights.
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Detail Strip Guide: S&W M&P22 Full Size
The popularity of .22 as a training tool exploded a few years back just before the great ammo drought, ushering in a golden age of rimfire lookalikes mimicking popular defense handguns. It seemed like the next logical step up from expensive conversion kits that nearly cost as much as a standalone rimfire pistol by themselves and were often difficult to find in stock. For a while every .22 lookalike pistol that hit the market seemed plagued with issues, the Walther P22 and Sig Mosquito were at one time famously problematic as they fought through their growing pains. It took Smith & Wesson a few years to catch up, but they appear to have spent their time wisely and learned from the failings of other guns to make the M&P22 a reliable little package.
I recently had the opportunity to compare the newer Compact model alongside the full size example that I'll be ripping apart in this guide, so I've included a few notes along the way to highlight design changes on the newer pistol.
This guide also covers removing the magazine disconnector "safety" which can be omitted with no negative effects on the gun's function and no parts or spacers are needed.
It looks and feels like the M&P, but it doesn't work like one on the inside!
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2Feb/16
Detail Strip Guide: HK300 (PREVIEW!)
This is a preview draft of a guide I wrote a couple of months ago but decided needed more detail. With the new camera in hand and a video format in the works for video guides as well, I'll be working on a LOT more guides in the coming months!
Once upon a time, Heckler & Koch tried their hand at making more traditional wood and steel "sporting" arms. For a brief period in the 70's and 80's, they brought out a series of premium priced firearms that sold decently, but ultimately not well enough to continue the trend. It's strange to think of the company responsible for the USP, MP5 and so many "tactical" firearms once had a catalog that had more in common with the Sears sporting goods section than a SWAT team armory, but the sporting phase was one of a few attempts the company made to find their niche when military contracts began to drop off. If it weren't for that pesky money problem, the 70's and 80's may very well have been a golden age of H&K; two decades of crazy risk taking, innovation in design and new materials finally wound down into a brief dance with disaster before the USP helped save the company.
Born from this tarnished golden age was the HK300, one of the few semi-automatic, detachable magazine fed .22 magnum rifles you can get your hands on. It's difficult to find information on just how many of these rifles were made, but the numbers I've found point to less than 30,000 with an unknown number of those imported into the US.
To my knowledge, this is the ONLY detail strip guide for the HK300 rifle on the internet. I hope it helps someone!
It's not a pristine example, but good luck finding one under $1000!
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Detail Strip Guide: CZ Scorpion Evo
When CZ brought out the Scorpion Evo as a pistol it immediately gained popularity as a less expensive, reliable pistol caliber carbine alternative with affordable magazines. Using an adapter and the right AR-15 style buffer tube and a Sig arm brace makes the gun a handy 9mm package with lots of modern features, ambidextrous controls and frankly it just plain looks cool. Even better, it's extremely easy to work on and the fire control is designed conventionally, making it simple to tune up for anyone so inclined.
Angled foregrips are A-OK on handguns!
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Detail Strip Guide: S&W Bodyguard .38 Revolver
A few years back, Smith and Wesson brought out a new pocket pistol line that challenged all sorts of conventions including how much MIM and plastic can fit into a revolver, whether or not users really do want lasers on everything, and sensible ways to name models of firearm. The Bodyguard .38, not to be confused with the nearly identically named Bodyguard 380, is the Crimson Trace equipped revolver using a plastic grip frame vaguely reminiscent of the Ruger LCP.
A customer brought one in recently asking about tuning the trigger up, a common job on J-frame S&W guns made simple by available spring kits from Wolff and Apex Tactical Specialties. Unfortunately because the gun isn't anything like the venerable J-frame, kits made for classic snubbies don't work here. It's a clever design in a lot of ways, but largely incompatible with drop in mods for other S&W guns.
On top of that, no parts diagrams or guides seem to exist for the BG38. Smith and Wesson maintains that there are "no user serviceable parts" and the gun should not be taken apart. CHALLENGE ACCEPTED. Let's get to it!
Lasers, definitely more dangerous than bullets judging by the warnings.
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Detail Strip Guide: Grand Power K100 Series
Update 09/04/2015: David Copping, the area manager for North America at Grand Power SRO reached out to give me a couple of small tips straight from the source. They've been integrated into the post below, specifically regarding the safety lever removal and the magazine release, which I didn't actually mess with originally. Thanks, David!
I recently got a K100 in for a friend of mine who was nice enough to let me rip it apart and review it. There's barely any info online about these really interesting Slovakian pistols, and nary a parts diagram to be found aside from one miserably low resolution drawing from Marstar Canada. Today's project is detail stripping the K100 Mk7.
Parts diagram!
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MT at Play › Music & Theater › A Family Play
Clara Clemens and Margaret (Daisy) Warner in The Prince and the Pauper
[photograph, March 1886]
Olivia Clemens wrote a script based on her husband's book and coached her two oldest daughters and some of their friends for a surprise performance in March 1885. The costuming was reprised for photographs taken a year later.
Clemens was delighted, calling it "one of the prettiest private theatrical performances I have ever seen." The play became a family favorite, and in later productions Clemens himself played Miles Hendon.
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5A State Title Contender Wilsonville; Connor & Jonny Neville
by Jordan Johnson on Oct 19, 2015 • 12:29 am No Comments
Connor Neville, QB – Click to view HUDL Film
Jonny Neville, WR Wilsonville – Click to view HUDL Film
One of the top brother tandems in the country is Connor (6-2 195 Jr.) and Jonny Neville (6-4 200 Jr.) of Wilsonville. Most are familiar with the pair as Connor holds offers from Boise St and Washington St, ranking as one of the top QB’s in the country for the 2017 class. Thus far he has thrown for 22 TD’s and 1 INT (hail marry) in five games, for a Wildcats team that is 7-0 and ranked the #2 team in the State. He sat out weeks 5 and 6 with an injury.
That said as his brother Jonny has the potential of being the state’s top receiver. The rangy junior is pushing 6-5 and requires a consistent double team if you want to contain him. Wilsonville exploits this with the top 5A receiving core in Oregon. On the season Jonny has hauled in 25 receptions, for 450 yards, and 11 TD’s. Averaging 18 yards per catch.
Senior leader Elijah Benedick has recorded 37 touches (25 receptions, 12 rushes) for 807 total yards and 4 scores, also rushing and returning a punt for a TD. Harrison Steiger (6-3 180 Jr.) will be another one of the state’s top ranked WR’s. His 26 catches for 560 yards, and 13 TD’s speak to his upside.
Rounding out the ridiculously talented group is Justin Altenhofen (6-2 175 Jr.) , brother of Boise St WR and former Player of the Year Tanner Shipley. Justin has caught 23 balls for 399 yards and 5 touchdowns.
Speaking on his receivers Connor says, “Each of them would be the individual superstar if on a different team”. Adding, “Jonny is big, physical and sneaky fast… He will be tough for anyone to stop.”
Neville Continued, “Harrison is a freak of nature and one of the top receivers in the state, and Elijah is one of the most dangerous players in Oregon anytime he has the ball in his hands.”
Much like the others Altenhofen ranks as one of the top junior’s in the state. Connor added, “Justin just get’s it done, and consistently get’s open and beats his defender.”
This quad four and all everything QB Neville will make the Cats extremely tough to beat. Head Coach Adam Guenther has done a phenomenal job, building the program into a 5A power. His (45-17) record since taking over in 2010 brings to light how far the school has come. During the three years prior to Guenther’s arrival the Wildcats were (13-17).
Expect to hear much more about the Neville’s as the regular season winds down. They will be a legit state title contender heading into the playoffs, with their two toughest NWOC games to close the season; #3 Liberty (7-0), #7 Hillsboro (6-1).
Connor and Jonny made a decision at a young age to dedicate their lives to football. Anyone that knows the duo will tell you what good character kids they are. Exciting times lie ahead at Wilsonville, for what looks to be one of the most talented set of brothers ever to come out of Oregon. We will bring you updates as they happen.
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The power of social recommendations and Twitter’s advertising strategy
By Manuel Mueller-Frank
Online social networks are one of the success stories of the Internet era. Facebook Inc. has roughly 1.15 billion monthly active users and its market capitalization of $131 billion is close to double the valuation of Goldman Sachs and approximately equal to the valuation of BP.
An electronic billboard on the Thomson Reuters building welcomes Facebook, Inc. to the Nasdaq. Author: ProducerMatthew
An example of a direct value that users of online social networks receive is the recommendations of their friends such as Facebook “likes”. In order to get an understanding of this value, consider the following scenario. Suppose you become interested in living a healthier lifestyle and are searching for a book to educate yourself. While searching online you come across an advertisement for a particular book. At the same time a friend of yours, whom you know to be thoughtful and to make careful recommendations, advocates a different book on the same topic via your favourite social networking site. Which book would you rather buy?
