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Album Review: Cartoon Bar Fight ‘Reincarnate’
In Music November 21, 2012 by Amulya Datla Tweet
Album Artwork: 'A Beautiful Death' by Terry Fan.
For five years, Cartoon Bar Fight has gone through lineup changes, with only two of the founding members left: Kendall Sallay and Dirk Milotz. Despite the instability, they’ve mastered a few songs along the way. Following their release of their debut EP, Tell All The Children, almost exactly last year to date ( Nov. 18th), the San Jose band presents a full album showcasing songs they have long waited to present.
Beautiful, haunting melodies create a surreal, peaceful mood on CBF’s Reincarnate. Starting fresh after a previous life seems to be the theme for CBF, from their original formation to now. In a sense they have reincarnated themselves in the process of releasing this album.
The album starts with an eerie organ-like movement, “A Beautiful Death” (the same title as the album artwork by Terry Fan), and into “Dear Victoria,” a solemn song almost styled as a shanty. “Circus” continues in the same vein with a cry for change as the ending chant repeats the lyrics “I sleep too often, when will I awake?” and “I know I’ve fallen away.”
The title track, “Reincarnate,” helps close the album with much more hopeful lyrics for life and change as heard in the chorus, “in life and death, disappear, change your shape, reappear, reincarnate” before the final song “A Beautiful Life.”
The album really shows a much darker and reflective side of CBF not present in Tell All The Children, with more musical development, instrumentation depth and richness to their songs.
Highlight Tracks: The Marquee, Reincarnate, The Kingdom Of
Tags: A Beautiful Death, Album Review, Cartoon Bar Fight, Local Music, Reincarnate, San Jose, Terry Fan
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joeressen+kessner: Semantic Mapping
Bettina Pelz October 7, 2017
_ joeressen+kessner engender site-specific interventions that allow to perceive, to understand and to categorize a site in a new quality. Preferred, they work with historically charged sites to which they respond with transmedia interventions. Their works are digitals systems that interfere with the analog status quo via image and sound applications. They generate data systems that control audiovisual projections which are applied in real-time to a chosen environment.
Their transmedia compositions are based on dialogic principles ranging from between the two artists, between to two spheres “audio” and “visual”, between analog and digital architecture, between light and sound waves, between the material and immaterial dimension. In their research on a site, they cover architectural concepts and structures, emblematic qualities and acoustic patterns. They ponder on function and use, history and memory, experiences and associations as well as culture-historical, scientific or theoretical aspects. The process of exploring and developing constantly shifts between concrete and universal, specific and fundamental, practice and theory. They collect and sort, reflect and experiment with their finding to develop a semantic map that serves as the foundation of their compositions.
In the development process, joeressen+kessner focus on the transition of how coding content leads to a character, on how the hosting medium influences the appearance and on how space and time alter a digital figuration – in general as well as on the site in particular. They consider a character an abstract unit where a formative framework and associated meaning, significance and representation are in constant, reciprocal negotiation. They develop set of characters as an artistic system that allows expression, that can be read as a language, and that allow hosting knowledge in a new way. Their works come as digital character sets that drive image and sound projections that interfere with the appearance of the space. Their encodings instruct self-organizing processes, and these develop as autonomous patterns in which the intentional and the non-intentional engender a performative play. This leads to rhizome of influences that are too complex to be fully analyzed and which can only be understood by extended observation of the interaction. The unpredictable part of this approach links to them to artistic approaches based on generative processing but to ensure their artistic autonomy, joeressen+kessner work without pre-programmed standards as well as without any form of presets and plug-ins.
They form a network of interconnected paths and tracks which overlap each other and branch out repeatedly as a real-time environment. Unlike image systems as known from film, video, and animation which are generated separately, illuminated, reckoned, reworked and cut before they are broadcasted, real-time processing is a high performative system in which rendering and display coincide and which reinvent itself while performing. By coding open systems, a continuous change between analysis, instruction, and expression takes place. The traditional separation between development, production, and performance is abolished and notation, recording, and display are modulated in real time. Complexity, incomprehensibility, and incompleteness are part of this kind of artistic research. The formatting of these processes is the composition process of joeressen+kessner.
The implementation of the digital dimension in an analog space via projection allows to disintegrate found settings and limitations and permits a redesign of references, reference sets, and reference qualities. The physical space with its architectural, spatial and temporal ratios turns into a media system. Light as primary media of the analog sphere and as the media of display of the digital sphere serves as the interface and permits the linkage.
With their transmedia interventions, joeressen+kessner further a development that altered the canon of fine arts in the middle of the 20th century. The first electronic-spatial environment that combines architecture, film, light, and music into a fusion of space and time is the Philips-Pavilion, that was realized 1958 in Brussels. The artistic direction was at Le Corbusier in co-operation with Iannis Xenakis and Edgard Varèse. Compositions of acoustic space and architecture, light behavior and image generation, aesthetic qualities and perception properties and digital technologies led to a new synthesis. Golo Föllmer describes the Philips Pavilion: “Two tape compositions were created for this: “Poème électronique” by Edgard Varèse which aimed at an intensive fusion of space and sound experience. The used synthetic and concrete sounds were shown to Le Corbusier ‘s film or light projection with the help of elaborate loudspeaker technology as lines and volumes in the space.” In the 21st century, the transmedia interplay was expanded by generative data systems by artists like joeressen+kessner.
Since 2001, Eva-Maria Joeressen and Klaus Kessner have been working together developing transmedia compositions as spatial interventions. Both are professional artists since the 1980s and both are active teachers: Klaus Kessner has been visiting lecturer at University of Applied Sciences Duesseldorf and the Peter-Behrens-School of Arts and Eva-Maria Joeressen holds a professorship at the Peter-Behrens-School of Arts in Duesseldorf. In addition, she is involved in the German “Light in Fine Arts (LIFA)” – network to strengthen research and discourse on light in fine arts in higher educations.
Text: Bettina Pelz, October 7, 2017
Posted in All, ArtistTagged Conditional Art, Projection Mapping
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Assembly (2017) : The Rising Series
Activistar's first Assembly Series of 5 cities (2011-2016) features Hanoi, Iskandar Malaysia, Yangon, Manila and Jakarta. These are populous epicentres of commerce, of historical significance, hold political legacies and significant in their own period.
The second Assembly Series of the next 5 cities begins with Phnom Penh (2017), and will offer all participants a fresh look of South East Asia.
The new Phnom Penh Masterplan (since 1954) presents much opportunity for commerce and economic revitalisation. Formerly the Paris of the East, the city has previously degenerated into the dark ages of civil war, political unrest and revolution, literally wiping out much of it's Indochina legacy. Nonetheless, there is a resurgence in optimism and enterprise, judging by the new gleaming and still climbing residential towers on Diamond Island, new airport terminal, road improvements and more. Phnom Penh still has it's fair share of bullet scarred art deco buildings, old markets and heritage districts. Phnom Penh is not a sprawling metropolis, it is easy to orientate and has a compact low-rise/high-density urban plan. Somehow, it's intersections, roundabouts and arterial road system conjure up a tight urban fabric - creating a very balanced scale. It is a city to be experienced at the human scale, it is safer than western cities at night and it is definitely Rising!
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Squatters Relocation in Jakarta (ongoing)
Children at the Marunda housing complex in North Jakarta. About one-third of the estimated 3,000 people living in the Kalijodo red-light district were moved to two of 27 blocks of government flats in Marunda. Yesterday, some 5,000 soldiers, police officers and public service officers cleared out the remaining occupants in Kalijodo. The police helped some residents to move their belongings in a police truck.ST PHOTO: ARLINA ARSHAD
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2003,2009,2015 - Heightened Secuirty in Jakarta
They are everywhere, checkpoints and searches and more due to threats and incidents. Security is big and serious business in Jakarta, kudo's to the Men & Women in Uniform keeping the streets safe!
Indonesian policewoman, Brigadier Handayani (R), reports on the traffic situation for a program by the Indonesian National Traffic Management Center (NTMC), a unit belonging to Indonesia's National Police in Jakarta on February 27, 2012. AFP PHOTO / ADEK BERRY February 27, 2012| Credit: ADEK BERRY
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Jakarta Old Town Revitalization (Dutch Architecture)
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New Jakarta Port
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Tower Shines Bright for Student Supercomputing Win
By Julia Bunch in 40 Acres, Research, Special on December 3, 2013 at 4:12 pm | No Comments
Many a sports fan hopes the UT Tower will glow orange after a game on the football field. But last night, the Tower was lit for another kind of win: A student team was crowned champion of a global supercomputing competition.
Team Texas took home the top prize at the 8th-annual Student Cluster Competition at the Supercomputing Conference in Denver. The 72-hour battle requires students to build, optimize, and run the most efficient predesigned cluster computing system, along with a couple surprise assignments, all with a strict power budget. Teams are then awarded points based on workload completion, benchmark performance, conference attendance, and interviews.
Junior biology major Eric Dawson was one of six student members of Team Texas, along with Jim Given, Reid McKenzie, Julian Michael, Suvamsh Shivaprasad, and Zachary Tschirchart. The team also includes three coaches from the Texas Advanced Computing Center and two former team members who acted as student advisors.
“The Supercomputing Conference is a collection of industries, academics, and research coming together to share ideas for high-performance computing,” Dawson says. “The competition is friendly. Everyone shows up with blood in their eyes, but by the end of the week we got to know the other eight teams.”
The teams worked constantly during the three-day competition, apart from taking occasional naps on the exhibit floor. But fatigue didn’t stop the Texas Team from reveling in its win. UT’s team walked away winners for the second year in a row, with a score of 67 points, 11 higher than second place.
“It’s cool to show that UT has a strong HPC program and it’s not just a fluke or super team,” Dawson says. “We’ll see about next year. I think we have Xs on our backs now.”
Next year’s Supercomputing Competition will be held in New Orleans. But until then, Dawson is still enjoying this year’s win.
“Turning the Tower orange is a crowning thing I’ve wanted to do since I got to UT,” Dawson says. “I got lots of pictures with my horns up in front of it.”
Photo courtesy Faith Singer-Villalobos.
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Secret societies, societies with secrets, and societies with spoilers
When thinking about secrets and mysteries in practice, I’ve long tossed about the idea of a difference between secret societies, societies with secrets and a society without spoilers. Especially in this day when so much is being made available online, but that really is just a matter of scale when there are plenty of historical examples of similar things, such as Aleister Crowley revealing the initiatory rituals of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as serialized in the pages of the Equinox, the varied publication and exposé of so much Freemasonic ritual, and so forth.
There are still some pretty legitimately secret societies, which while well-known to exist are not revealed, such as the Skull and Bones society, and recently breaking the Copiale cipher seemed to tantalizingly promise that there might be still some complex and completely unknown societies, at least until it was revealed the material was pretty clearly Freemasonic in nature. But for the most part, I object that when people talk about secret societies they are engaged in flights of fancy about group about which not only their existence but much of their particulars are known. Quite often, of course, such wild imaginings are part and parcel with an agenda of fear mongering, but even still there are otherwise sane and rational people talking about certain societies as if they were actually not completely or almost completely public. Certainly Freemasonic tradition and ritual cannot rationally be called secret anymore, and the membership is in the habit of parading around, not to mention things like having decals on their cars and fobs on their keychains, and thus it cannot be called a secret society. Even traditional boogeymen like Aleister Crowley and Ordo Templi Orientis can only by the slimmest margin come anywhere near being called a secret society, with websites, public spaces, public event calendars, and so forth. There may indeed be legitimately unavailable secrets still, for example within A∴A∴, but that’s not enough to call these fraternal orders by the name of a secret society. In these cases there’s perhaps some legitimate secrets, but there must also be a practical recognition that most material related to these groups is available, outside the structured system of the society itself, somewhere, if one wants to find it.
Of course, just as much as one can avoid spoilers for movies and books and other things sequentially revealed, it is possible to avoid, for the most part, much of that material. It is not that there are no spoilers. Rather that spoilers do very much exist. Which is to say, the existence of spoilers requires one to decide to avoid the spoilers in order to fully enjoy the reveal. This is quite different from a society that pretends it doesn’t exist to outsiders, or a known society with things that it keeps secret.
There are modern examples of working with secrets within esoteric systems, and there’s clearly something interesting going on around secrets. There is smoke pointing to something important and useful at the source. There’s a tension, perhaps much as it ever was, between the urge to make information available and the various efficacies of secrets. T Thorn Coyle wrote a bit about the division in Feri between what had been called the “Mystery tradition” and the “public religion” factions, at “The Sundering of Feri“. Thorn, of course, also runs an online Mystery School. I was trying to find a quote where I recall her saying something about how paganism needed to have a Mystery tradition as part of it, but can’t find that right now.
Generally, when I talk about such things to people who ask, I suggest that initiation ritual, especially, is like a good book or movie with a savoury plot twist or two. You will only ever get a single chance to experience the participatory drama without knowing how it develops; that’s if one goes through it the first time not having read the materials. One and only one chance. Ever. So why throw that away by reading ahead? One can always read the materials afterward, as many times as one likes; but to read the spoilers is to waste a wonderful opportunity that cannot ever, barring soap opera amnesia tropes, be experienced once the reveal has been spoiled.
Whether one “gets” it or not (either initially or on subsequent viewings of a ritual or readings, of material) is another question entirely. And, it seems to me, in my experience, what constitutes “getting it” will likely evolve and change over time no matter what else is a consideration. When given the opportunity, I like to point out that one can go to many stagings of a play by Shakespeare and get new things, new depth of understanding and new enjoyment, as well as savour slightly different interpretations, so to me the re-play value depth of meaning of a work or body of work is something that is a different question to the idea of seeing something for the first time without spoilers.
But, still, people freak about things unknown, and try to minimize and control things by figuring things out ahead instead of being comfortable with being uncomfortable as a thing itself. Seems to me the still prevalent modern desire to conquer Nature and the pervaisive post-modern existential nausea about information overload and slavish ‘inbox zero’ mania are examples, perhaps symptoms, of where the ability to just relax about not knowing, not being in control, would be useful for people to practice in specific so they can have skill in applying it in general.
Another aspect that always comes up around secrets is the idea that somehow no matter what is revealed, the real secrets are impervious to such petty concerns. Seems to me blather about mystery being unspoilable is semantically empty jazz hands (or worse self deception (or worse-worse deception of others) about “spiritual” exceptionalism), and misses the point of initiation as orchestrated stressful situation intended to create a kind of imprint vulnerability, an altered state, in the initiate, and attempts to diffuse that stress and that experience before experiencing it is an attempt mitigate and in some form to not have the experience at all. The efficacy of secrets in a system are not just about the information, true, but the information is interwoven into an experience, and the experience is changed by the quality and obscurity of the information on which the experience is built. If one knows the rollercoaster has a blind drop at the end, one still experiences the drop in and of itself, but the surprise in and of itself is changed into anticipation, and that’s a different thing entirely which not only changes the experience of the drop but distracts from the experience of what occurs before.
For me, when I talk about “reading ahead” (spoiling) I mean that as a placeholder for activity the diffuses the effectiveness of initiation and mystery, whether written down and read or spoken and heard or whatever and whatevered. For me, being a candidate in initiation and mystery is to be an improv actor stumbling into a rehearsed stage play, and both savoury and exciting. One tends to think all kinds of things about structure and likely scenarios, if nothing else than a rite of passage (exit normal, experience liminal, re-enter normal changed) but it is the actuality, specifics and plot twists, the things that can be spoiled, which I think should be avoided and, yes, allowed as a personal experience.
To bring it around, my point of wondering about classification of societies is that there is a kind of society which is not itself attempting to pretend it doesn’t exist, and which has essentially much of its material revealed or potentially could be in future somewhere, but that points out there is a reason not to “read” ahead as a practice of discipline in and of itself; that there is a place for not knowing as a thing, and experience, to be embodied through ritual, especially dramatic ritual like initiation.
The trick of improv is to have characters and bits of business prepared and figure out ways to fit those into any circumstances, so perhaps the corollary is to become good at mystery and a good initiate prepared by building the foundation of skills, whatever those are in one’s tradition, that make the personal experience of the unknown richer.
If an initiatory working is in some form or another purely ecstatic, then perhaps more than one person will have no prior exposure. That seems quite different than a mystery tradition where something is being revealed. But, whether there is an actual script or not, a mystery tradition will have participants who have experienced or developed a relationship with the mystery who are inducting others. If those others have exposed themselves or been exposed prior to some element meant to be revealed, then they have failed to avoid spoilers, they have whatevered the whatever.
Maps certainly won’t always apply, especial when applied outside their intended scope. Just add as given to any structural approach “except where this doesn’t apply”. But, to be clear, there are other structures, but I’m primarily talking about a mystery tradition where something is being revealed. But, whether there is an actual script or not, a mystery tradition will have participants who have experienced or developed a relationship with the mystery who are inducting others. Here the word ‘mystery’ in a religious sense comes from Greek mysterion “secret rite or doctrine,” as in a thing to be revealed to initiates, whether, additionally as previously stated, those are “written down and read or spoken and heard or whatever and whatevered”, a secret doctrine passed on or a secret rite enacted.
Which begs the question: without a mystery (neither secret rite or secret doctrine) to be revealed, whither the mystery cult? Further, without a mystery, one might even be tempted to ask how can there actually be an initiation at all?
Perhaps, one might say of a modern non-mystery that an “impromptu ecstatic divinatory rite” took place which offered UPG, such that a previously unknown rite is enacted or previously unknown doctrine is developed. But without the secret rite or secret doctrine, which would have to have previously existed to those initiated few inducting others, there’s nothing to pass on that was previously held sacred, no previously held in secret doctrine or rite, tautologically.
“Nothing to pass on that was previously held sacred” may offer another name, perhaps more tripping, instead of “society without spoilers”: a “sacred society”, a society with things held sacred as in separate, something bound, enclosed and protected.
Unfortunately, one can follow the etymology of ‘secret’ to essentially the same place, the difference being one implies holiness and the other does not, I suppose, which “holiness” seems, to my mind, just a special case of any of the others three terms I suggested.
I suspect the apparent failure of the modality of a “mystery cult” in the modern world has to do with modernity, modernism and existentialism, and the lack of acceptance of shared concrete and coherent gnosis, thus the ground on which a modern mystery cult would be built is unsuitable for lavish neo-romantic structures, except for those already conditioned to such things, such as lapsed Catholics and such. Which is to say, perhaps any mystery cult would seem too superficial to a modern person to have the same religious and social impacts, simply because the assumed rich foundation is missing.
So, the feeling one might have that a mystery cult or tradition in the modern age has lost its luster is due not to the mystery cult but rather due to the overall modern age. There is still a lingering notion that something may be missing for rootless moderns which a mystery cult can offer by way of a more structured ritual, initiations, and a focused mythic basis for ritual; more robust spiritual meaning which then, in turn, offers deeper experience of life in general. But, I find myself wondering if the project of modern mystery traditions is undermined by a general lack of cultural foundation, those foundations of community and cohesion being so efficiently eroded in our public, political and even private lives. Not to mention the lack of what is still called a “classical education” with the broad base of and relationship of familiarity with languages, myths, archetypes and so on. This, then becomes a chicken and egg, which can only be resolved by realizing the false dichotomy that one must be completed before the other, and that the development in general is aided by development in specific, and visa versa, synergistically.
One possible route out of the morass, for moderns and post-moderns, I sometimes come to is the suggestion that situational certainty is a tool for meta-cognition. By this I mean, that the ground on which a mystery cult could be built, the solid ground of structured ritual, initiations, and a focused mythic basis for ritual is sufficient when internally consistent for its purpose and held to be true for the time that it is necessary. But, that threatens what is perhaps an entirely different discussion.
But, to bring it back around again, a ‘mystery cult’ is a cult with a mystery. A ‘cult’ is the external activity enacting a religious metaphor, a ritual behaviour. A ‘mystery’ is a secret rite or secret doctrine (to be revealed). Therefore, a ‘mystery cult’ is specifically ritual behaviour that involves a secret rite or secret doctrine. ‘Tradition’ is shared belief or behaviour through time. Therefore, ‘mystery tradition’ is belief and ritual behaviour that involves a secret rite or secret doctrine shared through time.
I’m so strongly reminded by this of something. I believe it was something by Karl Kereny (but it might be form Van Gennep or Turner, I can’t recall right now) which I paraphrase: “Ritual enacts Myth and Myth explains Ritual.”
It seems possible to conflate a general meaning of “mystery” as more of a kind of ‘gnosis’ or noetic experience with how I understand it is used in the specific sense within the term “mystery cult” which is more what I am talking about here. When speaking of the idea of whether a ‘mystery cult’ within modern systems would be useful in order to ground the work in structured behaviour, I’m assuming that we’re actually talking about ‘mystery cult’ not general unspecific noetic experience or so forth. This of course somewhat ironically points out a possible initial critique of paganism as a generalized, syncretic, eclectic system which lacks the benefit of what a mystery cult offers and hence the possible utility of that structured influence, offering specific external ritual behaviour around a secret rite or secret doctrine.
If you want mystery without mystery cult, that already exists in various forms of wild and wishy-washy moments of gnosis within the ecstatic traditions of modern life; but, why not try adding an actual ‘mystery cult’ back into the cultural mix? In fact, I could easily argue that there already is ‘mystery cult’ in various places within neopaganism, with a facile example being initiatory orders like OTO and others, which are perfect examples of mysteries for which spoilers exist and which spoilers therefore can be intentionally avoided.
A very salient point for this modern information age is the value an experience of not knowing, so that one can and must do less thinking prior to events, not more. Perhaps the suggestion contained within the experience of not knowing is that one should do one’s thinking after: praxis before theory, so that theory is informed by praxis without prejudice. If this is the case, why not work toward maximizing the possible experience instead of minimizing the probable damage of knowing by seeking after spoilers of any kind, even the mundane accidents surrounding specific quanta and quality?
Indeed, I would suggest that one approach an initiatory experience within an mystery tradition not as a result of successful prior thinking or a seal on attainment, like we are so often familiar with from diplomas, certificates and honors; but an invitation to view the world through a particular lens for a particular period of time, determined by the particulars of the ritual and tradition in which the initiation takes place. In other words, the initiation is really the beginning, suggested by the word itself, of an pervasive life experience.
The full experience of a mystery event intended to involve surprises, plot twists or situations unknown can be self-evidently spoiled by prior knowledge of those circumstances. Especially if part of the trigger for the full experience is the stress of not knowing. Certainly, I don’t mean that these things are binary (and it may be possible to salvage some part of the experience even if spoiled, but why not go for the whole thing instead of the tatters?), but that avoiding spoilers is a discipline that seems worthy if one is serious about that experience, and looking to have it be as rich as possible.
And, that this, in specific, will inform one’s general life as well.
And yes, one can point out that for completely ecstatic visceral events and such that are not within a mystery tradition, there’s mostly nothing to spoil by prior knowledge, per se. Except that maybe even still, for example, having that ecstatic visceral experience is based on a not knowing, in some fashion; for example, there’s only one time for the first such experience. All subsequent such experiences are informed by prior such similar events; but also, there may be circumstances around how the experience is induced that involve some fashion of not-knowing the mechanisms being used, which after the initial experience become less effective in themselves and experienced practitioners then rely on other means more, such as anchoring past experience to ease induction subsequently.
Also, for purely personal experience based on involvement in a mystery cultic practice, the former requires the latter, so saying the former can’t be spoiled is only true on the former level but it’s a logical typing fallacy to presume that spoiling the more primary function of mystery cultic practice can’t spoil the dependent personal experience of it. Mystery rituals are built around some kind of surprise, a revealing of the secret practice or doctrine at least. One could try to criticize the practices of mystery traditions by bringing up features of non-surprise ritual is not a feature of surprise ritual merely because they participate in the prior category of ritual. But, still the one is not the other. Noetic mystery is not mystery cult merely because the English word mystery is in both. But these are mostly different topics than suggesting the efficacy a mystery cult with structured ritual behaviour involving a secret doctrine or secret rite to a previous practice of generalized, syncretic, eclectic practice.
So, for my own part, I have come to prefer the discipline of having structured ritual events with their reveals unspoiled so that I can experience them with as little prior knowledge as possible, because it’s the only time I will ever get that experience in that way, ever. Of course, you go about your experiences however you like, but I suspect if the initial spoiler free experience is not preserved you’re not actually experiencing ‘mystery cult’ anymore, but rather just, one might say, an extended re-enactment of a transcript of someone else’s dramatized experience. And, if you want that, just watch reruns of some reality television program, or another, instead.
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By Deborah Engle
Busy little children swarmed all about, but 16-month-old Benny only had eyes for his blue blankie. Somehow, it had found its way to the other side of the room. That wasn’t good because, now that he had caught sight of it, he wanted it. No, he needed it, and he needed it now.
For most youngsters his age, this would not have been a problem. It would have been a simple matter to take a few steps and grab that blankie up, but most 16-month-olds have been walking for ages. Benny, though, refused to yield to that tradition. In reality, on more than one occasion, he had been spotted taking a step or two, but only when he was alone, and as if to deny it ever happened, had dropped to his knees as soon as he realized he was being watched. His resistance to walking was so complete that if someone tried to make him stand up, he would hold his legs straight out in front of him as if he were sitting on the floor, making him look like Aladdin on an invisible flying carpet.
At any rate, for an experienced crawler like Benny, getting to his blankie wouldn’t normally be a problem, but the activity surrounding him had been escalating over the past hour and could legitimately be described as chaotic. He unconsciously flexed his dimpled fingers, remembering the weight of Laura’s foot tromping on them as she pranced into the room earlier. After that, Benny had found a secluded place to play at the end of the couch. He leaned against it now, his gaze intent on the precious blankie which seemed to be calling his name.
Though not anxious to enter the fray, his need was strong. He began to lower himself to the floor, then stopped. Amid the swirling forest of legs and bodies, Joy was hopping toward him. Benny’s eyes widened in alarm. Only half an hour ago Joy had decided he would make a fine pony and had plopped herself down on his back as he was crawling toward the toy-box. Now, seeing her heading his way, he pulled himself back up against the couch. Shaking his head, he pointed and waved one arm towards her, declaring, “No! Go!”
Benny didn’t like being Joy’s pony. But he did need his blankie. His consternation produced a bit of drool that momentarily perched on his lip, then reluctantly slid down and was gone. With it went his distraction.
Once more, his eyes found the spot of blue. Once more, he knelt down, and this time he moved out… closer, then closer.
“Unh!”
Bump! Thump!
“Ow!”
“Oops! Are you okay? I didn’t see you down there!” Ronnie was six, and big enough to lift Benny up and give him a comforting hug. Tender-hearted Ronnie hadn’t meant to hurt him, but when all was said and done, Benny was back against the couch and his little blue blankie was still across the room.
If ever a little one looked like he could use a cuddle with his blankie, it was Benny. Tears welled up in those blue eyes, his lip quivered, and his body sagged against the couch.
But then he grew still, as if fighting an internal battle. For the next few minutes, more than one emotion flitted across his face. When at last he blinked, his expression was transformed. A junior-sized portion of resolve and determination were etched into his baby face. His eyes darted around the room then settled on his blankie. With quickened breath, he stood up tall and moved one foot forward. The other one followed, hesitantly, and both arms worked to keep his balance. Then again… five, nine, fifteen… each step deliberate.
Within seconds, the cherished prize was clutched in his hands, and with those steps, Benny had become the victor, in more ways than he knew.
DEBORAH ENGLE’s interest in writing was awakened during her time at community college, and she later honed her skills at Faithwriter’s.com. Several Editors’ Choice awards, as well as a first place finish in Journezine.com’s 2009 Christmas Story Competition, have inspired her in her journey. You can read more by Deborah at FaithWriters
2 comments on “If at First…”
Rita Garcia on January 15, 2013 at 2:22 am said:
Love Benny’s determination. A fun and delightful read!
Lisa Mikitarian on January 15, 2013 at 2:26 am said:
My goodness–you’ve captured every struggle in Benny’s. Excellent.
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'Female intuition comes from lower testosterone exposure in womb'
Intuitive thought is characterized by processing information automatically and unconsciously, requiring little cognitive effort. This way of thinking is frequently ascribed to women under the title of so-called "female intuition," and now, researchers suggest this could have a biological influence, rooted in lower prenatal exposure to testosterone in the womb.
The researchers, from the University of Granada, the Barcelona Pompeu Fabra University - both in Spain - and the Middlesex University of London in the UK, publish their study in the journalPsychoneuroendocrinology.
They note that previous studies have suggested prenatal exposure to testosteroneinfluences developments in the brain, which determine behaviors and tendencies throughout an individual's life. For example, researchers have suggested that higher testosterone exposure in the womb for males influences them to take more risks than females.
Contrary to intuitive thought, reflexive thought takes greater cognitive effort and conscious analysis. But both thought processes can be useful in different contexts; for example, in some situations, allowing intuition to guide choices may be better than stopping to think, the team says.
To investigate the relationship between testosterone exposure and thought processes, the researchers carried out a study on more than 600 students from the University of Granada Faculty of Economics and Studies.
Digital ratio determines testosterone exposure
Results of their study show that men did better on the CRT test than women. However, women who showed a more "masculine" digital ratio answered equally as well as the men.
Image credit: Antonio M. Espin, et al.
The team used what is now a widely studied and accepted marker for prenatal testosterone exposure, called the second-to-fourth digit ratio, which is determined by dividing the length of the forefinger by the length of the ring finger on the same hand.
Lead author Antonio Manuel Espin, lecturer at the University of Granada, explains:
"The lower the ratio, the greater the prenatal testosterone received and, therefore, the more 'masculine' the cerebral disposition, regardless of the person's gender."
He adds that, compared with women, men naturally have a lower average digital ratio.
Study participants responded to several questionnaires, one of which contained the cognitive reflection test (CRT). This test is designed to measure the ability to override an incorrect intuitive response and further reflect, leading to the correct answer.
In short, the test measures the difference between intuition and reflection, and in order to get the right answer, subjects must stop, reflect and recognize that the first answer to jump into his or her head was incorrect.
After administering the tests, the team measured the participants' hands so they could calculate their digital ratio.
Women with more 'masculine' digital ratio did as well as men on CRT test
"What is most important here," says Espin, "is that women tend to give more intuitive answers, whilst men respond in a more reflexive way. In other words, in this specific test, which penalizes intuitive thought, men generally do better than women."
Results of their study show that - predictably - men did better on the CRT test than women. However, women who showed a more "masculine" digital ratio answered equally as well as the men.
Espin says:
"To be more specific, what we found was an indication that prenatal exposure to testosterone predisposes people to adopt a more reflexive and less intuitive mindset. Furthermore, this effect seems to be stronger among women."
Though interesting, it is important to note that the study does have some limitations. The research team admits that "trying to pin down differences in the CRT answers to one single factor, prenatal testosterone/estrogens ratio, is simplistic." They add that this simplicity could lead to "conflicting, erratic or inconclusive results."
Still, the researchers say their findings should prompt future controlled experiments to investigate why individuals exposed to larger amounts of testosterone in the womb "offer better, more reasoned, solutions in the CRT 20 years after the fact."
Medical News Today recently reported on a study that suggested pain reduces sex drive in women, but not in men.
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A gold medal apiece for Scotland’s Scott McCowan (BC3) and Stephen McGuire (BC4) ensured it was their country on top of the medal table when the two-day UK Boccia Championships came to a close in Antrim Northern Ireland on Sunday (16 June).
In the BC3 category, two-time Paralympian McCowan had finished second in his pool which meant that in the semi-final he was pitted against his brother Jamie who had topped his. In a tight match, Scott edged out his younger brother, winning 4-3 and setting up a Scotland v England final against Matt Berry. Berry had recently taken the silver medal at the Boccia England Cup in Sheffield in May and was hoping to take home a different colour this time. However, even though he forced a tie-break, it was the more experienced Scott McCowan who claimed gold, giving his father Gary, who is his ramp assistant, the perfect Fathers’ Day present.
It was Scotland v England again in both medal matches in the BC4 category. Scotland’s Stephen McGuire beat England’s Louis Saunders 7-2 in the Gold medal match, maintaining his 100% record in these championships. The battle for bronze also went Scotland’s way with Ross Munro beating Evie Edwards 6-3.
However, the standings were reversed in the BC1 category with reigning World and Paralympic Champion David Smith MBE in commanding form, winning his semi-final 11-0 against fellow English player Dan Bentley, a score which he repeated in the final against Scotland’s Reegan Stevenson. In the all-England bronze medal match, it was Daniel Wain who came out on top, beating Dan Bentley 6-4.
But it was Northern Ireland’s Claire Taggart who got the biggest cheer from the home crowd when she beat England’s James Clowes 4-0 in the Gold medal match. The home crowd were also hoping that their countryman Scott Cromie could also bag a medal in the bronze medal match but it wasn’t to be as England’s Reshad Saraj finished on top 3-2.
Commenting on the event and the results, Boccia UK Performance Director Helen Nicholls said: ”We have seen some outstanding Boccia played here this weekend and I’ve been really impressed with the performances and the attitude of all the players. Playing against the world ranked players has been a great experience for the pathway players and they have shown that they are pushing hard to improve. With just over a year to go to Tokyo, being tested on home soil is great for the World Class Programme athletes too.
“The Championships were played in a great spirit so a huge thank you to the volunteers and Disability Sport Northern Ireland for all their hard work in making it such a success and enjoyable weekend.”
The championships were hosted by Disability Sport Northern Ireland (DSNI) were sponsored by Antrim and Newtownabbey Borough Council and TBC Conversions.
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LG CES 2013 HDTV lineup to include 84-inch Ultra HD and 55-inch OLED TVs
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The new 2013 models embody LG’s minimalist CINEMA SCREEN Design. The bezels have been significantly reduced to provide a greater sense of immersion and streamlined style. The Magic Stand further enhances the effect, enabling the screen to appear as if it were floating. Both elegant and functional, the stand complements the screen without creating any visual distraction. This sleek formation effortlessly blends into any modern interior design scheme. The stand also features a convenient swivel and roller function, allowing the TV to be repositioned with ease. The CINEMA 3D Smart TV line-up received another award in December when the 55LA6900 model earned an Environmental Product Declaration
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LG BOLSTERS SMART TV FOR 2013
LG Provides Simple, Intuitive Smart TV User Experience with
Enhanced Magic Remote, Expanded Search and Share Capabilities
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J., Dec. 31, 2012 – Offering a host of new applications and easy access to content, the 2013 Smart TV line from LG Electronics (LG) will include an updated Magic Remote for a simplified, intuitive user experience (UX). –
The wide variety of new models and sizes – including LG’s awe-inspiring 84-inch Ultra HD and 55-inch OLED TVs – will be highlighted at next week’s 2013 International CES®.
“LG strives to provide the most engaging and convenient user experience to consumers all over the globe,” said Havis Kwon, President and CEO of the LG Home Entertainment Company. “We have an uncompromising attitude when it comes to both developing and improving the LG Smart TV platform. As a result, we are confident the user experience of our 2013 models will shatter all expectations and demonstrate that LG is one of the leaders of the Smart TV movement.”
Easy to Use, Share and Enjoy
LG offers Smart Control with its enhanced Home Dashboard and Magic Remote. The new Home Dashboard interface features My Interest Cards – special folders for apps and other content –providing seamless access to what is trending on news sites. My Interest Cards can be customized according to the needs and preferences of the user.
The Magic Remote has been redesigned to fine-tune content and menu navigation, making interaction simple and intuitive. The device still incorporates the fundamental control capabilities of past versions – point, wheel, gesture and voice recognition. At CES, LG will demonstrate Voice Mate, an enhanced version of the company’s voice control technology, capable of recognizing the natural flow of language. The Voice Mate feature offers a new voice search option that simultaneously filters search results across the LG Smart TV platform – Video-on-Demand (VoD) services, websites, external devices and more.
The enhanced SmartShareTM feature offers users the ability to mirror or transfer content from smart devices to LG Smart TVs with various connectivity options, including WiDi and Miracast. The 2013 line-up will enhance sharing between devices by implementing Near Field Communication (NFC), which offers wireless and seamless content mirroring from smartphones and other compatible external devices. This feature immediately connects two devices for quick media sharing. To use “Tag On” as LG calls it, users simply hold a smartphone or other NFC-enabled device against the NFC sticker on LG’s CINEMA 3D Smart TV. The 2013 line-up also supports LG Cloud, which allows the user to stream high-quality content remotely.
Smarter Discovery in Sea of Content
Smart TV users have a steadily growing selection of content from which to choose. To allow users to easily find what they want within VoD and live broadcasts from multiple sources, the LG Smart TV offers an advanced recommendation function called On Now; this convenient service suggests trending VoD and broadcast content. Results pop-up with handy thumbnail images, making it faster and easier for viewers to select content.
With a vast array of movie, lifestyle, gaming and 3D viewing options, consumers looking for international or local content can quickly find what they want on their LG Smart TVs. Partnerships with a growing list of providers from around the world, including local broadcast stations and subscription programming services, allow LG to keep its content offerings relevant and fresh.
The Improved User Experience
LG Smart TVs deliver a smooth user experience and excellent picture quality because of a central processing unit (CPU) and graphic processing unit (GPU) that have been upgraded over those of prior generations. CPU speeds are now 120 percent faster in several premium CINEMA 3D Smart TV models. Even more impressive, GPU speeds are now 300 percent faster, which translates into clearer images that enhance gaming, viewing and multitasking capabilities.
LG’s Smart TVs include CINEMA 3D technology, which employs Film Patterned Retarder (FPR) technology for superior 3D viewing comfort. This technology uses lightweight glasses to create a comfortable 3D viewing experience without the distracting flicker or crosstalk of active shutter-style glasses.
The new 2013 models embody LG’s minimalist CINEMA SCREEN Design. The bezels have been significantly reduced to provide a greater sense of immersion and streamlined style. The Magic Stand further enhances the effect, enabling the screen to appear as if it were floating. Both elegant and functional, the stand complements the screen without creating any visual distraction. This sleek formation effortlessly blends into any modern interior design scheme. The stand also features a convenient swivel and roller function, allowing the TV to be repositioned with ease.
LG’s CINEMA 3D Smart TV has won many CES Innovations Awards for its superiority in hardware and software, the latest being the 2013 Innovations Awards. The CINEMA 3D Smart TV line-up received another award in December when the 55LA6900 model earned an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) from Underwriters Laboratories Inc. This model was recognized for its remarkable energy efficiency and eco-friendly qualities.
Full details on LG’s full 2013 TV line-up are below:
(see accompanying chart)
*No “ultra high definition” or “4K” video content is currently available. No broadcast or other standard currently exists for “4K” or “ultra high definition” television, and the 84LM9600 may or may not be compatible with such standards if and when developed.
*Internet connection and certain subscriptions required and sold separately. Content and services vary by product and are subject to change without notice.
*For a small percentage of the population, the viewing of stereoscopic 3D video may cause discomfort such as dizziness or nausea. If you experience any of these symptoms, discontinue using the 3D functionality and contact your health care provider.
*Designs, features and specifications subject to change without notice. LG LED TVs are LCD TVs with LED backlighting.
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LG Electronics USA, Inc., based in Englewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a $49 billion global force and technology leader in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications. In the United States, LG Electronics sells a range of stylish and innovative home entertainment products, mobile phones, home appliances, commercial displays, air conditioning systems and solar energy solutions, all under LG’s “Life’s Good” marketing theme. For more information, please visit www.lg.com.
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A Crawl on Salisbury Plain
Having great trust in a friend, I left Bristol at 8am on April 1st, to meet him in a church on Salisbury Plain. I guess JF invested similar trust in me on this, All Fools' Day. The weather was bright, following some heavy overnight rain; the forecast was for a typical April day of sunshine and showers. As I arrived in the village, JF's car was in evidence outside of our agreed meeting point.
ALL SAINTS, CHITTERNE
At a quick glance looks medieval. However you quickly spot how wrong it looks because it is a Victorian building on a new site, replacing two medieval churches at either end of the village, St Mary to the west and All Saints to the east. Wrong, the west doorway into the tower and no porch, wrong the regular appearance of walls and stonework (flint and rubble chequer pattern), and very wrong the churchyard, a grassed garden without a single tombstone. The architect was T H Wyatt, the Salisbury diocesan architect, who brutally restored many Wiltshire churches, and designed a few exceptional churches and many very ordinary dull churches. All Saints is somewhere in between, supposed to fool, large and spacious but not quite first rate. The chancel has an east apse, the windows rather small, and probably the weakest part of the design. From the other churches several monuments are gathered under the tower, the best unfortunately skied making enjoyment difficult of the intricate naval battle scene. The font came from St Mary, Norman circular, the cover from All Saints C17 octagonal. The low stone screens to the chancel are dissimilar and incorporate medieval tracery from St Mary. The pulpit is Jacobean also from St Mary and the stalls incorporate C17 carved panels, two with birds and foliage and the other two with figures (Moses and possibly Faith). The epitaph to Robert Michell d1779 records how he was most miraculous preserv'd when ten chimneys fell onto his bed in Lincoln's Inn at 6am in the morning leaving him exposed (!) during the Violent Storm of Wind on 2nd December 1763. [Open]
The original All Saints has disappeared but
ST MARY, CHITTERNE
Survives in part, that part being the chancel. Not a great deal to see, but the south windows are rather pretty, depressed two light Perp windows in a square headed frame. Inside the north window incorporates the ogee canopy arch of a former tomb, arranged thus probably by Wyatt. There was an uncommon gravestone in the churchyard of 1850, to a husband a wife with two carved hands one pointing to the left and the other to the right. Also a line of music is incised on the stone. [open]
Leaving Chitterne we espied a large modern-looking village not on the map. When it was built there was a flurry of enquiries to local estate agents from people wanting to live there. It is in fact a replica East German village, built for training purposes for the British army who occupy large tracts of Salisbury Plain for military manoeuvres!
ST THOMAS A BECKET, TILSHEAD
has appeared on the ChurchCrawling group before when Mr Neil and I tried to get inside unsuccessfully a few years back. Today it was open, which it is apparently during British Summertime months. The long low church is grouped around a central tower and is of some antiquity. Inside Norman arcades with the plainest semi-circular arches, but it all seems a little too regular for me and I wonder how much of this is early Wyatt work who restored the church in 1845-6. The clerestory of quatrefoils is probably his work to and the roofs definitely are by him. We wondered what had happened to the cleaner, a vac was lying in the centre of the nave and one rubber glove was placed on a pew near the vestry. Had she spontaneously combusted JF wondered? Nope - she had gone for coffee leaving the vestry floor to dry. She was interested in what we were doing but on hearing the word internet rang her husband unbeknown to us and he appeared to ask further questions. We must have passed the test, which was done in ever-so-friendly a manner! [open]
ST MARY, ORCHESTON
Like Chitterne, Orcheston is a village that has two churches, one at either end of the village. St Mary's lies to the west and is extremely picturesque outside thanks to its saddleback SW tower and the early C19 pinnacles flanking the gables of the nave, chancel and the porch. It is kept locked but the Cat Hotel next door has the key, or they should have had. A lady had checked it out but not returned it, yet the church was locked. I set off in pursuit and whilst I followed her around the village she retuned to the church and let JF in! Cats talked to us everywhere we went. And on the way out I noticed that the stained glass memorial in the porch was a - er - cat. [locked with keyholder notice]
ST GEORGE, ORCHESTON
is in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust (CCT). It is not large, a nave and chancel, with a medley of windows. Added since a C19 vestry (which hides the Norman north doorway) and an ashlar built west tower of some pretension, although barely rising above the nave roofline. Inside it has a fine panelled arch. The vestry is kept locked and therefore it is difficult to see the doorway apart from glimpses through the vestry windows. Pretty fittings in the chancel, probably of c1833. The church also has some very high quality stained glass, the best seen so far today (and a couple of poor windows too!) [locked with keyholder notice]
(Lunch taken at a local's recommendation "The George" which looked less inviting than the Plume of Feathers opposite but the food was excellent and good value.)
ST MARY, SHREWTON
Shrewton is an odd place, really what seems to be main-road Shrewton is Maddington village. You would be forgiven for thinking the church to be a Victorian rebuilding, against a medieval tower, indeed I said as much to JF as we approached. A dog was tied to the outside gates of the porch, and a friendly lady was just locking the church as we arrived. She was only too pleased to let us inside and thank goodness she did as here was some of the best architecture of the day. Transitional Norman north and south arcades, built slowly, so that by the time the chancel arch was reached the style merged from upright leaf decoration on the south capital to full stiff leaf on the north, yet both with trumpet scallops. This chancel arch has three detached shafts to both responds, a sophisticated design. The rest looks C19, clerestory, aisles and chancel - yes Mr Wyatt again. His too the Norman font with upright leaf design, too perfect to fool anyone but quite nice. On a sill in the south aisle is a piece of sculpture, carved on all four sides, including a crucifixion, and was probably the head of a churchyard cross. [usually locked, no keyholder]
ST MARY, MADDINGTON
on a hill in the centre of Shrewton, surrounded by new executive housing to the west, the Old Vicarage to the north and the Manor House to the south. Another CCT church, and one which owes much of its appearance to the C17 and of course the indefatigable Wyatt. The original nave and chancel was extended in the C14 by a chantry chapel, which was extended west by an aisle in the C17, and to the south by a transept of the early C19. The nave roof is of 1603 (date on a corbel), and the west wall of the nave has plasterwork with a large date 1637, reckoned to be the date a west gallery was added of which no trace now remains. The oddest thing inside was a length of battlements and one pinnacle which used to be on top of the tower but now stand underneath it along with the parish bier. [locked with keyholder notice]
ST ANDREW, ROLLESTONE
is yet another CCT church. Bizarrely three churches out of five in a very small area have been vested, and although I am not complaining it does seem odd or lucky. This one is a delight, no more than a nave and chancel, reached by a grassy track from the main road to Stonehenge and just outside of Shrewton. The C19 restoration (suspect is Wyatt) provided a bellcote and built a porch to shelter the Norman doorway which they also mutilated in the process. [open]
ST PETER, WINTERBOURNE STOKE
is delightful outside, massed around a C13 crossing added on to a Norman nave. The tower was completed in the C15 and the nave west front is also from this time. Norman N & S doorways, the south blocked and weathered badly, the north doorway, harshly and yet incompletely restored. Some amusing external carvings all add to the anticipation on opening the door. What a disappointment! The dullest interior of the day, largely the fault of the very poor and oppressive roofs of the C19. I cannot blame Wyatt for these a W Crook was responsible - and to his credit Wyatt would have done better. In more recent times the chancel has been emptied of the expected furniture and carpeted and given comfy upholstered chairs. The north transept is screened off for a vestry, and the south transept is separated from the crossing from very heavy curtains, and now equipped with kitchen cabinets, sink etc. If you visit here and don't get in don't be too disappointed. The two features you might want to see can be seen by looking through the two westernmost side windows at the other, glass dated 1835, four saints and a overly pious depiction of the BVM, and the plain Norman font with its exotic Jacobean crown cover.
We returned to Chitterne and parted on our separate ways, agreeing that this was yet another successful day out. We both I suspect snuck a 10th church visit in, mine was at NORTON BAVANT (All Saints) which I found locked. The key hanging in the porch did not unlock the door sadly yet looked like it should have! This was an odd shaped church with an unusual roofed low burial extension south of the south transept. I will be returning here when there is better light left in the day (it stands in trees) and I have more time to track down a key if one is needed at a more respectable hour!
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Changes To Partnership Returns
“There are two changes in this revised version of T5013 that are worth noting..”
New Disclosure Requirements
In February 2012, the Canada Revenue Agency (“CRA”) issued a revised version of its Partnership Information Return (Form T5013) to reflect new information that the CRA requires. There are two changes in this revised version of T5013 that are worth noting:
The adjusted cost base (ACB) and “at-risk amount” for each partner are to be reported on the revised version of Schedule 50 of Form T5013, entitled “Partner’s Ownership and Account Activity”.
Persons affiliated with the partnership must be listed on new Schedule 9 of Form T5013, entitled “Affiliated Corporations, Partnerships, Partners or Trusts”.
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These new requirements apply to filings beginning February 2012. However, the CRA, recognizing that these new requirements significantly increase the compliance burden for many partnerships, has provided transitional administrative relief. On February 29, 2012, the CRA announced that it will accept returns containing either the 2010 or 2011 version of Form T5013 Schedule 50 if the return meets the following conditions:
It is filed on time; and
It contains complete information on partner identification and annual transactions between partners and the partnership.
The CRA recognizes the increased demands imposed by new Schedule 9, and recommends that this schedule be prepared based on the best knowledge and ability of the partnership and preparer. The CRA has announced that it will not impose penalties for incomplete Form T5013 returns, filed for 2011 fiscal periods, that have been prepared, to the best knowledge and ability of the partnership and preparers, and submitted by the filing deadline.
While transitional relief is available, preparers and their clients should start early to gather the information needed to support the new requirements. This may be an onerous task for partners who have not maintained the required ACB and at-risk amounts calculations historically, especially for partnerships that have not been preparing and filing T5013 returns previously because of the exemption for partnerships with less than five partners (see Tax Tip 10-25). Additional information with respect to partnership and information return filing requirements can be found on the CRA website at www.cra.gc.ca/tx/bsnss/tpcs/slprtnr/prtnrshp.
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Car sales statistics for the midsized SUV / crossover segment segment in Europe, updated every quarter.
May 19, 2019 by Bart Demandt 5 Comments
The compact crossovers segment in Europe has been growing briskly in recent years, but in the first quarter of 2019 that growth has stalled as the segment grew by just 1% to 476.000 sales. That means it now makes up 11,7% of the total Euorpean car market, up from 11,1% in 2018. We’ve separated the tables of the compact and midsized crossover segments but still feature them in one post and in one graph as the models in these classes are so close to each other in size and there are so many different opinions on which models belong in which of these segments. Combined, sales in these segments are down 1,5% to 14,2% of the total European car market, and VW Group improves its share of these segments to 23,7% while Renault-Nissan is down to 20,6% and PSA grows to 18,8% of these segments combined, for a whopping 63,1% share by just three manufacturers. The traditional class leader Nissan Qashqai loses a significant chunk of its advantage over its rivals with a loss of 18% and almost 3 percentage points of share. The Volkswagen Tiguan in 2nd place is also down, but by just 4% while the #3 Peugeot 3008 sees stable sales and therefore closes in on its two rivals. The Ford Kuga loses more than a fifth of its sales and is knocked off its 4th place by the Toyota C-HR, up 13%. The C-HR also passes the two South-Korean players Hyundai Tucson and Kia Sportage, both down by double digits. The Renault Kadjar, freshly facelifted, is down 4% and feels the Skoda Karoq and Opel/Vauxhall Grandland X breathing down its neck.
Midsized SUV segment 2019, Citroën C4 Aircross, Citroën C5 Aircross, europe, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, MG GS, midsized suv, Mitsubishi Eclipse Cross, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel Grandland X, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 3008, Peugeot 4008, Q1, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Karoq, Skoda Kodiaq, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Toyota C-HR, Toyota RAV4, Vauxhall Grandland X, Volkswagen Tiguan
European sales 2018 compact & midsized crossover segments
February 16, 2019 by Bart Demandt 7 Comments
Sales of compact crossovers continue to surge in Europe, with a 15% gain in 2018 to over 1,7 million sales or 11,1% of the overall market, up from 9,6% in 2017 and 7,7% in 2016. Most of the growth comes from newly launched or very recent models. We’ve decided to separate the tables of the compact and midsized crossover segments but still feature them in one post and in one graph as the models in these classes are so close to each other in size and there are so many different opinions on which models belong in which of these segments. Combined, sales in these segments are up 15% to 13,7% of the total European car market, and VW Group and Renault-Nissan each control 22% and PSA another 17% of these segments combined, for a whopping 61% share by just three manufacturers. The Nissan Qashqai is still the best selling crossover in Europe, despite losing 7% on its record volume of 2017. Its closest rival is still the Volkswagen Tiguan, down 9% although its figures are estimates, as we don’t have official split figures from the 7-seater Tiguan Allspace and we estimate a 15% take rate for that version, which is featured in the midsized crossover segment. The Peugeot 3008 continues its impressive run and also crosses the 200.000 sales threshold thanks to a 20% increase on last year. When combining these segments, the 3008/5008 duo would be on top of the charts, just ahead of the Qashqai/X-Trail, with the Tiguan trailing at a distance. By any standard an impressive performance from the French brand, and we’re curious to see how the all-new Citroën C5 Aircross will perform once its deliveries start to show its true potential.
Midsized SUV segment 2018, Citroën C4 Aircross, europe, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, MG GS, midsized suv, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel Grandland X, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 3008, Peugeot 4008, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Karoq, Skoda Kodiaq, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Toyota C-HR, Toyota RAV4, Vauxhall Grandland X, Volkswagen Tiguan
February 16, 2018 by Bart Demandt 10 Comments
Sales of compact crossovers continue to surge in Europe, with a 30% gain in 2017 to nearly 1,5 million sales or 9,6% of the overall market, up from 7,7% in 2016. The entire top-5 has set new sales records in 2017. We’ve decided to separate the tables of the compact and midsized crossover segments but still feature them in one post and in one graph as the models in these classes are so close to each other in size and there are so many different opinions on which models belong in which of these segments. Combined, sales in these segments are up 32% to 11,9% of the total European car market, of which Renault-Nissan controls 26% and VW Group 20%. The Nissan Qashqai is still the best selling crossover in Europe, despite adding just 6% to its record volume of 2016 to close in on a quarter million sales. Its closest rival is still the Volkswagen Tiguan, up 31% to become the second nameplate in this segment to top 200.000 sales and to close the gap with the top spot to less than 14.000 sales. The new Peugeot 3008 immediately jumps onto the segment podium with nearly 170.000 sales in its first full year, an impressive performance against any standard. It beats the two South-Korean rivals that have fought for the segment podium for years as well as the Ford Kuga which shows an impressive 27% growth despite being 5 years old already, apart from a facelift in 2016.
Midsized SUV segment Citroën C4 Aircross, europe, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, MG GS, midsized suv, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel Grandland X, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 3008, Peugeot 4008, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Karoq, Skoda Kodiaq, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Toyota C-HR, Toyota RAV4, Vauxhall Grandland X, Volkswagen Tiguan
European sales 2017 Q1-Q3 compact & midsized crossover segments
November 14, 2017 by Bart Demandt 3 Comments
The growth of the compact crossover segment in Europe slows down slightly in Q3 of 2017, but it’s still the second-fastest growing mainstream segment at +25% in the third quarter and +32% year-to-date. Almost 1,13 million compact crossovers have already been sold so far this year, virtually the same number as the small crossover segment whose growth curve has flattened. The Nissan Qashqai still tops the ranking and continues to win sales, but it’s losing share of the segment as it increased by just 8% both in Q3 and YTD. Its main rival Volkswagen Tiguan gained just 4% in the third quarter, as the new generation had just reached its full potential in the same period last year. Behind these two leaders, three players are having a pretty close race, selling within 2.000 units of each other in the third quarter. The Peugeot 3008 holds the final step of the segment podium and behind it, the Hyundai Tucson feels the Ford Kuga breathing down its neck in the third quarter as the Ford improves 11% while the Tucson sees stable sales. This top-5 holds almost two thirds of the segment with the rest of the top-10 holding nearly the other third as the remaining models make up just 2,6% of the segment. [Read more…]
European sales 2017 first half: compact & midsized crossover segments
August 12, 2017 by Bart Demandt 6 Comments
Sales of compact crossovers in Europe maintain their explosive growth rate, jumping 29% in Q2 and 33% in the first half, to 720.194 units. This is 8,6% of the total European market, almost 2 percentage points up from the 6,7% in the first half of 2016. The Nissan Qashqai holds on to its top spot for the first half, but sales were up only 2% in the second quarter as it was outsold by the Volkswagen Tiguan by 300 sales. It seems like the Qashqai will keep its crown of the segment for yet another year, extending its streak to 11 years as the compact crossover champion. The all-new Peugeot 3008 SUV storms up the charts to third place, up from #6 in the first quarter, proving it is an instant hit for the French brand. It’s unlikely to be able to challenge the two top players in this segment, considering it was still at only 75% of their volume in the second quarter, but nonetheless an impressive performance for a newcomer to the segment. It also manages to outsell the two South-Korean models which have been around for a few generations now and have built up quite some recognition and a customer base over the years. [Read more…]
Midsized SUV segment Citroën C4 Aircross, europe, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, MG GS, midsized suv, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 3008, Peugeot 4008, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Kodiaq, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Toyota RAV4, Volkswagen Tiguan
May 9, 2017 by Bart Demandt 12 Comments
The midsized crossover segment remains one of the fastest growing segments in Europe, even faster than the small crossover segment at +28% in the first quarter of 2017, to 371.500 sales. The Nissan Qashqai holds on to its top spot, thanks to sales up 13% on its already impressive score last year, but the Volkswagen Tiguan is closing in quickly with a gain of 78% to come within 10.000 sales. Considering the Tiguan outsold the Qashqai in the second half of last year, this is actually a bit of a disappointment for the model, than may suffer from a bit of cannibalization from the Seat Ateca and to a lesser degree the Skoda Kodiaq. In third place we find the Hyundai Tucson, similar to the full year 2016 ranking, but the facelifted Ford Kuga is growing at double its rate and is not far behind in 4th, up from 6th last year.
European sales 2016 midsized crossover segment
Sales of midsized crossovers are growing even faster than their smaller rivals, at +26,8% in Q4 and +22% in the full year 2016, compared to +16% for the small crossover segment and +6,2% for the overall market. And while the growth is fueled by newcomers and updated existing models, the segment leader and the model that started the popularity of this segment Nissan Qashqai maintains its leadership of the segment, even though its volume is stable on last year. However, its dominance of the segment will be challenged in 2017, as the new generation Volkswagen Tiguan already outsold its British-Japanese rival in Q4, by 2.600 sales and will fight for the segment lead for the first time ever. In third place we find another relative fresh model: the Hyundai Tucson, knocking down its sibling Kia Sportage off the podium for the first time since 2012.
Car sales Europe, Midsized SUV segment Chevrolet Captiva, Citroën C-Crosser, Citroën C4 Aircross, Dodge Journey, DR5, europe, Fiat Freemont, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai ix35, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Patriot, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, Mazda CX-7, MG GS, midsized suv, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 3008, Peugeot 4007, Peugeot 4008, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Kodiaq, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Suzuki Grand Vitara, Toyota RAV4, Volkswagen Tiguan
European sales 2016 Q1-Q3 midsized crossover segment
Sales of midsized crossovers in Europe have grown at more than double the speed of the overall market in the first three quarters of 2016: +18% vs. +7,5% as new brands and models keep entering this highly competitive class. After being outsold by the small crossover segment in Q2, the midsized models rebound in Q3 and also pass the 1 million sales mark in the first nine months, a figure it took all twelve months as recently as 2014. In a sign of consolidation, all top-8 models gain volume, of which only two with less than 2 digits, while the following 9 modles all lose volume, #9 to #12 with single digits and #13 to #17 with double digits. The Nissan Qashqai is stable, which means it loses share of the segment, from 19,4% last year to 16,6% this year, but 2016 will be the 9th consecutive year the Qashqai leads the segment. However, next year may offer a change of guard, as the Volkswagen Tiguan was only 4.200 units behind in Q3 and even outsold the Nissan in August.
Car sales Europe, Midsized SUV segment Chevrolet Captiva, Citroën C-Crosser, Citroën C4 Aircross, Dodge Journey, DR5, europe, Fiat Freemont, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai ix35, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Patriot, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Niro, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, Mazda CX-7, MG GS, midsized suv, Mitsubishi ASX, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 4007, Peugeot 4008, q3, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Kodiaq, Skoda Yeti, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Suzuki Grand Vitara, Suzuki S-Cross, Toyota RAV4, Volkswagen Tiguan
European sales 2016 first half midsized crossover segment
August 18, 2016 by Bart Demandt 13 Comments
The midsized crossover segment in Europe has grown at double the speed of the overall market in the first half of 2016: +17% vs. +8,8%, but it was still outsold by the small crossover segment for the first time ever in Q2. Nonetheless, sales of midsized crossovers are expected to continue increasing, as new brands and models keep entering this highly competitive class. The increased competition takes away some share from the segment leader Nissan Qashqai, but so far no other model can come close to challenging its leadership. Its closest rival of last year, the Volkswagen Tiguan suffered from a model changeover and has dropped to 4th place, making room for the two South-Korean sister models to step onto the podium. Even the all-new Renault Kadjar outsold the Tiguan in Q2, but the VW is likely to strike back in the second half, when deliveries of the new generation gain traction. As a result of these new or updated models, the Ford Kuga loses two spots on last year to become a distant #6 despite growing 22%.
Car sales Europe, Midsized SUV segment Chevrolet Captiva, Citroën C-Crosser, Citroën C4 Aircross, Dodge Journey, DR5, europe, Fiat Freemont, Ford Kuga, H1, Honda CR-V, Hyundai ix35, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Patriot, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Niro, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, Mazda CX-7, MG GS, midsized suv, Mitsubishi ASX, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 4007, Peugeot 4008, Q2, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Seat Ateca, Skoda Yeti, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Suzuki Grand Vitara, Suzuki S-Cross, Toyota RAV4, Volkswagen Tiguan
European sales 2016 Q1 midsized crossover segment
May 6, 2016 by Bart Demandt 6 Comments
Sales of midsized crossovers and SUVs in Europe grew by twice the speed of the overall market in Q1 of 2016, at +17%. And that growth is very likely to continue, as new players keep entering the segment. Due in the next 18 months are the Tiguan-based Seat Ateca and the slightly larger Skoda version of those cars, Peugeot will enter the segment with crossover-like replacements of the 3008 and 5008, Renault has just revealed the Koleos in China which will start sales here next year and MG may bring the GS to the UK. So far, no model has been able to come even close to the Nissan Qashqai, the undisputed segment leader since 2008. Sales of the Qashqai are stable at +2% despite new generations of its closest rivals and also despite its partner Renault successfully launching a Qq derivative with the Kadjar. And don’t forget the 7-seater Qashqai+2 has been replaced by the X-Trail as well. In fact, the share of Renault-Nissan in this segment has grown from 23,8% last year to 31,7%. Last year’s #2 Volkswagen Tiguan loses just 1% of its volume right before the new generation is launched. As result, the model is outsold by the new generation Kia Sportage and under heavy attack from the all-new Hyundai Tucson. The two South-Korean brands grow their share of the segment from 17,9% to 21,4%. The Tiguan was outsold by the Tuscon in January and February and both were outsold by the Kadjar in March, indicating it will be an interesting fight for the podium this year. That’s unlikely to include the Ford Kuga, which loses a position despite adding almost a quarter to its volume of last year.
Car sales Europe, Midsized SUV segment Chevrolet Captiva, Citroën C-Crosser, Citroën C4 Aircross, Dodge Journey, DR5, europe, Fiat Freemont, Ford Kuga, Honda CR-V, Hyundai ix35, Hyundai Tucson, Jeep Cherokee, Jeep Compass, Jeep Patriot, Jeep Wrangler, Kia Sportage, Mazda CX-5, Mazda CX-7, midsized suv, Mitsubishi ASX, mitsubishi outlander, Nissan Qashqai, Nissan X-Trail, Opel/Vauxhall Antara, Peugeot 4007, Peugeot 4008, Renault Kadjar, Renault Koleos, sales, Skoda Yeti, SsangYong Korando, Subaru Forester, Subaru XV, Suzuki Grand Vitara, Suzuki S-Cross, Toyota RAV4, Volkswagen Tiguan
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Detective Conan 153-154
By buricco on November 19, 2018 4:29 AM | "
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Took a bit longer than planned.
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A clarification about the source of our Detective Conan videos
By buricco on October 29, 2018 3:21 PM | "
Usually I don't entertain people who try to spam the site to promote their own encodes or whatever, but I got a comment in my spam filter that I felt merited attention (although the commenting engine wouldn't let me delete the link and then post the comment with edits, so my only choice was to leave it in the trap).
This person says he checked the Baaro XDCC bot and found "just TV rips with pretty low quality". Apparently he has a vision problem: apart from the "remastered" episodes, none of our episodes prior to 453 (and we have subbed many episodes prior to 453--in fact almost all our Conan subs are from that period) are DVD rips at a minimum.
Although episodes 453 and up are, in fact, TV rips, they are HDTV rips, and come from the best available sources, and are encoded to the same standards as the DVD rips. They should be higher quality than DVD rips, and they are certainly higher resolution. In all cases the raws are from as close to source as possible - the original DVDs, the original VOD streams, the original broadcast transport streams - and are never taken from publicly available encodes (unless said encodes come from our own staff, or those of our sister groups on Hoshinet).
I suspect the real reason for the comment was that the poster merely wished to pump his own raws. As, again, I could not delete part of the comment and let the remainder stand, I had to leave the comment unapproved; as there was no way to make this post make sense in a thread, I felt it necessary to create a separate post on the blog to clarify matters, in case someone else thinks we use substandard public raws on our releases.
Detective Conan 474
So I banged out a quick resub over the past few days to prove that I was still alive. I was originally going to do it as part of the DCHD project but decided to start from scratch (or rather, from the English manga) instead.
Torrent: Download or Magnet
So a funny thing happened...
By buricco on February 19, 2018 7:45 AM | "
I wound up getting involved with Kienai Fansubs on Detective Conan: Episode "ONE", and now I'm part of the group...
This doesn't mean that Baaro will cease to exist, but we'll be working together on improving some of the older episodes of Detective Conan, which had in the past 5 years been my bread and butter.
It's also why there's been a bit of radio silence on my end as of late.
Detective Conan 72 Remastered
By buricco on November 1, 2016 3:20 PM | "
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Detective Conan 101 Remastered
By buricco on August 28, 2016 6:15 PM | "
By buricco on August 22, 2016 4:32 AM | "
Of course there was no doubt that we were going to do this case, although I didn't place a high priority on getting 100' out until 101' was released -- that is, until someone who didn't know what he was doing (to be fair, he admitted as much - which is more than we usually deal with) decided to do a speedsub. (Thankfully, using the ColdFusion/Baaro subs, and thus mostly the official translation, instead of some ancient fansub. :P) This of course means I had to put it on top priority to get an actual Baaro sub out.
By the way, something you won't get with a public raw, but you will get with our encodes: I cleaned up a lot of the earthquake news flash *by hand* before resorting to a second source to get rid of the rest.
Detective Conan 468, or What's Project DCHD?
By buricco on July 5, 2016 6:06 PM | "
Back in November 2014, I started getting raw rips of Detective Conan in HD, starting from the first episode when they switched to widescreen, from satellite TV in Japan. I hung on to these rips, and did encodes from them, but I really wanted to use them to make subtitles - especially for episodes which were originally not available to the subbers in HD, and which were only released in the measly resolution (standard at the time) of 704x396.
