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Meredith Andrews' "Deeper" Pre-Sale Begins
Written by Herb Longs
Meredith Andrews,
On February 19, Word Worship artist Meredith Andrews will release her new album, Deeper, and beginning today the album is available for pre-sale.
With every advance order of Deeper through iTunes or Amazon, there will be two instant grat songs: "Soar" and "I Look to the King." Both tunes can also now be heard on Spotify as well as on other streaming services. Beginning February 5, "Deeper" will be the third instant grat song available prior to the album's official release.
Pre-order Deeper on iTunes or Amazon today, and listen to the instant grat songs via Spotify.
Along with a review in Worship Leader Magazine, Deeper is also touted in the current issue of CBA Retailers + Resources. Andrews will be featured in the upcoming issues of CCM Magazine and Charisma, along with Christian Post, Keep The Faith, New Release Today, CBN News, Life With Purpose Radio, Church Collective, an upcoming podcast of Focus On The Family's Boundless, and more.
Be sure to visit her website for the latest information as well as her latest touring schedule.
And, check back early this coming week for our review of Meredith's new album here on TheChristianBeat!
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Blaydon Race 2014: Kenyan Peter Emase regains the crown
By James Hunter
It was a Kenyan one-two in the 2014 Blaydon Race, with Peter Emase edging out last year's winner Boniface Kiprop
The start of the Blaydon Race, in the centre of Newcastle
It was an all-African affair at the 2014 Blaydon Race, with a Kenyan one-two in both the men’s and the women’s contests.
Peter Emase was first home, crossing the finishing line in the evening sunshine to regain the title he first won in a downpour two years ago.
Emase finished in 26mins 34secs - more than a minute faster than his winning time in 2012 - after holding off the challenge of last year’s winner Boniface Kiprop.
Kiprop lead the way at the start of the race before Emase took over on Chain Bridge Road, and he finished 14 seconds ahead of his Team Run-Fast colleague.
Emase said: “I’m really happy to have won the race again.
“I won in 2012 when it rained, and I had never run in conditions like that before.
“This time it was dry, which was a lot better for me!
“We [himself and Kiprop] ran together for most of the race but I pushed on near the end, and was really happy to win.”
The Kenyan pair were pacesetters in the Ottowa marathon recently, with Emase pacing for 26km and Kiprop for 35km.
Emase smiled: “That might have helped me a little bit!”
Kiprop added: “I was exhausted near the end.
“The better man won!”
Morpeth’s Nick Swinburn finished third overall and was first Geordie home in a time of 27.11, after accelerating away from former Elswick man Ryan McLeod who had occupied third place until around the three-mile mark.
McLeod finished fourth, with the Morpeth duo of Peter Newton Ian Hudspith fifth and sixth respectively, with the latter also taking the first Gadgie to cross the line.
The Kenyan duo of Joanne Chelimo and Gladys Yator led the women’s race from start to finish, with Chelimo crossing the line one second ahead of her Team Run-Fast colleague in a time of 29.42. Those times meant Chelimo and Yator finished 14th and 15th overall.
Chelimo said: “It was a difficult race, and I’m really pleased to have won.
“We ran together all the way, and it was only right at the end that we raced for the line and it was very close.
“I’m already looking forward to coming back here next year to defend the title.”
Kendal’s Rebecca Robinson ran 30.25 which saw her finish third for a second year in a row, while Wallsend’s Danielle Hodgkinson ended up fourth in a time of 31.44.
Thousands of runners fill the streets for Blaydon Race 2014
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Doctors Shrugging
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2007/02/02/c1a_ERdocs_0202.html
"Thirteen of Palms West Hospital's 16 gastroenterologists quit the medical staff Thursday in a dispute over having to treat emergency patients.
The disagreement started after the Loxahatchee hospital in December required all of the specialists to see emergency patients. Most of the doctors refused unless they were paid to be on call. The physicians, who make an average of about $350,000 annually, wanted the hospital to pay them $1,000 a day to handle emergencies. Palms West denied that request."
"Palm Beach County's medical specialists have increasingly avoided treating emergency patients out of a fear of being sued and not getting paid by an uninsured patient. The perceived threat of a lawsuit has become a bigger fear as most specialists in the county have opted to not buy malpractice insurance because of its high costs."
"The group has been searching for a solution to the ER speciality shortage problem for three years. Last month, it punted the issue to the health care district."
"Any solution would take at least a year to implement because it would require state and federal approvals and the cooperation of dozens of physicians and most hospitals in the county. The Palms West physicians' action makes the shortage even worse."
This last quote is instructive. Note the article says that the "Palms West physicians' action makes the shortage even worse." Referring to this situation as a "shortage" is true in the sense that one usually ends up in a "shortage" of stuff for which he doesn't pay. In other words, if I go to a restaurant and demand a free dinner and they don't feed me, does this constitute a "shortage" of food?
How many people in non-medical areas are willing to work for free? If you need your car repaired would you demand that your mechanic fix it for free? Then why do people demand that doctors act as slaves? Heap on top of this the extraordinary risk posed by malpractice suits and prohibitively expensive malpractice insurance would you work under these conditions much less for free?
Why do people demand that doctors sacrifice themselves by going through school and grueling internships for 10 years, then face the threat of being sued frivolously for any non-miracle all in exchange for FREE? Because the morality of altruism demands such sacrifices.
It is about time that doctors say no more. Doctors should demand to work on their own terms and recognize they have a right to trade their services voluntarily in exchange for what the market will bear. If they want to work for free at times that is their choice. However, those that continue to work under these conditions are sanctioning their own demise.
Those that demand that doctors work for free will ultimately get what they pay for.
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Agwe: Alone in the Woods
Thread: Agwe: Alone in the Woods
AdAltiora
Eyes Onward
Survival - (d20+9) (12) [21]
Bahati, Vanara Alchemist 1 - The Fall of Melior
Teos, Tiefling Monk 3 - The Red Wolf Dragoon Adventurer's Guild
Aries, Gria Dancer 1 - Final Fantasy: Dawn of Ivalice
Suzuki Yáve, Guiding Blade 1 - The Huntsman
(If you touched the fence, make a Will Save DC 18.)
Everything happens as you just described.
As soon as you touch the fence, you feel a jolt and seize up, falling away from the fence. A moment later, you're back to normal.
You easily find your way back to the are at the edge of the woods where you left Tok and Bronwen. Both of them are standing in approximately the same places as before. Bronwen is covered in mud and has leaves in her hair and plastered to her clothing.
The bird flits over to Tok's shoulder and chirps into his ear for a couple minutes. Tok nods and chirps something back.
"Well," Tok tells you in a normal, human voice. "I can see that you are not dead, and the Chat tells me you didn't do anything stupid. Your performance was acceptable, and I will continue mentoring the both of you."
Will save - (d20+5) (7) [12]
"Ah...yes...nothing stupid..." Agwe rubs his shocked hand with a goofy smile, grateful the Chat didn't seem to mention that part. Well, it was better than attempting to climb the stupid fence! The Undine laughs at Bronwen. "What happened?? Seems like you had a lot more fun than my stroll!" His eyes perk up, turning to the professor. "Speaking of...Professor, what was with that stone? And what was with the necromancy in the forest?"
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"I wrestled a boar," Bronwen tells you. "I tried to reason with it, but it would not cease its attempts to gore me. I was forced to take drastic measures."
"There are many stones in the forest," Tok says. "If you refer to the stone I think you're referring to, it is the gravestone of a necromancer who has been dead for a hundred twenty years. The wood around it was destroyed by the necromancer before the old Headmaster Laghara killed her. You would be wise to avoid the area at night time."
"A shame," Agwe replies grimly to Bronwen. "Glad you remain...relatively unharmed though." He chuckles before returning his attention to Tok, brows furrowed. Many questions crop up at once. "Who is this necromancer? Why does the stone have an Abjuration aura? And...was this before or after the Headmaster built the school?" His head begins to hurt so he begrudgingly stops himself from asking more. The long hours walking coupled with the rest of today's events were starting to take a toll. Exhaustion slowly creeps in but he manages to push it off; protecting his people required strength of will.
"A dryad, to keep the remains from being disturbed, and no," Tok says. "This academy has existed since long before Amrita Laghara became headmistress. It was already nearly four hundred years old when Daman Laghara killed the necromancer."
"I see...last question then. Is there any way to reverse what was done? And if not...can the land, at least, be restored?"
"We have not found a way yet," Tok says. "Headmistress Laghari does not wish to tamper with the trees in case she inadvertently causes the blight to come back."
Well that's just unacceptable. What if this happens somewhere else? What if this happens to Punari? Agwe nearly reels back from the thought--he quickly shoves it out, refusing to think any further. "I see...well, Professor, if there is anything else, think it's time to call it a night." He smiles, yawns, and stretches.
Tok nods and wanders off into the woods.
"Well," Bronwen says. "I, too, am going to bed. Good night."
She heads off for the dormitories.
(Unless you were secretly planning to do something besides actually go to bed, then nothing more eventful happens until a week later, when you decide to chase down super-powered monkeys.)
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Charles Walter Dexter
Personal Information | Media | Sources | Event Map | All | PDF
Name Charles Walter Dexter [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Born 7 Apr 1901 Rothville, Chariton, Missouri, USA [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
Find-A-Grave 88810017
Residence 1910 Yellow Creek, Chariton, Missouri, USA [3]
Residence Between 1935 and 1993 Salisbury, Chariton, Missouri, USA [7]
Residence 1 Apr 1940 Yellow Creek, Chariton, Missouri, USA [5]
Social Security Number 493-28-9643 [2]
Died 11 Jan 1994 Salisbury, Chariton, Missouri, USA [2]
Buried Rothville, Chariton, Missouri, USA
Rothville Cemetery
Person ID I4097 Thompson-Milligan
Father Frank L Dexter, b. 21 Feb 1868, Missouri, USA , d. 17 Jan 1956, Moberly, Randolph, Missouri, USA (Age 87 years)
Mother Segus E Allen, b. 28 Dec 1867, Yellow Creek, Chariton, Missouri, USA , d. 5 Feb 1949, Rothville, Chariton, Missouri, USA (Age 81 years)
Family Jewell Orlena Thompson, b. 1 Dec 1908, Marceline, Linn, Missouri, USA , d. 18 Jul 1988, Chariton, Missouri, USA (Age 79 years)
Married 19 Aug 1925 Keytesville, Chariton, Missouri, USA
1. John Leroy Dexter, b. 20 Jul 1935 (Age 83 years) [natural]
Born - 7 Apr 1901 - Rothville, Chariton, Missouri, USA
Married - 19 Aug 1925 - Keytesville, Chariton, Missouri, USA
Residence - Between 1935 and 1993 - Salisbury, Chariton, Missouri, USA
Died - 11 Jan 1994 - Salisbury, Chariton, Missouri, USA
Buried - - Rothville, Chariton, Missouri, USA
Jewell Orlena (Thompson) & Charles Walter Dexter
[S60] 1930 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2002;), Database online. Year: 1930; Census Place: Yellow Creek, Chariton, Missouri; Roll: ; Page: ; Enumeration District: ; Image: .
Record for Jewell Dexter
[S53] Social Security Death Index, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2009;), Database online. Number: 493-28-9643; Issue State: Missouri; Issue Date: Before 1951.
Record for Charles W. Dexter
Record for Charles W Dexter
[S105] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online.
Record for Frank L Dexter
[S195] 1940 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;), Database online. Year: 1940; Census Place: Yellow Creek, Chariton, Missouri; Roll: T627_2096; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 21-29.
Record for Jewel Dexter
[S206] 1920 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2010. Images reproduced by FamilySearch.Original data - Fourteenth Census of the United States, 1920. (NARA microfilm publication T625, 2076 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Reco;), Year: 1920; Census Place: Yellow Creek, Chariton, Missouri; Roll: T625_906; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 47; Image: 1124.
Birth date: abt 1902
Birth place: Missouri
Residence date: 1920
Residence place: Yellow Creek, Chariton, Missouri
[S220] U.S. Public Records Index, Volume 2, Ancestry.com, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Voter Registration Lists, Public Record Filings, Historical Residential Records, and Other Household Database Listings.Original data: Voter Registration Lists, Public;).
Birth date: 7 Apr 1901
Residence date: 1935-1993
Residence place: Salisbury, MO
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RITORNO AL SITO:http://www.tlig.org/it/mission/reports/1999/0111/ DIMENSIONE CARATTERI: NORMALE - GRANDE
Italian » Missione » Reports of Vassula's Meetings » 1999 Reports » Zambia, Africa »
Vassula in Zambia - Africa
Kabwe - Lusaka, January 11, 1999
First contact with True Life in God Message
I originally knew of Christ’s Messages being received by Visionary Vassula Ryden through Mrs Maggret Chandu - a Catholic Charismatic Renewal Member from the same Parish with me - the Holy Trinity Parish in late 1996 after her testimony when she wept after watching video No 1 (The meeting Vassula had at Franciscan Center in USA). This happened soon after I was baptized in the Holy Spirit in May 1996.
I must inform you however that I received my water baptism, as a youth, on the 18 December 1956 at the Holy Family Mission in the then Caprivi Strip - now a Province of Namibia. In 1968 I contracted a marriage outside the Catholic Church and because of this act I could not partake in the Holy Sacraments, but both my wife and I never stopped going to Church on Sundays and during Church feasts.
In 1975 I was found with high blood pressure and this illness got worse every year. In 1968 I moved to Kabwe in Central Zambia from Katete in Eastern Zambia. In 1996 my heart condition got worse and my neighbour - a Catholic Charismatic asked me to accompany her to Charismatic prayers on Saturdays so that the group could pray for me. At first I avoided her, but finally after her repeated requests I went with her reluctantly. From that day I continued to pray in this charismatic group and soon after this my High Blood Pressure condition just disappeared up to this day!
I went through 'Life in the Spirit Seminars' for seven weeks after which I was baptized through the Holy Spirit on Pentecostal Sunday, in May 1996 together with wife, my daughter, my son and my sister in law. During Life in The Spirit Seminar we were strongly urged to regularize our marriage so that we could go back to the Sacraments. This we did soon after our seven weeks of marriage lessons and counseling, after which our marriage was blessed and regularized. In the month of September 1996 we went back to the Sacraments after a break of 29 years.
In June 1998 my oldest son and my 'Christmas daughter - Manyando' who was born on Christmas day 25 December 1988 were baptized in the Holy Spirit. At the moment all my children except one, who grew up in a Seventh Day Adventist family, are all Charismatic! Baptism in the Holy Spirit gave me new dawn of exiting experiences, I pray for the sick and the Lord uses me to cast demons from the possessed. I do this every Sunday, I want to pay the Lord for healing me of the killer disease.
How I got the tapes and came to know True Life in God Messages:
Suddenly one morning, I felt something, strongly urging me to look for Video Tape No 1 from which Mrs. Chanda gave her testimonies - it took me the whole day to locate the lady who had this tape. When I finally watched it, it gave me the hunger to watch more and try to find books or tapes or anything that could give me more information about Vassula and the messages she receives from Christ. I wrote to Trinitas in America, for information and materials that would help my Charismatic Renewal Prayer Group to grow at the Holy Trinity Parish. I further asked Trinitas to help us in Zambia especially Kabwe by appointing someone who could help distribute TLIG materials locally. I gave Trinitas the postal address and phone number of Fr Christian a Charismatic Priest. I was convinced that Fr Christian could help Trinitas distribute the books or any other materials that would be sent to him.
Your Express Air Mail letter, excited me, as I had expected to receive a big consignment of materials from you but when I saw a bare envelope at the Post Office; I was extremely disappointed. When I read your letter informing me the possibility of Vassula’s visit to Kabwe after an extension from Ivory Coast and Kenya, you further assured me that you could easily arrange that she visits Zambia in January; since Zambia was close to Kenya. You however informed me that Zambia will have to share to pay a third of the cost of the air ticket between Kenya, Ivory Coast and now Zambia.
The cost of this proposal was prohibitive on the Charismatic Membership in Kabwe, mainly due to donor fatigue after organizing the 2nd National Open Catholic Charismatic Rally which was hosted by the people in Kabwe from 28 to 30 August 1998. In spite of this I contacted a few people, but all of them told me that it was not wise to try and ask for financial assistance again so soon after the Rally. If I said yes to the proposal it would have meant that we needed to raise ZK 1,000,000.00 to ZK 2,000,000.00 for the return Air ticket! This was not possible in this town.
I sent a reply to you saying Kabwe could not afford the visit, due lack of money but I hinted that I expected Vassula to visit Zambia before the end of 1999, in spite of having her tour schedule being full up to the year 2000! After this I gave up all hope for her visit due to financial difficulties. After this everything about the tour was over and done with.
Soon after posting the reply; Fr Christian started a 9 day Novena in which I participated. I asked the Lord through the Novena that if it were His will to allow Vassula to visit Kabwe, let His will be done for the glory to His name. After this, I left everything in the hands of the good Lord.
Nine days of Novena at the Holy Trinity Parish:
On 24 November 1998 after evening Mass Fr Christian informed me that he had a phone call from you informing him that Vassula was now ready to come to Kabwe if she were invited.
When he mentioned this to me, I informed him that in fact I had already written you that we could not raise money to cover the cost of the return ticket to Nairobi - Kenya. Fr Christian further informed me that he expected a phone call that same evening from you; but he lamented because his phone line was damaged by lightning the previous night. However despite the damage, the phone worked but only for you to deliver your message, after the message was delivered to Fr Mashi as he is popularly called the phone went dead again and it was only repaired on the 28 November!
The following morning, Thursday 25 November, I received a fax from you saying you phoned Fr Christian and you were now informing me that Vassula was ready to come to Kabwe and that the TLIG Association of Switzerland was going to pay for her return ticket. On the same day the message was received, the Charismatic Deanery Coordinator was consulted and he advised that Fr Mashi should be asked for spiritual advice before he could give his opinion on the projected visit. The Deanery seemed to be ready in principle to host the visit if Fr Mashi had no objection against it.
My Parish Catholic Charismatic Coordinator and I met Fr Christian on 29 November and after a long searching and exhaustive discussion, Fr Mashi advised that it would be much better if Vassula was received by the Charismatic fraternity and he advised me to inform the Deanery for their opinion. The Coordinator was informed the following Monday before I even went to my place of work; he told me that this motion would be tabled before his Executive on the 2 December and soon after the meeting he would give me the reply.
The Deanery decline to host the visit:
The Deanery never met for over 20 days in spite of the urgency of decision they were to take. The Coordinator finally informed me of their decision on 23 December and handed me a letter to this effect on 24 December 1998 saying they could not host the visit.
However before this reply was received, my soul was extremely troubled because of the unexpected delay, we could not raise any funds without the decision of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal. In my distress, I prayed in the office asking the Lord to guide me by the message from the Bible opened at random and let Him give me a clear message as what I was to do.
I opened the Bible at random in Isaiah 56:10-11. I was shocked by the strong message I received. I had to go back on my knees again asking the Lord for His forgiveness because of this unexpected strong message and I further asked the Lord to finally guide me by giving me an appropriate message. I turned the bible over and over, making sure that the same page should not be opened and I turned it and closed it upside down while I prayed for divine guidance again. I opened the Bible at random and came again in the Book of Isaiah 56:10-11! At once I knew that, there was a problem at the Deanery and I could not expect a positive message from them. After Mass on Sunday, I confirmed the message with one of the Deanery Executive members, who informed me that the reply from the Deanery was negative! On Monday I went to confirm with the Coordinator of the Deanery who gave me the following reasons for saying no:
1. That the time was short to get permission from the relevant authorities like:
(a) The National Charismatic Executive
(b) The Archbishop of Lusaka
(c) The Charismatic Diocesan Executive
(d) The Dean of Priests of Kabwe Deanery
(e) Parish Priests in the Deanery
(f) They also said that they could not host a non Catholic, a Greek Orthodox!
2. A few in the Deanery said they did need someone from Rome to tell people in Kabwe prophesies because they claimed that people in Kabwe can also receive prophesies.
(a) The Deanery even banned the Charismatic Choir to sing during the meeting.
(b) Charismatic Members were banned to dress in their uniform, stressing that any member going to the meeting should do so in his/her individual and private capacity.
3. At the Parish of the Deanery Coordinator posters announcing Vassula were torn off notice boards.
4. Disinformation was given to some people in the Parishes saying Vassula was claiming to be Jesus and that she was satanic. 5 Some people were even threatened saying if they attend the meeting to be addressed by Vassula they will be excommunicated from the Charismatic group and the Church.
6. Two members of the Deanery Executive from my Parish, were threatened with expulsion from the Executive if they were involved in the preparations of the visit. Both of them withdrew without informing the Organizing Committee at the critical moment.
Many other nasty things were said about Vassula and her mission, including me and members of the Organizing Committee. Well, you warned me in advance about these persecutions, if Jesus was persecuted for saving our souls what more with us bare mortals!
Formation or the organizing committee:
When the Deanery declined to organize the Tour, a few people who were interested in the messages were contacted to salvage the tour. An Organizing Committee comprising of 15 people was formed. Some people in the Committee never heard of Vassula before but they came forward to organize the tour with zeal! Some people even started getting messages direct from Their Two Hearts, encouraging the Committee to forge ahead!
The Committee met Fr Christian Mashimishila at once to inform him about the refusal of the Charismatic Renewal to Host the visit of Vassula to Kabwe. The Priest advised that we go ahead to organize the tour saying - 'You cannot close the door in the face of Jesus'. He however warned us to pray hard because the Evil one would try hard to disrupt the visit. Fr Mashi then offered Chows 'A' Church, the largest Catholic Church in town for the meeting.
Fr Christian was being informed of the progress on weekly basis and he was extremely helpful to the Organizing Committee. On the day of the first meeting of the Organization Committee, I received the message from the Lord on page 54-55 of TLIG Vol III (Ask My Spirit to Help You. Ash). This message was given to the Committee Members who were extremely encouraged by the message.
Committee Members and well wishers contributed funds that we needed, to host our two visitors additionally we had to host even the two German Cameramen who had all their money stolen in Lusaka! The Lord provided all the money and transport that we needed to serve His cause!
One member of the Organizing Committee offered to pay board for Mrs Georgia Braun. We however managed to host all our four guests without tears!
On Sunday 10 January we left for Lusaka at about 9.00 hours to join forces with our Lusaka colleagues who we were going to meet for the first time. Everyone was extremely elated and exited we prayed the Rosary the whole trip interceding for the safety of our guests and the welcoming team.
My experiences at the arrival of Vassula and mrs Brawn:
When time drew near for the plane to touch down, I became apprehensive; my mind was not convinced that Vassula was arriving in Zambia that same afternoon! Even when the plane touched down I declined to receive her at the apron together with the Glower Girls and Medard! Members of the Kabwe Organizing Committee could not understand my strange but rather embarrassing behavior nor could I understand this behavior myself! Vassula was however received warmly more like a Head of State in true Zambian tradition hospitality; some people were even weeping and dancing with joy when Vassula and Mrs Braun came out from the arrival bay!
I met Vassula and shook her hand an hour or so when we stopped for a drink at a form Motel after covering almost three quarters of the journey to Kabwe, this was a place where I was introduced to her and Mrs Braun. After this encounter, I believed that I was not dreaming after all - Vassula was on her way to Kabwe! This was a miracle to me. The arrangement of Vassula’s tour to Kabwe did not promise me any success. There were numerous physical and spiritual problems, against the tour, but the Lord is great; he can do anything even in things human nature considered impossible! This is how I view the visit of Vassula and Mrs Brawn to Kabwe and Lusaka.
I am thanking Their Two Hearts, and the Switzerland TLIG Association which paid for Vassula’s return ticket and the request Vassula made to them for the trip. This was a special gift to us from the Lord, I am grateful for what you have done for us in Zambia and what you have done for me - the Lord used me so that he could talk to His people.
When we arrived at the Government Lodge in Kabwe we got a welcoming Choir waiting, when they say her, people danced with great joy. After dinner she was received by Fr Christian and all the members of the Organizing Committee to brief her about the meeting the following day.
Meeting at Chowa on Monday morning, the message of Love:
Monday, 11 January was not a suitable day for the majority of the Community in Kabwe or any where in Zambia! That was the day when schools were opening and most parents were taking their children for the first time. Everyone thought that this problem would affect attendance, but this was not to be the case.
I went to Chowa Church late myself due to the Fax in which you asked me to attend in regard to Visas for the two ladies to South Africa. I tried to Fax you and the other two ladies in Lesotho and South Africa but to no avail. However when I showed Vassula the Fax she told me that something was being done by the German Embassy with the help of Hans the Cameraman and the matter was sorted out. Vassula did not need a visa to South Africa - she is the Lords Ambassador!
The Church at Chowa was packed with over 3000 and there were hundreds more people outside who could not find space inside, people sat all over in the passages.
There were children in the Church, but the little ones were so well behaved and it was difficult to believe that we had children in within the Church! The Lord is always ready to surprise us but we still don’t understand, our hearts are made of stone and we even ignore the most obvious situations!
The introduction theme done by Fr Christian and the message I received that morning from the Lord which I showed Vassula before the meeting started ie - in the TLIG messages Vol III Page 63 (8 October 1992), and the message that Vassula gave in her talk was the same. It was a message of love, humility, forgiveness and reconciliation.
The message was so refreshing to all the people in the outside the Church; some people were weeping publicly while embracing each other, some of these people never talked to each other for years! The multitudes were stunned by Christ’ s message.
After the end of the Kabwe programme on Monday 11 January 1999, the Kabwe Organizing Committee handed over Vassula Mrs Braun and the Cameramen to the Lusaka team at 15.00 hours local time and they departed for Lusaka soon after.
Persecution after the meeting:
The Catholic Charismatic Renewal Deanery, continued spreading negative stories of persecution of Vassula and me and the Organizing Committee to other Parishes saying. The Lord solved all such problems. 'If the Lord is with you who can be against you'. The negative stories were not in line with the message of love and forgiveness which Vassula brought to Kabwe.
When the Deanery refused to host the tour, it was decided by the committee to organize the tour privately, this is what we did. However, the Archbishop of Lusaka Arch Diocese knew about the visit of Vassula as a private guest; when the Catholic Secretariat were told about the visit they said time was too short to clear Church bureaucracy.
Fr Christian was also hit by this same persecution, when he was rebuked by a fellow priest for allowing Vassula in his Parish. It is surprising to see how priests can fail to recognize the voice and the cry of Christ and they end up rebuking their fellow priest whose only mistake is recognizing the Lord’s cry on the cross of Calvary where such people crucify Him daily!
Fr Christian informed Parishioners about this persecution in Church during the homily on Sunday 17 January 1999.
Up to now, Vassula’s visit is still the talk of the town of Kabwe and I must therefore thank Their Two Hearts for what you have done for the Nation of Zambia and particularly for the people of Kabwe and Lusaka. We are praying to the Lord to afford us with the third visit of Vassula to our country.
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Can't forgive Pragya for insulting Bapu: Modi
New Delhi, May 17 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said he will never forgive BJP's Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal Pragya Singh Thakur and others for glorifying Mahatma Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse as "deshbhakt" (patriot).
"Whatever statements have been made on Gandhiji or Godse are very bad. They need to be criticised as these are not acceptable to the society. Those who have said so would need to think 100 times. Although she has sought apology but I will never forgive her for insulting Bapu," the Prime Minister told Hindi news channel News24 in an interview.
Modi's remarks came a day after the comment by Thakur, an accused in the Malegaon blast case, provided fodder to the Congress to target the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
"Nathuram Godse was a 'deshbhakt', is a 'deshbhakt' and will remain a 'deshbhakt'. People calling him a terrorist should instead look within. Such people will be given a befitting reply in these elections," Thakur told reporters in Bhopal on Thursday.
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Trip to Lancaster Co-Housing
Posted on 9th April, 2017 by Adem Altunkaya
Initially, at the start of the housing design project, we were introduced to the Co-Housing (CH) model of living I was apprehensive about this model of living. It could be argued that student’s halls have a similar construct to CH. In the sense that we all had a bedroom, shared a communal kitchen/living-room, some halls had shared bathroom facilities. But the essence of cohousing, in my opinion, is that it’s a collective of different people living together, sharing certain aspects of living, getting to know and live with each other.
After an informative trip to Lancaster Co-housing (LCH) where we participated in one of the main aspects of CH cooking for your fellow residents. Although I didn’t cook my fellow classmates did whilst I discovered what Lancaster had to offer. As I still had some thoughts looming in my mind, what about people that don’t like cooking in a communal area another issue being turn taking for cooking as well.
Figure 1 : Lancaster Co-Housing Site (Lancaster Cohousing, 2013).
I would state that if you was an introverted person, who wants to keep to themselves then they wouldn’t sign up to CH, to begin with. One of the major issues I have with CH is turn taking, as I feel in a way you are ‘forced’ to cook on a set day for everyone, what happens if you don’t feel like cooking or have a changed your mind about what you want to eat that day.
My final issue with LCH I found out during the trip, which affects meat eaters, was you aren’t allowed to eat meat in the dining room but you’re not allowed to prep any meat in the kitchen, this seemed illogical to devote meat eater. I would say that I did enjoy the vegan meal we had and enjoyed talking to residents whilst eating, I started to warm to the idea of a shared dining experience as the socialising aspect really made you feel like a community.
Figure 2 : Lancaster Dining (B Smith, House Planning Help 2013).
There was more to LCH than just sharing kitchen facilities, it had much more to offer, just outside the common house, most of the shared elements were along the central axis of the site, those being a mail box, food stores, guest house and kids play room. all this being strategically placed in the centre encourages daily encounters with other members of the community, for instance getting mail in the morning and pop into the kitchen to talk with another resident enjoying their breakfast. it’s these little daily social encounters that add to a community.
Figure 3 & 4 : Lancaster alleyway (Reshape, 2017).
LCH also had interesting building on site which was the old mill, as part of the development they had to retain this building for commercial use. After a discussion with the residents, it was apparent that the flexible mixed workspace was very successful, as it was fully occupied by the second year housing a range of different business from, photography, film making, arts and crafts, fashion business. This really sold the idea of CH and LCH as it demonstrated the diversity of residents, their interests and occupations.
Figure 5 : Lancaster Co-Housing Mill (Lancaster Cohousing, 2013).
Figure 1 : Lancaster Co-Housing Site – Lancaster Cohousing, (2013). Lancaster Co-Housing. [image] Available at: http://lancastercohousing.blogspot.co.uk/2013_03_01_archive.html [Accessed 9 Apr. 2017].
Figure 2 : Lancaster Dining – House Planning Help, (2013). Dining Room. [image] Available at: http://www.houseplanninghelp.com/hph028-how-cohousing-helps-build-a-community-with-mark-westcombe-from-lancaster-cohousing/ [Accessed 9 Apr. 2017].
Figure 3 & 4 : Lancaster alleyway – ReShaped, (2017). Lancaster Cohousing Ecohomes. [image] Available at: http://reshaped.uk.com/wordpress/portfolio/lancaster-cohousing-ecohomes/ [Accessed 9 Apr. 2017].
Figure 5 : Lancaster Co-Housing Mill – Lancaster Co-Housing, (2017). Managed Workspace. [image] Available at: http://www.lancastercohousing.org.uk/Project/Workspace [Accessed 9 Apr. 2017].
For more infromation on Lancaster Co-Housing check these links bellow.
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http://lancastercohousing.blogspot.co.uk/2013_03_01_archive.html
http://www.houseplanninghelp.com/hph028-how-cohousing-helps-build-a-community-with-mark-westcombe-from-lancaster-cohousing/
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2 responses to “Trip to Lancaster Co-Housing”
Zheng Leong Kit says:
21st May, 2017 at 11:43 pm
As a community style of living, Co-housing is a good choice of model of living. It strengthen the connection between people by providing shared facilities that encourage interaction between people. During the trip to Lancaster Co-housing, i had the chance of participate in the cooking for the residents. From my personal experience, these shared facilities do really help to encourage interaction, but cooking for around 20 people is never an easy job. I personally enjoy cooking but is still effort to cook for such a big community. I totally agree with what Adem had mention, it will be much difficult for people who does not like to cook.
Lancaster is being well designed, most of the shared elements were along the central axis of the site. The idea of having food stores, guest house and kids play room was great. Being in a remote site, having a food stores inside the co-housing would solve a lot of problem caused by not being close to the city or grocery store. Guest room is an element that most of the people wish to had in their house, because occasionally when there is someone else come over for a visit, people need a place to accommodate their guest, but the room will stay empty most of the time. Being a shared facilities could save up space in the house.
David York says:
12th April, 2017 at 10:21 am
Lancaster Cohousing has been a pioneer for the growing UK cohousing movement and is to be aplauded for its continuing willingness to welcome visitors and spread the word. For those at university, cohousing may eventually be a lifestyle option but it will take many years for it to reach the levels seen elsewhere in Europe. Right now, it may be something to talk to parents about as the community benefits for ‘seniors’ are many. In London, Older Women’s Cohousing (OWCH) and in Colchester, Cannock Mill Cohousing are worth checking out via the UK Cohousing Network.
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Bullets trump rehab as Asia quickens ‘failing’ war on drugs
September 11, 2016 HealthSharif Nouman
BANGKOK/YANGON – The Philippines has launched a bloody “war on drugs” that has killed at least 2,400 people in just two months, while neighbouring Indonesia has declared a “narcotics emergency” and resumed executing drug convicts after a long hiatus.
In Thailand and Myanmar, petty drug users are being sentenced to long jail terms in prisons already bursting at the seams.
The soaring popularity of methamphetamine – a cheap and highly addictive drug also known as meth – is driving countries across Asia to adopt hardline anti-narcotics policies. Experts say they are likely to only make things worse.
Geoff Monaghan has seen it all before. He investigated narco-trafficking gangs during his 30-year career as a detective with London’s Metropolitan Police, then witnessed the impact of draconian anti-drug policies as an HIV/AIDS expert in Russia.
“We have plenty of data but often we forget the history,” said Monaghan. “That’s the problem.”
He believes President Rodrigo Duterte’s anti-drugs campaign in the Philippines will fuel more violence and entrench rather than uproot trafficking networks. “I’m very fearful about the situation,” he said.
Reflecting the regional explosion in use, the amount of meth seized in East and Southeast Asia almost quadrupled from about 11 tons in 2009 to 42 tons in 2013, said the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
The only region seizing more meth was North America, where the booming trade inspired the popular television series “Breaking Bad”.
Meth was the “primary drug of concern” in nine Asian countries, the UNODC said, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Japan and South Korea.
PLAYING CATCH-UP
A rising chorus of experts blame this surge in production and use of meth in Asia on ineffective and even counterproductive government responses.
They say national drug-control policies are skewed towards harsh measures that criminalise users but have failed to staunch the deluge of drugs or catch the kingpins behind it.
They also want a greater emphasis on reducing demand through more and better quality drug rehabilitation.
“There is so much scaremongering and hysteria surrounding the issue of drugs,” says Gloria Lai of the International Drug Policy Consortium (IDPC), a global network of 154 non-governmental groups. “That’s a disincentive for challenging old ways of thinking.”
Meth is a transnational business, worth around $15 billion in mainland Southeast Asia alone in 2013, the UNODC says.
Much of the production takes place in laboratories in lawless western Myanmar. Ingredients such as pseudoephedrine and caffeine are smuggled across porous borders from India, China and Vietnam.
Laos and Thailand are major trafficking routes, with the finished product travelling by road or along the Mekong River for distribution throughout Southeast Asia and China.
Meth is sold in cheap pills called “ya ba”, a Thai name meaning “crazy medicine”, or in a more potent, crystalline form known as “crystal meth”, “ice” or “shabu”.
Contraband is effectively hidden amid rising volumes of regional trade, leaving law enforcement to play catch-up, said Jeremy Douglas, the UNODC’s Asia Pacific chief.
“We need to start thinking about big-time regional engagement, up to the highest level. It’s impossible to deal with the problem on a country-by-country basis,” he said.
“I can’t recall the last time a major trafficking kingpin was caught.”
SOCIAL COST
The meth explosion carries huge social consequences: overburdened health services, overcrowded prisons, families and communities torn apart.
Small-time users and dealers bear the brunt of unsparing law enforcement that is popular in crime-weary communities. In mid-July, as drug war killings escalated in the Philippines, one survey put President Duterte’s approval rating at 91 percent.
Thailand launched an equally popular “war on drugs” in 2003 that killed about 2,800 people in three months. But figures show it had no lasting impact on meth supply or demand in Thailand.
“The world has lost the war on drugs, not only Thailand,” the country’s justice minister Paiboon Koomchaya told Reuters in July.
Paiboon hinted at a radical shift in policy, saying he wanted to reclassify meth to reduce sentences for possessing and dealing the drug.
For now though, Thailand continues to jail thousands of petty drug users, with about 70 percent of its 300,000 or so prisoners jailed on drugs offences, according to government data.
TOUGH TO TREAT
Meth addiction is tough to treat, ideally requiring costly and time-consuming counselling. Long-term use can cause changes in brain structure and function.
In March, US President Barack Obama said drug dependency should be seen as “a public health problem and not a criminal problem”, part of a bid to roll back a “war on drugs” begun in the 1970s and now widely seen as a failure.
Policy in Asia is largely moving in the opposite direction, with drug rehabilitation underfunded and inadequate.
Less than 1 percent of dependent drug users in Indonesia got treatment in 2014, said the UNODC. Lacking alternatives, desperate Indonesians resort to herbal baths, Islamic prayer and other remedies of unproven efficacy.
“Rehab” in many countries often means detention at a state facility. In Thailand, thousands of users are held at army camps for four months. Relapse rates at drug detention centres range from 60-90 percent, says the World Health Organisation.
“Often, the government response causes more harm to an individual than the drug itself,” said the IDPC’s Lai.
Evidence shows that the most effective treatment is voluntary and community-based. A 2015 study in Malaysia found that half the people at compulsory centres relapsed within 32 days of release, compared with 429 days for those who had volunteered for treatment.
Tackling demand is complicated by meth’s broad appeal across different ages, professions and social classes.
In Myanmar, manual labourers claim that smoking ya ba boosts their stamina, while students say it boosts their grades. A Yangon student who asked to be identified by the nickname “Nick” told Reuters at a grim state-run rehab clinic that he smoked ya ba to help him concentrate on his studies. When asked how many of his fellow students also used it, Nick replied: “Almost all of them.” -Reuters
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Amazon MP3 beats iTunes on album sales, kinda?
iTunes may be the number one US music retailer, but Amazon boss Jeff Bezos thinks he has the Apple service beat in terms of album sales.
Bezos talked business with Fortune this week, it’s a wide-ranging chat that covers many of the bases of the giant online retailers international operations and his near-death experience during a fated helicopter ride. And includes the Amazon boss’ claim that his MP3 service outsells Apple, at least when it comes to album sales, at least proportionally.
An Amazon spokesman explains: "One exec I know at a big label, who asked to remain anonymous, says he’s excited by one trend in particular: At Apple”s iTunes store, two thirds of the music sold is single tracks and one third is albums. But at Amazon, two thirds of the music sold is albums and one third is tracks."
The Amazon boss is otherwise reluctant to talk about Apple, but with recent data revealing just 10 per cent of Amazon’s MP3 customers are former iTunes users, and with the company reportedly selling a fraction of the quantity of music sold by Apple’s service, the proportional difference may mean very little in terms of sales numbers and revenue.
That Apple seems on track to seize 28 per cent of the global music market by 2012 was also recently indicated by In-Stat Research.
Take a look at the Fortune interview here.
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Apple, Google, PayPal & others form coalition to ensure lawmakers understand financial tech
- Nov. 3rd 2015 4:06 am PT
With Apple Pay, Google Wallet and other services transforming the way people carry out transactions, Apple has joined forces with four other companies to ensure that lawmakers don’t end up ‘inadvertently’ stifling innovation in the financial services field.
Technology industry leaders Amazon, Apple, Google, Intuit and PayPal today announced the formation of Financial Innovation Now, a coalition that will promote policies to help foster greater innovation in financial services.
While the new organization uses relatively diplomatic language, it’s pretty clear that the aim is to ensure that politicians don’t screw things up by introducing poorly thought-out legislation, like the infamous example proposed by Democratic Rep. Joshua Peters …
Back in January, the Missouri lawmaker proposed a new law that would require shoppers to show photo ID whenever they used a mobile wallet service like Apple Pay, with clerks obliged to record the ID details before processing the transaction.
Brian Peters, Executive Director of Financial Innovation Now, says that the lobbying group wants to help lawmakers understand modern payment technologies.
Financial Innovation Now wants policymakers to understand how new technologies can help solve today’s policy challenges […]
The regulatory environment must allow these new innovations to enter and compete in the marketplace. We look forward to working with policymakers to promote the adoption of new services, many of which are already bringing significant benefits to consumers and small businesses today.
The group plans to lobby lawmakers to modernize the financial services system through better security and real-time payment processing.
Apple is continuing to expand Apple Pay, with an ever-growing list of new banks in the U.S. plus further international expansion. The company recently reported double-digit monthly growth.
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‘Rage of Bahamut’ game reaches No. 1 on iOS and Android, pulls similar revenue from both platforms
Élyse Betters - Jun. 13th 2012 10:31 am PT
Japan-based DeNA announced that its “Rage of Bahamut” app became the No. 1 grossing game on both iOS and Android yesterday, while earning roughly the same revenue per day from each mobile platform.
The game’s success pokes holes in recent findings from Flurry, which claimed revenue generated per active user is four times greater on iOS than Android. The analytics firm noted that for every $1 earned on iOS, a developer could expect to earn about 24-cents on Android.
“Contrary to what we read, we’ve been very happy with Android monetization. There is not a big discrepancy between the two now,” said DeNa Director Neil Young to TechCrunch.
Rage of Bahamut is a free trading card game that lets users battle either through a live single or multiplayer action mode against a “database of battle hungry foes.” It is on Apple’s App Store and boasts a 4.5-star rating on nearly 4,000 reviews as of press time.
TechCrunch further elaborated:
The game had the top slot on both platforms yesterday, but Kabam’s Kingdoms of Camelot took back the #1 iOS slot in the U.S. this morning. […]Young says Rage of Bahamut is seeing some impressive revenue numbers per day per user. In casual games, you usually see an average revenue per daily active user of a couple cents to 10 cents per day on mobile. The better games can get to 15 to 25 cents per day per daily active user. But Young says Rage of Bahamut has been able to do 4 or 5 times that. He didn’t say how much revenue overall the title is earning, but we’ve seen dual platform hits like Draw Something earn anywhere between $5 and 10 million per month through in-app purchases and advertising.
Those numbers are welcomed news for developers with growing concerns about mobile platforms lacking solid business models that encourage monetization.
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Shop-Floor Monitoring Critical to Improving Factory Processes
With improved factory data collection, manufacturers can get a more accurate view of manufacturing processes
By Patrick Waurzyniak
Process improvement encompasses a wide range of tools, techniques and strategies. When properly deployed, shop-floor data collection and monitoring systems can help factory-floor managers leverage key data metrics including overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and total effective equipment performance (TEEP) that measure machine uptime and pinpoint bottlenecks or other problems in order to improve machining performance.
OEE metrics quantify factors including machine availability and operating time, part production performance, and quality. With OEE, manufacturers get the latest information on machine availability against planned uptimes, performance against target values, and quality data for comparing good versus scrapped parts.
Monitoring the Shop Floor
Without shop-floor monitoring systems, manufacturers cannot effectively employ OEE metrics and lean manufacturing, said Dave Edstrom, president and chairman, MTConnect Institute (McLean, VA). At the MTConnect conference last April, the new MTConnect Challenge was presented, aiming to spur development of advanced manufacturing intelligence applications using the MTConnect standard. Edstrom said shop-floor monitoring is a must for both OEE and lean. “I think a lot of people are kidding themselves, because if you don’t have the data, you can’t be doing OEE or lean,” Edstrom said.
MTConnect is an open-source, royalty-free protocol for sharing machine data using the XML and HTTP standards which Edstrom said allows manufacturers to easily get data from machines, including older legacy equipment, through MTConnect agents and adapters. The read-only protocol has gained many converts, with major machine builders, controls developers and manufacturing software companies supporting it to more seamlessly share manufacturing equipment data. The protocol now supports the ISO 13999 standard for specifications for tooling data, which simplifies sharing of standardized tooling information between manufacturing companies.
“The myth among machine tool builders is that it doesn’t benefit them, but when you talk to them, they’re differentiating themselves by being open, and it’s saving these machine tool builders direct money,” Edstrom said. Most builders supporting MTConnect have included agents and adapters for the protocol with newer machines for free, he added, or charge for a nominal fee on adapters for older legacy equipment.
To date, shop-floor monitoring hasn’t really taken off in the machine tool industry, with estimates that only 4% of shops monitor machines, though that number could be much lower.
“Knowing what your machines are doing is the first step,” said Brian Sides, director of technology, Okuma America Corp. (Charlotte, NC). “That means are they running or not?
“We’ve been a proponent of machine monitoring for years,” Sides added. “I’m seeing more interest. It’s really taken hold in the last couple years or less. The most mature part of MTConnect is the machine monitoring, and some big customers are putting it in their bid spec.”
OEE, TEEP Keys to Lean Process Optimization
OEE and TEEP are similar machine performance metrics but TEEP is measured against total calendar time. Each provide key views into how manufacturing processes are performing and provide critical data for manufacturers to improve operations. “From my perspective there are always two ways for any manufacturer to improve their processes. One is by implementing lean manufacturing and the other is to innovate their existing manufacturing processes,” said Sri Atluru, senior manufacturing engineer, process integration, Sandvik Coromant (Fair Lawn, NJ).
“There is a fine line between lean and innovation—lean management is mostly concerned with targeting the elimination of wasteful content or resources in your process flow, and improving the existing productivity of your shop floor,” Atluru noted. “Innovation is different in the sense that it has the capability to redesign your whole manufacturing process.
“Metrics like OEE and TEEP are very critical because management always wants a way to quantify the whole manufacturing process,” Atluru added. “OEE and TEEP provide a metric that quantifies the whole production flow in your shop floor. And it’s not just OEE or TEEP, you could also use something like SPC to also monitor your process flow and see what is the variability in your process flow.”
OEE provides a way to trace back the whole process flow and find out which part of the process flow is actually contributing to this wasteful content, he noted. “There is a fine balance when you say that, because OEE depends on the way that you collect your data. If you collect very accurate data, it is possible to trace back your problem or trace back your bad OEE to this particular source. But if you do not have accurate data, if you do not do real-time data collection, it becomes very hard to trace back why your OEE or your TEEP is very low. It’s like ‘garbage in and garbage out.’”
Another issue is that most manufacturers have a tendency to not collect data real-time, or automate their data-collection process, Atluru said. “When you manually collect the data, there is always a possibility to introduce more variability, or more errors, into your data.”
Using financial OEE tied to manufacturers’ lean efforts also is important, noted consultant Robert Hansen, owner of R.C. Hansen Consulting LLC (Fort Collins, CO) and author of “Overall Equipment Effectiveness: A Powerful Production/Maintenance Tool for Increased Profits.”
“Lean is the bigger umbrella, but OEE in my mind is the engine,” Hansen said. “In the flow stream, I envision it as the pistons in the engine. I contend that OEE Value Stream analysis is extremely important to learn, and it can harmonize that engine.”
The key to his approach is that all inventory is a loss, although necessary, said Hansen, a 29-year veteran of Eastman Kodak Co. “Financial OEE is the crystal ball that tells you just what the impact on the bottom line is,” Hansen said of OEE. “What it has is all the operating cost of the inventory. There are those who do it well, and others that have way too much inventory. Financial OEE just looks at whatever your current results are, from an income/profitability standpoint. The question is how much could you do if you did best practices?”
An organization’s financial OEE is really a question of how well it’s doing currently, as opposed to how well it could do if the company was operating at world-class quality levels, he added. “If you use all that improvement in time, you’d be astounded that operations that are in the 60–70% at each shop workstation could be much better,” Hansen said. “There’s a complete hidden factory within the assets you already have. Most people don’t ask the question, ‘How much did I leave on the table?’ But they should be.”
Taking the Pulse of the Factory
To enhance process improvement, manufacturers can leverage MTConnect to more easily view operational performance, noted Surya Kommareddy, business development manager, DMG / Mori Seiki USA Qualified Products (DMGMSQP)-software, DMG / Mori Seiki (Hoffman Estates, IL). “If you don’t measure, you cannot manage,” Kommareddy said. “OEE is helpful, but probably as it stands it’s taking a broader view more focused on quality, availability and performance. That’s not enough. You need to have more insight into what’s going on to improve the process.”
MTConnect gives manufacturers access to a lot of information in real time, he added. DMG / Mori Seiki recently announced it would offer MTConnect Standard V1.1-compliant adapters with all new machine tools equipped with the company’s MAPPS control. The MTConnect adapter solution includes the adapter, an agent and web services to let customers monitor machine status.
The effectiveness of OEE and charts depends on who looks at the metrics and how the data is used, Kommareddy said. “The shop manager may be interested mainly in OEE data,” he said, “but others are interested in that data on a detailed time chart. How many parts are being produced? And how many are being scrapped and why?”
Production workers on the floor are likely more interested in part-production data, for example, if a tool is running out and they need a new one from the toolcrib in time, he added. “These are also part and parcel of process improvement. You can look at these data to find bottlenecks in your process—anything that is green is productive time, and anything other than that, yellow or red, it’s all downtime, which is waste.”
OEE gives manufacturers a lot of data on factors including quality, showing good parts and bad parts, noted Neil Desrosiers, application engineer/developer, Mazak Corp. (Florence, KY), who also serves as chairperson for MTConnect Institute’s Machine Tool Workgroup. “Anyone who’s not measuring their factory today, they implement the low-hanging fruit,” Desrosiers said. “You usually see a 10% improvement and then after that you start seeing targeted improvements. It’s surprising to me how many people are not using machine tool monitoring.”
A longtime supporter of MTConnect, Mazak has included MTConnect compliance on both its machine tools and Mazatrol CNC controls, supporting the current third release of MTConnect v1.2 including mobile assets in the manufacturing process that can be associated with multiple devices in the lifecycle. Mazak makes the MTConnect adapters available at a cost of $500 per machine, he said.
Employing shop-floor monitoring solutions gives manufacturers a way to visualize what’s wrong with their processes, noted Ron Pieper, program manager, Viz Products, TechSolve Inc. (Cincinnati). With TechSolve’s MTConnect-compliant Web-based ShopViz monitoring application, users can easily see what ails a process on the factory floor.
Pieper compares MTConnect with a mechanic using the On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) standard for automotive maintenance. “When we hook up ShopViz to a machine, we really don’t care what kind of machine it is. You get the same data for the same reality,” Pieper said. “Say I drive an old Saturn, and you probably drive a newer Lexus or a Ford, when I hook up an OBD code scanner, it has the language it needs for communication. If we can apply this OBD concept to machine tools, we can truly learn what’s wrong with the process, and we can look for losses—I call them OEE detractors.”
Even with the tools available, a major impediment to optimizing processes is that so few shops use monitoring. “AMT has estimated that about 4% of machine tools out there are monitored,” Pieper said. “I believe that’s an over-estimation! There are a huge amount of machines in the small shops that are not monitored.”
The number of machine tools being monitored is under 1%, Pieper estimates, with that figure skewed toward larger manufacturers that more likely have internally developed systems. “Because they can afford it, what they tend to do is to create their own monitoring systems,” he said of companies including Ford, Chrysler and GE.
Many machine tool builders such as Mazak, Mori-Seiki and Okuma have done a good job supporting MTConnect, and Makino Inc. (Mason, OH) is using an adapter that was co-written by TechSolve that will work with Makino’s Pro3 and Pro5 controls, he said. “MTConnect works easily with newer controls,” Pieper said. “One of the big trends is to have the CNC front end be driven by a PC. That makes an easy platform. For example, Mazak’s Fusions, Matrix, and Matrix II controls all are able to be made MTConnect-compliant, even the controls dating back to the Win95 days.”
With ShopViz, customers get a relatively simple solution that is Web-based and resides either on the cloud or locally, Pieper said, depending on customer preference. “The importance of a metric like OEE or TEEP is based on who’s using it and what they’re doing with it,” he adds. “Really the most important metric comes down to utilization, simple as that. Is the machine running or not?”
Tuning the Process
Implementing process improvements can entail taking simple steps such as ensuring machines have properly tuned servosystems before delivery to customers, said Mark Brownhill, manager, strategic marketing, FANUC FA America (Hoffman Estates, IL).
“It really depends on where they are in the process journey,” said Brownhill. “If they haven’t even implemented 5S, they need to. When it comes to process improvement, you’ve got to start with something basic. A lot of people are still in what I call the fire-fighting mode.”
MTConnect is a protocol that is still trying to gain ground, said Brownhill, noting that FANUC has its own native protocol, FOCAS (FANUC Open CNC API Specifications), that runs on its CNCs. FANUC and FANUC Robotics (Rochester Hills, MI) are MTConnect members and Technical Advisory Group participants in the consortium. “MTConnect at the end of the day is a communications device that is designed with web-enabled data to tell you if your machine is running.”
Data-driven process improvement helps and manufacturers should fix things that have the biggest impact, he advises. “Focus on adopting best practices,” Brownhill said. “Until you fix the root cause, the problem will repeat itself. Very few manufacturers dedicate people directly to process improvement. It takes leadership to get process improvement to work.”
Manufacturers can make vast process improvements with tuning machine servosystems. “Your typical machine tool delivered to an end user is never optimized,” Brownhill stated. “Even if you didn’t add one thing to it, if you were to tune the servos it would go a long way toward optimizing machine performance. The majority of improving speed is improving the path accuracy. It can be any part of the servosystem. With a bell-shaped acc and dec, it is knocking off the linear acceleration corners to reduce vibration. A properly tuned machine with an AI Contouring Control can climb the path and you can cut your cycle times in half—we call it improving dynamic accuracy. That’s a big deal.”
Several elements of manufacturing systems—better CAM systems, workholding, and tooling systems—can dramatically affect performance, but deploying a high-pressure coolant system may have the greatest return on investment, noted Okuma America’s Jeff Estes, director, Partners in THINC and Okuma Technology Centers. “What we see is there’s really eight groups of technologies. One of them is CAM systems,” Estes noted. “CAM systems have come a long way, allowing shops to optimize cutting time, and simulate when undesirable things like a crash can happen.
“If I only had $15,000 to spend on something on the machine and I had to increase my productivity in the cut by 20 or 30%, the first place I’d look would be high-pressure coolant,” Estes added. “The biggest bang for the buck is putting in high-pressure coolant. It’ll allow you to get faster cutting speeds, longer tool life, and better surface finish.” ME
This article was first published in the July 2013 edition of Manufacturing Engineering magazine. Click here for PDF.
Published Date : 7/1/2013
Filed Under: Controls and Software, Lean Manufacturing, Machine Tools
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Sony Announces World’s Toughest, Fastest SD Cards
Sony announces new TOUGH SDHC UHS-II Memory Cards, the world’s toughest and fastest memory cards. Available in early October, the new TOUGH SD cards will feature durability and speed unseen in conventional SD cards, allowing photographers and filmmakers to fully focus on bring creative without worry.
The TOUGH SD cards feature the world’s first one-piece molded construction and rib-less design with No-Write Switch, making them far less vulnerable than conventional SD cards. In a bend test comparing the TOUGH SD cards to the standard, the TOUGH SD came out as 18 times stronger. These new cards also have the highest grade dustproof protection and are waterproof for up to 72 hours at a depth of 15 feet.
The cards boast an ultra-fast write speed of up to 299 MB/s – fast enough to support continuous shooting of high-resolution images and 4K video. When it comes to transferring those files to your computer, the cards’ read speeds of up to 300 MB/s makes the process take only seconds.
Before your card reaches its write cycle limit, the SD Scan Utility will let you know. It checks the health of the card by scanning its Flash memory, so you can always know the status of your TOUGH SD card.
The TOUGH memory cards will come in three different capacities in the SF-G range; 32GB, 64GB and 128GB. Check back to alphauniverse.com for more information on where to buy them.
See full official press release below:
Sony Introduces the World’s Toughest and Fastest SD Card
— Completely Sealed one-piece Molded structure and Ribless, Switchless Design Keeps Images Safe and Guards against Drops, Bends, Water and Dust —
SAN DIEGO — August 28, 2018 — Sony’s new “SF-G series TOUGH specification” UHS-II SD cards are designed to keep images safe in any shooting environment, combining the world’s fastest read and write speeds with an ultra-rugged design that is bend-proof, drop-proof to 5 meters, water-proof and dust-proof.