Many of us would trust and follow the suggestion of our friend rather than the advertisement. Hence, there is a case to be made that social advertising, which makes use of the social influence effect, has a value that goes beyond that of conventional forms of advertising. And where there is value, there is money to be made.
Twitter official account on Twitter
Facebook introduced sponsored stories, a type of social advertising, in the fourth quarter of 2011. Since then its quarterly advertising revenue per monthly active user has grown 38% globally and around 63% for users in the U.S. and Canada. Compare the case of Facebook with that of Twitter Inc., another tremendously successful online social network platform currently making daily news due to its upcoming IPO. Surprisingly, Twitter has no social advertising offering but instead allows only for conventional targeting based on the interests of users, for example. This gives rise to a good and a bad conclusion:
The bad conclusion is that while being one of the largest online social network platforms Twitter fails to capitalize on the power of the social aspect.
The good conclusion is that a change in strategy towards social advertising opens a whole new dimension for potential growth in advertising revenue
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About Manuel Mueller-Frank
Manuel Mueller-Frank is an assistant professor in the Department of Economics. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in economics at Northwestern University and holds an undergraduate degree in economics from the University of Bonn.
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Walmart Black Friday 2 Liter Success
"I wanted to take a few minutes to tell you about the success the Buffalo Walmart Team had in selling in 106 Pallets for a last minute 3 Day Sale at $.75, on Coke Two Liters, in our 11 Western New York Walmart’s. This was a team approach where I went into every Store Manager at Walmart and coordinated an average order of 10 Pallets from each store, of Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite, and Sunkist. This was the First time that Walmart had asked Coke to participate over Black Friday. The problem was that the Stores put up TV,s, and Big Ticket Items for Black Friday, and our Reps and Merchandisers have to put up the display on Wednesday. Then the stores take the displays down on Thursday, and our people have to rebuild the displays on Friday morning. I want to recognize Kristy Setzer, Matt Stahlman, Tom Masterman, Detrich Jacobs, Bill Brian, Phil Marasciulo, Melissa Holmes, Keith Chudoba, and Eric Geisendorfer and their Merchandisers for going beyond the call of duty. I coordinated with all these reps what to order and they followed up on each order, and went into each store at 5AM on Black Friday. To put back up their pallets of 2 Liters, move numerous pallets blocking their pallets in the back room, and achieving prime #1 position in most stores over Pepsi, and + CH Wright who had the same promotion. Joe Litwin forecasted 79 Pallets in Prism and we shipped 106 Pallets or 4,274 Cases of Two Liters. After the 3 day sale we sold 3,040 Cases(24,320 Bottles) of 2 Liters, with only 30 Pallets left in Inventory. During the same 5 days last year we shipped only 742 Cases. I am proud to work with my Walmart team, because all the reps showed me how dedicated they really are. By working extra hours, to make this difficult last minute request from Walmart, during a crazy retail event, a tremendous success! The other great news is that we have maintained our Number 1 Position on Displaying Two Liters at $1.00 this week, and we will maintain this presence throughout the Christmas Retail season."
- John Ruffino, Home Market Sales Trainer
"We would also like to acknowledge John Ruffino, as he has passed the credit down he as much as all made this a success for us as well"
- Matt Spillane, Director of Sales & Marketing
Nice Initiative by Greg Baker Jr. at TOPS Derby!
"Greg Baker Jr., an AOM Hybrid Account Manager held a sampling at Tops # 268 in Derby NY. Greg dressed as Santa and sampled Sprite Cranberry and Sprite Cranberry Zero to the customers. Great initiative taken by Greg who also had a 2 Liter display built around a 4 x 4 ATV provided by Weaver Motor Sports. Pictures of this activity have also been posted to Buffalo Coca-Cola's Facebook and Twitter accounts."
-Tony Caruana, Field Sales Supervisor
Green Bottle Success!
This holiday season, we set our Green Bottle objectives high by building 44 Canada Dry Centerpiece Displays and ordering 96 Canada Dry Full Product Trees totaling 140 Display Opportunities in our market.
I am very pleased to report that we were able to sell in 139 Green Bottle Displays an increase of 209% over 2012. This is an incredible success story.
In addition to our successful launch of the 2013 Green Bottle Display Program, the Mid-Management Team set a goal to track each location of our Green Bottle Tree Displays to measure cases sold to provide insight for future planning. For those of you who coordinated with me during our launch, I want to personally thank you for working with us and the additional bureaucracy we added to the process. For the 7 displays that are in our market without making it on my tracking sheet, congratulations on selling in your displays as well.
Having said that, I wanted to take some additional time and further acknowledge 4 Account Managers who sold in the most recorded displays. (These results are final)
Hybrid - Greg Baker Jr. sold in 17 Displays
Hybrid - Luke Nuttle Sold in 16 Displays
AOM - Joe Henderson sold in 8 Displays
Chain - Tom Masterman sold in 8 Displays
Thank you to the above and to all our Account Managers for believing in and promoting the Green Bottle Display Program.
-Brad Bureau, Space Development/Category Manager
Buffalo Coca-Cola Gains New Business!
All six Coffee Culture locations have signed on with Coca-Cola. They will be carrying 20 oz. Bottles, Water, and some juice. Enjoy!
Coca-Cola Buffalo Gains New Business with Tempo!
"We have just converted Tempo over to Coke Aluminum Bottles. They have been a long time competitive customer and finally have joined the Coke Family!
So, if you're looking for a high-end restaurant for dinner, add this one to the list."
-Rich Noetzel, Business Development Representative
Located at 581 Delaware Ave Buffalo, NY 14202
Buffalo Coca-Cola & TOPS Welcome Back UB Students
Tony Caruana, AOM Field Sales Supervisor and Kristi Setzer, AOM Account Manager welcomed back UB students with a sampling at TOPS #41 at Maple/N. Bailey in Amherst.
United Way Day of Caring - Wednesday, 8/21/13
Volunteers from Buffalo Coca-Cola participated in the United Way’s annual Day of Caring at the Naval Park in downtown Buffalo. They spent the day prepping a portion of the USS Little Rock’s upper deck for painting.
To quote the Director of the Buffalo and Erie County Naval and Military Park, "The work done today will not only help to maintain the ships but also serves to honor the men who served aboard these vessels."
Thank you to everyone who participated!
Ken Spoth, John Rera, Mark Manganaro, Tony Cantera, Rob Walter, Lisa Janca, Kevin Barton, Shawna Power, Renee Gleason, Pat Greco and members of the Naval Park Staff on the upper deck of the USS Little Rock.
Buffalo Product Age Survey Results
“It is with much PRIDE that I am happy to inform everyone that Coca-Cola Buffalo, for the 7th consecutive year, has attained a Product Age Survey score of < 1%. This year's score of 0.4% crushes last year's score of 0.737%. This says a lot for what Buffalo has done.
WELL DONE AND CONGRATULATIONS!!!”
– Pat Greco, Director of Operations
Coca-Cola Buffalo Gains New Business With ALDI
Beginning the week of August 5th, Coca Cola Buffalo will begin distributing 12 packs of Coca Cola, Diet Coke and Sprite, as well as 2 Liters of Coca Cola and Diet Coke to ALDI in 19 WNY stores! This is a tremendous win for Coca Cola, as ALDI was formerly exclusively Private Label. Early forecasts for volume, based on roll outs from other parts of the country are indicating over 7,000 cases for the initial order and roughly 4000-5000 cases per week for reorders.
Open for Summer Billboards
Your eyes can now look skyward across WNY and get a little shade! Look for our Summer billboards that will be up from now until the Fall!
Dash's Market FUZE Sampling
A FUZE Tea sampling was held last Thursday evening at the newly remodeled Dash's Market at Hopkins and Klein Roads in Williamsville.
Kevin Sylvester-radio talk show host for the Buffalo Sabres, made an appearance and signed copies of his book "the Married Man's Guide To Golf".
Partners Team Up to Make Rainwater a Resource
Barrel Painting Contest Sponsored by Coca-Cola Bottling of Buffalo Creates Colorful Competition
Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz was joined by Maria Whyte, Commissioner of the Department of Environment & Planning, representatives of the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Buffalo, Inc., members of the Western New York Stormwater Coalition and the Erie County Water Quality Committee, concerned citizens, and the winning entrants in a rain barrel painting contest, sponsored by Buffalo Coca-Cola, to highlight the importance of conserving rainwater that would otherwise flow off of a property. The contest served both as an observation of Earth Day and as a demonstration of a practical way for individuals to make an environmental difference in their own lives.
Working on the theme “Rainwater is a Resource, Not Just Runoff”, competing teams from 25 area middle- and high schools designed and painted their own rain barrels using converted syrup concentrate barrels donated and retrofitted by Buffalo Coca-Cola as part of their “Live Positively” initiative. A panel of judges consisting of representatives from Buffalo Coca-Cola, local government, the arts community, and academia voted on all entries, with the top three vote getters and their barrels on hand for the winning announcement. Barrels were judged on creativity, neatness and execution of the idea, and how well they fit into the theme of the contest.