For a while, I didn't do anything with the opportunity. Making bad blood with DCTP is not something I want to do, even now. But here was this chance - to make bad subs good and to make good subs better - and I didn't want to let it pass by. The idea of Project DCHD is to take DCTP's subs which were originally released only in 396p, give them a coat of paint, and put them on new 720p raws. I will credit them as completely as possible.
Here's some improvements I intend to make:
The song translations are completely redone, mostly by bluesun (of The Moonlighters). Other boilerplate translations are generally edited to match The Moonlighters and Baaro Fansubs conventions.
Timing and typesetting completely redone from scratch out of necessity. This also means sometimes, line breaks are changed.
As far as ability and/or availability permits, additional editing and TLC is done. Some of these episodes, let's be honest, really need it. You occasionally find a line that's a complete howler.
I would like to emphasize that these are not official DCTP releases, they're Baaro releases adapted from DCTP's work.
Detective Conan 744-745v2
By buricco on June 15, 2016 3:18 PM | "
Replacement video track with different logo mask for the second half. No other changes.
Torrent: Nyaa
By buricco on June 9, 2016 4:15 AM | "
So here's the basic deal: The Moonlighters had 6 episodes which were sitting around unfinished for almost 2 years, and Puto asked me if I could get them done by any means necessary. And so I did--and the biggest gaping hole in competent fansubs of Conan going back all the way to the beginning of the HD era is now filled, even though to be fair, these 6 eps could certainly still use some work.
These are the last 2 episodes of the aforementioned 6; the previous 2 Baaro releases are the other 4 episodes.
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Home Business Computers & Technology Lero fellowship to attract global software researchers
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Professor Brian Fitzgerald, chief scientist, Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, with David Parnas.
Lero, the UL-based Software Research Centre, has announced a new fellowship which will attract world leading software researchers to Ireland on a short term basis.
Under the Parnas Fellowship, global leaders in software will consult with industry clients, staff and students across Lero partner third level institutions during their stay in Ireland.
For the first time anywhere in the world, Canadian software engineering pioneer David Parnas has allowed his name to be used in a sponsorship of this kind. To mark the launch of the fellowship, he will visit the University of Limerick on 31st May to present a paper on software engineering.
The first recipient of the Lero Parnas Fellowship award, Dr Axel Legay, will also deliver his inaugural address on Statistical Model Checking (SMC) which is used across robotics, automotive and systems biology.
“We are honoured that Dave Parnas, one of the fathers of software engineering, has agreed to lend his name to this fellowship. As reflected in the calibre of the first recipient, Dr Axel Legay, the fellowship will add to the knowledge of the Irish software sector,” commented Professor Brian Fitzgerald, chief scientist, Lero.
“We welcome anyone who would like to hear these distinguished speakers on May 31st,” he added. For further details on the presentations contact: adminsh@lero.ie
Dr Legay is a research scientist at Microsoft Research-Inria which was founded by Inria (the French National Research Institute for Computer Science and Applied Mathematics), Microsoft Corporation and the Microsoft Research Laboratory Cambridge. The centre’s objective is to pursue research in computer science with a particular emphasis on formal methods and machine learning applications.
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Major award for Clare building contractor
A Co Clare building contractor has been awarded the prestigious Civil Engineering Project of the Year award for their work on the design & construction of Cape Clear Island – Harbour Development & Storm Gates.
The accolade is the Civil Engineering Industry’s most prestigious award. It was awarded at the Civil Engineering Contractor’s Association annual dinner held at the Double Tree, Ballsbridge by Hilton which was compered by Síle Seoige. Minister of State for the Office of Public Works and Flood Relief Mr. Sean Canney TD was also in attendance.
The awards honour the passionate work of civil engineering contractors and professional across all aspects of the industry. They recognise the most exciting innovations, advances in safety and quality excellence over the period from 2011 to 2016. The Cape Clear Island project received the category award in the €2-5M euro value and the overall award.
This project, although small in value was one of the company’s most challenging marine projects to date, Cape Clear Island Storm Gates. For this project, L&M Keating offered a totally bespoke innovative contractor designed solution. The company chose to precast the largest element, the concrete lock chamber off-site on the mainland.
The 15x15x9m high, 1000t concrete structure was cast and successfully floated from Verolme Drydock, Cobh over 130km to Cape Clear Island. It was then sunk into position on foundations 7m below water. The team then installed a set of sophisticated computer controlled mitre storm gates which includes two 30t gate leaves each operated by 140t hydraulic rams.
This novel solution ensured that the harbour and vital link to the mainland remained accessible throughout the construction programme and improved safety by minimising underwater construction works.
Design & project coordination of the project was carried out by Project Director, Richard Browne.
Richard, who was selected as Chartered Engineer of the Year, 2015/6 said: “This was a highly technical jigsaw which took the efforts of our crews and over 14 separate design specialists to put it together. The largest component of which had to arrive in a 2hr slot at the right stage of the right tide with the right weather conditions.”
Accepting the award, Louis Keating said: “We are overjoyed with the win. We have been in the business for 30 years and now have over 100 of the best people delivering some of the most innovative, technically challenging building and marine projects in the country. This project had it all, technical challenges, off shore logistics and cutting edge design. It’s humbling to have our project voted best in the country by such an esteemed panel of judges.”
The project has proved to be a great success and today provides protection to the critical harbour infrastructure and safety to the islanders fishing boats and passenger ferry.
L&M Keating, Building & Civil Engineering Contractors have developed a name for delivering the most technically challenging marine civil engineering projects, particularly in the design and build sector. The company is currently working on a number of marine projects such as Rossaveel Harbour and Dublin Port Redevelopment.
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The little Mexican restaurant that could
Posted on 09 December 2010. Tags: besant, coqui, coqui mexicano, diego, Food, nazario, pearson, Taco, tacos, third avenue
Co-owner and chef Alfredo Diego welcomes customers with a smile. Photo: Alexander Besant
On any weekday morning, Alfredo Diego, co-owner of Coqui Mexicano restaurant, is busy cooking slivers of chicken for tacos, spooning out avocados for guacamole, and chopping onions, lettuce and tomatoes for garnish.
He then wipes down the counters, sits near the window overlooking a bleak strand of Third Avenue near 161st Street in the Morrisania section of the Bronx, and waits for customers to come. Sometimes he waits for hours.
Diego and his girlfriend, Danisha Nazario, 37, moved to the area in 2001 and have owned and run their small Mexican-Puerto Rican fusion restaurant and deli for just over two years. The restaurant, which serves tacos alongside black beans, rice and other regional cuisine in a stripped down bodega with just three tables, is just one of a handful of restaurants in the area – and one of the only ones that does not specialize in fried chicken.
“We try to make healthy food here,” said Danisha. “The area needs more healthy places.”
But two years after its opening, Coqui Mexicano has yet to break even. Nazario said the restaurant is getting closer to reaching the $5,000 necessary to stay out of debt each month, but so far, their sales have not turned a profit. Diego estimates that the restaurant serves about 30 customers per day, mostly regulars and mostly those coming for lunch from other local businesses. The couple is not sure how much longer they can last at the current rate.
In many ways, the couple may be two fragile steps ahead of the expected resurgence in this neighborhood. “This is a place where people are just starting to play,” Nazario said. “But there is no foot traffic at night.”
Both remain remain hopeful. The restaurant lies at heart of a revitalization that is expected to include new housing units and restaurants surrounded the recently completed satellite campus of Boricua College. Construction has begun to attract hundreds of new residents, those who Nazario and Diego hope will become frequent customers.
However, according to Nazario, currently, the new population seems to prefer Manhattan for its nightlife, so far. Construction is slow, and the hints of revitalization she and Diego saw years earlier has not yet panned out.
Born in Puerto Rico, Nazario has lived most of her life in the United States. She graduated in International Marketing from Baruch College and later worked at Dallas BBQ, the New York City food chain where she met Diego.
Later, she took a position in the business center of the Essex Hotel in midtown Manhattan where she continues to head to work at 5:30 a.m. every weekday.
“I still go to work ‘till the business can hold itself,” said Nazario.
Diego, who now works full-time at the restaurant, was born in Acapulco, Mexico. Though he remains coy about his life story, he says that he learned to cook at home in Mexico where, as a boy, he would often make meals for his siblings to help his mother – an experience that put him off cooking for years.
He arrived in the United States some 20 years ago and has worked all over Manhattan in food stores, restaurants and bodegas, finally ending up at Dallas BBQ.
Diego and Nazario began renting the Bronx storefront in the spring of 2008 on the site of a former grocery store that, according to the couple, was a drug den that housed a brothel in a back room.
“The woman who owned it lived in New Jersey,” said Nazario. “She didn’t care about what her business was doing to the neighborhood.”
It took the couple three months to clean out the store, which was in abysmal shape, full of decaying food products and garbage. During the cleaning, Diego developed a lung infection from the noxious fumes that emanated from the debris found in the store.
“It was horrible,” said Nazario. “The store was disgusting.”
Though the couple had readied the restaurant for business in mid-summer, they were not given the go ahead by the city for another few months until Nazario went downtown and caused what she called, “a scene,” in the department that issues restaurant permits. They were awarded a license to serve food in September, after having spent $10,000 for five months rent without making a dollar.
The couple faced another obstacle just after opening: discrimination from the local community.
“There has also been a lot of controversy because I am Puerto Rican and Diego is Mexican,” said Nazario. “A lot of people in the community did not accept this. We would get racist remarks and everyday lots of people telling us to get out of the neighborhood.”
The couple’s problems went beyond neighborhood xenophobia, as they recognized that overhead costs climbed higher than expected and that the neighborhood had not changed as fast as they had hoped – many of the buildings around them were just being constructed with potential customers not moving into the area soon enough.
In that first year, business was slow.
In desperation Nazario got on the Internet and searched for cheap ways to promote the business. She joined Facebook and began randomly contacting residents of the area, asking them to come out and try the restaurant.
“I had never used anything like it before,” she said. “Facebook really saved my ass.”
She even began sending e-mail messages to local U.S. Rep. Jose Serrano, tempting him with homemade guava cake.
To get word out to the community, Nazario also helped to create an informal neighborhood pact whereby area business owners agreed to patronize one another’s stores to help support local commerce.
The pact includes a local bodega, a community college and a nearby Chinese restaurant owned by a husband and wife team who have experienced similar problems to Nazario and Diego.
“She and I have a lot in common,” said Nazario. “We tell each other our problems and about how business is going.”
Yet her efforts were still not enough to make the bills stop piling up and in March of this year, the couple was handed an eviction notice for having not made rent payments to the landlord. At that point, they were eating soup every day to save money for rent.
But just before their scheduled court date to fight the eviction, their luck changed.
The couple received an email from Agnes Rodriguez, 31, an arraignment clerk at the Bronx Defenders inviting them to a fundraiser at their restaurant. Rodriguez had organized the fundraiser after hearing that the restaurant, where many Bronx Defenders’ staff eat lunch, was struggling.
“We love them dearly at the Bronx Defenders,” said Rodriguez. “And I always want to support Latino businesses in the area.”
The couple was touched by Rodriquez’s gesture, which raised hundreds of dollars for the restaurant – money they needed to keep Coqui Mexicano alive.
On top of that, Rep. Serrano, who had finally come in to taste the guava cake almost a year before, helped Nazario negotiate a payment plan with the landlord, which came to an end this month.
“Even if we hadn’t survived it would be worth it because we made so many friends,” said Nazario.
These days, the couple is trying to build on their positive momentum, however slight, by generating a more solid customer base.
They have established a small lending library in the form of stuffed bookshelf near the front door that they hope will bring more people in, even if they don’t want to eat. And they have hosted concerts by local musicians, too, hoping to generate buzz around the restaurant.
Nazario admits that the difficulties of keeping the restaurant open have put a strain on her relationship. She and Diego take their problems from work home with them at night.
Yet she is adamant that they are not ready to give up. The couple plans to keep the business alive for as long as they can.
“We’ve been through so much,” Nazario said. “But we’ll pull through.”
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Gourmet Tacos in a Truck
Posted on 05 November 2009. Tags: Bronx, health, Matthew Huisman, Soundview, Taco, Taqueria Guadalupe, Westchester Avenue
by Matthew Huisman
Medardo Florencio of Taqueria Guadalupe cooks up tacos for residents living in Soundview. Photo by Matthew Huisman
It’s lunchtime on Westchester Avenue in the Bronx and my stomatch growls, reminding me that I haven’t eaten since 9 a.m. Instead of grabbing a greasy slice of pizza, or stopping in at one of the many fast food joints that litter the area, I opt instead for Taqueria Guadalupe.
The chrome taco truck sits where Manor and Westchester Avenues meet, a shining, silver oasis of food. Medardo Florencio–owner, chef and cashier–greets me at the window. There is no table, no cash register, no building–only Florencio’s truck converted into a mobile kitchen. The sole concessions to traditional dining are two lonely chairs leaning against the brick wall of D&G Fashions, a store that sells ladies wear and plus sizes.
Florencio didn’t ask what I’m ordering, only how many.
“Tres, por favor,” I said, as I was feeling particularly hungry.
Florencio immediately goes to work, dicing onion and pineapple. Together with a fistful of flavored pork, Florencio tosses the mixture on the grill. The meat sizzles, wafting the smell of al pastor tacos to the street curb. The reaction causes my mouth to water like one of Pavlov’s dogs. By this time I am not alone.
Jenny Cosme walks up to the window, glancess briefly at the menu and orders one bistec and one chicken taco and waits patiently.
“Their food is good, and it’s healthy too,” says Cosme. “It’s healthier than the fast food because it’s on a grill.”
Cosme likes crema y pico de gallo, a mixture of raw onion, tomato and cilantro, on her tacos.
“They cut everything daily,” Coseme said while piling on the pico.
Taqueria Guadalupe at the corner of Manor and Westchester Avenues in Soundview. Photo by Matthew Huisman
Florencio has been feeding his hungry neighbors in the Soundview neighborhood for more than seven years. He arrived in this country 20 years ago from Guerrero, a state in southwest Mexico known for its tourism and silver. Florencio says he has about 80 customers a day, enough to support his wife and four kids. A fifth is on the way.
But on the streets of the Bronx, where good, cheap and healthy food can be as scarce as a Phillies fan, Taqueria Guadalupe is one of the few places that offer a healthier alternative.
“It’s all fresh,” Florencio says in Spanish pointing to a tray of toppings. “We make it fresh every day.”
Spicy red salsa, avacado puree, pico de gallo and fresh lime are a few of the extras that Florencio offers his customers.
In a few minutes my order is up. I pay the $7.50 and walk back to the chairs. Steam rises from the plate in the cold air. The first bite is packed with pineapple. The sweet juice runs down my chin and I lap it up with a lick of my tongue.
“No sense in being proper when you’re on the sidewalk,” I muse, plowing through the first taco.
I had no problem with the second and third. The spicy pork, tangy lime and crisp onion make a heavenly treat wrapped in two corn tortillas.
Sidewalk dining at its finest.
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On the Valley Line Today. . . in 1949
"RAIL ACTIVITY INCREASED BY DERAILMENT
Two Long Freight Trains Pass Through Town During Day
Rocky Hill - Early Wednesday morning (August 17, 1949) a 50-car freight train drawn by two diesel engines passed through Rocky Hill as a result of the derailment of a freight train at Bolton. Traffic had to be rerouted through Middletown and Rocky Hill to Hartford for the Boston to Hartford run. A second train equally as long, but drawn by only one engine, went through Rocky Hill shortly before noon. The unusual activity on the line caused considerable comment as only three trains a week with few cars pass through the town normally.
Station Agent James W. Whitty announced that effective September 1, the freight office hours will be changed from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday to 8 a.m. to 5 p.m Monday through Friday."
And that's the News on the Valley Line, August 17, 1949
(Makes me wonder whether the trains left the Midland in Willimantic and came down the Air Line to Middletown. If they did, they would have had to back down that sharp quadrant track at the diamond to then be able to go north through Rocky Hill to Hartford. Wow! Though I suppose they could have gone down the Norwich & Worcester to New London, then west to Old Saybrook and then north. Either way, it was quite a detour!)
(Special thanks to Bob Belletzkie for the article - and if you want to know ANYthing about stations on the New Haven Railroad, RUN don't walk to his website at http://www.tylercitystation.info/)
Posted by Chris Adams at 4:00 PM
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Chris Adams August 28, 2014 at 12:48 PM
John Wallace says:
Just a thought. I suspect this was the Boston to Hartford Midland Div. freight (BA-1 ?) which usually arrived in Hartford between 4 and 7 am. The second train was, probably, the second half of the original train which had been split in Putnam or Willimatic to facilitate the difficult move at Middletown. The RR probably thought it better to route them over the Valley than fuss around at Cedar Hill which would have caused a longer delay. Some road foremen and trainmasters were probably rousted out of bed early in the AM to shepherd these moves to Hartford over territory unfamiliar to the crews. Also, the derailment possibly involved AB-2 which usually went through Bolton at 10pm or thereabouts.
This may be totally wrong, but it's fun to speculate.
Thanks for weighing in John!
I still don't know whether they'd go up the Valley via New London/Old Saybrook or come down the AirLine to Middletown from Willimantic. Good arguments either way, course. airline route would be much more complicated and the track was probably not the greatest. But going via New London would likely have taken longer and might foul up the busy Shoreline.
But yes, fun to speculate. Too bad nobody's still around that we could ask about that detour. And the Form 19s for those moves are lost to history I suspect.
My guess would be the Airline. The route is much shorter than New London and some of the light rail and ballast still in use on the lower Valley could be a negative for that option. Beyond that, if they were east [west, ed.] of Putnam when they heard about the problem in Bolton, New London would not have been an option. The airline track conditions were substantially better than the Valley tracks at that time. On fan trips of that era the ride was swift and smooth. The Midland and Airline was used regularly during steam years to break-in New Haven based engines that were overhauled at Readville They could run them at 20mph break-in speeds without fowling up Shoreline traffic. The Airline track with its heavier rails was good for all engines.
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1. What is the project schedule?
We are currently awaiting a final baseline schedule from the contractor. Because much of the timeline depends on weather and delivery times, the schedule will likely fluctuate throughout the project, but we will advertise and publish any significant closures or delays ahead of time so that the public can plan for them. Generically, the timeline looks like this:
Winter-Spring 2019: Begin soil nail walls for abutment
Summer 2019: Pedestrian bridge set
Late Summer 2019: Traffic Bridge closure and installation of new bridge
Late Summer - Fall 2019: Pier removal from Roaring Fork
Fall 2019: Aesthetic applications, landscaping
Winter 2019: Substantial completion
2. What traffic impacts will I see as a commuter?
As with any construction there will be delays. People want to see what is going on in the area, it is a neat project and people may slow to look at the project. In order to reduce these delays, the City is asking that drivers stay off their phones, pay attention to the signage, and follow the direction of our personnel who are on site directing traffic.
At this time, the City anticipates these closures and delays:
Night closures (detour to 8th Street) during girder and pedestrian bridge sets (Late Spring through Summer 2019)
Full Closure and detour to 8th Street during the traffic bridge removal and slide operation. This will be a long weekend during late summer 2019.
Periodic holds for the ingress and egress of construction equipment. The City hopes to limit these to outside high traffic times.
Periodic holds on the river and trail when critical overhead work takes place. (Limited)
3. How will this impact river use on the Roaring Fork?
The City intends to limit river closures with adequate notification. Most full closures will take place overnight, excluding the full closure for the bridge replacement. Temporary holds may be necessary during critical overhead work and during the in-water dates (August 15 – October 15) when the piers are being removed from the river. Please reach out to City staff with any concerns. The City intends to keep full contact with the River Users during this project and hope to minimize our impacts.
4. Why isn't South Bridge being built before the 27th Street Bridge replacement?
The City has received a large amount of grant funding for the 27th Street Bridge that must be used in a specific time frame so that money is not lost. Also, the 27th Street Bridge is rated as the worst rated bridge in Colorado. Even though this is not currently a safety concern, this bridge is a critical connection and it is in a condition that does not allow the City to wait until South Bridge is completed.
One reason that the South Bridge project isn’t underway yet is because of the project’s cost. Prior to a recent agreement with RFTA regarding the intersection at Highway 82 – the cost was in the $60 million -$65 million range. With the agreement in place, the project’s cost has been reduced to the $35 million -$40 million range. The City has bonding capacity remaining from the voter approved bonding measure for A&I sales tax and is applying for grants to help fund the remaining amount of the project. The City is working to finalize the Environmental Assessment for the South Bridge Project and will begin the right-of-way acquisition process once the assessment is complete.
5. How much traffic goes over the bridge?
2016 counts included in the 2017 Traffic Analysis show the average daily traffic amounted to 13,360 vehicles. In recent counts, the City estimates that more than 14,000 vehicles a day use the 27th Street Bridge. To give further perspective, Highway 82 near Wal-Mart facilitates 23,000 to 28,000 vehicles per day.
6. How much will this project cost?
Let’s break this down for full project transparency:
Design (Completed):
Contract with Wood: $1,202,854
FHWA Off-System Bridge Grant: $620,828
Total Cost to the City: $582,026
For the completion of the bridge design.
Right of Way Acquisition (Completed):
Total Spent: $57,100.66
For the acquisition of Right of Way, permanent easements for utilities, and temporary easements during construction.
Design Services during Construction (Under Contract):
Contract with Wood: $162,420
For answering Requests for Information (RFI) and design support during construction.
Construction Management (Under Contract):
Contract with HDR: $1,249,996.10
Department of Local Affairs Grant: $475,000.00
Total Cost to the City: $774,996.10
For project inspection, management of CDOT paperwork, and contractor management.
Construction Contract (Under Contract):
Contract with Ralph L. Wadsworth: $9,835,123.35
FHWA Off-System Bridge Grant: $1,616,132.00
Federal Mineral Lease District Grant: $500,000.00
Total Cost to the City: $7,243,991.35
7. What is a pier?
A support designed to sustain vertical load. In this instance, the existing bridge has two piers in the Roaring Fork River, near the bank in order to help support the bridge girders and deck. The new bridge will be a single span from abutment to abutment, removing any obstruction in the water.
8. What is an abutment?
A structure built to support the lateral load of a span (bridge) at the ends of the bridge. With the limited space we have to construct, the abutments for the new, single span bridge, are being constructed in place in front of the existing bridge abutments with a combination of soil nails and micropiles. This allows the existing bridge to remain functional through most of the construction.
9. What is a micropile?
A micropile is a small diameter drilled and grouted pile used to reinforce a foundation. In many instances micropiles are used in this area to gain friction for the stabilization of a foundation when bedrock cannot be reached. The project will use micropiles for the new bridge because a pile machine is quite large. If there were used, they City would not be able to construct the new bridge in place while keeping the existing bridge open. This also makes the construction footprint much smaller with less impacts. Recently the City used these on the Midland Avenue Pedestrian Bridge and the 14th Street Pedestrian Bridge.
10. What is a soil nail?
A soil nail is a type of slope reinforcement. It allows steeper slopes by installing reinforcing bars that are drilled into the ground face and a concrete (shotcrete) installed to stabilize the soil. In this instance, the soil nail wall will be installed behind the abutment face to remove the lateral load on the abutment and allow for the installation of micropiles to support the bridge rather than full piles. Recently, the City has seen this application at the new Lofts development, 6th Street Station Development, and the teacher housing at Cardiff Mesa.
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The Chilean Mars Landing
Main Posts — Tags: Camp Hope, Carlos Mamani, Catholic Church, Chile, Euronews, Evo Morales, Latin America, Lilian Ramírez, Mario Gomez, Mars, miners, nationalism, news, Pakistan, Phoenix 2, Pinochet, religion, rescue, Sebastian Pinera, Television — comelybankingcrisis @ 10:49 am
Why all the fuss about the Chilean Miners?
What a bizarre few days we’ve had in the news. The rescue of 33 Chilean miners has caused such euphoria and excitement across the globe that we seem to have lost all sense of proportion of the event, picking over every possible angle and ultimately telling a story of 33 people who were simply in danger and now are not. Should this be globally significant news? Not on the face on it. Compare this with flooded Pakistan, where families have despaired, suffered typhoid and cholera, been just as patient, and finally rescued from the jaws of death not unlike the miners, but where so many thousands of others have perished. Surely there were scores of such hopeful narratives in that tragic set of events? Or do we prefer the hope without the tragedy?
In spite of this perspective, the Chilean miners’ rescue has undoubtedly been a wonderful story. But it would be foolish to think that we were only concerned with the welfare of 33 workers, that we watched them being rescued one by one, embrace their families, be joyfully rushed to hospital, only because we hoped that those 33 men would survive fit and well. There is clearly much deeper significance to this story.
No doubt the most obvious broad narrative in which the story has been told and received is Chilean nationalism. Images of Camp Hope – the temporary settlement around the rescue operation – awash with Chilean flags have become commonplace on evening television around the world, whether flying from poles or lately draped around the shoulders of the rescued heroes. This certainly seems to be a theme which has been embraced by the Chilean public, chanting the name of their country as they greet each newly rescued miner. Somewhat more bizarrely, news networks on Thursday morning published footage of rescuers still in the mine, having completed their mission, pausing for a moment of jubilation centred on the flag and again chanting that now familiar “Chi Chi Chi, lay lay lay” before they began their own ascent.
As appealing as it has been, the nationalistic side of the story has by no means been an accidental outcome of the rescue. The presence of Chile’s president Sebastian Pinera in the centre of the story would suggest a certain amount of deliberate staging. He has his own national agenda too, which he’s not afraid to share: “the country is not the same after this”, he remarked in the midst of celebrations, Chile is “more united and stronger than ever”, surely the image any world leader would pursue for their voters and an international audience. He seems at pains to distance Chile from the image of military coups and the Pinochet years. Pinera is also demonstrating considerable political astuteness both by his presence and by his encouraging of the national significance of the event. A billionaire, he is a right-wing leader on a continent where left wing parties, including in his own country, have the potential to become prominent. There is no doubt that his opponents home and abroad will attempt to capitalise on this story of workers’ struggle. Left-wing president of Bolivia Evo Morales has already promised Carlos Mamani, a national of Bolivia and the only non-Chilean miner, a house and guaranteed job on his return. But Pinera has so far marginalised these voices. For better or worse, that this has become a national event in Chile is beyond doubt.
The significant church involvement in Camp Hope suggests that this is also a story of good Catholics and Christian cooperation. This has likely broadened the story’s appeal in largely Catholic Latin America and globally. The implied narrative is not only one of a nation uniting to rescue its sons, but also one of prayers answered and religious fervour legitimated. Lilian Ramírez, wife of rescued miner Mario Gomez was unequivocal: “I want a shrine to stay here, a lovely big shrine where people can come and where the families can give thanks to God, the Virgin Mary and all the other saints who gave us our families back. That they are doing well and all alive is a remarkable miracle.” (Source: Euronews) And miracle is a word we’ve heard a lot recently, hinting that the events have already been interpreted by many as an act of God.
Mars Landing
But perhaps this story’s deepest meaning relates to the general human struggle behind the event. It’s a story of human frailty and of human inventiveness, technology and cooperation. The nightmare of being trapped so far underground for so long is perhaps only matched by the awe and fear of space travel, which is the ultimate conquering of human physical limitations. There is a certain irony that the miners were given guidance from space travel experts and even provided with “bio-harnesses”, designed for astronauts, to monitor vital signs. Essential as this aid may have been, the comparison with astronauts doesn’t stop there. The miners have been afforded the status of pioneers and national heroes, and the grainy footage of the kitted out rescuees climbing into a rocket-shaped rescue capsule emblazoned with the Chilean flag surely recalls television coverage of manned space missions. The capsule is named “Phoenix 2” after the mythical bird, but the name surely also recalls the spacecraft of the same name which landed on Mars on 25th May 2008, incidentally humanity’s most ambitious space destination today.
Humanity has in this case overcome the odds with ingenuity and technology and the world celebrates. This truly has been Chile’s Mars landing.
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Washington, DC – September 6, 2018 – The Diversity and Flexibility Alliance has announced that Kim Koopersmith, chairperson of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, will receive its 2018 Flex Leader Award. The Flex Leader Award recognizes an executive who is moving his or her organization toward a more inclusive workplace through holistic flexibility. The Award will be presented on Thursday, September 27, 2018 at the Alliance’s annual conference, Diversity + Flexibility = Embracing Change, in Washington, DC. This conference was originally scheduled for March, but was postponed due to the snowstorm in DC. Registration is available here.
Ms. Koopersmith is being recognized for her unwavering commitment to the advancement of women, attorneys of color and flexible work options for all. She has been instrumental in the success of Akin Gump’s Reduced Work Schedule and Agile Work Policies, which have consistently adapted to the needs of the firm’s employees and changes in technology, family dynamics, practice models and cultural norms.
“Kim is the perfect example of a leader who is committed to ensuring that flexible work options are available to everyone,” said Manar Morales, President & CEO of the Diversity & Flexibility Alliance. “She understands the value of flexibility to individuals, as well as to the firm in its recruitment and retention of top diverse talent. She is dedicated to providing outstanding client service while offering forward-thinking policies to employees worldwide,” she added.
“I want to make sure I use my voice and experience as a lawyer, working mother and firm leader to address and advocate for diversity and flexibility,” said Ms. Koopersmith. “I truly believe that our success originates from our talent, and one of the best ways we can support our employees is to provide the flexibility that they require,” she notes. “Equally as important, flexibility allows us to be in sync with our clients who also value diversity and flexibility,” she emphasized.
In her role as chairperson of Akin Gump, Ms. Koopersmith heads the firm’s management committee and has been instrumental in the firm’s continued commitment to diversity, pro bono work and attorney excellence. She is involved in numerous community, civic and charitable activities, including serving on the board of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Pro Bono Institute Law Firm Committee and Her Justice, an organization dedicated to assisting victims of domestic violence.
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Jack Lloyd and Mick Bailey at TEDx Canberra. Image by Gavin Tapp.
This year, science-theatre ensemble Boho Interactive (Mick Bailey, Jack Lloyd and myself) was invited to talk at the Canberra TEDx Conference. On Saturday 24 September, Mick and Jack presented a performance-lecture discussing Boho’s work in communicating ideas from complex systems science through interactive theatre.
Following the talk (which will soon be online), Boho has launched a new website with a swathe of new content. As it says on the front page:
Following our performance at TEDxCanberra 2011, which was kind of a pilot for us in combining lecture and storytelling with interactivity, we’re working on formalising our work over the last few years, categorising it, and considering where various techniques are most effective. Figuring that others might find this useful too, over the next few months we will be posting regular articles on interactive performance styles and tech, looking at ways that audience members can contribute to their own appreciation of a work, resulting in a richer artistic experience.
To kick things off, we’ve posted up several articles sharing some key lessons we’ve learned through our experiences making interactive work. First of all, Jack discusses the Treasure Hunt model, which Boho has used on a few occasions:
The Treasure Hunt is a scene we love using because it gets the audience working directly with the environment, so it’s great to break down walls. Depending on what you want to achieve, there are good ways to get story content out at the same time… The focus is on exploration, experimentation, puzzle solving and discovery. Improvisation is generally not necessary, the scene itself is kind of the star anyway so performance elements can be quite minimal.
Secondly, I’ve scribbled a little bit about failure – what it means when an interactive sequence falls apart in performance, or when the audience completely fails to understand or solve the activity you’ve created for them.
In True Logic of the Future, we had a puzzle built around the Logic Piano (a replica of WS Jevons’ 19th century early computer construct). In this sequence, two scenes played out simultaneously – one set in a hospital, and one set at the scene of a crime by the city’s dam. The audience used the logic piano to separate out the two scenes, filtering the messy sequence into its constituent parts.
Most audiences ran through the sequence between 5 and 8 times before hitting on a correct combination of keys. Some audiences got it within 2 or 3 goes, making the whole thing seem quite easily. During one performance, though, the players ran through the scene 13 times without hitting on the correct combination. As a performer, that’s desperate. You can feel the frustration mounting as the audience are trapped in this same section of the play, and the concern of the players as they fear that they might not be able to solve it. And when a sequence of the show that normally runs for 8 minutes runs on to 16, you begin to freak out that the show is going to run hugely over time, and everyone will be upset.
Have a butcher’s at the site, and feel free to drop us a line or comment if you have anything to add (or dispute).
A shot from probably the best Boho sequence in our whole company history: Flying Dudes. Image by ‘pling.
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I just wanted to bring this post to your attention about character generation across the editions. It's great.
If character generation can't be done under 10 minutes that's a serious, serious impediment to the hobby. Chargen needs to be old school, insofar as you are up and playing immediately. Trash powers, feats, proficiencies, specializations, etc. Let role-players role-play.
It reminds me of a conversation I had with my family doctor. I was contemplating a surgical procedure and his advice was, paraphrasing, unless it's life or death beware of surgeons bearing knives. Indeed, they do like cutting people open. Similarly, guess what game designers like to do? Make rules, and rules, and more rules.
Monte Cook. Take notes.
scottsz October 25, 2011 at 4:08 PM
We should start a betting pool as to how many hundred pages the 5E players handbook will be.
Tim Brannan October 25, 2011 at 5:36 PM
My 11 year old son made 4 characters in about 20 mins using just a pencil, character sheets and the D&D 4e Essentials book. That is about 5 min per character.
So really, it is what you are used to doing.
Kiltedyaksman October 25, 2011 at 8:04 PM
If I were 11, with enough time on my hands, I'm sure I could make characters that quick too.
Your comment serves to underscore the point, you need chargen that can be applied across the gamer population. Not just the kids, but the people who play infrequently.
Actually, I love 4E - it's a big part of the reason why the OSR is thriving.
Ozreth October 26, 2011 at 12:30 AM
I play infrequently and work full time. I haven't taken longer than 10 minutes to make a 3e character in years. Once you do it a few times it's just at matter of how quickly you can write. I don't get these posts. They are typically biased and unproductive across the OSR blogs.
In contrast, I sat down to make a 2e character for the first time in a loongg time and couldn't even figure out where to get half of the information that the character sheet asked for.
As somebody above me said, whatever you are used to, whether it BASIC or your own 2e/3e/4e/5e/WoD hybrid, is what you are going to be the most proficient at creating characters for. Once you know the info you know the info, it's that simple.
Von October 26, 2011 at 2:23 AM
@Kiltedyaksman - I'm not sure what you're getting at. 'Enough time' would appear to be quantified as 'five minutes per character', which doesn't strike me as very long at all - or are you implying that the Essentials chargen process demands prep time spent in studying the system before you can achieve that five minutes?
Not knowing 4e from a hole in the ground, I'm genuinely curious...
Jeff Rients October 26, 2011 at 5:52 AM
"I don't get these posts."
Man. There is ALWAYS one guy who says "It only takes me 10 minutes". Always. Every damn time.
I'm glad that you've mastered 3e sufficiently that you can construct a character so quickly, Ozreth. The rest of us don't have tables full of Ozreths. We have casual players who aren't that in to learning the rules. We have newbies. We have players who fret over every decision, especially in games like 3e where picking the wrong feat now will screw you at level 10.
-C October 26, 2011 at 7:41 AM
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Fucking A.
Ozreth October 26, 2011 at 9:31 AM
@JeffRients
I haven't mastered the rules by any means. I DM and disregard %60 of the rules anyways because I never cared to learn them.
Roll 6 stats, copy down race/class features, pick a handfull of skills that seem relevant to you, pick one feat, roll gold, buy armor and weapons, add up AC after buying armor. It's seriously simple. My girlfriend was showing people how to do it after making one or two characters of her own. Maybe you've just let yourself believe that its something spectacular between the big book and all of the internet mumbo jumbo.
Brendan October 26, 2011 at 12:05 PM
@Ozreth
But how do you know what all those skills and feats do without reading them all, and comparing them?
In games with simple chargen, there is only one choice that has anything close to that problem, and that is selecting a spell, and that choice is only required if you are playing a magic-using class. And even then, there are only about 10-12 choices. I guess you could add choice of weapon to that as well (an argument for OD&D-style d6 damage?).
How many feats and skills are there? I think it is way more than 10-12, even restricting options to core rulebooks. And then some classes have additional power lists as well.
anarkeith October 26, 2011 at 2:06 PM
I wonder if the issue of games "where picking the wrong feat now will screw you at level 10" is more about the players than the rules? The attitude that your character should be an idealized construction of optimal statistics seems to pervade the current RPG community. Why is this? Must you succeed at every challenge you face?
Yes, much of the immediate satisfaction in playing an RPG comes from success. But there is a larger story to be told. Most of us acquire expertise through practice and repeated failure. This isn't always fun, but it leads us to try new things, and master new techniques. What if you took the same approach to character generation?
In my opinion, your character should evolve over time. It shouldn't leap out of the box, fully and perfectly formed.
I suppose the whole good/poor feat selection thing just depends on the group. My group just picks the first feat that sounds cool and relevant, it's as simple as that. I'm not optimizing monsters and they aren't optimizing characters. Most of the feat choices were designed to be balanced (whether they are or arent is a different discussion entirely) so going based on that you can't really go "wrong".
Anyways, I understand and agree that earlier edition chargen is easier on paper, but that dosen't make 3e+ complicated.
-C October 27, 2011 at 2:24 PM
Good/Poor feat selection has nothing to do with the group. There *are* pages and pages of feats (just the lists!) and whole page of skills. A new player either has to have someone select those for them, or /without having played the game/ understand what those feats do, because once selected the choice is irrevocable.
There are clearly feat selections that will make you unable to perform as well as you 'should' be performing, meaning that the decision can't be handwaved - it matters, and if ignored, forces more work upon the DM as he now has to balance disparate power levels.
Feats were (per, oh, i don't know, the _designers_) explicitly not designed to be balanced, with many choices better than others. Meaning you can go wrong.
earlier character creation is not just easier 'on paper', it's actually in every measurable way easier. 3e, with it's thousands of builds is in every measurable metric more complicated. Your denial or misunderstanding of reality doesn't change any of the facts.
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Cognitive neuropsychiatric analysis of an additional large Capgras delusion case series
Currell, EA; Werbeloff, N; Hayes, JF; Bell, V; (2019) Cognitive neuropsychiatric analysis of an additional large Capgras delusion case series. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry 10.1080/13546805.2019.1584098. (In press).
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Introduction:: Although important to cognitive neuropsychiatry and theories of delusions, Capgras delusion has largely been reported in single case studies. Bell et al. [2017. Uncovering Capgras delusion using a large scale medical records database. British Journal of Psychiatry Open, 3(4), 179–185] previously deployed computational and clinical case identification on a largescale medical records database to report a case series of 84 individuals with Capgras delusion. We replicated this approach on a new database from a different mental health service provider while additionally examining instances of violence, given previous claims that Capgras is a forensic risk. Methods:: We identified 34 additional cases of Capgras. Delusion phenomenology, clinical characteristics, and presence of lesions detected by neuroimaging were extracted. Results:: Although most cases involved misidentification of family members or partners, a notable minority (20.6%) included the misidentification of others. Capgras typically did not present as a monothematic delusion. Few cases had identifiable lesions with no evidence of right-hemisphere bias. There was no evidence of physical violence associated with Capgras. Conclusions:: Findings closely replicate Bell et al. (2017). The majority of Capgras delusion phenomenology conforms to the “dual route” model although a significant minority of cases cannot be explained by this framework.
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Home Extension Indiana Crops and Livestock (Purdue University. Ag. Extension Service) Indiana Crops and Livestock, no. 199 (Apr. 1, 1942)
Indiana Crops and Livestock, no. 199 (Apr. 1, 1942)
No. 199 April 1, 1942
INDIANA CROPS AND LIVESTOCK
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE
COOPERATING WITH
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS
WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA
The winter wheat crop has come through the winter in good condition. Light to ample
snow cover protected the plants during the coldest weather and the period of alternate
freezing and thawing was not prolonged. The April 1 prospect was for a yield of 18.0
bushels per seeded acre and a total production of 22,950,000 bushels. The seeded acreage
is smaller than last year or than average. Production forecast is only 66 per cent of
last year when an exceptionally high yield was secured, and 76 per cent of average.
The condition of rye is reported at 86 per cent of normal or 2 points above average.
Pasture condition is reported at 83 per cent of normal or 6 points higher than average.
This probably results from the plentiful moisture and March temperatures somewhat
higher than average.
Stocks of corn on Indiana farms are estimated as 42 per cent of last year's crop or
71,744,000 bushels. The amount of corn on hand is 37 per cent larger than last year
and 29 per cent larger than average. It is only 85 per cent as much as was held in April,
Stocks of wheat are estimated as 4,853,000 bushels or 24 per cent more than last year
and 13 per cent more than the 1930-39 average.
The amount of oats remaining from the second successive large crop is 17,318,000
bushels or 2,500,000 more than last year and 4,000,000 more than average of April 1
for the 10 years 1930-39.
The farm labor supply in relation to demand is apparently much as it has been since
last July. Wages however are rising rather sharply and are now at about the levels
of 1924 for day wages and of 1919 for monthly wages. They are still below the peak
reached after the previous world war.
On farms having no more than 390 hens and pullets of laying age the average number
of layers is reported as 108 or 8 more than last year and 1 above aveage. Eggs produced
per 100 layers on April 1 is reported at 61.3 where last year there were 58.4 and the
average for 1931-40 is 57.1.
Crop reporters were milking 70.8 per cent of the cows in their herds on April 1.
Last year they milked 71.0 per cent and the 1932-41 average is 70.8. The cows milked
produced 20.7 pounds each the same as last year, while the 1932-41 average is 19.1 pounds.
Farmers have been delayed by adverse weather and are behind with spring work in
much of the Nation; many complain of difficulty in securing competent help and some
have been handicapped by lack of supplies. On the other hand, moisture conditions this
spring are better than usual and the great majority of farm families are exerting
themselves to increase production of crops and livestock products. The acreage of crops
is expected to be the largest since 1933 and prospects for good yields per acre seem
as favorable as at this season in any recent year. Livestock numbers, exclusive of work
stock, are now above pre-drought peaks and still increasing, feed reserves are large,
stocks of grain on farms are the largest on record for this season of the year, pastures
and range prospects are promising and the production of meat, lard, milk and eggs is
currently running at levels that provide fully the usual per capita supply in addition
to the present volume of Lend-Lease purchases.
The Corn Belt and the North Atlantic States had adequate rain and some warm
weather and while little stock was on pasture in these areas on April 1 prospects for
Title Indiana Crops and Livestock, no. 199 (Apr. 1, 1942)
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Subjects (LCSH) Crops--Indiana--Statistics
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Collection Title Extension Indiana Crops and Livestock (Purdue University. Agricultural Extension Service)
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Transcript No. 199 April 1, 1942 INDIANA CROPS AND LIVESTOCK U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE COOPERATING WITH PURDUE UNIVERSITY AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS WEST LAFAYETTE, INDIANA INDIANA The winter wheat crop has come through the winter in good condition. Light to ample snow cover protected the plants during the coldest weather and the period of alternate freezing and thawing was not prolonged. The April 1 prospect was for a yield of 18.0 bushels per seeded acre and a total production of 22,950,000 bushels. The seeded acreage is smaller than last year or than average. Production forecast is only 66 per cent of last year when an exceptionally high yield was secured, and 76 per cent of average. The condition of rye is reported at 86 per cent of normal or 2 points above average. Pasture condition is reported at 83 per cent of normal or 6 points higher than average. This probably results from the plentiful moisture and March temperatures somewhat higher than average. Stocks of corn on Indiana farms are estimated as 42 per cent of last year's crop or 71,744,000 bushels. The amount of corn on hand is 37 per cent larger than last year and 29 per cent larger than average. It is only 85 per cent as much as was held in April, 1940. Stocks of wheat are estimated as 4,853,000 bushels or 24 per cent more than last year and 13 per cent more than the 1930-39 average. The amount of oats remaining from the second successive large crop is 17,318,000 bushels or 2,500,000 more than last year and 4,000,000 more than average of April 1 for the 10 years 1930-39. The farm labor supply in relation to demand is apparently much as it has been since last July. Wages however are rising rather sharply and are now at about the levels of 1924 for day wages and of 1919 for monthly wages. They are still below the peak reached after the previous world war. On farms having no more than 390 hens and pullets of laying age the average number of layers is reported as 108 or 8 more than last year and 1 above aveage. Eggs produced per 100 layers on April 1 is reported at 61.3 where last year there were 58.4 and the average for 1931-40 is 57.1. Crop reporters were milking 70.8 per cent of the cows in their herds on April 1. Last year they milked 71.0 per cent and the 1932-41 average is 70.8. The cows milked produced 20.7 pounds each the same as last year, while the 1932-41 average is 19.1 pounds. UNITED STATES Farmers have been delayed by adverse weather and are behind with spring work in much of the Nation; many complain of difficulty in securing competent help and some have been handicapped by lack of supplies. On the other hand, moisture conditions this spring are better than usual and the great majority of farm families are exerting themselves to increase production of crops and livestock products. The acreage of crops is expected to be the largest since 1933 and prospects for good yields per acre seem as favorable as at this season in any recent year. Livestock numbers, exclusive of work stock, are now above pre-drought peaks and still increasing, feed reserves are large, stocks of grain on farms are the largest on record for this season of the year, pastures and range prospects are promising and the production of meat, lard, milk and eggs is currently running at levels that provide fully the usual per capita supply in addition to the present volume of Lend-Lease purchases. The Corn Belt and the North Atlantic States had adequate rain and some warm weather and while little stock was on pasture in these areas on April 1 prospects for
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The people of the city-state of Saraykeht live and work secure in the knowledge that their city is a bastion of progress in a harsh world. Their freedom supported by an economic power unmatched anywhere else.
At the heart of the city’s economic engine is the poet-sorcerer Heshai and the captive spirit Seedless which he controls. Faced with the constant reminder of his responsibilities and his failures, he is at once the linch-pin and the most vulnerable point in Saraykeht’s greatness.
Far to the west, the armies of Galt have conquered many lands. To take Saraykeht, they must first destroy its prosperity. Marchat Wilsin, head of Galt’s trading house in the city, is planning a terrible crime against Heshai and Seedless. If he succeeds, Saraykeht will fall.
Amat, a woman who rose from the slums to become House Wilson’s business manager, may be the only one with the power to stop him.
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Russia and Turkey’s Iran problem in Syria
By Chris Doyle Thursday, 5 January 2017
“All foreign fighters need to leave Syria. Hezbollah needs to return to Lebanon.” So proclaimed the Turkish foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, on 29 December.
This is quite some cheek given that Turkey sent troops into Syria many times and for over five years, employed a semi-open border policy to foreign fighters, even those heading into the arms of ISIS and al-Qaeda.The Hezbollah response was predictably icy. “We are not present in Syria at the request of Turkey, Saudi Arabia or the United States, we are there as part of our cooperation with the Syrian state.”
Contained within this more than fanciful Turkish ambition might lie the core of the behind-the-scenes struggle over Syria for 2017 and beyond. Having seen the US and Europe sidelined, many powers would love the same for Iran. Iran has embedded itself inside Syria with its support for the regime but more tellingly for a hodgepodge of militias.
For most actors inside Syria now, Iran cannot be allowed to dominate the scene as it may desire. This includes Russia, Turkey, and other Gulf actors, and arguably elements of the Syrian regime as well as other actors such as the US, Israel and the EU. Iran is exposed by its lack of genuine allies.
Russia portrays itself as the powerbroker in Syria now but such hubris is short-sighted. It has managed to rub along with the Iranians so far but it is not an easy relationship afflicted by mutual distrust and united largely by an antipathy to the United States.
Iran and its proxies have already acted as a spoiler on numerous occasions including the evacuation of Aleppo and the current ceasefire. The major assault in the Wadi Barada to the west of Damascus that has seen major water shortages in the Syrian capital serves both to secure strategic locations for Hezbollah’s access to Lebanon as well as demonstrate that Iran cannot be ignored.
Iran bristles at the burgeoning Russia-Turkish alliance suspicious of being squeezed out of its winnings in Syria. For Russia, diminishing Iranian influence in Syria could appease major Arab powers and perhaps calm some of the outrage over Russia’s orgy of destruction in Aleppo and Idlib. The Russian President, Vladimir Putin, may see an opportunity to pocket support from an incoming Trump administration that will be probably far more hostile towards Iran than the outgoing Obama one.
What is clear is that most Syrians resent the Iranian presence even more than the Russian. Regime loyalists often raise the Russian flag but hardly ever the Iranian
Chris Doyle
Fragmentation of Syria
Crucially Russia prefers unity and Iran veers toward fragmentation of Syria. Russia craves a strong central authoritarian state. This does not accord with Iranian ambitions of creating non-state actors that are influenced by Iran and less desirous of a powerful Syrian state that might be able to stand up to it.
Turkey has done an incredible U-turn on its Syria policy. For sure President Erdogan is not about to have a love-in with the Syrian regime, but gone is the entrenched support for the Syrian armed opposition who feel betrayed as their former patron falls into the Moscow camp. Turkey’s demands have shifted from regime change to thwarting Kurdish ambitions and ousting ISIS as well as a security belt in northern Syria.
What does the Syrian regime want? Ultimately Bashar al-Assad has made it clear that the regime will want full restoration of control overall of Syria. For the time being, however, the Syrian regime has a manpower crisis not least in the army so can hardly afford the loss of foreign militias.
But can Assad continue to play his patrons off against each other or does he have to choose one? Which would be his choice? Russia may be less of an intrusive partner but is too big to ignore its demands. Iran is less powerful but far more invasive in terms of its ambitions to control ley elements of the Syrian state and territory.
What is clear is that most Syrians resent the Iranian presence even more than the Russian. Regime loyalists often raise the Russian flag but hardly ever the Iranian. Iran and Hezbollah are not just going to give up and walk out. Blood and treasure have been expended in considerable quantities since Iran first acknowledged a fatality in Syria in January 2012.
Hedging bets
Iran has ensured that the Syrian regime depends on its support as much as Russia’s. Hence, Iran increased its military deployment at the same time as the Russians. Iran hedges its bets, both by supporting the regime but other militias at the same time. If the regime flounders, Iranian influence is designed to continue by other means.
For the last few years Syrians have waited in vain for Russia and the US to work together and to impose a political solution to end the crisis. Now their patience will be tested further as Russia, Turkey and Iran jostle to gain the upper hand as the dominant external regional player.
A Russia-Iran-Turkey axis is still a possibility and may be sought after by many within their respective governments. Yet the underlying deep-seated tensions may well see the “victors” in the regional Syrian power play unable to divide up the spoils.
As the United States, Europe and the Gulf are side-lined for the foreseeable future (though their funding for reconstruction and development will be required), do not be surprised by anything in Syria not least an ever worsening spat between the sponsors of the new Syrian political arrangement.
Yet Iran, Hezbollah and other Shiite militias will be near impossible to dislodge from Syria in the near future. Russia will still have its hands full to mastermind any form of successful exit from the country it now co-owns.
Chris Doyle is the director of CAABU (the London-based Council for Arab-British Understanding). He has worked with the Council since 1993 after graduating with a first class honors degree in Arabic and Islamic Studies at Exeter University. As the lead spokesperson for Caabu and as an acknowledged expert on the region, Chris is a frequent commentator on TV and Radio and gives numerous talks around the country on issues such as the Arab Spring, Libya, Syria, Palestine, Iraq, Islamophobia and the Arabs in Britain. He has had numerous articles published in the British and international media. He has travelled to nearly every country in the Middle East. He has organized and accompanied numerous British Parliamentary delegations to Arab countries. He tweets @Doylech.
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EppsNet Archive: Thomas Paine
The Saints Went Marching In
by Paul Epps on 17 Nov 2018
And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many. — Matthew 27:51-53 It is an easy thing to tell a lie, but it is difficult to support the lie after it is told. The writer of the book of Matthew should have told us who the saints were who came to life again and went into the city. and what became of them afterward, and who it was that saw them — for he is not hardy enough to say that he saw them himself; whether they came out naked and all in natural buff, he-saints and she-saints; or whether… Read more →
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Almost everything appertaining to the circumstances of a nation, has been absorbed and confounded under the general and mysterious word government. Though it avoids taking to its account the errors it commits, and the mischiefs it occasions, it fails not to arrogate to itself whatever has the appearance of prosperity. It robs industry of its honours, by pedantically making itself the cause of its effects; and purloins from the general character of man, the merits that appertain to him as a social being. — Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1792) My fellow Americans — I’m hearing in the pre-debate analysis that voters are looking for the candidate who’ll help them have a better life. Speaking as someone who was there at the beginning, I can tell you that helping you have a better life was not America’s original value proposition. Everyone was welcome to come here and try to make… Read more →
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Almost everything appertaining to the circumstances of a nation, has been absorbed and confounded under the general and mysterious word government. Though it avoids taking to its account the errors it commits, and the mischiefs it occasions, it fails not to arrogate to itself whatever has the appearance of prosperity. It robs industry of its honours, by pedantically making itself the cause of its effects; and purloins from the general character of man, the merits that appertain to him as a social being. — Thomas Paine, Rights of Man (1792) My fellow Americans — You see how my friend Tom Paine, 220 years ago, perfectly anticipated — and rejected — your President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” quote. Oh yes, we were aware of the “progressive” philosophy — that everything good comes from government — even then and we wanted no part of it. By the way, I notice that… Read more →
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by Paul Epps on 9 Sep 2009
My fellow Americans — Did you watch President Obama’s healthcare speech tonight? Neither did I. But I did learn from msnbc.com’s First Read that he hoped in his speech to explain to ordinary American voters — “call them Joe and Jane from Kansas City” — that his health-care reform will 1) cover nearly everyone and 2) cut costs in the long run. So let me get this straight — we’re going to spend money to save money! Does he think everyone in Kansas City is that stupid or just Joe and Jane? What — you don’t believe we can insure 50 million more people and cut costs at the same time? Well then, you’re an uninformed kook! You’re scared that those cost savings will come from drastically rationing access to care, particularly for people who are chronically ill and/or near the end of their lives? You’re un-American! Probably a Nazi!… Read more →
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SC Press: Suspects in snake snatching arrested
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THE HERALD (Rock Hill, S Carolina) 09 January 03 Suspects in snake snatching arrested (Tim Eberly)
York County authorities arrested two Rock Hill men Wednesday in connection with the theft of a deadly African snake from a local pet shop.
Stephen G. Hefley, 24, of 1734-207 India Hook Road was charged with third-degree burglary and petty larceny after investigators found the snake in his home. Hefley's friend, 21-year-old Randolph Scott Coley of Rock Hill, is facing the same charges. Wednes-day night, both men were awaiting bond at the York County Detention Center.
At 4:30 p.m., Rock Hill police forwarded an anonymous tip to the York County Sheriff's Office about the venomous Gaboon viper, which was taken from Herp-Aqua on Tuesday afternoon. An anonymous caller told police a man named "Craig" -- Hefley's middle name is Graig -- who lived in the Village Station Apartments had a snake that fit the Gaboon's description, Lt. Rusty Helms said.
Maggart and Helms went to the complex at 5:30 p.m. and located Hefley's apartment. The suspect answered the door, and told officers he had recently purchased a snake.
The investigators found the snake, valued at $200, on a nightstand in Hefley's bedroom. It was still in a small acrylic box, and a lamp and digital clock were sitting on top of the box.
Though their investigation, the officers determined the two men went to the salt water fish and reptile store about 3 p.m. Tuesday. The store is closed Monday through Wednesday, but the door was open because a store employee had left for a brief period.
The suspects realized the store was closed and went to their vehicle. After sitting in the parking lot, they decided to return.
They found a key in the store that unlocked a room where the 10-inch snake was held, Helms said.
Wednesday night, the snake was safe and being held at the detention center. Officers planned to return it to the store this morning.
Though Hefley fed the snake a mouse Tuesday night, Helms said the suspects did realize it was venomous.
"They didn't handle it," he said. "They were afraid to handle it."
The store's owner, Adamm Smith, offered a monetary reward Tuesday night for any information leading to the recovery of the snake.
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The mainstream news has been covering an interesting story.
People who were expecting significant tax refunds are, in very large numbers, either getting a minimal refund, no refund or having to pay the IRS. This, after the man Spike Lee has named “Agent Orange” ‒ Donald Trump ‒ promised a massive tax benefit for middle-income people.
When I first starting reading and seeing these stories, I wondered why anyone was surprised. After all, in the lead up to Trump’s tax bribe, economists across the board were warning that this was a scam to benefit the rich. They were telling the average taxpayer that this was not going to work to their benefit. And while the majority of the public has generally opposed the tax bribe/reform, it was still the case that the actual implications of the tax bribe took too many people by surprise.
Here’s what I think
After more than 40 years of listening to right-wingers call for tax cuts and watching the public’s reaction I have come to a few conclusions.
First, when it comes to taxes, much of the public hears what it wants to hear. If someone says that there will be a cut and they can provide minimal evidence to that effect, such an argument can be a winner. Even when one demonstrates that it is a lie, the possibility of tax relief serves as a seductive song that softens the brain.
Second, there are those who wish to believe that tax cuts for the rich really are positive because they themselves, despite not being rich, may at some point be rich. I realize that this sounds completely convoluted, but it turns out that there are those who believe that they will at some point in the future be rich and they do not wish to be penalized. This is called “magical thinking.”
Race is an issue
Third, there is a disconnect in the minds of many people between public services and taxes. There is also a racialized element here, by the way.
A friend of mine told me a story about arguing with some Trump supporters and they were suggesting that they only wanted to pay for the things that they needed and not pay “…for someone else…” He asked them whether they drove on roads, pointing out that those roads were paid for by the taxes of many people who may or may not use particular roads. The discussion came to an abrupt halt.
Many of us act as if ‘things’ happen on their own and that they need not be funded. Or worse, that our tax money is being used for allegedly undeserving populations. Thus, there is a willingness to go for the right-wing arguments for tax cuts even when such tax cuts may cut one’s own throat.
Welcome to another day in the United States of Agent Orange. Make sure that you test that bridge before you cross it. There may not be enough tax money to keep it standing.
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A lazy higher-order purely functional language from the University of Nijmegen. Clean was originally a subset of Lean, designed to be an experimental intermediate language and used to study the graph rewriting model. To help focus on the essential implementation issues it deliberately lacked all syntactic sugar, even infix expressions or complex lists,
As it was used more and more to construct all kinds of applications it was eventually turned into a general purpose functional programming language, first released in May 1995. The new language is strongly typed (Milner/Mycroft type system), provides modules and functional I/O (including a WIMP interface), and supports parallel processing and distributed processing on loosely coupled parallel architectures. Parallel execution was originally based on the PABC abstract machine.
It is one of the fastest implementations of functional languages available, partly aided by programmer annotations to influence evaluation order.
Although the two variants of Clean are rather different, the name Clean can be used to denote either of them. To distinguish, the old version can be referred to as Clean 0.8, and the new as Clean 1.0 or Concurrent Clean.
The current release of Clean (1.0) includes a compiler, producing code for the ABC abstract machine, a code generator, compiling the ABC code into either object-code or assembly language (depending on the platform), I/O libraries, a development environment (not all platforms), and documentation. It is supported (or will soon be supported) under Mac OS, Linux, OS/2, Windows 95, SunOS, and Solaris.
http://cs.kun.nl/~clean/. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list: <[email protected]>.
["Clean - A Language for Functional Graph Rewriting", T. Brus et al, IR 95, U Nijmegen, Feb 1987].
["Concurrent Clean", M.C. van Eekelen et al, TR 89-18, U Nijmegen, Netherlands, 1989].
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Chef Peter X. Kelly Teaches Farm-to-table at HVHC
By Megan McCaffrey on July 22, 2014 Chefs
Chef Peter X. Kelly, a champion of the farm-to-table movement in the Hudson Valley, has a new job: Teaching children how to prepare locally grown food at the new Peter X. Kelly Teaching Kitchen at Hudson Valley Hospital Center.
The kitchen and organic garden, along with a twice-monthly farmers market and locally sourced food for hospital patients, are part of an initiative by Hudson Valley Hospital Center to encourage healthy eating habits and educate the community on childhood obesity.
“The commitment of the hospital has been amazing,” says Kelly. “This program should be a model for other communities and other hospitals.”
The Young Chefs of the Hudson Valley program focuses on adolescents, but there are also courses for cardiology patients, breastfeeding mothers and those with gluten sensitivities. And for an upcoming Signature Chef series, notable local chefs will prepare fundraising dinners for the program.
Kelly walked us through the new kitchen, and shared some of the plans for the space.
Whom does the program serve?
We had a group of 11-, 12- and 13-year-old kids from Peekskill here for the Young Chefs program. They took the bus after school and by the end were dicing vegetables like pros!
How did the kitchen come about?
It was a year-long process to design, construct and pursue donations. Lumber for the garden was donated, Kohls sent volunteers over, children of cancer survivors painted tiles for decoration. When you look at where the money all came from, it is the hospital and the community. It’s a true grassroots effort. Volunteers have gone above and beyond.
What are the goals of the program?
We want to teach kids from a young age how to take the sugar and fat out, and how to make a healthy snack for themselves. These kids are not being exposed to fresh fruits and vegetables. Then they go out to our garden and pull a carrot out of the ground for the first time, and they used to think it came from a can. We’re showing them how to take the fresh and healthy ingredients and make things like frozen grapes or chicken burritos. It’s a fun environment.
Can you give us any names of chefs signed on for the Signature Chef Series?
Well, there are four dinners per year planned that represent the chef and the season. We’ve got Waldy Malouf, dean at the Culinary Institute of America; Eric Gabrynowicz of Restaurant North; Anthony Goncalves from 42; Dave DiBari from The Cookery and Ethan Kostbar from Moderne Barn. The chefs donate their time and all of the proceeds go to the Young Chefs program.
All classes cost $15. To register, visit Hudson Valley Hospital Center’s event calendar at www.hvhc.org/events/calendar.
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Holy JAG, Batman!
Robert Irvine... you done got famous! TMZ has picked up a story about the Food Network star's alleged embellishments and flat-out lies regarding his culinary background, originally reported on by the St. Petersburg Times:
One of Irvine's most-touted accomplishments is having worked on the wedding cake for Prince Charles & Princess Diana. (This may or may not be mentioned in the opening sequence to Dinner: Impossible -- anyone remember?)
You'll have to decide yourself what "worked on" means, since when asked to elaborate, Irvine said, "I was at the school when that was happening," he said. "They made the cake at the school where I was." He also mentioned he picked fruit and "things like that" for the cake's panels.
Another big question is Irvine's statement that he's served as Chef for presidents and heads of state.
As of this morning, Irvine's personal Web site still claims that:
Robert's greatest honor in 2001 was to be Chef at the Inaugural Dinner for President George W. Bush, as he did in previous years for President George H.W. Bush. Being a part of history is great!
Interesting, because the White House's executive chef from 1994-2005, Walter Scheib, says that:
Irvine's ONLY connection with the White House is through the Navy Mess facility in the West Wing ... never in the period from 4/4/94 until 2/4/05 did he have ANYTHING to do with the preparation, planning, or service of any State Dinner or any other White House Executive Residence food function, public or private
When asked directly about the truth of this statement, he allegedly replied, "I cannot talk about that [...] it's the White House."
Excuse me for being ignorant, but I highly doubt that the chefs who cook at the White House are considered highly guarded government secrets. That's just, for lack of a better word, baloney.
St. Petersburg Times uncovers several other questionable statements Robert Irvine has made over the past few years, including his status as a Knight, culinary awards he's received, and whether or not he truly obtained a B.S. in Food and Nutrition.
The chef's side-by-side restaurants, set to open three months ago in the Florida city, are still nowhere near completion.
TMZ has a statement from Food Network: "It's unfortunate if Robert embellished the extent of his culinary experiences. We are investigating the matter and taking the necessary steps to ensure the accuracy of all representations of Robert on Food Network and foodnetwork.com."
Irvine's bio has since been pulled from the site.
So does this all matter? The short answer is yes. It's true that these allegations shouldn't and don't affect his ability to host a television show or serve as a chef. He's proven himself to be engaging enough to score a second season of his Food Network show and write cookbooks.
But this problem is the fact that Irvine (allegedly) lied to get to the place he is. And if it's true that he did misinterpret his background, that's some pretty big misinterpretation! I don't really care about whether or not he had to pay for the five star diamond whatever award, but to assert you had direct culinary involvement with royalty and presidents? That's just wrong.
I suppose that the idea of fame and fortune is enough for some people to say pretty much anything. The bittersweet reality is that when your fame and fortune reach a certain point, these lies and half-truths always seem to resurface.
If I see Robert Irvine this weekend at the [UPDATE: link is now disabled] South Beach Wine and Food Festival, I'll try to get another comment from him. I hope he doesn't punch me!
UPDATE: Robert Irvine's bio page on the South Beach Wine and Food Festival site has been taken down, yet his picture remains in the "personalities" section. His originally scheduled appearances during the Publix Grand Tasting Village on both Sat. & Sun. have also been removed.
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posted by jacob @ 10:21 AM
At 2/19/2008 12:55 PM , Anonymous said...
I don't think he'll be there. He's writing a speech for Obama this weekend.
At 2/19/2008 1:08 PM , Prisca said...
I was so hoping you'd have something to say about this. I wonder what's up.
At 2/19/2008 1:35 PM , johnned said...
I'm wondering if Robert will make a comment about this at the South Beach Wine & Food Fest. I bet the Food Network will want to keep this quiet. I will be at the festival also and will be watching to see what happens.
At 2/19/2008 1:36 PM , Alec Smart said...
Anybody who "embellishes" the resume as Irvine has done has some explaining to do, that's for sure. Should he stripped of his show or punished for his exaggerations? Not so sure.
The dude certainly knows how to cook, and is quite enjoyable to watch, given his tasks. I am now doubting how "realistic" these challenges are are now. Had you ever thought what would happen if he failed in any of his atttempts? Leaving 300 hungry people at show's conclusion ? KFC on standby quick dial to order up enough dirty bird to feed the crowd? FN are complicit in this as well.
I say give the guy another chance. I think he knows he screwed up.
When in SOBE, ask him if he uses steroids or HGH's. See if you can get that outta him.
At 2/19/2008 2:21 PM , Anonymous said...
The official SoBe Food & Wine site has completely blanked out his page and he's now not scheduled for either day of the Grand Tastings (let alone anything else, but he wasn't doing, say, the BubbleQ or Rachael's Beer Bash or something like that). If he shows up on Sunday and I see him, I'll let you know, but I'll be working for a restaurant participating in the tasting--I may not see him if he magically appears.
i may just be naive but i bet you anything that all the execs and producers of food network lied about something at sometime to get to where they are. the fact that journalist live off of finding out these ridiculous stories just baffles me.. how do they sleep at night knowing that they are sabotaging somebody elses life.. Its petty and ignorant, why dont they try writing about something that can help the world?? instead of making the world an unhappier more unemployed world??
At 2/19/2008 2:42 PM , Scott M said...
"Chef at the Inaugural Dinner for President George W. Bush" doesn't mean he cooked at the White House. Bush had 9 Official events in 2000, Exec Chef at anyone of those makes that statement the truth.
I am unsure on what to think about this whole thing. Given the fact that yes Irvine has shown that he is after all in fact a good cook, expecually under pressure.