The new cards are 18 times stronger than SD standard (180N compared to 10N rating) to guard against bending and dropping, and use the world’s first monolithic structure with a completely sealed one-piece molding that leaves no empty space in the card and prevents dust or debris from entering. The TOUGH spec. series uses materials of high-grade hardness, unlike conventional SD which uses a thin, 3-part ensemble. They are protected against typical physical damage that can affect conventional SD cards such as a broken plastic casing, broken data protection lock and broken connector ribs.
For photographers fighting the elements to get the perfect shot, the TOUGH spec. SD cards are also waterproof with an IPX8 rating and dustproof with an IP6X rating.
As the world’s first ribless SD card with no write protection switch, the new cards’ design ensures that easy-to-break parts are removed entirely.
Unleash the power of the camera
Continuing an industry trend driven by Sony, full-frame mirrorless cameras such as the α9 and α7 series are packing more and more performance into stills and video performance. These high-end cameras rely on fast memory cards to maximize their performance and with professional photographers now using SD cards more frequently, users are demanding higher levels of reliability and durability associated with other professional card types. With the world’s fastest write speed of up to 299MB/s, buffer clearing time is minimized, allowing photographers to shoot at the highest burst speeds.
The TOUGH spec. SD cards also support V90, the highest standard of video speed class, making it an ideal companion for shooting high-resolution video.
Transferring high-capacity photo and video files is made simple with the TOUGH spec. cards, thanks to a read speed of up to 300MB/s, another world’s fastest, which dramatically streamlines the post-shooting workflow. Addressing the practical needs of photographers, the SF-G series TOUGH specification range feature a bright yellow banding design, making the card easier to spot in dark shooting conditions.
Ultimate Assurance
The TOUGH spec. series SD cards include a SD Scan Utility, allowing the user to check that the card is in good condition and File Rescue Software to recover accidentally deleted data and photos. The new cards are also X-ray proof, magnet proof, anti-static, temperature proof and feature UV Guard.
Full product details are available at: http://www.sony.net/sfgt. The new SF-G TOUGH series of memory cards are planned to be available in October, at the following suggested retail prices:
SF-G32T/T1 – 32GB - $72.99
SF-G64T/T1 – 64GB - $131.99
SF-G128T/T1 – 128GB -- $275.99
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Cold Winter Woods Bambi Limited Edition Giclee on Canvas by Michelle St. Laurent
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Bambi and friends gather in the cold winter woods after a snowfall in the Disney classic Bambi.
Michelle St. Laurent is a working Disney artist known for her beautiful renderings in watercolor that are both evocative and perfectly on-model. was born and raised in New Jersey, the oldest of four children in a large Italian family. At a young age, Michelle was inspired by Italian Renaissance painters Michelangelo and Leonardo de Vinci. She began painting at the age of 6 and asked for a new paint set on every birthday. In the first grade she entered a poster contest creating a painting of all the Disney characters marching in a parade. The judges disqualified her because they could not believe she had done the painting by herself without tracing. Her disappointment fueled her determination to become an artist. Filling many sketchbooks by the age of ten, Michelle began working with pastels drawing portraits of singers and movie stars. She won first place in a local art show and her piece was displayed in the town's City Hall.
Michelle made it her goal to become a Disney Artist when her family moved to Florida at the age of 16.
Tags: animals, bambi, cold winter woods, disney fine art, michelle st. laurent, thumper
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64 reasons to watch Dolby Atmos movies (how does it work?)
by Dennison Uy 5 years ago 5 years ago
Dolby Atmos theatre setup
One year ago on July 2013 the first Dolby Atmos cinema in the Philippines opened its doors at the new Promenade Mall in Greenhills, San Juan. Back then the New Promenade mall had barely finished construction, but movie fans all over Metro Manila can already experience the latest and greatest cinematic experience that the audio world can offer.
The brand name Dolby needs no introduction. Almost a household term, Dolby is synonymous with high fidelity audio technology in filmmaking. Founded in the United Kingdom in 1933, they are a pioneer in the audio world primarily responsible for the clean and crisp sound of modern movies.
Ever heard of the term “noise reduction”? How about “surround sound”? Can you tell me who pioneered both technologies? You got it, none other than Dolby Labs.
Ever since movies like Star Wars came out in the 70’s, Dolby Surround or Dolby Digital has been the de facto standard for high fidelity audio encoding technology for filmmakers. Well, there’s also DTS or Digital Theatre Systems, which is Dolby’s main competitor – I will leave it to you to do more research on the two.
Suffice to say, it has been almost half a century since the last major advance in audio technology. Visual advancements have gone at a faster pace, going from 35mm reels to digital projectors and eventually onto digital 3D formats like RealD, Dolby 3D, and IMAX.
It’s high time for our cinemas to upgrade the audio experience, and that’s where Dolby Atmos comes in.
To help you understand how Dolby Atmos works, you must first familiarize yourself with the concept of audio channels. Think mono vs stereo. You how flat your AM stations sound compared to the FM channels? That’s because AM format is broadcast in mono or monophonic format, which means all sound is mixed and reproduced in a single channel. Stereo or stereophonic sound, on the other hand, uses two independent audio channels, the left and the right channel, which gives it a fuller, livelier sound.
Now thanks to technology, we now have multi-channel systems like 2.1, where the “2” part refers to the left and right channels, and the “.1” refers to the subwoofer. If you don’t know what a subwoofer is, just think of it as the one that generates sound that you can feel, or the “boom boom” or the “tugs tugs” part that makes party people want to crank up the volume.
Dolby Surround 7.1 vs 5.1 Surround sound theatre
The standard Dolby Surround has 7.1 channels, or two channels more than the standard 5.1 surround sound configuration. Just look at the diagram above to get a quick visual comparison.
Note that in a standard 5.1 setup, you have the following distinct sound channels: left (L), center (C), right (R), left surround (Ls), right surround (Rs), and of course, the subwoofer. Dolby Surround theatres have two more distinct sound channels, back surround left (Bsl), and back surround right (Bsr).
While you may think that more is always better, it also depends on the source. If your source audio was recorded in mono, it will still sound flat even if you play it in a stereo-capable system like your car radio. The same is true for films. If your source was recorded using only two channels and you watch it in a Dolby Surround theatre, it will not sound as rich or as lively as a film that was recorded with the intention of being played back on a 7.1 system.
Which brings us to Dolby Atmos. Compared to Dolby Surround, Dolby Atmos requires an additional four (4) channels for proper reproduction, effectively making it an 11.1 system. Compared to Dolby Surround this is huge, those four additional channels are no joke. Even more amazing how sound elements can be assigned to each individual speaker (take note that Dolby uses the term speaker as opposed to channel)! Mind you, this is all according to the official Dolby Atmos page, which we are just going to have to trust for now. In actual experience it all blends together to add a bit more realism. Unless you have the ears of a vampire, you may not be able to distinguish where the sound is actually coming from.
Let me just take a moment here to circle around and highlight what I previously wrote – i.e. that sound can be assigned to individual speakers. The Dolby Atmos page also adds that each speaker is individually addressable. Now if my understanding is correct this is potentially even bigger than the 11.1 vs 7.1 comparison we just made a while ago. The Dolby Atmos standard can produce up to 128 lossless audio channels which can be routed to up to 64 speakers. I’m trying my best to explain this in simple terms, but up until this point that kind of audio reproduction is relatively unheard of.
Now here’s where it starts to get amazing. If my understanding is correct, this means that a Dolby Atmos system has virtually 64 channels! I might be exaggerating a little, but that is just absolutely mind blowing. How many channels does the best Dolby Surround or home theatre have again? 7.1? 9.1? Forget it, Dolby Atmos gives you 64 freaking channels of surround sound. Talk about next-gen stuff. Are you hearing me loud and clear enough yet?
Dolby Atmos vs Dolby Surround 7.1 and 5.1 Theatre
For a better visual, take a look at the above diagram straight from Dolby’s official website. In addition to the rear left and right zones, Dolby Atmos employs four additional zones – overhead, rear subwoofers, additional screen speakers, and additional surround speakers.
Dolby Atmos has very precise requirements that existing cinemas cannot just simply support the format without doing some sort of renovation.
Which is why Music Museum Group, the folks responsible for running Promenade Mall, had to build an entirely new set of movie houses just to support Dolby Atmos. Specifically, Cinemas 6, 7, and 8 at the New Promenade Mall are Dolby Atmos thatres.
There are some who may argue that movies are mostly dialogue, and surely there are those of us who can walk out of a regular theatre just as satisfied. Just like some people are content to watch a cam-corded VCD on a standard television set as opposed to say, a Blu-Ray movie on a full HD display.
Those who want the best cinematic experience, however, should definitely check out the Dolby Atmos theatres at the New Promenade mall. Of course, you also need to make sure you that the film you are planning to see supports the Dolby Atmos format. Unless you really don’t mind shelling out extra, just don’t expect to get the same “three-dimensional sound” experience as in a real Dolby Atmos film. A ticket at the Dolby Atmos theatre in Promenade costs 300 pesos, as opposed to 180 pesos for the regular theatre. If you’re going to watch with someone that’s still 120 pesos x 2 or 240 pesos which could better be spent on some snacks.
Do not worry, though, most likely the folks operating the theatre will only show Dolby Atmos films, but if you want to be 100 sure, there is an official list of movies supporting Dolby Atmos on the Dolby website that you can check.
So, what do you think of the Dolby Atmos theatre at Promenade? Were you satisfied with the experience?
For those who have watched the same movie in a non-Dolby Atmos theatre, did you notice any difference? Share your thoughts in the comments area below!
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Intraband radiative transitions and plasma–electromagnetic-wave coupling in periodic semiconductor structure
Gover, A. and Yariv, A. (1975) Intraband radiative transitions and plasma–electromagnetic-wave coupling in periodic semiconductor structure. Journal of Applied Physics, 46 (9). pp. 3946-3950. ISSN 0021-8979. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:GOVjap75
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Intraband radiative transitions can occur in a semiconductor with an artificial periodic structure (superlattice). The "lattice momentum" of the periodic structure makes possible the conservation of momentum during the electronic transition. When the electrons in the band are drifting in an electric field, an intraband population inversion may occur, providing optical wave amplification. Under conditions where the Landau damping of the semiconductor carrier's plasma wave is low, phase-matched coupling may occur between the plasma wave and a Floquet component of the electromagnetic wave and result in a high rate of power transfer from one of the waves to the other. These effects are discussed and analyzed quantum mechanically and suggestions are made with regard to possible device applications (amplifier, modulator) in the infrared regime.
Copyright © 1975 American Institute of Physics. (Received 7 April 1975) Research supported by the Office of Naval Research.
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Book Review: “The Nuclear Jihadist”
Jeff Koopersmith ARCHIVE SINCE 1990 October 23, 2007 5 Minutes
Jeff Koopersmith reviews an important new book about one of the most dangerous men alive – and finds far more of interest within than the mere biography and exploits of Dr. A.Q. Khan.
The Nuclear Jihadist
By Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins
Hachette Book Group, 2007
Oct. 23, 2007 – Geneva (apj.us) – Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins offer "The Nuclear Jihadist," the story of Dr. A.Q. Khan, who might be called the father of 21st Century nuclear weapons proliferation and – although out of commission and held under close house arrest today " his legacy, born in Pakistan and possibly still spreading around the globe.
The history of Khan's growth from student to mega-millionaire nuclear arms dealer is in itself compelling, but this reader was far more interested in the impact Khan had on others, including European and American companies who chose to break the law and provide him, and later his "clients," with not only the requisite and costly parts needed to prepare for the assembly and delivery of a nuclear weapon, but also plans for the warheads – which may already be strewn about the third world in the "things to do" basket of man's worst offspring.
Make no mistake, while American spies and others were concerned about Mr. Khan far earlier than we've been told, policymakers on both sides of the aisle were concentrating more on mollifying Pakistan than in what Pakistan might be delivering to the rest of the world – especially Islamic governments, in particular Iran and Libya.
Even though Khan is now closely guarded, at least supposedly, our great friend – still Mr. and General Musharraf – was diligent in aiding Khan to perfect Pakistan's atomic bombs and was also agreeable to turn a blind eye to what Khan was doing with Iran, North Korea, and with Libyan strongman Muammar Khadafi.
As it turns out, Libya has chosen, at least publicly, to give up its pursuit of nuclear weapons – although it still maintains the ability to gain them: the plans, the knowledge of where to go for equipment, and the fact that if Khan could do it, so can any nation with at least a modicum of scientific talent and moxy.
More interesting in "The Nuclear Jihadist" is the authors' focus on Iran.
To read this book one cannot escape the conclusion that Iran is certainly on its way toward nuclear weaponry that can be delivered atop Iranian missiles anywhere in the Middle East and most of Europe.
The authors may miss one important point, however: many believe the threat of nuclear war is merely a tactic used by governments to better control their own populations. That argument goes, "What kind of madman would it take to unleash an international nuclear conflict?" Even the Russians never produced a leader insane enough to actually use "the bomb." Of course, we in the West automatically assume that Iran is run by madmen obsessed by an extremist misinterpretation of the Koran and a lust to acquire a nuclear device for "Islam" and to use it.
I think it was Marshall McLuhan who told us that if governments were serious about nuclear war, they would put missile silos in shopping centers.
The most important information in this fine account by Frantz and Collins is one demonstrating how easily one nation or another can acquire the tools necessary to build nuclear weapons capable of killing hundreds of thousands of non-combatants in one go.
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WWE star Roman Reigns announces his leukemia is in remission
The Big Dog is back!
WWE superstar Roman Reigns announced Monday night that his leukemia is in remission.
The 33-year-old appeared on RAW, telling fans that winning and chasing titles is still important, but now he's focused on using the wrestling platform to raise awareness about cancer and support those who are in need just like he was.
Reigns, whose real name is Joe Anoa'i, first announced his leukemia diagnosis last October.
He was originally diagnosed in 2008 at age 22.
"You know, I've said it before and I'm going to say it a lot: Thank you. I didn't really get a chance because I'm not going to lie, I was nervous, and it was overwhelming to hear the response. They actually cheered me!" Reigns, whose character was routinely a polarizing figure to live WWE crowds, said in a video posted to his Twitter account after the ring announcement.
Reigns went on to thank his mom, wife, and children for their support.
Once again... pic.twitter.com/5PkBuKNgjn
— Roman Reigns (@WWERomanReigns) February 26, 2019
Reigns has already begun working to raise awareness about the disease. He talked to "Good Morning America" anchor Robin Roberts Tuesday, thanking her and the show for the opportunity to talk about leukemia research and even pediatric cancer.
In fact, some young patients Reigns met during a hospital visit in Dallas were the first ones to learn his good news.
"We connect easily with the children. We're a PG product in WWE. The families kind of drive our business," Reigns explained. "Sometimes children are the most resilient warriors in the world."
Thank you to @RobinRoberts and everyone from @GMA. Thank you for the support and the platform to raise awareness for leukemia research. Now, it’s time to get ready to go back to work!! 🤙🏽@WWE
Many fans aren't the only ones excited to see Reigns get back in the ring.
Fellow wrestler John Cena also had a message for him, saying that "real superheroes exist. Back and with strength and purpose. It's your yard Roman. Your time is most certainly NOW!"
Real superheroes exist. Back and with strength and purpose! It’s your yard Roman. Your time is most certainly NOW! https://t.co/jEBDtQm39W
— John Cena (@JohnCena) February 26, 2019
There's no word yet when Reigns will officially return to WWE for a match.
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Chalk it up to Maine humor, or truth being stranger than fiction: When as many as 2,000 real-life racers come to town next month, and thousands of miles get logged in the Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Run, to help raise money for the Millinocket library, a star fundraiser will be a stuffed toy moose.
Maxwell the Millinocket Marathon Moose is hitching a ride on a human marathoner, to raise funds for the local library. (Photo courtesy Millinocket Memorial Library)
Maxwell the Millinocket Marathon Moose, who will be hitching a ride on a human marathoner on Dec. 9, has already raised more than $300 in pledges, according to the Millinocket Memorial Library, which is trying to get up to $250,000 in matching funds from the Next Generation Foundation of Maine, for a major library renovation, with a “Sponsor a mile” campaign.
On the brink of closing its doors forever in 2015, with the old mill city’s financial woes, the library got a new lease on life when the community rallied to raise $30,000 – including $10,000 from the Stephen and Tabitha King Foundation – and volunteered to keep the doors open. The current fundraising effort is just the latest chapter in the struggling institution’s revival.
Racers – real, virtual or stuffed – who raise $500 or more during the “Sponsor a mile to save Millinocket Library” campaign will get their name on a plaque at the library.
If “Maxwell Moose” is in the running for a real-life plaque for helping the library, as well as participants in the Millinocket Marathon & Half who raise at least $500, we thought, why not “Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Runner”?
First a one-room library when it opened in 1919, the Millinocket Memorial Library is now in this 1963-era building. But it’s in need of a major overhaul, and the “Sponsor a mile” campaign is going 100% to help reach the $1M “Future Library Project” goal. (Photo courtesy Millinocket Memorial Library)
With this blog post, we’re announcing the extension of the Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Run to Jan. 1, 2018, to allow more participants to sign up and existing racers to log more miles, so that the collective “Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Runner” can help raise more funds for charity. It was originally slated to end on Dec. 9, the same day as the running of the Millinocket Marathon & Half, but racery.com, the host of the virtual race, approached us with the Jan. 1 extension so that it could promote the race to others interested in joining a challenge before the end of the year.
Print out this form to sponsor “Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Runner” and help raise $500 to get a real-life plaque in the library acknowledging the contribution. (Image courtesy Millinocket Memorial Library)
Since Aug. 15, more than 130 participants in the virtual race have cumulatively logged more than 27,000 miles from Bar Harbor to Millinocket, from Florence, Italy, to Baltimore, MD, and elsewhere around the world. The virtual race route, from Cadillac to Katahdin, is 200 miles, and some runners are already onto their 2nd, 3rd or even 4th lap.
That means our pledge, made in our last blog post, of a penny per virtual mile, puts the amount raised so far at more than $270 – more than half way to a real-life plaque for “Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Runner”!
You can help put “Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Runner” over the top by signing up for the virtual race (register as late as Dec. 31 and backdate miles to Aug. 15); logging more miles if you’re already enrolled; or printing out and sending in the pictured pledge form with your contribution, specifying “Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Runner” as the runner you’re sponsoring.
All miles count, by real-life and virtual runners, and Maxwell Moose
You can also print out a blank pledge form and fill in “Maxwell Moose,” who will be hitching a ride with real-life marathoner Hope Rowan, author of “Ten Days in Acadia: A Kids’ Hiking Guide to Mount Desert Island” [see sidebar about Amazon.com links]; or the name of a real-life runner in the Millinocket Marathon & Half from this list; or the name of a virtual runner from this list (you can indicate the virtual racer’s name by starting it with @, but you will want to add “Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Runner” on the form, so that the pledge can count toward the $500 for the collective virtual runner’s plaque.)
More than 130 participants have collectively logged more than 27,000 miles in the Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Run since Aug. 15. You can sign up as late as Dec. 31 and backdate miles to Aug. 15 to increase the per mile donation to help the Millinocket Memorial Library. You also earn the finisher’s medallion whether or not you’re able to complete the 200 miles by Jan. 1, 2018. (Image courtesy racery.com)
In announcing the up to $250,000 dollar-for-dollar matching grant from the Next Generation Foundation of Maine, the library suggests a $1 to $10 pledge per mile for the 13.1-mile or 26.2-mile real-life races. But Matt DeLaney, director of the library, said that isn’t set in stone. If a virtual racer completes the 200-mile Cadillac to Katahdin route and finds a sponsor for 10 cents a mile for $20, for example, that can qualify for the match as well.
“There is no minimum or maximum. If they can find sponsors for 200 miles, that’s even better! The goal is to raise as much money as possible and leave no matching funds on the table,” DeLaney said.
While the Millinocket Memorial Library has an online pledge form, it’s more designed for sponsorship of real-life Millinocket Marathon & Half Marathon racers, as the drop-down menu for number of miles is capped at 26.2 miles, even though, as DeLaney said, there is no minimum or maximum pledge per mile, or number of miles.
Virtual runners inspire real sense of community, benefit charity
Announce your participation in the first-ever Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Run by sharing this social-media friendly graphic. (Image by racery.com)
What are virtual races, you ask? They let people from anywhere in the world sign up to run, hike, walk or log other forms of miles, whether to raise funds for charity, earn a finisher’s medallion or just set a fitness goal. Races can include technology-driven virtual routes that allow participants to see their progress, get a Google photo of their virtual location and check out the competition online, such as in the Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Run. Or it can be as simple as allowing people to record their mileage via the honor system in order to get a medal in the mail. There are different themes for virtual races with medals, and even Disney runs them. Check out what a Cadillac to Katahdin virtual racer experience can be like in this short video by racery.com, which hosts the race on its online platform.
Co-sponsored by Acadia on My Mind and organizers of the real-life MDI Marathon & Half and Millinocket Marathon & Half, the Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Run is also the virtual edition of the first-ever Sea to Summit Series, where runners who participate in both the real-life MDI and Millinocket races can earn a special Sea to Summit finisher’s medallion. Aside from benefitting the Millinocket Library, the virtual race is also helping to raise funds for the nonprofit Friends of Acadia and Our Katahdin.
The Cadillac to Katahdin Medallion is by Ashworth Awards, the same firm that makes medals for Mount Desert Island and Boston marathons. Acadia Centennial Medallion available too. (Photo courtesy Ashworth Awards)
Gary Allen, director of the real-life MDI and Millinocket races, and Sea to Summit Series, likens the impact of the races he’s launched as “a pebble tossed into still water,” with ever-widening rings of positive influence and inspiration. The rings have spread so far and wide, especially with his starting the free Millinocket Marathon & Half in December 2015 to provide an economic boost to the old mill town, that Allen has been profiled in Runner’s World, Down East Magazine and elsewhere. He recently received Bangor television station WLBZ’s 2 Those Who Care Award, for the boost his races have given to communities like Millinocket.
And if you’re looking to be inspired by photos of virtual racers wearing their Cadillac to Katahdin Medallion, and their stories about why they run, hike or walk, for themselves or for charity, below is a gallery of some of the recent finishers. And to learn more about the virtual race, check out this page we recently added.
Be inspired by Cadillac to Katahdin virtual runners who’ve finished
Jim Linnane, a.k.a. @mdijim, received his finisher’s medallion from fellow virtual runner Maureen Fournier, a.k.a. @RangerMo, during a ceremony atop Bernard Mountain in Acadia, with 2 other friends bearing witness. Linnane is a volunteer crew leader for the Friends of Acadia, and Fournier, a seasonal ranger for Acadia, and both have connections to the Katahdin region as well. (Photo courtesy Kip Warren)
Thomas Zotti, a.k.a. @TomZot, of Wolfeboro, NH,, proudly displays the Acadia Centennial and Cadillac to Katahdin Medallions, which he earned by completing the 200-mile virtual route. A member of Crow Ahletcs, he’s signed up for the real-life Millinocket race, but hasn’t visited Acadia yet. (Photo courtesy Thomas Zotti)
We’ll add more photos of Cadillac to Katahdin finishers as they become available. To see earlier finishers’ photos, check out the gallery at the bottom of this post.
Run, walk a virtual mile anywhere in the world, and help the library
Won’t you join us on this Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Run, no matter where in the world you are, and help support the Millinocket Memorial Library and the other charities?
Do it for all the times you’ve visited a new city, and known that you could stop by the local library to check e-mail, print something out, or learn more about the region.
Do it because you support the idea of the Millinocket library being there to serve everyone, whether Appalachian Trail thru hikers, job seekers, artists, children and young families, senior citizens or small business owners.
“Our goal is to empower people with the services and tools they need to achieve success in their lives, however they define that,” said library director DeLaney.
It’s easy to join the Cadillac to Katahdin Virtual Run
The race starts on Aug. 15 and ends Jan. 1
You can track your daily miles any way you like, and can backdate them to Aug. 15
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Posts Categorised: ADHD Screening and Diagnosis
by Stephen V. Faraone, PhD - May 29, 2019
The study team began with a representative sample of 69,972 U.S. adults aged 18 years or older who completed the 2012 and 2013 U.S. National Health and Wellness Survey. These adults were invited to complete the Validate Attitudes and Lifestyle Issues in Depression, ADHD and Troubles with Eating (VALIDATE) study, which included 1) a customized questionnaire designed to collect data on sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and lifestyle, and 2) several validated work productivity, daily functioning, self-esteem, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaires. Of the 22,937 respondents, 444 had been previously diagnosed with ADHD, and 1,055 reported ADHD-like symptoms but had no previous clinical diagnosis.
There were no significant differences between the two groups in terms of age, education, income, health insurance, and most comorbid disorders. But those who had not been previously diagnosed were significantly more likely to be first-generation Americans (p<.001), nonwhite (p<.001), unemployed (p=.024), or suffer from depression, insomnia, or hypertension.
After matching the two groups for sociodemographic characteristics and comorbid conditions, covariate comparisons were made between 436 respondents diagnosed with ADHD and 867 previously undiagnosed respondents. Among respondents who were employed, diagnosed individuals registered a mean work productivity loss of 29% as opposed to 49% for the previously undiagnosed (p<.001). They also registered a 37% level of activity impairment versus a 53% level among the undiagnosed (p<.001). On the Sheehan Disability Scale, which ranges from 0 (no impairment) to 30 (highly impaired), the diagnosed group had a mean of 10, as opposed to a mean of 15 for the undiagnosed (p<.001). Diagnosed respondents also significantly outperformed undiagnosed ones on the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (19 versus 15, on a scale of 0 to 30, p<.001), and on two quality-of-life scales (p<.001).
Applying a linear regression mixed model to the matched sets, the diagnosed still scored 16 points better than the undiagnosed on the WPAI:GH Productivity Loss scale (p<.001), 14 points better on the WPAI:GH Activity Impairment scale (p<.001), 4.5 points better on the Sheehan Disability Scale (p<.001), almost 4 points on the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (p<.0001), with comparable gains on the two quality-of-life scales (p<.001 and p<.0001).
The authors concluded, “This comparison revealed that individuals who had been diagnosed with ADHD were more likely to experience better functioning, HRQoL [health related quality-of-life], and self-esteem than those with symptomatic ADHD. This result appears to be robust, withstanding several levels of increasingly rigorous statistical adjustment.” That points to substantial benefits from the treatment that follows diagnosis of adult ADHD.
Manjiri Pawaskar, Moshe Fridman, Regina Grebla, and Manisha Madhoo, “Comparison of Quality of Life, Productivity, Functioning and Self-Esteem in Adults Diagnosed With ADHD and With Symptomatic ADH,” Journal of Attention Disorders, Published online May 2, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1177/1087054719841129.
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The Relationship Between Executive Function Deficits and DSM-5-Defined ADHD Symptoms
by Lenard A. Adler, MD - December 6, 2018
Michael J. Silverstein , Stephen V. Faraone, Terry L. Leon, Joseph Biederman, Thomas J. Spencer, and Lenard A. Adler
Journal of Attention Disorders. 1–11: 2018. DOI: 10.1177/1087054718804347
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (5th ed.) (DSM-5) still defines ADHD symptoms in terms nine inattentive (IA) and nine hyperactive-impulsive (H-I) symptoms, to form the core eighteen symptoms of the disorder; this is in spite of a large literature that indicates that higher level symptoms of organization, planning and prioritization known as Executive Function Deficits (EFDs) common co-travel with symptoms of ADHD and are highly impairing to adults with ADHD. The investigators examined the relationship of core ADHD IA and HI symptoms and EFDs and the predictive utility of the Adult ADHD Investigator Symptom Rating Scale (AISRS) in identifying those with adult ADHD and Executive Dysfunction (ED). The AISRS is a clinician-administered, severity based (0-3), semistructured interview, containing adult ADHD specific prompts, developed to evaluate ADHD symptoms at baseline and during treatment. The Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale (ASRS) Symptom Checklist was also administered. Both the AISRS and ASRS Symptom Checklist were expanded to not only include the 18 core DSM-5 symptoms of ADHD, but also nine additional symptoms of EFD and four symptoms of Emotional Dyscontrol (EC). Executive Function was also assessed via the BRIEF-A, a well-normed scale to assess EF, with patients with global executive complex (GEC) T scores T >= 65 (1.5 standard deviations above the mean, 93 percentile) being indicative of ED. Subjects were recruited from referrals to a university adult ADHD program or a primary care clinical practice; 297 subjects participated (171 with adult ADHD). (IA) and (H-I) symptoms on the AISRS and ASRS Symptom Checklist were moderately to strongly correlated with and highly predictive of EFDs (with correlations being stronger for IA symptoms). Receiver operating characteristic curve analysis showed that an AISRS DSM 18-item score of ⩾ = 28 was most predictive of clinical ED. This study is to clinicians because it highlights the importance of assessing EFDs in addition to core symptoms of IA and HI when evaluating patients with adult ADHD.
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Self vs Clinician Rating Scales
by Lenard A. Adler, MD - May 24, 2018
Silverstein et al. (2017) recently published a study which reported a validation of two expanded adult ADHD scales, self-report (Adult ADHD Self Report Rating Scale (ASRS) v1.1 Symptom Checklist) and clinician/investigator (Adult ADHD Investigator Symptom Rating Scale – AISRS); both scale were expanded beyond the classic 18 DSM symptoms of inattention (IA) and hyperactivity-impulsivity (HI) to include 13 additional commonly co-traveling items of executive function deficits (EFDs) (eg. difficulty with organization, planning, task execution and procrastination) and emotional control deficits (EC) (eg. moodiness, over-reactivity of mood), creating 31 item scales.
Data was examined on 297 individuals (either referred adults with ADHD or individuals in a primary care practice, who were mostly controls) at the NYU School of Medicine. The psychometric properties of both scales were examined in terms of internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha) and cut-off’s from normative data to predict a diagnosis. The internal consistency was high on both scales for measuring not only DSM IA and HI symptoms but also symptoms of EFD and EC (subscales ranging from 0.84 to 0.96); however, the internal consistency for EC was less for EFD, indicating that EC symptoms are less homogeneous than those of EFD, as had been suggested in a factor analysis by Adler et al (2017). Cut-off scores predictive of adult ADHD on the AISRS for dsm IA and HI 18 symptoms were between 23 and 26; this validates the empirical choice utilized in many clinical trials in adult ADHD of a cut-off score of 24.
This study highlights the importance to clinicians of assessing not only DSM symptoms of IA and HI, but also the co-traveling symptoms of EFD and EC and that clinician or self-report scales can be utilized in clinical practice. Also, the assessment of EFD and EC is especially important for clinicians as these symptom sets are less robustly responsive to pharmacotherapy than classic symptoms of IA and HI and may be more amenable to the addition of psycho-social interventions, such as cognitive behavioral therapy.
Adler LA, Faraone SV, Spencer TJ, Berglund P, Alperin S, Kessler RC. The structure of adult ADHD. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2017 Mar;26(1). doi: 10.1002/mpr.1555. Epub 2017 Feb 17
Silverstein MJ, Faraone SV, Alperin S, Leon TL, Biederman J, Spencer TJ, Adler LA. Validation of the Expanded Versions of the Adult ADHD Self-Report Scale v1.1 Symptom Checklist and the Adult ADHD Investigator Symptom Rating Scale. J Atten Disord. 2018 Feb 1:1087054718756198. doi: 10.1177/1087054718756198. [Epub ahead of print].
ADHD Screener
Ustun et al. (2017) recently published an updated version of the adult ADHD screener which is validated for DSM-5: the ASRS v1.1 Screener: DSM-5. The prior DSM-IV version of the screener was established using two populations: a community-based sample from the National Co-Morbidity Survey (NCS-R) and a sample of individuals from a health care plan.
The first step was to recalibrate the new screener using these same two samples, but applying updated DSM-5 criteria; symptoms included not only core symptoms of inattention (IA) and hyperactivity-impulsivity (HI) as defined in DSM, but additional co-traveling symptoms of executive dysfunction (eg: deficits in organization, planning, working memory) or emotional dysregulation (eg: over emotionality, changeable mood).
The symptoms of executive dysfunction have been shown to carry a high symptom burden and in many ways drive the symptom presentation when present in a recent factor analysis (Adler et al. 2017). The selection and weighting of the symptoms was selected by SLIM artificial intelligence – six items were selected: four were from DSM classic symptoms of IA and HI, but two were symptoms of executive dysfunction beyond those defined in the DSM. The process was again repeated and validated in a new sample of referred individuals for ADHD evaluations and controls from primary care practices from the NYU School of Medicine as second validation. The screener is again self-report and rated on a frequency basis of 0-4 (never to very often), with a cut-off score of > = 14 indicating a positive screen. The weighting of items in the screener is not evenly distributed and the scoring algorithm will shortly be available through an educational program on this website.
The ASRS v1.1 Sceener: DSM-5 has a high degree of sensitivity and specificity (first sample: 91.4%; 96.0%, respectively; second NYU sample: 91.9%, 74.0%, respectively). Given the high sensitivity and specificity, the new screener can be a highly effective tool for clinicians to identify individuals at risk for adult ADHD who merit further evaluation and a full diagnostic evaluation.
Adler LA, Faraone SV, Spencer TJ, Berglund P, Alperin S, Kessler RC. The structure of adult ADHD. Int J Methods Psychiatr Res. 2017 Mar;26(1). doi: 10.1002/mpr.1555. Epub 2017 Feb 17.
Ustun B, Adler LA, Rudin C, Faraone SV, Spencer TJ, Berglund P, Gruber MJ, Kessler RC. The World Health Organization Adult Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Self-Report Screening Scale for DSM-5. JAMA Psychiatry. 2017 May 1;74(5):520-526. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2017.0298.
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What else could it be if it is NOT adult ADHD?
by Russ Ramsay, PhD - April 10, 2017
ADHD is a difficult diagnosis to make, although there are several means for gathering the essential developmental and clinical data with which practicing clinician can make an accurate diagnosis. These include various symptom checklists, adult ADHD and executive functioning inventories, and structured interviews that target ADHD and diagnostic criteria, including onset, course, and impairment. However, there are many other conditions that can mimic the symptoms of ADHD in adults, making it challenging to differentiate whether the “attention deficits” with which patients present actually result from ADHD or from a different condition.
The purpose of this blog is to review some of the psychiatric disorders that should be screened for during an adult ADHD evaluation, as any one of these may create “attention deficits.” Some clinically-informed tips for differentiating each of these conditions from ADHD are also provided.
Concentration difficulties and poor initiation and follow through on tasks are characteristic features of depression, which overlap with common features of ADHD. A patient in the midst of a depressive episode will likely endorse executive functioning problems related to motivation, emotional regulation, and organization/time management difficulties. A key difference with ADHD is the course and persistence of these issues inasmuch as the executive functioning deficits in ADHD reflect a chronic developmental lag, irrespective of mood state. A thorough developmental history with self- and observer-reports assessing childhood onset and persistence of ADHD symptoms can establish if there was a history of ADHD and related problems before the onset of depression. Moreover, as depression is an episodic condition, assessment of inter-episode executive functioning helps with this differential diagnosis, as executive functioning for depressed individuals improves as depression remits. Of course, many adults with ADHD have co-existing depressive symptoms, if not a full depressive disorder in adulthood. Their executive functioning may worsen with low mood but it continues to be problematic even after their mood improves.
Establishing the onset and course of symptoms is, again, key to differentiating ADHD from most anxiety disorders. For anxieties related to specific, circumscribed triggers, such as social anxiety, panic attacks, and/or phobic stimuli, any “attention deficits” associated with these anxieties should not be apparent when an anxious individual is not facing these activating events. Moreover, these sorts of anxiety disorders do not manifest in the wide ranging, cross-situational functional deficits associated with ADHD, although anxiety can be quite impairing due to its ripple effects on other domains of life, such as someone who is housebound from agoraphobia.
Anxiety is the most common co-existing diagnosis in adults with ADHD, which usually kindles and magnifies over time as patients encounter greater difficulties managing roles and obligations that increasingly require intact executive functioning. Chronic, generalized anxiety, which can develop in childhood and persist into adulthood, is often associated with distraction and avoidance that can look very much like ADHD. However, there is often less executive dysfunction for purely anxious individuals in terms of organizational and time management skills, and there is less behavioral disinhibition, as anxious individuals tend to be overly inhibited. In fact, individuals with generalized anxiety may exhibit better performance on tasks and projects once engaged in them as they represent a distraction form their worries whereas for adults with ADHD these tasks are the triggers for their anxiety.
Bipolar Spectrum Disorders
This is one of the more challenging differential diagnoses to make, as hypomania/mania involve restlessness and impulsivity and executive dysfunction, with the corresponding depressive episodes also characterized by several ADHD-like symptoms, as was mentioned above. The different course of these disorders helps to differentiate them. The executive dysfunction and attention difficulties associated with the bipolar spectrum symptoms “ride the wave” of the prevailing mood regardless of current external circumstances. An individual in the midst of hypomania/mania has a qualitatively different presentation that is uncharacteristic of the person, such as engaging in risky activities, reporting racing thoughts, and exhibiting pressured, disorganized speech. An individual with ADHD, on the other hand, is “consistently inconsistent” such that a person has difficulties managing a variety of circumstances across time and context that transcend any mood state, and these difficulties are very familiar to the person with ADHD and those familiar with this person.
Both diagnoses are associated with sleep difficulties, although there are differences here, too. Sleep disruption in bipolar disorder is characterized by episodes (tied to hypomanic/manic episodes) of little need for sleep but nonetheless having a great deal of energy, albeit often spent on reckless or at least ill-advised actions. Adults with ADHD commonly report sleep difficulties, though more often characterized by delayed sleep onset or procrastinating on sleep despite being tired; however, unlike individuals in the midst of hypomania/mania, ADHD adults end up sleeping in too late and miss obligations, or suffer the consequences of sleep debt, such as feeling tired and fatigued, often compensating with excessive caffeine intake.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
Obsessive-compulsive disorders, and related spectrum disorders, such as trichotillomania and excoriation, involve some sort of cognitive impulse or physical urge that is associated with significant anxiety or sense of discomfort for which the individual engages in a neutralizing behavior for relief, which insidiously negatively reinforces and maintains the behavior pattern. For OCD, this might involve a mental or physical ritual when faced with feared stimuli, such as thinking through a series of prayers to counteract a “bad” thought or excessive checking to ensure an oven is turned off to counteract the feared image of returning home to find the house burned down. Skin-picking, hair pulling or other neutralizing behaviors are carried out to relieve a somatically based discomfort, such as imperfection on one’s skin or a need to feel the sensation of a hair being plucked from a follicle. These behaviors ultimately reinforce the initial impulse and maladaptive responses.
These impulses are distracting inasmuch as they chronically and significantly consume one’s attention, which may sound like distractibility consistent with ADHD, particularly for “pure obsessionals” in the OCD category. These conditions can co-exist with ADHD, often in very complex cases. A thorough developmental interview examining the age of onset and specific type of symptoms described helps to make the differential diagnosis. Structured diagnostic interviews for mood, anxiety, and other psychiatric disorders can help identify OCD and the impulse control disorders and the manner in which they create distractions and attention difficulties. The distractions are limited to these stimuli and careful probing can identify the culprit of the triggering stimuli and neutralizing behaviors, rather than the wide-ranging triggers for executive functioning problems in ADHD.
Persistent cognitive and emotional reactions to traumatic experiences and ongoing life disruption constitute post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). This and other trauma and stress-related disorders result in difficulties with concentration and memory, including a continuum of intrusive thoughts and images, and dissociative states that look like the sorts of distractibility and attention deficits seen in ADHD. However, in cases in which the onset of these difficulties can be traced to a distinct trauma (particularly early childhood trauma), PTSD is the more appropriate diagnostic formulation
This being said, not everyone who experiences a traumatic event necessarily develops PTSD. So, it is possible that in the absence of a clear trajectory of PTSD, that a course of onset of ADHD may be established. Similarly, ADHD and its executive function and motivational deficits cover a broader range of symptoms and impairments than simply attention and may co-exist with PTSD, but care must be taken to confirm these ADHD-specific features and as distinct from dissociative states or cognitive intrusions. Cases in which there is a clear developmental onset of ADHD and a trauma occurs afterwards represent another pattern of this comorbidity, such as an individual who was diagnosed with and treated for ADHD since early adolescence but has developed PTSD after suffering a serious car accident in her mid-twenties.
The evaluation of ADHD requires at least screening for all other feasible explanations for the apparent attention deficits and other characteristic symptoms. This exercise has parallels with the “null hypothesis” in research but has important clinical implications for treatment selection. Evidence-supported treatments exist for all of the “other” conditions reviewed here and an accurate diagnosis helps direct patients to the right ones for their presentations. A clinically-informed diagnostic formulation is also essential in complex cases with multiple comorbidities to help sort through the different clinical issues, their overlaps, and to support a competent treatment plan.
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Georgia, Politics
You might think that things would improve in Carroll County over time, but depressingly it seems like corruption and coercion never changes (see Part 1 and Part 2 of this series). A local real estate agent who became the district’s Republican Representative to the Georgia Legislature, Mark Butler, saw fit to carry on a two year affair with a state-paid lobbyist.
Mark Butler
for, you guessed it, West Georgia College of Carrollton, Georgia, stomping grounds of “Professor” Newt Gingrich and the Richards College of Business.
Architectural Rendering of the new building to house the Richards College of Business
West Georgia’s College of Business was built, of course, with the ill-gotten wealth of- you guessed it – local industrialist, Roy Richards.
Richards School of Business. At least someone is having a good time around here.
When the college had the effrontery to eliminate the position of the state-paid lobbyist, Butler called an official at the university to inform him that he had “pissed off a whole political party” (to Butler’s credit, he was not married at the time).
Rather than being reprimanded for his misconduct, the Republican Party of Georgia did the logical thing by promoting him up and out of his position as Representative, to become… ta da! Candidate for Georgia Labor Commissioner. After all, the Republicans aren’t really interested in promoting the interests of labor, so why not have someone incompetent doing the job? It seems the job suited him well, since Butler doesn’t seem like a very ambitious guy, anyway.
Along the way, Butler was accused of obstructing worker’s rights, and constructing barriers to Georgia citizens rights to collect unemployment insurance.
Here Butler is tried by a People’s Court for hostility to workers and obstructions related to obtaining unemployment insurance, which we all pay into and is everyone’s right:
More recently he refused to act when workers in North Georgia were illegally locked out of the Bull Moose Pipe Company plant and denied healthcare and other benefits:
Workers locked out of Bull Moose Pipe plant talking to candidate for Georgia Labor Commissioner Richard Keatley
Over the past eight years as Georgia Labor Commissioner, Mark Butler hasn’t seemed very interested in the job. He mostly makes comments like applauding a state trooper for arresting a little old lady for driving too slow. He also has a pentient for making false promises that the Georgia pro-business climate would sweep everyone up and lift Georgia from its bottom-of-the-barrel status in terms of unemployment. Lately those figures have gotten a little better, although you wouldn’t know it talking to people from South Georgia. Butler mostly posts wrong statistics (which to give him credit, doesn’t seem to be his forte), like that Georgia is #7 is jobs. Truth is, they are #42 in jobs, and most of the new ones have been created in Atlanta. They are also close to last in figures that represent true economic status, like number of months late on credit card payments, or access to childcare. In a particularly egregious move, Butler blocked Savannah school bus drivers from collecting unemployment during the summer months, when- duh- little kids don’t need to drive them to school. Who wants to employ a bus driver for two months, anyway? Does this guy hate kids? Fortunately, the bus drivers were able to take action and overturn this unfair action.
Savannah bus drivers , locked out by Mark Butler, demand their unemployment insurance rights.
More recently, Butler had the distinction of giving a speech at Burt’s Pumpkin Patch where they had a citizen journalist who had the audacity to film the speech arrested and charged with felony trespassing.
Do we need written permission to attend events featuring our elected officials now? The sheriff deputies handled her so roughly she later said she felt like she was being “raped with my clothes on.” Fortunately for her she was able to sue and recover $200,00 in damages from the county.
Butler is running for re-election in November 2018 as Georgia Labor Commissioner against Democrat Richard Keatley.
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Physician, professor, researcher, writer, filmmaker
Authors Candace Dempsey and Doug Bremner Discuss the Knox Case and More
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Home Shaker Barn Music: Heather Maloney
Shaker Barn Music: Heather Maloney
Jul 21, 2018 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
Hancock Shaker Village 1843 West Housatonic St, Hancock, Massachusetts 01201
Heather Maloney Hancock Shaker Village
Fans love Maloney’s eclectic, rapturous indie-rock sound and a voice that’s “utterly gorgeous and visceral,” says The New York Times. She uses it to tell down-to-earth tales with lyrics that “cut to the chase” (Huffington Post) and hypnotic vocals that have been compared to Joni Mitchel and Aimee Mann. Maloney’s sound will “knock-you-to-your-knees,” according to Glide Magazine – come see how.
TICKETS: Advance $20/18 members; Day of $25/22.50 members
Sponsored by Blue Q, Interprint, and No Depression
Location Hancock Shaker Village 1843 West Housatonic St, Hancock, Massachusetts 01201 View Map
Performing Arts Music
Date & Time Jul 21, 2018 7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
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Blowing Up
Inflatables are having another moment, thanks to the BSA Space in Boston
By William Menking • August 24, 2017
There was a moment in the late 1960s when architects (almost always working in groups) wanted to literally lift their projects off the ground and allow them to float over the everyday landscape. Groups like Haus-Rucker-Co, the French Utopie group, and Ant Farm were all inspired by earlier experiments of Archigram, Cedric Price, Buckminster Fuller, and engineers like Frei Otto.
Though these experiments were almost always created for gallery exhibitions or one-off installations (Ant Farm placed a large inflatable bubble at UC Berkeley to warn students about the dangers of pollution in 1970) these works continue to inspire architects and every decade they seem to get rediscovered by a new generation. A current exhibition The New Inflatable Moment at the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) is bringing the work back yet again and even cites a previous show, the 1998 exhibition and book The Inflatable Moment: Pneumatics and Protest in ’68 by Marc Dessauce and The Architectural League of New York, for inspiration and precedent. The French historian of modernism Caroline Maniaque also wrote about inflatables in 2004 for a different generation.
The BSA exhibition also highlights recent projects by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Grimshaw, Anish Kapoor/Arata Isozaki, the late Otto Piene, and Norman Foster. But the exhibit also includes even newer projects by Graham Stevens, Chico MacMurtrie, and Berlin’s raumlabor. The idea of these projects also includes an element of idealistic utopianism and there is nothing wrong, at the moment, with idealism in architecture.
The show still has a few weeks to run (through September 30th) so if you’re in Boston visit the BSA Space (290 Congress Street, Boston, MA, 02210). Admission is free. Opening hours: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm on weekdays, and 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on weekends and holidays.
William Menking is the Editor-in-Chief of The Architect's Newspaper.
Boston BSA Space Inflatables
Cambridge Car Culture
French 2D enlivens a Cambridge parking garage with a graphic-printed mesh facade
Multiple Personalities
Amherst's New Science Center outperforms with a facade material quintet
Concrete Wrapping
Boston University's Joan & Edgar Booth Theatre takes center stage with concrete and aluminum
Stacks On Stacks
Congress Square splits past and present with fiberglass-reinforced plastic
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Rascovar column: Maryland’s Obamacare fiasco continues
By Maryland Reporter · March 3, 2014 · No comments
By Barry Rascovar
For MarylandReporter.com
From Maryland Health Connection Facebook page: Signing up people for health insurance on Saturday at the Baltimore Convention Center.
How high will it go? How much more will it cost the O’Malley-Brown administration to fix or totally replace the dysfunctional online health insurance system that it bragged about until the software crashed on Day One?
It already is the most costly debacle in state history.
None of the state’s options are appetizing. Meanwhile, problems keep mounting, the latest being $30 million in extra taxpayer expenses due to the Internet computer software’s inability to identify recipients no longer eligible for free Medicaid insurance.
Just fixing this deeply flawed software will cost untold tens of millions of dollars. Moving to a new, proven system used in another state could send new spending into the stratosphere. Converting to the federal system has heavy costs as well as severe limitations and the potential for more breakdowns.
Frantic scramble
“It seems like we’re shooting in the dark,” said an exasperated Del. Addie Eckardt, an Eastern Shore Republican at a hearing last week. She’s right.
State officials have been frantically scrambling ever since the administration’s highly touted online system froze and refused to work as promised on Oct. 1.
Officials are still grasping for straws, hoping the new prime contractor can make lemonade out of this lemon of an IT jalopy.
As for the next step once insurance enrollment closes on March 31, it’s another shot in the dark. Whatever the choice, it will be very expensive.
But will it work? There’s no guarantee that it will.
What a mess.
Looming loss of federal fnds
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, Gov. Martin O’Malley and Health Secretary Joshua Sharfstein at a news conference on the new health care exchange.
Complicating matters is the looming end of federal largesse. Come 2015, the state is supposed to foot the entire bill for its health insurance exchange.
Maryland has expended $182 million in federal funds with little to show for it. How much the state will be on the hook after Jan. 1 is another unknown, but we do know it will no longer by Martin O’Malley’s problem.
What a distasteful present he’s leaving on his successor’s desk.
It’s baffling that no one running the administration is insisting on an immediate and thorough investigation of this historic screw-up. This won’t be viewed favorably by future historians.
Not only is accountability lacking but the O’Malley-Brown administration is running away from this question as fast as it can.
Where’s Anthony Brown?
Note that Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, the widely promoted point man on healthcare reform, continues to be missing in action. Yet he owes the Maryland public a full and frank explanation of his central role in this debacle.
How this affects Brown’s candidacy for governor remains of pivotal importance.
Does his “deer caught in headlights” performance disqualify him from serious consideration?
Is this the type of evasiveness on vital issues we can expect from him if he’s elected governor?
Do we want a governor who takes cover when controversies rage and lets underlings take the heat for him?
As Desi Arnaz famously said to Lucy, Brown has got “some ‘splainin’ to do.”
More sinkholes ahead?
Meanwhile, legislative committees continue to treat this disgraceful public embarrassment with kid gloves. History will not look kindly on their performance, either.
Digging out of this enormous sinkhole hasn’t been easy. The road ahead looks susceptible to similar perils.
What’s lacking is responsible, accountable leadership. That could become a dominant bone of contention as the June 24 primary approaches.
Read other columns by Barry Rascovar at www.politicalmaryland.com
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Internet Latest Internet News April 4, 2016 No Comments Anupam and, Docker, for, goes, Mac, Native, Windows
Until today, the only practical way to run a Docker container on an Apple Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows desktop was by also running the open-source Oracle VirtualBox application. That is now changing with a new private beta effort debuting March 24 from Docker Inc. that will for the first time easily enable Docker containers to run natively on OS X and Windows.
Currently, the primary way both Windows and OS X desktop users install and run Docker is by way of the Docker Toolbox, which first deploys VirtualBox and then installs a very small footprint Linux operating system, on top of which the Docker Engine is able to run. The use of VirtualBox as an abstraction layer has proved useful in getting Windows and Mac users up and running with Docker, but it also introduces a number of development, integration and performance issues.
“We’re talking now about native Docker apps that can be installed on Mac and Windows,” Patrick Chanezon, chief developer advocate at Docker Inc., told eWEEK. “Docker will be in the desktop toolbar, so it’s easy to see when it’s running.”
Getting Docker to run directly on OS X and Windows required what Chanezon referred to as deep integration with the two desktop operating systems. On Mac OS X, the new native Docker container technology is making use of the Apple Hypervisor Framework. Going half a level deeper, Docker is using the open-source Xhyve project that is part of the Hypervisor Framework as the base virtualization technology on which Docker containers can now run natively in OS X. The Xhyve hypervisor itself is actually a port of the open-source FreeBSD operating system’s bhyve hypervisor.
Docker Inc. engineers worked very closely with Apple on enabling Docker use with Xhyve, according to Chanezon.
“We made a lot of improvements to Xhyve, and we had to do a lot of work to integrate the networking system,” he said.
Helping the Apple integration efforts were engineers from Unikernel Systems, a company that Docker Inc. acquired in January.
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To get Docker to run natively on Windows, Microsoft’s Hyper-V hypervisor is now being used, instead of relying on VirtualBox.
The new native integrations are initially being made available today as a private beta, Chanezon said. The existing Docker Toolbox technology that relies on VirtualBox is expected to remain available for the foreseeable future as Docker Inc. gets feedback for the beta users of Docker native for Windows and Mac.
By providing developers with a native experience on Windows and Mac, Docker Inc. solves a number of issues that VirtualBox usage introduces, Chanezon emphasized. Among those issues is the fact that by running native, Docker can now more easily work with a user’s virtual private network (VPN). By going native for Mac and Windows, he said Docker Inc. is reaching out to all the developers who aren’t running Linux on their desktops.
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Changes to Research Council research grants administration
Guidance Jo Garrad
Changes to final reporting
In a move to reduce the amount of effort required of grant holders and peer reviewers, and building on the policy of consolidating outcomes reporting through online systems, the Research Councils have decided to scale back their requirements for final reporting on grants.
For Councils other than BBSRC and ESRC, most grants with an end date on or after 1st January 2013 will no longer require a final report. ESRC will for now be continuing with its end of award reporting process and BBSRC intends to phase out final reports over the coming months. Some grant schemes within the other Councils may also continue to require reports and in these cases a final report request will be issued in the normal way. But, in the majority of cases, a final report will not be required.
Grants ending before 1 st January 2013 will continue to require a final report in the normal way, unless this requirement has previously been waived.
Changes to research grant terms and conditions
Some changes have been made to the core terms and conditions of Research Council grants, affecting grants announced from 1 October 2012. These are:
GC7 (Extensions) – grants may now be extended for up to 12 months, in total, as a result of maternity, paternity or adoption leave.
GC2 (Research Governance), under Misconduct and Conflicts of Interest – inclusion of a requirement that the Research Organisation has in place procedures for governing good research practice, and for investigating and reporting unacceptable research conduct, that meets the requirements set out in the 2012 Concordat to Support Research Integrity (as well as the RCUK Policy and Guidelines on Governance of Good Research Conduct).
Improvements to peer-review feedback
In a first step towards improving the transparency of the peer review process, the Councils are making changes to the Je-S system in November that will enable the decision provided to grant applicants on the outcome of their proposal to be made available, through Je-S, to research organisation administrative offices.
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They never gave up the fight: the battle for land rights at Yarralin, Part 2.
This article first appeared in the July 2015 edition of Land Rights News, published by the Northern Land Council and edited by Murray McLaughlin. WHEN the Federal government makes good on its commitment to hand back land* at Yarralin in the Victoria River District, it will have turned the last page of a long history […]
This article first appeared in the July 2015 edition of Land Rights News, published by the Northern Land Council and edited by Murray McLaughlin.
WHEN the Federal government makes good on its commitment to hand back land* at Yarralin in the Victoria River District, it will have turned the last page of a long history of sorrow and disappointment.
Aboriginal demands for land began seriously after workers and their families walked off Victoria River Downs station in April 1972, fed up with pay and conditions, and joined the Gurindji at Wattie Creek who had walked off Wave Hill station in 1966.
VRD station was then owned by the Hooker Pastoral Company, part of the vast empire of the late Sir Leslie Hooker (he had changed his surname by deed poll at age 21 from Leslie Tingyou). As noted in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Hooker was satirised by the writer Frank Hardy in his “Outcasts of Foolgarah” as ‘L. Hookem’, a self-made, upright philanthropist who exploited Aboriginal labour on his pastoral properties in the North and was “the greatest single cause of inflated land prices in the South”.
Ian Michael managed VRD station for the Hooker company from 1968 to 1974. Only in November 1971, he’d told Jack Doolan, a Department of Aboriginal Affairs Patrol Officer, that “he had no particular problems concerning Aboriginals and he did not intend to have any”. The day after the walk-off 15 months later, Michael ordered that the Aboriginal living area near the main homestead, such as it was, be razed and bulldozed.
Michael might have thought he’d obliterated the vestiges of Aboriginal occupation from VRD station, but the former Aboriginal occupants were to return 18 months later, after they reached an agreement with the Hooker company. Hooker agreed to their occupation of a 93-square mile (240sq/km) block around the old Gordon Creek outstation, and it was to be called Yarralin.