“Rain barrels are an effective and efficient way to save and redistribute stormwater runoff, and as we see today, they can be attractive, colorful additions to anyone’s backyard,” said Poloncarz. “I want to thank the Department of Environment & Planning, Coca-Cola Bottling of Buffalo, and their partners for their work in raising awareness on this issue and taking these steps to better pollution control.”
“This exercise in creative thinking and design, teamwork, and planning has allowed us to educate the next generation on the importance of conserving resources and preventing stormwater pollution,” said Commissioner Whyte.
“We congratulate the students for their fine winning artwork, and for lending their talent to this Live Positively Rain Barrel Art Contest,” said Pat Greco, Director of Operations for the Coca-Cola Bottling Company of Buffalo. “These rain barrels represent Coca-Cola’s commitment to water stewardship and will allow Coca-Cola to reach our goal to ‘give back’ an amount of water equivalent to what we use in all of our products and their production by 2020.”
Mr. Greco presented three checks, totaling $1000.00, to the top 3 winning schools.
Safe Living
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Wall Street & Markets
Are euro zone bonds the new subprime?
By Michael Schuman @MichaelSchumanSept. 14, 2011
Follow @TIMEBusiness
So we all by now know the story of how the global economy fell into the 2008 financial crisis. Banks gorged themselves on high-yielding U.S. subprime mortgage securities, which were awarded top credit ratings (perhaps fraudulently). When those investments proved as financially sound as the over-leveraged homeowners behind them, the foundation of the financial system crumbled like cheap Chinese wallboard. From Wall Street, the shockwaves ricocheted around the world. And we ended up in the Great Recession.
Now we have to ask if something similar is going on in Europe. But this time around, a very different sort of subprime security is at the heart of the problem – the sovereign bonds of euro zone countries. Here’s what I mean:
Just as deteriorating subprime securities ate away at the balance sheets of major American and European banks, the same could happen with euro zone bonds issued by the weak PIIGS. Those bonds are already losing value as yields escalate. Even if Greece manages to avoid a default, the second bailout package has losses built in for private holders of Greek bonds. In a scary scenario, the euro crisis deepens, the bonds of Greece, Ireland, Italy and the other PIIGS lose more and more value, weakening the European banking sector. Banks in Europe holds billions of dollars of PIIGS bonds, so the impact could be severe. Then the fallout gets spread around the world through globalized banking and financial markets. And it’s 2008 all over again. Here’s how economist Ken Courtis put it in a recent, anxiety-ridden email:
Several banks are going to look like BSC or LEH.. and not just PIIGS banks… think BNP, think Barclays,… Some of these banks have exposure to PIIGS sovereign debt several times their equity. Then there are other PIIGS exposures, such as investments in PIIGS banks, loans to PIIGS companies, local real estate market exposure….which only increases further the vulnerabilities…On its present course, Europe is on a crab walk to disaster…and should that happen, there would be very few places to hide, for anyone.
Holy junk bonds, Batman! How likely is such a scenario? It is always extremely difficult predicting financial crises, and I don’t intend to try it out myself. However, the euro zone sovereign debt crisis does appear to be morphing into a renewed banking crisis. The shares of major European banks have taken a vicious pounding in recent days amid fears that Greece will default. On Wednesday, Moody’s downgraded the credit ratings of two of France’s most important banks — Societe Generale mainly because of the impact the debt crisis could have on its financing, and Credit Agricole in part due to its exposure to Greece. Christian Noyer, governor of France’s central bank, brushed off the downgrades as “very small,” which they are. But Noyer is missing the point. Concern about the health of Europe’s banks has always lurked in the background of the debt crisis, but European leaders have generally ignored it (with exceptions, such as a bank restructuring effort in Spain). Europe-wide “stress tests” of the region’s banks, aimed at bolstering confidence in the sector, were generally criticized as too soft. So like two enfeebled octogenarians trying to hold each other upright, a potentially shaky banking sector has been supporting debt-laden, wobbly governments, which then are expected to back up the banks.
However, at the same time, we shouldn’t get too far ahead of ourselves. In its announcement of its downgrades, Moody’s made clear the France’s banks had the capital to absorb losses on Greece, as well as Portugal and Ireland. That means the euro debt crisis is likely going to have to get significantly worse to really undercut banks in Europe. My guess is that jitters about the banks in Europe will ease if the uncertainty over the continued bailout of Greece is resolved. In other words, euro zone bonds aren’t quite subprime – at least not yet.
But the risk is out there. If Europe’s leaders really want to stem the debt crisis, they should find ways of shoring up the banks, or getting the banks to raise their own capital, before we do face a renewed subprime crisis. My fear is that the lack of foresight among Europe’s politicians that has gotten the euro zone into this mess will persist, placing the European financial system in danger. And then, as Courtis says, there would be nowhere to hide.
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Resisting the Medicalisation of and Promoting Chiropractic Care
Regulatory Reform: GCC 2008 to present
GCC pre 2008
Chiropractic Promotion
The Vertebral Subluxation Complex Theory.
Risk from health interventions
International Chiropractic
UK Chiropractic Associations
The Pharmaceuticle Industry
Scepticism or Prejudice
The Skeptic Pit
Richard Lanigan Bio
GCC not fit for purpose
Letter of resignation from register
New Reformed GCC
Stefaan Vossen Bio
To read comment, click time it was made.
Sceptics are making complaints
GCC regulatory report, 656 complaints in 2009.
How are the General Chiropractic Council and the British Chiropractic Council going to deal with Zeno’s complaints
The BCA’s decision to sue Simon Singh will be a disaster for the profession
GCC chair Peter Dixon fiddles while Chiropractic burns
GCC begin defining a biomedical scope of practice using the sceptic complaints as cover
Why the United Chiropractic Association (UCA) and traditional chiropractors, should be supporting Simon Sings campaign for free speech.
The British Chiropractic Association have perfected the art of putting heads in sand.
It should be obvious to the GCC that these are vexatious cases
Give generously to the British Chiropractic Association so they can build their bridge to oblivion.
Oh dear! The tyranny of evidence David Sackett spoke of is upon us. 268 comment(s) | posted on October 26, 2010
Why should anyone believe what Professor Edzard Ernst says, after he put his name to a BBC programme, he now describes as “deception”. 85 comment(s) | posted on March 31, 2011
Unfortunately Peter Dixon and the General Chiropractic Council are 3 years and 700 complaints too late. 80 comment(s) | posted on November 30, 2010
Is it me or should we be telling chiropractors to set their standards of care at 40 PVA 72 comment(s) | posted on February 24, 2012
An historical concept? Damn right! 63 comment(s) | posted on June 28, 2010
Its getting harder and harder for Coats and Dixon to mislead the profession. There is a paper trail, You just need to know where to look in GCC “closed” minutes. 61 comment(s) | posted on November 25, 2010
British Chiropractic Association asks the General Chiropractic Council to seek prescribing rights for its members 60 comment(s) | posted on May 2, 2010
Latest from the British Chiropractic Association’s president Richard Brown (The guy who thought it was a good idea to sue Simon Singh). No icebergs sail on, full speed ahead. 60 comment(s) | posted on August 6, 2010
The General Chiropractic Council needs your registration fees to survive and will not put up fees for fear many chiropractors will come off the register 50 comment(s) | posted on March 14, 2011
Round Up, your general purpose skepticide 46 comment(s) | posted on June 22, 2010
Skeptic or cynic? That is a question! 45 comment(s) | posted on July 12, 2010
Am I a Chiropractor? 44 comment(s) | posted on July 2, 2010
The Chiropractic profession needs to get its act together and establish a consensus view of chiropractic and promote spinal joint care. 40 comment(s) | posted on March 22, 2011
Why I have left the BCA and why I am leaving the GCC 38 comment(s) | posted on February 14, 2011
United we stand, divided we fall. At last the UCA has taken the lead for chiropractors in the UK. 37 comment(s) | posted on August 6, 2010
The message from the GCC is clear, adjust someone you have sex with and you could be struck off the chiropractic register. 34 comment(s) | posted on October 15, 2010
The associations have come together. First thing they need to say to the General Chiropractic Council; Margaret Coats must go. 32 comment(s) | posted on November 1, 2010
Mind Body Spirit – the placebo effect. By Ben Goldacre 32 comment(s) | posted on January 19, 2011
How a few motivated "Geeks" defeated an apathetic profession 31 comment(s) | posted on April 22, 2010
Subluxation Chiropractors must make sure there is not a grain of truth in allegations being made by sceptics 30 comment(s) | posted on January 1, 2007
AECC andy lewis asa Back pain BCA Chester Wilk chre Christina Cunliffe colic complaints David Byfield Department of Health EBM ECU Edzard Ernst election FOI act free speech Greg Price insurance jack-of-kent Maragret Coats Margaret Coats Margret Coats mctimoney association McTimoney Chiropractic not-fit-for-purpose Peter Dixon prescribing Prince Charles Private investigators quackometer removal richard brown risk SCA sceptics side effects simon perry Simon Singh subluxation subluxation theory tony-metcalfe UCA zeno
GCC has referred 36 of Simon Perrys 50 complaints to the PCC
By Richard Lanigan
Simon Perry has given an update of the progress of his complaints to the GCC about chiropractors on his blog
Although I have not seen the specifics of the complaints, I have to say I am amazed, the GCC has referred 80% of these complaints to the PCC. This video was supposed to be a satire and its starting to look like a documentary. Where is the GCC going to get the money to prosecute these complaints never mind the 500 or so from Zeno. In addition, I have heard through the grapevine that Zeno wants Skeptic Barista to front a mass complaint about “subluxation” .