What about when JAG lied about his background? I know these are two different circumstances and two different people but they both embelished their history in the culinary field.
"I don't think he'll be there. He's writing a speech for Obama this weekend."
HAHAHAHAHA! Good one! :D
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I think the Food Network should have done a better background check on Irvine (and Jag for that matter). The Food Network has no one to blame but themselves.
Man... Jag, now Jag the sequel, losing the Emeril franchise and, oh, Sandra Lee. If I were a stockholder, I'd be nervous about now.
FN didn't loose the Emeril franchise. They just opted not to renew the series. Emeril was expensive to produce. Beside, Emeril ain't no dummy and bailed at the right time.
For the money,per episode they can make a seasom of Sandra Lee, 1/2 a season of Guy Hedgehog's Garage Grill, and 1/2 season of Rachel Ray's 30 Minutes Tasty meals.
If I where a FN shareholder I would keep my money in the bank. They do some real strange things in the course of a day.
Can't they background check these people more thoroughly?
Next they'll be telling us that Paula Deen is really the wealthy heiress of a railroad tycoon who spent her youth in Swiss boarding schools, rather than a former trailer park bank teller/agoraphobic.
I have lost all faith.
I weep.
at this point with all the things going on with these chefs i honestly dont believe the individual chefs are the ones that are doing the embellishing. the network itself has taken half truths and run with them for personal gain. FN is run by a bunch of pompous snotty old folk and once you are a chef on their network you belong to them. now listen if you were on a network and your bosses told you to do certain things for the network you would have no other choice but to do so, there are contracts signed and put in place in order to protect the network, but when the truth comes out (and it always does) he network doesn't take the blame for anything but lays total blame on these poor chefs. the FN will always be there but these chefs then have to pick themselves up from the shame. the FN sucks and i would never watch it again and not because of their chefs, they are great, talented people, but because of their terrible executives! i believe JAG needs to be brought back and irvine should stay but we all know those stuffy farts are gonna get rid of them since the network tends to like to keep boring old lady stuff, i mean look at who won last season of NFNS...amy...yawn.
At 2/19/2008 10:15 PM , Kate said...
"Guy Hedgehog" lol!
At 2/20/2008 8:34 AM , johnned said...
wow...no time was spent dropping Irvine from SOBE. It is kind of sad...now we get a solo Guy Fieri demo. It will be a good time to start drinking.
At 2/20/2008 9:57 AM , jacob said...
anon: LOL... i'll zip my lips for now. (go hillary!)
prisca: i'm sure more will come out soon.
johnned: from the looks of it, it doesn't seem like he's going to be there now.
alec: yeah, i think the show will never feature him fail -- the time limits don't sound all THAT crazy (you have 15 hours to prepare this meal!). I don't think he should be fired, but I'd like to see a personal explanation. And, yes, maybe it's a bit of both HGH & steroids;-)
rd: which restaurant? I'll say hi.
anon/angela: while it's true that some journalists seek out salicious info for personal gain, I don't think that's the case here with Robert. While this may end up harming Irvine's career, who knows if Robert himself didn't "sabotage" some other, less-accomplished chef in getting his pilot on the air, thanks to his embellishments? Perhaps it was down to Robert-the White House chef, Knight, etc.-and some other dude with less stellar accomplishments. How would Robert sleep at night, then, knowing he'd lied?
scott m: interesting point. if that's true, why didn't he just say that then instead of saying "I can't talk about it"?
anon: I'm not sure either what should happen... especially since Robert is seen as a lucrative commodity for FN.
anon (4:44): I agree that it's odd FN has let this happen yet again. I suppose, in the past, it hasn't been a big worry, since the network relied on established chefs whose credentials were publicly available. Nowadays, it's not that easy to just go on what people claim on a website.
anon: ehhh... you're right that FN (scripps) should have tried to purhcase those rights over Martha.
anon: LOL... nothing would shock me now.
anon: that does tend to happen when lies comes out, which is unfortunate. america likes to forgive, though, and robert still has a chance.
johnned: meet yah at the amstel lite tent!
At 2/20/2008 10:11 AM , Anonymous said...
I think someone should devote some time to uncovering some juicy dirt on FN executives like Tuschman or Suzy Cakes. These people and the minions who serve them are just as guilty in these affairs and should share the heat.
Anonymous 9.28pm nailed it accurately. FN people are freaking story tellers and good copywriters.Many of them are not career TV people and this is quite evident with much of the crap they air.
They can take any knucklehead, give em a show and make some of us derelict viewers watch. (see Guy Fieri, Gerhard Keegan)
Half the schedule is rubbish, but they have managed to "convince" many of us this is quality programming.
Funny how you don't see such mindless culinary cooking shows on PBS. Maybe because the PBS viewer is about 75 % smarter than a FN viewer.
At 2/20/2008 4:55 PM , Tablebread said...
I don't really watch this show so I don't have too much to say on the topic but everyone should realize that 'Chef' is a title earned through OJT (On the Job Training) and not necessarily culinary training. So technically anyone can call themselves a chef. The FN is enjoying this ability.
@jacob: Wish.
Was it me or was the beginning of DI different tonight? It was missing all his qualifications and such.
At 2/21/2008 1:08 PM , Jeff said...
Anonymous 10:11 p.m. seems to think people like Guy Fieri are untalented phonies. I think Fieri is not only real, but an easygoing and intelligent chef, even if he doesn't look like one. As for whether Chef Irvine lied constantly, I couldn't tell from watching how he works around a strange kitchen. He seems pretty decent to me. He seems a lot less mysterious than JAG.
I am a huge DI fan. It does appear from the St. Pete report there were some stretches of the truth. It is suspicious that the FN execs did not already know this or that they claim to be ignorant of Robert's fibs. Whatever the story, Robert Irvine is an amazing chef, with abilities that far surpass most FN chefs. It would be a shame for FN to drop his show. I think Robert is overall a good person.
At 4/26/2008 9:40 AM , Anonymous said...
Chef Irvine is awsome. I think he has proven himself in front of millions of viewers with all the shows he has done. So what if his resume had a few white lies on it, he still showed he was capable of the job. I wont be watching DI after his last show, they could never replace Chef Robert Irvine in my opinion.
Who cares if he lied or not? The guy can cook.
I saw the knew Dinner Impossible with the new host, and I lost interest, he is not engaging enough, as a matter of fact I found him boring, but that is just my opinion.
There are a lot of actors and singers with alcohol, drug, and other issues. So go turn on them, at least Robert was hosting a good show.
My opinion the network is a fault for not checking Robert resume. I really enjoyed the show with Robert and as for the new host, lost a viewer of the show.
At 4/13/2009 1:39 PM , crazytennis said...
We should give him another chance, this is a business, eventhoughhe misinterpret his resume but he has very well entertainment ability (since a new iron chef guy takeover the show I really lost the interest in the show). Just like the Guy's show (Diners, Drive-ins and Dives), I live in Santa Rosa, CA I know his restaurant, it's really not that good at all but he is a successfull chef not because he cook good but because e has ability to entertain people well, he made the show interesting, that is the main point of the FN business. So why don't we just look at what chef Robert did for us in his show so far and give hime another chance.
best wish to Robert
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Interesting photo of GD Georgiy --he is bearded - and his mother Empress MF during one of her visits to Abbas-Tuman.
Re: Grand Duke Georgiy Aleksandrovitch (1871-1899) discussion, pictures II
George's home:
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Did anyone from the IF attend the funeral?
grandduchessella, I'm always just floored by your collection of photos and postcards of this era and its players.
Thanks, Bach. These came from L'Illustration (the French version of the Illustrated London News) which had 2 consecutive issues detailing his passing. It was mostly illustrative, and in French, so I'm not sure what all was written about the funeral. After I scanned the images, I put the pages away.
He did have a state funeral in St Petersburg though so I imagine most members of the family were there. The photo gets shrunk, but you can see Nicholas in the funeral sketch.
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I heard a story once that his mother absolutely broke down at his burial, after losing her baby Alexander her husband, and then George. Yes, the entire Imperial Family was there, as George was the Tsesarevich. This would indeed have meant a state funeral, which would have also included attendance by the diplomatic corps.
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Quote from: LisaDavidson on December 16, 2006, 01:42:17 AM
I read that about Marie Feodorovna somewhere as well, though I can't remember the source. Perhaps Romanov Autumn? I'll try looking it up.
It seems to me that there may be film footage of Nicholas marching behind his brother's casket. I'll see if I can figure out which documentary it's in. My best guess is Nicholas and Alexandra (A&E), or Last of the Czars, or Russia's Last Tsar....
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Quote from: Sarushka on December 16, 2006, 08:18:28 AM
Ok, there is some footage of GD Georgii's funeral procession at the very end of Nicholas and Alexandra. It's in the last 3 minutes or so, when they talk about DNA testing of Nicholas's remains. They also quote from Nicholas's diary for that day.
There's virtually nothing on GD Georgii in Romanov Autumn, but Ian Vorres does write briefly about Georgii's death in The Last Grand Duchess:
"Nicholas received word of his brother's death by telegram and broke the sad news to his mother.
" 'Mother, Georgie is gone,' he said quietly, and the Empress burst into tears. He was twenty-seven, and his death, as the Grand -Duchess [Olga A.] said, was in irreparable loss."
I will keep looking for the source of the story Lisa mentioned.
Quote from: TampaBay on December 16, 2006, 08:31:42 AM
I think it was due to his illness which already appeared when he was only about twenty and then he had to move to the Caucasus where it was not likely to meet many princesses.
BTW, why was the Caucasus chosen for Georgi? Archduke Franz Ferdinand did have tuberculosis to and was moved to Egypt and eventually recovered from his illness. Maybe this would have been the better place for Georgi too especially as his condition still didn´t improve after several years in the Caucasus?
Quote from: Linnea on December 16, 2006, 12:38:19 PM
GD Olga Aleksandrovna mentioned in The Last Grand Duchess that the doctors were hesitant to diagnose Georgii with tuberculosis for some reason. They always knew he had a "weak chest" but seemed reluctant to admit it was TB. I think the phrase she used was that the doctors "made a mess of it." She believed he need not have died. The Caucasus was eventually chosen for the climate, though it seems not to have been the best choice in the end. I think he did do better in the Caucasus, but was never fully well.
George seems to be one of those great tragic 'what ifs' with the Romanovs. He seems to have been such a good person and an intelligent, sensitive and dutiful one as well. If he had been healthy, perhaps the relentless pressure to produce a son might not have happened. There was still Michael but I don't think he was ever regarded as highly as George was in terms of being a future Tsar. Knowing that a healthy George was there to marry and, hopefully, produce sons, might have relieved a lot of the tension that surrounded the family. Instead, from the very beginning his ill-health was an issue and he died before even Anastasia was born. In addition, being so close to Nicholas, he could've provided him an outlet and sanctuary within the family--someone he could've trusted and relied upon. It seems a real waste.
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In addition, being so close to Nicholas, he could've provided him an outlet and sanctuary within the family--someone he could've trusted and relied upon.
Indeed, they were very close. I recall reading that Nicholas wrote down many of Georgii's stories and jokes, and that even as a grown man Nicky was sometimes found in his study, chuckling over something Georgii had said when they were boys.
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I've never read much info about Georgi in books, but from what I have read he might have made a good Tsar. I am not sure whether he would have had quite the personality of Nicholas, I think he would have been stronger. Michael was always seen as a bit less than serious. This image was not helped when he married morgantically and could therefore have no legitimate heirs to carry on that branch of the Romanov line. Had Georgi been alive in 1917, he might have been someone there was more support for to become czar, than Michael, who was not going to get that much support because of circumstances, but also because of how he was regarded.
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Where does the pacific golden plover – the kuriri – come from?
The shores of Miranda, in the Firth of Thames, are the part-time home to the kuriri. The fourth most common of the Arctic migrants that visit each summer, the kuriri used to arrive in their thousands each year to escape the Northern Hemisphere’s winter. Now, fewer than 200 visit. Why the numbers coming to New Zealand have declined is a mystery, as is much about the birds’ life.
Each year the small birds migrate to somewhere near the Arctic Ocean to nest. It’s not known whether this is Siberia or Alaska, what route the birds take to get there or if and where they might stop on the way. There’s speculation a habitat they might use as a stop-off point might be degraded.
This summer the Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre is going to try to find answers to fit 10 of the birds with tiny GPS trackers to see where they go. $20,000 was raised for ten lightweight GPS trackers. With permission from the Department of Conservation and Massey University Animal Ethics Committee, the notoriously flighty birds have been successfully tagged.
You can follow the progress of the campaign on the Pūkorokoro Miranda Shorebird Centre website.
Newsroom reporter Farah Hancock reported on this recently here.
Attracting Spotted Shags back to the Noises
The Hauraki Gulf is home to a threatened population of Spotted Shags, thought to be genetically distinct. Whilst the Spotted Shag is relatively common in other parts of the country, in the Hauraki Gulf the birds are now limited to just two colonies, on Tarahiki and Waiheke Islands, with an estimated population of 300 breeding pairs.
In an attempt to attract Spotted Shags back to the Noises group of islands, a replica colony of Spotted Shags has been installed on the steep cliff face of Otata Island – the largest of the Noises group. The replicas were made from six Spotted Shag specimens in the Auckland Museum’s collection, that were collected by Museum staff from the Noises back in 1913.
The Museum’s specimens have been scanned, 3D printed and painted. As well as the replica birds, nests have been constructed from dried seaweed and a solar-powered sound system installed to transmit bird calls. White paint has been used to mimic the droppings that mark seabird colonies.
Damian Christie from the Aotearoa Science Agency was on hand to film the installation.
You can also watch Auckland Biodiversity ecologist Tim Lovegrove and Auckland Museum’s Matt Rayner take part in an annual survey to monitor the threatened populations of Spotted Shags in the Hauraki Gulf here.
What threats do seabirds face?
A comprehensive new book on the challenges for seabirds
Responding to shell fish loss
As reported frequently in the Gulf Journal, shellfish beds are vital to marine ecosystems. They filter and clean the water, stabilise the seafloor, dampen the effects of storm surge, enhance biodiversity, and remove nutrients that run off the land.
This newsroom article by Professor Simon Thrush, Director of the Institute of Marine Science at the University of Auckland, calls for urgent research to inform targeted restoration activities, as well as more coordinated partnerships of current restoration efforts. Professor Thrush urges, however, that scientific knowledge alone will not secure the success – community participation and commitment are critical to ensuring the long-term success and sustainability of restoration.
To get involved locally, contact Revive our Gulf.
Lessons learned from Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari
Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari was the first of its kind in New Zealand – a bold initiative to create a marine spatial plan. The Office of the Auditor General (OAG) decided to see what lessons could be learned from this ambitious undertaking. They looked at how the agencies involved set up the project and prepared the plan, including a focus on the project’s governance arrangements and planning for implementation.
The OAG says that “in many ways, the project was a successful example of a stakeholder-led collaborative approach. It resulted in a completed plan with general support from those who prepared it. However, the plan is not easy for the agencies to implement and those involved in the project are frustrated at the lack of progress in implementing the plan. Our report identifies aspects of the project that if done better would have made implementing the plan easier, including improving stakeholder engagement and better planning for implementation.”
The report can be found here.
Watching the water rise
Recording our changing coastlines
Scientists spy on baby snapper in Hauraki Gulf
NIWA researchers are out on the Hauraki Gulf to find out more about the nurseries of young snapper
Back where they belong
From the age of dinosaurs up until the mid-1800s, wētāpunga lived between Waiheke Island and the Far North’s Paihia. But by the early 1900s, habitat destruction and predation from exotic pests saw to their demise. Auckland Zoo has been extremely successful at breeding wētāpunga and is safeguarding the giant insects’ future. So far about 4,300 of the zoo’s wētāpunga have been set free on Hauraki Gulf islands.
Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Seminar 2018
Te Mana, te Ihi, te Tapu o Tikapa Moana
Novel setting for Rotoroa Island
Rotoroa Is. has one of the most interesting of the Hauraki Gulf’s island history’s. Now writer Amy Head has used that colourful past to come up with a new novel set on the island.
Head takes us on a humorous romp through some of Rotoroa Islands history as a rehab centre run by the Salvation Army, as she explains why she set her new novel on the island, and how the antics of some of it’s “inmates” shaped her characters.
Gulf water temperatures stable
There is little good news with climate change, but altered currents off Australia’s coast will surprisingly see Hauraki Gulf water temperatures stay much as they are for some time. The downside is our southern coastline waters are warming up. Normally, the warm East Australian current ambles across the Tasman Sea bringing warmer water to the east coast of the North Island. This accounts for much of the teeming diversity of sea life found around the Poor Knights Islands Marine Reserve.
The warmer water extends south through the Hauraki Gulf. But the East Australian current is getting pulled further south under climate change, diminishing the flow across the Tasman Sea…
DNA house a winner
Stamping your personality on to a new home took on a whole new meaning for one family on the Coromandel.The award winning wilderness bach at Otama Beach on the Coromandel Peninsula has the family’s DNA patterns included in one of the house’s design features. Designed by Architect Ken Crosson The DNA House has been likened to a spaceship and recently won a Housing Award in the 2018 NZIA Waikato/Bay of Plenty Architecture Awards.
State of our Gulf 2017
A new report has been published. What has it found?
A lighthouse keeper’s cookbook
Hauraki resident Paul Trevethick reminisces
Clever stuff
Mary Frankham is using social science to fire up conservation.
Island interest in predator free future
Predator Free 2050 Ltd, the Crown company established to secure funding for predator-free projects around the country, has received over 40 expressions of interest for funding and support for large-scale efforts by conservation groups. They include proposals from Waiheke and Great Barrier Island groups.
Several will be shortlisted and funded as ‘pathfinder projects’, to prove new tools and collaborative approaches. http://pf2050.co.nz/news/
“A super pod of false killer whales, pilot whales and bottlenose dolphins was travelling at speed towards our anchorage” …
Jochen Zaeschmar’s patience pays off
Ocean is the new climate
We have to lift ocean sustainability up to the same level of focus, attention, and action as climate change action, urgently says Author and Sustainability Advisor Alan Atkisson. He notes:
There are 5.25 trillion pieces of plastic garbage floating around in our oceans, and the number is growing exponentially. By 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish — if we let this trend continue.
The oceans have experienced a 25% increase in acidity since we started measuring such things. This puts many kinds of ocean life at risk.
Oxygen levels in the entire ocean are down 2% overall, and have declined up to 4% in some places — leading to numerous “dead zones”.
The “Living Blue Planet Index”, WWF’s measure of how much life is in the sea, is down 50% since the 1970s.
In June the United Nations convened its first ever Oceans Conference. The UN’s Sustainable Development Goal 14 aims to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.”
Islands of the Gulf revisited
A classic 1960s book Islands of the Gulf has been reprinted. In the early Sixties Shirley Maddock joined seaplane pilot Captain Fred Ladd to visit isolated island communities, filming New Zealand’s first locally produced documentary series and spawning a book of the same name.
The new 2017 edition has been published to coincide with a remake of Islands of the Gulf, to screen on TV One later this year with Shirley Maddock’s daughter, actress and writer, Elisabeth Easther.
World First: Hanging Mussel Taura in Ōkahu Bay
Weaving together traditional and aquaculture industry techniques will provide the best of both worlds for rope that will be seeded with mussels to be hung from the pylons of Ōkahu Bay wharf. This taura (rope) is intended to seed larger amounts of mussels into the bay over time by avoiding the sea floor which is covered in sediment. The mussel taura (rope) has been woven by Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei weavers who have harvested the harakeke (flax) from their ancestral whenua (land).
With a vision to return the mauri (essence of life) back to the marine environment a 3-year mussel reef restoration programme in Ōkahu Bay has attempted to bring back historical mussel beds. Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei have committed themselves to returning the whenua (land) and moana (water) back to healthy state for 15 years through their planting of 220,000 trees on the whenua (land). “Protection of our waters and providing a future for our whanau is paramount for us, our daily connection with the moana recognises our ancestors and their kaitiakitanga” (guardianship)” says Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei descendant, Donna Tamaariki.
The Gulf has a salty dawn chorus
University of Auckland researcher Rosalyn Putland listens in
Hauraki seismic research
The Earthquake Commission is funding research to improve the understanding of known and potential faults in the Hauraki Rift; a geological area running through the Auckland and Waikato regions including the Hauraki Gulf, Firth of Thames and Hauraki Plains.
“The Christchurch earthquakes highlighted the need to research and better understand slower moving geological structures that have the potential to pose a significant natural hazard risk to high population areas and infrastructure,” says University of Auckland’s Dr Jennifer Eccles who will lead an team of international researchers.
Pioneering TV revisited
The ground-breaking Islands of the Gulf TV series made in the 1960s is being remade by daughter of original presenter Shirley Maddock.
Islands of the Gulf was (narrowly) New Zealand’s first, locally-made TV documentary series — written, presented, directed and produced by the country’s first female producer, Shirley Maddock.
Actress, playwright and travel writer Elisabeth Easther follows her mother’s footsteps catching up with people and changes to the Gulf’s islands. The new series will screen in June.
Watch the original series here
Sea Change plan available
A Hauraki Gulf / Tikapa Moana marine spatial plan launched in December after three years work by a stakeholder working group is available on the Sea Change – Tai Timu Tai Pari project website.
The proposed plan contains five pathways designed to create long-term health and wellbeing for the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park. Transitions to high value wild caught and farmed fisheries, the creation of marine reserves areas and scaled up restoration initiatives, setting load limits and mitigation for sediment and nutrients, local-scale coastal management and ambitious public engagement are outlined in the December issue of the Gulf Journal.
Evasive Weeds
DOC, Motuihe Trust and Yamaha are trailing weed control with an unmanned helicopter.
Weed control on cliff faces can be very expensive often requiring carrying heavy loads to remote places and abseiling or a helicopter.
The RMAX helicopters are piloted by remote control and used in a wide range of industrial and research applications overseas. The trial was a success and the team have plans to further improve the precision of the technology.
Where are the little fish?
NIWA scientists are asking for help from people who have had a long association with the Hauraki Gulf.
They are researching the areas where juvenile fish have congregated to find out how these nursery environments have changed over the years.
NIWA marine ecologist Dr Mark Morrison says they are particularly interested in populations of juvenile snapper, less than 10cm long in coastal waters.
He says young fish are strongly associated with what’s on the seafloor, especially seagrass meadows, horse mussel beds and sponge gardens.
Historical photographs, personal field diaries or fishing logs would be particularly valuable to document environmental change.
A computer model will be built to enable the researchers to explore ‘what if’ scenarios to help decide on the best management actions for the future.
Marine environment report
The Ministry for the Environment and Statistics New Zealand released the first individual “domain” report – on the marine environment – created under the Environmental Reporting Act 2015 in November.
The report identifies key issues facing our oceans, ocean acidification, threats to native birds and marine mammals and the state of coastal habitats.
Environment Minister Dr Nick Smith said environmental reports are fundamental to understanding and addressing environmental challenges – an area where data has been lacking.
He also said next year new legislation would replace the Marine Reserves Act “to bring our marine legislation into the 21st Century, recognising that we need varying levels of protection.”
Crayfish decline further
Recent surveys have shown crayfish numbers declining inside and outside marine reserves at Leigh and Tawharanui.
Dr Nick Shears, a marine biologist at the Leigh Marine Laboratory, says crayfish numbers in the reserves are down a further 25 percent from 2014.
Numbers outside the reserve are the lowest they have been since monitoring began in the 1990s. Biomass is estimated to be <5 percent of unfished levels. Earlier this year scientists released figures showing crayfish numbers inside Goat island reserve were lower than when it was established in 1975 and less than a quarter of their 1990s peak. Dr Shears attributes the decline to fishing pressure on reserve boundaries, a lack of recruitment and high fishing pressure in the CRA2 fishery. He has advocated a case for extending the offshore boundary of the reserves to protect resident animals throughout their home range.
Predator free vision
The Government has plans to make New Zealand predator free by 2050.
It will set up a new public-private partnership company by 2017 to help fund large-scale predator eradication programmes.
Predator Free New Zealand Limited will have a board of directors made up of government, private sector, and scientific players. The board’s job will be to work on regional projects with iwi and community conservation groups and attract $2 of private sector and local government funding for every $1 of government funding.
The Biological Heritage National Science Challenge will have an important role in achieving the predator free goal, as not all the technology to get rid of possums, rats and stoats exists.
James Russell on how the Gulf is helping make NZ predator free
Half the island groups of the Hauraki Gulf are now free of invasive mammals, and success at intercepting hitch-hiking or swimming reinvaders is close to 100%.
The 2016 Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Seminar asks what it takes to Do The Right Thing
Can our primary industries reinvent themselves and their relationship with ecosystems?
What is people-power unleashing around our islands, reefs and harbours?
How can 600 years of indigenous knowledge and culture inform the way?
Are fly fishing for kahawai and sailing with whales signs of the times?
And where might the government fit in all this?
The Hauraki Gulf Forum has assembled an outstanding line-up of speakers for its seventh annual seminar on Tuesday, September 13 at Auckland Museum.
Drone captures whales
Auckland University of Technology researchers have used drones to capture footage of whales feeding in the Gulf.
Post-graduate students Ticiana Fetterman and Lorenzo Fiori used a custom-built multi-rotor drone to film a Bryde’s whale lunging after prey, accompanied by a young calf.
Dr Barbara Bollard Breen, the students’ supervisor, says “drones could be a useful addition to boat surveys, for scientists who are studying the foraging behaviour of this critically threatened species.”
Around 50 Bryde’s whales are resident in the Gulf.
Remembering Bill Ballantine
Colleague and friend John Walsby reflects on Bill Ballantine’s “cussed” quality
Fishers like selfies
Snapper longline fishers in northern New Zealand want to show the public that their operations are not putting seabirds at risk and have recently taken part in the trial of on-board cameras, which they hope will help them prove this.
A recent trial on a vessel that fishes for Aotearoa Fisheries found that cameras can detect around 90% of seabirds caught on snapper longline hooks.
The video trial, which used woven flax seabirds attached to the fishing line, was funded by Department of Conservation.
The Black Petrel Working Group, facilitated by Southern Seabirds Solutions Trust, is developing a proposal for Government to enable the trial to be expanded to a larger pilot programme.
Marine reserve declines
Monitoring at Goat Island Marine Reserve shows that numbers of crayfish and snapper are now lower than when the reserve was established in 1975.
Following the creation of the reserve, numbers of crayfish recovered quickly, increasing four-fold in number by the 1990s with snapper also becoming bigger and more common.
Leigh Marine Laboratory’s Dr Nick Shears attributed the decline to fishing on the reserve boundaries and the state of the wider fishery and said the pattern is similar at marine reserves at Tawharanui and Hahei.
He said that the reserve boundaries needed to be extended seaward to protect resident animals and to safeguard the scientific and recreational values of the marine reserves.
Ballantine legacy
Marine conservation pioneer Dr Bill Ballantine passed away in November.
Forum Chairman John Tregidga said “Bill was instrumental in creating our marine reserves legislation and one of the world’s first marine reserves at Leigh, where he lived, despite considerable opposition at the time. His legacy is
a much greater understanding and appreciation of the importance, functioning and vulnerability of
our marine environment.”
He attended the announcement of the Kermadec Sanctuary and the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Seminar in the weeks prior to his death. He was 78.
RADIO NZ: Father of marine conservation dies at 78
Firth state
Water quality and ecosystem health in the Firth of Thames is examined in a new report commissioned by Waikato Regional Council and Dairy NZ.
The NIWA report concludes that the Firth has shifted trophic state – from oligotrophic to mesotrophic – since deforestation of the Coromandel ranges and drainage of the Hauraki Plains over the last century and a half and is vulnerable to nutrient enrichment.
Riverine nitrogen inputs are stable or have increased slowly over the past 20 years, but measurements of dissolved inorganic nitrogen in the middle of the Gulf have increased by 5.1 percent per year over the same period, suggesting changes to inputs or nitrogen cycling in the system.
Mud flats are extending ten times faster than other North Island estuaries. About 40 percent of the sediment is from rivers; the rest re-deposited sediment created by historical disturbance.
The report, and new research and monitoring resulting from it, will help inform proposed plan changes over the next few years.
Firth of Thames water quality and ecosystem health
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Calgary Flames target net gains to upgrade goaltending in off season
March 14, 2016 Calgary Flames No comments
Here are some of the candidates they’ll be looking at:
OIlers could look to move Jordan Eberle or Nail Yakupov
March 14, 2016 Edmonton Oilers No comments
Maroon is under contract for two more seasons at $1.5 million annually, thanks to Anaheim’s agreement to retain $500,000 each year. While Maroon’s play and contract make him safe, the same can’t be said of Jordan Eberle or Nail Yakupov, the two most at risk of being moved for blue-line reinforcements.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2016/03/12/fluto-shinzawa-how-bruins-slowed-blackhawks-rubik-cube-attack/khFhkEXJpAbCEPZ0Am65LP/story.html
Who will the Canucks go after on July 1?
March 10, 2016 Vancouver Canucks No comments
“I think Loui Eriksson is a real good target for the Vancouver Canucks. I think we keep hearing that it might be a real good fit for Eriksson with the Sedins, if they go down that road, so I think that’s a realistic one.
What Are the Odds? Drouin Returns to Crunch amid Continued Rumors of Trade
March 9, 2016 Tampa Bay Lightning No comments
In any pro sports league there are bound to be rumors of player dissatisfaction and coaches that aren’t giving players a fair shot. Such is the case with Jonathan Drouin who has recently been called off a suspension that was imposed for refusing to play again at the AHL level. In a bold move by Drouin and his agent, Allan Walsh, Drouin opted not to show for a January game between the Syracuse Crunch and the Toronto Marlies. Having been suspended without pay for what was to be an ‘indefinite length of time,’ young Drouin has returned to the game and now it is anyone’s guess what will happen next.
Calgary Flames might be perfect fit for free-agent-to-be James Reimer
March 8, 2016 Calgary Flames No comments
Is it big enough to transport Reimer’s home in Toronto to Calgary?
After all, this is one of the destinations Reimer could very well be eyeing up this summer when he decides where to sign as an unrestricted free agent.
Michalek didn’t want to leave Ottawa
March 7, 2016 Toronto Maple Leafs No comments
Toronto GM Lou Lamoriello and coach Mike Babcock both called Michalek to let him know he’d be important with the Leafs. Michalek admitted he was disappointed to leave Ottawa.
“I’ve been there for so long and it’s been my home and my family was happy there, too,” he said. “It’s business. I’m here and I’m going to make the best out of it.”
Burrows sees roster reality
March 7, 2016 Vancouver Canucks No comments
Burrows turns 35 next month and has a year left on his contract at a healthy $4.5 million US. That’s a lot of cap space for a depth player and one who’s no longer on the power play, is still on the penalty kill and is being a good mentor to a growing core of young players.
Goalies the Leafs should consider in the off-season, if they’re available: Frederik Andersen of Anaheim; Jimmy Howard of Detroit; Jacob Markstrom of Vancouver
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/03/05/simmons-says-initial-subban-snub-shows-hockey-canadas-living-in-the-past
Dreger Clarifies Trade Speculation on Eller and Yakupov
March 3, 2016 Edmonton Oilers No comments
“I think you can say that about Nail Yakupov in Edmonton as well. Look, Peter Chiarelli is the guy who told me that Nail Yakupov was in play. His agent – one of them, anyway – Ian Pulver – would have been fine with Nail Yakupov getting a fresh start somewhere else.
“So all of the after nonsense of ‘Was this guy really on the block,’ or ‘Was that guy really on the block.’ I mean, there were no promises of players being traded, but these general managers were most definitely willing to consider those moves.
Ehrhoff might be this year’s Michal Handzus
March 3, 2016 Chicago Black Hawks No comments
I’ve got a sneaking suspicion Christian Ehrhoff might be this year’s Michal Handzus. Off the scrap heap and into a major playoff role.
— Mark Lazerus (@MarkLazerus) March 3, 2016
Canucks could look to buy out Burrows this summer
You would think it will be contemplated https://t.co/4ZAGOPkk44
— Brad Ziemer (@BradZiemer) March 2, 2016
The 2016 NHL Trade Deadline has come and gone, but David Poile’s biggest acquisition is still yet to arrive.
March 3, 2016 Nashville Predators No comments
With the exception of a minor-league deal to acquire defenseman Corey Potter from the Arizona Coyotes before Monday’s 2 p.m. (CT) deadline, the Nashville Predators General Manager made the decision to keep things consistent for a team that’s on a nine-game point streak. Poile’s belief that an additional goal-scorer, who has already been drafted by the club, will soon be sporting the Preds logo. That was also a major factor in the calculated decision to wait for the impending roster enhancement.
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Ayanna Pressley Reacting to Her Historic Massachusetts,To Her Historic Victory Is Everything
Boston City Council member Ayanna Pressley stunned observers Tuesday by defeating long-serving Rep. Mike Capuano in the Democratic primary for the 7th Congressional District in Massachusetts.
With no Republican on the ballot in November’s midterm election, Pressley is currently virtually guaranteed to become the state’s 1st black congressman.
Cameras captured the historic moment Pressley learned of her upset success.
Ayanna Pressley’s success marks another historic moment in what is already been a best year for girls candidates. Even before Tuesday’s results, Pressley was already being named among a gaggle of girls grabbing historic wins, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old newcomer who additionally aghast the planet once she defeated 10-term Democrat Joe Crowley in New York’s Democratic primary back in June. Ocasio-Cortez congratulated Ayanna Pressley on Twitter and announce a selfie of the 2 of them, writing, “Ayanna Pressley I secured over running whereas perpetually told it’s ‘not our flip,’ that we have a tendency to ‘weren’t prepared,’ ‘good enough,’ or ‘experienced’ enough. we have a tendency to unbroken going anyway.In June, I won my primary. Tonight, she won hers. Here’s to November.”
Ayanna Pressley’s win is another inclination that the future midterm cycle can still favor progressive feminine candidates assail difficult this political landscape (and running kick-ass campaigns). In her success speech on Tues, Ayanna Pressley directed sharp remarks at President Donald Trump, showing the fight and vigor she plans to bring back Washington.
“Our president may be a racist, misogynistic, actually empathy-bankrupt man,” she said. “It is time to indicate Washington, D.C., each my fellow Democrats, WHO I hope can stand with U.S.A. and Republicans who could sub our way…change is returning and also the future belongs to all or any people.”
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Previous Flip-Flops On From The Trump: Brett Kavanaugh emphasizes judicial independence during second day of Supreme Court hearing
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The Internet Journal of Otorhinolaryngology
Orbital Involvement Of Odontogenic Myxoma: A Case Report
S Sreetharan, N Prepageran
S Sreetharan, N Prepageran. Orbital Involvement Of Odontogenic Myxoma: A Case Report. The Internet Journal of Otorhinolaryngology. 2000 Volume 1 Number 1.
Odontogenic myxoma is a rare tumor that usually presents as an intraoral lesion arising from the mandible or the maxilla. We present a patient who presented with left proptosis and facial swelling. We believe this to be the first such reported presentation of odontogenic myxoma. This rare presentation was successfully treated via lateral rhinotomy incision. Relevant literature is discussed.
A 28 year old Malay lady presented to our clinic complaining of left sided facial swelling and left proptosis for 1 month. The swelling was painless but progressively increasing in size. Otherwise, she was asymptomatic.
On examination there was facial asymmetry with bony hard swelling of the left maxilla and proptosis of the left eye. There was a firm nasal mass obliterating the left nasal cavity. There was some bulging of the left hard palate but no growth was noted in the oral cavity. Cranial nerves were all intact.
Initial biopsy of the left nasal mass proved inconclusive and subsequently examination under anesthesia and biopsy was performed. Histopathology of this specimen revealed voluminous amount of loose edematous myxoid connective tissue stroma with some attached bony specules and was reported as a benign soft tissue tumor, possibly odontogenic myxoma.
CT scan of the lesion showed non enhancing soft tissue mass in the left maxillary antrum exhibiting aggressive characteristics by expanding and destroying its walls and extending into the nasal cavity and left orbit (figures 1). Calcific bits were seen within the mass. The left orbit was displaced upwards and all the left paranasal sinuses were opaque. The brain was normal.
The patient subsequently underwent lateral rhinotomy, medial maxillectomy and excision of tumor. Intraoperatively, there was a firm mass filling the entire left maxilla and expanding the anterolateral wall, posterior wall and the floor of the orbit. Fortunately the orbital capsule was intact except for a small area of erosion posteriorly. The tumor completely filled up the anterior and posterior ethmoids, eroded through the lateral wall of the nose, filled up the left nasal cavity and extended up to the skull base.
Postoperatively the patient recovered well with no visual defects. Currently she is on our regular follow up and is asymptomatic. The proptosis and cheek swelling have subsided. Histology of the resected specimen confirmed the diagnosis of odontogenic myxoma.
Odontogenic myxoma is a rare tumor that is considered benign but nevertheless has the potential for extensive bony destruction, extension into surrounding structures and relatively high recurrence rate. Histologically, the diagnosis of this tumor may present some difficulty as its' bland features of a monotonous proliferation of loose mesenchymal fibrous tissue that lacks atypia lends itself to misdiagnosis1. The primitive dental pulp, the dental papilla and the tooth follicle are histologically similar to myxoma and may be easily misinterpreted as odontogenic myxoma 1.
The frequency of odontogenic tumors ranges from 0.8% to 3.7% of all maxillofacial and oral tumors. Of these, 98.8% were benign and 1.1% were malignant. The most frequently occurring tumors were odontoma (34.6%), ameloblastoma (23.7%), myxoma (17.7%), adenomatoid odontogenic tumor (7.1%) and calcifying odontogenic cyst (6.8%) 2.
Odontogenic myxoma arises from mesenchymal odontogenic elements and mimics the dental pulp. In a review of 164 cases of this tumor, 75% occurred in the 2nd to 4th decade of life with a male to female ratio of 1:1.5. A further review of the radiological features of 96 cases revealed 55% to be multilocular, 36% unilocular and 9% were not loculated. Only 5% of these tumors were associated with an uninterrupted tooth 3.
Due to the benign nature of this tumor the chief treatment modality is surgical excision. A preoperative CT scan is essential for assessing ressectability and deciding on the procedure to be employed. A conservative surgical approach, which involves local excision and sparing of uninvolved structures to allow for preservation of function has been suggested 4. Rarely, they become large enough to cause orbital symptoms as in this case.
In conclusion, the diagnosis of odontogenic myxoma needs to be considered when faced with a young patient with features suggestive of a paranasal sinus tumor. The available evidence to date suggests adequate surgical excision with preservation of vital structures as the treatment of choice. Diligent follow up is required and any recurrence needs more aggressive surgical treatment.
N. Prepageran FRCS Dept. of Otolaryngology University Malaya Medical Center 50603 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Tel: 603-79502062 Fax: 603-79556963 Email: prepageran@yahoo.com
1. Baker B F, Odontogenic Myxoma, Semin Diagn Pathol 1999 Nov; 16(4) 297-301
2. Mosqueda-Taylor A, Ledesma-Montes C , Caballero-Sandoval S et al, Odontogenic tumors in Mexico: a collaborative study of 349 cases, Oral Surg Oral Pathol Oral Med Oral Radiol Endod 1997 Dec; 84 (6) 672-5
3. Kaffe I, Naor H, Buchner A, Clinical and radiological features of odontogenic myxoma of the jaws, Dentomaxilofac Radiol 1997 Sept; 26 (5): 299-303.
4. Allphin Al, Manigilia AJ, Gregor RT, Sawyer R, Ear Nose Throat J 1993 Apr: 72 (4) 280-4
S S Sreetharan, MBBS
Department. of Otolaryngology, University Malaya Medical Center
N Prepageran, FRCS
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The Importance of Jyotish in Ayurveda
By Ved Kovid, Durgadas
Many get carried away by assessing people at the primal level of doshic types with simple forms and such. While this does help, we must remember the traditional sphere of Ayurveda which even at the level of Prakriti, there are several combinations such as secondary doshic concerns, mental constitutions beyond the sattvas, rajas and tamas fields as other personality profiles which are just as important.
We often forget the importance of the subtle in the world today and go for the physical alone which, although useful, is only half of the therapy and assessing half of the actual cause of a disease!
An obvious pure Vata person can be born with a predominant rajasic-Pitta type mind from birth also for example, not just as a vikara, which must be taken into account, and confuses those with only a physical-focus on healing (contrary to belief, despite the Prakriti, the Manasika Prakriti can be different and not a temporal state or Vikara alone). Such deep-seated impressions are carried by past samskaras. Jyotish is generally the key to determining these, as also life-long habits and why. But, any purely physical examination will not reveal the deeper karmic insights as Jyotish does, causing confusion or even incorrect diagnosis, based on physical symptoms alone.
This is why in modern 'Muslim' and 'Christian' Ayurveda, if one is not open to these traditional Vedic paths, then the approach is rather limiting and becomes quite non-Ayurvedic as such. We cannot have only one birth. Karma and samsara form the basis of Ayurvedic healing and are interwoven in the Samkhya system itself! To believe we live once for example and deny karma is to do great disservice to Ayurveda!
In my family, things were very strict. I remember being told that non-Hindus should not chant Gayatri as they abused it, used it for money etc. and also that non-Hindus or lower-castes should not practice Ayurveda, as they would also abuse it in the improper spirit and be impure. I was always warned of Tamils for example, due to them being mainly Christians, and so to be avoided. Naturally I grew out of this!
One story however, details where true Ayurveda and Jyotish mix. I remember my Mother telling me of several childhood diseases she had suffered from. My Nana would not allow to go to mandirs and such. But, Nani and her family being Shaktas thought this was best, and sought a Jyotishi. After obviously ascertaining the issues in her chart and giving her certain poojas and sadhanas to perform, after the prescribed time she was actually cured, and never suffered from these ailments ever again.
I asked why it was then that Swami Dayanand then, rejected Jyotish. "For the lower-castes who cannot understand it, of course and get cheated by Pandits" she said, as it brought them far greater suffering when Jyotish was in the hands of greedy Pandit against the ignoramus!
Many who later came into the Arya Samaj were also lower-castes (or rather, dalits), Muslims and Christians who were excited by the ideas it offered, similar to their own. They have their own truths, but also have their own social and political mission also.
I have many Sikhs (including in my own family!) that come for Jyotish for example, but in true Sikhism, they should also not go to Jyotishis. Again, this is to avoid the greater dangers, and to realise the truth behind something for one's Self.
Indian Vastu and the related Feng Shui in China also have their influences. I have seen many first-hand cases where these have worked; but of course there are many false consultants, and also people may not take advice properly also (as all those fellow Ayurvedic Practitioners out there will know!).
I have seen several charts of people with and without diseases, and those with severe diseases. Examining them Ayurvedically and in their rashi, we can see the karmic causes behind these, mentioned in the shastras also, which reveal a deeper level of treatment which can be given to them - where Sattvavajaya chikitsa comes in.
However, we must remember the higher side of this also, and also not limit ourselves to Astrology. Whilst physical ailments (representing the physical body) can be taken to the second level of understanding through Jyotish (representing the subtle and causal bodies), we must also remember the even higher level of the Atman and it's ever-free nature also, not be bound by what a chart alone states!
This is why Jyotish provides a bridge between the physical (Ayurveda) and the Self, as does Yoga when used properly. It reveals the deeper samskaric limitations that we have accrued, and also how to move beyond them and what true freedom from disease is - by attaining Atmagyaan!
In the higher traditional Ayurveda then, we should educate our clients about the karmic causes, the power of Jyotish, Vastu etc. as subtle methods, which then also helps them move towards the causal levels of healing modalities as mantra etc., guiding them towards the Inner-Purusha, our true being, where all miseries are ended and remains beyond the sphere of the illusory world of appearances itself.
Once we tell ourselves we are free from these burdens, we begin to become free of them and place less importance on the body. Jyotish provides the insight and the map of where we were and how we came to be - the future is now ours and we can change that; it does not remain rigid!
Especially those suffering from severe diseases in the last stages where there is no hope of cure, we should educate our clients on the reality of this situation as but temporal alone, and the eternity of the Self. Explain the deeper impressions that have caused the disease, or have caused it to manifest due to pargyaparadha etc. and how they can now help move beyond it, transcend it.
This is why Ayurveda is essentially the 'wisdom of Life'. Ayu here also means the Prana and the Jivatman that assumes many births and thus knows them (as Jatavedas). Our current state is but one 'avatar' in this cosmic drama we have weaved for ourselves. Once it realises it's unity with the Supreme (Vaiswanara, the Cosmic Man, Purusha), we can become free from the cycle of samsara and delight in eternal freedom. This state however is not Swarg, which is but a lesser temporal state with a slightly longer life-span than humanity, but a true inner awakening, Realisation and merger of the Jivatman in the unmanifest Brahman, it's true being as the Paramatma!
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Proposed letter to Siamak Zand's employers CBS News and Sky
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by Liberator » Sat Nov 04, 2006 1:16 pm
UPDATED 7 NOV, 2006
Proposed letter to Siamak Zand's employers CBS News and Sky News. Please review it and see what we can do to make it better even if it's only wording that needs to be changed...
We'll then present this to various personalities and groups to sign before sending it off to those concerend.
Lets not drag this out. It's already overdue!
In reference to Mr. Siamak Zand’s interview with Voice of America (VOA) Persian service on 22 Oct, 2006, we would like to express our strongest displeasure.
Mr. Siamak Zand is one of your Tehran-stationed producers who works for both CBS News and Sky News. While we do understand the pressures involved with the job of being a news correspondence under the totalitarian theocracy, we would like to point out the fact that in presenting the realities of Iran, Mr. Zand has crossed the boundaries of ridiculousness well into deceit. We believe in his anxiousness to keep his job, and all parties happy, he is deliberately misrepresenting the facts, and misleading the western public as well as decision makers.
During this interview your producer in Tehran, Mr. Zand, tried to downplay the significance and brutality of STONING women in Iran, by arguing the number of occurrences!! Does Mr. Zand value life and humanity at all ? Isn’t one innocent life taken away, through stoning, ENOUGH for condemnation and outrage? Does the gentleman understand the impact of such human rights violations on the population witnessing the events? Tens of Iranians have been executed by STONING in only these past few years, with the numbers being in the hundreds since the inception of this inhumane regime, and Mr. Zand has the audacity to come on an internationally viewed program and try to downplay its significance. This regime, whose atrocities Mr. Zand is trying to downplay, has a penal code which on the issue of stoning states: "...the stones should not be too large so that the person dies on being hit by one or two of them; they should not be so small either that they could not be defined as stones" (Article 104, Islamic Republic’s penal code). I do not want to discuss the barbarity of this Islamic practice, but do hope that you are aware of it; there are smuggled videos from Iran of this barbaric practice which I can direct you to.
Also, in conjunction with the current policies of the mullahs, and in his anxiousness to glorify Mr. Ahmadinejad, Mr. Zand gloated about his personal take that Mr. Mike Wallace came out short in his recent 60 minutes interview with Ahmadinejad !!! We would appreciate to know what exactly was said, by which Mr. Zand was so impressed.
This should be an ever-lasting shame on Mr. Zand’s conscious, but from the emails full of profanity, which I’ve received from his CBS News email account, it seems he could care less about the people of Iran who suffer under this regime. I am ready to put those emails at your disposal if requested. These shameful actions of Mr. Zand have tarnished the impartiality of his two employers CBS News and Sky News.
The Islamic Republic’s human rights records are well documented as is its crimes against the Iranian people. Several resolutions by the UN General Assembly and the UN Human Rights Commission have condemned the Islamic Republic for restricting freedom of speech, gender equality, religious freedom, freedom of assembly and other freedoms. The universal declaration of human rights is not adhered to by the Islamic Republic. Despite this Mr. Zand has the audacity to come before millions of people and say that these FACTS are blown out of proportion and stressing that journalists in Iran are free to go wherever they want without government supervision and are free to report freely!
Reporters without Borders and many other international bodies have condemned the Islamic Republic for its permanent restriction of the press and have denounced an application of censorship found to be systematic in the country. Iran under the Islamic Republic is one of the ten most repressive countries of the world concerning freedom of the press. Hundreds of newspapers have been closed down since the coming to power of what some naïve quarters call “the reformist” Mullah Khatami (1997-2005); not knowing that those who serve this regime are none other than those whose mission is to preserve its existence by all means. Journalists detained in prison are often harassed and humiliated and as I will mention below even murdered!
It must have slipped Mr. Zand’s mind that Mrs. Zahra Kazemi a Canadian-Iranian journalist covering a demonstration outside the infamous Evin prison in Tehran was detained by the Islamic Republic, imprisoned, tortured, raped, and finally murdered by officials of the Islamic Republic’s own judiciary! Despite official accounts of rape and torture by a doctor who examined Mrs. Kazemi's body, Mr. Zand claims that Mrs. Kazemi died by accidentally hitting her head in her cell! Not surprisingly this is the account of the criminals in power in Tehran!
One should tell Mr. Zand that, yes people are free to do whatever they want in Iran under the Islamic Republic but it is what happens after they have exercised their freedom which matters – Mrs. Kazemi serves as an excellent example. Unlike Mr. Zand, the Canadian-Iranian journalist Mrs. Kazemi was trying to report the TRUTH on what is happening in Iran and she paid the price for doing so. Mr. Zand seems to have found himself in a much more comfortable situation where serving as the mouthpiece of the Islamic Republic is more appealing and profitable to him than reporting on the true events taking place in Iran today – especially the human rights abuses of the Islamic Republic, this is also reflected in his reporting for CBS News and Sky News.
To further attest to the impartiality and shamelessness of this producer of yours in Tehran, Mr. Zand was asked about the disturbance in the Iranian province of Azerbaijan, earlier this summer, where tens of thousands of Iranian Azeri’s had taken to the streets in a grand manifestation to have their rights, which are denied, to be respected. There are a plentitude of pictures and videos depicting the massive size of these demonstrations and subsequent brutality by the Islamic Republic’s forces in violently trying to put an end to it. In regards to this major event Mr. Zand replied that nothing important worthy of covering had taken place in Iranian Azerbaijan! Is this really a man you’d like working for you as a journalist/producer?
Dear Sir or Madam, news regarding Iran are not “blown out of proportion”, as Mr. Zand states, but are rather not given the media coverage they deserve! With employees like Mr Siamak Zand working for CBS News and Sky News this should come as no surprise! The international community is not aware of the gross human rights situation in Iran. Foreign reporters allowed into Iran have official supervisors assigned to them which make sure that they report what the regime allows them to and takes them to places which will promote a positive image of the Islamic Republic. As we have seen in the past, any foreign journalist whose reports are contrary to the Islamic Republic's interests will be immediately expelled from the country. The main stream media needs to pay much more attention to the human rights situation in Iran rather than focusing on one issue – namely the Islamic Republic’s quest for nuclear weapons. The Islamic Republic operates like a mafia and Mr Zand seems to be on good footing with these criminals in his deliberate neglect of the Iranian peoples’ plight.
Dear Sir or Madam, I hope that you understand the feelings that myself and millions of freedom-loving Iranians go through when we see such a seemingly shameless man making these kind of statements and by doing so immensely tarnishing the impartiality and credibility of stations like CBS News and Sky News, who have chosen this individual as their producer in Tehran. What is more disturbing is that people like Mr Zand are deceiving western public opinion regarding Iran portraying a false picture of the brutality of this totalitarian theocracy. I have already raised awareness of this issue and am willing to go further for this man to be removed from his position which he is currently abusing and by doing so hurting your respective news stations.
Dear Sir or Madam, if I was to state every inhumane act and crime that the Islamic Republic has committed over these past 27 years that it has held Iran hostage it would require several volumes of books. I sincerely hope that your relationship with this individual, Siamak Zand, is reviewed and that he is dismissed of his position as this relationship has done nothing more than immensely tarnishing the reputation, impartiality, and credibility of your two respective stations CBS News and Sky News and distorting your audience about the true nature of the Islamic Republic.
Undersigned,
Name of Blog(s)
Name of Website(s)
Name of Organization(s)
Name of Individual(s)
Human Rights in Iran:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Iran
Stoning in Iran:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning
http://www.awakenedwoman.com/wfafi_stoning.htm
http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/engMDE131132006
The murder of Canadian-Iranian journalist, Zahra Kazemi by the Islamic Republic:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/03/31/Dr.Azam050331.html
http://www.iran-press-service.com/ips/articles-2005/april-2005/kazemi_report_1405.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahra_Kazemi
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"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" -J.F.K
by Liberator » Sun Nov 05, 2006 12:08 pm
I'm thinking that if anyone supports the message of this letter they should send a copy of it (once we've agreed that it's complete) to the respective news outlets themselves.
What does everyone else think?
This way they will be overwhelmed by emails from different people, blogs, websites, and organizations which will also prove that I haven't simply listed a bunch of names and organizations as signatories without their authorization.
I think this way will be the most effective way to get our message across. Does anyone disagree?
Ba Sepaas
by Liberator » Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:29 pm
I'd like everyone to send a copy of the letter to CBS News and Sky News; you are free to modify it as you wish.
Please find the contact details below. I'm going to wait until tomorrow (Tuesday) evening in case anyone would like to add anything to the letter before sending it off. If you can additionally maybe even mail it and/or even contact them by phone it would be even better.
Sign the letter with your name, your homepage, your organization, your blog... or a combination.
I would really appreciate your assistance in this endevour; it will only take AT MOST a few minutes of your time. A few minutes to show this shameless man, Siamak Zand, that we will not sit idle when mouthpieces of the Islamic Republic abuse their positions with international news stations.
Contact details for CBS News and Sky News.
The mailing addresses for CBS are as follows:
Main Number:
(CBS) CBS Evening News, Weekdays editions:
524 West 57th St.
E-MAIL: evening@cbsnews.com
CBS Evening News, Saturday and Sunday editions:
CBS Evening News, Saturday Edition or CBS Evening News, Sunday Edition
E-MAIL: weekends@cbsnews.com
TRANSCRIPTS: 1-800-777-TEXT
Alternatively if none of the above are feasible for you, there is a "FEEDBACK" link on the bottom of this site http://www.cbs.com/ where you can chose "CBS NEWS" as category and paste your letter.
The contacts below can answer only publicity-related enquiries from members of the press. Otherwise, call Viewer Relations on 08702 403000 or email viewerr@bskyb.com for general programming enquiries; and call Sky Customer Services on 0870 240 4040 for any other enquiries.
The Sky Publicity team can be contacted directly via e-mail or phone.
Sky News Publicity Team
Stella Tooth - Publicity Manager, Sky News
Tel: + 44 (0) 20 7800 4289
Email: stella.tooth@bskyb.com
Charlotte Reed - Publicity Assistant, Sky News
Email: charlotte.reed@bskyb.com
Fabian Devlin - Sky Publicist
Email: fabian.devlin@bskyb.com
British Sky Broadcasting
Grant Way
Middlesex TW7 5QD
Ultimately there is a feedback form on this page: http://www.sky.com/portal/site/skycom/feedback
Which you can fill in (choose "Letters to News Editor or Viewer Relations or Abuse Complaints").
There's also a "Marketing and Sales" choice you can choose on this different feedback form: http://news.sky.com/skynews/feedback/enquiry/0,,,00.html
Send it to whichever department or departments (this might be better) that you think this letter concerns.
Also, please see these two threads which have to do with the topic :
http://www.iranpoliticsclub.net/club/vi ... php?t=1212
Here's my entries which involve Siamak Zand on my blog:
http://aryamehr11.blogspot.com/2006/10/without-any-shame.html#links
(note that the VOA Oersian Service programs are updated each week and the 22nd Oct program is no longer available on the site. If you would like to see the roundtable program hosted by Mr Farhoodi (sp?) you'll need to contact VOA Persian service.)
http://aryamehr11.blogspot.com/2006/10/mr-siamak-zand-when-will-lies-end.html#links
http://aryamehr11.blogspot.com/2006/11/demand-for-siamak-zands-removal-from.html#links
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by Amir » Tue Nov 07, 2006 12:06 am
This guy is a typical propaganda bitch of the IR. Stick it to him.
Your letter is well written. I wouldn’t add much more to it, as it seems quite comprehensive already.
However, why have you not included a mention of this bee tarbeeyat’s profane e-mail correspondence to you? You definitely need to mention that to them. It shows his complete lack of professionalism, and would be a bigger motivation for them to cease relations with him than your plea to morality - which although is more important, usually falls on deaf ears.
In any case, I’ll e-mail a copy of your final letter to them as you requested.
I am Dariush the Great King, King of Kings, King of countries containing all kinds of men, King in this great earth far and wide, son of Hystaspes, an Achaemenian, a Persian, son of a Persian, an Aryan, having Aryan lineage
Naqshe Rostam
by Liberator » Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:32 am
Amir-jaan,
I have his part:
This should be an ever-lasting shame on Mr. Zand’s conscious, but from the emails full of profanity, which I’ve received from his CBS News email account, it seems he could care less about the people of Iran who suffer under this regime. I am ready to put those emails at your disposal if requested.
Are there other organizations which this letter/issue could concern - like organizations monitoring "fair and truthful reporting" or something similiar? Please list them here if there are any as they need to be aware of this as well.
I'd like to make this a central thread on this issue so i'll be posting all the relevant material that has been posted in here.
Well i'll try my best to translate Mr Zand's courteous emails sent to my email address:
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 10:28:24 -0000
From: "Zand, Sia" <zands@cbsnews.com
To: aryamehr11@yahoo.com
Har gohi tonesti bekhori noucheh jounet.
Siamak zand
This literally translates into:
Whatever shit you can eat, enjoy it.
But a more understandable translation would be something along the lines of:
Do whatever the fuck you can.
The next email received on the same day was:
From: "Zand, Sia" <zands@cbsnews.com>
Demand???? Little insignificant pieces of shit are in no position to demand anything.get that through your thick skull.your overthrown monarch in his last days tried to demand from the Iranian people forgiveness with crocodile tears in his eyes but to no avail and was thrown out of the country like a rat.Aghaye Ari az mehr, khahareh gendeye eechanra ya farzandeh haroum zadash ra be iran meekhaheed bargardouneed!!!!kesafat hayi amsale shoma va tarafdaranet nagozirand dar ghorbat geda var zendegi konand ta be darak vasel shavand.
Siamak Zand ke hatman koseh naneye darbareet gozashte.
The persian part:
Aghaye Ari az mehr, khahareh gendeye eechanra ya farzandeh haroum zadash ra be iran meekhaheed bargardouneed!!!!kesafat hayi amsale shoma va tarafdaranet nagozirand dar ghorbat geda var zendegi konand ta be darak vasel shavand.
This translates into:
Mr Aryamehr, do you want to return his whore sister or bastard offspring to a son back to Iran!!! Son of a bitches like you and your likes are forced to live like beggards in exile until they die and go to hell!
Siamak Zand who surely fucked your royal mother
For screenshots of these two email's from Mr Siamak Zand's official CBS News email account see below:
I presume that these two emails where sent to me after Mr Zand had read my blog entries concerning him since they were not in reply to any emails I had sent him. The only email I had sent him is found below and his reply to that one was this:
This email was sent in response to my email (found below):
Notice how he doesn't address any of the issues raised.
The only email correspondence on my part which I've had with Mr Siamak Zand, CBS News/Sky News producer in Tehran, is found below:
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 06:03:14 -0800 (PST)
From: "KIA" <aryamehr11@yahoo.com>
Subject: To a shameless man.
To: "Zand, Sia" <zands@cbsnews.com>
Mr Zand,
That you have the audacity to come on a tv-program and defend the Iranian peoples' oppressors! This can only be done by a person with no dignity, honor and who's sold his soul to the devil. You are a living testimony to such a person Mr Zand.
Do not bring Monarchy into this as the problem is with you and your masters in the Islamic Republic. Monarchy is a very viable option for Iran but it does not need treasonous individuals like yourself as its proponents. You are the generation who betrayed Iran and our King; history has reserved a well-deserved place for you.
It was people like you who turned over Iran to these anti-Iranian bastards, and who backstabbed the late Shah of Iran like the true two-faced "individuals" that you are. Mr Zand it was traitors like you who have made the life of 70% of the Iranian population a living hell and stole them the bright future which the Imperial Government of Iran had planned for them. Mr Zand it was traitors like you who two weeks before the Islamist Revolt where shouting "Javid Shah" and who like the two-faced chameleons that you are switched and praised the Islamist fundamentalists!
How you dare get on a show watched by millions of Iranians and defend their oppressors is very disturbing. I'm sure you can understand the feelings of people who sat and watched you on VOA the other day, lying without any shame before millions of people. There's an Iranian _expression that goes "khar khodeti" Mr Zand.
Mr Zand, tell me this, what is the difference between you and the despicable Mullah Khalkhali? Mullah Khatami? Mullah Shahroudi? ... Rest assured that the Iranian Nation will inform you of the difference in due time.
One day you'll have to stand answerable for your actions before the Iranian Nation Mr Zand. One day you will have to look into the eyes of those who suffered during your Islamic Republic and answer them.
I'm looking forward to that day when you will stand answerable for your actions and when justice shall prevail.
I'm looking forward to the day when your Islamist protectors (i.e. Islamic Republic) no longer stand behind you.
Until that day, keep on profiting of the Iranian Nation's misery like the shameless person you are.
See the following screenshots from my email account:
by IIRF » Thu Nov 09, 2006 8:17 pm
Dear Liberator,
Great work, you are always busy and keeping this forum going.
Thank you dear Iranian.
IIRF
Long Live Shahanshah!
www.ImperialForces.org
by Liberator » Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:26 am
IIRF wrote: Dear Liberator,
Thanks IIRF,
Please contact CBS and Sky News regarding this issue any way you can.
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"They don't share their vinegar": Karna on the Madrakas
Lesson 3 from the Mahabharata: when your driver says nasty things to you, insult his lineage and question the character of the people from the region he belongs to. But do this in very ornate language, otherwise it will merely be in bad taste and not at all entertaining.
On Day 17 of the Kurukshetra War, as Karna sets out for his fated battle with Arjuna, his charioteer (by special request) is Shalya, the King of Madra. Unbeknownst to Karna, Shalya has conspired with the enemy to sap Karna’s morale and undermine his confidence at this crucial hour. This he now proceeds to do by saying things like “Arjuna and Krishna are like two mighty Suns and you are but a firefly in comparison, chirrup chirrup, muhahaha!” (I paraphrase slightly.) Whereupon Karna, never known for being able to hold his temper in check, embarks on this quite remarkable diatribe against the people of Shalya’s kingdom:
Hold thy tongue, O thou that art born in a sinful country. Hear from me, O Shalya, the sayings, already passed into proverbs, about the wicked Madrakas. There is no friendship in the Madraka who is mean in speech and is the lowest of mankind. The Madraka is always a person of wicked soul, always untruthful and crooked. It hath been heard by us that till the moment of death the Madrakas are wicked. Amongst the Madrakas, the sire, the son, the mother, the mother-in-law, the brother, the grand-son, and other kinsmen, companions, strangers arrived at their homes, slaves male and female, all mingle together. The Madraka is the dirt of humanity.
The women of the Madrakas mingle, at their own will, with men known and unknown. Of unrighteous conduct, and subsisting upon fried and powdered corn and fish in their homes, they laugh and cry having drunk spirits and eaten beef with garlic and boiled rice borrowed from elsewhere. They drink the liquor called Gauda, and eat fried barley with it. They sing incoherent songs and mingle lustfully with one another, indulging the while in the freest speeches. Maddened with drink, they call upon one another, using many endearing epithets. Addressing many drunken exclamations to their husbands and lords, these fallen women, without observing restrictions even on sacred days, give themselves up to dancing.
At this point I’m thinking that the Madrakas sound suspiciously like the protagonists of reality TV shows such as Big Boss. But Karna continues:
Knowing this, O learned one, hold thy tongue, or listen to something further that I will say. Those women that live and answer calls of nature like camels and asses, being as thou art the child of one of those sinful and shameless creatures, how canst thou wish to declare the duties of men? Intoxicated with drink and divested of robes, these women laugh and dance outside the walls of the houses in cities, without garlands and unguents, singing while drunk obscene songs of diverse kinds that are as musical as the bray of the ass or the bleat of the camel. In intercourse they are absolutely without any restraint, and in all other matters they act as they like.
Lesson 4: take your childhood heroes with a pinch of salt (or a dash of vinegar)
As a child, like every other warped little boy (and a few warped little girls) who came from a dysfunctional family and imagined he was the sole Outsider in a world where everyone else belonged, I hero-worshipped Karna. (I still do to an extent, though being an adult now I also like Ben Stiller.) Imagine then my astonishment when I came across the following lines spoken by this noble warrior, one of the great tragic heroes in all literature:
When a Madraka woman is solicited for the gift of a little quantity of vinegar, she scratches her hips and without being desirous of giving it, says these cruel words, 'Let no man ask any vinegar of me that is so dear to me. I would give him my son, I would give him my husband, but vinegar I would not give.' The young Madraka maidens, we hear, are generally very shameless and hairy and gluttonous and impure.
Suddenly, all the vignettes from the life of Karna, the long litany of misfortunes that gave such a sheen to the story of this unhappy hero, receded into the background, to be replaced by the surreal image of Karna, empty vessel in hand, asking for some vinegar and having the door rudely slammed in his face. It’s obvious from the above passage that Karna is greatly displeased at being spurned in his quest for vinegar. But why did he want so much vinegar in the first place? And why go to a Madraka woman to get it?
Questions, questions. Now I know what the sage meant when he said that every time you read the Mahabharata you will ponder the human condition anew.
Note: The passages quoted here are all taken from Kisari Mohan Ganguli’s exhaustive 12-volume English version of the epic (which you’ll find on the Sacred Texts site) and it’s possible that something was lost in translation from the original Sanskrit. Maybe “vinegar” was meant to be “wine”. (There are many other puzzling incongruities in the Ganguli text, such as one sentence that reads: “Jayadratha now rode against the mighty King Drupada, with his owl and his footsoldiers at his side.”)
Previous lessons from the Mahabharata: 1 and 2
Labels: funny posts (supposedly), Karna, Mahabharat
ART 7:06 AM, November 15, 2006
I think the context must surely have been lost in translation or maybe the meanings were different in the older texts.
I am not much familiar with Mahabharata, except from the tamil movie "Karnan" and a couple of children's comics read years ago and yes, I have also thought him to be the saddest anti-hero in history. I have always wanted his ending to have been different. Given that, I cannot think that such vile words would have been spoken by him.
As for the owl who accompanied Jayadratha, it could have denoted his advisor.
Just goes to show that translations can distort stories, acc: perception of translator. Then again, who knows maybe the authors of the past were depraved?
Sunil Natraj 8:04 AM, November 15, 2006
I have been reading Mr. Ganguli too. I think his language is quite exquisite, but a tad too high for me.
And I am a big fan of Karna as well. The ideal tragic hero.