People began moving back there in October 1973.
At that time, the VRD station comprised more than 12,300sq/km: Hooker, therefore, had agreed to relinquish about 2 per cent of its VRD pastoral lease – and it would soon try to wrestle that back. In February 1975, the company wrote to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, repudiating the deal it had agreed to only 16 months earlier.
Hooker’s NT regional manager wrote to the Department of Aboriginal Affairs: “It is now nearly 18 months since the VRD Aboriginal people came back to settle on VRD Station, after their unfortunate earlier departure to Wave Hill. The establishment of a ‘village’ settlement at Yarralin was planned to take account of the attitude of self-determination and independence of the aborigines and to allow them to largely ‘do their own thing’.
“… but we feel, on experience to date, that the establishment of a village and its environs at Yarralin is a failure and, as a consequence we now withdraw our agreement to the (earlier) arrangements …”
Hooker would have yet another change of heart. By the time the Yarralin matter came to be heard by Interim Land Commissioner Ward in September 1975, the company had agreed to the 93sq/m (240sq/km) claim.
Justice Ward wrote to then Aboriginal Affairs Minister Ian Viner that the claim had been “effectively and mutually settled”.
“To my mind,” Justice Ward wrote, “all that remains is for your own department and that of the Northern Territory to complete the legal formalities in accordance with the principle agreed upon between the two parties (Hooker and the Ngarinman people).”
But it would not be that easy. For reasons unknown, Minister Viner did not act on Justice Ward’s recommendation
In her book, “Hidden Histories”, the anthropologist Deborah Rose Bird says that when VRD people agreed to return to the station they made it quite clear that while 240sq/km might be a satisfactory beginning, other people whose own home countries lay outside this small block were wanting to gain some control over their own traditional lands.
She records that a group of people identified as the Yarralin Council wrote a letter in July 1977 stating that while they would accept the smaller block because they were anxious about land, they were always intent on pursuing a larger claim over another 2100+sq/km to the north of Yarralin.
“The waiting game went on until 1984,” Deborah Rose Bird writes, “By then it was clear that there was absolutely no means by which Aborigines could claim the larger amount of land, nor was there any viable action they could take to try to force Hooker Company to accede to their demands. In addition, although they had vigorously asserted that they would settle for nothing less than Aboriginal freehold title, it had become clear that if they were going to get anything at all, it would not be on their own terms.”
In the end, the NT Government agreed to sign over the Yarralin block, 149sq/km, to Ngarinman Yarralin Community Incorporated. But the government destroyed any hopes of their getting title to their larger claim. It gave the block of 355sq/km north of the Yarralin block to the Northern Territory Land Corporation, thereby putting that land beyond reach of a claim under the Aboriginal Land Rights Act.
The Land Corporation had been set up by a CLP government and often used as an gent to thwart Aboriginal land claims.
As Deborah Rose Bird has recorded, 12 years of strikes and negotiations had delivered one title under which people owned an area of land smaller than the 240sq/km they had originally been promised. Hooker ended up relinquishing about 4 per cent of its pastoral lease – the Yarralin mob got title to about 1.2 per cent, and the NT Government got title to about 2.8 per cent.
But calamity would quickly follow. Deborah Bird Rose says by the time it got title to the Yarralin block, the Ngarinman Yarralin Community Incorporated had “begun to pile up debts through what appears at best to be mismanagement of funds”, and in 1985 the title to their land was being held by a bank in Katherine as security against a massive overdraft.
In the mid-1990s, Ngarinman Yarralin Community Incorporated was dissolved. Because it was an Incorporation under NT legislation, the NT Commissioner for Consumer Affairs seized the title to the Yarralin block, and it has rested with that office ever since.
The struggle by the Yarralin mob to regain title to their land never abated.
Luck would come their way when it was discovered that by virtue of a surveying oversight, a 3100 hectare slice of land to the south of the Yaralin block had been left unalienated. As a result, the “Wickham River Land Claim” was lodged by the NLC in 1983. The claim laid latent for many years, until it was brought on before the Aboriginal Land Commissioner in 2009.
At the hearing, the NT Government conceded that there were Traditional Owners, and that the claim should succeed. In subsequent discussions with the NLC, the NT Government agreed that the land in the Wickham River claim, plus the Yarralin block owned by its Commissioner of Consumer Affairs, and plus the block owned by its Land Corporation, should all be scheduled as Aboriginal freehold land, under the Land Rights Act.
That’s taken several years to achieve, because the Federal Government had to find money for the land to be properly surveyed.
Now that’s been done and the Federal Government is about to legislate to schedule the three blocks as one big chunk of Aboriginal land, an historic wrong is about to be righted.
* On Thursday 26 November 2015 amendments to the Aboriginal land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976 were passed by the Senate that included the “scheduling” of various parcels of Aboriginal land, including the land identified in the map above.
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Australian Dictionary of Biography
Deborah Rose Bird
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Frank Hardy
Gurindji
Hooker Pastoral Company
Interim Land Commissioner Ward
Justice Ward
L. Hookem
Land Rights News
Leslie Tingyou
Murray McLaughlin
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Ngarinman Yarralin Community Incorporated
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NT Commissioner for Consumer Affairs
Sir Leslie Hooker
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Victoria River Downs station
Wattie Creek
Wave Hill
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Why Capitalism has, and survives crisis
On February 8, 2011 February 8, 2011 By bhupinder singhIn Economics, Marxism, Occasional Links
Benjamin Kunkle has a fine review of David Harvey‘s recent book the Enigma of Capital, in which he also broadly reviews related literature by classical Marxist authors, including John Bellamy Foster’s Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on Earth.
LRB · Benjamin Kunkel · How Much Is Too Much?
The trouble is already there to see. Imagine an economy consisting of a single firm which has bought means of production and labour power for a total of $100, in order to produce a mass of commodities it intends to sell for $110, i.e. at a profit of 10 per cent. The problem is that the firm’s suppliers of constant and variable capital are also its only potential customers. Even if the would-be buyers pool their funds, they have only their $100 to spend, and no more. Production of the total supply of commodities exceeds the monetarily effective demand in the system. As Harvey explains in The Limits to Capital, effective demand ‘is at any one point equal to C+V, whereas the value of the total output is C+V+S. Under conditions of equilibrium, this still leaves us with the problem of where the demand for S, the surplus value produced but not yet realised through exchange, comes from.’ An extra $10 in value must be found somewhere, to be exchanged with the firm if it is to realise its desired profit.
In the recently published Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth, John Bellamy Foster and his Marxist co-authors refer to the identification by a group of scientists, including the leading American climatologist James Hansen, of nine ‘planetary boundaries’ that civilisation transgresses at its peril.[4] Already three – concentrations of carbon in the atmosphere, loss of nitrogen from the soil and the extinction of other species – have been exceeded. These are impediments to endless capital accumulation that future crisis theories will have to reckon with. Harvey’s intuition of the ultimate demise of capitalism has also taken on an ecological colouring. ‘Compound growth for ever’ – historically, for capitalism at about 3 per cent a year – ‘is not possible,’ he declares in The Enigma of Capital, without much elaboration. The classical economists long ago foresaw that an economy defined by constant expansion would one day give way to what John Stuart Mill called the ‘stationary state’. The idea has gained a new currency in Marxist writing of recent years, and in its contemporary version tends to locate the limits to growth in the depletion of natural resources or in the exhaustion of productivity gains as the share of manufacturing in the world economy shrinks and that of services expands. Of course, peak oil or soil exhaustion might easily coincide with faltering productivity. Harvey doesn’t spell out why growth must have a stop, and the outlines of an ecologically stable and politically democratic future socialism remain as blurry in his later work as they do almost everywhere else. At the moment Marxism seems better prepared to interpret the world than to change it. But the first achievement is at least due wider recognition, which with the next crisis, or subsequent spasm of the present one, it may begin to receive.
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3 thoughts on “Why Capitalism has, and survives crisis”
in centralised systems it is very difficult to ensure justice and equality. even if there is no individual private property and earning of profit there has to be a difference in power between those who run the system and those who have to sit and take what is coming to them. the problem is that the world has become so centralised that one cant think of abandoning this centralisation. the challenge is to ensure that people can control the centralised systems through recall mechanisms. crucial questions could be and should be decided by referendums. whether the bailout should have been given to wall street should have been put to referendum after informed discussion. the collapse of finance capitalism would have paved the way for new modes of economic and social organisation.
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according to my viewpoint all of the world is feeling very complex under the policy of capitialism.actually it is a great enemy ot humanism and dalits.karl marx one time said that the labour of the world be unitied no body can stopped u from the target. the taget was to achieve the economic and political power.but it is a gret tradegy of the labour community and dalits they showed their weaknessess and always divert.the naxals in india,the leete in sri lanka ,taliban in pakistan ;chechenya in russia ,hamas in philisteen are the great enemies of the theory of capitialioism;
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Esther 6:4
Chapter:6
Verse:4
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So the king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace in order to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared for him.
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
Holman Bible
The king asked, "Who's in the court?" Now Haman was just entering the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.
The king said, "Who is in the courtyard?" Now Haman had just entered the outer courtyard of the palace to speak to the king about having Mordecai hanged on the pole he had set up.
A Conservative Version
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman came into the outward court of the king's house to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
The king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman had just come into the outer court of the king's palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.
Then the king said, Who is in the outer room? Now Haman had come into the outer room to get the king's authority for the hanging of Mordecai on the pillar which he had made ready for him.
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman had come into the outward court of the king's house, to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
Jubilee 2000 Bible
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman had come into the outward court of the king's house to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
Julia Smith Translation
And the king will say, Who is in the enclosure? And Haman came to the enclosure of the king's house the exterior, to say to the king to hang Mordecai upon the tree which he prepared for him.
King James 2000
And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And the king asked, "Who [is] in the courtyard?" Haman had just come to the courtyard of the king's outer palace to tell the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
Modern King James verseion
And the king said, Who is in the court? And Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house to speak to the king to hang Mordecai on the wooden gallows which he had prepared for him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the king said, "Who is in the court?" For Haman was gone into the court without before the king's house, that he might speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the tree, that he had prepared for him.
Then the king said, "Who is that in the courtyard?" Now Haman had come to the outer courtyard of the palace to suggest that the king hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had constructed for him.
The king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had come into the outer court of the king's house, to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.
The Emphasized Bible
Then said the king, Who is in the court? Now, Haman, had come into the outer court of the kings house, to speak unto the king, to hang Mordecai, upon the gallows which he had prepared for him.
And the king saith, 'Who is in the court?' -- and Haman hath come in to the outer court of the house of the king, to say to the king to hang Mordecai on the tree that he had prepared for him --
Civil service » Appointment in, on account of merit
Gallows » Used for execution of criminals
Mordecai » Informs ahasuerus of a conspiracy against his life and is rewarded
People Hung To Death
English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
And the king
מלך
king, royal, Hammelech, Malcham, Moloch
Usage: 2521
said, speak, answer, command, tell, call, promised, .
Usage: 0
Who is in the court
חצר
Chatser
court, villages, towns
Usage: 190
Now Haman
המן
Haman, he
Usage: 55
was come
come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
into the outward
חיצון
Chiytsown
utter, outward, without, outer
of the king's
בּית
Bayith
house, household, home, within, temple, prison, place, family, families , dungeon,
to speak
unto the king
to hang
תּלה
hang, hang up, variant
מרדּכּי
Mord@kay
on the gallows
`ets
tree, wood, timber, stick, gallows, staff, stock, carpenter , branches, helve, planks, stalks
that he had prepared
כּוּן
Kuwn
prepare, establish, ready, stablish, provide, right, fixed, set, direct, order, fashion, variant, certain, confirmed, firm, preparation,
Word Count of 21 Translations in Esther 6:4
Gallows (12)
Outer (11)
Hang (10)
King's (9)
Speak (8)
Unto (3)
Entered (3)
Having (2)
Hanged (2)
Asked (2)
Entering (1)
Pillar (1)
Tell (1)
Constructed (1)
Suggest (1)
Who's (1)
Arrived (1)
Happened (1)
Inquired (1)
Hath (1)
Saith (1)
Pole (1)
Verse Info
Bible Rank: 15304
Esther Rank: 144
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Context Readings
Mordecai Is Honored
3 The king said, "What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this?" Then the king's servants who attended him said, "Nothing has been done for him." 4 So the king said, "Who is in the court?" Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the king's palace in order to speak to the king about hanging Mordecai on the gallows which he had prepared for him. 5 The king's servants said to him, "Behold, Haman is standing in the court." And the king said, "Let him come in."
"All the king's servants and the people of the king's provinces know that for any man or woman who comes to the king to the inner court who is not summoned, he has but one law, that he be put to death, unless the king holds out to him the golden scepter so that he may live. And I have not been summoned to come to the king for these thirty days."
Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, "Have a gallows fifty cubits high made and in the morning ask the king to have Mordecai hanged on it; then go joyfully with the king to the banquet." And the advice pleased Haman, so he had the gallows made.
Now it came about on the third day that Esther put on her royal robes and stood in the inner court of the king's palace in front of the king's rooms, and the king was sitting on his royal throne in the throne room, opposite the entrance to the palace.
Esther 3:8-11
Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of all other people and they do not observe the king's laws, so it is not in the king's interest to let them remain.
Then Harbonah, one of the eunuchs who were before the king said, "Behold indeed, the gallows standing at Haman's house fifty cubits high, which Haman made for Mordecai who spoke good on behalf of the king!" And the king said, "Hang him on it."
"He captures the wise by their own shrewdness, And the advice of the cunning is quickly thwarted.
He who sits in the heavens laughs, The Lord scoffs at them.
To deliver their soul from death And to keep them alive in famine.
Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, When it is in your power to do it.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.
entered king king's speak order prepared hanging court gallows outer
Word Concordance
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International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.
NET Bible copyright © 1996-2006 by Biblical Studies Press, L.L.C. NetBible
Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain
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Feats With A Rifle
by bluewaters | Sep 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Several individuals who conceived themselves expert in the management of the gun here in the mountains of Western North Carolina, were often seen to meet for the purpose of displaying their skill and betting a trifling sum, put up a target, in the center of which a common sized nail is hammered for about two thirds of its length. The marksmen made a choice of what they considered a proper distance, which could be forty paces. Each man cleaned the interior of his tube, which was called wiping it, placed a ball in the palm of his hand, poured as much powder from his horn upon it as would cover it. This quantity was supposed to be sufficient for any distance within a hundred yards. A shot which came very close to the nail was considered as that of an indifferent marksman; the bending of the nail was, of course, somewhat better; but nothing less than hitting it right on the head was satisfactory. One out of three shots generally hit the nail and should the number of shooters amounted to half a dozen, two nails were frequently needed before each could have a shot. Those who drove the nails had a further trail amongst themselves and the two best shots out of these generally settled the affair, when all the sportsmen adjourned to some house, and spend an hour or two in friendly intercourse, appointing before they part, a day for another trial. This was technically terming driving the nail.
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The Story of Mt. Mitchell
by bluewaters | Aug 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
Dr. Mitchell had come to the Black Mountain to identify the peak which he had ascended some years before and to assert his claim to its discovery and measurement. He and his son had ascended the mountain from the south or Swannanoa side to the Patton House, and the son not being able to proceed further, the doctor made his way to the summit alone, and left word with his son that he would descend the mountain on the north side by a trail he was directed to take to Big Tom Wilson’s who knew all the peaks and who had had a conversation with the doctor’s former guide and could certainly identify the spot to which the guide had taken him when he measured the height. This was the last ever seen of Dr. Mitchell alive; it was on Saturday the 27th of June, 1857.
The Friday following, persons in search of the doctor had been at Big Tom’s and not finding him, it was agreed to make search for him in the mountain. So on Saturday, in company with some half dozen others, they ascended the mountain on the north side some three miles, where they met a party from Buncombe, who had searched the trail the doctor was directed to take and had found no trace of him, and is was now growing late, they returned with sad hearts to Big Tom’s to rest for the night and agree upon a plan of operation for the morning.
Sunday, July 5th, the two parties ascended the mountain again, one going to the ast fork and one to the west fork of Caney River, Big Tom taking the east fork leading directly towards the peak, then through the Beech Nursery Gap, and on the south side of the mountain to the top of the Black Mountain, then over to the Buncombe road which leads to the Patton House, where they arrived hungry, weary and without rations, at 3:00 in the afternoon. No trace of the doctor was yet found.
Governor Vance, who was one of another party hunting on the southern side, soon came into the Patton House, and taking in the situation, at once directed the men to drive up a fat heifer that was grazing on the mountain and gave command to slay and eat. The skill of Ephraim Glass soon sent a bullet through the heifer’s brain and she lay a sacrifice to the heroic men who had been toiling in fruitless search all day. So great was the hunger of the men that many did not wait to cook the meat, which they ate without bread and salt. In the meantime the Governor had started another party down the Swannanoa side for flour, salt and a little “extract of corn” as Big Tom called it. This party returned during the night, winding their way up by the dim light of torches, and the whole crowd partook of the provisions and were refreshed.
On Monday, it having been reported that Eldridge and Frederick Burnett, old mountain bear hunters, had seen the sign of broken balsam twigs near a shelving rock on the west prong of the Caney River, the party resolved to search in this region again. Big Tom protested, as he wished to go to the peak and search for signs from that point, but he was overruled. The west prong, which led rather to the south side of the mountain instead of the north side where the doctor started to go, was searched all day but without success, and the searchers returned again to the Patton House almost hopeless and concluded to give up the search for the present and renew it again in three or four days, when the assembling of birds of prey over the dead body might indicate its locality.
Dr. Mitchell’s son, who was present, became much affected with emotion and expressed great horror of leaving his father’s body to become the prey of birds or food for the beasts of the forest, and entreated that more effort should be made. Big Tom at once assented and expressed his opinion again that the doctor was on the east prong of Caney, which led down to his house where the doctor started, and those who agreed to assist him next day prepared scanty rations from what was left of the flour and beef and ascended to the peak to spend the night at the Stepp cabin. This party was composed of Big Tom, Adoniram D. Allen, James Allen, Burton Austin and Bryson McMahan. All mountaineers and well acquainted with every path and road around Black Mountain.
On Tuesday, the 7th of July, 1857, this little band of persevering heroes rough and rugged in appearance, but whose generous, noble hearts glowed with enthusiasm and swelled with emotions of compassion for the living and pity for the dead, began their laborious and tiresome search amidst the gloom of this rugged solitude. They first examined the area of ground on Mitchell’s peak where the doctor went, and then going to the trail he was directed to take, and finding no sign, then commenced the descent toward the south side by the easy prong. They had not gone more than a quarter of a mile until Adoniram D. Allen found an impression in the moss, which covers the whole surface of the ground like a green velvet carpet at this great altitude.
Soon the scattering party gathered around the “sign” to give their opinion as to its origin. As it was a mere depression scarcely describable, three of the party expressed their belief that it was a bear “sign” but Big Tom said no, and argued that the instinct of a bear always led him to follow rocky ledges, where he could not be trailed or followed, and that a man would naturally walk where it was the easiest to his foot. The cause was argued for some time, with all the sagacious logic of the crafty mountaineers, looking earnestly into each other’s faces; and, finding that they were not agreed, they began to search again in silence and moved on. Twenty steps from this impression they found a broken balsam tree about the size of one’s arm, which had fallen down the mountain and lodged on a log below, raising the trunk about four feet high. The trunk was rotten and freshly broken as if a weight had been put on it which it could not support. Another council convened, and Big Tom said that this little tree was broken by a man, for he said, “only men and bears ever get up here, and if a bear had passed he would have gone under the trunk, whereas it being rotten, a man would naturally break it down in front of him and go on.” Then looking down at the broken ends where thy rested on the moss he discovered depressions on each side. “Now,” he said, “look at this; a bear’s foot is too short to go across the trunk, but a man’s would show the toe of his shoe on one side and the heel on the other.”
Adoniram D. and James Allen seemed convinced and the others become hopeful, and they quickened their pace, now taking the direction from the impression to the broken balsam. Impressions like the first were discovered and soon led them to an open spot two hundred years distant, from which could be seen a farm belonging to Big Tom about six miles off. Here were impressions of a footstep, as if the person was walking from side to side to catch a glimpse of the distant farm, which, no doubt, was the first awakening of hope in the doctor’s bewildered brain. Examining the sign more closely, Big Tom at last raised up with a smile of triumph on his face, and pointing to a small root of a balsam tree said, “See the print of the shoe tacks which his heel scraped off that root. There is no doubt that this is his track. Did you ever see a bear’s heel with tacks in it?”
All were now agreed and became intensely interested in the further progress of the search. Old man Allen slapped Big Tom on the shoulder and said, “We’ll stick together as long as there is a button on our coat,” and met the response from Big Tom, “Bully for you.”
After consultation it was now agreed that they would go back first and report what they found that the doctor had taken a horse trail by mistake, for the trail which led to Big Tom’s. McMahan and Austin now left for home and Wilson and the Allens soon met with Robert Patton, Calvin Patton, Thomas Wistall and a Mr. Burgin, who were on the other side toward the Patton House. These seven men now returned and renewed the search. They soon came to a pine log which was rotten, and on it could plainly be seen the doctor’s track. This track was exactly in the trail which the doctor had traveled with Allen and Wilson some years before the ascent to the peak. The position of the foot indicated that the doctor was now turning directly toward the clearing which was visible in the distance and which no doubt he hoped to reach by following a straight line to it. The tracks were now easily traced for half a mile toward the clearing. Here the party stopped to take their scanty rations for dinner and sent two of their number for more help.
After dinner they continued the search, and in a short distance found impressions again where the doctor would move from side to side as if taking observation across a small creek in front of him, which was making it way down a gorge in the mountain.
The footsteps now left the bear trail and turned immediately down the rocky bluff to the creek below. No doubt his purpose now was to take the water course and follow it to the settlement below. His track was now invisible, yet Big Tom passed on, calling out, “Here he went! Here he went!” Mr. Robert Patton now demanded how he could trace the way. “By the broken laurels,” said Big Tom. “Don’t you see the white side of the laurel leaf turned toward you there in front? That is where he broke a twig as he passed through the thicket and you can follow it by this sign all along.”
Big Tom and the Allens passed on, the others following and soon cried out, “Here night overtook the doctor.” “And how do you know that?” said the followers. “In this way,” replied Tom. “Don’t you see that back there among the laurels the doctor picked the best ways and crept through the open places, but here he ran up against a bush and there he fell over a rock. Don’t you see where he slid down and this show he could not see his way longer.”
The signs now led them down to the creek about two hundred yards above the falls, where there were evidences of the doctor’s having slipped and fallen several times as far as four or five feet until finally he got into the creek, at the mouth of the branch where the water was waist deep. No sign could now be seen, and it was evident that the doctor had waded down the creek. So the party divided, one taking one side and one the other, to find where he came out. A short distance below Wilson discovered broken sticks a drift, which indicated that the doctor had climbed over the drift and displaced some rubbish. Here Big Tom heard the falls and said, “I hear a fall roaring that must be fifty feet high, and I fear the poor man has met his death there.”
No human being, so far as these mountaineers knew, had ever been along this dreadful chasm before. Big Tom says he now literally climbed along from rock to rock and tree to tree by the overhanging sides of the creek fellow until he came to the head of the falls. Here he secured himself and looked over. A large spruce pine had washed over the falls from above and was standing erect with one end resting in the pool below. S it obstructed his vision he clambered about twenty feet further on and descended the rocky bluff, and here he saw where the doctor had slipped on the shelving rock. He had evidently tried to work his way around the falls in the darkness and had gotten this far and was trying to get into the creek again. Big Tom says after the creek poured over the falls it ran to the right under this shelving rock and deadened the sound so that the doctor was deceived as to the distance it was from him, and ventured too soon to turn towards the channel, which he was seeking. From this point where the doctor slipped Big Tom gazed down into the pool under the falls and discovered the doctor’s soft fur hat washed up on a log. No one was present and he could not hear his call made for the noise of the many waters.
After a while the other members of the party came up and he pointed out the hat. Big Tom now worked his way down to the pool and looking into the crystal waters said, “Poor old man, here he is.”
The sun was shining directly down in the water and the body was distinctly visible. The pool was fifteen feet deep and the body had risen up about halfway and was prevented from coming to the surface by a log on which the rigid arm had lodged below. Its position indicated that the doctor had fallen to the bottom of the pool and had died there on his all fours face downwards, and when the gases formed in the body it rose until it came in contact with the log, where it rested about seven feet from the surface.
The doctor’s watch had stopped at sixteen minutes before nine o’clock which was no doubt the hour he fell and came to his death, and Big Tom’s guess as to where night overtook him was correct. The body looked natural and was not disfigured. Further examination showed that the doctor had slipped down forty five feet and then fallen over the precipice fifteen feet into the pool below. The body was left as found until a coroner was procured and an inquest held.
These men of the mountains carried the body of Dr. Mitchell to the top of the mountain which now bears his name, where an excited debate ensued. The men of Buncombe County wanted the body buried in Asheville. Big Tom Wilson and the men of Yancey County wanted the body buried on the mountain whose height Dr. Mitchell had measured. A dispute had arisen between Dr. Mitchell and the then Congressman from this district, General Thomas Clingman, as to the respective heights of this particular mountain and that of Mt. Clingman, and it was in the attempt to re-measure the height of this mountain that Dr. Mitchell lost his life.
The Buncombe men outnumbered the Yancey men and accordingly the body was taken to Asheville for internment, but in the next year at the request of the members of Dr. Mitchell’s family, the body was disinterred and carried by gentle hands to the highest spot in Eastern America, the top of Mount Mitchell, 6,711 feet above the roaring sea. A beautiful tower was erected in honor of this great man on this peak and donated to the State of North Carolina.
Fox Story
A fox-hunting mountain farmer had a favorite hound and was fond of boasting of his dog’s speed. One morning, at break of day, he and his friends started a fox, and the dogs went yelling, the favorite in the lead. On they sped over hills, and across creek and vale, the hunters at last outstripping all the pack, except
the deep bark of the flying hound, and the excitement of fever pitch. Then they came upon a woodman, cutting down a tree. the favorite dog. He was clear out of sight, but every now and again, they could hear
“Did you see anything of a dog and fox running by just now?” exclaimed the farmer.
“How were they making it?”“Yes,” said the woodman.
“Oh,” said the woodman, “the dog was a little ahead!”
To Scone Or Not To Scone
Fall is approaching quickly here in the Smoky Mountains. With that in mind, here is one of our favorite Blue Waters Mountain Lodge recipes for Apple Cinnamon Scones. These are wonderful on a crisp fall morning with a warm cup of coffee or tea.
1 Cup Apple, Chopped
½ Cup Milk, Whole
1 TBSP Sugar (For Topping)
½ Tsp Cinnamon (For Topping)
In a large bowl, combine flour, 2 TBSP sugar, baking powder and 1 Tsp cinnamon, mix well.
With a pastry blender, cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse, stir in apples. In a small bowl, combine milk and egg, blend well. Add milk/egg mixture to the flour mixture and stir until dry ingredients are moistened. On a lightly floured surface, gently knead the dough several times. With a floured rolling pin, roll dough into ½ to ¾ inch thickness in rectangular shape. Cut into squares and then on the diagonal. Wrap into portions and then freeze. When ready to cook, preheat oven to 400 degrees. Cook for 22 to 25 minutes. Browned but not hard. Serve warm or cool.
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Budget Showdown 2011: Obama, Boehner, and Reid’s WH Meeting, Republican Stop-Gap Measure Attempt to Avert Government Shutdown Friday
By Bonnie K. Goodman
Ms. Goodman is the Editor of History Musings. She has a BA in History & Art History & a Masters in Library and Information Studies from McGill University, and has done graduate work in history at Concordia University.
OBAMA PRESIDENCY & THE 112TH CONGRESS:
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) walk out to speak to reporters after their meeting at the White House with President Obama regarding the budget and possible government shutdown. (Charles Dharapak / Associated Press / April 6, 2011)
Republican Fiscal Year 2012 Budget
From Reagan to Obama 30 years of spending priorities – WaPo
THE HEADLINES….
GOP prepares 1-week extension as shutdown looms: Republicans battling with President Barack Obama over budget cuts plan to hold a House vote Thursday on one-week legislation to avoid a government shutdown, despite opposition from the White House and Senate Democrats pressing for a longer-term solution.
The party leaders debated as the clock ticked toward a midnight Friday deadline. Even a brief shutdown could affect a wide range of Americans, from troops fighting abroad to tourists planning trips to national parks.
The move by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, to advance the interim budget measure angered his Democratic negotiating counterparts and came after slower-than-hoped White House talks Wednesday night. The president said Republicans need to display more urgency, while Boehner said honest differences remain…. – AP, 4-7-11
Obama Meeting Fails to End Stalemate Over Federal Budget: President Obama and Congressional leaders said Wednesday that a late-night White House bargaining session produced no budget breakthrough that would avert a government shutdown this weekend but agreed the two sides had narrowed the issues in efforts to strike a deal.
Emerging from a 90-minute meeting with Senator Harry Reid, the majority leader, and Speaker John A. Boehner, the president said aides would work through the night and he and Mr. Reid expressed optimism that a compromise could be reached.
“I remain confident that if we’re serious about getting something done, we should be able to complete a deal and get it passed and avert a shutdown,” Mr. Obama said. NYT, 4-7-11
Some progress cited in federal budget talks: Republican House Speaker John Boehner won’t acknowledge compromising with Democrats, but he and Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid both cite movement in White House negotiations to avoid a government shutdown…. – LAT, 4-7-11
Rifts Within Both Parties Test Leaders in Budget Fight: On one level, the budget showdown that continued to play out here on Wednesday is all about the balance of power between the two parties, a question of whether President Obama has regained his footing and can still control the direction of the country or whether Speaker John A. Boehner and the Republicans are now calling the shots.
But on another, it is a test of each man’s ability to weather challenges inside his own party. The outcome will help determine whether Mr. Boehner is leading his party or following the demands of the Tea Party movement. For Mr. Obama, it is the biggest test yet of whether he can reposition himself as a pragmatic leader who can recapture the political center and keep liberals sufficiently energized to help him win re-election…. – NYT, 4-7-11
Obama Presses for Budget Issues ‘Narrowed’; Parties Asked to Work Through Night as Shutdown Looms: “What [the talks] did was narrow the issues and clarify the issues that are still outstanding,” Mr. Obama said. He was confident a deal could be reached to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year, he said, but “it’s going to require a sufficient sense of urgency from all parties involved.”
Staffers from the White House and the offices of Messrs. Boehner and Reid were set to work through night, and Mr. Obama said he would check in with them Thursday morning—a day and a half before the deadline—and summon the parties back to the White House if necessary.
“We’re going to keep pounding away at this thing,” Mr. Obama said…. – WSJ, 4-7-11
President Obama talks with reporters about the 2011 budget negotiations. He said he should not have to be a referee for Congress: Racing a Friday deadline to avert a government shutdown, President Obama met late Wednesday with top congressional negotiators and said afterward that he is “confident” a spending deal can be finalized in time.
House Speaker John A. Boehner, the top Republican who met with Mr. Obama, said there is still no agreement on an overall dollar amount for spending cuts, or on what legislative add-ons will be included in any final spending deal. But all sides agreed their staffs would continue working after the high-level White House meeting.
“What they did was narrow the issues and clarify the issues that are still outstanding,” Mr. Obama told reporters afterward. “I remain confident that if we’re serious about getting something done, we should be able to complete a deal and get it passed and avert a shutdown.”…. – Washington Times, 4-7-11
In Washington, squabbling over who’s an adult: Suddenly everyone in Washington wants to be an adult. President Barack Obama says he wants to have an adult dialogue on the budget. Republican lawmakers contend they’re the ones trying to have a grown-up talk. Both sides are pointing fingers yet both have agreed to repeated delays in completing a budget to keep the government open for the last six months of the fiscal year.
The bickering might seem, well, childish, but the stakes are high as each side tries to win public opinion and display the leadership qualities to attract voters at the ballot box through 2012 and beyond…. – AP, 4-7-11
Administration: Shutdown would furlough 800,000 federal workers: Officials began warning Wednesday of significant cutbacks in government services as the threat of a federal government shutdown lurched one day closer to reality.
Failure to reach a budget deal would mean furloughing about 800,000 federal employees nationwide — many of whom are expected to surrender their Blackberrys, according to senior administration officials familiar with shutdown planning…. – WaPo, 4-6-11
White House says shutdown will delay pay to troops: The Obama administration warned Wednesday that a federal shutdown would undermine the economic recovery, delay pay to U.S. troops fighting in three wars, slow the processing of tax returns and limit small business loans and government-backed mortgages during peak home buying season.
The dire message, delivered two days before the federal government’s spending authority expires, appeared aimed at jolting congressional Republicans into a budget compromise. Billions of dollars apart, congressional negotiators were working to strike a deal by Friday to avert a shutdown by setting spending limits through the end of September. The last such shutdown took place 15 years ago and lasted 21 days…. – AP, 4-6-11
President Obama on the Ongoing Budget Negotiations: We just had a productive meeting with Speaker Boehner, as well as Majority Leader Reid. We discussed the impasse that we’re currently at with respect to the budget, and I thought the meetings were frank, they were constructive, and what they did was narrow the issues and clarify the issues that are still outstanding.
I remain confident that if we’re serious about getting something done we should be able to complete a deal and get it passed and avert a shutdown. But it’s going to require a sufficient sense of urgency from all parties involved. It means that people have to recognize that a government shutdown has real consequences for real people.
There was a interview that was done tonight on one of the nightly news networks — a man from Kentucky named J.T. Henderson. He said he’s counting on his tax rebate because his family has been scraping by, and he might not get it if the government shuts down. So J.T. said if he could speak directly to all of us in Washington he’d tell us that all of this political grandstanding has effects as it trickles down to normal, everyday Americans.
I could not have said it better myself. A shutdown could have real effects on everyday Americans. That means that small business owners who are counting on that loan to open their business, to make payroll, to expand, suddenly they can’t do it. It means folks who are potentially processing a mortgage, they may not be able to get it. It means that hundreds of thousands of workers across the country suddenly are without a paycheck. Their families are counting on them being able to go to work and do a good job.
There are ramifications all across this economy. And at a time when the economy is still coming out of an extraordinarily deep recession, it would be inexcusable, given the relatively narrow differences when it comes to numbers between the two parties, that we can’t get this done.
So my expectation is that folks are going to work through the night. In the morning I will check in with the respective staffs of the Speaker and the Majority Leader, as well as my team here. If we haven’t made progress, we’re going to go back at it again. And we’re going to keep on pounding away at this thing because I’m absolutely convinced that we can get this done.
There’s no reason why we should not be able to complete a deal. There’s no reason why we should have a government shutdown — unless we’ve made a decision that politics is more important than folks like J.T. Henderson.
That’s not why we we’re elected. That’s not why we were sent here. And I want to meet the expectations of the American people in terms of delivering for them. – WH, 4-6-11
Obama: ‘Inexcusable’ not to reach budget deal: Obama’s guests at last night’s budget session — House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada — also expressed hope that a shutdown can be avoided.
“We had a productive conversation and made good progress toward an agreement,” Reid said. “I am hopeful that we will be able to announce a compromise agreement soon.”
Boehner, standing beside Reid in the White House driveway, said: “There’s an intent on both sides to continue to work together to try to resolve this … no one wants the government to shut down.”
In the White House press room last night, Obama said, “I remain confident that if we’re serious about getting something done we should be able to complete a deal and get it passed and avert a shutdown.” “But,” he added, “it’s going to require a sufficient sense of urgency from all parties involved.”… – USA Today, 4-7-11
John Boehner: ‘No daylight’ between tea party and me: “Listen, there’s no daylight between the tea party and me,” the Ohio Republican said in an interview with ABC News conducted Wednesday. “None,” he said, when questioner George Stephanopoulos pushed back. “What they want is, they want us to cut spending. They want us to deal with this crushing debt that’s going to crush the future for our kids and grandkids. There’s no daylight there.”
“Listen … my job is to do what I can do in the House,” Boehner said of the proposed one-week funding bill. “And I do believe that … it’s a reasonable chance of keeping the government open and funding our troops— at the critical time when we’ve got troops in two wars overseas.”… “The president— I’ve been begging the president for months, ‘Mr. President, let’s lock arms,’” Boehner said…. – Politico, 4-7-11
HISTORIANS & ANALYSTS’ COMMENTS
Julian Zelizer: Government shutdown: How it came to this: “This is just an eyeball-to-eyeball moment where Republicans want to exercise their power,” said Julian Zelizer, a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University. “And Obama is trying to defend his reputation with Democrats.”… – CNN, 4-6-11
Steven F. Hayward: The Ryan Express One part FDR, one part Gipper: The liberal reaction to Paul Ryan’s budget plan makes it evident that liberals are more terrified than they’ve been since Jack Kemp (one of Ryan’s mentors) advanced supply-side economics back in the late 1970s. And although Ryan may not run for president next year, it is clear that just as Ronald Reagan had to embrace the Kemp-Roth tax-cut plan in his 1980 campaign, the eventual GOP nominee will have to embrace Ryan’s budget plan if he or she is going to be taken seriously by the party, and especially the Tea Party.
As Kemp’s understanding of supply-side economics was about more than just tax rates and revenues, Ryan’s budget architecture is about much more than just fiscal balances, and this is what terrifies liberals the most. The most interesting twist on the whole matter, though, is whether Ryan’s plan would eviscerate the welfare state (cue Nancy Pelosi, et al.), or rescue it within reasonable limits… – National Review, 4-6-11
DANIEL HENNINGER: A Ronald Reagan Budget Paul Ryan’s budget offers much more than deficit-reduction brimstone: Nothing like Paul Ryan’s budget, “The Path to Prosperity: Restoring America’s Promise,” has been heard from a Republican since February 1981, when Ronald Reagan issued his presidency’s first budget message, “America’s New Beginning: A Program for Economic Recovery.” The echoes reach beyond the titles.
Both budgets announced a clear break with the Washington status quo. Reagan reversed the policies of the Carter presidency and the infamous stagflation years of weak economic growth, 18% interest rates and 14% inflation. Reagan’s 1981 message posited four reversals: “a substantial reduction” in spending; “a significant reduction in federal tax rates”; relief from federal regulation; and “a monetary policy consistent with those policies.”… – WSJ, 4-7-11
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Despite technical glitches, BSO’s “Porgy” proves rich and evocative
By Keith Powers
With a bold, deeply appealing and sometimes flawed presentation, the Boston Symphony Orchestra staged Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess Thursday evening at Symphony Hall.
Most productions of Porgy polarize music lovers: fans of musical theater and fans of opera both claim the work as their own, or reject it as unfit. One thing remains unchanging—the music has striking originality, and accessible greatness, and this production brought out most of what makes Porgy and Bess one of America’s best-loved creations.
Soprano Laquita Mitchell as Bess and bass-baritone Alfred Walker as Porgy, reprised roles they first created in August 2011 at Tanglewood. Mitchell and Walker were joined by a top-flight supporting cast and backed by huge orchestra and the effervescent Tanglewood Festival Chorus. Bramwell Tovey conducted.
One unquestionable highlight of this concert staging was the theatrical direction. The soloists played out their roles along the front of the stage, entering and exiting discreetly to the sides. The action—crap games, dancing, fish hauling and mourning—was carried out with a natural intimacy that avoided heavy handed, symbolic gesturing.
The chorus, normally as prim and well behaved as school kids, swayed and waved, clapped their hands, and interacted amicably with the soloists and among themselves. Special touches, like Crab Man and the Strawberry Woman selling their wares in the aisles, cleverly evoked a fully staged version. (No credit for direction was given in the program for blocking and acting instructions, so one must assume they came from Tovey, who conducted smartly throughout.)
Less successful was the sound balancing. The soloists were all miked, and piped in over the speakers, normally verboten in the acoustic excellence of Symphony Hall. But with a huge orchestra onstage rather than in a pit, and a full throated chorus behind the stars, there was probably little choice. Still, there were numerous times when the front-of-stage singing was overwhelmed, and there were amateuriish technical gaffes like backstage patter making its way over the speakers. The miking was a necessity, but for every two problems it fixed, it caused an alternate one.
The cast, many of them Porgy specialists, was outstanding. Mitchell rushed her voice to crescendos once or twice, but generally embodied the role through her instrument with aplomb, creating human appeal to Bess’s confused desires. Walker had an even greater challenge, converting his stout able body into Gershwin’s “cripple” hero, but he sang with a noble air and won the audience. The purest voice belonged to soprano Angel Blue as Clara; Summertime is always an arresting opening aria, but hers was a lyric triumph.
Baritone Leon Williams, as her doomed fisherman husband Jake, sang It Takes a Long Pull to Get There with a cultured idiom that still evoked its folk roots. The crowd-pleasing Sporting Life (tenor Jermaine Smith) punctuated his role with Savion Glover–like splits, slides and toe touching leaps.
Marquita Lister (Serena), Gwendolyn Brown (Maria), Krysty Swann (Annie), Gregg Baker (Crown), Alison Buchanan (Strawberry Woman, others), John Fulton (Robbins) and Chauncey Packer (Peter, others) all invested their roles with authority. Of the speaking parts, Symphony Hall regular Will LeBow (Detective) unfortunately forgot his lines at one point, bringing some unwanted attention to his small part.
Tovey conducted with great understanding, and additionally helped plunge the audience directly into the “opera or musical theater?” conundrum by leaping off the podium mid-overture, and pounding out the conclusion barrelhouse style on a mistuned upright. The chorus, prepared with care by John Oliver, seemed liberated by its acting requirements and sang with gusto.
Everyone brings some expectation to Porgy and Bess. Its many identities—operatic, theatrical, even vaudevillian—contrast, infuriate, and amazingly, also co-exist. This was an ambitious staging, an important one, and it illuminated all the issues that make Gershwin’s opera the classic it is.
The program repeats Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. bso.org; 617-266-1200.
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A battery-powered cap that disrupts the growth of brain tumour cells could help glioblastoma patients to survive for longer, new findings suggest.
In a trial involving 695 people diagnosed with glioblastoma, those who were fitted with the device and had the chemotherapy drug temozolomide survived for almost five months longer on average than those who only had temozolomide.
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So this list is more of a rant list than an actual, like, "Hey! Read/watch these!" list. This list is about movies or games or books that I loved at first then I started to like a little less. I will put the title of the said series that I enjoyed the most on the lists (Except for Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal. I accidently put it on here instead of the original Yu-Gi-Oh! and I'm too lazy to change it and re-type everything) but I will explain why the series is on the list in the first place.
Season 1, Volume 1
I have watched Yu-Gi-Oh! since I was a kid. I watched all of the original Yu-Gi-Oh!, GX, and 5Ds. I gave up on this season because I hated everything about it. If you want a good Yu-Gi-Oh! EXP than watch Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 0 or 5Ds. I have watched Yu-Gi-Oh! since I was a kid. I watched all of the original Yu-Gi-Oh!, GX, and 5Ds. I gave up on this season because I hated everything about it. If you want a good Yu-Gi-Oh! EXP than watch Yu-Gi-Oh! Season 0 or 5Ds. Show less
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I loved the first movie and the Wolverine movie but every other X-Men movie I didn't really like. As movies themselves they would have been good but all the movies contradect each other and the side movies, like First Class and Origins, were so bad. I loved the first movie and the Wolverine movie but every other X-Men movie I didn't really like. As movies themselves they would have been good but all the movies contradect each other and the side movies, like First Class and Origins, were so bad. Show less
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So...lets talk about CAPCOM ruining my life!!!! I am a fan(and now only of the CGI movies and of RE6 and before titles) of Resident Evil but if you keep ...Show more So...lets talk about CAPCOM ruining my life!!!! I am a fan(and now only of the CGI movies and of RE6 and before titles) of Resident Evil but if you keep track of the gaming world you should be aware that at E3 the trailer for RE7 was released and.... IT SUCKED!!!! RE7 is a FP game now and in the trailer/demo it shows that you have no guns whatsoever! Yes, RE has left the survival-horror genre and went to a more action-"horror"(the last really scary RE game was RE4 but RE5 did have some scares) but CAPCOM didn't need to make it a FP!! Not only that the game looks like the cancelled Silent Hill demo, PT! RE7 is a total rip-off no matter what the creaters(who's name escapes me) says! I have given up on any future RE titles! The only "new" games I will be buying is RE4 on PS4 and RE2 Remake and I will buy the CGI movie RE Vendetta but I'm pretty fraxing sure it's just going to be a fraxing Need For Speed movies because the motorcycle Leon will be riding. And don't get me started on how BAD the live-action movies are!!!! So thanks, CAPCOM! You have ruined my favorite game series. P.S. I fraxing LOVE RE4!!!! It's coming out on this gene consoles so BUY IT!!!!......please.....for lil' ol' Tats<3 Show less
I am a huge Iron Man fan and I loved 1 and 2 but the 3rd movie was so far from what the comics were that I didn't really like it. I know that it wasn't po...Show more I am a huge Iron Man fan and I loved 1 and 2 but the 3rd movie was so far from what the comics were that I didn't really like it. I know that it wasn't possiable to make it like the comics because of rights and junk but I still think MARVEL could have done a better job. Show less
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Kordell Stewart Sues Andrew Caldwell For Calling Him Gay
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Kordell Stewart says he’s anything but a gay man.
So much so that the former “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star is bring legal action on Andrew Caldwell with suing him over claims Stewart made about having a relationship with Stewart. Caldwell is known for his viral videos as well as “”renouncing” his homosexuality in front of his church congregation, saying “I’m not gay no more.”
Earlier this month, Caldwell appeared on a radio show and confessed that he slept with Stewart. For his part, the former NFL quarterback countered Caldwell’s claims, saying that they are false and he has never been gay.
“At all times during [Kordell’s] life, Mr. Stewart has been, and is, a heterosexual male,” the court documents read.
As a result of Caldwell’s claims, Stewart is claiming emotional distress, loss of earnings and impairment to his reputation in his lawsuit. Caldwell’s claims against Stewart come amid rumors that have trailed the reality TV show veteran for years about him being gay since he suddenly filed for divorce from his wife and fellow “RHOA” star Porsha Williams in 2013.
As far as Caldwell is concerned, he’s now admitting he made the whole thing up — but says he isn’t worried about Stewart’s lawsuit. At least that what he says.
“It’s true, I never dated Kordell. But I’m not worried about the lawsuit. If Kordell wants money, he has money. I don’t owe him a dime,” he told TMZ Sports.
However, Caldwell does admit that he hurt Stewart’s reputation.”[What I said] did damage Kordell. He has a son. For his son to think, ‘Is my dad gay?’ That is damaging.”
But then Caldwell flips the script and thing go left again. He says since Kordell trashed HIM while denying the gay rumors, he’s considering filing a lawsuit of his own.
“I may go after Kordell. Yes, I hurt his name, but he also hurt mine.”
This dude is a piece of work.
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TheTruth on October 30, 2015 at 6:47 pm said:
I agree with Sheryl. This article is choke full of bad grammar, spelling and punctuation. Who wrote this article a third grader? SMDH
Sheryl Smikle on October 30, 2015 at 3:37 pm said:
Please honor quality in publishing. This article is rife with grammatical mistakes. This is not an anomaly for this website. Writing mechanics–grammar, spelling and punctuation-MATTER! You are perpetuating poor written expression in our community when you neither proof nor edit poor copy. Please address this is a sustainable way going forward.
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Introducing First-Year Seminar Students to Academic Research & Career Exploration
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Gale’s General OneFile has consistently been one of the most popular research databases offered by Felix G. Woodward Library at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. It ranked in the top five most frequently searched databases at APSU for the last five years, with 21,238 searches conducted in the year 2016 (without inclusion in federated search tools or discovery systems). Woodward Library provides access to over 300 resources through their A-Z list of databases, but General OneFile has remained one of the most popular, despite many other options available for researchers to use. The success of General OneFile as a preferred research option at APSU is largely due to its inclusion in the library component of the first-year experience course, APSU 1000.
Our First-year Seminar
APSU 1000 was developed to improve student success and retention at the university. The required one (1) credit hour interdisciplinary course provides students with the foundations for a successful university experience by introducing important resources, study skills, and the expectations of college life. Some core components of the course include university rigor, personal growth and development, a common reading experience, academic and career exploration, and library research.
The Library Component of the Course
Information literacy concepts are vital to successful researching and writing at the college level. The library component of the course provides students with those foundational concepts through completion of online information literacy modules and a required research paper. With the help of a librarian, the students research a career, write about what they discover, and compile a bibliography. Students must use at least four resources for the paper, including a scholarly article about a trend or hot topic issue in their chosen profession. Having the students use General OneFile to find the article is a great opportunity for librarians to describe the differences between scholarly and popular resources, and to discuss how content is created in a complex information landscape.
Why Gale’s General OneFile?
A number of APSU’s students are Tennessee residents and familiar with the Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL), the virtual library that provides access to dozens of databases, the majority of which are Gale resources. Some of our students have been using Gale databases at home and at school for years, so they are accustomed to those resources. General OneFile’s search interface is clean, sleek, and intuitive, similar to Internet searching. Introducing students to higher-level research using General OneFile helps with the transition to academic inquiry and scholarship.
For the career research assignment, General OneFile works well because it covers all topics. In a class of 20 first-year students, there could be 20 different professions that the students want to explore! With the “More Options” feature, librarians can explain and then model useful concepts. Students know that by limiting to “full text documents,” they can easily access an article of interest. Librarians can illustrate the differences between scholarly and popular sources, and then limit to “peer-reviewed journals.” The peer-reviewed journals are often the students’ first introduction to the body of scholarly literature in their chosen professions.
The results screen is easy to read and, with the limiting functions, students can refine their search, as needed. The “Tools” provide a variety of output options, and the citation features always capture the students’ attention! Librarians often introduce an online citation manager in APSU 1000, so the “export” functionality is also a big hit! In the course of a 55-minute one-shot session, every student can find and access a quality, full-text journal article on his/her field of interest using General OneFile.
Technical Administration
We have described how the instructional component is a major reason that General OneFile is such a popular database at APSU. But there are additional items related to the technical administration of the database that have contributed to the success of General OneFile at APSU:
Providing adequate inclusion in LibGuides or subject guides on a library website. (At APSU, a link to General OneFile is included on fifteen subject guides and three course guides. It is also listed as a key resource on the “general” subject guide that lists resources appropriate for researching any topic.)
Ensuring availability to students and faculty members from off campus locations through EZproxy or similar authentication software.
Making individual full-text journal holdings contained in General OneFile available through an A-Z list of periodicals.
Promoting the discovery of General OneFile full-text content through an OpenURL link resolver which allows users to “search for full-text” in online article indexes that only include citations.
Importing library holdings to Google Scholar so journal articles on the results list will link to subscribed content in full-text databases such as General OneFile.
General OneFile’s ease of use, functionality, and administrative tools have helped to make APSU’s Woodward Library a top user of Gale resources through the Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL), and we believe this trend will continue!
Interested in trying our General OneFile for yourself? Request a trial!
Christina Chester-Fangman is the Coordinator of Research & Instruction, as well as the designated first-year seminar librarian, at Austin Peay State University’s (APSU) Woodward Library. She has been at APSU since 1993, starting as a student, then a staff member, and now as an Associate Professor. Christina is married with a 6-year old daughter and a 13-year old cat. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, cross-stitching, watching TV, and attending entertainment and fan conventions such as “Walker Stalker,” “Con of Thrones,” and “Wizard World.”
Michael Hooper is the Electronic Resources Librarian at Austin Peay State University. He began his career at APSU in 2004 after obtaining his MSIS from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Michael is married and is the proud father of two sons, aged 10 and 13 years old. He loves spoiling his adopted rescue dog (Chihuahua / Dachshund mix), participating in fantasy football leagues, and visiting Nissan Stadium in Nashville to root for the Tennessee Titans.
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Private Dining Rooms
The Private Dining Rooms (PDRs) are available for groups of six (6) to eighteen (18). The capacity differs from dining room to dining room. Please call each location directly to reserve the room.
There is no charge for the use of these spaces. Atrium has a capacity of twelve (12) guests, Fireside has a capacity of eighteen (18) guests, and Chesapeake has a capacity of sixteen (16) guests. Please note the Refectory does not have a private dining room. Chesapeake is currently closed because of the renovation of the Short Line but will reopen after the renovations are over.
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Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology (v.89, #1)
Continuous wine making by γ-alumina-supported biocatalyst by P. Loukatos; M. Kiaris; I. Ligas; G. Bourgos; M. Kanellaki; M. Komaitis; A. A. Koutinas (1-13).
The main objective of the present work was the removal of aluminum from wines produced by γ-alumina-supported yeast cells. Reagents such as Na2CO3, NH4OH, albumin, and Ca(OH)2 were used. Calcium in the presence of albumin was effective, whereas other reagents were not so effective. Because of the improved aroma and taste of distillates produced by γ-alumina-supported biocatalyst, volatile byproducts of distillates were analyzed. They were also assessed by sensory tests. Methanol, acetaldehyde, ethyl acetate, propanol-1, isobutyl alcohol, and amyl alcohols were determined in distillates. It was noted that the amounts of higher alcohols and amyl alcohols decreased as the temperature of fermentation dropped, leading to a product of improved quality and reduced toxicity.
Keywords: Wine; distillates; aluminum; volatiles; quality
Bioconversion of cellulose into ethanol by nonisothermal simultaneous saccharification and fermentation by Kyeong-Keun Oh; Seung-Wook Kim; Yong-Seob Jeong; Suk-In Hong (15-30).
The kinetic characteristics of cellulase and β-glucosidase during hydrolysis were determined. The kinetic parameters were found to reproduce experimental data satisfactorily and could be used in a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) system by coupling with a fermentation model. The effects of temperature on yeast growth and ethanol production were investigated in batch cultures. In the range of 35–45°C, using a mathematical model and a computer simulation package, the kinetic parameters at each temperature were estimated. The appropriate forms of the model equation for the SSF considering the effects of temperature were developed, and the temperature profile for maximizing the ethanol production was also obtained. Briefly, the optimum temperature profile began at a low temperature of 35°C, which allows the propagation of cells. Up to 10 h, the operating temperature increased rapidly to 39°C, and then decreased slowly to 36°C. In this nonisothermal SSF system with the above temperature profile, a maximum ethanol production of 14.87 g/L was obtained.
Keywords: Kinetic modeling; temperature profile; nonisothermal simultaneous saccharification and fermentation
Effect of acetic acid and furfural on cellulase production of Trichoderma reesei RUT C30 by Zsolt Szengyel; Guido Zacchi (31-42).
Because of the high temperature applied in the steam pretreatment of lignocellulosic materials, different types of inhibiting degradation products of saccharides and lignin, such as acetic acid and furfural, are formed. The main objective of the present study was to examine the effect of acetic acid and furfural on the cellulase production of a filamentous fungus Trichoderma reesei RUT C30, which is known to be one of the best cellulase-producing strains. Mandels’s mineral medium, supplemented with steam-pretreated willow as the carbon source at a concentration corresponding to 10 g/L of carbohydrate, was used. Four different concentration levels of acetic acid (0–3.0 g/L) and furfural (0–1.2 g/L) were applied alone as well as in certain combinations. Two enzyme activities, cellulase and β-glucosidase, were measured. The highest cellulase activity obtained after a 7-d incubation was 1.55 FPU/mL with 1.0 g/L of acetic acid and 0.8 g/L of furfural added to the medium. This was 17% higher than that obtained without acetic acid and furfural. Furthermore, the results showed that acetic acid alone did not influence the cellulase activity even at the highest concentration. However, β-glucosidase activity was increased with increasing acetic acid concentration. Furfural proved to be an inhibiting agent causing a significant decrease in both cellulase and β-glucosidase production.
Keywords: Trichoderma reesei RUT C30; cellulase; steam-pretreated willow; inhibition; acetic acid; furfural
Sorbitol and gluconic acid production using permeabilized Zymomonas mobilis cells confined by hollow-fiber membranes by Helen C. Ferraz; Cristiano P. Borges; Tito Lívio M. Alves (43-53).
Immobilization of Zymomonas mobilis by different methods was investigated. Experiments were performed order to choose the most appropriate support for the immobilization of the cells. The most advantageous option was to use permeabilized cells in the bore of microporous hollow fibers. Whereas the reaction rate was about 33 g of gluconate/ (g of protein·h) using hollow fibers, which is comparable to that observed by using free cells, the calcium alginate immobilized cells presented a reaction rate of 4 g of gluconate/ (g of protein·h). These results can be explained by the mass transfer resistance effect, which, indeed, was much lower in the case of hollow-fiber membranes than in the alginate gel beads. A loss of enzymatic activity during the reaction was observed in all experiments, which was attributed to the lactone produced as an intermediate of the reaction.