GCC registration costs £1,000 compared with £350 for Osteopaths, the GCC will have to triple their registration fee next year I speculated earlier in the year on the cost, and while the GCC stated in the FOI they did not increase their mortgage in 2009, I believe I should have asked 2010 and £1,000,000 has been raised.
Simon Perrys states that in “36 cases, the Investigations Committee has decided that there is a case to answer and they will be referring an allegation of unacceptable professional conduct against them to the Professional Conduct Committee.
In eight cases, the GCC is awaiting further information.
But in the remaining six cases, the GCC has decided not to pursue the allegation. It reads as though a determining factor was that those chiropractors immediately removed the claims upon being advised to do so by their association”.
They may also have been part of the BCA political elite, the people who started the GCC, the same people who gave the order to go after Simon Singh, would be ironic if they are the ones to get off.
Its starting to look like the advice the McTimoney association gave their members this time last year was quiet sensible after all, especially considering the BCAs insurance does not cover defence costs because patients were not involved in this complaint. Its hard to believe the BCA made that change in the policy after deciding to go after Simon Singh. You could not make this stuff up could you.
Tags: complaints, simon perry, zeno
http://spinaljoint.com Richard Lanigan
For some reason Simon Perry can not post a response and sent it by e-mail:
From: Simon Perry
Sent: 02 August 2010 14:24
To: Richard Lanigan
Subject: Comments response.
Comments aren’t working on your blog. My response is:
The Gideon’s letters were for my amusement, the GCC letters were for
public protection.
Your logic seems to be: “Simon sent a letter for reason X, therefore
all letters Simon sends are for reason X.”
I once wrote a letter to inform the TV licensing to let them know I
don’t have a TV. If I had blogged this, would you have argued that I
only complained to the GCC to avoid paying my TV license?
I told Simon I believe he complained to the GCC because it gave him pleasure, he says he did it to protect all those children with colic.I wrote this article about chiropractic and colic http://www.chiropracticlive.com/?p=50 and invite Simon to tell me what parents should do according to the best available evidence.
I have never met Simon and did not know he did not have a TV, perhaps if he had it might help bring other forms of entertainment into his life. Any suggestions for TV programmes he could watch. He would love “Big Brother” and voting off the people he did not like.
what a dick
An interesting postscript to Simon Perrys letters of complaint to the GCC ( if not so amusing for the 36 chiropractors the GCC are pursuing to test the waters on how to proceed with the other 600 complaints against chiropractors by Zeno et al).
According to Simon he used to get pleasure from writing “daft letters to various organisations for no other reason than his own personal amusement”, he has recently published a series of the letters on his blog http://adventuresinnonsense.blogspot.com/2010/07/letters-to-gideons.html.
These letters are to the people that leave Bibles in hotel rooms.I dont believe in God but I dont understand why anyone would want to make fun of people who do and no doubt provide a service that many christians find helpfull.
It must be reassuring for registered chiropractors to know that Margaret Coats and the General Chiropractic Council are using registration fees to give Simon pleasure, or help him get there.
I believe Osteopaths have doubled in recent years.
The true cost of the GCC to chiropractic.
In 2000 when I was 1 of 1800 chirpractors joining the GCC for the first time we were told “the profession is set to double every 5 Years”
“In 2004, 2,024 chiropractors were registered with the GCC.In 2009 the number had soared to 2,067″
I never said it was your objective, I said it would be great if someone made the complaint because there come a point when sensible people recognise that spending millions on this, is not in the public interest . If you dont agree, I refer you to the Kings Fund study from 1998 “Informing Patients – an assessment of the quality of patient information materials” in doctors surgeries, although the study was very critical, it did not result in one complaint to the GMC.
You believe the GCC answers are “informative and helpful”, I believe thats what sceptics call “confirmation bias”. Dont you think it is a bit odd that the GCC would recognise a subluxation after 7 years of pressure and along you come 2 years later and they remove it.
As a man seeking scientific truths does it not bother you that the GCC told you “The General Council has never considered the research evidence for the chiropractic vertebral subluxation complex” , when they told me in a FOI in 2007; “The GCC subluxation was based on the WHO definition of subluxation and 160 people, including experts and national authorities and professional and NGO’s, in over 54 countries had reviewed this document prior to publication”. You see I had also questioned the bullshit they had come up with to explain their subluxation and a bit of digging after I was elected onto the GCC confirmed my suspicions http://www.chiropracticlive.com/?p=670
For starters medics recognise a subluxation as joint dysfunction, I will continue to use the term and the ASA will say fuck all, because as you have seen I know my stuff and I can articulate it much better than a physiotherapist and medical doctor on the GCCs education committee. This is just political posturing by the very people who sued Simon Singh. The BCA/GCC alliance are the ones who are using the sceptics to outline a scope of practice that medicalises chiropractic and generates research funds for the AECC and WIC. (clue 1 BCAs move for prescribing rights).
Think about it, you sceptics have still not got your heads around the reason the GCC has been so helpful when it is dominated by the sceptics “enemy” the BCA. This “helpful” organisation as you call them has been recently told by the Information Commissioners Office that the were in breach of the Data Protection Act for not releasing the report their Private Investigators made on me. The report shows clearly the GCC sent a PI to entrap me into saying I was a chiropractor so they could report me to the police as a “criminal”. Its fair to say Margaret Coats is “informative” only when it suits her and perhaps you need to be a little bit sceptical about the GCC’s motivation for doing so much to help you when the Chiropractic Patients Association or the profession has no confidence in them.
Now you can say the “enemy of my enemy” is my friend. I can assure you I have no friends that are intolerant and would use their time to bring misery to people they did not know and its to your credit that you dont seem to wish to join the witch hunt. People who know me would describe me as a left wing political activist who has followed in my mothers footsteps, chiropractic just happens to be what I do for a living. People who come to my practise are just as likely to get a lecture on the US blockade of Cuba or inequality and health as subluxation theory.
I have campaigned against nasty intolerant people in the National Front in the 70s, the BNP, Miami Cubans, the catholic church, Zionist expansion. I have no doubt the Nazis evolved from GCC type jobsworths in the 30s, I am sure people who complained about Jews and Gypsies in the 30s also believed they were providing a public service.
http://skepticbarista.wordpress.com/ Skeptic Barista
To ‘bring down the GCC once and for all’ has never been my objective.
Why would I want to do that. Whenever I’ve have a querie about the chiropractic profession, I know I can ask them for an explaination …. In the past I’ve found their answers to be very informative & helpful.
I realise that YOU have a desire to see the end of the GCC (in it’s current form), and this is probably the reason your posts often seem to encourage skeptics – in a very transparent way.
They do say that “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” but you really shouldn’t expect skeptics to do it for you.
Still love the video Richard and how extraordinarily prescient!!
It still makes me laugh a year after I made it for different reasons. Why would Newcastle supporters be depressed? Why would skeptics, who see themselves as a sort of liberal elite, join up with a typical autocratic, intolerant regulator and bash the very BCA chiropractors who were trying to do what skeptics say they wanted; be evidence based. Its no longer about Simon Singh its about the mentality of the players, for them its just a game.
Zeno and Margaret Coats have one thing in common they are intolerant and obviously like making people suffer and creating misery. This is what I objected to about the GCC, that Margaret Coats seemed to enjoy it so much, I was never against regulation, I was against the kind of people who were doing it Coats, Greg Price, David Byfield, Richard Brown and now Zeno. I am not convinced about Simon Perry, I am not sure his heart is still in it, I dont hear the triumphalism and nastiness you get from some of the others.
I am glad I left the video characters vague enough so they could apply to anyone.
I do hope Skeptic Barista makes the subluxation complaint because that will finish the GCC once and for all and allow the chiropractic profession to go back to practising under common law and insurance premiums will come downw. Unfortunately I dont think he is so fanatical either.
Barista ask Blue Wode to make the complaint, the words subluxation and chiropractic really gets up his nose, however I am not sure he wants his identity revealed for some reason.
love the vid! lol
Garland Glenn
Hope you had a nice holiday. Could you tell me about how many DC have left the GCC and are practicing outside the GCC?