Sharanya Manivannan 9:58 AM, November 15, 2006
Ouch!... Yet, somehow, reaffirming. A sign from the blogiverse that the work I'm doing now on Karna is... seen to by a power that moves things, perhaps? (Cryptic, sorry -- but thanks.)
Chronicus Skepticus 10:32 AM, November 15, 2006
The women of the Madrakas mingle, at their own will, with men known and unknown. Of unrighteous conduct, and subsisting upon fried and powdered corn and fish in their homes, they laugh and cry having drunk spirits and eaten beef with garlic and boiled rice borrowed from elsewhere.
I *knew* this standard-two-parent-five-children-happy-bihari-family thing was a sham.
I'm a Madraka woman!
And yeah, I ain't givin' NOBODY my vinegar neither.
Chronicus skepticus: You borrow boiled rice from elsewhere?! Reprobate! Why can't you buy and boil your own?
Art: I prefer to believe it's a real owl (preferably a horned one). The epics are what we make of them, after all.
More seriously, when you say "I cannot think such vile words would have been spoken by him": if you read the original text, you'll find that even the noblest characters do and say the vilest things at certain times (notably in the heat of battle when all lofty notions about dharma vanish). This doesn't take the sheen away from Karna's essential character, it's just another pointer to the greatness of the Mahabharata as a story about human complexities (not just a simplistic good-vs-evil tale).
Chronicus Skepticus 5:35 PM, November 15, 2006
'S tradition Jai.
We DON'T share our vinegar, and we DON'T buy our own rice!
You don't mess with tradition. Or a Mardaka woman.
ART 7:18 PM, November 15, 2006
It is not that Karnan said vile things that provoked my reaction but rather it did not feel that it was in keeping with his character (I admit it is the one I built in my mind) to lash out at women like that. I felt it would have been more appropriate for Karnan to lash out at his charioteer, without invoking the women of his birthplace.
Anyway, thanks for stimulating my interest in Mahabharata. Maybe I will read it (a translated version) one of these days, to see how I interpret the epic and how much of my childhood perceptions of the characters remain.
Divya: Madraka, not "Mard"aka. Unless that was a Freudian slip :)
ART: I see your point, but one thing that's worth remembering about Karna is the simmering anger/resentment he carried, which was always waiting for a chance to come to the surface. There are numerous instances in the epic of him saying some very strong, cruel, even foolish things not because he really believed in them but because it provided an outlet for the anger and bitterness.
Anyway, I think Kamala Subramaniam and Ramesh Menon's novelistic versions do a much better job of bringing out the human element of the Mahabharata than Ganguli's literal translation does.
thalassa_mikra 12:34 AM, November 16, 2006
As many Ramayanas, so many Mahabharatas.
There is no authoritative version of the Mahabharata (the Bhandarkar Institute version comes closest), so it's hard to tell if this came from the original version, or was inserted as an afterthought.
Karna was fairly vanilla when it came to sex, by all accounts he was married to one woman and remained faithful to her (contrast with Arjuna and Krishna). So I can imagine him as a sexual prude.
The Introvert 10:40 AM, November 16, 2006
First time i read about Karna in that light.. today i lost admiration for the only character in mahabharata i ever liked. That was not a pinch but a handful of salt.
Black Mongoose 4:01 PM, November 16, 2006
Sanskrit for owl is Ulooka, the name of Shakuni's (='Vulture') son. Perhaps that was what was intended? Was killed by Nakula soon after Shakuni himself was killed by Sahadeva.
Black Mongoose: thanks, you're probably right - Uluka slipped my mind. I still wistfully imagine Jayadratha flanked by a frowning horned owl though :(
Are you perchance related to the half-golden mongoose that appeared at Yudhisthira's Ashwamedha yagna?
jockey 6:36 PM, November 16, 2006
Impressive indeed....keep it up.
It would be interesting to present similar excerpts about Krishna who was quite a scheming and devious character in the context of Mahabharata.
oh definitely..ive been reading through it all and mr. ganguli and i think his language is kind of intelligent but yet at a higher art of destination.
MumbaiGirl 8:23 AM, November 19, 2006
Have just started on the Van Buitenen translation which am thoroughly enjoying. Pity he died without finishing it. The vinegar is wine, perhaps made of dates?
the_subversist 12:57 PM, November 19, 2006
Renunciation- the ultimate lesson of life!
vamsi krishna maddula 12:11 PM, June 22, 2007
i like arjuna very much i dont like karna though he is very generous he called draupadi a prostitute
S 11:23 PM, June 14, 2009
this is an inspired post. does it make me a total wimp if i liked yudhishtra best when i was small? i think it was his devotion to dogs (as i saw it then) that most inspired me.
i am currently struggling through this exact version, and it (and your post) remind me of this wonderful bit in umberto eco's mouse or rat where he puts a few lines out of the bible into altvista's babel, and translates it into (i think) french and then back, and gets this wonderful mish-mash where the holy spirit becomes liquor.
i fear this mr ganguli would've failed the turing test.
Why am I not surprised? He has a consistency to lash out at women when he cannot confront their men. Read taunting Draupadi, when he could not defeat Arjun in any battle. Then Shalya, who is out of bounds as they are in the same team; so he flings mud at their women instead.
All his rigid rules of conduct (he sounds like the prude, sour moral police) seem to apply only to women. And no, he was not a one-woman fella. He had about 2 wives (known) and many sons. So cut out that poor-little-warrior aura from him
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Birds of a feather... Dhruba Hazarika's Luck
Penguin India has a new eight-book series titled “Jewels from the North-East”, and there are some interesting titles in it. I’ve started Mamang Dai’s Stupid Cupid and look forward to reading A Game of Chess: Classic Assamese Stories, edited by Dhirendra Nath Bezboruah, but the book I’ve just finished is Dhruba Hazarika’s Luck, an elegant and moving collection of stories about unlikely encounters between human beings and animals.
My approach to a book of short fiction by a writer I’m not familiar with is to test the waters by starting with the shortest pieces. “The Hunt”, “The Leopard” and “Soul Egret” are only between 4 to 5 pages each, and when I finished them I knew I wanted to read the whole book - even though, on the face of it, not very much "happens" in these three stories. A recently bereaved doctor joins a group of men on a jungle hunt and is filled with a powerful grief after the shoot. Three boys in search of a missing cow fleetingly come face to face with a predatory leopard. And “Soul Egret” in particular doesn’t have anything like a conventional plot – it’s a first-person narrative by a clerk whose troubled mind is soothed by brief physical contact with an egret late one night.
But what Hazarika does here and in the other, longer stories is suggest an almost mystical connection between humans and other species; in some cases through a flickering, twilight moment when even the most self-absorbed people become aware of the deep relationship between themselves and other denizens of the natural world.
They respond in different ways to this knowledge. They might be humbled, or enlightened, or comforted. It might make them more aware of their own feral natures. (“There was the putrid smell of blood and excreta, and of something else that only the night and sudden death can bring.”) Or it might even bring them luck. One of the most satisfying stories here, “Chicken Fever”, is about a young, melancholy magistrate out on a police raid. His mood is altered by the sight of a fat black hen in a haystack and this affects a crucial decision he makes a few moments later.
In another sense, these are coming-of-age tales. The title story is about a solitary man learning a thing or two about patience and caring in the company of a stubborn pigeon. In “Ghostie”, an unusual, ghostlike dog becomes a test of the limits of human cruelty, and perhaps, a catalyst to understand what growing up really means. (“Young boys, someone has said, are condemned to walk the ragged line between innocence and evil, occasionally being casually cruel as only children can be. It’s a rite of passage.”)
Hazarika’s writing is unfussy but vivid, and when he does reach for a more dramatic style or a change of course he does it judiciously – as in the two stories here that are slightly different from the others in tone and effect. There are no animals in “The Gunrunner of Jorabat” (written in the informal, rustic voice of a partly drunken narrator) but there IS a man with a distinctly feline quality, and like “Chicken Fever” the story touches on insurgency and the mysterious workings of fate. And “Asylum” is a nicely playful yarn about a vet-cum-psychiatrist who might possibly be experiencing some very strange hallucinations. I thought these two stories slightly diluted the book’s standing as a thematic collection, but they are fine pieces in their own right. Luck didn't come with a lot of fanfare - it's what you'd call a "small book", not just because of its slimness - but it's a rewarding read about people discovering something familiar in other creatures at the same time that they discover something unfamiliar in themselves.
[A somewhat related post: Ranjit Lal on birds and beasts. Also see this Q&A with the author Vandana Singh, and her essay "The Creatures we Don't See: Thoughts on the Animal Other"]
Labels: animals, books, books - fiction, Indian English writing
Thanks for the recommendation! :)
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Prashant Singh 12:12 PM, December 30, 2009
interesting . I would love to buy "Luck" ( I hope my new year resolution of finishing all backlog first before buying new book won't do much harm .)
"when even the most self-absorbed people become aware of the deep relationship between themselves and other denizens of the natural world.
I guess i had somewhat similar feeling while reading Hitch Hicker's guide to galaxy series . we humans are very arrogant about our place in universe.This shows in our dealing with other species. we have a certain genetic smugness about it. no wonder it takes a terminal danger for us to understand it.
not to make it a rambling comment but another work which I remember right now is Tennyson's "The Two Voices" . reproducing my fave lines from it here
" When first the world began,
Young Nature thro’ five cycles ran,
And in the sixth she moulded man.
‘She gave him mind, the lordliest
Proportion, and, above the rest,
Dominion in the head and breast.’
Thereto the silent voice replied;
‘Self-blinded are you by your pride:
Look up thro’ night: the world is wide.
‘This truth within thy mind rehearse,
That in a boundless universe
Is boundless better, boundless worse."
Krishnan 12:04 PM, December 31, 2009
Good luck, good health good cheer. I wish you a happy New Year.
Dez 12:23 PM, December 31, 2009
Hi Jai ,
Do you write humour stories? You can contribute to this OPEN BLOG at http://undergroundwriters.blogspot.com.
a sample of the stuff here: "Facebook will save the world", at http://undergroundwriters.blogspot.com/2009/12/facebook-will-save-world.html
Desmond Macedo
Happy New Year Jai!
Hope 2010 brings with it all the good things that mean a lot to you.
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People’s friendly village for Child Rights: JMN understanding for child protection
Model Village: People’s friendly village (Janmitra Gaon)
This plan of action is based on the decision taken jointly by JMN & CRY to concentrate on only three intervention areas such as Baghawanala, Shivrampur and Belwa. These areas are selected by JMN to make model villages and slum for child rights. Other than model building, JMN will focus on mobilizing Boonkars (Weavers), Dastakar (Artisans), Mushars and Nats in Varanasi district for the protection, promotion and fulfillment of their livelihood rights and Human Rights in general and Child Rights in particular.
Specific objectives of the Model Village:
The specific objectives of the project are to build up two villages and one urban slum as models for child rights through taking up the following specific activities:
Right to Development:
· To ensure all children to access the pre-primary, primary schools of the government and middle schools of area. (But we cannot bind the rich people to send their children in Government schools.)
· To ensure quality education to all children.
· To ensure 100% enrollment, retention in educational institutions available now and beyond.
· To activate for complete activation of VECs.
· To take in to mainstream the Physically Challenged Children.
Right to Survival:
To ensure 100% immunization of children and pregnant women.
Activation of all SCs and PHCs.
To ensure the regular health check ups of pregnant women and children.
· To ensure active participation of Panchayat Health Committees.
· To ensure the citizenship & identity of each & every individual focusing on Dalits and marginalized.
· Abolition of starvation and malnutrition.
· To reduce the child mortality rate by 50 percent, MMR by 75 percent and IMR by 25 percent.
Right to Protection:
To ensure land rights of Dalits and minorities.
To ensure protection of Human Rights of Dalits.
To ensure minimum wages of unorganized labour.
Put an end to the bondage of children in particular and their parents in general.
Eviction of self proclaimed upper caste from GS land and distribution of these among landless marginalised families.
Suitable implementation of Land Ceiling Act and distribution of surplus land among landless, especially Dalits.
To ensure protection of rights of the weavers.
Suitable implementation of government’s employment schemes.
To raise demand ‘Education for All and Work for All’.
Building awareness among the people of their rights and duties.
Sensitizing the Local Self Government and demand their participation in the struggle toward establishment of CR.
To ensure 100% elimination of child labour in these village and slum.
Building people’s campaign against Injustice & exploitation.
To ensure maximum attendance of people and participation of people in Gram Sabha meetings as stipulated in the Panchayati Raj Act.
To reduce the marriages by 100% below 16 years and reduce the marriages by 50% between the age of 16-18 years including Gauna.
Right to Participation:
Ensuring participation of the children in decision making process in the village
Encouraging children to build children’s parliament.
Mobilizing youths in all campaigns against injustice.
The activities mentioned above are our parameters/targets, which has been derived from the Millennium Development Goals, targets set by Planning commission.
Grassroots intervention in field of Human Rights Development and Democracy (Janmitra Village): (Policy to Practice)
Campaigns are very important, but this alone is not enough: implementation & change at grassroots should never be assumed & require additional activity.
A narrow focus can be effective in getting an issue formulated but problems caused by poverty are more complex. If the campaign is not widened out at a later stage it is unlikely to achieve effective change. The challenge comes if there is desire to go beyond informing the grassroots of what is good for them towards ensuring real change as well as engagement & empowerment at grassroots which will develop civil society with potential influence on much other issue. Work at this level- to change attitudes & behaviors & to build capacity & skills need a lot of thrust & require non hierarchical organization with close personal contact.
Jan Mitra Gaon is a village where every individual is assured of his or her social, economic, political and cultural rights as per the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and is living together within the society without any form of discrimination.
PVCHR believes in participatory activism, which will mean collective demand generation and social transformation.
Concept of Jan Mitra Village
The feudal system prevalent in eastern U.P. has always suppressed the proper growth and development of dalits and the weaker sections in society. This feudalism is the reason behind the marginalisation of the dalits and it has always prevented them from being able to attend schools from generation to generation forcing them to work as child labour, bonded labour, etc. from a very early age. The feudalistic society has always found it convenient to keep such a margin in the society so that their ‘interest’ is safeguarded at all times. It is high time that dalits are empowered and the weaker sections in the society labour, opening a door for the vulnerable groups to do schooling and is given the necessary opportunities to rise to the mainstream of society.
Jan Mitra Gaon is a concept of the people, by the people and for the people. The idea was formed by studying the grassroots problems through discussions and by taking up the problems with Administration, human rights bodies’ etc. over a period of five years. Focus was given to issues like child rights, land rights, dalits etc. One might reach a policy through practice. However, for real grassroots level change, advocacy alone is not enough, but one has to come down from policy to practice which is seriously lacking from the present day society. People friendly village concept is being developed by fusion of village republic concept of Gandhi and social democratic critic of Dr. Ambedakar .Jan Mitra concept has a three pronged functional system:
(a)Jan Mitra Educational Concept.
The word “education” is derived from Latin, meaning “to lead or draw out”. That is to say, to lead or draw out the potential we all posses; to stimulate awareness of what we really are: beings with limitless capacity for courage, wisdom, compassion and bliss; beings who are inter-women with all others and yet completely individual; being who, as the jewels in the myth of Indra’s net, both reflect all others within themselves yet also create them.
We need a method of education to liberate us from servitude to the market and all its wares, and free us to fulfill our potential.
Depending upon the situation in various villages, it envisages activating of Creche where parents of young children who are engaged as agricultural labourers, weavers etc. can leave in these crèches. This will also enable the older girl children to attend school instead of remaining in the houses looking after the youngsters in the absence of their parents; this will also create a friendly environment for the pre-primary school children to go to formal schools on attaining the age of 6. This will act as a deterrent for the parents for not engaging their children as child workers. Under this concept people friendly centers will also be opened for children & adult. Reactivating the formal primary schools and health centers is another important aspect of the Janmitra concept. Thus, education under Jan Mitra concept will break the cycle of poverty, improve equity, empower women, and create health awareness and moreover improved democracy and accountability.
(b) Organisational Development of Marginalised Groups : The PVCHR Village Committee will consist of 50% or more members from dalits, women, children and minorities and this Committee will be overall responsible for the successful implementation of the concept. It is the responsibility of this Committee to motivate the marginalized groups to fight Panchayat elections, which will be a major break through for such groups to come to the mainstream of society. The community will be made to fight for their own rights, make collective demands, fight for their land rights, rights to life with dignity etc. They will also be motivated and encouraged to take up collective issues with human rights bodies, etc. under the campaign programme.
This Committee will be responsible for the setting up of a children panchayat under which a children chaupal will be organized every month. The Panchayat will be formed parallel to village Panchayat. The Children panchayats in all the villages children and forward them directly to the President of India.
(c) Jan Mitra Village Committee:
The marginalized groups will be brought to the mainstream of society through the Panchayat system, especial focus on Gram sabha and this will enable them to bargain for their rights on a sustainable basis.
If elected panchayat head is pro-people then Jan Mitra village committee will formed for making the model village. If the elected panchayat goes against marginalized people, then CBOs will lead the movement in positive direction and will fight for the rights of marginalized people.
(4)Collaboration It is clear that no one organization can effectively campaign at all different levels, which often requires very different attitudes, strategies & skills. To achieve this complex mix of work, different types of organizations are called for collaboration between them and these different organizations can therefore help in moving the campaign forward.
Child Participation of JMN
Conceptual Understanding of JMN on Child Participation
JMN considers all children upto 18 years as children. In this feudal society, chief of family takes all decisions. This phenomenon is available either in patriarchal or matriarchal family. The structure of family and society is constituted on this premise. Although the democratic system of governance has been adopted in this country, but there is no room for participation of all persons equally. Regarding participation of children, all adults, families and above all society seem to be diffident. If we closely observe behaviors of children, we find that children fight among themselves and become united after sometime. However, this does not happen with adults. Adults make division in the society on the basis of caste, religion, class and gender and try to inject this division among children.
JMN considers children as an integral part of democracy; and their voices need to heard in all decision making process. However, JMN does not believe in creating anarchy in the name of democracy. In this context, JMN thinks that individuals including children make the society. So it is to be seen that some individuals do not take away rights or enjoy rights at the cost of rights all individuals. In the same vein, society as a whole does not deprive individuals.
JMN also does not like to form a parallel BAL Panchayats as that Panchayats. The organization considers that it is the duty of the government organs to oversee that local panchayats functions properly.
The organization feels that children should become aware and conscientise about their own rights. And this conscientisation process should not be imposed on them; rather it should grow out from them. So there is a need to have sustained dialogues with children to know their viewpoints about society and after knowing their viewpoints children should be engaged to dissect of their viewpoints. Such dissection will facilitate the process of building perspective among children about society. Activists should learn from children and should engage children for further learning. Then only programme of children should be designed and implemented.
The organisation likes to ensure that children should be engaged in curriculum design, teaching and learning and evaluation of schools. The organisation believes in creating an environment where every individual including child can equally and intelligently participate in learning and exchanging knowledge and ideas.
Right to Participation
v Children will take decision.
v Children and adults will take decision jointly.
v Opinions of children have been taken.
v Children have taken decision, which have been prescribed or asked.
v Children’s voices are heard and children’s perspectives are looked into.
Present position of child participation in JMN
JMN works in two villages: Belwa and Shivrampur. It also works in urban slums- Baghawanala.
Belwa: There is a Bal Panchayat in this village which is known as Sant Kabir Bal Panchayat. This BAL Panchayat stands in fourth category.
Shivrampur: This village has also a BAL Panchayat, which is known as Dr. B.R. Ahmedkar. Maximum members are school going Dalits and other backward castes children.
Baghawanala: There is a Bal Panchayat in this slums,which is known as Munshi Prem Chand Bal Panchayat. Maximum members of this Panchayats are working children and child labour. This Panchayat stands in fourth category.
Who are members of Bal Panchayats?
Any child in the age group of 6-14 can become member of Bal Panchayats.
How are leaders and where does the work would be done?
All children will elect a coordinator and an assistant coordinator in a village. All coordinators and assistant coordinators will assemble together at the Panchayat level to elect a coordinator and assistant coordinators.
What are the functions of Bal Panchayats?
Bal Panchayats members will understand child related issues and will develop perspective on child related issues. Bal Panchayat members will together in every month. They will organize and agitate along with adult members of the community against exploitation, violation of child rights.
How does Bal Panchayas will ensure child participation?
Members of BAL Panchayat members will reach to all children and sensitise them about their rights. Members will work towards ensuring participation of all children in decision-making.
What would be the role of adults?
The role of the adults would be facilitator of blooming and ensuring participation of all children.
Time frame:
Baghawanala: Baghawanala is a slum dominated area on the bank of Varuna River. There are 175 the most marginalized families. It will take three years to make it as a model area.
Shivrampur: It is a village in Harahuwa block of Varanasi, where we have won the pachayat pradhan election.It will take three years to make it as a model village.
Belwa: It is a village in Badagaon block of Varanasi. In this village we have been working since 2000. This is the village, where a man of mafia has been village head for so many years with out any challenge and fight. Marginalised People of this village had never been able to exercise their vote independently. We have struggled there a lot to ensure the right of the marginalized people and for their democratic rights. (Full story of this village has been enclosed.) It will take three years to develop the base of a model village, but as for as LSG is concerned it will take more 2 years to organize the onslaught movement as last fight against the remnant feudal forces of this village.
In Shivarampur and Baghawanala, it might be that it may have taken one year more or less.
Large area?
We thing that our area of working for model village is not too large. We have been working intensively among marginalized communities on priority basis and at other places we are engaged among backward communities, who are facing fear of further marginalization. We are trying hard to fight against discrimination on base of gender and caste, in those areas which are dominated by superstitious upper caste to encounter against health and education‘s problems. We are raising the voice of south from village level to global level on behalf of the politics of South (marginalized communities or countries) against marginalization or exclusion by feudalism and imperialistic globalization.
Village Belwa can be taken as a example given as under mentioned:
Belwa
Intensive Engagement
Badepur-1500
Kotpar-400
Tiwaripur -600
Musaharn-100
Muslims &OBCs,SC of Belwa Khas
Belwa Khas(upper caste)
Kharaka-800
Badipar-125(SC)
Badipar(Brahmin)-575
Hatia-600
Bhamahi-300
Bahapar-100
Mahuwatar(ST)
Usarahia-100
Dhebuha-500
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Prevalance of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing uropathogenic eschereria coli and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern in a tertiarycare hospital in North India
Trinain Kumar Chakraverti, Ratnesh Kumar, Ranjan Kumar Srivastava and Nandkishore
Background: Urinary tract infections (UTIs) remain the common infections in outpatients as well as hospitalized patients. Extended Spectrum Beta- Lactamase producing organisms causing urinary tract infections (ESBL-UTI) are increasing in incidence and pose a major burden to health care. ESBL-producing E. coli have been isolated from both hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients. Current knowledge on antimicrobial sensitivity pattern is essential for appropriate therapy. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of ESBL uropathogenic E.coli and the antibiotic susceptibility patterns of ESBL and non ESBL producers, which is essential to guide appropriate antibiotic treatment. Material and Methods: Urine samples from 1551 patients received in Department of microbiology, PMC, Patna were processed for wet mount followed by culture and sensitivity. All the samples were inoculated on Nutrient agar, Bood Agar, and Mackoncky Agar. Growth showing significant bacteriuria (≥105 cfu/ml) were further identified by the standard biochemical procedures and antibiotic sensitivity done as per Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute guidelines. Phenotypic Detection of ESBL and AmpC were performed by combined disc diffusion method as per standard protocol. Results and observations: Out of the 1551 processed urine samples 398 (25.66%). samples were culture positive. The total number of E. coli isolated were 253 (63.56%). More number of Females 147 (58.10) had significant UTI due to E. coli compared with males 167 (41.95%). High level of resistance was seen with Ampicillin 221(87.35%), Cefotaxime 183(72.33%) Ceftriaxone 181 (71.54%), Ceftazidme 175 (69.16%) and Cefepime 167 (66.00%). Resistance to other classes of antibiotics was detected as Ciprofloxacin 191(75.49%), Norfloxacin 203 (80.23%), Cotrimoxazole 201 (79.44%) Nitrofurantoin 133 (52.56%), Gentamycin 121 (47.82%) and Amikacin 79 (31.22%). Among β lactam inhibitors, Amoxyclav 198 (78.26%), Cefoperazone-sulbactam 112 (44.26%). and Pipericillin tazobactam 103 (40.71%). Sensitivity to imipenem was 177(69.96%). No any E.coli isolates were resistant to Tigecycline and fosphomycin. (Table 1). MDR isolates represented 173(68.37%). Among these Multidrug resistant strains, ESBLs positive strains were 141 (55.73%) isolates while, the number of AmpC positive strains were 31 (12.25%) isolates. All AmpC producer were co-producers of ESBL, the remaining 113 (44.66%) isolates were pure ESBLs. Conclusion: This study highlights the Prevalance of MDR, ESBL and AMP C producers of E.coli in UTI. In our study Carbapenems and amkacin are promising drug for ESBL producers while Fosphomycin and Tigecycline use as reserve drug.
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The effusions of M. Julius Beezer
House of Lords passes the Dutch on the left hand side
from the department of the eternally hosted comment
I'm something of a Carlton Reid fan—I buy his books anyway—and I'm full of admiration for the tenacity of his career as a journalist covering the cycle business. He is to my view somewhat over-enthusiastic about the merits of separatist cycle infrastructure, but this is a matter for reasonable debate, and at least he does actually ride a bike. So I'm inclined to forgive him when I revisit his site bikebiz.com, and find that a comment that I left on a story he wrote in April 2017 about some clueless peer's ignorant waffling in the House of Lords has disappeared. Comments often seem to be the first casualty of website design makeovers, and in this case archive.org seems not to have come to my remarks' rescue. So here they are again, now with illustrations.
This idea of the Netherlands as some sort of transport paradise really does need a dose of reality. Firstly, while their overall road mortality compares favourably with that of other European countries, they're hardly immune to road deaths.
All European countries observed a decline in cycling as cars became widely available in the sixties and seventies. While the Netherlands are to be congratulated for arresting this decline better than most, they have not grown cycling since.
Yet in global terms they do occupy one of the most favourable topographies for cycling on the planet.The solution they found back then—of rigid separation of modes—has its virtues, but cannot be unquestioningly adopted in other localities—might hills make a difference for example?
Since the seventies, motorists have not improved their reputation: the ongoing road slaughter, oil wars, an obesity crisis, and pollution episodes can all be laid directly at their door, even before we consider the contribution of motoring to anthropogenic climate change. More thoughtful parliamentarians would be considering how to kick the motors out altogether, not bleating about a few cycle paths.
This seems a good place to note that I consider the House of Lords to be an insult to the notion of democracy, and I'd sack the lot of them if I could. Confronted with such evident idiocy in the legislature, it is natural to wonder how the hell to get rid of one. Answer: you can't. Dictators Peers for life! Ho hum!
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Tickling the Dawes' nether regions back to life
from the threadbare department
The Dawes has been out of action since the end of May, when, feeling a nasty wobble in the cranks while riding out to meet the lads in Cherbourg, I looked down to see my bottom bracket almost dragging along the road. Investigation at the local bike shop the next morning revealed that the threads on the bottom bracket shell of the frame had rusted through: a potentially frame-ending injury.
I ran home for the town bike, which is a more or less acceptable substitute for the Dawes up to about 70km, at which point the lack of variety in hand position starts to become fatiguing.
Anyway, when I got back from the trip, Yoann Loncle of Menhir Cycles was ready to take a look, so I stripped the frame down and sent it off to him. Great craftsmen do take their time, but the repair of the frame (there were a couple of cracks in the stays, and the rear brake bridge had cracked through on one side) was finally completed last week, so it was time to rebuild the bike with the new Kenli bottom bracket. This sidesteps the need for a framebuilder to replace the entire bottom bracket shell, but there is a reason why threading the bottom bracket securely to the frame is superior...
First time around I just bought a second Shimano-fit 20-toothed socket tool, and tightened the Kenli as best I could. However, it came loose on a 10km test run to test the fit of the reassembled machine. I retightened it, but next day's planned ride to Saint-Nazaire (64km) had to be cut short in Couëron (13km) when it loosened again.
More serious measures would evidently have to be taken. Browsing around Sheldon Brown and the archives of uk.rec.cycling yielded some helpful info, but I didn't fancy using metal filler (which is basically glueing the unit in place, probably irrevocably), and 'tapping the thread to Italian fit' and suchlike is certainly beyond my capacities, and I think, those of any known supplier.
So I decided to try obtaining a snugger fit for the Kenli with shims. This is illustrated in this Flickr set. Here's a picture of the new left shim in place:
The shims did seem to give a bit of extra added grip as I tightened the bottom bracket, and I added some Loctite 243 to the Kenli's threads for good measure. Fingers crossed! My legs are awfully powerful and I do feel sorry for any bike component that's got to deal with them. A replacement for the Dawes is becoming a pressing necessity, but I've had a lot of fun on that bike down the years, and I'm finding myself reluctant to accept its demise.
Update 22h18, 19 October 2018. First ride out on the repair entirely promising—maximal mashing of pedals on a 20km loop out through Vertou this afternoon—all seemed solid on my return.
On riding safely in difficult conditions
from the department of roadspace carving
I follow a whole bunch of cycle activists on Twitter. This sort of post appears daily in my feed:
No.5- Yet another #closepass Driver trying to overtake as road narrowed. Hooked handlebar, bike wedged under his wheels, I tried to bale and was dragged along. Police said 50/50 blame! I showed the video. Changed to 3pts & £100 #greenock #inverclyde @TakeThatCyclist @ClosePasses pic.twitter.com/BlTZ5uP067
— Father Spodo Komodo (@fathersensini) September 13, 2018
A cyclist is riding along a busy single carriageway road in wet weather. He is overtaken too closely. The overtaking driver then instantly forgets the cyclist, the road narrows, the overtaking vehicle moves left, and knocks the cyclist down. Fortunately this cyclist incurred only minor injuries, and the driver was prosecuted, though only because the cyclist had video evidence. All most regrettable.
But—and I'm writing this here because the brevity of the Twitter risks rapid descent into accusations of victim-blaming—there are a few learning points for all cyclists. While the van-driver should not have acted as he did, and is undoubtedly to blame for the crash, there are a few things you can do as a cyclist to avoid such hazard.
Firstly, it is a good general rule never to pass a parked car closer than the radius of a car-door. "Dooring" (having a car door opened into your path) is a real risk, and a nasty injury-prone crash if it does happen. Riding wide of parked cars eliminates this risk entirely. But the cyclist in the video is riding too close to the parked cars in my view.
Now, why did he do this? The answer, of course, is that it is easy to feel intimidated by vehicles behind you. Drivers rev their engines, follow too closely, or even sound their horns to try to get you to move out of the way. This is physical intimidation! Resisting it is easier said than done, and requires both mental and physical strength.
But it is the driver that does not see you that will kill you, and the further out into the carriageway you ride, the closer you are to the following driver's central field of vision.
I entirely understand also, that my view is formed from my own experience as a) a person naturally endowed for cycling (a moderately athletic male adult); b) a trained motorcyclist (it's easy enough to take the lane with a BMW R80RT between your legs I assure you); c) a person who sees very clearly that the private motor car has no place in the urban environment in a democratic society, and is willing to put body and bike on the line to state this. Having the physical strength to "keep up with the traffic" in short bursts does make the cyclist's life easier in present conditions. But there is no *minimum* speed limit on any urban road, and as cyclist you have a perfect right to use the carriageway appropriately, whatever your habitual cruising speed. Both the British and French highway codes lay great emphasis on the fact that overtaking is the most hazardous manoeuvre, and clearly lay the responsibility for doing so safely with the overtaking driver.
Secondly, once the parked cars have been overtaken, the cyclist moves left, thus inciting the overtaking manoeuvre. But had he anticipated the narrowing of the road ahead, he could have instead maintained his line to occupy the centre of the narrowed lane, averting any illusion in the mind of the van driver that this was a good time to overtake. Which it obviously wasn't.
And thirdly, having carved that space, should idiocy arrive over your right shoulder in the form of an inappropriately overtaking driver, you have a space to move into, not the obstacle of the kerb immediately to your left.
Many people watching this video will interpret it as evidence for the implementation of "protected infrastructure" (i.e. a kerb-separated lane for bikes on the offside of the road). But this is not the only possibility, and such lanes create new problems of their own, particularly when carriageway and bike lane arrive at junctions, which become more complex as a result. In practice such implementations tend to impede the progress of the cyclist compared with the progress they might make on the road.
The elephants in the room here (as ever) are the contribution the parked vehicles made to the crash (on-street parking is a curse), and the sheer volume of motor traffic (this can't go on). Both driver and cyclist are victims of a transport "system" based largely on private motor vehicles that is incompatible with an egalitarian society. Driving in town is only even possible because some people are not driving cars. A town where all trips are made in private cars looks like Los Angeles, not Greenock.
And of course the law should be changed to put the presumption of blame on the user of the motor vehicle in the event of a collision with a pedestrian or a cyclist, as is the case in France or the Netherlands. With great power comes great responsibility!
These are amongst the most difficult and demanding conditions that a cyclist could face anywhere. One can understand the popularity of the four-wheeled metal umbrella as a default mode of transport in the west of Scotland, but it's not progressive, and it's got to change.
Transparency real and imagined
from the all very well in theory department
Back in August I came across this blogpost—a somewhat generic homily on the importance of openness and transparency in scientific communication. I share the author's optimism that open access to the scientific literature will provide better validation of published work than traditional systems of peer review. But unless this superior access is actually exploited by knowledgeable users, the potential gains may not be realized. Though a blinking cursor beckoned me below the line, the author has, in his or her wisdom, failed to publish my comment. So it must appear here:
Transparency is superior to trust—as long as some relevant person(s) actually exploit(s) the transparency. Look at how long that ssl flaw hung about in Debian, for example: https://pinboard.in/u:juliusbeezer/t:security/t:opensource/
That was all open code, utterly vital to the security of hordes of crucial servers run by the world's top-most geeks, and therefore, every internet user. But the problem sat there for two years, apparently.
That's an extreme example that did get fixed. Transparency is necessary yes, but unless it's actually backed by readers/critics/reviewers/coders/experts actually looking through the windowpane afforded by it, its value is only rhetorical.
It does mean that the guards can guard the guards and we can watch the guards guarding the guards though. Or maybe McGregor-Maywether.
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Another look at Dutch geography as it pertains to cyclists
from the polder layout department
The Netherlands are often held up as a model for good practice in cycle policy. I've made the point already that the country has a number of geographical peculiarities which mean that its methods should be interpreted with caution when considering generalizing them elsewhere. Of course it is possible, indeed more enjoyable, to ride a bicycle in more hilly terrain than any the Netherlands has to offer. But the techniques required by both the cyclist, and the urbanist seeking to encourage them, are self-evidently going to be different. This much is obvious.
But there are a couple of more subtle points to l'exception néerlandaise that have occurred to me since my pilgrimage to Groningen last year:
20th century polders, from Hoeksema (2007)
1) Fully 5% of the Netherlands' land surface area has been added to the country between 1930 and 1968. This often seems to have been landscaped à l'américaine, with spacious boulevards that admit complete modal segregation between facing frontages as much as 100m apart. Time pressures obliged me to admire the splendour of the Almere suburb from the window of a train rather than from the bike, but the desire to allocate huge reserves of space to the motorist there was plain enough, as one would expect from any bunch of 1970s planners anywhere.
2) In a country where for centuries the canals have been the main axis of transport between towns, it may be that it seems quite natural to have a "major" and "minor" towpath. I noticed on my trip last May that very often I received strong cues from the urbanists to travel on one side of a canal-line (which was often a mixed-use low-speed residential street), while across the water I could see cars moving quite fast on a higher speed street. I was cool with that as long as getting to the "right" side didn't take me too far out of my way. As a tourist, naturally I just went along with it, but I could imagine being a local resident with a bike and being daily pissed off by the tortuousness of the route I was obliged to follow. (Obligatory) cycle routes along major trunk roads often jink from one side of the motorway to other, adding significant travel distance perpendicular to the desired direction. This sucks.
We should be clear about all these distinctions when considering the applicability of Dutch cycle infrastructure design to other parts of Europe, where the width of roads and streets (their frontage-to-frontage distance) was determined in the era of horse-drawn vehicles. Horses go home at night, and the carts they were pulling too. So three cart-widths would be pretty much enough anywhere: one delivering, two passing in either direction. On-street parking is a twentieth century curse. Where such conditions exist historically in the Netherlands, they tend to mostly exclude motor traffic (as of course you should). Parallel universes of "protected cycleways" may be an option in new towns and suburbs, but in the vast majority of European cities the nettle of private car dependence must be grasped.
Libellés : separatist-critique
Is there "a Macron effect"?
from the department of curious anthropology
My oldest buddy Dan Falchikov, sometime parliamentary assistant to Archy Kirkwood, and still, I believe, a partisan for the Liberal Democrats, asked me on Facebook what I made of "the Macron effect." I was happy to give him my view, and perhaps my remarks may be of wider interest. So here [lightly edited] they are:
[Hi Dougie, just wondering whether you have a take on the Macron effect? Obviously being up against a fascist meant he was always going to win the presidency but I'm more interested in how he emerged from nowhere to beat the more established candidates. Is there any decent analysis you're aware of?]
He [Macron] was pretty high profile in his role as economic minister in the Hollande administration, then resigned early enough to escape (somehow) the backwash from them being found red Tories in practice. Being President is his first elected position! A first round vote for Macron was basically a vote for the status quo, in terms of the relationship between business and the French social contract; Fillon's promise of deep cuts in public service employment was deeply unpopular, and his allegèd filching from the public pocket also played very badly. Mélenchon played a blinder, and came closer than any true left candidate since the 1930s; Hamon was a lowish-profile Hollande minister, and one of the PS rebels in the last parliament, which does not play well in French culture; so triple whammy for him (6%!). Now that my French is good, I can understand what Marine Le Pen is saying, and apart from her obviously distasteful world view, she is frankly someone who does not have the mental capacity to be a serious politician. The FN vote reflects, in my view, three tendencies: 1) people who are racist ultra-rightists (few, though there is plenty of casual racism in France); 2) people who want to smash the whole Paris political class (cf Brexit); 3) a survey result for the number of people in France who are… how can I be polite? … incapable of analysing competing paradigms.
Macron is a weak king: with a first round vote of only 24%, and a second round win against the FN (with near record abstention and 4.4 million spoiled ballots) he has little mandate for his promise to "govern by decree" if he doesn't get his majority in the the Assemblée (though it looks like he will). Personally I find this promise an objectionable rejection of the constitution, and believe a parliamentary committee should generally outperform a presidential decree. But hey! The fun will really start when he tries to pass his new employment laws, or if he tries to build the proposed airport at Notre Dame des Landes. Macron is detested by large numbers on the left, there will be some very heavy demos, and I will be dodging clouds of teargas here in Nantes. Ho hum!
As for your specific point, his rise is unprecedented, (though he has all the qualifications, did well at ENA etc) but he succeeded in rallying large numbers of young middle class people to get the vote out. There is no doubt he is highly intelligent and capable (and his English is remarkably good for a French person); also no doubt he is firmly in the pocket of the big business/lobbyist complex that really runs France. I guess I wish him fair wind, but the moment he does something really stupid my good will (and many others') will rapidly evaporate. I predict an ignominious decline in his popularity over the next 5 years (though I'd be happy to be proved wrong). Thanks for asking! 🙂
[Was there a particular pitch to the young middle classes, or was it more of a shared feeling/shared values?]
That is a good question, and I'm not sure I have a good answer. My impression is that enough of the French public are suckers for someone who is handsome and clever on the telly. There's no doubt there is frustration with the rigidity of French employment practices, and a feeling that France is getting left behind other countries that manage greater flexibility in the labour market. The difficulty is that in France *everything* hangs on your "statut social", which basically comes down to your employment status. (cf Americans and their pre-Obama health insurance). So any changes to the system provoke enormous reaction. The last round of attempts at reform (la loi El-Khomri, which was basically authored by Macron) caused several riots in the streets here, one of which I unexpectedly attended when I turned a corner on my bike on my way to pick up the boy from music! Eek! The political discussion then becomes what to do about the riots, not a reasonable discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of what's being proposed. (I was about 75% against/25% for El-Khomri myself: I don't see any sense in increasing retirement age when there is so much youth unemployment, for example, but I would be in favour of more targeted occupational health examinations). My impression is that people do follow the big issues along better than the UK public does, but there is also an important tribal element, and Macron benefited from young people sick of tribalism, and feeling stuck in the system. The system is very difficult to reform however, and when push comes to shove I'm not sure that Macron's vote will translate into people in the street backing him. But if he governs by decree and the riot police repress the demos against him, then there will be an awful lot of people on the street against him. Certainly here in Nantes, and probably Paris too.
Update 12h02, 19/06/2017. It looks as though M. Macron and La République En Marche have obtained a legislative majority. May the new Assemblée enjoy peace and good fortune in its deliberation of the public interest!
Air pollution sceptic refuses comment
from the start-with-cholera department
Euan Mearns is an honorary research fellow at Aberdeen University and a former oil industry consultant. His admirably active blog exerts a pitiless scrutiny on the renewable energy business, and I like to read it as part of a conscious effort of escape from my bubble.
He recently posted a long article which attempted to unpick a claim made by Channel 4 News that air pollution from diesel engines causes 40,000 deaths annually, following the publication of a Royal College of Physicians report. As Mearns points out, diesel engines are not the only source of air pollution, and so the headline figure is certainly open to scrutiny and debate. But this does not really entitle him (or the commenters he has attracted) to accuse the RCP of publishing "fake science" based on "green thinking." As is my wont, I composed a comment for his delectation, which he has chosen not to add to the other 69 he has published. So it is here instead:
Yep, the statistics of the effects on air pollution aren't easy to interpret. If you want to pursue this line a masters degree in epidemiology would provide a good foundation for your further studies e.g. http://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/masters/mse.html#first
Look, it's quite clear fine particulates and gaseous oxides aren't good for your health. The evidence that I find most convincing is that all-cause mortality rises in pollution peaks: e.g. https://academic.oup.com/bmb/article/68/1/95/421216/Air-pollution-and-infection-in-respiratory-illness Note that the people who die acutely are those with the least cardiorespiratory reserve due to pre-existing illness, but the fact that this increase in mortality is observable suggests that a harmful effect is occurring in everyone's cardiorespiratory systems, and thus, long-term, risks diminishing everyone's cardiorespiratory reserve. Note also that the mechanism of fatal illness is not necessarily directly linked to the peak itself (e.g. someone with asthma suffering an acute attack and dying of respiratory failure immediately), but in increased rates of respiratory tract infection for several months after the peak.
Even if the epidemiologists' best estimates were out ten-fold either way (say 4000 dead/year—400,000 dead/year) either figure would still constitute ample evidence for tightening the regulatory screw on those who indulge in the antisocial practice of burning hydrocarbons in the atmosphere in the pursuit of an inefficient method of personal transportation.
So the issue must be addressed. The choice is not between petrol or diesel. The choice is between the private motor car and the other less polluting modes of transport. Although there is some justice in that motorists themselves receive the highest doses of air pollution (e.g. http://cycling.today/cyclists-exposed-to-five-times-less-air-pollution-than-those-in-cars/), everyone is affected. You're no longer allowed to blow smoke in my face in a bar—why should you be allowed to blow smoke in my face at the traffic lights?
M. Mearns himself runs a 1.6L diesel-engined Volvo, and I suspect has classified me a "green troll." Ho hum!
Update 0820h, 16/4/2017. Following reorganisation, all participants in the interdisciplinary "Engineer in the clinic!" programme are being encouraged to attend Epidemiology 101.
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Tough Choices: The New Geopolitics of Terror
London, United Kingdom. 18 November. Strategy is about choices. Tough choices. The Paris attacks have clearly acted as a strategic awakening for many Europeans. There is now a moment of political momentum that must be exploited if there is to be any chance of a solution to the war in Syria, which is disfiguring not just the Levant but Europe as well. Indeed, the Paris terror attacks are already generating new geopolitics as the strategic state realigns to fight strategic terror. What tough choices must be made and by whom given the new mosaic of strategic partnerships and ‘realignments’ that are emerging in the wake of Paris?
Tough choice #1: Russia and Assad. This morning President Putin ordered Russian forces in the Mediterranean to treat French forces as allies. This will come as no surprise to Paris who have always been lukewarm about the sanctions imposed on Russia in the wake of Moscow’s seizure of Crimea, its dismembering of eastern Ukraine, and clear complicity in the downing of MH 17. Moreover, Russian grand strategy is clearly working to re-position Moscow as the power that cannot be ignored. However, can the West in general, and Europe in particular, forge an effective alliance over Syria with a state that continues to intimidate NATO allies and EU member-states in central and Eastern Europe? Particularly if this means by extension a de facto alliance with Syria's President Assad. Surely, if any sort of alliance, de facto or otherwise, is to be forged with Russia it can only happen if Russia stops its snap military exercises in the Baltic region, stops arming rebels in Ukraine, and enters into meaningful dialogue over the future status of Crimea. What deal?
Touch choice #2: Turkey. For too long the Berlin-led obsession with organising Mitteleuropa via the Eurozone around Germany has led to the effective marginalisation of Europe’s three major peripheral powers Britain, Russia and Turkey. All three of these powers have legitimate interests in the shape of power in Europe. Russia has opted for unilateral intimidation to exert influence, whilst Britain is simply sulking. However, it is Turkey which has emerged as the pivotal power that bestrides both Europe and the Middle East. It is now clear that if Syria is to be resolved Turkey will have a crucial role to play and that will in turn mean a new political relationship between the EU and Ankara. No more can Europe pretend to be offering Turkey membership of the EU. No longer will an emboldened President Erdogan accept such nonsense. What deal?
Tough choice #3: Brexit. Yesterday I gave evidence to the House of Commons Defence Select Committee on Britain’s defence budget and the Cameronesque scribbles on the back of a fag (cigarette) packet politics dressed up as strategy that will be next week’s Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR 2015). However, the real strategic outcome of Paris for both Britain and the EU is that it is now clear a Brexit would be disaster for Europe’s security and the cohesion of Europe’s security. Russia, Syria, IS, the migration crisis, and the fragile state of Europe’s neighbourhood; the world is simply too dangerous for Europe to be paralysed over internal relationships however important. The 2014 Scottish independence referendum demonstrated all too clearly the paralysing effect on the effective use of power such division has. This is my tough choice because there is much I deeply dislike about the elite-led theology that is ‘Project Europe’, and which I will continue to fight. However, both France and Germany will need to help find a new political settlement that will keep Britain in what will need to be a new EU. What settlement?
Tough choice #4: Credible strategy. Ed Lucas wrote a powerful piece in The Times this week on the need for strategy. However, his suggestion that the best way to fight IS was for the EU to become a superpower simply defied logic. Indeed, if Europe has to wait that long IS are more likely to die of old-age than be defeated. Yes, in a fantasy world strategic unity of effort and purpose over time and distance in a fantasy Europe might see the EU as a superpower. However, the centre of power gravity in Europe remains its powerful nation-states and it is they who must craft and drive forward intelligent strategy. The EU clearly has an important role to play as it possesses a range of instruments which a truly (and necessary) comprehensive strategy over time and distance will need. However, any strategy that has any chance of countering the IS super-insurgency, and all the other security and defence risks and threats now emerging will require a mix of intelligence, engagement and force. Credible force can only come from powerful conventional militaries such as those possessed by Britain and France for without their full commitment the entire strategy will be critically weakened. Whither strategy?
Tough choice #5: Boots on the ground. Perhaps the toughest choice of all leaders will face in the aftermath of the Paris attacks is the need to find boots on the ground to take the fight to IS. Air power alone will not suffice. Right now there is a search for someone, anyone to provide those boots as long as they are not Western. The region is brim full of militias and militia’s masquerading as armies that are simply too weak and unprofessional to defeat IS. At some point if IS is perceived to be the threat to Europe and the West that leaders are today proclaiming then professional military boots will need to be deployed. Who? What? When?
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Tennessee opens the season on Aug. 31 against Chuckie Keeton and Utah State.
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — Early lines on eight Tennessee games indicate that Las Vegas oddsmakers have little optimism for the Vols in 2014.
Tennessee opponents are favored in seven of the eight games released by the Golden Nugget as part of their annual early lines.
UT (+19) at Oklahoma
UT (+17) at Georgia
Florida at UT (+4.5)
UT (+12) at Ole Miss
Alabama at UT (+20)
UT (+18) at South Carolina
Missouri at UT (+4)
UT (-3) at Vanderbilt
Interestingly, roughly one-fourth of the 200 games handicapped by the Golden Nugget had line movements after their initial release to reflect betting trends. But only one Tennessee game was adjusted: Georgia is now favored by 16 points, down from 17. In other words, it doesn’t appear the public is flocking to bet on Tennessee.
Of course, UT will likely be favored in the four games not listed.
If you’re inclined to optimism, think of it this way: The Vols must only steal only one upset after winning the five games in which they will be favored to become bowl eligible.
If you’re inclined to pessimism, the rest of this blog is for you.
A 19-point spread translates to a 2.7 percent chance of winning against Oklahoma. Or just an 11.45 percent chance at Georgia.
For the sake of this simulation, we’ll give UT a 6.5-point edge against Utah State and an 8-point advantage against Arkansas State and Kentucky. We’re giving the Vols a 99.95 percent chance of victory against Chattanooga.
Spin those figures through my simulator 1,000 times and this is what you get:
That’s a 32 percent chance of winning at least six games and making a bowl, a 31 percent chance of having the same record as last year and a 37 percent chance of being worse.
I’ll update the simulator with new numbers as the season goes on.
Think some of the odds are way off? Let me know.
This entry was posted in SEC football, Tennessee football and tagged Alabama Crimson Tide, Arkansas State Red Wolves, fepo, Georgia Bulldogs, Golden Nugget, lines, odds, Oklahoma Sooners, Ole Miss Rebels, South Carolina Gamecocks, Utah State Aggies on June 16, 2014 by Evan Woodbery.
This very early line for UT’s opener against Utah State is closer than you might think
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — Not convinced that Tennessee will have its hands full in its season opener against Utah State?
Vegas would beg to differ.
OK, not Vegas, but at least an offshore sports book that has released very early lines on some opening games.
Tennessee is favored by a mere 5.5 points over the Aggies in the Aug. 31 game at Neyland Stadium. (Note all the usual disclaimers).
The Vols really need to win that opener (and, preferably, Week 2 against Arkansas State) because road games against Oklahoma and Georgia follow.
This entry was posted in Tennessee football and tagged fepo, lines, Utah State football on April 24, 2014 by Evan Woodbery.
Tennessee opens as 4-point favorite at Kentucky
Tennessee runs through the T on Nov. 23, 2013, against Vanderbilt. (photos by Evan Woodbery)
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — Tennessee has opened as a four-point favorite over Kentucky in offshore sports books.
The Vols (4-7, 1-6 SEC) and Wildcats (2-9, 0-7) will play their final game of the season on Saturday at Commonwealth Stadium (TV: ESPNU, 7 p.m.)
Tennessee lost to Vanderbilt 14-10 on Saturday to fall out of bowl contention and ensure the program’s fourth consecutive losing season.
In the Sagarin predictor ratings, which are sometimes frighteningly accurate, the Vols have a 5.19-point edge over Kentucky.
This entry was posted in Tennessee football and tagged fepo, Kentucky Wildcats, lines, odds, Vegas on November 24, 2013 by Evan Woodbery.
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Hey, Vegas agrees with the offshore books. Wynn Las Vegas opened Tennessee as a 2.5-point favorite over Vanderbilt. Sagarin’s ratings give the Commodores a slight edge.
Vols a 7-point underdog at home against No. 7 Auburn
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — The seventh-ranked Auburn Tigers are a touchdown favorite over Tennessee this weekend.
The Vols (4-5, 1-4 SEC) play Auburn (8-1, 4-1) on Saturday at Neyland Stadium (TV: ESPN, noon).
Wynn Las Vegas stuck with the offshore line of 7 points, although we also saw 7.5 and 8 points at times.
In the Sagarin ratings, the rating scale gives Auburn a 9.84-point advantage on a neutral site and a 6.35-point edge at Tennessee.
Tennessee a 13-point underdog at Missouri, according to early Vegas lines
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — Tennessee is a 13-point underdog in Saturday’s game at No. 10 Missouri, according to one Las Vegas sports book.
The Tigers (7-1, 3-1) opened as a 13-point favorite at the Wynn.
Using Jeff Sagarin’s two predictive models, Missouri has a 15.83-point or 14.25-point edge over Tennessee.
A closer look at the 2nd half of Tennessee’s season: Can the Vols go 3-3, reach a bowl?
Butch Jones modeling the smokey gray today. #IRU
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KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — At the midpoint of the season, now is a perfect time to reevaluate my preseason predictions.
Let’s see how I fared so far and determine if we need to tweak any of the predicted outcomes for the rest of the year.
At the risk of bragging, my August predictions have been pretty spot-on so far.
Aug. 31 vs. Austin Peay
Speculative line: UT by 45.
Actual line: UT by 49.
My prediction: UT, 45-7.
Actual score: UT, 45-0.
Sept. 7 vs. Western Kentucky
My prediction: UT, 31-14.
Actual score: UT, 52-20.
Sept. 14 at Oregon
Oregon’s Autzen Stadium (photo by Evan Woodbery)
Speculative line: Oregon by 20.
Actual line: Oregon by 28.
My prediction: Oregon, 45-14
Actual score: Oregon, 59-14.
Sept. 21 @ Florida
Speculative line: UF by 17.
Actual line: UF by 16.5
My prediction: Florida, 31-14.
Actual score: Florida, 31-17.
Sept. 28 vs. South Alabama
Actual line: UT by 16.5.
My prediction: UT, 38-17
Oct. 5 vs. Georgia
The Vols lost in overtime to Georgia.
Speculative line: Georgia by 15
Actual line: Georgia by 13.5
My prediction: Georgia 35-28.
Actual score: Georgia 34-31, OT. (fixed earlier error)
(I’m using line information from VegasInsider, which may differ slightly from other sites. All lines are for informational/entertainment purposes ONLY.)
The rest of the schedule looks more difficult in some areas, but could be easier in others. South Carolina is difficult to figure, but still quite dangerous. Auburn and Missouri have exceeded expectations, although an injury to quarterback James Franklin could be devastating for Mizzou’s powerful offense. (Coach Gary Pinkel strongly disputed a report that Franklin would be out for the rest of the year).
What about the other James Franklin? Well, he and the Commodores are having a rough year, but the UT-Vandy meeting in Knoxville still promises to be an important and emotional meeting.
Here’s a look at the final six games, with both my August predictions and any changes I care to make.
This entry was posted in SEC football, Tennessee football and tagged Alabama Crimson Tide, Butch Jones, fepo, Gary Pinkel, Georgia Bulldogs, James Franklin, James Franklin (coach), James Franklin (Missouri), Kentucky Wildcats, lines, Missouri Tigers, South Carolina Gamecocks, Vanderbilt Commodores, Vegas on October 13, 2013 by Evan Woodbery.
Early line says Gamecocks a 7-point favorite vs. Vols
No prominent Vegas sports books have offered a line yet, but the early consensus is Tennessee is a 7-point underdog against South Carolina. The Vols (3-3, 0-2 SEC) and Gamecocks (5-1, 3-1) meet Saturday at noon at Neyland Stadium.
Vegas still says Vols only 10.5-point underdogs vs. Georgia
Remember when everybody felt certain the line would climb from its opening at about 10 1/2 points? It didn’t.
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Iran and the imminent prospect of another unilateral war waged by Israel in the Middle East
by Freeman Ure
Israel, presumably due to its longstanding failure to reach amicable peace with Palestine and the Arab neighbors since 1967, is imminently determined to wage a unilateral war on Iran while struggling to divert internal dissent from its lingering economic and socio–political challenges and international isolations.
In so doing, Israel is also pushing the US and the western [coalitions] once again to pay heavily for such war of aggression while prime Minster Bibi Netanyahu is blithely meddling in US politics by siding with the right wing Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney against the incumbent Democratic President Barack Obama. The legitimate rights of all nations for sovereignty, security, independence and integrity, including the young Israel to the old nation of Iran, irrespective of the governments ruling them, are universally recognized under international covenants, and thus should be safeguarded. That said, however, Israel, a non-signatory to the Non-Porliferation Treaty and International Atomic Energy Agency protocols but allegedly in possession of up to several hundred illegal nuclear bombs, perpetrates the speculative claim that Iran, a signatory to the NPT and IAEA protocols and inspections, may in the future acquire nuclear capability leading to the making of a bomb. The more rationale alternative must be to eliminate nuclear arsenals worldwide, especially in the Middle East.
The 1979 Revolution in Iran was actually preceded by 150 years of struggle to move forward this historic nation, through several millennia, while it was called Persia; from absolute monarchy and the regressive feudal system, via the progressive but futile constitutional monarchy revolution of 1906, and then toward the ultimate path of culturally contextual modernization, which included democracy, freedom of expressions & thought, liberty, sovereignty, equality, justice and peace.
In fact, the initially pluralistic 1979 revolution in Iran, which had coalesced the diverse nation’s aspirations to relieve itself of Shah’s undemocratic monarchy, and in hoping of establishing the rule of law, freedom, and sovereignty. This revolution was, however, hijacked in the last minute, by the reactionary Islamists who had the substantive tactical assistance from the leftists such as the communist Tudeh Party and the MEK, i.e., the Mujahedin E Khalgh. The MEK is a leftist Islamist-Marxist guerrilla organization that has fought underground against the deposed Shah of Iran, and assassinated six American military attachés in the early 70’s ; it has cooperated with the new Islamic Republic in Iran (IRI), before it transplanted itself to Iraq, where they fought along with the Iraqi forces against the IRI regime. The MEK especially its leadership, has, in effect, acted as the fifth column inside and outside Iran and thus has very limited acceptance, if any, among Iranian populace.
The capturing of the 52 American diplomats as hostages for 444 days, was followed by Iraq attacking Iran—a grotesque war instigated by the western governments in retaliation for the hostage taking and the loss of direct American influence in the region.
That [no win] war dragged on for nearly ten years, inflicted a toll of a million human lives, a trillion dollars of economic damage, before it ironically helped entrenching the new Islamic fundamentalist regime.
Besides its rapidly fading ostentatious political rhetoric anchored on a twisted sloganeering of Islamic Shiite ideology and as enunciated by bombastic Ahmadinejad and megalomaniac Khamenei, the Iranian regime has nothing else to account for after nearly 35 years of repressive exercise of power except the catastrophic socio-economic and political failure, both at the domestic and international levels. This failure has yielded trillions of dollars of economic waste and embezzlements, doubling of the population, loss of millions of precious lives through adventurist wars and subversive proxy activities, and more killings of political prisoners of conscience, and millions of the elites, intellectuals and technocrats in diaspora. In essence, the IRI has replaced the old 1000 powerful 'royal' family of the Shah with 100,000 theological family - an exclusive fraternity that acts to pillage the country's natural and human resources as well as weakening the personal religious and cultural beliefs of the populace. The IRI must have fully understood that as an unpopular repressive regime it is far safer to be feared than respected.
The Islamic Republic schizophrenically afraid of its own shadows, it nonetheless resorts to provocations in order to bring about an external calamity upon the nation so as to extend its lifeline. Such approach - fabricating a diversion when a government is failing - is not unique to the Islamic Republic but rather commonly practiced by many governments in the last 100 years. The Islamic Republic in Iran must have reluctantly recognized that due to their empty rhetoric, fallacy and ignorant sloganeering of the past 35 years, it has in essence created a carte blanche for the re-militarization of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia by the West. More than two-thirds of military sales and hegemonic economic & political accords forged worldwide have been imposed by the West on the undemocratic [puppet] governments in these strategic regions in the last 30 years.
As counter-intuitively irrational as it may be perceived by most peace-loving logical people, the Islamic Republic establishment in Iran is literally prepared to pay billions of dollars in bribes to outsiders, albeit Israel or the US, to materialize a unilateral invasion of Iran. The IRI fully understands that after wasting trillions of dollars and the loss of countless human lives in the last 10 years that such western invasion will only be short-lived and primarily driven by air strikes. Afterwards, it assumes that the IRI will extend its life by capitalizing on the inevitable economic disaster and probable heavy casualties inflicted on the “Islamic nation.” As twisted as it may seem, they will then carry the coffins of 100,000 dead innocent civilians as martyrs in dozens major cities right after each Friday prayers for another 35 additional years the regime will gain from this invasion.
Notwithstanding, if Israel is genuinely interested in an Iranian regime change and in a regional stability, it may be illegal in principle, but nonetheless far less destructive than the above scenario, it should instead pursue a well-orchestrated covert campaign of purging a few hundred key figures in the Islamic Republic, impose smart sanctions, limit travel, engage in financial and trade restrictions. All these will keep the Iranian population united against their tyrannical regime, and thus detrimentally hurting the IRI establishment. The perplexing question still unanswered remains as to whether the true motivations of the Israeli government is regime change or the annihilation of a sovereign nation that has and continues to proudly possess deeply rooted cultural communities with the people of Jewry worldwide.
Freeman Ure is an independent philosopher and thinker, currently retired after a lifelong professorship and residing in Los Angeles.
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Goodreads giveaway!
Would you like a chance to win a print copy of The Laird Takes a Bride? Click here.
This giveaway, open internationally, ends October 8, 2017.
What do you think? Click here to comment.
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At the Historical Romance Retreat
On Saturday I stopped by the Davenport Hotel in downtown Spokane, WA, where the 2017 Historical Romance Retreat was being held. If you’re an historical romance person like I am, it’s paradise! The gorgeous setting, the costumes, the contagiously high enthusiasm levels, and books EVERYWHERE! I had fun chatting with a bunch of the attendees, and also I got to say hello to fellow Avon authors Cathy Maxwell, Julia Quinn, Vivienne Lorret, Eloisa James, Lenora Bell, and Jade Lee. (I scored some nifty swag, too; more about that later.) Here are a couple of photos from Cathy’s Facebook page.
This attendee (at right), says Cathy, made this lovely book for the authors to sign.
Eloisa James, all dressed up for the ball!
HRR cofounder Delilah Marvell and her family.
For more of Cathy’s photos, click here.
More about the Historical Romance Retreat here.
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A special gift from me!
Did you know? You can order signed, personalized copies of The Laird Takes a Bride from my local indie bookseller, Auntie’s Bookstore, in beautiful Spokane, Washington. Included with each book will be a special gift from me, just for you! Click here for more info, and to order.
Your gift includes this necklace, which has a special meaning that’s revealed when you get to Chapter 16. The rumpled bedsheet, however, isn’t included. ;)
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Word of the day: pandemonium
An excellent word! I used it with pleasure in The Bride Takes a Groom, the third book in my Penhallow Dynasty series, coming your way next spring.
It appears toward the end of Chapter 1, in a scene in which my hero, Captain Hugo Penhallow, has just returned home, unannounced, after an eight-year absence during which he’s served in the Army. In the entry-hall he says to the servant Eliza:
“Tell Robinson to set another place for me, would you? I’ll go in directly.”
“Oh, sir, but Mr. Robinson’s not here.”
“Egad, not dead, is he?” Hugo hoped not, as he had been very fond of their old butler; he’d loyally stayed on after Father had died, despite having his wages drastically reduced.
“Oh no, sir, he’s alive, but his palsy got so bad that the mistress pensioned him off, you see, and he’s living with his daughter Nancy and her family, up on Roper Street. Very happy he is, sir. Takes a pint every day at the pub, and sings in the choir on Sundays.”
Hugo was pulling off his greatcoat and hanging it on a peg. “Well, that’s excellent news. I’ll go see him later this week. See here, Eliza, I’m hungry as a bear. Can you set a place for me?”
“To be sure I can, sir! But — but — if you’ll forgive me asking — who are you, sir?”
“Good God, didn’t my mother tell any of you I was coming? No wonder poor old Hoyt looked as if he’d seen a ghost.” He laughed. “Never mind. I’m the prodigal son, Eliza! The eldest, you know — Hugo.”
Eliza looked astonished. “Oh! Sir! You’re Mr. Hugo? We was all afeared you was dead!”
“Dead! Why?”
“Because the mistress said you’d been shot by a Frenchy, Mr. Hugo, and that you was laid up in your cousin’s house — and then there wasn’t any more letters from you! Cook says them French bullets have a special poison in them, sir, that drains the life right out of a person!”
Blast it all, he’d deliberately trivialized the nature of his illness when writing home, not wishing to worry them — and why hadn’t Mama gotten the letter he’d written from Gabriel’s house a fortnight ago, informing her that he was fine, and would soon be on his way? Well, he could allay their anxieties right now.
“I was shot,” he said to Eliza, “but it would take more than some beastly Frenchman to kill me, that’s for certain! Go on, now, and bring me some supper, that’s a good girl.”
She bobbed a curtsy and Hugo, favoring his left leg ever so slightly, went down the long, familiar hallway, the dogs trotting behind with the same pliant obedience the children of Hamelin might well have displayed while following the Pied Piper. He came to a pair of oak-framed double doors, brought them open, and strolled into the dining-parlor. “I say, I’m home.”
Five golden-blond heads swiveled in his direction, five pairs of wide blue eyes displayed shocked surprise, and then pandemonium erupted.
Would you like to preorder The Bride Takes a Groom? Click here. If you’d like to save it on Goodreads, click here.
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On happy endings, sexy heroes, and revolutionary writing
Really enjoyed this recent post on Shondaland.com featuring the inimitable Julia Quinn. Here are some of my favorite bits.
SL: What do you think takes a romance novel from good to great?
JQ: There’s a joke romance writers like to make when we’re talking about our books. We’ll be talking about the plot, and then we’ll say in a confidential tone, “Okay, spoiler alert. They get together in the end.” This pretty much always gets a laugh, because if there is one thing we all know about romance novels, and indeed, if there is one thing that defines a romance novel, it’s the happy ending.
This isn’t to say, however, that romance novels are formulaic. Far from it. You open with two protagonists who meet (or re-meet) and you finish with a happy ending. How you get from point A to point B is wide open. But no matter how varied the plots may be, they all end in fundamentally the same place. Which is why I think that if you want to take a romance novel from good to great, it’s all about the characters.
If the reader doesn’t care about the characters, if she doesn’t have a hollow spot in the pit of her stomach when things look bleak, or she doesn’t feel a thrill as they tumble into love, the book will fall flat. A romance novel is all about the emotional journey, and a reader’s emotions must be engaged. I’m known for writing humorous books, and I’m often asked for advice on how to be funny. (Short answer: I have no idea. It’s just the way I’m wired.) I always caution writers not to forsake the emotion in the pursuit of humor. A funny book will make you laugh, but a funny book that grabs your heart at the same time will stay with you forever.
SL: What do you most hope people take away from your work?
JQ: I’ve said many times that I’m not going to change the world with my writing, but I can change someone’s afternoon. There is a time and a place for the Great American Novel, and there is a time and a place for clever, well-written entertainment. I love writing the latter, and I love reading it, too.