Keywords: Hollow fibers; Zymomonas mobilis ; sorbitol; gluconic acid; GFOR
Ferrocene-mediated carbon paste electrode modified with d-fructose dehydrogenase for batch mode measurement of d-fructose by Mohamed Boujtita; Nabil El Murr (55-66).
A mediated modified carbon paste and renewable surface electrode for fructose amperometric measurement based on d-fructose dehydrogenase (FDH) was prepared and optimized. Commercially available ferrocene (FcH) and hydroxymethyl ferrocene (FcCH2OH) were used as mediators. The substituted FcH showed better linearity and higher sensitivity. The influence of different experimental parameters was studied for optimum analytical performance. The final FDH-modified electrode showed good analytical performance for batch mode measurements of fructose.
Keywords: Renewable surface electrode; modified carbon paste electrode; fructose dehydrogenase; fructose
Retrofit of CD-6 (smith) impeller in fermentation vessels by Beth H. Junker; Zorina Mann; George Hunt (67-83).
We extended prior studies on the influence of impeller type on fermentation performance to include a novel low-power-number, high-efficiency radial flow impeller, the CD-6, possessing six curved blades on a disk turbine. Dual impeller combinations of CD-6/CD-6, CD-6/Maxflo T, and CD-6/HE-3 were compared with Rushton/Rushton and Maxflo T/Maxflo T base cases. Qualitative comparisons of unaerated and aerated power draw in both water and glycerol were conducted. These suggested minimal power drops with aeration for dual CD-6 impellers and hybrids containing the CD-6 impeller design. We also examined fermentation performance for Streptomyces and Glarea secondary metabolite fermentations. A qualitative comparison of the data suggested that dual CD-6 impellers and hybrids containing the CD-6 impeller design resulted in reasonable power draws, improved mass transfer rates with airflow increases, and acceptable peak titers. These arrangements may warrant further study under a wider range of production conditions.
Keywords: CD-6; hydrofoil; impeller, axial; impeller, radial; impeller, power; fermentation
A novel phosphoramidite method for automated synthesis of oligonucleotides on glass supports for biosensor development by Bernd Sojka; Paul A. E. Piunno; Christopher C. Wust; Ulrich J. Krull (85-103).
Two protocols for functionalization of glass supports with hexaethylene glycol (HEG)-linked oligonucleotides were developed. The first method (standard amidite protocol) made use of the 2-cyanoethyl-phosphoramidite derivative of 4,4′-dimethoxytrityl-protected HEG. This was first coupled to the support by standard solid-phase phosphoramidite chemistry followed by extension with a thymidylic acid icosanucleotide. Stepwise addition of the linker phosphoramidite graduated at 1% (relative to the total sites available) perstep at 50°C resulted in an optimal yield of immobilized oligonucleotides at a density of 2.24 × 1010 strands/mm2. This observed loading maximum lies well below the theoretical maximum loading owing to nonspecific adsorption of HEG on the glass and subsequent blocking of reactive sites. Surface loadings as high as 3.73 × 1010/mm2 and of excellent sequence quality were achieved with a reverse amidite protocol. The support was first modified into a 2-cyanoethyl-N,N-diisopropylphosphoramidite analog followed by coupling with 4,4′-dimethoxytrityl-protected HEG. This protocol is conveniently available when using a conventional DNA synthesizer. The reverse amidite protocol allowed for control of the surface loading at values suitable for subsequent analytical applications that make use of immobilized oligonucleotides as probes for selective hybridization of sample nucleic acids of unknown sequence and concentration.
Keywords: Covalent immobilization; glass supports; solid-phase synthesis; phosphoramidite chemistry; linker; hexaethylene glycol; hybridization; biosensor; oligonucleotides; nucleic acids
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Election 2013 Live Blog
11:00 pm That’s it, folks, I’m out. Senate results are still up in the air, of course, as are a few seats – including Indi and Kennedy.
Right now Arthur Sinodinos is informing Labor and the Senate that they have no choice but to roll over and repeal carbon pricing because there is not a ‘mandate’. Given that his own Coalition flatly refused to do that on the Emissions Trading Scheme, I find the hypocrisy truly staggering.
See you next time, folks. Thanks for sticking with me.
10:12 pm Tony Abbott claims victory, making a point of letting the party faithful know that Labor’s vote is at its lowest level in 100 years. He says that he knows voters will punish those who take them for granted. One wonders if those words will come back to haunt him.
As he says his government will be judged by its deeds not its words, Abbott walks back from any hint that the Budget will be in surplus before the end of the next Parliament. There are huge cheers in the room as he goes over his campaign talking points – repeal ‘carbon tax’, stop the boats, build roads. The mining tax doesn’t get a look in.
9:50 pm Kevin Rudd concedes defeat, saying he wishes Tony Abbott well. He thanks each losing ALP member for their service, along with members of his former ministerial and campaign team. It’s an exceptionally gracious speech.
Oddly, this doesn’t sound like a concession speech. Nor did it sound like an announcement that Rudd will step down as Opposition Leader – right up until now. He just confirmed he will not contest for the leadership. Cue the frenzied speculation.
And cue the backlash. For goodness’ sake, former Prime Minister Julia Gillard – arguably, the person with best cause to be viciously angry at Rudd – was able to be gracious and congratulate Rudd and his team. Pity the voters who are so vocal in her defence can’t take a leaf out of her book.
9:24 pm The knives are out. Jason Clare says Rudd should resign as Opposition Leader, Combet blames him for pretty much everything (possibly including the extinction of the dinosaurs), and even Kate Ellis is talking about ‘putting the disunity behind us’. Tanya Plibersek gave her own party ‘0/10 for governing ourselves’.
Ah, loyalty.
On another note … think about this, folks. Barnaby and Palmer in the House. Together. At Question Time.
It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
8:20 pmLooks like the Coalition will also control the Senate.
7:45 pmMal Brough has won the seat of Fisher. Well done, that electorate – your new Federal representative is an admitted liar and a perjurer.
7:10 pm Only about 5% of the vote counted on the east coast. At this stage, Rudd looks to hold Griffith, Mike Kelly the bellwether seat of Eden-Monaro, Bob Katter Kennedy, and Wilkie Denison. Palmer looks as though he may take Fairfax.
Contrary to initial exit polls, Sophie Mirabella looks to win Indi comfortably.
The ABC’s Antony Green has called the election for the Coalition.
7:00 pm Seems there’s something not quite right with the ABC’s vote calculator this year. So far, Antony Green has rejected the numbers on over five seats, saying they cannot possibly be correct.
6:40 pm There’s 0.6% of the vote counted in some seats, and already the commentary is handing them over. Makes you wonder why you vote, really.
Amusingly, when the initial tiny swing was towards Labor, it was summarily dismissed.
And no one can cope with the fact that the Palmer United Party is polling significantly – ahead of the Greens in Hunter, for example.
6:00 pm Polling places on the east coast have just closed (with the exception of those in Caulfield North – getting an early train home, are you? Must be nice to be so cavalier about being available for people to vote as you are supposed to be until 6:00 pm. Let the counting – and the drinking – begin.
5:10 pm Getting reports from voters in Elsternwick that two polling places are already closed – 50 minutes early. The places in question were in Caulfield North. Door locked, banners pulled down, lights off.
4:40 pm The language from the media is getting more and more ridiculous. ‘Pools of Labor blood on the floor’ is among the milder epithets. Michael Kroger, self-described Liberal Party powerbroker, has called the election. Guess who he says has won?
Exit polls are flying thick and fast. Sophie Mirabella defeated in Indi! Kevin Rudd defeated in Griffith! Kevin Rudd landslide in Griffith! Clive Palmer actually gets votes!
And there’s still just under 90 minutes to go. Imagine the frenzy when the counting actually starts.
It’s not too late to pop out to the bottleshop …
3:10 pm It occurs to me that too many in both politics and the media view achieving government as a reward. It’s not. It’s a responsibility. You’re there to serve the people, not gratify your ego.
And on a similar note, some informal vox pops down at the local voting booth, supermarket and liquor store (yes, I’ve laid in supplies) reveal a disturbing ‘what’s in it for me’ trend among voters, too. Their primary complaint against either major party is that there’s nothing in the election promises for them, in terms of money.
When did we become such a selfish lot of bastards? Why is it such a hard thing to see that a benefit to someone in dire need (such as Disability Care) actually helps us all?
Finally – if you’re looking at the major parties and thinking, ‘Well, Kevin’s had a turn, now it’s Tony’s’? You need to take a step back and realise you’re not policing the slide in the playground.
1.00 pm I have to say, I admire the restraint of all those Labor candidates who are being fronted by media and told they’ve lost the election. Some of the reporters are so smugly patronising when they ask the candidates how they feel. It honestly would not surprise me if someone hauled off and said they felt like jamming an exit poll into an unmentionable part of some journalistic anatomy.
Meanwhile, some media actually seem surprised that people are reporting having voted for the Palmer United Party. What’s the matter, kids – doesn’t your worldview take in the idea that people don’t want to settle for a nice, neat, two-party system?
12.00 midday Heard a lot of whingeing from people complaining that they have to vote. Begin rant:
On average, you spend ten minutes a year voting – including council, state and federal elections. Ten. Minutes. You spend longer standing in line waiting for your coffee in the mornings.
And what do you get for giving up that time? The chance to actually participate in how your nation is governed. And don’t give me that nonsense about, ‘oh, but it doesn’t make any difference’. It does. Every vote counted makes a difference. That’s what turns a safe seat into a marginal one. That’s what causes upsets like Prime Minister Howard losing his seat in 2007.
And – if you are someone who looks at the major parties and thinks, ‘a plague on both your houses’ – every first preference vote cast for a minor party is money in their campaign warchest for the next election. That’s how a party like the Democrats, and later the Greens, went from being a curiosity to a force in politics.
You get a vote. You get a say. You have opportunities that people in other countries can – and do – die for.
Also, you get a sausage. So stop whining, already.
11.30 am Having done my democratic duty, I can report that the sausages at Kingsbury Primary School at top-notch. As for the egg-and-bacon wraps … well, I’d post a picture but they were too delicious for me to stop eating long enough to get out my phone.
10:10 am Good morning, all. The polls have been open on the east coast for two hours, and just opening now in Western Australia. (Hellooooo, over there!) I see that the ABC – with its panel of infallible psychics – has already called the election for the Coalition, so I guess we can all just stay home.
Or. Not
Vote early, but vote late, but get out there and vote. Yr obdt. correspondent will be venturing out to investigate the state of the sausage sizzle at the local polling booth soon.
The perks of voting.
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14 Responses to Election 2013 Live Blog
I notice that Mungo McCallum is still watching and commenting.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-09-09/maccallum-abbotts-government-surprises/4945552
rob pittman says:
We lost several things between 2010 and now and most were lost to us because of Kevin Rudd’s ego which has now brought him down. Even when he had almost a dream job as Foreign Minister he couldn’t help himself. The biggest loss of course was to females who aspired to the highest job in the land and I am very sad about that. Labor could have been in power now except for Kevin.
Just finished watching the ABC’s coverage (it’s only twenty to ten here in WA). Now bracing myself for three years of the Libs in power (or hopefully, if the threatened double-dissolution regarding the carbon tax goes through, maybe only about one and a bit. Shush, I’m trying to be optimistic here). May the ALP remove their collective crania from their collective fundaments, and avoid assuming the posture of the circular firing squad as they did at the last election (seriously, this is what killed them, IMO – they behaved as though they’d lost the 2010 election, rather than winning it).
Not a sausage at ours either. And us in a marginal electorate……c’mon cook us a sausage…….we will vote for whoever cooks the sausage lol
The Sexologist says:
No sausages at my polling booth. No bacon and egg wraps either. No nothing. Meh.
deknarf says:
You’ve heard of meme’s well Australia has something even more unique, its the Triple M’s Brigade! Otherwise known as the me me me’s! Seem to have forgotten that a country is about us us us! And you probably thought that the self-interested/engrossed, selfish bastards only lived in Sydney! Alas they now permeate the whole of Oz culture!
Rockstar Philosopher says:
Got any suggestions for any other liveblogs or hashtags to follow? All my election parties fell through and I need someone to appreciate my wit directed at ABC24 other than the dog.
roblpittman says:
I have no suggestions except to survive what could be an harrowing day. After the result we all may have some serious work to hold the bastards to account. As I look after people with disabilities I know what may be lost and am spending the day with a young autistic person and this thrills me more than all the rubbish happening. Don’t think the result will make me want to party.
richo says:
I concur the exit polls are looking fairly disastrous. But I will not give up hope yet!
I have two Autistic kids so I am very very concerned about what will happen.
Here Here on the rant. It so annoys me that bulldust rubbish about having to vote and it makes no difference it does.
Rob pittman my sentiments exactly.
I am appalled at the lack of informed people seem to be out there. That the pervasive lies about the economy and debt have so pervaded the society that they are truly convinced we are in a bad state.
The smugness of the journalists across the board in the MSM has been so hard to swallow.
A person of my ilk. Thanks Richo.
OH MY GOD. The economy thing, feeding the public such misinformation should be criminal.
Why won’t Rupert just fuck off and die already.
I have had so many conversations with people. It just seems they believe the bullshit. It seems to not matter how many times you point them to the facts and to the reality of the interest rates and articles by economists they just want to believe the rubbish sprouted by Turdoch.
I am so angry at how the ABC have played into their hands and have not held to account and scrutiny the claims.
So it begins. More years like the Howard years. More years of shame to be Australian. More years of demonising people fleeing for their lives, demonising unions, the very unions that achieved the conditions workers take for granted. More years of transfer of wealth to the rich away from the poorest. More years of cynicism on climate change. More years of allowing the richest to pay the least tax and take the precious resources away scott free.
It appears the day is turning into a day of nightmares.
I have voted and heard some rants from aspirational Fiberals lined up behind me. One looked like she didn’t have two coins to rub together and despite my urge to do so I resisted asking her what a single Liberal Government had ever done for her!
I am convinced the best political speech was by JFK which ran something like “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”. My life experience shows me this does not reflect the terms and conditions of aspirational Fiberal voters. It is all me, me, me from them and unfortunately lately I note there seem to be more me, me people. I obviously support Labor as I think Labor is best for our children and grandchildren but I regret the loss of caring more for your community. That attitude of me, me epitomises for me the personal greed within our community.
By this time tomorrow the Rabbit may be our PM in name but I can never recognise him as the proper PM of this great nation. How embarrassing will the next few years be? People have voted against the NDIS, Gonski, Superannuation and the NBN to name a few great Labor initiatives, so how stupid is our country?
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South Africa 3.1.2018 05:37 pm
Nelson Mandela Bay water crisis deepens
Raahil Sain
Last year, mayor Athol Trollip declared the city a disaster area.
Dam levels in Nelson Mandela Bay which supply drinking water are at an all-time low of 26.94 percent.
The City’s Member of the Mayoral Committee for Infrastructure and Engineering, Councillor Masixole Zinto, said the recorded levels were the “lowest ever”, as compared to 31 percent that was recorded in 2010.
“Although the City is putting all the efforts to cut water loss and usage, lack of rain has not helped.”
Last year Executive Mayor Athol Trollip declared the city a disaster area.
In terms of the water situation, more stricter measures were introduced and millions of rand were pumped in to improve water distribution infrastructure and clamp down of water leaks.
“More plumbers have been employed, with private sector resources pulled in to augment,” said Zinto.
Zinto said the metro was currently busy with water saving initiatives, where schools, businesses and churches were an area of focus.
“During the recent Summer Season the City took a decision to close some of the City swimming pools. Late last year, the Executive Mayor officially opened a borehole in Motherwell Cemetery where people, more especially water-related business are allowed to extract water for free.”
In addition, the Infrastructure and Engineering department will assist the car wash businesses from disadvantaged areas. The metro said it would assist in delivering borehole water to their businesses, relieving the burden from municipal taps.
An urgent meeting by Infrastructure and Engineering is expected to be held at the end of next week to discuss and decide on more restrictions to be put in place.
“The Coalition government views the current crisis in a very serious light and calls upon the people of Nelson Mandela Bay to come together on this water saving mission,” added Zinto.
Cape Town in the neighbouring Western Cape has also been hard hit by water shortages with dams at critically low levels and households restricted to 10,500 litres of water per month, with the threat of taps running dry looming towards the end of the first quarter unless there is sufficient rainfall.
– African News Agency (ANA)
Cops to crack down on gangsterism in Nelson Mandela Bay 16.7.2019
Nelson Mandela Bay invests R5m for new tipper trucks 11.7.2019
Police search for missing children in Nelson Mandela Bay 9.7.2019
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Steely Dan Countdown To Ecstacy (1973)
Well, seems like I have no choice but to go with the popular opinion that this is Steely Dan’s best album. Ah, so long, my dreams of developing a snobby indie conscience… Then again, NO. I’ll downgrade my indie conscience even lower and award that title to Pretzel Logic, because that one has more great songs. But really, it seems that this time around everything, just about everything seems to work fine for the Dan. About the only flaw one could find is that there are few songs – only eight of them – but seeing as they turn out to be, on average, more memorable than the eleven short numbers of Pretzel Logic, that can as well be an advantage. The song lengths are growing as the boys make an even huger emphasis on the instrumental side of the business, but then again, the lyrical sophistication grows with absolutely equal speed, which means you get wittier solos, and wittier and far more obscure word images.
In fact, they almost overdo the trick; not too surprisingly, this is Steely’s least commercial album, at least in terms of chart popularity: after the hooky-hooky-hoo promise of Can’t Buy A Thrill, the public were a bit disappointed with the complexity of Ecstasy, not to mention that selecting ‘Show Biz Kids’ as the main single was an unwise decision – due to the extremely controversial and, for once, pretty obvious message of the song (“show biz kids making movies of themselves you know they don’t give a fuck about anybody else”), it only got restrained airplay and therefore never got far enough sales-wise. It didn’t even help that the song itself is glorious, with a masterful slide riff supporting it (guest star Rick Derringer, not just anybody!) and Fagen’s quasi-rapped lyrics almost the equivalent of ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ to some extent, easily the most aggressive and let-down-your-hair moment in the Steely catalog. The endless repeated groove might get on your nerves, of course, but some songs are made for endless repeated grooves – particularly those songs which actually build upon that groove and don’t take it as an absolute value in itself.
But there’s just too many positive factors without it as well. Palmer is out of the band, and the only song on which I somewhat miss his absence is the gentle ballad ‘Pearl Of The Quarter’, which Fagen tries to do Palmer-style (i. e. with softer notes in his voice and actually trying to draaaaaaaaw out his vowels), but even so, the song works on some level, especially when you get to the end and find out that the gal in question ‘loved the million dollar words I say, she loved the candy and flowers that I bought her, she said she loved me and was on her way’… Voulez voulez voulez vous? Bring on the beignets! Oh, well, supposedly it’s just about a French Quarter prostitute or something like that.
Steely Dan are still a band at this point, though, and their guitarists are occasionally working wonders, especially on songs where Steely Dan decide to strip some of the sections from vocals and dedicate them to masterful jamming. Like ‘Bodhisattva’, for instance. That song is mainly an excuse for jamming – I don’t think that Becker and Fagen were really that keen on the world knowing their suddenly-found Far East fetish, whether it be serious or just an object of mocking – but what jamming it is, with excellent, fast, fluent and actually emotionally captivating guitar and piano solos, or those nifty call-and-response passages between the guitar and the keyboards. Pay attention to the mighty be-boppy guitar solo around the fourth minute, if you please, that one really brings the house down.
The good news is that the jams never duplicate themselves. For instance, ‘The Boston Rag’ eventually involves into a bluesy rave-up with heavy, gruffly distorted guitar riffs alternating with Zappaesque technically perfect solos. ‘Your Gold Teeth’, on the other hand, is quiet blues with a lengthy electric piano showcase from Fagen, not unlike the one you’d hear on ‘Riders On The Storm’, while Jeff Baxter comes to the forefront with somewhat muffled, but still effective Santanaesque leads. And don’t forget that both tunes work as tunes as well – not to mention that choruses like ‘do you throw out your gold teeth, do you see how they roll’ will have you thinking for hours about what it is the Danners are trying to say. The creepy thing to realize is that the songs don’t really feel disconnected – I mean, the jams kinda naturally evolve as normal continuations of the songs themselves. The gloomy “depressed nostalgia” of ‘Boston Rag’ correlates perfectly to the heavy guitar sounds, and the somewhat more relaxed and detached sarcasm of ‘Gold Teeth’ obviously conforms to the moody piano. The perfect vibe.
It’s not like this is such a radical transition to a new style, of course, because at the core you’ll still be finding the same basic pop structures you had last time around. Is the drug-bust incident dedicated ‘My Old School’ all that different from ‘Change Of The Guard’, for instance? Hardly. Is ‘Razor Boy’ in a totally different paradigm from ‘Midnite Cruiser’? Don’t think so. On the other hand, the album closer, ‘King Of The World’, pretty much sounds like an obscure Derek & The Dominos relict crossed with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, if you can imagine something like that. So I’d just like to point out that Steely Dan are a band that requires really serious, really keen listening in order for you to capture all those little evolutionary details. Oh, and note that there are EIGHT session players on here already, even if four of them are only playing saxes on ‘My Old School’.
March 26, 2013 Posted by Jerry | Steely Dan Countdown To Ecstacy | Steely Dan | Leave a comment
From sfloman.com
No sophomore slump here, though this album wasn’t nearly as commercially successful as its predecessor, in large part because the album lacked any hit singles, though for my money “My Old School” is the best thing that these guys ever did. It sports some perky piano, choice horns, and several jaw dropping guitar solos from “Skunk” Baxter alongside a campy chorus that chugs along for six glorious minutes.
Most of the other songs here are longer, too, as the band extends their swinging grooves on tracks such as the largely instrumental “Your Gold Teeth.” Meanwhile, “Bodhisattva” and “Show Biz Kids” each sport repetitive mantras that are more than redeemed by the dazzlingly sophisticated virtuosity of their instrumental passages.
The former song also showcases the band’s sense of humor, while the latter is a sarcastic putdown of the L.A. lifestyle. Meanwhile, “Razor Boy” and “Pearl of the Quarter” effectively show off the band’s mellower side, proving that they could convey straightforward ballads effectively if the mood so moved them.
The intense “The Boston Rag” (which, in a typical Steely Dan wink of the eye manner, takes place in New York) is another album highlight, while the jazzy but rocking “King of the World” closes things out with an unforgettable synthesizer melody. Overall, Countdown To Ecstasy contains consistently inventive songwriting and inspired performances by the 21 musicians credited, and Fagen’s soothing voice has settled in nicely as being a signature part of their sound.
The end result is an exceptional second effort that expands upon their excellent debut.
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Einstein and other gods of science
Historical insights & thoughts about the world we live in - and the social conditioning exerted upon us by past and current propaganda.
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Re: Einstein and other gods of science
by ICfreely on Mon Mar 16, 2015 4:31 pm
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” -- Søren Kierkegaard
smj said,
but beware, we are told if a quantum system doesn't evolve according to Schrodinger's equation it will collapse.... http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_function_collapse
...and we all know how that goes...
-We sure do smj! If memory serves, a couple trillion magically vanished a day or two before. And the very next month The American Prospect published:
Keynes, Einstein, and Scientific Revolution – James Galbraith (12/19/ 2001)
The parallels between Keynes's economics and Einstein's relativity theory are deep enough, and evidently intentional enough, to provide a useful framework for thinking about what Keynes meant to do with his scientific revolution.
Newtonian Physics and Classical Economics
The analog of Newtonian time, in the classical economics, is money. Just as time is absolutely separate from space, money is absolutely separate from the market. Prices and wages may be measured in money terms, but this is only a convenience.
The reductionism of Newton's system is equally fundamental to classical economics and remains so today. Economists are taught that societies, like Newton's universe, are nothing more than the sum of their individual components.
Einstein and Newton's Mechanics
By the time Keynes came along, the Newtonian view of the physical universe had crumbled. Einstein's theories of relativity had done it in.
Furthermore, this newly unified concept, space-time, also destroyed the Euclidean concept of emptiness extending forever in all directions.
Near any massive body, the shortest distance between two points curves around, as does the path of a ray of light. For this reason, parallel lines may meet if extended far enough. (Keynes's reference to overthrowing Euclid's axiom of parallels is an unmistakable allusion to this feature of Einstein's theory.)
Relativity Theory and Monetary Production Economics
Keynes characterized his theory as a monetary theory of production, giving lectures on this subject in the fall of 1933 as the General Theory of Employment (the preliminary title) was taking shape. Keynes contrasted monetary-production economics with what he called the real-exchange economics of the classical view.
The global irrationality of wage cutting, American budget balancing, zero-inflation Federal Reserve targets, and Third World austerity programs is an everyday occurrence.
The end result is that we cannot cope now, any more than could the classics in their day, with stagnation and involuntary unemployment.
http://prospect.org/article/keynes-einstein-and-scientific-revolution
-Newton & Einstein’s Theologies, of course, have no scientific merit. Their main purpose is to dazzle us with smoke & mirrors while bankers alchemists turn our blood, sweat & tears into gold.
Keynes and Copernicus: The Debasement Of Money Overthrows The Social Order And Governments (12/23/2013)
Let us in this moment of recess reflect on eerily similar observations by two of history’s most transformational figures: John Maynard Keynes and Nicolas Copernicus.
One of Keynes’s most often-cited observations, from his 1919 The Economic Consequences of the Peace…
-Which conveniently coincided with Einstein’s 1919 ‘Second Scientific Revolution.’
Keynes, like Copernicus a paradigm-shifter, was himself extraordinarily erudite. It is not impossible the young Keynes came across Copernicus’s work (which reportedly was first actually published in 1826).
-Yet another Copernican work discovered/published hundreds of years after his ‘death.’ Who buys this shit? Ironically, it’s the ‘well educated’ people who like to mock ‘Jesus freaks’ – Copernican freaks!
Newton’s gold standard was designed along Copernican principles of close correlation toward nominal and intrinsic value. It served the world very well for almost 200 years.
-It serviced the world for the same length of time that Newtonian heliocentricity was propped up.
Maynard’s remarks, Newton, the Man, were presented by his brother Geoffrey (and thus might even be characterized as Keynes’s last words). A brief excerpt:
“Why do I call [Newton] a magician? Because he looked on the whole universe and all that is in it as a riddle, as a secret which could be read by applying pure thought to certain evidence, certain mystic clues which God had laid about the world to allow a sort of philosopher’s treasure hunt to the esoteric brotherhood.”
-More ‘magical mystery tour’ speak in reference to Newton. He was clearly the Aleister Crowley/ Harry Potter of his day.
As for Copernicus, On the Minting of Money has been translated into English several times yet those translations remained difficult to obtain for students of the monetary arts and sciences. It has remained mostly the property of elite historians. Scant and intriguing references were limited to all-too-brief articles such as “Treatise On the Minting of Coin and Copernicus views on economics” by Leszek Zygner of Nicolaus Copernicus University.
The full text of Copernicus’s fascinating and invaluable essay remained elusive, that is, until last month.
-Yes, I’m sure it was stored next to those precious dinosaur holotypes to prevent ‘air damage.’
Whether one follows Keynes or Copernicus … it is time to return to the principle of meticulous monetary integrity — as exemplified by the classical gold standard — to restore legitimacy both to to the social order and to government.
-Every usury based monetary system has resulted in a ‘collapse of empires’ scenario so what’s the worst that can happen?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ralphbenko/2013/12/23/keynes-and-copernicus-the-debasement-of-money-overthrows-the-social-order-and-governments/
Physicists are working on it as we speak:
Working in physics: Success is in the bank - INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS
An organization that helps look after the country’s economy may not seem an obvious career choice for a physics graduate, but the Bank of England and physicists have a lot to offer each other, explains Rupert de Vincent-Humphreys.
As a physicist, I find that I can make a full contribution to this work.
This is not particularly surprising. Since joining the Bank, I have found that the skills at the heart of my physics training have proved entirely invaluable... theoretically rigorous framework, bearing in mind the limits to which those data can be measured precisely.... All of this will be familiar to physics graduates. Furthermore, you can often find yourself having to explain complicated issues to people who do not necessarily have the same specialist, technical knowledge as yourself.
http://www.iop.org/careers/workinglife/articles/page_39045.html
No doubt, they’re formulating complex explanations for the next economic collapse. For more on the true purpose of the Newtonian/Darwinian Ideologies:
English Ideology, Newton & the Exploitation of Science by E. Michael Jones
In 1687 the Royal Society published Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematic Philosophia Naturae to almost universal acclaim. It went on to be an event that was compared with God creating the world, as when Pope wrote “God said, ‘Let Newton be!—And all was light.”
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is another example of the English Ideology, derived from Newton, which also claims that strife—or as Darwin would say, natural selection—is the fundamental principle of the universe.
Newton’s cosmology was a rationalization, in just about every sense of the word, of force. Motion was redefined. It no longer bespoke a telos or goal, as it had in the Aristotelian system. Motion was now extrinsic to the bodies in motion, and another world for that extrinsic motion was force. Once Whig magnates digested the lesson of the Principia with the help of propagandists like Locke, they learned that all motion was caused, not by entelechy leading them to their proper end or telos, but by external force, which was in some sense of the word, totally arbitrary and in that sense much like the force (William of Orange) which put James II in motion and drove him from his rightful position (now associated with the outmoded concept of entelechy or telos) on the throne of England. There was no longer any proper end to motion. Every motion was arbitrary and a function of force. All motion was in the Aristotelian sense, “violent motion,” and all of it was determined by force which is always imposed from without. Newton’s Principia was, in other words, a usurpers dream, and that is why the Whig Junta fastened on it as an answer to a maiden’s prayer.
This in a nutshell is a description of the brave new world imposed on England by the Glorious Revolution as well as a summary of the operating system of that regime, which would soon come to be known as Capitalism. Capitalism is government sponsored usury and usury, like the universal wolf invariably eats itself up, when the debt burden becomes insurmountable and the economy freezes up under it, as happened in 2008 and in 1929 and too many times previous to recount here.
http://www.culturewars.com/2011/Newton.htm
Meanwhile, the same was done under the auspices of Church ideology. Will humanity ever break the spell of religious and scientific MIND CONTROL? I certainly hope so.
The Last Scientific Revolution - Andrei P. Kirilyuk
It is interesting that in contrast to apparently desirable property of realism, official mathematics applications in modern science (dominated by so-called “mathematical physics”) seem to be proud of their immaterial nature deliberately favoured due to a very special assumption about the fundamental basis of the observed world structure [67-75], which reveals a strangely subjective, doctrinaire and almost “religious” attitude behind the allegedly “objective” form of knowledge officially supported and absolutely dominating in all “secular” educational and scientific institutions.
The best science advances have always been driven by intrinsic, individual creativity and constructive interaction within the whole civilisation development. But those could only be rare, “enlightenment” moments in the dominating kingdom of scholastic unitary thinking. And in today's epoch of “material life” triumph, fundamental knowledge as such has lost its creative character, superior purposes and has become just an imitative, parasitic and unpopular appendage to flourishing empirical technologies.
http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/3432/1/LastScientificRevolution.pdf
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”--Charles Mackay
ICfreely
by ICfreely on Sun Mar 22, 2015 11:01 am
‘Nature abhors a vacuum” --François Rabelais
In addition to programming people to trust mathematics (geometry/physics) over their senses Galileo also introduced the concept of a perfect vacuum (space):
Thomas Hobbes - Fascist Exponent of Enlightement Science - Brian Lantz
Galileo’s insistence on the existence of the perfect vacuum, as the “pure” context in which to frame “objective laws” governing the motion of falling bodies, for instance, was driven by Sarpi’s effort to wipe out the scientific understanding that an intelligible, transfinite generating principle must bound apparent Euclidian space.
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/961_fascist_hobbes.html
And if you’ll recall form the Copernicus post:
It was not until "after Isaac Newton formulated the universal law of gravitation and the laws of mechanics [in his 1687 Principia], which unified terrestrial and celestial mechanics, was the heliocentric view generally accepted.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus#Successors
It may interest you to know that Heliocentricity was disputed by some of the most prominent scientists before, during and after Newton’s Principia.
What did Mathematics do to Physics? – Yves Gingras
…the publication of Newton’s Principia [1687] which marks, conceptually, a radical departure from the then dominant tradition of mechanical philosophy. We defend the thesis that by taking the mathematical route to natural philosophy Newton initiated, or at least accelerated, a series of social, epistemological and even ontological consequences which over the course of a century, redefined the legitimate practice of physics.
…[Christiaan] Huygens…was still complaining to the Marquis de l’Hopital in December1692 that:
“We find so few occasions to apply geometry to physics that I often find that surprising. For this, with mechanical inventions, is what merits most of our attention; otherwise, as Seneca said somewhere, we lose our intelligence in playing with futile calculations.”
For a detailed analysis of [Gottfried Wilhelm] Leibniz reaction to Newton’s mathematization of natural philosophy, see Domenico Bertoloni Meli, Equivalence and Priority. Newton versus Leibniz (Oxford 1993). As he explains, Leibniz stressed “the insufficiency of purely mathematical laws [and] the need for physical explanations…”
Obfuscated by the general use of higher mathematics in physics, [Louis Bertrand] Castel remarked in his Vraisystème de physique [in 1743] that:
“everything is now accepted in physics, attraction, vacuum and the most absurd hypotheses since geometry has taken hold of this science without restraint; under the envelope of geometry one is not shy of any paradox, any bizarre idea (folie d’esprit) or bad reasoning.”
And he [Castel] adds, like a cri du coeur:
“In truth, one will permit me to say, with the extreme respect one must have for Newton, that there is only geometry in his system and good physics will disappear if we continue to let him do that.
I admire his profound geometrical reasoning, but there is not (one must see it) a single word of physical reasoning in all that.”
Echoing Castel’s analysis, the editor wrote in his Preface:
“There is, so to say, two very different worlds; one mathematical, the other physical. The mathematical, which we can also call the metaphysical, only exists in the ideas of the geometer: he supposes the infinitely small, dots without dimensions, lines without width […]; as well as vacuum and gravitation. All these suppositions are the basis of a calculation which without them could not be exact and which without this exactitude could not be demonstrative. But nothing of this can be found exactly in nature […] and this is a strange illusion to abuse of the abstractions in transposing them in the physical world as if they were real beings.”
http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/443/1/gingras-mathematics.pdf
Leibniz and Huygens (as well as most of their contemporaries) recognized Newton’s work for what it was; metaphysical, philosophical & pseudoscientific nonsense. They also had the displeasure of knowing Newton, the man:
Leibniz, Papin, and the Steam Engine - Phillip Valenti
The Royal Society and Isaac Newton successfully obstructed the industrial and maritime use of steam power for 100 years, and then claimed the discovery for themselves.
In fact, the Royal Society was so intent on burying Denis Papin's 1690 invention of a paddle-wheel-driven steamship, worked out in collaboration with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, that it stole his work, and created a mythical story of how two British "Newtonian" heroes invented the steam engine for the sole purpose of raising water from coal mines—a myth that has persisted in the history books until today.
1673: Huygens successfully demonstrates his gunpowder-fueled engine, suggesting that his invention: "permits the discovery of new kinds of vehicles on land and water. And although it may sound contradictory it seems not impossible to devise some vehicle to move through the air."
1698: Papin constructs a steam-powered atmospheric pump. Leibniz and Papin begin the project of harnessing the direct force of high pressure steam; Papin constructs "a little model of a carriage that is moved forward by this force."
1707: Papin publishes a complete account of his direct action steam engine, and tests it successfully against Savery's design.
1708: In London, Papin proposes that the Royal Society allocate 15 pounds sterling to allow him to construct his engine "and to fit it so that it may be applied for the moving of ships. This Engine may be tried for an hour and more, together with some other made after the Saveryan method." Royal Society president-for-life Isaac Newton, backed by Savery, rejects Papin's proposal.
1712: Papin "disappears." The first Newcomen engine, limited to pumping water from flooded mines, is erected.
http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles%202008/papin_steam_engine.pdf
The true applied scientists who were responsible for the advent of the steam engine (Leibniz, Huygens and Papin) were stymied by the magician Newton. One can only wonder what happened to Papin. Moreover the Royal Society, by sabotaging their invention, delayed the industrial revolution by a full century! Roughly a quarter century after Darwin’s Origin of Species and before the collapse of Newtonian ‘physics’ Nietzsche proclaimed:
“God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?”
--Friedrich Nietzsche, (‘The Gay Science’ 1882)
Now I’m not a religious person but I think those are the words of a truly sick & demented madman. A few years later he boasted of the true purpose of the ‘scientific’ revolution:
“For while Copernicus has persuaded us to believe, contrary to all the senses, that the earth does not stand fast, Boscovich has taught us to abjure the belief in the last part of the earth that "stood fast"—the belief in "substance," in "matter," in the earth-residuum and particle-atom; it is the greatest triumph over the senses that has been gained on earth so far.”
--Friedrich Nietzsche, (Beyond Good and Evil, 1886)
[st]Galileo’s[/st] Sarpi’s objective had finally come to fruition. A quarter century later Arthur Eddington (hoaxmaster of the 1919 eclipse data) declared:
Eddington on the Greatest Scientific Revolution of the 20th Century – Roger J. Anderton
“When we compare the universe as it is now supposed to be with the universe as we had ordinarily preconceived it, the most arresting change is not the rearrangement of space and time by Einstein but the dissolution of all that we regard as most solid into tiny specks floating in void. That gives an abrupt jar to those who think that things are more or less what they seem. The revelation by modern physics of the void within the atom is more disturbing than the revelation by astronomy of the immense void of interstellar space.”
“The atom is porous as the solar system. If we eliminated all the unfilled space in a man’s body and collected his protons and electrons into one mass, the man would be reduced to a speck just visible with a magnifying glass.”
This is Boscovich’s theory.
Substance is mostly empty space filled with fields – unified field theory.
http://www.gsjournal.net/old/science/anderton54.pdf
This is the epitome of mass hypnosis. It’s obvious that the intent of heliocentric & atomic theories was to crush the spirit of humanity.
Nikola Tesla on His Wireless System for the Transmission of Energy
You [The New York Times] have called me an “inventor of some useful pieces of electrical apparatus.” It is not quite up to my aspirations, but I must resign myself to my prosaic fate. I cannot deny that you are right.
Nearly four million horse power of waterfalls are harnessed by my alternating current system of transmission, which is like saying that one hundred million men untiring, consuming nothing, receiving no pay — are laboring to provide for one hundred million tons of coal annually.
Since I have accepted as true your opinion, which I hope will not be shared by posterity, would you mind telling a reason why this advance should not stand worthily beside the discoveries of Copernicus? Will you state why it should not be ever so much more important and valuable to the progress and welfare of man?
We could still believe in the geocentric theory and yet advance virtually as we do.
Nikola Tesla - (June 23, 1907)
http://www.teslauniverse.com/nikola-tesla-article-can-bridge-the-gap-to-mars
Tesla, like all knowledgeable people, knew that the heliocentric/atomic theories were nothing more than abstract models & had no basis in reality.
TESLA vs. EINSTEIN Competing Theories on Light, Ether & Gravity – Marc J. Seifer
The paper then goes on to speculate that if this theory is correct, then radioactivity would also be the result of this process, that is, drawing energy from the universe. This led Tesla to study the Sun and cosmic ray production and also to completely dispute Einstein’s theory E=MC2, and so Tesla concludes, “the idea that mass is convertible to energy is rank nonsense…. There is no available energy in atomic structures, and even if there were any, the input will always greatly exceed the output.”
From this, it is easy to conclude that Tesla was wrong and Einstein right, as, for instance, the atom bomb clearly showed that there is an enormous amount of energy compacted into the mass of atomic structures, and that, indeed, one can be converted into the other.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/81913149/Tesl ... ein#scribd[/url]
The atomic cartoons clearly showed how easily we all can be duped. The applied scientists whose inventions spearheaded the industrial revolution and the electronic age vociferously opposed the metaphysicians (Newton & Einstein) we hold in such high regard.
“Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”
--Nikola Tesla, (Modern Mechanics and Inventions, July, 1934)
Even Saint Einstein himself, in a relative sense, admitted:
“The [Darwinian] struggle, so violent [Newtonian motion] in the early days of science, between the views of Ptolemy and Copernicus would then be quite meaningless. Either CS [coordinate system] could be used with equal justification. The two sentences, 'the sun is at rest and the earth moves,' or 'the sun moves and the earth is at rest,' would simply mean two different conventions concerning two different CS.” --Albert Einstein, (The Evolution of Physics, 1938)
Did you know you had a choice? According to academia & the media, anyone who doesn’t believe in heliocentricity is an uneducated, Bible thumping dimwit. If you tell anyone there’s no such thing as the ‘solar system’ or the ‘atom’ they’ll think you’re crazy. But none of us have ever seen an ‘atom’ or the ‘solar system’ have we? We’ve placed faith in our high priests who have proven formulas.
Structure of the Atom by Ron Kurtus (revised 21 Janaury 2014)
The Bohr model or solar system model of the atom is that the atom is like a tiny solar system, with the nucleus in the center and electrons rotating around the nucleus in orbits, similar to how the planets rotate around the Sun. It is usually called the Bohr model, after Neils Bohr, who discovered electron shells in 1913.
http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/atom.htm#.VQ5NQiwg8zs
In other words, “As above, so below” - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagram#Usage_in_Raelism
Finally, consider the Moon for a moment. If we assume Earth orbits the Sun then we must assume the Moon orbits Earth west to east once a month despite the fact that we see it orbiting Earth east to west once a day. Try to make sense of the following:
The Motion of the Moon
Although the Moon is moving eastward around the Earth, the Earth is also turning to the east, and much faster, for it goes all the way around its axis of rotation in just under a day. As a result, although the Moon is moving to the east relative to the stars, the much faster westward motion of the sky is carrying it to the west, and so, despite its eastward motion relative to the center of the Earth, it rises in the east, and sets in the west.
http://cseligman.com/text/sky/moonmotion.htm
Welcome to THE (Newtonian) PLANET OF THE (Darwinian) APES. All hail the Sun God – APOLLO!
P.S. - Think about the opening scene of the other 1968 blockbuster sci-fi film.
“…philosophy is dead. Philosophy has not kept up with modern developments in science, particularly physics.” --Stephen Hawking, (The Grand Design, 2010)
by Thinktwice on Fri Apr 03, 2015 5:55 pm
This is my first post. My introduction can be found here: http://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=838&start=1815#p2394914
Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt (2000)
After reading a reference to Disciplined Minds, here about a month ago, I sought out the text, and I did find a PDF version on scribd.
This book, written by physicist Jeff Schmidt, is fascinating because it discusses exactly how a world full of smart, well-meaning scientists, lawyers, bankers, academics, nurses, businesspeople etc, through their day-to-day work on the job, are little more than pawns trained to extend the ideology and politics of their bosses and corporate owners. Even though many individual scientists, lawyers, bankers, and other professionals may think that they have liberal views in life, in their professional work they enact values and political outcomes which are vastly different from what they imagine--and very much in favor of the ruling class. The professional class is specifically trained to learn and parrot the prevailing ideology--so that they can be trusted to act on their bosses' behalf. A regular worker, with a university or high school education, would never be trusted with certain types of work--those reserved for the professional class, who have been trained in the specific ideology that is acceptable.
OK, so that's the summary you can get from the intro. I dove into the book a bit further. Schmidt worked in physics so luckily (for us), he has a lot of examples of foul play within physics. He talks about how the US gov't, by funding almost all the science research, will "direct" the "curiosity" of the professors, toward military goals and objectives. The professors dress up their work in such scientific jargon that it is incomprehensible, to anybody, how the research relates to the real world. But then if you look at some military summaries of the same research, you find the objectives clearly laid out.
So not only do we see the mechanism of how the US's top scientists can do government research and parrot the government lines. We also see how often the true goals of science research are hidden even from the scientists carrying out the work.
I hope you don't mind a few excerpts. I tried to make them as concise as possible.
DIRECTING THE PROFESSOR'S CURIOSITY
Most basic physics research at universities… is sponsored by just four government agencies—the Department of Energy (successor of the Atomic Energy Commission), the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense (through the Army Research Office, the Office of Naval Research, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research and so on) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Ninety-nine percent of the federal funding for basic physics research at universities comes through these four agencies. In 1995 the federal government spent about $590 million on university physics research; about $455 million of that expenditure paid for research characterized as basic.
To what extent do the university pipers themselves call the tune when the government pays for their work? The government, like any sponsor, is keenly aware of its influence, and has known the answer to this question since the 1950s, when it began to dominate the funding of basic research in universities in the United States. In 1954, the president of the United States ordered the then four-year-old National Science Foundation to report the effect that federal research money has on educational institutions. [...] NSF gives the answer to the president in scientistic language:
It would be unrealistic to claim that Federal contracts and grants for research at universities have exercised no influence over the types and fields of research undertaken by the institutions. For example, Agency X has funds for support of a given type of work. Professor A at University Y applies for funds to carry on a project in this area...One of [his] assistants...is taken on the staff as an instructor or even assistant professor. He, too, applies for support for the same type of work and before long University Y has a strong department in the particular area. One cannot conclude that the influence of Agency X was detrimental, but one can say the Agency did influence the direction of research at University Y and perhaps the number of young scientists with the particular research interest.[\quote]
Clearly, the government understands not only that it influences the content of research at "University Y," but that it also programs new scientists with particular research interests.
OK, so the US government has been sponsoring science since the '50s, and they know how much of an influence they have--creating generations of scientists with directed curiosities that serve the military. So we know they are going to use every advantage they have to push their agenda.
What then does the government do with these loyal scientists? Let's see an example.
According to the military funding description for one particular project, this physics faculty member at UC-Irvine was researching techniques to simulate nuclear weapons.
UCI physics professors Norman Rostoker and Nathan Rynn ran a plasma physics research project titled "Electron Beam Switching Experiment." In their proposal to work on the project under government contract, they described what they had been doing and what they planned to do:
We are evaluating energy storage devices that involve accumulation of electrons in a magnetic trap and rapid release of the energy by magnetic switching. … We also plan to study several other methods to produce short intense radiation pulses.
Nowhere do the researchers say why anyone would want to produce short intense radiation pulses. The funding agency is, by contrast, straightforward:
Objective: Develop ultra high power sources for simulating nuclear weapon effects and having energy storage capabilities significantly exceeding present simulators.
Simulating nuclear weapon effects? Why would we want that? Take it away, Jeff Schmidt:
Simulation allows the development of real-world systems in the laboratory. In the words of a report from a major Army weapons research and development laboratory in Adelphi, Maryland, which coordinated much of the governments effort in nuclear weapons effects simulation:
Since at this time tests cannot be conducted in a real nuclear weapon environment, simulators are the only available link to reality.
The ability to simulate the effects of nuclear weapons allows the U.S. government to get around some of the obstacles that nuclear test ban treaties place in the way of preparation for nuclear war. Professors Rostoker and Rynn, by contributing to the governments "link to reality," helped it violate one of the hopes people had for the test ban—an end to the further development of nuclear war technology—without actually violating the letter of the treaties.
Wow! The whole thing goes right over Jeff Schmidt's head. Of course, you can't blame him, really. The entire world has been fooled into believing in a magical apocalypse bomb, that can transmute metals into other metals like the vulgar exoteric misunderstanding of alchemy. But after almost 70 years, this silly story desperately needs a "link to reality", else it might die soon!
Why would the US military want to simulate nukes? I'll leave that question for now...
But the important point this book makes is that it is very easy to achieve ideological purity in your society's professional class, like scientists, teachers, bankers etc. Successful, tenured physicists are perfectly comfortable with quietly playing along with their bosses' goals, and would never have the opportunity to look into any questionable areas of science (or other policy). Any students who pursue these unhelpful areas are to be guided back onto the garden path, otherwise they do not pass the examinations and cannot continue in that career. The path to this type of career is a sort of ideological "survival of the fittest"--only the most rule-following, curiosity-directing, authority-worshipping workers make it to the top positions, while the rest of the independent thinkers "die off" in their careers.
In fact, that is what happened to me. I studied biochemistry and once I started assisting a graduate student in a university lab, that is when I started to feel the weird pressures to conform to a certain level of thought control. I had a glimpse of that world, and once I graduated I knew I did not want to enter that academic science world.
There is actually a lot more to be said about this book, but I thought these examples were particularly helpful in our quest to try to ferret out the truth among all these confusing statements from the authorities, and those who work for them.
Thinktwice
by hoi.polloi on Fri Apr 03, 2015 8:53 pm
Well done, ICfreely and Thinktwice. Fascinating stuff!
hoi.polloi
by ICfreely on Sat Apr 25, 2015 9:02 am
Very interesting post Thinktwice! I’ve been meaning to read Disciplined Minds ever since Farcevalue made mention of it. Your line, “Wow! The whole thing goes right over Jeff Schmidt's head” immediately reminded me of a Michael Brooks article that I’d read a while back with equal astonishment.
Scientists Behaving Badly – Michael Brooks
Should we be shocked by scientific fraud, or is such misbehavior actually rather common?
It might not be something to celebrate, but scientists who commit research fraud are following in a grand tradition.
The first recorded fraud in science took place in the second century AD. The Egyptian mathematician and astronomer Ptolemy manipulated data to support his astronomical models. When observations didn't fit with his ideas, he simply cast them aside.
The world's most celebrated scientist, Isaac Newton, also bent the rules. Whenever he produced a new edition of his masterwork, The Principia, Newton tweaked his calculations so they would look accurate compared to the data of the day.
Newton did this to claim superiority over his scientific rivals. The falsified calculations, biographer Simon Westfall says, were "a cloud of exquisitely powdered fudge factor blown in the eyes of his scientific opponents".
Anyone familiar with Newton's prickly and difficult personality would probably expect such behavior.
We think of Galileo as a martyr to the truth…It is rarely mentioned that the last chapter of this book [Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems], published in 1632, contained a blatant and deliberate fraud.
Galileo constructed elaborate mathematical arguments showing that the motion of Earth around the sun, combined with its daily spin on its axis, would cause a sloshing of the oceans -- the tides. But the math gave only one high tide per day, and always at the same time.
Galileo lived in Venice. He and everyone around him knew that there were two high tides a day, and that they happened at ever-changing times.
When Einstein came to write a preface for a modern edition of Galileo's book, he said Galileo's fraud was acceptable because it was well-motivated.
Though he claimed ownership of the world's most famous equation, E=mc2, Einstein never managed to prove it.
In all, Einstein made eight attempts at a proof, and all of them contained errors, bogus assumptions or devious sleights of hand designed to cover up the proof's shortcomings.
On another occasion, though, Einstein committed a fraud where he got things badly wrong.
A few years later it emerged that Einstein's theory about magnetism was incorrect. Einstein only "proved" it because he had cherry-picked the results that fit his preconceptions.
This is part of what scientists call "normal misbehavior". Roughly one-third of scientists admit to having committed some kind of fraud in the last three years.
That's what the astronomer Arthur Eddington did in 1919 when he cherry-picked among his observations of an eclipse. The idea was to prove Einstein's general theory of relativity.
In their hunt for the structure of DNA, Francis Crick and James Watson stumbled for months because other people's published results, involving the angles between some chemical bonds, were incorrect. Crick said that the experience taught him "not to place too much reliance on any single piece of experimental evidence."
Scientists know their colleagues will often take shortcuts. To be first to the truth often requires it. Crick once moaned that his colleague Rosalind Franklin was "too cautious" and "too determined to be scientifically sound and to avoid shortcuts."
This confrontational system causes a few fights and often exposes dirty tricks and shady short cuts. Ultimately, though, it gets us to the right answer. Science in progress might not always be a pretty sight, but that's exactly what makes it so reliable in the end.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-brooks/scientists-behaving-badly_b_1448729.html
Well, I suppose if one believes in the validity of Heliocentricity, the Apollo Missions, Nuclear Bombs/Energy and Genetic Determinism then one can confidently conclude that mainstream science is reliable and ultimately gets us to the right answer despite the ‘normal misbehavior’ of its high priests.
Science, scientism, the BBC and the thought police
There is an idea being spread around in Britain and the USA today that ‘science’ (by which they mean evolutionism) and ‘religion’ (by which they mean Christianity) are in a mortal conflict that only one side can win, and the winner is science. The people who propagate this simplistic dichotomy invariably castigate intelligent design as religion in disguise (‘creationism in a cheap tuxedo’) and therefore, according to their philosophy, it’s claims can be dismissed without going to the trouble of examining them.
They also assert that Darwinian evolutionary theory is a well established scientific fact which has stood all relevant tests and no evidence has been discovered against it. Therefore, anyone who purports to challenge or question evolutionary orthodoxy is, by definition, advancing a religious, therefore anti- science, agenda and so, again by definition, is not to be listened to.
None of the above is true.
Teaching creationism or questioning Darwin?
Dawkins compares ‘teaching creationism’ (by which he means ‘questioning Darwinism’ but he can hardly put it like that since science is supposed to allow questions) with child abuse. I heard him say this on BBC radio and he has repeated this vile smear elsewhere. That’s right, a teacher who, having explained Darwinian theory to his pupils also mentions the scientific objections to it is on the same level as if he had, having given her Belgian chocolates and promised her a new iPhone, asked his little niece to come out to the shed to play a special game with him that mummy mustn’t be told about.
-What a class act!
Evidence for molecules to man evolution '...at least as good as evidence for the Nazi Holocaust'?
Dawkins has also written that the evidence for evolution is ‘...at least as good as the evidence for the Nazi race holocaust.’(3) As one commentator said of this outrageous statement ‘Where are the (Jewish) anti-defamation league when you need them?’ Is this a good model of how scientific enquiry or good education goes forward, from a man who was recently titled ‘Professor of Public Understanding of Science’? No wonder that Professor Alister McGrath told a large audience including myself at Southampton university that ‘Atheists come up to me at Oxford and apologise for Dawkins saying ‘Don’t judge us atheists by him, we’re not all like that.’ Dawkins truly is the Fred Phelps of atheism, embarrassing many on his own side.
-When you can’t keep your Sumerian Evolutionary Tree of Life story straight, race bait!
Does science allow questions to be asked? yes or no?
Think. There is no area of science where a dedicated movement is trying to use the law to prevent certain questions being asked or theories challenged. If in their philosophy there can be no reasoned argument against ‘The Fact of Evolution’, then surely it is no longer a theory but a dogma. One could argue that Richard Dawkins, Harry Kroto et al in their efforts to slam down Darwin questioners are heretics and blasphemers against their own belief system, the scientific method. They seem to be saying ‘In the name of Science I forbid you to question the current orthodoxy, ask that question or draw attention to those facts!’ Science and scientism are not the same thing. One is open and neutral and can change if the evidence changes. The other is a fixed philosophical belief and demands compliance with dogma.
-Virtually every area of science is weighed down with dogmatism. In the words of Sir Fred Hoyle, "Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by a journal today, you will run against a paradigm and the editors will turn it down."
Science can enable bad men to do more evil, but it cannot even define goodness
An atheist T shirt slogan reads ‘Science flies you to the moon; religion flies you into buildings’. One could write an essay on the crass dumbness of this slogan, beginning with the observation that in both cases it was men who did the flying and both flying machines equally used science. Science and technology give us tools; we decide how to use them. Science is as neutral as fire, water, steel, chemicals or the spoken and written word. All of those things can be used for good or bad purposes, depending on the choices we make.
-Media fakery flies wholly fictitious fables into the space between our ears. The slogan reveals (to me at least) the dynamics at play here - the TPTB’s use of science & religion to establish Order out of Chaos. For what it’s worth, American Atheists prefer the Invisible Atom to the Biblical Adam, choosing the ‘Atomic Whirl’ as their official logo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_whirl).
But scientism is a materialistic philosophy which insists that, as the atheist Carl Sagan put it, ‘the cosmos is all that there is, was or ever will be’. In other words, there is matter, energy and the laws of physics, there is ABSOLUTELY nothing else. This is an unproveable assertion, a faith position, yet it demands our absolute allegiance. I am prepared to believe a cell biologist when he says ‘trust me I’m a scientist’ as long as he confines himself to cell biology, just as the doctors I teach about skin cancer diagnosis can, I believe, trust me up to a point on that subject. But why on earth should I believe that an astronomer or metallurgist has any more insight into unseen things than I do?