Send me an email so I can contact you
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Chiropractic Regulator in UK These are the people who regulate chiropractic in the UK
CHRE The Council for Health Care and Regulatory Excelence are the quango set up by the Department of Health to “insure” regulators are fullfilling their statutory duty. They seem to meerly rubber stamp information given to them by the regulators and would not
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Health Professionals Council Because of the diversity of chiropractic practise, I have always believed the chiropractic profession would have been better off being regulated by thei body where the interests of individual chiropractic groups would have been less important
Osteopath Regulation in the UK Set up the rear before the chiropractic profession. Do not seem to have the divisions the GCC and seem to balance their statutory duty with the interests of the Osteopath profession
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Develop a java-based tool that manages the life-cycle of the database schema and generates code and documentation artifacts. The tool transforms an XML description of a database schema into an HTML data dictionary, SQL scripts to create the database, and Java data access code. The tool automatically updates the documentation, scripts, and code as the schema is changed and updated. The tool also provides a simple but powerful data access programming model and framework for developing custom data access code. The generated Java code conforms to the Data Access Object (DAO) and Value Object (AKA Data Transfer Object) patterns that are described in the J2EE Java Blueprints.
Produce a tool that manages the full lifecycle of the database schema. It does this by:
Representing the schema in a database-independent XML format.
Generating HTML documentation, SQL DDL scripts, and Java code from the XML.
Providing modules to manage schema changes and update the generated artifacts.
Produce a DB code generator that produces about 80% of the code, scripts, and docs needed for any large-scale data access subsystem.
Provide a database access program model and framework that simplifies the production of the remaining 20% of the code as well as being the foundation of the generated code.
Provide efficient access to database schema meta-data at runtime.
Produce highly efficient Java and SQL code that can be executed with a minimum of overhead.
The latest version of Chrysalis supports Oracle 8i and 9i and MySQL. Eventually, support will be added for SQL Server 2000, and (maybe) DB2 8.0, Sybase and Postgres 7.2.
You can now download both source and binary distributions for the alpha 0.4 version of Chrysalis. This release adds support for MySQL, with the exception of the reverse engineering module. This will be added in a future maintenance release. The next major release of Chrysalis will add support for entity classification and super- and subtypes. See the Roadmap document for more details.
Comparison to Torque
Chrysalis and Torque have very similar goals - generate DDL, documentation, and data access code. However, the solutions to those goals are very different, particularly with respect to code generation. Torque seeks to subsume both the details of data access and the differences between DBMS's when it generates persistent application objects. Chrysalis' approach is to produce finer-grained, highly efficient data access objects that exploit specific features of different DBMS's under the covers.
Chrysalis is a tool for the database engineer who wants to automate the more mundane parts of his or her job in order to concentrate on the essential tasks; Torque is a tool for a developer who doesn't want to deal with the specifics of a given DBMS.
Java DAO and Value Object Patterns
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Naziv: Petar Dundov
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Webpage: www.petardundov.com; , www.perfection-party.com
Petar Dundov is a Croatian producer and DJ, born in 1973 in Zagreb. From the early ages he was fascinated with synthesized sound and concept of developing new ways of composing. In 1989 he bought his first synthesizer and started doing music under influences of Kraftwerk, Jean M. Jarre and Depeche Mode.
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In 2002 Petar joined Belgian label Music Man, releasing two EP’s and actual ”Kaskades EP,” voted for the techno vital release of the month April 2003 in Muzik magazine. His recent remix works include artists like Marco Bailey, Damon Wild, Pascal FEOS and Toni Rios. His music can be found on many V.A. compilations like Cocoon C, PVLAB com, Kozzmozz etc.
Until present time Petar has released over 30 maxi singles, 3 albums of electronic dance music, traveled around the world performing in various clubs and festivals, to name but a few: U-60311 (Frankfurt), Womb (Tokyo), Sensor (Zurich), Mazzo (Amsterdam), I Love Techno Outdoor 2003 (Belgium), Wire03 (Tokyo), Exit Festival (Yugoslavia), MTV Valkana Beach Festival (Croatia), etc.
In his home city he has been organizing Perfection parties since 2000, with guest DJ’s from all around the world, keeping electronic dance music scene alive and connected globally.
Clubs and events: E-Werk (Berlin), Womb (Tokyo), U-60311 (Frankfurt), Sensor (Zurich), Mazzo (Amsterdam), Stammheim (Kassel), M1 (Stuttgart), Butan (Wuppertal), Airport (Wutzburg), Das Boot (Cologne), Tor3 (Dusseldorf), Ambasada Gavioli (Izola), Perfection @The Best (Zagreb), I Love Techno Outdoor 2003 (Belgium), Exit Festival 2003 (Yugoslavia), MTV Valkana Beach Festival 2002, 2003 (Croatia), Wire03 (Tokyo), etc.
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Abingdon Evening WI
Organiser: Womens Institute
The WI plays a unique role in providing women with educational opportunities and the chance to build new skills, to take part in a wide variety of activities and to campaign on issues that matter to them and their communities.
Monthly - 3rd Week of Month (Wednesdays), 8pm
Hadland Road Community Centre, Abingdon, OX14 3XW
ofwi@btconnect.com
Abingdon Fitzharrys WI
Monthly - 2nd Week of Month (Tuesdays), 7.30pm
North Court Centre, Abingdon, OX14 1NS
Abingdon Rethink Carers Support Group
Organiser: Rethink Mental Illness
Carers Support group for family and friends who are caring for people with Mental Illness This is a Carer Only group. Please call before attending the first meeting.
Monthly - 3rd Week of Month (Thursdays), 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Abingdon Baptist Church, Ock Street, Abingdon, OX14 5AG
Ros Forbes 01865 904499
Rosamund.forbes@Rethink.org
Carers Oxfordshire
Carers Oxfordshire is a free service which offers information, advice and support to unpaid adult carers of adults in Oxfordshire.
Oxfordshire, All, OX14 3YT
carersreferrals@carersoxfordshire.org.uk
Adderbury & District WI
Monthly - 1st Week of Month (Thursdays), 7.30pm
The Institute, The Green, Adderbury, OX17 3NE
Adderbury & Milton Royal British Legion
Organiser: Royal British Legion
Charity dedicated to the welfare of ex-servicemen and their dependents.Funded from public subscription we work locally to generate funds, and welcome your support. Meeting Dates for 2017 All meeting will be held at the Bowls Club starting 2.00 pm Thursday 9 February â Thursday 13 April â Thursday 8 June â Thursday 10 August â Thursday 12 October Thursday 16 November(AGM)
Daily , 2pm
c/o 1 Mill Lane, Adderbury, OX17 3LS
Jean Moore 01295 810246
jeaniemoore3@gmail.com
Adderbury Bowls Club
The Club is an outdoor flat green Bowling Club with match fixtures from April to October for Men`s bowling, Ladies bowling and Juniors bowling, plus Social membership ( non bowling ) the Club also run Pool and Aunt Sally teams. The Club and Bar operate throughout the year with a regular social calendar of mixed events, and has a Quiz night once a month, the Clubhouse is also available for Private bookings. Club Winter Opening Hours: Tuesday 8pm until 11pm, Friday and Saturday 8pm until midnight, Sunday 12 noon until 3pm. Club Summer Opening Hours: Monday to Thursday 7.45pm to 11pm, Friday and Saturday 8pm to midnight, Sunday 12 noon to 3pm
Weekly (Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays), 8pm
Adderbury Bowls Club (Opposite Twyford Grove), Twyford, OX17 3JB
John Hermon or Eric George 01295 811118 or 01295 810390
Adderbury Cine Club
Organiser: Adderbury Cine Club
We show a programme of 10 movies per year every month except July, August and December. We started our first full season in February 2010. We hope that our programme pleases as many tastes as possible and includes a mixture of: - recent blockbusters; - old classics; - independent movies; - foreign language films; - comedies; - and other films selected by our audience.
Monthly (Fridays)
The Institute, Adderbury Village Hall, Adderbury, OX17 3NE
Helena Scott 01295 810708
boxoffice@adderburycineclub.org.uk
Adderbury Coffee & Chat
Coffee morning for everyone, to help raise funds for Katharine House Hospice and to get to know your fellow villagers.
Weekly (Tuesdays), 10am - 12pm
Methodist School Room, Chapel Lane, Adderbury, OX17 3LS
Gail Cripps 01295 810448
gailsmadhouse321@aol.com
Adderbury History Association
Organiser: Adderbury History Association
Visitors are always welcome at meetings so do come along. For details of speakers and events visit "What's On". http://www.adderbury.org/clubs-societies/social/history/
Monthly - 3rd Week of Month (Mondays), 7.15 pm
Methodist Hall, Chapel Lane School Room, Adderbury, OX17 3NA
Phil Mansell 01295 812125
history@adderbury.org
Adderbury St Marys Church Bellringers
Feel free to come and join us, either as a new potential learner who may have an interest in what goes on, or as an experienced visitor.