But lately I’ve been thinking that there is more to it than that. I often hear from readers who tell me that my books have shown them that they deserve better in their lives, that they deserve a partner who treats them well. And maybe that’s why my heroes aren’t typical bad boys. (Seriously, every time I try to write a bad boy hero he turns around and does something decent and nice.) I don’t want a guy who treats women like dirt, and I don’t want to write about guys who do that, either. Then it occurred to me — in some ways, portraying a healthy relationship in literature is the most revolutionary thing you can do.
SL: Going off of that, what makes a male character sexy in a romance novel?
JQ: There are really two parts to what makes a male character sexy. The first is focused just on him. There is the physical — he doesn’t need to be classically handsome, but he needs to be attractive to the heroine. He also needs, in my opinion, a stellar sense of humor and the ability to — at least some of the time — not take himself too seriously. But I also think that a vital component of his sexiness comes in how he sees the heroine. A guy simply cannot be sexy if he doesn’t respect women. If you want to be a hero in one of my books, you have to believe in the heroine and respect and cherish her strengths and abilities. It doesn’t mean he can’t get all protective and macho from time to time — I mean, who doesn’t love that? But ultimately, he’s got to think she’s the bomb, and not just because he likes the way she looks on his arm. And of course, it doesn’t hurt if he gets down on one knee and declares that she’s the missing piece to his soul.
To read the full interview, click here.
More about Julia Quinn here.
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You May Kiss the Bride giveaway!
A signed, print copy is currently up for grabs. It’s the first book in my Penhallow Dynasty series, and was recently named by Booklist as one of the year’s top 10 romance debuts. To enter, click here. And good luck!
To learn more about You May Kiss the Bride, click here.
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A giveaway from Sophie Jordan!
I first met Sophie at the Romance Writers of America’s annual conference in 2016 — at the Avon Books party, to be precise. I’ll always remember her big smile, warm greeting, and how she pulled up on her phone the cover of her next historical romance, While the Duke Was Sleeping . . . and we ooh’ed and aah’ed over its gorgeousness. I invite you to feast your eyes!
Now the wonderful Sophie’s offering a giveaway of The Laird Takes a Bride on her Facebook page! Would you like to enter? Click here. And good luck!
Ending soon!
A Goodreads giveaway for The Laird Takes a Bride wraps up on Tuesday. If you haven’t already, would you like to enter for a chance to win a signed copy? If so, click here.
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Flash giveaway!
I devoured Joanna Shupe’s enthralling A Daring Arrangement, and I want to share the love! Stop by my Facebook page for a chance to win this advance reader’s copy. And good luck!
Would you like a chance to win a signed, print copy of The Laird Takes a Bride? Click here.
This giveaway ends on September 19, 2017
Heroes & Heartbreakers says it’s a “sometimes humorous, sometimes eerie, sometimes dangerous courtship . . . If marriage-of-convenience is your catnip, you’ll enjoy this one.” Want to read the full review? Click here.
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Stuff A Cruiser A Success
The first annual police officer stuff a cruiser is a resounding success. Police collected over 4 thousand kg of non perishable food items as well as over 3-thousand dollars in cash. Money and food raised is going towards the Regional Food Distribution Association.
Posted by Acadia News at 4:39 PM
T.Bay 10K Winner
A Thunder Bay woman is one step closer to claiming her 10 thousand dollar lottery win. Shari Perrault's sister is employed at a retail location and therefor the prize falls within OLG's definition of a Related Party/Insider Win. The prize has completed the first two steps of a three-step verification process.
Maltese Grocery Catering Linked To Food Poisoning
Maltese Grocery is stepping forward after a number of food borne illnesses were recently reported to the Health Unit. As a precaution, the store has decided to voluntarily suspend its catering operation pending the result of the Health Unit’s investigation. Food poisoning caused 67 people to become ill from consuming food late last week from a number of catered social events.
O.P.P. Investigate Fatal Big Rig Fire
OPP in Geraldton are confirming one person is dead after a transport caught fire at approximately 8 o'clock last night on Highway 11. Provincial police say a big rig lost control and went into a ditch when the cab caught fire. Geraldton fire and ambulance crews attended the scene and police say someone was caught inside the cab of the transport and died as a result of the fire. No name has been released.
Tenant Fined For Smoke Alarm Infraction
A city tenant got more than she bargained for when firefighters arrived to battle blaze on Prince Arthur Boulevard....a 235 dollar fine for removing a main floor smoke alarm. Anthony Stokaluk of the Thunder Bay Fire Service says they're hoping to send a message by publicizing the incident that you must have a working smoke alarm on each floor of your residence.
Christmas Cheer Still Needs Help
Thunder Bay's Christmas Cheer is facing another deficit if more money doesn't come in today. Over 45 hundred people took home Christmas Hampers yesterday from the charity organization. Spokesperson Linda Gambee says they desperatly need your help.
Christmas Kettles Update
The Salvation Army Christmas Kettle campaign needs your continued support. So far they have raised over 117-thousand dollars towards their 160-thousand dollar goal. The Walmart matching donation day will be held at the Memorial Street location Thursday.
Highway 71 Protest
Motorists travelling along Highway 71 may encounter a brief delay this morning. Members of Onigaming First Nation near Nestor Falls intend to protest measures contained in the federal government's omnibus bill they say effects the environment and First Nation Treaties. Chief Norman Copenance says the protest will be peaceful.
NAN Wants Residential School Documents
The Nishnawbe Aski Nation is pressuring the Federal Government to release files on the residential schools. Deputy Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler is appalled that the federal government's refusal to release millions of documents currently held by 23 federal departments is making it impossible for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to do its job. NAN feels without the documents the Commission can't carry out its mandate.
Shipping Season To Close Mid January
The shipping season on the Lakehead will be winding down next month. Port Authority CEO Tim Heney says the locks in Sault Ste. Marie will be closing on January 15th as long as the weather cooperates. Heney says the season looks to be one of the best in over a decade with total cargo shipments expected to be up 3 per cent.
Posted by Acadia News at 12:05 PM
O.P.P. Officer Cleared In Red Lake Incident
The Province's police watchdog is clearing a Red Lake O.P.P. officer of any wrong-doing in the death of a 35 year old man last month. Ian Scott of the province's Special Investigations Unit said “There are no reasonable grounds to believe that the officer committed a criminal offence in relation to the death. The S.I.U.’s investigation leads to only one reasonable conclusion: the decedent took his own life by means of a single bullet discharged from a rifle at close range. There was no police involvement in his unfortunate death.” The S.I.U. also concluded that at no time did police have any contact with the man who perished sometime between November 4th and 5th.
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Trump thinks he can demote Fed's Powell
Alphabet beats earnings forecast, but costs weigh on shares
by Oliver Cole | February 06, 2019 | 02:43
Google parent company Alphabet has posted its fourth quarter 2018 and full fiscal year earnings, noting continued growth for the company and beating out many analysts' estimates.
Overall, Alphabet revenue was $136.8 billion for 2018, up 23% year-over-year, with $39.3 billion quarterly revenue, up 22%, the company said.
Traffic acquisition costs or TAC were $7.4B (consensus: $7.62B; up from $6.58B in Q3) or 23% of revenue, down a percentage point from last year's quarter.
"With great opportunities ahead, we continue to make focused investments in the talent and infrastructure needed to bring exceptional products and experiences to our users, advertisers and partners around the globe", said Alphabet chief financial officer Ruth Porat.
Google revenues from its "other" category, which includes what it pulls in from cloud services and hardware, climbed more than 30 percent to $6.5 billion in the fourth quarter.
While Alphabet relies on Google's advertising business to generate profits, YouTube and cloud computing are costlier operations than its traditional desktop businesses.
Another case of measles confirmed; no new sites
Clark County's measles outbreak has continued to rise with 43 confirmed cases and eight suspected cases as of Saturday afternoon. Farias says, "Washington now has a sufficient supply of MMR vaccine for children and adults".
Xbox Live appears to be coming to Nintendo Switch and mobile platforms
This will break down barriers for developers that want their communities to mingle more freely across platforms. The Game Developers Conference is scheduled to be held March 18 through 22 in San Francisco.
In age of Netflix, Super Bowl the last stand for live television
The city also is ready to cast aside 19-year-old memories of the ice storm that put a deep freeze on its last Super Bowl . That's because the network accidentally aired a celebratory commercial commemorating New England winning the big game.
Expenses rose to $31 billion compared with $24.6 billion in the same period a year ago.
The valuation doesn't reflect Alphabet's net cash of $105 billion, or about $150 a share, and includes the losses in the company's nascent "other bets" businesses such as Waymo, the leader in autonomous-driving technology. Alphabet's results in that division were higher than the $7.62 billion Wall Street projected.
The higher-than-expected cost of business for Alphabet seemed to worry investors, as the company's stock was down 2.84 per cent at $1,100.64 apiece in after-hours trading. The number of clicks on ads that Google ran on its own services surged 66 percent in the fourth quarter, versus the 2017 holiday period. YouTube numbers are buried inside Google, while cloud and hardware results are part of Google's Other revenues line.
The other segment of interest in Alphabet's ledger is "other bets", which is where the company lumps all non-Google business. Google remains behind rival Amazon.com Inc in the cloud, said Cordwell.
The loss previous year related to a one-time charge from new United States tax rules, while earnings since then have benefited from new rules about valuing Alphabet's dozens of investments in external startups. This year's earnings per share are expected to rise a modest 7% due in part to a comparison with 2018, which had almost $6 a share in equity gains. Among the more damaging of those was its work on a China-specific search engine which ultimately caused questions to be raised by the U.S. government.
Cloud engineers and sales professionals also made up the bulk of the 4,000 employees it hired during the quarter, Porat said.
Trump will call for unity in today's State of the Union address
And when it comes to the president's requested $5.7 billion in border wall funding, he's hit a brick wall of naysayers. Here was Sanders about 12 hours before he will enter the House chamber: "I don't think the wall is up for debate".
Chelsea's Hazard backs new signing Higuain to succeed in England
We moved the ball very fast, very well, there was a good movement without the ball'. Siewert said: "We were the ones who had the first chance".
Ty Law elected to Pro Football Hall of Fame
Robinson, a leader on the Chiefs team that won Super Bowl IV in 1970, played 12 seasons with the Dallas Texans and Kansas City. James also has recorded the most seasons in franchise history with at least 1,000 rushing yards as he's done it five times.
Messi trends after stunning comeback for Barcelona against Valencia
Ousmane Dembele , who also trained after recovering from two weeks out with an ankle sprain, has not been named in the squad. The draw presented Atletico Madrid , playing on Sunday, the chance to close the gap at the top to three points.
Sex worker blasts Meghan Markle's 'stupid' banana stunt
Yes, Prince Harry and Prince William have a ton of drama between them , and well, it does involve Meghan Markle unfortunately. TOBY MELVILLE via Getty Images Meghan wrote affirmations on bananas for snack bags that the charity distributes.
Kylie Jenner hints at baby number two
Sharing an adorable clip of her and Travis Scott on Instagram , Jenner wished her daughter a happy birthday, saying "We Love you". But it was the caption that's got her followers talking, with Kylie writing " baby #2? " underneath the picture.
India vs New Zealand 2019: 1st T20I, Westpac Stadium, Wellington - Match Prediction
India who played terrific cricket in the ODI series was shocked in the fourth ODI when they were bowled out for just 92 runs. Similarly, for India , the core of the team is expected to be the same as was in the ODIs with a couple of new entries.
Sanchez and Rashford start against Leicester, Martial on bench
In his two spells as manager of Norwegian club Molde, their goals-against record has improved after his first season, helped by wise investment in the transfer market.
Longtime MMA Veteran On The Run From Three Pending Murder Charges
He escaped while the van was at a McDonald's in Conroe, and was last seen wearing an orange jumpsuit and restraints. Scott had filed a protective order against Marks in July, the station reported, following claims of physical abuse.
Weather Authority: Rain and freezing rain tonight into Monday
As cold air moves in Wednesday night into Thursday morning any precipitation transitions to snow albeit not much accumulation. The National Weather Service in Flagstaff expects a combination of rain and snow with snow levels close to 6,500 feet.
Meghan Markle puts notes on bananas sent to needy women in Britain
The expectant royals were seen all smiling as they spoke with the kids who told them their experience at the historic theater. The Outreach team, known as the 'yellow van ladies' provide food, first aid, warm clothing, condoms, and safety alarms.
Emiliano Sala: Underwater search for plane off Guernsey
It prompted a privately-funded search to be set-up, with £324,000 was raised in an online appeal. I was all right until the final whistle went and I went on the pitch.
David Bercuson: Fear of China is what killed this Cold War treaty
The INF Treaty was signed in 1987 by United States president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Washington's accusations of Moscow breaking the terms of the INF treaty date back to at least 2014.
Nostalgia: Remembering Chinese new Year celebrations in Ipswich from 1986
Companies, shops and government offices closed for official holidays that ranged from two days in South Korea to a week in China . Asia has welcomed the Lunar Year of the Pig with visits to temples, family banquets and the world's biggest travel spree.
Kristaps Porzingis: Everybody has welcomed me with open arms
It was never completely clear what the plan for Porzingis was in NY . "Every relationship takes time to build", Porzingis said. The move lends credibility to some rumors that have been floating around for months - the Knicks are all-in on free agency.
Liverpool - Premier League - 4 February 2019
Carragher was critical of a number of Liverpool players and suggested the club's lack of squad depth was showing. Liverpool likely will welcome back James Milner to the starting lineup.
Breaking Down The "Avengers: Endgame" Super Bowl Trailer
Black Widow is doing some target practice, Captain America is strapping on his shield, and Iron Man and Nebula are engineering their way out of their little space problem.
Watch Maroon 5 Performance
Adam Levine of Maroon 5 , Big Boi , and Sleepy Brown perform during the Super Bowl LIII Halftime Show at Mercedes-Benz Stadium on February 3, 2019 in Atlanta.
Lukaku: Pogba happy without Mourinho, atmosphere has improved under Solskjaer
Not many United players particularly stood out, but Shaw was a significant obstacle to Leicester down their right wing. - Manchester United have won five consecutive away games in all competitions for the first time since October 2012.
European Union nations get behind Venezuela's Juan Guaido as acting president
Italy blocked a draft European Union statement that would have made it clear that recognition was a national prerogative. Guaido on Twitter expressed his gratitude to the European Union leaders for supporting Venezuela's fight for freedom.
Go vegan and get Beyonce/Jay-Z tickets for life
Bey and Jay are likely referring to Marco Borges' vegan cookbook, which is called The Greenprint: Plant-Based Diet, Best Body, Better World.
City change shape after defeat, Ozil dropped for Arsenal
The long-serving Frenchman was often accused of failing to prepare for the opposition properly in games of this ilk. Against Arsenal , Sane has scored three goals and assisted one in seven games, and he certainly wants more.
From editors
Apple explores moving 15-30% of production capacity from China
Facebook Unveils Libra Cryptocurrency, Sets Launch For 2020
Qualcomm, Intel Lobby Government to Lift Huawei Ban
King Arthur Flour recalls product over E. coli concerns
Target hit by nationwide payment outage
Oil Prices Rise As OPEC Plans Supply Cut
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Raytheon, United Technologies Merger To Create Second-Largest Aerospace, Defense Company
Build-a-Bear Workshop changes 'Pay Your Age' promotion
What is Xbox Game Pass Ultimate?
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DeSoto State Park: Cabin Trail to Indian and Lodge Falls (Blog Hike #450)
Trail: Cabin Trail (to Indian and Lodge Falls)
Hike Location: DeSoto State Park
Geographic Location: northeast of Fort Payne, AL (34.50004, -85.61716)
Overview: A short out-and-back to two wet-weather waterfalls.
Park Information: http://www.alapark.com/desoto-state-park
Directions to the trailhead: In northeast Alabama, drive I-59 to SR 35 (exit 218). Exit and go east on SR 35. Drive SR 35 4.6 miles to CR 89, climbing Lookout Mountain in the process. Turn left on CR 89. Drive CR 89 north 5.7 miles to the CCC Pavilion parking area on the right. Park in the large blacktop parking lot in front of the CCC Pavilion.
The hike: Located about halfway between Chattanooga, TN and Gadsden, AL, DeSoto State Park consists of 3502 acres on the broad, high top of Lookout Mountain. The park is named for the Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, who explored this area in the early 1540’s. Like many Alabama state parks, this park was developed by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in the 1930’s. The CCC built many of the park’s structures including the pavilion near this parking area, and a small museum in the park pays tribute to their contribution.
DeSoto State Park has almost every amenity imaginable. Lodging includes a resort lodge, a park motel, 12 cabins, and a 94-site campground. The park also features a restaurant, an Olympic-sized swimming pool, and numerous picnic shelters.
In terms of natural attractions, the park’s most famous attractions are its numerous waterfalls. The largest waterfall is 104-foot DeSoto Falls, but it is located 6 miles north of the park and is accessible only by driving, not by hiking. 5 other waterfalls lie in the park’s main area, 2 of which are visited on this hike.
My October 2013 visit was actually my second to this park; my first came in May 1998 before I started this blog, which leads to the only downside to these waterfalls. Because DeSoto’s waterfalls sit high in the watershed atop Lookout Mountain, they only flow well after a significant rain. In particular, the “waterfalls” were merely a dry rock outcrop on my early October visit, but they were quite nice on my May visit many years ago. Time your visit accordingly.
Trailhead behind picnic shelter
Start the hike by walking to the right of the picnic shelter at the rear of the parking lot, descending the steep, grassy hill, and entering the woods. The slightly steep and eroded dirt trail continues its descent for another 0.1 miles to reach an intersection with the DeSoto Scout Trail, which is marked with yellow paint blazes. The Scout Trail is a 5 mile long moderate/difficult trail along the West Fork of the Little River; it merits serious exploration if you have more time than I did on my visit. To reach the Cabin Trail and its two waterfalls, turn right here to begin a short stint on the Scout Trail.
Very quickly another spur trail exits right to head back to the picnic area, and you reach the narrow wooden bridge that crosses a creek just above Indian Falls. As I mentioned in the introduction, this waterfall was completely dry on my visit, but a spur trail leads to the fall’s base if water flow is higher on your visit. Just after crossing the bridge, you reach the north end of the Cabin Trail. Angle right to begin the Cabin Trail, which is marked with lime-green paint blazes.
Wooden bridge above Indian Falls
Cabin and Scout Trails split
The cabins for which this trail is named come into view on the right as you climb gradually. The West Fork of the Little River lies sharply downhill to your left, but it usually cannot be seen due to the dense green understory. At 0.5 miles, the Cabin Trail splits. The left fork leads down to the base of Lodge Falls, while the right fork gives a view from the top of Lodge Falls. Lodge Falls is only 0.1 miles away, so you can take in both views with little extra effort.
View from top of Lodge Falls
Lodge Falls is the last point of interest on this trail, so now you need to get back to the trailhead. You could simply retrace your steps along the Cabin/Scout Trails, but there is a way to form a loop. Continuing along the branch of the Cabin Trail above Lodge Falls will bring you to the lodge, where a right turn will take you first to the lodge access road and then to CR 89.
After walking a short distance on the road shoulder, look for the signed aqua-blazed pedestrian trail on the right. Pick up this trail as it parallels the road, passes through the parking area for the Lost Falls Trail (perhaps the best trail in this park), and climbs slightly to reach the park’s Country Store. The CCC pavilion stands uphill and across CR 89, thus signaling the end of the hike.
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Labels: Alabama Hikes
Location: Fort Payne, USA
Cloudland Canyon State Park: West Rim Trail (Blog Hike #449)
Trail: West Rim Trail
Hike Location: Cloudland Canyon State Park
Geographic Location: southeast of Trenton, GA (34.83504, -85.48011)
Overview: A lollipop loop featuring multiple overlooks of Sitton Gulch and Daniel Creek Gorge.
Park Information: http://www.gastateparks.org/CloudlandCanyon
Directions to the trailhead: In extreme northwest Georgia, take I-59 to SR 136 (exit 11). Exit and go east on SR 136. Drive SR 136 for 6.6 miles, ascending Lookout Mountain in the process, to the state park entrance on the left. Turn left to enter the park, pay the small entrance fee, and drive 1.4 miles on the main park road, continuing straight at each intersection. Park in any of the parking lots near the Interpretive Center.
The hike: Established in 1938, 3488-acre Cloudland Canyon State Park is one of the crown jewels in Georgia’s state park system. The park straddles 1100-foot deep Sitton Gulch, which forms in the center of the park at the confluence of Daniel Creek Gorge and Bear Creek Gorge. Cloudland Canyon State Park has nice facilities, including 102 campsites, 16 cottages, and 5 picnic shelters, but the natural attractions take center stage.
Most of the land on the gulch’s rim belongs to the park, so the views into the gulch are fabulous. Also, the park’s location on the western edge of Lookout Mountain ensures excellent views to the west as well. In addition to the views from the rim, the gulch itself contains some goodies, namely two large waterfalls: Cherokee Falls and Hemlock Falls.
All of the pleasantries Cloudland Canyon has to offer can be accessed by a fine network of hiking trails. While points along the rim are rather easily accessed, the waterfalls can only be reached by descending several hundred feet via over 1000 wood/metal steps. I hiked to the waterfalls back in 1998 (before I started writing this blog), so I decided to tour the rim on this visit. In particular, I chose to hike the West Rim Trail, which is probably the park’s most famous trail. The West Rim Trail is mostly moderate in difficulty with only a couple of rocky spots, and it tours all of the park’s major rim overlooks.
Carsonite post at trailhead
From the Interpretive Center, take the paved trail that heads south along the rim with the canyon to your right and the park road to your left. Immediately views open up over the metal railing on the right. Daniel Creek Gorge falls immediately before you, and Sitton Gulch extends out behind you to the north. Hemlock Falls lies deep in the gorge directly in front of you, but it can be neither seen nor heard from the rim.
View into Daniel Creek Gorge
At 0.2 miles, the trail turns to gravel and heads behind some of the park’s cabins. Soon the Waterfalls Trail exits right to begin its long descent into the gorge. The yellow-blazed West Rim Trail descends slightly with Daniel Creek coming into view through dense shrubbery on the right. At 0.4 miles, you cross Daniel Creek on a wooden footbridge.
Now on the west side of Daniel Creek, you begin the steepest part of the hike as the trail climbs out of the upper reaches of Daniel Creek Gorge via switchbacks. Some wild trails head straight up the hillside, but cutting the switchbacks makes the grade steeper and enhances trail erosion. Thus, intelligent hikers will follow the yellow blazes and stay on the official trail.
Small cave near trail
Near 0.6 miles, you pass a small cave on the left. Just past the cave, you reach the west rim proper and the rear of the Yurt Village. A yurt is a fabric-covered wood camping structure originally used by nomads in central Asia. Yurts have gained popularity in this country over the past 20 years, and several yurt-making companies exist in America today.
1 mile into the hike, the trail descends on a moderate but rather rocky grade to reach the first of many Daniel Creek Gorge overlooks. Some large crevices exist between the rocks here, so take care where you step. The gorge remains in view to the right as the trail curves left, following the rim. Stunted pines grow along the rocky rim. Railings appear when the trail gets extremely close to the gorge edge, so the exposure and the risk of falling are minimal.
Hiking along the west rim
After some nice rim views, the trail descends somewhat steeply into a side draw as it heads away from the main canyon. At 1.4 miles, the trail splits to form its loop. To save the best scenery for the end, this description will continue straight here and use the trail going right across the wooden bridge as the return route, thus hiking the loop clockwise.
Hiking through the park's interior
The next 0.9 miles form the most unremarkable segment of the hike as the trail climbs on a gradual grade through the sunny forest that covers the park’s interior. Just past the 2-mile marker, you cross the paved cabin road. A little more climbing brings you to a trail intersection where the West Rim Trail’s yellow blazes turn right. Note that turning left here would quickly take you to a secondary parking area. Vehicles access that parking area via the cabin road, and it makes an alternate starting point for this hike.
At 2.4 miles, you reach the finest west-facing overlook in the park. This rocky bluff peers off the west side of Lookout Mountain. You can see 3 states on a clear day: Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee. Lookout Creek, the town of Trenton, and I-59 appear in the foreground, while Sand Mountain can be seen in the distance. To your right lies the mouth of Sitton Gulch and the majority of Cloudland Canyon State Park. This overlook is my favorite overlook on this hike, so spend some time here near the midpoint of the hike.
View to the west
View of mouth of Sitton Gulch
For the remainder of its loop the trail stays within 30 feet of the rim, so nice views appear through gaps in the trees to the left. Several spur trails exit right and lead to the cabin area. At 3.2 miles, you reach the most dramatic overlook on this hike. A rock outcrop protruding over Sitton Gulch allows views up, down, and across the impressive canyon. A black iron fence ensures you do not fall over the edge of the outcrop.
Iron fence at rocky overlook
In another 0.2 miles, you reach the last loop overlook. This point overlooks the confluence of Bear and Daniel Creeks deep in the canyon. Some rock ledges cross the trail here and may require you to use your hands to navigate them. A final slightly steep descent leads to the wooden bridge you passed earlier, thus closing the loop. A left turn and 1.2 miles of retracing your steps will return you to the trailhead and complete the hike.
Labels: Georgia Hikes
Location: Cloudland Canyon, 122 Cloudland Canyon Park Road, Rising Fawn, GA 30738, USA
Harrison Bay State Park: Nature Trails (Blog Hike #448)
Trails: Lakeshore Nature and Harrison Bay Walking Trails
Hike Location: Harrison Bay State Park
Geographic Location: northeast of Chattanooga, TN (35.17477, -85.12222)
Overview: Two short but very different nature trails.
Park Information: https://tnstateparks.com/parks/harrison-bay
Directions to the trailhead: Just outside Chattanooga, take I-75 to SR 153 (exit 4). Exit and enter north on SR 153, which is a limited-access divided highway. Drive SR 153 4.6 miles to SR 58 (exit 5A). Exit and turn right (north) on SR 58. Drive SR 58 for 8.3 miles to Harrison Bay Road and turn left on Harrison Bay Rd. Drive Harrison Bay Rd. 1.4 miles to the state park entrance on the left. Turn left to enter the park. The gravel parking area for the Harrison Bay Walking Trail lies on the left 400 feet after entering the park, and the parking area for the Lakeshore Nature Trail is 0.4 miles from the park entrance on the right.
The hike: Like many state parks along the Tennessee River, Harrison Bay State Park has its roots with the depression-era Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The TVA built many dams and lakes along the Tennessee River through Knoxville, Chattanooga, and points downstream. This section of the Tennessee River is known as Chickamauga Lake, a 60-mile long lake created in 1940 by the construction of Chickamauga Dam only a few miles south of here. Harrison Bay is a large inlet of Chickamauga Lake named for the town of Harrison, which you drove through on SR 58 on your way to the park.
The Civilian Conservation Corps also left its mark here: between 1938 and 1942 they built many of the structures you see in the park today. The state leased the park from the TVA until 1950 when it purchased the land for one dollar. The park features a fine Jack Nicklaus designed golf course, a large marina, and a 128-site campground.
The park also boasts 3 trails: the 4.5 mile Bay Point Loop Trail, the 0.5 mile gravel Harrison Bay Walking Trail, and the 0.5 mile Lakeshore Nature Trail. The Bay Point Loop Trail was built by mountain bikers primarily for mountain bikers, and I didn’t feel like dodging mountain bikes on the cool fall Saturday morning I came here. Thus, I stuck with the two short nature trails. The two trailheads are separated by 0.3 miles along the main park road, so either a short drive or road walk will be required between hiking these two trails.
Trailhead: Harrison Bay Walking Trail
Start with the Harrison Bay Walking Trail, the trailhead of which is marked by a brown metal sign. This trail features a restored tallgrass prairie, a now rare but once common habitat in the southeast. The gravel path goes right and left, but for the best prairie study, you should take the grassy trail that goes straight through the center of the prairie. My shoes kicked the dew off the grass as I walked through the prairie.
Hiking through the tallgrass prairie
On my visit the tallgrass prairie was a dull dead-looking yellow except for white some fleabane wildflowers, but in late summer the prairie comes alive with prairie wildflowers of various colors, dragonflies, and butterflies. Only a few young trees dot the grassy expanse. At the south side of the prairie, the grassy trail intersects the gravel loop trail. You could go either way to walk around the perimeter of the prairie and close the loop.
Descending toward the lake shore
Next, drive the short distance to the parking area for the Lakeshore Nature Trail, and pick up the trail as it exits the back of the gravel parking area at an information kiosk. This trail appears to be the only one of the park’s three trails that dates to the opening of the park, but I could not confirm my hunch. The trail descends on a gradual but slightly rocky grade to reach the lake shore at 0.2 miles. The lake shore here is a pair of broad, quiet inlets. You may see anglers in boats trying to get a bite in the shallow waters.
Shore of Harrison Bay
The trail follows the lakeshore as it curves right and offers more nice lake views to the left. At 0.3 miles, you reach a trail intersection. The spur trail to the group camp goes left, but the main loop trail turns right to head back for the trailhead. The trail climbs somewhat steeply but only for a short distance through a forest dominated by maple and sweetgum. After topping the hill, a short level walk will bring you to a picnic table at the parking area, thus completing the hike.
Labels: Tennessee Hikes
Location: Harrison Bay State Park, 8411 Harrison Bay Road, Harrison, TN 37341, USA
The University of the South: Beckwith's Point Trail (Blog Hike #447)
Trail: Beckwith’s Point Trail
Hike Location: The University of the South
Geographic Location: north side of Sewanee, TN (35.21005, -85.89826)
Overview: An out-and-back along the rim of Shakerag Hollow to a grand overlook.
Trail Information: http://www.sewanee.edu/student-life/sewanee-outing-program/50-mi-of-trail-on-campus/
Directions to the trailhead: Take I-24 to US 41A (exit 134). Exit and go west/southwest on US 41A. Drive US 41A 3.5 miles to the entrance gates for Sewanee University. Just after passing the entrance gate, look for a small gravel parking area on the right. Park here; this is the Shakerag Hollow parking area.
The hike: Opened in 1868, the University of the South, also known as Sewanee University, was established on 10,000 mostly wooded acres donated by the Sewanee Mining Company. Perhaps the university’s most famous achievement came via its athletic department in 1932 when it became a founding member of the Southeastern Conference (yes, the one with Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, and the like). The university left the conference in 1940, and these days its teams compete at the NCAA Division III level.
Today the university has still developed only a fraction of its donated land, and the campus is surrounded by a ring of old growth forest. Included in the forested land is the university’s 21-mile Perimeter Trail, which circumnavigates the campus. Though the entire Perimeter Trail is too long for a dayhike, several segments make shorter but equally worthwhile journeys. The Beckwith’s Point Trail described here is a one of the Perimeter Trail’s many side trails. I did this hike as an out-and-back, but I suggest a couple of options at the end of this trail description to minimize the retracing of steps.
Shakerag Hollow Trailhead
The Perimeter Trail crosses US 41A at this parking area. To get to the Beckwith’s Point Trail, stay on the north side of the road and enter the woods at the back of the parking area. A wooden signboard just into the woods announces your approach to Shakerag Hollow.
Only a couple hundred feet into the woods, the Beckwith’s Point Trail exits left where the Perimeter Trail continues straight. Wooden directional signs mark this intersection. Turn left to begin the Beckwith’s Point Trail. The wide dirt trail heads gradually downhill before curving sharply left at the edge of Shakerag Hollow’s sheer but low rock walls. This point represents this trail’s best view into Shakerag Hollow, so take a minute to observe the rugged setting.
Trail near Shakerag Hollow
After climbing gradually along the hollow’s rim, the trail crosses a gravel maintenance road at 0.4 miles. For the next 0.5 miles the trail stays just downhill from busy University Avenue as it dips in and out of several shallow ravines, crossing the creeks on narrow wooden bridges. Sounds of cars zooming along the road will be a constant nuisance. 1 mile into the hike you reach a high point where a partially obstructed view off the Cumberland escarpment opens up to the right.
After passing through a couple more shallow ravines, the university’s golf course comes very close to the trail on the left. Take care not to distract golfers, as one tee area is less than 10 feet from the trail. At 1.6 miles, the signed spur to Beckwith’s Point exits to the right. Feel free to hike the short distance out to the rocky ledge called Beckwith’s Point, but no views can be had in the warm months due to the dense broadleaf forest.
Hiking near the golf course
After two more close calls with the golf course (I felt like the gopher on Caddyshack because I popped out on the golf course so often), the trail ducks into the woods for good. Near 2 miles into the hike, a signed connector to the Perimeter Trail exits at a sharp angle to the right. This 0.1 mile connector trail is steep and rocky, but it may be useful to form a loop, as described later.
The final segment of the Beckwith’s Point Trail climbs on a moderate, slightly rocky grade to reach Green’s View, where the Beckwith’s Point Trail ends. Green’s View sits right on the edge of the Cumberland escarpment, and a wide clearing offers a world-class view of the forest and fields to the northwest. A bench here makes a fine place to rest at this trail’s end, but do not expect to be alone: a gravel parking area nearby makes Green’s View one of the most popular places on Sewanee’s campus during the warmer months.
View northwest from Green's View
No other trails go to Green’s View, but a couple of options present themselves to avoid retracing your steps for 2.1 miles to complete the hike. Obviously you could park a car shuttle at the Green’s View parking area, which is reached by driving University Ave. to the signed Green’s View Road. Alternatively, you could descend the connector trail described above and hike back up on the Perimeter Trail, thus making a semi-loop. Note that such a route is quite steep and rocky, so make sure you are prepared for this difficulty before you choose this option to return to the Shakerag Hollow trailhead.
Location: Franklin, TN, USA
Savage Gulf State Natural Area: Savage Day Loop (Blog Hike #446)
Trail: Savage Day Loop Trail
Hike Location: Savage Gulf State Natural Area
Geographic Location: northeast of Monteagle, TN (35.43422, -85.53959)
Overview: A fairly flat hike to a fantastic overlook of Savage Gulf.
Park Information: https://www.tnstateparks.com/parks/south-cumberland
Directions to the trailhead: Take I-24 to US 41A (exit 134). Exit and go east on US 41A. Drive US 41A 1.1 miles to SR 56 and turn left on SR 56. Stay on SR 56 as it turns left in Tracy City. Drive SR 56 an additional 10 miles past Tracy City to SR 108 and turn right on SR 108. Drive SR 108 7.2 miles to SR 399 and turn left on SR 399. Drive SR 399 5.1 miles to the ranger station for Savage Gulf State Natural Area on the left. Turn left and park in the medium-sized parking lot. The hike begins at the ranger station.
The hike: When most people in the southern United States think of a gulf, the Gulf of Mexico is the first item to come to mind. Yet a gulf is simply a wide separation into which many streams flow, and the western edge of the Appalachians contain many gulfs. Unlike the Gulf of Mexico, these gulfs are above sea level.
One of the Appalachians’ larger gulfs is Savage Gulf, located at the edge of the Cumberland escarpment in southeastern Tennessee. Before the land became state property, it was purchased by Samuel H. Werner of Tracy City, TN in 1924. Fortunately for those of us in later generations, Mr. Werner saw the area’s natural value and protected the land in its natural state. Today the land is officially part of massive South Cumberland State Park. More specifically, Savage Gulf was declared a Class II Natural Scientific Area in 1973, meaning that development in and near the gulf is very restricted.
Because of these restrictions, access to the gulf is only possible via rocky and difficult trails, and the area’s remote location ensures that such a trip requires a multi-day backpacking excursion. For dayhikers, several trails traverse the rim of the gulf, allowing for fantastic views into the chasm. Perhaps the most popular of these trails is the 4.2 mile Savage Day Loop described here. This trail gives nice views into the gulf, but it also connects to one of the gulf access trails. Thus, if you hike this trail in the morning like I did, you will likely share the trail with several backpackers headed for the gulf.
Trailhead: Savage Day Loop
Only one trail leaves the ranger station, and it is the common entrance trail that feeds all of Savage Gulf’s trails. Before you head down the trail, be sure to register at the dayhiker kiosk at the trailhead, as required by park rules. With legalities out of the way, head down the common entrance trail as it heads over some wooden waterbars and short boardwalks, descending slightly. The first 2 miles of this hike pass through open upland forest that gives no clue that a great gulf is nearby.
At 0.3 miles, you come to a wooden suspension bridge held up by steel cables. The bridge shakes rather severely, but persistent forward stepping will get you across. Some mountain laurel grows along the creek near the bridge. At 0.8 miles, you pass through an area that has recently felt the chainsaw. Cut trees lined either side of the trail on my visit.
Wooden suspension bridge
1 mile into the hike, the trail splits to form its loop. A large wooden directional sign stands at this intersection. I chose to hike the loop counterclockwise by turning right here and using the left trail as my return route.
Savage Day Loop splits to form its loop
The next mile takes you through more of the same nice but unremarkable upland forest as the trail ascends and descends gradually to top a small high area. At 2 miles, the North Rim Trail exits to the right at another signed trail junction. The North Rim Trail leads to the trails that enter the gulf, so any backpackers that have accompanied you thus far will turn right here. To stay on the Savage Day Loop, continue straight.
Another 0.2 mile of downhill hiking brings you to Rattlesnake Point overlook, the highlight of this hike. From this rocky point, you look down the length of Savage Gulf, the bottom of which lies almost 1000 vertical feet below you. Some vertical rock cliffs can be seen on either side of the gorge, giving you an appreciation of the gulf’s rugged nature. This overlook sits near the midpoint of this hike, so take some time to rest here and take in the view.
View into Savage Gulf from Rattlesnake Point
Past the overlook, the trail undulates somewhat with the gulf out of sight to the right. At 2.7 miles, the blue-blazed spur trail to Savage Falls exits to the right. The spur trail descends a somewhat steep 0.1 miles to an unprotected overlook of Savage Falls, which is Savage Creek’s entrance into the gulf. On my visit during the dry season, Savage Falls had the water volume of a garden hose, so plan a visit after a good rain if you want to see the waterfall in full form.
Savage Falls
Back on the main trail, continue your gently undulating course through upland forest. 3 miles into the hike, the South Rim Trail exits to the right. The South Rim Trail provides another long, difficult route into the gulf, so you need to turn left to stay on the Savage Day Loop. The trail now joins an old narrow-gage railroad bed, a remnant of the local logging industry, as it climbs gently to close the loop at 3.2 miles. Continue straight to retrace your steps down the 1 mile entrance trail and complete the hike.
Location: Savage Gulf State Natural Area, 31557 State Route 399, Palmer, TN 37365, USA
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750 ml rascally bottle
Posted on September 11, 2018 by Bill in Old Tom Horan
[Imported and bottled by a large liquor store in Texas and originating from an unknown Irish distillery (or distilleries–or teaspooned to keep it from being single malt), this blended Irish whiskey is named for Houston’s most outspoken advocate of Irish pride and heritage.]
The Old Tom Horan Irish Whiskey is a delightful, whimsical change of pace from our normal sorts of drinks. On the nose, we got a tin cup, misused—but not abused—for Moscow Mules, but of late filled with apricot seltzer. We got also some nice grains, a change of pace from barley, and on account of falling through some interstellar time warp, the age is actually younger than 0. And yet, it’s not negative…go figure. Oh, whoops, it was just that Stephen said that it had been liberally slathered with anti-aging cream. My bad. I got a marshmallow whose mother threatened to cut him down to Swiss Miss-sized nuggets. We also got an orange that Benjamin Button had angrily stuck in his pocket after he learned that the orange had voted for Brexit. John got an aging ficus in the corner of an apartment that a rambunctious, precocious kid couldn’t tell whether it was real or plastic.
The mouth was tossing a baby into a barrel of whipped cream and then quickly pulling him out and laughing, which of course convinced the startled baby to laugh, too. Ha ha ha! It’s fun to be thrown in a barrel of whipped cream! There’s some feistiness, too, and a nun smoking an aspirin in the next room. You got that, too, guys, didn’t you? Guys? Guys? There’s butterscotch in the Upside-Down and things are getting more surreal than usual.
It finishes as the world’s mildest mouthwash, but by gum, I feel bacteria popping like little carbon dioxide bubbles. There’s also a hint of a Nilla Wafer being swallowed accidentally, in lieu of Prozac. Or Cialis. (Sometimes, it’s hard to tell all of those apart.)
On the scale of bawdy songs one likes to imagine sung in old-timey pubs and saloons–
The Old Tom Horan Irish whiskey is “Old Tom’s Gone a-Horan Again, that Rascal.”
Here’s the whole song:
Old Tom’s gone a-Horan again, that rascal.
He’s never borin’ in the mornin’, that imp.
He drinks it straight and he drinks it fast
His bottles never last.
No, his bottles never last.
[Stephen: Bill! There’s no such song!]
I know, but there should be.
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The problem, discovered by Google , was an overabundance of sun-dappled flowers, adorable toddlers, birds and sunsets sent along with a cheery message, The Wall Street Journal reported. The trend seems to have been borrowed by Google Search which saw a 10X increase in "Good Morning images" since the past five years. Each morning, hundreds of millions of people share "good morning" images with their friends and family members on WhatsApp, a free calling and messaging app.
Researchers Say Tinder's Limited Encryption Makes It Ripe for Hackers
In most aspects of the application, Tinder uses the HTTPS communications protocol for secure transfer of data. "You just have to listen to the network and you'll have the images available to you". The company said they had informed Tinder of their privacy faults in November, but the application has yet to close the encryption loopholes. The report features how a malicious attacker can take advantage of these vulnerabilities to cause serious privacy breaches to an unsuspecting user.
How to Fix D3dx9_43.dll Is Missing Errors
The typical result of such actions — surfing through the doubtful websites, downloading corrupted file and pasting it to the game folder. However, it appears to be useless. And in order to make these libraries appeared it is better to use the official fitter from Microsoft that will automatically add them to system.
Apple releases Meltdown patches for older versions of Mac
On Wednesday, the company patched the Sierra and El Capitan operating systems against the Meltdown security flaw. Meltdown and Spectre are significant vulnerabilities, so you're going to want to stay on top of any fixes that are made available now, as well as moving forward.
RED Hydrogen One Android Phone Heading To US Carriers Possibly This Summer
In terms of photography and video shooting, users will be able to shoot 3D to 4V on both sides of the device. Filmmaker David Fincher (left) reacts to seeing a prototype of the RED Hydrogen One phone . In my mind, as good as it gets equates to what we have with the latest iPhone or Galaxy. This is great news for many obvious reasons, but it is bad news for the time that it takes for each carrier to certify the Hydrogen before it can launch.
Xbox Games Pass subscribers get PC titles via Xbox Play Anywhere
Though if you already own a PS4 Pro or a PS4, it could shape up to be a decent complementary system provided more developers support it in terms of Xbox One X enhancements. The crafting of the console's hardware makes it the smallest as well as the most feature-rich Xbox built so far. Microsoft announced in a blog post that all first party Microsoft video games will be playable on Xbox Game Pass on the day of their release.
United States to impose tariffs on Samsung, LG washing machines
On Tuesday, the USA trade commission announced that it is imposing a 20 percent tariff on the first 1.2 million of imported washers and a 50 percent tariff on washing machines that exceed the 1.2 million units. Under Trump's safeguard action, a 30 percent tariff will be placed on imported solar cells and modules in the first year, with the tariffs falling to 15 percent by the fourth year.
Apple might launch an all-new 13-inch MacBook later this year
The rumor comes from DigiTimes , which reports that General Interface Solution (GIS), a company that makes touch panels, is expected to receive more orders from Apple, after becoming the supplier of LCD display modules for the company late a year ago.
Irish Airbnb hosts earned over €115m past year
A typical Airbnb host in Ireland earns a cool €3,500 a year, according to an Airbnb Insights Report released on Tuesday. Roughly one in five 5 (21%) of Irish residents arrange accommodation with another private individual via an online platform - the third highest in Europe after the United Kingdom and Luxembourg, Eurostat said.
Snapchat will from today let you share Stories on Facebook, Twitter & elsewhere
Stories shared on the web have a prominent "Download Snapchat " link, turning it into a promotional opportunity. You'll see a Share option there, where Share Story will give you a range of options, including Facebook, Twitter, text and email.
NET 2018 Exam Dates Released! Tap To Know The Details
The online application process of NEET 2018 exam is expected to commence from Jan 31st with the release of an official notification by the CBSE on the below-mentioned website. Each question will carry 2 marks and will be of general nature and will test the teaching/research aptitude of the candidate.The duration of the same will be one hour (9:30 am to 10:30 am).
Xiaomi Mi 6X expected to ship with Xiaomi Surge S2 processor
After the launch of the Surge S1 chipset, Xiaomi CEO Lei Jun had claimed that the company will continue to develop more chipsets in future. There are a lot of rumors circulating in the market regarding Mi 7. Naijatech has leaked the latest rumor based on Weibo leaks. It is also expected to retain the fingerprint sensor on the back. To remind you, Surge S1 was based on 28nm process and includes eight Cortex-A53 cores with four clocked at 2.2GHz and the other four at 1.4GHz.
Apple HomePod release date and price confirmed: 9 February for £319
Staying on the music tip, the HomePod will take things a bit further than Alexa or Google Assistant with its musical knowledge. Originally expected to begin shipping late previous year, the HomePod was delayed in November and is listed as shipping in "early 2018".
Bitcoin Falls Below $11000; Drops More Than 10%
Additionally, it is hard to assess the value North Korea places on cryptocurrencies, because we can not determine what portion of state revenue these operations represent. For now, banks remain banned from the virtual accounts needed to enter the digital currency trade, as a measure of preventing speculation in the country's cryptocurrency market.
Bitcoin Could Lose 90% of Its Value: Street Vet
A fall to $1,000 would bring the price down to its previous level in January past year. Bitcoin, despite some stabilization in late USA trading, was half its record peak of nearly $20,000 set on the Luxembourg-based Bitstamp exchange a month ago.
Stock Watch: Checking the Technicals for S&P Dividend Intl SPDR (DWX)
The weekly steps can be used to determine a near-term trend. The ADX was created by J. Welles Wilder to help determine how strong a trend is. Investors often have to be prepared for many different situations. Deep diving into the technical levels for SPDR S&P 500 Growth Portfolio ETF (SPYG), we note that the equity now has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of 124.79.
Google honours Stephen Keshi with Doodle
Doodles are changes made to the Google logo to celebrate holidays, anniversaries, and the lives of famous artists, pioneers, and scientists. In 2011, he became the Nigerian national team coach, cementing his place in African and world football history.
Integral Memory will release a 512GB microSD card in February
It is created to increase the storage capacity of Android devices and tablets, as well as, other forms of consumer tech including action cameras, drones, DSLRs, etc. The new card meets the Video Speed Class 10 (V10) standard, that allows fast data transfer and full HD video captures on devices faster and more reliable.
Facebook 'Flicks' last slightly longer than a nanosecond
Put simply, Facebook's new unit of time, is 13.02810625 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of a caesium 133 atom (1/705600000 of a second). So, even if your video is 24hz, 25hz, 30hz, 48hz, 50hz, 60hz, 90hz, 100hz, or 120hz, you will still be able to use Flicks to ensure that everything is in sync while using whole integers (instead of decimals) at the same time.
Benue killings: Herdsmen invade Agatu community
Consequently, the Head of Chancery, Dr Niyi Ojo, came to speak to the protesters on behalf of the High Commissioner. The group offered its condolences to the people of Benue, Taraba and Nassarawa state as well as all other Nigerians who had lost loved ones to what it termed "wanton criminal acts".
Opera Browser for Android adds cryptocurrency miner protection
In this age where we have seen a gold rush in mining the various cryptocurrencies for profit, there has been a trend to jack unsuspecting users laptops for crypto mining . There are many add-ons and plugins available for blocking such mining scripts for popular web-browsers like Firefox and Chrome, but none of them have this feature integrated by default.
SteamWorld Dig coming to Switch on February 1
Many Nintendo 3DS fans bought the Nintendo 2DS rather than the Nintendo 3DS because the 3D function didn't work very nicely and other fans didn't like to pay extra to play their 3DS games in 3D. The platformer first launched for 3DS in 2013, followed by PC that December, PlayStation 4 and PS Vita in March 2014, Wii U that August, and Xbox One in June 2015.
Leaving Early Access - Rust
For that reason we're going to be transitioning to monthly updates". It's very much going to happen without much fuss. Back in the summer of 2017, when Gearbox were announced to be publishing console versions of the game, the price on Steam Early Access was doubled.
Stocks hit record as senators reach deal to end shutdown
Celgene was down 1.5 per cent. Teck Resources Ltd declined 3.2 per cent to $35.63. A USA government shutdown entered its third day, and a bipartisan group of senators attempted to negotiate a deal just hours before the full Senate planned to vote to restore funding.
OnePlus confirms 'up to 40000 users' affected by credit card breach
A OnePlus spokesperson said the 40,000 users "represent a small subset" of the company's total customer base. "A malicious script was injected into the payment page code to sniff out credit card info while it was being entered". You paid directly through the website without the involvement of a 3-party such as PayPal. The company in an apology letter has recommended that its customers check their credit card statements and if they spot any irregular charges, they should inform their ...
S Koreans protest, swoon over North Korean band leader
A group of North Korean officials was now on a two-day trip to South Korea to inspect possible venues for art performances by a North Korean art troupe during the PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. North Koreans will also compete in figure skating, short track speed skating, Alpine skiing and cross-country skiing after being given exceptional late entries by the International Olympic Committee.
ITunes snafu made 'Thor: Ragnarok' available nearly a month early
It seems that a blunder on iTunes has caused the $180 million movie to be leaked online in up to 1080p HD resolution. So what went wrong? In a now-deleted Reddit post one customer explained: "I pre-ordered Thor Ragnarok on Vudu yesterday and it links it to my iTunes also.
Edwards Lifesciences Corp (EW) Position Trimmed by Livforsakringsbolaget Skandia Omsesidigt
Advantus Capital Management Inc who had been investing in Coresite Realty Corp for a number of months, seems to be bullish on the $5.17B market cap company. After $0.84 actual EPS reported by Edwards Lifesciences Corporation for the previous quarter, Wall Street now forecasts 7.14% EPS growth. Adage Capital Partners Gp Llc increased Super Micro Computer Inc (NASDAQ:SMCI) stake by 321,000 shares to 911,000 valued at $20.13 million in 2017Q3.
Important Technical Indicators to Consider: Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (NASDAQ: CTRP)
The company's market cap is $23.93 Billion, and the average volume is $5.26 Million. As regular trading ended, Ctrip.com International, Ltd. ( CTRP ) stock brought in a -$0.6 drop to $46.85. The firm has "Neutral" rating given on Monday, October 23 by UBS. Net profit margin of Ctrip.com International Ltd. ( CTRP ) was recorded at 9 percent, operating profit margin was 10.3 percent, while gross profit margin stands at 81.4 percent.
NFC championship Game: Three takeaways from Eagles' win over Vikings
The reigning National Football League champion Patriots overcame a stubborn Jacksonville Jaguars 24-20 in the AFC title game, while the Eagles crushed the Minnesota Vikings 38-7 in the NFC decider to set up a February 4 clash in Minneapolis.
Sea of Thieves' upcoming closed beta will enable Xbox Play Anywhere
The water in Sea of Thieves is especially lovely, as one would hope, considering how a chunk of the game takes place on the open seas with pirate ships. You can nab it on Amazon for Sea of Thieves on Xbox here , Sea of Thieves on PC here , and there's even a snazzy Sea of Thieves Xbox Controller you can pilfer for your treasure chest, too.
Wedbush Analysts Give Activision Blizzard (ATVI) a $75.00 Price Target
Activision Blizzard now has $53.36 billion valuation. The stock increased 2.54% or $1.94 during the last trading session, reaching $78.36. About 25,010 shares traded. Among 30 analysts covering Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ: ATVI ), 24 have Buy rating, 0 Sell and 6 Hold. BidaskClub lowered Activision Blizzard from a buy rating to a hold rating in a research note on Wednesday, December 27th.
Cornerstone Investment Partners LLC Grows Stake in Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS)
GS's latest closing price was 12.11% away from the average price of 200 days while it maintained a distance of 4.60% from the 50 Day Moving Average and 2.00% away compared to its SMA 20. 82 funds opened positions while 285 raised stakes. JPMorgan Chase & Co. cut their price objective on shares of Weir Group from GBX 2,260 ($30.65) to GBX 2,185 ($29.63) and set an "overweight" rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, November 1st.
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Downgraded to "Sell" at BidaskClub
The average is taken over a specific period of time, like 10 days, 20 minutes, 30 weeks, or any time period the trader chooses. It is down 9.02% since January 22, 2017 and is uptrending. Morgan Stanley reissued an "equal weight" rating and set a $6.00 target price on shares of Advanced Micro Devices in a report on Thursday, August 31st.
Airtel ₹149 prepaid plan revised: Here's what you get now
While Reliance Jio is serving up more data on an everyday basis, the plan only sticks around for 70 days. Be it long-term validity plan or a monthly recharge pack, Airtel has you covered. Prior to that, Airtel had introduced Rs 799 plan to offer users 3.5GB data per day for 28 days. Since the entry of Jio, the data plans have become cheaper in India .
Minecraft crosses 144 million sales and 74 million monthly active players
She has been working with the Minecraft team for the past three years. The copies sold highlights just how many people enjoy building an alternate universe, with nearly double the number of concurrent players last month. Of course, the accessibility isn't the only thing pointing to the success of Minecraft either. Chiang describes what really makes the update important for the game.
Blizzard Reveals New Epic Overwatch Skins Being Added to Standard Loot Boxes
Blizzard has confirmed that they will be adding over 100 new items to their core cosmetics collection which includes skins, sprays and emotes. The new cosmetic items will start to turn up in Loot Boxes on January 23 and, according to Blizzard, will be available " All year long".
Apollo Micro Systems lists at 74 per cent premium
The stock had hit a high of Rs 479.95 and a low of Rs 454.10 so far during the day. The Rs. 156 crore IPO was open for subscription from January 10 to January 12, 2018 and had got a strong response from investors. On the volume front, 1.64 lakh shares exchanged hands on the BSE. The company had fixed the price band of Rs 270-275 per equity share. Apollo Micro Systems is an electronic system and design manufacturing (EDSM) company and supplies hardware used in defence avionics systems, ...
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Randy Orton Injury Causes Royal Rumble Changes
Regarding Randy Orton, there have been a number of different ideas on how to handle his injury creatively, since at one point he was set to win the Royal Rumble in his hometown of St. Louis.
Officials have discussed having Orton do a surprise return late in the Rumble, win it and then take more time off to heal leading into WrestleMania 28.
Keeping him off the Rumble and having him return around Elimination Chamber to set up his WrestleMania match has also been discussed.
Orton is currently scheduled for the Jan. 16 RAW SuperShow in Anaheim, California and the Royal Rumble taking place Jan. 29 in St. Louis, Missouri. No word on if he’ll be wrestling or doing run-ins.
Chris Jericho Continues Messing w/ ‘Net Fans
Chris Jericho is tweeting numerous photoshopped images as well as photos from the past on his Twitter account. The latest tweet from him claims he’s on a mountain skiing today.
Beautiful day on the mountain! http://pic.twitter.com/eoPQZBj9
he tweeted.
It should be noted that we can confirm Jericho is in Memphis, TN right now. Although we don’t have it 100% confirmed he’ll appear on RAW, we do know he’s in the city of Memphis.
Chris has also shot down any WWE return talk with numerous things like “recording an album”, “working on a Hollywood project”, and hanging out with a friend named “Speewee”. He also claimed last month that he’d be in Hawaii right now. Obviously, that is not the case. Several years ago he also posted a TNA graphic on his website when rumors were swirling that he was headed to TNA.
The morale of the story is – he likes to mess with ‘net fans and don’t take anything he says seriously
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Caltech Home > Home > Research
Hirosi Ooguri
Ooguri is a theoretical physicist working on quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and superstring theory. His research strategy is to discover mathematical structures in these theories and to exploit them to invent new theoretical tools to solve fundamental questions in physics.
In particular, he developed the topological string theory to compute Feynman diagrams of superstring theory and used it to solve mysterious quantum mechanical properties of black holes. He also worked on conformal field theory in two dimensions, D branes in Calabi-Yau manifolds, the AdS/CFT correspondence, and properties of supersymmetric field theories and their relation to superstring theory.
List of Research Papers at INSPIRE
Profile at INSPIRE
Citation Analysis at Google Scholar
Video of Ooguri's talk at the Feynman Centennial Symposium, Caltech (2018)
"Strings" is the most important annual conference in string theory and has been held evey year since 1995.
Ooguri has given invited talks at the following Strings Conferences.
(Thanks to Yuji Tachikawa for his archiving work.)
Strings '93 (Berkeley)
Strings '95 (Los Angeles)
Strings '96 (Santa Barbara)
Strings '97 (Amsterdam)
Strings '98 (Santa Barbara) Ooguri was an organizer.
Strings '99 (Potsdam) PDF slides
Strings 2000 (Ann Arbor) PDF slides
Strings 2001 (Mumbai) PDF slides
Strings 2002 (Cambridge) PDF slides
Strings 2003 (Kyoto) Ooguri was an organizer.
Strings 2004 (Paris) Summary Talk
Strings 2005 (Toronto) PDF slides
Strings 2006 (Beijing) PDF slides
Strings 2007 (Madrid) PDF slides
Strings 2008 (CERN) Summary Talk
Strings 2009 (Rome) PDF slides
Strings 2010 (Texas A&M) PDF slides
Strings 2012 (Munich) Summary Talk, video
Strings 2013 (Seoul) PDF slides, Video
Summer School associated to Strings 2014 (Princeton) Video 1, Video 2, Video 3
Strings 2016 (Beijing) PDF slides, Video
Strings 2017 (Tel Aviv) PDF slides, Video
Strings 2018 announcement at Strings 2017 PDF slides, Video
Ooguri was an organizers of Strings '98, Strings 2003, and Strings 2018 (chair).
Video of Ooguri's summary talk at Strings 2012 in Munich
Lectures on Topological String Theory
Videos of three lectures at the Summer School at the Arnold Sommerfeld Center at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (August, 2010).
Recent Plenary Talks and Invited Lectures
Princeton University, Hamilton Colloquium (April 11, 2019)
Princeton Gravity Initiative Workshop: Weak Gravity and Cosmic Censorship (April 10 - 12, 2019)
University of Chicago Colloquium (February 21, 2019)
Cornel Physics Colloquium (February 18, 2019)
CERN Winter School, 4 lectures (February 4 - 8, 2019)
DESY Colloquium (November 11, 2018)
Aspen Center for Physics Colloquium (August 23, 2018)
Simons Summer Workshop 2018, Simons Center (August 1, 2018)
50 Years of Veneziano Model, GGI Florence (May 14, 2018)
Feynman Centennial Symposium, Caltech (May 12, 2018)
Quantum Gravity and Holography, Kavli IPMU (April 2 - 6, 2018)
Harvard Physics Colloquium (26 March 2018)
Accelerating Universe, Sendai, Japan (February 11, 2018)
Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Singapore (January 16 - 19, 2018)
Distinguished Lecture, ICTS, Bangalore, India (January 15, 2018)
The 20th Anniversary of AdS/CFT, Princeton (Oct 31 - Nov 3, 2017)
Quantum Information in Quantum Gravity, UCB Vancouver (August 14 - 18, 2017)
Simons Summer Workshop, Simons Center (July 17, 2017)
String-Pheno 2017, Virginia Tech (July 3 - 7, 2017)
Strings 2017, Tel Aviv, Israel (June 26 - 30, 2017)
PASCOS 2017, Madrid, Spain (June 19 - 23, 2017)
Simons Symposium, Elmau, Germany (May 1 - 5, 2017)
Quantum Gravity, String Theory and Holography, Kyoto, Japan (April 3 - 7, 2017)
4 Lectures at String School, ICTP, Trieste, Italy (March 21 - 24, 2017)
Main Lecture, Japanese Physical Society Annual Meeting (March 19, 2017)
String Theory: Past and Present, ICTP, Bangalore, India (Jaunary 11 - 13, 2017)
It from Qubit Meeting,, Simons Center, Stony Brook (December 5 - 7, 2016)
Distinguished Lecture, NCTS, Taiwan (November 23, 2016)
75th Birthday Symposium for John Schwarz, Caltech (November 18 - 19, 2016)
Suntry Foundation Symposium, Tokyo, Japan (October 1, 2016)
Strings 2016, Beijing, China (August 1 - 5, 2016)
It from Qubit Summer School, Perimeter Institute, Canda (July 18 - 29, 2016)
Amsterdam String Workshop, Netherland (July 4 - 7, 2016)
It from Qubit Meeting, Kyoto, Japan (June 20 - 24, 2016)
Colloquium, CMSA, Harvard University, (May 4, 2016)
Nambu Memorial Symposium, University of Chicago (March 14, 2016)
75th Birthday Symposium for David Gross, Jerusalem, Israel (February 28 - March 3, 2016)
F-Theory at 20, Caltech (February 22 - 26, 2016)
String-Math 2015, Hainan Island, China (December 31, 2015 - January 4, 2016)
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About GameOn - The History and becoming GameGrin
1997 - Lag Free Gaming
GameOn Networking Ltd was founded in 1997 by Steven and Linda, their motivation was passion for gaming and all that it encompasses. Their initial goal was to provide a “lag free” gaming environment for like minded people.
In the UK in 1997 online gaming was severely hampered by many factors but mainly the cost of a connection that provided the low latency needed for real-time gaming was far beyond the people who wanted to play online games. The time it takes for data to reach a point on the internet and then return depends on the speed of the connection.
The average connection in 1997 meant that more than a few seconds would pass before data could make the round trip, thus making real-time gaming difficult and annoying if not impossible for most gamers.
Twelve months was spent researching and absorbing the knowledge it would take to setup a "lag free" gaming environment.
Over this period GameOn started to establish a community on which it could offer its "lag free" service.
GameOn realised the communication power of the Internet and harnessed it for its own needs to provide an online portal where gamers could gather.
1998 - LAN Parties
November saw GameOn run its first LAN party. It was a great success and motivated the GameOn team to provide more events for its growing community.
Up to August 2009 GameOn has organised 78 events in the UK.
1999 - 2001 - 0845 GISP
The dawn of 56k modems and 0845 saw GameOn serving its community as a GISP (Gaming Internet Service Provider), providing real-time gaming to many communities including the popular Half-Life modification Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic, Quake III, Unreal Tournament and Half-Life Deathmatch.
The GameOn team provided some of the best servers in the UK with strict rules and regulations with real-time moderation.
The GameOn network operations centre was manned 24/7 either in person or via remote. Only with its dedicated team could GameOn provide these unique services to its community.
GameOn was also one of the GISP pioneers allowing its members to book time on game servers for matches and private gaming sessions, a service that was provided free of charge.
2001 - GISP Service Retired
At the end of the 0845 boom GameOn made the reluctant decision of pulling the plug on the GISP because it was unable to support the cost without revenue from 0845.
2002 - New Online Infrastructure
GameOn researched and designed in-house a modular system for deploying websites and managing content, obviously the major initial modules where online booking, booking management, forum integration, news and announcements with a staged plan for many more modules.
2003 - 150 Player LAN Parties & Pre-Pay
In 2003 GameOn ran its first 150 player event with 100% customer satisfaction. A milestone that proves the hard work and commitment that has gone in to running LAN Parties.
GameOn created its own bespoke online event pre-payment module to compliment its online booking module, another milestone achievement and addition the GameOn system.
2004 - Tourneys, Prizes & Qualifiers
GameOn created an online pre-event tournament module to organise and co-ordinate tournaments before events take place, this gives a substantial advantage when planning and allows for even smoother running tournaments at events.
The list of industry partners recognising GameOn as an official UK LAN Party grows and sees the start of tournaments with substantial prizes, ranging from the latest GFX cards to small form factor PC systems.
Constant market research and close communication with its community proves to GameOn that providing customer service and satisfaction is crucial, especially in a virtual marketplace. Everyday GameOn strives to provide the best possible services to all of its customers.
The GameOn team is always committed to several large scale community and industry projects that keep GameOn very busy. Every year is planned each step of the way in an effort to maintain focus on the goals that have to be achieved for the continual success and operation of the GameOn Network.
GameOn and the team want to give its customers and communities the very best of everything they can offer, steps are being taken to broaden the products and services that GameOn can offer not only on the web but at GameOn events too.
This gives GameOn customers a shot at some big prize money and recognition of their skill.
GameOn is highly motivated to strengthen and enhance itself, developing business relations with key industries surrounding its community and developing community based products and services that give the customer the best deal. Continued support from the community and hard work from the GameOn team is required for the GameOn Network and its community to grow, GameOn believes in both and intends to make the best attempt at being a one-stop-shop for Gamers worldwide.
The GameOn team is a close-knit group of dedicated professionals and hardcore gamers, focused on bringing its community and customers the best possible service and experience.
GameOn's foundation is built on the volunteers from the community that make up the team. GameOn wouldn't be where it is today without these special people and their passion for GameOn and what it stands for.
The team's dreams and goals keep things focused in order to evolve the GameOn Network and its community.
GameOn believes one of many reasons for its continual success is the community of people it has brought together and that one of the main attractions of a LAN party is the opportunity for people to socialise with friends and at the same time, play the latest and greatest multiplayer games in a perfect gaming environment.
GameOn has invested a great deal of time and effort providing its community with the things it requires. The GameOn message board is a community in its own right, a mix of GameOn regulars and people from all over the Internet map drawn by what the GameOn community offers.
GameOn is passionate about its community and it shows.
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Flat fares on buses blasted by transport boss
One stop or 10 miles: the £2.20 ticket to ride that punishes vulnerable people
Simon O'Brien hits the road to talk green spaces
Series of public meetings will look for ideas to secure future of Liverpool's parks
New Holly Lodge dedicated to Pankhurst
Suffragette saluted in school's £7m revamp
Merseyrail named as top UK operator
Controller bigs up enviable 'track record'
Council to fight Welsh Streets ruling by Pickles
'We are not prepared to stand by and see local people ignored'
Kop a load of this
Bill Shankly hotel work kicks off with grandson's visit
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Reputation, reputation, reputation
As Jonathan Margolis does a U-Turn on his view of the “self-pity city” in a newspaper this week, Paul Du Noyer writes exclusively for Confidential on Liverpool's image - as seen by the national media
Published on February 26th 2008.
YOU know the old song about "our Liverpool home"? We've got the "accent exceedingly rare", the cathedral to spare, and all of that stuff? Well, we've now got something else to add. We've got "reputational issues". Who says? The Financial Times says.
Standing out gets you noticed, and to be noticed is to risk attack. If that's the price of our city's individuality, I'd say it's worth paying
I love these new phrases. "Reputational issues" sounds almost prestigious. Does Norwich have them? Apart from a little light mockery by Alan Partridge, it does not. London? Manchester? No. Not really. You'd have to look a long way before you found a city with reputational issues like Liverpool's reputational issues. Twenty years ago you might have said that Belfast, or possibly Glasgow, had their own share of notoriety. But they've both come a long way since then. In the eyes of the outside world, the Financial Times says, Liverpool is struggling.