-I’m not prepared to believe anyone who says ‘trust me I’m a (fill in the blank).’ I’d rather rely on my own six senses & risk being wrong. Indeed, why on Earth should anyone believe any astronomer’s/astrologer’s ‘Sky Stories’?
The demarcation dispute-your argument against Darwinism may not be put, so Darwin wins
This is no mere ‘sore loser’ whimpering. The ‘science versus religion’ thing is quite new in historical terms and is being played up to deny a hearing to scientific arguments against Darwinism, arguments which it cannot survive without special pleading or plain cheating. The biochemist Michael Behe, a leading light of the intelligent design movement, has been denied the right to publish in peer review journals or even a right of reply to inaccurate and unfair criticism of his work in such journals. He has posted about this on his web site after being told in writing that if his criticism of ‘the paradigm’ (i.e. Darwinism) were published it might deny space to a letter or article ‘advancing the paradigm’. In other words, you are not allowed to question Darwin.
The Richard Sternberg affair underlines this point.
Forced out of his job for allowing peer review criticism of Darwinism
Actually, I don’t think they mind the swivel eyed Bible bashing fundamentalist fanatics very much, they have made a lot of mileage out of Fred ‘God hates you!’ Phelps. What I think really scares them is the person who has read the works of scientifically literate Darwin dissenters like Jonathan Sarfati, Vij Sodera, Stuart Burgess, Andy McIntosh, Michael Behe, Stephen Meyer, John Sanford and others like them. They are scared of people who have read and understood Charles Darwin and point to the gaping holes in evolutionist theory, not using Bible texts but asking difficult questions about laevo amino acids, peptide bonds, Krebs cycle, photosynthesis, the species envelope, synergistic co-enzymes without which other processes can’t even begin, sudden appearance of complex forms and discontinuity in the fossil record, information theory and the demonstrably deleterious nature of random mutations. This is what makes the atheist fundamentalist stick his fingers in his ears, gnash his teeth and cry ‘silence the blaspheming heretics!’
-I couldn’t have said it better myself!
http://www.questiondarwin.com/science_scientism_the_bbc_and_the_thought_police
According to Steven Kreis:
“Science is faith. And the Gospel of that faith was written by [the nonexistent] Copernicus, [Sarpi’s sock puppet] Galileo, Newton [the magician], Darwin [the med school drop-out], Einstein [the patent clerk] and others. We are certainly not all scientists. I know I'm not a scientist. But yet, I'm sure that scientists are busy at work solving problems, the solution to which will help me in some way. Perhaps scientists can improve our situation here on earth, just as the Gospels perhaps did almost two millennia ago. A scientist is an expert and for some reason we have grown to trust experts. The scientists, the technicians, the experts -- they must know the answers to our questions.”
http://www.historyguide.org/earlymod/lecture10c.html
Like I said in my intro, “Same shit, different toilet!”
http://cluesforum.info/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=838&start=1755#p2394049
“It does not require great insight to see that power in human society takes the form of a pyramid, in which the mind-set of the general bulk of the structure largely reflects that of the mind at the top. Indeed, contrary to the common impression, modern governments are set up this way, with the apex of the pyramid often a mere figurehead representing the unseen wielders of power immediately beneath it. To control the apex is to control the nation.”
– Ian Taylor
by ICfreely on Sun Jul 12, 2015 6:33 pm
“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. …We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society. …In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons…who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” – Edward Bernays
That sobering explication of democracy comes from the man whose “Make the World Safe for Democracy” war slogan helped draw America into WWI. The man whose ‘Torches of Freedom’ publicity stunt helped ‘liberate’ women from ‘man’s inhumanity to women by a taboo against smoking.’ The man who helped Chiquita United Fruit expand its plantation-style domination of South America by means of ‘Banana Republic Wars’ which brutally suppressed genuine movements for freedom under the guise of containment of communist expansion in order to 'guard the free world.' The Soviets, of course, pillaged their fair share of nations under the guise of ‘defending freedom’ from capitalist expansion.
The ‘father of public relations,’ was Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels’ top mentor. He was also the nephew of Tavistock’s Sigmund ‘father of psychoanalysis’ Freud. Freud’s pseudoscientific pile of manure (which was based on Charles Darwin’s Descent of Man) fertilized the seed that sprouted into the wholly monstrous & pseudoscientific discipline of Psychiatry (state sanctioned chemical lobotomization). Darwin’s ideology also influenced John Maynard Keynes’ brand of capitalism as well as Karl ‘the father of international socialism’ Marx’s Communist Manifesto. Marx in turn influenced Adolph Hitler’s brand of secular fascism.
I thank you for the honour which you have done me by sending me your great work on Capital; & I heartily wish that I was more worthy to receive it, by understanding more of the deep and important subject of political Economy. Though our studies have been so different, I believe that we both earnestly desire the extension of Knowledge, & that this is in the long run sure to add to the happiness of Mankind.
I remain, Dear Sir
Letter from Charles Darwin to Karl Marx
http://friendsofdarwin.com/articles/marx/
Add to the happiness of Mankind? That’s rich!
"The influence of Darwinism upon psychology during the last quarter of the nineteenth century probably did as much as any single factor to shape the science as it exists today. Psychology was to become consistently more biological; even the description of mental processes tended to be more and more in terms of the underlying brain mechanisms, the functions served and the tasks accomplished in adjusting to the environment. The comparative viewpoint, although present here and there in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, could come into its own only when evolutionism had become the groundwork of psychological thinking. As a natural consequence, interest in animal psychology rapidly increased...."
Chapter 9, page 134 'Evolutionism and the Birth of Comparative Psychology'
Psychiatrists now admit ‘chemical imbalance’ is a meaningless pseudoscientific term invented by Bernaysian PR manipulators to sell poisons for big pharma. They also admit they cannot define what ‘mental illness’ actually is. They used to attribute their fabricated ‘psychological diseases’ to ‘biological’ and ‘psychological’ ‘conditions.’ They now attribute ‘mental disorders’ to ‘neurological’ and ‘genetic’ ‘co-factors.’ Practically every conceivable human emotion is classified as a mental disorder which can be ‘treated’ with a wide range of ‘medications.’ If you study the history of psychiatry you will have a renewed appreciation for the term ‘chemical warfare.’ I’m not trying to fear monger. If you take these words lightly, then may your chains rest lightly upon you dear reader.
"I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially the extent to which it’s been applied, will be one of the great jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity that it has." – Malcolm Muggeridge, Philosopher
When people say we should not mix religion and science when it comes to the evolution vs. creation debate they, in essence, are propagating the myth that evolution is a legitimate science. In actuality, evolution is a religion and it should not be mistaken for science.
I think a few excerpts from the Protocols may shed light on all this theoretical nonsense. I know it’s a lightning rod for scapegoaters and apologists. Whether it’s real or fake is inconsequential. Even as a fictional literary work it’s compelling and bone-chillingly accurate. Frankly, it leaves The Art of War and The Prince in the dust. I think it’s important for everyone (especially Jewish people) to read it from a neutral stance. We’re all being played for fools. How can we be truth seekers and honest with one another if we can’t be honest with ourselves?
PROTOCOL No. 1
10. …Men in masses and the men of the masses, being guided solely by petty passions, paltry beliefs, traditions and sentimental theorems, fall a prey to party dissension, which hinders any kind of agreement even on the basis of a perfectly reasonable argument.
23. Our countersign is - Force and Make-believe. Only force conquers in political affairs, especially if it be concealed in the talents essential to statesmen. Violence must be the principle, and cunning and make-believe the rule for governments which do not want to lay down their crowns at the feet of agents of some new power.
2. …The GOYIM are not guided by practical use of unprejudiced historical observation, but by theoretical routine without any critical regard for consequent results. We need not, therefore, take any account of them - let them amuse themselves until the hour strikes, or live on hopes of new forms of enterprising pastime, or on the memories of all they have enjoyed. For them let that play the principal part which we have persuaded them to accept as the dictates of science (theory). It is with this object in view that we are constantly, by means of our press, arousing a blind confidence in these theories. The intellectuals of the GOYIM will puff themselves up with their knowledge and without any logical verification of them will put into effect all the information available from science, which our AGENTUR specialists have cunningly pieced together for the purpose of educating their minds in the direction we want.
3. Do not suppose for a moment that these statements are empty words: think carefully of the successes we arranged for Darwinism, Marxism, Nietzsche-ism.
4. Moreover, the art of directing masses and individuals by means of cleverly manipulated theory and verbitage, by regulations of life in common and all sorts of other quirks, in all which the GOYIM understand nothing, belongs likewise to the specialists of our administrative brain.
10. WE HAVE FOOLED, BEMUSED AND CORRUPTED THE YOUTH OF THE "GOYIM" BY REARING THEM IN PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES WHICH ARE KNOWN TO US TO BE FALSE ALTHOUGH IT IS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCULCATED.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/kidd/thesis/pdf/protocols.pdf
“The undiscerning public ...considers scientists to be some sort of high priest of our society, paragons of objectivity who have no philosophical axes to grind. Hence, the public is often fed a diet of philosophy under the guise of science.”
Martin Lubenow, (Bones of Contention, 1992)
“The fascinating impressiveness of rigorous mathematical analyses, within its atmosphere of precision and elegance, should not blind us to the defects of the premises that condition the whole process. There is perhaps no beguilement more insidious and dangerous than an elaborate and elegant mathematical process built upon unfortified premises.”
--T.C. Chamberlain 1899
"It is no more heretical to say the Universe displays purpose, as Hoyle has done, than to say that it is pointless, as Steven Weinberg has done. Both statements are metaphysical and outside science. Yet it seems that scientists are permitted by their own colleagues to say metaphysical things about lack of purpose and not the reverse. This suggests to me that science, in allowing this metaphysical notion, sees itself as religion and presumably as an atheistic religion (if you can have such a thing)."
Shallis, M., In the eye of a storm, New Scientist, pp. 42–43, January 19, 1984.
1. relating to or concerned with metaphysics
2. (of a statement or theory) having the form of an empirical hypothesis, but in fact immune from empirical testing and therefore (in the view of the logical positivists) literally meaningless
3. (popularly) abstract, abstruse, or unduly theoretical
4. incorporeal; supernatural
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/metaphysical
"Whether the earth rotates once a day from West to East as Copernicus taught, or the heavens revolve once a day from East to West, as his predecessors believed, the observable phenomena will be exactly the same. That shows a defect in Newtonian dynamics, since an empirical science ought not to contain a metaphysical assumption which can never be proved or disproved by observation."
Bertrand Russell, D. W. Sciama, "The Unity of the Universe", 1961.
Why is Newtonian mystery G heliocentricity a metaphysical assumption? Because the amount of matter in a planet is not measurable. It doesn’t take a genius to figure it out. Heliocentricity – the bedrock of modern science – is literally meaningless, unduly theoretical and SUPERNATURAL! Ironically, those who rightly reject it are accused of being scientifically illiterate people who must be blinded by religious (SUPERNATURAL) beliefs.
People need to be aware that there is a range of models that could explain the observations,” Ellis argues. “For instance, I can construct you a spherically symmetrical universe with Earth at its center, and you cannot disprove it based on observations.” Ellis has published a paper on this. “You can only exclude it on philosophical grounds. In my view there is absolutely nothing wrong in that. What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that.”
George Ellis, Scientific American, "Thinking Globally, Acting Universally", October 1995.
Bertrand Russell & George Ellis are as establishment as they come. If you can’t read between the lines (still trying to reconcile your cherished ziontific theories), then good luck dear reader.
Jaron Lanier: "There’s a large group of people who simply are uncomfortable with accepting evolution because it leads to what they perceive as a moral vacuum, in which their best impulses have no basis in nature."
Richard Dawkins: "All I can say is, That’s just tough. We have to face up to the truth."
(‘Evolution: The dissent of Darwin,’ Psychology Today 30(1):62, Jan-Feb 1997.)
If you actually believe Dawkins, then luck will do you no good!
by hoi.polloi on Mon Jul 13, 2015 6:22 am
Well, I am not sure you have really drawn all your points together as cohesively as usual. Bringing the infamous (and mysteriously authored) "Protocols of Zion" into your arguments doesn't do a lot for your research. Is there anything more we can do about this text besides quote it?
On a related note, you might be giving too much credit to Bernays by acknowledging his belief that artificial propaganda is by necessity a requirement of government to replace normal superstition and folk wisdom. It isn't so much that he 'knows' what he thinks he knows, but he believes it or "believes" it — once again, as a more successful theme of your research track seems to indicate, the personal 'world view' or 'perspective' of his (and each individual with a belief) gives way to the experimental assumptions and/or bias that justify action. In his case, the action of manipulating crowds and groups (which he somewhat had a knack for, or at least for a time period and for a certain series of groups, as evidenced by modern beliefs and behaviors) is the presumed 'good' that his assumptions must sort of 'justify'. I hope that makes sense, but if it doesn't, I can try to word it another way.
Anyway, interesting compilation as usual. Thanks, ICfreely. It's inspiring vitriol and, at the very least, it makes me wonder just what our relationship to various source materials can be without constantly making our posts too 'meta'.
by ICfreely on Tue Jul 14, 2015 1:13 am
Did you know that, currently, the largest Jewish community in the Middle East, outside of Israel, is in the Aryan Nation (Iran)?
Did you know that the only non-Jew anointed a ‘messiah’ by Jewish people is the father of the Aryan people (Cyrus the Great)?
But we all know Iranians (Aryans) are radical Islamo-fascists committed to developing big flying magic mushroom bombs to wipe Israel off the map. They just haven’t gotten around to wiping out the Jews they hold in captivity (Strangely, Israel hasn’t demanded or offered payment for their release). And we all know Israelis have a large (not so) secret cache of said bombs pointed at everyone.
To make matters worse, scientists warn that an Indo-Pakistani 100 warhead magic mush-off will trigger a global holocaust, annihilating all life on planet earth. Add the goddess of a thousand faces (ISIS) and her global network of sleeper cells to the mix & you’ve got one enormous powder keg waiting to go off. You know, the Bible predicted all this, proving once and for all it’s the literal word of the all mighty himself. You better study your scriptures. Turn or burn you heathen!
It’s a chaotic situation to say the least. Obviously, in order to make progress, we must put our religious differences aside and address these global problems with the sound application of political science.
On top of all that we have to deal with ozone depletion, global warming, war on drugs, war on cancer (and hundreds of other ‘diseases’), war on hunger, war on poverty, war on war… We’ve got wars galore & more in store! I know all this ‘cause I watch VICE. They tell it like it is & shit’s fucked up bro! It’s produced by Bill Maher. He doesn’t fall for any of that religious nonsense. Wake up you stupid sheeple! I can’t stand ignorant morons. Join a cause, raise awareness, make a difference…be a part of something bigger than your petty little self!
My point is, we’re ALL being misled by false hope & fake fears on a multitude of levels. If I’ve learned one thing in life it’s not to hold people’s beliefs against them. It’s less of a giant conspiracy, and more of a mass hypocrisy! If you can get past the fear, hate and anger you see more clearly and become more compassionate. If you read the Protocols with the intention of ‘deciding for yourself’ whether it’s a ‘Jewish conspiracy’ or an ‘anti-Semitic forgery’ you will emerge dry from a sea of knowledge. I learned a lot about myself (and human nature in general) from it.
Science (should/is perceived to) be ‘…guided by practical use of unprejudiced historical observation.’
But it isn’t. Instead:
Science is ‘…guided…by theoretical routine without any critical regard for consequent results.’
I think that’s a profound statement! We're lost in religious theologies masked as scientific laws. The rest of the quotes speak for themselves. The main things I learned from the Protocols is if you think and act foolishly, you will be treated accordingly. You can’t expect to be ignorant & free. As long as there are believers there will be deceivers ready to mislead them. Instead of wondering who you should believe in, you should be honest with & believe in yourself!
It’s intellectually brilliant & completely devoid of emotional intelligence at the same time. People seem to think democracies spontaneously emerged from some magical Cambrian Explosion. They are, in fact, an intermediary step between monarchies and a one-world government. The Copernican Revolution paved the way for Democratic Revolutions.
Make of it what you will. The fact that Shakespeare never existed doesn’t make ‘his’ work any less compelling. Speaking of people who most likely never existed I'd like to nominate the ancient ‘father of modern science’:
Democritus - "chosen of the people"; c. 460 – c. 370 BC
Known as, “The Mocker” for “…laughing at human follies”
Democritus (fake person) – Democracy (fake freedom)
Metaphysical/Supernatural (un-scientific/un-testable) assumptions (cloaked as proven scientific theories and accepted as fundamental scientific truths) attributed to the Prophet of Modern Science:
Atomic & Void Hypotheses – Invisi-balls suspended in the deep dark lonely void of ‘space’ - The void within, the void without!
Aetiology (causality) – Every absurd assumption can appear to be proven by an equally absurd assumption.
Materialism – Everything is the result of natural laws therefore if we ASSUME UNIFORMITARIANISM (As below, so above), the supernatural (space/heaven) could be known through the study of the natural (Earth). Man no longer requires God’s approval to enter the pearly gates of space.
Evolution – Sky Father inseminated Mama Gaia’s primordial soup with his panspermia which was fertilized with, “thunder bolts of lightning & very, very frightening things!” Papa was rollin’ stone who apparently partook in several galactic gangbangs. He hasn’t been around for so long that he doesn’t even exist to us anymore. But we’re still looking for our, who knows how many, half siblings that must be out there…somewhere!
Heliocentricity – Sun God…
Big Bang – In the beginning, before space, time & matter existed, there were a bunch of tiny invisi-balls (how exactly, no one knows) that first collided (nuclear fusion) then exploded (nuclear fission). From that Chaotic beginning billions & billions of years ago Order eventually emerged (how exactly, no one knows).
Inductive reasoning is superior to ‘bastard’ sense perception - Planet of the Apes!
Mocker, Indeed!
by ICfreely on Fri Jul 17, 2015 5:08 pm
I, more or less, agree with your assessment of Bernays. I don't think I gave him undue credit. He was but one in a long line of countless manipulators. IMO, being Freud’s nephew and Goebbels’ mentor distinguishes him from his counterparts. With regards to the Protocols I’ll elaborate on another quote for now.
When we unyieldingly defend sentimental theorems dogmatism sets in and perfectly reasonable arguments get thrown out the window. Take evolution vs. creation for example. Seeing as both viewpoints are metaphysical neither one should be taught as a science. People who advocate creation being taught as a science in lieu of evolution fail to realize that it would be riddled with as many contradictions as evolution. I’m no ‘prayer hater’ but creationists have no right to push their faith based propositions onto others (especially in the name of science). The same goes for evolutionists whose beliefs are also faith based.
Seeing as 99% of people believe Earth is spherical, there’s no better way of discrediting someone than labeling them a ‘Flat Earther.’ It’s perfectly understandable that Simon is concerned with CluesForum even being associated with FE. Every contributor (myself included) has a vested interest in maintaining the prestige of CF for posterity. Too many well intentioned people have put their hearts into compiling the unmatched content of CF to see it fall apart. I’m also in full agreement with Simon that there is no shortage of clownish shills doing their best to associate themselves with CF, thereby dragging it down with them.
When this ‘spontaneous’ FE ‘movement’ began I noticed all the tell-tale signs of a psyop. However, I also became (and still am) curious as to when/how exactly it was determined/decided that the Earth is a sphere. My posts in the ‘Cold of space…’ thread basically posited the question, ‘How do we know the Earth is a sphere?’ That was my intent anyway. Based on the vibe of subsequent ‘infighting’ posts I decided to leave it alone. It was doing more harm than good. Furthermore, out of respect to Simon I will refrain from ‘going there.’
Steering clear of FE is one thing but trying to disprove it is another. I’ve read several ardent posts attempting/claiming to debunk FE when they have done no such thing. I've refrained from replying to them because doing so would most likely trigger more FE talk thereby associating CF with it (Catch-22). My references to Antarctica were (maybe not so) subtle attempts to send the message, “Either discuss it fairly, or leave it alone for the sake of preserving CF’s integrity.” I hope that makes sense.
My two preceding posts were (not so successful) attempts at provoking readers to question the fundamental bases of all their preferred theories. I suppose it was too ‘meta.’ I can only hope I got through to readers on some level.
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by hoi.polloi on Fri Jul 17, 2015 6:58 pm
Thank you for a very clear and reasonable response that adds to the topic. I appreciate it.
Also, I feel that CluesForum should be a place to be comfortably but intelligently "unknowing" and you've described that phenomenon (and the troubles it exhibits) well. While we'd like to discredit plain lies and balderdash as quickly as possible, we are constantly challenged to do so in a way that does not strengthen the lazy foolish side that empowered those lies in the first place. I think we are working here to get and keep a balance, when possible, between skepticism and pragmatism. We have disagreements about what is or is not foolish — what is or is not useful. And perhaps that is just the sort of discussions we should be having. And then some arguments come up just because of questions of organization. But now I am off topic, and sorry about that.
Anyway, good analysis. Thanks.
by simonshack on Fri Jul 17, 2015 10:46 pm
ICfreely wrote: People seem to think democracies spontaneously emerged from some magical Cambrian Explosion.
Priceless.
I'm sincerely enjoying your 'metaphysical rants' of late, IC...
"Mama Gaia's primordial soup" - lol - I bet they have that dish on the CERN canteen's menu !
simonshack
by ICfreely on Thu Jul 30, 2015 12:04 am
Forgive me father (of scientism), for I am about to sin. I shall take the name of Saint Einstein in vain.
The Manufacture and Sale of Saint Einstein – Christopher Jon Bjerknes
In 1919, Albert Einstein rose to international fame for predicting the gravitational field of the sun would deflect rays of light. Eclipse observations confirmed this prediction. Newspapers around the world covered the story and declared that Albert Einstein had surpassed the genius [ ] of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton. It seemed that all was right with the world – but then everything went tragically wrong.
The Famous Jewish philosopher Oskar Kraus of Prague was scheduled to deliver a lecture stating his objection to the special theory of relativity. The Czechoslovakian government refused Kraus a visa for “political reasons” thereby preventing his appearance at the meeting and actively obstructing a public expression of anti-relativism by a famous intellectual figure of Jewish descent. Kraus had known Einstein while Einstein had lived in Prague. Kraus believed that Einstein was nothing more than an amateurish Metaphysician. Einstein told Leopold Infeld, “I am really more of a philosopher than a physicist.” Einstein was a poor philosopher, as well. He argued on redundancies based on unproven assertions.
Kraus’ arguments against the metaphysical absurdities in relativity theory make a powerful impression on the lay public – One Einstein’s advocates were frantic to prevent. Einstein did not grasp the distinction between Metaphysics and science. He stated in 1930, “Science itself is Metaphysics.”
This maneuver enabled pro-Einstein newspapers and Max von Laue to:
5. Prevent Kraus’ dramatic public exposition of the fatal flaws in the theory of relativity, which could not be misconstrued as if “anti-Semitic” even by the shameless pro-Einstein press.
…all of this was done to change the subject to the irrelevant issue of anti-Semitism. Einstein and his friends were completely unethical. They inhibited the progress of science and took away fundamental human liberties.
http://www.ivantic.net/Ostale_knjiige/SaintEinstein.pdf
The puppet masters of the media and academia are (and have always been) partners in crime in the advancement of pseudoscience. It would be quite naïve to say Einstein, a learned elder of ziontism, did not grasp the distinction between metaphysics and science. The fraudfather of relativity knew exactly what he was doing (and was being done in his name). There are (and have been) many Jewish scholars like Oskar Kraus that have been silenced and/or labeled self-hating Jews for their scientific dissenting opinions. Non-Jewish dissenters, of course, are accused of being anti-Semites.
I’ve already covered the 1919 eclipse data hoax which deified Einstein. It’s important to note that every experiment confirming relativity since 1919 has also been a hoax. Not long ago NASA ‘confirmed’ relativity in ‘space.’
THE POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE - Ivor Catt
The Establishment has a dilemma. The parasite knowledge broker is in the science Establishment, not an accountant, because he wanted to push forward knowledge. But he must suppress knowledge in order to survive. He must not admit to himself, and even more to his wife, that he is a barrier to progress; that in order to survive, and keep paying their mortgage, he has to block advance in his field. That is where he is vulnerable. He fights an increasingly desperate rearguard against new knowledge, because of this freezing of the body of knowledge. The date I give for the freezing of the body of knowledge is 1927, at the Brussels - Solvay Conference, which mirrors the Council of Nicaea for Christianity.
If you pay professionals to maintain a body of knowledge, it will finally disintegrate. But more importantly, a professional paid specifically to advance a body of knowledge, will freeze it.
Louis Essen, elected FRS for developing the Caesium Clock, wrote to Nature that the alleged confirmation of Relativity by the gentlemen who took Caesium Clocks round the world by airplane was bogus because the caesium clock did not have the claimed accuracy. Nature refused to publish, preferring the PC 'confirmation' of relativity to stand. Essen told me that Dingle queered the pitch by making a mistake. Essen also told me that the Inst. Phys. broke its contract with him to publish an article even after he had checked the galleys. The Inst. Phys. also broke its contract with me to publish my article which later appeared in Wireless World in March 1979. The Inst. Phys. is riddled with unscientific PC - mania.
The blocking of new information by all our institutions means the end of civilization. It is of the utmost importance that the facts of the situation be established soon, and if the crisis is as severe as I believe, that remedial action be taken. All that is required is that, should a knowledge broker be proved to have blocked new knowledge, he be held accountable, something which does not occur today. This accountability will be through his pocket by way of dismissal.
http://www.electromagnetism.demon.co.uk/w4rlectu.htm
With respect to Ivor Catt, I’m afraid he’s being very shortsighted. The ‘freezing of the body of knowledge’ transpired centuries before the Solvay Conference. Therefore, the crisis is far more severe than he believes it to be. Moreover, peer-reviewed journals deceive scientists in the same manner the media deceives the lay public. I’m not holding my breath for rags like Nature to remedy the pseudo sciences they gatekeep for in the first place.
Make no mistake dear reader, our current scientific paradigm (The Copernican Devolution) will eventually collapse. As to when and how severe it will be is anyone’s guess. Those who take the, “I’m no scientist & can’t possibly decipher complex scientific theories” stance thereby ignoring it altogether, will suffer the most severe consequences.
Science, Stem Cells, and Fraud - David S. Oderberg
A central fact concerns the standing and reputation of scientists in our contemporary, post-religious era. Like it or not, the figure of the priest in clerical garb has been replaced in the public imagination by the white-coated scientist. Figures Lord Robert Winston and Professor Richard Dawkins appear on our television screens, pontificating (I use that word advisedly) on anything from religion to politics to anthropology to biology to public policy. Whether they are actually qualified to do so or not, they are more than happy to dispense their wisdom to the masses on whatever takes their fancy; and when it comes to their pronouncements on the scientific issues of the day, their word is received almost as Holy Writ.
Moreover, the media itself, already complicit in the secular deification of individual scientists, are always ready to report the latest findings from the lab, whether or not they have already been published or even peer reviewed. Once the work is in print, though, it has received the secular imprimatur and is recorded as eternal truth. The BBC regularly reports the headline news from the medical journal The Lancet much as preachers of old captured public attention for their Sunday sermons. By generating false or unwarranted hopes that the latest cure for cancer is just around the corner, or that the final truth about the origin of the universe has been uncovered, or that the secret of life is a mystery no more, the media deliberately and recklessly give science and scientists a reputation as the ultimate repository of truth which far outstrips anything the profession is capable of achieving.
http://www.intellectum.org/articles/topics/Scientific%20fraud%20and%20Stem%20Cells%20(David%20Oderberg).pdf
Our current health-scare system is killing more people than any wars ever have. Doctors are as (if not more) brainwashed as the lay public. They’re unwittingly (for the most part) carrying out the ‘soft kill’ agenda of TpTB.
Jumping back to the ziontific aspect of modern science (I apologize in advance if I’m getting too ‘meta’ again):
The Culture of Critique – Kevin Macdonald
In other words, the issues of the ethnic identification and even ethnic activism on the part of people like Einstein are entirely separate from the issue of whether such people viewed the content of the theories themselves as furthering ethnic interests, and, in the case of Einstein, there is no evidence that he did so. The same cannot be said for Freud, the New York Intellectuals, the Boasians, and the Frankfurt School, in which “scientific” theories were fashioned and deployed to advance ethnic group interests. This ideological purpose becomes clear when the unscientific nature of these movements is understood. Much of the discussion in CofC documented the intellectual dishonesty, the lack of empirical rigor, the obvious political and ethnic motivation, the expulsion of dissenters, the collusion among co-ethnics to dominate intellectual discourse, and the general lack of scientific spirit that pervaded them. In my view, the scientific weakness of these movements is evidence of their group-strategic function.
http://www.angelfire.com/rebellion2/goyim/je1.pdf
Again, Einstein knew exactly what he was doing. As for the ‘group-strategic function’ consider the following excerpt from israelvisit.il:
PURIM-- A MODEL OF ACTIVIST CO-ED SALVATION
Purim is the day, and Esther the book, when all is unpredictable, constantly turned upside down; the Jews have it great, as the book unfolds, are soon sunk in severe crisis, and emerge in much better shape at its (temporary?) climax. Purim's message becomes more and more relevant, as our world becomes more and more a topsy-turvey roller coaster. What we assume and take for granted, even for centuries, in so many realms, suddenly seems quite questionable, even wrong, as modern knowledge and thought develop. A little later down the road, the new premises themselves may be questioned; old truths, values and practices may even be rehabilitated. Even our basic image of the universe has a flipside, a completely different way of looking at reality.
ARE YOU STANDING STILL?: What's Let's start our Purim banquet with an hors d'oeuvre-- a wild diversion, taken from a respectable chassidic journal of science and mysticism. Pour epater le bourgeois-- truth often isn't "balabatish", isn't even "common sense"; the sun does not revolve about the earth, tho it appears to do so.
When the cosmographer Rabbi David Gans showed to Tycho Brahe the account in tractate Pesachim of how the sages of Jerusalem yielded to the scholars of Alexandria as to whether the galgalim move and the mazalot are stationary, or v.v., he exclaimed: "Those sages were wrong to submit to the Greeks..." (Nechmad V'Nayim 25). All research confirms the Biblical-Tychonic schema, with the planets of the solar system (except the Earth, which is not a "planet", the word meaning a "wanderer") in epicyclic retinue about the sun, and this coherent unit, plus the whole steller array-- space, and everything in it-- orbiting the Earth and subordinate to it (see Maharal's Be'er HaGola 6)... The authority of Scripture and our sages support the geocentric paradigm (e.g. Rambam's M.T., Y.H. 3; YF: but we don't learn science from Torah, per Rambam & Co.)...
Marx and Darwin openly acknowledged their gratitude to Copernicus, w/o whom their obnoxious theories would never have gotten off the ground to hijack human minds. Historians have shown that many social woes today are directly attributable to the rise of Copernican heliocentrism and relativistic acentrism: i.e., Biblical criticism, evolution (!!-- Rav Kook approved), Nietszche, Freudian psychology (!-- Rav J. Soloveichik appreciated Freud's genius), communism, moral relativism, Nazism, atheism, existentialism, humanism (!!!-- cf. The Mussar Movement), hedonism, anarchism and despair. No wonder Ma'aseh Tuviya referred to Nicholas Copernicus as the `first born of Satan'.
http://israelvisit.co.il/top/Purim.shtml
Make of it what you will! Incidentally, the Purim narrative (Book of Esther) took place in the Aryan Nation (Iran) and is the only section of the Bible which doesn’t reference God.
The Doors of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything – Tim O’Shea
Aldous Huxley’s inspired 1954 essay detailed the vivid, mind-expanding, multisensory insights of his mescaline adventures. By altering his brain chemistry with natural psychotropics, Huxley tapped into a rich and fluid world of shimmering, indescribable beauty and power. With his neurosensory input thus triggered, Huxley was able to enter that parallel universe described by every mystic and space captain in recorded history. Whether by hallucination or epiphany, Huxley sought to remove all bonds, all controls, all filters, all cultural conditioning from his perceptions and to confront Nature or the World or Reality first-hand – in its unpasteurized, unedited, unretouched infinite rawness. Those bonds are much harder to break today, half a century later. We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated. It is an exhausting and endless task to keep explaining to people how most issues of conventional wisdom are scientifically implanted in the public consciousness by a thousand media clips per day. In an effort to save time, I would like to provide just a little background on the handling of information in this country. Once the basic principles are illustrated about how our current system of media control arose historically, the reader might be more apt to question any given story in today’s news.
If everybody believes something, it’s probably wrong.
As we’ve seen above, just because we read something or see something on TV doesn’t mean it’s true or worth knowing. So the idea here is, like the tea, perhaps the mind is also worth guarding, worth limiting access to it. This is the only life we get. Time is our total capital. Why waste it allowing our potential, our scope of awareness, our personality, our values to be shaped, crafted, and boxed up according to the whims of the mass panderers? There are many important issues that are crucial to our physical, mental, and spiritual well-being which require time and study. If it’s an issue where money is involved, objective data won’t be so easy to obtain. Remember, if everybody knows something, that image has been bought and paid for. Real knowledge takes a little effort, a little excavation down at least one level below what “everybody knows.”
http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/doors/doors-of-perception/#sthash.jqr0crMm.dpuf
I seriously doubt that Hoaxley intended to open the doors of perception. IMO, he opened the doors of deception. Consequentially, we are the most conditioned/programmed beings in history due to mainstream media/academia’s relentless promulgation of Einstein and Hoaxley’s (and their ilk’s) ideologies. IMO, questioning what ‘everybody knows’ (and what we think we know) is the first and most crucial step in freeing ourselves from the hypnotic grasp of the ‘master magicians.’
by ICfreely on Tue Aug 11, 2015 5:42 pm
Worshipping in the Church of Einstein - George Johnson
On the eve of a monumental experiment to test a surprising prediction of his theory of General Relativity -- that light has mass and can be bent by the gravity of the sun -- Einstein irreverently declared: "If it is not proven, I pity the Good Lord, for the theory is correct."
-The pompous pontiff of metaphysics felt free to speak with reckless abandon because he knew the Church of Scientocracy (Royal Society of London) had already decided to (wink, wink)‘prove’ his acentric relativity.
"I am a deeply religious nonbeliever," he wrote to a friend, adding, "This is a somewhat new kind of religion."
-No shit?
If the Church of Einstein can be said to have a dogma, it would go something like this: that the universe is comprehensible, that it can be explained with precise mathematical laws (the simpler the better), that the laws prevailing in the vicinity of earth are the same throughout the cosmos [As below, so above!]-- or, if they vary, that they do so because of some other law.
-So long as you have the blind faith of the awe-struck flock you can fake it up ad libitum!
None of that can be proven. It is possible that everything our senses tells us about the world is an illusion, that the reason and logic in which we pride ourselves is as meaningless and arbitrary as the rules of a video game, that the true grand unified theory was conveyed to the authors of the Bible . . . or the Koran, or the Rigveda, or the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
-Our senses aren’t the problem. Our sense-perception, which has been distorted by the illusions of the master magicians, is the problem. Once we realize we have the free will to think for ourselves instead of letting pseudoscientific celebrities do our thinking for us, we can render them powerless & truly appreciate what it means to be free. The only power the pathetic pTB have is the power we willingly give them.
Some scientists soften the blow by invoking the anthropic principle: If the universe hadn't turned out this way, then we wouldn't be here to theorize about it. Blessed be the Holy Tautology.
http://talaya.net/fischbeck.pdf
How to Falsify Einstein's Physics, For Dummies - Louis Savain
Bringing Down Einstein's Castle in the Air
Einstein once wrote to a friend, "I consider it quite possible that physics cannot be based on the field concept, i.e., on continuous structures. In that case, nothing remains of my entire castle in the air, gravitation theory included, [and of] the rest of modern physics." (From: "Subtle is the Lord" by Abraham Pais.)
-There you have it dear reader. If that admission, straight from the Trojan horse’s mouth, doesn’t compel you to question modern asstrofizzix, then I don’t know what will.
One of the requirements of Einstein's physics is the existence of a time dimension. The only problem with that is that a time dimension makes motion impossible. This is something I have written about many times but it bears repeating over and over because it invariably takes Einstein's defenders by surprise. I like this argument, not because it is enough to convince them of the stupidity of Einstein's physics but because it is fun to watch the ass kissers morph into babbling fools, foaming at the mouth and jumping up and down. (See Nothing Can Move in Spacetime)
-Some of the ass kissers, over the years, have periodically dropped turds in this forum – pathetically trying to shout down genuine dissenters. When confronted with ‘inconvenient questions’ (i.e. Hoi Polloi vs. Astronut) they huff n’ puff and finally take their toys & go home.
What Will It Take to Destroy Einstein's Physics?
Don't count on physicists to clean up their act. It's not going to happen. The scientific community is like an incestuous gang; they view the rest of the world as their prey and enemy. They take the public's money while, at the same time, forbidding the public the right of oversight on their business. Somehow, they've managed to convince the public that they are too stupid to understand science. Their arrogance and pompous condescension are legendary.
-There’s no hope for some of these poor souls. They’ll never be able to wash off the dark matter for their heads are too deeply buried in black holes.
Only the lay public can bring enough pressure on the powers that be to bring an end to a century of stupidity and what amounts to a wild goose chase. I think it is time that the public reverses the table on them and show that scientists can be just as stupid as everyone else. In fact, their stupidity is all the more glaring since they pride themselves on being smarter than everyone else. Paul Feyerabend was right when he wrote in Against Method, "the most stupid procedures and the most laughable result in their domain are surrounded with an aura of excellence. It is time to cut them down to size and to give them a lower position in society."
http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-falsify-einsteins-physics-for.html
Why Einstein Will Never Be Wrong - Brian Koberlein
One of the benefits of being an astrophysicist is your weekly email from someone who claims to have “proven Einstein wrong”. These either contain no mathematical equations and use phrases such as “it is obvious that..”, or they are page after page of complex equations with dozens of scientific terms used in non-traditional ways. They all get deleted pretty quickly, not because astrophysicists are too indoctrinated in established theories, but because none of them acknowledge how theories get replaced.
-In other words, Einstein’s theory of every-absurd-thing can only be disproven by another charlatan’s new and more convincing (confusing) theory of every-absurd-thing. He can’t be swayed by ‘no mathematical equations’ or ‘page after page of complex equations’ arguments but, rest assured, Bri-guy isn’t indoctrinated. No siree Bob!
In some cases even when an old theory is supplanted we continue to use it. Such an example can be seen in Newton’s law of gravity. When Newton proposed his theory of universal gravity in the 1600s, he described gravity as a force of attraction between all masses. This allowed for the correct prediction of the motion of the planets, the discovery of Neptune, the basic relation between a star’s mass and its temperature, and on and on. Newtonian gravity was and is a robust scientific theory.
-Ok Kobester, if you say so. We mere mortals aren’t equipped with Newtonian ‘thought scales’ capable of measuring the mass of stars and planets (wandering stars). How dare we question Isaac the Great?
Then in the early 1900s Einstein proposed a different model known as general relativity. The basic premise of this theory is that gravity is due to the curvature of space and time by masses. Even though Einstein’s gravity model is radically different from Newton’s, the mathematics of the theory shows that Newton’s equations are approximate solutions to Einstein’s equations. Everything Newton’s gravity predicts, Einstein’s does as well. But Einstein also allows us to correctly model black holes, the big bang, the precession of Mercury’s orbit, time dilation, and more, all of which have been experimentally validated.
-They’ve all been ‘experimentally validated’ by prestigious peer-reviewed journals – The zionce is settled! Riddle me this, Batman! How can the big bong, which purportedly occurred 15 billion years ago, be experimentally validated? Does NASA have access to some sort of Doc Brownian flux capacitor technology we’re not privy to?
So Einstein trumps Newton. But Einstein’s theory is much more difficult to work with than Newton’s, so often we just use Newton’s equations to calculate things. For example, the motion of satellites, or exoplanets. If we don’t need the precision of Einstein’s theory, we simply use Newton to get an answer that is “good enough.” We may have proven Newton’s theory “wrong”, but the theory is still as useful and accurate as it ever was.
-Oh, I see. Newton’s equations are validated by the motion of satellites and ‘exoplanets.’ I stand corrected.
To begin with, Einstein’s gravity will never be proven wrong by a theory. It will be proven wrong by experimental evidence showing that the predictions of general relativity don’t work. Einstein’s theory didn’t supplant Newton’s until we had experimental evidence that agreed with Einstein and didn’t agree with Newton. So unless you have experimental evidence that clearly contradicts general relativity, claims of “disproving Einstein” will fall on deaf ears.
-As far as BK is concerned, Saint Einstein will never be proven wrong by a theory – NEVER! But don’t you dare accuse him of being indoctrinated.
The other way to trump Einstein would be to develop a theory that clearly shows how Einstein’s theory is an approximation of your new theory, or how the experimental tests general relativity has passed are also passed by your theory. Ideally, your new theory will also make new predictions that can be tested in a reasonable way. If you can do that, and can present your ideas clearly, you will be listened to. String theory and entropic gravity are examples of models that try to do just that.
-So if you propose a theory that builds on Newton & Einstein’s ci cago piles of theories (as deAss Tyson and Hawking have done), then you will be listened to.
But even if someone succeeds in creating a theory better than Einstein’s (and someone almost certainly will), Einstein’s theory will still be as valid as it ever was. Einstein won’t have been proven wrong, we’ll simply understand the limits of his theory.
http://www.universetoday.com/108044/why-einstein-will-never-be-wrong/
I doubt BK will be swayed by the following article (or any argument for that matter):
Challenging Einstein - Einstein the Hoaxer – John Lear
Einstein was a brilliant mathematical hoaxer. While other hoaxers use simple tricks and tools with a common objective, usually money, Einstein used advanced mathematics to perpetrate his hoax and it is unknown what his true objective was.
His hoax was so complex that the only people who suspected it was a hoax were ignored as terms like "special relativity", "curved space", "simultaneity", time dilation and length contraction exploded in popularity.
The ingenious key to the hoax was two-fold: its complexity and audacity.
Jean Francois Chazy (noted French mathematician);
(Translation) "In all fairness, at the present status of science, the value of the advance of Mercury's perihelion as an argument for the theory of Relativity does not, could not have the definitive character that some people believe it to have."
Pari [Spolter] further remarks that Einstein's general theory of relativity does not explain:
• (1) the rotation of the celestial bodies
• (2) the orientation of the axis of rotation of the planets
• (3) the orbital planes of all the planets approximately on the solar equatorial plane (±12?)
• (4) the inclination of the plane of the orbit of each planet
• (5) the direction of movement of the planets (counterclockwise) as viewed from north)
• (6) the distance law (Titius-Bode)
• (7) the eccentricities
• (8) the regression of the nodes
• (9) the precision of the equinoxes
• (10) the perturbations
Louis Essen cautions;
"The continued acceptance and teaching of relativity hinders the development of a rational extension of electromagnetic theory"
He is concerned that;
"students are told that the theory must be accepted although they cannot expect to understand it. They are encouraged right at the beginning of their careers to forsake science in favor of dogma."
In a series of articles, A.A.Logunov and co-workers have made several important remarks. They point out that in general relativity the energy of a system and, therefore, its inertial mass does not have any physical meaning, since it depends on the arbitrary choice of the coordinate systems. Therefore, the assertion of equality of the "inertial" and "gravitational" masses in Einstein's theory is devoid of all physical meaning.
Moreover, the arbitrariness of the coordinate transformations in general relativity makes it incapable of giving unique predictions for gravitational effects (bending of light, perihelion rotation, red shift and time-delay experiments.) They conclude that the absence in the general theory of relativity of conservation laws for energy, momentum, and angular momentum of the matter and gravitational field taken together, and also its inability to give unique predictions for gravitational phenomena, make it necessary to abandon the theory of relativity as a physical theory.
In addressing Einstein's unified field theories Pari quotes a number of scientists, beginning with a statement by Einstein himself and Rosen made in 1935;
"In spite of its great success in various fields, the present theoretical physics is still far from being able to provide a unified foundation on which the theoretical treatment of all phenomena could be based. We have a general relativistic theory of macroscopic phenomena, which however has hitherto been unable to account for atomic structure of matter and for quantum effects, and we have a quantum theory, which is able to account satisfactorily for a large number of atomic and quantum phenomena but which by its very nature is unsuited to the principle of relativity."
Lincoln Barnett in his book, "The Universe and Dr.Einstein, quotes Einstein;
"The idea that there are two structures of space independent of each other, the metric-gravitational and the electromagnetic, is intolerable to the theoretical spirit."
Dewey Larson comments;
"Most scientists accept the General Theory of Relativity but no one uses it except as a mental and mathematical exercise; indeed it is doubtful if anyone knows how to use it in anything other than an artificially simplified situation."
George Gamow likens the Einstein field equations of the general theory of relativity to the Taj Mahal;
"a structure standing out there in majestic isolation, without any connection to the rest of Physics".
My opinion is that General Relativity, 'the spacetime continuum' was a deliberate scientific and mathematical hoax perpetrated on the scientific community for reasons that are unknown at this time. This scientific and mathematical hoax is still firmly in place with current scientific experiments continually being weighted in favor of, and data contrary to, being discarded in favor of the theory.
http://www.thelivingmoon.com/47john_lear/02files/Einstein_the_Hoaxer_Rev_10.htm
In closing, I’d like to reassert math isn’t the be-all and end-all. Numbers, like letters, are useful communication tools. Both have helped advance our understanding of the world. However, they both have limits. If you believe everything can be explained by precise mathematical equations and ‘laws,’ consider the following statement from Sgt. Pepper:
Black Magic is Not a Myth - Aleister Crowley
In theory there is no limit to the power of magic. A magician is like a mathematician; he has complete control of the symbols as long as he keeps to the rules.
http://hermetic.com/crowley/articles/black-magic-is-not-a-myth.html
by ProperGander on Sat Sep 05, 2015 12:37 pm
Einstein's thought experiments are contradictory and flawed. His work is not sourced and most of it is what we would now call "copied and pasted" from other sources.
The Principle of Relativity train car thought experiment and Einstein's 1905 claim that no optical experiment can detect Earth's motion is contradicted by his General Relativity thought experiments and claims.
In the original incarnation of Einstein's version of Relativity the Michelson Morley experiment, although unmentioned, is clearly referenced and the famous 'null' result embraced.
Einstein states that one cannot optically detect one's motion based on the path of a beam of light, despite the recognition that light propagates at a constant velocity independent of the motion of its source. The observer moving with the train car cannot see a fringe shift when conducting a Michelson Morley interferometer type experiment. Its the motionless observer, when viewing the train car in motion, who notices the beam of light is contradicting the postulate that light propagates at a constant velocity independent of the motion of its source. Here the motionless observer sees the light beam travel with the train car like a sound wave would travel with the atmosphere in the moving train car. Yet Einstein denies light such a medium. Einstein denies an Aether that moves with the Earth. He also denies a motionless Earth and the need for any kind of Ether. (Yet by 1920, Einstein is claiming the importance of the Ether to General Relativity.)
Yet in his latter General Relativity theory thought experiments, Einstein makes use of an optical experiment to measure motion.The observer inside a genie pulled chest in an imagined Zero G environment is equivalent to being at rest on the surface of the Earth. In both cases the beam of light does not look straight. It 'bends' or arcs down. The observer moving with the "train car" can now see a fringe shift when conducting a Michelson Morley interferometer type experiment. The moving observer now can tell they are moving, or at rest on Earth's surface. We can distinguish this pair of possibilities from the other pair: the chest at rest in Zero G and the chest in free fall in Earth's gravity field.
In the case of the gravitational field and the accelerated chest, we have the bent light beam. The genie pulled chest will continue to accelerate, and we will notice we are not standing on the surface of the Earth as the G-Force will continue to increase. The beam in the accelerated chest would be expected to continue to bend down further as we continue to accelerate to greater and greater velocity.
In the case of the Zero-G chest at rest and the chest in free fall in Earth's gradational field, we are floating. Yet if we are in free fall we will know it as we simply have to wait and we will strike the Earth's surface. Einstein claims the light beams will appear straight to the observer in free fall and in Zero G. Yet in the case of free fall, Einstein contradicts what he established with the genie accelerated chest and although the free falling chest is accelerating towards the Earth's surface, it will not show a directional lag and the beam will act like it did under Special Relativity.
Einstein's thought experiments are also flawed because he disregards the conservation of energy, G-Force, time and having to actually engineer a real experiment. For example, Einstein imagines a Zero-G environment removed from the gravitational effects of the rest of the Universe. This is fantasy.
*please note that when in motion, the light path is no longer a straight line. The path becomes part of a triangle. The Lorentz contraction cannot scale this triangle into a straight line. Time dilation does not explain away this effect.
This effect shows either a medium that moves with the laboratory (the Earth), or a ballistic emission theory of light where the motion of the source does add momentum to the light ray.
General Relativty
ProperGander
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by Rudy Algera on Wed Oct 14, 2015 8:15 am
I liked this statement in an article I came across somewhere:
Quote: "Mesmerized by News channels and distracted by status quo-supporting Hollywood paradigm, Corporate Citizenry firmly believes itself to be free and safe, while shamelessly parroting events and statements it was indoctrinated to, proudly saluting its flag, listening to and thanking the Stooge-in-Chief."
From: http://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/10/09/the-stooge-and-the-statesman/
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M: The Classic Intelligent Composing and Performing System
Classic generative composition software originally published by Intelligent Music in 1987.
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M 2.8 is a Mac OS X version of a program first published by Intelligent Music in 1987. In the 1980s, M ran on four different computer platforms (Mac, Windows, Atari, and Amiga), and had many fans all over the world.
M was quite different from any other music software when it first appeared, but many musicians and composers were attracted to its powerful implementation of the idea of interactive composition, where you shape the music as you hear it unfold. M 2.8 features compatibility with OS X Core MIDI so you can use it to power the software synthesizers that sound great but are always in need of better material.
Interactive Composition
Composing music with M is radically different from writing music on paper or recording into a tape recorder or MIDI sequencer.
Instead of merely playing back what you've already composed, M becomes a part of the actual process of composition. You enter your basic musical ideas and materials as melodies, chords, and rhythms, and then work with M to transform those ideas into finished compositions.
M's powerful tools and musical controls let you work so quickly and interactively that the line between composing and performing becomes blurred. You're composing and performing at the same time, and with a vast array of controls. You can control your music by clicking and dragging the mouse on the computer screen, by "conducting" in a Conducting Grid, by pressing keys on your computer keyboard, or by playing specific notes on your MIDI keyboard.
When working with M, you hear the musical results of everything you do while you're doing it, so you can try new things and explore musical ideas without the computer getting in your way.
The M User Interface: Main Screen
M's main screen is designed to be a musical control panel that lets you do many things simultaneously while giving you a visual overview of all of the program's operations.
There are six windows in the main screen. Each window contains a particular grouping of controls, and the controls in all of the windows are interrelated as different parts of the same musical process. All of M's main screen windows are always active so that you can use any control whenever you like.
The Patterns Window contains four rows of controls for creating and managing Patterns. A Pattern, in M, is a collection of notes that can be transformed in a variety of ways. The Patterns Window also contains some controls for managing Voices. A Voice in M is a "path" through the program that begins with a Pattern.
The Conducting Window (Untitled in the picture above) contains controls that allow you to affect the operations of the whole program. You can change certain aspects of the program's operation in the Conducting Grid; you can start and stop the music, change the tempo, and do lots of other things that we'll describe later in this manual.
The Variables Window contains controls that allow you to transform M's Voices. A Variable in M is a category of transformation. In the Variables Window, you can change note ordering, transposition, texture, and density; you can introduce rhythmic "feel"; and you can set MIDI velocity ranges. You can also choose between different groups of Patterns that you've created.
The Cyclic Variables Window contains controls that allow you to establish cyclic variation for note durations, legato-staccato articulations, and accents.
The Midi Window contains controls that allow you to direct your Voices' outputs to different MIDI channels and to send program (patch) change numbers to your synthesizers.
The Snapshot Window (with the Camera icon) contains controls that allow you to store and recall groups of other screen controls. You can also record and play back sequences of Snapshots, which we call Slideshows.
The M Edit Windows
Each of the Variable Positions is associated with an Edit Window. In the Edit Windows, you determine what the contents of the Variable Positions are.
The Edit Windows are accessed either through menu commands or by double-clicking on a Variable Position. One example of an Edit Window, although there are many different Edit Windows in M, is the Transposition Edit Window, in which you can set a transposition independently for each of the Voices.
Two of the more powerful Edit Windows are the Pattern Editor and the Cyclic Editor. The Pattern Editor is a quick and effective interface for entering patterns either with the mouse or using a MIDI keyboard. M lets you have six sets of patterns for each of its four voices.
The Cyclic Editor lets you enter accent, legato, and duration cycles. Cycles include the ability to set a random range of values at a step so that rhythms and accent patterns continually vary within limits you specify.
M features an Input Control System that assigns MIDI notes to specific functions that control the program. You can step through the notes of a voice combining the expressive nuances of your playing with M's note generating algorithm. Or change the setting of an M variable, transpose one or more voices, conduct the tempo, and of course, stop and start the music, all from the comfort of your MIDI controller. Other live performance features include:
Mouse Advance, where rapid mouse movement controls the performance of a voice.
Continuous Conducting, allowing you to use a continuous controller to conduct variable positions.
Drum machine recording, where a pattern can be endlessly modified and edited from a MIDI controller while the music is playing.
An Echo Map allowing you to reassign what you play on a MIDI keyboard to one or more output channels.
Using M with a MIDI Sequencer
M can help you come up with new material that you later import into your favorite sequencer. Once you have something you like in M, you can turn on the "Movie" feature and perform onscreen or with MIDI, capturing all the notes you play to a standard MIDI file. M was one of the first programs to support standard MIDI files in the 1980s. It also can import MIDI files and transform them in unusual ways.
Core MIDI Support in M 2.8
Each of M 2.8's 16 "channels" may be assigned to any Core MIDI device and MIDI channel. You get two "virtual" devices that can be used for sending MIDI to other applications. You set all of this up using the Midi Assignment window shown below. In the example, you can see that M channel 1 is actually assigned to SynthTest (a free OS X synthesister that hosts Audio Unit synths, such as Pluggo) on MIDI channel 6. Similarly, the 16 M input channels can be assigned to any Core MIDI input device (software application, MIDI keyboard or controller) and either a specific MIDI channel or all channels from that device.
With M's ability to act as a virtual source of MIDI for other applications, you can easily use M to control other software such as Ableton Live.
Or use other software to control M, to take advantage of its Input Control System that maps MIDI notes to performance gestures such as muting voices, changing presets, and assigning variables.
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Iran nuclear ring probed
Pat McMahon Contributor
April 03, 2010 9:45 AM ET
An Iranian firm closely linked to Tehran’s nuclear program acquired special hardware for enriching uranium, despite sanctions intended to keep such equipment out of Iran, according to officials with knowledge of the matter.
In recent weeks, the officials said, an Iranian procurement firm obtained critical valves and vacuum gauges made by a French company that until December was owned by U.S. industrial conglomerate Tyco International. The French and U.S. firms said they knew nothing of the case.
Western authorities are still struggling to understand precisely how the valves and gauges in question reached Iran. The International Atomic Energy Agency is investigating the matter, according to a Vienna-based diplomat, and Western intelligence agencies also are investigating, The Wall Street Journal has learned.
A Jan. 14 email that triggered the IAEA investigation alleged that the valves moved through an intermediary representing a Chinese company based near Shanghai.
Full story: Iran Nuclear Ring Probed – WSJ.com
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Feature:Opinion
Do Democrats hate fireworks?
Miles Taylor Co-Founder, Partisans.org
Americans love explosions — and no explosion is more exciting than the one you’ve made yourself.
This July 4th, millions of people across the country will shell out cash at makeshift stores and roadside stands to purchase their own fireworks. And why not? Fireworks have been used to celebrate freedom since the very first anniversary of America’s independence.
But the billion-dollar industry is not welcome in many places, and based on a review of state laws, it appears Democrats are less likely to have fun this year than Republicans.
In fact, left-leaning states are almost twice as likely as right-leaning states to have strict firework regulations.
How strict? Of the states that voted Democrat in the past four presidential elections, nearly half do not allow the use of consumer fireworks — or allow only “novelty” items.