St Marys Church, Adderbury, OX17 3LP
Trevor Trivett 01295 811773
trevor@trivett.org.uk
Advance Oxfordshire
Organiser: Advance Oxfordshire
We offer lots of choice to a really wide range of individuals from people with complex needs all the way to people managing Personal Budgets and hiring their own Personal Assistants. At the same time we're becoming more joined up and responsive to what our customers want. Whether they are looking for a place to live, support in their daily lives, assistance in finding a job or a combination of all these things and more, they should be able to pick and choose what suits them The breadth of services that we offer is unique and growing. Our main areas used to be just Housing and Support, but these days we do a lot more: getting people into work, training people how to stay safe, advising people on the best way to plan and choose their support, or helping people take the step of becoming homeowners Where we don't have all the answers, we point people in the right direction or team up with other organisations, learning and getting better at providing what people want along the way.
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Afternoon Fellowship
A womens fellowship group. We are a friendly group of women who join together to pray, sing and learn from the bible. On the first Thursday of the month, we meet earlier at 1pm and enjoy a lunch.
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St Ebbes Church, Penny Farthing Place, Oxford, OX1 1QE
Reception 01865 240438
office@stebbes.org.uk
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Elaine Russel-Jarvie 01993 831 610
erusselljarvie@btinternet.com
Age UK National Information and Advice
Organiser: Age UK
If you need information or advice from anything from health to housing, please call the helpline. They can also put you in touch with local Age UK partners Lines open: 8am-7pm, 365 days a year. https://www.ageuk.org.uk/contact-us/information-and-advice/
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Organiser: Sheltered Housing
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Irene Fowler 01865 774376
CONNECT (Aphasia Group)
What is aphasia? A communication disability usually occurring after stroke or brain injury.If you have aphasia you might have difficulty speaking, reading, writing, using numbers or understanding information. It's different issues for different people.What is drop-in about? Drop-in is for people with aphasia and other communication disabilities.Meet others over a cup of coffee or tea. Relax and enjoy yourself. It is about being yourself you don't have to talk. The group is run by people who have communication disabilities. Carers, relatives and friends are welcome to attend.
Fortnightly - 1st & 3rd Weeks (Tuesdays), 2pm - 4.30pm
North Oxford Association Community Centre, Diamond Place, Summertown, OX2 7DP
Chrissie Wright 01865 604 329
chrissie.wright65@gmail.com
Appleton & Besselsleigh WI
Monthly - 3rd Week of Month (Thursdays), 7.30pm
Village Hall, OX13 5JS, Appleton, OX13 5JS
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Archway Foundation
Organiser: Archway Foundation
Founded in Oxford, Archway is a registered charity helping to relieve some of the distress caused by loneliness through a variety of supportive activities and by recruiting an essential team of volunteers. Please see www.archwayfoundation.org.uk for further information. Services intended for: - Adults of all ages experiencing loneliness - Designated groups for 18 to 30 year olds
Archway Foundation, New Marston Pastoral Centre/Jack Straws Lane, Oxford, OX3 0DL
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Home Fringe Letters with MaSisulu reflect on South Africa’s Present
Letters with MaSisulu reflect on South Africa’s Present
Neo and Mosa Motsatse ended their Letters with maSisulu music production with a bang on Wednesday 4 July by winning an Ovation award for the second year. Neo, the violinist, led the band in many classic and contemporary songs that honoured Albertina Sisulu and reflected on the journey South Africa has travelled in the last few decades
A few letters written for maSisulu, from Neo were read for the audience, reflecting not only how she felt about maSisulu, but also about the state of South Africa and her place in it. The letters were optimistic, recognising the late stalwart’s struggles and victories. Their main themes of sacrifice, mothering and triumph flowed beautifully with the music. Songs such as “Redemption Song”, “Senzeni Na” and “Thina Sizwe” were incorporated in the production. Another layer would perhaps have been added to the production if a few letters from other people were read out.
Mosa Motsatse honours Albertina Sisulu through spoken word. Picture b Karabo Baloyi
Mosa said, “The most special part about this band and how we put it together was that we worked with Grahamstown locals. So we came in last week to start rehearsals with them.” Including the locals added a warm, often overlooked touch to the production: part of it felt like it belonged specifically to Makhanda.
“There is so much more in store for what we have started here. We have plans from the 18th of July to the 21st of October which is maSisulu’s birthday,” said Neo, excited about their plans for this and other productions, some of which will take place in Johannesburg: “We also have a lot of community work planned because it was something close to maSisulu’s heart and it’s something close to our heart as well.”
Some of the band members playing South African classics. Picture by Karabo Baloyi
The sisters have a lot of community work planned to run alongside the Letters with MaSisulu production, something which was close to her heart. “We run a girl-empowerment programme in Johannesburg called girl power. We wanted to honour her in this way to show girls that they too can be leaders now because she became a leader at a young age,” said Mosa.
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Letters with maSisulu
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Karabo Baloyi
Xhosa Chronicles: Sondelani sizwe sa kwaXhosa!
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Hear the one about the Archbishop, the Muslim and the religious hatred bill?
LIKE most old men in their early 20s, I’m spending an increasing amount of time listening to Radio 4. Now I don’t really want to go over old ground about the religious hatred bill, as it has been covered in length elsewhere – Sunny has done an especially good job on Asians in the Media. To briefly state my position, I believe it to be a fig-leafed token gesture to appease the MCB after Blair pissed off a lot of Muslims. I simply want to bring a few fascinating comments from this evening’s Any Questions to your attention.
The Archbishop
The former Archbishop of Canterbury said yesterday that ‘redundant’ blasphemy laws should be scrapped. This statement coincided with a cross-party group announcing amendments to the controversial bill – which returns to the Lords on Tuesday.
In a nutshell, the current blasphemy laws can only be applied to Christianity but critics of the bill fear that its imposition will allow the government to extend this archaic law to other religions.
What I found most interesting about George Carey’s comments is that he said “It’s good for a religion to be knocked and challenged…we need that criticism.” I could not agree more and it makes me very happy to hear that. Carey said he enjoyed The Life of Brian and didn’t mind Jerry Springer the Opera.
The Muslim
Ziauddin Sardar was a panellist on the show and started by explaining how any extension to blasphemy laws would be bad news. He cited Pakistan, which had no blasphemy laws until about 15 years ago. “The emergence of blasphemy laws has actually led to an incredible number of injustices against minorities and women.”
But he was in favour of the bill with a rather interesting reason.
“In the Muslim community, anti-Semitism has run riot and it’s becoming a very major problem. So I would like the [bill to come in] so that we can lock all those anti-Semitic Muslims away.”
Now, I heard a few people titter and of course you can’t read a person’s facial expression on the radio. He later confessed he was speaking with some degree of irony and expanded on what he meant. He explained how he thought that a problem in the Muslim community is that “they perpetually see themselves as victims” and this is perpetuated by much of the media and/or public thinking that they are “a soft group in need of protection”. He stated that the Muslim community is very resilient with strong and dynamic characters and one of the key problems is that the leadership of the community is ageing. The ‘community leaders’ have
“no understanding of the modern world, very little understanding of the problems of the young and they have a very archaic and obscurantist view and interpretation of Islam. But right underneath them we have a very dynamic group of young people who understand what modernity is all about and who have a very reformist outlook and what we need to do is promote, promote, promote this generation change. We don’t need a religious hatred bill, we need to go out there and change the leadership of the Muslim community.”
Whilst I’m not entirely sure if he’s in favour or not at this point, don’t you think his words sound very much like something else?
So what’s my point? Pickled Politics rocks!
If you have some time, you can listen to this edition again here.
What did you think of 2046. I watched it first (my stupid mistake cause i didn't get a single bit of it) and then i went back to starting up from As tears go by to In the mood for love. Still haven't watched days of being wild, but have consumed every other Kar Wai Wong film, except for his short films like the Hand. I had a copy of Eros but it was dubbed in italian so...
In the mood for love is def. his best work to date, Christopher Doyle at his very very best in that film. I thought his repetition of songs (California Dreaming) in Chungking Express was a little bit grating, but by the middle of the final segment in CK it somehow seemed to work, and the same goes for ITMFL. If I remember correctly, the musical sequences are his substitute for the heavy sex scenes that were in the script. Surprising that no Indian director chose to at least steal or homage that yet, even tho RGV copied ITMFL in Naach.
# quoth anangbhai : October 23, 2005 2:01 PM
I really like 2046, it was very different to what I expected. But I must watch it again (only seen it once) to go over a few things. I watched it in one sitting with Old Boy, so my brain was a bit fried. Have you seen Old Boy? Good golly gosh.