Of course we all hope our Year of Culture will transform Liverpool's reputation. But the first few weeks of 2008 were not encouraging. Bloomberg News, the globally syndicated agency, began their report on the Capital of Culture's opening ceremony with a mention of the night's shootings in Croxteth. Listing the city's cultural attractions, they ended with this immortal pay-off: "Just remember to bring your bullet-proof leg protectors."
To be fair, Bloomberg's report was not completely damning. They were baffled by Liverpool's last two years of political in-fighting, and equally baffled by Ringo's new single. (And who could blame them on either score?) But their essential angle was echoed across the media: "Liverpool year of culture gets off to a violent start,' ran the headline in the Independent on Sunday. That's human nature. Bad news jolts the brain in ways that good news doesn't. Shock is greater than awe. And every newspaper understands this.
This city carries bitter memories of media mistreatment, most infamously from The Sun. But it's hard to move on, isn't it, when you hear allegations of a TV crew trying to goad some scallies to provide juicy ASBO action on camera. And it's not only the media who take a perverse glee in negative spin. It was depressing enough to read about the burglaries from footballers' homes during away games; it was even worse to see those stories top the "Most e-mailed" chart on the BBC News website.
We all know this problem exists. And I don't think I'm exaggerating when I call it a sort of displaced racism. In firms across the country there's a habit of sending "Scouse joke" emails around. My wife, who is Irish-born and Liverpool-bred, finally snapped one day and posted her own response: "Oh, I get it. You're not allowed to call me a thick Paddy any more, so now I'm a thieving Scouser instead." I'm glad to say that a few of her London colleagues had the decency to be embarrassed.
Still, Liverpool has survived tougher challenges than this. It irritates me, because I know how cheap the taunts are. But I also know that it's not important and that the city will see off its detractors. We should also realise how many real friends we have across the world. (I've never met a musician, for example, who didn't speak highly of the Liverpool audience.) The fact is that few cities arouse any opinions, good or bad. And that's because few cities have any innate personality to speak of. People do respond to the idea of Liverpool; they sense it has a personality. And by and large they like it.
This city is different to other cities, in good ways and bad, and difference will always polarise opinions. Deep down, I think, Liverpudlians enjoy their city's "exceptionalism". We don't want to be just like Norwich. But standing out gets you noticed, and to be noticed is to risk attack. If that's the price of our city's individuality, I'd say it's worth paying. We should refute the lies that are told, but do it calmly and with confidence. Let us not seem shrill, defensive or thin-skinned.
Yes, it's a perplexing city. If you're not perplexed by Liverpool then you're probably not paying attention. It's full of life and life is messy. It continues to beguile and infuriate me. Throw your worst abuse at Liverpool and a part of me will acknowledge what you say. Nearly all the criticisms have a grain of truth. Yet no defence is too passionate. Even the most loyal of Scousers see the downside of the city and most of us, I'm sure, occasionally feel despair. I know I do. But life goes on and some things do get fixed. It's our responsibility to fix them, and our obligation to the generations after us. Because, in the end, the city out-lives us all.
*Liverpool-born Paul Du Noyer is associate editor of The Word, former editor of the NME and Q Magazine and author of the bestselling musical biography of the city, Liverpool: Wondrous Place (Virgin Books).
28 comments so far, continue the conversation, write a comment.
CiceroFebruary 19th 2008.
Well into the 1970s correspondents to the Echo letters page often used Latin or Greek noms de plume. Of course it hasn’t been allowed for years now as it would show up the poor English of the staff!
A. E. ScousemanFebruary 19th 2008.
It is a lazy bigot who slags off Liverpool and Liverpudlians. Those ‘jokes’ about track suits were originally about Essex folk, but minimally adapted by the hard-of-thinking to insult Liverpudlians. As for the perceived reputation for crime, Chester is more dangerous and London has as many murders in a night as Liverpool has in a year.
scouse690February 19th 2008.
"hey you Jimmy"...I think the Echo was right to express "indignation", or should it be "exasperation", at voting Militant Labour back in AGAIN in the '80's. Lets face the truth, Derek Hatton and co., not only got the city massively into debt, but he created the national image of us Scousers, as being lazy,good for nothing workers, who came out on strike at the drop of a hat.While he swanned around in his Roller...DEG5Y....giving back handers to all his mates, while "we" as a City suffered! And had to pay for it in the following years, both in reputation and financially. This load of w*nkers we have in now, are just as bad...the debt they are building up, the money they have wasted willy nilly, the demolition of beautiful Victorian houses to widen roads, selling off green spaces for housing....and even worse, bloody supermarkets expanding even more (Tesco's is their favourite!!). They allowed the expansion at Mather Avenue, and now local residents have a fight on at Old Swan. This council is so blinkered that they cannot see past what is proposed as "potential" new jobs. They ignore the fact that they put more and more local shops out of business (therefore redundancies, less choice, loss of community and more bankruptcies, which leads to more homes being re-possessed by the banks/mortgage companies). I feel that we, as a City, and as Scousers have a lot more to offer, (no more dwelling on the past) and a lot more to lose by putting up with what our council is getting away with now. Warren Bradley and co., are on an ego trip that we will all pay for in the Council Tax next year (2009), due to incompetence and mis-management (just look at the scrapping of The Cloud and the Tram System...which left the Liverpool Arena with no transport links!!). Yet they allowed a monstrosity of a multi story car park to be built alongside the Grand Plaza Hotel, with a big banner saying that you can reserve spaces on contract with an 0161 (Manchester) phone number!! I rest my case, for now, as I'm sure someone will have a different opinion. But it was great to get all of that off my chest!
R. A. MateFebruary 19th 2008.
I often think that the Echo ought to do what proper local papers do, stick to printing wedding photographs and the timetables of meetings for the Cubs, Scouts, Boys's Brigade, etc. instead of sensationalist rabble-rousing over footer, the Beatles, crime, etc. It hasn't been the same since it went tabloid.
Jack DanielsFebruary 19th 2008.
It continues to beguile and infuriate me.............too. Outstanding final paragraph. Required reading for anyone who cares about Liverpool and its people. If only we had some civic leadership with vision, energy and determination.
Sexy RexyFebruary 19th 2008.
Warren Bradley's little helpers could get dressed up like those Christmas elves you did that time. Then at least we would all recognise them.
AnonymousFebruary 19th 2008.
Agreed with Mr McCabe and his comments re the local media. So how come so much outrage about Ringo's non comment and yet, from the same people, so much hysterical reporting of gangster stories, shooting stories and any other depressing tale it wants to tell in big headlines to pull the city down?
Liam Fogarty (No! Not THE Liam Fogarty, a different one)February 19th 2008.
You know, it's times like this that make me just think that perhaps we should have a mayor. Although I have no idea who that mayor could be. It would have to be someone serious (maybe a glasses-wearer), who's clever (ideally good at general knowledge quizzes) with some sort of ethnic name to signify Liverpool's status as a city of the world (Irish would be ideal, Celtic tiger economy and all that). Oh, and he should have a high local profile (maybe a media background) and be strongly in favour of a mayor for Liverpool. I think we can all agree that, if such a person came along, he would make everything better.
WappingFebruary 19th 2008.
While outsiders still view us through the prism of Lord Culture's Brukeside and Holyoaks they will have a low opinion of us. We've had a couple of decades of his constant barrel-scraping and Enfield's crass and shallow efforts as just about the only impression most people have of us. A significant section of our population now see those televised antics and the Echo's take on celebrity as validation for their own behaviour. It's all bad in medialand and we do so much of it ourselves. As for Militant, they deliberately drove the middle classes out of Liverpool but I don't know why. The demography is still hopelessly skewed a whole generation later.
AliFebruary 19th 2008.
No way. The council spin machine is working brilliantly. What a shame Degsy and Mulhearn didn't have one in the days when councillors actually DID have a cohesive policy. When did you last see a negative story about the city council in the Echo. You won't. Promise.
Norman PriceFebruary 19th 2008.
Maybe they can send Fireman Sam to Mipim instead.
Stanley DockFebruary 19th 2008.
In the 80's the echo was just the evening version of the Sun in its support of the evil woman and dislike of anything liverpool that didn't fit into its narrow view.20 years later it is reduced to pushing any 3rd rate talent in a sad attempt to make Liverpool the trendy place it hasn't been for 15 years at least! Culture is moved sideways whilst dull mainstream fayre is given more room than it deserves becaunse it is staffed by gormless planks whose knowledge is so limited it does our city no favours AT ALL.
Jim McCabeFebruary 19th 2008.
Excellent piece, Paul. I endorse the point about countering unfounded criticism in the right manner, something the local media would do well to remember; the synthetic outrage manufactured around Ringo's comments on the Jonathan Ross show was puerile.
TV KellyFebruary 19th 2008.
Never mind all this. All the chat round my gaff has been about poor Warren Bradley and his non-attendance at Cannes this year for the big Mipim beano. My mate Manx Terry reckons it would be difficult for him to go there, when he's having his picture taken all the time in the Post and Echo at the moment. But I reckon there are a lot of Warren Bradley helpers around, like the Father Christmas helpers who dress up like Santa so the little ones aren't disappointed when they visit the grotto. Perhaps beardy Barford is taking a picture of a man in a Warren Bradley (TM) outfit on the top of One Park West, while the real Warren is being snapped by cheery Colin Lane at the new swimming pool. Maybe Warren CAN attend Mipim, and his little band of lookalikes can keep up his punishing schedule of pre-election photo-ops on his behalf. I offer this as a solution which will appeal to everyone.
rusty spikeFebruary 19th 2008.
Some people - Mr McCabe and one or two others excepted - are seemingly forgetting that the so called 'Hatton Period' was at at time when Liverpool was under siege from a vicious Tory government led by the Mad Thatcher who was determined to bring the city to heel or better still crush it, as they did the Labour run Merseyside County Council. There may well have been faults, silly nonsense and a number of seriously flawed antics at the time undertaken by Liverpool Council but the likes of Tony Byrne and others in the council mostly had the interests of the people at heart. The Militant era was born out of necessity, a necessity for survival. As for Mister 'Atton? Merely an opportunist. But hey look at the crew in now. Silly nonsense and faults? As if. Not a whiff of corruption anywhere. But while we are at it, Joe Anderson and his mob should be ashamed of themselves. Suddenly they are in there sniping away at the Lib Dems and firing bullets at Bradley et al...where were they when it really mattered in recent years. Silent. If Mr Anderson and Co have ideas to put Liverpool back on an even keel, then let us all have the benefit of knowing, instead of his own opportunistic sorties to secure column inches with glib speeches that he doesn't even write himself. A plague on all your houses.
Sir Old Hall StreetFebruary 19th 2008.
You are not wrong there, you last two. What a shower of incompetents. No wonder the city is a laughing stock. Which spin doctor will get us out of that one THEN?
Never mind. I'm sure that last year's photographs of our Councillors and Council Officers showing us up in France by taking off their ties and sucking lager straight from the bottle like scallies and looking shifty for the camera, are still available in Liverpool Confidential's archives if you know where to click!
Well said, Docky la!
scouse690, I wasn't blind to the faults & foibles of the Hatton period. However, the context of the time was that the Militant pledged defiance of Thatcher. Trevor Jones, aka "Jones the vote", by contrast, was happy to enjoy a cigar whilst guiding Heseltine on a ferry trip along the city's waterfront in the wake of the Toxteth riots. We can argue about the Militant legacy ad infinitum. However, the political background at that time meant that there was a receptive audience for Militant's message.
Frank McDoranFebruary 19th 2008.
I'm off to Specsavers right now.
Mike TVFebruary 19th 2008.
An excellent piece of writing, Paul. Keep up the top class work, Confidential, we love ya!
Jimmy CorkillFebruary 19th 2008.
It's the whole thing about Liverpool seeing itself as different, even the football chants. But you're not telling me Lord Redmond's Brookie would have been as gripping if it had been set, in say, Halifax.
Cracking piece of writing this and very, very well said and true. I particularly liked the line about refuting the lies that have been told calmly and with confidence. Isn't that a rule for us all? There are so many idiots still out there who just don't get it.
London RoadFebruary 19th 2008.
I think that's putting it in a nutshell really. Would Joe Anderson and Co like to come on here and tell us what they are going to do for Liverpool or are they just going to continue sticking the knife into Bradley and co and hoping that no one will notice that Labour in Liverpool have avbsolutely no policies at all?
Marquis de VouvrayFebruary 19th 2008.
Well said, M. du Noyer! As a proud Liverpolitan (resident by choice, not by birth), I applaud your stalwart defence of this unique, maddening city, but, egad/sacre bleu, the city does need a major purge of its 'representatives' and 'leaders'. They are doing Liverpool no end of harm with their antics. O to ditch the whole sorry crew and expropriate their salaries and 'compensation' for the good of the city. As for Viennese Balls, leave it to Harpic and the Ruritanians - they have been running them for years and know how to do them with real panache.
We can't run away from the fact that a lot of criticisms do contain a grain of truth. Often more than a grain, an entire silo on occasion. The trouble with us is we allowed our worst side to be the only one we presented to the world, and that's how we are now defined by outsiders. That's why Capital of Culture and regeneration projects like Liverpool One are so important. Every time we get national coverage of these events or projects, it chips away at the idea that Liverpool is just about scallies on the make. Ah, the Lord Redmond, he giveth with one hand and taketh away with the other.
Well said, Stanley Dock. What's overlooked, due to the Sun's Hillsborough lies, is the Liverpool Echo's support for Thatcher during the 80s. Its gasping indignation as Liverpool's voters returned the Militant council during the early to mid-80s provoked hilarity from this then teenage activist.
evertonyFebruary 19th 2008.
scouse690, thats scarey stuff but its all true, hatton has a lot to answer for, as for the car parks and new buildings it dont make sence, they turn down what looks like a perfect sky scraper and then let them build a car park. i,m all for sky srapers i love em, but only if thier just straight, like new york, not the ones like manchester and leeds, go for it 690..
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Fast determinantal point processes via distortion-free intermediate sampling
Michał Dereziński ;
Given a fixed $n\times d$ matrix $\mathbf{X}$, where $n\gg d$, we study the complexity of sampling from a distribution over all subsets of rows where the probability of a subset is proportional to the squared volume of the parallelepiped spanned by the rows (a.k.a. a determinantal point process). In this task, it is important to minimize the preprocessing cost of the procedure (performed once) as well as the sampling cost (performed repeatedly). To that end, we propose a new determinantal point process algorithm which has the following two properties, both of which are novel: (1) a preprocessing step which runs in time $O\big(\text{number-of-non-zeros}(\mathbf{X})\cdot\log n\big)+\text{poly}(d)$, and (2) a sampling step which runs in $\text{poly}(d)$ time, independent of the number of rows $n$. We achieve this by introducing a new \textit{regularized} determinantal point process (R-DPP), which serves as an intermediate distribution in the sampling procedure by reducing the number of rows from $n$ to $\text{poly}(d)$. Crucially, this intermediate distribution does not distort the probabilities of the target sample. Our key novelty in defining the R-DPP is the use of a Poisson random variable for controlling the probabilities of different subset sizes, leading to new determinantal formulas such as the normalization constant for this distribution. Our algorithm has applications in many diverse areas where determinantal point processes have been used, such as machine learning, stochastic optimization, data summarization and low-rank matrix reconstruction.
@InProceedings{pmlr-v99-derezinski19a,
title = {Fast determinantal point processes via distortion-free intermediate sampling},
author = {Derezi{\'n}ski, Micha{\l}},
pdf = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v99/derezinski19a/derezinski19a.pdf},
url = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v99/derezinski19a.html},
abstract = { Given a fixed $n\times d$ matrix $\mathbf{X}$, where $n\gg d$, we study the complexity of sampling from a distribution over all subsets of rows where the probability of a subset is proportional to the squared volume of the parallelepiped spanned by the rows (a.k.a. a determinantal point process). In this task, it is important to minimize the preprocessing cost of the procedure (performed once) as well as the sampling cost (performed repeatedly). To that end, we propose a new determinantal point process algorithm which has the following two properties, both of which are novel: (1) a preprocessing step which runs in time $O\big(\text{number-of-non-zeros}(\mathbf{X})\cdot\log n\big)+\text{poly}(d)$, and (2) a sampling step which runs in $\text{poly}(d)$ time, independent of the number of rows $n$. We achieve this by introducing a new \textit{regularized} determinantal point process (R-DPP), which serves as an intermediate distribution in the sampling procedure by reducing the number of rows from $n$ to $\text{poly}(d)$. Crucially, this intermediate distribution does not distort the probabilities of the target sample. Our key novelty in defining the R-DPP is the use of a Poisson random variable for controlling the probabilities of different subset sizes, leading to new determinantal formulas such as the normalization constant for this distribution. Our algorithm has applications in many diverse areas where determinantal point processes have been used, such as machine learning, stochastic optimization, data summarization and low-rank matrix reconstruction.}
%T Fast determinantal point processes via distortion-free intermediate sampling
%A Michał Dereziński
%F pmlr-v99-derezinski19a
%X Given a fixed $n\times d$ matrix $\mathbf{X}$, where $n\gg d$, we study the complexity of sampling from a distribution over all subsets of rows where the probability of a subset is proportional to the squared volume of the parallelepiped spanned by the rows (a.k.a. a determinantal point process). In this task, it is important to minimize the preprocessing cost of the procedure (performed once) as well as the sampling cost (performed repeatedly). To that end, we propose a new determinantal point process algorithm which has the following two properties, both of which are novel: (1) a preprocessing step which runs in time $O\big(\text{number-of-non-zeros}(\mathbf{X})\cdot\log n\big)+\text{poly}(d)$, and (2) a sampling step which runs in $\text{poly}(d)$ time, independent of the number of rows $n$. We achieve this by introducing a new \textit{regularized} determinantal point process (R-DPP), which serves as an intermediate distribution in the sampling procedure by reducing the number of rows from $n$ to $\text{poly}(d)$. Crucially, this intermediate distribution does not distort the probabilities of the target sample. Our key novelty in defining the R-DPP is the use of a Poisson random variable for controlling the probabilities of different subset sizes, leading to new determinantal formulas such as the normalization constant for this distribution. Our algorithm has applications in many diverse areas where determinantal point processes have been used, such as machine learning, stochastic optimization, data summarization and low-rank matrix reconstruction.
Dereziński, M.. (2019). Fast determinantal point processes via distortion-free intermediate sampling. Proceedings of the Thirty-Second Conference on Learning Theory, in PMLR 99:1029-1049
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Locations Companies Contact
Smith & Williamson joint administrators of four Park First companies
04 Jul 2019 –– Company
The Park First Group confirms that Park First Freeholds Limited, Help Me Park Gatwick Limited, Park First Glasgow Rentals Limited and Park First Gatwick Rentals Limited (the “Companies”) have today been placed into Administration. Finbarr O’Connell, Adam Stephens, Emma Thompson and Andy McGill of Smith & Williamson LLP have been appointed as Joint Administrators. Both the Joint Administrators and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have also issued press releases which are available on their websites. The Directors of the Companies have taken the decision to commence the administration based on advice from their professional advisers in the interests of investors in its car parking schemes.
Park First and Car Parking
Park First operates car parks neighbouring Gatwick and Glasgow airports. Those sites have provided c. 6,000 car parking spaces to travellers for a number of years. Major improvements have been made at the sites, including the installation of up to date car parking equipment and infrastructure, since the sites came under Park First’s management. Throughout the period of the Administration the car parks will continue to be operated without interruption. Customers who have bookings at the sites will continue to be able to use the sites and Park First will be accepting new bookings.
Interaction with the FCA
The Park First car parking schemes were first set up to provide investors with an opportunity to own and receive income from spaces within car parks neighbouring popular airports. The FCA took the view that the schemes were collective investment schemes, a form of regulated financial investment.
Park First does not accept that this is the case. Park First took legal advice prior to the offering of the original schemes.
In December 2017, in order to address the concerns raised with it by the FCA and with a view to removing uncertainty in the operation of the car parking schemes, Park First launched a restructuring of the car park schemes. The FCA was fully informed of this restructuring. The restructuring provided investors with the opportunity to receive a repayment in respect of their investment (Buy Back) or to continue their investment under the terms of a new lease arrangement (described as the Lifetime Lease). Most investors have continued with their parking investment under the Lifetime Lease.
Administration and CVA
It has now become clear that a further restructuring of the car parking schemes will be necessary. Park First’s Group has committed c.£33 million to support the restructuring proposals which will be developed through a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) and put to the Companies’ creditors by the Joint Administrators. The Directors of the Companies will work closely with the Joint Administrators in preparing these proposals. The Directors intend the Administration to be an interim measure to allow the CVA proposals to be prepared and put to creditors.
Toby Whittaker, Director of Park First Freeholds Limited commented “The Directors are committed to working closely with the Administrators to prepare CVA proposals for the benefit of the Companies’ creditors. Some £33 million has been committed to support this. It is the Directors’ firm intention that the car parks will return to being run for the benefit of Lifetime Leaseholders as soon as possible. In the meantime I am pleased to confirm that customers can continue to use the car parks which will be operating fully throughout this period.”
Useful links you can access
1. a very useful Q&A with regard to the administrations by using the following link https://smithandwilliamson.com/media/5242/qa-07-05-2019.pdf
2. press releases issued by the Joint Administrators and the FCA by using the following link. Joint Administrators https://smithandwilliamson.com/en/newsroom/smith-williamson-joint-administrators-of-four-park-first-companies/
FCA https://www.fca.org.uk/news/news-stories/park-first-limited-information-investors
3. the Companies’ website by using the following link https://www.parkfirst.com/
4. the Joint administrators website by using the following link https://smithandwilliamson.com/park-first/
You can email the Joint administrators by using the following email address ParkFirst@smithandwilliamson.com
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Record breaking 46m passengers at Gatwick
17 Jan 2019 –– Company
Busiest ever October and record new routes for Luton
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Glasgow Airport named Airport of the Year
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Cisco LAN Routing Routing Protocols CCNA Engineering
Participating routers in an OSPF network have varying roles to play in ensuring that the processes which route the data around the network maintain a true and accurate picture of the network topology. The two primary roles in this structure are the Designated Router (DR) and the Backup Designated Router (BDR). Their roles, whilst primarily aimed at maintaining network function from a routing perspective, are equally focused on ensuring that network bandwidth used to accomplish this is used judiciously.
An Election
Consider a multi-access environment (such as LAN or MAN), where three or more routers are connected together. If all the routers in the OSPF network had to form adjacencies with every other OSPF router present, forming a fully meshed OSPF adjacency network, the resultant conceptualised routing mesh would be overly chatty flooding Link State Advertisements (LSAs) with each and every other OSPF router. As a direct result, router CPU load and network bandwidth would be consumed wastefully. OSPF is designed to be far more efficient in its use of these resources, and, in order to prevent this from happening, OSPF holds an election process to determine and fill roles named Designated Router (DR) and a Backup Designated Router (BDR) so that the workload of propagating routing information around the network is more effectively managed. Election for the DR and BDR is determined primarily on the Router Priority (which by default is 1) and the Router ID. If the value of the router interface priority is changed to 0, it prevents that router from becoming the DR or the BDR.
Router priority can be adjusted on Cisco routers on a per interface basis. The Router ID however is a 32-bit number that uniquely identifies the router in the Autonomous System. One algorithm for Router ID assignment is to choose the largest or smallest IP address assigned to the router. If a router's OSPF Router ID is changed, the router's OSPF software should be restarted before the new Router ID takes effect. Before restarting in order to change its Router ID, the router should flush its self-originated LSAs from the routing domain or they will persist for up to MaxAge minutes. Cisco uses a method that some other vendors choose to follow, but it is not a requirement. If you have a loopback interface, since that's the most stable interface on your router, that will be used. If there is no loopback interface, the highest IP address on the router is used. If there is more than one loopback then the highest of them is used. In many elections in OSPF, the higher RID wins. this is the logic for choosing higher over lower. It should be noted however that you can manually specify an RID that isn't even a valid ip address such as 224.1.1.1.
Drothers
The DR is the router which receives LSAs and other updates when there is a change in the inter-neighbor communications. These LSAs are sent out by the DROTHERS routers (all non-DR/BDR routers), and consequently, any further updates are propagated by the DR to the rest of the DROTHERS routers. The show ip ospf neighbor command, when executed, indicates the non-DR/BDR routers as DROTHERS. Every network segment in OSPF has a DR and a BDR.
What actually happens is that whenever there is a change in network routing status, instead of flooding each and every path with LSAs advertising new information about network topology, the update is only sent to the DR. The DR then takes on this job and floods the routers in its network segment with the update. If the DR fails or is not functioning, the BDR takes over. When this happens, the BDR replaces the existing DR as the new Designated Router, and a new BDR is elected.
adjacency bdr cisco dr election
Configuring 3G Wireless WAN on Modular and Fixed ISRs (HWIC-3G-GSM, HWIC-3G-HSPA, PCEX-3G-HSPA-x)
Cisco Wireless Engineering
Cisco Integrated Services Routers are branch routers which support the new paradigms of network traffic delivery in the cloud and on the move. They provide Internet connectivity to teleworkers, and minor sites supporting less than 20 users. They also support bridging and routing between the LAN and the WAN whilst providing many advanced features such as antivirus protection.
The Third Generation (3G) Wireless High-Speed WAN Interface Card (HWIC) is a multiband, multiservice WAN card for use over WCDMA Radio Access Networks (RAN).
Both the fixed and the modular 3G routers can be used as the primary WAN connectivity and as a backup for critical applications which require a fallback service. 3G WAN is supported on the following modular Cisco ISRs: 800, 1841, 1861, 2800 series, 3800 series, 1900, 2900 and 3900.
One of the first actions required will be to configure a new 3G HWIC data profile.
To configure your 3G HWIC data profile, you will need the following information from your service provider:
– Username (if required by your carrier)
– Password (if required by your carrier)
– Access Point Name (APN)
Once obtained, we can begin to set up the 3G features on the equipment itself by following these procedures:
Data Account Provisioning
Data Call Setup
Voice Initiated Data Callback or Remote Dial-in (Optional)
In order to provision our data account we must have first obtained the key information from the service provider. The next priority is to ensure that we have the necessary service availability and signal strength in order for the connection to work. We need to use the following commands to examine the services available on the 3G network at the location in question.
show cellular network - This displays info about the carrier network.
show cellular radio - This shows the signal strength. We are looking for RSSI of -90dBm for a steady and reliable connection.
show cellular security - This shows SIM lock status and modem lock status.
Once we have determined that the conditions are favourable we can go ahead and set up a modem data profile. To examine the existing data profiles configured on the equipment use the command show cellular profile.
Assuming the profile we need is not already created we will need to go ahead and create it. In order to do this we use the command cellular gsm profile create . The syntax required is as follows:
cellular <slot/wic/port> gsm profile create <profile number> <apn> <authentication> <username> <password>
cellular 0/0/0 gsm profile create 1 vodafone.apn chap 3guser 3guserpass
The data profile parameters are as follows:
apn - Access Point Name - This must be obtained from the service provider
authentication - Usually chap or pap
username - provided by service provider
password - provided by service provider
Once the data profile is properly set we then look to set up the parameters for the correct operation of the data call.
Firstly it is necessary to configure the cellular interface. The steps in summary are as follows:
1. configure terminal
2. interface cellular <slot/wic/port>
3. encapsulation ppp
4. ppp chap hostname <host>
5. ppp chap password 0 <password>
6. asynchronous mode interactive
7. ip address negotiated
The authentication parameters used here must be the same as those configured under the earlier GSM profile.
Once this is configured we need only configure the dialer and the steps for doing this in summary are as follows:
3. dialer in-band
4. dialer idle-timeout <seconds>
5. dialer string <string>
6. dialer group <number>
8. dialer-list <dialer-group> protocol <protocol-name> {permit | deny | list <access-list-number> | access-group}>
9. ip access-list<access list number>permit <ip source address>
10. line <slot/wic/port>
11. script dialer <regexp>
13. chat-script <script name> "" "ATDT*98*<profile number>#" TIMEOUT <timeout value> CONNECT
14. interface cellular <slot/wic/port>
So that should be it. Assuming the router is properly configured elsewhere, the traffic should begin to flow using the 3G interface and everything should be working just fine. Of course sometimes things dont work out quite so smoothly and I will publish a post soon detailing the steps needed to troubleshoot these types of connections when they dont work as planned.
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Cisco Open SOC
Industry Cisco Security Engineering
So a couple of days ago Cisco, it would seem, have finally released their new open source security analytics framework: OpenSOC to the developer community. OpenSOC sits conceptually at the intersection between Big Data and Security Analytics
The current totalizer on the Breach Level Index website (breachlevelindex.com) sits at almost 2.4 billion data records lost this year so far which works out approximately 6 million per day. The levels of this data loss will not be dropping anytime soon as attackers are only going to get better at getting their hands on this information. There is hope however as even the best hackers leave clues in their wake although finding these clues in enormous amounts of analytical data such as logs and telemetry can be the biggest of challenges.
This is where OpenSOC will seek to make the crucial difference and bridge the gap. Incorporating a platform of anomaly detection and incident forensics, it integrates elements of the Hadoop environment such as Kafka, Elasticsearch and Storm to deliver a scalable platform enabling full-packet capture indexing, storage, data enrichment, stream processing, batch processing, real-time search and telemetry aggregation. It will seek to provide security professionals the facility to detect and react to complex threats on a single converged platform.
The OpenSOC framework provides three key elements for security analytics:
An extremely high speed mechanism to capture and store security data. OpenSOC consumes data by delivering it to multiple high speed processors capable of heavy lift contextual analytics in tandem with appropriate storage enabling subsequent forensic investigations.
Application of enrichments such as threat intelligence, geolocation, and DNS information to collected telemetry providing for quick reaction investigations.
Centralized Perspective
The interface presents alert summaries with threat intelligence and enrichment data specific to an alert on a single page. The advanced search capabilities and full packet-extraction tools are available for investigation without the need to pivot between multiple tools.
When sensitive data is compromised, the company’s reputation, resources, and intellectual property is put at risk. Quickly identifying and resolving the issue is critical, but, traditional approaches to security incident investigation can be time-consuming. An analyst may need to take the following steps:
Review reports from a Security Incident and Event Manager (SIEM) and run batch queries on other telemetry sources for additional context.
Research external threat intelligence sources to uncover proactive warnings to potential attacks.
Research a network forensics tool with full packet capture and historical records in order to determine context.
Apart from having to access several tools and information sets, the act of searching and analyzing the amount of data collected can take minutes to hours using traditional techniques. Security professionals can use a single tool to navigate data with narrowed focus instead of wasting precious time trying to make sense of mountains of unstructured data.
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Cisco Banners
Cisco CCNA Engineering
A banner is a useful tool for sending a security message to selected visitors to the equipment. Cisco equipment uses four different banner types to provide different messages at different times and these types are exec process creation banner, incoming terminal line banner, login banner and message of the day banner.
Of these four types, message of the day is the most extensively used banner. Is message is seen by anybody connecting to the router whether they connect via Telnet, Aux port or Console port.
The image above shows the available types on the command line.
The most frequently seen type of banner is the Message of the day (MOTD) as mentioned above. When configuring this type of banner the following prompt is seen:
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Router(config)#banner motd ?
LINE c banner-text c, where 'c' is a delimiting character
Router(config)#banner motd #
Enter TEXT message. End with the character '#'.
If you are not authorised to be using this router you must disconnect immediately.
Router(config)#^z
Router#
20:25:12: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by console
Router#exit
Router con0 is now available
Press enter to get started.
Router>
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The most important part to understand is the delimiting character—this is the element that’s used to tell the router when the message is complete. Any character can be used as a delimiting character, but you can’t use the delimiting character in the message itself. Also, once the message is complete, press Enter, then the delimiting character, and then Enter again.
Below are some details of the other banners discussed:
Exec banner You can configure a line-activation (exec) banner to be displayed when an EXEC process (such as a line activation or incoming connection to a VTY line) is created. By
simply starting a user exec session through a console port, you’ll activate the exec banner.
Incoming banner You can configure a banner to be displayed on terminals connected to reverse Telnet lines. This banner is useful for providing instructions to users who use reverse Telnet.
Login banner You can configure a login banner to be displayed on all connected terminals. This banner is displayed after the MOTD banner but before the login prompts. The login banner can’t be disabled on a per-line basis, so to globally disable it, you’ve got to delete it with the no banner login command.
Here is an example of a login banner:
banner login ^C
Cisco Router and Security Device Manager (SDM) is installed on this device.
This feature requires the one-time use of the username "cisco"
with the password "cisco". The default username and password have a privilege
level of 15.
Please change these publicly known initial credentials using SDM or the IOS
CLI.
Here are the Cisco IOS commands.
username <myuser> privilege 15 secret 0 <mypassword>
no username cisco
Replace <myuser> and <mypassword> with the username and password you want to
For more information about SDM please follow the instructions in the QUICK
START GUIDE for your router or go to http://www.cisco.com/go/sdm
The above login banner should look pretty familiar—it’s the banner that Cisco has in its default configuration for its ISR routers. Again, this banner is displayed before the login
prompts but after the MOTD banner.
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Classful IP Addressing (IPv4)
Networks Cisco CCNA Engineering
IP addressing is among the most important topics in any examination of TCP/IP. The IP address is a 32 bit binary identifier which, when configured correctly, enables each machine on an IP network to be uniquely identified. It is used to allow communication with any specific device on the network.
An IP address is defined in software and is configured dynamically as needed by software whether controlled by a human or a software process (as opposed to a MAC address which is a permanent, hard coded hardware address which cannot be easily changed). IP addressing was designed to allow media independent communication between any two hosts on the same, or different, IP networks.
As a precursor to looking at IP Addressing in some detail, lets define some basic terminology.
Byte - A byte is a unit of binary information in that most commonly consists of eight bits. In the course of this post, the term Octet will also be used to represent one and the same thing.
IP Address - An IP address is a 32 bit binary number which represents, when assigned to a network device, its unique Network Layer (Layer 3) address. IP addresses are commonly described in Dotted Decimal notation for ease of human readability. Dotted Decimal notation is the conventional way of describing an IP address eg. 192.168.1.1 and is formed by separating the 32 bit IP address into 4 x 8-bit Octets, converting each Octet into a decimal number between 0 and 255 and separating each of these Octets with a dot. An IP Address is also frequently referred to as a Network Address and the terms can be used interchangeably however IP Address is by far the most common.
Broadcast Address - On any IP Network, the Broadcast Address is the address used to send to all hosts which are members of and connected to the IP Network.
As mentioned previously, an IP address is made up of 32 binary bits. It is extremely important to always bear this fact in mind when working with IP addresses as failing to do so can significantly impair ones ability to fully understand and manipulate the IP addressing system as required.
IP addresses are commonly described in one of three ways -
Dotted Decimal (As described above)
Binary (As a 32 bit binary number)
Hexadecimal (Rarely used but can be seen when addresses are stored within programs or during packet analysis)
One important aspect of an IP address is that it is an hierarchical address. This has a number of advantages not least of which is the fact that it enables addresses to be aggregated together which greatly simplifies the mechanisms which are used to route traffic around the Internet.
In IPv4 there are 4.3 billion IP addresses available in theory and without this mechanism for route aggregation it would be necessary for Internet routers to know the location of each one of these connected devices.
The hierarchical system used by IPv4 is one which separates the IP address into two components, namely a network part and a host part.
In practice this "two component" system is further split down as the host part is frequently subdivided into even smaller subnetworks. In this post however we will limit or discussion to the "two component" system.
This term, "subnetwork", (often abbreviated to subnet) is one which is used frequently within the network engineering community to such an extent that it has become part of the jargon of the trade. This has only served to enhance its status as a term which has a great deal of complexity behind it but it is actually extremely simple. A subnetwork (subnet) is any subdivision of a larger network. It really is as simple as that.
The Two Component System / Network part and Host part
In order to make IP addresses hierarchical, a two component system has been created. This system splits the IP address into two parts known as The Network Part and The Host Part. This can be likened to a telephone number where (typically) the first 4 or 5 digits represent the town or city and the subsequent 6 or 7 digits represent the individual line.
The designers of this hierarchical addressing scheme created 5 classes of IP address by splitting up the full range of 4.3 billion addresses in a logical way. These 5 classes (or subdivisions) are known as Class A, B, C, D, and E networks.
For the purposes of this post we shall concern ourselves primarily with classes A, B and C however I shall briefly introduce each of the classes in the following section.
The 5 Network Classes
The image below depicts the 5 classes of IP Network as well as some of the basic features associated with each.
Class A - Class A networks were designed for use in networks which needed to accommodate a very large number of hosts.
As can be seen from the diagram, the first bit in a Class A address is always 0.
In each of network classes A, B and C, we can also see that the addresses are split into two parts, namely Network and Hosts.
These parts can be likened to the two parts of the telephone number described earlier.
The Network part is like the city code and the Host part is like the rest of the telephone number.
As you can see from the image, the division between the Network and Host part is set after the 8th bit. This means that we have 7 bits available to represent different Networks and 24 bits available to represent the individual hosts within each of the Class A networks.
It is clear therefore that, since the first bit must always be 0, the lowest network address available is 00000000.X.X.X (0 in decimal) and the highest network address available is 01111111.X.X.X (127 in decimal).
It would seem therefore that the range of addresses available to Class A networks is 0.X.X.X up to 127.X.X.X (Where X represents the Host part) but I shall demonstrate later that the 0 and 127 networks are reserved therefore the Class A address range runs from 1.X.X.X to 126.X.X.X in practice.
Class B - In Class B networks, the split between the network part and the host part happens after the 16th bit.
In any Class B network address the first two bits must always be set to 10. This leaves 14 bits to define the network number and allows addresses to range from 10000000.00000000.X.X up to 10111111.11111111.X.X .
These binary addresses equate in decimal to the first two Octets of Class B addresses ranging from 128.0.X.X up to 191.255.X.X
Class C - The pattern now emerging is that Class C addresses use the first 3 Octets to define the Network part of their addresses. Again, as with Class A and B networks some bits are permanently defined and in the case of Class C network addresses, the first 3 bits are always set to 110.
This means that we have 21 bits available to define the network part of Class C network addresses ranging (in binary) from 11000000.00000000.00000000.X up to 11011111.11111111.11111111.X which in decimal equates to 192.0.0.X up to 223.255.255.X
Class D - Class D (224-239) is reserved for Multicast Addressing and a post based explicitly on this addressing will be published ASAP and linked to from here. Class D addressing is beyond the scope of this post however if required please click this link for more detail. Class D Networks and IP Multicasting. .
Class E - Class E (240-255) is reserved for scientific experimentation and research and if any subsequent posts on this blog examine Class E networks, they will be linked to from here.
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Not just anyBODY: a health and fitness column - Strength training for dancers - Jyotsna John
The human body thrives on movement. Well-planned, purposeful movement is the foundation to a healthy body and restrictions in movement can hinder our ability to fully experience life.
Dance is one of the more complex forms of movement. It is performed as a sequence but consists mostly of random movement. Random, in that it does not have a well-defined scientific structure to it and any move performed gracefully and to a beat can constitute dance.
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Not just anyBODY: a health and fitness column - Health Recipes 4: Quinoa stir fry wrap - Uma Pushpanathan
Per Serving: 500kj
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Mother and daughter or daughter and mother? - Aniruddha Knight
Mother, daughter, guru, disciple, friend, caretaker - a vast complex web that defined the enigma of a relationship between Balasaraswati and Lakshmi. In Balamma’s youth, her mother Jayammal played the role of manager, accompanist, mother, and guru. Through a very rocky relationship, they were the two pillars that defined what we call “dance music” (the actual method of singing for dance) today. In Balamma’s latter part of her career, particularly from the early 1960s, Lakshmi played the essential role of maintaining and pushing Balamma’s career. From ensuring the financial stability of the family to redesigning of her costume, Lakshmi was pivotal in making sure Balamma’s career moved forward in a world that was unfamiliar and unappealing to Balamma. Until Balamma’s last breath, Lakshmi was her caretaker. Balamma’s battles with cancer, diabetes, rheumatic fever and heart disease were battles that were equally fought by my mother as her own. As Balamma aged, the line between who was mother and who was daughter had blurred even further. Even 15 years after Balamma’s passing, my mother got so used to cooking and eating without salt (Balamma’s heart disease) that she would constantly forget to add salt in our meals at home!
Journeying into woman dancer’s inner world - Taalam: column by Leela Venkataraman
An uncharacteristic evening in more ways than one sponsored by Aim for Seva, as part of its fund raising efforts, ‘Antar Yatra’, conceived by Odissi artist Sharmila Biswas, was premiered in Chennai at the Music Academy auditorium on July 16. Woven round three dance forms of Bharatanatyam, Kuchipudi and Odissi from contiguous regions of the Indian Coast of the Coromandel, Antar Yatra is in the nature of a journey delving into the inner recesses of the woman dancer’s landscape of mind and thoughts.
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Footloose and fancy free with Dr. Sunil Kothari - Aishwarya Nityananda’s Bharatanatyam recital was visual poetry
Disciple of Guru Radha Sridar, Aishwarya Nityananda from Bangalore performed at the Habitat Centre in New Delhi. She choreographed a special thematic program ‘Leela Mohana Krishna’ centring round Krishna’s multiple personalities – as a god child, prankster, a model lover, hero and Supreme Being. Krishna’s various leelas were portrayed through compositions soaked in love and devotion.
Bharatanatyam duo at California’s Chinmaya Mission - Taalam: column by Leela Venkataraman
It was for me intriguingly unlike the usual run of programmes watching a recital titled ‘After Arangetram’ in California’s Irvine district - for it was after more than a decade that I was witnessing Bharatanatyam in the States, by dancers from Arpana, an established school in Irvine, run by Ramya Harishankar. It was that unmistakable Indo-American ambiance at the Los Angeles Chinmaya Centre auditorium, notwithstanding saree-clad volunteers ushering in ticket holders (unlike the Indian situation where most programmes are for an invited audience.
Of the two disciples of Ramya Harishankar featured in the programme, Kanthi Atreya and Visalini Sundaram, Visalini had had her arangetram a couple of years ago, while Kanthi the partner, studying medicine, was described as regarding Bharatanatyam as an ‘oxymoron’ giving her freedom of expression within a prescribed grammar. Suffice it to say that much like such events elsewhere, the performance clearly showed an enthusiastic duo with a joy in rendering the dance. While Visalini whose dance has the ground work, is sure to evolve with time and experience, Kanthi Atreya’s dance which has a certain flair, showed the need for more internalized emotion and less of the exuberant torso and neck deflections, tending to smudge the Bharatanatyam body line.
Tribute - Kavalam: Guru non-pareil - Methil Devika
It was yet another sleepy day at a national seminar on Mohiniyattam two decades ago. I remember the newspapers, for that extra punch, even carried a picture of me dozing while a scholar presented his paper.
During one such mid-day snooze at the 10-day seminar, something caught my attention. It was not the usual history or sampradayas that we had been mercilessly subjected to in the preceding days. Neither did the speaker throw up borrowed words of some author or scholar. On the contrary, what I heard was something so pragmatic, rustic, yet greatly appealing. I woke up to Kavalam Narayana Panikkar and to Mohiniyattam.
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Footloose and fancy free with Dr. Sunil Kothari - Devadasi, Apsara and Chali Nritya seminar at Guwahati
Prateesha Suresh, an exponent of Sattriya dance, under the aegis of her Pratishruti Foundation arranged a one day seminar and lecture demonstration / performance at Rabindra Bhawan, Guwahati on 4th July 2016. The seminar on ‘Tradition of Classical Dance and Music in Assam’ focused on Devadasi Nritya, Apsara Nritya, Chali Nritya and Classicism in Sattra singing.
It is a welcome initiative offering insights into these dance and music traditions. In spite of the fact that Sattriya dances received recognition in the year 2000 as the 8th classical dance form, a lot still needs to be brought to the attention of scholars, performers, gurus, organizers and both connoisseurs and lay public alike.
Interview - Sharmila Biswas: Antar Yatra has helped me to evolve - Kathakali Jana
Choreographer Sharmila Biswas’s latest work, Antar Yatra, is the tentative journey of a thinking artiste and her process of creating her magical world.
Three classical dance forms, songs sung in six languages, multiple voices of the narrator and a tour of seven cities, Antar Yatra is a travel through time, space and eternity.
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Interview - Rajashri Praharaj: Story of an upcoming Odissi dancer - Tapati Chowdurie
Rajashri Praharaj is the recipient of Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar this year. She is an upcoming Odissi dancer of Guru Kelucharan style of Odissi. Trained extensively by Guru Ratikant Mohapatra at Srjan, this young dancer was taken by surprise, on hearing the news of her being selected for the Bismillah Khan award.
Recently she was in Kolkata, and regaled the audience with Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra's famous choreographic work 'Sita Haran' with inputs from Guru Ratikant Mohapatra. She presented a jaw-dropping performance and fitted easily into the many roles in the piece involving high drama, which she performed solo. She was at her best. This lead dancer of Srjan's team, was again in Kolkata soon after her performance at Rabindranath Tagore centre of ICCR, to help Ratikant Mohapatra to conduct an intensive Odissi workshop with senior dancers. I took this opportunity to get her to answer a few questions at the venue of the workshop. I was curious to know what inspired and interested her to take to dancing.
Of Nattuvanars, Chinna Melam and the past to the present - Seen and Heard by Lakshmi Vishwanathan
One of the finest developments of 21st century in Bharatanatyam is the entry of the daughters, sons, and granddaughters of hereditary dancers and Nattuvanars into the field as performers and teachers. I would call this the latest Renaissance. It began in the late 20th century in small instances when the last gurus passed away, leaving sons and daughters who knew the art in practice, but did not quite have the courage to make dance a vocation gradually tested the waters. They eventually made the bold decision to treat their artistic inheritance seriously. With almost all the teachers of dance belonging to the non hereditary community steadily attracting more and more students, and thus earning sizable wealth, prestige and power, the young inheritors from families of gurus woke up to try their hand at teaching and also performing. Today they are making their mark!
Article - Understanding Sattvika abhinaya - Dr. Gauri Ponkshe
The ancient Indian idea of 'drama' varied from the present-day perception of the same. As per the ancient concept, drama did not consist of speech alone but also included mime, song and body movements including dance. And 'nāṭya', as it was termed, was, meant to evoke rasa - the divine aesthetic pleasure in the spectator. Rasa, being, the relish of human emotions happens only if the artiste's performance effectively engrosses the spectator's mind away from mundane things to a world of aesthetic beauty and bliss. According to Bharata in his Nāṭyasāstra, the 'birth of rasa' is said to be the ultimate aim of the nāṭya. This is to be achieved by the artiste by conveying intended emotions with the tool of abhinaya and other important constituents of drama. The Sanskrit word 'abhinaya' is made up of the prefix abhi 'towards' and the root ni 'to carry'. It can be understood as "disclosing the various aspects of the theme to the spectator by means of words, gestures, costumes etc." It is a suggestive imitation of the various psychological states of characters in the theme.
Anita says...July 2016
"I can float like a butterfly and sting like a bee
I am the greatest. The boldest, the prettiest, the most superior, most scientific, most skillfullest."
- American boxing and cultural icon Muhammad Ali (1942-2016)
"Time is the curtain, a walled city with doors that let you in and not out."
- Opening lines of THE RAMAYANA, written and directed by Gopal Sharman, writer, poet, musician, culture catalyst and co-founder of AKSHARA THEATRE, New Delhi (1935 - 2016).
As we mourn two very different individuals, we also mark the power of creativity and conviction. Cassius Clay aka Muhammad Ali became more than a sporting legend. He was the conscience keeper of the USA, sparring with his government and delivering the knockout punch when he refused to enroll in the army to fight the Vietnam war.
Gopal Sharman was not a sporting icon or a politician. He was the quintessential free spirit - creating, dreaming and manifesting his passion in the arts through the charming Akshara Theatre in the nation's capital. A generous host, many remember his warmth and bonhomie during the numerous plays that were staged or nurtured at Akshara.
Three more giant trees fell late last month. Aruna Sundarlal, the music patron and iconic Bengaluru cultural figure, breathed her last. Nearby, in Kerala, the giant savant Kavalam Narayana Panikker bid farewell in a peaceful final transition in his home. Another renowned artiste, noted Hindustani classical musician Veena Sahasrabuddhe, made the final transition. Odisha lost Odissi guru Kanduri Charan Behera. They are going. Fast. Quickly. Quietly. Our cultural landscape is looking sparse. Retilling the soil is becoming more and more urgent.
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Roving Eye curated by Anita Ratnam - July 2016
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Inequality: Scotland’s unmet Nordic aspirations
November 8, 2018 by Gwilym Pryce and Meng Le Zhang 3 Comments
When it comes to social policy, Scottish politicians have tended to look across the North Sea, rather than the Atlantic, for inspiration.
The desire to follow the more progressive Nordic model on issues of social and economic inequality has become one of the defining features of Scottish politics in comparison with the rest of the UK.
Since the introduction of the Scotland Act in 1998, more and more of the powers needed to achieve this “idyll” have been devolved from Westminster to Holyrood, enabling the Scottish Parliament to take a different course to its southern neighbour.
Given that 2018 is the 20th anniversary of the Scotland Act, it is a timely moment to take stock. How has Scotland fared in its aspiration to reduce inequality? And can we see divergent paths emerging in income inequality in relation to England?
Measuring inequality
One of the most commonly used ways to measure inequality is the Gini coefficient – the higher the value, the greater the inequality. If the Gini coefficient equals zero, it means that everyone has the same income. If the value equals 1, it means that one person has all the income.
In Scandinavian countries, the Gini coefficient tends to be around 0.25. So has the Scottish Gini coefficient moved closer to this figure relative to England?
Unfortunately, there don’t appear to be any published Gini coefficients for England, but we did find estimates for Great Britain as a whole, and also for Scotland. These are plotted in figure 1. We can see that since 1998/1999, the trend in the Gini coefficient for Scotland doesn’t look much different to the one for Great Britain, rising quite sharply in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis, then falling steeply, before rising again. The latest estimate suggests that inequality in Scotland is now higher that it was in 2008, moving it closer to the inequality score for Great Britain than the Nordic one.
But inequality is not just about income. The experience of inequality is driven by a whole range of factors that affect well-being over a lifetime, including access to employment, the quality of the environment and exposure to crime, among other things. So how has inequality with respect to these important outcomes fared in Scotland compared to England?
To answer this, we have looked at the extent to which poorer households tend to be located in areas that have worse air pollution, and higher crime than more affluent households, and how this has changed over time in Scotland compared with England.
The measure is similar to the Gini coefficient in terms of how it is computed, but this time it is calculated using data at the neighbourhood level, rather than on individuals. The index measures inequality across neighbourhoods within a particular locale in proximity to crime, air pollution and housing quality. Knowing how inequalities are changing at this spatial scale is important because local authorities in Scotland now have a statutory obligation to reduce inequalities within their area. Higher values of the index indicate greater levels of inequality between poor and non-poor people within a specific travel to work area.
We see from figure 2 that inequality in exposure to crime has fallen in England but seems to have risen recently in Scotland. Actually, when we take into account the uncertainty in the estimates, shown by the “error” bars – the thinner lines running across each band of colour in the graph – there is no significant change in Scotland.
Figure 3 plots inequality in environmental quality. In 2004, this was significantly higher in England than in Scotland. However, since then, environmental inequality in England has fallen steadily, whereas there appears to have been no significant change in Scotland. Our environment data for Scotland only goes as far as 2012, by which time Scottish environmental inequality was no longer significantly lower than in England.
Tricky questions
So, despite the political rhetoric and aspiration, there is no clear evidence as yet that trends in inequality in Scotland are improving compared to England. In fact, for some measures, things have been improving more in England than in Scotland. One reason for this is the fall in the concentration of poverty in inner cities, partly due to gentrification. This may have helped reduce the inequality in exposure to crime and air pollution, which tend to be higher near the centre of cities, particularly in larger cities in England.
All this raises some tricky questions for the next 20 years of devolution. What does Scotland need to do to reduce inequality to the levels of the Nordic countries? In 1999, the Scottish Parliament was given the powers to raise (or lower) income tax by up to three pence in the pound. Even if there is the political will to implement a full three pence rise in income tax, would it be enough to make any significant progress? Or will other factors, such as the suburbanisation of poverty – where poorer people are pushed out to the periphery of cities – dominate the experience of inequality?
It seems likely that more radical changes, such as significant redistribution of income, labour market reforms and major investment in deprived areas, would be needed to bring Scottish inequality close to Nordic levels. But is there really an appetite for such reform? And then there’s the trickiest question of all: is the only realistic way for Scotland to pursue the Nordic nirvana to become fully independent?
First published by The Conversation
see also on Sceptical Scot among many others: Social Mobility and Poverty in Scotland Alan Milburn podcast
and: Failing boys…via Fay Young
and: Educational inequality (3 parts) via Andrew Conway
and: Class and students via Lucy Hunter Blackburn
and: Housing via Laurie Macfarlane
and: Childhood via Carol Craig
not forgetting: Mental illness via the incomparable Darren ‘Loki’ McGarvey
nor: an early warning on the Nordics via the FT’s Richard Milne
Image: Maryhill 1971 by Nick Hedges for Shelter
Filed Under: Articles, Economics, Inequality, Politics Tagged With: inequality, poverty, Scotland
About Gwilym Pryce and Meng Le Zhang
Professor of Urban Economics and Social Statistics and Director of the Sheffield Methods Institute, University of Sheffield
and: Research associate, University of Sheffield
florian albert says
This articles begins by stating that one of the defining features of Scottish politics is its desire to follow the Nordic social and economic model.
How true is this ?
Until the 2007 electoral victory of the SNP, Scotland was defining itself as the ‘Best Small Country in the World.’ Clearly there was no need to learn from, or copy, small Scandinavian countries.
One of the most disheartening things about that particular branding exercise was that so few people objected to it. The economist, John Kay, was one of the few; pointing out that it should be left to others to make such a judgement about our country.
Since 2007, there has been an absence of what has been termed ‘the vision thing.’ Nicola Sturgeon has many strengths but political vision does not figure high on the list.
Only a minority, with Lesley Riddoch to the fore, is enthusiastic in promoting the Nordic model.
Before the 2014 referendum, Allan Little of the BBC, produced an excellent series – Our Friends in the North – on the Nordic countries and the possibility of Scotland copying from there. What stood out was how different these societies were from post-industrial Scotland.
At the core of the Nordic model is the acceptance of high taxation to fund a comprehensive welfare state. Is there a consensus in Scottish politics to allow this to happen ? I would say not. One of the main reasons for the SNP success in 2007 and 2011 was a promise to freeze the Council Tax. Yet, this policy, continued for a decade, made the already difficult task of funding welfare spending significantly more difficult.
An unwillingness to pay increased tax may be due, at least in part, to something beyond selfishness. Suppose you pay high taxes and, despite this, fail to get decent social services ? You might have to pay extra tens of thousands of pounds to buy a house in an area where your children get the decent education you want for them. The Conservative recovery in the 2017 general election in Scotland does not suggest that Scottish society is moving in the direction of the Nordic model.
Scotland seems more likely to continue with the ‘let’s stumble on and hope something turns up’ model.
Fay Young says
Is Scotland really ready for higher taxes? This year’s budget will be an interesting test of both political vision and public support. Your point about council tax is well made. It’s worth reading the latest Fraser of Allander report on Scottish economy and budget implications. Most tellingly joint author David Eiser’s comment: “The Finance Secretary does have other options to raise revenue, but may need to consider bolder ideas over the longer-term. Perhaps given the parliamentary arithmetic, 2019/20 will be the year we see steps towards genuine reform of local taxation.”
In our Sceptical Scot social mobility podcast, published a year ago, we began with Alan Milburn’s quote: ‘It has long been written in the DNA of this nation that everyone deserves a fair chance in life’.
But I often wonder if the persistent gap between rhetoric and delivery, which is such a common theme in articles published on Sceptical Scot, is the comfort zone in which many of us prefer to live – in theory wealthy middle class liberals are in favour of progressive taxation, in practice we’re happy to go along with unfulfilled promises?
Jim Edgar says
There are some interesting points raised in here that seems to support a more general point that things are not that much better than in England despite devolution. What is not discussed, and it would be difficult to do is what would have been the case had devolution not happened? I for one believe the position in Scotland would be worse purely on the basis of less influence and challenge. I am optimistic about the future as the ‘model’ develops, whatever that is, so long as it does not go backwards
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LA Dodgers 5 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 10 13 0
Pittsburgh 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 7 1
W: W. Buehler (5-1) L: M. Feliz (2-1)
4:05 PM PT5:05 PM MT6:05 PM CT7:05 PM ET19:05 ET23:05 GMT7:05 4:05 PM MST6:05 PM EST6:35 PM VEN3:05 UAE (+1)6:05 PM CT, May 24, 2019
PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Attendance: 32,388
Player AB R H RBI TB BB K AVG OBP SLG
M. Beaty, LF 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 .286 .286 .286
C. Taylor, LF-CF 3 1 2 0 3 1 0 .215 .294 .364
M. Muncy, 2B-3B 5 1 1 1 2 0 1 .267 .358 .497
J. Turner, 3B 3 1 1 0 1 0 0 .283 .378 .428
J. Pederson, PH-LF 2 1 2 1 4 0 0 .239 .352 .612
C. Bellinger, RF 5 1 1 2 4 0 0 .389 .471 .766
S. Alexander, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
Y. García, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
C. Seager, SS 3 1 1 0 1 2 0 .233 .327 .366
D. Freese, 1B 4 2 2 4 5 1 1 .239 .393 .479
K. Hernández, CF-2B 4 1 0 0 0 1 1 .216 .295 .389
A. Barnes, C 5 0 2 2 4 0 2 .233 .333 .397
W. Buehler, P 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 .048 .048 .190
R. Stripling, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .100 .182 .100
K. Garlick, PH-RF 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000
Totals 39 10 13 10 25 5 6 - - -
A. Frazier, 2B 4 0 2 1 3 0 0 .253 .307 .348
S. Marte, CF 2 0 1 0 2 1 0 .247 .286 .422
G. Polanco, RF 4 0 0 0 0 0 2 .266 .330 .500
J. Bell, 1B 4 0 1 0 2 0 1 .337 .405 .713
B. Reynolds, LF 4 1 1 0 1 0 0 .318 .376 .553
C. Moran, 3B 3 0 1 0 2 0 1 .256 .318 .410
C. Stratton, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
G. Hartlieb, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
J. Elmore, PH 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 .056 .056 .056
C. Holmes, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000
E. Díaz, C 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 .246 .279 .262
C. Tucker, SS 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 .155 .202 .262
M. Feliz, P 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - -
S. Brault, P 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 .125 .125 .125
K. Newman, 3B 2 1 1 0 2 0 0 .345 .419 .473
Totals 34 2 7 2 12 1 6 - - -
2B: LAD 4, C. Taylor (7), M. Muncy (5), A. Barnes 2 (7). Pit 5, A. Frazier (9), S. Marte (10), J. Bell (16), C. Moran (6), K. Newman (5).
3B: LAD 1, J. Pederson (3).
HR: LAD 2, C. Bellinger (18), D. Freese (4).
HR Detail: LAD, C. Bellinger (Inning: 7 , 1 Out, 1 on) off G. Hartlieb, LAD, D. Freese (Inning: 1 , 1 Out, 3 on) off M. Feliz.
Scoring Position: LAD - 4 for 14.Pit - 1 for 11.
Player IP H R ER BB K HR BFP Pit B-S ERA OpBA
W. Buehler, (W 5-1) 6.0 5 1 1 1 6 0 24 99 25 - 74 3.58 .228
R. Stripling 1.0 2 1 1 0 0 0 6 25 11 - 14 3.20 .226
S. Alexander 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 14 5 - 9 3.14 .250
Y. García 1.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 18 6 - 12 4.79 .176
M. Feliz, (L 2-1) 0.1 4 5 5 1 0 1 6 22 10 - 12 8.25 .245
S. Brault 5.2 3 2 2 3 1 0 22 98 41 - 57 7.11 .289
C. Stratton 0.1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 2 - 3 5.40 .343
G. Hartlieb 1.2 5 3 3 1 2 1 11 35 9 - 26 7.36 .353
C. Holmes 1.0 1 0 0 0 3 0 4 16 6 - 10 3.24 .235
Errors: Pit 1, C. Moran (5).
Double Plays: Pit 2, (Tucker to Frazier to Bell; Tucker to Frazier to Bell).
Stolen Bases: LAD 1, J. Turner (1).
Wild Pitches: Pit 1, G. Hartlieb.
Hit by Pitch: Pit, S. Marte by R. Stripling.
Umpires: HP--Torres, 1B--Lentz, 2B--DeMuth, 3B--Hernandez.
Attendance - 32,388
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Schmaltz makes key play as Blackhawks beat Rangers 4-1
NHL Headlines
Seattle close to naming Ron Francis GM
Blackhawks trade F Anisimov to Senators
Caps re-sign F Vrana to 2-year deal
Wild re-sign Donato, Sturm, Soucy
D Del Zotto back to Ducks on 1-year deal
Hurricanes re-sign D Fleury for 1 year
Suspended D Voynov signs with KHL team
Devils hope to convince Hall to stay
Hurricanes add F Dzingel on 2-year deal
Flyers president Holmgren steps down
(AP Photo/Matt Marton)
By JAY COHEN
CHICAGO (AP) Nick Schmaltz waited and waited until he saw an opening.
The Chicago Blackhawks are making all the right moves right now.
Schmaltz set up Alexandre Fortin's tiebreaking goal in the second period, and the surprising Blackhawks beat the New York Rangers 4-1 on Thursday night.
"It was good to see a play like that connect," Schmaltz said. "Hopefully we can keep helping the team offensively."
Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews also scored as Chicago (6-2-2) won for the third time in four games. Alex DeBrincat had a goal and an assist, and Corey Crawford made 18 saves in his fourth game after suffering a concussion last year.
The Blackhawks' solid start comes in the wake of their last-place finish last season, missing the playoffs for the first time in a decade.
"A lot of good hockey players on our team. Proud guys," coach Joel Quenneville said. "Wanted to get back to doing what we want to do, and that's play in the playoffs."
New York (3-6-1) managed just one shot on goal in the third period of its third loss in four games. Pavel Buchnevich scored in the opener of a four-game trip, and Henrik Lundqvist made 33 stops.
"That was really probably as poorly as we've played all year," coach David Quinn said. "We've done a good job of skating and competing, but that certainly wasn't the case tonight."
The Rangers also lost defenseman Adam McQuaid to an unspecified injury in the first period. Asked for an update on McQuaid, Quinn said it was too early to tell and he hadn't talked to the training staff yet.
The game was tied at 1 when Schmaltz circled around the offensive zone before taking the puck to the net and threading a pass through the goalmouth to Fortin for a tap-in 10:33 into the period. It was Schmaltz's sixth assist of the season, tied for the team lead.
"Once I saw his stick there all alone it was kind of an easy, no-brainer pass there," Schmaltz said.
The Blackhawks put it away when Kane knocked one off the post before slamming it home for his team-best ninth goal 15:39 into the third. DeBrincat added an empty-netter with 1:09 left.
"I think we got what we deserved tonight," New York forward Chris Kreider said. "We really didn't give ourselves a chance to win."
Chicago jumped in front on Toews' 298th career goal, matching Dennis Hull for sixth on the franchise list.
Toews went in all alone on Lundqvist after McQuaid and fellow New York defensemen Brady Skjei got tangled up near the blue line and fell down. The captain then slipped a shot under Lundqvist's legs for his sixth of the season 2:55 into the game.
Buchnevich responded for the Rangers, tying it with a hard wrist shot on a rebound at 4:09. It was Buchnevich's third of the year.
NOTES: Rangers F Matt Beleskey was assigned to Hartford of the American Hockey League after clearing waivers. Beleskey has appeared in just one game with New York since he was acquired in the February trade that sent Rick Nash to Boston. ... Scott Foster is going to help the Blackhawks at some optional morning skates after his memorable appearance as an emergency goaltender last season. The 36-year-old Foster, an accountant who played college hockey for Western Michigan, was pressed into action March 29 against Winnipeg and stopped all seven shots he faced over the final 14 minutes of the Blackhawks' 6-2 victory. ... D Brent Seabrook played in his 1,014th regular-season game with the Blackhawks, snapping a tie with Eric Nesterenko for third on the franchise list. Hall of Fame forwards Stan Mikita (1,394) and Bobby Hull (1,036) hold the top two spots.
Rangers: Visit the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday.
Blackhawks: Visit the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night.
Jay Cohen can be reached at https://twitter.com/jcohenap
More AP NHL: https://apnews.com/tag/NHL and https://twitter.com/AP-Sports
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Essentials Templar Cleric
by dither on August 13, 2013 at 3:23 pm
Here’s the Heroic Templar class:
Download: Essentials Templar (Cleric) v.1
The Templar rewrite is my first piece of Patreon content.
Wow, I was just talking about this earlier today. I’m really surprised by how quickly it came together. Actually, the class borrows and modifies unabashedly from numerous existing features and powers, but the important thing was bringing them together.
See, the classic Templar is a finicky class that’s mostly a leader with some controller tendencies — but you have to know which powers to pick. The Essentials Templar here removes all the ambiguity of playing a hybrid leader-controller class.
I told you earlier about the Word of Healing power, how and why I wrote it the way it is — so I’ll skip ahead to the next stuff I developed. Divine Command is a rewrite of the Cleric’s “Command” encounter power — and here is the class’s “schtick.”
Gone are the classic “Channel Divinity” powers, including the “Turn Undead” attack power of situational importance. Instead the Templar conveys his deity’s authority through the power of speech. Speaking of Speech, you’ll see Command is also a Speech power — Speech powers don’t work while you’re deafened.
Channel Divinity isn’t totally gone however, it’s now an at-will blast attack that may seem suspiciously similar to the Arcanist’s “Thunderwave” power… This is completely intentional of course, and Thunderwave was chosen because it contained just the right elements of Turn Undead to be a fantastic, all-purpose Templar attack.
Righteous Brand is back, but you’ll notice a few changes — the power uses Wisdom instead of Strength, can now be used with either a Melee *or* Ranged weapon, and provides a boost to *all* weapon attacks, not merely melee attacks.
Templars have two 1st-level features. One turns their holy symbol into a shield — appropriately named Shield of Faith — and the other, Healer’s Comfort, replaces Healer’s Lore but provides the same essential effect.
You may recognize an encounter-version of the Cleric daily utility “Blessing” — here called Battle Blessing. I like encounter powers a lot more than I like daily powers. At 6th level the Templar picks up Divine Sanctuary, an encounter utility with the Ward keyword that provides the same essential effect as “Sanctuary.”