By comparison, only 4 percent of Republican-leaning states have such restrictive laws. The rest, a whopping 96 percent, allow the use of “all” or “some” consumer fireworks. Some right-leaning states like Utah have even loosened their already open laws to make this year’s July 4th celebrations all the more dazzling.
So why the disparity? Do Democrats hate fireworks?
The answer might have something to do with population density. The 10 densest states all lean Democratic. In rural states, what people do in their backyards — or 20-acre fields — is of less concern than in densely populated states like Rhode Island, where a box of Roman candles is far more likely to wake up the neighbors.
Or the answer might be more philosophical in nature. Republicans frown on government intervention and regularly espouse personal responsibility and individual freedom. Why should the nanny state steal my firecrackers if I use them safely?
Democrats, on the other hand, are more inclined to use the long arm of government to put an end to social “harms.” Seeing the dangers of fireworks — from tragic accidents to intentional mischief — Democrats might be more amenable to regulating their use. Why should innocents have to suffer at the hands of pyromaniacs?
But perhaps the best argument is the simplest one: Republicans self-report expressing their patriotism more than Democrats, and with July 4th serving as the most patriotic day of the year, it is no wonder that Republican states don’t want to dampen the mood.
This may sound like lightweight partisanship, but a recent Harvard University study confirms as much.
The study not only cites surveys affirming that “Republicans consider themselves more patriotic than Democrats” but also concludes that July 4th celebrations resonate more powerfully with Republicans. The authors also conclude that Independence Day festivities increase GOP voter turnout and influence young people to become Republicans.
The latter conclusion has garnered the most attention, with the authors finding that for each Fourth of July that wasn’t rained out, a child was more likely to become a Republican later in life.
This might explain why red states have fewer restrictions on fireworks. If Republicans have a more intimate connection to Independence Day celebrations, then you’d expect them to protect the most popular means of celebration.
Patriotic liberals will be loathe to accept this argument as an explanation for why Democratic-leaning states don’t like fireworks, but it’s tough to ignore the evidence.
Whatever the answer, one point is clear: Americans in Republican states will be painting the night sky red, white and blue this July 4th — while many of their Democratic counterparts will be lucky to twirl a sparkler.
Miles Taylor works at House Committee on Appropriations and is the co-founder of Partisans.org. He served as a White House appointee during the George W. Bush Administration at the Department of Homeland Security. His writings have appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The World Politics Review, and Arms Control Today and have also been published by the Legatum Institute.
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Items Scene from Serena's room for the stage production Porgy and Bess.
Scene from Serena's room for the stage production Porgy and Bess.
Billy Rose Theatre Division
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Disney’s Hollywood Studios to Debut New Star Wars Experiences in December
by Thomas Smith, Editorial Content Director, Disney Parks
You heard about it first during the 2015 D23 EXPO, and now we’re excited to share more details. Very soon, guests visiting Disney’s Hollywood Studios will have the opportunity to experience Star Wars in the park in an all-new way – every day! New experiences will open starting Dec. 1, bringing that galaxy far, far away, a little bit closer.
Star Wars Launch Bay will take guests into the Star Wars saga and the upcoming film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with special exhibits and peeks behind-the-scenes, special merchandise and opportunities to encounter Chewbacca and Darth Vader.
Star Tours – The Adventures Continue will be home to a brand new adventure inspired by the upcoming film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. During the opening months, we’ll make sure that everyone who rides Star Tours will experience the new adventure. After that, it will be up to the will of the Force. Here’s a sneak peek of where the Starspeeder 1000 will be taking us.
We also have new information about “Star Wars: Path of the Jedi.” It will feature scenes from the complete Star Wars saga, also giving anyone new to the Star Wars galaxy an opportunity to get acquainted with the films.
Last, but certainly not least, is Jedi Training: Trials of the Temple, which will open in early December. This reimagined Jedi Training experience will take younglings to the secret site of an ancient Jedi temple where they will face Darth Vader along with the Seventh Sister – a new villain from the Disney XD series “Star Wars Rebels.”
And work begins next year on the 14-acre Star Wars-themed land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. With construction underway, unfortunately, we won’t be able to offer Star Wars Weekends. While Star Wars Weekends has been a great way to enjoy the saga for a few days every year, now the Force will be with Disney’s Hollywood Studios every day.
With Star Wars Launch Bay, the new Jedi Training experience, “Star Wars: Path of the Jedi” and a new destination in the Star Tours attraction opening in December, you’ll be able to step into the Star Wars saga every time you visit Disney’s Hollywood Studios.
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I am sorry to hear Star Wars weekends has ended .My family and I have been coming to Star Wars weekends almost every year since 2001.We enjoyed the Star Wars music,the Star Wars parade, exclusive Star Wars weekends merchandise,and especially meeting the celebrities from our favorite movies . James Arnold Taylor did a great job as the host .I hope Disney will reconsider its decision as Star Wars weekends was always the highlight of our Disney experience .
Jean on April 4, 2016 at 7:03 pm
I also feel a disturbance in the force. Have been going to Star Wars Weekend since it started, taking my Grandson who was 5 at the time. Was making reservations for this May an found out no Star Wars Weekend. I think this event would have added to the excitement of the new Star Wars Experience that will be opening. Must go into hiding I must.
Sandra on April 3, 2016 at 2:17 pm
why? I’m Floridian and have been driving to Orlando with my husband and son for Star Wars Weekends for years! who would think to cancel these in 2016 of all times!
Lorena on March 29, 2016 at 8:13 pm
I am shocked to learn about the cancelation of Star Wars weekends. My husband and I stumbled upon it during our honeymoon and we vowed we would take the kids. We are finally going and now I find its not even gonna happen! I understand not doing it because of the new park expansion but why couldn’t it happen this year one last time since the Star Wars land is under construction? Surely they could have done it for one more year then announced that it will be the last year for it because of the expansion.
Elizabeth on March 29, 2016 at 12:10 am
We are very disappointed with Disney’s decision to cancel Star Wars weekends. My daughter and I have made the trip annually the past four years and we were looking forward to meeting the new actors and characters this year from both Rebels and The Force Awakens. Since Disney made no announcement of the weekends returning next year, I am afraid we have to assume they won’t and we won’t see the star wars parade or meet the actors at the park again. Very disappointing.
Tom on February 1, 2016 at 11:09 pm
I feel a weakening in the Force. 🙁
Kaye on January 10, 2016 at 11:28 am
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Larry Sanders Returns To Bucks, Doesn't Explain Much
Tom Ley
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Bucks center Larry Sanders, who had been away from the team since Dec. 26 due to "personal reasons" and was reportedly considering quitting basketball altogether, returned to the team last night and watched the Bucks' game against the Suns while sitting on the bench in street clothes. Sanders did speak to the media, but didn't reveal much about just what the hell is gong on with him.
Something's Up With Larry Sanders
There is something weird going on with Milwaukee Bucks center Larry Sanders. He hasn't been…
From the AP:
''It feels great to be around the guys again,'' Sanders said after his first public appearance with the team in two weeks. ''There is no timetable for my return.''
Sanders was vague, but said he was making progress, getting to the root of his issues and correcting them.
''Without these things being corrected, I don't think basketball will be something I can even do,'' he said.
He said that speculation he might walk off the court for good simply was false.
''But, what is true,'' he said, ''is that I'm in the process of working things out now to do as best for my psyche and my physical health going forward. There's a lot of evaluating going on. There's a lot of inside talk just to put myself in the best place for my health right now.''
That doesn't explain much at all, but Sanders was at least able to dampen the speculation that he no longer wants to play at all. As for what unnamed things Sanders needs corrected, those are anybody's guess and quite possibly nobody's business.
While it's probably not what he's talking about, it may be worth noting that Sanders is currently dealing with a civil suit filed against him by a group of people he got into a bar fight with in December of 2013. He is set to appear in court for that case on Feb. 17.
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India Rewind – Must get off my chest!
On October 21, 2015 October 21, 2015 By ellenbessoIn Uncategorized6 Comments
Have you ever had a holiday that just didn’t work out right? One you’d looked forward to for a long, long time. Our trip to India last winter, the fourth, was such a one, quite an odd trip when you put all the pieces together. Our time there felt like the movie Groundhog Day in many ways, especially the McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala part, sort of a been there, done that kind of thing. The place was the same, but we were different. Although I consider McLeod Ganj a spiritual home, as the trip grew closer, I didn’t feel like leaving home, and never really let go of my home community during the four months we were away.
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, in South India, was a different point of entry this time. First we regrouped in a three star hotel, in itself aberration. Then on down the coast to Mamallapuram, a tiny, ex-hippy colony with beautiful sandy beaches, a good place for relaxing and getting over the jetlag. Pondicherry, a Union Territory that was originally French, had wonderful architecture and real French bakeries, run by Indians of course. But it’s a typically busy small Indian city and you take your life in your hands crossing the streets, not much fun.
Still in Tamil Nadu, we visited the mountains of Ooty, a destination for Indian tourists. At almost 8000 feet, it gifted me with elevation sickness. It was a busy working town with a few interesting sites. After a false start at the sparse, cold YWCA in the town centre, where the staff were stiff and conservative, and religious pictures adorned all the walls, we secured a room up the hill at a nicer hotel. Well run and clean, the food was decent, albet a tad monotonous, being only Indian-Asian fusion. But Don’s appreciation of the place was spoiled by our waiter, who plied us with wretched tasting home made wine left by a Brit, then hard liquor, then offered momentos of the hotel.
The Prince Polonia Hotel in Paharganj, Delhi, owned by our devout Hindu friend Brig, had been suddenly sold, so many hours were spent using the internet at the very welcoming, upscale hotel next door, to secure a new place, (we never got our money back from the on-line booking agency). Finally we booked into a small family run place in Karol Bag, a new Delhi neighbourhood to us, at a whopping $100 Canadian per night, a far cry from our usual $35 at Prince Polonia.
We finally made our way to the airstrip below McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala by plane. This time the company did not go out of business as in 2012 and the fog lifted on a warm sunny, February day. Yeah!
It was wonderful to reconnect with dear Tibetan friends again, but we arrived just before Losar, the Tibetan New Year, when almost everything shut down for a week or more. The NGO’s we’d volunteered at previously and planned to work at again, were closed. Don’s never re-opened, and on our last day in town he went by, hoping to assist at just one English conversation group before departure, only to discover that the centre was closing that day, turning into an art gallery! My supervisor at Tibetan Women’s Association ‘seemed’ too busy to bother with me, and did not facilitate any of the plans for my work, not even ESL teaching and women’s empowerment coaching, as before, and as she had suggested during this visit. I felt hurt, annoyed and insulted by what happened, and mulled over lodging complaints, both to her and to the association. Ultimately I decided against that, for in the end I knew I was just one more rich entitled western woman in their eyes.
After the first three or four days of warmth, the weather regressed from February early spring to January winter temperatures, almost constant rain and frequent thunderstorms complete with big balls of hail! The Tibetan guesthouse our friends moved us into was very cold and there were multiple power failures. I also reacted to the negative energy of the place, sensing that bad things had happened there. Later a friend who taught Tibetan language at a nearby American private school told me that she once visited a student there, an older German woman who was ill, and found the place to be very cold and uncomfortable energetically. We moved back to our original, more expensive, Tibetan guesthouse.
When I tell people what happened in Dharamsala and in other parts of India, I hear how strange it sounds. Some look at me and say, “That was a weird trip.”, or simply, “Wow, that’s all I have to say, wow!”, or as a friend who is a medium asked, “Were you rejected?”
Yes, I think we were. But did India reject us or did we reject her?
After four trips to the country, (plus one 1970’s trip for Don), perhaps we’re done with India. The timing was all wrong for sure; we were both in transition as we slowly move into a ‘semi-retirement’ stage of our lives. Or could it be we were meant to find McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala, or “Little Lhasa” as it’s called, only so we could later become sponsors of a Tibetan family from northeast India as part of Canada’s Tibetan Resettlement Project? However, I’m sure we’re meant to be connected to India and particularly to McLeod Ganj, Dharamsala and to the very special Tibetan people there, but in a different way than before.
We spent the final six weeks of our four month trip in Ireland; (we did the “I” countries, our chiropractor said). Don didn’t want to go home, and anyway, by early March the rental agency had managed to rent our house, so we had no home to go to!
Literally marking the final weeks and days of the trip off on my pocket calendar, I was never so glad to see my home and my town again in mid May, and spent most of the warm summer on our back deck, surrounded by huge planter boxes of sunflowers, basil, carrots and cherry tomatoes, planted by my own two hands from seed.
What all that was about, I can’t tell you, but it was definitely part of my and our process! I needed to get that off my chest before moving on to my regular blogging.
Coming next: Good things did happen in India
Ellen Besso dot com Has Changed
On October 11, 2015 By ellenbessoIn Uncategorized4 Comments
After much deliberation & planning, I took down my website of 10 years a couple of weeks ago. The coaching-counselling-writing business has given way to a new way of being & working.
The new ellenbesso.com will be a place of joy, fun & healing, where I play with my writing & introduce you to my new energy work, Opening Hearts, Dancing Spirits: Gateway to the Soul.
Please join me in this journey. I would love to hear your feedback.
Tashi delek (Tibetan for blessings)
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Finding Our Voice: How Civil Society is Countering Uncertainty
We need to challenge the status quo, work collectively, leave brand and ego at the door and speak in an authentic voice... These are just a handful of the key messages that came up time and again at the Dóchas Conference 2019.
The Dóchas Conference – Finding Our Voice: How Civil Society is Countering Uncertainty – took place on 2 May in the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Golden Lane, Dublin.
It explored the key challenges facing international cooperation between now and 2030, and aimed to provide a space for discussion and new ideas about how we can shape the Irish response to these challenges, find opportunities within them, and build public support along the way.
Among the over 250 delegates gathered in Dublin were representatives of Irish NGOs and civil society organisations, members of Government, activists and campaigners, academics, private sector representatives and more.
Speakers and panelists provided different perspectives on three fundamental questions around the conference theme:
What are the key challenges that will shape the future of international cooperation?
How do international development actors, particularly international development NGOs, need to change to meet them?
How do we bring the Irish public along with us to believe in and champion the importance of international cooperation?
We heard from Winnie Byanyima (Executive Director, Oxfam International); Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen (CEO, Plan International); Justin Kilcullen (Executive and Business Coach, and former Executive Director, Trócaire); Kate Norgrove (Senior Director, Purpose); John Concannon (Director General, Global Ireland); Grace Milton (Associate Director, Public Affairs Strategy Division, Edelman); and Ciarán ÓGaora, (Communications Strategist and Designer and Founder, Zero-G).
Conference MC, Dil Wickremasinghe, joined us again this year to kick off the day's proceedings by welcoming delegates.
Dóchas CEO, Suzanne Keatinge, delivered the opening address, setting the tone for the day. She asked if we are ready to put the furthest behind first and to truly listen to what they need, and if we are doing enough to bring the public along with us in our work. She challenged us to develop a counter narrative to hate and other obstacles to positive change, equality and justice - a narrative based on hope, the collective, and the possible.
Suzanne then announced the surprise challenge for the day - delegates were invited to share the songs that inspire them to act for equality, justice and change. Songs could be submitted during the break and a Dóchas 'Songs for Change' Playlist was created at the end of the day. To get the ball rolling, Simon Coveney, Tánaiste and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, had submitted his song ahead of time - Bob Marley's 'Redemption Song'.
Opening Session: How should civil society counter growing uncertainty to bring about social change? Challenges and opportunities for international NGOs
The opening session considered the challenges and opportunities facing NGOs as they seek to counter global uncertainty and promote positive social change.
Anne-Birgitte Albrectsen, CEO of Plan International, took to the stage to tell us that we must focus on people, power and partnerships at this time of great global challenges. Anne-Birgitte called on us to reflect on the power that we each hold and whether we are willing to use it to challenge issues such as climate change and power abuse in countries and our own organisations.
We must use and cultivate strong people power to tackle these challenges, she said, highlighting particularly the power of global youth movements currently pushing for change around the world.
Do we really understand the extent to which the Sustainable Development Goals represent "a social, economic and political revolution", she asked. To achieve them, we must be willing to become truly political, to challenge the status quo.
Finally, Anne-Birgitte asked that we work in collaboration and partnership with each other. Organisations must leave egos at the door and work together for change. “Partnership is about giving up power, leaving ego and brand behind,” she said.
Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam International, used her speech to address three key causes of global uncertainty and instability. Growing and extreme inequality threatens human progress by trapping people in poverty, entrenching gender inequality and eroding democracies. Many of the solutions to this inequality are known - healthcare and education for all, progressive taxation, rights and a fair wage for workers - and yet they are not enacted. To end extreme inequality, Winnie said, we will need to see real political and collective action in every country to challenge economic elites and take back our democracies.
Strongly linked to inequality was the next challenge Winnie discussed - climate change. Those who did not create it are the ones facing the consequences because they cannot protect themselves. She illustrated this with a startling example - her uncle in Uganda would take 198 years to create the same amount of emissions as the average New Yorker creates in one year. Yet, he is facing droughts and other challenges from climate change in a far more intense way.
The final challenge that Winnie addressed was global conflict and wars with no frontlines, targetting civilians. We must tackle the root causes of these conflicts.
Winnie finished with a call for bold and urgent leadership and willingness to change how we do our work. “Remember that everything we stand for has very, very strong opponents," she said.
Justin Kilcullen, Executive and Business Coach, and former Executive Director, Trócaire, then sat down to conduct a Q&A with Winnie and Anne-Birgitte.
Three 'Changemakers' spoke from the floor to provide an Irish perspective on the global challenges and opportunities that Winnie and Anne-Birgitte had explored: Ruairí de Búrca, Director General of Irish Aid; Jamie Moore, UN Youth Delegate; and Caoimhe de Barra, CEO of Trócaire.
Asked about the one thing that they would do to make radical progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, Winnie spoke about the importance of joining social movements for change and encouraging people to do so, while Anne-Birgitte said that she would continue to advance gender equality through all areas of Plan International's work.
During the break, delegates networked and visited stalls, including the Dóchas 'Song for Change' stall, where they could submit their song ideas for inclusion in the conference playlist.
Whenever you're seeking some inspiration and energy for your work, have a listen to the playlist below!
Dóchas 'Songs for Change' Playlist - Spotify
Dóchas 'Songs for Change' Playlist - Youtube
Closing Session: Finding our voice - How can we bring the Irish public with us in this time of uncertainty?
Dóchas Board member and Associate Director, Public Affairs Strategy Division, at Edelman, Grace Milton, chaired the closing session on how we can build a shared narrative for change and inspire the Irish public to join us as we challenge inequality and injustice.
John Concannon, Director General of Global Ireland, spoke about the importance of collective action, working together effectively and telling real stories. Ireland's bid for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for 2021-2022 is a real sign of where we want to stand in the world, he said, and we have our own unique story to tell as a nation and our own impacts to make. How can we authentically tell that story? John emphasised the empathy of Irish people and the nation's shared experiences with other countries who have experienced or are experiencing famine, mass migration, conflict or colonialism. We watched the video launching Ireland's campaign for a seat on the Security Council to see some of the messages and narratives used.
Next up, Kate Norgrove, Senior Director, Purpose, explored how we can bring the public along with us in pursuing change, using her experiences from the UK in building public support and engagement. She identified key factors for building a strong social movement that inspires public action - it should be led by the most impacted community; driven by a strong core; work in alliance; use a wide spectrum of actions; tell a story. Kate used the example of Purpose's work with March of Dimes to demonstrate some of the techniques used in effective storytelling and campaign building. She also highlighted the importance of giving people a sense of efficacy - a call to action allows people to feel hopeful and to believe that change is possible.
Grace, John and Kate were then joined for a Q&A by Ciarán ÓGaora, Communications Strategist and Designer and Founder of Zero-G. Ciarán emphasised the importance of building trust in communications. Strategic communications is about giving people reason to trust your organisation or movement and communicating the real purpose and connections at the heart of it.
The panel wrapped up with a final questions from Grace - What is that magic dust that makes people take action, engage with content, share, and advocate? The three panellists all agreed on collaboration, authentic stories, shared narratives, and less of a focus on protecting individual brands.
Sharan Kelly, CEO of Tearfund Ireland and outgoing Dóchas Chair, delivered the closing address. "Business as usual isn't going to cut it. We must be bold and courageous in our leadership to bring about change", she concluded.
Dóchas would like to thank the conference speakers, panelists, delegates, partners and volunteers for your input, collaboration and energy. We are excited to see how this conversation about global challenges and solutions develops during the year, and where it leads us.
Conference Blog Series
In the lead up to the conference, we asked leaders, innovators and thinkers working in the areas of equality, justice and development to respond to a set of questions around the theme of the conference.
"Accept the gravity of climate change" - Dr Lorna Gold, Trócaire
"Before civil society can figure out how to bring the Irish public along with it, it must decide which Irish public it wants to appeal to" - Éilis Ryan
"Policy coherence is vital; otherwise we will continue to give with one hand and take with the other" - Maureen O'Sullivan TD
"System change in international cooperation" - Laura Sullivan, WeMove.EU
"Civil society is the ultimate antidote to populism" - Deborah Doane, Rights CoLab
"The growing threat to multilateralism" - Deirdre de Burca, Forus
"We face global challenges, but we also have global plans" - Senator Alice-Mary Higgins
Other Resources from Dóchas AGM and Conference 2019
Dóchas Annual Report 2018
Dóchas Conference 2019 Brochure
Dóchas Conference 2019 Press Release
After speaking at the Dóchas Conference 2019, Winnie Byanyima, Executive Director of Oxfam, was interviewed by the Irish Times Women's Podcast about her early life growing up in Uganda, her time in politics and her work fighting for equality and justice with Oxfam. Have a listen.
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Stretching the dollar, November 28, 2013. (http://kidminspiration.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/stretching-dollar.jpg).
From September 6, ’88 through the beginning of Thanksgiving week twelve weeks later, I had a grand total of $335 to work with. That included money for food, rent and washing clothes. It included the $75 I made over three weeks and six sessions with Sera-Tec donating plasma. It wasn’t the first time I’d tortured dollars into submission, and it’s hardly been the last. But it was the first time in my life I reached out for help beyond myself and family.
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Despite these acts of generosity and my acts of desperation, I knew that I’d probably starve before the semester was over. I had less than ten dollars to work with after the first week in November. I went to Thackeray Hall to register for classes for next semester. While there, it occurred to me to go upstairs to see one of the financial aid counselors, an older Black woman named Beverly who’d been really nice to me while working through my bill issues earlier in the semester. I told her in detail what was going on. “You need to talk to Ron,” she said, referring to Ron Slater, the university ombudsman, the person who normally resided over tuition payment issues. So there I was the next day, explaining to the ombudsman my situation.
“We’ll take care of this, we’ll find you some extra money. Just hang in there for a few days,” he said. Slater actually offered me money right out of his wallet.
“No thanks, I’ll be all right,” I said, my voice starting to crack because I was so grateful that anyone cared enough to help me through my dire straits. I somehow found a way not to cry right there on the spot.
Hypodermic needles used for donating blood or plasma (note the gauge or thickness), November 28, 2013. (http://dmplgrl.blogspot.com).
The week before Thanksgiving, I went to check in with Beverly. “I’ve got good news for you, but you’ll have to wait a few days.” Through the ombudsman, the university had recalculated my financial aid package, increasing my Pell to the maximum amount allowed, and added the federal SEOG grant (Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants) to my aid menu. Both gave me an extra $800 to work with. After that weekend, one where Regis’ potatoes became a part of my diet, I bummed five dollars off of one of my classmates from General Writing. The next day I got my check from the ombudsman. “I’m so glad to have been of help. It’s part of my job. I just wish you’d come to me earlier,” Slater said. Hearing that did make me tear up. I was in the spirit of the season already. It was two days before Thanksgiving. I spent that holiday at Melissa’s house with her and her father, an ailing contractor in his early-sixties.
Slater’s wasn’t the only act of generosity I was thankful for that semester. Between my friends Regis and Marc and Melissa, I didn’t starve in those last couple of weeks before Thanksgiving. But Slater’s job, his work had made it so that I could graduate, not just eat peanut butter crackers, horrible tuna sandwiches and pork neck bones and rice into that December.That was a quarter-century ago.
Fast-forward nine years. My then girlfriend and now wife also ended up seeking help from Slater, as she could not finish her degree because she owed several thousand dollars to Pitt in tuition. I encouraged her to write and meet with Slater. He deferred her tuition payments for the upcoming spring semester so that she could graduate in April ’98.
It’s not every day that I get to thank someone for not only helping me, but others in my life as well. I don’t know where Ron Slater is now, but I am truly, truly thankful that our paths crossed in the fall of ’88.
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Back in 2009, former President Barack Obama said, “America cannot lead in the 21st century unless we have the best educated, most competitive workforce in the world,” but the rising cost of higher education has many wondering if getting a bachelor’s or master’s degree is even worth the price tag. While the earning gap between college grads and high school grads is growing — bachelor degree holders earn 56% more than their diploma-holding counterparts — all advanced degrees aren’t created equal.
Recently, Forbes released a list of the best and worst master’s degrees based on earning potential, meaning, job satisfaction, and stress level, and predictably, STEM — science, technology, engineering, and math — degrees rank high on the list, with biomedical engineering clocking in first.
The report, compiled by PayScale, used 145,536 profiles to create a list of the 45 best and worst degrees. According to the compensation data firm, workers in the biomedical engineering field enjoy an average salary bump from $70,200 to $129,300 from early to mid-career and find great meaning (81%) and satisfaction (75%) in their work.
On the flip side, while liberal arts degrees have long gotten a bad wrap as “useless” (they aren’t, by the way), master’s degrees in areas such as education, writing, pastoral ministry, and art history rank among the worst for those looking to stack major paper. Interestingly, a master’s degree in graphic design earned the top spot on the dubious list, with degree holders enjoying a modest salary increase ($51,800 to $68,800) during early to mid-career.
While the list can certainly be a handy reference for workers, earning potential shouldn’t be the sole determining factor in whether to pursue an advanced degree, particularly since students are increasingly taking on crushing student loan debt to advance in their careers.
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Tall Papa[edit]
See Ruptga.
Talos, Tiber Septim, the Dragonborn[edit]
Heir to the Seat of Sundered Kings, Talos is the most important hero-god of Mankind. In his mortal form, known as Tiber Septim, he conquered all of Tamriel and ushered in the Third Era (and the Third Empire). After death, his spirit ascended to the heavens to become the ninth and youngest divine, under the name given to him by the Nords—Talos.[1] Also called Ysmir, 'Dragon of the North'.[2] One of the Nine Divines (the major gods worshipped throughout Tamriel).[3] Less prominent sects, such as the Talos Cult, have been inspired by his apotheosis. In the Fourth Era, worship of Talos was banned as a result of the White-Gold Concordat. However, many of the Nords of Skyrim continued to revere him despite these strict terms.[4]
Tava, Yokudan Bird God[edit]
A statue of Tava, Yokudan Bird God
Yokudan spirit of the air and sun. Tava is most famous for leading the Yokudans to the isle of Herne after the destruction of their homeland. She has since become assimilated into the mythology of Kynareth. She is still very popular in Hammerfell among sailors, and her shrines can be found in most port cities.[2]
Thartaag, The World-Devourer[edit]
An aspect of The Adversary, believed to be the Skaal's version of Alduin.[5]
Tribunal (Almalexia, Sotha Sil, Vivec), Gods of Morrowind[edit]
A fresco depicting the Tribunal. From left to right: Vivec, Almalexia and Sotha Sil
The Tribunal, also called Almsivi, is the triune of Almalexia, Sotha Sil, and Vivec worshipped by the Dunmer, with the exception of Ashlanders. They ruled the Dunmer as living gods from a few years after the Battle of Red Mountain, circa 1E 700, until the cataclysms of the Nerevarine Prophecies, around 3E 427. In the Red Year of 4E 5, the Dunmer reverted to their traditions of pure Daedra and ancestor worship, relegating the Tribunal to saints.[6][7]
Trinimac, Strong God of the Aldmer[edit]
Trinimac was a prominent god of the early Aldmer; in some places, he was even more popular than Auri-El. He was a warrior spirit of the original elven tribes that led armies against mankind, and was known as the strongest of all the et'Ada who wandered Nirn. He is often depicted holding his sword Penitent, also known as Vosh Rakh, the "Blade of Courage". Boethiah is said to have "eaten" Trinimac and assumed his shape so the Daedric Prince could convince a throng of Aldmer to listen to him, which led to the creation of the Orcs and Chimer. Afterwards, Trinimac vanished from the mythic stage, only to return as Malacath, nothing more than a weak and vengeful version of his former glory.
Tsun, Nordic God of Trials against Adversity[edit]
Tsun is the Nordic god of trials against adversity. He died defending Shor from foreign gods. Tsun and his brother Stuhn were both Shield-thanes of Shor. He currently guards the Whalebone Bridge to the Hall of Valor of Sovngarde. At Shor's bidding, he has taken on the role of the master of trials, asking new arrivals to the utopia to prove their strength in combat against him before they can enter the Hall.
Tu'whacca, Tricky God[edit]
Tu'whacca (or simply Tuwhacca), the Tricky God, is the Yokudan God of Souls, the God of the Far Shores. Before the creation of the world, he was the god of Nobody Really Cares. When Tall Papa undertook the creation of the Walkabout, Tu'whacca found a purpose: he became the caretaker of the Far Shores, and continues to help Redguards find their way into the afterlife. His cult is sometimes associated with Arkay in the more cosmopolitan, Forebear regions of Hammerfell, where the names Tu'whacca and Arkay are basically interchangeable. Crowns detest this Imperialization, considering it a betrayal of their heritage. Nevertheless, scholars can't help but note the clear similarities between them, as well as well the similarities they both share with Xarxes of the Altmer, in both the etymology of their names and the divine roles they fill.
^ The Arcturian Heresy — The Underking, Ysmir Kingmaker
^ a b Varieties of Faith... — Brother Mikhael Karkuxor of the Imperial College
^ For My Gods and Emperor — Imperial Cult
^ The Talos Mistake — Leonora Venatus
^ The Story of Aevar Stone-Singer
^ The Battle of Red Mountain — Vivec
^ The Reclamations — Thara of Rihad
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Weird Tales/Volume 31/Issue 3/Like one, that on a lonesome road
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"Like one, that on a lonesome road" (1938)
words by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, art by Virgil Finlay
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From Weird Tales, Volume 31, Issue 3
1368661"Like one, that on a lonesome road"words by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, art by Virgil Finlay1938
Like one, that on a lonesome road
Doth walk in fear and dread,
And having once turn'd round, walks on,
And turns no more his head;
Because he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
—Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner.
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Fiction, Susan M. Schultz
Hollowing the Stalks
Almost as soon as I arrive, we’re working on the rhubarb. Between grandpa’s front door and the road is a full-sized tennis court surrounded by about an acre of grass, flowerbeds, and garden. By the time I get there, the rhubarb is profligate, aggressively filling several long rows beyond the furthest corner of the tennis court. If you leave rhubarb too long it’ll bolt—the top of the plant flowering, the stalks turning hollow and useless, bitter to the taste.
Grandpa and I spend the better part of two days squatting in the rhubarb with kitchen knives, surrounded by aphids and green leaves like elephant ears. I learn to gauge each shoot’s thickness, to look for the hint of red, to cut the stalks near their base and to reach in and get the rich humus so far under my nails that I feel there all the time, even when I’m asleep. Grandpa teaches me about timing and discernment, how to know when the plants are ready, which to keep and which to discard. The two days we spent harvesting are not enough. There’s more rhubarb than we can manage and we’ve got other work to do, so we leave the uncut stalks to bolt.
It’s April and I am nineteen years old. Done with a year of college and less than six months away from a two-year Mormon mission in the northeast of England. The summer job I’ve lined up in Boise doesn’t start until early June, leaving me with six weeks without definite plans. The family’s worried about grandpa’s body and grandma’s mind. There’s no chance they’ll let somebody come “take care” of them, so I ask if he’ll hire me until my job starts in Boise, pitching the idea as way for them to help me save money for my mission. I worked a summer for him in high school, and heard enough stories about shiftless cousins who grumbled about digging ditches, pouring concrete, and weeding vast plots all summer at the going ‘family’ rate (for several years this meant minimum wage minus room and board, but they stopped subtracting living expenses after one cousin actually lost money) to know they count me as a passable worker. He agrees, and for the next six weeks, I become a kind of live-in assistant, cleaning, cooking, and doing the required outdoor grunt work.
Grandpa’s place is called Sompaddu. Before he bought the land, it had been the northern third of an old twenty acre homestead in Sandy, Utah, not far from the quarry at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon that provided the granite used to build the Salt Lake City Temple. The town of Sandy received its name as a backhanded insult from Brigham Young, who thought it sufficient warning to potential farmers as to the soil’s quality. By all accounts, when grandpa bought it, the place was pretty scraggly, its sparse covering of scrub oak, juniper, sage brush and the occasional native box elder constituting the desert equivalent of a middle-schooler’s moustache.
The soil at Sompaddu always seemed desperately thirsty, and its capacity to support any vegetation at all was thanks mainly to the massive irrigation projects the Mormons built after settling the Salt Lake Valley. Grandpa purchased water rights for a few hours each week, and built a large holding pond to store water until he was ready to use it, pumping into an antiquated sprinkler system he had designed and built himself. It was terribly inefficient and always breaking, which meant that much of the water meant to keep Sompaddu alive in one form or another was wasted.
At Sompaddu plants do not erupt into green, as they do in places where sufficient moisture encourages life, but creep towards color by degrees, so that when it finally arrives, the abundant brilliance of spring always seems miraculous. While many of grandpa’s neighbors also kept animals, grew gardens, and tended trees, planting things had been a Mortensen family obsession for several generations, so grandpa’s idea of gardening wasn’t limited to decorative flowers or subsistence farming. Behind the house are three thickly cultivated acres, shade oaks intermingling with blackberries, raspberries, strawberries, currants, crabapples, peaches, plums, and pears. Most extravagant is the large greenhouse attached to the rear of the home. It houses more than two dozen tropical and semi-tropical plants: figs, kumquats, and lemons, a rubber tree even, growing amidst massive-leafed Polynesian plants with names I never knew or have forgotten. The greenhouse also contains a swimming pool, from which I repeatedly hopped out to devour overripe figs one snowy Christmas Eve, jumping back in after I had gorged myself to let the warm water rinse the sticky juice from my chin and hands. It is no exaggeration to say that the Sompaddu of my childhood appeared to me a literal Eden, a new Arcadia, a place without death or sadness where the desert had, in the words of Isaiah, been made to “blossom as a rose.”
The room is pale, and summer light comes through old glass windows to my right, warming the air and quickening my pulse. It’s the kind of light that expands time and makes everything feel both larger and sharper. There’s a stainless steel sink—so deep I can stick my arms in past the elbow. Left of the sink is smaller window, unobtrusive, hung with faded drapes. It gives a view of the interior of the greenhouse, and through it I see a sprawl of greens, massing in deep, various textures. The fig tree is nearest, and though its fruit is just appearing, the large sacred leaves seem to beg me to pluck them and sew them together as a covering for my grandmother, whose name is Eve. Water shimmers and reflects off the bright corrugated pipes running beneath the glass-paneled ceiling. A languid ceiling fan spins methodically, its steady insistence somehow comforting.
There is the strange smell that belongs only to this room, a smell that is all roots and brownness, robust and earthy, with a tang from the rhubarb and a mingling of many other things: citrus leaves, mint, eucalyptus, and chlorine. The trace of chemicals gives a vague burning, tickles the hairs on my nose without producing repulsion. My grandfather is beside me, sleeves rolled up to just under his elbows, a solid stony mass, entirely corporeal. His body has also a scent, a memory, and his clothes all have the smell of being lived in. His sweat is not unpleasant, musty but inoffensive. He does not smell like other old people I have known. He smells too alive, too vital, too steady.
Grandpa piles all the leafy stalks in the sink’s left basin, opens a drawer, roots around for a while, finds a knife. Without speaking, he turns to the sink and expertly severs the stalks from the leaves, tossing the leaves into the garbage. He piles the long stalks into the sink’s basin and rinses them, gingerly, one after the other. The light pours and pours through the windows above his head and does not stop. His hands—a clot of massive veins, purple blotches spidering around tufts of hair, broad, swollen knuckles anchoring deft, trained fingers—pass precisely from stalk to stalk. When he is done he points to the neatly rinsed pile. Well, he says, what are you waiting for?
I walk to the front of the basin and stare at the glistening shafts of rinsed rhubarb waiting there for me to cut and soak them. I cut a handful of dripping stalks sharply into thirds. I fill the sink with cold water and leave the cut pieces to soak.
The next day we return to the kitchen and grandpa shows me how to boil the stalks in a sugary solution, how to render something edible from our labor. It is quiet, and I am foolish enough to mention he seemed to be having trouble breathing while we were cutting stalks in the garden.
What do you mean ‘it looked like I couldn’t breathe’?
Oh, I don’t know. I was just a little worried is all.
He lets out a sharp breath of air, hot and fast like a horse’s snort. I’m still running fine, even if my joints are getting a little rusty. You know, if I didn’t check on my extremities every once in a while, I might start to think they’d disappeared. He says this in a level physician’s voice, then looks at me. He is smiling.
I want to ask more about his health, but I know these questions are impossible with him. Instead I ask about his wife. How’s grandma doing? The last time I was here, she had a little trouble remembering things. This is being generous. The last time I saw her we spent an hour trying to remember what an extension cord was, and another hour remembering where she left it.
A lot of the children are starting to think that I should start looking for a home for Eve. She’s started losing her mind, you know, and they think it’s getting to the point where it might be dangerous to keep her in the house.
Well, what do you think?
He snorts again, his head twitching quickly to the left, like he’d just felt a fly land on top of his head. I think that they don’t know what they’re talking about. She’ll be just fine here.
He pauses for a beat. Well, we better get the rest of this stuff up to a boil. Another beat. Looks like we’ll have enough rhubarb to last us the next twenty years, he says with a chuckle.
There’s a lot of rhubarb, but twenty years? I nod and fall silent, thinking about the time passing between us, hoping that the rhubarb will at least last them two.
After making three bowls of Cream of Wheat, lavishly buttering four slices of toast and pulling out a glass gallon pitcher of half-and-half from Winder Dairy, I invite my grandparents to the table. Before sitting down, my grandmother looks out the window at the enormous thermometer that hangs from the fence surrounding the tennis court. The thermometer has a face laid out like a clock with 50 degrees equaling noon, and a large red hand whose reliability is spotty at best. Because she rarely ventures out of doors, she relies on the broken thermometer to inform her of the wider world beyond. In process of this consultation, she sees tiny brown things swarming the fence, glancing furtively at her, darting quickly across the lawn. Inexplicably, this sets her off. JD, come here! she says. Ooooh. Oh no! Those…things are back. JD, look at those bad little guys. What is he doing out there? JD, you need to go out there right now and get rid of them. We don’t want those bad little guys out there.
She doesn’t recognize them. They are squirrels.
The first time it happens Grandpa and I laugh. Grandma, I tell her, don’t get all excited. There’s nothing to worry about. They’re just squirrels. They’re not doing anything wrong. It’s OK. They won’t hurt anybody.
She remains standing, eyes fixed at the window, face darkening into a scowl. I don’t care what they are, I don’t want them running around out there. JD, I want you to get rid of them. They shouldn’t be doing that.
JD shakes his head. Doing what, Eve?
That! You can see the italics as she pronounces the word. She glares at us. We lower our eyes. I bite my lip to keep from laughing aloud. When she looks back out the window they’re gone.
When it happens the next day, I don’t have to bite my lip quite as hard. When it happens the day after that, I don’t even smile. And when it begins happening every day, I start closing the blinds before setting the table. We begin eating lunch at noon with the blinds down and the kitchen light on, hoping to spare grandma the agitation that comes with seeing those little brown things she remembers but doesn’t recognize. With the shades drawn she no longer knows the temperature, how warm it is, how dry, how purple the mountains appear when the sun strikes them just so. With the shades drawn she no longer sees all the rhubarb we left to bolt, hollowing in the gathering sun.
Eve was inordinately fond of poodles. So ubiquitous were they, so closely linked was she to her tiny dogs, that it would impossible to convince a family member of the truth of any story involving Eve that did not also prominently feature her poodles. They were almost extensions of her person, the miniscule pattering sounds of neatly trimmed claws against linoleum the most reliable indicator of grandma’s presence throughout the house. There had always been two tiny dogs that served as her advance guard—two willing sycophants with ferociously bad haircuts. As long as I could remember, they had always been the same two—Lily, the cheerful blonde who bore an uncanny resemblance to Pat O’Brien, and Maggie, the grey serious one with a perm reminiscent of a rural Ohioan newscaster. Arriving that summer, I was stunned to learn that Lily was dead and Maggie, recently crippled by arthritis and severe cataracts, seemed near death.
There are a series of seventeenth century paintings which share the title Et in Arcadia Ego. Each depicts ancient Arcadian shepherds in pastoral settings, and all are intent on disrupting any paradisiacal projections by forcefully reminding their viewers of death. In Guercino’s version of the painting, shepherds gaze intently at a human skull, turning it carefully in their hands like it’s a sacred text; in Nicolas Poussin’s versions they stumble across a tomb inscribed with the words Et in Arcadia Ego. The sudden deterioration of Eve’s dogs did for me what I imagine the skull and the ominous epitaphs must have for carefree rustics. Lily’s absence was a sobering memento mori, proof that even in Sompaddu things fell apart, that we would not be able to resist entropy and decay forever. It was as if I were reading the inscription for the first time. I am even in Arcadia, it says, and you will not escape me, not even here. Though this was something I should have already seen, the truth was, I hadn’t.
About a week after we started eating with the blinds closed I found a large wooden sign while was cleaning out an old work shed. On it I saw the familiar name Sompaddu, but was a little surprised to see the word written out as a series of capital letters followed by a period. That evening after dinner I asked grandpa about the sign. I was surprised when he told me that Sompaddu was an acronym, not a proper name, it had never occurred to me that Sompaddu might be more a whimsical word that seemed vaguely reminiscent of wet hair (perhaps it sounded like soggy ‘do to me?). It had always just been the name of Grandpa’s house, a good name, the name of the place we traveled to every year for family reunions and bocce ball tournaments, a name that rhymed only with safe, sturdy, beautiful things, things like allen screw, buckaroo, BYU, cheese fondue, cobalt blue, dancing shoe, drive on through, field of view, look up to, lucky you, even tried and true.
Actually, grandpa told me, the name had originally been meant to stand for Sarah Owens Mortensen’s Place At Dimple Dell, Utah, but Sarah Owens Mortensen died before she could see the blackberries bear fruit or taste the almost wild pears in the sprawling orchards JD had planted. She was forty nine years old, with nine children and an inoperable brain tumor. JD married Eve a few years afterwards but kept the name Sompaddu intact, tweaking the acronym so that by the time the house and gardens were finished the name meant Still Our Mortensen Place At Dimple Dell, Utah. Rather than the Arcadia I had imagined it to be as a child, Sompaddu was itself a memorial space. After grandpa lifted the scales from my eyes, S.O.M.P.A.D.D.U. acquired a host of new echoes, ranging from the vaguely haunting to the downright ominous: déjà vu, lay waste to, misconstrue, out of view, subject to…, and, worst of all, who are you?
Not long after Lily died, JD bought Eve a replacement. Her proper name was Blue Orchid, but Eve just called her Orky. Orky was comically undisciplined, so much so that my household duties frequently came to include sponging up puddles of urine and scraping tiny piles of dog excrement out of their ancient carpet. Orky’s lack of discipline was not particularly surprising, since Eve doted shamelessly on her poodles, spoiling them with such extravagance that I was frequently both repulsed and jealous. She would make—from scratch—waffles, delicious, mouth-watering blueberry waffles, drench them in butter and the finest Canadian syrups and cut them into poodle-sized pieces. Then she’d call the dogs in a piercing warble: ORRR-KEEE!! MAAH-GEEE!!
That was all they needed. The dogs would trot in with that gait, peculiar to poodles, that connotes both luxury and consciousness of great privilege. To my astonishment, Eve would take them into her lap, one after the other, and feed them with her fingers until the waffles were gone. Some grandkids coming over for a late breakfast? That’s why the freezer’s packed with Eggos.
Despite Eve’s benevolence, Orky was an ingrate. For one thing, unlike her predecessors, she didn’t follow Eve around everywhere. Instead, Orky spent most days curled up on the living room floor next to Maggie, who lay motionless, sleeping off her pain, trying to conserve energy, laboring to make it to the next batch of waffles. This meant that Eve was left to herself in her wanderings, which meant she could move through the house unannounced, which meant she could surprise people, which meant she could become lost. And if she got lost, how could you find her without her poodles? How could you even recognize her?
It’s hard to admit, but I didn’t completely mind Eve’s dementia. In some ways, it made her nicer to be around. If I’ve even known anyone who would have loved feudalism, it was Eve. She was the perfect lady of the manor: prickly, harsh, mercurial, and capricious, but not without a certain dignity, an insistent pretension to grace and refinement. Whenever our family visited Sompaddu, I tried to spend as much as time as possible outdoors, the place where Grandpa ruled, for no other reason than to avoid risking Eve’s displeasure. As I grew older, I realized I was not alone in this. Grandpa had married Eve when my mother was thirteen years old, just two years after Sarah’s death. The attempt to replace a natural mother is certainly enough to jaundice many children against their stepmothers, but Eve’s personality did little to increase her popularity with her stepchildren, or anyone else. Nearly everyone tried to avoid Eve and seemed not to like her, except for my sister Sarah (her favorite grandchild) and somehow, grandpa. By the time I came to live with them, I was old enough that I no longer feared her as I once had, but she remained for me the kind of adult who is to be respected but not loved. Only now, with something robbing her of her mind (literally de-menting her), Eve’s personality was changing. She was becoming jubilant, childlike, even delightful.
I imagined what I saw was the young Eve Tanner, daughter of Margaret Harriet “Hattie” Douglas and Valison “Val” Tanner Jr., the girl who was born into a family of ranchers during the depression they survived mainly because they owned the land they lived on outright, the girl who used to love keeping an eye out for strays as she made the afternoon rounds with daddy. I imagined I was seeing my grandma made young again, turned back into a wild-eyed country child who loved the smell of her daddy’s famous sourdough biscuits, who hated moving off the ranch so the cattle could winter. For the first time, I was seeing the girl everybody called “Jeeps” for reasons long forgotten, the girl who spent the snowy months dreaming of sago lilies, Indian paintbrushes, and wild chokecherries, who used to do all the modern things the old-fashioned way, without electricity or machinery, without air-conditioning or much comfort. I imagined her walking up to the two lone cedar trees that grew on the hillside above the ranch house, secretly wearing her mother’s satin-collar dress and pretending she was an elegant lady, preserving the illusion until one of the pigs she kept snuck through the fence and into the plowed and planted field, forcing her to chase after him in her unsteady heels, the long green-crepe train flowing after her. I saw my grandmother before she married Bob Davis, before he was drafted and sent to Korea, before he decided to stay in the service after the armistice, before they transferred him to Florida, Texas, New York, Germany, Thailand, before they flew him into combat in the skies over Vietnam, before he grew friendly with drink and women, before he told her that he was through being her husband, before she moved to Salt Lake City, almost forty, with a teenage daughter and no employable skills, before she found a job and place to live, before secretary school, before she met JD, before they married, before, before, before.
Eve survived my two year mission, even survived JD’s death in 2005. The last time I saw her she hadn’t had a lucid episode for several years and was sharing a room in a nursing home in Ogden, Utah. The nurses there tell me she’s pretty much helpless, that she does almost nothing on her own, too polite to say that she shits herself. They don’t need to say much; everything there, sheets, clothing, bodies—all reek of urine or worse.
When I enter the room, the first thing I do is take one of the large Q-tips they keep on a table beside her bed and dip it into a glass of water. I rub it over her lips, trying to keep them moist, trying to stop them from cracking and bleeding. I do this because I don’t know what else to do, because it hurts to see her lips cracked and parted, incapable of telling me what else to do. She is lost in an unshakeable silence, deserted by speech. She cannot say where it hurts, where she wants to be scratched, where she is right now. I speak her name, try to explain who I am and how she used to know me. Her skin shines everywhere with an unnatural light, most disturbingly so in her cheeks, which hang loosely from a face that hollowed out, distressingly fragile. She trembles constantly, almost imperceptibly, her eyes fixed on the facing wall, dancing without really moving.
When I lean over her body to kiss her on the forehead, her eyes struggle up to meet my face. Unbidden, my eyes fill with water. Even after I withdraw, her gaze remains directed at the same place, as if I am only a ghost, as if I hadn’t even bothered to come. I think of Rilke: “once near death, one can’t see death anymore / and stares out, maybe with the wide eyes of animals.” I wonder what it is that Eve stares out from, try to meet and follow her wide animal gaze. Two images adorn the wall her bed points toward. One is a painting of her childhood home, a tiny woodframe shack in a two-horse ranching community in the desert wastes just outside of Grouse Creek, Utah. In the bottom corner her name has been painted, so steady, bold, and sure that it cannot have been done by the hand of this woman who shakes and shakes and doesn’t stop.
Beside it hangs a photograph. There is much to see: JD’s solid face, the corners of his mouth upturned just slightly, a stoic but gentle gesture, Eve smiling with righteous contentment. I look at these two faces, faces I remember but don’t truly recognize. The images blur so completely that nothing can be seen clearly anymore. I turn away. Blink furiously. Breathe. I murmur some quiet promise in her ear, then retreat slowly from the room, walking backwards.
At last glance, her gaze had not shifted.
Steel Wagstaff is a Ph.D. candidate in English literature at the University of Madison-Wisconsin, where he works as the Assistant Director of the English 100 program. He is also a poet and an instructor in a poetry course offered by the Writers in Prisons Project. Eve Tanner Mortensen, the central protagonist in “Hollowing the Stalks,” died in May 2009, after suffering from Alzheimer’s Disease for almost a decade.
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India to address concerns on e-commerce data storage requirements
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The government has asked representatives of e-commerce companies to send their concerns over data storage requirements so that a robust framework can be evolved to leverage innovative digital technologies and unlock immense economic opportunities.
Building a robust data protection framework will achieve the dual purpose of privacy and innovation besides strengthening India’s position as a global tech leader, said Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal.
At a meeting with various stakeholders in the government and industry, Goyal said all concerns and issues must be sent to the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion within ten days, according to a statement issued on Tuesday.
Each and every concern of the industry will be addressed, the minister said while referring to the data storage requirements issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). RBI Deputy Governor B P Kanungo also assured industry representatives that the central bank will examine the matter closely.
Several industry leaders present in the meeting on Monday said the e-commerce draft policy was not adequately consultative. Besides, a lot of time has gone by after consultations for Data Protection Bill with the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY).
Industry leaders said the Bill must have clarity around the classification of data and the manner of cross border flow of data. They said that the free flow of data discussed in the recent G20 Ministerial Meeting on Trade and Digital Economy is a positive development for India.
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EPJ B Highlight - Preventing concrete bridges from falling apart
Cement bridges can be degraded by environmental factors. Photo by Simone Hutsch on Unsplash
Concrete degradation from sulfuric acid can be avoided by finding ways of preventing its gas precursor from adsorbing into concrete
Extremes of temperature, rain, exposure to corrosive substances - all of these environmental factors contribute to the degradation of concrete. Specifically, a gas present in our environment, called hydrogen sulphide, turns into sulphuric acid, a corrosive substance, when combined with rainwater. In a new study published in EPJ B, Matthew Lasich from Mangosuthu University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, examines the adverse consequences of the adsorption of natural gas constituents found in our environment - and mixtures of several such gases -into one of the materials that make up concrete: cement hydrate. Lasich found that the preservation of concrete infrastructure from the corrosive effects would require a pre-treatment targeting the adsorption sites in cement hydrate, where the majority of hydrogen sulphide molecules become attached. However, this approach could prove difficult because of their wide distribution.
What makes concrete vulnerable to natural gas adsorption is its porous nature. Its structure is made up of a cement matrix binding together aggregates of particles of sand. In this study, the authors perform a nanoscale analysis based on Monte Carlo simulation to mimic the migration of gas molecules into the cement hydrate structure.
They first recorded the adsorption level across various temperatures for methane, ethane, ethene, and ethyne to determine the uptake of each gas species in cement hydrate. This allowed them to study the effect of molecular size and molecular shape on the sorption of gases in cement hydrate. They then performed a similar analysis for natural gas constituents including nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and, most importantly, hydrogen sulphide.
Their simulations suggest that a specific combination of molecular size and surface area is required for good uptake into cement hydrate. While hydrogen sulphide adsorbed most favourably of all gases considered in this study, ethyne adsorbed more favourably than methane, despite being a 'heavier' molecule, because its molecular shape lent itself better to the task.
M. Lasich (2018), Sorption of natural gas in cement hydrate based on Monte Carlo simulation, European Physical Journal B 91:299, DOI: 10.1140/epjb/e2018-90339-6
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Creating positive habits in water conservation: the case of the Queensland Water Commission and the Target 140 campaign
Walton, Andrea and Hume, Margee (2011) Creating positive habits in water conservation: the case of the Queensland Water Commission and the Target 140 campaign. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing , 16 (3). pp. 215-224. ISSN 1465-4520
Official URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/nvsm.42...
This case study reports the activities of the Queensland Water Commission (QWC) in securing the water supply for Brisbane and surrounding South East Queensland (SEQ) in response to the worst drought on record. The case focuses on residential water use and examines a three year period from 2006 to 2009. The focus of the study is the interventions of 2007, which centres on the Target 140 campaign. In 2007, the QWC faced with critically low dam levels identified household consumption as responsible for 70% of water use. The eight month Target 140 campaign targeted household users, aiming to change the water use habits of SEQ residents. The campaign achieved not only immediate reductions in water use but also contributed to long term behavioural and attitudinal change. The aim of the campaign was to reduce water consumption from 180 litre/person/day to a target of 140 litres/person/day by the end of 2007. This was achieved with water consumption dropping to an average of 129 litres/person/day during the campaign and saving over 20 billon litres of water. In 2009, despite the drought broken for over a year and the water consumption target lifted to 200 litres/person/day residents were continuing to consume water, on average, less than 140 litres/person/day. The outcome was a capstone result for the QWC, and the Target 140 campaign went on to achieve international industry recognition. This case study demonstrates how attitudinal change, goal setting and feedback were key components of the change strategy and outlines the tactics used during the campaign. Furthermore, the case study discusses these mechanisms for change in terms of a theoretical understanding.
Permanent restricted access to published version due to publisher copyright policy.
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The Reindeer Section
The Reindeer Section are a Scottish indie rock supergroup formed in 2001 by Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, which released albums and gigged in 2001 and 2002. The Reindeer Section grouping was somewhat ad hoc, and so it is uncertain if more will be heard from them. However, in a 2006 interview with Times Online Gary Lightbody did not rule out… Leer Más
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European Corrosion Medal 2014
On the occasion of EUROCORR 2014 in Pisa, Italy, the European Corrosion Medal was awarded to
Professor Herman Terryn, Belgium
Herman Terryn was chosen for the prestigious EFC Award by his peers based upon his clear vision towards the industrial relevance and needs drawn from the field of corrosion, electro-chemistry and surface science and their relation to materials. He is recognised as a pioneer in the frontiers of corrosion and surface science as he adeptly cross references combined activities in the areas of corrosion technology, functional surface engineering, surface characterisation and electrochemical characterisation.
read more (EFC Newsletter No 22, p5)
The purpose of the European Corrosion Medal is to recognise achievements by a scientist, or group of scientists, in the application of corrosion science in the widest sence. The recipient(s) must be of a nationality corresponding to one, or more, of the Member Societies of the EFC and the work must be conducted within a European country.
The European Corrosion Medal consists of a bronze medal, a diploma and a sum of 1000 Euros and is awarded every year preferably on the occasion of a Europen Corrosion Congress (EUROCORR). The laureate is invited to give a lecture related to the work for which the medal was attributed.
Cavallaro Medal 2014
On the occasion of EUROCORR 2014 in Pisa, Italy, the Cavallaro Medal was awarded to
Professor Mario Ferreira, Portugal
This year’s winner of the Cavallaro Medal, Prof. Mario Ferreira, had been nominated by his peers in recognition for his lifetime contribution to corrosion science. Mario is a Full Professor at the Department of Materials and Ceramic Engineering (DEMaC) at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.