I also haven't seen any shorts by Wong. I found out through SM that Naach was a copy of ITMFL which took me surprise as my gf had shown me a bit of Naach and I never saw the connection. Argh perhaps it was 'good for Bollywood' but if it was a copy it was complete shite. Antara Mali's beach cavorting was a decent consolation prize though!
Interesting point you make about INdians not copying (stealing) his substitution of music for sex - as this is such an obvious thing, but then there's a lot they could lift from his movies which would be appropriate for Indian fillums. Although I do confess, I would wonder about how wide the appeal of a Wong Kar Wai-style film would be in India. The sheer poetry of his films is something a bit lost in Indian cinema, as of late.
# quoth Rohin : October 24, 2005 10:12 AM
Hah..that's funny cause I remember posting on SM about naach and how it was lifted from ITMFL.
I think the music-video style of WKW (which he attributes to french filmmaking of godard) without the characters actually singing the words could be translated very well to Indian cinema, as an evolution of song and dance. Problem is, you can only take that so far, and the artistic notion of using music and song and dance to imply emotion has been clobbered and gutted to death in bollywood. I think i remember posting on SM that bollywood is still not out of its post-Sholay rut.
Personally, I hoped that this new economic boom would somewhat allay the constant stream of 6 different types of bullshit being emitted all over the world from Bollywood's mouth, but it seems to have worsened in fact, as production values go up, script and plot go down. Apt that RGV should call his company "The Factory" because that is exactly what is happening.
Plus NRI nostalgia has increased profit margins overseas and it doesn't seem to be stopping anytime soon.
Its interesting to notice that the style in which oldboy was made and edited is not exactly the style employed by the director for his first 2 films, maybe because of less money, but his earlier 2 films JSA and sympathy for mr vengeance are miles away from Oldboy. Also, try tracking down a bootleg copy of Sympathy for lady vengeance (his third film of his revenge trilogy) on the inter-nyet.
Nice piece :-)
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# quoth MCB Watch : October 29, 2005 3:59 PM
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Los Campesinos! Announce Live Album
By Josiah Hughes
Quirky UK indie pop group Los Campesinos! bid farewell to longtime member Ellen last year, but before she left she recorded a live album with the group.
A Good Night for a Fistfight was recorded in December at London, England's Islington Assembly Hall and marked the last show Ellen Campesinos! played with the band. It was also Aleks Campesinos! first show back with the group after a three-year hiatus.
The release runs for 91 minutes and includes 21 tracks. The verbose tracklisting is available below. Seriously, do you think they write that monster out as a set list every night?
A Good Night for a Fistfight can be pre-ordered now here. The band is expected to start recording a new album this summer.
A Good Night for a Fistfight:
1. Ways to Make it Through The Wall
2. Death to Los Campesinos!
3. Romance is Boring
4. By Your Hand
5. Hello Sadness
6. A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; or, Letters from Me to Charlotte
7. I Just Sighed. I Just Sighed, Just So You Know
8. Songs About Your Girlfriend
9. Miserabilia
10. We are Beautiful, We are Doomed
11. There are Listed Buildings
12. Knee Deep at ATP
13. Straight in at 101
14. My Year in Lists
15. Heart Swells/Pacific Daylight Time
16. The Sea is a Good Place to Think of the Future
17. You! Me! Dancing!
18. Baby I Got the Death Rattle
19. In Medias Res
20. We Throw Parties, You Throw Knives
21. Sweet Dreams, Sweet Cheeks
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Welsh outfit Los Campesinos! make their striking return to recording in the form of Sick Scenes, their sixth album and first since 2013's No...
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The indie pop repertoire has been significantly lacking odes to antibiotics, but Los Campesinos! are righting that wrong with their latest s...
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Welsh twee-pop unit Los Campesinos! treated us to some festive fare with a 2014 Christmas album, but they haven't released a proper full-len...
Los Campesinos! "When Christmas Comes"
Last week, Welsh indie popsters Los Campesinos! announced that they'd be treating some holiday tunes to a vinyl release with A Los Campesino...
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Company President Allan Bense first joined the company in
1974. In addition to working for GAC Contractors, Bense served in
the Florida House of Representatives from 1998 to 2006, serving as
speaker of the house from 2004 to 2006. He is involved in a number
of organizations including the James Madison Institute and the
Gulf Coast Hospital board of directors, both of which he serves as
chairman. Bense is a past chairman of the board for organizations including the Florida Chamber of Commerce, the Florida Taxation and
Budget Reform Commission, the Florida Council on Military Base
and Mission Support, the Bay Economic Development Alliance and
Triumph Gulf Coast Inc.
Company Vice President Derwin White has worked for GAC
Contractors since 1986. He is certified in Florida as an underground
utility and excavation contractor as well as a certified building
contractor and asphalt paving technician. He is also a certified utility
supervisor in Georgia.
Other executive team members include General Superintendent
Richard Schwartz, who coordinates 23 underground utility crews. He
joined the company in 2000 and has more than 20 years of practical
experience in building utilities.
Senior Estimator and Project Manager Jeremy Powell recently
returned to the company after a few years away. He started with the
company in 1998 and initially worked with GAC until 2013. Since
returning, Powell has overseen projects including highway construction, site developments, utility and storm drainage projects.
The GAC team also includes Safety Director and Environmental
Coordinator Andrew Rowell, who joined in 2006; and Senior Project
Manager James Haney, a 40-year veteran of heavy and commercial
construction who joined the company in 2002.
"With their extremely diverse backgrounds, our people are easily
able to offer our clients a comprehensive selection of services that
are backed by decades of industry experience," GAC Contractors says.
"From our project managers and superintendents to our equipment
operators, our entire team works together to produce results and
ensure satisfaction."
Pride in Safety
GAC Contractors also has a proven track record of safety that it
attributes to an extensive internal program that includes drug testing, safety training and incentives for safe behavior. The company
in 2015 reported a compensation modification ratio of 0.70. "We
take great pride in ensuring we provide a safe workplace for our
employees," the company says.
The company's recent safety awards include recognition by
OSHA's Safety and Health Recognition Achievement Program
(SHARP) as well as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Sustained
Superior Safety Performance Award and the Associated Builders
and Contractors' STEP Award for Safety Training and Evaluation.
JANUARY 2017 CONSTRUCTION-TODAY.COM
http://www.thompsontractor.com http://www.CONSTRUCTION-TODAY.COM Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Construction Today - January 2017 Contents
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Dinosaur Jungle > Dinosaur Names > Nomingia
Dinosaur Jungle > Dinosaur Types > Nomingia
Nomingia
(unranked) Coelurosauria
Parvorder Oviraptorosauria
Family Caenagnathidae
Genus Nomingia
Nomingia was an ominovorous dinosaur that lived in Mongolia during the late Cretaceous period, about 70 to 65 million years ago. It was found in a region of Mongolia known as the Nomingiin Gobi, to which its name refers.
Nomingia was about 5 feet (1.6 meters) long.
Physically, Nomingia, like many of its relatives such (Caudipteryx, Oviraptor and Protarchaeopteryx) seems to have been quite bird-like. It was probably covered with feathers, and its tail had a pygostyle-like mass (like that of Caudipteryx), and so is thought to have had a fan of feathers at its tail.
Nomingia Timeline:
Nomingia was an omnivore (ate meat and plants) that lived from 70 to 65 million years ago
Asian Dinosaurs - Nomingia lived in Mongolia.
Cretaceous Period - Nomingia lived between about 70 million years ago and 65 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period
Dinosaur Extinction - Nomingia died out during the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction
Nomingia Facts
Here is a summary of some of the key facts about Nomingia:
Nomingia was a genus of dinosaur.
"Nomingia" refers to a part of the Gobi desert near where this dinosaur was first found, the Nomingiin Gobi.
Nomingia was a member of the Saurischia ("lizard-hipped") order of dinosaurs. What this means, is that although Nomingia was not closely related to lizards, it did have similarly shaped pelvic bones.
Nomingia was a Theropod - a member of a group of related bipedal dinosaurs that included the ancestors of birds (although Nomingia was not itself an ancestor of birds).
Nomingia lived between about 70 million years ago and 65 million years ago, during the late Cretaceous period.
Nomingia was one of the dinosaurs which died out during the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction at the end of the Mesozoic Era.
Nomingia lived in Mongolia.
Nomingia was a omnivore (ate both meat and plants).
Nomingia weighed about 45 pounds (20 kilograms).
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Games Computer & Video Games
Selections from Games/Computer_&_Video_Games you might like
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Crap Games (4 Sites, 120 Hits) 04/06/2003 admins
The Crap Games Web Ring was started April 2003 as a way of connecting different websites somehow related to the annual Crap Games Compos; to ease navigation between them and to spread knowledge of this great event.
The Creatures Community (23 Sites, 148 Hits) 02/27/1998 opossumsal1
This is a Community for people who have made webpages about the game Creatures by Cyberlife. If your page is about norns, grendels, COBs, anything that has to do with Creatures, then you can join this Community.