The Templar’s capstone utility is Sign of the Shattered Spear, which is inspired by the Invoker encounter attack power, “Symbol of the Broken Sword.” Here however, the Templar can affect multiple enemies in a blast, and apply a more significant penalty than “can’t make non-basic attacks” which is a poor debuff against any monster.
Check it out, I think you’ll like this Heroic-tier replacement of the Templar.
As always, play at your own risk.
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2010 NBA Draft Winners and Losers
Posted by zhayes9 on June 25th, 2010
Zach Hayes is an editor, contributor and bracketologist at Rush the Court.
Now that the Draft is complete, time to look back at Thursday night’s winners and losers, from coaches to NBA teams to players to conferences and everything in between:
Paul George saw his stock skyrocket all the way to #10 and the Pacers, Al Bello/Getty Images
Big 12 – One of the premier college basketball conferences has gained quite a surge of momentum in the last few weeks. Big 12 commish Dan Beebe convinced Texas it was in their best interests to keep the league in tact even after the defections of Colorado and Nebraska, two of the more downtrodden BCS-conference hoops programs in the country. After chopping off those two anchors, a ten-team, 18-game round robin format has been agreed to starting in 2012. The Big 12 momentum only continued at the draft on Thursday where an astonishing seven of the top 24 selections reside from the conference (and Kentucky isn’t even a member). Baylor’s Ekpe Udoh, Kansas’ Cole Aldrich and Xavier Henry, Texas’ Avery Bradley and Damion James, Oklahoma State’s James Anderson and Iowa State’s Craig Brackins, not to mention Cyclone transfer Wes Johnson, were all nabbed in the first 24 picks. The Big 12 barely trailed the ACC in terms of overall conference strength last season and the results of the first round only confirmed those numbers.
John Calipari – As Fox Sports Jeff Goodman astutely pointed out, expect plenty of John Calipari mug shots in near future drafts unless he bolts for a dream NBA job. Five of his Kentucky Wildcats from one recruiting class were taken in the first round on Thursday, from John Wall at #1 overall to Daniel Orton at #29. Next year could see two more Kentucky players announced early in the draft in center Enes Kanter and point guard Brandon Knight with forward Terrence Jones another potential first rounder. In 2011-12 when Marquis Teague, Michael Gilchrist and another top ten recruit TBD join Big Blue Nation, it’ll be the same Calipari hugging his revolving door of players on a June night in NYC. Don’t think this is just Calipari doing this for his departing players or that recruits are not noticing. He’s fully aware of what his face constantly showing up on ESPN’ s cameras means: furthering his reputation of sending talented players to the riches of the NBA. And quickly.
Paul George – It’s been a quick ascension for George, a workout wonder who saw his draft stock shoot up in the last few weeks until he landed to Indiana at #10. It’s doubtful even George saw this coming after being lightly recruited out of Palmdale, Calif, and settling on Fresno State for his college choice. George saw both his FG% and 3pt% plummet from his freshman to sophomore seasons and he only upped his PPG by 2.5 and RPG by 1.0 along with very low assist totals. He also played for a 15-18 WAC team against far more inferior competition than, say, Kansas’ Xavier Henry, who went one pick later to Memphis. Henry averaged 13.5 PPG, shot 46% from two and 42% from three on a team filled with players who needed touches.
Greivis Vasquez’ reaction – I don’t think anyone who watched Greivis Vasquez play four years at Maryland was surprised when they saw the emotional Venezuelan surrounded by family and friends in the crowd at Radio City Music Hall waiting for his name to be chosen. Vasquez has been projected as an early-to-mid second round pick- a scorer, leader and improved floor general that simply lacks the lateral quickness to defend NBA guards. Yet rumblings surfaced that Memphis loved Vasquez at #28. Sure enough, when he was pegged at that exact spot, the only outward, raw emotion we saw Thursday night emerged as Vasquez pumped his fist, hugged his family and practically sprinted to shake David Stern’s hand on the draft stage. Congratulations to Greivis.
College seniors into the first round – It wasn’t a particularly memorable night for some accomplished seniors, but five of them ended up being selected near the end of the first round, more than was anticipated just a week or so ago when Damion James was the only sure pick. Instead, Clemson’s Trevor Booker actually went one spot ahead of James. Washington’s Quincy Pondexter, the aforementioned Vasquez and Marquette’s Lazar Hayward were also pegged in the opening round. To see these college seniors (especially Hayward, whom I know personally is a fantastic kid) rewarded for sticking it out in school for four years is one of the reasons why we watch the NBA Draft. Seeing five seniors picked in the first round was truly one of the more pleasant surprises of the night.
Da’Sean Butler – Speaking of seniors who represented their program with nothing but grace, class and heart, Da’Sean Butler was picked at #42 by the Miami Heat just two and a half months after that crushing ACL tear ended a remarkable West Virginia career and sent his basketball future into serious question. If this Outside the Lines feature gives us any hint into his road to recovery, it appears Butler may be ready to contribute this season either in the D-League or even with the Heat. Butler provided the Mountaineer faithful and college hoops fans around the country with countless clutch shots and unforgettable moments. If you want to root for someone from this draft, it’s Da’Sean Butler.
Miami Heat – Speaking of the Heat, Pat Riley and his fellow Miami front office cohorts made another big stride towards bringing an Eastern Conference powerhouse to South Beach. By sending three-point specalist Daequan Cook to the Oklahoma City Thunder, the Heat were left with just two players under contract- Mario Chalmers and Michael Beasley- before the draft got underway. More importantly, this now allows them to sign three max free agent contracts this summer. Anyone up for a Wade-Amare-Joe Johnson trio surging to the top of the East?
Los Angeles Clippers – No, that’s not a typo. The Clippers had a fantastic draft night. I’m the last person to be grading draft performances the day after (we should be grading the 2006 Draft right now, not 2010), but the Clippers grabbed three players at tremendous value for their spots: Wake Forest’s Al-Farouq Aminu at #8 as a rebounder and leaper with a high ceiling, a trade for Eric Bledsoe at #18 who is a fantastic third guard with an NBA ready frame and Oklahoma’s Willie Warren at #54, an ultimate buy-low selection who was projected to be a lottery pick at this time last year but fell due to an illness and injury plagued combustive season in Norman. He could be a deadly shooter for the Clips right away.
Disappointment in June, not April, for Scheyer/ Examiner.com
Losers:
NCAA Tournament heroes of the past – Omar Samhan emerged as the most memorable personality of the Tournament in Saint Mary’s unexpected triumphs over Richmond and Villanova. Jon Scheyer and Brian Zoubek formed the inside-outside duo for a team that won the national championship in dramatic fashion. Sherron Collins made the famous falling down pass to Mario Chalmers. Scottie Reynolds coast-to-coast layup to topple Pitt was the shot of the 2009 Dance. None of these players heard their name called last night, meaning they’ll either try to start a career overseas or latch on to a Summer League squad in an attempt to make a positive impression.
A.J. Ogilvy – Many times we judge early entry players that are projected to go second round or undrafted without knowing their personal circumstances. Some players need the money for their family (Samuels), some can’t survive another year in the classroom (Bledsoe) and some just didn’t mesh with their college coach and didn’t feel like enduring the transfer process (Landesberg, Fortson, Harris, Warren). That’s fine. One of those reasons could apply to A.J. Ogilvy, I’m honestly not sure. But the 6’11 Australian big man bolted Nashville after a disappointing season and not one expert thought he’d be drafted. Rather than return to school, make an all-SEC preseason team and pair with Jeffrey Taylor, Brad Tinsley and John Jenkins for a likely top-25 squad, Ogilvy will now likely have to make due overseas, an opportunity seemingly lost.
Memphis Grizzlies – I don’t necessarily dislike the Grizzlies three first round draft choices of Xavier Henry, Dominique Jones and Greivis Vasquez. Here’s the problem: they all play the same position (unless they view Vasquez as someone that can run the point). Normally with three picks in the opening round, nabbing a big man, guard and wing is the strategy unless there’s a glaring weakness on the roster that needs to be overhauled. Last time I checked, O.J. Mayo is a shooting guard and it’s Rudy Gay, the 6’8 small forward, that could leave town in free agency. While I feel like Henry should have been a top ten pick, Jones can score with just about anyone in the Draft and Vasquez certainly has his skills, it’s a puzzling strategy to use those valuable picks in this fashion.
Solomon Alabi – The biggest slider of the night was Florida State’s Solomon Alabi. A raw shot blocker and rebounder with pretty much no discernable offensive game other than open dunks that are less plentiful in the NBA, Alabi decided to forgo his final two seasons in Tallahassee for a likely late first round selection at Thursday’s draft. Only issue is that the 7’1 Alabi went #50 to Dallas after being picked to go as high as #19 to Boston in a Chad Ford mock draft this week. Quite the slide for Alabi, who probably thinks losing in the first round at Florida State in 2011 looks pretty good right now.
Rick Barnes is still wondering what happened
Rick Barnes – Texas had a relatively big night on Thursday with three of their starters going in the top 32 picks- Avery Bradley at 19, Damion James at 24 and Dexter Pittman at 32. This makes their unexpected collapse last season, one in which they plummeted from #1 team in January to unranked and beaten in the first round by Wake Forest as a 8-seed, all that more staggering. What does it say about Rick Barnes that his team underachieved so dramatically with all of that talent? While I’m sure Barnes and the Texas faithful were proud to see three of their players drafted early, they have to wonder what could have been in 2009-10.
Pac-10 – Ragging on the Pac-10 is like taking candy from a baby at this point. Still, it has to be pointed out this supposed power conference only produced one first rounder (Pondexter) and one second rounder (Stanford’s Landry Fields, who wasn’t even expected to be selected, thanks Knicks!) in last night’s draft. It doesn’t look great for next year’s draft either. UCLA’ s Malcolm Lee? Washington State’s Klay Thompson? Washington’s Isaiah Thomas? Arizona’s Derrick Williams? I realize these things go in cycles, but it’s been a brutal last 24 months for Pac-10 basketball fans in terms of breadth of talent.
Paul Allen – Firing your GM the day of the draft and then forcing him to make the picks? A GM that helped bring the franchise out of the depths of the Jail Blazers era and traded for Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge (the Oden pick wasn’t nearly as indefensible when it happened)? As Seth Meyers and Amy Poehler would say…really Paul Allen?!?
Wes Johnson’s checkered pants – Easily the most hideous look of the night went to Syracuse’s Wes Johnson, who received some horrible advice and opted to wear his pajama bottoms, a yellow undershirt and a suit with puzzling button placement to the draft festivities. Even Jalen Rose was laughing.
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July 9, 2009 | by Michael Oliver | in Online Only |
Limp_BizKit_Rollin_96khz.mp3: Thoughts on Jazzy and Bobby.
It’s important to mention that this is pure opinion. Despite my position as News Editor calling for something akin to “impartiality”, I flick that hat aside and invite you all to sit down by the fire whilst I tell you a tale.
This Wednesday, students will be offered a rare opportunity to gather at a bar—let me finish—and fire two members of their association’s exec. President Jasmine Freemantle and Education Officer (Welfare) Robert Latimer will stare down the gauntlet of their peers and face motions of no confidence in their performance.
Concerns have bubbled to the fore in recent times about the way the execeteers we’ve come to call Jazzy and Bobby have rolled and patrolled. Freemantle has suffered slings from (former) members of her own exec and arrows from the starched shirts of her old political sorority “Magna-cum-Workers Par-tay”, while Bobby has seemingly dicked around for the better part of the year, moseying around Mount Street’s drinklatory and mouthing nonsensical gibberish to exec, media, and anyone with a pair of ears.
I have had the pleasure—and I say this in all sincerity, my self-esteem has never been so high—of reporting on the ebbs and flows trickling out of VUWSA’s office throughout the Year of Our Lord 2009.
I have watched with keen interest the methodical and inscrutable way Freemantle has conducted business. She inherited an Association in dire need of saving: the tenets governing sound and simple business had been conveniently ignored over the years and the association suffered tremendously as a result.
She is an enigma; a non-nonsense authoriatron whose knowledge of VUWSA mechanics is staggeringly encyclopaedic on one hand, but sports a cheeky gigglitronic disposition on the other. She recites policy with the erudite tongue of someone who paid attention in Media Training 101, and says “What the fuck is that?” the same way people you know might say it.
To her credit, Jasmine has exercised all efforts to turn what was a floundering entity starved of direction, energy and insight into something that can at least, well, function.
Comedian Jon Stewart once explained that he never cared if former President George W. Bush was a “nice guy or not,” saying he would rather have an incompetent dick than a friendly buffoon. Behold, my feelings on President J. Freemantle unfurled. The excuses touted by the likes of Latimer, former exec members Marika Pratley and Kassie Hartendorp that her no-nonsense style has impinged so deftly upon their roles, they have no recourse but to quit, rings petty in the ears of anyone who’s worked with someone tough.
We’ve ALL worked alongside douchebags. Cast your mind back to primary school when you were put in reading groups with the kid who insisted upon making fart sounds every time a page was turned. Think about the times you were in a “technology challenge” group, and one kid took a roll of newspaper between their legs and said, “LOOK AT MAH HUGE DIK!” Think about the drooling goob who hit on you in your first post-high school job; consider the bitch who left half-empty coffee mugs in the kitchen sink while you were interning; take a stroll around the boss who wouldn’t let you go home until you’d finished writing that report. Shit, think of every time you’ve had to work with someone who didn’t jive the way you jived.
I’m not suggesting that El Presidente is a douchebag, nor am I saying she is easy to work with, for both claims I haven’t sufficient evidence hither or thither. What I will say is that if Freemantle is a tough cookie to work for, cavorting about the ‘Land of Quit’ is not going to do anyone any favours. Why, think of those half-filled CVs of those abandoned execateers. “Why did you leave your last job?” “Oh, Jasmine, AKA HITLER, said she didn’t like how I…” The crosses some people bear, am I right?
She has her faults, sure, but a cursory glance at her work reports would show that she’s at least doing an admirable impression of a real-life president.
In turn, I’ve watched Bobby Latimer churn out valueless verbosity masquerading as intelligent discourse in what I can only presume is an attempt to cover his hide from critique. He has made mistakes, the most notable being the lack of due care required when in charge of precious confidential information.
Regardless of whether his laptop was stolen or misplaced, Latimer took an unspoken oath of authority and pledged to ensure the information under his watch was his responsibility. The exec picked up the pieces, but instead of humbly thanking his colleagues for taking the bump on his behalf, he took umbrage for being referred to as “Latimer” throughout its written apology, and boo-booed all explanations in his own endearing fashion. A less scrupulous individual may have conveyed this through excessive urination on the floors of VUWSA’s office, but ours is not to piss, but to take the piss.
By-elections in this shape are expensive, gamey wastes of time. As Jackson will explain in his coming editorial, the democratic process is rarely enhanced by this hump in the middle of the road. There needs to be nominations, then electioneering, then voting, then training, then perhaps a couple of months of work before rinse and repeating the process again for 2010. Stop and think about this: five execateers have blown the whistle halfway through the game. Granted, two were legitimate resignations, but the others smack of “Fuck you, my ball and I are outta here.” Why? Because someone’s mean in the state of Denmark.
Consider this before you saddle up to the Mount Street speakeasy an hour after high noon on Wednesday: you will be asked whether a person—who for all intents and purposes has performed competently—should be turfed because she got the grumps once upon a time. You will be asked whether you consent to an interim President—a figurehead of policy, advocacy, and employment—phoning it in for the remainder of the year, leaving your association treading water until next year.
In Latimer, you will be asking yourself whether the guy who brings Food Bank bread to VUWSA’s office every Wednesday has earned his part-time cheque or not.
Following that kafuffle, I (and many others I presume, and hope) will be asking VUWSA for one favour: do some work, for the love of all god, do some fucking work. Finish this year the way you began: eager, enthused and excited. We’ll chuck $2m your way next year if you do. Smirk.
Now, excuse me while I sign this off by pissing all over the ground floor of the SUB. I’m nothing if not symbolic.
Kia ora, biography box, kia ora.
Matthew_Cunningham says:
Well said, Mr Oliver. Well said.
Fox Box says:
latimer is a waste of money and time. he spends more time at the bar than doing what he was elected to do.
gruffin says:
how was this man elected?
Madness says:
Christ, what a joke, why don’t you just go down on her? what sort of news sheet is this that we’re funding? a senior writer with an obvious bias. I guess you’ll be applying for Salient Editor this year?
Andrew Jameson says:
lol getting upset over opinion pieces about student politics
Hey Madness. Think you can do better? Come see me in the office.
The only bias shown by MJO here is a bias towards competence over incompetence.
The reason why I hired MJO is because I too have a bias towards competence over incompetence.
PS it is student politics: no one gives a fuck.
Sparta says:
Madness, it’s me.
Iron Maiden says:
Can I play with Madness?
Dear Fedex,
As Jacqui mentioned at our Fedex meeting on Sunday, a petition has been put together by 10 Victoria University students to consider a motion to roll me as VUWSA President. Under the VUWSA Constitution, the names of 10 (or more) students attached to such a petition forces the VUWSA Executive to hold a Special General Meeting (SGM) for the purpose of putting forward the motion. This SGM is being held this coming Wednesday 15 July, 1pm, at the Mount Street Bar, Level 1, Student Union Building, Kelburn campus (another VUWSA Executive member, Welfare Officer Robert Latimer, will also be contesting the same motion at this SGM). The meeting must get at least 100 enrolled Victoria University students in order to achieve quorum, and at least 2/3rds of those students present must vote to ‘roll’ me for me to be removed from office. The last time anyone at VUWSA was rolled was in 1988. This may surprise you. Certainly, there are plenty of times that the VUWSA President probably should have been rolled. Such as in 2007 when President Geoff Hayward spent over $20 thousand dollars of unapproved student money on pimping out the VUWSA van. Or last year, when 2008 President Joel Cosgrove used student money to travel to Australia (under the somewhat ironic guise) of undertaking research into the state of voluntary student associations, when in reality he spent his time at two socialist junkets. By contrast, those familiar with VUWSA will know that I am a fairly popular President, certainly more so than any president VUWSA has ever had. My platform at VUWSA has been extremely public and accountable: I was elected VUWSA President on a platform of building a sustainable and accountable students’ association. I have actively worked towards achieving this every day of my term so far. I have little interest in petty politics, which helped win me personal support (and I hope, assurance that VUWSA is doing a good job) from members of political parties across the spectrum. However, my year so far has been far from easy. The Association I inherited had, to put it mildly, seen better days. Joel Cosgrove left me with a bunch of outstanding grievances from VUWSA staff members, an extremely messy collective agreement with Unite Union, and a complete lack of even the most basic organizational functions and procedures (for instance, when I started on 1 January I discovered that Joel hadn’t even checked his landline or cell phone messages since September 2008). I have now settled the grievances, the VUWSA-Unite collective, and have made steady progress towards a complete overhaul of just about every aspect of VUWSA’s governance, management, and operations. So far this has included (among other things) designing and implementing two major staffing restructures, overseeing the redevelopment of VUWSA’s Food bank service, developing and implementing VUWSA’s first ever Strategic and Operational Plan, introducing an Association Manager, and overhauling VUWSA’s class representative training. For more information you can check out my weekly work reports at http://www.vuwsa.org.nz Strangely, those that have put together the petition have still not really given any reasons for wanting to roll me. There have been a few murmurs on the Salient blog about me ‘spending too much money on legal fees’, and the odd mention about my ‘lack of accountability’. The latter claim is completely unfounded. As part of an initial review of how the VUWSA Executive reports on what we do and how we communicate with students I developed and implemented the following: weekly work reports by all Executive members (which are on our website; a blog function will also be added shortly), as well as monthly and quarterly reviews by all Executive members against the Strategic and Operational Plan. I have also restarted weekly Student Representative Council (SRC) meetings, which have been held every week during term time this year. These meetings provide students with a regular opportunity to pose questions of Executive members and help keep the Exec accountable to the student body. The first claim about legal fees is even more ridiculous. Granted, VUWSA has run over budget on legal fees. However, almost all (I’d say roughly 95%) of VUWSA’s 2009 legal expenditure has been as a direct result of Joel Cosgrove (and to a lesser extent, Geoff Hayward) leaving the Association in a right royal mess. You can read more about the ins and outs of this on my blog: http://expelledfromworkersparty.blogspot.com I want to continue the work that I have already begun at VUWSA, and I really appreciate the support that NZUSA, TMA and campus president’s have provided to me concerning this. It would be appreciated if Fedex members and others who are in Wellington could attend the SGM and speak in support of me. It would also be appreciated if you could send a brief statement to me showing your support. I am happy to provide any further information should you require it.
Regards, Jasmine Freemantle VUWSA President
Ph: 04 463 6986 Cell: 027 563 6986
Insanity says:
Yeah… That is pretty much the same as her presidents column… What’s your point?
Her point ‘Insanity’, is that the silly girl has been trying to gather support from as many groups associated with students all over the country — because of her paranoia and fear that she may actually have been rolled. She knows people hate her. The Beast is well aware of that. People see through her – they just don’t do anything about it. Her ‘friends’ even see through her but their willing to carry on with the pretence so as to protect themselves from attack.The reason why many of those of the various groups she asked for support, maori, pacific, unions, student executives, other students from other tertiary institutions didn’t turn up is because few actually support this president – and those that do backstab her – but she knows this and it doesn’t worry her because she actually doesn’t need allies – most sociopaths don’t.
“The reason why many of those of the various groups she asked for support, maori, pacific, unions, student executives, other students from other tertiary institutions didn’t turn up is because few actually support this president – and those that do backstab her”
I’d figure that, in fact, if those groups didn’t support Jasmine ‘The Beast’ Freemantle (I like that name, by the way, makes her sound like some sort of WWE wrestler instead of the VUWSA President she is), they would’ve actually turned up to the quorum thingy and rolled her arse, instead of, you know, not turned up. In fact, I’d say the fact that they didn’t turn up is more indicative of the overwhelming sense of apathy that the majority of students have towards student politics at their fair uni. But that’s fine. Just don’t go running around running your mouth off about things you’re clearly too worked up about to rationalise.
Also, and I may be wrong here, and if I am, I stand corrected, but I was under the impression that students from other tertiary institutions can’t actually vote in VUWSA quantums, largely because they aren’t members of VUWSA. But, y’know, whatever makes your rhetoric sound more exciting and all that.
she’s good, but nothing to write home about it would seem, but after a stream of fucking awful presidents (i dont think students realise just how bad those guys were) someone competent is gonna look like a million bucks comparatively.
anyway roll the whole fucking exec set vuwsa on fire
FACEPALM says:
Jenn – “The reason why many of those of the various groups she asked for support, maori, pacific, unions, student executives, other students from other tertiary institutions didn’t turn up is because few actually support this president – and those that do backstab her”
Yeah the attendance of representatives from ngai tauira, the national maori students association president, STUDiO, UniQ, LSS, all the student association presidents in the Wellington region and one from Palmerston North or some unfortunate area, the VBC, and other campus groups was a *REAL* backstab for Jasmine.
If anything it highlighted Latimer’s lack of any support and lack of allies. He should be counting himself lucky it didnt reach 100 people. Otherwise I’m pretty sure he’d be gone.
External people dont count for quorum, that’s why the MC made that clear, and the meeting failed to reach the 100.
CRP says:
Jenn, if you are going to spout such vitriol (having obviously not done your research – e.g. have you ever met with Freemantle? She maintains an open door policy and will speak to anyone who has concerns. She’s made this quite clear a number of times) you should really reveal who you are. In the meantime, you just look like a self righteous coward who gets off on criticising for criticism’s sake, and it’s rather pathetic.
Darth Laid Her says:
I had sex with Jenn. I nailed that slut up against the cross and crrrrrrrucified her.
I’m so turned on right now.
T.T says:
Thanks for this column, it’s nice, it really is. People love to hate student politicians, and in many cases not without justification. In the case of Freemantle, she has actually done a great job, and is actually COMPETENT, unlike that nut job He-Who-Must-Be-Shamed previous president. In our current situation, criticism is almost-completely without reason, especially considering the presidential precedent. Keep it up Jasmine, you’ve got my support.
Jizzman says:
Had sex with jenn did ya Darth Laid Her, turned on are you CRP? You both deserve to be gang raped.
Att FACEPALM – WRONG – we all know it was done in the typical way, secretly, furtively and with cynical self-preservation in mind. An egotistical sociopath AND EVRYBODY KNOWS IT. Profile of the Sociopath
This website summarizes some of the common features of descriptions of the behavior of sociopaths.
The Sociopath
Glibness and Superficial Charm
Manipulative and Conning
Never recognize the rights of others
See their self-serving behaviors as permissible
Appear to many to be charming, yet are hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used.
They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
Grandiose Sense of Self
Feels entitled to certain things as “their right.”
a pathological liar – has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis.
Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing.
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt
A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and ACCOMPLICES WHO END UP AS VICTIMS. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
Shallow Emotions
When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
Incapacity for Love
Need for Stimulation
Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.
Callousness/Lack of Empathy
Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others’ feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.
Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature
Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency
Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet “gets by” by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
Irresponsibility/Unreliability
Not concerned about wrecking others’ lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity
Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.
Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle
Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.
Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility
Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.
cum fart says:
OH WOW YEAH TOTALLY> SHE IS A *SOCIOPATH* THANKS> GET OUT SOME MORE>>>
Deja Jew says:
HOLY CRAP. That’s what I was thinking about Freemental. Thanks Jenni. I’m going to alert the EVIL SUPER VILLIANS
It’s just fucking student politics. Who gives a fuck? Let Freemental be the king of this stinking garbage heap.
This ship is going down. Enjoy this clip…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPirYDvwM30
*EVIL SUPER VILLIANS POLICE PROTECTION UNIT
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The Rock-itt : January 2010
The five member well known band called 'Bagster' who supported Real Big Fish on two National Tours, amongst the likes of Goldfinger and Guttermouth , supported Pennywise, and Canadian band Billy Talent are now a tight 3 member heavy punk rock band called 'Brother'. Gone is the brass that 'Bagster' used as their trademark to a different sound the remaining three members have longed to play. Now 'Muse' guitar riffs and metal like bridges tie up great sounding different music. The songs are epic tales told with energetic musical compositions influenced by punk, metal and rock. Mitchell Johnson on drums, Koby Geddes on vocals and guitar, and Paul Anderson on bass is all that's needed to create their masterpieces. 'Brother' influences include a background of Punk Rock bands such as Bad Religion, NoFX, and Propaganda, Metal influences such as Sikth and Opeth, and healthy rock influences such as Muse and Baroness. 'Brother' have just come back from a Melbourne tour delivering the new sound to packed audiences. Known well to the Melbourne scene as Bagster, they were a little uncertain about how their new music would be accepted. Their fears were unrealised as the crowd responded well to each new song played and were hungry for the free CD's 'Brother' threw to the crowds at the end of each show. 'Brother' played three gigs on this Melbourne tour, starting on the Friday night at Birmingham Hotel along with a well known Melbourne band, 'The Statics' (pop/rock). An in store appearance at "Fist to Face" enabled Brother to pass out more free CD's to promote their new sound to the passing crowds. A final gig at Bang Nightclub in Melbourne (similar to 'Hot Dam' on a Thursday night at Spectrum nightclub on Oxford Street in Sydney), supporting "Bombs Away' cemented their new arrival on the Melbourne scene as 'Brother'. 'Brother' plan to record demo CDs over the next 12 months in preparation for a longer production of a 20 song CD with Sunline Studios. They will continue their tours to Melbourne, the Gold Coast and Brisbane as well as playing regular gigs here in Sydney. 'Brother' have enough new music to do a 35 minute set, and if the response by the Melbourne crowd is any indication you should try to get to one of their gigs here in Sydney. You can see them at the Landsowne on Broadway, Adgen Court Hotel Broadway, Oxford Tavern in Wollongong or the Sandringham in Newtown.
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1a) Register with Identi.ca in http://identi.ca/
1b) With Gmail Chat or Gtalk invite [email protected] as a friend. (Buddy list)
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A confirmation message will be sent in your Gmail Chat or Gtalk.
For those of you who never use the Gmail you can signup by visiting this link
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Gmail Chat is a software architecture in Gmail and Gtalk is the client.
To download Gtalk visit http://www.google.com/talk/
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Savor Chat is a very simple FREE group chat application for Facebook and Twitter users. Finally, an application that brings Facebook and Twitter users closer than ever.
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Born and raised in Singapore, classical guitarist Kevin Loh is a recipient of the 2010 HSBC Youth Excellence Award for Musical Excellence and was talent-scouted by The Yehudi Menuhin School via his YouTube channel when he was only 12 years old and was awarded a grant by The Rolling Stones to study at the prestigious music school.
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Ready for the Tour de Romandie
The 72th Tour de Romandie will start tomorrow with the 4km prologue in Fribourg and will finish, after five stage, next Sunday in Geneve. The route of the Swiss race, which dates back to 1947, is very demanding with the second stage ending in Yverdon-les-Bains...
Kanstantsin Siutsou grabs Tour of Croatia
Zagreb (Croatia), April 22nd – After Vincenzo Nibali in 2017, it is still a BAHRAIN MERIDA Pro Cycling Team rider to be crowned overall winner of the Tour of Croatia in St. Mark Square in Zagreb. Kanstantsin Siutsou easily defended his red leader’s jersey in...
Protagonists at the Doyenne
Liège, 22nd April, 2018 - The Doyenne ends with the 5th place of Domenico Pozzovivo and the 6th of Enrico Gasparotto at the end of a race that has been lit in the last 40 kilometers. Very hot day and lots of public on the...
BAHRAIN MERIDA Pro Cycling Team partners up with Sport Plus Health
Sport Plus Health is the virtual coach with training plans shaped by Paolo Slongo, that since the start of the year supports Team BAHRAIN MERIDA. It is an application made for Android and iOS available in the Cycling, Running and MTB versions. With SPH you can track, analyze and review all your trainings, you...
Manuele Boaro won the stage to Učka mountain at Tour of Croatia
Saturday, 21th April – Manuele Boaro won a hard climbing stage, 156,5 km long from touristic town Rabac to the steep finish on the Učka mountain in the National Park. Not even 13% climb didn’t stop Manuele to attack hard in the last 500m. Maunuele left...
Et voilà La Doyenne
It’s time for La Doyenne. Tomorrow,in fact, the 104th edition of the Liège-Bastogne-Liège will take place. The route of the fourth of the five Monuments of the season will be almost 260 kilometers with 11 côtes, four of which with slopes of more than 10%....
Kanstantsin Siutsou kept Red and Green Jerseys after the 4th stage at Tour of Croatia
Friday, 20th April – Kanstantsin Siutsou kept both jerseys from yesterday’s hard Stage at Tour of Croatia. He still has 8 seconds advantage in General Classification before tomorrow's challenging stage. Today’s stage started in National park Paklenica. Stage was 171 km long and it took riders on...
Padun took a solo win in Innsbruck and Pozzovivo is second overall
Innsbruck (Austria) April 20th – The rainbow shines for BAHRAIN MERIDA Pro Cycling Team today in Innsbruck, finish of the final stage of the Tour of the Alps and city that will host the 2018 World Championships in September. The “Capital of the Alps” crowns...
Kanstantsin Siutsou won the hardest stage at Tour of Croatia
Thursday, 19th April – Kanstantsin Siutsou is the winner of today’s climbing stage on the top of National Park Biokovo, Sv. Jure 1760 m at the 3rd Stage of Tour of Croatia. After yesterday’s set-back and windy and grey 2nd Stage of Tour of Croatia,...
Pozzovivo grabs Green Jersey in Lienz
Lienz (Austria), April 19th - Stage 4 of the Tour of the Alps from Chiusa/Klausen to Lienz (km 134,3km) sees another great performance of BAHRAIN MERIDA Pro Cycling Team and his captain Domenico Pozzovivo, who attacks on the second categorized climb of the day -...
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A good TTT opens the Tirreno-Adriatico
Lido di Camaiore, 7th March 2018 - In the inaugural Tirreno-Adriatico’s team time trial, the TBM closes in eleventh position with a 49 seconds gap from the team stage winner the American BMC Racing Time. Among the best Kanstantsin Sioutsou: "It's been a long time since...
Gap expanded to 35 seconds
Chaâtel-Guyon, Tuesday 6th March – The longest rather flat stage with a cat 3 climb 20 km before the finish line which expanded the gap in the GC standings for Gorka Izagirre to 35 seconds. »It was not a real climb stage. We expected that...
After Stage 2 at Paris Nice Gorka kept the 2nd overall position
Vierzon, Monday 5th March – Today’s stage was 187,5 km long and flat with a temperature of 8°C and it took us from the tiny village of Orsonville – 400 inhabitants – to the town of Vierzon in Centre-Val de Loire. After the start a block...
Tirreno-Adriatico: Vincenzo and Domenico for GC, Sonny for stages
With the traditional Lido di Camaiore's Team Time Trial will start on Wednesday the 53rd edition of the Tirreno-Adriatico: The Race of the Two Seas. The route is quite classic with two stages for sprinters, two years for the finesseurs, an uphill finish which will...
And then there was sun at Paris Nice Stage 1
Meudon, Sunday 4th March – A rather short (135km), very cold and wet opening stage in the Paris – Nice today where our Gorka Izagirre and Arnaud Démare made a heat in the last meters of the race in sunny Meudon. It was an adrenaline...
Solo victory for Matej
Great victory for Matej Mohoric at the end of GP Larciano. The 23-year-old Slovenian was the first over the finish line after a splendid solitary action and a pretty creepy descent. “I have to thank all my teammates – says Matej – for the great work...
Cycling is life … it’s everything for Heinrich Haussler
Vélizy, March 4th 2018 - One of the most experienced riders of Team BAHRAIN MERIDA Heinrich Haussler on the eve before Paris-Nice 2018 spoke with us about his recent injury and the endless motivation for future races. Heinrich Haussler, despite all the recent inconveniences in his...
Visconti excellent 5th in Piazza del Campo
“I had been thinking about Strade Bianche for a long time – said Giovanni Visconti, 5th over the finish line in Siena – and this morning I started with the best I had. It was a special day for me. Near Montalcino I even thought...
An experienced line-up for Larciano
Next Sunday the Team will be at the start of the 41st edition of the Grand Prix Industria e Artigianato in Larciano, a small village in the center of Tuscany. The route will cover almost 200 kilometers and it’s the same of last season: the...
Strong line-up heading to France
Thursday, 1st March 2018 - The 76th edition of Paris-Nice will take place from Sunday, 4th March to Sunday, 11th March 2018. Beside the Grand Tours, it is one of the most famous and important races on the UCI cycling calendar. The Queen stage this...
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Category Archive for: ‘Texas State Senate Candidates’
Sen. Konni Burton Officially Announces Campaign for Reelection
COLLEYVILLE, TX – Today, State Senator Konni Burton (R) officially announced the beginning of her campaign for reelection to Senate District 10:
Texas Conservative Digest Endorsements 2016
2016 Texas Conservative Digest ENDORSEMENTS (Final List of Endorsements) The following is a list of all Endorsements made by Texas Conservative Digest for the 2016 elections. NATIONAL: For President of the United States: Senator Ted Cruz for President (CR-97%, A) For re-election to the United …
Conservative Leaders Call out State Sen. Bob Deuell
Say Legal Documents Prove His Deception “Sen. Deuell is deliberately deceiving in a pitiful attempt to destroy his opponent.” FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 14, 2014 CONTACTS: Ken Emanuelson, Founder – Grassroots Texans Network; Co-founder – Dallas TEA Party (469) 363-5808 JoAnn Fleming, Executive Director, Grassroots …
Bob Hall Endorsed by Texans for Fiscal Responsiblity
BOB HALL FOR STATE SENATE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Bob Hall Telephone: 214-632-1391 Email: Bob@VoteBobHall.com TAXPAYER WATCHDOG TEXANS FOR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY ENDORSES BOB HALL FOR TEXAS SENATE DISTRICT 2 Bob Hall Will “Fight for Taxpayers,” says Sullivan In advance of the 2014 elections, taxpayer watchdog …
Senator Deuell, Radical Environmentalist? You Decide.
Senator Deuell, Radical Environmentalist? You Decide. In East Texas, he’s a mild mannered physician who plays the drums. But as soon as he crosses the Travis County line, Senator Robert Deuell morphs into something altogether different: a RINO who is very supportive of laws that …
Fiscal Responsibility Scorecard in on North Texas State Legislators Representative Scott Turner and Senator Bob Deuell
Who Gets an “F” And Who Gets an “A”? – by Tina Millican – Texans For Fiscal Responsibility, a non-profit group that compiles a Fiscal Responsibility Index scoring Texas legislatures based on their voting record, has released their 2013 scorecards. President, Michael Quinn Sullivan, stated …
Republican Challenger for Texas State Senate, District 2, files complaint against Navigators with Texas Department of Insurance
Today, Robert Lee “Bob” Hall, a challenger in the Republican primary for District 2, Texas State Senate, filed a complaint with the Texas Department of Insurance concerning ObamaCare Navigator organizations working in Texas under contract to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). …
Tim Lambert Endorses Konni Burton
Today Tim Lambert, former Republican National Committeeman for Texas, gave his endorsement to Konni Burton’s campaign for Texas Senate District 10. Lambert announced his endorsement saying, “Konni Burton understands the importance of fighting for our children and the rights of their parents. We share a …
Konni Burton Racking Up Tea Party Endorsements
Today, Konni Burton continued to establish herself as the clear alternative to Wendy Davis in announcing strong support from conservative activists across Texas, largely from inside Senate District 10. Janna Easton endorsed Konni saying, “Konni Burton is one of the hardest workers in the conservative …
Konni Burton Slams Wendy Davis on Abortion [Video]
It’s time for Texans to take back the conversation about the right to life in Texas. Wendy Davis would like you to think her far-left crusade is about women’s rights, but in reality Wendy and her allies purposely ignore the thousands of women who can …
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Alcatel and Nortel ink $320m UMTS deal
01 September 2006 @ 09:00
Alcatel announced Friday that it had signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Nortel to acquire its UMTS network radio access business and related assets for $320m (£168m).
Under the transaction, Alcatel said it “intends to acquire Nortel’s UMTS radio access technology and product portfolio, associated patents and tangible assets as well as customer contracts”. The French telecommunications firm, which completed its merger with Lucent earlier this year, said the deal will transform the company into one of the world’s largest UMTS suppliers.
Speculation about Nortel’s relationship with Alcatel has been fuelled by a trend in consolidation, principally Alcatel and Lucent, Nokia and Siemens and Ericsson and Marconi.
It goes on to say that Alcatel will benefit from “significantly strengthened research and development capabilities, amongst the most advanced in the world” especially in HSxPA and 3G Long-Term Evolution (3G LTE) technologies.
Mike Roberts, principal analyst at Telecoms.com’s parent Informa Telecoms & Media, believes the deal, while significant, will “not have a major impact in the UMTS/WCDMA market given that Alcatel-Lucent-Nortel will still be well behind market leaders Ericsson and Nokia Siemens.”
Roberts suggests that one of the principal challenges facing Alcatel will be integrating both Lucent and Nortel at roughly the same time. “The Alcatel-Nortel deal is interesting,” says Roberts, “in that it sharpens Nortel’s focus on next-generation mobility including OFDM-MIMO, which aligns nicely with the strategy of Motorola, another one of Nortel’s likely suitors.”
Alcatel said the deal remained subject to a number of conditions. However, the firm said it is aiming to complete the deal by year end. The firm’s said it is expected that Nortel’s UMTS employees will be transferred to Alcatel.
The French telecoms company is still rallying investors to support its acquisition of Lucent, which shareholders are expected to vote on next week.
Tags: Alcatel, Nortel
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NOTE THE YELLOW...Post 3.11 Nuclear-Free Japan organizers borrow the color of the Okinawa Movement to express solidarity...
(Demonstrator at June 30 rally in Ginowan City for a V-22 Osprey-free Okinawa.
Photo: Masami Mel Kawamura)
(Photo: Haruko Ishikawa on FB)
The Japanese Nuclear-Free Movement, has now matched the scale of the Okinawan Movement.
The symbolic color, yellow, was intentionally adopted by earlier Post-3.11 Nuclear-Free organizers in Fukushima, to express solidarity with Okinawans protesting US military expansion & V-22 Osprey aircraft deployment in their prefecture, explains Satoko Norimatsu in "Fukushima and Okinawa – the “Abandoned People,” and Civic Empowerment" published by APJ last fall.
Labels: citizen action, Fukushima, Hydrangea Revolution, Japan, Nuclear-Free, Okinawa
Hydrangea Revolution: 100,000-200,000 Japanese citizens rally for a Nuclear-Free Japan
(Photo: Chie Matsumoto on FB)
Via Chie Matsumoto, a reporter with LaborNet Japan:
We did it!! Revolution Hydrangea in Japan, where people say there never is a revolution. We figured nearly 100,000 were there.
The Diet/PM's office area is the most restricted area for demonstrations, but we flooded onto the streets and started walking toward PM's office in hopes of getting our voices heard.
Very peaceful demo. Respect to all who are determined to raise their voices until their fight is won and keep all power plants shut.
Via Temple Valley Times, estimates of rally participants:
Asahi Shimbun: 150-180,000
NHK TV: more than last time [next day's report estimated 100,000]
Police: about 17,000
Rally Organizer: 150,000
Sankei Shinbun: less than 20,000
TBS TV: 200,000
TV Asahi: 40-50,000
Kimberly Hughes notes that Bloomberg has reported more than 100 million Japanese citizens are against the nuclear power.
Posted by TenThousandThings at 11:17 AM 2 comments:
Labels: citizen action, Hydrangea Revolution, Japan, Nuclear-Free, Tokyo
Two Japanese seismologists warn Tokyo against nuclear restart at Ohi Plant in Fukui
Via Reuters, "Seismologists warn Japan against nuclear restart":
Seismic modeling by Japan's nuclear regulator did not properly take into account active fault lines near the Ohi plant, Katsuhiko Ishibashi, a seismologist at Kobe University, told reporters.
"The stress tests and new safety guidelines for restarting nuclear power plants both allow for accidents at plants to occur," Ishibashi told reporters. "Instead of making standards more strict, they both represent a severe setback in safety standards."
Experts advising Japan's nuclear industry had underestimated the seismic threat, Mitsuhisa Watanabe, a tectonic geomorphology professor at Tokyo University, said at the same news conference.
"The expertise and neutrality of experts advising Japan's Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency are highly questionable," Watanabe said.
After an earthquake in 2007 caused radiation leaks at reactors north of Tokyo, Ishibashi said Japan was at risk of a nuclear disaster following a large earthquake, a warning that proved prescient after Fukushima.
While it is impossible to predict when earthquakes will happen, Ishibashi said on Tuesday the magnitude 9 quake last year made it more likely "devastating" earthquakes would follow.
Labels: Japan, Nuclear-Free, Post-3/11 Japan
Commuters signal "Vote of No Confidence" in Tokyo's Nuclear Restart
Photo: Ryusaku Tanaka Journal
Labels: citizen action, Hydrangea Revolution, Japan, Nuclear-Free, Post-3/11 Japan
Happy 97th Birthday & Many More, Grace Lee Boggs!
People are aware that they cannot continue in the same old way but are immobilized because they cannot imagine an alternative. We need a vision that recognizes that we are at one of the great turning points in human history when the survival of our planet and the restoration of our humanity require a great sea change in our ecological, economic, political, and spiritual values. - Grace Lee Boggs
Happy 97th Birthday, Grace Lee Boggs, born June 27, 1915!
More about the Love Celebration for Grace Lee Boggs in Detroit and upcoming speaking events throughout North America at Boggs Center website & The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the 21st Century book website.
Labels: citizen action, democracy, Human rights, life-sustaining civilization
Ruthie Iida's exuberant explanation of the meaning of "Hydrangea Revolution"
Love Ruthie Iida's exuberant explanation of the meaning of the name"Hydrangea Revolution" at Kanagawa Notebook:
I did not hear the term “Hydrangea Revolution” until this morning, when I opened up Facebook to find a post from Jacinta [friend of Ruthie's, who lives in Tokyo], along with her own beautiful photographs of hydrangeas taken in her neighborhood. After reading that one post, the phrase seemed to pop up repeatedly, all day long.
The Friday demonstrations have been compared to the big, bold, brazen blooms ( are they not? nothing wimpy about hydrangeas) that are made up of myriads of tiny blossoms pressed together. What began as a series of small symbolic gatherings has become a huge, spirited protest that the media can no longer ignore...
I haven’t made it to Tokyo on a Friday yet, but I’m proud to be on the same side as such good people. I’m part of the big, brazen bloom….Woo-hooooo!
Labels: citizen action, democracy, Japan, Nuclear-Free, peace, Tokyo
HYDRANGEA REVOLUTION: Another video of the 6.22.12 "No Restart" protest rally at PM's House
This amazing video of the 6.22.12 rally outside of the PM's house gives a sense of the enormity of feeling against nuclear restarts in Japan. Partipants are not simply chanting, but screaming "Saikado Hantai!" ("Against the Re-start!"), not in unison, but passionately, discordantly...
(Via ヒマナイヌチャンネル)
Labels: citizen action, Fukushima, Hydrangea Revolution, Japan, Nuclear-Free, Post-3/11 Japan, Tokyo
HYDRANGEA REVOLUTION: 6.22.12 - 首相官邸前 原発再稼働反対デモ - 40,000 PEOPLE IN TOKYO RAGE AGAINST THE NUKES
40-45,000 Japanese citizens rallied at the PM's house Friday evening to protest the restart of nuclear plants. Partipants chanted "Saikado Hantai!" ("Against the Re-start!").
Ongoing protests challenging Tokyo's inaction in Fukushima and the restart of the Oi nuclear reactors are taking place throughout Japan.
Plans for a 100,000-person march next Friday are in the making. Japanese are calling their movement for a nuclear-free Japan the "Hydrangea Revolution."
(Video: senseofwonder888 on YouTube)
Labels: citizen action, Fukushima, Japan, Nuclear-Free, Post-3/11 Japan, Tokyo
Cornerstone of Peace & the "Okinawan Heart"
Today marks the 67th anniversary of the Battle of Okinawa, the only land battle on Japanese soil. Okinawans commemorated the lives of those who died during the Battle of Okinawa, and prayed for peace for Okinawa and the world.
After the battle's end, instead of bringing peace and democracy to Okinawa, the U.S. government positioned Okinawa as its military "Cornerstone of the Pacific." Soldiers seized ancestral farmland and homes ("by bayonets and bulldozers") from war survivors to make way for US military bases on 20% of the island's land mass. After fifty years of enduring the US expropriation of their land for war (Korea, Vietnam, and Iraq) training, Okinawans countered this unwelcome militarist moniker with their pacifist self-definition when they named a memorial erected on Mabuni Hill in Itoman the "Cornerstone of Peace" ( (平和の礎 Heiwa no Ishiji).
The massive monument was dedicated on June 23, 1995 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Pacific War and the Battle of Okinawa. Its purpose: (1) Remember those lost in the war, and pray for peace; (2) Pass on the lessons of war; and (3) Serve as a place for meditation and learning. Mabuni Hill was the site of the Japanese military headquarters and scene of heavy fighting in late June 1945, towards the end of the Battle of Okinawa. The names of over two hundred and forty thousand people, including Imperial Japanese and American soldiers, as well as over 100,000 innocent Okinawan civilians, who lost their lives are inscribed on the memorial:
It conveys to the Japanese as well as people of the world, the "spirit of peace" which has developed through Okinawa's history and culture. The names of all those who lost their lives in the Battle of Okinawa- regardless of their nationality or whether they ware of military or civilian status- are inscribed on "The Cornerstone of Peace," serving as a prayer for eternal world peace.
The Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum:
In late March 1945, a fierce battle such as has rarely been seen in history took place on these islands. The "Typhoon of Steel" that lasted for ninety days disfigured mountains, destroyed much of the cultural legacy, and claimed the precious lives of upward of 200,000 people. The Battle of Okinawa was the only ground fighting fought on Japanese soil and was also the largest-scale campaign of the Asia-Pacific War. Even countless Okinawan civilians were fully mobilized.
A significant aspect of the Battle of Okinawa was the great loss of civilian life. At more than 100,000 civilian losses far outnumbered the military death toll. Some were blown apart by shells, some finding themselves in a hopeless situation were driven to suicide, some died of starvation, some succumbed to malaria, while other fell victim to the retreating Japanese troops. Under the most desperate and unimaginable circumstances, Okinawans directly experienced the absurdity of war and atrocities it inevitably brings about.
This war experience is at the very core of what is popularly called the "Okinawan Heart," a resilient yet strong attitude to life that Okinawan people developed as they struggled against the pressures of many years of U. S. military control.
The "Okinawan Heart" is a human response that respects personal dignity above all else, rejects any acts related to war, and truly cherishes culture, which is a supreme expression of humanity. In order that we may mourn for those who perished during the war, pass on to future generations the historic lessons of the Battle of Okinawa, convey our message to the peoples of the world and thereby established, displaying the whole range of the individual war experiences of the people in this prefecture, the Okinawa Prefectural Peace Memorial Museum.
Labels: Article 9, civilian victims of military violence, democracy, healing, Okinawa, Pacific War, peace, peace networks, resilience
TONIGHT - June 22! Greetings From the Earth @ Chikuya Live House, Kunitachi, Tokyo
Greetings From the Earth
Peace Not War Japan
7:00pm until 11:30pm in UTC+09
Chikyuya Live House, Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan
☆日本語の詳細が↓↓にあります☆
Come listen to the fabulous music and stories of Alicia Bay Laurel, author of the best-selling 1970 Living On the Earth, who will also be joined by the upbeat grooves of the Inoue Ohana band featuring Hawaiian and reggae style tunes.
An evening of warmth, love and vibrant energy not to be missed!!
Alicia Bay Laurel and Inoue Ohana: ‘Greetings from the Earth’
Friday, June 22nd, 2012
OPEN/START 19:00/20:00
Chikyuya in Kunitachi 地球屋＠国立市
Map アクセス: http://chikyuya.info/contents/access
Advance Price: 2000円
At the Door: 2500円
☆LIVE
・ INOUE OHANA (Hawaiian/reggae)
・ Alicia Bay Laurel (acoustic folk)
☆TALK
☆DJ
RAS FUKU
Alicia Bay Laurel's full Japan tour schedule:
http://www.aliciabaylaurel.com/2012japantour
Photo/video/highlights from a recent show of hers in Tokyo:
http://tenthousandthingsfromkyoto.blogspot.jp/2012/06/artists-bring-message-of-harmony-spirit.html
アリシア.ベイ.ローレル
１９４９年、整形外科医の父と彫刻家の母の間に生ま れたアリシア.ベイ.ローレル。母の影響で、ボヘミアン的な生き方に憧れた彼女は、 高校卒業後、ヒッチハイクの旅に出ます。そうしてたどり着いたのが、カルフォルニアの北部に あるウィラーズランチ、
いわゆるコミューンでした。 当時ランチには１００人ほどの自由人が、畑を作り、 牛や馬をかって暮らしていました。
電気も水道もない森の中。右も左もわからない彼女 は、少しずつそこでの生活を覚えていきます。そして、ランチでの自分の役割を見つけます。それは得意の絵 と文章で、自然の中で生きる手引書をつくること。 そうしてできあがったのが『地球の上に生きる』です。
小さな森の手引書はたちまちベストセラーに。
ミュー ジシャンとしても活動しており、２０００年に地球
に生き るの音楽編Music from Living on Earth をリリース。
続編に Living inHawail style がある。
＊Kathie & Keni Inoue (INOUE OHANA)
Keni 井上：７０年代より”南正人”、又バンド”久保 田真琴と夕焼け楽団”その後”サンディーアンドサン セッツ”のギタリストとして活動を開始。その後内外の著名なミュージシャンとのセッションを 経て、現在ソロ活動とバンド"INOUE OHANA"で活動中。
＊Kathie井上：９０年代より作詞作曲活動をして、
サン ディーや内田有紀などに楽曲提供。"Kathie & Keni Inoue"名 義で"Voyage to Paradise"を２００４年に発表。
現在はKeni 井上と日本やハワイのメンバー達と"INOUE OHANA"名義で最新アルバム"Island Blend"をハワイで制作発表。作詞作曲活動と共に"INOUE OHANA"のボーカル＆ウクレレ プレイヤーとして活動中。
http://inoueohana.com/
Labels: art, festivals, food, Japan, life-sustaining civilization, music, slow, small farmers, Tokyo, writers
Shut Down not Meltdown: Keep Japan Nuclear Free Simultaneous Events - June 22 - U.S. West Coast and Tokyo
While the Japanese and local governments restart nuclear reactors throughout the country, Californians and Oregonians are joining hands with the 7.5 MILLION PLUS people in Japan demanding that Japan graduate from nuclear power.
Simultaneous Shut Down, Not Meltdown events will be taking place this weekend all along the west coast of the continental U.S. There actions are a part of an international solidarity movement led by a coalition of six groups Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center (CNIC), FoE Japan, Green Action, No Nukes Asia Forum, Peace Boat, and Shut Tomari .
June 22, 2012, at 3:00 pm at:
Consulate General of Japan
Wells Fargo Center, Suite 2700
1300 S.W. 5th Ave.
Beth Rakoncay, No Nukes NW -
www.nonukesnw.org
beth@nonukesnw.org
Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/150492381751639/
Japanese Consulate
50 Fremont St/Mission Street
Message from the organizers:
While we are taking this action at the Japanese Consulate on June 22, the US government and the Obama administration continue to tell the people of California and the United States that the two nuclear plants in California at San Onofre and Diablo Canyon are safe and that the taxpayers should continue to subsidize the nuclear industry. We reject these policies and views and the lesson of Fukushima is that there is NO Safe Nuclear Power whether in Japan or the the 104 nuclear plants in the United States.
June 22, 2012, at 3:00 pm at:Japanese Embassy in downtown L.A.
We will gather at 3PM with signs. We'll deliver a letter to the Prime minister's representative and at 4:45 we will participate in a Die-in, where we'll reenact what it is like to suffer from deadly radiation exposure. Body painting will be available to make people look like we are bleeding from our orifices (symptom of radiation exposure).
東京/Tokyo：
【日時】6/22(金)18〜20時予定
【場所】首相官邸前(国会記者会前、国会議事堂前駅3番出口出てすぐ)
【呼びかけ】首都圏反原発連合有志
June 22 at 6-8pm
Location: In front of Prime Minister's residence at the Kokaikishakai Building
Get off at Kokkai-gijoudoumae station- exit 3 (MAP)
Organized by the Metropolitan Coalition against Nukes
大阪/Osaka：
【日時】6/22(金)18～19時半予定
【場所】関電本店前(大阪府 大阪市北区中之島3丁目6－16)
【呼びかけ】TwitNoNukes大阪有志
June 22 6-7:30pm
Location: In front of Kansai Electric Power Company Headquarters
Osaka-fu, Osaka-shi, Kitaku, Nakanoshima 3chome 6-16 (MAP)
Organized by TwitNoNukes Osaka Yushi
Labels: citizen action, Japan, Nuclear-Free
Artists bring message of harmony, spirit of earlier era to Tokyo event
Alicia Bay Laurel performs "Rinpoche", a song that she wrote for Tibetan Buddhist master Kyabje Dorje Chang Kalu Rinpoche, which includes an enlightenment mantra, at his request
This past Sunday, in a home that doubles as a café and event space overlooking the stunning vistas of the Hachioji Basin in western Tokyo, one might have thought they had traveled back in time.
Accompanied to the backdrop of a flashing multi-colored light show, artist and author Alicia Bay Laurel—whose 1970 best-seller “Living On the Earth” has inspired generations of hippies and permaculturists across the planet—strummed her acoustic guitar and told fascinating stories of her life as a traveling artist.
“Over and over again, I watched people come to Hawaii and heal their bodies and spirits simply by absorbing the energy from the sun and the ocean,” she said, speaking of Maui island, her home for some 25 years. Her stay there served as the inspiration for her second book, “Being of the Sun”—described by Amazon as a “cult classic among nature-worshippers to this day”.
Laurel has earned a devoted following in Japan, where she has traveled nearly every year since 2006 to play music, sign individual copies of her books and CDs in her trademark flowing script, and collaborate with numerous artists, musicians and designers. She illustrated a book for bestselling author Banana Yoshimoto in 2010, and her works have helped raise funds for environmental nonprofit Artist Power Bank, as well as its sister project Kurkku, a complex of environmentally sustainable businesses. Her designs also helped raise funds for survivors following the 2011 disaster in Tohoku.
This past Sunday’s event, held at the aptly named Holistic Earth Café, indeed featured a distinctly Beatnik vibe. Guests were invited to try on and purchase hemp-based clothing, and the lineup of kitchen offerings even included fresh hemp pasta. “I could easily imagine myself in northern California in the 1960s, but here we are in present-day Tokyo,” Laurel commented. “The popularity of Living On the Earth never diminished in Japan, in large part because of the absolutely phenomenal community of people here who are committed to the ideas represented in the book.”
Event attendee, who told Laurel that he and his wife utilized the advice from her book to home-birth all three of their children
Laurel was joined by actress-turned-environmentalist Ikue Masudo (who was also a featured speaker at Harukaze 2010, a peace and sustainability event held in Tokyo). Masudo left the metropolitan capital several years ago to build an organic café and event space along the gorgeous shores of the Boso peninsula in Chiba prefecture, later going on to the island of Ishigaki in Okinawa, where she is now in the midst of creating a retreat and healing center. “My hope is that more and more people will become connected with the natural world, which will have positive repercussions for society on the whole,” she said, sharing her own personal story of becoming deeply inspired to change her life after filming television documentaries that featured swimming with dolphins in Hawaii and aboriginal communities in Australia.
Ikue Masudo
Sunday’s event, while unmistakably holding a vision for a better world, was most certainly not exclusively idealistic. Kathie Inoue, vocalist and ukulele player for the Hawaiian/reggae band Inoue Ohana, utilized the time in-between the band’s upbeat set to urge attendees to take action by adding their voices to citizen movements to end nuclear power and advocate alternative energies—including a recent worldwide petition urging Japan not to restart its nuclear reactors.
“There are many tools, including social networking sites like Facebook, that we can use to share information with each other and encourage positive social change,” she said, also echoing Laurel and Masuda with her message of simple living.
Kathie and Keni Inoue performing a chilled-out acoustic version of their song "Touch the Sun"
Alicia Bay Laurel and the full Inoue Ohana band play Yokohama Thumbs Up on June 21st, and Kunitachi Chikyuya on June 22nd. Laurel’s complete Japan tour schedule may be found on her website. In addition, this article provides a lovely introduction to her work and her long-standing connection with Japan.
--Kimberly Hughes
Labels: art, creativity, dolphins & whales, Hawai'i, healing, Inner Culture, Japan, Kim Hughes, music, nature, oceans, organic, slow, Tohoku, Tokyo
Anja Light: "Candle Night"
...This beautiful song by Anja Light celebrates Japan's Candle Night held during the winter & summer solstices...
Japan’s Candle Night asks that people switch off their lights for two hours, from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. on the night of the summer solstice to enjoy the night in candlelight. Candle Night was inspired by the Voluntary Blackout movement in Canada, launched in 2001.
During the summer of 2008, facilities all over Japan to turned out their lights during two events: Black Illumination held on June 2 and Lights-Down at the Tanabata Star Festival on July 7. Between the two events, 149,939 facilities joined the campaign, reducing the amount of electricity used by approximately 2,371,786.51 kilowatts. This translated into saving 925 tons of CO2 emissions, equivalent to the total daily emission of 64,000 households.
The event has spread across the world. The Korean Environmental Women’s Network worked closely with Japanese Candle Night organizers to hold their own Candle Night. Events were also held in Taiwan, Australia, China (Shanghai), Mauritius, and many other countries.
...More info at the Candle Night website...
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Labels: conservation, Japan, Korean Peninsula, life-sustaining civilization, music, seasons, slow
Iris in Kyoto
Iris in Kyoto. Photo: Jen Teeter
Labels: Japan, Jen Teeter, Kyoto, nature, photography, seasons
Uncanny Terrain: Rio+20: Four Fukushima Farmers 福島：その土地に残る意味
Uncanny Terrain:
This video, capturing the diverse views of four Fukushima activist farmers, screens beginning June 16 in the Rio+20 United Nations Sustainable Development Conference, where one of the main subjects of the documentary Uncanny Terrain, Seiji Sugeno, director of the Fukushima Organic Farmers Network, is presenting.
Labels: animals, children, cultural heritage, food, Fukushima, Japan, local, nuclear radiation, organic, Post-3/11 Japan, slow, small farmers
Fukushima Organic Farmers Fight Odds to Continue Livelihood Amidst Radiation’s Unknowns
Filmmakers Junko Kajino and Ed Koziarski with organic farmer Seiji Sugeno in Nihonmatsu, Fukushima
This past January, while most participants at the Global Conference for a Nuclear Power Free World in Yokohama were angrily demanding that the government relocate endangered Fukushima citizens to safety, a small delegation of organic farmers had a different message to share. They had no intention of leaving their family land, they said, and as long as radiation levels remained within prescribed safety limits, others were urged to continue consuming Fukushima crops in support of the prefecture’s revitalization.
Fast-forward nearly five months. Consumers nationwide remained mistrustful of food grown within Fukushima prefecture, and outrage loomed large against Prime Minister Noda’s likely decision to restart the Ohi nuclear power plant, while a group of Fukushima citizens were calling for criminal charges against the officials responsible for the disaster. Within this social climate, I wondered, had the farmers’ message changed in any way?
To find out, I decided to take a day trip one recent Friday up to Nihonmatsu, located approximately 50 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. There, I would accompany documentary filmmakers Junko Kajino and Ed Koziarski on a visit to the farm of Seiji Sugeno, one of the several farmers to be profiled in their upcoming film, “Uncanny Terrain”.
I recalled that Sugeno, a leader of the Fukushima Organic Farmers Network, had been one of the more staunch bearers of the “stay on the land and continue to eat local” message.
As the three of us made our way through winding roads to Sugeno’s farm, the rolling green fields and gorgeous blooming flowers reminded me of the prefecture's stunning beauty—also prompting me to reflect that Fukushima has inherited the painful legacy of Chernobyl: its name now automatically equated with the nuclear accident itself in the minds of people around the world.
Sugeno was out when we arrived onto his land, whose name translates roughly as the “Playful Cloud Farm”. We found his daughter Mizuho inside the greenhouse, tending to the family’s 1800-some tomato plants.
“Last year after the disaster, people still had hope that things might turn out okay, and most farmers decided to stay here and plant,” she said. “But due to the new restrictions on acceptable radiation levels, nearly half of the farmers in our area have given up and figured it just isn’t worth it to grow their crops this year. It’s really too bad.”
After rolling up in his sunflower oil-powered tractor, Sugeno echoed his daughter’s sentiments. He was adamant about staying on his land this season to plant, he said, despite the extra labor necessary to measure all food for radiation levels and sprinkle zeolite in local rice fields on government order—and despite the possibility that crops from an entire region could be judged unfit for shipping onto the market if even one local field were found to exceed radiation limits.
“This year is really critical, particularly for people who didn’t plant last year,” he said. “If they let their land go for one more season, it may be ruined permanently.”
Both Sugeno and his daughter were honest about the discouragement they sometimes felt regarding what was essentially a lonely battle, but pointed out the strength and encouragement that they received from the relationships that they have created with others around the world following the 3.11 disaster. Mizuho has traveled overseas several times to meet with organic farmers in Thailand and New Zealand, and her father heads shortly to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil as a delegate to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development—a forum he most certainly intends to utilize to the fullest in order to share his experience with others.
“Large corporations talk about the future of our world in terms of economics, but the truth is that it is small, sustainable farms like ours that make the most important contribution to biodiversity—with rice fields acting to prevent flooding, for example,” he emphasized. “And it was only after the nuclear accident that this truly became clear to me.”
Sugeno then rolled back out into his fields, while Mizuho took Ed, Junko and myself on a drive through more vibrantly beautiful landscapes to visit the family’s canola farm, which her father had decided to grow for another season after determining that radiation levels in the area were low enough to warrant planting.
After later parting ways with Mizuho, the three of us headed to the local michinoeki, a facility featuring local wares and produce that may be found in many small towns around the country. Sugeno is one of the directors of the Nihonmatsu branch, where radiation detection machinery has been installed in order to make sure that every food item sold falls below the maximum acceptable level of 100 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram, and where residents may also come to be measured by a whole-body counter that can detect existing radiation levels. When we arrived, a television installed at the entrance was repeatedly broadcasting a national television news program whose interviewer was emphasizing the farmers’ struggle to appeal to citizens regarding the safety of the local food.
"For a Fukushima Full of Smiles"
As we hiked later that afternoon in the gorgeous sunshine around the grounds of the Nihonmatsu Castle—which was completely deserted except for our presence—Junko, Ed and I had a chance to chat about the bizarre new post-3.11 world, which seems in a certain sense to have fragmented into various parallel realities, depending upon which news sources people read, and how they might personally be inclined to believe. This was certainly the case in Tokyo—and, I imagined, was likely numerous times more so the case for residents in Fukushima.
While government-mandated maximum safety levels for food stand at 100 becquerels of radioactive cesium per kilogram, many activists, including filmmaker Hitomi Kamanaka, argue strongly that any possible exposure to internal radiation through measures including food consumption should be avoided entirely. As a measure of support for the Fukushima farmers, however, the filmmakers have consumed almost exclusively local food during their most recent two-month stay—explaining that many crops have tended to hover in the area of 20-30 becquerels, which is well within the government-set safety zone.
“Are these levels dangerous? You’ll find any number of opinions on the matter, because frankly, nobody knows,” Junko commented. She pointed out that Aya Marumori, the Executive Health Director of the Citizens’ Radioactivity Measuring Station (and a speaker during a recent event held in Tokyo) visited numerous doctors, who fell into one of two categories: either claiming that radiation was totally harmless, or else that it was completely deadly. “She finally came across one doctor who said: ‘We don’t know.’ And that’s who she decided to trust.”
“Radiation effects will most certainly be one of the long-term aftermaths of the disaster, although—as with Chernobyl—the causality cannot be proven,” added Ed, pointing out that this matter was taken up in-depth within the recent Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ feature issue on low-level radiation. “In addition to this, though, are the other ill health effects such as diabetes and cancers that will result from the existing stress and fear, as well as the social phenomenon of uncertainty. Honestly, no one has any idea how the situation here will continue to play out into the future.”
The Uncanny Terrain blog follows the progress of the film, including Ed's thoughtful piece titled “Would You Stay?” documenting the ways that communities in Fukushima have fragmented following the crisis. The filmmakers are also gratefully accepting donations via Google to help them complete their project, as well as assistance with volunteer translation.
A recent article from the Japan Times also sensitively describes the many complexities that continue to face farmers--and food consumers--in Fukushima following last year's disaster.