Professor Ferreira has made substantial contributions to many areas of corrosion. One focus throughout his career as a researcher has been to create environmentally-friendly and effective coatings for protection against metallic corrosion.
The University of Ferrara has instituted a gold medal which is to be awarded every two years under the auspices of the European Federation of Corrosion to honour the memory of and the work accomplished by Professor Leo Cavallaro, founder of the Aldo Dacco' Study Centre on Corrosion and Metallurgy of the University of Ferrara, an annexe of the Institute of Chemistry of the University of Ferrara.
Presented in 1965 for the first time, the Cavallaro Medal is awarded to a scientist who is particularly distinguished by his or her activity and publications in the field of corrosion research. The Cavallaro Medal is presented preferably on the occasion of a European Corrosion Congress (EUROCORR). The laureate is invited to give a lecture related to the work for which the medal was attributed.
EFC Poster Award
On the occasion of EUROCORR 2014 in Pisa, Italy, the Young Author's EFC Poster Award was presented to
A. Vimalanandan, Germany
for the outstanding poster contribution
"Redox-Responsive Coatings for Corrosion Protection"
Young Author's Prize
Each year since 2003 ANTIKOR, the International Scientific and Educational Corrosion Centre in Moscow, which is represented by Dr. Alexander Muradov, has kindly sponsored a prize for the best oral presentation by a young author under the age of 35 in the Oil and Gas session at EUROCORR.
The winner 2014 is:
Ehsan Fallahmohammadi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
"Effect of plastic deformation on hydrogen permeation of API 5L X65 steel Pipeline”
Congratulations from WP 13.
WP 4 Oral and Poster Prizes awarded during EUROCORR 2014 in Pisa
A prize for the best oral presentation of the Nuclear Corrosion Session was awarded to:
`Intergranular oxidation of Alloy 600 exposed to simulated PWR primary water`, by Jacqueline Caballero Hinostroza (see photo), Jérôme Crépin, Thierry Couvant and Cécilie Duhamel (Centre des Matériaux-Mines ParisTech and EDF R&D, France)
A prize for the best poster presentation of the Nuclear Corrosion Session was awarded to:
`Investigation of the temperature effect on the oxide layer formed on Alloy 182 in simulated PWR environment`, by Renato de Mendonça (see photo), Rik-Wouter Bosch and Wouter Van Renterghem (CAPES Foundation, Ministry of Education, Brazil and SCK-CEN, Belgium)
Congress programme
Sessions - Workshops
The Annual Congress of the European Federation of Corrosion
EFC Event No. 364
EFC Awards and Prizes presented at EUROCORR 2014:
European Corrosion Medal
Cavallaro Medal
(Best lecture of a young scientist in "Corrosion in Oil and Gas industry")
EFC WP4 Prize for the best Oral Presentation
EFC WP4 Prize for the best Poster Presentation
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EVgo Names Dave Schembri As New CEO
by James Ayre November 18, 2016 0 comment
The prominent US-based electric vehicle charging station firm EVgo has named a new CEO, Dave Schembri, formerly of the ground expedite and air charter logistics firm Active Aero Group, according to an email sent to EV Obsession.
The appointment is effective as of November 16, 2016, according to the email. As noted there, Schembri is bringing with him a large amount of relevant experience — nearly 4 decades worth, including key sales and marketing roles at Mercedes Benz and Volkswagen of America.
As noted above, Schembri’s most recent position, though, was CEO at the Active Aero Group, which is apparently an “award winning ground expedite and air charter logistics provider.”
This extensive body of experience will “provide EVgo with a unique perspective on how the company can continue making significant headway in delivering public fast charging for drivers and automaker partners, enabling the proliferation of electric vehicles in the United States,” as the email put it.
“Following an extensive search process with a strong and diverse group of outstanding executives, we are thrilled to welcome Dave Schembri as the first CEO of the newly independent EVgo,” stated Reuben Munger, Managing Partner of Vision Ridge Partners, LLC. “Dave is a remarkably talented leader with the experience, passion, and character to build on EVgo’s success to date. I know he is the right partner to work with Vision Ridge and the exceptional EVgo team to expand the nation’s leading fast charging network and build a world-class, customer-centric organization that changes the way that people drive.”
The new CEO commented on his appointment as well: “Growing up in Detroit, I have always had a deep passion for automobiles. However, besides great styling and being fun to drive, it is critical that they are also environmentally responsible. I am excited to join EVgo in delivering on its mission to make electric transportation a reality for millions more drivers. EVgo is already leading the way with more than 800 fast chargers across the country and I look forward to working with the team at EVgo and our automotive partners to provide charging solutions for drivers looking to drive cleaner and better cars.”
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The Bachelorette recap: Becca sends one man home before the Fantasy Suite
By Kristen Baldwin
S14 E9
We’ve made it all the way to Chaing Mai, Thailand, rose lovers, and Becca has some breaking news:
Ouch, thanks for playing, Jason! At least you got a free trip to Thailand out of this ordeal. As for the lucky two men Becca does love? Everything with Blake is “effortless,” but she’s worried about whether Garrett “can challenge me and push me” and “last for a lifetime.” Only one thing can help Becca calm these fears: A trip to the Fantasy Suite!
The first date of the week goes to Blake, and it begins the way all of Becca’s one-on-ones have started this season.
Oh, a little rocky on the approach, but she pulled through at the end. I’ll give this Leg Wrap a score of 7.9. “I missed you so frickin’ much!” yelps Becca. “It’s been way too long.” The Bachelorette informs Blake that during their hike through the ancient temple grounds, they won’t be allowed to kiss or touch each other, so they smooch a few hundred more times before beginning their trek. That said, I’m pretty sure they’re still holding hands once they cross the sacred threshold, so…
Anyhow, Becca and Blake have an “old and cultural” time meeting with two Buddhist monks, who tell them about how important honesty, acceptance, patience, and giving are in a relationship. “I definitely missed honesty in my last relationship,” says Becca — and somewhere, a racecar driver-turned-realtor named Arie felt his ears burn.
That night, Becca dons a modified Marilyn Monroe-style dress for dinner at the hotel with Blake. Once again, the guy is deep into a self-made hate hole: “Is she kissing and is she hugging and is she blushing the way she is with me with the other guys?” Oh Blakey, of course she is. Do you really need her to say it out loud? Apparently.
Obviously, Becca can’t give Blake the answer he really wants, so she gently tries to reassure him that she felt the same way when Arie was choosing between her and Lauren, and yeah, it’s no fun to be so “in your head” about things. “You have been the most solid and the most consistent, to the point that I feel like it’s too good to be true sometimes,” continues Becca. “I was so afraid that something was going to come to f— it up.” Blake insists that won’t happen — and now Becca’s the one getting nervous. “Oh my God, knock on wood! I’m so superstitious!”
It’s all a little awkward, which makes sense, though Becca doesn’t seem at all fazed when Blake says he’s always been “the kind of guy who looks for a reason to stay, not for a reason to go.” Even though that sounds red-flaggy to me — like, he’s prone to staying in relationships that aren’t working — Becca says the sentiment “means everything” to her, because she’s used to guys who leave. Plus, she probably just wants to get to the Fantasy Suite — and clearly, so does Blake.
Cut to: Becca cuddling in bed with Blake the next morning, sporting a black silk robe and a full face of makeup.
For the sake of her pores, I sincerely hope this lewk is courtesy of an early-morning visit from The Bachelorette glam squad. All righty, Blake — please release Becca from your clutches, because she’s got two other dudes to test drive. Oh no, don’t cry buddy — I’m sorry I was flippant.
Do you think Becca gets at least a day to detox between overnight dates? I sure hope so. (Next: Jason experiences future shock)
The next day (humor me), she meets Jason outside the Sunday market — and in the first sign that things aren’t going to go well, Becca does not wrap her legs around Jason’s torso as a form of greeting.
Then she makes the poor guy eat crickets! But he has no idea what’s about to hit him. “I have found my best friend, my partner, and what I want to be my fiancée,” he gushes. As they stroll through a temple, Becca makes a joke about decorating a home together with giant stone dragons… and then instantly regrets it. “After I said it, I wanted to take it back right away,” she admits. “Because at that moment, I felt like I couldn’t see him in [my] future.” The Bachelorette is visibly anxious and fidgety, so a female producer suggests they go sit in the shade and talk about what’s making her upset.
As Jason sits alone on some steps nearby, Becca admits that talking about a future with him “felt weird.” Of course it does, honey — because you don’t want to marry him. Ain’t nothin’ wrong with that. Ever the good soldier, Becca pushes through the anxiety and meets Jason for dinner — but as he goes on and on about the “confidence” he has in his love for her, it’s pretty clear that she’s struggling. She tentatively tries to tell Jason that talking about their future together made her feel “a little off,” but then finds herself at a loss for words.
Uh-oh. Becca tries to walk off her nerves, but no amount of pacing will change the fact that it’s time to send Jason home. “Oh my God, I hate myself,” she murmurs in the dark. Meanwhile, poor Jason is just waiting alone at the table, “scared s—less” that something’s about to go very wrong. And as we know, dear rose lovers, his fears are justified. “I can’t put you through an overnight and me through an overnight if it’s not 100 percent there,” Becca says quietly. Jason pushes back, saying if there’s even the tiniest chance that they have “potential” for a future together, she should spend the night with him. Stay strong, girl — your gut knows best!
“I just don’t think that we can get there at the end,” Becca replies, and Jason, though disappointed, accepts her decision at last. “I came into this rooting for your happiness,” he says sadly. “I’ll always leave rooting for your happiness — so I hope you find it.” Good answer, sir! You’ll be okay. As for Becca, she’s going to need some time to get over her guilt.
“I’ve dated terrible people in the past, and he’s such a good person,” Becca says weepily. “That’s why I’m wondering what’s wrong with me.” Girl, other than the fact that you’re trying to choose a mate on TV, nothing is wrong with you. There are three dudes left — unless you want to pitch TLC on a Sister Wives spinoff called Brother Husbands, you’re gonna have to send two of them home. (Next: Glamping with Becca and Garrett)
And things are already looking up for her date with Garrett. Just look at that leg-wrap!
“I know that Garrett is falling in love with me,” says Becca. “But I want to make sure, too, that he can see himself… committing to me.” Their rafting date hits a little snag, though, because it happens to fall on a Thai national holiday — which means the river is bumper-to-bumper bamboo rafts.
“Today was very chaotic, to say the least,” says Becca. “But we still had so much fun.” That said, our Bachelorette says she’d “love to hear that Garrett is in love with me.” Seriously — doesn’t he know how this show works? If you don’t say “I love you” by overnights, you’re simply not playing by the rules.
When night falls, Garrett gives a whole speech about facing his fears — the fear of another failed engagement, or worse, a failed marriage — which prompts Becca to start the “So if I pick you, where would we live?” conversation. (As always, it’s stunning to me that these couples don’t talk about such basic logistics before their final week together.) “What’s awesome, like, about me is that my career — I can go anywhere,” says Garrett, adding that he’d be happy to meet “somewhere in the middle.”
That’s great, buddy, but she wants to hear I love you. Not “I genuinely care so much about you.” Not “I haven’t genuinely felt this happy in my entire life.” Not “I just feel, like, so good about you and I.” But when it seems like he’s not going to drop the L-bomb, Garrett pulls through… after an awkward, brow-wiping pause.
“Seeing how you interacted with my family, I realized how much I truly do love you,” he says finally. “I hope you’re the last woman I ever have to say that to.” Wait, saying “I love you” falls into the “have to” category for Garrett? Man, that is not encouraging. Not that Becca’s worried — it’s Fantasy Suite time. Cue the morning-after shot!
After more cuddling and smooching, Becca detaches from Garrett and ventures off into the rain to prepare for the now-totally-unnecessary rose ceremony. But first…
You didn’t really think that sad SUV ride was the last we were going to see of Jason, did you? This show is two damn hours long — something’s got to fill the time. To that end, a tearful Jason has come looking for “closure” — a natural request, but one that’s nearly impossible to fulfill. What else can Becca say besides “I just like the other guys better”? All she can do is tell Jason how “terrible” she feels about what happened, and that he’s really “one of the best guys” she’s ever met. All Jason can do is give Becca the scrapbook he put together documenting their “meaningful story,” and then bid her farewell with a bittersweet “keep in touch.”
As for the rose ceremony, it’s devoid of drama, barring the blip of intrigue when Blake and Garrett realize Jason is not coming. Becca, by the way, informs Harrison that she will not be telling both Blake and Garrett that she loves them, because she wants to “save those words for just one guy.” (Yeah, Arie.) For now, though, roses for everyone!
“I don’t even know what I would say if she said goodbye — it would suck,” says Garrett tearfully. As for Blake, he remains tensely optimistic: “I just don’t think they have what we have. I really don’t — I really don’t.” But what do you think, rose lovers? Will it be Blake or Garrett? (Or neither? Ha ha ha it’s never neither.) Did Becca make a mistake with Jason? And who are you most excited to see on the Men Tell All? Post your thoughts below!
Now if you’ll excuse me, much like Blake, I have to pee.
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Commercial Vehicles: Cooling Fan Noise
Industry needs a Quiet Revolution
Low-speed rotating axial and radial fans are frequently used to manage engine temperature by ensuring adequate airflow through heat exchangers, especially at low vehicle speeds or idle. An undesirable side effect of these fans is generation of flow-induced noise, which is an annoyance to the operators and passengers, and a source of community noise, especially for commercial vehicles and heavy equipment. In most cases and particularly for high mass flow configurations, the cooling fan is a major contributor to the overall noise, and in some cases dominates relative to other sources such as engine, transmission, tire, mechanical, or exhaust contributions.
For heavy industry, operator and community noise regulations are imposed by governments, and a failure in the acoustic development of a product can lead to delays and expensive countermeasures to meet the requirements. In addition, cooling fan noise acoustics is a perceived quality issue that can affect brand image and customer satisfaction. Given the regulations and growing importance of acoustic comfort in these competitive markets, there is high value in addressing cooling fan flow-induced noise problems as early as possible during product development.
Experimental assessment of fan noise acoustic performance is limited by the difficulties of physical testing, and is typically performed in stand-alone test bench configurations. The results might not correlate well to the performance when integrated into a real system, as this tends to substantially alter the flow and acoustic environment of the fan. With physical testing, it is very difficult or impossible to identify the source of the noise. Using simulation has the potential to overcome these difficulties, but must meet the challenges of accurately capturing the key physical mechanisms related to flow-induced noise from cooling fans:
Noise generation is, by definition, a transient phenomenon and traditional CFD codes typically have difficulty accurately predicting transient effects in reasonable timeframes.
The complex interaction of rotating blades with nearby stationary geometry is a primary source of noise and the typical moving reference frame (MRF) technique fails to capture this effect.
Tonal noise, especially associated with the blade passing frequency, can have significant dependence on the quality of the incoming flow, rotor casing interactions, existence of rotating stall conditions, and unsteadiness of the flow field.
Broadband noise, which is usually related to vortex shedding, flow detachments, turbulent boundary layer noise, and tip vortex noise.
Installation effects, which tend to influence the inlet flow conditions and the acoustic response of the system.
Radiation of small amplitude pressure fluctuations (acoustics), outside the convective near field.
SIMULIA provides a complete computation aeroacoustics solution with SIMULIA PowerFLOW and SIMULIA PowerACOUSTICS:
PowerFLOW’s inherently transient solution accurately predicts the complex time dependent turbulent flow structures and the resulting noise sources induced by the cooling fan.
PowerFLOW’s true rotating geometry capability provides time accurate simulation of rotation and captures all types of interactions more precisely than traditional MRF methods.
PowerFLOW’s inherently compressible solution predicts the radiated noise simultaneously with the flow induced noise sources.
PowerFLOW can handle fully detailed geometry and capture all the interactions between the fan and the surrounding components.
For applications requiring prediction of noise propagation to the far field (community noise), PowerFLOW transient results can be coupled to the PowerACOUSTICS Far Field Noise module, which uses an acoustic analogy method based on the Ffowcs-Williams and Hawkings equation.
Easy-to-use analysis and state-of-the-art 3D visualization capabilities with PowerACOUSTICS and SIMULIA PowerVIZ provide insight into sources of noise. Band-filtered pressure analyses can be used to isolate phenomena at specific frequency bands of interest (for example, to perform detailed investigation of the blade passing frequency noise).
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Neo — Zapatismo: Networks of Power and War Vol. I of II A Thesis submitted to the University of Manchester for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law. 2001 Xochitl Leyva — Solano Department of Social Anthropology In London and Berlin, the neo-Zapatistas are also part of the local socio-political networks built around Chilean exiles who fled their country to escape the repression, following the military coup led by Augusto Pinochet in 1973. In Berlin, the presence of these political Tefugees led to the foundation of a research and documentation centre on Latin America, which in recent years has provided a supportive environment for the creation of solidarity groups like the one supporting the indigenous peoples of Chiapas. Other Chileans, resident in London, circulate information through local Spanish language newspapers and news bulletins distributed in salsa clubs and schools (which are owned by Colombian immigrants), giving another dimension to intemationalist neo-Zapatismo. The importance of neo-Zapatismo in Spain, Germany and England is closely linked not only to the presence of a revolutionary and alternative left in each country, but also to the colonial history of these former imperial powers. For example, political and social events in England's ex-colonies (India, Africa, and the “West Indies”) occupy a privileged position in the country’s foreign policy and its media coverage. During the two and a half years that | lived in England, the broadsheets and quality television channels hardly ever mentioned Mexico except in connection with scandals involving drug-trafficking or corruption. This is in marked contrast to the importance that Mexico has for Spain. For almost three centuries, Mexico was ‘one of Spain's most important colonies, and currently is among the countries receiving most of the Spanish capital investment. In the case of Germany, its relations with Mexico have historically been overshadowed by the latter's relations first with Spain and later with the United States. So, for example, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz, “Mexico accounted for 45.5% of American investments, whereas it only received 5.5% of all European investments, and only 1.1% of German JOHN RYLANDS UNIVERSPIY- UBRARY OF MANCHESTER Contents Abstract Declaration Acknowledgements Glossary of Acronyms in the Main Text INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 PART | CHAPTER 2 CHAPTER 3 THE ORIGINS OF THE THESIS. MAIN OBJECTIVES AND STRUCTURE OF THE THESIS ACADEMIC APPROACHES TO THE STUDY OF NETWORKS 1.1. From Classic “Network Analysis” to New Trends in Anthropology 1.2. The ‘Transnational Advocacy Networks” Approach 1.3. Networks, “Network Society’, and the “Information Age” 1.4. The “Social Netwar" Approach 1.5. Neo-Zapatista Networks and the Study of Social Movements in Latin America 1.6. My Own Perspective: Networks, “Moral Grammars’, and “Cognitive Frames" 1.6.1. Networks, Values and Recognition 6.2. Neo-Zapatismo, “Cognitive Frames”, and the Memories of Grievances CIVIL NEO-ZAPATISTA NETWORKS AGRARISTA NEO-ZAPATISTA NETWORKS DEMOCRATIC-ELECTORAL NEO-ZAPATISTA NETWORKS 10 4 14 19 20 26 33 37 4 45 53 59 69 74 81 97
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Five Ways the Animal Health Industry is Tackling AMR
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The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies antibiotic resistance (AMR) as one of the biggest dangers to global health. It threatens our ability to treat even common infectious diseases and puts millions at risk.
As Carel du Marhcie Sarvaas, HealthforAnimals Executive Director, stressed in a recent article in The Independent “The health of humans and animals remains intrinsically linked. It is in the interests of both humans and animals that together we tackle antibiotic resistance.”
Within the animal health industry, this is already happening. HealthforAnimals’ Commitment to responsible antibiotic use - ‘Animal Health Commitments and Actions on Antibiotic Use’ - outlines how the sector is working to be part of the solution. It’s investing billions in new disease treatments, training veterinarians on responsible use, improving husbandry and more.
Here’s five pioneering ways in which the sector is tackling AMR and safeguarding the health of humans and animals alike.
1. Development of animal-only antibiotics
The industry is working hard to develop animal-only antibiotics. Targeted medicines that treat certain species help to reduce the risk of AMR in humans because the drugs are never intended for human use.
Just last year, new drugs were approved in the US for pork and poultry, which will protect animal health without compromising human health.
2. Custom vaccines for disease prevention
Major investment is being made into vaccinations as the primary alternative to antibiotics. Advances in the types of vaccines that are available, with the use of techniques like molecular diagnostics, mean more effective, targeted treatments are being produced.
Custom-made vaccines, such as autogenus vaccines, can respond to a specific disease and can be targeted towards an individual population or viral strain. For example, blood samples from animals can be used to create custom vaccines for specific herds. Custom vaccines can reduce dependence on standard commercial vaccines.
Work is also being done to promote vaccination in countries with a high proportion of smallholders, where standard antibiotic use is high.
3. Investment in apps and wearable tech for animals
Digital solutions to health monitoring and diagnostics represent a key way in which the industry is working to identify and prevent disease outbreaks.
For example, an app has been developed in the US to manage porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC), a pig disease that halts their growth and causes a fever and anorexia. The technology allows for preventative steps that reduce the need for antibiotic treatment.
Elsewhere, wearable health technology is being used to track subtle changes in livestock that indicate illness, meaning farmers can be selective in giving antibiotics. For example, bluetooth ear tags can collect robust data on the behaviour of cattle, measuring temperature, activity and the animals’ environment. A sudden rise in temperature, as well as changes to eating and drinking habits can signify a possible health issue and the need for intervention.
4. Boosting immune health
The industry is becoming more invested in disease prevention, researching and implementing measures to enhance immune health and reduce the risk of illness.
Natural nutritional supplements have been shown to improve the overall health of poultry and lead to fewer health problems, thereby reducing the need for antibiotics. While the dairy industry is becoming more aware of how immunity boosting supplements can help cow herds avoid diseases, such as mastitis. Therefore, switching behaviours to prevention over cure will be an effective way of cutting antibiotic use.
5. Investment in disease management and best practice
A number of commitments are being made to seek out alternatives to antibiotics. Researchers are looking at topical antibiotics as first line treatments, and the development of more effective enzymes and probiotics to support good animal health.
Meanwhile animal health businesses are investing in educating veterinarians on the optimal way of using antibiotics and ensuring antibiotic administration is conducted only with veterinarian over-sight. In countries where this isn’t possible, farmers are also being engaged on this subject.
Further research to develop an understanding of AMR is ongoing, alongside monitoring programmes. Two years ago, WHO agreed to accept a Global Action Plan against AMR. The plan lays out extensive solutions and best practices that all countries can take to reduce AMR.
Specific best practice guidelines for disease prevention in livestock are also under development by individual countries. The American Association of Bovine Practitioners (AABP) recently published Antimicrobial Stewardship Guidelines for Bovine Practice, emphasising disease prevention and a reduction in the use of antibiotics.
HealthForAnimals has launched its Commitment to reducing antibiotic use across the animal health industry, which is supported by organizations representing over 200 companies and 700,000 veterinarians worldwide. Find out more.
Want to know more about how HealthForAnimals is helping to lead the debate? Read Carel Du Marchie Sarvaas’ opinion piece here
Link : https://www.healthforanimals.org/resources-and-events/resources/newsletter-repository/6-responsible-antibiotic-use.html?q=20
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Hopes: 2019
Tags: 2019, Ad Astra, Adolf Hitler, Alfred Hitchcock, Amy Adams, Ang Lee, Anna Kendrick, Bernadette, Big, Brad Pitt, Bruce Willis, Cate Blanchett, Chad Stahelski, Charlie's Angels, Charlize Theron, Chris Morris, Christian Bale, Chuck, Clive Owen, Clouds of Sils Maria, Cold Pursuit, David Leitch, David Robert Mitchell, Deadpool, Elizabeth Banks, Flarsky, Ford v Ferrari, Fritz Lang, Gary Oldman, Gemini Man, Glass, Groundhog Day, Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day 2U, Henry James, Hobbs and Shaw, Hopes: 2019, In Order of Disappearance, It Follows, James Gray, James Mangold, James McAvoy, Jason Blum, Jason Clarke, Jason Statham, Jerry Bruckheimer, Jessica Rothe, Joe Wright, John Lithgow, John Wick, John Wick: Parabellum, Jojo Rabbit, Joseph Conrad, Keanu Reeves, Kristen Stewart, LA, Le Mans, Liam Neeson, Los Angeles, M Night Shyamalan, Mackenzie Davis, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Matt Damon, MEW, Olivier Assayas, Personal Shopper, Pet Sematary, Pikachu, Pokemon, Pokemon: Detective Pikachu, Richard Linklater, Riley Keough, Ryan Reynolds, Samuel L Jackson, Scream, Seth Rogen, Shazam!, Split, Stellan Skarsgard, Stephen King, Taika Waititi, The Day Shall Come, The Rock, The Stath, The Turning, The Turning of the Screw, The Woman in the Window, Tommy Lee Jones, Unbreakable, Under the Silver Lake, Where'd You Go, Will Smith, WWII, Zachary Levi
They called him Mister…
Glass, an unlikely sequel
to Unbreakable
U.S. remake, but…
with same director, Neeson
in for Skarsgard. Hmm.
Groundhog Day: Part II.
I know what you Screamed before.
Meta-mad sequel.
Cate Blanchett missing,
Daughter on her trail, thru time,
Very Linklater…
Stephen King remake.
Yes, sometimes dead is better,
but maybe not here.
Chuck: superhero.
Big: but with superpowers.
This could be great fun.
Under the Silver Lake
It Follows: P.I.
Sort of, Garfield the P.I.
Riley Keough the femme
Pokemon: Detective Pikachu
Ryan Reynolds is voice
Pikachu is the shamus
PG Deadpool fun?
The Turning
of the screw, that is.
Mackenzie Davis the lead,
can the ghosts be real?
John Wick: Parabellum
Keanu is back
On a horse while in a suit
Killers in pursuit
James Gray does sci-fi,
Brad Pitt looks for dad in space,
Gets Conradian.
Flarksy
Rogen heart Theron;
High school crush, now head Canuck.
No problem. Wait, what?!
Ford v Ferrari
Mangold for long haul;
Le Mans! Ferrari must lose!
Thus spake Matt Damon
The Rock and The Stath.
The director of John Wick.
This will be bonkers.
Not the Fritz Lang one!
Amy Adams: Rear Window.
Joe Wright the new Hitch.
CR: Chris Large/FX
Will Smith and Ang Lee,
Clive Owen and the great MEW,
cloned hitman puzzler.
K-Stew’s big comeback
French films have made her, um, hip?
Just don’t bite your lip…
Anna Kendrick stars in-
Um, nobody knows a thing
Bar it’s Chris Morris
Jojo Rabbit
‘My friend Adolf H.’
is Taika Waititi-
this could get quite strange…
Tags: 20th Century Women, Christopher Nolan, Damian Chazelle, Dunkirk, F Gary Gray, Fast & Furious 8, Ingrid Goes West, La La Land, Logan Lucky, Matt Spicer, Mike Mills, Noah Baumbach, Olivier Assayas, Personal Shopper, Steven Soderbergh, Taika Waititi, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Thor: Ragnarok, Top 10 Films of 2017, Tye Sheridan, Wind River
10) The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)
Old Dustin Hoffman
Grumbles so loquaciously
His kids just despair
9) Thor: Ragnarok
Marvel does funny!
Or Taika Waititi
does Marvel, more like
8) Ingrid Goes West
Aubrey Plaza mad
Aubrey Plaza not bad though
Instagram’s to blame
7) La La Land
They sing and they dance
Might they fall in love perchance?
Well yes, all that jazz
6) Wind River
Two cold Avengers
Can’t believe it’s not Longmire
Till the hymn to wolves
5) Logan Lucky
Soderbergh returns
‘Ocean’s 7-11’
Hoot and a holler
3) Personal Shopper
Hip Kristen Stewart
Sees ghosts, shops for clothes, and waits
but who’s haunting her?
3) Dunkirk
Nolan does Dunkirk
Ticking clock horror movie
Don’t need words, just feel
2) Fast & Furious 8
Fire will not burn Vin
Bullets will not pierce The Rock
They forgive The State
1) 20th Century Women
Ode to older mums
The past lived as the present
ADIFF 2017
Tags: A Nightingale Falling, ADIFF 2017, Aiden Gillen, Aisling Walsh, Aki Kaurismäki, Alexandra Byrne, Anna Biller, Anna Friel, Asghar Farhadi, Audi Dublin International Film Festival, Ben Wheatley, Ben Young, Brexit, Cillian Murphy, Cristian Mungiu, Daouda Coulibaly, Dash Shaw, David Rane, Dennis Bartok, Donald Cried, Donald Trump, Emer Reynolds, Ethan Hawke, Francois Cluzet, Free Fire, Grainne Humphreys, Handsome Devil, Headshot, Hounds of Love, Hugh O'Conor, IFI Horrorthon, Iko Uwais, In Loco Parentis, Jack Reynor, Jamie Thraves, Jim Sheridan, John Butler, Juanita Wilson, Juho Kuosmanen, Just Eat, Ken Wardrop, Kerry Fox, Kris Avedisian, Lady Macbeth, Lone Scherfig, Lorcan Finnegan, Love Witch, Maud Lewis, Maudie, Michael Winterbottom, Mindhorn, Moe Dunford, Moka, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea!, Nails, Nathalie Baye, Neasa Ni Chianan, Olivier Assayas, Pablo Larraín, Pickups, Roddy Doyle, Ross Noble, Sally Hawkins, Scribe, Sean Foley, Sebastian Barry, Terence Davies, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, The Piano Lesson, The Rehearsal, The Savoy, The Secret Scripture, Tomato Red, Vanessa Redgrave, Volta Award, Wùlu, William Oldroyd, Without Name
The programme for ADIFF’s 15th celebration of cinema is now available to browse and download at www.diff.ie and tickets go on sale tomorrow Thursday January 19th at 10:00am; available by phone on +353 1 687 7974 or in person at DIFF, 13 Ormond Quay.
World cinema is coming to the Audi Dublin International Film Festival from 16th-26th February 2017 with Vanessa Redgrave, Nathalie Baye, Kerry Fox, Ross Noble, Ben Wheatley, and Anna Friel joining Irish stars Jack Reynor, Moe Dunford, Cillian Murphy, John Butler, and Aiden Gillen on the red carpet.
Grainne Humphreys, Festival Director, said ‘I’m thrilled with the selection of films that not only showcases some of the biggest names in world cinema but features a selection of first time directors from across the globe who will make a serious impression with our audience in this and in coming years. To be able to include new Irish films from Aisling Walsh, Jim Sheridan, Emer Reynolds, Aiden Gillen, John Butler, Neasa Ní Chianán, Juanita Wilson, and Ken Wardrop is an extraordinary testament to the current strength and depth of the Irish film industry. I hope that as many Dubliners as possible take this chance to explore and celebrate the art of film.’
Richard Molloy, Head of Marketing and Product at Audi Ireland, said, “Following a hugely successful partnership between Audi and the Dublin International Film Festival in 2016 we are proud to continue this into 2017. Audi’s brand philosophy, ‘Vorsprung durch Technik’, really connects with the festival’s ethos of inspiring progressiveness and creativity. Furthermore, our partnership with the festival allows us to celebrate the art of film-making while recognising new and emerging film talent. This year we are delighted to introduce an Audi Gala screening to the festival programme providing festival fans with the ultimate red carpet film experience.”
Galas and World Premieres
The Gala Opening Night of ADIFF 2017 will be the Irish Premiere of Maudie, the internationally acclaimed biopic of folk artist Maud Lewis by award-winning Irish director Aisling Walsh (Song for a Raggy Boy) which stars Sally Hawkins and Ethan Hawke. Jim Sheridan’s The Secret Scripture, adapted from the award-winning novel by Sebastian Barry, will receive a Gala Irish Premiere and see ADIFF present a Volta Award to British theatrical royalty Vanessa Redgrave. The Volta Award is the Festival’s most prestigious honour, reserved for those who have made an outstanding contribution to the world of film. Jack Reynor, Cillian Murphy, and Ben Wheatley will attend the Audi Gala screening of Wheatley’s new film Free Fire. ADIFF’s new Centrepiece Gala will be Neasa Ní Chianán and David Rane’s In Loco Parentis documentary study of the Headfort School. World Premieres at ADIFF 17 include Juanita Wilson’s Tomato Red with star Anna Friel in attendance, Dennis Bartok’s terrifying hospital horror Nails, and Aiden Gillen and Jamie Thraves’ Pickups (features Gillen playing a semi-fictionalised version of himself). Ken Wardrop (His & Hers) brings his characteristic warmth and humanity to piano grade exams in The Piano Lesson, while John Murray and Traolach Ó Murchú’s Photo City delves into the celluloid history of Rochester, NY. ADIFF’s prestigious Closing Night Gala is the Irish premiere of Handsome Devil, the new comedy-drama set in an Irish boarding school from John Butler, who directed The Stag.
International Programme
Nathalie Baye, Kerry Fox, and François Cluzet will attend the festival. Baye becomes the target of a dangerous obsession in Moka, Fox is the uncompromising acting teacher in The Rehearsal, and Cluzet stars in stylish paranoia thriller Scribe. ADIFF’s world cinema programme feature films from over 35 countries, from Bhutan to New Zealand, Seoul to Senegal, and Nova Scotia to Manila. There are new films from Festival favourites including Olivier Assayas, Pablo Larraín, Michael Winterbottom, Aki Kaurismäki, Ben Wheatley, Asghar Farhadi, Cristian Mungiu, Lone Scherfig, and Terence Davies. In 2011, Iko Uwais’ flying fists and lightning-fast feet in The Raid brought the house down in the Savoy. Now Uwais returns as the hero of IFI Horrorthon sell-out Headshot, bringing his astounding fighting skills to this tale of amnesia and revenge.
First-time Directors
This year’s programme features a number of new international voices making feature debuts: Juho Kuosmanen’s uplifting Oscar-tipped boxing biopic The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, Ben Young’s Australian kidnap nightmare Hounds of Love, British director William Oldroyd’s Lady Macbeth, and Daouda Coulibaly’s thrilling West African crime thriller Wùlu. Irish director Lorcan Finnegan’s deeply creepy walk in the woods eco-horror Without Name marks him out as a talent to watch closely in years to come. The frustration and unease those in the arts have felt at people uninterested in the arts voting for Brexit and Trump is expressed through acerbic and bitter humour – Dash Shaw’s My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea!, Sean Foley’s Mindhorn (with Ross Noble in attendance), Anna Biller’s Love Witch, and Kris Avedisian’s comedy of discomfort Donald Cried.
Special Events and the Surprise Film
Masterclasses include leading British director Ben Wheatley (High Rise, Free Fire, A Field in England, Kill List), and Oscar-winning costume designer Alexandra Byrne (Doctor Strange). Terence Davies, a singular master of film adaptations, will take part in a public interview with Roddy Doyle. Celebrating the current high point in Irish film, an exhibition by Hugh O’Conor features intimate portraits of his colleagues. An annual treat for the brave, the Surprise Film is a tightly guarded secret known only to the Festival Director, and this year the screening is supported by Just Eat, the official food ordering app, who will be offering special discounts and vouchers to the audience.
Fantastic Flix
The Festival’s expanding Fantastic Flix programme brings the world of cinema to the next generation in its packed festival of children’s films from around the globe, workshops, short film selections, the Fantastic Flix Children’s Jury and special events. Highlights include a special selection of films from visiting children’s author Dame Jacqueline Wilson, along with the Golden Globe-nominated animated film My Life as a Courgette, and Michaël Dudok de Wit’s The Red Turtle.
Alongside the Volta Awards that recognise outstanding achievement, the ADIFF Discovery Award sees the festival reward emerging Irish talent; the Dublin Film Critics Circle Jury selects the best of the festival for their awards ceremony; and film-goers themselves select their favourite with the AUDI-ence award. The AUDI-ence award-winning film-makers
will be flown to the Berlin International Film Festival in 2018, where they will enjoy a true VIP Audi experience.
JDIFF 2015: 15 Films
Filed under: Talking Movies — Fergal Casey @ 10:53 pm
Tags: 99 Homes, A Little Chaos, Alan McKenna, Alan Rickman, Alanis Morrisette, Albert Camus, Alex Ross Perry, All About Eve, Andrew Garfield, Apres Mai, Assault on Precinct 13, Barry Lyndon, Bret Easton Ellis, Brian O'Malley, Caitriona Balfe, Chloe Grace Moretz, Clouds of Sils Maria, Danny Huston, David Oelhoffen, E-1027, Eileen Gray, Elisabeth Moss, Eugene Cernan, Exile and the Kingdom, Far From Men, Force Majeure, Gallipoli, Gareth Dodds, GerardBarett, Glassland, Grainne Humphreys, Greenberg, Grigoriy Fesenko, Jack Reynor, James Warren, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, Jan Harlan, Jason Schwartzman, JDIFF, JDIFF 2015, Johannes Kuhnke, John Alcott, John Carpenter, Juliette Binoche, Kate Winslet, Ken Adam, King Vidor, Kristen Stewart, Krysten Ritter, Le Corbussier, Lenny Abrahamson, Let Us Prey, Liam Cunningham, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Listen Up Philip, Mark Craig, Mary McGuckian, Matthew Goode, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Shannon, Miroslav Slaboshpitksy, Olga Kurylenko, Olivier Assayas, Orla Brady, Orson Welles, Peter Jackson, Pilgrim Hill, Play, Pollyanna McIntosh, Pressure, Ramin Bahrani, Ron Scalpello, Ruben Ostlund, Russell Crowe, Ryan O'Neal, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Horne, The Crowd, The Guard, The Last Man on the Moon, The Lord of the Rings, The Price of Desire, The Trial, The Tribe, The Water Diviner, Toni Collette, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Perez, William Makepeace Thackeray, Yana Novikova, Yilmaz Erdogan
Booking opened for the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival at 7.30pm tonight, so here are 15 films to keep an eye on at the festival.
THE PRICE OF DESIRE (8.15pm Thu 19th Mar, Savoy)
Writer/director Mary McGuckian’s first film since The Man on the Train in 2011 opens the festival. Orla Brady stars as Irish modernist designer Eileen Gray, with Vincent Perez as legendary architect Le Corbussier. The film examines how Le Corbussier arrogantly attempted to minimise the contribution of Gray to a landmark piece of modernist architecture, the E-1027 house. Co-stars include Outlander’s Caitriona Balfe and Alanis Morrisette (!).
THE WATER DIVINER (7.30pm Fri 20th Mar, Savoy)
Russell Crowe makes his directorial debut with a WWI tale about the slaughter of the ANZAC in Turkey. Crowe’s farmer Joshua Connor travels to Gallipoli in 1919 in search of his three sons, missing in action since 1915. He is aided in this likely fool’s errand by Istanbul hotel manager Olga Kurylenko (Quantum of Solace) and heroic Turkish major Yilmaz Erdogan (Once Upon A Time in Anatolia).
99 HOMES (8.30pm Fri 20th, Cineworld)
Writer/director Ramin Bahrani tackles the collapse of the sub-prime bubble in this tale of Florida real estate. Michael Shannon is a heartless real estate agent who is the Mephistopholes to the Faust of Andrew Garfield’s unemployed contractor. First he evicts Garfield, then he offers him a job, and Garfield, though conflicted accepts… Yes, Shannon gets to let rip; according to him Bahrani kept polishing his set-piece rant throughout shooting.
BARRY LYNDON (1.30pm Sat 21st Mar, Savoy)
Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Thackeray’s picaresque romp Barry Lyndon is now 40 years old. Kubrick’s obsession with using only natural light was enabled by John Alcott, Ken Adam’s production design recreated the splendour of the 18th century, and a mischievous sense of humour belied the 3 hour running time and symmetrical compositions. Star Ryan O’Neal and producer Jan Harlan will be interviewed afterwards by Frank director Lenny Abrahamson.
LISTEN UP PHILIP (6.30pm Sun 22nd Mar, Cineworld)
Writer/director Alex Ross Perry breaks through with his third film. Jason Schwartzman is an obnoxious writer splitting up with Elisabeth Moss as he simmers over the reception of his second novel. His retreat in his mentor’s country home is interrupted by the arrival of Krysten Ritter. But can he get past his ego to notice her? Bret Easton Ellis vouches for this, but remember Greenberg, exercise caution.
THE CROWD (8.15pm Sun 22nd Mar, Lighthouse)
King Vidor’s 1928 silent movie The Crowd might be one of the earliest examples of a studio deliberately losing money in order to gain prestige. A portrait of urban alienation and ennui, whose influence can be seen in Orson Welles’ disorienting presentation of a vast office space in his 1963 film The Trial, this will have live accompaniment from Stephen Horne. A rare screening not to be missed.
THE TRIBE (6.00pm Tues 24th, Lighthouse)
Festival director Grainne Humphreys noted that Ukranian film-maker Miroslav Slaboshpitsky’s The Tribe is being screened because it reinvents the way you think about cinema. There are no subtitles, just sign language, as a young boy is initiated into the brutal gang culture of a boarding school for the deaf thru intense, complex long takes. Grigoriy Fesenko is the innocent who falls for Yana Novikova and upsets the vicious hierarchy.
FORCE MAJEURE (8.15pm Thu 26th Mar, Cineworld)
Force Majeure is a pitch-black Swedish comedy-drama from writer/director Ruben Ostlund (Play) that has been hailed by Bret Easton Ellis as one of 2014’s finest films. If you want to see a man, specifically Johannes Kuhnke, running away from a threatened avalanche when he should be saving the day (so his wife Lisa Loven Kongsli expects), then check out this droll study of total cowardice and family bickering.
GLASSLAND (6.30pm Fri 27th Mar, Lighthouse)
Director Gerard Barrett and star Jack Reynor, fresh from Sundance plaudits, will present Glassland. Barrett was the writer/director of Pilgrim Hill and he stays firmly within his comfort zone for another dark drama. Toni Collette’s alcoholism pushes her towards death, and her taxi-driver son Reynor into a dangerous clash with the Dublin criminal underworld of human trafficking. Barrett’s film-making has broadened in scope, but his vision remains grindingly bleak.
PRESSURE (9.00pm Fri 27th Mar, Cineworld)
Cineworld plays host to director Ron Scalpello, writers James Warren and Alan McKenna, and, most importantly, Talking Movies favourite Danny Huston, for a screening of their suspense thriller Pressure. Huston and Matthew Goode lead a small cast in a claustrophobic thriller as oil-rig repair workers trapped in a deep-sea pod after an accident who turn on each other. Huston is always effortlessly charismatic, and this is an acting showcase.
LET US PREY (10.40pm Fri 27th Mar, Lighthouse)
Liam Cunningham gets to be even more unhinged than his drug dealer in The Guard in Brian O’Malley’s tense horror. He lets rip with gusto as a mysterious stranger known only as Six, pitted against the forces of law and order in an isolated rural police station, led by rookie cop Pollyanna McIntosh. This has been described as a supernatural Assault on Precinct 13. Bring it on!
CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA (1.00pm Sat 28th Mar, Cineworld)
Olivier Assayas’ autobiographical Apres Mai also screened at JDIFF, and his follow-up psychodrama Clouds of Sils Maria was recently in the news for Kristen Stewart’s supporting actress Cesar win. Juliette Binoche’s famous actress is locked in conflict with Chloe Grace Moretz. Binoche is returning to the play that made her name, but her part is now taken by Moretz. Did you say Gallic All About Eve?
A LITTLE CHAOS (6.15pm Sat 28th Mar, Cineworld)
Alan Rickman unexpectedly returns to directing after a 17 year absence for his second feature. His sumptuously appointed period drama sees Kate Winslet’s landscape designer employed by Matthias Schoenaerts to work on the gardens of Versailles for Rickman’s exacting Louis XIV. But jealousies, both sexual and professional, dog her steps as she attempts to introduce a little anarchy into this ordered world revolving around the Sun King.
FAR FROM MEN (11.00am Sun 29th Mar, Savoy)
The difference between what Viggo Mortensen and Peter Jackson did after LOTR is enough to make you weep. Here the polyglot Viggo speaks French as a schoolteacher in colonial Algeria who develops an unusual bond with a dissident he must transport. Writer/director David Oelhoffen brilliantly transplants many Western tropes to Algeria’s war with France, but surely there are also echoes of Albert Camus’ Exile and the Kingdom?
THE LAST MAN ON THE MOON (2.00pm Sun 29th Mar, Savoy)
The Last Man On The Moon is the story of Eugene Cernan, an actual cowboy who became not just any old astronaut, but the only man to walk on the moon twice, and also the last moonwalker. Its spectacular footage, which regrettably includes CGI recreations of his spacewalks, will be on the Savoy’s biggest screen, with directors Gareth Dodds and Mark Craig interviewed afterwards.
JDIFF 2015: A Chair with Wings
Tags: A Little Chaos, Alan Rickman, Aleksandr Sokurov, Apres Mai, Barry Lyndon, Bord Gais Energy Theatre, Brenda Fricker, Bret Easton Ellis, Brian O'Malley, Cinderella, Cineworld, Cloud of Sils Maria, Conor McMahon, Danny Huston, Dare to be Wild, Don McKellar, Eileen Gray, Faust, Force Majeure, Francois Ozon, From the Dark, Gerard Barret, Glassland, Grainne Humphreys, IFI, In Cold Blood, Ivan Kavanagh, Jack Reynor, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, Jan Harlan, Jason Schwartzman, JDIFF, JDIFF 2015, Jean Renoir, John Carpenter, Julie Andrews, Kenneth Branagh, Kim Cattrall, King Vidor, Le Corbussier, Lenny Abrahamson, Let Us Prey, Liam Cunningham, Listen Up Phillip, Liv Ullman, Love/Hate, Mads Mikkelsen, Mary McGuckian, Matthew Goode, Miss Julie, Movies at Dundrum, Muriel's Wedding, Noah Baumbach, Olivier Assayas, Orla Brady, Partie de Campagne, Pat Murphy, Peter Bogdanovich, Pressure, Red Army, Richard Brooks, Riverbank Arts Centre, Robert Sheehan, Russell Crowe, Ryan O'Neal, Salvation, Sensitive Skin, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Horne, Stitches, Tana Bana, The Accidental Tourist, The Americanisation of Emily, The Canal, The Crowd, The Decent One, The Last Man on the Moon, The Lir Academy, The New Girlfriend, The Pavilion, The Price of Desire, The Road Within, The Salt of the Earth, The Savoy, The Scren, The Sound of Music, The Water Diviner, Toni Collette, Vincent Perez, Vivienne de Courcy, Volta, What's Up Doc?, While We're Young, White Tiger, Wim Wenders
The programme for the 2015 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival promises a number of international guests, including Julie Andrews, Kenneth Branagh, Russell Crowe, Kim Cattrall, Alan Rickman, Ryan O’Neal and Danny Huston, and intriguing films from diverse countries and eras.
The JDIFF 2015 programme was officially launched this morning by Festival Director Grainne Humphreys, who invoked The Accidental Tourist’s image of travel writing as giving the reader a chair with wings. The ‘Around the World’ programme features nearly 140 films from nearly 40 different countries across 11 days. Humphreys invoked the Festival’s mission to amplify and complement the world cinema which is available to Irish audiences, noting that 70 to 75% of the films screened at the Festival will never be screened again in Ireland. And when such one-off screening opportunities have in the past few years included such titles as the riveting Russian WWII movie White Tiger and Aleksandr Sokurov’s Faust it only underscores the importance of the Festival.
The Festival, in response to audience feedback, is expanding into new venues Movies at Dundrum, The Pavilion, and Riverbank Arts Centre, and introducing some double screenings. It is also ramping up its Picture House outreach project in hospitals and care homes, a project whose patron is Oscar-winning actress Brenda Fricker. A final new venue will be the Bord Gais Energy Theatre which will host the finale interview with Julie Andrews. That closing gala screening of The Sound of Music with Andrews, and Kenneth Branagh’s unveiling of his latest blockbuster directorial outing Cinderella, is indicative of a desire to make the Festival accessible to the most casual of cinemagoers rather than the intimidating preserve of cinephiles.
Julie Andrews and Kenneth Branagh will both receive Voltas, and there are many other guests in attendance between the 19th and 29th of March. As previously mentioned hereabouts Russell Crowe will be presenting his directorial debut, The Water Diviner, in which his character travels to Gallipoli in 1919 to search for his soldier sons, missing since 1915’s bloody landing on the Turkish peninsula. Another actor-director, Alan Rickman, will present his new movie A Little Chaos, in which Kate Winslet attempts to introduce a little anarchy to the gardens of Versailles under the watchful eye of Rickman’s King Louis XIV. Actor-producer Kim Cattrall meanwhile will give an acting masterclass to the students of the Lir Academy, and introduce episodes of her new satirical Canadian TV series Sensitive Skin co-starring Don McKellar.
The 40th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s period epic Barry Lyndon is marked by a screening in the Savoy with both star Ryan O’Neal and producer Jan Harlan, with Lenny Abrahamson leading a public interview afterwards, while O’Neal will also be on hand for a screening of Peter Bogdanovich’s 1972 neo-screwball comedy What’s, Up, Doc? And if all that weren’t enough to get you excited a Talking Movies favourite, the effortlessly charismatic Danny Huston, will do a Q&A after his new suspense thriller Pressure, in which he and Matthew Goode are trapped in a deep-sea station where mind-games soon jeopardise survival.
A strong line-up of Irish features encompasses genres from horror to rom-com, biopic to gangster. The Festival will be opened by Mary McGuckian’s The Price of Desire, a beatiful and compelling depiction of Irish modernist designer Eileen Gray’s collaboration with Le Corbussier on an iconic piece of archiecture, with stars Orla Brady and Vincent Perez in attendence. Love/Hate actor Robert Sheehan will be attending a screening of his new film The Road Within, and will participate in the Actors in Conversation event, part of this year’s Screen Test programme. Gerard Barret and Jack Reynor, fresh from Sundance glory, will present Glassland, in which Toni Collette’s alcoholism pushes her son Jack Reynor into a clash with the Dublin underworld. Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham lets rip against the Gardai in Brian O’Malley’s tense Let Us Prey, a homage to John Carpenter’s ouevre, while Conor McMahon dispenses with the comedy of Stitches for straight horror in From the Dark in which a couple in a farmhouse are terrorised. Also featured in the programme are Pat Murphy’s Tana Bana, Ivan Kavanagh’s The Canal, and Vivienne De Courcy’s colourful Dare to be Wild.
The Out of the Past season is always a Festival highlight and this year showcases Richard Brooks’ 1967 version of In Cold Blood starring Scott Wilson and Robert Blake as the killers immortalised by Truman Capote’s investigation of their brutal crime, PJ Hogan’s 1994 Abba-loving Australian comedy Muriel’s Wedding which made a star of Toni Collette, Jean Renoir’s Partie de Campagne based on a story by Guy de Maupassant, Arthur Hiller’s The Americanisation of Emily starring Julie Andres and James Garner in a tale written by Paddy Chayefsky, and King Vidor’s silent classic of urban alienation The Crowd with live accompaniment from pianist Stephen Horne.
The Reel To Reel documentary strand features a trio of intriguing titles. The Last Man On The Moon will see directors Mark Craig and Gareth Doods in attendence for a Savoy presentation of their account of the Eugene Cirnan, the only man to travel to the moon twice. Fellow NHL fans will be as excited as Talking Movies to see the engaging and moving Russian documentary Red Army, about the greatest ice hockey team ever assembled in the 1980s Winter Olympics and their playing careers in North America. From Germany meanwhile The Decent One unveils the private documents, journals and photographs of the SS comander Heinrich Himmler to present an intimate portrait of a family man quietly engaged in genocide.
The bread and butter of the Festival is its eclectic selection of features. The prolific and inimitable François Ozon’s latest film is The New Girlfriend, Olivier Assayas follows up autobiographical Apres Mai with the Cesar-winning psychodrama Cloud of Sils Maria, and Wim Wenders returns with The Salt of The Earth. Actor Mads Mikkelsen takes on the Old West with some Refn-like brutality in The Salvation, director Liv Ullman takes on August Strindberg’s iconic play Miss Julie, Noah Baumbach addresses the effects of technology on individual lives more successfully than Jason Reitman with While We’re Young, Jason Schwartzman antagonises everyone as an obnoxious writer in Listen Up Philip, and another Bret Easton Ellis 2014 favourite Force Majeure makes its debut here.
The full programme will be available on the festival website jdiff.com at 7pm tonight with online booking opening at 7.30pm. Tickets can be booked at the Festival Box Ofiice on 13 Lower Ormond Quay from 26th February, or at Ticket Offices in Cineworld or the Light House from 14th March.
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Recurrent ascites due to constrictive pericarditis
Education in Practice
James Philip Howard 1NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, London Chest Hospital, London, UK2Department of Cardiology, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Daniel Jones 1NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, London Chest Hospital, London, UK2Department of Cardiology, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Peter Mills 1NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, London Chest Hospital, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Richard Marley 3Department of Gastroenterology, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Andrew Wragg 1NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, London Chest Hospital, London, UK2Department of Cardiology, Barts and the London NHS Trust, London, UK PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
Correspondence to Andrew Wragg Department of Cardiology, London Chest Hospital, Bonner Road, Bethnal Green, London E2 9JX, UK; jphoward{at}doctors.org.uk
Howard JP, Jones D, Mills P, et al
Frontline Gastroenterology 2012;3:233-237.
Received March 10, 2012
Accepted May 7, 2012
First published July 19, 2012.
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Red Porno (1981)
March 1, 2005 Jim McLennan drama, erotic, reviews
Dir: Toshiharu Ikeda
Star: Jun Izumi, Masahiko Abe, Kyoko Ito, Miiko Sawaki
Certainly the most eye-catching title of the series, this incarnation of Nami lives in an apartment complex almost entirely populated by sexual deviants of one form or another. She’s not exempt, of course: after she ends up modelling for the titular magazine, she finds herself having to deal with a stalker. This is a short synopsis, but at only 64 minutes, it’s a short film, and a large chunk, percentage-wise, is spent on sexual hi-jinx. Though, at least initially, most are the solo kind – we even learn how a woman can masturbate using a raw egg and a fistful of pencils. Never say cinema can’t educate.
The most honest of the set about its intentions, it has nicely self-referential moments: “There are perverts everywhere nowadays,” mutters Nami at one point, and she might as well be talking through the screen to the audience. The moral here is, it’s harder to be who we are, than who people think we are. By the end, Nami prefers to fulfill people’s expectations, rather than go against them, but it ends somewhat hopefully. And art is on its side: not least, one wonderful moment where her stalker is being harassed by the apartment manager. The picture freezes, and we see an overlaid montage of him raping her. As an indictment of evil fantasy, it’s chillingly effective, and nicely contradicts another line from the film: “Pornography in Japan is totally tasteless, isn’t it?”
Jun Izumi
Kyoko Ito
Masahiko Abe
Miiko Sawaki
Toshiharu Ikeda
Nami (1979)
Red Vertigo (1988)
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00s, 5 stars, Comedy, Drama
About a Boy – 5 stars
I normally watch this during the holidays, but it is now on the HBO rotation, and I’ve been enjoying it in segments. Based on Nick Hornby’s novel (Hornby was also one of the screenwriters), this is a fine story of a charming but vacuous and intentionally isolated rich guy (Will, played by Hugh Grant) who corrals a neighborhood boy into playing his son in the hopes it will impress a romantic target. He is soon brought into the boy’s world, against all his selfish instincts.
This is a very funny film. The comedic set pieces (including a harrowing talent show, the death of a park swan, and awkward support groups) are masterful. The narrative is punctuated by voiceovers from Marcus or Will, and their observations are either hilarious or sentimental. The message is A Christmas Carol – no man is an island, and we are defined by how we treat each other, but for every sweet note, there is an arch counterpoint. My favorite is Will’s voiceover upon meeting Marcus’s earthy, liberal, disapproving mother, Fiona (Toni Collette) over lunch, where he lords his non-vegan ways by ordering steak while, in his mind, deriding her sweater.
Grant is usually reliant on an affected, stammering, faux-shy schtick (his performances in Notting Hill and Love Actually are of this stripe; cloying and relentlessly puppydog). But here, he’s pretty much a dick, playing Will as someone who enjoys a relationship only to the extent it provides him an opportunity or the solace of being kind-hearted. Once there is heavy lifting, he is out, as Grant explains:
Grant is really quite good in the role, especially upon the realization that he is worth nothing in this world. Nicholas Hoult plays Marcus with a sweet perseverance that never once smacks of child-actor manipulation, and Collette is truly vulnerable as Marcus’ crunchy, depressed mother, who is oblivious to the needs of Marcus, his desperation to save her, and the burdens she places on his shoulders.