Earthbound & Anime (4 Sites, 64 Hits) 04/15/2002 adoptable
Earthbound webring. anime and video game sites also welcome.
Moonring (5 Sites, 188 Hits) 01/23/1999 fosterrm2
The Moon Ring is intended to bring together all sites that deal with Mike Singleton's classic games; The Lords of Midnight, Doomdark's Revengem Eye of the Moon and The Citadel. It will also contain the futher works of the Midnight World or Characters.
SimPits International (9 Sites, 729 Hits) 10/27/1999 tattooed_ogre
For the few, the proud, the creative, those who decide to take the ultimate challange and build their very own simulator cockpit(SimPit). From very basic non-functional cockpits, to fully functional/motion-based beasts of simulation, this WebRing allows valuable information and experience to be shared by linking people's personal (none commercial) cockpit web sites to each other. They can be race cars, trains, space ships, airplanes, boats, or any other cockpit that can be simulated.
Arcade Machines Retro Dreams (4 Sites, 181 Hits) 11/20/2001 admins
Our WebRing is for people who love to built their own arcade machines or arcade controls that can be attached to a cabinet or stand-alone unite and for those who would like to learn how. Show off your handy work here and inspire others. Our Web sites are in association with Townfriend Internet Communities. "Establishing friendships from town to town..."
Red Baron II/3D WebRing (18 Sites, 666 Hits) 12/31/1996 flybert
The Red Baron II/3D WebRing is dedicated to the Red Baron II/3D WWI Flight Simulator by Dynamix/Sierra and information on World War I aviation.
The Ring of Dragons (36 Sites, 619 Hits) 12/31/1996 warped_dragon
A ring of information, and fun regarding the Ultima series of computer games by Origin, and the Ultima Dragons, its fan club.
Final Fantasy VII (33 Sites, 278 Hits) 12/31/1996 admins
This ring is for all websites related to the Final Fantasy RPG video game series.
The Nintendo and More! Web Ring (12 Sites, 118 Hits) 04/20/1998 nintendoandmore
This ring is for people who love Nintendo and MORE. Nintendo is great but there's actually more out there then JUST Nintendo (or so I've been told). If you have a site that has Nintendo, XBOX, Playstation, Dreamcast or anything to do with Video Games on it I'd be happy to have it in the ring. Or if you just want to visit some great sites about Nintendo (and more) come visit the Nintendo and more home page at: http://www.geocities.com/marieshq64/ninmore.html
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Accident Reports Online
File an Accident Report
To complete an accident report, please select the below corresponding form.
Delayed Accident Report Form (PDF)
Delayed Accident Reports are designed for citizen reporting of an accident after the fact, and they are not typically investigated by an officer unless the suspect vehicle fled the scene AND the license plate and vehicle information was obtained in order for an officer to conduct follow up investigation. Delayed Accident Reports are designed to be completed and returned to the Fayetteville Police Department, and they are not able to be submitted online at this time; however, you may mail them in or drop them off at 100 W. Rock Street, Fayetteville, AR 72701. An accident falls into this category if the accident occurred on a city street.
Private Property Accident Report Form (PDF)
Private Property Accident Reports are designed for citizen reporting of an accident, and they are not typically investigated by an officer unless the suspect vehicle fled the scene AND the license plate and vehicle information was obtained in order for an officer to conduct follow up investigation. Private Property Accidents are designed to be completed by the citizen and then submitted by the citizen to their insurance company to suffice as their police report. These would ONLY be returned to the Fayetteville Police Department if the follow up investigation criteria were met. An accident falls into this category if the accident occurred in a parking lot or other area of private property.
Obtain A Copy of a Completed Accident Report
Effective August 1, 2008, motor vehicle accident reports generated on July 1, 2008, or after that date will be available on-line and in most cases reports can be obtained within 5 to 7 days of the accident. Some accidents may require additional time. Accident reports will still be available at the Fayetteville Police Department. To search for an accident report, you simply enter the name of the driver, date of accident, location of the accident or the report number.
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Portal:Battlestar Galactica (RDM)
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The Battlestar Galactica (Re-imagined Series) Portal
IMPORTANT NOTE: This page is a complete accounting of all events that have occurred in the Re-imagined Series. If you have only begun watching the series, this site will contain information of events, actions, and characters that you may not have been exposed to yet. This is information that you may consider to be a spoiler, and as this Wiki is a complete and thorough resource, you have been warned that spoilers are to be expected. Review our Spoiler Policy for details.
If you're old enough, you might have seen the original 1978 Battlestar Galactica and Galactica 1980 way back when. The re-imagined series debuted with a miniseries on December 8th, 2003, and concluded 73 episodes later on March 20th, 2009.
The new Battlestar Galactica, created and produced by Ronald D. Moore, was the talk of the town on science fiction websites and entertainment magazines alike. It was a reboot of the two previous series, but maintained its own story line with a darker tone and rich characterizations, intrigue and action.
Despite the controversy, this reboot remains one of the more successful reboots of a television series from the 20th century, and has spawned off two prequels: Caprica and Blood and Chrome.
Subportals
DVD Movies of the Week
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Characters in the Reimagined Series
William Adama Laura Roslin Kara Thrace Lee Adama Gaius Baltar Number Six Number Eight Saul Tigh Karl Agathon Galen Tyrol
Felix Gaeta Anastasia Dualla Cally Tyrol Samuel Anders Number Three Ellen Tigh Tory Foster Billy Keikeya Number Two Number Five
Number One Number Four Tom Zarek Sherman Cottle Diana Seelix "Jammer" "Racetrack" Louanne Katraine "Hotdog" "Crashdown"
Featured Episode
The Eye of Jupiter
The Fleet makes a stop at a planet and discovers the location of a religious artifact that may further lead the way to Earth—for both the Colonials and the Cylons.
Starbuck: Can I make a suggestion you won't like?
Apollo: Do you make any other kind?
...that the Chief's first appearance on New Caprica, in which he speaks in front of a gathering about "throwing yourself on the wheels of the machine" mirrors a speech famous for sparking the Free Speech Movement, which Mario Savio delivered from the roof of a police car on the UC Berkeley campus plaza in 1964. The liberalization of campus policy on organization and protest helped bring about the movement that ended the war in Vietnam, as well as hippies and "free love."
...that the name "Number Six" is, according to Battlestar Galactica: The Official Companion (Titan Books, 2005), written by David Bassom, an indirect tribute to Patrick McGoohan's cult 1967 television series The Prisoner - a series that addressed topics such as personal freedom and identity, mind control, illusionary experiences and the infiltration of society's supposed guardians (secret agents) by a nefarious force (those behind The Village)?
...that when Anders calls humanoid Cylons "Skin Jobs" in the episode "Downloaded", it is a referrence to the classic scifi film Blade Runner, also starring Edward James Olmos?
...that according to series creator Ron Moore, the Twelve Colonies are actually 12 planets circling four stars in the same solar system?
...that Gage and Vireem's beating of Chief Tyrol and Helo with bars of soap inside of socks in "Resurrection Ship, Part II" is a direct homage to a similar scene from the film Full Metal Jacket?
...a Verizon Wireless ringtone is the theme from the "Final Cut" documentary?
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Africa Elections Central African Republic Economy Ethnic violence Séléka Anti-balaka Reports
Voters go to polls to rebuild Central African Republic
Presidential Elections Preparations at polling stations in Bangui, Central African Republic AFP
Voting has begun in the Central African Republic to elect a president and usher in stability after years of sectarian violence. Lines formed at polling stations in the capital Bangui amid heavy security. RFI's correspondent, Margaux Benn, gives an update of the proceedings from Bangui.
Voters were queuing outside polling stations in the Central African Republic on Wednesday morning to elect a president and new parliament in elections seen as vital to restore stability to the region.
Snaking queues had formed outside polling stations in the capital Bangui long before the scheduled 6am start, but in many places voting was delayed for a few hours by technical glitches. The PK-5 district, a Muslim neighbourhood where five people were killed during voting in a referendum on 13 December, was one of the areas affected by the late arrival of voting materials.
Security in PK-5 was tight. UN troops patrolled the neighbourhood, which has been a focal point in clashes between rebels from the Muslim minority and Christian militia, but voters’ enthusiasm was high. Central Africans cited the poor credibility of the transitional government, weakened institutions and the desire for stronger authorities as among their reasons for going out to vote.
Margaux Benn, RFI correspondent in Bangui, said: “Voting is carrying on without too many issues in Bangui and in the provinces. In hot points like Bombari and anti-Balaka strongholds, voting is actually happening without any issue and the turnout is quite impressive.”
The legislative and presidential elections in the Central African Republic have been delayed a number of times, mainly for security reasons after violence broke out during the constitutional referendum on 13 December. Dealing with disarmament and bolstering the decimated economy will be among the priorities for the newly elected president of the Central African Republic.
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