Labels: 3/11, biodiversity, community, cultural heritage, films, food, Fukushima, Japan, Kim Hughes, nuclear radiation, organic, small farmers, Tohoku
Stop Nuclear Reactor Restart International Action June 13-15
The Ohi Genpatsu (nuclear reactor) and the reaches of radiation to Osaka and beyond should accident strike (Map courtesy of Olive News)
A coalition of six groups Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center (CNIC), FoE Japan, Green Action, No Nukes Asia Forum, Peace Boat, and Shut Tomari have united to organize international protest against nuclear restart in Japan. Despite intense public opposition (see Women "die-in" at the Ohi reactor June 7th), and international celebration for the shut down of all reactors in Japan, officials have turned a blind eye, and are proceeding with plans to restart the mismanaged Ohi reactor in Fukui Prefecture, Western Japan.
The coalition is urging support to conduct the following acts of civil protest, preferably on Wednesday to Friday this week / June 13~15, 2012:
Please assemble in front of the Japanese embassies in your capital to voice your protest against the decision and policy of Prime Minister Noda.
Please try to submit a letter of protest -addressed to Prime Minister Noda- to the Japanese Ambassador in your country and request the Japanese Ambassador to forward this letter of protest to the Japanese Prime Minister
Please try to seek coverage of this action by your local and international media, especially Japanese media, as well as on the Internet
Please give us notice about your planned action, so we can organize a press event in Japan to reinforce your message to the Japanese government.
Some actions in Tokyo and Osaka include the following:
Time: Friday, June 15, 2012, 6 to 8 pm.
Location: In front of the prime minister’s official residence. (In front of Kokkai Kisha Kaikan, right outside #3 exit at Kokkaigijidomae station.)
Organizer: The Metropolitan area anti nuclear power plant alliance members.
Location: In front of Kansai Electric Power Company (KEPCO) headquarter. (6-16 Sancho-me, Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka-city, Osaka Prefecture)
More information at Fukushima Voice.
Send YOUR event information to: info@greenaction-japan.org or share it with us here at Ten Thousand Things.
Here is a draft letter of protest created by the coalition with contact details for the Prime Minister posted below:
Letter of Protest
To: Mr. Yoshihiko Noda, Prime Minister of Japan
We protest your decision to restart two nuclear power reactors in the town of Ohi in Fukui Prefecture. We ask you to reconsider and instead impose a moratorium on nuclear power in Japan. We ask you to come up with a responsible energy policy for a Japan without nuclear power and based on energy conservation and renewable energies.
Here are our reasons:
1. Your decision is undemocratic. The Japanese public is not supporting you. Many members and parliamentarians of your own party are not standing with you.
2.The full truth about the meltdown of the three reactors in Fukushima has not been established, yet.
3.The prevailing, temporary safety standards that have been applied by the stress tests and that you referred to when you declared the Ohi reactors to be safe, are insufficient. At present, essential safety measures that are required by the stress tests have not yet been implemented in Ohi. It is not verified whether the reactors can be shut down safely if a serious earthquake were to occur.
4.Any new regime of safety standards must be formulated and overseen by a truly independent Nuclear Safety Agency. This agency has not yet been established, and parliamentary procedures have just been started.
5.The sharp increase in seismic activities in Japan since the earthquake and tsunami catastrophe of March 11 is alarming. The fact that there are active fault lines in the vicinity of the Ohi reactors, and perhaps even under the site is a major reason of concern.
You may reject this letter as an outside interference into the internal affairs of Japan. However, we know since Chernobyl and Fukushima that the fallout of nuclear accidents does not know national borders, but severely impacts the global environment and bears unknown risks to the health of all mankind. We believe it is our moral obligations to voice our concerns to you.
We also know that our concerns are shared by many people in your country and that a majority of your people does not agree with you. We have high respect for the people of Japan, for their sense of community and service in times of great harm. We believe in their creativity and strong will to overcome these difficult times, and to rebuild a Japan without nuclear power.
We, therefore, ask you to kindly reconsider the restart of the Ohi reactors and to declare a moratorium on nuclear power. We ask you to come up with a responsible energy policy for a Japan without nuclear power based on energy conservation and renewable energies.
Contact Details for Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda
●Prime Minister’s Office TEL:+81-3-3581-0101 FAX：+81-3-3581-3883
Opinion box to Prime Minister (in Japanese) https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/forms/goiken_ssl.html
●Diet Office TEL：+81-3-3508-7141 FAX：+81-3-3508-3441
●Local Office TEL：+81-47-496-1110 FAX：+81-47-496-1222
June 12: 30th Anniversary of the Historic Million People Nuclear-Free March in New York City
(Photo: Int. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN))
On June 12, 1982, in New York City, one million people demonstrated against nuclear weapons; and for an end to the Reagan administration's military build-up, arms race, and military violence in Latin America (El Salvador). This was the largest political demonstration in world history (until the Feb. 15, 2003 global march protesting the U.S.-UK "preemptive" war against Iraq).
Many thanks for the reminder of this anniversary to No More Fukushimas Peacewalk, organized by the engaged Buddhists of Nipponzan Myohoji, a group known for global witness for peace:
June 12th will be the 30th anniversary of the anti-nuclear rally that drew a million people to New York City. That event was a major touchstone for Nipponzan Myohoji-- 5 peace walks converged on NYC with their teacher, Venerable Nichidatsu Fuji (Guruji). Here is some great archival footage (in Japanese) of Nipponzan Myohoji & Guruji in NYC and then Bainbridge Island Seattle.
(Photo: Int. Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)
Found this short overview video of the march by theAmerican Friends (Quaker) Service Committed (AFSC) :
...And this funky but also great English language footage of the march by NY cable television producers Coca Crystal and Jonathan Burke.
Labels: citizen action, global hibakusha, nuclear and uranium weapons, Nuclear-Free, NYC, peace, peace networks
Clear Overview of Oi by David McNeill at The Independent
David McNeill: The country's reactors have lain idle since the tsunami that crippled the Fukushima plant. Now the government wants to turn them on again, starting in Oi – a picturesque town that is bitterly divided on the issue:
"They chose the most stunning places in Japan for nuclear plants," says Jiku Miyazaki, and it is hard to disagree when you are in Oi. The small fishing town shelters in a rugged cove ringed by rice paddies and mountains which once cut it off from Kyoto and Osaka. The postcard beauty is only slightly marred by towering orange pylons and cables which traverse the mountains to the four-reactor power plant near the bay.
Since the 1970s, these power lines have fed electricity to Japan's second-largest concentration of people and industry, the vast urban area called Kansai. In return, the plant's remote host – population 8,800 – has become strikingly prosperous. New schools, hospitals and recreation centres dot the countryside. A hot spring resort and a baseball stadium dominate either end of Oi.
The reactors that generated this largesse, however, have been shut down since last year and are being kept idle by Japan's post-Fukushima fear of nuclear energy...
Anti-nuclear protesters camp permanently in the town...
If the government has its way, Oi will become the first host town since the crisis to restart its idling reactors. On Friday, Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda made a televised appeal for the country to get behind a restart at two of Oi's reactors, saying it was crucial to ensure a stable power supply. But despite many sympathisers in Oi, the government has a long way to go in broadening that support outside the towns which directly benefit from the plants. The further you go from Oi, support for a restart melts away.
Oi belongs to one of the planet's heaviest concentrations of nuclear power generation: 13 reactors at four plants strung along a 50km-odd stretch of the Japan Sea coast – an area known as the "nuclear Ginza". Further up the coast is the seven-reactor Kashiwazaki complex, the world's largest – part of a 50-reactor network that supplied about a third of Japan's electricity before March 2011. One by one during the past year, the reactors have been powered down for inspections, leaving the nation nuclear free for the first time since the 1970s. Before they can restart they must pass new stress tests and win the backing of their hosts...
Labels: Japan, Nuclear-Free
Women's "Die-In" against the Restart of Ooi Nuke Plant (Jun/07/2012)
On June 7, 2012, about 70 women including 10 women from Fukushima did a "die-in" in front of the Prime Minister's official residence to protest the restart of Ooi Nuclear Power Plant [in Fukui prefecture]. Before the die-in, 10 Fukushima women visited the Cabinet Office and met with officials to submit a letter of requests addressed to Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda.
This video clip shows the words from the Fukushima women and part of the die-in.
On the very next day, June 8, 2012, Prime Minister Noda held a press conference and declared he would restart Ooi Nuclear Power Plant.
The original video by OurPlanet-TV: http://youtu.be/ODNhDhw_-VY
Translation and captioning by tokyobrowntabby.
Video editing by sievert311 (http://www.youtube.com/user/sievert311).
Labels: 3/11, children, democracy, Fukushima, Japan, nuclear radiation, Nuclear-Free, women
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Plucked from obscurity at the tender age of 14, Sophie began charting her path from a school challenge, of all things. Asked to master a skill over nine months, Sophie decided that she’d put her musical acumen to task. She went to class to learn to DJ and, as she learned the technical side, she quickly realized there was something much more at her fingertips. She began to obsess about music and mixing, production and the art of it all. She felt the real pull of music and what it can do for people and suddenly this school project became the catalyst of a career. She booked her first residency around this time at a local bar called ‘Het Pumpke’ where she perfected her skills and, as she played for more and more people, the artist inside began to emerge. She realized that she could connect with people in a powerful way through music. She was hooked. As 2015 came to a close, Sophie was invited to South Africa for a tour where she performed on the mainstage of The Ruins Festival in St. Francis Bay, followed by a club show at The Coco Club in Cape Town, and rounding it all off with a fantastic appearance on Expresso a national TV show with 1.5 million viewers. Next stop, 2016 where Sophie discovered a label that was accepting new producers. She sent 3 un-mastered demos and the result was unprecedented. They wanted them all. The label worked with Sophie on co-production and turned the 3 demos into fully realized hits. The singles; ‘Drop Of A Dime’, ‘Up In This’ and ‘Bad Boy’ were released on Freeway Recordings, sub-label of 076 Records, at the beginning of 2016, and each reached Top 20 status on the Beatport Progressive-House chart. DJs supporting the records included; Tiësto, Quintino, Ummet Ozcan, Thomas Gold, Tritonal, Juicy M… and many others. The tracks were also added to rotation on NRJ and Tiësto’s Club Life worldwide radio show. Sophie’s 4th single ‘Annihilate’ was gifted to her growing fan-base as a thank you for their overwhelming support. Fans again surprised everyone by pushing the song to a viral status by logging a mind-boggling 2 million plays on Soundcloud. The summer of 2016 was very successful, performing mainstage for festivals of 35.000 people in Valencia, playing at top-ranked best clubs in the world by DJ Mag and gaining fan base after every single show. The season gave Sophie a special highlight when she was confirmed to play as the ‘New Discovery’ special guest which included performing at 15 shows at BCM Mallorca; the most important nights at this premium club and brought to prominence by alums such as; Steve Aoki, Oliver Heldens, and Nervo among others. Sophie was joined on stage by Martin Garrix where the pair performed an impromptu B2B set. The milestones continued in 2016 when Sophie released her first vocal track ‘Walls’, on Powerhouse Music. ‘Walls’ entered the playlists of national Dutch radio stations (538, SlamFM, 3FM) and received a staggering 94% vote of ‘likes’ from listeners on 538 and broke into the Top 30 on the Dutch Airplay chart. ‘Walls’ was followed by the release of ‘Don’t Stop’, a club track on the Dirty Dutch imprint. The song entered the top 15 on Beatport’s chart, and was premiered by David Guetta and supported by many international DJs. With the new year of 2017 rolling in, a new label came calling and, in late January, Sophie signed a deal with Spinnin’ Records. Her first single, ‘Without You’ was released in February and included a unique and quirky video that you can watch here. Her follow up single Lovedrunk was released in May and features a powerful vocal punch that harkens back to the raspy grit of Janis Joplin. Spinnin’ has made it clear that Sophie is a priority for them and have included her on the Spinnin’ Sessions in Miami and their stage at Tomorrowland in Belgium. Speaking of Miami, Sophie was thrilled to perform at her first US show at none other than the Ultra Music Festival at Worldwide stage, where she blew both the crowd and live stream audiences away. Thousands of new fans were made after her performance taking to social media to declare her set as one of the best performances at Ultra2017 and it cemented her new status as a festival headliner. After her set, Sophie was named by Billboard Magazine as one of Ultra Music Festival’s Top 5 Female Performances. You can watch the full report here. It was also around this time that Sophie was named to the prestigious “Top 25 Most Influential Artists Under 25” by Spotify NL. She’s joined by fellow artists Martin Garrix and Oliver Heldens among others. Having a Zen-like mastery of work is paying off for Sophie. She’s a bona-fide rockstar on stage making crowds of people experience a kind of musical nirvana that is epic to watch. They get her because she gets them, and that’s a gift only a real DJ can give. Sophie Francis graduated high school last year and has been touring internationally with already a huge popularity rate in Asia where she has played at Ultra Korea, Ultra Beijing, Ultra Japan, EDC Asia and a huge amount of awesome club shows. Of course the summer is filled with top festivals around the world including; Palmesus in Norway, Parookaville in Germany, and Tomorrowland in Belgium to name a few. Sophie Francis released ‘Stay Up’, which has received over 13 million streams. Her latest releases ‘Weekend Love’, ‘Lose My Mind’ and ‘On My Way’, cause for a total of 40 million streams on Spotify. She will continue to light the spark and release a lot of new tracks these coming months. We can’t wait to see what is coming next for this amazing young star.
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Web-based social networking As an Investment
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In its concise history, Social Media, as called New Media, has generally been seen as a place to meet new companions, reconnect with old companions and associate in an online social condition. Digital Marketing Course in Andheri To put it plainly, interpersonal organizations were “a cool place to hang out” however held little appropriateness past that. There has been no lack of subsidizing in Silicon Valley for firms propelling new media stages. With the development of destinations like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter, there is no doubt that there is an incentive in the tremendous measures of data on individuals that these stages have possessed the capacity to gather; nonetheless, there has been no unmistakable adaptation system past acquiring publicizing income. Contentions have been ascended with regards to the genuine estimation of these organizations; some would express that their valuations are swelled and fake, while other claim that the estimation of their databases alone are sufficient to legitimize multi-billion dollar sticker prices.
The New Value of Social Media and The Social Media Firm
All the more as of late online networking has brought forth another incentive, which is the business pertinence of the immense client bases these interpersonal organizations have made. Notwithstanding which side of the valuation fence you sit on, one might say that online networking holds tremendous utility for organizations searching for another approach to contact clients and participate in two-way correspondences. This has never been done from a conventional showcasing, promoting or advertising viewpoint, and has offered ascend to another plan of action: The Social Media Firm. This delivers the contention of regardless of whether The Social Media Firm is a decent venture. Is The Social Media Firm a prevailing fashion that will cease to exist in the coming years, or is this a long haul, economical industry that will one-day drive oldness to the conventional techniques for publicizing, advertising and showcasing?
Given the condition of the present economy, Venture Capital and blessed messenger financing sources have been keeping their portfolio dollars hidden from plain view, holding speculation just to organizations with a not too bad working history, strong income streams and boundless development potential. Does the Social Media Firm fall into this classification? My answer is yes. All that really matters is: online networking isn’t going anyplace. Online networking has turned into a staple of the lives of more youthful ages, and the quickest developing adopters of new media are individuals beyond 30 years old. Since the acknowledgment of the business potential that interpersonal organizations holds, expansive Fortune 500 firms are giving a decent segment of their showcasing spending plans to informal communities and new media crusades. For example, Pepsi has dedicated $20 Million of their promoting spending plan for a web-based social networking program called Pepsi invigorate, and numerous vast firms are starting to go with the same pattern. Obviously, the gaining potential for The New Media Firm is considerable.
Is it supportable?
As specified before, new media isn’t going anyplace. Generally it has turned into a standard piece of the Internet encounter like email. The locales that are viewed as the gorillas in online networking may beat; notwithstanding, there will dependably be something new to which these Internet-based groups will relocate. For instance, the web-based social networking movement to-date has gone from MySpace to Facebook to Twitter, and the following significant move as well as expansion to this gigantic online social circle is likely practically around the bend. The long haul supportability of The Social Media Firm is to a great extent subordinate upon these organizations’ capacity to distinguish and pre-empt the following enormous move, and to create viable techniques for utilizing both the old and new stages for driving income, gainfulness, deals volume and personality to their customers.
Why Outsource to The Social Media Firm?
One inquiry that may emerge is: the reason would substantial organizations contract an online networking office when they have the financial assets to do it in-house? The response to this is the basic actuality that it is less expensive to outsource another media crusade to a firm that has a talented group as of now set up that is personally comfortable with exploring the mind boggling universe of new media. In a similar way that extensive organizations contract promoting offices to plan customary media battles, this approach can and will be taken for new media. By enlisting The New Media Firm organizations can dispense with both the authoritative weight that accompanies contracting a large number of new workers, and additionally the expectation to learn and adapt that will unavoidably be available when attempting to incorporate those representatives into their corporate culture. It is more practical, in both fiscal and authoritative regards, to outsource these crusades to proficient groups that are completely adroit at utilizing the capability of present day media, exploring the implicit rules of these online groups and remaining on top of things with regards to distinguishing the misusing the most recent new media patterns.
Shutting Remarks
In outline, I do trust that interest in The Social Media Firm holds incredible potential for some assets; be that as it may, it is basic that while reviewing these offices, Venture Capitalists and Angels need to guarantee that the organization contains the right work force and administration group to completely misuse this sprouting industry. The dump is brimming with one-man shops thus called online networking specialists that are close to casualties of the subsidence who happen to be skilled at Facebook or Twitter. It is basic that the modelers of new media crusades know about the many-sided points of interest of new media, and the huge swath of benefits that exist online to for a business to take full favorable position of the web-based social networking world. Use of the lesser referred to web-based social networking outlets, for example, Digg, BrightKite, hi5, Xanga and endless others could be the distinction between a full-scale powerful battle that shows genuine outcomes, and an insufficient and sloppy endeavor at new media that squanders showcasing dollars.
Because of the early stages of this industry, there are few organizations out there that genuinely know how to open the estimation of new media for business. The one’s that do will rapidly ascend to the best, and if adequate due persistence is done, these organizations are ready for venture. A key implantation of capital is likely the lift expected to take these organizations from a practical income business to the following business goliath with A-rundown customers.
Blast Media, Inc. is another media advancement firm situated in San Diego, California. New Media is the finish of every single online resource, (for example, person to person communication, web journals, small scale web journals, bookmarking and video locales) and strategies that can be utilized to drive income and character for organizations. Digital Marketing courses in Thane With a demonstrated reputation for progress, the Boom Media group conveys comes about with imaginative and quantifiable crusades.
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Oriental Fruit Moth
by Jay F. Brunner and Richard E. Rice, originally published 1993
Grapholita molesta (Busck) (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae)
The oriental fruit moth originated in China. It was introduced in the United States from Japan on flowering cherry about 1913 and is now found in all fruit growing regions of the United States, southern Canada and northern Mexico. It is also common throughout Europe, Asia, Australia and South America. The larvae bore in shoots or feed in fruit.
Although the primary hosts of the oriental fruit moth are peach and nectarine, it will also attack quince, apricot, apple, plum, cherry, pear, rose and flowering cherry. While common in some eastern apple-growing districts, infestations of apple are rare in the Northwest.
The egg is a small, flat, oval disc, which is white at first but changes to amber.
The larva has 4 or 5 instars. The newly hatched larva is white or cream with a black head. When full grown, it measures 3/8 to 1/2 inch (8 to 13 mm). It has a brown head capsule and thoracic shield and a pinkish or creamy white body. It can be distinguished from a codling moth larva by the presence of an anal comb, which is lacking in the codling moth larva.
The pupa is contained within a cocoon found in a sheltered place, such as under a bark scale or litter at the base of a tree. It changes from yellowish brown to reddish brown as adult emergence nears.
The adult oriental fruit moth is gray and measures about 1/4 inch (5 mm). The wings have indistinct light and dark bands, giving the moth a salt-and-pepper appearance.
Oriental fruit moth adult (E. Beers)
Oriental fruit moth larva (California IPM)
The oriental fruit moth overwinters as a fully grown larva in a hibernacula of silk webbing, either in tree crevices or in the ground cover. It pupates in the spring. Moths of the overwintering generation first appear when peach is in bloom. Eggs are laid on the foliage, usually on the upper sides of leaves of terminal growth. A female can produce up to 200 eggs. Incubation can take anywhere from 5 to 21 days depending on the temperature.
First generation larvae feed by boring into the growing shoots. They reach maturity by mid- to late May. First generation moth flight is from early June through mid-July. There are 3 to 4 flights per year in Washington. Some second and most third and fourth generation larvae attack fruit before seeking overwintering sites where they spin cocoons.
Shoot flagging of peach due to oriental fruit moth (J. Brunner)
First and second generation larvae tend to damage mainly shoots, while most of the injured fruit is due to third and fourth generation larvae. The oriental fruit moth attacks succulent terminals of rapidly growing twigs during spring and early summer.
A newly hatched larva enters the tender, growing shoot at its tip, near the base of a young leaf. An immature larva that has abandoned an old, injured twig enters a new one at the axil of a fully developed leaf. The larva bores inside the twig, working its way down the shoot for 2 to 6 inches (5 to 15 cm). When the larva matures or no longer finds the twig desirable, it makes an exit hole and leaves. If it needs more food to develop fully, it may enter another twig or a fruit.
Infested twigs usually have wilted leaves. If an upright twig has one small, wilted leaf, it means the larva has entered within the last day or two. As the larva moves down into the twig, more leaves wilt. The number depends how far the larva penetrates. If a twig is dark colored or has dry leaves and gummy ooze, the larva has left.
When twigs of young trees are attacked, lateral shoots form below the damage. Young trees under severe and continued attack become bushy. In nurseries, shoots of recently budded peach are sometimes attacked, resulting in crooked stems.
Oriental fruit moth damage to peach (J. Eves)
Fruit of peach and nectarine can be damaged early in the season by partly grown larvae after they leave shoots. They usually feed on the side of the fruit, causing gumming with brown sawdust-like frass. As fruit grow, they become deformed, and the more severely damaged fruit may drop. Fruit are more often attacked when nearing maturity. Newly hatched larvae usually, though not always, enter through the stem end. They bore through the flesh to the pit of peaches and nectarines, where most of the feeding is done. When mature, larvae move to the fruit surface, making a round exit hole. Larvae feed only on one fruit and do not move from fruit to twigs.
Apples infested with oriental fruit moth larvae look similar to those infested by codling moth. However, the codling moth larva tunnels directly to the core and feeds on the seeds, whereas the burrows of oriental fruit moth are smaller and follow a more meandering course, not necessarily to the core. Oriental fruit moth larvae do not push frass to the surface of infested fruits as do codling moth larvae.
Damage to shoot tips looks like that caused by the peach twig borer. Examine growing shoot tips while the first generation larvae are active. Infested shoots will be wilted. Pheromone traps can be used to monitor adult moths. Traps should be placed in the orchard prior to peach bloom and monitored daily until the first moth is observed. Good trap maintenance and care are important for good information.
The braconid wasp Macrocentrus ancylivorus, which is native to North America, is a leafroller parasite that has adapted to the oriental fruit moth. Females lay eggs in young oriental fruit moth larvae. The larva of the parasitoid larva develops and matures when the host cocoons.
Chemical control of the oriental fruit moth can be improved by using a degree-day model to establish optimum timing, as with codling moth. The target of control sprays is the young larvae before they have bored into shoots or fruit. Development thresholds for oriental fruit moth are 45°F and 90°F, whereas those of the codling moth are 50°F and 88°F. Also, the method of calculating degree-days is slightly different in that a vertical cutoff is used instead of a horizontal one. Refer to the degree-day look-up table to calculate degree-days.
Moth capture in a pheromone trap is used to establish biofix, the start of degree-day accumulation. When the first moth is captured, the degree-day total is set at zero. According to research in California, the best time to apply control sprays is between 500 and 600 degree-days after biofix. Good control of the first generation larvae in late April or early May may mean no further controls are necessary for the rest of the year. The generation of oriental fruit moth lasts about 1000 degree-days. Thus, if sprays are required for the second generation they should be applied at 1500 to 1600 degree-days after biofix. These degree-day timings have not been thoroughly tested in Washington but have worked very well in California.
Materials available for stone fruit (not cherry)
Excerpt from the WSU Crop Protection Guide. For timings at which each pesticide can be used refer to the Crop Protection Guide.
Use pesticides with care. Apply them only to plants, animals, or sites listed on the labels. When mixing and applying pesticides, follow all label precautions to protect yourself and others around you. It is a violation of the law to disregard label directions. If pesticides are spilled on skin or clothing, remove clothing and wash skin thoroughly. Store pesticides in their original containers and keep them out of the reach of children, pets, and livestock.
YOU ARE REQUIRED BY LAW TO FOLLOW THE LABEL. It is a legal document. Always read the label before using any pesticide. You, the grower, are responsible for safe pesticide use. Trade (brand) names are provided for your reference only. No discrimination is intended, and other pesticides with the same active ingredient may be suitable. No endorsement is implied.
Mating disruption
Mating disruption has proven to be a successful control for oriental fruit moth. Dispensers should be placed in the orchard before the April moth flight. In warm years, or in orchards with high moth populations or outside pressure, a second application of dispensers may be needed. Dispenser types that last only 2 months may also require multiple applications.
Articles from the Tree Fruit website may only be republished with prior author permission © Washington State University. Reprint articles with permission must include: Originally published by Washington State Tree Fruit Extension at treefruit.wsu.edu and a link to the original article.
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McCorkell is an experienced journalist with a strong dedication to community news.
He began his journalism career in 2005 with the U.S. Navy, graduating from the Department of Defense Information School in Fort Meade, Maryland. He served three additional years as a Navy Journalist Petty Officer 3rd Class at Navy Region Southwest in San Diego.
Following his enlistment he has worked at several newspapers and covered a variety of beats including education, city government, sports, agriculture and human interest.
McCorkell graduated magna cum laude from Fresno Pacific University and holds his bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts.
McCorkell and his wife Elizabeth were both raised in the Sacramento area. They have three children: Caitlyn, 8, and twins Grace and Nolan, both 7.
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Delta Private Jets, a subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, earlier this year launched Sky Access. You pay $8,500 and can fly as many empty legs as you want at no additional cost. You also get 20% off select fares on Delta’s airline flights. There is a $500 fee if you cancel or no show. Over this weekend 66 empty legs were listed, although some such as Ft. Lauderdale to Miami, all of 30 miles, wouldn’t even give you time to pop open a beer. More interesting was Washington D.C. to Chicago and New York to Sarasota. There were also Nantucket to New York and Las Vegas to San Francisco, however, they were both on Friday, so the wrong direction for most people, and that’s the point, and perhaps a good segue to discussing the some of the downsides.
Depending on who you believe 30-to-50% of all private jet flights are ferry flights. However, that doesn’t mean they are necessarily dirt cheap. Magellan Jets, which sells jet cards and on-demand charter also offers empty legs, and while you have to contact the company for pricing, it says rates start at $3,000 per hour. Airstream Jets enables visitors to its website to download a list of active empty legs and while most of the 13 listings were for the next two weeks, there were flights posted through mid-November, one an empty leg in September on a Gulfstream G-IVSP from New York to London for $49,900. Another broker quoted the same date and route at $92,000. Even more attractive was a G500 charter this weekend from Palermo, Italy to New York for $35,000. Quotes for a non-empty leg charter that I received from another broker for random dates in August started at $111,000.
An empty leg, or ferry flight, refers to a private jet flying "empty" after dropping off passengers, or en route to pick up passengers. As the flight is already paid for, we offer significant discounts on these flights. LunaJets can offer such prices when the empty leg of a private jet matches your itinerary and timing exactly. This option is for one-way flights only.
Some other examples of prices come from Avinode, which powers a charter marketplace for brokers and operators and gathers a large amount of data on pricing. Their recent data shows the average price per hour for return trips, for various aircraft. As noted above, these rates can vary depending on when you fly, where you fly and if your flight is one way or return, plus landing fees, ramp fees and any repositioning can all add to the costs. Always ask for a fully inclusive quote from your broker or operator.
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The key words here are prop planes, turboplanes, and light jets. Prop planes like the Cessna Caravan are popular because they're roomy (the seats are like business class, and often configured face to face). More popular these days are planes like the six- to eight-seater Pilatus PC-12, and KingAirs, which fly faster and feel more like jets. And then you get into light jets like Learjets, Embraer Phenom 300s, and Citation CJ3s, and Hawkers, all of which are sleeker and more streamlined, and can fly for four to five hours, for slightly longer trips.
If the paying customer – that person shelling out $5,000 to $20,000 per hour - cancels his or her trip, then your empty leg will also be cancelled. If you were going somewhere, make sure your hotel and car rental reservations can be changed without penalty. If you were using an empty leg to get home, make sure you also scan the airline schedules and availability so you have a backup plan. Most empty legs can be cancelled anytime before departure, and reasons can include that delays earlier in the day meant your pilots ran out of time to something on the inbound flight broke and needs to be fixed. Oh, and that’s it. You’ll get a refund of your money, but you’re usually on your own, perhaps sitting in a private jet terminal at an airport with no commercial flights.
I work on the operator side of this business. Joel and his team (Christina, Simon, Kerry, and more) are all incredibly wonderful to work with. They are always responsive in a timely manner and deliver accurate information consistently. They bring a very positive attitude and outlook to this industry. Hopeful to book many more trips with them in the future.
VistaJet own and operate the largest Bombardier private jet fleet in the world. With access to a fleet of over 70 aircraft, VistaJet customers are guaranteed private jet hire when needed – with as little as 24 hours notice. The VistaJet cabin design is identical across the fleet. The understated interiors feature Italian wood and leather finishing, and whether you and your executives want to work, relax or entertain, you’re sure to have exactly what you need.
If there are no empty legs and no possibility of rerouting an empty leg, LunaJets can negotiate with its network of partner operators for the best on-demand charter price for your itinerary. You will be offered a selection of aircraft at the best charter prices to choose from. No minimum flying time is required and you just pay the fixed pre-agreed price for your flight. No upfront deposit. No long-term contract. Private jet charter costs are fixed and include all necessary amenities.
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Sleeping Weazel
Adara Meyers
interdisciplinary writer/producer
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Adara Meyers is an interdisciplinary writer and Managing Director of Sleeping Weazel, a Boston-based multimedia experimental theatre company.
Her performance works and plays, Picture This, Talk To At Me, and Birds, premiered at Boston Center for the Arts (Sleeping Weazel), and Tryouts received its world premiere at Salvage Vanguard Theater. Her work has been developed or produced at Great Plains Theatre Conference, The Factory Theatre (Sleeping Weazel), and Perishable Theatre; new music collaborations with composers Kirsten Volness and Leaha Maria Villarreal have premiered at Roulette and the L.A. Philharmonic. She is the recipient of a Rhode Island State Council on the Arts merit award and has been a resident at Sedona Summer Colony. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and a BA in English from Wheaton College (MA).
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Gift Wraps Up Group 2 Prize
on Aug 15, 2009 :Balthazar-Gift-Newbury. Balthazaar's Gift took the Hungerford Stakes at Newbury in impressive style to claim Group-race success in over two years on Saturday.
The Clive Cox trained six-year-old travelled strongly at the rear until jockey Philip Robinson made his move going into the final furlong. On just his fourth start for trainer the horse showed a terrific bust of speed to sweep to the front of nine strong field. Regal Parade finish three lengths behind in second, with Plum Pudding half a length away in third. Odds-on favourite Evasive put in a disappointing performance managing only fifth under Frankie Dettori. The three-year-old, on his first start for Godolphin, travelled well in the early stages of the Group Two contest but dropped away tamely once the pace quickened. [B]TOP-CLASS[/B] "It's the first time I've ridden him," said winning jockey Robinson. "But Clive knows his horses so well and tells you about every little quirk they have. Today he's got this horse spot on." Cox added: "Many thanks to Rod Simpson who trained him in Dubai and suggested he came to us. "I think he's a top-class horse and we shall now look at the Group One Prix de la Foret at Longchamp (October 3) with him. "All credit to Philip as well for giving him the perfect ride."
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Aluc the Red
Here is my top character Aluc Red. First I named him Aluck Aloxira, than Alucky the Red and at last I changed it to Aluc the Red. His inspirations are based on those of Mickey Mouse, Timmy Turner of the FairyOdd Parents, Arthur Read, and Kermit the Frog. He kinda has my face.
Boggi Bear
This is Boogi Bear. I drew him up out of Winnie the Pooh and Yogi Bear. He will act like both of them at a same time.
"Native American Giants"
Those are my own fictional giants of North America. From left to right, the Stone Coat, Gray Giant, Many-Armed Giant, Hook-nosed man and the Bear-Headed Man.
Basil The Brave
Basil The Brave or The Brave Basil is my best picture character I drew. His inspirations are The Great Gonzo and Linus Van Pelt of Charlie Brown series. He will be the daredevil kid.
Matt Byanchi
I made this Matt Byanchi, out of my best friend, Matthew James Bianchi. He reminds of cartoons the way he talks and acts like them. Well, he will be inspired of Fozzie Bear, Dodger and Tito of Disney's Oliver n' Company and Matt Banchi.
Jimmy Comedric
Jimmy Comedric is inspired of Goofy, Jimmy Kwon (my old friend), and Fozzie Bear. I had drawing him for three years. I also drew him, because Jimmy Kwon, when I was at Century Junior High, reminded me like he was a goofy character the way he acted.
Avenger of America
This is the American Avenger(or Avenger of America or simply Avenger for short), the upcoming new superhero. This time he is the Native American descendant, but his inspirations will be those of Superman, Hercules, Thor and Captain America. I created him since 2010. Originally, I thought of the Son Of God as a new superhero, but I realized this could be lame. So, American Avenger it is. Now I remade him in his full figure. He's 6 feet and 4 inches taller as the real "Big Mike" (Michael Oher), very physically muscular, skin tan as a ground, eyes light blue as a sky, hair black as coal and he is a gentle Herculean figure. He's got to be another symbol of the freedom of America.
"Kedzie Comics Trinity"
From left to right, Woman Wonder (or has to be Virago), American Avenger and Ratman. Concept artwork.
This is Sitala Shang, the Native American land belle. She would likely be one of the American Avenger's friends. I based her hair, necklace and shirt design on the Hopi religion. As a matter of fact, she's Hopi. "Sitala" means "display memory" and "of good memory" in Miwok due to her wisdom of the past and the photographic memory.Drawn on August 11, 2013.
This is David Bettington, the Native-American born punk. Drawn on August 12, 2013.
This is Colonel Freemason. Don't worry, he's no Hitler. I drew him on August 13, 2013.
Those, my friends, are the two of my concept artwork for my new upcoming family of superheroes. You probably or probably not noticed them. But I created on their poses. First I drew them in black and white in pencil, one day in July 6th, 2012. Then i colored them in color in July 9th, 2012(below)."They'll be the original four teammates, well soon I'll add a baby girl to them just like my little sister Cameroonie". But seriously, these are what the colors of each of their own outfit will look like. Asperger in true blue costume, Imaginative(Infared Witch) in purple costume, Mrs. Spectacle in true green costume and Mr. Spectacle is in popper red costume. They have our own brown hair colors.
That's another one of my Spectacle Family theme pose, this time in the background from Photoshop. I did it right after I scanned it last months.
Here are the characters based on the others from Disney's Aladdin. I drew them in full figures from the live Disney meetable characters. From left to right, Princess Jasmyn, Alauddin the clever and daring Street Rat, the easy-going, friendly and powerful Genie, Abbu the monkey in front of the Magic Carpet. They'll be upcoming allies of the Spectacles.
Here are the other allies of the Spectacles based on the characters of Disney's The Little Mermaid feature and TV series. Here is Princess Arielle, in the center on the stone, the mermaid-turned-human and curious but brave heroine. Next to her is her husband, Prince Erik. Behind them is Arielle's father, Tritton. Her friends are Sebastian the red crab, next to her right side. Flounder the "real-live" based atlantic blue tang fish. Gabrielle, the mute Latin Mermaid and Arielle's good friend, and Olli her octopus intrepreter friend. And on the right corner is Urchin, the younger merman, Arielle's closest friend and foster brother. Does Urchin look like me? My own mom really thinks so.
Here are the characters based on the others of Disney's Hercules film and television. The least i can really do. I drew them from July 22 til 23, 2012. Well, I also did the same thing as the others above, you know. First I drew Hercules the True Hero, then Meg (Megara), Philocretes the satyr, behind him is Cassandra the Oracle, next is Icarus and at last, Hermes the messenger of the gods. I sure knew that Hercules movie was 15 years old. I love that movie. But seriously, they will also be the upcoming allies.
Those, my friends, are an another set of the Spectacles, based on the characters of Disney's Pocahontas series. I finished it at November 15th, 2012.
That's an another upcoming superhero. I call him Lifesavior. He can save the lives of the innocent people. His inspirations are the past comic superheroes Martian Manhunter and Vision. He's not an alien, or a robot, but he is a slow-aged Jewish and Christian mutated human.
This is another one of the upcomings I call "Thunderstorm". Well, actually when my friend, DK (David Kruse) knew I'm a good artist and he is a good writer in fact, he asked me to draw that Thunderstorm superhero for himself, with his real name, Victor J. Andrew, the name of our old high school. He is a man that was strck by lightning and put in a near-death experience when he is told that Earth and the dimension called Jupizeus both need a savior.
Here is my latest version of Thunderstorm. Remade at September 9th until 10th, 2013. DK gave me his picture of him, so I drew him in his powerfully-enhanced armor.
Captain Wonder
Captain Wonder (Won-Derr), the member of the Ruule empire. This is how this guy will look like. After his jade-green alien soldier uniform, he will wear a true green hotter red costume with true blue glooves and boots, and the golden metallic bracelets and the white core of the yellow star on the center of his chest. I really like the origins and story of Captain Mar-Vell since I was on the computer wikis about him, so I have to draw and create Captain Won-Derr. I thought "marvel" and "wonder" are the same with the meanings of astonish and amazement.I drew him in pencil black and white (top), last I colored him (below).
Otoonah
This, my friends, is Otoonah. I drew her on August 24, 2013. I read that story of Otoonah at Century Junior High as an 8th grade student on the literature book. It said that she appears as a girl with a weak soul in the Eskimo family, bullied by her older brothers. She was then abandoned by her family at her brothers' urging and she was all alone, becoming very hungry and thirsty. Until, she had a dream when she saw an old man that told her to go west and eat only few berries and drink a few but not too much. And so she did. Though still hungry and thirsty, that seems to gain her strength by then. On the way she discovered an ulu knife on the stone. First, she was able to lift up the tree and threw it through the air and at last, claims an ulu. She used an ulu to make up weapons, and dressed herself in clothing, boots, gloves and a cape made out of the sealskin. She vowed revenge on her family. She eventually became the proud hunter by the time she hunted seals. However, she gets a change of heart when her brothers came. they mocked at her for hunting and challenged her. Angered at her laughter, she accepted. She won the game, her brothers were lost. They took her ulu and supplies with themselves. For retaliation, the strong woman chased after them out sea and demanded to return them to her. Realized that they are becoming weaker than their sister, they did so and then rowed away as she laughed through the wind. She said to her brothers they will be welcome back, only that they didn't hear her because they are so far way from her ad then met their fates through the terrible storm, never to be seen again. The next day, she went out for vengeance on her parents, but instead, she changed her heart when they warmly greeted their mouse-yet bullish daughter. Otoonah then seeks out for a future husband, and she met one. She wanted to get married and have another family and a party, but he refused since being with women who are hunting is forbidden. However the day later, the hunter was in danger, being pursued by the big bear. Otoonah ran in to protect him, and engages the bear. With her strength, she killed the bear, impressing the hunter. Yet, they are married and lived happily ever after. That story was quite interesting, hearing something about the woman who is getting stronger. I say, inside of her clothing, she would appear as very built than an average woman.
Shasta Sunlighter
This is my fictional hero for my future film, Armageddons, Shasta Sunlighter. He is to be inspired with Arthur Pendragon, Luke Skywalker of Star Wars, Kingdom Hearts video game hero Sora, Eragon and Harry Potter.
Wadney Wollyd
Wadney Wollyd's personalities are inspired by Donald Duck and Ronald Wesley.
Gonald Gilbert
I made that "Gonald". His personalities will be the same as a Disney character Goofy's and Sid the Sloth's of Ice Age.
Woman Wonder art
That is my "Wonder Woman" type of character, Virago Woman. She will be strong, wise and taller as the DC comics super-heroine, Wonder Woman. This would be her inspiration.
This is my concept drawing for my own wonder woman heroine. Originally, I met to call her "Woman Wonder". Because that sounds wonderful. However, I changed my mind. I worked on it from September 2 2011 until May 28 2012. Currently, I thought of calling her as Virago Woman. Still she can be wonderful as Wonder Woman. She can fight easily and hardly, deflect bullets with her bracelets, shoot thunderbolts when she hit them together, use her rope in different ways, throw her boomerang tiara, and use her indestructible shield they ways that Captain America uses his shield. I really love Wonder Woman.
Wien Effective Man
This is Wien Effective Man, or Wien Man for short. I drew, created, him on August 16th, 2012. His inspiration is the Marvel Comics' Wonder Man, but his outfit could be different. I call him Wien Man, because he is empowered with the ionic abilities of the Wien Effect. Well, he will just be the tragic villain.
Major Merlinian
This is Major Merlinian, an upcoming fantasy and adventure superhero. His alter ego is David Stut. I drew him in July 6th, 2012, one night. I inspired him from the 2010's The Sorcerer's Apprentice's main protagonist, Dave Stutler/Prime Merlinian. His personality will opposed to Dave Stutler's. I drew his head, created it similar to the Young Avengers' Wiccan/Billy Kaplan. Still, he can be a clumsy, funny, but focused heroic sorcerer in training.
Here is my picture of that Norse thunder god I drew that interest me. His name is Donar, either way, he is Thor. I thought of making him an another superhero in my comic work. He will have an inspiration of Thor from the "Clash Of The Gods" and from Marvel Comics. He'll have a red hair, like he had, red eyes, the birthmark on the right side of his face. He sure is interesting. Wouldn't you say?
Norweign-based Villains
Here are the villains I drew based on some of the Norse mythology figures ecountered Thor. Those will be adversaries to Donar. From the left is his former servant, Lopter (Loki), the crafty God of Evil and Chaos. Then Skrymir, the king of the trolls who best Donar in the contests for treachery. Next on the right top, Jormungand, also known as the Midgard Serpent, the archenemy of Donar. He will be ressurected for vengeance currently after all the Ragnorak when he was killed by Donar. And at last, Thrym, the former king of the ogres, rosen from the dead, vowed his revenge on Donar for killing himself and slaughtering all his subjects. Thrym here, has a swollen face, recieved from Donar's hammer beating, and he seemed to replace his right arm to the ironic threatening arm, just like the Marvel Comics' Winter Soldier. At first, they were all so hard to draw with their details themselves. But then I got this over very well myself. It's the least I could do. And about Skrymir's cape, I will stll be working on that.
Armageddons Characters
That is one of my favorite monsters I drew. I call it the Rattarkuan. Rattarkuans will be inspired by the personalities of the Eragon movie's Urgals. They will be the barbaric creatures of my Armageddons feature. Sooner.
The Raiding Vader is what I made up. Raiding Vaders are the inspiration of the ninjas and the Star Wars villain Darth Vader.
This one here, is the Smokscin Raider, or one of the islandpeople. Fictional fierce nomads of the islands, inspired of the Tusken Raiders, the Vikings and the pirates. A lot more menacing, isn't it?
Goblins.
Here is the character called "Addam". I drew him quite similar to the Beast from Disney's Beaut and the Beast, but in my "Armageddons", he will have to be an live action version.
That is my Hag character. It is based on the appearance of The ones from The Chronicles of Narnia and the robe is also based on that of Darth Sidious'.
Captain Luck Hothrob and his first mate and girlfriend, Benjamina.
The Minoboar. That, I just "took" it from the "Narnia" series. Minoboars will be serving as guards of the crime lord in Armageddons. Does this armor look similar to that of the Gammorrean Guard's.
"Jack ReBo Band". From top to bottom, Jack ReBo the pygmy elephant humanoid, the alligator blowing the trumpet based on Louis of Disney's Princess and the Frog, the Gorgade drumming his drums just like Animal and the weird amphibian blowing his "flute".
Here is my best monster, The Drakkon. The Drakkon will be to inspire the Star Wars' Rancor and the Kraken of the 2010 remake of the Clash of the Titans.
"Quarken Calamarian".
This one here is Admiral Arkboal. I drew his face based on the Disney's The Little Mermaid, Sebastian the Crab. His personality will be a bit similar to Admiral Ackbar and Sebastian.
Bulk concept art
I was still working on my "Hulk" type of character, that will be called "Bulk". Originally, I thought of it to call it "Manzilla", but I changed my mind as well. His alter ego would had been called Buck Barker, but I changed to Bryce Barker as well. It was hard to think of it at first. Bulk/Bryce Barker will be based on the Marvel superhero Hulk/Bruce Banner. But he will have his mother, still living, but physically hurt, unlike Bruce Banner's mother who was deceased. He will have the similar powers as Hulk's, and the intelligence as Bruce Banner's. But I'm still thinking of his skin color. It will have to be like palish green, but my dad told me it will still be the Hulk. So I thought he will be yellow-green, however, he has to be green-blue than being green. It's real hard. It was very difficult. But Bulk will have the same height as Hulk's. But he's got to be different than him.
Here are my original ideas of the Bulk's supporting characters. It was also very hard. Abby Fiss, will be Bulk's love interest. Well, I changed her name to Betsy Rass. She will be just like Betty Ross on her personality. I thought Barker will have his brothers, but there was a change of plan. Titan/Bob Brewer is the Bulk's monster-fighting partner, he will be just like the Fantastic Four character Thing, but he will be blue colored. It's so hard to do, while I'm still drawing on the new set of the Bulk's supporting cast. Reid Jacks will be similar a bit to Rick Jones the Hulk's sidekick.
She-Bulk
This is my own "She-Hulk" type of character. She is called "She-Bulk". I abandoned the "She Manzilla" name. Bryce Barker and Bulk can also have his substitute sister-acting cousin, Jennifer Rogers, based on Hulk's cousin She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters). She will also be a attorney (this time at Washington DC), similar to the "Jennifer Walters". Here I got pictures of her below. She's gotta be amazonian, muscular, but a bit feminine, just like the 1996 Incredible Hulk TV Series' She Hulk. I really like her. I like both of them. "Same powers as her cousin's for sure".
The Bulk's Enemies
All of this work on Bulk's adversaries and I'm still working on them. Here they are. There's Doberman, the physically dobermann dog-like monster. Rudanos, the zombified villain, inspired of the Dc villain, Solomon Grundy. The evil World Conqueror. Revulsion, the reptilian monster, based on the Hulk's villain Abomination. Syklopis, the agent od the Dark Entities. The super-assassin Spreadfreak similar to Speedfreak. Wolf-Man. The 'Mud-Thing" creature made of water and sand, based to the Glob. And the Dictator, similar to the Leader, but a bit different this time, the Bulk's archenemy. It's hard to decide who to make a villain to the Bulk. I mean, I didn't want make the same villains of the Hulk. Honestly, it was hard, but that's what I did best.
Here is my best monster I drew. I call this one the Carnotaur. It was one of my bad mutates of last year I was about to keep drawing on them. Well, I picked this one here. That Carnotaur would be the mutate alien adversary of the Bulk.
"Kedzal" Robots
Those are the artwork of my own robot characters. I drew, worked on them from July, 24 2011 until June, 13 2012. The I-Robots and VICOR will be similar to the I,Robot movie. Just like VIKI, VICOR controls the robots in order to attempt to destroy humanity. However, after his defeat, he will be ressurected in the Arnim Zola based armor. And the Superioid will be the same as the Marvel Comics' Super-Adaptoid. O2-D2, I made up, is quite similar to R2-D2, he will be the most ally to the Spectacles. And so will Z-3BO, would be based on C-3PO. The Omniddroid, though, I got the "Omnidroid" name from the Incredibles, but I tried change it a bit. The Omniddroids' metal color will be a lot silver. And last, Sentry 549, one of the fictional robot sentries of the Ruul Empire, will be the inspiration of Sentry 459 of the Kree Empire. Drawing the robots are my most favorite time to do. I drew and colored other robots before.
Uncron
Uncron, the robot with the twisted evil mind of its own. Its inspiration is Marvel Comics' robot supervillain Ultron.Ultron was the most interesting thing I read about him, he's a threat trying to end humanity. And so, I drew Uncron, right here. It was on June 21, 2012. It was hard to make a robot villain a bit similar to Ultron or Ultimo. I couldn't use that name Ultron, so I use Uncron. Like Ultron, he rebelled his creator Pymple, and wanting to extinguish human people, and conquer Earth. I made him a lot menacing, too. I know the robot villains are non-fiction, not to worry. But I bet drawing the evil androids is a lot of fun.
Amazam the Amazing Android
Amazam, the inspiration of Amazo, one of the robot villains in DC Comics. Well, I would try make him a little different, but he can replicate the powers out of superheroes. Thought, other than that, he has a bit fit of rage like the Hulk in World War Hulk. He will have a carrot- colored cap, pale caucasian armor, but with teal and blue armor plates on his gaumtlets, abdomen and tin feet, and the electric bolts on his neck like Frankenstein.
Here is the superhero, combined of Marvel Comics' characters, Vision and Iron Lad. I call him "Vocattion". I created him from June 30th to July 2nd, 2012. I thought drawing a robot superhero is kinda fun to do. So, Vocation will be an another superhero robot for our history to the future. Inspiration of Vision.
"Kedzal" Aliens
Those are my fiction alien races, my friends. I watched many movies and TV series with aliens before. So I made their inspirations of the ones of the Marvel characters. I drew them until this 2012 in June.
The Ruules
The Ruules are the fictional empire-building warrior aliens. They will be inspired of the Marvel Comics' Kree. Well, Captain Wonder here, is to be like Captain Marvel, but his outfit colors are to be blue-green, top and bottom, and orange, on the middle and his sleeves. "He can also have Nega-Bands." I'm thinking that some Ruules will have skin colors such as graphic blue, graphic green, pink, Caucasian white like us, and gold and have different colors of hair. I will still be working on them, if I could please get help for one day on my comics.
The Skroulls
Here are my Skroulls. They are also inspired of the Marvel aliens Skrulls and the Chitauri and the Trolls of the Norse and German mythologies. However they will be the dirty green reptile-like trollish creatures. They will use the shapeshifting abilities, while some of them will have brute strength.First I drew was one of the Skroulls, then the head of Cl'rq the Super-Skroull, then Emperor Durraik VIII, after him Princess Annell'e, next was Warlord Morrar and finally, the emperor's intelligent and loyal advisor J'dan. Sorry, I had the name "Skrool" on here. Those were real hard. I was met to to change it. Those are all the best concepts I can do.
"Ant-Man and Wasp" art
Here is my super character, Crimefighter Ant-Man, also known as Dr. Henry "Hank" Pymple. His inspiration is that of one of Marvel superheroes, Henry Pym and his outfit the same as Eric O'Grady's (The Third Ant-Man). It's hard to change a name. But I put "Crimefighter" on that name. Yes, because Ant-man is fighting against crime and terrorism. His outfit color will be fire red and blue and his helmet will be silver with orange pupil lenses. I had to draw him just different than Henry Pym in his Ant-Man persona, and I did.
This is my Wasp character. Her super name is Winsome Wasp. Her inspiration is Wasp/Janet van Dyne. Her alter ego name will be Janetta "Jan" 'Jana" van Dyrme. She can do the same things as the Marvel comics Wasp. It was hard to think of her at first. Like Wasp, Winsome Wasp is the fighting crime partner and love interest of Crimefighter Ant-Man. I really love the Wasp, so I decided to draw her counterpart of my comics. Lovely, isn't she?
Buzz Sollar of Star Command
This is Buzz Sollar, my own "Buzz Lightyear " type of character. I really like Buzz Lightyear. I had watch these cartoon series as a kid back at a condo, many years. Well, I made of Buzz Sollar, that's who I drew. I thought of making him one of my new superheroes in my comic series. He can be an ally with the Spectacles and some characters inspired some of Toy Story characters. Well, I had to make him different. His outer space suit will still be green, but the interior has to be deep blue, opposed to Lightyear's inner suit. He can do a lot of abilities , just like that Buzz Lightyear.
The Villains
Those are, to be, the Armageddons villains, I'd drawn since 2009. I created them on the mixture of Disney and Star Wars, which I will explain. From left to right, the Evil Dictator of his empire, Xaider the Dark Envader, and the Realmtrooper. This Dictator's inspirations are of Emperor Palpatine, King George III, King Galbatorix, the Lion King's Scar, Jafar and Judge Claude Frollo. Xaider's are Darth Vader, Batman's enemy Bane and also Frollo. The realmtroopers, well one of them here, are the elite soldiers of the Magic Empire, like the stormtroopers of the Galactic Empire. I tried to make this armor look a bit different than the stormtrooper's. Impressive, isn't it? I know. I did pencil first and then Photoshop.
Another one of Armageddons characters is the "Red Soul Trooper". His helmet is loosely based on Darth Vader's.
Maphisto
The villainous Native American entity of treachery, Nukpana, claims himself Maphisto. I made the name Maphisto out of Mephisto or Mephistopheles. He is the upcoming enemy of the American Avenger. I created him since 2010.
I drew those villains for my "Crimefighter Ant-Man". They will be inspired of some of Marvel villains. From left to right; Lileocaris the mutated scarlet beetle, One of the Berlin Beasts, Dr. Egghead, Madame Sneek and El Toro.
Maunder
This is Maunder, the upcoming new super-criminal. The enemy of the Spectacle Family. I drew this character, based on the Southwestern American actor M.C. Gainey, in July 5th until July 6th, 2012. From one night to early afternoon. Ialso drew him based on Gainey, because Gainey plays the criminals and thugs, symbolized by his threatening looking beard and Southern/Southwestern accent in a scary tone.
Artrol the Evil Avenging Wizard
This is Artrol, one of my upcoming supervillains. His real name was Artrel when he was once a prince from a fictional dimension called Avertica, until he was droven insane and turned rogue, becoming the conqueror but a would-be tyrannical ruler of Earth. He's quite handsome, but he is a monster on the inside, don't you see? He kinda resembles his deceased mother and has the mind of his father's harsh manners. If I said Artrol resembles his mother, that's because he has her long hair, and full pouty female like lips and he is quite in a slender physique. He is the all powerful dark sorceror of our planet that cannot be killed that easily. He is also to be one of the enemies of Major Merlinian.
This villain is called Adolph Hitman, not to be confused with "Adolf Hitler" seriously. He is different, won't you say? So I gave him a goofy-looking German mustache opposing to the madman's. He's thin on his sides, but chubbier on his front side. I created him from August 5th to 6th, 2012. He is evil, deceiving, grungy and of course power-hungry. Also one of the upcoming enemies of the Avenger of America. Please don't worry about that he will be just the crime lord but also the would-be conqueror and comedic villain.
This villain is called Fuehrer Fallen, the German-born criminal leader of the "Nazis". Caliming to be a descendant of Adolf Hitler, but he must be a bit taller than him. I created him at August 9th, 2012. He is armed the Nazi German hat-based helmet that grants him telepathy and will make him immune to psychis attacks, and the battlesuit that enables him unusual strength, durability, reflexes and endurance. He would also be an above average intelligent scientist and of course the power-hungry megalomaniac.
That is my very own "Boogeyman", one of the greatest villains I drew at August 10th, 2012. He would be a powerful terror-inducing Halloween-based supervillain. He will also be an upcoming archenemy of the Spectacle Family. His powers will include shapeshifting, immortality, and the manipulations of terror. He drew his costume, loosely based on the Marvel Comics' Demogoblin's. Let's just say he is very evil and alot worser than supervillains. His flaming eyes are shown in darkness inside his hood, hiding his secretly deformed face, probably like a monster's. At first it was hard to decide what to draw the boogeyman with the face of a troll, or a goblin or a rat, or a bat, so I decided to draw him in a mysteriously masked figure. That's the best I can do for the possibility.
This is Indigo Gaston, the "Energy Man". Inspiration of Erik Josten, the Marvel character. created on August 16th, 2012. Upcoming supercriminal.
This is the Lunging Laser, the inspiration of the Marvel Comics' Living Laser. Created on August 17th, 2012. Upcoming supercriminal. He would be powerless, but laser-armed scientific vigilante.
This is one of my latest created villains, Reg Ratburn. I thought of Rathart, because he would have a heart of the black rat. He is holding what appears to be a stone with an unique power. Based on a personalities of Lex Luthor and Red Skull. Drawn on August 10, 2013.
That is Maza Blaska. The name "Maza Blaska" means "flat iron" in Native American Dakota. I decided to use that for this robotic villain. Drawn on August 10, 2013. Based on Metallo.
This is Kankaga. I drew him from September 5th to 8th, 2013. He is the dimensional chronicle traveling conqueror that came from the prehistoric past as an caveman when he was accidentally taken to the future where he had found technologies and learned of their intelligence.He began to notice that knowledge and intelligence are the same and became obsessed with it. To communicate with speech, as unusual, he had to place that cybernetic USB borg construct attached to his brain, loosely based on Star Wars' Lobot. Kankaga could speak and communicate with a computer at the same time though, unlike poor Lobot. I gave him a name "Kankaga" from a mixture of "Kang", "Kangee" and Kaga". In Native American legends, it said that "Kaga" means "chronicler" and "Kangee" means "raven" or "crow". He could think just like the trickster raven of the Indian stories. He be similar to either Brainiac or Kang the Conqueror.
Monstrous villains
The Boogeyman
This is The Boogeyman. Not to be confused with the other boogeyman. I drew him from November 2nd to 8th, 2013. I looked up on the 2000 film series The Boogeyman, while I was thinking of making up the live action thriller fiction features. So I created this creature into a gentlemanly but bestial while intelligent than the 2000's. he would have grey skin, big orange eyes, spikes along the spine, huge claws and sharp fangs.
Pumpkin Jack
This is Pumpkin Jack! I drew him from October 25 to November 8, 2013. I liked the Halloween music "Pumpkin Jack". I remembered it when I was at my middle school Meadow Ridge. He came from the pumpkin patch, recieved a candle and lit by a match. It glows inside the face on front and face on back, He will howl like a wolf, meow like a cat, creak like a door, squeak like a bat, hoot like a owl, growl like a bear, or anything else and he will give everybody a scare. The way I drew him is that he has a two-faced pumpkin for a head, a filthy green grassy body with sharp stems for nails or claws and roots for toes. This is an concept artwork.
Devilhunter artwork
Here is another one of my superheroes, the guardian devil vigilante known as Devil Hunter. His alter ego is Mayhew Murddock. His inspiration is the Marvel Comics' Daredevil and DC's Batman. Though he kinda has a mask of Wolverine's and the costume of Cyclops'. He can do a lot of things like martial arts and boogie club techniques of thatt of Daredevil's. This time, he's not really blind, but he is traumatized. He has a hateful side on the criminals and the soft and gentle side on innocent people, like the Ghost Rider, wouldn't you say? Below here, I drew him in his technique poses. Next are his girlfriends, Nemesis and Jennifer Garner, inspirations of Elektra. And the woman assassin, known as Asajj Vectress. And last but not least his enemy, Bulls' Eye (Bullsaye). That's the least I could do.
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The Alliance for Vermont Communities in partnership with the Vermont Center for Ecostudies are glad to offer a series of hikes led by local naturalists in the Ashley Community Forest, a beautiful 218-acre wooded area which straddles the Sharon and Strafford boundary.
This land has been purchased thanks to generous donors, the Vermont Land Trust and the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board and will be conserved for generations to come. The Alliance for Vermont Communities plans to give the land to both towns to be used as a community resource for recreation, wildlife, historic preservation, timber, and scenic beauty.
Conservation Commission members from Strafford and Sharon are working together with Alliance members and the Vermont Land Trust to prepare for common ownership by the towns, including development of a management plan. Public input will be important in drafting the plan.
The walks are free! But space is limited. Please register by contacting Michael Sacca at 802.889.3210 or mfsacca@sover.net. Directions will be provided upon registration.
Ashley Outings Schedule:
May 11 – Birds: 7:30am-9:30am, Dick Rubin (Birder) Learn More
May 18 – Naturalist Walk: 7:30am-9:30am, Kathy Thompson & Mike Hebb (Naturalists) Learn More
May 19 – Naturalist Walk: 7:30am-10:30am, Tii McLane & Kyle Jones (Naturalists) Learn More
May 25 – Birds: 4:00-6:00pm, Nathanial Sharp (Vermont Center for Ecostudies) Learn More
June 1 – Birds: 6:00-8:30am, Steve Faccio (Vermont Center for Ecostudies) Learn More
June 8 – Cellar Holes and Stone Walls: 9:00am-11:00am, Paul Kristensen Learn More
June 15 – Reading the Forested Landscape: 9:00am-11:00am, David Paganelli (Orange County Forester) Learn More
June 16 – Ferns: 9:00am-11:00am, Tii McLane (Naturalist) Learn More
June 21,22 – Using iNaturalist: June 21, 7:00-8:30pm & June 22, 9:00-11:00am
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Exercise is no quick cure for insomnia
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Exercise is a common prescription for insomnia. But spending 45 minutes on the treadmill one day won't translate into better sleep that night, according to new Northwestern Medicine® research.
"If you have insomnia you won't exercise yourself into sleep right away," said lead study author Kelly Glazer Baron, a clinical psychologist and director of the behavioral sleep program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. "It's a long-term relationship. You have to keep at it and not get discouraged."
This is the first long-term study to show aerobic exercise during the day does not result in improved sleep that same night when people have existing sleep problems. Most studies on the daily effects of exercise and sleep have been done with healthy sleepers.
The study also showed people exercise less following nights with worse sleep.
"Sleeping poorly doesn't change your aerobic capacity, but it changes people's perception of their exertion," Baron said. "They feel more exhausted."
The study will be published August 15 in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. Baron conducted the study with coauthor Kathryn Reid, research associate professor of neurology at Feinberg and senior author Phyllis Zee, M.D., the Benjamin and Virginia T. Boshes Professor of Neurology at Feinberg and director of the Sleep Disorders Center at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
"This new study shows exercise and sleep affect each other in both directions: regular long-term exercise is good for sleep but poor sleep can also lead to less exercise. So in the end, sleep still trumps everything as far as health is concerned," Zee said.
Baron decided to analyze the daily effect of exercise after hearing her patients with insomnia complain the exercise she recommended didn't help them right away.
"They'd say, 'I exercised so hard yesterday and didn't sleep at all,'" Baron said. "The prevailing thought is that exercise improves sleep, but I thought it probably wasn't that simple for people with insomnia."
Why does it take time for exercise to impact sleep?
"Patients with insomnia have a heightened level of brain activity and it takes time to re-establish a more normal level that can facilitate sleep," Zee said. "Rather than medications, which can induce sleep quickly, exercise may be a healthier way to improve sleep because it could address the underlying problem."
The study participants were older women, who have the highest prevalence of insomnia. Exercise is an optimum approach to promote sleep in an older population because drugs can cause memory impairment and falls.
Baron thinks the results also could apply to men because there is no evidence of gender differences in behavioral treatments for insomnia.
For the study, Baron performed an analysis of data from a 2010 clinical trial (by the same group of Northwestern researchers on the current paper) that demonstrated the ability of aerobic exercise to improve sleep, mood and vitality over a 16-week period in middle-age-to-older adults with insomnia. She and colleagues examined the daily sleep data from 11 women ages 57 to 70.
The key message is that people with sleep disturbances have to be persistent with exercise.
"People have to realize that even if they don't want to exercise, that's the time they need to dig in their heels and get themselves out there," Baron said. "Write a note on your mirror that says 'Just Do It!' It will help in the long run."
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Chapter 3 : Diversity and Environmental Distribution of Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria
Author: Jeanette M. Norton1
Affiliations: 1: Department of Plants, Soils and Climate, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322
Content Type: Monograph
Category: Environmental Microbiology
Book DOI: 10.1128/9781555817145
Chapter DOI: 10.1128/9781555817145.ch3
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This chapter discusses archaeal ammonia oxidation and anaerobic ammonia oxidation processes that have important roles in the global nitrogen cycle. It reviews the diversity, distribution, and biogeography of a subset of the ammonia-oxidizing prokaryotes, the aerobic chemolithotrophic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB). The terrestrial AOB are generally restricted to the Betaproteobacteria, while the marine organisms are found both in the Betaproteobacteria and the Gammaproteobacteria. Phylogeny inference based on the current data set does not support that all nitrosomonads are more closely related to each other than to members of the Nitrosospira lineage; especially problematic is the placement of Nitrosomonas cryotolerans and Nitrosomonas sp. Stable clusters based on 16S rRNA phylogeny are problematic within Nitrosospira because of the overall high levels of identity of the 16S rRNA (>97%). Soils are often dominated by Nitrosospira spp., while marine and freshwater systems often have mixtures of the genera of AOB present. During secondary succession, microbial communities develop on the soils that are often depleted in the number and diversity of microorganisms. In marine habitats, Nitrosococcus, Nitrosomonas, and Nitrosospira coexist with ammonia-oxidizing archaea; their relative contributions and diversity are only beginning to be delineated. The functional cohort of AOB, ammonia-oxidizing archaea, and the nitrite-oxidizing prokaryotes will persist as important model organisms for linking the process of nitrification to microbial diversity and biogeography.
Citation: Norton J. 2011. Diversity and Environmental Distribution of Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria, p 39-55. In Ward B, Arp D, Klotz M (ed), Nitrification. ASM Press, Washington, DC. doi: 10.1128/9781555817145.ch3
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Two 16S ribosomal RNA guide trees for the clusters of beta-proteobacterial (top) and gamma-proteobacterial (bottom) AOB based on high-quality sequences (>1,200 bp) from isolates. Sequence data retrieval and analysis was preformed with RDP version 10 database functions ( Cole et al., 2009 ). Several Nitrosococcus 16S rRNA gene sequences were from ongoing genomic sequencing projects (M. G. Klotz, personal communication). The scale is substitution per site. Strain selection and cluster designations are based on those of Purkhold et al. (2000 , 2003 ), Kowalchuk and Stephen (2001) , and Ward and O’Mullan (2002) .
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Pairwise comparisons of 493 16S rRNA gene sequences of Nitrosospira spp. for genetic distance (percentage of divergence) and geographic distance (m) between sources. Sequence data retrieval and analysis was performed with RDP version 10 database functions ( Cole et al., 2009 ). Geographic distances calculated in ArcGIS (version 9.1; Environmental Systems Research Institute, Redlands, CA) were transformed into four categories, as displayed. Statistical analysis on the untransformed geographic and sequence distance matrices was performed with the Mantel r test (Ade4 version 1.4-11 ( Dray and Dufour, 2007 ) and indicated that DNA distance increased as geographic distance increased (r = 0.22, p = 0.001).
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