It’s also heartening to know that poor, sweet Marcus
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Local ER doctor warns of health dangers caused by potholes
Posted 1:17 AM, February 21, 2018, by Deanna Allbrittin
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- A local ER doc is sounding the alarm about the dangers of our city’s potholes.
He says the poor road conditions in Indianapolis are now a matter of life or death for some people.
“You can see how easy a big bump in the ambulance could pull that tube out or dislodge it,” said Dr. Louis Profeta, a St. Vincent ER doctor.
For a small child, with a tiny trach tube, a bump in the road could be deadly.
“We could take a child that is critically ill, being transported, and we could lose their airway and they could literally die with the problem with potholes,” said Profeta.
For the first time in his entire career, Profeta has to consider that worst-case scenario. Recently, he thought one child might not make it just a few miles on Indy’s battered streets to the 86th street St. Vincent pediatric ICU.
“I actually briefly contemplated flying this kid by helicopter, just a few miles, which is preposterous,” said Dr. Profeta. “You should be able to put a kid, any critically ill patient in an ambulance and be able to transport them by ground safely.”
In the 30 minutes we spent near the 86th Street hospital, FOX59 crews saw two people changing tires blown out by these craters.
“I knew it was my time,” said Kyle McKinney, one of the drivers who busted a tire. “I get a flat every year it seems like, from a pothole. So, I knew my day was coming.”
With potholes the worst he’s ever seen, McKinney felt lucky to avoid busting a tire this long.
As frustrating as replacing a tire is, Profeta says what we saw today is proof how bad and dangerous, the roads are.
“Money and your car is one thing, but losing a loved one, you’ll never recover from that,” said Profeta.
He's calling on city officials to find a way to fix this mess.
“This idea that you’re putting a Band-Aid on a bullet hole, well at least it’s a start,” said Profeta. “We need to be out there starting.”
FOX59 reached out to the mayor’s office.
In an email, a spokesperson says “the mayor has been engaged in conversations with his Central Indiana colleagues about ways that income taxes can be equitable distributed to address infrastructure benefiting the entire area.”
They went on to say that the city’s infrastructure is a critical public safety issue, but did not specifically respond to Profeta’s concerns about patient safety.
Councilor Leroy Robinson, whose district includes the hospital, responded to questions about the road conditions via email.
He stated, “The potholes on 86th Street in front of the hospital were filled last week, as I was personally out there with the DPW crews during the filling process.”
While the FOX59 crew observed some resurfacing to parts of 86th between Ditch and Township Line Road, the road was filled with potholes on 86th in front of the hospital.
Robinson also says the Harcourt Road side of the hospital is scheduled to be resurfaced during the 2018 infrastructure season and the west side of the hospital, on Knabb Road, was recently completed a few years ago.
“You know we had a telethon years ago where we saved the Pacers organization,” said Profeta. “Get on TV, OK? I’ll give you a hundred dollars right now Mr. Mayor. I’ll come out there with shovels. I’ll get ten of my friends. I’ll get a hundred of my friends. And we’ll come out and we’ll help.”
He said he’d give more if it meant patients would be safe.
A Department of Public Works official tells us they plan to start another pothole blitz next week. The last one lasted four days in late January.
In the meantime, medical crews continually have to find ways to navigate the potholes during life-or-death moments.
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Purdue, Sacklers Scramble to Respond to Wave of Lawsuits
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Charles Fain Lehman - April 3, 2019 12:55 PM
Purdue Pharma, the embattled makers of the now infamous painkiller OxyContin, have made several key moves in the past week in response to the ever-mounting wave of litigation they now face.
Last week, the firm reached a $270 million settlement with the state of Oklahoma rather than go to court, the New York Times reported. This payment is intended as compensation for the role the firm has played in the on-going opioid crisis. Namely, its distribution of the high-potency, long-lasting pill OxyContin has been connected to the surge in prescription opioid deaths over the past decade and, after its reformulation, indirectly to the heroin crisis.
Purdue has been accused of engaging in deceitful and harmful advertising practices, allegedly pushing their drugs on doctors and patients on the basis of minimal scientific evidence. The settlement with Oklahoma represents at least partial acknowledgement by the firm that it played some role in opioid deaths there, including the burdens that the crisis has placed on the state.
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However, settlement with one state still leaves 35 more suing the company, as well as the 1600 plaintiffs in a federal court case against Purdue currently consolidated in the northern district of Ohio.
"The settlement does put a stake in the ground for the other cases," Abbe R. Gluck, a professor at Yale Law School, told the Times. "It telegraphs what these cases might be worth and makes the elephant in the room even larger — namely, do Purdue and the Sacklers have sufficient funds to give fair payouts in the 1600-plus cases that remain?"
Purdue is indeed rumored to be considering bankruptcy, as it faces potential damages that could dwarf even the 1998 Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement in scale. While willing to pay out to Oklahoma, the company has thus far sought to protect a different pot of money, namely the personal funds of its owners, the ultra-wealthy Sackler family.
The state of Massachusetts became the first to bring suit against the Sacklers independent of their company last June, alleging that members of the family — especially former Purdue president Richard Sackler — were directly involved in the aggressive marketing of OxyContin. Since then, other states including New York, have brought similar personal suits.
On Tuesday, the LA Times reports, the family fired back, claiming that the Massachusetts lawsuit contained "misleading and inflammatory allegations" and willfully takes internal emails out of context to paint a misleading picture.
"We are confident the court will look past the inflammatory media coverage generated by the misleading complaint and apply the law fairly by dismissing all of these claims," Sackler family members said in a statement.
But the Massachusetts suit may be just the beginning for the family's legal troubles. Reporting from the New York Times Monday, based on the New York lawsuit, suggests that in 2014, the Sacklers sought to profit off of a crisis they helped create by expanding into for-profit opioid-use disorder treatment. (The family told the Times that these filings were also "filled with claims that are demonstrably false and unsupportable by the actual facts.")
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Charles Fain Lehman is a staff writer for the Washington Free Beacon. He writes about policy, covering crime, law, drugs, immigration, and social issues. Reach him on twitter (@CharlesFLehman) or by email at lehman@freebeacon.com.
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NBC Panel: Avenatti Is ‘Begging for TV Cameras’, His Client Has ‘Real Credibility Problems’
Aryssa Damron - October 1, 2018 1:46 PM
NBC panelists said Monday that attorney Michael Avenatti is "begging for TV cameras" and his client Julie Swetnick, who accuses Brett Kavanaugh of participating in parties where "gang rapes" occurred, "has some real credibility problems."
As "Today" host Megyn Kelly pointed out, Swetnick's problematic past has come out in recent days since she accused Kavanaugh, while he was in high school, of participating in gang rape parties, groping girls, and spiking drinks with alcohol and drugs. Kavanaugh denies these allegations, as well as allegations made against him by Christine Blasey Ford and Deborah Ramirez.
"She [Swetnick] faced allegations of her own misconduct during a stint at a company 18 years ago," Kelly told her panel, referencing reports that emerged over the weekend.
"[A former employer said] she engaged in unwelcome sexually offensive conduct herself … she made false and retaliatory allegations against her coworkers … she took medical leave and simultaneously received unemployment benefits," Kelly continued.
According to the reports Kelly referenced, Swetnick also claimed to have attended Johns Hopkins University, but the former employer found no record of her having attended the school.
Avenatti has complained his client has not been questioned by the FBI about her claims. The FBI reopened its background investigation into Kavanaugh and the accusations Ford made against him at the request of President Donald Trump, who was asked by the Senate Judiciary Committee to do so on Friday. The investigation is limited in scope and expected to wrap up within seven days from when it was ordered.
Though Avenatti has asked "[Swetnick's] privacy and that of her family be respected," he has also been a frequent guest on news programs to talk about his clients.
The NBC panel on Monday was not surprised by Avenatti's "begging" for the FBI to investigate his client's claims.
"It is outrageous that my client has not been contacted by the FBI because Trump is instructing them not to," Avenatti tweeted on Monday. "He is trying to ram through a nomination by purposely preventing the truth from being known. This is a threat to our very democracy."
Please read the below. It is outrageous that my client has not been contacted by the FBI because Trump is instructing them not to. He is trying to ram through a nomination by purposely preventing the truth from being known. This is a threat to our very democracy. #Sham #Basta pic.twitter.com/lnjQ8ZZ1vE
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) October 1, 2018
"She may not like the FBI looking more closely," said Amy Holmes, co-host of PBS' "In Principle."
NBC legal analyst Dan Goldman added, "She has some real credibility problems."
"He's been begging for TV cameras," Holmes said of Avenatti.
Avenatti has floated the idea of running for president as a Democrat in 2020 and said on Sunday that he has gotten support and enthusiasm from Democrats to do so.
"I've received a lot of encouragement from the Democratic National Committee and senior leadership within the committee, frankly, to run," he told MSNBC host Kasie Hunt.
During a press conference held in the wake of a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico, Trump said he heard Swetnick had "credibility problems" and that she should only be questioned by the FBI if she is credible.
Trump, who has stood by Kavanaugh, criticized Avenatti last week as a "third rate lawyer" and a "total low-life" who he says has made false accusations against him and his Supreme Court nominee.
"Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations, like he did on me and like he is now doing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh," Trump tweeted last week after Swetnick's accusations came out in The New Yorker. "He is just looking for attention and doesn’t want people to look at his past record and relationships – a total low-life!"
Avenatti is a third rate lawyer who is good at making false accusations, like he did on me and like he is now doing on Judge Brett Kavanaugh. He is just looking for attention and doesn’t want people to look at his past record and relationships – a total low-life!
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Aryssa Damron is a 2018 fall intern at the Washington Free Beacon. She is a graduate student at the University of Kentucky and holds a B.A. in English from Yale University. Prior to working at the Free Beacon, she interned with Simon & Schuster, Regnery Publishing, Conservative Book Club, and the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.
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Role model: who is yours?
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Re: Role model: who is yours?
Postby wrangler_rover » 26 Jan 2016, 4:25pm
Mine used to be Rick Wakeman but after thinking long and hard, I don't want to be known as a grumpy old man so I no longer have a role model.
Putting it simply, my personal anthem is the Chesney Hawkes song "I am the one and only."
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Postby reohn2 » 26 Jan 2016, 5:29pm
PaulB wrote: I agree with Audax67 and Mick F.
I've never understood the concept of 'Role Models'. I am me and try to be as nice a person as possible but why would I want to be like someone else. People who need role models must feel somehow inferior and need guidance through life. As has been said; I can admire someone's achievements but I don't necessarily want to be like them.
.......... as an adult I want to live my own life and not become a pale imitation of someone else.
I agree it's odd for an adult having a 'role model'.I actually find the term itself slightly nauseating.
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Postby brynpoeth » 23 Feb 2016, 5:42pm
Täve Schur from Magdeburg, he is 85 today. His greatest moment was when he came second in the world championship, his team-mate sneaked away to win because all the other riders were watching Täve.
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Postby pwa » 24 Feb 2016, 8:53am
The phrase Role Model is usually applied to a person who is in a prominent position in the media, with the potential to influence the world view of young people who are still developing their idea of what life is about. I'm not the least bit interested on football, but I have always thought Bobby Charlton was / is about as good an example as you will find. I know he is getting on a bit now and most kids won't know him, but among Manchester United fans he is still held in esteem. Initially he was a very talented player, and that is how he made his mark. But even then he was known for never having been sent off. Later he was involved in encouraging young players. I particularly remember seeing him on TV at a European final where crowd violence had led to a wall falling down and killing lots of spectators. He had tears in his eyes and he said that football was just a game and not something that should lead to people losing their lives. He has good values and has been a good role model.
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Postby Bicycler » 24 Feb 2016, 10:15am
a European final where crowd violence had led to a wall falling down and killing lots of spectators.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heysel_Stadium_disaster
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Postby meic » 24 Feb 2016, 10:25am
James Bolivar DiGriz.
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Postby NATURAL ANKLING » 24 Feb 2016, 11:01am
A good "Role model" you might use.
I am in the old git club with the other old gits - "PaulB wrote:I agree with Audax67 and Mick F. Plus the other who's just got in reohn2.
"a person whose behavior, example, or success is or can be emulated by others, especially by younger people."
Maybe more something you say than mean literally.
And too slow as someones got there first (that's me)
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Postby Vantage » 24 Feb 2016, 3:19pm
As others have said, The idea of trying to live up to someone else makes no sense to me. I am who I am and as time passes, I try to improve on who I am but if the end result isn't good enough for someone else, tough luck
“Ride as much or as little, or as long or as short as you feel. But ride.” ~ Eddy Merckx
It's a rich man whos children run to him when his pockets are empty.
Postby al_yrpal » 24 Feb 2016, 3:24pm
That bloke who shouted at Corbyn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZPTZuwwHng
georgew
Postby georgew » 24 Feb 2016, 4:29pm
Giuseppe Garibaldi...a truly selfless man who united Italy.
I've been trying for over seventy years to emulate him and finally I think I've cracked it.
beardy
Postby beardy » 24 Feb 2016, 4:45pm
Isnt that cheating? as he had already united Italy, making your task rather easier.
beardy wrote: Isnt that cheating? as he had already united Italy, making your task rather easier.
This is true but I'd be obliged if it didn't get around.
tyreon
Postby tyreon » 24 Feb 2016, 7:01pm
Just off the top of my head...I rather like George Galloway!! I was engaged how MI5 tried to fix him up when he started questioning Iraq and TB and all the other crowd. The whole show was quite frightening and ridiculous. Telegraph reporter goes to Iraq(never been there before) Requests taxi driver to take him to some intelligence building(never been there before too). Goes to 5th floor(why floor 5?). Goes to cabinet(200 cabinets there?) Having opened said cabinet, delves in and finds first file with links to George Galloway?charity/oil scandal!!! What fortuitousness!!!!! Just luck...so we were told Later they try to arraign GG in USA with a trumped up charge at a Kangaroo court. The bloke stood his ground when he a lesser man might have run...or have been sent down for 400 years. A comedy classic... but with intent to silence the man. I really am surprised that he hasn't been accidently knocked down by an out-o-control lorry. I guess if he rode a bike he'd be gone by now.
Yes,GG has faults...but he doesn't seem to be initimidated. Not on this occasion. Looking forward to the Killing of TB(the film) I wonder if any future trial could be held in Wembley. Be my first visit
Galloway is an unprincipled populist who will attach himself to any cause for his own personal advancement. He is an old-style orator it is true and there are few of these today, but this hardly excuses his behaviour. It is also true that he was fitted up by MI6 (not MI5) as he was proving an inconvenience to the Government of the day but again his only belief is in his own advancement.
Postby tyreon » 24 Feb 2016, 10:19pm
Yes,Mr G is not to everyone's taste. I respect your view. I just respect if the fitting up had of been successful he would go down like those others who have upset the willing coalition: life sentence. GG must be one of the most reviled people in GB today,and this by the Labour Party! How strange life has become. The LP have really gone out of their way to traduce him. Then you have the whole machinery of the US and GB: he must be the cleanest bloke in IK politics! For sure,they must have investigated every avenue to prosecute him. His house must be bugged. Strange how those responsible for 2 millions deaths(always multiply any government figure that shows bad light on government by x2)seemed to have walked away,pensions,££,investments careers intact. I would have thought he could have made much more £££ and a better career by oiling-up to the status quo,there is brain power in there(tho misdirected some say) I rather like those who speak truth to power,not many survive of course. By way of an advertisement,if any filth can be got on the man there must be a great reward. TBH I think I'd vote for him as Mayor of London when I look at the other crowd. Apologies.
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26 Reply by cormar 2016-06-29 23:46:27
cormar
i am from holland. in my opinion the EU is a slowly dying giant and after the brexit there will more exits in the following years. people don't recognise themselves in the policy and the decissions from Bruxelles and disagree most of them.
27 Reply by saturo 2016-06-30 01:43:23 (edited by saturo 2016-06-30 01:45:48)
saturo
Kanga wrote:
As for this economic catastrophe, the markets seems to have stabilized and the growth prediction have been lowered with 0.3% for this year which I personally would consider fantastic as I feared much worse myself but that only goes to show how much fear was used as a tool in the remain campaign.
It's to early to predict how the markets to be affected but seeing as most indexes in the world is on steroids due to the low interest rates. My view is that when interest rates gets hiked this will show the market impact especially for LSE since cost of borrowing money will increase with lower credit grade.
28 Reply by CarmarthenLad 2016-06-30 14:48:34
CarmarthenLad
The leave campaign was never in a position to promise anything, the only thing they could do was to suggest where any money saved could be used. They don't have a plan for leaving either, that would be the government who is supposed to create one and the leave campaign wasn't the government so no planning or promises, it simply wasn't their job. As for this economic catastrophe, the markets seems to have stabilized and the growth prediction have been lowered with 0.3% for this year which I personally would consider fantastic as I feared much worse myself but that only goes to show how much fear was used as a tool in the remain campaign.
The markets have stabilised since it became apparent that article 50 was certainly not going to be activated in the near future, and that even if it is activated, Britain will in all likelihood seek refuge in the EEA rather than turning their back on Europe as the Brexiters maintained.
That stabilisation though is not a recovery. The FTSE 250 (the measure of the british based companies trading with the rest of the world, rather than the FTSE 100 that represents multinationals who happen to have their market capitalisation in the City) is still well over 1000 points down, Sterling is still trading 15 cents lower and no-one, but no-one, except a handful of politicians within the leave campaign seriously believes that the UK hasn't done itself serious economic damage that will take something like 3 decades to fully unwind and then overcome. All the banks, all the hedge funds, all the trading floors around the world are in agreement, so it matters not what the politicians say. The people who make the market have decided it is a bad thing, and they are the sole arbiters - they ARE the market, so the market will reflect that.
My bet is that the next Government will go cap-in-hand to Brussels begging to be let back into the club. Whatever happens, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, chief cheerleader and principal liar of the leave campaign has run away from the problems he created, he has withdrawn from the race for the thing he has wanted most in his entire life (the leadership of the country), because he knows that whoever is Prime Minister is between a rock and a hard place with very little room to manoeuvre .
29 Reply by Kanga 2016-06-30 20:58:34 (edited by Kanga 2016-06-30 20:59:24)
Kanga
CarmarthenLad wrote:
1. 3 decades, rofl. ~0.3% growth is not even the difference between a good year and a bad year.
2. Economists allover the place is saying that they don't have a clue on how it is going to go for UK since there is no precedent and that it depends mainly on central banks. The only thing they are sure about is a minor growthstop(see 0.3%) and that the pound will be weakened a bit, probably the ~15cents which in turn will make it slightly more competitive. It all depends on UKs own choices now as well as how the central banks are going to react.
30 Reply by Suasor 2016-07-01 04:07:35
What a lot of critics of the Brexit vote miss is the "no legislation without representation" component. Not the first time Brits took a stand on that (13th and 18th century come to mind and there were many others).
31 Reply by Wyllie 2016-07-02 23:31:00
Subject: Fw: E U grants
A few thoughts to ponder.
Cadbury moved factory to Poland 2011 with EU grant.
Ford Transit moved to Turkey 2013 with EU grant.
Jaguar Land Rover has recently agreed to build a new plant ...in Slovakia with EU grant, owned by Tata, the same company who have trashed our steel works and emptied the workers pension funds.
Peugeot closed its Ryton (was Rootes Group) plant and moved production to Slovakia with EU grant.
British Army's new Ajax fighting vehicles to be built in SPAIN using SWEDISH steel at the request of the EU to support jobs in Spain with EU grant, rather than Wales.
Dyson gone to Malaysia, with an EU loan
Crown Closures, Bournemouth (Was METAL BOX), gone to Poland with EU grant,once employed 1,200.
Marks & Spencer manufacturing gone to far east with EU loan.
Hornby models gone. In fact all toys and models now gone from UK along with the patents all with with EU grants.
Gillette gone to eastern Europe with EU grant.
Texas Instruments Greenock gone to Germany with EU grant.
Indesit at Bodelwyddan Wales gone with EU grant.
Sekisui Alveo said production at its Merthyr Tydfil Industrial Park foam plant will relocate production to Roermond in the Netherlands, with EU funding.
Hoover Merthyr factory moved out of UK to Czech Republic and the Far East by Italian company Candy with EU backing.
ICI integration into Holland's Akzo Nobel with EU bank loan and within days of the merger, several factories in the UK, were closed, eliminating 3,500 jobs
Boots sold to Italians Stefano Pessina who have based their HQ in Switzerland to avoid tax to the tune of £80 million a year, using an EU loan for the purchase.
JDS Uniphase run by two Dutch men, bought up companies in the UK with £20 million in EU 'regeneration' grants, created a pollution nightmare and just closed it all down leaving 1,200 out of work and an environmental clean-uppaid for by the UK tax-payer. They also raided the pension fund and drained it
dry.
UK airports are owned by a Spanish company.
Scottish Power is owned by a Spanish company.
Most London buses are run by Spanish and German companies.
The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to be built by French company EDF, part owned by the French government, using cheap Chinese steel that has catastrophically failed in other nuclear installations. Now EDF say the costs will be double or more and it will be very late even if it does come online.
Swindon was once our producer of rail locomotives and rolling stock. Not anymore, it's Bombardier in Derby and due to their losses in the aviation market,that could see the end of the British railways manufacturing altogether even though Bombardier had EU grants to keep Derby going which they diverted to their loss-making aviation side in Canada.
39% of British invention patents have been passed to foreign companies, many of them in the EU
The Mini cars that Cameron stood in front of as an example of British engineering, are built by BMW mostly in Holland and Austria. His campaign bus was made in Germany even though we have Plaxton, Optare, Bluebird, Dennis etc., in the UK.
The bicycle for the Greens was made in the far east, not by Raleigh UK but then they are probably going to move to the Netherlands too as they have said recently.
Anyone who thinks the EU is good for British industry or any other business simply hasn't paid attention to what has been systematically asset-stripped from the UK. Name me one major technology company still running in the UK, I used to contract out to many, then the work just dried up as they were sold off to companies from France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, etc., and now we don't even teach electronic technology for technicians any more, due to EU regulations.
I haven't detailed our non-existent fishing industry the EU paid to destroy nor the farmers being paid NOT to produce food they could sell for more than they get paid to do nothing, don't even go there.
I haven't mentioned what it costs us to be asset-stripped like this, nor have I mentioned immigration, nor the risk to our security if control of our armed forces is passed to Brussels or Germany.
Find something that's gone the other way, I've looked and I just can't. If you think the EU is a good idea,
1 You haven't read the party manifesto of The European Peoples' Party.
2 You haven't had to deal with EU petty bureaucracy tearing your business
3 You don't think it matters.
32 Reply by Selket 2016-07-03 21:16:35
Selket
Well on the bright side...there will be some sort of silver lining at one point, like someone who lost his right hand can get a kickass robothand...that sort of silver lining.
33 Reply by sondelashaft 2016-07-05 01:34:01
sondelashaft
One of the UK’s leading EU law experts criticizes the referendum debate’s 'dishonesty on an industrial scale', as he considers the claims and counter claims from each side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USTypBKEd8Y
Wyllie wrote:
Not this tired old set of tropes again.
Have you even read this before you copy/pasted, let alone fact checked it?
It is baloney from start to finish, with every fact either distorted or entirely irrelevant to the EU debate. Just adding the words "with an EU grant" at the end of each sentence doesn't make it a credible argument against the EU.
35 Reply by makruss 2016-07-07 02:55:29
makruss
Hey - it's interesting to find but not surprising to find this discussion here - but again - that the thing what interests the people and that the reason its must be discussed.
I am kind of "history buff" my self from very early age and that means over 40 years and all most EVERY time when discussion arises about EU (and Brexit to) and Europe faith, destiny and HISTORY people are tended to overlook lots of things. Mostly because that "our" mainstream media DO NOT report about them. There are like 3 big company's in the world that own basically ALL media (at least in the "western world") and they are controlled by the same people that controll "our" politicians.
But first - organization or alliance which is created by deceit or by force will not stand long.
First and best example is Soviet Union and second good one is EU.
I over lived first and probably over live the second.
In 1929 man named Coudenhove Kalergi did write a book named Practiche Idealissimus (by the way if ANY one can find a full copy of it please let me now and dont to forget to read it) wich is practically "cleaned" out from any public place - library's, book stores etc.
In it he wrote (parafrasing) that - "European root populace must be reduced from its current volume by 90% - this is the amount WE can CONTROL and MANAGE them. The void must be filled by people from Asia, Africa and Near-East or with the people that are more controllable then white Europeans. To achieve our goal ANY and ALL means are permitted and welcomed."
Lets not forget that Kalergi was one of the authors of Pan-European movement. Lets not forget that for remembering him EU parliament but a plaque with his likeness in Bruessels and the time of birthday they remembering him by visiting that place.
So in the 2007 on of the big general in NATO told that "we must bomb the 7 country's to kingdoms come to bring them to they knees and to change the regime". The this time current goverments weren't ideal but they were not much worst then some of the allays of the EU/NATO.
So THIS bombing was that trigger to "refugee" influx. Like some previous members said - "refugee" influx jumped crime rates in ALL Europe. Worst are in Germany, Sweden and UK but other members are all so "in the loop".
I can "rant" hours the spit out information about history and current events and even gave names and dates and political affiliation on those people the are IN PURPOSE driving us in that poor state Europe is now, but it will be mostly information people are rejecting because TRUTH HURTS. Mostly it hurts when WE KNOW in side us that its the truth bud we are thinking e cant change anything. But like Brexit shows WE CAN.
Id liked VERY MUCH the EUROPE would be united but not in this way and under current conditions I salute all brits and everybody else to vote EXIT from this monstrosity called EU. I hope I can see the day when ALL DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENTS are driven OUT from EUROPE and we can live our lives in fullest.
United we stand and separated we fall.
36 Reply by xzeal 2016-07-07 04:59:15
xzeal
stop making a billion accounts to post your bs which lacks any references.
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Samatar Crossing (former 5th Street exit from 94 / bridge over 35W)
Re: Samatar Crossing
10.5' or 11' lanes instead of 12' would both help calm traffic and give more space for the MUP.
KML_1981
Re: Street, Road and Highway Projects
Postby KML_1981 » July 15th, 2016, 12:22 pm
Now that the new 7th St. exit ramp from WB 94 is open for business, does anyone have any update on when the old 5th St. Ramp will connect to and allow access from the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood? Haven't been over there and have been curious. Thanks for any info!
Postby mattaudio » July 15th, 2016, 1:12 pm
I haven't seen anything more specific than "2016."
http://www.minneapolismn.gov/cip/2016/WCMSP-173830
Postby RailBaronYarr » July 15th, 2016, 1:13 pm
When the PAC reviewed the plans, they were targeting to begin work in July/August after the ramp opened. I haven't circled back yet to see if the schedule changed.
Re: Samatar Crossing (former 5th Street exit / bridge over I-94)
Postby KML_1981 » July 15th, 2016, 2:17 pm
Thanks! Didn't realize it had its own thread.
I did see the city's page with a vague start date of "2016." Just didn't know if anyone who frequents or lives over there has noticed any progress.
Postby MNdible » July 15th, 2016, 2:40 pm
This article suggests that construction has been pushed back to next year.
Hay said construction for the crossing is expected to start sometime in 2017 instead of its originally planned 2016 start due to resistance from the community members.
Postby grant1simons2 » July 15th, 2016, 5:18 pm
Resistance from community members... What
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Postby intercomnut » July 15th, 2016, 9:14 pm
grant1simons2 wrote: Resistance from community members... What
They're worried about the increased car traffic it could bring.
Postby PhilmerPhil » July 16th, 2016, 1:25 am
Wasn't it supposed to be ped/bike only in the first place? (With a skatepark that has now been forgotten.)
Postby twincitizen » July 16th, 2016, 12:12 pm
Idea: make it one-way northbound for cars. Then it can't "bring" traffic to Cedar-Riverside
PhilmerPhil wrote: Wasn't it supposed to be ped/bike only in the first place? (With a skatepark that has now been forgotten.)
This was brought up at the PAC. Steve Hay said both the car-free nature and skate park area on the east side were both things the mayor had suggested and many people just kind of ran with it without any official confirmation of that plan by PW.
As to how much traffic it would generate to CR, I don't really know. 5th St on the downtown side isn't directly connected to the grid anymore, and once you're over to CR you've got to manage a bunch of turns and whatnot if you were trying to cut over to Cedar. I totally get the concern since the area at 6th/15th is a very heavy pedestrian area with a lot of kids using that park. On one hand, I get the benefits of reconnecting the grid for all users wherever possible (city policy) which spreads traffic around a bit. On the other, this seems like such a pointless connection for cars that it could probably be foregone. I think our suggestion (the PAC) was to approve it but only if significant traffic calming measures were explored for 6th/15th.
Here's the Strib story: http://www.startribune.com/samatar-cros ... 388329331/
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Postby versitalex » July 27th, 2016, 3:38 am
The plan at http://www.minneapolismn.gov/www/groups ... 173843.pdf really makes me wonder why a "low use road" would ever need a northbound turn lane, let alone one that is hundreds of feet long.
Postby seanrichardryan » July 27th, 2016, 9:19 am
The turn lane is existing. Seems the lanes could get narrower in the restricted ROW over the bridge. How old is it?
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It completely makes sense to have part of this serve as a low volume automobile connection to help improve connectivity. In the absence of that, they should honestly just tear the bridge down and save on the capital and maintenance costs, because as a bike/ped facility it's duplicative of the Hiawatha Trail.
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Location: North End, Saint Paul
Postby EOst » July 27th, 2016, 9:28 am
The Hiawatha trail doesn't connect to the stadium/5th St trail without this. So, not entirely duplicative.
Postby twincitizen » July 27th, 2016, 9:39 am
twincitizen wrote: Idea: make it one-way northbound for cars. Then it can't "bring" traffic to Cedar-Riverside
Does anyone have a reaction to this idea? Warsame is quoted in the Strib story as saying they would present both car-free and two-way traffic (PW plan) to the neighborhood. Why not a third option carrying car traffic in just one direction? I don't dispute the argument that some connection for local car traffic is useful. I don't know that it needs to be both ways though.
If the issue were that the existing bridge deck were so constrained that there wasn't room to fit everything on there, then maybe that would make sense. But that's not the case, and I think for it to be a meaningful connection, it really needs to be two way.
Postby mattaudio » July 27th, 2016, 10:06 am
What about making it two way, but 18 feet with no centerline.
Postby amiller92 » July 27th, 2016, 12:55 pm
EOst wrote: The Hiawatha trail doesn't connect to the stadium/5th St trail without this. So, not entirely duplicative.
It does via 11th Ave.
Honestly, I see merit in just about all positions on this one. I love ped/bike stuff, so that would kind of nice, but also seems like it would be expensive in the long run and maybe slight overkill/duplicative.
I guess I'd slightly favor connecting for cars, though. I don't really agree this the portrayal in the Stib article of the immediate area as already having a lot of cars. Washington, Cedar and Riverside have a lot of cars. But 4th and 6th Streets and 15th Ave do not. Allowing some flow through there might both enhance convenience and provide some relief for the more congested streets.
But then again, Currie Park is really heavily used and more cars would create some danger. So maybe just a super-calmed design?
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Dogfish Head returns to Tennessee; Memphis, Chattanooga part of ‘soft rollout’ in next few weeks
April 14, 2014 By: mike Category: Breweries, Craft beer, Distribution, Memphis
Three years after it ended distribution in Tennessee due to problems meeting growing customer demand, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery will make its return to the Volunteer State in the next few weeks.
The Delaware-based brewery announced today that it will start a soft rollout into Tennessee with Memphis and Chattanooga up first. Dogfish Head will team with Budweiser of Memphis and Carter Distributing in Chattanooga to restart distribution in Tennessee.
Dogfish Head had announced in June 2013 that it was returning to Tennessee, but no more details had been announced until now.
Here’s more from Dogfish Head:
Tennessee, here we come!
Since last summer, when we announced that Dogfish was headed back to the four states we pulled out of in 2011, we’ve been grateful for all of the anticipation, kind words and patience from the craft beer community. Today, for all of the Dogfish fans in Tennessee, we can finally say … we’re back!
We’re starting a soft rollout into Tennessee with Memphis and Chattanooga, with our eye on filling out the state in the coming months.
“We did a ton of research before moving forward to come back to Tennessee,” says Dogfish Head Founder and President Sam Calagione. “We wanted to make sure we had the right partners, and I’m excited that we’ll be working with Bud of Memphis and Carter Distributing in Chattanooga.”
To find Dogfish Head beers in your area, try the Fish Finder at dogfish.com. You can search by beer and by ZIP code, and the Fish Finder will tell you where shipments have dropped in the past 60 days. Our trucks bound for Tennessee are leaving Delaware this week, beer should be appearing on shelves and taps in Memphis & Chatanooga (and the Fish Finder) over the next few weeks.
Dogfish Head is also now back in Rhode Island and parts of Indiana and Wisconsin. We are still working hard to find the right partners to fill out Indiana and Wisconsin and expect to be statewide in both in the coming months.
Thank you for all of your patience and support!
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Dogfish Head plans return to Tennessee, 3 other states, by end of 2013
June 26, 2013 By: mike Category: Breweries, Craft beer, Distribution, Memphis
Dogfish Head, which stopped distribution of its beers to Tennessee and three other states in 2011 due to production limitations, is coming back.
Expanded capacity is allowing Dogfish Head to make a return to shelves and taps in Tennessee, Indiana, Wisconsin and Rhode Island before the end of the year, the Delaware-based microbrewery announced today.
Here’s the full press release, as well as a video from founder Sam Calagione:
Thanks for hanging in there, Tennessee, Indiana, Wisconsin and Rhode Island
In 2011, we made the difficult decision to scale back Dogfish Head’s distribution. With a heavy heart, we stopped sending beer to Tennessee, Indiana, Wisconsin and Rhode Island.
It wasn’t our goal to upset Dogfish Head fans and distributors, but with demand so far in front of supply, we just couldn’t brew enough beer. We were left with a choice: leave shelves empty and frustrate beer enthusiasts everywhere, or stay true to our off-centered roots, pull back, and focus on strong, smart growth.
We chose the latter, and although it caused some short-term disappointment, we’re glad we did. Dogfish Head is still family owned, we still brew 100 percent of our off-centered ales ourselves here in coastal Delaware, and we’re continuing to change the way people think about beer.
We have maintained double-digit growth in the past few years while investing in our brewery to increase capacity beyond the 200,000-bbl pace we are now at. This expansion will be completed in a few months, and we’ll finally have the capacity to reopen the markets we had to pull out of. We’re happy to announce that we’ll be hunting for distribution partners and regional sales managers in those four states and plan to be on shelves and taps there before the end of the year.
Thank you for hanging in there and having us back. See you soon!
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Dogfish Head to brew ‘American Beauty’ ale in collaboration with Grateful Dead
October 17, 2012 By: mike Category: Breweries, Craft beer
Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione poured beer this past weekend at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and the Grateful Dead are collaborating on the latest music-inspired ale that will be released next year. “American Beauty,” a strong pale ale, will feature all-American hops and a special ingredient that fans will help select.
Here’s the full press release:
Dogfish, Grateful Dead brewing grassroots collaboration
(Milton, DE) – Dogfish Head Craft Brewery and Grateful Dead, two pioneers who built their followings by connecting directly with beer lovers and music lovers, are collaborating on the newest beer in Dogfish’s line of off-centered ales.
Working in that happy place between creative ideas and like-minded people, the off-centered brewery and free-spirited band have been trading ideas for a beer they’re calling “American Beauty.” They’ve settled on a strong pale ale with all-American hops and barley, and now they’re asking their loyal fans to suggest a special ingredient – and the Dead-inspired story behind it.
“Grateful Dead Productions is extremely pleased to be partnering with Dogfish Head Craft Brewery on the American Beauty pale ale. We’ve looked for a long while for the perfect brewery to team up with for a Grateful Dead-inspired brew, and feel we’ve finally found the right fit. Aside from Dogfish’s history with music-themed brews, we love their beer, and think it’s the best around. Plus, these are really good people and are the type of folks we want to work with,” says David Lemieux, legacy manager for Grateful Dead.
“The feedback the band got from Dead Heads was always an important factor in their shows,” says Dogfish Founder and President Sam Calagione. “And at Dogfish, we’ve always thought of our pub regulars and brewery tour guests as an informal focus group, so we’re sending a shout out to all those Dead Heads and Dogfish Heads by making them a driving force behind this beer.”
Did you trade a bushel of fresh clementines for tickets to a two-night-stand at Long Beach Arena? Or maybe your dad first laid eyes on your mom sipping a cup of green tea in the parking lot of the legendary Cornell ‘77 show? Jog your memory, tell the story, and suggest the ingredient at the heart of that story. You could help bring this counterculture collaboration to life.
Suggestions for American Beauty’s final ingredient will be taken online in December. A panel from the Dogfish Head and Grateful Dead teams will pick the ingredient they feel works best in the context of a strong pale ale recipe. The brewery and band hope to invite the fan who suggested the ingredient to Dogfish’s coastal Delaware brewpub in the spring of 2013 to help brew a test batch.
“My wife, Mariah, and I went to our first Dead show together in the summer of ‘91,” says Calagione, “and I’ve been listening to Workingman’s Dead and Shakedown Street, two of the earliest albums I ever owned, on my morning kayak trips. It’s amazing how timeless those albums are.”
American Beauty is expected to hit taps and shelves throughout Dogfish’s 27-state distribution network in October 2013. Stay tuned to www.dogfish.com for details on how to be a part of this grassroots brew.
Tags: American Beauty, Dogfish Head, Grateful Dead, Sam Calagione
Tennessee Cigar & Brew Fest coming to Jackson on Oct. 29
September 19, 2011 By: mike Category: Breweries, Craft beer, Events
Tickets are on sale for the third annual Tennessee Cigar and Brew Festival, which will feature craft beer, homebrew and cigars next month in Jackson.
The festival will be at the Jackson Fairgrounds on October 29 from noon to 4 p.m.
Beer from Memphis’ Ghost River Brewing and Nashville’s Yazoo Brewing Company will be served alongside beer from Stone Brewing Co., Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Dogfish Head, Victory Brewing Company and others.
Homebrew will be on tap as well, with beers from Memphis’ homebrew club, the Bluff City Brewers & Connoisseurs, and Belgian beers from Hack’s Whacked Homebrew.
Tickets can be purchased online now for $20.
Tags: Bluff City Brewers & Connoisseurs, Dogfish Head, Ghost River Brewing, Hack's Whacked Homebrew, Jackson, Stone Brewing, Tennessee Cigar & Brew Fest, Victory Brewing Company, Yazoo Brewing Company
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Royals, media create unusual election
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Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, left, and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal made a campaign stop at New Century Oct. 27. In his re-election bid, Brownback faces Rep. Paul Davis, D-Lawrence. Staff photo by Danedri Thompson
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It’s a strange election year. The Kansas City Royals deep run into October may be affecting early turnout, Halloween is on a Friday night and for the first time in many years, close races are putting Kansas’ November election in the national spotlight.
CNN News has notified Johnson County election officials that they may stage cameras and reporters in the county election night on Nov. 4.
Election commissioner Brian Newby said the media glare won’t change how officials go about their duties, however. It’s business as usual.
“We’ll dress better,” Newby said. “But you probably don’t want to do anything differently.”
His crystal ball is murky, though. He anticipated slightly higher voter turnout than in 2010. So far, that hasn’t panned out. Advanced voting began on Oct. 20, but there are fewer advanced ballot requests and fewer advanced voters this year than there were in 2010.
In 2010, at the height of the Tea Party movement, approximately 50 percent of Johnson County voters made it to the polls. That number included the request of more than 67,000 advanced voter applications and more than 40,000 advanced ballots returned.
By Oct. 27, Newby said if everyone who had requested an advanced ballot sent it back, that would be about 42,000 ballots. It is unlikely that every requested ballot will be filled out and returned.
“In all honesty, we can’t really tell the World Series effect,” Newby said.
It’s difficult to compare today’s numbers with the numbers from 1985, the last time the Royals played so late into October. Advanced walk-in voting is a recent development.
These days, advanced walk-in voting captures a lot of voters. Beginning on Oct. 20, Johnson County voters could walk in to one of five polling stations, fill out an advanced voting application and cast a ballot minutes later.
Should the Royals win out, Kansas City, Mo., will host a parade in their honor on Nov. 3 – one day before Election Day. That could effect turnout as well.
At the top of the Kansas ticket, two headline races are drawing attention from a nationwide audience. That too could affect the election.
Recent polls show Gov. Sam Brownback and Rep. Paul Davis, Democrat candidate, in a neck-and-neck race for the state’s top office. Meanwhile, the race between Sen. Pat Roberts, Republican, and Greg Orman, an independent, could determine which political party controls the U.S. Senate.
Newby said an exit polling company that typically only polls outside of one polling place in Shawnee will host written exit polls in seven different Johnson County polling places on Election Day.
The attention could shift away from Kansas as Election Day draws closer, Newby said.
A headline on a recent USA Today article gave Newby host that attention may be focused elsewhere on Nov. 4. The headline read, “Senate may be decided in North Carolina.”
County election officials will check with CNN News later this week to see if the television network still intends to broadcast locally. Narrowing polls in other states could change the network’s plans.
“We like to be as much not news as possible,” Newby said. “We certainly don’t want our office to be news.”
Election Day is Nov. 4. Voters can find their polling place and check out a sample ballot online at www.jocopolo.org.
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Electric Vehicles New Technology
New Torque Vectoring Transmission For EVs
October 20, 2014 October 20, 2014 Steve Hanley 0 Comments energy harvesting, lightweight transmission, Munich Technical University, torque vectoring transmission, Visio.M project
Green Car Congress reports that engineers at Munich Technical University (TUM) in Germany have developed a torque vectoring transmission that is optimized for use in electric vehicles. The design is part of the Visio.M project, which focuses on long range, agile driving dynamics and excellent safety for EVs.
When a car goes around a corner, the drive wheel on the outside travels a greater distance than the inside wheel, so it has to rotate faster to keep up. In basic cars, a differential lets the driven wheels rotate independently of each other. But to accomplish this, it sends power to the wheel with the least amount of traction. That’s why your Mom’s ’68 Buick was always getting stuck in the snow.
In high performance cars, a more complex device known as a limited slip differential (LSD) is used to send power to the wheel with the most traction. Torque vectoring is just a high tech name for using a limited slip differential.
Electric vehicles have different technological challenges than conventional cars because the drive wheels not only move the car forward but also help recapture kinetic energy while the car is coasting or under braking. That energy is stored in the battery for use later in the journey. If an EV is turning while coasting or when the brakes are applied, harvesting energy from both wheels equally can make the car unstable.
The TUM torque vectoring device accounts for different traction levels during cornering to maximize energy harvesting and minimize driving instability. When the car is accelerating in a corner, more torque is sent to the outside wheel to help guide the vehicle through the turn, resulting in more stable handling. Instead of the standard bevel gears used in differential transmissions, the engineers developed a spur gear differential in which additional torque can be applied from outside via a superimposed planetary gearbox.
Weight and cost are critical for EVs because today’s batteries are heavy and expensive. So anything that can be done to reduce the weight of the rest of the vehicle means using a smaller, less expensive battery. TUM has worked hard to get the weight of its torque vectoring device as low as possible. It uses aluminum for the housing and is looking to save even more weight by employing an aluminum and carbon fiber composite housing in the future.
TUM Professor Karsten Stahl says “The elegant thing about the torque vectoring transmission we have developed is that it not only has a higher recuperation level, and, with that, an increased driving range, the transmission also improves road handling dynamics, driving pleasure and safety. The continuously improving optimization measures leave us optimistic that in the near future both the weight and cost will be able to compete with today’s standard differential transmissions.”
Affordable, light weight torque vectoring systems will be an important component for electric cars of the future.
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Steve Hanley
Closely following the transition from internal combustion to electricity. Whether it's cars, trucks, ships, or airplanes, sustainability is the key. Please follow me on Google + and Twitter.
Mazda Cars Transforming Into EVs, One Step at a Time
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Hospital Radio: Dusty Ohms
Back in 2014, we hosted a night of art and music in the East End of London. We needed a Dj, and were introduced to Dusty Ohms. Hip Hop outlaw, he kept the night moving with a bag of gritty beats. Remaining a continual supporter, it gives us a great pleasure to share his exclusive mix on Hospital Radio. It's time to Give Crohm's A Slap From Me! (Crohn's X Ohms) Enjoy.
The past...
Our friend, Essex based producer Dusty Ohms formally one part of Dubstep/Grime/HipHop duo Fused Forces. Producing under the alias for 7 years, collaborating with artists such as Macabre Unit, Slaughter Mob, DJ Cable, Vader, Riko Dan, Sonny Jim and many more of that calibre, making it evident that their technical ability was highly sought after.
With one of their productions being used for the Tiger Beer campaign back in 2011, it was easy to recognise why they were consistently invited to perform at high profile events and radio shows such as GetDarker TV and also held a firm listenership on Force FM 106.5.
Recognisable technical mixing and an extensive back catalogue of production drawing from their Grime, Hip Hop and Dubstep influences ensure that Fused Forces are showing no signs of their momentum slowing. Keep your eyes peeled for more huge releases and news from the boys.
The present...
'Never Miss A Good Chance To Shut UP' is the debut album from Dusty. Although seemingly fresh on the scene, this latest guise is the result of over a decade in underground music.
Over the past two years of slowly building the album, the vision was to create something that encapsulates his musical shift over this period, and to nod to the influences that have shaped his production and tastes since the mid 90's.
Accumulated hardware in the studio, layered field recordings and analogue mixing stages played a part to keep the sound gritty and not too polished. Even down to the conscious decision when working with experienced engineer Ali Ash to keep the mastering warm and dynamic in favour of straight loudness. Something he feels is too common in the digital age.
Alongside guest production on two tracks, there's vocal features from Nottingham legend Cappo, and former Rawkus Records signee Silent Knight from NYC. Both artists that Dusty was keen to work with for the project.
The future...
Celebrating the first full release on Smho Wal (pronounced 'Smoe-Wow'), the label he co-run's with SupaSaiyan, the elusive Dusty Ohms put together this mix for GCASFM. This release is a 9 track EP titled 'Trap Door', they both produced together over a span of 2 and a half years, straddling both Hip Hop and Electronic beats. It drops on December 2nd, on both 12" vinyl and digital formats.
Dusty also does a monthly show for Fly High Radio one element of the Fly High Society community. Producers, DJs and artists predominantly based across the UK and extending into Europe. Hosting events, presenting ‘Fly High Radio’ and releasing music, heavily influenced by rap, rare groove, beats, bass and bleeps, since 2010.
Other ventures by the Smho Wal, alongside the vinyl releases are screen printed tshirts, over on their Bandcamp page. They will be creating more designs, always in limited runs, and will also be compiling some limited edition screen prints with the help of the labels artist / illustrator G.Lux in the 2017.
For more information on up and coming releases, news and mixes check out Dustys Instagram, Soundcloud and Mixcloud pages.
Words: Matt Strutt & Dusty Ohms
Images & Video: Various
Contributors: Aaron Darveniza
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Russian Rocket Explodes, Destroying a Mexican Satellite
Mika McKinnon
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Mexico’s newest communications satellite crashed into Siberia just minutes after launch early this morning. This marks the sixth catastrophic mishap of this particular configuration of a Roscomos Proton-M rocket since 2010.
Less than 500 seconds after launch, everything went terribly wrong. Image credit: Roscosmos
The Proton rocket with a Breeze M upper stage launched out of Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhsta at 11:47 am local time (1:47:39 a.m. EDT). The first two stages went fine, but just 497 seconds into launch and at an altitude of 161 kilometers, the third stage engine booster went catastrophically wrong in a rapid unscheduled disassembly. While no details on the disaster were released by Roscosmos, the state-owned news agency Tass reports the accident was caused by a problem with the steering engine of the Proton’s third stage.
The Breeze M upper stage and the MexSat-1 payload both burned up completely in the atmosphere. Any stray debris would land near Chita, a southern Siberian city near the Chinese and Mongolian borders.
MexSat-1 satellite mounted on the Proton M rocket prior to setting up for launch. Image credit: Roscosmos
The destroyed MexSat-1 (Centenario) satellite was part of a trio of satellites commissioned by the Mexican government. The $1 billion contract with Boeing covered the construction of three satellites to create a 3G+ mobile communications network, with another $0.6 million covering launch services. The first, Mexsat 3 (Bicentenario), launched on an Ariane 5 rocket in December 2012. The third, Morelos 3, is scheduled for launch on an Ariane 5 rocket in October 2015. The lost payload was fully covered by insurance.
This is the sixth failure of a Proton M rocket out of 43 launches since December 2010, with two other launches dropping their payloads in inadequate orbits. The previous six Proton rocket launches had gone smoothly, with the most recent mishap in May 2014. Like this most recent disaster, the problem occurred during the third stage burn. The after-action report at the time blamed the explosion on weakness in the bolts between the steering engine turbopump and the structural frame of the main engine, leading to the loss of a Russian communications satellite.
The Proton M rocket prior to launch. Image credit: Roscomos
The next Proton launch — an Inmarsat communications satellite originally scheduled for June 2015 — has been delayed while the rocket failure is investigated.
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PETA Doesn't Give a Shit About Humans
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What do you think about when I say PETA? Animal rights. Celebrities posing naked. Vegetarian and vegan awareness. All great things, right? Sure. Too bad they're a bunch of reasonless rabblerousers that don't care about a human life.
Charles Wickersham, a 21-year-old guy, was bitten by a shark while fishing with his friends in the Bay Area near Anna Maria Island. Sharks. Bite. Near death. Beyond scary. Anyone with a modicum of a soul would hope that Wickersham gets better (he's still in intensive care right now) and lives a happy life. Those more equipped might help with the hospital bills or raise awareness on how to prevent such animal accidents from happening. A human survived a traumatic shark attack, what a story that is, amiright? That's normal behavior for normal people with normal emotions.
PETA is not normal. No. They're insane.
In response to Wickersham's accident, those heartless pricks are launching an insensitive ad campaign against all types of fishing. They're using a man, who almost died, as their soapbox. Their rallying call. Might as well accuse him of being Michael Vick, why don't you. Their photo, which will be plastered across benches and billboards in the Bay Area, shows a shark chewing on a bloody human "drumstick" (leg) with the tagline: "Payback is Hell. Go Vegan."
PETA's campaign director Ashley Byrne said:
"We are very glad that Mr. Wickersham is going to be ok, but we do hope that this painful and frightening experience makes him think about the pain and fear that he's causing to fish — and other fisherman are causing to fish."
Yes. Because everyone who fishes deserves to be bitten by a shark. And because if Ms. Byrne was enjoying the ocean one day, a shark would avoid her because it would know that she thinks about the pain and fear she causes to fish.
I understand that PETA's shock and awe campaigns are meant to get people on both sides riled up. They want to spark discussion and raise awareness. And hey, I guess it's working, I am writing about it aren't I? But when we're talking about using a human life as a sacrifice to jumpstart a campaign that belittles his accident? That's the line.
Look, there needs to be an organization that cares about animals. At the top of the food chain with a heart for compassion and the ability to affect, us humans should bear their responsibility—they can't speak for themselves, we need to protect nature. Yes and yes. I couldn't be happier to support such a thing!
PETA, next time, please remember where you came from. Or I'll have to start PAETPETA, People Against the Ethical Treatment of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
You can keep up with Casey Chan, the author of this post, on Twitter or Facebook.
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With Career Push From Former Coach Coleman Transitions from All-America Player to Passionate Collegiate Hoop Coach
Stephanie HoganField HockeySeniorNorthford(2018-Final)
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Women's Basketball: Nine-Point Lead Late in Third Quarter Dissolves in Little East Loss
Eastern Conn. St. (9-6, 5-3) 17 17 19 7 60
Mass.-Dartmouth (14-3, 7-1) 14 16 21 13 64
Pts: Mya Villard - 13
Reb: Julie Jordan - 13
Pts: 2 Players (#13, #20) - 17
Reb: Nakira Examond - 9
Ast: Ashley Brown - 5
Freshman guard Julie Keckler's three-point field goal with 66 seconds left lifted the Warriors into a one-point lead but the Warriors commited two unforced turnovers in the final 11.7 seconds in a 64-60 Little East Conference loss to UMass Dartmouth Wednesday night at the Tripp Athletic Center.
DARTMOUTH, Mass. – University of Massachusetts Dartmouth senior All-America forward Nakira Examond scored seven points over the final six minutes while playing with four personal fouls and the Eastern Connecticut State University women's basketball team committed unforced turnovers on its final two possessions in dropping a 64-60 decision Wednesday evening at the Tripp Athletic Center.
Eastern (9-6, 5-3 LEC) led by nine after senior forward Kelsey Santagata (Stamford) canned two free throws with two minutes left in the third quarter, but UMass Dartmouth (14-3, 7-1 LEC) ran off 21 of the final 29 points as the defending LEC regular-season champions defeated Eastern for the fourth straight time in the series.
After sitting out the final three minutes of the third quarter, Examond returned with 6:48 left in the game and her team trailing by six, 57-51. The LEC's Player-of-the-Year as a sophomore, Examond scored five points in four minutes (despite missing three free throws) to cut the Eastern lead to one, 57-56, with 2:04 left.
With Eastern junior forward Mya Villard (Cromwell) on the bench after fouling out with two minutes left, Eastern missed on its next possession and after Examond rebounded, the Corsairs took their first lead since midway through the first quarter on Meagan Donovan's left-side three-pointer which made it 59-57 with 1:18 left. The Warriors answered with their final lead on freshman guard Julie Keckler's (Trumbull) three-pointer after her team had inbounded from mid-court to make it 60-59 with 1:06 left.
Examond then hit two free throws after grabbing an offensive rebound of a missed UMD three-pointer with 30 seconds left and the Warriors gave the ball back on their final two possessions in the last 11.7 seconds on unforced turnovers.
Examond finished with 17 points and nine rebounds in 21 minutes and freshman forward Shaelyn Carreiro came off the bench for 17 points and five rebounds in 19 minutes.
Villard led the Warriors with her eighth double-double in the last 11 games with 13 points and 11 rebounds, scoring nine of her points on ten free throws. Santagata added 11 points and eight rebounds and junior guard Julie Jordan (Sterling) had ten points and a game-high 13 rebounds.
Eastern hosts Rhode Island College in a conference game Saturday at 1 p.m.
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Sat, 02/23 | Women's Basketball at Mass.-Dartmouth W, 77-72 (Final - OT) RC | BX | V | V
Fri, 02/22 | Women's Basketball vs. Southern Me. W, 93-58 (Final) RC | BX | R | V
Sat, 02/16 | Women's Basketball at Keene St. W, 80-50 (Final) RC | BX | V
Wed, 02/13 | Women's Basketball at Castleton W, 61-56 (Final - OT) RC | BX | V
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The Book That Changed America
How Darwin's Theory of Evolution Ignited A Nation
Fuller, Randall, 1963-
Findaway World Llc
A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about nature, religion, science and race
Throughout its history America has been torn in two by debates over ideals and beliefs. Randall Fuller takes us back to one of those turning points, in 1860, with the story of the influence of Charles Darwin's just-published On the Origin of Species on five American intellectuals, including Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, the child welfare reformer Charles Loring Brace, and the abolitionist Franklin Sanborn.
Each of these figures seized on the book's assertion of a common ancestry for all creatures as a powerful argument against slavery, one that helped provide scientific credibility to the cause of abolition. Darwin's depiction of constant struggle and endless competition described America on the brink of civil war. But some had difficulty aligning the new theory to their religious convictions and their faith in a higher power. Thoreau, perhaps the most profoundly affected all, absorbed Darwin's views into his mysterious final work on species migration and the interconnectedness of all living things.
Creating a rich tableau of nineteenth-century American intellectual culture, as well as providing a fascinating biography of perhaps the single most important idea of that time, The Book That Changed America is also an account of issues and concerns still with us today, including racism and the enduring conflict between science and religion.
Publisher: New York : Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2017
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Characteristics: 1 sound file : digital
Additional Contributors: OverDrive, Inc
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